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A seemingly run-of-the-mill trial is playing out in Florida: The family of a deceased man is suing his former business partner over control of their partnership’s assets. In this case, the assets in question are a cache of about one million bitcoins, equivalent to around $64 billion today, belonging to bitcoin’s creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. The family of the dead man says he and his business partner together were Nakamoto, and thus the family is entitled to half of the fortune. For bitcoiners, there is only one piece of evidence that could conclusively prove the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto:...

A self-identified “incel” — or “involuntary celibate” — 19-year-old YouTuber known for attention-seeking stunts and “harassing women” has pleaded guilty to making a “hoax threat” to blow up a bomb at a New York City restaurant, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Malik Sanchez, a/k/a “Smooth Sanchez,” admitted to lodging the Feb. 13, 2021 threat. Specifically, he admitted to one count of conveying false and misleading information and hoaxes contrary to 18 U.S.C. § 1038; the charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. (snip) The rant allegedly continued: F**k you, you b***h. It’s ‘cause of you,...

SIGA Technologies, Inc. is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the health security market. Health security comprises countermeasures for biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear attacks (biodefense market), vaccines and therapies for emerging infectious diseases, and health preparedness. Our lead product is TPOXX, also known as tecovirimat and ST-246, an orally administered and IV formulation antiviral drug for the treatment of human smallpox disease caused by variola virus. TPOXX is a novel small-molecule drug and the U.S. government maintains a stockpile of TPOXX for treatment of smallpox. Over the past decade, the U.S. government has procured, or has current orders for,...

Black Americans who spent most of their lives working on Mississippi farms are suing their former employer after they were replaced by foreign workers on the H-2A visa program. The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, accuses Pitts Farms of laying off a number of black Americans, only to replace them with foreign visa workers from South Africa. The H-2A visa program allows U.S. farms to annually outsource an unlimited number of American jobs to foreign workers who can extend their stay for up to three years. The foreign families of H-2A...

Newly released footage of the Ashli Babbitt shooting has been obtained and released by Judicial Watch. The footage is part of the 14,000 hours of documented surveillance video that the FBI and Capitol Police have refused to release to the public.The footage is striking in that it shows Capitol Police officers gathered behind the protesters while they suspiciously orchestrate a break-in of a corridor to the Senate chambers. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton sets up the video at the five minute mark.The video was also announced by Judicial Watch in a press release:Piece by piece we’re putting together a clearer...

LifeSiteNews published an article three weeks ago, on October 18, on Covaxin, a vaccine (a bona fide inactivated virus vaccine, not an mRNA neologism) developed by Bharat Biotech in India. It could potentially prove a breakthrough in many Catholics’ long wait for a vaccine that would satisfy the dual concerns of ethical unimpeachability and medical safety. This is because, in addition to being a standard, true-blue vaccine (cultured in cell lines derived from monkey tissue), Covaxin also has—as yet—no known connection to cell lines derived from aborted fetal tissue. The World Health Organization, of course, exhibited a slow pace in...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been placed on the COVID-19 list and will miss the Steelers’ game Sunday against the Detroit Lions. The Steelers announced Saturday night that Roethlisberger was ruled out for the game. Roethlisberger is the second prominent quarterback in two weeks to miss a game because of COVID-19, following Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers last week. Mason Rudolph will likely start for the Steelers, who have won four straight games.

Twitter is allowing the posting of a New York Times article based on materials leaked by federal investigators about Project Veritas, the investigative journalism organization whose offices were recently raided by the FBI. This flies in the face of the treatment of the New York Post blockbuster articles on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which twitter censored because it was “content obtained without authorization.” When the first Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” stories were published by Emma-Jo Morris at the New York Post in 2020, Twitter said it would censor the Post’s reporting because it had a policy against posting “content obtained...

“The Day Is Drawing Near: Let Us Draw Near, Hold Fast, and Stir Up” (Hebrews 10:11-25) “The day is surely drawing near,” we just sang. And our reading from Hebrews 10 closes with similar words: “as you see the Day drawing near.” What day is that? Let’s find out. And let’s consider what the implications are for us as we see that day approaching. Our text will tell us: “The Day Is Drawing Near: Let Us Draw Near, Hold Fast, and Stir Up.” The day is drawing near. The day of Christ’s appearing, his “parousia.” The day of Christ’s return,...

INTEGRITY: THE HEART OF NAVY CORE VALUES by a Submariner The following essay was written by a young enlisted submariner as a disciplinary assignment after a Captain's Mast for taking a shortcut in a maintenance procedure. Both the author and his Commanding Officer have agreed to its publication. Integrity is the heart and the very essence of each Navy Core Value, but more importantly, it is the foundation on which every aspect of submarine operations is built. Integrity must be the standard instilled within the innermost heart of every man who takes a submarine to the uttermost depths of...

