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View More NewsIn brief Russia’s digital ruble rollout is on track to begin on September 1, as mandated by a law passed last year. The CBDC is launching three years after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law enabling it. While the central bank is hoping for participation from banks and citizens, an independent report suggests there is “not significant public interest.” Major Russian banks and retailers are ready to allow citizens to use the national’s digital ruble by the September 1 deadline, Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said this week, according to a report from state-owned media.“Everything is ready…
from the swiss-slapp-suits dept Earlier this year we wrote about the ridiculous thin-skinned executives at Palantir suing a small independent Swiss online magazine, Republik, that had reported on the great lengths the company had gone to, trying to get the Swiss government to purchase Palantir’s surveillance technology. Palantir knew they couldn’t sue for defamation because, you know, everything Republik reported was true. Instead, they sued, trying to invoke a Swiss “right of reply” law, claiming that because Republik refused to publish the press release Palantir wanted to run in response to the reporting, the magazine had violated the law. As…
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Anticipating the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence, speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson recalled: “We boldly proclaimed the self-evident truth that our rights do not come from government, they come from God Himself.” In 2018, President Trump likewise declared: “Our rights are not given to us by man; our rights come from our Creator.” And defence secretary Pete Hegseth recently stated: “Today we gather to recognize that our rights here in this great country come from a loving and benevolent God, not government.”But the US Constitution—the repository of those rights—makes no mention of God. Its authority…
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