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Remember all the chatter like Bitcoin is private (nothing further from the truth as anyone can research this ledger stored on the internet) or Bitcoin is digital gold? First thing that has expired. the Notion that Bitcoin is Safe or Private BITCOIN HAS BEEN HACKED China Accuses US of Orchestrating $13 Billion Bitcoin Hack (2) Summary by Bloomberg Al • China's cybersecurity agency accused the American government of orchestrating the theft of about $13 billion worth of Bitcoin from the LuBian Bitcoin mining pool. • The Chinese National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center said the hack is likely a "state-...

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA !! We are interested in hearing from any Christian individual who has the experience of living and working (or having lived and worked), for 1,000 days or longer, inside of a country governed by a totalitarian or authoritarian system or regime; that governing system/regime being either religious or atheistic. When we say, totalitarian or authoritarian, we give as examples: communist, National Socialist, authoritarian military junta, Islamic or Mohammedan, or the like. If otherwise, you may describe your own situation, and we may find that it applies. We hope to form a...

A disbanded court in Las Vegas may come back to life as lawmakers look to attract visitors to revive Sin City tourism. Vegas tourism has continued to decline, with just over 3 million visitors in September, an 8.8% decrease from the same time last year, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCA). A specialized court was created in 2022 to handle offenses such as petty theft, assault, drug violations and loitering, with penalties including banning offenders from the Strip for a year. The Resort Corridor Court, however, was disbanded less than two years later after judges raised...

15 November 2025 Saturday of week 32 in Ordinary TimeSt. Albert The Great Catholic Church - Burbank, Illinois Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingWisdom 18:14-16,19:6-9The Red Sea became an unimpeded wayWhen peaceful silence lay over all,and night had run the half of her swift course,down from the heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word;into the heart of a doomed land the stern warrior leapt.Carrying your unambiguous command like a sharp sword,he stood, and filled the universe with death;he touched the sky, yet trod the earth.For, to keep your children from all harm,the whole creation, obedient...

The root cause of the nation’s longest government shutdown – and the next one, and the one after that – isn’t ideological extremism or hyper-partisanship on their own. It’s the incentives created by the outsized influence of party primary elections.The good news is that there is an easy and effective solution to America’s primary problem: open, all-candidate primaries.Shutdowns are no longer rare or risky. Both dominant parties take the U.S. government hostage on an increasingly regular basis because lawmakers fear losing a low-turnout primary more than they fear harming millions of Americans. The Cook Political Report projects that next year,...

A judge on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss the criminal case against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who is charged with assaulting federal agents during a visit to a New Jersey immigration detention center earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper wrote in a 41-page ruling that McIver failed to show the prosecution was vindictive and that her actions were "wholly disconnected" from her oversight role as a member of Congress. "Defendant has not met her burden of establishing that her predominant purpose in physically opposing the Mayor’s arrest was to conduct oversight or gather information for a...

Kamala Harris’s memoir gives you little idea of what she believes. John Fetterman’s is better.Earlier this week everyone piled on congressional Democrats, or furiously defended them, over the government shutdown and its end. It was the longest in U.S. history, 43 days, and utterly pointless. When it was called I thought of Albert Brooks in “Broadcast News,” who asked, of a different predicament, “Does anybody ever win one of these things?” No, not the administration, not its opponents, not federal employees, not the country. Shutdowns are a trauma without meaning. All this had me thinking about an aspect of the...

The public health watchdog has been accused of a “cover-up” after refusing to publish data that could link the Covid vaccine to excess deaths. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) argued that releasing the data would lead to the “distress or anger” of bereaved relatives if a link were to be discovered Public health officials also argued that publishing the data risked damaging the well-being and mental health of the families and friends of people who died

A stunning report from UC San Diego has exposed a dramatic collapse in academic readiness that should alarm anyone who cares about California's education system. The numbers are jaw-dropping: between 2020 and 2025, the share of incoming freshmen requiring remedial math instruction for skills below middle school level surged nearly thirtyfold—from about 1 in 100 students to roughly 1 in 8. The 54-page report, released November 6 by the university's Senate-Administration Working Group on Admissions, paints a troubling picture. According to the report, these students arrive with solid high school math grades—many sporting 4.0 GPAs—yet can't handle arithmetic that elementary...

