Odds and Ends — 25 May 2021

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Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

COVID-19 Wuhan lab theory gets more serious look

Covid: How the pandemic is affecting your dreams

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Small Businesses Have Surged In Black Communities

There has been a surge in start-ups in America that experts have yet to fully explain. But a new study — using data that allows researchers to more precisely track new businesses across time and place — finds that the surge coincides with federal stimulus, and is strongest in Black communities.
Across a number of states, the pace of weekly business registrations more than doubled in the months after the CARES Act was signed in March 2020. Business registrations rose again, by 60 percent, around the period of the supplementary aid package signed in December. Coinciding with the third wave of stimulus in March, weekly business registrations have been up by 20 percent, but the data is less complete.

”In Human History, No Single Asset Has Come Under Such Coordinated Assault By Global Institutions”

The Unexplored Risks of a US Digital Dollar (podcast)

Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications

All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore.
Maternity wards are already shutting down in Italy. Ghost cities are appearing in northeastern China. Universities in South Korea cannot find enough students, and in Germany, hundreds of thousands of properties have been razed, with the land turned into parks.

Politics:

Former Defense secretary: No Republican president I worked for would recognize GOP today

”Shocking Act” Of “State Hijacking” Of Civilian Plane: US & EU Demand Belarusian Journalist’s Immediate Release

Texas GOP Would Curtail Urban Voting Places

The number of Election Day polling places in largely Democratic parts of major Texas counties would fall dramatically under a Republican proposal to change how Texas polling sites are distributed… Voting options would be curtailed most in areas with higher shares of voters of color.

Conservatives have a new target: Biden’s IRS plan. Since there are zero people that actually like the IRS, opposing its expansion will likely be an easy sell.

A mobster’s online confessions are shaking Erdogan’s government. Turkey is riveted.

“I Did Have Some Trouble Reporting the Truth”

Some journalists covering Israel and Palestine say an “illusive concept of impartiality” led them to face persistent doubts and skewed editing for years. Is that changing now?

DeSantis displays a complete lack of understanding of how the Constitution works: Florida governor signs bill barring social media companies from blocking political candidates

Serendipity:

Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known

Internet Explorer, The Love-To-Hate-It Web Browser, Will Die Next Year

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