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I asked my source "Are they physically going to remove Biden from the White House?", the answer was "Yes"
The military IS going to forcefully remove Joe Biden from the Presidency of the United States... and at that point the presidency... the White House... is going to be run for a very short period of time by the Military!
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McCroskey was known as "Syko Sam" to the Web world because of what is being described as an obsession with notorious serial killer "Son of Sam." His MySpace page features his raps about killing, maiming and mutilating people. On his YouTube channel, McCroskey goes under the name "Lil Demon Dog." That is another reference to serial killer David Berkowitz.
A woman abandoned her 7-year-old French bulldog in a Pittsburgh airport parking lot Friday after being unable to bring it on a flight to her vacation destination, according to Allegheny County Police Department.
The unidentified woman was set to board her flight at Pittsburgh International Airport when flight staff told her she wouldn’t be allowed to without having a crate for the Frenchie.
Desperate for a way out, the owner tried to convince airline staff to grant her a boarding pass for the pup as an emotional support pet — but to no avail.
And instead of ditching her scheduled flight — the owner left the pet behind to enjoy some vacation time.
It is unknown whether the owner got on the initial flight they intended to board with the French bulldog or took another one that same day to their also unknown vacation destination.
On another note, what does anyone know about DTCares.Org?
Charitable Grantmaking
Colossal and DTCare are joining forces to raise awareness and monetary support for meaningful causes and US-based charities.
On August 7, 2023, PayPal announced that they were launching PYUSD. In five years, we will look back at this exact moment and realize this was the beginning of the turn in history. Why do I say that?
Up until this date, the majority of the builders in crypto were just that: in crypto. The largest companies operating the space were exchanges and stablecoin issuers. The largest market capitalizations were for the blockchains themselves. Most of the activity in the space was deeply self-referential, with the ICO boom, DeFi Summer, and the rise of NFTs all catering primarily to users and builders who were already in the space, enabling them to use more of the technology with each other.
Over time, the adoption of blockchain and faster, cheaper, safer transactions will now grow due to this fundamental shift. There are many companies and individuals sitting on the sidelines, unsure if they can trust crypto-native stablecoins, if crypto-native platforms are stable, and if others are going to use the technology to justify their own time and investment.
Aptos Labs, the Layer 1 blockchain created by former Meta employees, has announced a new partnership with tech giant Microsoft.
Aside from the two companies exploring “innovative solutions” related to asset tokenization, digital payments and central bank digital currencies, Aptos will also utilize Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service.
It appears, in the beginning, much of the partnership will be centered around using Microsoft’s artificial intelligence capabilities to both ease the process of onboarding users to web3 and aid “developers as they build smart contracts and decentralized apps,” the two companies said in a statement.
The largest U.S. crypto exchange says its blockchain is the first to be launched by a publicly traded compan
Coinbase (COIN), the large publicly traded U.S. crypto exchange, said its new Base blockchain has gone live, heralding the start of a new era of public companies running their own distributed networks.
Base was already live for testing by developers, but Coinbase officials said it would be open to the public as of 12 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and that time has now passed.
The Federal Reserve says it will expand how it oversees the crypto activities of US regulated banks.
The move by the US central bank falls under the “novel activities supervision program” the Federal Reserve introduced on Tuesday, which includes cryptocurrencies and additional emerging asset classes. It also covers applications of distributed ledger technology that have the “potential for significant impact on the financial system.”
Real-time payments improve cash flow for businesses and individuals, freeing up funds for purchases and investments that can drive wider economic growth. FedNow, the Federal Reserve's new instant payment infrastructure, could then become a welcome catalyst for the U.S. economy.
The Fed's efforts to facilitate real-time payments, however, could fall disappointingly short if it doesn't take some lessons from the world's most widely used real-time digital payments system: India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MCCE) is developing a carbon credit system in a preliminary partnership with the Industrial Innovation Group and the Venom Foundation.
Groq, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider, today announced it now runs the Large Language Model (LLM), Llama-2 70B, at more than 100 tokens per second (T/s) per user on a Groq LPU™, the newly defined category for Groq silicon architecture.
Fortune 500 federal contractor LeidosLDOS disclosed on July 31 that it had formed a strategic partnership with MicrosoftMSFT to speed the delivery of artificial intelligence tools to public-sector customers.
