Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Strategy’s Bitcoin treasury swells past 660,000 BTC after fresh $962M buy
Tom Lee’s BitMine Buys $429 Million in Ethereum as ETH Rebounds
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Former FDA heads, Sen Cassidy push back on FDA official’s claim of 10 COVID vaccine deaths
Politics:
Justices to Hear Trump’s Plans to Shatter the Bureaucracy
The Supreme Court will debate Monday whether to finally finish off a teetering, 90-year-old precedent that limited presidents’ power over many federal agencies.
But lurking in the wings is a far more radical bid by the Trump administration to remake the federal government from top to bottom by ending the concept of the civil service.
Indeed, some legal experts say that as a practical matter, the administration — emboldened by the justices — has already managed to eliminate job protections that have been on the books for nearly 150 years.
Chester Arthur is rolling in his grave.
Defense Bill Stymies Trump on Europe Troop Withdrawals
Sprawling defense legislation set for a vote as soon as this week would place new restrictions on reducing troop levels in Europe, a bipartisan rebuke of Trump administration moves that lawmakers fear would limit U.S. commitments on the continent.
———— National Security Strategy ————
Russia Praises Trump’s National Security Strategy
Moscow regards Washington’s updated National Security Strategy as “consistent with our vision.”
Trump’s Bleak, Incoherent Foreign-Policy Strategy
You might think that in Trumpworld a new National Security Strategy would not count for all that much. John Bolton, a national security adviser in Donald Trump’s first term, frequently laments that his boss had no strategy at all. Instead, the president worked by impulse—and without the encumbrance of too many briefings. From one day to the next, he veered in opposing directions.
Despite that, the new NSS matters. Released, weirdly, in the dead of night on December 4th/5th, it will be pored over by soldiers, diplomats and advisers in America and around the world. It is the latest and fullest statement of what ‘America First’ means in foreign policy. It sets the terms for a soon-expected review of military power, and lays out the priorities for all those trying to interpret the president’s wishes. And, for many of its readers, it will be profoundly alarming.
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———— High Crimes and Misdemeanors ————
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———— The Epstein Coverup ————
———— Autocracy R Us ————
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A Judge Just Drew the Line on the Supreme Court’s Terrible “Kavanaugh Stops” Decision
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———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
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Trump’s son suggests president may walk away from Ukraine
Um, that happened a long time ago.
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The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia, America and the Authoritarian Big Tech Alliance
It’s all in plain sight: Bannon and Dugin preach a pro-Russian “Christian” civilisation, Musk and Medvedev call for the EU’s undoing, while Vance and Thiel’s network shields Kremlin-aligned Big Tech
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———— Life Imitates Art ————
———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————
Trump Readies Plan to Bail Out Farmers
The Trump administration on Monday plans to unveil a long-awaited farm aid package, according Trump administration officials, offering $12 billion in assistance to a key base of support hit hard by low crop prices and the impact of the president’s tariff policies.
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Hegseth in 2016 repeatedly warned of Trump issuing unlawful military orders
In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief — some of which former military leaders said would be illegal — Pete Hegseth warned that service members had a duty to refuse unlawful orders from a potential President Trump.
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Is This The End of the Free World?
There was a time, not so long ago, when America was the leader of the free world. It was the first among equals within an alliance of nations bound together by shared values — above all a commitment to democracy and civil liberties. From London to Berlin to Tokyo, in the aftermath of genocide and the utter devastation of World War II, America – as Ronald Reagan put it – was the shining city on the hill…
MAGA, however, doesn’t want to be part of that world. In fact, it doesn’t want a world of democracy, civil liberties and the rule of law to exist. The Trump administration has become especially hostile to Europe, precisely because the Europeans are trying to hold on to the values MAGA is trying to destroy at home.
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