Welcome to 2020

It's only the first week of a new decade and we're already seeing superlatives thrown all over the place.

1. Jakarta welcomes 2020 in the most Jakarta way ever: city-wide flash floods due to the biggest rainfall since 1866, killing 60 so far. 
2. Bushfires in Australia has already burned through 3.7 million hectares, the biggest in Australia's history.
3. The massive 2019 swine flu outbreak in China killed one-quarter of the world's pig population.
4. The assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Solaemani by an American airstrike may prove to be the most consequential act of war of this century.
5. Of course, Trump's conduct towards Ukraine, which resulted in his impeachment, is the very definition of high crime and misdemeanor - - it's "worse than Nixon" (TM). 
6. Massive, longstanding anti-government protests continue in Hong Kong and India.