I can't believe I agree with liberal NYT columnist Thomas Friedman. NYT: To Trump, on Venezuela: You Break It, You Own It.
Pam Bondi about a year ago: "Epstein Files on my desk, ready to release. "
Also Pam Bondi (December 2025): "We have to redact the names of the victims ped0-Saturians before releasing the Epstein files."
Maduro and the ICE shooting sure knocked the focus off Australia's Bondi Beach shooting.
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.
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At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.
The Mirror: Donald Trump's Justice Department quietly deletes only photo of him from Epstein files dump.
The photo was included in the disclosure which went live on Friday evening, but had been removed from both the website links and downloadable zip file at some point on Saturday.
AP: Calls to impeach AG Bondi grow after Epstein file omissions spark bipartisan outrage.
DO IT! IMPEACH HER!
We can only guess who and why OrangeJewlius is protecting. It could be anybody. 🤣 Anybody!
But it's not. We know. A long list of Saturians.
Really, nothing "Sensitive" or Controversial after the PageBreak, but just in case...for all the shrieking Pearl Clutcherz out there...
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Later I found where someone put the portrait, flipped, side by side. Tell me that it doesn't look demonic.
You can't possibly miss the Baphomet imagery. It's intentional.
FOX News (Yahoo): King Charles III divides fans after monarch releases first portrait: It 'looks like he's in hell'.
"It looks like he’s burning in hell," an Instagram user wrote.
Daily Beast: 'Burning in Hell' or 'Very Fine'? King Charles' First Official Portrait Unveiled.
Burning in Hell. No doubt.
The Independent: Jacob Rothschild: Financier dies aged 87.
The British peer started his career in his family bank in 1963.
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Financier, philanthropist and head of the renowned Rothschild empire, Lord Jacob Rothschild has died aged 87.
"Financier." Of what? World Wars and Conflicts? Profiting off the misery of others?
"Philanthropist." Yeah. Uh huh.
British peer...British. Sure. Whatever.
Britannica: Rothschild family; European family.
"European." O rly?
♫ Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust ♬
And another one gone, and another one gone
🎶 Another one bites the dust
An explosion broke out on 24 May in downtown Lyon, France near a bakery at the intersection of Victor Hugo Street and Sala Street, near Bellecour Square, one of the city's attractions. More than 10 people were injured.
According to the Parisien newspaper, the key suspect in the Lyon explosion case was identified as Mohamed Hichem M., 24, who came to France from Algeria.
French officials have yet to comment on the information.
The suspect, who was arrested on Monday, had been previously unknown to police prior to the 24 May incident, when a blast broke out in the French city of Lyon, injuring 10 people.
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"He is in custody. But so far, he refuses to speak," a source close to the investigation told Parisien.
The police questioned the relatives of the detainee — his parents, as well as his younger brother and sister.
Earlier, law enforcement officers had searched his home, where they found the materials needed for the manufacturing of explosives.
On Monday, French police arrested two suspects in connection with the investigation into the Lyon explosion, which took place on 24 May not far from a bakery at the intersection of Victor Hugo Street and Sala Street, near Bellecour Square — one of the city's main tourist attractions.
French police have arrested four people over a package bomb explosion in the heart of the south-eastern city of Lyon last week that injured 13 people.World Atlas: The ??????? religion in Algeria dominates its demography, with around 99% of the population being followers of the faith.
A police raid was also under way in a building in the Oullins suburb just south of the city, authorities said. The suspected bomber, a 24-year-old Algerian IT student, was among those arrested.
The man’s parents were also arrested and taken in for questioning, as was a second Algerian student who is a family relation, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, which has jurisdiction over terrorism cases in France.
The suspect was previously unknown to police, Lyon’s mayor, Gérard Collomb, said.
The suitcase that exploded near a bakery in the French city of Lyon on Friday had a remote control system, local media reported on Saturday, citing sources close to investigators.Daily Mail: Manhunt for Lyon 'nail bomber' suspect in sunglasses and a cap.
According to the BFMTV channel, the detonated bag contained flechettes and a remote control system.
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As shown by CCTV cameras, a man, aged 30-35, rode a bicycle to the bakery and set aside a bundle, which subsequently exploded. The law enforcement forces failed to idenify the person responsible for the attack despite having the CCTV footage as the perpetrator was wearing sunglasses and a cap. The police are now searching for the suspect who is still on the loose, according to French anti-terrorism prosecutor.
The parcel bomb was packed with nails, screws and bolts outside a bakery[.]
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Police issued an appeal for witnesses on Twitter as they sought the man believed to be in his early 30s, who was picked up by security cameras on a mountain bike immediately before the explosion.
A source close to the investigation said traces of DNA were isolated from the remnants of the bomb. Police found the attacker used triacetone triperoxide or TATP, a powerful homemade explosive.Sputnik News: 28th week of Yellow Vests Protests.
The case is being handled as a terrorism investigation given the circumstances of the attack, committed in broad daylight, and the use of an explosive device capable of hitting a large number of people with screws and metal balls packed into a bag[.]