When the show’s over, what federal agents will leave behind is predictable. All the president’s men are coming to Charlotte. After several days of rumors, federal officials confirmed to local leaders in North Carolina that, indeed, Border Patrol agents will be conducting operations in the state’s largest city. I used to live in Charlotte. I still have a lot of friends and family there. I’m told Donald Trump is coming to save them, but from what? We don’t know. If Charlotte residents are living in terror — other than the terror President Trump has created by frightening the city’s...

The reactions to last Tuesday’s elections can be broadly divided into two camps. “Why is everyone losing their minds over leftists winning predictable races in blue states?” and “The GOP had better wake up or we’re toast in 2026!”If it had just been predictable races won by predictable people, the first reaction would be understandable. But when the GOP loses its supermajority in the Mississippi Senate (a state President Trump won last year by 22 points) and when both GOP incumbents in Georgia’s statewide Public Service Commissioners races are ousted by Democrats for the first time in decades, some deep...

For Chuck Schumer’s growing list of haters, there are two realities that are going to both excite and frustrate: He’s not going anywhere as Senate Democratic Leader, and it’s increasingly unlikely he’ll be reelected in 2028. Schumer is now the most unpopular Senate leader with his own party on record. The Democratic base is furious at him for effectively permitting eight Democrats to vote with Republicans to end the government shutdown. For many Democratic voters, the shutdown was a great letdown because it did not secure Schumer’s stated objective: to renew expiring federal subsidies for Obamacare. It’s hard, in fact,...

2 years of contact between Obama Admin and Epstein! Code? They asked Epstein for Dating advice.

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities confirmed agents snatched a toddler during an arrest outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles. The organization, Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, said a man and a toddler were both in the process of an "unsettling arrest" on Tuesday, November 4. Federal authorities later confirmed it was a 32-year-old man and his son. LARRN said the arrests happened as federal agents were staging inside the Dodger Stadium parking lot, which is a short distance from the Cypress Park location of Home Depot, where the detainment took place. Federal agents drove off from the scene with...

UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust Legal Director, Natasha Hausdorff, joins media consultant David Ross to discuss her own dealings with BBC News and the BBC’s response to allegations raised in an internal whistleblower report, published by The Telegraph. The memo — written by Michael Prescott — alleged failures in BBC management, concerns about accuracy and impartiality and issues of anti-Israel bias relating to coverage of Israel and the conflict in Gaza. An extract of Prescott's letter includes the following: "Claims against Israel seem to be raced to air or online without adequate checks, evidencing either carelessness or a desire...

Water has power. So much power, in fact, that pumping Earth’s groundwater can change the planet’s tilt and rotation. It can also impact sea-level rise and other consequences of climate change. Pumping groundwater appears to have a greater consequence than ever previously thought. But now—thanks to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—we can see that, in less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches as a result of pumping groundwater. This equates to .24 inches of sea level rise. “Earth’s rotational pole actually changes a lot,” Ki-Weon Seo, a geophysicist at Seoul National University and study...

Explanation: This magnificent extragalactic skyscape looks toward the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. It also accomplishes a Messier catalog trifecta by including Andromeda, cataloged as Messier 31 (M31), along with Messier 32 (M32), and Messier 110 (M110) in the same telescopic field of view. In this frame, M32 is just left of the Andromeda Galaxy's bright core with M110 below and to the right. M32 and M110 are both elliptical galaxies themselves and satellites of the larger spiral Andromeda. By combining 60 hours of broadband and narrowband image data, the deep telescopic view also...

Former first lady Michelle Obama said at a recent event that the US isn’t ready for a woman president, pointing to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful bid for the White House last year. “As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama said in response to a question from actor Tracee Ellis Ross on whether there has been enough “room” created for a woman president. “That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running ‘cause you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman,” Obama told Ellis Ross. “We got a lot of...

Two polls show that our young people are in deep trouble. Men are emotionally isolated, while women are so filled with hatred for the world in which they find themselves that they want to run away from America altogether. This is what happens when leftism infects women, leaving men to the computer’s cold embrace. The poll on American young men’s social isolation is a few months old, but it takes on new currency in light of what we just learned about America’s young women. Thus, in May, media outlets exploded with stories about a Gallup poll that revealed that young...

Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, is claiming that he cannot fill 5,000 mechanic jobs – even though they pay $120,000 per year. This is a problem that TV personality Mike Rowe has been talking about for years. We don’t have enough young people in the country who are learning skills, such as working with tools, or how to do things like be an auto mechanic. Meanwhile, we have a surplus of people in college who are going into massive debt wasting their time on useless topics like gender studies, women’s studies, and various social justice topics. The New York...