Odds and Ends — 17 November 2024


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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Fed Suddenly Flips On Huge $3 Trillion Bitcoin And Crypto Price Boom

Bitcoin Whale Turned $120 Into $179 Million—All It Took Was HODLing for 14 Years

Someone held 2,000 Bitcoin from a price of $0.06 to nearly $90,000 before moving them to Coinbase late Thursday.

Coronavirus and Medical News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Severe COVID-19 may shrink cancer tumors, early data suggest

Politics:

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Trump’s Peace Plan For Ukraine Looks Like Putin’s Victory

The former president thinks he can end the war in Ukraine. In reality, he’s preparing to hand Russia a win — and the consequences will be profound

Trump Boosters Expect Big Returns on Their Investment: ‘The Shackles Are Off’

“The most lethal force in the world”: Heritage founder takes victory lap amid Project 2025 fallout

It’s almost as if they don’t know that American energy production is at an all-time high and we’re now a net exporter of petroleum products: Doug Burgum Gets Expanded Role

Donald Trump just announced that, in addition to formally naming Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota as his choice for interior secretary, he would appoint him as the chairman of a new National Energy Council overseeing American energy policy.
Trump has made repeated promises to slash energy costs in half as a bid to fight inflation.

Trump’s Pentagon Pick Was Flagged as ‘Insider Threat’

Scraping the bottom of the barrel, Steven Cheung to Be Trump’s Communications Director


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Donald Trump Floods the Zone

The sheer quantity of individually unqualified selections might perversely make blocking any of them harder.


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Trump Team Compiling List of Officers for Courts-Martial

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement.
Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason.


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I think I am suffering a little election fatigue and outcome remorse at this point. Just thinking about the inappropriate yes men he will seed in various departments as either busy work or deck stacking.

I may just upvote without reading all the links a little while ;)

Now if I can just figure out how to post without reading. 😎