Odds and Ends — 20 October 2021


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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Oddly, Gary Gensler, here at least, comes off as the good guy: Crypto investing wins SEC approval, triggering consumer group uproar

”Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have already sucked an insane amount of money from the real economy,” said Bart Naylor, financial policy advocate at the consumer group Public Citizen.

Um, hate to break it to you, but crypto is the real economy.

Russia aims to replace US dollar reserves with digital assets in long term

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Nearly every person in Iran seems to have had covid-19 at least once

Charge Bolsonaro with murder over Covid toll, draft Brazil senate report says

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, should face murder charges for his role in the country’s “stratospheric” coronavirus death toll, a draft report from a senate inquiry into Brazil’s Covid crisis has recommended.
The 1,078-page document, published by Brazilian media on Tuesday afternoon, is not due to be voted on by the commission until next week and could yet be modified by senators.
But the draft text paints a devastating portrait of the neglect, incompetence and anti-scientific denialism many believe has defined the Bolsonaro administration’s response to a public health emergency that has killed more than 600,000 Brazilians.

Conservative radio host says he caught COVID on purpose: ‘What I hoped for the entire time’

Politics:

Too bad, so sad: Trump’s Lawsuit Gets an Unfriendly Judge

The Jan. 6 committee has hit the judicial jackpot. Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to kneecap the committee before it obtains his White House records has landed on the docket of Judge Tanya Chutkan.
Chutkan, an Obama appointee to the federal district court of Washington D.C. in 2014, has even imposed sentences that went beyond prosecutors’ requests in recent Capitol riot cases.

As always, keeping it classy: Trump on the Passing of Colin Powell

Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!

Polish PM accuses EU of blackmail as row over rule of law escalates

So let me get this straight. @Sen_JoeManchin thinks $400,000 is too little to pay a wealth tax, but $60,000 is too much to receive a child tax credit? 🤨

— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) October 18, 2021

What Becomes of America If Democrats Fail?

There won’t be any coming back from a second season of Donald Trump. If you thought he was vengeful against his perceived enemies last time, you haven’t seen anything yet. If like Mike Pence, you think we’re unfair to focus on one day in January when some good people got a little carried away, you’re a fool.
If you’re a Democrat in Congress and won’t seize this moment to do something good, prove Democrats deserve to lead, and save the country as a result, then you will bear a measure of responsibility for what’s sure to come.

Trump’s Pentagon Chief Ruled Out Troops at Border

In the spring of 2020, Mark Esper, the defense secretary, was alarmed to learn of an idea under discussion at a top military command and at the Department of Homeland Security to send as many as 250,000 troops — more than half the active U.S. Army, and a sixth of all American forces — to the southern border in what would have been the largest use of the military inside the United States since the Civil War.
With the coronavirus pandemic raging, Stephen Miller, the architect of Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda, had urged the Homeland Security Department to develop a plan for the number of troops that would be needed to seal the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico…
Around the same time that officials considered the huge deployment to the American side of the border with Mexico, Mr. Trump also pressed his top aides to send forces into Mexico itself to hunt drug cartels, much like American commandos have tracked and killed terrorists in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Serendipity:

Cities worldwide aren’t adapting to climate change quickly enough

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