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PayPal has started allowing U.S. users to spend their cryptocurrency holdings at millions of online merchants globally. The development means PayPal users who hold bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), bitcoin cash (BCH), and litecoin (LTC) in PayPal digital wallets can now convert their crypto holdings into fiat to make purchases. Reuters first reported the news. "This is the first time you can seamlessly use cryptocurrencies in the same way as a credit card or a debit card inside your PayPal wallet," PayPal CEO and president Dan Schulman told Reuters. "We think it is a transitional point where cryptocurrencies move from being...

It was in 1998 — a mere 23 years ago — that Hugo Chavez first got elected President of Venezuela. From the start, his program was explicitly one of vastly increased government spending, which was supposed to make the economy grow, reduce income inequality, eliminate poverty and bring about social justice. Chavez called the social programs his “Bolivarian missions.” Among some 30 or so such “missions,” big ones included blowout spending on education, subsidized food, subsidized housing and healthcare. In the early years, things seemed to be going swimmingly, at least if you believed the official statistics put out by...

China is facing mounting criticism from around the world over its treatment of the mostly Muslim Uighur population in the north-western region of Xinjiang. Human rights groups believe China has detained more than a million Uighurs over the past few years in what the state defines as "re-education camps". There is evidence of Uighurs being used as forced labour and of women being forcibly sterilised. The US is among several countries to have accused China of committing genocide and crimes against humanity through its repression of the Uighurs. China denies such allegations, saying it has been combatting separatism and Islamist...

A two-year-old boy and his baby sister were alone for three whole days in their Virginia home just feet away from where their parents and another teenager were slashed to death in a gruesome triple murder, according to testimony. James Herdman, a detective with the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office, testified during a preliminary hearing on Wednesday in court where three of the five Philadelphia men arrested in the case are being tried for murder. Body cam footage was played in court showing deputies arriving at the bloody murder scene on May 29, 2019.

After releasing PeerTube v3 in early January, a new main version on popular free YouTube alternative is now available. PeerTube 3.1 comes with plenty of improvements and new features. PeerTube is a piece of software that enables anyone to run their own tube site (like YouTube) very easily. All of the sites everyone runs can talk to each other, and people with accounts on one can interact with people on others. To put it short, it is a network of tube sites.What’s new in PeerTube 3.1Probably the most important to note in the new version are the improved transcoding features....

A reminder that one word in the English language that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and preposition. UP Read until the end ... you'll laugh. This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv.], [prep.], [adj.], [n] or [v]. It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak...

An Italian MP has called for billionaire Bill Gates to face trial in the International Criminal Court for charges of “crimes against humanity.” Sara Cunial, a member of Italy’s Parliament, is accusing Microsoft founder Gates of “working on depopulation and dictatorial control plans” around the world. The politician blasted Gates, the second-richest man in the world, for meddling in “global politics” while alleging he is playing a sinister role in the coronavirus pandemic. During a blistering speech on the floor of the national parliament, Cunial slammed Italian President Giuseppe Conte, accusing him of teaming up with Gates in a “global...

JAG Writes: I recently wrote a letter to my grandson that said: Happy Birthday. You will want many more Happy Birthdays and the path to get them is to feed your mind and heart daily on the truths in the Bible the word of God and then stay far away from the pseudo-intellectual God-haters [Romans 1:28-32] who bad-mouth God and Christianity -- vultures they are, and they sit perched, waiting hungry, throughout secularized academia hoping to gobble down young Christians who are not solidly and strongly grounded in the truths of the Holy Bible the word of God. You'll run...

One of the first reactions to the new WHO guideline over Ivermectin came from the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, which issued a statement on the very same day, highlighting major flaws in the new guideline. (see article in French)FLCCC is “disappointed” by “what appears to be a deliberate omission of data by the World Health Organization in arriving at its decision to not recommend ivermectin to prevent and treat COVID-19.”“The latest guidance from WHO ignores several large clinical trials where ivermectin was proven to prevent mortality by more than 68%.”FLCCC’s statement warns countries about following the new WHO guideline:“If...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S. without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine afterward. Previously, the agency had cautioned against unnecessary travel even for vaccinated people, but noted that it would update its guidance as more people got vaccinated and evidence mounted about the protection the shots provide. According to the CDC, nearly 100 million people in the U.S. — or about 30% of the population — have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. A person is considered fully vaccinated...

