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A major bitcoin investor has suddenly died, leaving behind a cryptocurrency fortune reportedly worth more than $2 billion. Mircea Popescu, a Romanian national, drowned last week off the coast of Costa Rica, local reports said. He was 41. Popescu drowned at Playa Hermosa, according to Teletica.com, which reported that Popescu was swept away by the current and died. His death has prompted questions surrounding what will now happen to Popescu's enormous bitcoin fortune. Popescu, a controversial figure sometimes referred to as "the father of bitcoin toxicity," is known for launching a "bitcoin securities exchange" called MPEx in 2012, according to...

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House on Friday in the first visit by a sports team since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event in the White House East Room honored the Major League Baseball team for its October World Series victory. “I think what we discovered [during the pandemic] is that we need sports more than we ever realized,” Biden said. Biden said the “sense of community and pride” from sports is a “uniting feature.”

Nancy Wilson - "Something Wonderful Happens" (1960)

MOSCOW. July 2 (Interfax) - Much headway has been made at the negotiations on reinstating the Iran nuclear deal, however, the U.S. return to this agreement will require the unconditional resumption of its every obligation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. "Indeed, the assessments made by the negotiating parties over the past month or even two, as long as the talks have been on, demonstrate significant progress. Lots of things have been coordinated, but not all of them," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow. "Speaking of a brief account of what has been obstructing the agreement,...

The flavor of a tomato is an interaction between its taste and aroma. Now, researchers from Japan and the United States have revealed that the pigments that determine the colors of tomatoes also affect their flavor. In a study published this month, researchers from University of Tsukuba developed a new method to rapidly measure the pigment profiles of tomatoes and used the technique to explore how pigments affect the taste and aroma of different tomato varieties. The color of tomatoes is produced by combinations of different types of pigments, including carotenoids and chlorophylls. These pigments can also affect the accumulation...

In 6 months of administration, Covid 'vaccines' have contributed 1 out of every 3 reports of adverse events the CDC has published to it's VAERS database in the past 30 years. The CDC is withholding a large number of reports from publication. Less than 1% of actual adverse events following vaccination are ever reported to the CDC. These numbers (below) are just the tip of the iceberg for these devastating 'vaccines'.Blood Clot and Stroke: Total 10,400Through June 25, 2021TEXT VERSIONVAERS COVID Vaccine Data(Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, USA)411,931 ReportsThrough June 25, 20216,985 DEATHS23,257 HOSPITALIZATIONS54,606 URGENT CARE77,821 OFFICE VISITS1,775 ANAPHYLAXIS2,081 BELL’S...

Beth Palmer was 17 and dreaming of becoming a singer in March 2020 when the United Kingdom went into lockdown because of the coronavirus. One month later, she was dead. "She was a wonderful, wonderful daughter. She was just funny, she lit up the room.," said Mike Palmer, Beth’s father. "She was so affectionate and loving as well. She basically had the world at her feet. She had everything, everything to live for.” Palmer didn’t die of the coronavirus. She took her own life. An aspiring singer and vocal student at the Access Creative College in Manchester, Palmer crumbled in...

California broadly reopened its economy barely two weeks ago and since then an especially contagious coronavirus variant has spread among the unvaccinated, a development that has health officials on edge and already has prompted Los Angeles County to strongly recommend everyone resume wearing masks inside. The nation’s most populous state is averaging close to 1,000 additional cases reported daily, an increase of about 17% in the last 14 days. Officials expected an increase when capacity limits were lifted for businesses and most mask restrictions and social distancing requirements were eliminated for vaccinated people.

A federal judge ruled that a provision in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief law limiting states from cutting taxes is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Douglas Cole issued the permanent injunction requested by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican who argued the administration was trying to impose a “tax mandate” on states. “The Biden administration reached too far, seized too much and got its hand slapped,” Mr. Yost said. “This is a monumental win for the preservation of the U.S. Constitution — the separation of powers is real, and it exists for a reason.” Mr. Yost had filed a...

“In virtue of Our Apostolic authority, We grant and concede in perpetuity that, for the chanting or reading of the Mass in any church whatsoever, this Missal is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment, or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used.” —Pope Saint Pius V taken from Quo Primum, AD 1570Once again, there are sad rumblings coming from Rome of yet another attempt to hamper the usage of the traditional Tridentine Mass. Anyone paying attention is aware that the traditional Catholic movement is growing quickly and is...