The wireless networks that underpin an assortment of devices, including life-alert alarms, older cellphones and tablets, are about to shut down, an action that consumer advocates say will leave some of society's most vulnerable people without critical communications tools.

The phrase gun culture means different things to different people. Gun enthusiasts herald and defend their constitutional right to own and use firearms. On the other hand, many gun control advocates view gun culture in the United States as a national shame, one that makes us world leaders in gun ownership and violence. The polarization between these two camps is well-chronicled, and former firearms executive Ryan Busse finds himself smack in the middle. He calls himself “a proud outdoorsman, gun owner, father, and resident of Montana.” If there is a reasonable, sustainable middle ground between gun rights and gun control,...

Hundreds of parents in Arizona are demanding the resignation of a school board president accused of keeping secret dossiers on dozens of parents. According to the Scottsdale Independent, Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg sent an email to resident Kim Stafford with a screenshot of a Google Drive that contained a trove of personal information on at least 47 parents in the district who have spoken out during school board meetings. The information includes social security numbers, mortgage documents, divorce filings, and screenshots of social media posts. Stafford shared a link to the drive with other parents,...

The Silence of the ShepherdsFailure to condemn evilIn pre-World War II Germany, most Protestant and Catholic Church leaders remained silent and failed to speak out against the truly non-Christian policies implemented by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Denouncing these fellow ministers and priests as vendors of "cheap grace," German Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer helped to found the Confessing Church, whose adherents refused to compromise their Christian beliefs even under threat of persecution and martyrdom. Adolf Hitler Even though Adolf Hitler was baptized Catholic, he was honest enough to recognize that the policies he promoted clearly placed him outside...

Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio is in final talks to play religious cult leader Jim Jones in MGM’s upcoming feature written by Scott Rosenberg, Variety has confirmed. Known as the leader of the Peoples Temple religious group, Jones was behind the November 1978 mass suicide at his Jonestown settlement that took more than 900 lives. Jones and his inner circle orchestrated the massacre at the jungle commune in Guyana, with the followers directed to drink cyanide-adulterated punch. MGM secured a deal for the feature project in a preemptive situation, with DiCaprio also producing the project alongside Jennifer Davisson for their Appian Way...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest sidelined for criticizing Pope’s support of gay unions pens open letterFri Nov 12, 2021 - 7:21 pm ESTFri Nov 12, 2021 - 7:42 pm EST November 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The following is an open letter by Father Jesusmary Missigbètò, an Opus Dei priest suspended in March of this year after last November criticizing Pope Francis’s support of civil unions of homosexual couples and asking him to correct his position or resign. (Read LifeSite’s exclusive interview with him HERE).First open letter to pope Francis, to cardinals and bishops, to Christians, and people of good will“First call for...

The Marine Corps, the smallest U.S. military force, has plans for a big overhaul designed to address its lack of diversity and problem with retaining troops. The goal that's driving what amounts to a cultural shift within the service, is for the Marines "to reflect America, to reflect the society we come from," Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, said in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition. It's not a matter of being politically correct or "woke," he said. The core of America's strength lies in its diversity, Berger said, adding that the same is true for the...

A woman was surrounded, beaten and nearly robbed by a group of preteen children as young as 11 during an attack on a Manhattan sidewalk, the victim told told NBC New York. The woman, who did not want to be identified, said she was walking home from work when four children, two boys and two girls, attacked her and tried to steal her cellphone. Now she wants to warn others to be on the lookout. "It was basically a group of kids, that's why I didn't suspect anything when they were coming up," she said. The incident occurred just before...

Tucker Carlson would have been a perfect adviser to the late Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who sold out Czechoslovakia in 1938 at Munich in an attempt to appease the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and waive a meaningless piece of diplomatic paper proclaiming “peace in our time.” Instead of confronting Hitler when it was relatively easy and when his own generals did not trust him, we got World War II, the Holocaust, and unfathomable carnage. On his Wednesday night Fox News show, Tucker Carlson treated Ukraine like Chamberlain treated Czechoslovakia, a faraway country of no strategic importance, not worthy...

Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin Luke 18:1-8 Friends, today’s Gospel exhorts us to pray with persistence. This command is everywhere in the Bible. We see it in Abraham’s steady petition on behalf of the people of Sodom. We see it in today’s account of the persistent widow. We hear it in Jesus’ extraordinary teaching: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." One reason that we don’t receive what we want through prayer is that we give up too easily. What could be behind...