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The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States has announced that it is launching an instant payment transfer service called “FedNow Service,” which has features of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and some analysts believe is the first big step towards a “digital dollar.” On Wednesday, within hours of our reporting that the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures could spur renewed calls for the U.S. to implement a CBDC, the Federal Reserve announced that the U.S. is rolling out the FedNow instant payment transfer service in July. “The Federal Reserve announced that the FedNow Service will start...

(Last Updated On: March 10, 2023) ST. PATRICK’S DAY St. Patrick’s Day kicks off a worldwide celebration also known as the Feast of St. Patrick. On March 17th, many will wear green in honor of the Irish and decorate with shamrocks. According to lore, the wearing of the green tradition dates back to a story written about St. Patrick in 1726. St. Patrick (c. AD 385–461) used the shamrock to illustrate the Holy Trinity and worn green clothing. And while the story is unlikely to be true, many will revel in the Irish heritage and eat traditional Irish fare, too....

(Last Updated On: March 10, 2023) NATIONAL CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE DAY On March 17th National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day coincide with St. Patrick’s Day in the United States. #CornedBeefAndCabbageDay To “corn” something is simply to preserve it in a salty brine (the term corn refers to the coarse grains of salt used for curing). Corned beef is a salt-cured beef product. Traditional Irish Corned Beef and Cabbage recipes used salt pork or a bacon joint instead of corned beef. However, sometime in the mid-1800s when the Irish immigrated to America, they found Jewish corned beef very similar in...

An armed robber was shot in the chest while holding a CPL holder’s friend at gunpoint so he could steal a wallet outside a Detroit store, officials said. The shooting happened at 9:53 p.m. Feb. 8, but the details of the incident were revealed March 10 in a criminal complaint. CPL holder describes shooting On Feb. 8, Shot-Spotter detected three gunshots in the parking lot of Carmen’s Delicatessen in Detroit. Police officers rushed to the scene and were flagged down by two people, they said. One man approached officers with his hands over his head and told them he owns...

Rainn Wilson posted a series of tweets accusing Hollywood of having an "anti-Christian bias." He specifically called out HBO's "The Last of Us" for having a villainous Christian character. Fox News later wrote about his tweets, and Wilson criticized the news agency. "I do think there is an anti-Christian bias in Hollywood," Wilson posted on Twitter over the weekend. "As soon as the David character in 'The Last of Us' started reading from the Bible I knew that he was going to be a horrific villain. Could there be a Bible-reading preacher on a show who is actually loving and...

If you think your money is safe in your bank account, Biden has other plans. A former bank insider is going public with a warning. He’s uncovered how Biden plans to take control of American bank accounts. In his controversial message, this insider holds nothing back: “I believe [Biden’s new program is] now designed to target ALL American citizens who dare disagree with the Dems’ progressive agenda.” Perhaps most disturbing of all is how this program was the original brainchild of Obama. For decades, this insider has helped the financial elite avoid some of the worst financial bloodbaths in American...

Since the early days of Henry Ford, Michigan was the proud symbol of America’s industrial might. But then, starting in the 1970s, things went south — in part because of the might of the unions that ran the state’s political machine. That’s when Michigan transitioned into the sad symbol of closed factories: the American “Rust Belt.” Flint, Michigan, became a ghost town. From the 1970s to the early 2000s, Detroit lost nearly half its population. Whole neighborhoods were bulldozed, and homes were selling for less than $10,000 as poor and minority residents fled the area's crime, lousy schools, high unemployment,...

“Every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues, we risk global war,” President Trump said. “We must be absolutely clear that our objective is to IMMEDIATELY have a total cessation of hostilities. All shooting has to stop. This is the central issue. We need PEACE without delay.” “There must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neo-con establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad, while they turn us into a third-world country and a third-world dictatorship right here at home. The State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the...

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Vice President Kamala Harris added her voice to both Democrats and Republicans who have criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week for his comments referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a "territorial dispute." "If you really understand the issues, you probably would not make statements like that," Harris told late night host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday. Harris criticized DeSantis' lack of foreign policy experience, noting that as vice president, she has met with "over 100" foreign leaders and gained an understanding of the "significance, again, of international rules and norms."

