Posted on 11/24/2019 11:21:34 AM PST by The Houston Courant
Rep. Al Green’s Probe into People’s Sexuality
Mark Zuckerberg, the creator and CEO of Facebook, which currently has 2.7 billion users around the world plans to launch a digital currency and payment platform named Libra. The establishment of such a product requires consideration of multifaceted ramifications. The House Financial Services Committee is charged with investigating the potential liabilities Libra may impose on competing digital currency, the U.S. dollar and the global commercial system built around it.
Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington D.C. to respond to questions about the new money. Zuckerberg delivered an opening statement on point with the hearing’s focus. He spoke of innovation and individual empowerment and argued that the current financial system is failing millions of people who don’t have access to traditional bank accounts. Zuckerberg claimed Libra would provide instant banking transactions with any smart phone and offer much need services for populations that are underbanked or non-banked. He also conveyed a since of urgency for the developing technology in order to maintain a technological edge over China, who is currently working toward the launching similar project. Zuckerberg tried to motivate the committee by reminding them that if America doesn’t lead in this technology then we are doomed to follow. Additionally, he pledged to achieve greater diversity within the Facebook corporate structure and the continue to enhance security at all levels.
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would be nice if something in the posted text was in any way related to the headline. just a thought.
I’m a Bobblehead,
and I’m nodding in agreement.
Take him to the River. Tie concrete blocks to his ankles. Throw him in the River.
Phrasing people, phrasing. And word choice.
BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM
A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.
To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind. This form of Socialism has, moreover, been worked out into complete systems.
We may site Proudhon’s Philosophie de la Misere as an example of this form.
The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements.
p.49 The Communist Manifesto
Our socialists are smarter than their communists. Anti-individual IDIOTS both and we have a war machine second to nobody. Right Bernie? Where’s your boy Jimmie Hodgkinson?
My wife went to the Ford dealer to look at a Taurus but the salesman wanted to show her a Probe...
WTH?
stupid post and clicking
My wife went to the Ford dealer to look at a Taurus but the salesman wanted to show her a Probe...
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Well now she knows his Focus.
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