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In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. From January 30 to now – millions of us have answered the call of turning our backs on the war economy. National Shutdowns are essential in building a movement of love and care of people in response to 250 years of genocide, slavery, exploitation, and dehumanization. The brutality we saw ahead of the first shutdown in January hasn’t stopped or slowed…
Demand is emerging fastest in the Global South and cross-border use cases, where cards fail and currencies are unstable, said Adrien Duchâteau, Stripe’s crypto GTM lead. What to know: Stripe is integrating stablecoins and blockchain across its core payments stack in a bid to become an “AWS for money” and speed up global money movement, said Adrien Duchâteau, the firm’s head of crypto GTM. The company, which processes nearly $2 trillion in payments annually, is using acquisitions like Bridge and Privy and a new blockchain called Tempo to cut settlement times from days to near-instant. Stripe aims to make it…
After bearing the brunt of Iran’s counterattack, the financial powerhouse is strengthening security cooperation with Israel and widening a rift with Saudi Arabia Source link
So I guess the Fed chairman, Jay Powell, is not going off quietly into the night. Today is his last meeting as chairman, but he announced his ungentlemanly decision to stay on as a Fed board member for who knows how long. “I’ve said that I will not leave the board until this investigation is well and truly over with transparency and finality, and I stand by that,” he said. “In terms of when I would leave, I will leave when I think it’s appropriate to do so,” he added. “The things that have happened in the last three months,…
US Central Command (CENTCOM) is requesting the Department of War deploy a hypersonic missile system to the Middle East. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that CENTCOM, the regional command responsible for the Middle East, asked for the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile for potential use against Iran. The request comes amid a three-week ceasefire between the US and Iran. If approved, it would be the first deployment of the Dark Eagle missile. CENTCOM made the request because Iran had moved its missiles out of range of US standoff munitions such as the PRsM. The need for a missile with a longer range…
A majority of the justices declared that dividing voters by race is ‘odious to a free people.’ Source link
During an April 17 congressional hearing, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for retraction of a new Danish study that didn’t find a link between Tylenol and autism, repeatedly calling it “garbage” and baselessly suggesting that it was industry-generated and “fraudulent.” There is no evidence of fraud or industry involvement, and the criticism Kennedy made was a limitation the authors of the paper acknowledged — not legitimate grounds for retraction, according to scientists. Beginning with a press conference about autism in September — the Kennedy-imposed deadline for knowing the cause of the “autism epidemic” — President…
The court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais takes the teeth out of the Voting Rights Act, making it nearly impossible to draw new minority districts. Source link
Each district drawn that used race is now unconstitutional. Source link
Earlier this week, the People’s Republic of China blocked Meta from acquiring Manus, an AI startup that developed an advanced AI agent capable of completing complex tasks and relocated last summer from China to the more business- and investment-friendly Singapore, apparently with the approval of Chinese regulators. Meta announced its $2 billion acquisition of the fast-growing AI company last December. At the time, Meta celebrated the deal as bringing “one of the leading autonomous general-purpose agents” to billions of people and millions of businesses. In short, the synergies between Manus’ technology and Meta’s scale made for a promising acquisition. The…