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originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: Thoughtful2
1) Reminds me of Admiralty Arch... as well as the myriad churches and temples with 3 door arches,
4) Mr Pool posted pictures of 3 arches; which people walked into:
The Obama family’s “beloved” personal chef, Tafari Campbell, died of accidental drowning while paddleboarding in a Martha’s Vineyard lake, an autopsy confirmed Tuesday.
Campbell’s cause of death has officially been ruled to be “submersion in a body of water” — and his manner of death has been determined to be an accident, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Massachusetts.
The results of Campbell’s autopsy have not been made public as per state policy, Timothy McGuirk, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, told the Washington Post.
A Queens middle school teacher was arrested Tuesday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old student, police said — after once posting on social media about “helping kids understand consent.”
A 14-year-old boy with no known prior medical history has died suddenly in his sleep.
University of Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger was allegedly kicked out of a law enforcement vocational program in high school due to complaints from female classmates, a school official claimed.
Former administrator Tanya Carmella-Beers revealed Kohberger was briefly on the protective services track at a vocational school near his parents’ Monroe County, Pennsylvania, home.
But Kohberger, now 28, was forced to leave the program in his junior year following a series of complaints from female classmates, Carmella-Beers alleged.
“To be removed from a program, it has to be pretty severe,” Carmella-Beers said of the incident, though she declined to elaborate on the exact nature of the reports.
“What had him removed from the program, when I look back on it now, makes sense [with what happened later],” she recalled, referring to the bombshell allegations that Kohberger knifed four college students to death last fall.
The US Border Patrol has now admitted it’s responsible for the decision to leave giant flood gates in the border wall wide open — giving thousands of illegal immigrants an easy opportunity to stream into Arizona.
After some initial finger-pointing at other federal agencies, the agency took ownership for making the call.
“USBP makes the final decision on opening gates based on operational conditions and forecasted weather,” the agency said a statement to The Post.
A couple of weeks earlier, Border Patrol agents, acting on superiors’ orders, welded some 114 gates open to stop anyone from closing them — which the agents had repeatedly been doing in a bid to stop people from being able to cross the border.
When The Post first reached out to CBP, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, we were directed to other federal agencies that were allegedly involved in making the decision to leave the border doors open.
However, when The Post reached the other agencies, they said it had nothing to do with them.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: Thoughtful2
Much hinting by many of something special about Hawaii - especially about it's ENERGY... So I decided to check out the topography in gewg maps and found a coupla anomalies:
Note the area obscured in dark blue!
zoom in:
See the 3 "arches" on the southern edge of the obscured area?
zoom in further:
They look old rather than regular edge modern tunnels?
1) Reminds me of Admiralty Arch... as well as the myriad churches and temples with 3 door arches,
2) The arches look relatively shallow in the ocean - so may have been at sea level X thousand years ago - and leading under a large flat plateau?
3) Is Hawaii central in the "Ring of Fire"?
4) Mr Pool posted pictures of 3 arches; which people walked into:
Could easily be interpreted as 3 arches underwater leading to fire... to Inner Earth perhaps?
originally posted by: socialmediaclown
Covid vaccine stocks jump as new variants emerge ahead of fall shot rollout
Covid vaccine makers' shares rose Monday as new variants of the virus emerge in the U.S. ahead of the rollout of updated shots this fall.
Shares of Novavax closed more than 13% higher. Moderna's stock closed more than 9% higher. Shares of BioNTech, which jointly develops Covid vaccines with Pfizer, closed more than 6% higher. Meanwhile, Pfizer's stock ended around 1% higher.
It's been a rocky few months for those stocks as sales of Covid shots and treatments plummet in the U.S.: Shares of all four companies are down more than 20% for the year. But Wall Street's enthusiasm for Covid vaccine makers is getting a fresh boost with the upcoming launch of brand-new shots this fall and the emergence of new variants of the virus.
www.cnbc.com...
BRICS PAY is a payment service built on blockchain technology for making settlements using digital financial assets: BRICS tokens - NSRB and digital currencies ...
BRICS Pay is a joint venture between the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) that was launched in 2018 by the BRICS Business Council among the top priorities in the Annual Report. The team behind the venture consists of individuals from all five countries. This includes experts in payments, banking, technology, and other related fields. They are responsible for developing the platform, creating new features, and providing customer support. Additionally, the team is responsible for managing relationships with partners, governments, and other stakeholders.
BRICS PAY is a digital payments platform that is being jointly developed by the member countries of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) economic bloc. BRICS PAY aims to enable digital payments between the different countries in BRICS PLUS format, allowing businesses and consumers to securely and seamlessly make and receive payments in their local currency. The platform is designed to reduce the cost and complexity of international payments, while also providing a secure and reliable way to pay for goods and services.
