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Tether recently settled a $1 trillion lawsuit revolving around the unbacked issuance of the stablecoin. Senator Cynthia Lummis has stated that any regulatory framework for stablecoins will require full cash-backing, similar to money market mutual funds. Tether loaned $1 billion to Celsius Network, a crypto lending firm that has come under the ire of financial regulators several times. Tether's $69 billion reserves raise questions from regulators Tether was under investigation for issuing stablecoins backed without cash reserves. Tether's $69 billion worth of stablecoins (issued, authorized or both) are supposed to be backed by USD. However, no entity can validate the...

The S&P 500 rose 1.4% as of 1:13 p.m. Eastern. Roughly 90% of stocks within the benchmark index gained ground. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 496 points, or 1.4%, to 34,913 and the Nasdaq rose 1.6%. Markets in Europe and Asia were also broadly higher. The market was already in the midst of a days-long bout of volatility when Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell made an offer Wednesday that would allow an emergency extension of the debt ceiling. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday an agreement has been reached with Republicans to extend the government’s borrowing authority into...

The civic integrity department in October 2020 had Frances Haugen — a left-leaning activist who declared her own war against "misinformation."The Facebook civic integrity team that leftist activist whistleblower Frances Haugen was a member of, worked to counter misinformation about the 2020 election.Which in October of last year meant making the decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story and the New York Post’s reporting on it.Project Veritas whistleblowers haven’t gotten the same mainstream media attention and praise as Frances Haugen has, after coming out publicly to 60 Minutes earlier this week.Just spoke with James O’Keefe on War RoomHe confirmed...

CNN's Jake Tapper is one of the most well-known television journalists in the US. Tapper values truth, transparency, honesty, and kindness, according to interviews. He's naturally skeptical and, to remain neutral, he doesn't vote. Politico says he could be the best current television interviewer in the US. He grew up in a Philadelphia "hippy" household, but one focused on what was right and wrong. After three years he left Washington City Paper to become the Washington Correspondent for Salon. His editor at the time Joan Walsh said it was clear that he wasn't ideologically driven. Tapper's wife says her husband...

CORRUPTION WATCH : Maricopa County admits they DELETED and moved the election data to hide it from auditors AFTER they got a subpoena.https://twitter.com/WhiteRabbitNN/status/1446167394976739335

Credit: Janosov and Borsi. In recent years, numerous computer scientists and artists worldwide have worked on projects that merge digital art and computer science. For instance, some introduced computational models that can create original artworks, while others used data analysis tools to examine literary works or paintings. Milan Janosov Ph.D., chief data scientist at Datapolis and research affiliate at the Central European University, and Flora Borsi, distinguished digital artist, have recently carried out a study that merges data science and digital art in an innovative and intriguing way. Their paper, pre-published on arXiv, was aimed at analyzing Isaac Asimov's science...

Small units of Taiwan's military ground forces have been trained by a U.S. special operations unit and a contingent of Marines, who have been secretly operating in that country, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Some two dozen members of U.S. special-operations and support troops have been conducting the training in an effort to strengthen Taiwan's defenses in light of concerns about potential aggression by China. Officials tell the paper that American forces have been conducting the training for at least a year.

Merck would turn their back on their creation with three lies about Ivermectin before they would accept the payoff from the United States government. On February 4, 2021, Merck, the corporation behind the monumental Mectizan Program, which rescued the world from River Blindness, told three untruths about Ivermectin. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ Lie #1: No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from preclinical studies; FALSE: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011 Lie #2: No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease. FALSE: https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FLCCC-Alliance-Response-to-the-NIH-Guideline-Committee-Recommendation-on-Ivermectin-use-in-COVID19-2021-01-18.pdf https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/One-Page-Summary-of-the-Clinical-Trials-Evidence-for-Ivermectin-in-COVID-19.pdf Lie #3: A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies. FALSE: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/36858/pdf/

If you follow Roman history interest groups on various social media platforms, you are guaranteed to encounter posts bemoaning the supposed destruction of Classical Greco-Roman civilization by Christians. These posts are normally as sensationalistic as they are lacking in any kind of historical context. They nearly always feature shout-outs to journalist Catherine Nixey’s 2017 polemic entitled The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. The comments following such posts are predictable—semi-literate laments about the vast unknown knowledge lost when Christians [sic] burned the Library at Alexandria; bitter tears for all the wonderful art that was destroyed by barbaric...

