🚨Azerbaijan 🇦🇿❌🇦🇲Armenia: According to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense, Armenian troops began opening fire on their positions in Nagorno-Karabakh and a state of emergency was proclaimed in the region. Cell phone lines were also interrupted.

Vatican 🇻🇦: Pope Francis declared that “It is time to work together to contain the ecological catastrophe before it is too late” and that “World War III is already being fought in the wave of conflicts around the world.” during a speech for this year’s “Clinton Global Initiative” via videoconference.

BREAKING: bitcoin.org is now indefinitely prohibited from providing the #Bitcoin white paper and the Bitcoin Core software to individuals in the 🇬🇧 UK 😮 A London judge ruled on Monday that the pseudonymous operator of a Bitcoin website must pay the £500,000 ($640,000) legal bill of Craig Wright. The judge concluded that participating in the proceedings without revealing their identity would undermine the principles of justice and he lost the case by default. https://www.law360.com/articles/1722651/bitcoin-site-loses-costs-fray-with-wright-over-anonymity

Young people are increasingly celibate with men driving the numbers. Slightly over 1/4 of young men between the ages of 18 and 30 seems high given that the numbers were closer to 10% in the late 2000s. What is going on?

“I’m instagram famous you bum” — Idk It’s hard to imagine something less flattering then a famous person reminding regular people they are famous while making a nuisance out of themselves on a flight. Honestly, who cares if you are famous? How famous can you be if you gotta remind people?

NEW: 🇧🇷 Brazil's instant money transfer service Pix is now the most popular payment method by transaction volume, adopted by 66% of Brazilians, equivalent to 🇷🇺 Russia's population (~140M ).

JUST IN: Banking giant Citigroup launches deposit tokenisation for real-time global payments. You still need permission to use it. 🤨 #Bitcoin is permissionless.

Ukraine 🇺🇦: The “Clinton Global Initiative” will launch a network to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians. The “CGI” Ukraine Action Network is the result of a collaboration between Hillary Clinton and Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, which began last year and aims to support NGOs working in the country with various financial commitments. The new organization, which will be formally announced this Tuesday (19).

Ireland 🇮🇪: Ireland's Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, reaffirmed his “unwavering commitment” to the 2030 Agenda.

🇺🇸USA - CONTROVERSY: Donald Trump calls the pro-life heartbeat law a terrible mistake. In an interview last weekend, Donald Trump said the heartbeat law that protects babies from abortion after six weeks of pregnancy is a "terrible mistake." "Well, people are starting to think about 15 weeks, that seems to be a number that people are talking about now," Trump said. "Would you sign that?" Welker pressed. "I would sit down with both sides and negotiate something, and we would end up with peace on this issue for the first time in 52 years," Trump said. "I'm not going to say whether I would or not." “I mean, DeSantis would sign a five- and six-week ban,” he added. "Would you support it?" asked Welker. "I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake," Trump said. Instead of protecting babies from abortions at 6 weeks, Trump suggested attacking Democrats for late-term abortions. Trump's comments immediately drew criticism from pro-life advocates. "Laws protecting the unborn are not a 'terrible mistake,'" Kristen Waggoner, president of the Alliance Defending Freedom, wrote in response to Trump's comment. "They are the mark of a just and moral society. Governors who protect life should be applauded, not attacked." This is not the first time that Donald Trump has clashed with the pro-life movement in the last 12 months. In 2022 the same happened in relation to the midterm elections. On the other hand, in Ron DeSantis' campaign, his main campaign financier also wants him to be “less radical” and this includes the anti-abortion agenda. DeSantis has not commented on the issue publicly. Within Florida, the pro-life measures taken remain in effect.

🚨United Kingdom ❌🇨🇳China: The cover of this week’s “The week” magazine: “Are Beijing’s spies a threat to British democracy?”

Most of these people have no idea what they are talking about in terms of energy and how fossil fuels maintain their ability to survive. Their slogans of "stop oil now" would result in an entire economic shutdown. Just about 100% of everything you use on a daily basis has oil or natural gas (petrochemicals) in the manufacturing process. They are advocating a return to an 1800s level of technology. But I doubt they even understand that.

Germany 🇩🇪: A group of climate terrorists vandalized the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Sunday (17) to press demands for an end to the use of fossil fuels by 2030.

Jerome Powell new hot interview dropping 🔥 "I don't care about the poors. I don't care if they are getting squeezed by food and rent inflation. I care about PCE which doesn't have food and energy costs in it" "Why should I care if food is now 80% more expensive than it was 2 years ago" Yes ... this is a deep fake. But it is hilarious.

This is so true. Are any of you interested in "lab grown" or "plant-based" versions of meat? Most people who eat steaks are not even remotely interested in these creations. And I doubt vegans are either, these seem perfectly happen without any meat. So who exactly is the target market for these things?

"When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world." - Anonymous

This is how a REAL mother looks like!

Inflation in Canada 🇨🇦 is 8.5% in the markets, but the Cuban-looking president thinks the problem is the large market chains that are raising prices. Now he wants to raise rates as a solution to the “abuse” of the markets. They always find someone to blame for the problems they created.

Belgium 🇧🇪: With the slogan “Don't touch our children” a group of Catholics and Muslims held a protest this Sunday (17) in Brussels against the introduction of a mandatory sexual education course for students between 11 and 12 years old proposed by the minister of education Caroline Désir (Socialist Party).

The oil market dwarfs all these other commodities combined. 🛢️ In the coming decade, #Bitcoin mining is set to fuse seamlessly with the oil market, becoming an essential component.