Odds and Ends — 4 September 2022
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Now Britain is in the 100% debt-to-GDP club, what’s the spending plan?
There’s a New Platform for Bitcoin-Backed Borrowing and It’s Courting Banks to Lend
Not your keys, not your crypto.
This is what will prevent stagflation from hitting the US economy
Elon Musk-crypto video played on S. Korean govt's hacked YouTube channel
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Covid forecast: Major fall surge unlikely, but variants are a wild card
Politics:
Republicans Lose It Over Biden’s Speech
The Republicans’ reaction to Mr. Biden’s speech was remarkable. For years, they stood quietly by as Mr. Trump vilified and demonized anyone who disagreed with him — encouraging supporters to beat up protesters; demanding that his rivals be arrested; accusing critics of treason and even murder; calling opponents ‘fascists’; and retweeting a supporter saying ‘the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.’ But they rose up as one on Thursday night and Friday to complain that Mr. Biden was the one being divisive.
How Biden’s democracy speech came together
How Many of Hillary’s Emails Were Actually Classified?
As more and more evidence of the former president’s reckless and potentially criminal misconduct comes to light, he and his defenders keep pointing to ‘her emails.’ They insist that because the Justice Department declined prosecution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after a long and thorough probe of how she handled allegedly classified information, there should be no investigation, let alone indictment or conviction of Trump.
But while we don’t yet know the extent or nature of Trump’s abuse of classified documents, we can determine how many were found by investigators, after exhaustive searches, among Clinton’s thousands of State Department emails.
The accurate and definitive answer is zero – although few if any news outlets have informed the public of that startling fact. Moreover, it is a fact that the Trump administration itself confirmed three years ago.
Normalize calling fascists fascists.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) September 2, 2022
IRS ‘Inadvertently’ Publishes 120,000 Taxpayers’ Confidential Info on Its Website
Jackson water crisis: A legacy of environmental racism?
Serendipity:
Your Blood Type Affects Your Risk of an Early Stroke, Scientists Find
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