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Syrian Economics Research Center proposes integrating Bitcoin into Syria’s economy to combat inflation and improve financial access.
The proposal calls for legalizing Bitcoin, creating a hybrid banking system, and developing a robust crypto infrastructure.
Challenges include economic sanctions, limited infrastructure, and ongoing economic recovery from the civil war.
Syria’s economy has been devastated by years of conflict. The financial crisis worsened after the Assad regime, led by Bashar al-Assad, was overthrown. Last month, a new transitional government took charge, raising hopes for economic revival. Now, the Syrian Economics Research Center (SERC) has submitted a proposal to integrate Bitcoin into the country’s financial system.
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The SERC proposes legalizing Bitcoin and other digital assets, arguing that this could protect Syria’s economy from severe challenges like hyperinflation. Cryptocurrency, the team believes, could provide a much-needed lifeline for stability.
To modernize Syria’s financial services, the proposal suggests creating both centralized and decentralized banking systems. This approach could improve access to banking, especially for people in rural areas who often lack these essential services.
The SERC also emphasizes building infrastructure for digital payments, e-commerce, and remittances. A robust system for these activities could help Syria reconnect with global markets and modernize its economy.
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Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases
More than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.
The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the last government to prevent the release of various documents under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.
It included spending by the Home Office of £30,000 to block a request by the Guardian for the total cost to the public of protecting the royal family.
The figures were revealed after requests by the Democracy for Sale newsletter, which sought details of spending under the last government in attempts to prevent the release of information.
Some of the spending that was uncovered related to an attempt by a campaigner at the Child Poverty Action Group charity to obtain the results of a review by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) into its safeguarding procedures.
The existence of the review was revealed in reports about the death of Errol Graham, who starved to death in June 2018 after the DWP wrongly stopped his out-of-work disability benefits, leaving him without any income.
The information commissioner ordered the department in 2022 to release the results of the review, which the DWP had been trying to keep secret for two years.
Graham, 57, weighed just four and a half stone when his body was found by bailiffs who were trying to evict him, eight months after his benefits were stopped.
Despite spending £35,600 on solicitors and £15,400 on a barrister, the DWP’s appeal was dismissed and the information was disclosed to Owen Stevens, a universal credit adviser at the Child Poverty Action Group.
A DWP spokesperson said the department complied with FoI guidance, but added: “Occasionally we exercise our right to challenge decisions from the Information Commissioner’s Office, which can incur legal costs.
“These are justified to ensure we are protecting and handling information lawfully in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act.”
Ministerial departments in the last government spent £937,000 fighting transparency in 56 legal cases that were listed in 2023.
Many of the attempts at secrecy failed, with judges ruling that the public interest was best served by the release of official documents.
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In other cases, attempts at increasing transparency were thwarted. Judges on a freedom of information tribunal ruled this year that the cost of protecting members of the royal family could not be revealed to the public.
Their decision, made after hearing detailed evidence behind closed doors and a legal challenge by the Home Office, means the bill for protecting the royal family – thought to run into tens of millions a year – will remain an official secret.
The DWP and the Ministry of Defence meanwhile spent six figure sums of taxpayers’ money to fight transparency, spending £120,000 and £105,000, respectively.
However, the real government spend is likely to be substantially higher than the £937,000 because many departments refused to answer the request or claimed not to hold any information.
Information was obtained on 58 of the 118 cases on the government’s case register for 2023.
WORLD Radio – Religious liberty in the courts
2024 legal battles for faith and freedom pave the way for major Supreme Court rulings
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This is WORLD Radio and we thank you for joining us today. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.
MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.
First up on The World and Everything in It: standing up for truth. Parents, churches, schools, and ministries have had to defend their right to religious expression and conviction in court quite often this year.
Joining us now to review a handful of the most significant is WORLD’s religious liberty beat reporter, Steve West.
REICHARD: Steve, good morning.
STEVE WEST: Good morning, Mary.
REICHARD: Steve, this year the Supreme Court has not issued any blockbuster rulings in the religious liberty arena. In fact, they have declined to review a number of these cases. Lower courts don’t have the discretion to decline cases, and they’ve been actively hearing religious liberty disputes. Can you hit some highlights from the year?
WEST: I’d be glad to. The main area where we have seen a lot of litigation is that of religious autonomy. Meaning, the degree to which a place of worship, religious school, or other religious organization can govern itself without the government second-guessing their operations. That includes matters of doctrine and who to employ and who can lead.
REICHARD: Who can lead … that makes me think of last year’s ruling in favor of a Fellowship of Christian Athletes FCA student group at a high school in San Jose.
WEST: That was a big win.
COURT: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is now in session.
