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"This notice affirms that Texas state-chartered banks may provide customers with virtual currency custody services, so long as the bank has adequate protocols in place to effectively manage the risks and comply with applicable law. While custody and safekeeping of virtual currencies will necessarily differ from that associated with more traditional assets, the Texas Department of Banking believes that the authority to provide these services with respect to virtual currencies already exists pursuant to Texas Finance Code § 32.001. . . " " . .Virtual currency is an electronic representation of value intended to be used as a medium of...

ATLANTA, GA—After information was released yesterday that hydroxychloroquine can increase the survival rate of patients diagnosed with COVID-19, a sad, forlorn Brian Stelter was forced to shuffle over to the "Days Since Trump Was Proven Right" counter and reset it to zero once again. "Ugh. Not again!" said Stelter as he fumbled with the buttons on the side of the sign and changed it from "00001" to "00000" for the third day in a row. "One of these days we're gonna get up to 3!" "Curse you, Bad Orange Man!" Just in the last several weeks, the CNN crew has...

A group of bipartisan House members introduced legislation Friday that would break up Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. According to a press release from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the bills aim to “expand opportunities for consumers, workers, and small business owners by holding unregulated Big Tech monopolies accountable for anti-competitive conduct.” The legislation has support from both sides of the aisle. “Not only is self-regulation by Big Tech patently ineffective, but it also comes at the direct expense of workers, consumers, small businesses, our local communities, and the free press,” said Rep. Jayapal — who helps to lead the House...

A new petition is calling on New Jersey school board members to resign after they voted to remove holidays from the official school calendar Thursday. The petition was created by a user with the name Thomas Tatem on Friday and demands Randolph Township school board members and Superintendent Jen Fano to "resign immediately," saying they "clearly do not have the best interests of our children in anything they do." The board voted to start listing holidays, including religious and national holidays such as Thanksgiving and Memorial Day as "day off" on the school calendar after receiving backlash for renaming Columbus...

• “Probable link between Pfizer vaccine and myocarditis in young men” • “CDC quietly reveals shocking number of vaccine adverse reactions” • “Facebook deletes 120,000-member group where people posted stories of adverse reactions” • “EUDRA reports many adverse reaction cases” • “Magnetism Intentionally Added to Vaccine to Force mRNA Through Entire Body!” • “As adverse reaction grows, China’s vaccine diplomacy should raise international alarm” • “Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine halted at Georgia site after 8 adverse reactions” • “Second Covid vaccine site paused after adverse reaction to Johnson & Johnson shots” • “Man’s skin ‘peeled off’ in rare reaction...

I have mosquito bites all over my arms and legs. I'm thinking because I've been out camping, sitting by the campfire and doing a lot of cast iron based cooking over said fire. Which is some of the best kind of cooking if you are to be camping. Then I go into my tent and roll myself into a "sleeping bag" but even then, I'm thinking mosquitoes are still able to get through. So a lot of mosquito bites and it's only mid June. Lot of camping left to go this season. Nothing better though then sleeping under a tent...

No idea where this is, or when this was filmed, as the site only provides the video. Afghanistan perhaps?

Inflation is making headlines all over the country, but the mainstream media is not being honest about the true severity of the crisis. We are being told that the official rate of inflation is still in single digits, but what we aren’t being told is that the way inflation is calculated has changed dramatically over the years. In fact, according to Forbes “the government has changed the way it calculates inflation more than 20 times” over the past 30 years. The rate of inflation directly affects so many other things in our system, and the government would like to keep...

Pope Francis endorses Cardinal Marx and his "manifesto" for Church reformThe pope's refusal to accept the German cardinal's resignation further strengthens moves towards a substantial reform of the Catholic ChurchCardinal Marx handed in his letter of resignation to the Pope on May 21. (Photo: HANDOUT/AFP) { Cardinal Reinhard Marx tried to resign but, in the end, Pope Francis rejected the move and instructed the 67-year-old German to continue leading the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.The news is a major blow to doctrinal hardliners and neo-traditionalists, and everyone else who is a part of the Catholic Church's "no change" crowd. Because...

This beach season, every week is Shark Week. Professional shark taggers warn there are at least four great whites lurking off Long Island and New Jersey en route to Cape Cod – with a 600-pounder named Rose and a monster 16-foot, 3,456-pounder called Mary Lee right behind them. “Right now the sharks are loading up on dog fish, seals and blubber over the summer,” said Chris Fischer, the founder of the Ocearch research foundation. Osearch has tagged 70 sharks, but they represent a tiny portion of the maneaters out there. “There are thousands of them on the East Coast right...

