Month: September 2023

At the end of August, bitcoin confirmed an overbought downturn in its monthly stochastic, a signal that has previously marked market peaks.

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Today’s Stories:

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Treads Water Below $26K

Bitcoin Bulls Face Setback as Monthly Stochastic Indicator Turns Lower: Analyst

Bitcoin's Use as Margin Collateral in Crypto Futures Trading Is Growing

Traditional Finance Exchanges Divided on Crypto Services: Survey

Global Standard Setters to Deliver Global Crypto Policy Roadmap

Australia Senate Committee Rejects Crypto Bill From Opposition Senator Andrew Bragg

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The government in the Democratic Republic of Congo has said that at least 43 people were killed when soldiers broke up a demonstration against UN peacekeepers in the eastern city of Goma on Wednesday. We ask what's behind the chronic instability in the DRC?

Around 80 percent of all farms in Africa are tilled by smallholder farmers. They produce most of the food we eat on the continent - and yet they get very little recognition for what they do. We hear from Wangari Kuria, the founder of Farmer on Fire. She is challenging the leaders currently meeting in Nairobi at the first Africa Climate Summit.

And we do a deep dive on the Bongos; the family that has held power in Gabon since 1967.

Sentencing day for proud boys leader. A slow exodus from Burning man. Prison escapee still on the run. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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The calculus of the cold war is back, but there are new variables in the equation—namely China’s growing arsenal. We look at how three-way deterrence could work. Two years after America’s schools reopened their doors, a terrifying proportion of students are still skipping class (10:13). And what a slew of rickshaw apps says about India’s technological backbone (15:38).

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Alabama

• DOJ blocks Alabama's AG from further discovery into Admiral "Rachel" Levine
• State law to cut down gang activity is now in effect within Alabama
• CEO of RSA comes out against Education Savings Accounts, calls it extreme
• Youth residential facility  in Tuskegee sued for treatment of teen 
• Gas prices to go up on October 1st, as part of Rebuild Alabama Act of 2019
• Jimmy Buffet made anonymous donation to Battleship Park before death

National

• Biden's visit FL following Hurricane, Jill Biden now positive for Covid 19
• Labor statistics show big drop in jobs for citizens, increase in foreign workers
• Journalist Nick Sorter on ground in Maui re: federal response and restrictions
• Elon Musk to sue ADL for accusation that Twitter promotes ant-semitism
• Peruvian study shows Ivermectin dropped Covid fatalities by 74%
• South Korean study shows N95 masks have unsafe compounds for users