ECONOMICS: There should NOT be any taxes on “Virtual Currencies”

Thursday, March 3, 2022

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/virtual-currencies

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Virtual Currencies
 
Virtual currency transactions are taxable by law just like transactions in any other property. Taxpayers transacting in virtual currency may have to report those transactions on their tax returns.

What is Virtual Currency?

Virtual currency is a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and/or a store of value. In some environments, it operates like “real” currency (i.e., the coin and paper money of the United States or of any other country that is designated as legal tender, circulates, and is customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in the country of issuance), but it does not have legal tender status in  the U.S. Cryptocurrency is a type of virtual currency that utilizes cryptography to validate and secure transactions that are digitally recorded on a distributed ledger, such as a blockchain.

Virtual currency that has an equivalent value in real currency, or that acts as a substitute for real currency, is referred to as “convertible” virtual currency. Bitcoin is one example of a convertible virtual currency. Bitcoin can be digitally traded between users and can be purchased for, or exchanged into, U.S. dollars, Euros, and other real or virtual currencies.

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Sounds like they are defining “money”!

We don’t tax when “dollars” (i.e., Federal Reserve Note fiat greenbacks) are converted to Euros or visa versa.  So why are we taxed on “Virtual Currencies”?  For that matter, why are we taxed when buying gold or silver?  Doesn’t the Constitution define a “dollar” as an amount of gold or silver?

Argh!

Guess the IRS is going have a hard time finding all the non-custodial crypto wallets!!!

#endthefed 

If they can keep drugs out their prisons, how will the keep crypto out of a free society?

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SECURITY: CVS site won’t work with a VPN; so much for medical privacy

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Thank you for contacting CVS.com.

We are writing in regard to the issue you are experiencing with not being able to login into CVS.com and have received a response from our IT department. 

At this time we advise not using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) when also trying to access the CVS.com website as this can cause issues with connectivity.
If you have further questions or require additional assistance, please contact us by email at customercare@cvs.com or by phone at (888) 607-4287. Reference number ******

As always, thank you for choosing CVS.com.

Sincerely,

 

Derek

BICDAW

Customer Care Department

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Sigh, YET ANOTHER clueless IT organization!

(Maybe I should send in my resume?)

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POLITICAL: “Inflation” is always a monetary phenomenon!

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

https://nypost.com/2022/03/02/takeaways-from-president-bidens-state-of-the-union-address/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20220302&lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts

Key takeaways from President Biden’s State of the Union address
By Emily Crane
March 2, 2022

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Tackling rising inflation

Biden said investment was needed in US manufacturing capacity in a bid to lower prices, speed up supply chains and boost American jobs.

“I think I have a better idea to fight inflation: lower costs, not your wages,” Biden said. “Instead of relying on foreign supply chains, let’s make it in America.”

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 “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” —  Nobel laureate Milton Friedman

So how can it “controlled” by any other action than “END THE FED”.

The Dead Old White Guys knew that inflation was tyranny from the phrase “Not worth a Continental damn”.  Hence the Constitutional restriction that only gold and silver could be “money”.  A restriction conveniently ignored by the politicians and bureaucrats in the early 1900’s.  

How did that slip by the Supreme Court?)

For the better part of the 1800’s, “prices” were stable or declining.  (Money supply was relatively static while the supply of goods & services increased.). Everyone could save their cash and it would retain it’s value.

In the 1960’s, the money supply was inflated by FED “printing” and the purchasing power dropped dramatically (i.e., my favorite example is “penny candy”!). 

Argh!

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MEME: Why the Gooferment’s “War on will NEVER end!

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Tweet war on covid never end bassler fear freedom unrealistic ruling class

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POLITICAL: Germany’s “green” push nukes 6 nuke plants; now they need power!

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/28/analysis-push-for-green-energy-not-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-driving-up-oil-prices-threatening-security/

Analysis: Push for Green Energy Not Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Driving up Oil Prices, Threatening Security
PENNY STARR — 28 Feb 2022452

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The website oilprice.com posted an analysis about how the push for green energy years before Russia invaded Ukraine – and on steroids since Joe Biden became president – is to blame for soaring oil prices and foreign policy weakness.

The analysis begins with a story about a team from MetalMinder, “the largest metals-related media site in the U.S.”, on a trip to Germany in 2018 where they discovered people’s health suffered from coal pollution because after the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster it began shutting down its nuclear energy operations.

“In hindsight, that decision by Germany appears both foolish and ironic,” the team concluded. “Foolish because Germany has lost its negotiating power (pun intended) with Russia for which it relies.  It’s ironic because the country already had ‘clean energy’ but now must turn back to dirty energy to avoid blackouts.”

Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was first taken by the center-left government of Gerhard Schroeder in 2002. His successor, Angela Merkel, reversed her decision to extend the lifetime of Germany’s nuclear plants in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan and set 2022 as the final deadline for shutting them down.The three reactors now being shuttered were first powered up in the mid-1980s. Together they provided electricity to millions of German households for almost four decades.

