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US tribes ask Pope for records related to Indian boarding schools

President Fawn Sharp of the National Congress of American Indians wrote to Pope Francis, requesting the Catholic Church to work with Native American tribes to get all archives about federal Indian boarding schools in the United States.

“I invite His Holiness and the Catholic Church to work with the National Congress of American Indians to open all records related to Federal Indian boarding schools so that someday soon American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian peoples may host an apostolic - and maybe even apologetic - journey to our tribal lands here in the United States,” Sharp said in the letter on Monday.

Sharp stated that the Pope's visit to Canada has motivated him to deliver an apology on behalf of the Catholic Church for its role in the cultural genocide perpetrated by Canada's residential school system. He described this as the start of a new chapter for truth and reconciliation.

He noted that the Catholic Church is suppressing information about federal US Indian boarding schools that could lead to the discovery of truths.

Sharp said cooperation is the only way to hold abusers accountable or reconcile with the Catholic Church.

The US Department of the Interior released findings from a study in May, revealing that the US operated 408 federal Indian boarding schools and that over 500 Native American children perished in 19 of them.

The Interior Department anticipates that the number of deaths will rise as the investigation progresses.

Native Americans testify to abuse

Native American tribal elders and ex-students testified in Oklahoma about the sexual and physical abuse they endured in US boarding schools. The abuse included and was not limited to beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced haircuts, and racist slurs and nicknames.

The elders, coming from various states and tribes, were united on common experiences in the boarding schools designed to snatch the indigenous communities of their cultural identities, "assimilating" them into White America.

In a report released by the department, 400 boarding schools were identified as present between the late 18th century into the last 1960s, though most of them are closed today, with the existing ones holding different missions.

Riverside is one of the oldest, and it has some 800 students enrolled at it from 75 tribes across the country today.

>> Lots of dark secrets will be exposed.

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Crypto CEO pleads guilty in $21 million fraud scheme

The Department of Justice revealed that the CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc. (TBIS) has pleaded guilty to his role in a $21 million cryptocurrency fraud conspiracy (DOJ).

The DOJ said on Monday the CEO, Michael Alan Stollery, had pled guilty to one count of securities fraud.

Stollery promoted his crypto enterprise as a cryptocurrency investment opportunity, enticing investors to purchase BARs, TBIS' sort of coin token service, through a series of misleading representations, according to court records.

According to Justice, Stollery failed to register his company's initial coin offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission and did not have a proper exemption.

Stollery also told authorities that he falsified his company’s white papers, which give investors an explanation of the cryptocurrency investment offering and the purpose and technology behind it.

He was also accused of posting bogus client testimonials on his company website and fraudulently claiming to have a good relationship with the Federal Reserve and a dozen other big companies.

It stated that he admitted combining investor monies with personal finances for purposes unrelated to his company, such as credit card payments and the payment of bills for his Hawaii condominium.

Stollery is facing up to 20 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on November 18.

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Difficulty paying bills exceeds pandemic high in US census survey

The proportion of Americans who report having difficulty paying their expenses has surpassed its 2020 pandemic peak, highlighting the financial toll of rising costs, according to a US Census Bureau survey.

In a poll conducted in late June and early July, four out of ten adults indicated that it has been somewhat or very difficult to fund normal family expenses. This is the largest number since the Census began asking about the topic in August 2020.

It suggests that over 90 million families are struggling, an increase from almost 60 million a year ago.

When the Census first posed the issue two years ago, one-third of respondents said they had difficulty paying their regular household costs. After the government's epidemic relief expired and inflation took hold, the share began to rise again approximately a year ago.

Millions of households with student loans will face an additional monthly expenditure on September 1 when a Covid moratorium on servicing the debt expires.

According to the poll, financial stress has increased significantly in all of the country's major metropolitan areas. In Dallas, for example, the proportion of respondents reporting difficulties paying bills increased from 27.9% to around 45.9% a year ago. In Detroit, the share increased by nearly 20 percentage points.

A report by the New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli revealed that one in eight residents delayed payments on utility bills as of March. More than 1.2 million customers statewide owed $1.8 billion, with New York City and Long Island residents accounting for a 68% total.

The average amount owing by residents in the state has more than doubled in two years, rising from $768 in March 2020 to $1,467 in March.

“The pandemic’s effects continue to be felt in multiple aspects of life, including the elevated number of New Yorkers who continue to have trouble paying their utility bills,” DiNapoli said in the report.

According to the most recent Census data, more than one-third of households cut or skipped spending on fundamental home requirements like medicine or food to pay an energy bill.

One in every five households kept their home at a temperature that felt hazardous or unhealthy for at least one month, and a similar proportion has been unable to pay all or part of an energy payment.

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V is the 22nd letter of the alphabet, right?

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Other options available.

