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he Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Digital Currency Initiative have come up with an initial design for a central bank digital currency. The theoretical coin, which was unveiled just as the Federal Reserve explores the pros and cons of adopting one – could handle 1.7 million transactions per second, and settle in under two seconds, the Boston Fed and MIT surmise. The research initiative dubbed Project Hamilton is a multi-year collaboration between the Boston Fed and MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative that started in 2020. The project is exploring different designs that would optimize the...

Rand Paul is on television – but not in Lexington or Louisville. Kentucky’s junior senator is splashing onto screens in Ohio, as the star of a new commercial on behalf of Mike Gibbons, an investment banker running in a competitive Republican U.S. Senate primary in the neighboring border state. In the ad, which began airing statewide in Ohio this week, Paul zones in on the issue that’s consumed much of his energy over the last year: Dr. Anthony Fauci. “I’ve stood strong against the mandates of Dr. Fauci, but I need help,” Paul says straight into the camera. “I know...

The Deafening Silence and Grievous Complicity of Church Leaders During CovidA woman protestor holds a placard at a freedom rally in Bournemouth, England, Feb. 5, 2022.Church leaders, beginning with Pope Francis and the Vatican, have been silent and complicit in the face of grave wrongs committed over the past two years — each neatly summed up in the picture above.In the case of the Vatican, it has committed these injustices on its own territory, enforcing some of the world’s strictest vaccine mandates even when evidence mounts that these shots pose considerable health risks, especially for young people, and the threat...

The actor will be the festival's first special guest programmer and he will take part in multiple Q&As. Baldwin was a guest at BIFF in 2010. The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) announced Tuesday that actor Alec Baldwin will be its first-ever special guest programmer during next month's 18th annual event. Baldwin has selected three films that have influenced him, and he will take part in a brief Q&A after the films are shown. Additionally, A "Conversation With Alec Baldwin" will take place at 6 p.m. on March 5 at the Boulder Theater, as Baldwin will be interviewed by BIFF...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency wants to know what people think about the size of canned, cubed, white potatoes -- but if you want to know exactly who asked for the change or why this is a priority exercise, you're out of luck. CFIA launched a month-long consultation on Jan. 21 after saying it had received a request from "industry" to change the maximum allowed size of diced, canned potatoes from 10 millimetres to 20 millimetres. "Yes, we care about all potatoes -- big and small," The tweet was met with great delight by some Twitter users who jumped at...

With most people in Japan relying on public transportation to get around, between a Monday-to-Friday commute and weekend leisure outings it’s not unusual to pass through a train station almost every day. So if you’re going to be at the station anyway, why not get your grocery shopping done while you’re there? That’s the idea behind a new partnership between online grocery seller Cookpad Mart and East Japan Railway Company (a.k.a. JR East). Ordinarily, Cookpad Mart customers pick up their orders from Cookpad lockers (you’ll sometimes see them inside convenience stores, for example), but the new service allows you to...

VIDEOIt is no conspiracy theory to label Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin as "Deep State." Why? Because as you can see she readily admits to having worked in the CIA. And along with her Deep State colleagues she wants those with "unacceptable views," as Justin Trudeau put it, to be either deprogrammed or censored.Oh, and notice how Slotkin easily switched from talking about being a former CIA to talking about being IN the CIA in the present tense.

Video at link. My Summary in first post Dr. Campbell reviews and critiques the paper by John Hopkins LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON COVID-19 MORTALITY, January 2022, Studies in Applied Economics.

There aren’t a lot of amazing stories left in "The New York Times," they are all so predictable and self-righteous, but if you read the paper yesterday you did see one. "U.S. Exposes What It Says Is Russian Effort to Fabricate Pretext for Invasion." That was the headline. The story explained that at some point very soon, Vladimir Putin plans to stage a fake military attack on his own citizens. Putin will use actors to portray Ukrainian soldiers and Intel operatives committing atrocities against Russians. Then he’s going to videotape the whole thing and secretly release to the world. When...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.This week, Austria made Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for all citizens aged 18 and over, which has sparked protests across the country.Austrian citizens could be fined from €600 (£503) to €3,600 (£3,023) for failing to comply with the mandate, punishments which are set to come into effect from mid-March, according to reports from Austrian paper Kleine Zeitung.From March 15th, police...

Protesters in South Florida Tuesday evening gathered at a local LGBTQ+ center to condemn a bill moving through the Florida House of Representatives seeking to limit discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, which has also been called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, passed in the state House Education and Employment Committee in January. The bill, introduced by state Sen. Joe Harding (R), would bar educators in Florida from talking about LGBTQ+ topics that are not considered “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.” A nearly identical bill has also been introduced...

