China creates first digital currency, first major economic power to do so (U.S. dollar reserve status), Charles Barkley TRUTH bombs, and $100 million BP carbon footprint campaign to shift burden.

China creates first digital currency, first major economic power to do so (U.S. dollar reserve status), Charles Barkley TRUTH bombs, and The $100 million BP carbon footprint campaign to shift burden from them to us.

China creates first digital currency, first major economic power to do so (U.S. dollar reserve status) - source
More proof of why crypto is here to stay.
“In order to protect our currency sovereignty and legal currency status, we have to plan ahead,” said Mu Changchun, who is shepherding the project at the People’s Bank of China. Digitized money could reorder the fundamentals of finance the way Amazon.com Inc. disrupted retailing and Uber Technologies Inc. rattled taxi systems. That an authoritarian state and U.S. rival has taken the lead to introduce a national digital currency is propelling what was once a wonky topic for cryptocurrency theorists into a point of anxiety in Washington. Asked in recent weeks how digitized national currencies such as China’s might affect the dollar, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell have said the issue is being studied in earnest, including whether a digital dollar makes sense someday.

Charles Barkley dropping knowledge about politics at Final Four tournament - source

“I think most white people and Black people are great people. I really believe that in my heart,” Barkley said. “But I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power. They divide and conquer.”

Yep.............

The $100 million BP carbon footprint campaign to shift burden from them to us - source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4

The carbon footprint sham - A 'successful, deceptive' PR campaign

“This is one of the most successful, deceptive PR campaigns maybe ever,” said Benjamin Franta, who researches law and history of science as a J.D.-Ph.D. student at Stanford Law School.

"British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term “carbon footprint" in the early aughts. The company unveiled its “carbon footprint calculator” in 2004 so one could assess how their normal daily life — going to work, buying food, and (gasp) traveling — is largely responsible for heating the globe."

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