In 2023, a federal appeals court upheld the right of a California high school chapter of the FCA to require its student leaders be Christians. But it was this year that the ruling really hit home, as a court settlement required the school district to pay the club nearly $6 million in attorneys’ fees and damages.
REICHARD: So that’s leaders … but what about if a church or school wants all its employees to be of the same faith?
WEST: That’s less clear. There’s good news. A federal appeals court ruled in favor of a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina and said the school had a constitutional right to choose teachers that uphold its religious beliefs. It did so by likening teachers to ministers. But a gospel rescue mission in Washington and youth ministry in Oregon continue to battle state authorities who don’t accept their view that all employees must support the mission’s beliefs and standards of conduct. Not just those in minister-like roles.
REICHARD: I’m assuming that what’s driving most of this is gender ideology.
WEST: That’s right. Many states and municipalities have expanded their public accommodation laws to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Then they seek to apply them to Christian schools and ministries. Mixed results there.
In Michigan, a federal appeals court allowed a religious medical nonprofit and a Catholic parish and school to challenge a public accommodation law. That law was interpreted by courts to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. But that’s not always the case.
NEWS CENTER MAINE: A Christian school in Bangor is suing Maine’s education commissioner and other state officials over an anti-discrimination policy around gender and sexuality.
Authorities in Maine have been very aggressive about their anti-discrimination law. Christian parents there are still embroiled in a dispute over the state’s discrimination over tuition support for private schools.
Eventually, the Supreme Court is going to have to weigh in again on the scope of religious autonomy under the First Amendment.
REICHARD: I know it’s not a First Amendment concern, but there seems to be more emphasis on parental rights. What’s going on in this area?
WEST: This has certainly come to the forefront with the emphasis on so-called gender-affirming environments in schools.
Parental rights have been at the forefront of countering attempts by some public school districts to promote controversial gender ideology. Schools argue that parents’ rights end at the schoolhouse door, while parents contend they have interests that overlap with those of school administrators.
Parents have a constitutional right to direct the upbringing, education, and health care of their children—a right long recognized by the Supreme Court. But the breadth of that right is unclear.
REICHARD: One thing’s for sure: School board meetings are no longer run-of-the-mill, routine affairs, it seems. Lots of community participation.
WEST: There sure is … and often, a lot of contentiousness. Lawsuits show the concerns.
SAINT LOUIS PARK SCHOOL BOARD MEETING: this is our regular business meeting of the Saint Louis Park School Board.
Some lawsuits focus on curriculum.
SAINT LOUIS PARK SCHOOL BOARD MEETING: Our primary concern is that our children are encountering material that’s sexualized and not age-appropriate in a school environment.
After facing a lawsuit, a Minnesota school district allowed Somali American Muslim families—and others with religious objections—to opt their children out of LGBTQ curriculum.
But the Supreme Court is still considering whether to review a federal appeals court ruling that sided with a Maryland school district that refused to allow religious families to opt children out of LGBTQ materials.
REICHARD: I know some of these religious liberty disputes are really framed as free speech issues.
WEST: Yes, and again, these are often the result of aggressive efforts to push transgender ideology.
Students, parents, teachers, and professors have raised free speech concerns over school districts’ pronoun policies or policies barring students from “misgendering” or censoring conservative viewpoints.
I expect these kinds of battles to continue into 2025, yet it is promising that a number of cases settled late in the year on terms favorable to teachers or others with free speech claims.
REICHARD: So, looking ahead at 2025, as you were just doing, what’s on your radar?
WEST: Huge for me is religious autonomy and, specifically, the right of religious organizations to employ only co-religionists. That issue is still winding its way through courts of appeal.
The Supreme Court just accepted a Wisconsin case that may flesh some things out. The state has a religious exemption from some state unemployment taxes. The controversy comes from the way it defines who is religious enough to qualify for the tax exemption: it has to be an organization run by a church or church association and it has to be operated for “primarily” religious purposes.
That’s where the questions begin: Can the government decide what’s a church, and what is sufficiently “religious” to qualify? It’s a fundamental question—how much can the government do to define what counts as religion?
APACHE STRONGHOLD PRESS CONFERENCE: First of all I’d like to thank the attorneys for their tremendous work.
And that brings me to Apache Stronghold v. United States, another case the court has agreed to review. The question is whether the government’s plan to allow copper mining in Oak Flat, a site sacred to Apaches and other Native American groups, violates religious freedom protections.
APACHE STRONGHOLD PRESS CONFERENCE: We heard it loud and clear in this country. That anything on federal land is not safe.
The appeals court ruled this wasn’t a substantial burden on religious liberty. That seems problematic. It’s one thing to say the government may have an interest so compelling that it overrides a religious liberty concern, but quite another to say this wasn’t even a substantial burden. For Christians, this amounts to saying destroying a historic church is not a burden on religious liberty.