Activists have gathered on Saturday in different cities in France for the 28th consecutive week of Yellow Vests protests.Sputnik News Video: Yellow Vests Hold 28th Week of Mass Protests in Paris.
In the lead up to the European Parliament elections, the biggest Yellow Vests marches are being held in Paris and Amiens, the birthplace of the incumbent French president.
"Honey...pay the sitter in Bitcoin."“Cashless society” is a euphemism for a “bank payments society”, in which every transaction must be passed through a complex of banks, card companies, phone providers and payments apps.
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Ask a room of people to raise their hands if they wish to be able to use digital payment, and most will do so. But if you reframe the question as “Do you want to not have the option to use cash?” people are more hesitant. We like new options, but we don’t like having options removed.
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The digital payments industry tries to cast cash as the horse-drawn carriage of payments; but cash is the bicycle, more flexible, resilient and convenient in certain settings, especially informal ones.
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States having access to your payments data opens up potential for economic censorship.
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Blockchain is among the “next big, transformational technologies” being eyed for use by government in its ongoing quest to provide residents with easy, online access to services and transactions[.]
The cloud-based ledger ensures that records can’t be duplicated, manipulated or faked, and increased visibility in parts of the supply chain promotes an unprecedented level of trust.
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On July 19, the DOJ under Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the resumption of federally adopted forfeitures, whereby local and state law enforcement to use federal law to seize cash and other property from people suspected of crimes, even if they are not charged.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein defended the [Asset Forfeiture) program to reporters.
“This is not about taking assets from innocent people," [said Rosenstein].
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[Criminal defense attorney and professor at Virginia Commenweatlh [sic] University Matt C. Pinkser] states:
“No one objects to criminals losing their ill-gotten gains from their criminal activity. The problem is that for civil forfeiture, there is no requirement that a person is charged with a crime, let alone convicted.”
Pinsker explained that prosecutors need only show it is more likely than not that the asset being seized was involved in, contributed to or acquired through criminal activity.
Seizures can be based on mere rumor, gossip, a police hunch, or self-serving statements from disreputable people with an axe to grind like anonymous paid informants[.]
A private key is a tiny bit of code that is paired with [algorithms] for text encryption and decryption.Insider trading isn't supposed to happen, but it does. Why? People can't keep secrets.
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As the term suggests, private keys are intended to be secret, and is shared only with the key’s initiator, ensuring security.
Venezuela was a powerhouse of South America in the 1990s. Former President Bill Clinton made it his first stop on a trip to the region in 1997.Read that last sentence again. And again.
But inequality grew extreme. A small elite class controlled everything while the increasingly impoverished masses fumed.
[Daniel Wright, senior lecturer in tourism at the University of Central Lancashire in a paper for the scientific journal Futures], outlined a world ravaged by economic and ecological disasters , leading to overpopulation and a huge gap between rich and poor.And I thought that "Hostel" was just a movie.
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Hunting humans as an underground sport could happen as early as 2100, the report suggests, but becoming an authentic tourism experience by 2200.
Of course the world will have to take a turn for the worse to reach a situation where rich people can hunt poor people for sport.
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Ecological disasters mean not enough food or land to support the population and megarich tourists hunting the poor to keep the numbers down but as sport too.
Wright, outlining his future vision, added: "During these activities the oppressive mega-rich carry out vacations to purposely slaughter humans, with the 'claimed' aim to reduce population size, but an element of perverse thrill and excitement was said to be fuelling [sic] the demand."
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in charge of administering the law, has boasted about the potential of Real IDs to regulate voting, gun ownership, immigration, and Social Security and other federal benefit programs."People would need them to function...NORMALLY." Do you want DHS regulating our voting system? Where are the fucking Liberal politicians, you know - the ones who advocate so much for individual rights to privacy - when you need them? Oh, they say the want to protect out privacy but we know it's nothing but their political propaganda.
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People would need them to function normally, making Real IDs America's first-ever national ID cards.
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“The temporary relief in PDVSA (Venezuela’s state-owned oil company ) external debt payments becomes even less relevant when considering total external debt payments faced by both Venezuela and PDVSAVenezuelan President Nicola Maduro's economic policies have been mostly consistent with those of previous El Presidente Hugo Chavez. When crude oil was much more expensive, it gave the illusion of a more economic solvent Venezuela than reality. The falling price of oil devastated their economy, or, more accurately, the rest of the economy that wasn't propped up by the high oil prices.
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...[the] sovereign [debt] and PDVSA still jointly face an average yearly debt service commitment of $8.7bn until 2020.”
On Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund that Venezuela’s economy would contract 7 percent in 2015, which could force Mr. Maduro’s government to default on its loans or significantly curtail the subsidized oil his country provides to allies in the Caribbean, including Cuba.In 2014, General Motors and Ford combined wrote off $710 million.
Anyone wanting to exchange the worthless bills after that will have 10 days to submit them at the central bank after being questioned by the secret police, Mr. Maduro said in an unexpected announcement on Sunday.The economic problems in Venezuela, Greece, India and with The UK Brexit, are all enhanced experiments within various test tubes. The ultimate goal is to crash the U.S. economy, which wouldn't take much. The next step is to make digital currency the law of the land, eliminating cash.
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