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View More NewsThe crypto industry’s central policy drive is to get U.S. laws that elevate it to a fully regulated and government-approved corner of the financial system. While the legislation to do that is struggling with its final Senate test, a mystery organization is flooding Washington, DC, with ads linking crypto to terrorists and drug cartels.Across television and social media, the localized campaign warns in one example: “The worst people operating in the darkest places use crypto because there are no guardrails,” citing connections to drug cartels, terrorists and people praying against seniors.”Let’s bring crypto out of the shadows now,” the ads…
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Editor’s note: the following essay discusses Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves in detail and contains spoilers throughout. Tolling for the deaf and blind, tolling for the mute,For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute.~Bob Dylan I.It has been thirty years since the release of Breaking the Waves, Danish director Lars von Trier’s film about the self-annihilation of a deeply religious but mentally damaged Scottish girl who loves not wisely but too well. Although hardly popcorn fare, and vehemently criticised by some feminists for creating a heroine defined by passivity and suffering, the film was an arthouse hit, grossing…
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