Mayor Bill de Blasio dismissed criticism that his $98.7 billion budget — the largest in the city’s history — is nearly the same as the spending plan for the entire state of Florida. “I don’t pray at the altar of the fiscal conservatives and the budget hawks and the pro-austerity forces that have led us astray so many times and didn’t want to ever invest in working people,” de Blasio said Friday on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.” Lehrer had asked de Blasio about criticism from “fiscal conservatives and deficit hawks,” who’ve made the comparison even though “Florida is a...

"People want to see him," Andrew Wyatt told reporters.Bill Cosby’s next step could be a comedy tour. The newly freed comedian’s spokesperson Andrew Wyatt told reporters Thursday, including from the The Philadelphia Inquirer, that Cosby has been “been talking to a number of promoters and comedy club owners” and “is just excited the way the world is welcoming him back.” Wyatt added to Inside Edition, “A number of promoters have called. Comedy club owners have called. People want to see him.” The 83-year-old Cosby was freed Wednesday after serving more than two years of a three-to-10-year sentence at a state...

.....Additionally, Cuomo required group homes for people with intellectual disabilities to take COVID-19 patients and attempted to issue a blanket DNR guideline for all cardiac patients in New York City. He also denied nursing homes’ requests for testing kits, ignored the concerns of families, and gave immunity to nursing home executives. This resulted in the deaths of nearly 15,000 long-term-care patients. These deaths did not occur because Cuomo ignored scientists and researchers. They occurred precisely because Cuomo was adhering to predictions from his team of experts who projected the need for 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 ICUs. Ultimately, New York’s...

Nineteen Chicago alderman are calling for an emergency meeting with Mayor Lori Lightfoot, demanding that she provide answers for the city's surging crime rates. Raymond Lopez, alderman for Chicago's 15th ward, told Fox News' Dana Perino on "America's Newsroom" that the city's leadership is not up for the job of keeping residents safe.

How do the dimocrats plan to keep the White House in 2024. Kamala is unelectable so the dims are forced to work with the situation and make the best of it. How do they do this. Conventional thinking is that harris will replace biden at some point, BUT that's the shiny object. The dimocrats really don't want to replace biden. He's their wet dream come true. He does exactly as he's told and they are getting everything they want. harris would screw that up. harris would have her own ideas and would not take to being lead around by the...

The Biden administration is spreading the message far and wide this holiday weekend that the United States is getting back to normal after a grueling 16 months from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 600,00 Americans. President Biden, Vice President Harris and other top officials are fanning out across the country for the Fourth of July for what the White House has dubbed the "America is Back Together" tour. The travel, paired with a large celebration at the White House on Sunday for first responders and military families, amounts to a victory lap for the administration as coronavirus...

Newly resurfaced video footage appears to confirm speculation that the man who shot and killed Capitol protester Ashli Babbitt was Capitol Hill Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd, who was NOT assigned to protect Vice President Mike Pence, as reported by mainstream media outlets. The video footage of the black man in the suit has been extensively archived on the internet, and it plainly contradicts mainstream media accounts, citing anonymous intelligence community sources, which claim that a Secret Service member assigned to Mike Pence shot Babbitt. Independent journalist Tayler Hansen stated that Capitol Hill Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd was the one who...

The pilots had reported engine trouble, the FAA said.Both pilots were rescued, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.The plane was built in 1975, according to flight tracking site Flightradar24. It was not a Boeing 737 Max, the manufacturer’s newest model that was grounded after two crashes in 2018 and 2019.A Boeing 737 cargo plane made an emergency landing in the ocean near Honolulu early Friday after pilots reported engine trouble, the Federal Aviation Administration said.Both pilots were rescued from a debris field, the U.S. Coast Guard said.The FAA said Transair Flight 810 made the emergency landing at around 1:30 a.m....

In all my time on this earth, I’ve never witnessed a more dramatic fall of credibility among a certain sector of the economy than what we’ve seen with teachers over the last years. Over the course of the COVID pandemic, we’ve gone from almost universal praise of teachers as essential workers to a vast number of parents who have lost their patience. Worse, every bit of the downfall was self-inflicted. Teachers’ unions have abused the power they never should have had in the first place, making impossible demands while leaving students to flounder. Figures like Randi Weingarten have led the...

A 12-year-old shot and killed an armed burglar Wednesday morning during a break-in attempt at an East Feliciana home. The shooting happened before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at a home on Winchester Lane. Deputies said a child resident of the home shot the intruder, who was reportedly armed with a gun. The child who shot the burglar is not expected to face charges at this time, officials said Friday.