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BRICS CBDC
Settlements between BRICS PAY countries are expected to be made in wholesale digital currency. The principles of interaction with national currencies, calculation of rates, emission and clearing are under development.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted India's stride in the digital payments space through innovations like the Unified Payments Interface, or UPI, and sought cooperation from other countries for its expansion.
"Through the use of technology, India has taken a big leap in financial inclusion. This has helped our rural population," Modi said, at the BRICS Business Forum Leaders' Dialogue in Johannesburg on Tuesday. "Over $360 billion have been transferred to beneficiaries through our direct-benefit-transfer model."
Brazil's President called on Wednesday for the BRICS nations to create a common currency for trade and investment between each other, as a means of reducing their vulnerability to dollar exchange rate fluctuations.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the proposal at a BRICS summit in Johannesburg.
A BRICS currency "increases our payment options and reduces our vulnerabilities," he told the summit's opening plenary session.
the allure of a unified BRICS digital currency cannot be denied, but the intricate economic and political landscapes of its member countries point towards a blockchain and crypto-based international payment system as a more pragmatic choice. This innovation would not only bolster BRICS’s position on the global stage but also offer them greater autonomy over their financial destiny. Given the significant geopolitical shifts such decisions could precipitate, a deeper exploration into the global power dynamics and diplomatic consequences is imperative. This insight will provide a clearer perspective on the broader ramifications BRICS’s actions might have, especially when contending with well-established Western financial frameworks.
Putin appeared via a prerecorded video at a meeting for a grouping of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) in Johannesburg, where he discussed the affairs of the business council in an altered, deep voice.
The voice, much lower than Putin’s regular pitch, appears to be a type of generated AI voice changer, but it’s unclear why his voice was changed and how exactly it was altered.
Putin, who appears to be speaking from his office at the Kremlin in Moscow in the video, did not travel to Johannesburg for the summit because he would have risked an arrest.
In July, Putin was on a full-charm offensive at a summit in St Petersburg with African leaders and officials, quoting Nelson Mandela and name-checking anti-colonial heroes such as Gamal Abdel Nasser and Patrice Lumumba.
“I think it’s time to rectify the historic wrong against the African continent,” he was quoted as saying when discussing a proposal to reform the UN Security Council, and include African nations as permanent members.
India, too, has actively pushed for the African Union to get a seat at the G20 summit, which New Delhi will host next month.
“There is certainly a space for carving out a new world order,” said Vivek Mishra, a fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) think tank in New Delhi. That space, he said, had been created by a convergence of two factors: the Global South finding its voice and looking for nations that can champion its interests and Russia and China finding themselves “at odds in an unprecedented way with the West”.
In "Rich Men North of Richmond," Anthony croons the following lines: "I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere." These lyrics directly reference the late Jeffrey Epstein, a man who was arrested years ago and was purportedly linked to the sex trafficking of minors. Rumors circulated that numerous celebrities and even politicians frequented Epstein's island in the Caribbean, where illicit and inappropriate sexual activities with individuals under the age of 18 supposedly occurred.
Prince Andrew is attempting to keep a low profile as his controversial ties to Jeffrey Epstein are being explored once more.
Several royal experts claimed to Fox News Digital that the disgraced Duke of York accepted an invitation from his brother, King Charles III, to stay at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Royal expert Ian Pelham Turner claimed the 63-year-old drove himself to the estate in Aberdeenshire.
A royal source said, “Andrew is more of a long-term problem than Harry and Meghan. It feels like more stuff is going to come out on Epstein and there are still unexploded bombs there.”
According to Lownie, Epstein allegedly “had the most intimate details of Andrew’s life,” and claims that “Epstein said, ‘There’s only one person who likes sex more than me, and that’s Andrew.’
Sarah Ransome, who was 22 when Epstein began abusing her in 2006, says that she dated a senior employee at the financial giant and that he encouraged her not to go to police—an accusation she included in her 2021 memoir, Silenced No More. (The book did not reveal that the man worked for JPMorgan, which is currently facing lawsuits over its alleged role in Epstein’s sex-trafficking network.)
Cecile deJongh testified in a deposition on May 29 that she chose to stay at Epstein’s -- instead of at her daughter’s -- for a month while she recovered from knee replacement surgery in New York because the building had an elevator and was nearer to the hospital.
Records kept by the Santa Fe County assessor list the new owner as San Rafael Ranch LLC, which registered with the secretary of state’s office in late July, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.