Should the US blockade be suspended before Iran's nuclear program is addressed?
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Loading ...That’s possible … but at least everyone could tell the difference between a lone sniper and a ballistic missile.
This cease fire has had many casualties. It’s more like a game of chicken than a cease fire.
Don’t let your coat get caught on the handle, Bud! 🙂
This is the biggest misconception about cryptocurrencies. Most major cryptocurrencies are not anonymous. They are actually pseudonymous. With Bitcoin anyone in the world can see every transaction ever made, but they see wallet addresses instead of names. When cryptocurrencies were first invented, wallet addresses weren’t linked to names, there were fewer tracking tools and fewer exchanges required identification verification. This created a perception of anonymity, but overtime blockchains and analytics became extremely sophisticated. A common joke among investigators is that criminals who use Bitcoin are often leaving a permanent public ledger of their activities.
The trick is that once investigators connect a wallet to a real person, the entire history of that wallet can become visible. That’s why law enforcement has become surprisingly effective at tracking crypto criminals.
Why criminals get caught
Most people eventually interact with:
Crypto exchanges
Banks
Credit cards
Online accounts
Shipping addresses
IP addresses
If you buy Bitcoin through a regulated exchange such as Coinbase, that exchange knows your identity. If investigators obtain records, they can connect your name to specific wallets.
Companies such as Chainalysis and TRM Labs specialize in analyzing blockchain.
I have no horse in the BTC game, but it sure has been beat down again
There’s pros and cons to that. If a radical cell does something that causes trouble for Iran it will have consequences for them. Cons they will anyway or a false flag.
“the White House intends to maintain a ceasefire with Iran unless American troops are killed”
is surely an invite for a radical cell somewhere to spook the whole thing by killing an American trooper somewhere?
Trump Softens Red Line: ‘No Reason’ To Retrieve Iran’s Nuclear ‘Dust’ As It’s Effectively ‘Entombed’
It’s great that these scammers are being taken out, and that many more are under suspicion.
The para that caught my eye though was this one:
“Blockchain technology is one of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against financial crime,” Leah Bressack, vice president at Coinbase, said.
“Unlike traditional financial systems, the transparent and immutable nature of transaction data means bad actors can’t hide – every transaction leaves a trail. That transparency is exactly what allowed us to work with law enforcement to trace, freeze, and disrupt these criminal networks.”
Wasn’t the selling point, sorry, the selling point, of crypto the fact that transactions were untraceable? Unlike bank transfers, credit card purchases, stock market sales and purchases, $10,000 cash deposits (or whatever the limits are in your country) etc. And now, not only is a VP of Coinbase, whose webpage says”Coinbase powers the cryptoeconomy” and “245,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries trust Coinbase to easily and securely invest, spend, save, earn, and use crypto.”, boasting that blockchain is transparent, which doesn’t sound like “secure” to me, but that Coinbase will help authorities delete your internet connection if you are suspected of wrongdoing. In this case it is scammers, but clearly there’s no reason why it won’t be used for drug dealers, tax evaders, Early Learing fraudsters, child sex traffickers and so on, and again, quite right too.
But then, what about accounts associated with, for example, the Reform party in the UK. Or with Marine Le Pen, a politician convicted of electoral spending fraud. Or Thomas Massie, because someone doesn’t like him. Or you, because you expressed sympathy for a victim of the LGBTQRSTUV+ brigade and donated some crypto to their go-fund-me?
Now they’ve admitted there is no secrecy there’s less reason to use crypto. And one reason more that could be contributing to its current decline.
Although I don’t agree with control freaks that don’t respect others decisions to vaccinate or not that small cherry picked clip was out of context. It was sarcasm or satire over her to fully vaccinate every child while they continue to negate the adverse effects. Baker was a pediatrician. That minorities were more compliant based on lack of information of these adverse effect, what adjuvants are and what biolabs are doing of how they’ll spread something to get people to take them and in their countries other factors like malnutrition or medical care making common illness or risk of getting them more life threatening.
Sorry for your loss. That was a thoughtful response about preparing the surroundings and recognizing the potential risks. There should also be more proactive geriatric doctors familiar with the aging process because so many things can be missed on a check up while they’re sitting on a computer just looking at lab results not the patient themselves including bringing up these subjects. Stair lifts can be 20k here. Better to be downstairs and not have to travel to the basement. They also can have developed comorbidities, more than one issue. Although mortality is higher for a senior broken hip not that high but depends on medical care and home care after is important to prevent many of these complications and there are many. Still the risk of heart attack, heart failure or stroke is also higher.