The LabGenius approach yields unexpected solutions that humans may not have thought of, and finds them more quickly: It takes just six weeks from setting up a problem to finishing the first batch, all directed by machine learning models. LabGenius has raised $28 million from the likes of Atomico and Kindred, and is beginning to partner with pharmaceutical companies, offering its services like a consultancy. Field says the automated approach could be rolled out to other forms of drug discovery too, turning the long, “artisanal” process of drug discovery into something more streamlined.
A multi-institutional team of engineers in China has developed a new type of brain-computer interface (BCI) that can be easily slipped in and out of the ear canal. In their project, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group set out to design and build a new kind of BCI that is less invasive than existing devices.
Eager early adopters recently descended upon a Mexico City cafe where their eyes were scanned by a futuristic sphere, part of an ambitious project that ultimately seeks to create a unique digital identification for everyone on the planet.
Mexico is one of nearly three dozen countries where participants are allowing the sphere, outfitted with cameras and dubbed an orb, to scan their iris. The project's goal is to distinguish people from bots online, while doling out a cryptocurrency bonus as a incentive to participate.
The so-called Worldcoin project is a biometric verification tool led by Sam Altman, the chief executive of Open AI, and the crypto company he co-founded, Tools for Humanity.
originally posted by: Observationalist
We In the middle of the dog days of summer.
2023: Heliacal Rising of Sirius
There is a table in that link that shows the dates and angles.
August 10 is 40 degrees.
Watch the water
Sirius’ heliacal rising gathers the most interest for the readers of these articles and its connection with Egyptian calendars. Sirius is sometimes known as the Nile Star as its first appearance occurred at the time of the annual rainy season that flooded the river to start the agricultural season.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced Ripple (XRP) as an official member of its ‘cross-border payments interoperability and extension taskforce’, on August 9.
This taskforce is part of the ‘BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures’, composed of 33 entities plus the Chair, Ulrich Bindseil, Director of General Market Infrastructure & Payments at the European Central Bank.
The Brazilian central bank digital currency (CBDC), previously commonly referred to as the “digital real,” has been given its official brand name: the Drex.
On Aug. 7, the Central Bank of Brazil issued a press release revealing and explaining the new brand for its CBDC. Developed by the central bank, the brand “Drex” is an acronym:
“‘D’ and ‘r’ allude to Real Digital; the ‘e’ stands for electronic and the ‘x’ conveys the idea of modernity and connection, the use of distributed led
The Bank of Russia (BoR) has revealed that it will begin testing operations for Russia’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project with digital rubles. The test will begin on Aug. 15.
Soramitsu is developing a cross-border payment system that uses Cambodia’s CBDC and targets Japan, India, China and Southeast Asia.
Soramitsu will deploy Cambodia’s CBDC and fiat-pegged stablecoins as part of its new payment system targeting countries like India, China and Japan and regions like Southeast Asia.
The new project builds upon Soramitsu’s CBDC expertise, including its involvement in the Asian CBDC project Bakong in Cambodia and Laos' Lao kip, the firm announced on Aug. 8.
The transparency watchdog OpenTheBooks released more than 1,500 pages of records revealing that NIH leadership and thousands of scientists personally received royalty payments from companies licensing their inventions that were made with taxpayer money.
NIH leadership, including Fauci, claimed while testifying before Congress that they could not release the names of the companies paying the NIH third-party royalties. OpenTheBooks filed a lawsuit with Judicial Watch on its Freedom of Information Act request to get the documents released from the NIH.
The new report from the watchdog showed payments between September 2009 and October 2020. Several of the royalty payments were from companies that received federal contracts and grants, which could be considered a conflict of interest. The NIH allows scientists to receive no more than $150,000 annually from royalties.
House Republicans on Wednesday released a bank memo highlighting the millions of dollars Hunter Biden and his business associates received from overseas sources while his father was vice president.
The memo details the many wire transfers that an investment company run by Hunter Biden and his business associates received from foreign entities. The House Oversight Committee said lawmakers have identified over $20 million in payments to the Biden family and its business partners during President Joe Biden’s time as vice president.
But the bank records show no direct link to the president, who House Republicans have said is possibly compromised because of his son’s relationship with actors in places like Ukraine, Russia, China and Kazakhstan.
The bank memo shows a $3.5 million wire transfer from a Russian oligarch to the investment company run by Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, one of his former associates, in February 2014. The documents also point to a $142,000 payment from an oligarch in Kazakhstan in April 2014. The memo also says the day after the wire transfer from Kazakhstan, the same amount was sent to a car dealership in New Jersey to buy a luxury sports car for Hunter Biden.