Odds and Ends — 3 December 2024

in #oddsandends15 days ago


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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Microsoft’s Bitcoin dilemma: Ride $5 trillion BTC wave or avoid risk

Musk’s Multibillion-Dollar Pay Package Rejected Again

A Delaware judge upheld her earlier ruling striking down Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package, plunging Tesla’s board into more uncertainty over how to compensate its superstar chief executive for a decade of work.
The ruling marks another setback for Tesla’s directors, who have said the record stock-option deal was necessary to ensure Musk stayed focused on the carmaker at a time when it is facing slower growth in its automotive business.

Coinbase Cuts Ties with Law Firms Hiring “Anti-Crypto” SEC Officials

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Republican-Led Committee Backs COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory

Politics:

South Korea's president declares emergency martial law

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an unannounced late-night TV address Tuesday, accusing the country’s main opposition party of sympathizing with North Korea and of anti-state activities.

Donald Trump Reportedly Takes Menacing Jab At Justin Trudeau In Mar-a-Lago Meeting

The president-elect dismissed the Canadian prime minister’s tariff concerns with a confrontational “joke.”


Unions Score Major Win in Wisconsin

Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law that sparked weeks of protests and made the state the center of the national battle over union rights.
That law, known as Act 10, effectively ended the ability of most public employees to bargain for wage increases and other issues, and forced them to pay more for health insurance and retirement benefits.

Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it

Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence

Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud

In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false.

The Kremlin Celebrates Trump’s Cabinet Picks

Russian state TV propagandists are ecstatic about Donald Trump’s Cabinet selections, especially Kash Patel who the incoming president has appointed to be FBI director.

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