PAYPAL EYES “CURV”-Y MOVE INTO CRYPTOS. Leading online payments processor PayPal is negotiating to acquire Curv, a NY-based cryptocurrency company, according to Bloomberg. Dozens of clients reportedly use its products. This past November, PayPal started to let clients buy, sell, and keep some cryptocurrencies in their wallets. The move was seen as a reaction to...
Tag: mar 9 2021
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POLITICAL SUPPRESSION GONE WRONG
At around the same time FBI Director Christopher Wray was being grilled in the Senate over his agency’s heavy-handed crackdown on 6 January Capitol protesters, new facts were emerging: Not a single firearms violation or confiscation occurred on Capitol grounds during 6 January protests The U.S. Army advised against sending in troops to quell the...
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SATELLITE PHONES: MORE SECURE & LESS TRACKABLE THAN CELL PHONES?
Satellites are considered to have advantages over much more common cell phones when it comes to issues like security and privacy. But they may be just as prone to hacking and other compromises, according to some new research. A project by several Chinese engineers was successful in breaching a common type of encryption used on...
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ROADBLOCKS BY “DEMONSTRATORS”
by Bradley J. Steiner I hope you appreciate why the word demonstrators is in quotes. These outrageous, violent, disruptive, dangerous, destructive, uncivilized bastards are nothing less than riotous insurgents and criminals who, by their antisocial displays of gunfire, arson, vandalism, mob-like presence, intimidation, assault, and socialistic leanings threaten our very way of life. A sad...
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RAISE A GLASS TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Every pound of cheese gives its maker nine pounds of leftover whey to get rid of. Some are turned into protein powder, pig feed, or fertilizer; but more than half of the 100 billion pounds made annually in the U.S. alone is dumped as garbage. Now some will make their way into Wheyward Spirit, a...
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UTILITIES FORM ELECTRIC HIGHWAY COALITION
Six U.S. electric companies – Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Entergy, the Southern Company, the Southwestern Electric Power Company, and the Tennessee Valley Authority – have banded together to create the Electric Highway Coalition (EHC). Together, the utilities will install a seamless network of electric car fast chargers along major highways covering the southeast and south-central...
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STEEL INDUSTRY GOES GREEN
While much of the rest of the world is focused on making greener fuels for cars, a new venture in Europe has backed up a step and is piloting a process to make green steel for tomorrow’s zero-emission vehicles. Building vehicles use 17 percent of the world’s 1.8-billion-ton steel production each year, according to the...
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CUOMO GETS STRIPPED, BUT NOT IN THE WAY HE WANTED
On Friday, New York State’s Senate voted on legislation that prevents Governor Andrew Cuomo from issuing new coronavirus-related emergency orders, which was seen as a stinging rebuke from the Democrat-controlled body. Cuomo finds himself at the nadir of his governorship and faces two scandals that pose a threat to his administration. He is accused of...
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HOUSE CANCELS SESSION OVER POSSIBLE MILITIA PLOT
Congressman Steny Hoyer announced last week that all legislative issues would wrap up before Thursday due to a Capitol Police warning that a militia group was planning to storm the Capitol on 4 March. The chatter centered on the fear that so-called QAnon supporters marked the date as the day former President Trump would be...
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U.N. WARNS LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC DISASTER LOOMING
The U.N.’s Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean warned last week that the COVID-19 outbreak threatens another “lost decade” for what the commission called the world’s worst-affected developing region in the world. The Financial Times reported the commission said extreme poverty in the region is at its worst level in 20 years and impacts 78...