Biden Admin Wants IRS to Track Crypto Transactions to Find Tax Revenue

Biden Admin Wants IRS to Track Crypto Transactions to Find Tax Revenue

Parker Davis September 2, 2021

IRS Agent Poses as Bitcoin Trader Called ‘Mr. Coins,’ Biden’s IRS Wants ‘Outflow and Inflow’ Data From Banks – Taxes Bitcoin News

From news.bitcoin.com
2021-09-02 16:30:47
Jamie Redman
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America’s Tax Agency Is Stepping Up Enforcement via Biden’s American Families Plan

The IRS has been stepping up enforcement against tax evaders and has recently been specifically focused on cryptocurrency transfers. This past April, Forbes contributor Guinevere Moore published a report on how U.S. President Biden’s “American Families Plan” aims to increase IRS enforcement. Essentially, Moore details that America’s financial institutions have always had to report capital gains to the IRS, but…

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Putin Tells American Social Media to #CancelNavalny

Freedomist Curator September 2, 2021

Russia urges Apple and Google to remove Navalny’s app | National/World

From www.thederrick.com
2021-09-02 13:58:08

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state communications watchdog warned Apple and Google Thursday that they could face fines if they fail to remove an app created by allies of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from their stores.

The agency, Roskomnadzor, warned Apple and Google that their failure to remove Navalny’s app could be interpreted as interference in Russian elections.

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CCP Cracks Down on Tibetans with Dalai Lama Photo

Mark Clouse September 2, 2021

Dozens More Tibetans Are Arrested in Sichuan Over Dalai Lama Photos — Radio Free Asia

From www.rfa.org
2021-09-01 20:19:38

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Police in western China’s Sichuan province have ramped up their enforcement of a ban on photos of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, arresting a further 53 Tibetans found with the prohibited images in their homes last week, Tibetan sources said.

The arrests in the Dza Wonpo township of Sershul (in Chinese, Shiqu) county in the Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture follows the arrests earlier this month of at least 60 other township residents, bringing to over 100 the total number taken into custody during the campaign.

Following a first raid on Aug. 25, Chinese authorities swept through the town, searching every house, a Tibetan living in India told RFA, citing sources in the region.

“They were looking for pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and for any messages that may have been shared on their cell phones with people outside Tibet,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“And from Aug. 25 to Aug. 29, 53…

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Alibaba Loses CCP Protection as Top Brass Face More Sex Assault Charges

Ivo Fysic September 2, 2021

Alibaba Faces Reckoning Over Harassment

From www.nytimes.com
2021-09-01 18:33:21
Sui-Lee Wee and Raymond Zhong
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At an employee dinner, women were told to rank the attractiveness of the men at the table. During a team-building exercise, a woman was pressured to straddle her male co-worker in front of colleagues. Top executives traded lewd comments about male virility at company events and online.

The e-commerce giant Alibaba, one of China’s most globalized internet companies, has often celebrated the number of women in its senior ranks. In 2018, the company’s billionaire co-founder, Jack Ma, told a conference in Geneva that one secret to Alibaba’s success was that 49 percent of employees were women.

But that message of female empowerment is now being called into question after an Alibaba employee accused her boss of raping her after an alcohol-fueled business dinner. The woman, who has been identified by the police and her lawyers only by her surname, Zhou, said bosses and human resources had shrugged off her complaints. She eventually resorted to screaming about the assault in a company…

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Biden Violated Law in Effort to Conceal Afghan Mess Before Troop Pullout

Ivo Fysic September 2, 2021

Biden Blew off Law That Could Have Warned Congress of Coming Debacle in Afghanistan – RedState

From redstate.com
2021-08-31 17:30:15

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President Donald Trump left 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. But when Joe Biden came in, he was barred from using money from the Department of Defense budget to reduce the number below 2,000 by federal statute, “without first briefing Congress about the expected impact on U.S. counterterrorism operations and the risk to American personnel” and providing a detailed report, according to the Free Beacon.

He was required to report on ISIS, the Taliban, al Qaeda, the risk for the expansion of terrorism, and the capacity of the Afghan security forces to deal with them all.

