Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Bitcoin is now a main player in the global energy war
Core Scientific Secures Up to $1 Billion From Morgan Stanley for Pivot From Bitcoin Mining to AI
Flash Fiction:
”Well, we wouldn’t want to hurt your feelings but Mr. Bishop has a need for that cabin. You’ve got a chip on your shoulder but he really doesn’t care to tolerate your domination of a very tiny world. This region has been under your family’s control for three generations and that cabin and the land that it’s on is the linchpin. Sign it over to Mr. Bishop or your grandson will have a tragic accident.”
“What are you talking about? I don’t have a grandson.”
”Your daughter hasn’t told you she’s pregnant? How unfortunate.”
Written for this prompt.
Coronavirus and Public Health:
COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know
Iran:
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U.S. Attacked Iran Because Trump ‘Had a Good Feeling’
China, Japan, and South Korea just lost their main source of natural gas:
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Senate Backs Trump’s War with Iran
‘The AK-47 of the skies’: How Iran’s cheap drones are reshaping this war
Cheap, mass-produced and deadly: Drone swarms stretch air defences, widen battlefield
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Oh, sure, Trump’s mercurial enough that he might just want to declare victory. But as James Mattis has said, “the enemy gets a vote.” Iran might well be in no mood to play along. After all, they don’t need a “win” in any traditional sense. They just need to not lose.
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Politics:
How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change
The Trump administration recruited five marginalized researchers to challenge the international consensus on global warming. Here’s how it went wrong.
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
House committee subpoenas Pam Bondi to testify on her handling of the Epstein case
———— Autocracy R Us ————
Trump’s Autopen Case Against Biden Falls Apart
The Justice Department, in the wake of calls by President Trump to criminally investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., scrutinized whether Mr. Biden and his aides broke the law in using the autopen to sign presidential documents, but was ultimately unable to move forward with making a case.
The department’s failure to build a criminal case against Mr. Biden and his aides is the latest example of its increasing inability to follow through on Mr. Trump’s demands and bring indictments against those he wants to be criminally targeted. Some of those cases were rejected by grand juries, some were rejected by judges and some, like the autopen case, were abandoned by prosecutors.
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
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———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————
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———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————
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Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem
His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.
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Serendipity:
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