He can’t understand why Americans aren’t happy about liberals ruining their country.Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper recently, Barack Obama scoffed at the backlash to critical race theory. In his view, it is the backlash, not the theory, that is extreme. In the interview, Obama assumed the posture of the dispassionate moderate, carefully dissecting the irrationality of his opponents. He affected great perplexity at their resistance to a “changing America.” “We have to worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years...

Caesar, Mammon, and Sodom Unite in the Great Reset of ChurchesIs Pope Francis laying down breadcrumbs for LGBT groups to sue his church into compliance with same-sex unions?Last week, Jason Jones interviewed theologian John Gravino about the “Great Catholic Reset.” That’s a plan Gravino believes exists within church circles, and that Pope Francis favors. It’s relevant to all Christians because it entails entangling Church and State in ways we might think impossible. And threatens faithful believers worldwide. Gravino argues, in his book Confronting the Pope of Suspicion, that liberal Christians like Francis are preparing the way for pro-LGBT governments to...

(H/T rodguy911)Sharyl Attkisson investigates Covid-19 originsNumerous scientific insiders are signing onto the “lab origin” theory for Covid-19 and a link to controversial research funded by your tax dollars. High profile health figures who have worked to “debunk” lab origin questions are linked to funding and vaccine research partnerships with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).The U.S.- Chinese research involved genetically engineering bat coronavirus to make it infect human airway cells in mice, in order to invent vaccines and other therapeutics.U.S. taxpayer money supported the controversial vaccine research with Chinese scientists through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S....

There isn’t a worldly creation that doesn’t need continual upkeep and renewal. Examples abound. Without regular maintenance to our autos, homes, marriages, bodies and souls, they will degrade and eventually cease to operate, or will ill-serve their intended purposes. As applied to government, look no further than a congress that rarely serves its designed Constitutional purposes. Our government in general, and congress in particular, are in dire need of renewal, of restoration to their free government designs. Patriots know their forebears created the world’s best free government, yet the American republic is not the longest lived. At about 450 years,...

Public comment session from North West Hendricks School Board meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuTf9XYe6cM North West Hendricks County School Board holds first meeting after teacher's arrests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MFQ4gTJQdE Willoughby Eastlake School Board Meeting May 10, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGdkNptLx0M EPIC Public Response to Beachwood School Board https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohquI_XkzNk And so on and so forth.

Right-wing commentators are pretending that thousands of newly released emails from Anthony S. Fauci represent some kind of smoking gun against the government’s top infectious-disease expert, whom they have recently decided to try to destroy. I haven’t been nearly as excited by the emails, which are mostly full of mundane correspondence. But there’s at least one line in them that stands out. “I genuflect to no one but science and always, always speak my mind when it comes to public health,” the normally even-tempered scientist wrote in March of last year, to an epidemiologist who had accused a number of...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott holds a press conference on border security and introduces measures to crack down on illegal immigration....

President Joe Biden and Queen Elizabeth II met and chatted at a G7 reception in Cornwall on Friday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it will convene an "emergency meeting" of its advisers on June 18th to discuss rare but higher-than-expected reports of heart inflammation following doses of the mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. So far, the CDC has identified 226 reports that might meet the agency's "working case definition" of myocarditis and pericarditis following the shots, the agency disclosed Thursday. The vast majority have recovered, but 41 had ongoing symptoms, 15 are still hospitalized, and 3 are in the intensive care unit.

Passengers aboard the first 100% vaccinated North American cruise tested positive for Covid-19. Two passengers on the Celebrity Millennium, which is operated by Royal Caribbean, tested positive for Covid-19 during end-of-cruise testing which is conducted 72 hours before returning to the US. NEW: Passengers on First Fully Vaccinated North American Cruise Test Positive For Covid-19 By Cristina Laila Published June 10, 2021 at 6:45pm 1474 Comments Share (3.4k) Tweet Gab Share TelegramTelegram Clouthub Share Passengers aboard the first 100% vaccinated North American cruise tested positive for Covid-19. Two passengers on the Celebrity Millennium, which is operated by Royal Caribbean, tested...