Hmmmmm...Central Banks you say? Teh Iorny.
IMF: Agustín Carstens: The Innovative Central Banker.
Financial Times: Agustin Carsten; "Crypto, but only government crypto." (CBDC).
[...]"the problem with stablecoins is that to assure [their] stability in an ironclad fashion is extremely difficult."
Same as the stock market, then, Slim? Hands off Crypto Control. Hit the treadmill 'Gus.
Coinrank: What is CBDC? A Beginner’s Guide.
Crypto News: Industry support and the Silk Road founder release: what Trump promises to the crypto community.
[Trump] promised to release the founder of the darknet marketplace Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht. If he wins the election, Trump promised to cancel the sentence on the first day.
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He also pledged to support self-custody rights for the nation’s 50 million digital assets holders.
The story mentions Trump has solid and large support from the digital currency community while they view Biden and Handlers as anti-crypto, which they are. The article states Trump saying he'd never allow the launch a CBDC.
Great; yeah! 👍👍
Trump should've pardoned Ulbricht, along with Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, his first time around.
Made a valiant attempt in getting caught up with everyone on the blog roll. Didn't quite make it all the way but everything and everyone is still around. Everyone okay out there? Hope so!
Anything new? Besides Biden's Handlers driving head-on into World War 3 involving every nation on earth? Is Build Back Better working now? Someone said the DJIA closed at over 55,000 on Thursday and I overheard someone I don't know saying BitCoin is at One Billion Dollars. I've been away for so long.
A few chilly, under the average, days here but a warm up is supposed to happen this week. Joy!
Still in a process of sorting, tossing, keeping. Just a different area, not the garage, although there's more to do there. This is going to be a while.
The My closets in the basement...ugh. Boxes, stacked atop others. Ugh...ugh. If I do it inebriated does that make the task and decision-making process easier?
I keep waiting for Hillary to announce her run for president. C'mon Hill, don't disappoint me. I made sizeable wagers, dammit, that she'd enter the race.
There's a video ready for Monday Morning Music! Ooh-Ahh! But I'll be AFK for a while. Feel free to drop comments. I'll check in sporadically. Stay Safe out There!
Tucker Carlson covered this on his program Friday, November 25.
I couldn't find the full segment, it may appear on his website or You Tube later. But there was this snippet:
The government needs to make sure you're not spending your money on something of which they disapprove.
The U.S. government, along with their global Luciferian overlords, must decrease the standard of living for those who've worked 20, 30, 40, 50 years and redistribute what they've earned to...whom? Their cultists?
This idea is so bad only a Marxist will love it.
We're living in a very bad time and reversing course is getting shorter every day.
Link to the Fed's PDF on CBDC.
What is a Central Bank Digital Currency?
A short history: Who Owns The Federal Reserve?
How many steps away from The Mark of The Beast are we? Anything more than "three" seems overly generous. I hope I Exit Earth before this happens because this is not something in which I will participate.
We're witnessing in real time a free-for-all shitshow and this is just the previews.
"The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
- Deuteronomy 31:8
First, he told his 4.6 million Twitter followers on Wednesday that bad actors had taken over his IP address. "Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography," Krugman wrote in a now-deleted tweet. "I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there."Krugman, the same guy who in 2013 called Bitcoin "evil." Yeah, because he didn't buy it back then when its price floated around $600. He missed out on a bargain and is forever pissed about it.
Qanon is used to describe far-right conspiracy theorists who believe in a deep state that is threatening to take down President Trump.
He then followed up, in a tweet, saying that the "Times thinks it may have been a scam. Anyway, will have more security in future."
Even so, Krugman's allegations prompted a fierce backlash from social media, with many calling the economist's bluff from the get-go.
...a driver apparently used two different vehicles to carry out mayhem spread over three different crime scenes. The 30-year-old male suspect conducted his first attack outside the Commonwealth Stadium during a Edmonton Eskimos game. There, he slammed a Chevy Malibu into a traffic-control barricade, and in doing so, he struck a police car, exited the Malibu, and stabbed a cop multiple times.- - -
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The Edmonton Journal reports that an ISIS flag was found in the Chevy Malibu used within the first attack.
She may occasionally make a foray into a fashion magazine and order a pair of shoes online or some ghastly trouser suit which makes her look like an alien that has been dragged through a swamp before being thrown into a wind tunnel but after an encounter with a shredder....but tell us what you really think of Theresa May?
A bit like a pot-bellied crossdresser[.]
The leader of the Neapolitan Piccirillo gang ran his murder, extortion and drug trafficking outfit from his small in home in Catterall, near Preston.
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The United Arab Emirates has begun collecting new "sin" taxes on tobacco products, energy drinks and soft drinks.- - -
Beginning today, tobacco and energy drinks will be taxed at 100 per cent and soft drinks at 50 per cent.
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Beijing's decision to shut down bitcoin trading platforms has left investors scrambling to cut their losses[.]- - -
"The authorities don't understand anything about bitcoin!" fumed Zhang Yanhua, founder of an investment fund that was dead on arrival after Beijing started tightening the screws at the start of the month.