The DMED data exposed by attorney Tom Renz and Senator Johnson is a smoking gun. General Austin should order all military docs to speak the truth. But he isn't. Why not?Steve Kirsch1 hr ago The letterOn February 1, 2022, US Senator Ron Johnson sent a letter to DoD Secretary Lloyd Austin on February 1 highlighting the dramatic rise in adverse events reported in the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) after the vaccines were rolled out to the military. If the vaccines are truly “safe and effective,” these increases are difficult to explain.Click the image to read the entire 3 page...

All across America over the past year, a growing army of concerned parents has been rising up to take a stand against political indoctrination in the classroom. Through training and curriculum, educators and students are being inundated with left-wing politics and malicious concepts which deliberately pit Americans against one another. As an historian, I believe deeply in teaching young Americans about their nation’s history -- that includes our mistakes and shortcomings. But it also includes our heroes and values. The glorious revolution in human freedom and equality that began in 1776 remains a work in progress even today Teaching honest...

Tesla founder Elon Musk slammed GoFundMe for hypocrisy after the fundraising site cut ties with a convoy of anti-vaxx Canadian truckers. “Double-standard?” quipped Musk on Twitter, while sharing a screenshot of a June 2020 tweet GoFundMe posted in support of Seattle’s lawless CHOP, or the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, an “autonomous zone” where riots broke out and police were not permitted to enter. He also called GoFundMe “Professional Thieves.” Thousands of truckers in the “Freedom Convoy” rolled into Ottawa on Jan. 29, many of them blocking roads outside of Parliament buildings, honking loudly and brandishing Canadian flags and “F–k [Prime...

"1.This presentation will show irrefutable evidence that the DOD, in concert with the FDA and CDC, sought to create conditions to mandate a vaccination campaign for DOD that was neither necessary nor legal. 2. ...." (This document is being presented to Federal Courts and Congress by former and current military members and "whistleblowers" engaged in various lawsuits now moving through the Courts against the "vaccine mandates". There is much data contained herein, including the latest available DOD medical data which shows startling and numerous adverse health trends within the past months since "vaccine" dispensation officially began in March, 2021...)

Langley, B.C., contractor Damian Conn says he can "agree to disagree" with friends who are opposed to vaccinations or believe in conspiracy theories and still maintain a relationship. But when he realized he had friends who support the convoy protest in Ottawa — which is now entering its second week of demonstrations, snarling the nation's capital, to call for an end to vaccine mandates and other public health measures related to COVID-19 — those relationships ended. He'd known some of those friends since high school. "It seems like this convoy has brought out everybody's true colours with people you never...

At least three people have been injured in Winnipeg, Canada after the driver of a white SUV appeared to deliberately slam into members of the nation’s massive Freedom Convoy, which is being led by truck drivers as they protest the far-left Trudeau regime’s continued COVID lockdowns, plus mask and jab mandates.The apparent attack came in the middle of the night after left-wingers vowed to spend the weekend countering anti-lockdown demonstrators, with some online encouraging the use of violence. Video footage that captured the moment the apparent attack took place appears to show the yet-to-be-identified driver deliberately swerving the white SUV...

[Catholic Caucus] More Indications: Roman Rite Institutes Will Be "Forced" Into Novus OrdoThe Vatican will subject Roman Rite Institutes such as the Fraternity of St Peter to the same draconic laws imposed on diocesan clergy, and will attempt to force them into the Novus Ordo.This will happen in March, Summorum-Pontificum.de (February 3) has learned. It is likely that so much legalism and rigidity will simply be ignored among Roman Rite clergy.An attempt will be made to impose on them the Chicago rule that “the first Sunday in the month” must be presided in the Novus Ordo, at least for their...

Tucker Carlson, the host of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Live, has been very critical of the handling of the Ukraine crisis by the Biden administration, prompting a Democratic lawmaker to request that an intelligence briefer dig up dirt on the cable news show that is currently ranked #2 in the country in an attempt to determine whether it is connected to Russia. Jim Cooper, a 65-year-old Republican state representative from Tennessee, asked the question in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Carlson revealed on his show on Friday. ‘We are not tied to Russia, of course,’ Carlson said....

In 1993, Whoopi Goldberg submitted a recipe to a cookbook that was made-up of recipes by the waspy residents of a Connecticut county She called it Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken and joked about Jewish women sending their 'chauffeurs' to shop, and having 'Cook' prepare the meal 'Watch your nails!' she joked in the recipe which finished: 'You must be exhausted!'The Anti-Defamation League slammed it at the time as 'insulting' and 'anti-Semitic' Whoopi's agent defended her by claiming she is Jewish herself, so can't be anti-SemiticWhoopi said in the past that she chose the Jewish name Goldberg to be her...