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HOW IT STARTED | HOW’S IT GOING
HOW IT STARTED
“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of CHOW IT’S GOING
The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand | by Tim Maughan
Election
How a suspected Chinese spy gained access to California politics https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html
When we lose an election Republicans tell us to “get over it”. When they lose an election they accuse everyone of cheating, call for investigations, beheadings, martial law, civil war, whine about it on Fox News, bring law suits, & take it all the way to the supreme court.
Russian Media Wants Moscow to Grant Asylum to Trump
Russian media and lawmakers are concerned about the future of the Kremlin’s favorite U.S. president.
Unsanitized: The Dealmakers Don’t Want to Make a Deal
Mitch McConnell keeps dodging and obfuscating. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for December 9, 2020.
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-dealmakers-dont-want-to-make-deal-stimulus-liability/
GOP lawyer resigns over treatment of Florida data analyst
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2020/12/08/gop-lawyer-resigns-over-treatment-of-florida-data-analyst/
Fired Data Scientist Rebekah Jones Raises $100K After FDLE Raid https://www.wlrn.org/news/2020-12-08/fired-data-scientist-rebekah-jones-raises-100k-after-fdle-raid
HEALTH
What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study
Anti-Coronavirus Vaccine Movement Grows, Fueled By Online Misinformation, Conspiracies
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/12/08/anti-vaccine-misinformation
Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey gives U.S. mayors $15M to fund basic income
https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/529316-twitter-billionaire-jack-dorsey-gives-us-mayors-15
Instead of a colonoscopy, a new screen tests poop for colorectal cancer-related bacteria https://massivesci.com/articles/microbes-test-colorectal-cancer-fit-p-micra-poop/
Mellissa Carone says she will not quarantine, despite sitting next to Giuliani for 30 minutes without masks, and despite health officials in Ingham County calling on anyone in contact with Giuliani in close range for more than 15 minutes to do so.
MONEY
Feds, states sue Facebook over alleged antitrust violations, laying groundwork for possible breakup
The antitrust lawsuits were announced by the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
“It’s really critically important that we block this predatory acquisition of companies and that we restore confidence to the market,” James said during a press conference announcing the lawsuit.
https://tucson.com/news/national/feds-states-sue-facebook-over-alleged-antitrust-violations-laying-groundwork-for-possible-breakup/article_1c00c9c3-2c04-5e72-91d2-078bdd89247e.html
Congress should offer all WFH workers home-office deduction on their taxes
Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
CAUSE they defund the IRS and the layers that go after the 1%
Tom Malinowski @Malinowski
Diplomat, father, former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Congressman representing New Jersey’s 7th district.
“Tonight we passed a defense bill, by a veto-proof margin, that bans the registration of anonymous shell companies in the U.S., so criminals and kleptocrats can’t hide their illicit cash here, and to give President-elect Biden a potent tool to fight corruption at home and abroad.”
BITCOIN
Even the mainstream economists at the Fed Phily & their collaborators recognise central bank digital currency – accounts at the central bank for the public, competing directly with banks who have been providing digital currency so far – will kill the banks
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/consumer-finance/payment-systems/central-bank-digital-currency
From Bankless to Launching Our Own Banks – The Evolution of Crypto Regulations with Hailey Lennon
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-bankless-to-launching-our-own-banks-evolution/id1535260461
Kraken Becomes First Crypto Exchange to Charter a US Bank
On Wednesday, the Wyoming Banking Board voted to approve the San Francisco-based crypto exchange’s application for a special purpose depository institution (SPDI) charter.
NOW You can have a bitcoin bank account.
Our mission is to bring crypto to everyone. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell explains it all in our video series: Crypto 101
https://www.kraken.com/
Kraken is now the first SPDI bank in Wyoming. According to the Wyoming Division of Banking’s general counsel, Chris Land, Kraken will also be the first newly chartered (de novo) bank in the state since 2006.
“By becoming a bank we get direct access to federal payments infrastructure, and we can more seamlessly integrate banking and funding options for customers,” said David Kinitsky, a managing director at Kraken and the CEO of the newly formed Kraken Financial. (Kinitsky has run Grayscale Investments, was the first digital assets hire at Fidelity and was most recently head of business development at payments startup Circle.)
https://www.coindesk.com/kraken-crypto-exchange-secures-bank-charter-under-wyoming-law
Why it’s still very difficult for an institution to own bitcoin.
If you don’t have firsthand experience with how traditional financial
institutions (pensions, corporate treasuries etc) administratively permission the …