Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Is Hive one of their tracked coins? S&P Dow Jones Launches 5 More Crypto Indexes; One Tracks 240 Coins

Bitcoin analyst says ‘supply shock’ underway as BTC withdrawal rate spikes to one-year high

Willy Woo, an on-chain analyst, anticipates a potential supply shock in the Bitcoin market, as long-term holders continued raking BTC supply from short-term ones.

Governments World-Wide Gorge on Record Debt

The pandemic has pushed global government debt to the highest level since World War II, surpassing the world’s annual economic output. Governments, especially in rich countries, are borrowing still more, partly to erase the damage of Covid-19.
Advocates say the spending, also encouraged by new economic thinking about debt, could usher in a period of robust global growth, reversing the malaise many wealthy countries have felt this century. But if those theories are off-base, the world could be saddled with debts that can be absorbed only via inflation, high taxes or even default.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

France reports rush for vaccines after Macron tightens Covid rules

Covid-19 cases are surging in 45 states. In one hot spot, hospitalized patients are younger than ever, doctor says

Tennessee Abandons All Vaccine Outreach to Minors

The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers.

Politics:

‘Kraken’ Team Pelts Judge With Fraud 2020 Redux In Sanctions Hearing

Gaslighting of the Highest Order:

If you only watch 1 thing tonight, please watch this rather chilling video that my producer, the great & powerful Ivy Green made, putting Trump's lying pro-terror words on Fox over images of the actual violence from January 6th.#mustwatch @MehdiHasanShow pic.twitter.com/JGkI6K1Ox8

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 13, 2021

Cuba Cracks Down on Protests Amid Economic Crisis

Cuba’s Communist government stepped up its crackdown against demonstrators and activists on Monday, cutting off most communications with the outside world, deploying security forces across the country and arresting more than 100 people, many of whose whereabouts remain unknown.

Wisconsin ‘Audit’ Leader Was Convicted of Fraud

Biden Says American Democracy Is Under Siege

“He compared modern day laws to the voter suppression that took place under the KKK and the Jim Crow laws that imposed poll taxes, literary tests, and disenfranchised nearly all voters who were not White or male. He railed against new state laws that restrict access — calling them ‘raw and sustained election subversion’ — and said that the 2022 midterm elections could highlight the damaging impacts of the new laws.”
Said Biden: “Hear me clearly. There’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote and fair and free elections. An assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are.”

Tennessee’s Top Vaccine Official Fired After GOP Hysteria Over Push To Vaccinate Teens

’Hard to feel safe’: Rep. Porter says town hall altercation erodes sense of security

Even Bill Barr Is Calling Out A Former US Attorney For Sucking Up To Trump

Judge Throws Out Roy Moore’s Lawsuit

A federal court on threw out the defamation lawsuit filed by Roy Moore, Alabama’s former chief justice, against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Moore, who served twice in his role on the Alabama Supreme Court and was twice removed from the position, sued Baron Cohen after Moore was interviewed under the pretense that he would receive an award for his support of Israel. Baron Cohen pretended to be an Israeli anti-terrorism expert and claimed he had technology that would show whether Moore was a pedophile — a reference to sexual misconduct allegations against Moore.

Serendipity:

A Massive Water Recycling Proposal Could Help Ease Drought

EPA Approved Toxic Chemicals for Fracking a Decade Ago

For much of the past decade, oil companies engaged in drilling and fracking have been allowed to pump into the ground chemicals that, over time, can break down into toxic substances known as PFAS — a class of long-lasting compounds known to pose a threat to people and wildlife — according to internal documents from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Great. Now there’s a grasshopper crisis too.

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