Posted on 04/20/2021 9:18:06 AM PDT by weston
Good to hear your cat was found.
Praying still for your Dad, for an easy promotion to Heaven.
Not that I keep up on the news about cryptocurrency, but I’m surprised it’s taken this long. I remember back in the 70s when bartering was big, how the government was trying to figure out a way to tax it as ‘income’.
@ChanelRion
· 9h
I finally got a chair. Thank you, Mr. President!
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.. at 2pm today Fed Chair Powell reminded the peasantry that the Federal Reserve itself is planning on rolling out its own CBDC, i.e., a digital dollar, and announced that the Fed plans to publish this summer a discussion paper “that will explore the implications of fast-evolving technology for digital payments, with a particular focus on the possibility of issuing a U.S. central bank digital currency.”
“As the central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve is charged with promoting monetary and financial stability and the safety and efficiency of the payment system,” Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell said Thursday in a video message. “In pursuit of these core functions we have been carefully monitoring and adapting to the technological innovations now transforming the world of payments, finance, and banking.”
“We are committed at the Federal Reserve to hearing a wide range of voices on this important issue before making any decision on whether and how to move forward with a U.S. CBDC,” he said in a statement Thursday, referring to central bank digital currencies.
Powell also made it clear that he wants the Fed to play “a leading role” in the development of international standards. Central banks around the world - most notably the People’s Bank of China - are moving ahead with digital currencies which could give them a head-start in how standards develop, according to Bloomberg. Indeed, the chart below shows the number of country CBDC projects by stage of development.
“Our key focus is on whether and how a CBDC could improve on an already safe, effective, dynamic, and efficient U.S. domestic payments system,” Powell said adding that “it is important that any potential CBDC could serve as a complement to, and not a replacement of, cash and current private-sector digital forms of the dollar, such as deposits at commercial banks. The design of a CBDC would raise important monetary policy, financial stability, consumer protection, legal, and privacy considerations and will require careful thought and analysis—including input from the public and elected officials.”
Translation: the financial system is on the verge of collapse and only the ramming through of programmable digital dollars, which can be turned off and expire at the push of a button as well as devalue themselves under a negative rates environment, can save it. Oh, and in a sequel to FDR’s Executive Order 6102, the government will confiscate all your physical cash (and precious metals) and replace it with digital bux.
Despite implicitly admitting that the digital currency revolution started by bitcoin has changed the world, and is about to change accepted money forever, Powell took the opportunity to bash true digital currencies. The Fed chair said that “to date, cryptocurrencies have not served as a convenient way to make payments, given, among other factors, their swings in value.”
Which is news to anyone who bought crypto several years ago and held, or anyone for that matter who bought bitcoin prior to March: they have not only preserved their value but seen their wealth explode.
What was perhaps more notable was Powell’s far more supportive view of stablecoins:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-publish-report-us-digital-currency-summer
“I guess these strongly worded letters aren’t working for these Govs”
I wish we Republicans would learn to do something more besides just write letters.
There should be some mechanism to either bring those kids back, maybe bring them to DC, or stop them before they even get here. And let the places know that are taking them in that they will be charged with aiding and abetting a crime. They are here illegally after all.
Just got iron. My hemoglobin was down to 10 from 14 6 weeks ago. LOW but REd cross guidelines do not permit blood transfusion until you are below 8. That is if you live they’ll give you blood. No noticeable change. Still dead tired and no energy.
took it easy today (relatively speaking) ... for some it would be an exhausting day but for me just regular. I have to stop and rest a lot.. catch my breath.
want to share with you all a very good book I am reading. No not political, not fiction.. Trying hard to take a break from the BS that is US today... I know many of you feel same
Want to also chime in on the housing market, sellers thoughts .. from a previous broker as well as multi home seller.. but alas that too right now is exhausting. Going to get a bath and stretch out... maybe for night
really enjoy keeping up with everyones news.
Lysie.. glad daugter’s kitty came back.. they usually do, after worrying us to death.
Love and hugs from NE Ohio
I saw him turn his back. So childish!
Oh good! I think cats do things like that just to make us appreciate them more.
LOL, I guess I’m glad I missed that part, the cat for breakfast thing.
I took Cooper to town today, went for a walk, looked for faucets at Lowe’s. Then I came home and I’m packed a bit. Mopped the kitchen floor.
Any bites from that buyer that wanted your house?
I meant “THE republicans.”
I know “WE” here would have no problem taking action over letter writing.
“reminded the peasantry”
I had to stop reading right there, I was laughing so hard! LOL
Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes
5 hours ago
Vaccine Mandate Employee Letter Example
No authorship claim or copyright asserted...this letter just came to me in a bottle, and I have no idea who might have penned it, nor can I possibly vouch for it, and what you fine folks do with it is entirely in your own hands, as the Gentlemen of the Bar remind me I can proffer no legal advice in the matter, and do not so here...
Dear Boss,
Compelling any employee to take any current Covid-19 vaccine violates federal and state law.
First, federal law prohibits any mandate of the Covid-19 vaccines as unlicensed, emergency-use-authorization-only vaccines. Subsection bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(III) of section 360 of Title 21 of the United States Code, otherwise known as the Emergency Use Authorization section of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, demands that everyone give employees the “option to accept or refuse administration” of the Covid-19 vaccine. ( ... ) This right to refuse emergency, experimental vaccines, such as the Covid-19 vaccine, implements the internationally agreed legal requirement of Informed Consent established in the Nuremberg Code of 1947. ( http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/ ). As the Nuremberg Code established, every person must “be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision” for any medical experimental drug, as the Covid-19 vaccine currently is. The Nuremberg Code prohibited even the military from requiring such experimental vaccines. (Doe #1 v. Rumsfeld, 297 F.Supp.2d 119 (D.D.C. 2003).
Secondly, demanding employees divulge their personal medical information invades their protected right to privacy, and discriminates against them based on their perceived medical status, in contravention of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (42 USC §12112(a).)
Third, conditioning continued employment upon participating in a medical experiment and demanding disclosure of private, personal medical information, may also create employer liability under other federal and state laws, including HIPAA, FMLA, and applicable state tort law principles, including torts prohibiting and proscribing invasions of privacy and battery. Indeed, any employer mandating a vaccine is liable to their employee for any adverse event suffered by that employee. ( https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#vaccine ). The CDC records reports of the adverse events already reported to date concerning the current Covid-19 vaccine.(ttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vaers.html )
With Regards,
Employee of the Year
https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/689810/vaccine-mandate-employee-letter-example
Great letter!
Yes,they started requiring metals companies to report their purchases over $600 from individuals.
Can we revisit this Pence/McCarthy teaming? What in the heck is that all about? Why are they asking for donations?
My spidey-senses are on high alert over this.
Thanks, Jane.
ROFL
Good letter, thanks!
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