We all know about Japan’s now three decades of economic malaise, its heavy indebtedness, and the pernicious effects of their aging-population demographic time bomb, but I had no idea how bad the last of those is until while reading a book by Vaclav Smil came across this:
“By 2050, people above the age of 80 will outnumber the children.”
#Bitcoin RULES:
— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) June 29, 2021
- Hold for minimum 4 years
- Decade strategy best
- Ignore all price fluctuations
- Keep stacking
Nothing creepy about this: A16z, Coinbase-Backed Startup Looks to Distribute Crypto to Everyone on Earth by Scanning Their Eyeballs
The dinosaurs are scared; I feel their pain: ’We don't have much time left’ to regulate crypto, says Bank of France governor
A Revolutionary Solar Fridge Could Keep COVID Vaccines Cold In Sub-Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe imposes dusk to dawn curfew in new COVID-19 restrictions
India May Have Failed To Count As Many As 1 Million COVID Deaths
U.S. Supreme Court maintains CDC’s pandemic-related residential eviction ban
The justices declined a request made by a group of landlords to allow a federal judge’s decision to block the eviction moratorium to go into effect nationwide while litigation in the dispute continues. The moratorium is due to expire on July 31.
New York City Pulls Back Election Results
The New York City mayor’s race plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when the city Board of Elections released a new tally of votes in the Democratic mayoral primary, and then removed the tabulations from its website after citing a ‘discrepancy.’
Inside Mark McCloskey’s Very Sad St. Louis Rally
Noted local criminal Mark McCloskey played host to a barbecue/political rally on Sunday afternoon, drawing tens of admirers to the sweltering parking lot of a closed outlet mall in St. Louis County to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the time he pulled a gun on a crowd of people who otherwise would never have noticed or cared he existed.
GOP Leaders Whip Against Jan. 6 Select Committee
Republican leadership on Tuesday urged House GOP members to vote against legislation establishing a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters.
Yeah, good luck with that. Being in the minority has some drawbacks.
A New Darkness Falls on the Trump Movement
Biden to Allow Deported Immigrants Back Into U.S.
The Biden administration, with little public fanfare, is working on plans for an organized review of thousands of cases of people who say they were unjustly deported in recent years, senior officials in charge of immigration said. The officials say that many deportations, especially under Trump, were unduly harsh, with little law enforcement benefit. They are working to devise a system to reconsider cases of immigrants who were removed despite strong ties to the United States.
Arizona ballot audit shows signs of backfiring on GOP
Fox News Pays $1M for Violating Human Rights Law
GOP Lawmaker to Host Fundraiser with White Supremacist
Dangerous Heat Wave Is Literally Melting Critical Infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest
The heat-caused damage in the Pacific Northwest is a stark sign of how screwed our infrastructure is when it comes to climate change.
Canada Breaks All-Time High for Recorded Temperature
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