‘Intermediate-term momentum is positive, and short-term momentum is improving. Relative strength versus bitcoin has turned up, but seems fragile,’ says Fairlead’s Katie Stockton
Here’s how to tell if dogecoin’s rebound is more bark than bite, according to technical analysts following the popular crypto.
On Friday afternoon, dogecoin prices DOGEUSD, -7.79% were changing hands at 56.5 cents, up over 40% on CoinDesk, and near the highs of the day, amid a powerful rebound for the meme asset that had skidded to a 24-hour low at 37.5 cents.
It isn’t clear if the current uptrend for doge represents a modest rebound or a more decisive shift in momentum, as the climb coincides with news that Coinbase Global will offer the crypto on its platform in about two months and comments from Elon Musk on Thursday, who claimed in a tweet that he was “working with Doge [developers] to improve system transaction efficiency.”
I expected the Biden administration to be bad, but I never expected it to be this bad this quickly.
Practically everything from public safety to education (!) to foreign policy to the border to the military has gone haywire in months, with worse undoubtedly to come.
Some or much of this is likely deliberate, with the “moderate” Joe Biden having been almost miraculously installed at the last moment to turn the ship of state leftward on a watery dime.
This put a seemingly benign public face on anything but benign policies.
A spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that US President Joe Biden reached out by phone for the first time to discuss the ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip.
Saturday’s call between Biden and Abbas is the first between the two since the US president took office in January.
The Biden administration has been working to push for calm between Palestine and Israel, with the president also contacting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday. The calls came after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombed a building where international media offices for the Associated Press and Al Jazeera were located.
House lawmakers have reached a deal to create a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 “domestic terror attack on the United States Capitol” and to recommend changes to protect the building in the future.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) announced the legislation to create the commission on Friday, which will be co-sponsored by committee ranking member Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.).
“There has been a growing consensus that the January 6th attack is of a complexity and national significance that what we need an independent commission to investigate. I am pleased that after many months of intensive discussion, Ranking Member Katko and I were able to reach a bipartisan agreement,” Thompson said.
More than 40 district attorneys across California have come together to oppose the potential early release of up to 76,000 inmates from state prisons.
On Thursday, the prosecutors filed a petition with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) requesting the repeal of temporary emergency regulations that make some incarcerated people eligible to obtain good behavior credits that would shorten their prison terms.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “more than 63,000 inmates convicted of violent crimes are eligible for good behavior credits that shorten their sentences by one-third, an upgrade from the one-fifth that had been standard since 2017.”
House Republicans introduced two bills taking aim at “critical race theory” on Wednesday.
The Stop CRT Act, brought forward by lead bill sponsor Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina, would codify an anti-critical race theory 2020 executive order from then-President Donald Trump that banned federal government agencies, grantees, and contractors from using workplace training that includes certain teachings about race and sexism.
In addition, it would ban federal funds from being granted to entities that teach any of the following:
Any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race.
The United States is a fundamentally racist country.
The Declaration of Independence or the United States Constitution are fundamentally racist documents.
An individual’s moral worth is determined by his or her race.
An individual, by virtue of his or her race, is inherently racist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.
An individual, because of his or her race, bears responsibility for the actions committed by members of his or her race.
Russ Vought, president of Citizens for Renewing America and the former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget who helped implement Trump’s executive order, appeared at a press conference in support of the bill on Wednesday.
Some of the country’s largest retailers will still require masks inside stores despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decision to loosen mask wearing for fully vaccinated individuals.
Business Insider reported Friday: “Macy’s, Target, and Starbucks are among those saying they’ll still make masks mandatory for shoppers and workers in their stores.” Other companies that told the publication they will keep their mask mandates for now include:
• Kroger • Home Depot • Publix • Dollar General
The report also identified several companies that are evaluating their policies in light of the CDC announcement but have not yet made any changes:
Francisco José Contreras of Vox was suspended for 12 hours by the Big Tech platform
A Spanish MP was suspended by Twitter for 12 hours, after he responded to a news article and noted that men do not have the biological ability to become pregnant.
Francisco José Contreras, an MP for the populist right wing party Vox, posted a news article to Twitter about a Spanish female-to-male transgender individual who was pregnant and recently gave birth to a daughter, with the article in question claiming that this made this individual a father. Contreras in his tweet said that this was a total lie. “A man cannot get pregnant,” he tweeted. “A man does not have a uterus or ovaries.”
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) floated the idea that Dr. Fauci might not only be responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic, but also for “cover[ing] up” the evidence.
Sen. Paul appeared on Fox and Friends and revealed that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) had funded EcoHealth Alliance—a non-governmental research organization—to investigate whether the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China did anything “inappropriate” in their lab, before suggesting that Big Media darling Dr. Anthony Fauci could be responsible for the worldwide COVID pandemic.
Senator Rand Paul: “Dr. Fauci Aka Dr Death Could be Culpable for the Entire Pandemic” pic.twitter.com/5Pv3nRsopw
“THE PERSON THEY HIRED TO INVESTIGATE THE LAB FOR THE WHO PERSPECTIVE IS THE GUY WHO GAVE THE MONEY,” PAUL SAID, ADDING, “SO NIH GAVE THE MONEY TO ECOHEALTH. THE HEAD OF ECOHEALTH – THEY GOT HIM TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER WUHAN WAS DOING ANYTHING INAPPROPRIATE IN THEIR LAB. BUT IF THEY WERE THEN WOULDN’T HE BE CULPABLE?”