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Squad V

V for Victory

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West arsenal of anti-Russia restrictions running out: Kremlin

The European Union and the United States are competing against each other in taking unfriendly measures against Russia, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.

The 27-nation bloc and Washington are both running out of restrictions to impose on Russia, which is why they are making "unreasonable decisions", Peskov stressed.

"They are literally competing with each other in taking various anti-Russian and unfriendly measures towards us," Peskov told reporters.

"We […] see that they are running out of an arsenal of some measures that - as they see it - are capable of putting pressure on us and forcing us to change our position, which is an erroneous judgment, and more and more irrational, unreasonable, and difficult to explain decisions made," he underlined.

Jewish Agency case legal issue

The case of the Jewish Agency for "Israel" (Sokhnut) in Russia is an issue of a legal dimension, and it should not be politicized, Peskov underscored.

"There are questions from the point of view of compliance with Russian legislation to Sokhnut, and there is no need to politicize this situation and project this situation onto the entire range of Russian-Israeli relations," he told reporters.

His statements come a day after Israeli media reported that tensions are on the rise between "Tel Aviv" and Moscow over Russia's closure of the Jewish Agency for "Israel's" work in the country.

A Moscow court said last week that the justice ministry had requested the "dissolution" of the Jewish Agency for legal violations that were not specified, setting a hearing on July 28.

Just hours earlier, the Israeli occupation's Ambassador to Moscow met with the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and asked for updates on the Russian Justice Ministry's probe into the Jewish Agency, Israeli newspaper Walla! reported last Wednesday.

Relations between "Israel" and Russia have witnessed tension in recent months, as the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Israeli ambassador to Russia, Alexander Ben Zvi, over a statement by Yair Lapid when he was foreign minister in April, when he condemned Russia's practices in Ukraine, describing them as "war crimes".

Promoting and facilitating "aliyah" from Jewish communities across the world is one of the primary objectives of the Jewish Agency. If it cannot operate there, it will be the first time in the last 30 years that "aliyah" attempts have been prohibited in Russia.

Schengen visa denial to Russians to prompt extremely negative response

Spokesperson Peskov went on to touch on the issue of the Schengen region denying visas to Russians, underlining that this would prompt Moscow to take retaliatory measures.

"Of course, Russia will react extremely negatively to this. As far as we understand, so far, this decision has not found any, let's say, application … Let's hope that it will not," he told reporters.

"But, of course, any such actions against Russian citizens will entail countermeasures and response. It is quite understandable and predictable," he added.

He also stressed that Moscow hoped the EU leadership uses reasoning and "sober thinking" regarding the issuing of Schengen visas to Russians.

The Schengen Area is an area comprising 26 European countries, namely Austria, Hungary, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Latvia, Slovakia, Estonia, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Finland, Lithuania, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Sweden, Germany, Malta, Switzerland, Greece, and the Netherlands.

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EU funding to Kiev is investment in more hostilities: Russian FM

Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, commented, on Monday, on the EU's recent allocation of another €500 million ($542 million) worth of weaponry for Ukraine.

"By supplying arms and military equipment to the Ukrainians, the EU continues to invest in further hostilities. And at the same time, it hypocritically publicly declares that it allegedly extended the 'olive branch of the world' to Russia. Any attempts to achieve 'victory on the battlefield' are a direct road to the abyss both for Kiev and for Brussels," Zakharova said in a statement.

Zakharova noted that the EU's decision to allocate more funds for the supply of weaponry shows how completely unwilling it is to support a diplomatic settlement in Ukraine.

"For a little over a year of the existence of the European Peace Facility, which, given its use for the supply of weapons, it is more correct to call a 'war facility,' 2.5 billion euros have already been spent on arming Ukraine — almost half of its budget calculated until 2027. So the EU sponsors should bear the same responsibility for the war crimes committed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and nationalist battalions, the killing of civilians, women, the elderly, and children, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including bridges, as the Kiev regime," Zakharova added.

While continuing to provide Ukraine with armaments, the European Union, according to Zakharova, is indifferent to the absolute corruption of the Kiev government.

"For the past five months of non-stop pumping of Ukraine with weapons by the West, they tried to hush up the inconvenient truth about the unprecedented risks of this policy for the internal security of the EU and its citizens. They turned a blind eye to the total corruption of the Kiev authorities. Everything was sacrificed to the ambitions of individual EU leaders and its member states to inflict as much damage to Russia as possible," the spokesperson said.

Furthermore, Zakharova added that "It is no coincidence that on July 11, the EU Support Hub for cooperation on internal security and border management was launched in Moldova, one of the key tasks of which is to prevent the smuggling of weapons and migrants into the European Union."

The spokesperson, in other words, emphasized that Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, should now publicly acknowledge that the weapons provided to Ukraine surface in other European nations and restock the arsenals of regional organized crime.