Month: February 2024

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - FIRST MOVER: Bitcoin, Ether Rally Continues; Earn Alliance CEO on the Future of Web3 Gaming

Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry. And, a conversation with Earn Alliance CEO and co-founder Joseph Cooper on Web3 gaming.

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Bitcoin (BTC) surged above the $57,000 level, hitting its 2-year high since November 2021 as the ongoing rally picks up steam. Ether (ETH) has also jumped above $3,200, following an 11% spike in the past week. Plus, Earn Alliance CEO and co-founder Joseph Cooper shares the latest update in Web3 gaming.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.28.24

Alabama

  • AL House has passed the CHOOSE Act, now sending over to state senate
  • Sen. Tuberville responds to bizarre claims from MSNBC Joy Reid re: IVF & babies
  • Governor Ivey grants $150M to 5 Wiregrass counties for high speed internet
  • A bill is filed this week to prohibit sex offenders from becoming a first responder
  • A media competitor rips into 1819 news for asking about a pulled article

National

  • 22 AGs report that HHS as lost 85 thousand illegal migrants in the system
  • Illegals at border say Biden is better than Trump, for letting them in
  • Hunter Biden giving deposition today to House Judiciary & Oversight committees
  • TX AG sues porn industry for not complying with state law on age verification
  • Google loses $70B in market shares after disastrous rollout of AI "Gemini"
  • Dr. Harvey Risch talks Covid, CIA, coverup and bioweapons industry
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

Is school funding at record levels as the education secretary claimed? Why did the ONS change how they measure excess deaths? Is there a shoplifting epidemic? Did 6.5bn creatures arrive in the UK by plane last year?

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Nathan Gower, Perisha Kudhail, Debbie Richford and Olga Smirnova Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: Sarah Hockley Editor: Richard Vadon

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NBN Book of the Day - Gerald Epstein, “Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us” (U California Press, 2024)

Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in 2007 and nearly did the same in 2020. Both times, the US government bailed out the banks and left them in control. How can we end this cycle of trillion-dollar bailouts and make finance work for the rest of us? Busting the Bankers' Club confronts the powerful people and institutions that benefit from our broken financial system—and the struggle to create an alternative.

Drawing from decades of research on the history, economics, and politics of banking, economist Gerald Epstein shows that any meaningful reform will require breaking up this club of politicians, economists, lawyers, and CEOs who sustain the status quo. Thankfully, there are thousands of activists, experts, and public officials who are working to do just that. Clear-eyed and hopeful, Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us (U California Press, 2024) centers the individuals and groups fighting for a financial system that will better serve the needs of the marginalized and support important transitions to a greener, fairer economy.

Busting the Bankers’ Club is an eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform from Professor Gerald Epstein, Founding Codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - What Were The First and Second Reichs? (Encore)

When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he declared his new regime to be The Third Reich and that it would last 1,000 years.

It turned out he was off by 988 years. 

The big question for many people outside of Germany was and still is, if that was the third Reich, what were the first two Reichs? 

..and for non-German speakers, what exactly is a Reich?

Learn more about the First and Second Reichs and what exactly they were on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Extreme Weather Swings, Rap Icon’s Case Closed & Job Seekers vs. AI- Wednesday, February 28, 2024

The news to know for Wednesday, February 28, 2024!

We're talking about the latest votes cast in the 2024 presidential election and an "intense" White House meeting ahead of another looming government shutdown.

Also, wild temperature swings: where millions of Americans are going from the 70s to the 20s.

Plus, closure in the murder of a hip-hop icon that went unsolved for decades; plans for downsizing at a well-known department store and the U.S. Army, and yet another record broken in NCAA women's basketball. 

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What A Day - Another Shutdown Looms Thanks To Far-Right Conservatives

Yet another government shutdown looms and lawmakers have until Friday night to avert it. Here's what's holding them up this time: House Republicans have refused to support a spending deal that doesn't cover some of their extremist priorities, like the reversal of a federal rule that broadens access to abortion medication. House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he's committed to avoiding a shutdown, but we're definitely not out of the woods yet.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments about a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, which enable rapid firing when added to semi-automatic weapons. The bump stock owner who brought the case argues that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives doesn't have the authority to outlaw bump stocks, and that bump stocks shouldn't be classified as "machine guns."

And in headlines: Hamas and Israel are far less optimistic than Joe Biden about the near-term possibility of a ceasefire, Starbucks agreed to start bargaining talks with the Starbucks Workers Union, and Macy's is closing 150 stores.

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Short Wave - Is It Possible To Feed The World Sustainably?

According to the United Nations, about ten percent of the world is undernourished. It's a daunting statistic — unless your name is Hannah Ritchie. She's the data scientist behind the new book Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. It's a seriously big thought experiment: How do we feed everyone on Earth sustainably? And because it's just as much an economically pressing question as it is a scientific one, Darian Woods of The Indicator from Planet Money joins us. With Hannah's help, Darian unpacks how to meet the needs of billions of people without destroying the planet.

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The Daily Signal - WARNING: Biden’s 2-State Solution May Inspire Hamas-Style Terror in US, Israeli Says

President Joe Biden's decision to float a possible two-state solution in the aftermath of Hamas' terrorist attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 incentivizes terrorism and may inspire radical Islamist terror attacks in the U.S., a Knesset member tells "The Daily Signal Podcast."

 

Ohad Tal, a member of the Religious Zionist Party and part of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, responds to the Biden administration "basically resurrecting the idea of the two-state solution."


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