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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tells me in an interview for Sunday's "Axios on HBO" that cryptocurrency could eventually replace the dollar as "the reserve currency of the world." Why it matters: The senator says he's begun to ask that question as more and more people lose confidence in governments, which used to have a monopoly on money. Context: When Paul ran for president in 2016, he accepted donations in Bitcoin — part of what gave his campaign its youthful appeal.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Monday, extending pre-weekend gains, with U.S. crude hitting a seven-year high as global supply remained tight amid strong demand worldwide as economies recover from coronavirus pandemic-induced slumps. Brent crude futures climbed 26 cents, or 0.3%, to $85.79 a barrel at 0048 GMT, following on from last Friday's 1.1% gain. The contract was near a three-year high of $86.10, hit last Thursday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 48 cents, or 0.6%, to $84.24 a barrel, after climbing 1.5% on Friday. It touched its highest since October 2014 - $84.28 - earlier...

Dr. Steve Pieczenick joins Kristi Leigh to expose the tyranny of the globalist agenda and explain why now is the time for the people to rise up and arrest the enemies of America. Video...

Joanna Cameron, star of CBS' The Secrets of Isis, has passed away. According to a tweet from Isis costar Joanna Pang Atkins, the classic DC star suffered a stroke last week and passed away on October 22nd. She was 70. At the same time Lynda Carter was starring in her Wonder Woman series, CBS was also developing The Secrets of Isis, another series featuring characters from the DC Comics stable. Cameron played the show's lead character — Isis/Andrea Thomas — and often appeared alongside Shazam!, who went by the name Captain Marvel in the Show. "Sad to post that JoAnna...

The Diocese of San Bernardino says its opening Mass for the Synod on Synodality Oct. 17 sought to celebrate the California diocese’s rich cultural diversity and welcome those on the “periphery” of the Church. But the liturgy’s unusual pageantry, featuring liturgical dancers, a Native American prayer to the “four directions,” and the appearance at the end of Mass of a colorfully costumed figure that resembled traditional representations of an Aztec demon, has raised eyebrows and sparked criticism on social media. “Paganism in full bloom,” read one comment on YouTube. “This is an absolute disgrace to God and His Holy Church,”...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti explains that the just-established “Fratelli tutti” Foundation aims to promote and support sustainable growth and a new humanism and provide a workshop for the future.The archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica explained that a new Vatican Foundation aims to put social justice, solidarity and the construction of the common good at centre-stage. The just established “Fratelli tutti” Foundation, said Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, will provide the tools to realise an integral humanism in a synodal way, integrating the contribution of each party according to its own area of commitment and competence. The Foundation was launched on 21 October by...

Tens of millions of dirty, used, and counterfeit nitrile gloves - some of them stained with blood - have been shipped to the United States from Thailand in recent months as fraudsters look to take advantage of the surge in demand for medical equipment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An investigation conducted by CNN has found that Thai companies are repackaging used gloves and reselling them worldwide, including in the US, where federal authorities are only beginning to understand the scope of the crisis. Earlier this year, Thai law enforcement agencies raided warehouses of companies who sold reused nitrile gloves...

Responding to charges by Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday's "Axios on HBO," NIAID director Anthony Fauci told "ABC This Week" that it's "molecularly impossible" for U.S.-funded bat virus research in China to have produced COVID-19. Why it matters: The issue 0f Wuhan research was reignited on the right last week with a National Institutes of Health letter to Congress disclosing more about the research. "I obviously totally disagree with Senator Paul," Fauci told George Stephanopoulos. "He's absolutely incorrect. Neither I nor Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, lied or misled about what we've done." Fauci was responding to...

Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free. But nothing costs more than yet another worthless, never-ending government program. The first rule of costs - that we all should've learned in grade school - says there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. And the first rule of costs of new government programs - that most of us learned after we became taxpayers - says they will always cost more, much more, than the proponents estimate. And once started, they never go away. In other words, there ain't no such thing as a ZERO cost government program or a temporary...