If there at risk for falls or other life threatening conditions like strokes, heart and lung issues of living alone they should also have a medical alert button on them and now some have GPS. They also have a service for those living alone is they have a app to check on them every day, are you okay a simple yes or no a family member or friend receives a message if they hit no or don’t answer. Advanced ones will call for help if there is no response from the family or friends notified.
Tks for that …..not sure it was yr fault/problem…as another poster had the same rubbish put up under their name…..We may have someone/something hacking the site….I will email our Hosts to see what they say…..
Good advice.
Sorry about your mother in law.
I’ve been away for a while. My mother-in-law died last week. Sucks. A few tips. Write your own obituary; it really helps those grieving. Make sure your will is up to date. Stay in your home as long as possible. Stair lifts are around $3000. A fall into the basement can kill you; it did my mother-in-law. 80% of elderly people who break hips die a year later, mine made it for 2 years. Be serious about rehab, no pain, no gain. Never give up. Think of yourself as “younger,” not “older”. Modernize your home. Grab bars, zero-transition shower entries make sense when you’re getting older, outfit the bathroom with plenty of grab bars, washer an dryer combo on the main floor. Ramp down to the garage level. Gate at top of stairs too.
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
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BREAKING: Multiple Iranian-flagged oil tankers carrying 7 million barrels of oil to China successfully broke through the US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, the first breach since April 17, per Kpler.
illuminatibot
@iluminatibot
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The Jewish CDC official says that the ‘Solution’ to Vax hesitancy is to get rid of all of the White people.
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/2062414101578670283/video/1
Hezbollah Chief Rejects US-Mediated Israel Truce; Trump To Maintain Ceasefire With Iran Unless American Troops Killed
Hezbollah chief rejects outcome of Lebanon-Israel talks, insisting that a truce must encompass whole country.
WSJ reports that the White House intends to maintain a ceasefire with Iran unless American troops are killed; oil drops also after Trump states on TS
Trump lashes out after House War Powers votes passes Wednesday evening, attacking especially four Republicans who voted in favor.
Trump downplayed Iran’s attacks on US bases in Kuwait & Bahrain, saying “they were slightly provoked…so they were reciprocating.”
Mark
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Survey results! We asked:
Will West Red Lake Gold
$WRLG.v
run another placement as soon as its AGM is done in order to avoid 650 retail monkeys complaining and asking the same darned questions for hours on end?
You answered:
If Russia was in Paris they wouldn’t need to go to England. Macron seems to be the main neocon that wants war. I realize they demilitarized and even disarmed their citizens like that was going to make them safe. They can’t even control these migrants let alone a military power like Russia. Then Macron went to China to tell them there not going to get involved in any conflict that doesn’t concern Europe before Trump got there over the fait of Taiwan, Macron giving them a green light message. He told Europe he will provide the nuclear umbrella.
Really glad to hear they’re on their way out. I saw a video of cops arresting a young English man who was stabbed multi times by a migrant with ceremony knives they’re allowed to have while citizens cant, while they handcuffed the victim while hes bleeding out because the migrant said he made racist remarks which turned out a lie and no act of self defence or excuse to murder. They neglected giving him any medical aid, handcuffed the victim telling him he wasn’t stabbed while he’s bleeding to death and said he couldn’t breath. Both the migrant and the cops should be charged with murder. A unbelievable act of cowardice by traitors. Starmer and their crooked courts need to go.
Every. Single. Time.
Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
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Albanian authorities have frozen assets linked to Jared Kushner’s company, which is attempting to build a private island, as part of an ongoing anti-corruption investigation.
Kushner believes the land belongs to him, but the people of Albania are rejecting his presence.
“Albania is not for sale.”
….today will be another example of letting the stock market run and run higher whilst capping and limiting any exuberance in the PM sector….
Over and out…..
I doubt there will be a war in Europe, for two reasons, first no European country has armed forces worth squat, as of now, they will have to conscript the population and build/buy the equipment, that will take years and by then they will be voted out, by parties that are not globalist….if they do try and have a war now Russia would be in Paris within a week and London a day later.
Armstrong should realise just how small they are militarily….minute as of now.
I bet they’re gonna try and pull England for sure and probably pull Canada and the Aussies kids in it too.
Deleted.. I see that I hope he didn’t get himself in some kinda trouble.