New evidence that allegedly ties millions of dollars in financial payments from a Biden family associate to the family is politically damaging and could lead to legal troubles, a former federal prosecutor told Newsweek. The GOP-led House Oversight Committee on Thursday made public recently obtained financial records related to John Robinson Walker, a Biden family associate, and his limited liability company, Robinson Walker, LLC, that was established in 2008 in Delaware and is linked to multiple Biden children. The committee made the Biden family's financial records a priority when gaining the House majority in November's election. "Democrats described our subpoena...

The debate inside Stanford Law School, where activist students earlier this month shouted down federal circuit court judge Kyle Duncan at a Federalist Society event, has moved beyond whether those students should face any consequences for their outrageous conduct. The school has made clear they will not. Now we debate the propriety of the conservative students on the receiving end of that vitriol expressing their displeasure with the school, and their classmates, in the press. Stanford administrators are hoping this public relations nightmare will blow over if everybody, particularly the Federalist Society students targeted by the activists, would be so...

Graphene Sheet Scientists have found that nanoripples in graphene make it a strong catalyst, even though it was expected to be chemically inert. Their research, published in PNAS, demonstrated that nanoscale corrugations on graphene’s surface accelerate hydrogen splitting as well as the best metallic-based catalysts, and this effect may be present in all 2D materials. *********************************************************************** A team of researchers led by Prof. Andre Geim from the National Graphene Institute (NGI) have discovered that nanoripples in graphene can make it a strong catalyst, contrary to general expectations that the carbon sheet is as chemically inert as the bulk graphite from...

CINCINNATI, Monday, March 16. The Gazette's Vicksburgh dispatch says the Yazoo Pass Expedition has captured twenty-six steamboats, eighteen of which were destroyed. The gunboats have arrived above Hanes' Bluff, and would soon commence the attack. Rumors were rife of the evacuation of Vicksburgh, and it was supposed that the greater part of the rebel force would go to Chattanooga, and endeavor to overwhelm Gen. ROSECRANS. Gen. MCCLERNAND's troops were compelled to embark for Milliken's Bend, sixteen miles above Vicksburgh, owing to high water. Recent operations at Lake Providence and elsewhere resulted in inundating more than one hundred miles of Louisiana...

If the Department of Justice can weaponize the FBI and legal system to target and make a cautionary tale out of ideological opposition, who’s next? Tucker Carlson’s release of January 6th footage raises questions about the status of free speech and due process of law. For more than two years, politicians, media, and big tech have worked together to proliferate a narrative: January 6th was an entirely “violent insurrection,” and according to Vice President Kamala Harris, even on par with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the September 11th terrorist attacks. Department of Justice (DoJ) prosecutors have worked diligently to...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 10 The Request of James and John35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”36 “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.37 They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.”38 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”39 “We can,” they answered.Jesus said to them,...

A program in Oregon giving rebates for buying or leasing electric vehicles has become a victim of its success. The state has temporarily suspended rebates for a year starting in May because too many people are applying, and the program is running out of money. In over five years, the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program has disbursed more than $71 million to help people buy or lease roughly 25,000 of those vehicles. The state has offered two cash rebates for Oregon drivers who buy or lease electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids under $50,000. The standard rebate of up to $2,500 is...

Yesterday I watched Janet Yellen answering questions to the Senate Finance committee. Lots of really good questions from what I could see. Yellen though was like a deer in the headlights. "That's A Lie!': Bill Cassidy Harshly Confronts Janet YellenLankford Spars with Yellen on Billionaire Bailout Paid for by Oklahoma Community BanksBlackburn Asks Yellen Point Blank: 'Do You Believe We Can Spend Our Way To Lower Inflation?'Now I have been lightly following some of this stuff basically because at this point there is little I can do about it. But now I have some questions... Seeing that the Chinese Communist...

Five recent news stories seemingly unrelated, but all bound by one, insidious agenda. Do you believe in cautionary tales or think most things happen without warning? Your answer might reveal how your psyche processes information to which you are exposed. Everything you need to make good decisions is readily available, depending upon which sources you rely. Recently publicized topics should set your spidey senses twitching: 1. Silicon Valley Bank suffers an abrupt collapse. 2. Joe Biden resurrects the all-but-dead Willow Creek Oil project. 3. Biden’s Energy Secretary praises China’s work on climate change. 4. The president delivers his vision for...

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