NEW YORK – The data firm Markit-IHT reported Friday “survey-record rise in backlogs of work as firms struggled to meet demand due to supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages” in October, “in turn driving the steepest rise in prices yet recorded by the survey.” Markit’s widely followed Purchasing Managers’ Index showed continued economic growth as well as stiffening inflationary headwinds. Also on Friday, the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank lowered its “Nowcast” for US gross domestic product (GDP) for the third quarter to just 0.5% per annum, that is, nearly zero growth. The “Nowcast model” translates current data releases into an...

Two children were killed and several other people were seriously injured after a drag racer lost control and plowed into spectators at an event in Texas.

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Mark Thompson "It was nothing like I expected," admitted MAJ Mark Thompson of his months spent in Baghdad, Iraq last year, his first deployment. Stationed at Victory Base Camp (VBC), MAJ Thompson spent a portion of his time in theater in a place most would not imagine of someone deployed with the 11th Military Police Brigade:...

...Left for dead with the advent of CDs in the 1980s, vinyl records are now the music industry’s most popular and highest-grossing physical format, with fans choosing it for collectibility, sound quality or simply the tactile experience of music in an age of digital ephemerality. After growing steadily for more than a decade, LP sales exploded during the pandemic. In the first six months of this year, 17 million vinyl records were sold in the United States, generating $467 million in retail revenue, nearly double the amount from the same period in 2020, according to the Recording Industry Association of...

Newspaper cartoonist Michael Leunig has been axed from his prized position in The Age over an image comparing resistance to mandatory vaccination to the fight for democracy in Tiananmen Square.In an image posted to his Instagram account, Leunig — whose career has spanned five decades — drew a lone protester standing in front of a loaded syringe, mimicking the iconic “tank man” image of protest in China. An inset of the 1989 photo also appears in Leunig’s drawing.The image was posted at the end of September and never made it to print in The Age, and speculation about Leunig’s job...

An otherwise healthy and fit man documented on social media how he and his girlfriend both suffered severe adverse reactions following Covid-19 jabs that landed them in the hospital.In a TikTok video posted two days ago from a hospital bed, a man named Daniel Shepard discussed how his first Pfizer experimental injection left him with the supposedly-rare heart condition pericarditis, and his girlfriend’s second jab caused her to develop myocarditis.In Daniel’s case, he claims doctors actually told him his heart inflammation was directly related to the Covid jab, and that he’s lucky he didn’t take the second jab because it...

One of my favorite posters here. She suddenly stopped posting the end of March of 2020. Just on the eve of starting her third decade here. Hope she's okay, wherever she is. I think she had just moved out of the NYC area.

Covid-19 vaccines appear to inhibit the body’s natural ability to produce antibodies, leaving vaccinated people vulnerable to infection.The alarming information was contained in the UK government’s latest “Covid-19 vaccine surveillance report,” which noted that “N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who acquire infection following two doses of vaccination.”Vaccine researcher Alex Berenson first highlighted the UK government’s alarming admission, warning it means vaccinated people will never be able to acquire full immunity even after they’ve recovered from an infection.“What the British are saying is they are now finding the vaccine interferes with your body’s innate ability after infection...

The phrase #ArrestFauci was trending on Twitter Sunday afternoon in response to multiple controversies surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci. Twitter users posted the hashtag calling out Fauci over reports that hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars were used to subject dogs to cruel testing before ultimately killing them.

This week, President Biden took an Amtrak train to his alleged "home town" of Scranton, Pennsylvania where he boasted of logging two million miles as a rail passenger during his days in the US Senate. "I saved this country millions of gallons of gasoline and the tens of millions of dollars it would have cost me if I had driven myself." "It's time for the pure selfishness that leads people to take their personal vehicles everywhere they go," he said. "Be smart like I was and take the train. When you arrive at the train station take a taxi or...

When a child contracts Covid-19, the chances that they’ll recover from it relatively unscathed is 99.994%. When they get any of the various adverse reactions to the injections, their chances of full recovery are far worse. Myocarditis is just one of the debilitating and even deadly conditions proven to be caused by the so-called Covid-19 “vaccines” that seems to most heavily affect children. The mainstream narrative is that adverse reactions to the jabs are “rare,” but time and again we see the scant data that gets released telling us they are far more common than is being reported. One such...