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originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: queenofswords
Good to see you, QOS!
One wonders why a DNA firm would be keeping a separate database for Jewish DNA. Weird and suspicious.
Cheers
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
Another SCAVINO video tweet comm, at 2:28 am UTC, so between previous two. Vid 9 seconds, POTUS45 "If you f*ck around with us... we're going to do things to you that have never been done before"
a) Note the BB logo appearing twice... Bibi Netenyahu? Could he be in control of Iran?
originally posted by: queenofswords
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
I'm seeing her as OFFLINE. ???
Did you read her comments on that thread? That was 8 years ago...and here we are.
originally posted by: socialmediaclown
a reply to: loveguy
No our hands aren't squeaky clean. My point is nobody's hands are, not at the governing level.
He's blaming a list of headwinds weighing on consumers including inflation, higher interest rates, federal budget wrangling, polarized politics and student loan repayments — and now new global tensions connected to violence in Israel.
"That sort of pileup wears on the consumer and makes them wary," the former Walmart U.S. CEO told CNBC's "Fast Money" on Monday. "For the first time in a long time, there's a reason for the consumer to pause."
The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its strikes against Detroit’s Three automakers Wednesday when 8,700 workers walked off their jobs at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant.
The surprise move about 6:30 p.m. took down the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world.
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has tokenized its money market fund shared, which were later provided as collateral to Barclays in an over-the-counter derivatives deal, JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced on Wednesday.
JPMorgan has carried out its first live blockchain-based collateral settlement transaction involving BlackRock and Barclays, the U.S. banking giant said on Wednesday.
JPMorgan’s Ethereum-based Onyx blockchain and the bank’s Tokenized Collateral Network (TCN) was used by BlackRock to tokenize shares in one of its money market funds. The tokens were then transferred to Barclays Plc for collateral in an OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives trade.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced that mBridge, a cross border central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiative, will launch a minimum viable product by mid-2024. Should the project prove a success, it could offer an alternative to Swift’s dominant payment infrastructure. And potentially set a precedent for further payment fragmentation across other regions.
mBridge is a collaborative CBDC platform developed by the central banks of Hong Kong, China, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates. The project is coordinated through the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The Chinese press recently reported participants will include Tencent, the owner of WeChat Pay and the WeChat app.
A further 20 central banks are receiving regular updates on the progress of the trials. The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) recently expressed an interest in sharing experiences with the mBridge collaboration. However, it has yet to declare whether it plans to participate in the project.
Crypto and web3 communities in Israel said Monday they have established Crypto Aid Israel, to raise funds for Israeli citizens who have been displaced and in need of humanitarian aid due to the outbreak of war with Hamas.
The organization will host a multi-signature wallet – controlled jointly by multiple parties – to collect donations denominated in multiple cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) as well as the dollar-linked stablecoins USDT and USDC, according to a press release from Crypto Aid Israel.
Numerous Israeli banks and regulators have stepped in to assist with the flow of these crypto donations. According to a source close to the initiative, for the first time, these banks will most likely provide a bridge to move those crypto assets to the banks.
The Biden administration says it’s granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country — quickly making them eligible to work — as it grapples with growing numbers of people fleeing the South American country and elsewhere to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Homeland Security Department plans to grant Temporary Protected Status to an estimated 472,000 Venezuelans who arrived in the country as of July 31,
for many Latin American policymakers, Hezbollah is viewed as a distant problem far from local concerns. Likewise, for US and European policymakers, Latin America is not a top priority for counterterrorism efforts focused mostly on the Middle East and North Africa. This state of affairs has allowed legal and policy vacuums to arise regionwide, which the Maduro regime and Hezbollah have exploited to turn Venezuela into a central hub for the convergence of transnational organized crime and international terrorism.3
Iran is smuggling gold from Venezuela to finance Lebanon’s Shiite Islamist Hezbollah movement, bypassing U.S. sanctions, according to a report by British media that cited a confidential document.
According to Iran International, Lloyds Marine insurance company sent a warning to its clients that revealed the Islamic Republic’s illegal schemes through Venezuela to fund its Lebanese proxy. The document – issued on October 28 and titled “Illicit trade and transfer of gold and Iranian oil “ – said the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was “facilitating the sale of Iranian oil” to the Latin American country and taking gold as a form of payment, in which it would send to Hezbollah “for terrorist activities.”
The leader of the Iraqi Shia Kataib Hezbollah threatened the United States on Wednesday over the support of Israel after the surprise attack by Hamas on Saturday.
In a statement, Ahmad “Abu Hussein” al-Hamidawi announced the Iranian-backed “Brigades of the Party of God” were ready to retaliate with “missiles, drones, and special forces.”
“We have also obtained special information from the list of foreign journalists who received bribes from Netanyahu’s office; This list includes European, American and Israeli journalists, and all the special information and amounts they have received are stated in it.
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Let the Deflections Begin
However, even if the claim that the now available Iranian money was used to fund Hamas was true, the $6 billion figure arrived because of a decision made by Donald Trump during his time in the White House.
In 2018, Trump granted eight countries, including South Korea, a waiver that allowed them to continue purchasing oil from Iran even after the U.S. imposed sanctions on the Gulf nation after Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal.
The deal meant South Korea held $6 billion in Iranian funds, which were then frozen in 2019 after the Trump administration imposed further sanctions on Iran.
Last month, the Biden administration confirmed that a deal had been struck to free five American hostages in Iran. The deal saw five Iranian prisoners released in exchange, as well as the $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets held in South Korea being freed and transferred to an account in Doha, Qatar, where Iran has not yet accessed it.
Trump and several other Republicans blamed the Biden administration for the Hamas attack in Israel by suggesting Iran used the $6 billion to fund the group designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.