Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Crypto Fear and Greed Index hits highest level since Bitcoin’s all-time high
Indonesia sets aside $455 million to subsidise electric motorcycle sales
Signature Bank Threw a Fundraiser for the Congressman Now Probing How It Failed
Ten days before Signature Bank collapsed, the House Republican overseeing an inquiry into the bank’s failure was inside its boardroom on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Patrick McHenry was there to raise thousands of dollars from bank executives.
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Long COVID Comes Into the Light
We’re finally starting to see the truth about the vexing condition. It’s not what we thought.
How Politics Shaped the Battle Over Covid’s Origin
The story of the hunt for Covid’s origin is partly about the stonewalling by China that has left scientists with incomplete evidence, all of it about a virus that is constantly changing. … But the story is also about politics and how both Democrats and Republicans have filtered the available evidence through their partisan lenses.
The intense political debate, now in its fourth year, has at times turned scientists into lobbyists, competing for policymakers’ time and favor.
Politics:
Yeah, good luck with that: Trump Moves to Quash Georgia Grand Jury Report
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Monday moved to quash the final report of the special purpose grand jury that is recommending indictments for those who meddled with Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.
The tactic deployed to “protect” the unborn has now been deployed to deprive actual living, breathing, ambulating humans of agency, too.
Biden Issues Veto to Protect Socially Conscious Investing
President Biden issued the first veto of his presidency on Monday, turning back a Republican effort to bar investment managers from incorporating climate and social considerations into their decisions.
The rule that the president vowed to protect is an obscure investing principle known as E.S.G. — shorthand for prioritizing environmental, social and governance factors. It had been a widely accepted norm in financial circles for almost 20 years until Republicans recently started assailing it as “woke capitalism” that injected Democratic and liberal values into financial decisions. More than $18 trillion is held in investment funds that follow E.S.G. principles.
Protesters set rubbish on fire as French govt barely survives no-confidence vote
Washington prepares for war with Amazon
A multi-pronged investigation of the online giant is approaching the action phase — on mergers, antitrust, privacy and more.
Four Oath Keeper associates convicted of felonies for roles in US Capitol attack
Donald Trump threatened to summon a mob—for the second time in two years—to his defense…. The last time he rallied his faithful supporters this way, they stormed the U.S. Capitol, which resulted in death and destruction and many, many prison sentences.
Trump himself upped the ante by saying, in effect, that it doesn’t matter what’s in the indictment. Instead, he is warning all of us, point-blank, that he will violate the law if he wants to, and if you don’t like it, you can take it up with the mob that he can summon at will. This is pure authoritarianism, the flex of a would-be American caudillo who is betting that our fear of his goons is greater than our commitment to the rule of law. Once someone like Trump issues that kind of challenge, it doesn’t matter if the indictment is for murder, campaign-finance violations, or mopery with intent to gawk: The issue is whether our legal institutions can be bullied into paralysis.
Secession is here: States, cities and the wealthy are already withdrawing from America
Georgia Prosecutors Want to Talk to Trump Attorney
Fulton County prosecutors leading the criminal investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia are now looking to question one of Trump’s attorneys as part of the probe.
Serendipity:
Your ‘Recycled’ Grocery Bag Might Not Have Been Recycled
Recent laws encourage recycling old plastic into new products. But verifying recycled content relies on tricky math.
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Part of me wants that Drumph mob to rise up and start a turf war so that the matter gets settled and the stupid game players get their stupid prizes. The other half thinks about the repercussions afterward when the other half of the political shit flinging uses it as a platform to empower more domestic military to control the people ahem keep the peace.
Our friend @acidyo took to twitter with concern over the status of the world ~~~ embed:1637919636217024512?s=46&t=QfVEkh1Hw3j36T6k0DbiUw valid concerns but hopefully just a rally cry for the builders and solution seekers. twitter metadata:b2FjaWRvfHxodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL29hY2lkby9zdGF0dXMvMTYzNzkxOTYzNjIxNzAyNDUxMnw= ~~~