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Month: December 2020
Fed Opens Door for a Digital Dollar (and a Battle for Your Privacy)
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve seen major increase of paper dollars in circulation. Analyst Wolf Richter explains why:
During a crisis, people load up and hoard cash, much of it overseas, and to meet this demand, banks have to buy more currency from the Fed, usually paying with Treasury securities for this paper.
You can clearly see the rapid increase in the yellow shaded area of the official “Currency in Circulation” chart below:
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Section 230 is Good, Actually
Even though it’s only 26 words long, Section 230 doesn’t say what many think it does.
So we’ve decided to take up a few kilobytes of the Internet to explain what, exactly, people are getting wrong about the primary law that defends the Internet.
Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230) is one of the most important laws protecting free speech online. While its wording is fairly clear—it states that “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider” —it is still widely misunderstood. Put simply, the law means that although you are legally responsible for what you say online, if you host or republish other peoples’ speech, only those people are legally responsible for what they say.
Feds Admit $2.3 Trillion In Improper Payments
Submitted by Adam Andrzejewski,
Since 2004, twenty large federal agencies have admitted to disbursing an astonishing $2.25 trillion in improper payments. Last year, these improper payments totaled $175 billion – that’s about $15 billion per month, $500 million per day, and $1 million a minute.
But what exactly is an improper payment?
Federal law defines the term as “payments made by the government to the wrong person, in the wrong amount, or for the wrong reason.”
When people or companies receive incorrect payments, it erodes trust and hinders the government’s ability to finance everything from defense to health care.
Recently, auditors at OpenTheBooks.com published a 24-page oversight report analyzing why, how, and where federal agencies wasted our tax dollars last year.
Here are the top 10 takeaways regarding improper and mistaken payments by the 20 largest federal agencies in 2019:
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For The First Time, A US State Will Require Disclosure Of PCR ‘Cycle Threshold’ Data In COVID Tests
We have detailed the controversy surrounding America’s COVID “casedemic” and the misleading results of the PCR test and its amplification procedure in great detail over the past few months.
As a reminder, “cycle thresholds” (Ct) are the level at which widely used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test can detect a sample of the COVID-19 virus. The higher the number of cycles, the lower the amount of viral load in the sample; the lower the cycles, the more prevalent the virus was in the original sample.
SUNDAY FUNNIES
MESSAGE FOR GOVERNOR KEMP FROM THE DEEP STATE
An apparent car crash in Georgia – kills Harrison Deal. He was a staffer for Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler. Harrison Deal was also dating Gov Kemp’s daughter.
#HarrisonDeal car exploded (witnesses heard the explosion over a mile away). Vehicle left as molten metal, engine block ejected 50-60 yards away. That’s not an accident. That’s a car bomb disguised as an accident. pic.twitter.com/wdgWkn6MDp
— Land of the Free (@trustrestored) December 5, 2020
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Oliver Stone: Here’s Why Trump Should Pardon Snowden, Assange
What a coincidence. I happened to watch Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” last night. Extremely well done and sobering movie. The fact that it did only $21 million at the box office is a tribute to the Deep State and the MSM propaganda machines which have convinced the majority of ignorant Americans that Snowden is a traitor and endangered the national security of the country.
Nothing but bullshit. He proved that Clapper lied to Congress. Why is that fucker not in prison? He revealed to the whole world that everything they say, type, or record is being monitored by their government and will be used against them whenever the Deep State chooses.
Interestingly, the movie has an actual snippet of Trump saying Snowden should be executed. Assange and Snowden did more for the people of this world than any two men of the 20th & 21st century. The failure of people to support their release is a black mark for humanity. The Deep State has become bolder since Snowden’s revelations, basically saying “what the fuck are you going to do about it?”
Well. What are we going to do about it?
Filmmaker Oliver Stone has joined the growing chorus of activists calling for President Trump to pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden – without whom we wouldn’t know about intrusive government surveillance programs, the United States’ aggressive drone strike program, or that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager and his brother are apparently into ‘spirit cooking‘ with a satanic performance artist.
According to Stone, pardoning the pair of whistleblowers “will take the edge off his pardons for his family & loyalists by being unselfish and not self-serving. And at the least, confound his many critics — as well as future historians.”
Second, “It will drive his enemies in #DeepState and #Media absolutely nuts!”
“A pardon of @Snowden and #Assange would be a great shock to this world, and reflect well on @realDonaldTrump,” wrote Stone in a Thursday tweet. “Despite all the negatives he’s created, it will be seen as a purely merciful action. It will not be forgotten.”
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Llpoh: If Not Now, When?
It did not happen when they invaded foreign nations.
It did not happen when they implemented income tax.
It did not happen when they began transferring money from the productive to the non-productive.
It did not happen when they refused to secure the borders.
It did not happen when they implemented asset forfeiture.
SUNDAY MORNING CLASSICS ON TBP
A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”
nkit, Austrian Peter, and Steve C.
Every Sunday morning we present selections for our TBP family to enjoy.
We present symphonies, ensembles, quartets, octets, etc.
Not all of our music is strictly ‘classical’. We may stray a little, but we strive to make all of our selections ‘classy’.
We offer tips on proper ‘symphony etiquette’ and even some selections that are a bit light-hearted and fun aimed at a younger audience. Those pieces will be so designated, and might be a good way to introduce kids to a world of music that they might not have been exposed to or think of as old and ‘stuffy’.
A full symphony will run as long as it will. We don’t want to cut a symphony short. However, we also include some shorter pieces that we try to keep under fifteen minutes in length. You can sample each and hopefully find one or more that pleases you.
We hope that you enjoy our Sunday selections.
Here’s Why Goldman Sachs’s Projected Post-COVID “Rally” is Risibly Corrupt
Guest Post by David Stockman via International Man
The mainstream narrative is so corrupted by greed, sloth, and groupthink that it has become a caricature of itself. In plain English, what is held to be true by the powers-that-be is flat-out unreliable, unhinged, and unsustainable.
For instance, the mainstream media is giddy about the new stock market forecast from Goldman’s chief equity strategist, David Kostin.
According to this overpaid genius, the silver bullet of a COVID vaccine is now assured, owing to the Pfizer announcement, so we will soon be back to normal, and the S&P 500 will soar to 4,300 by the end of 2021.
Back up the trucks!
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Governor wants kids to rat out their parents’ Covid violations
Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
90 year old nursing home resident chooses assisted suicide over another lockdown
A Canadian woman, Nancy Russel, was as healthy as a 90 year old could be.
But she chose to die rather than go through another lockdown at her nursing home, and the isolation which comes with it.
Canada does not require a terminal illness in order to qualify for medically assisted suicide. But still, the first time Nancy applied she was denied.
But the second time she asked to die, “more concrete medical health issues” had developed, and she was approved.
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AOC Shares Plan To Enact Socialism For Five Easy Payments Of $49.99
NEW YORK, NY—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, widely regarded as the world’s smartest socialist, has been working hard on her plan to bring socialism to the U.S. She has now launched a new website, where she will share that plan with her fans for the low, low price of five easy payments of $49.99.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – The Great Halifax Explosion – 1917
At 9:05 a.m., in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating manmade explosion in the pre-atomic age occurs when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes 20 minutes after colliding with another vessel.
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SWAMP-COLORED GLASSES
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.”
James A. Donald
“Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Mao Zedong
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”
Thomas Pynchon