Assorted news

[Peatful]

Is there nothing going on with the Hunter Biden investigation?

 

[Zsazsa]

Is there nothing going on with the Hunter Biden investigation?

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[Zsazsa]

Why Argentina is embracing cryptocurrency

The nation that has seen economic trauma is open to the possibility of alternative money like Bitcoin.

www.bbc.com

Why Argentina is embracing cryptocurrency
By Christine Ro
Buenos Aires
Published 22 April

Central Bank Of Argentina Bans Banks From Offering Bitcoin, Crypto Services

The ban comes just a few days after Argentina’s largest private bank announced it would start offering bitcoin to clients.

bitcoinmagazine.com

CENTRAL BANK OF ARGENTINA BANS BANKS FROM OFFERING BITCOIN, CRYPTO SERVICES
The ban comes just a few days after Argentina’s largest private bank announced it would start offering bitcoin to clients.
SHAWN AMICK MAY 6, 2022

 

[Zsazsa]

Hong Kong national security police arrest Cardinal Joseph Zen

Prominent Catholic cleric, 90, detained with three others linked to disbanded charity for protesters

www.theguardian.com

Hong Kong national security police arrest Cardinal Joseph Zen
Prominent Catholic cleric, 90, detained with three others linked to disbanded charity for protesters

The Vatican has voiced concerns over reports that Hong Kong’s national security police has arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of Asia’s most senior and outspoken Catholic clerics.

Zen, a former bishop of Hong Kong, was arrested along with the singer and actor Denise Ho, the lawyer Margaret Ng and the scholar Hui Po-keung were detained by Hong Kong’s national security police.
[...]

Local reports earlier suggested the arrests were related to their roles as trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which provided legal aid and other financial help to people who took part in the 2019 pro-democracy protests that were quashed by security forces.

[...]
In the UK, Labour’s shadow minister for Asia and Pacific, Catherine West, said in a tweet that the arrests “are a further demonstration of China’s aim to stamp out opposition in Hong Kong, and are completely at odds with the freedoms promised to Hong Kong”. She urged the British government to “work with international partners to demand the release of those detained”.

 

[David PS]

The dark side of national health care.

FIRST READING: Fears that the Canadian health system is far too quick to prescribe death

Canada accused of "euthanizing its poor" due to doctors approving euthanasia for patients denied proper medical care

nationalpost.com

Family members of euthanized Canadians say assisted dying program killed patients who could have recovered

Canadians who lost loved ones to doctor-assisted euthanasia are calling on the federal government to do more to protect vulnerable people from wrongfully accessing the program, saying medical professionals are not complying with existing safeguards.

tnc.news

Euthanasia promoters launch campaign to force MAiD compliance in Catholic hospitals

The B.C. chapters of the pro-assisted-suicide group Dying With Dignity Canada have launched a public-relations campaign aimed at forcing Catholic and other faith-based health-care facilities to...

bccatholic.ca

 

[David PS]

Less than a third of Americans are worried about Covid, poll finds

Only 31% of Americans are showing concern about the pandemic still, with less than 20% reporting they are 'very worried' about Covid, a new Gallup poll finds.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[David PS]

 

[David PS]

View: https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1525163712428089345

 

[Zsazsa]

View: https://twitter.com/_p_w_n_/status/1524868530344058883

 

[Jam]

Food Riots In Sri Lanka Turn Deadly As Protesters Beat Up Police, Burn Down Politicians' Houses | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[David PS]

Why is Canada euthanising the poor? | The Spectator

There is an endlessly repeated witticism by the poet Anatole France that ‘the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.’ What France certainly did not foresee is that an entire country – and an...

www.spectator.co.uk

 

[David PS]

‘Golden era’ of cheap food is over, says former Sainsbury’s boss

Justin King says shoppers will have to spend more of their budgets on food over the long term

finance.yahoo.com

 

[David PS]

This is how to erode free speech.

EU, U.K. Join U.S. in Launching Online ‘Disinformation’ Policies, Prompting Concerns About ‘One-World Governance’ of Social Media

The EU’s Digital Services Act and the U.K.’s proposed Online Safety Bill are among the latest government policies designed to hold social media companies responsible for hate speech and “disinformation” posted by users, a move experts suggested could bring us closer to global government.

childrenshealthdefense.org

 

[Zsazsa]

The (global) deliberate irrelevance of the Academia


View: https://twitter.com/UsforThemUK/status/1525555722196492290

 

[David PS]

This 5 minute video makes me think that climate preservation will be the next justification for a lockdown. If not the next lockdown, it is the direction that we seem to be moving.


View: https://youtu.be/N7cJj3Tnn1Q?t=9

 

[Zsazsa]

This 5 minute video makes me think that climate preservation will be the next justification for a lockdown. If not the next lockdown, it is the direction that we seem to be moving.

View: https://youtu.be/N7cJj3Tnn1Q?t=9

Got the newsletter from Nina Teicholz today about that:

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In the past she managed to get lots of attention regarding saturated fat, let hope she achieves success now as well

 

[David PS]

 

[David PS]

Sri Lankans running out of food, fuel and medicine | DW | 12.05.2022

Sri Lankans told DW how they're struggling with shortages of food, fuel and medicine as the nation faces one of its worst economic crises in decades.

www.dw.com

 

[David PS]

Unprecedented: Card payments stopped working all across Norway

Massive queues at grocery stores as customers could only pay with cash as card payment terminals all over the country went down.

petersweden.substack.com

 

[David PS]

Being a socially isolated country is not sufficient to avoid an outbreak.

North Korea: More than a million Covid cases feared

The military has been ordered to intervene as a wave of Covid cases sweeps the unvaccinated country.

www.bbc.com