Pew Research: “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. A month into the war, more than 3.7 million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries – the sixth-largest refugee outflow over the past 60-plus years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of United Nations data. There are… Continue Reading
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Webinar – Sustainable Finance – European Green Bonds and ECB’s Climate Change Agenda
“Thursday, April 14, 2:00 p.m. Join the Law Library of Congress and Foreign Law Specialist Jenny Gesley for this month’s Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar entitled Sustainable Finance – European Green Bonds and the ECB’s Climate Change Agenda. This entry in the series will discuss green and sustainable finance with a focus on measures in… Continue Reading
US Lawmakers Introduce ‘ECASH’ Bill in New Push to Create a Digital Dollar
CoinDesk: “The e-cash would be a digital analogue to the greenback and could preserve privacy and anonymous transactions, according to an adviser on the bill. A group of U.S. lawmakers says the U.S. Treasury Department may be the right government entity to create a digital dollar – not the Federal Reserve. A new bill introduced… Continue Reading
Why Is the Internet So Exhausting?
Wired: “…In the past 20 years we’ve entered a phase of capitalism that is thriving on products that redefine unreality. A universal market of the fake. It is this agora of artifice that yokes the maladies of streamers collapsing under the unbearable weight of their fans’ parasocial relationships to the “financialization of everything” that is… Continue Reading
Environmental Groups Pressure Bitcoin Community to Lower Energy Use
WSJ – Consortium launches effort advocating changes to the cryptocurrency’s code – “A consortium of environmental groups launched a campaign on Monday seeking to change bitcoin’s code to decrease its energy use, which has grown substantially in the past few years. Bitcoin is popular among some investors, but its energy use has riled environmental groups,… Continue Reading
IRS Continues Targeting Poorest Families for More Tax Audits During FY 2022
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse Report – “The latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) statistics covering federal income tax audits through February of 2022 reveals that the agency is continuing to target audits on the poorest wage earners. So far it has completed 132,922 audits of these low-income wage earners with less than $25,000 in total gross… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 26, 2022
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 26, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
The World Is Splitting in Two
The Atlantic: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine and a series of COVID-related shutdowns in China do not, on the surface, appear to have much in common. Yet both are accelerating a shift that is taking the world in a dangerous direction, splitting it into two spheres, one centered on Washington, D.C., the other on Beijing.… Continue Reading
Discover Which Corporations are Biggest Regulatory Violators and Lawbreakers Throughout US
Philip Mattera – Research Director of Good Jobs First & Director of the Corporate Research Project: “The latest expansion of Violation Tracker includes more than 2,000 consumer protection and safety cases brought by state public utility commissions across the country over the past two decades. We’ve published a report called Policing the Grid which analyzes… Continue Reading
Publishing Giants Are Fighting Libraries on E-Books
Sludge: “The Association of American Publishers filed suit to block a new Maryland law that aims to increase public libraries’ access to e-books, with support from a powerful copyright lobbying group…Libraries and schools worldwide have been increasingly lending out e-books and audiobooks, even before the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Over 500 million copies of digital… Continue Reading
25 Cryptocurrencies You Should Know About
MakeUseOf – Here’s an overview of the most prominent cryptocurrencies: when they started, who founded them, and other interesting facts: “There are tens of thousands of cryptocurrencies and that number grows by the day. However, most of these cryptocurrencies aren’t significant and amount to nothing more than a personal project; it’s relatively easy to make… Continue Reading
Explore the global assets of Russia’s oligarchs and enablers
Russian Asset Tracker – “A sizable chunk of Russia’s wealth has been siphoned offshore by corrupt politicians and well-connected businessmen. We wanted to know where it went — so we started hunting. OCCRP and its partners trawled land records, corporate registries, and offshore leaks to come up with this database of assets belonging to key… Continue Reading
