Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Breaking Bad star’s Twitter hijacked to pump and dump memecoin for a second time
SEC Withdraws Controversial Crypto Financial Reporting Bulletin
Coronavirus and Public Health:
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CIA Now Says Covid-19 Likely Came from a Lab
The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.
The agency made its new assessment public two days after former Republican lawmaker John Ratcliffe was sworn in as its new leader.
Politics:
Trump Wipes Evidence of Capitol Rioters’ Crimes
As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed from the Department of Justice’s website,” CNN reports.
The searchable database served as an easily accessible and up-to-date repository of all January 6, 2021, cases prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
Thank you, Memory Hole!
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means.
What follows is a step-by-step account of how Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes. The minutes, as we will see, mattered.
“That’s when they suspended the constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t any rioting in the streets. People stayed home, watching their televisions, looking for direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put a finger on.” — Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
This is how it’s done: South Korea’s Leader Is Indicted for Insurrection
US has not stopped military aid to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Trump Seeks Immunity from Civil Cases
Trump’s personal lawyers filed a brief on Friday evening arguing that he should be immune from civil claims because he was acting in his official capacity as president as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The latest court filing revives a legal fight that had been largely dormant for more than a year.
Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, plans to rain economic punishment on Americans if President Donald Trump targets Canada in a trade war.
Ford has threatened to cut power transmission to U.S. homes and businesses and banish U.S. liquor from Ontario shelves. Wearing a MAGA-like hat reading “Canada Is Not For Sale,” Ford has pledged to target red states with dollar-for-dollar retaliation. In an interview Wednesday, he described himself matter-of-factly as a brawler with a reflex for combat.
Said Ford: “I’m a street fighter in politics. If someone throws a punch at me, I’m going to hit him back twice as hard.”
I’m guessing that not many Americans understand the although the USA is a federal republic where the states have a fair degree of autonomy, Canada is a confederation where the provinces have a much greater degree of autonomy and can to some extent conduct their own foreign policy.
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Melon Husk Tells Germans to Get Over ‘Past Guilt’
Elon Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the far-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday, reiterating his support ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 snap election and telling the crowd that it’s time to “move on” from “past guilt.”
The Tesla CEO addressed the crowd alongside party leader Alice Weidel, saying that the party is the “best hope for Germany” and calling to “preserve German culture” and “protect the German people.”
Inside Belarus’ secret program to undermine the EU
Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’
…Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about a potential plan to construct housing and move more than 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries, a remarkable and unusual proposal from a sitting US president.
The media is failing us. Is “remarkable and unusual” a new euphemism for ethnic cleansing?
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Serendipity:
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Good god man you must be turning cartwheels trying to sort through all the stupidity to shine lights on! So much going on, all of us in Gay North Dakota (AKA Canada) are feeling like concerned neighbours living next door to a crack house! ;)
It helps that I’m doing a Damp January rather than a Dry one. 🍺
There may be a tidal wave in feb here after getting through those stories...
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