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Euro Pacific Asset Management chief Peter Schiff this week dismissed Bitcoin as a flawed medium of exchange and inferior store of value compared to tokenized gold. He referenced Cathie Wood's revised $1.2 million Bitcoin target for 2030, blaming stablecoins' rise in emerging markets. Amid Bitcoin's 5% year-to-date drop to $90,400, gold has surged 54% while drawing online mockery of Schiff's repeated past predictions.

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Peter Schiff strikes again: Bitcoin is doomed, he says, as stablecoins steal its transaction role and gold crushes it in value storage.

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Holosoma unifies simulators like IsaacGym and MuJoCo for reinforcement learning on humanoid robots such as Unitree G1 and Booster T1. It supports tasks like walking, full-body motion tracking, and even dancing, with tools to retarget human motion data to robots. Researchers praised its efficiency and modular design, which lets them focus on algorithms. Demos show smooth real-world performance, and the team welcomes contributions on GitHub and Discord.

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Amazon's robotics team just dropped an open-source tool that turns simulation training into real-world robot walks in minutes. With a single high-end GPU, they train and deploy policies on hardware in about 20 minutes.

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The figures, from the Current Population Survey, prompted the department to pledge reversing these trends and prioritizing American workers over globalism. Recent BLS data from September 2024 to 2025 shows a shift, with native-born employment rising by 2.5 million and foreign-born dropping by 670,000. Officials aim to protect U.S. jobs amid ongoing debates on immigration and labor policy.

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The U.S. Labor Department shared striking BLS data this weekend, showing native-born Americans lost over 1.3 million jobs from August 2023 to 2024 while foreign-born employment grew by 1.24 million.

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On January 22, 2025, at the World Economic Forum, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez proposed linking social media accounts to Europe's digital identity wallets. This would allow nicknames but enable authorities to trace real identities for crimes like hate speech or harassment, addressing bot accounts and misinformation. Part of his pitch to EU leaders, the idea ties into eIDAS 2.0 wallets rolling out by mid-2026 for services like banking, though social media linkage remains just a proposal. The clip has fueled strong pushback, with many viewing it as a step toward greater oversight.

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In a Davos speech earlier this year, Pedro Sánchez drew everyday comparisons to make his case for change online. He pictured streets without masks and cars without plates, urging a shift from full anonymity.

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Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi, member of Iran's Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, stated that the Islamic Republic should capture U.S. President Donald Trump and slap him as done to Maduro, calling him a 'filthy person' and 'wild dog.' The statement sparked widespread discussion on X.

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In Moadamiyeh southwest of Damascus, troops arrested Taha al-Zoubi, ISIS's 'Wali' of Damascus also known as Abu Omar Tibiya, along with aides and seized a suicide belt, weapons, and ammo. Hours later in al-Buwayda near Qatana, they killed Mohammad Shahada, the 'Wali of Hauran' who ran sleeper cells in southern Syria since 2018. Brigadier General Ahmad al-Dalati called it a major blow to ISIS networks, vowing an 'iron fist' against terrorism remnants amid stepped-up cooperation with the coalition following the group's 2019 territorial defeat.

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Syrian forces raided hideouts near Damascus, grabbing one top ISIS governor alive and taking out another in a swift second strike. No security personnel were hurt in the coordinated hits with the U.S.-led coalition.

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Hussain, Labour MP for Bradford East, secured a Westminster Hall debate to press successive UK governments on fulfilling promises to Kashmiris, framing the issue beyond just India-Pakistan talks. A Foreign Office minister restated the UK's view that Kashmir is a bilateral matter. Critics pointed to his constituency's hardships—42.7% child poverty, high deprivation, and youth unemployment at 13.2%—questioning why foreign causes outrank local fixes like potholes. The exchange reveals challenges for MPs in diverse seats balancing international ties with community needs.

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On Human Rights Day, December 10, Imran Hussain stood in Parliament urging the UK to back Kashmiri rights under international law. His call highlighted tensions between global advocacy and the daily struggles back home in Bradford East.

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On January 18, 2026—the day interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a ceasefire—gunmen at a checkpoint near Abu Khashab village executed six adults from a fleeing 12-member Kurdish family from Raqqa, including 50-year-old Mohammed Ismail Salih and his wife Sara. Survivors like Shirin Mohammed Salih, shot in the back, sent heartbreaking voice messages pleading for help as her children were held. The attack, verified by human rights monitors, came amid al-Sharaa's truce with Kurdish-led forces, yet further violations like artillery strikes followed, testing fragile peace as Kurds fear ethnic targeting.

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A father assured gunmen his family carried no weapons or politics, only to watch them order the adults killed right there at a checkpoint.

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In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pam Bondi dated Tuesday, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed requested an investigation by December 1 into World Liberty Financial's compliance with anti-money laundering rules, sanctions, and governance. The demand stems from a September report by Accountable.US alleging the project sold $WLFI governance tokens to wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group, a Russian sanctions-evasion stablecoin, Iran's NoBitex exchange, and the sanctioned mixer Tornado Cash. DT Marks DEFI LLC, controlled by Donald Trump and his family, holds 22.5 billion tokens and receives 75% of sales revenue, while the project lists Trump family members in prominent roles; World Liberty Financial maintains it has robust compliance measures with no evidence of wrongdoing.

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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed have fired off a letter urging a federal probe into World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's crypto project, over alleged sales to North Korean hackers and sanctioned entities.

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