585 BC
A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
1533
The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1754
French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1830
President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1940
World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
1942
World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
2002
NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002
The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
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Republicans and Democrats alike recently enacted a bill that allows taxpayer funds to help pay name, image, and likeness (NIL) funds to athletes at the University of Wisconsin.
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The government is opening its interests, expanding from promising what is in unlimited supply to that which is in unlimited supply, but inconvenient.
The proposed “For the Fans Act” would mandate that professional leagues provide every local fan a way to watch every game played by every team in their state — no streaming blackouts, no platform exclusivity — or face legal consequences. The bill covers baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer.
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Mamdani is the mayor/artist formerly known as Young Cardamom
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An interesting little experiment comparing AIs:
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Mamdani is the mayor/artist formerly known as Young Cardamom
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An interesting little experiment comparing AIs:
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Not Caesar's Wife
The Wall Street Journal published an immensely troubling dispatch on Thursday exposing how cryptocurrency networks — specifically, the formerly China-based crypto exchange Binance — have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Based on how terrorism-financing experts assess the purpose of trading accounts like Zanjani’s, the $850 million in Zanjani transactions, which included both deposits and withdrawals, likely means about $425 million moved through Binance to finance Iran’s military, according to foreign law-enforcement officials and other people familiar with the activity. Binance’s own investigators assessed the accounts were a money-laundering network to finance the regime, according to the compliance reports.
In 2023, Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, pleaded guilty to charges relating to the violation of U.S. money-laundering statutes — a scheme that enriched child sex traffickers, international scamming operations, and terrorist groups, including “Al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).”
Like a bolt from the blue, however, President Trump gave Zhao a pardon last October
Representatives of the Trump family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of Binance.
The promise of cryptocurrency notwithstanding, if it serves merely as a vehicle for criminals and corrupt interests to strip the United States down and sell it off, piece by piece, to its enemies, you might expect the stewards of American interests to take a firmer line against it. And they might have if they hadn’t already gotten theirs.
If your gut response is to write this off as the usual innuendo and Trump hatred, be aware that this is from an article in The National Review.
Not Caesar's Wife
The Wall Street Journal published an immensely troubling dispatch on Thursday exposing how cryptocurrency networks — specifically, the formerly China-based crypto exchange Binance — have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Based on how terrorism-financing experts assess the purpose of trading accounts like Zanjani’s, the $850 million in Zanjani transactions, which included both deposits and withdrawals, likely means about $425 million moved through Binance to finance Iran’s military, according to foreign law-enforcement officials and other people familiar with the activity. Binance’s own investigators assessed the accounts were a money-laundering network to finance the regime, according to the compliance reports.
In 2023, Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, pleaded guilty to charges relating to the violation of U.S. money-laundering statutes — a scheme that enriched child sex traffickers, international scamming operations, and terrorist groups, including “Al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).”
Like a bolt from the blue, however, President Trump gave Zhao a pardon last October
Representatives of the Trump family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of Binance.
The promise of cryptocurrency notwithstanding, if it serves merely as a vehicle for criminals and corrupt interests to strip the United States down and sell it off, piece by piece, to its enemies, you might expect the stewards of American interests to take a firmer line against it. And they might have if they hadn’t already gotten theirs.
If your gut response is to write this off as the usual innuendo and Trump hatred, be aware that this is from an article in The National Review.
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