A NASCAR crowd at Talladega Superspeedway broke into a “F–k Joe Biden” chant on Saturday — but an NBC reporter claims she heard something more benign. NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast was in the middle of interviewing driver Brandon Brown after he won his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the famed Alabama racetrack when the crowd behind them broke into a chant, Fox News said. “As you can hear the chants from the crowd,” Stavast said to Brown, according to a Twitter post after the race. “Let’s go Brandon.” The clip shows that the crowd was actually sharing their...

V⍺ccine opposers in a Guatemalan village captured two medical teams that arrived with C0VID-19 v⍺ccines. The wheels were lowered to cars, the exit road was blocked, refrigerators with v⍺ccines were destroyed, and doctors were locked up and threatened to burn. https://twitter.com/The_AlphaX2/status/1445902727255445514/retweets

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been rated the least popular leader in Congress, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Wednesday found. Voters were asked to rate their impressions of the top leaders in Congress, including House Speaker Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

In interviews with The Federalist, pro-abortion protesters in Downtown Los Angeles admitted that they have no interest in whether or not a fetus is a life. (Language may be unsuitable for children.)

Beijing will accept whatever we accept, but knows we “want to make Israel swallow the poison one drop at a time,” says Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki. Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki. (MEMRI) Republish this article (October 7, 2021 / MEMRI) China will soon lead the world, and it supports the “Palestinian position, whatever it may be,” according to Fatah’s Central Committee member Abbas Zaki. In a public address that aired on Palestine TV on Sept. 29, Abbas Zaki called on the United States to “reconsider its stance” with regard to Israel or risk becoming irrelevant. The Israelis,...

During the Trump Inauguration--when was it, January 2017?--in Portland, riots hasn't yet taken off, by any measure, compared with now. This anecdote: A young African-American woman had a civil-combat weapon, a 2x4 with 4 large nails hammered thru the end. Another protestor, an African-American man, was destroying a Portland city traffic signal controller. The woman hits the man with the 2 by 4, puncturing him 4 times with the nails. What was their weirdness due to? Race? They were both Black. But BLM hadn't yet officially rolled out, and now it isn't necessarily majority Black. Sex? There was pressure on...

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was accused in 2019 of improperly ordering his NYPD security detail to shuttle his son to Yale, a charge he denied

Judge sentences man for “the most heinous” example of sex trafficking she had ever seen in her career. Calvin Freeman / Photo via FOX 6 Milwaukee WISCONSIN – On Monday, Calvin C. Freeman, Jr. was sentenced to a term of 45 years’ imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release after being convicted of 14 federal crimes, including sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, interstate transportation for prostitution, interstate transportation of a minor for criminal sexual activity, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon, as well as obstruction and contempt of court. In announcing the sentence, Chief...

Patent applications from Amazon and Google revealed how their Alexa and Voice Assistant powered smart speakers are 'spying' on you. ... It says patents reveal the devices' possible use as surveillance equipment for massive information collection and intrusive digital advertising. // How Google and Amazon are ‘spying’ on you Original Source URL http://www.infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml/en_GB/science/how-google-and-amazon… You would be forgiven for thinking that your private conversations were just that, but two leading voice assistants are listening to everything you say, a new report claims. Patent applications from Amazon and Google revealed how their Alexa and Voice Assistant powered smart speakers are ‘spying’ on...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have recovered a vast trove of Nazi uniforms, memorabilia and weapons worth almost $3.5 million at the home of an alleged pedophile, according to reports. Aylson Proenca Doyle Linhares, 58, was arrested Tuesday after a couple in his neighborhood accused him of abusing their 12-year-old son, according to Police Commissioner Luis Armond, Agence France-Presse reported. Police said they found more than 1,000 Nazi-related items at the suspect’s home, including images and busts of Adolf Hitler, uniforms, publications, paintings, insignia, flags, and medals of the Third Reich, according to Reuters.

The past six weeks in Texas have been hellish for pregnant women seeking abortions. The decision by a federal judge in Austin on Wednesday night to pause enforcement of Texas’ ultrarestrictive anti-abortion law, S.B. 8, offered them a reprieve — if only temporary. The conservative-tilted U.S. Supreme Court is planning to hear arguments in December about a separate restrictive abortion law in Mississippi, which activists fear could lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Though the ruling in Texas is welcome, the inevitability of an appeal seeking to overturn that decision and the looming Mississippi case are casting a...