“DOESN’T HE HAVE A SELF INTEREST IN SMOOTHING THINGS OVER,” PAUL CONTINUED. “I’M NOT SAYING HE DID COVER THINGS UP BUT YOU WOULDN’T APPOINT SOMEONE WHO IS IN THE LINE OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF GIVING THE MONEY TO THEM.”
“ULTIMATELY HERE’S THE RUB. I DON’T KNOW WHETHER IT CAME FROM THE LAB. BUT WHO COULD BE CULPABLE? DR. FAUCI COULD BE CULPABLE FOR THE ENTIRE PANDEMIC!” SAID PAUL.
Here’s the full interview:
Senator Paul doubled down on Twitter, reaffirming his claim that the NIH did in fact fund the Wuhan Lab. He also provided evidence to back up his claim in the form of an admission from Dr. Shi Zhengli, the Chinese lab’s chief scientist.
“YES, DR. FAUCI’S NIH DID FUND THE WUHAN VIROLOGY LAB. HERE’S THE VERBATIM ADMISSION FROM THEIR CHIEF SCIENTIST DR. SHI ZHENGLI,” PAUL TWEETED.
Dr. Paul also quoted MIT biologist Kevin Esvelt who said that “certain techniques that the researchers used seemed to meet the definition of gain-of-function” after reviewing a paper published with funding from Dr. Fauci’s NIH/NIAID.
MIT biologist Kevin Esvelt reviewed this paper that was published with financial assistance from Dr. Fauci’s NIH/NIAID and concluded “certain techniques that the researchers used seemed to meet the definition of gain-of-function”
Dr. Peter Navarro—former Assistant to the President and the Trump White House and Defense Production Act Policy Coordinator during the early months of the pandemic—lists “nine indisputable facts” linking Dr. Fauci to the Wuhan lab in a publication for The National Pulse:
ONE: Fauci used NIH grant money to help fund the Wuhan Virology Lab; and TWO, these American taxpayer funds were funneled to the Wuhan Lab through Peter Daszak and the New York City-based EcoHealth Alliance.
Under the auspices of a nearly $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” – 30 studies have been published since 2014. Over half of these studies count authors from Chinese Communist Party-run scientific organizations, and in 13 cases, the authors come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
What’s more, the studies themselves describe the grant money as going to both EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak and Shi Zhengli, Director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases.
For example, one study on the “Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Bat Coronavirus” notes that “National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided funding to Peter Daszak and Zheng-Li Shi under grant number NIAID R01AI110964.” There are seven other instances where U.S. taxpayer dollars from the NIH have been described as funding research conducted by Shi Zhengli. (Here, here, here, here, here, here, and, here.)
But there’s more.
THREE, Fauci, together with NIH Director Francis Collins, went behind the back of the Trump White House in December 2017 to overturn a 2014 Obama Administration decision to ban the use of “gain of function” tools to increase the lethality of viruses – Australian journalist Sharri Markson has revealed Fauci used a “low level” White House meeting to fly below the radar.
FOUR, before the pandemic hit, Peter Daszak bragged in a TV interview about how simple it was to use gain of function at the Wuhan lab to make viruses more deadly.
FIVE, Obama’s National Security Council recommended banning gain of function research because of the high risk that a weaponized virus might escape from even the most secure labs; SIX, deadly pathogens have routinely escaped from highest security labs, including a virus that escaped from the Beijing Virology Institute and caused the first SARS virus; and SEVEN, the US State Department warned in 2018 about a lack of safety protocols at the Wuhan lab and the possibility that Wuhan sloppiness could trigger a second SARS outbreak.
EIGHT, Fauci’s NIH helped fund the research of Ralph Barric from the University of North Carolina who used gain of function techniques with China’s infamous “Bat Lady,” Wuhan Lab virologist Shi Zhengli; and NINE, numerous experts have now agree that SARS-COV-2 most likely originated from the Wuhan lab. These experts include Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Robert Redfield, CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, and Nicholas Wade, who has written what may well turn out to be the definitive case in support of the lab theory.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
“We must always have an unquestionable chain of command.”
Story at a glance:
A group of retired U.S. military admirals and generals signed a letter released Tuesday questioning President Biden’s fitness for office and seemingly challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
The letter, signed by 124 former military leaders and posted by Flag Officers 4 America, said the “Constitutional Republic is lost” without “fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the will of the people.”
“Recent Democrat leadership’s inquiries about nuclear code procedures sends a dangerous national security signal to nuclear armed adversaries, raising the question about who is in charge,” the group added.
A group of retired U.S. military admirals and generals signed a letter released Tuesday questioning President Biden’s fitness for office and seemingly challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
The letter, signed by 124 former military leaders and posted by Flag Officers 4 America, said the “Constitutional Republic is lost” without “fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the ‘will of the people.’”
“The FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020,” the letter added.
Former Attorney General William Barr said in December the Justice Department uncovered no evidence of voter fraud that could have affected the outcome of the 2020 election, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
The signatories also questioned the “mental and physical condition of the Commander in Chief,” adding that national security issues require quick and “accurate” decisions “involving life and limb.”