Of course, Biden did reduce the troop numbers below that — to nothing — and waived the mandate requiring him to brief Congress in June, that it was important to the interests of national security. Some “mandate,” if he can just waive it. If he had not done so, they could have talked about all the terrorist risk which if it wasn’t clear before, is certainly clear now — with thousands of ISIS-K fighters…

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Jihadit Looking to Form Alliance with Turks, Assad in Northern Syria

Freedomist Curator September 2, 2021

Why this jihadist warlord is calling for a ‘united administration’ with Turkish-occupied northwest Syria

From globalcomment.com
2021-08-31 18:52:04

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Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of the powerful Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that controls large parts of Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, has called for the establishment of a “united administration” between his HTS-controlled territories and Syrian territories controlled by Turkey and its Syrian militia proxies.

Jolani was referring to the Turkish-occupied Kurdish region of Afrin that borders Idlib, which Turkey invaded in 2018, and the so-called Euphrates Shield Zone to its east, which Turkey seized from the Islamic State in Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016-17. Ankara used thousands of former Free Syrian Army (FSA) militiamen as proxies to invade and occupy these territories. These Turkish-backed FSA proxy groups call themselves the Syrian National Army (SNA).

“It is important that there is one authority, one set of institutions, and one authority to administer all the liberated areas controlled by the Syrian opposition,” Jolani said in…

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China’s Military Power versus America’s

Mark Clouse September 2, 2021

No, the US Has Nothing to Fear From China’s Military

From jacobinmag.com
2021-08-31 19:40:45

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In recent months, Washington has had a lot to say about China’s ever-expanding air, naval, and missile power. But when Pentagon officials address the topic, they generally speak less about that country’s current capabilities, which remain vastly inferior to those of the United States, than the world they foresee in the 2030s and 2040s, when Beijing is expected to have acquired far more sophisticated weaponry.

“China has invested heavily in new technologies, with a stated intent to complete the modernization of its forces by 2035 and to field a ‘world-class military’ by 2049,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified in June. The United States, he assured the Senate Armed Services Committee, continues to possess “the best joint fighting force on Earth.” But only by spending countless additional billions of dollars annually, he added, can this country hope to “outpace” China’s projected advances in the decades to come.

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Wave Energy with Liquid Metal?

Parker Davis September 2, 2021

Using liquid metal to turn motion into electricity, even underwater — ScienceDaily

From www.sciencedaily.com
2021-08-31 17:14:07

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Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft, stretchable device that converts movement into electricity and works in both dry and wet environments.

“Mechanical energy — such as the kinetic energy of wind, waves, body movement and vibrations from motors — is abundant,” says Michael Dickey, corresponding author of a paper on the work and Camille & Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State. “We have created a device that can turn this type of mechanical motion into electricity. And one of its remarkable attributes is that it works perfectly well underwater.”

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Myanmar in a Downward Spiral

Mark Clouse September 2, 2021

State of Emergency in Myanmar – Six Months On

From www.lexology.com
2021-08-31 12:50:45

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Overview

On 1 February 2021, the military-nominated then Vice President U Myint Swe (who is now the current President of Myanmar) declared a state of emergency for a period of one year (“Declaration“) pursuant to Article 417 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar 2008 (“2008 Constitution“). The Declaration was issued after the military detained government leaders including the State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint and other senior government officials from the National League for Democracy (“NLD“) in the early morning of 1 February 2021.

In connection with the Declaration, the legislative, executive and judicial powers of Myanmar were transferred to the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who in turn established the State Administration Council (“SAC“) as the governing authority during the state of emergency. Since then, the military authorities have replaced the NLD government, removing NLD appointed…

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Mueller Was Investigating Member of the Press During Russia Hoax Investigation

Ivo Fysic September 2, 2021

Mueller Scrutinized an Unidentified Member of News Media in Russia Inquiry

From www.nytimes.com
2021-09-02 12:33:00

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WASHINGTON — The special counsel who investigated Russia’s 2016 election interference, Robert S. Mueller III, scrutinized “a member of the news media suspected of participating in the conspiracy” to hack Democrats and make their emails public, the Justice Department disclosed on Wednesday.

The deputy attorney general at the time, Rod J. Rosenstein, who was overseeing the Russia investigation, approved a subpoena in 2018 for the unnamed person’s phone and email records. He also approved seeking a voluntary interview with that person and then issuing a subpoena to force the person to testify before a grand jury, the department said.

“All of this information was necessary to further the investigation of whether the member of the news media was involved in the conspiracy to unlawfully obtain and utilize the information from the hacked political party or other victims,” the department said.

No member of the news media was charged with conspiring in the hack-and-dump…

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