A sleeping student on a Powhatan County, Virginia, school bus got a frightening surprise on April Fools Day. Surveillance video shows a deer flying through the vehicle’s windshield and landing briefly on the student just after 6 a.m. Thursday. After landing on the student seated in the front row, who appears in video footage to be asleep and crouching down, the deer frantically pranced around before bounding down the bus steps and out the open door of the stopped vehicle about 10 seconds later. The school system said no one was hurt in the accident. The school bus driver said...

What’s So Good About Good Friday?VIDEO: What’s So Good About Good Friday? (5 minute video)This must-watch video from Passion Church in Atlanta explains the significance of today’s remembrance of Jesus’ death on the cross, what He suffered and what it means for us.

Joe Biden’s $2.5 trillion infrastructure spending spree will include $20 billion earmarked for actually destroying highways because they have been deemed to be racist.The administration pointed to the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans and Interstate 81 in Syracuse, New York as two examples of “long-standing and persistent racial injustice,” in infrastructure.The plan set forth by Biden would see billions spent on an effort to “reconnect neighborhoods” by destroying current highways and making sure that new projects “advance racial equity and environmental justice.”A whopping $621 billion has been touted for ‘transportation infrastructure and resilience,’ with the administration promising it will address...

spoliation noun spo·​li·​a·​tion | \ ˌspō-lē-ˈā-shən \ Definition of spoliation: 1a: the act of plundering b: the state of having been plundered especially in war 2: the act of injuring especially beyond reclaim Examples of spoliation in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web: Attorneys working for Daugherty discovered that in 2018 and sought to charge the hospital with spoliation of evidence. — al, "$2.5 million settlement in Alabama police shooting, gun found at hospital left unresolved," 23 Mar. 2021 The spoliation of evidence claim is related to a box of police overtime audit records that vanished within the department...

"All the trouble in the world is caused by the things people know aren't true". I don't know if that's absolute, but it does have a certain staying power, to explain the tsunami of confusion. There's a very concrete example of this, about the Rockefellers, that can be pithily introduced by an anecdote about an older generation of controllers--the Roth Schild billionaires, who, for better or for worse, had some influence on the Holocaust. The towering figure of the German poet Heinrich Heine, saw on the street, Rotchschild walking hand in hand with the revolutionary philosopher Friedrich Engels. The best...

Human errors at a manufacturing plant forced Johnson & Johnson to throw out 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine – enough to vaccinate 7% of the U.S. adult population. The New York Times, which first reported the loss on March 31, 2021, called it “a major embarrassment” for the vaccine-maker and its subcontractor, Emergent BioSolutions. But while errors with an impact of that magnitude sound shocking, they’re also a reminder that the U.S. vaccine manufacturing process has strict quality control measures designed to catch these problems before they reach the public. Vaccine manufacturing is complex, with many potential points...

NPR issued a correction on Thursday to a book review that claimed U.S. intelligence discredited the story surrounding a laptop believed to have belonged to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden. Revised now is a line in the review of the upcoming memoir, Beautiful Things: A Memoir, which details the 51-year-old's battle with drug addiction. Where it once said the laptop story was "discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations," has been replaced with a line that says: "Numerous news organizations cast doubt on the credibility of the laptop story." At the bottom of the...

The 13-year-old and 15-year-old girls charged in the armed fatal carjacking of a Virginia husband and father last week in D.C. are reportedly getting a plea deal.

On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired the opening shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. This month marks the 160th anniversary of the beginning of the war, the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil. The Civil War lasted four years and resulted in an estimated 620,000 deaths and 1.5 million casualties. Approximately one in four soldiers that went to war never came back home. This impacted families, communities, and the entire country for generations to come. Historical photograph of Fort Sumter The years leading up to the beginning of the Civil War were filled...

The History of Kamala Harris For your knowledge and interest about the Biden VP. Here is a timely editorial that exposes the hidden background of Kamala Harris from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. The editorial begins: Kamala Harris’ father was an avowed Marxist professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Both of Harris’ parents were active in the Berkeley based Afro-American Association; Fidel Castro and...