The world's number one ranked Bridge player Geir Helgemo has been suspended from competition until November 20th after testing positive for synthetic testosterone and clomifene during an event in Florida last year (archived). While this sort of doping may not appear to be very relevant to competitive play in this card game, the World Bridge Federation let itself come under the purview of the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency rules that come with trying to make a card game more Olympic. Thusly if you want to play in World Bridge Federation competition, you have to submit to drug testing like the track and field athletes.
Forbes Catches The RIPple Scam Six Years Later
This week a Forbes "contributor" finally gave Ripple's XRP token a look and was shocked to find unbacked pump and dump monopoly money is exactly that with the entire Ripple labs business model hinging on the pump (archived). The same outlet had up through this month been treating Ripple and their XRP token as serious business (archived) despite the Ripple network being dismissed by actual cryptocurrency authorities in 2013 for its severe and inherent defects. Sorry for your loss, but what else were those six years good for anyways?
Canada Begins Process Of Extraditing Abducted Huawei CFO To US
Canada has begun the formal extradition process to deliver abducted Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to the US (archived). Canada abducted Meng back in December and held her though the USG did not present charges against the Huawei CFO until the end of January. The USG has made discouraging the purchase of Huawei kit a point of foreign policy pushed on foreign governments by Madame Secretary of State Mike Pompeo zherself.
Oscar Screener Leaks Hit New Low As Apathy With Hollywood Output Continues To Grow
In a sign that less people are interested in contemporary Hollywood's trash than ever, only 7 Oscar screeners this year received the honor of being leaked for torrent distribution (archived).
USD Woes: Benjis Outnumber Singles And Almost Entirely Outside US Borders
CNBC decided to sound the alarm over the proliferation of 100 USD notes as the dominant manifestation of the USD altcoin in physical form (archived). These notes, affectionately referred to as Benjis are the most commonly printed currency by the US and the vast majority of them, to the tune of 80% by popular citations, circulate outside US borders. CNBC reports that the US treasury indeed makes a higher profit margin selling Benjis than any other note they print, and that a whole lot of benjis ended up abroad as part of the US's ongoing southwest Asia misadventures.
CNBC also mentions former Obama treasury chief Lawrence Summer's objection to the existence of Benjis for their potential to facilitate corruption while at the same time failing to connect that to their earlier mentioning of the USG dumping pallets of fresh Benjis into southwest Asia and everywhere else the US clumsily misadventures.
Qntra (S.QNTR) February 2019 Report
Scandal Hits Canadian Bitch Boy PM During Election Year
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been accused of requesting a subordinate work to deliver a particular outcome (archived). This is a very high crime in Canada.
India And Pakistan Exchanging Fire
India and Pakistan are exchanging fire over their mutually disputed territory of Kashmir (archived). So far Pakistan is holding one captured pilot from India after downing two Indian planes which were allegedly striking targets on Pakistan's side of the contested territory. Both combatants are "liberal democracies" with parliamentry systems of goverment in the British tradition.
Cuban People Overwhelmingly Vote To Preserve Single Party System In Exchange For More Socialism
A constitutional referendum in Cuba passed with 86.85 percent of ballots in favor, 9 percent opposed, and 4.5 percent of ballots blank or spoiled.1 Opposition to the new consitution is being portrayed in the Anglophone press as not a preference for the old consitution, but a dislike for the crowd in power, who will remain in power under the new structure (archived).
As in democratic Venezuela and everywhere else, entrenched socialism polls very well among those dependent on it.
Does "your" democracy report this last category of ballots or do they engage in voodoo to "intrepret the voter's intent" Florida style? ↩
Another Week, Another US Hate Hoax As LGTBBQ Activist Torches Own House Killing Pets
Nikki Joly, a trans activist in Michigan, is alleged to have burned down her own house and killing her pets in the act due to burning resentment that other people stopped being motivated to engage in activist activity after an "equal rights bill" was passed in the state (archived). Joly won the 2018 MLive1 Citizen of The Year award (archived).
Meanwhile Jussie Smollet, the Chicago actor who hoaxed his own lynching, has only accumulated more aggro after more details of his operational failings have leaked. When it came out that Jussie paid his Nigerian co-conspirators with a personal check for their role in the hoax, his employer began writing him out of the tv series from which Jussie drew his income. For having carried out his hoax, Jussie acquired a national media profile he previously lacked. For ineptly carrying out the hoax, he has acquired a national profile as a barely functional retard.
A media marketing and content farm operation focused on Michigan things. ↩