Mike Norman Economics

Increasing in cost of production in USD terms along with the BTC...Bitcoin’s mining difficulty set a new record high above 20 trillion. Report by @zackvoell https://t.co/fpKKmZsNdD— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 9, 2021

Why not think they were using any corrosion resistant metal they could economically produce?  Like we do today... smh Art Degree Historians couldn’t even tell you what column of the Periodic Table silver (Ag) was in... Researchers from the University of Haifa and Hebrew University found eight caches of metal, in the eastern Mediterranean region, then known as Canaan, that appeared to have been manipulated to look like pure silver https://t.co/lu30n0YOCx @SmithsonianMag— Modern Metals...

 This guy knows his stuff! US foreign policy could not be more ham fisted. [embedded content]

 What is this mysterious quantum tunneling effect, where does it come from? And why is it one of the most important phenomena in physics?[embedded content]

Investigative reporter Greg Palast has made it his life mission to expose voter suppression.TruthoutI Showed Raffensperger Evidence of Wrongful Voter Purges. He Ignored It.Greg Palast

Theyyy're baaack!The WeekLiz Cheney's 'political capital has risen significantly' after blaming Trump for riot, colleague saysTim O'DonnellNot so fast.Daily KosLindsey Graham harassed at airport: called "traitor" and "garbage human being" by pro-TrumpersWalter EinenkelAlsoAin't over yet.VOXThe online far right is angry, exultant, and ready for moreJerusalem DemsasAvoiding the schism.BuzzFeedRepublicans Are Calling For “Unity” After They Voted To Try To Overturn The Election Following The...

Google brings down the hammer.AlterNetSteve Bannon's podcast channel now banished from YouTube after repeated election falsehoodsMeaghan EllisMoreVOXTwitter purged thousands of QAnon-spreading accounts, including some of the conspiracy’s most prominent backersKatelyn Burns AlsoZHParler Faces Extinction As Amazon Employees Demand AWS Stop Hosting

Refresher.Oleh Tyahnybok was the leader of the (allegedly neo-Nazi) Freedom (Svoboda) Party in the Ukraine.Joe Biden was not alone in this association with the Far Right.As McCain took to the stage to encourage the Ukrainian protesters with promises of American support, he was greeted and flanked by Tyahnybok, the leader of Svoboda, which recently gained 38 seats in the Ukrainian Parliament. Svoboda is one of a number of Ukrainian far-right parties, and has ties to other "nationalist"...

 This gets better all the time. We knew this was going to be a great reality show right from the get-go, and I am almost out of popcorn.Sputnik InternationalGiuliani, Dershowitz Could Defend Trump If He Faces Impeachment, Report Says

United States election officials say ‘unprecedented’ spread of misinformation has eroded trust in voting system.The objective in creating doubt about elections is enhancing voter suppression, a chief tactic at least since the Civil War. This is not say there was no voter fraud in the past, or that both parties were not involved to some degree. Some Democratic-controlled cities were notorious, for instance at the same time that Jim Crow was prevalent in the former slave states. Al...