“I think we were past that point very early on because you’d have to shut down the Internet,” Peirce said, adding, “I don’t see how you could ban it. You could certainly make the effort. It would be very hard to stop people from [trading Bitcoin]. So I think it would be a foolish thing […]
Posts Tagged ‘hester’
“You’d Have To Shut Down The Internet” To Ban Bitcoin, Says SEC’s Hester Peirce
April 11th, 2021 Awake Goy
Joan Micklin Silver, director of ‘Hester Street’, passes away at 85
January 4th, 2021 Awake Goy
Joan Micklin Silver, a pioneering filmmaker who directed two of Hollywood’s most Jewish films, has died at 85. The cause was vascular dementia, according to The New York Times. Silver was best known for directing Crossing Delancey, the Lower East Side rom-com involving a pickle maker, and Hester Street, an influential low-budget tale about Yiddish-speaking […]
The Shooting Of Brendan Hester By Ohio Police
June 13th, 2017 Awake Goy
A 23-year old black man in Ashtabula, Ohio, was shot by police officers last week after officers responding to a 911 call found two men scuffling in a home, one holding a weapon. The police ordered the man to drop the gun, but when he refused, the officers shot […]