Yanis Varoufakis: Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc
Debunking some major misperceptions about potential roles for Bitcoin and blockchain.
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Links 7/29/2020
Covid-19: To Clean or Not to Clean?
Cleaning vigilance was an early Covid-19 precaution. Have we gone overboard?
Read more...AOC Shellacking of Rep. Ted Yoho Shows How Little Progress Women Have Made
Why AOC’s impressive speech about Ted Yoho’s bad conduct reveals much about the standing of women in America, and not in a good way.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Idolize FDR, but Hate His Policies and the Populists That Supported Him
Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/28/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Plastics in Oceans Will Triple By 2040, Absent Immediate Drastic Action
Unless we take drastic steps NOW- and stop allowing plastics pushers to set the agenda- plastics in the world’s oceans will triple in twenty years, by 2040.
Read more...Links 7/28/2020
Google Postpones Employee Return till Mid 2021 as Office Buildings Remain Empty, Residential Delinquencies Soar
White collar workers staying away from the office does not bode well for confidence about getting Covid under control.
Read more...US and China Are Both Raising the Military Stakes in the South China Sea
Is the US engaged in military escalation with China, or are recent moves just high stakes posturing?
Read more...Our John Siman Wins Kukula Award for Non-Fiction Book Reviewing
John Siman wins a prize! Please join us in congratulating him!
Read more...Why Don’t Democratic Leaders Support Verifiable Elections? The Reason Is Simple and Obvious
Some evidence of design in the Democrats’ indifference to the integrity of elections.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/27/2020
COVID peak in five problem states? ~ Harris shows “no remorse” ~ Biden FL campaign disarray ~ Sanders delegates to rebel on #MedicareForAll ~ Mike Duncan’s hair on fire ~ Manufacturing, durable goods ~ Small business cull ~ Composting tips ~ Moderna vaccine tips ~ Hygiene theatre ~ Protests in California ~ College debate ~ The return of Sid
Read more...The War Nerd: Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence
War Nerd Newlestter 100:Irish potato famine and more: a tour d’horizon through AK Sen, Victorian literature, et.al.
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