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Greenies refuse to recognize that nuclear power is a “clean energy” source.

Argh!

How stupid are politicians and bureaucrats?

The free market would use prices and profits to ensure that all needs are met.

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INTERESTING: Red Plastic Can Boost Yields

Monday, February 28, 2022

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/covering-crops-in-red-plastic-can-boost-yields-up-to-37-percent/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=24-02-2022

Covering Crops in Red Plastic Can Boost Yields Up to 37 Percent
By  Andy Corbley – Feb 22, 202

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For centuries, humans have used greenhouses to help plants grow outside of tolerable conditions. Now, as it turns out, it might be much better if instead of greenhouses, we built redhouses.

The red spectrum of light stimulates the leaves of plants to produce more chlorophyll, and an Australian ag-startup is wielding this basic science to create thick red films to cover existing greenhouses in order to boost plant production beyond what either the sun, or greenhouses are capable of.

Luminescent-Light Emitting Agriculture Films, or “LLEAF” was founded by scientists from a partnership between the Universities of New South Wales and Western Sydney.

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I wonder if this can be done at scale?

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RANT: Seems like the Totalitarians are taking control

Sunday, February 27, 2022

https://cafehayek.com/2022/02/some-covid-links-392.html

Some Covid Links
by DON BOUDREAUX on FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Michael Taube wonders if Canadian democracy will survive strongman Justin Trudeau’s authoritarianism. A slice:

At the same time, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada would be expanded to monitor funds raised by the Freedom Convoy through GoFundMe and cryptocurrency. Banks would also be able to freeze accounts of people suspected of contributing to this protest, without a court order. This has caused both average citizens and business owners embarrassment and potential harm to their livelihoods.

While some Canadians supported Ottawa’s decision out of frustration with the protests and blockades of border crossings like the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, others were furious. Mr. Trudeau was criticized for abandoning civil liberties, free speech and the right to protest. He’s been called a “tyrant,” “totalitarian” and “dictator.” The Canadian Civil Liberties Association took the prime minister and his government to court last week. Left-leaning newspapers like the Toronto Star have condemned him.

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This freezing the assets of contributors has exposed how fragile control of one’s own assets is!

Coming to the USA soon.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Somewhere In Heaven There’s A Black And White Dog Taking Care Of Seven Golden Lab Puppies

Sunday, February 27, 2022

https://www.boredpanda.com/wholesome-animals-uplifting-pics/?utm_source=3587019_0_0_0&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=WebPush

Feel good positive stories 37 5bcec4ff28186 700 61f963d1cf5d4 700

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Something in the picture touched my heart.

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EVLYNN: 26 February is my suckiest day.

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Sadness
is the daily diet.
Gladness
is the state sought.
Madness
is try to understand.
Happiness
is at the end of the road.

26 February is my suckiest day.

Sorry to be a Debbie Downer.

Life is not all babies and birthday parties.

“My love, were it in my power, I would sadly grant thee this boon. But, we have to continue to follow His Plan for us. Let’s go forth and speak no more of this. Who ever is last will be last. It will be His choice; not ours. We’re but humble custodians of His temple on earth. It’s not our place to trump His plan. Whatever that plan be, know that I will be with you to my last breath.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 399

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TINFOILHAT: Did an engineer pinpoint where MH370 went down?

Saturday, February 26, 2022

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10532455/MH370-missing-Malaysian-Airlines-plane-Experts-bombshell-theory.html

Will MH370 FINALLY be found? Expert claims he knows EXACTLY where the doomed plane is as he drops bombshell theory the pilot ‘was being followed’ – and families claim it was NOT an accident

  • MH370 vanished shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8, 2014 
  • Despite an extensive international search effort, the wreckage is yet to be found
  • British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey believes it’s 1933km west of Perth
  • He analysed disturbances in radio frequencies to pinpoint its ill-fated final path 
  • In light of his findings, victim’s families believe the crash was an act of murder 

By TITA SMITH FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 10:12 EST, 20 February 2022 | UPDATED: 02:52 EST, 21 February 2022

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An aerospace expert believes he has finally discovered the resting place of ill-fated flight MH370 using sophisticated radio wave technology, as he claims the pilot’s ‘strange’ course suggests he was ‘being followed’.

The Malaysian Airlines flight carrying 239 people, including six Australians, vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.  

Despite an extensive four-year $200million international search effort spanning more than 120,000sqm, the Boeing 777’s wreckage is yet to be found, with devastated families claiming the crash was not an accident. 

But British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey believes MH370 hit the ocean 1,933 km due west of Perth, and lies 4,000m under the water, along a line known as the ‘seventh arc’.

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There is a great list of all the possible “theories” at the end of the article.

I’d really like for these families to have “closure”.  And, there is a mystery to be “solved”.

Who knows what the real story is UNTIL we find the plane.  It may not give the answer but may be it will.

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