151 - Even a Grey Slow News Day is a Good Day Now

Colombian elections update. Alexa will soon be your teacher, mother, secret lover. Assange update. NFT/Crypto-verse bitter irony. Slavery's still A-Okay in the USA. Uvalde update. SCOTUS update. Havana syndrome update. WWIII update.

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General Recommendations

• JD's Recommendation: Slow Horses 
• JNM's Recommendation: Mr.Heang Update 

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• Colombia’s first ever left-wing president
  • Video
• Amazon's Alexa will soon be able to read you stories in a loved one's voice - even if they're dead
• The Economist - How Democracies Decay - The Warning from Latin America 
• UK APPROVES ASSANGE EXTRADITION
• Media Cheer Assange’s Arrest (April 2019)
• Mexico’s President AMLO demands freedom for Julian Assange, ‘prisoner of conscience’ and ‘best journalist of our time’  
  • Video w/ English translation
• NFT-themed Bored & Hungry restaurant no longer accepts crypto
• US Supreme Court abolishes constitutional right to abortion
• Democratic Leaders Don’t Fear Their Own Base. They Should.
• California Senate rejects involuntary servitude amendment
• Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Argue It Doesn’t Have to Release School Shooting Public Records
• U.S. to give some ‘Havana syndrome’ victims six-figure compensation
• British army chief tells troops prepare for World War III with Russia
  • Video
• Sanctions on Russia Backfire, Biden BEGS Saudis for Cheap Oil
• Russia’s oil revenue soars despite sanctions, study finds
• Is America the Real Victi