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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Crypto to Replace Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency? Investing Legend Stanley Druckenmiller Thinks So

The argument that the dollar is losing prestige worldwide got a major boost from a legendary investor. 

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Last year, hedge fund gurus like Paul Tudor Jones set off the wave of institutional bitcoin buying by cementing the narrative of bitcoin as an inflation hedge. Today, one of those investors - Stanley Druckenmiller - is back with even more dire pronouncements about the likely implication of Federal Reserve policies. The dollar, he says, will lose reserve currency status in the next 15 years. The most likely candidate to replace it? Crypto.


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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The So-Called Experts and Their Lack of Expertise

Today’s podcast takes up the catastrophic error made by the Centers for Disease Control in assessing the risk from outdoor transmission of COVID, as detailed by David Leonhardt in the New York Times. Then we go into the catastrophic error made by Joe Biden on pumping unemployment money into the economy, which he tried to correct on Monday. And then into the potentially catastrophic error made by... Source

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 05/11

Some gas stations run dry as a crucial fuel pipeline remains shut down. Pfizer vaccine a big step closer for 12-15 year olds. Backlash against the Golden Globes. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Time To Say Goodbye - “Magic Actions” and “When the Party’s Over”: the past year in politics

Hello! 

A long but focused discussion this week—on two new essays that attempt to write recent history.

First, Tobi Haslett’s “Magic Actions” (n+1), recovering the explosive potential of last year’s George Floyd uprising, institutional attempts to domesticate it, and ongoing struggles for abolition and Black liberation. 

Second, Brendan O’Connor’s “When the Party’s Over” (The Baffler), a look at social-democratic politics after the thrill and demise of the Bernie campaign, the drudgery of party work, politician fandom, and finding a (new) base for socialism in 2021. 

ICYMI: Our conversation with the good folks at Jewish Currents, archived on YouTube:

Thanks to everyone who came to our picnic in Brooklyn on May 2! And thanks also to our listeners who gathered for a hike, book chat, and carbs in Los Angeles this past weekend!

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Rockets over Jerusalem: Israeli-Palestinian violence

Tension in the holy city of Jerusalem has been rising for weeks, amid the attempted eviction of Palestinians and a march by Jewish nationalists. Yesterday it erupted into the worst violence in years, as Hamas rockets fired at Israel from Gaza prompted retaliatory air strikes. A cyber-attack that shut down one of America’s largest fuel pipelines reflects the growing problem of ransomware. And in China, authorities are clamping down on a spurt of grave robbing. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The South Atlantic Anomaly

For years people believed that there was a part of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and planes would disappear called the Bermuda Triangle. It turned out that ships and planes didn’t disappear there at any higher rate than they did elsewhere, and it just wasn’t a thing. However, researchers did find a place where the vessels which traveled into it had a far higher rate of catastrophe. This area was in outer space. Learn more about the South Atlantic Anomaly

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The NewsWorthy - Vax for Teens, Middle East Tension & Golden Globes Canceled? – Tuesday, May 11th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, May 11th, 2021!

We have updates about:

  • when more teens can get a COVID-19 vaccine: what U.S. health regulators are saying about the latest data
  • more tension in the middle east: what's behind recent clashes and what the U.S. is saying about it
  • how the pipeline attack could start to impact gas prices
  • what officials in most states are asking Instagram to stop doing
  • why next year's Golden Globes appear to be canceled

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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FDA Authorizes Pfizer Vax for Adolescents: WSJ, NY Times, AP, Reuters

Transgender Healthcare Protections: NY Times, Axios, WSJ, CNN, Fox News

Israel/Palestinian Violence: Al Jazeera, AP, CBS News, Fox News

Pipeline Cyber Attack Follow/Gas Prices: Axios, NY Times, CBS News, Reuters, FBI

CA Emergency Drought Declaration Expanded: Sacramento Bee, AP, Gov. Newsom

AG Group: No Instagram for Kids: NAAG, CNBC, Bloomberg, WSJ

Playstation 5 Will Stay in Short Supply Through 2022: Bloomberg, Penn Live, Engadget

NBC Cuts Ties with Golden Globes: USA Today, AP, Variety, HFPA, LA Times

Tiger on the Loose in Houston: Houston Chronicle, KHOU, USA Today, Houston PD

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Short Wave - Pediatricians Work To Persuade Parents And Teens To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

Some colleges and universities have announced that COVID vaccination will be mandatory (with some exemptions) and the FDA has authorized the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 12 to 15. While coronavirus infections are declining in the United States, vaccination rates also appear to be slowing down, so pediatricians and public health officials say they're trying to spread the word to overcome hesitancy, and get the vaccine out to people where they go to school and shop. Emily talks with NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey about this and other topics in the pandemic news.

If you'd like to assistant on finding a vaccination site, you can dial 1-800-232-0233 or go to vaccines.gov (English) or vacunas.gov (Spanish) for more information.

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The Daily Signal - What You Should Know About Jack Phillips’ Latest Religious Liberty Case

Self-described cake artist Jack Phillips is again at the center of the debate over religious freedom, this time as the defendant in a state trial after being sued for declining to design and bake a cake celebrating a gender transition.

"Jack's been in the news for many years," as Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Signal, referring to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission's finding that Phillips, a Christian, discriminated against a gay couple when he declined on religious grounds to make a custom cake to celebrate the two men's marriage.


Phillips, whose Masterpiece Cakeshop is in Lakewood, Colorado, took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.


"In 2018, the Supreme Court said that Colorado had engaged in religious hostility toward Jack. And so he won that case, 7 to 2," says Tedesco, today's guest on "The Daily Signal Podcast."


"But then Colorado turned around right after that and considered another complaint against him, this time based on a gender transition cake that someone asked him to create. Eventually Colorado got the message and dismissed that complaint," Phillips' lawyer says, "but then the private citizen involved in filing that complaint filed a private lawsuit against Jack. And so that's why he's in court now."


Listen to the full interview on “The Daily Signal Podcast” or read a lightly edited transcript below.


We also cover these stories:

  • The Biden administration reverses a Trump administration policy on health care and transgender individuals. 
  • The FBI announces that a criminal gang called DarkSide is behind an attack on the Colonial Pipeline network. 
  • Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, a biological male, is on track to compete as a woman in the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. 




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In God We Lust - The Kamikaze Route | 5

A growing chorus of dissenters on Liberty’s campus are speaking up, as Jerry Falwell Jr’s behavior gets increasingly called into question. Giancarlo struggles to start over in DC as he can’t seem to outrun his relationship with the Falwells.

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