I think these cases, and others should the court accept them, offer the court the opportunity to better define what counts as religion, what counts as a burden on religion, and how important religion is in the constitutional scheme.
REICHARD: I thought we knew the answer to those questions.
WEST: Apparently not. But I think the real question is: Are we still religious enough as a society to value religion as something paramount in the Constitution, something at the very heart of who we are? We’ll have to see. You know, these are all defensive moves to shore up space for religious expression and witness—all important—but our prayer should be for more, for not only the defense of but advance of the Gospel.
REICHARD: Good reminder. Have to be the change to see the change. Steve, thanks so much.
WEST: Happy New Year Mary.
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The Epic Games Store has welcomed 2025 by offering Kingdom Come: Deliverance for free, allowing gamers to dive into the acclaimed RPG once again. Available for free until January 2nd, this marks the second time the game has been featured on the platform, offering a chance for new players to experience the immersive medieval world it brings to life.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance, developed by Warhorse Studios, throws players into the realistic Kingdom of Bohemia during the medieval era. With a deep narrative, an intense combat system, and intricate world-building, the game has earned recognition for its dedication to historical accuracy. The free offer is likely to draw in new players, even though it was previously available as a free title in 2020.
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Set in the Holy Roman Empire’s Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom Come: Deliverance focuses on the life of a commoner caught in the midst of political turmoil. The game’s combat system emphasizes realism, featuring stamina management and tactical elements that challenge players’ skills. Progression is also grounded in realism, with a detailed character development system that adds depth to every decision made.
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The game’s world is vast, featuring villages, forests, castles, and sprawling landscapes that encourage exploration. Players navigate through a branching storyline with choices that directly influence the game’s outcome, making each playthrough feel unique.
Though some may be familiar with Kingdom Come: Deliverance from its first free release, those who missed it now have another chance to add it to their collection. For Epic Games Store loyalists who already own the title, the offering may not seem as exciting, but for newcomers, it’s an opportunity to experience a game known for its challenging mechanics and historical accuracy.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is part of Epic Games’ ongoing initiative to offer players free games throughout the year, with this title marking a significant start to 2025. With the sequel, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, on the horizon, now is a perfect time to immerse oneself in the world of Bohemia before the next chapter arrives.
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Google Search is rolling out a new feature that allows users to access historical versions of websites directly through The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The collaboration, announced today, adds a new layer of functionality to Google’s search results, offering more historical context for webpages that may have been recently updated. This change is particularly useful for researchers and others who need access to earlier versions of content.
Wayback access restored: Previously, users could access cached versions of pages through Google, but this feature was removed earlier in the year. With the new partnership, users can now find links to The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine by clicking the three-dot menu beside search results and selecting “More about this page.” The Wayback Machine allows users to view how a webpage appeared on a specific previous date, providing valuable insights into the evolution of online content.
Web archiving collaboration: Google explained in a statement to 9to5Google that this feature was introduced in response to the demand from the research community for easier access to older versions of webpages. The Internet Archive emphasized the importance of this collaboration, highlighting the significance of web archiving and noting that these results are now “just a click away.”
This integration is gradually being rolled out and promises to make finding historical web content more accessible for a broader range of users.
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Cardano is making waves in the cryptocurrency world with its innovative approach to blockchain technology. It’s a platform designed for smart contracts, which means it can host decentralized finance apps, crypto tokens, and even games. Its native cryptocurrency, ADA, is a strong competitor to Ethereum’s ETH. Users can store value, make payments, and stake ADA on the Cardano network. What sets Cardano apart is its commitment to sustainability. Instead of using the energy-hungry proof-of-work system like Bitcoin, it uses the Ouroboros proof-of-stake mechanism. This makes it more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
Cardano’s unique two-layer system enhances its speed and scalability. The Settlement Layer handles transactions, while the Computing Layer manages smart contracts. This design allows for faster processing and could potentially handle up to a million transactions per second. Since the introduction of Cardano native tokens in March 2021, interactions with smart contracts have become more secure and cost-effective. In the current market, ADA’s focus on sustainability and scalability positions it well against competitors like Ethereum. With growing interest in eco-friendly blockchain solutions and efficient transaction processing, ADA is gaining attention as a promising player in the evolving crypto landscape.
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With its focus on speed and affordability, XRP has the potential to revolutionize global money transfers. In contrast to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which can have high fees and slower transactions, XRP processes transactions quickly and cheaply. Its resistance to censorship and counterfeiting enhances its security appeal. In the current market cycle, as demand grows for efficient cross-border payments, XRP looks attractive. While the crypto market remains volatile, XRP’s unique features and support from Ripple position it well against other digital currencies. For those seeking innovative solutions to real-world financial challenges, XRP is worth considering.
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