In my prayers.
update: Unlike the "green protests" which were discouraged by President Obama, Trumpie boy/Tillerson are supporting them.
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BBC: Is Asia driving the Bitcoin craze? and gov'ts there are worried.
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Bitcoin emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. It's often seen as the currency of choice for institution-weary millennials, but has also been used by money launderers, criminals, and drug buyers and dealers. Increasingly though, more Asians are starting to see it as a way to make some quick cash, but also as a way to safeguard their savings against political crises and low interest rates.
don't tell the snowflakes: "authentic" food isn't.
"Authenticity is an illusion, and a highly overrated one. Most of the foods we think of as 'authentic' are of relatively recent vintage -- since capsaicin-containing hot peppers are native to the Americas, any spicy cuisine like Szechuan or Thai is by definition a Johnny-come-lately invention. …headsup Instapundit.
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the US bishops affirm that chromosomes matter. (but hide that idea on their website where no body will read it).
well, maybe they heard that a BBC film that points out most of the "transgender" kids aren't really transgendered (although most are gay), but that the show was canceled in Canada for being "transphobic".
Spiked points out that saying such things will get you punished.
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Another heretic slain. This time it’s Lewis Hamilton, Formula One star. Over Christmas he committed the speechcrime of suggesting boys shouldn’t wear girls’ clothes, which is to 2017 what ‘There is no God’ was to 1517. Cue fire and fury and demands that he retract, repent and, in the cry of one trans activist, make a donation to an LGBT charity. That is, he should pay an indulgence, as the old Catholic Church called them, in order to lessen the punishment for his sin. When people are instructed to cough up actual cash to pay for having had unclean thoughts, you know we’re entering dark times.
Muslim extremists attack and kill indigenous villagers in Mindanao.
A lot of the fiction of the Moro is that they want to get rid of the more recent Tagalogs who moved to Mindanao in the last century, but the Tanguray were there first, before the Moros moved in from Indonesian areas. But they are Christian, so never mind.
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update: StrategyPage article has a lot about Pakistani military support of terror, but if you read down, includes a lot of information about China's economic power and their new silk road idea.
the times they are a-changing...
Many years ago, we were told that Reagan got into Afghanistan to build a pipeline by the anti war left (who seemed not to notice that the Russians had overthrown the gov't there to do the same thing). Well, now it seems that China is the one actually doing it...
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