Month: February 2021

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The Daily Signal - How China Would Benefit From a Key Change to International Monetary Fund Policies

Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., recently wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on House Democrats' efforts to require the International Monetary Fund to issue special drawing rights to all member countries. What is the agenda and goal here? "All the third world countries that [China has] loaned money to over the last 10 years and taken strategic minerals, commodities, oil, and gas reserves as collateral suddenly have hard currency to pay them back," Hill notes on the podcast, discussing this and more:


We also cover these stories:


  • On Thursday the Senate held the third day of the trial to impeach former President Donald Trump. 
  • President Joe Biden has made good on his promise to halt funding for construction of the U.S. Mexico border wall. 
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, says he thinks the coronavirus vaccine will be available to everyone by April. 



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Opening Arguments - OA464: Impeachment 2 Secret of the Ooze

In case you missed it, our 45th president led a violent insurrection about a month ago and now it's up to Democrats to convince a bunch of Republicans... who were there... that it happened. Andrew is here to break it all down for us!

Also, some other criminal president updates as the Georgia Sec of State opens an investigation into Trump's election meddling there.

Links: NYT Georgia Officials Review Trump's Phone Call to Raffensperger, Georgia Prosecutors Open Criminal Inquiry Into Trump's Efforts to Subvert Election, DA Preservation letters, Christine Resigns, impeachment schedule, Res 47 Adopted 2/9, Donald Trump Speech "Save America" Rally Transcript January 6, 18 US Code Chapter 102 - RIOTS

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The Gist - When the Victims are the Jurors

On the Gist, exploring the complexities of the personal stakes of the Senators in the Trump Impeachment trial.

In the Interview, it’s the second half of our conversation with Jonah Blank, an anthropologist, writer, author, and former policy director for South and Southeast Asia on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Blank joins Mike to talk about the Myanmar coup, the default of cheering on populism, conflicts and communal violence, and the threat to democracy. Blank is author of Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, and Mullahs on the Mainframe, and currently based in Singapore. He’ll be back on the show next week.

In the spiel, picking apart Lindsey Graham.  

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - To Solve Chicago’s Homelessness Crisis, Advocates Say We Can’t Look Away After The Cold Ends

Chicago’s deep freeze is expected to stick around for a while and could be the longest cold snap in February in 60 years. The leaves many homeless Chicagoans vulnerable to the bitter cold amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Reset checks in with local organizations working toward long-term solutions to homelessness in the city and around Illinois
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Pod Save America - “Impeachment, Lies, and Videotape.”

House Democrats use video footage of the Capitol attack to make a powerful case against Donald Trump, Republican Senators look for excuses to acquit, and the Republican Party has been losing voters since January. Then Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal talks to Dan about Covid relief negotiations and the minimum wage.

 

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Consider This from NPR - Scenes From A Pandemic Economy: 4 American Indicators

The pandemic economy has left different people in vastly different situations. Today, we introduce four American indicators — people whose paths will help us understand the arc of the recovery. Hear their stories now, and we'll follow up with them in a few months:

Brooke Neubauer in Nevada, founder of The Just One Project; Lisa Winton of the Winton Machine Company in Georgia; Lee Camp with Arch City Defenders in Missouri; and New Jersey-based hotel owner Bhavish Patel.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

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Science In Action - Perseverance approaches Mars

On 18th February the Perseverance rover should land on Mars. Katie Stack-Morgan of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab tells Roland Pease about the technological advances that mean that the spacecraft should be able to land in Jezero Crater. Imperial College geologist Sanjeev Gupta discusses what this crater can reveal about the history of life on the red planet.

After months of negotiations, and weeks of work on the ground, a team brought together by the World Health Organisation has just concluded its first attempts to find out the origins of SARS-Cov2 in Wuhan. Peter Daszak, who has worked closely with Chinese virologists in the past, briefed Roland Pease on what had been discovered.

The South African government has announced that it will not be rolling out the Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine as it appears it is not very effective against the dominant strain in the country. Helen Rees, of Witwatersrand University and a member of South Africa’s Health Products Regulatory Authority, explains that the ‘ban’ is an overstatement.

At least 35 people died in a flood disaster in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India on February 6th. The details are still unclear, but the trigger seems to be associated with a glacier overhanging an upstream lake in the steep valley. Rupert Stuart-Smith of Oxford University, who has just published an analysis of a glacier melting disaster in waiting in the Andes, talks about the impacts of climate change on the stability of mountain glaciers.

(Image: An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Gradually, Then Suddenly – Mastercard, BNY Mellon, Amazon, Twitter Poised to Join the Bitcoin Party

In the wake of Tesla’s big announcement on Monday, a wave of corporate engagement with crypto emerges.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

On today’s episode of The Breakdown, NLW looks at a slew of news from corporates getting into the bitcoin and crypto space, including:

  • Twitter CFO exploring bitcoin treasury holdings and payments to employees and vendors
  • Mastercard announcing crypto coming to payment rails in 2021
  • Amazon revealing its digital currency plans in a series of job posts
  • BNY Mellon, the world’s largest asset custodian, opening new digital asset business 
  • Why Christine Lagarde says central banks won’t buy bitcoin anytime soon. 

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The S.S. Politician

In the middle of World War II, a small island in Scotland’s Hebrides Islands was suffering through war shortages like most of the country. However, on February 5, 1941, a very fortunate disaster struck the island, and the island’s residents couldn’t have been happier. The reverberations from this lucky calamity are still being felt today. Learn more about the wreck of the SS Politician and its incredible cargo on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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