In mid-September, the central bank- the People's Bank of China- told virtual currency trading platforms based in Beijing and Shanghai to cease market operations.
The bank has focused its sights not just on bitcoin but also ethereum and any other electronic units that are exchanged online without being regulated by any country.
I have a friend, a native-born U.S. citizen, an honest, smart and ardent communist, who voted for Donald Trump because he thought Trump would bring about the destruction of our political system. I’ve got to say he called it.Yeeeeahhhh --- writer Robert Kahn loses any slight credibility he may have had when he says, "my favorite Republican columnist David Brooks..."
As my favorite Republican columnist David Brooks wrote this week for The New York Times...
- - -[In] 39 months of its “Caliphate”, the “Islamic State” organization executes about 2750 civilian citizens in its controlled areas in Syria[.]
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[The number of executions] reached 2747, the number of civilians, including 105 children and 148 women, who were executed by the “Islamic state” organization by shooting, beheading, stoning, throwing off high place or burning[.]
...he recited part of a colonial-era Rudyard Kipling poem in front of local dignitaries while on an official visit to Myanmar in January.Boris gets it right 50% of the time. Give him a break.
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Britain colonised [sic] Myanmar from 1824 to 1948 and fought three wars in the 19th century, suppressing widespread resistance.
Johnson’s impromptu recital was so embarrassing that the UK ambassador to Myanmar, Andrew Patrick, was forced to stop him.
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In London last year [Johnson] stood alongside former US secretary of state John Kerry and was asked about describing Hillary Clinton as looking “like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.
A 51-year-old man from Surrey has been banned from shopping in more than a thousand supermarkets across the UK after a magistrate found that he had "engaged in behaviour that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress" to others.Heh - the wording of the story makes it sound as if, except for Bolton, it's okay for everyone else to do what he did.
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On top of the ban, the criminal order also prohibits Bolton from exposing his genitals or urinating in public[.]
Gangs of women pictured going through people’s bins are suspected of trying to steal documents and paperwork.
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An Oklahoma man has been arrested for allegedly beating to death his daughter’s abusive boyfriend, police said.- - -
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The victim’s family said the couple were expecting a child next month.
Barcelona resembles a war zone ahead of banned independence vote[.]- - -
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Thousands of national police are patrolling Barcelona's streets as the city prepares to defy the Spanish Government's orders not to vote in an independence referendum this weekend.
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| "Hypothetical atmospheric burst" Credit: @SinaZerbo/Twitter |
Trump is scheduled to attend the multi-day event on 1 October but it is unclear if he was not invited to attend with the other presidents or busy with White House meetings.If we don't know if Trump was or wasn't invited that day, it's really a stretch to claim the Ex Pres' avoided him.
It’s been said that software is “eating the world.” More and more, critical systems that were once controlled mechanically, or by people, are coming to depend on code. This was perhaps never clearer than in the summer of 2015, when on a single day, United Airlines grounded its fleet because of a problem with its departure-management system; trading was suspended on the New York Stock Exchange after an upgrade; the front page of The Wall Street Journal’s website crashed; and Seattle’s 911 system went down again, this time because a different router failed.Our software (& a lot of hardware) infrastructure is old and needs to be updated.
...a group of drunken male university students dressed just in their underpants try to break into a female-only halls of residence run by nuns.
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Earlier in the week freshers at the University of Leon in northern Spain were filmed stripping off and dancing naked during a mock student election.
Topless girls were videoed cavorting on stage with their hands covering their breasts.
Men also got involved, with one completely naked while others covered their modesty with traffic cones.
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A Paris-based malware researcher known as Benkow has discovered more than 700 million records used by the Onliner spambot on a misconfigured server. The records comprise a large number of email addresses, passwords and SMTP configurations.You're not going to find fate, destiny, love, romance, a fling or bad Engel-eesh in your SPAM. Well, maybe the bad Engel-eesh.
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The email target lists used for malware campaigns are not random, but methodically built. The spammer uses the spambot to send out apparently harmless emails. Benkow gives this example:
"Hello, Champ {friend|champion\enthusiast}! How {are you|is your day}?
{My name is|I'm} Natalia. Do you believe in {fate|destiny}?
Love is inseparable fellow of hope. {Sorry for|Pardon} my English, but I hope you'll {understand|get} that..."
However, the email contains a single pixel, invisible gif used to fingerprint the recipient device.
But no machine will ever ”think like a human.” Our thought processes are not solely computations. They involve the unquantifiable aspects of being alive[.]- - -
Breakthrough Listen, a project that scans the skies for possible signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, observed 15 FRBs in a repeating pulse just Monday.- - -
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What makes them odd is that they repeat, but without any recognizable pattern[.]
...the pacemaker’s authentication algorithm, [can] be compromised or bypassed to allow a nearby attacker to issue unauthorized commands to the pacemaker.- - -
The cornerstone of FEMA’s secret world is a bunker in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains that has served as the civilian government’s primary emergency hideaway since the 1950s.- - -