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Ulysses S Grant (18th President and Civil war General) was stationed at FT Vancouver and his house is open to the public on Officer’s Row

A funny thing happened on the way to the moon

Hmmm

Hmmm I think this video producer needs to offer some actual evidence / references before making such a wild claim.

In a recently published blog post, Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo stated that the Digital Currency Group (DCG) “has suspended repayments” after “experiencing liquidity problems due to the current turbulence in the crypto market.” Bitvavo also revealed that it has 280 million Euros ($297 million in USD) or 17.5% of the $1.6 billion Euros it currently manages stuck with DCG. However, Bitvavo assured customers that the situation “does not have any impact on the Bitvavo platform.” It has also guaranteed no service disruption to its users and has announced that it will prefund the locked assets. The company stated that it “has been making a profit since its inception and is in a financially solid position” and that DCG’s debt will have no negative impact on its day-to-day operations. It further reassured the status quo even if DCG failed to keep their end of the bargain up. https://decrypt.co/117506/dutch-bitcoin-exchange-bitvavo-alleges-digital-currency-group-is-having-liquidity-problems

Crypto exchange OKX has reportedly not processed any withdrawals for almost seven hours due to a hardware failure in the Hong Kong data centre of its primary infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud. OKX announced that it was working together with Alibaba Cloud to resolve the issues. In the meantime, users have listed complaints that state that they are unable to withdraw and deposit funds, and account balances have glitched to show $0 in their funds. Some investors also confirmed that their trades got stuck midway and have shown concerns about possible losses. https://cointelegraph.com/news/okx-cites-intermittent-outage-amid-alibaba-cloud-equipment-anomaly

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former CEO of FTX, has reportedly reversed his decision to contest extradition and is expected to appear in court in the Bahamas on December 19 to seek a reversal. This means that SBF has consented to be extradited to the US. Before the U.S. courts, SBF currently faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on customers and lenders, securities fraud, commodities fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate campaign finance law. If convicted on all counts, he could potentially face 115 years in jail. According to defence lawyer Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, SBF will likely be held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn upon his arrival in the United States. He could also be held at jails just outside New York City due to overcrowding at the facility. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/sam-bankman-fried-reverse-decision-contesting-extradition-source-2022-12-17/

According to a report by the New York Times, U.S. federal prosecutors have reached out to top members of the Democratic Party seeking more information about political donations made by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the two executives he worked with. A prosecutor from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York sent an email to a law firm representing prominent Democratic political groups, asking for details on donations made by SBF and colleagues. Similar emails were sent over to other members of the Democratic and Republican parties, including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/us/politics/sam-bankman-fried-political-donations-doj.html

I suspect he and his wife lost hundreds of millions of $ in this "venture"

Look at it this way: You don’t think Solomon came up with every Proverb himself do you? Rather he “collected” them and put it into “his” book. “There is nothing new under the Sun” 🙂

@TrueTomHarleyyou got me curious about his suspension of habeus corpus and I had to read up on it a little.... interesting. One could make the argument that he did "evil" according to the law for the greater good of emancipating the slaves.

October 17, 1871: Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus Transcript By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Whereas by an act of Congress entitled "An act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes," approved the 20th day of April, A. D. 1871, power is given to the President of the United States, when in his judgment the public safety shall require it, to suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus in any State or part of a State whenever combinations and conspiracies exist in such State or part of a State for the purpose of depriving any portion or class of the people of such State of the rights, privileges, immunities, and protection named in the Constitution of the United States and secured by the act of Congress aforesaid; and whenever such combinations and conspiracies do so obstruct and hinder the execution of the laws of any such State and of the United States as to deprive the people aforesaid of the rights, privileges, immunities, and protection aforesaid, and do oppose and obstruct the laws of the United States and their due execution, and impede and obstruct the due course of justice under the same; and whenever such combinations shall be organized and armed, and so numerous and powerful as to be able by violence either to overthrow or to set at defiance the constituted authorities of said State and of the United States within such State; and whenever by reason of said causes the conviction of such offenders and the preservation of the public peace shall become in such State or part of a State impracticable; and Whereas such unlawful combinations and conspiracies for the purposes aforesaid are declared by the act of Congress aforesaid to be rebellion against the Government of the United States; and Whereas by said act of Congress it is provided that before the President shall suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus he shall first have made proclamation commanding such insurgents to disperse; and Whereas on the 12th day of the present month of October the President of the United States did issue his proclamation, reciting therein, among other things, that such combinations and conspiracies did then exist in the counties of Spartanburg, York, Marion, Chester, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield, Lancaster, and Chesterfield, in the State of South Carolina, and commanding thereby all persons composing such unlawful combinations and conspiracies to disperse and retire peaceably to their homes within five days from the date thereof, and to deliver either to the marshal of the United States for the district of South Carolina, or to any of his deputies, or to any military officer of the United States within said counties, all arms, ammunition, uniforms, disguises, and other means and implements used, kept, possessed, or controlled by them for carrying out the unlawful purposes for which the said combinations and conspiracies are organized; and Whereas the insurgents engaged in such unlawful combinations and conspiracies within the counties aforesaid have not dispersed and retired peaceably to their respective homes, and have not delivered to the marshal of the United States, or to any of his deputies, or to any military officer of the United States within said counties, all arms, ammunition, uniforms, disguises, and other means and implements used, kept, possessed, or controlled by them for carrying out the unlawful purposes for which the combinations and conspiracies are organized, as commanded by said proclamation, but do still persist in the unlawful combinations and conspiracies aforesaid: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States and the act of Congress aforesaid, do hereby declare that in my judgment the public safety especially requires that the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus be suspended, to the end that such rebellion may be overthrown, and do hereby suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus within the counties of Spartanburg, York, Marion, Chester, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield, Lancaster, and Chesterfield, in said State of South Carolina, in respect to all persons arrested by the marshal of the United States for the said district of South Carolina, or by any of his deputies, or by any military officer of the United States, or by any soldier or citizen acting under the orders of said marshal, deputy, or such military officer within any one of said counties, charged with any violation of the act of Congress aforesaid, during the continuance of such rebellion. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 17th day of October, A.D. 1871, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-sixth. U. S. GRANT. By the President: J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS, Acting Secretary of State.

I asked because I feel like my "flu" has been over for about 4 days now.... yet I still keep coughing and have a slightly stuffy nose at times.

Mucinex D (guaifenesin / pseudoephedrine) is a combination medication containing guaifenesin and pseudoephedrine. They work together to help relieve a stuffy nose and a cough with mucus without causing daytime sleepiness, but it can keep you up at night.

I wonder what she was thinking at that moment?.... incredible photo.