THANK YOU to supporters JJM, JR, and BT! Their donations and “subscribing donor” payments over the weekend, totaling $227.50, bring our year-end fundraiser total (as of 5:30am on Monday, November 11, to $1,654.50!
We’re only $1,021 short of our goal — once we’ve hit the $2,675.50 mark, supporter GL will “match funds” to take us to the $5,351 finish line.
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“Bitcoin soared to a record high above $81,000 on Monday on expectations that cryptocurrencies will boom in a favourable regulatory environment following the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president and pro-crypto candidates to Congress. The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency , has now more than doubled from the year’s low of $38,505 and was last at $81,572 having earlier touched a record high of $81,899.” (11/11/24)
“Haiti’s ruling presidential council has fired the country’s prime minister, Garry Conille, after barely six months and named businessman Didier Fils-Aime to replace him in an act that some political leaders say is illegal. This marks the second time in a dozen years that Conille, 58, a career civil servant and development expert with the United Nations, has been forced from the top government job in Haiti. In 2012, he was forced to step down by then-President Michel Martelly after only four months in office. … On Sunday, several sectors that had named people to the presidential council as part of a political accord worked out with the U.S. and the Caribbean community were working on issuing a statement criticizing the move, while also showing support for Conille and his government, two people involved in the process told the Miami Herald.” (11/10/24)
“Qatar has suspended its work as a mediator in ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas, officials say. The country said it would resume its work when Hamas and Israel ‘show their willingness’ to negotiate. It comes after senior US officials reportedly said Washington would no longer accept the presence of Hamas representatives in Qatar, accusing the Palestinian group of rejecting fresh proposals for an end to the war in Gaza. … ‘Qatar notified the parties 10 days ago during the last attempts to reach an agreement, that it would stall its efforts to mediate between Hamas and Israel if an agreement was not reached in that round,’ a statement from the Qatari foreign ministry said. ‘Qatar will resume those efforts… when the parties show their willingness and seriousness to end the brutal war.'” (11/10/24)
“President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the election, said several people familiar with the matter. During the call, which Trump took from his resort in Florida, he advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington’s sizable military presence in Europe, said a person familiar with the call, who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.” [editor’s note: The Russian regime denies the call took place – TLK] (11/10/24)
“Republicans on Saturday were close to clinching control of the U.S. House of Representatives, a critical element for President-elect Donald Trump to advance his agenda when he returns to the White House in January. With votes still being counted from the Nov. 5 general election, Republicans had won 213 seats in the 435-member House, according to Edison Research, which projected on Saturday night that Representative Dan Newhouse had enough votes to keep Republican control of Colorado’s 3rd congressional district.” (11/09/24)
“Greece’s Syriza party cracked up further over the weekend and is about to officially lose its status as the country’s main opposition. The party’s recently deposed leader Stefanos Kasselakis announced on Saturday the creation of a new political movement, taking at least four MPs with him. Speaking to a large cheering crowd outside his new headquarters, the U.S. expat declared that ‘Syriza has closed its democratic chapter’ and positioned himself as the leader of a new, progressive political force. … The move comes a day after Syriza officially confirmed that Kasselakis would not be able to run again for the party leadership in elections set for Nov. 24, with a runoff on Dec. 1 if necessary.” (11/09/24)
“Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against a streamer called EveryGameGuru, whom it’s accusing of streaming gameplays of pirated games before they were even released and of providing viewers access to illegal ROM copies and piracy tools. In its lawsuit, the company said the defendant livestreams himself playing games on YouTube, Discord, Twitch, TikTok, Trovo, Kick, Vaughn, Dlive, Picarto, Nimo, Facebook and Loco, often with very little commentary. Apparently, EveryGameGuru streamed gameplays of at least 10 different titles before their official release date in at least 50 occasions since 2022.” (11/09/24)
“A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 26 people, including soldiers and railway staff, and wounding about 62 others, some critically, officials said. The attack happened when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train bound for the garrison city of Rawalpindi from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, according to Hamza Shafqaat, a senior government administrator. A separatist group, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), claimed responsibility for the attack.” (11/09/24)
“President-elect Trump was on track to win 400 electoral votes in a head-to-head race against President Biden, according to the White House’s own internal polls. The news was revealed by Jon Favreau, a one-time speechwriter for former President Obama who now hosts the liberal Pod Save America podcast. ‘Then we find out when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes,’ Favreau said. ‘Joe Biden’s decision to run for president again was a catastrophic mistake,’ Favreau added. ‘They refused to acknowledge until very late, that anyone could be upset about inflation. And they just kept telling us that his presidency was historic and it was the greatest economy ever.'” (11/09/24)
