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When Jerusalem Became Sodom

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“in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.”
— St. John
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“They also devoured what spoils they had taken…
and indulged themselves in feminine wantonness” — Josephus
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We read the words of John the Revelator, of how Jerusalem was called Sodom, and we perceive this to be symbolic. But this is based on the assumption that the deranged ways of Sodom that we see popular in our own times, could not have existed in ancient Judea where the laws of Moses were memorized. But this perception is not really based on the historical realities of Judea, but is merely — as we have already said — based on assumption. For reading the Old Testament we find that the Hebrews indeed partook in the evils of Sodom. “And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.” (1 Kings 14:24) By sodomites this verse is referring to the qedeshim or the “male temple-prostitutes” of the Canaanites. (See Albright, Archeology and the Religion of Israel, ch. v, p. 159)  Male prostitution was a part of the pagan religion of the Canaanites, and was something that the Hebrews adopted when they rebelled against the Law of Moses. Thus, the presence of homosexuality was a sign of Israel’s fall. The homosexual cult of the Canaanite became so intrenched in ancient Israel that it caused a civil war which split up the entire nation, between Judah and the rest of the Hebrew tribes. This civil war, which was a split between North (Samaria) and South Israel, sparked when Jeroboam cast out the Levites and “appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.” (2 Chronicles 11:15)
Eventually Abijah defeated Jeroboam who “did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the Lord struck him down, and he died.” (2 Chronicles 13:20) The homosexual priesthood was elevated in Judah — after its split from Israel — but was eventually purged by King Josiah when he “brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.” (2 Kings 23:7)  When Israel rebelled against God, they turned to Sodom; and when a righteous king arose, Sodom was purged from the land.
Here we see the struggle between two cities — that of Sodom and that of the heavenly Jerusalem; earthly Jerusalem is not exempt from this cosmic war, and when she unleashed her spite against Heaven and murdered the Son of God, she too was overtaken by Sodom. It was there, in Jerusalem, where their Lord was crucified, (Revelation 11:8) and “darkness came over the whole land” (Luke 23:44), as if to say that God’s presence was no more. The Temple had become an empty shell, with its bones dead and its flesh rotting, vacuous of a soul, it was left to thieves.
Even though “they knew God, they glorified him not as God” (Romans 1:21) and “God gave them over to a reprobate mind” (Romans 1:28). For did they not reject God when they called for His Son to be crucified, and they preferred a murderer — Barabbas — over Christ? Had not Jerusalem, for its murder of Christ, become worse than Sodom? “Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.” (Mark 6:11) Jerusalem, on account of the Crucifixion of Christ, became Sodom.
Just as the Hebrews would turn to Sodom when they rejected God, so would they as well turn to Sodom when they rejected Christ. God declared of the Jews through the prophet Isaiah:
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“Israel is a nation of sin, a people loaded down with guilt, a group of children doing evil, children who are full of evil. They have left the LORD; they hate God, the Holy One of Israel, and have turned away from him as if he were a stranger.” (Isaiah 1:4)
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And in this state, God refers to Israel as Sodom:
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“Hear the word of the Lord,
    you rulers of Sodom!” (Isaiah 1:10)
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And Jerusalem, after she had murdered Christ, is called Sodom by  the prophet John: “in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.” (Revelation 11:8) The spirit of Sodom manifested itself during the Jews’ conflict with Rome over the city of Jerusalem. In much of the conflict, the Jews murdered each other and fought in a vicious civil war over who was going to control the Temple. <a href="https://shoebat.com/2021/04/02/what-they-will-never-tell-you-about-the-cult-suicide-black-magic-and-mass-murder-during-the-time-of-christ/">We have already written on</a> the bloody conflict that took place within the city; how the Zealots, led by one John, vied with the Pharisees (led by Ananus or Hanan ben Hanan); how they made a pact with the Arab Jews of Iduemea (modern day Jordan), and how these Arabians invaded Jerusalem by the tens of thousands, butchering multitudes (thousands upon thousands) of their fellow Jews.
We have already written on how the city had become an ocean of blood and gore spilt by the swords of the Arabs and their Zealot allies, and how these gangs of marauders robbed and pillaged every house they entered. We have already elaborated on this bloodbath, in order to demonstrate the nightmare Jerusalem was in almost seven decades after that city saw the Crucifixion. Knowing briefly of this, let us elaborate further into the nightmarish state Judea was in, so as to have a better understanding of the hellish atmosphere that surrounded the land when it got possessed by the abysmal spirit of Sodom.
After the Zealots murdered Ananus, a new leader would arise to war against John, who at the time ruled Jerusalem. His name was Simon, who was from the land of Gerasa. He was not as cunning as John, but his physical strength and warlike prowess gained him a powerful following. After he heard of the death of Ananus, he knew that this was his moment to make a name for himself and gain followers. He went to the mountains of the rugged countryside, and there he proclaimed that whosoever should follow him, will have liberty and rewards. He recruited enough people to form a gang of bandits, “wicked men from all quarters.” (Josephus, Wars, 4.9.3).
Together they conquered the villages that lied on the mountains of the countryside, and the more he conquered, the more recruits he gained, and the people who were under him were loyal to Simon as if he was their king. He went all the way to Idumea where he fortified a town called Nain and made it into his headquarters. He then set his eyes on the Zealots, his enemies and slaughtered a great number of them in battle. Simon’s army swelled up to twenty-thousand armed men, and at this point he declared war against the Arab Jews of Iduema. The Arab Jews, seeing that Simon’s army was approaching, gathered up their most fiercest of warriors (about twenty-five thousand in number), and a battle ensued at the border of Idumea.
The fighting was so ferocious, that it went on for almost an entire day, and still the battle was not won by either side, and so they both left the fray; Simon returned to Nain and the Iduemeans to their quarters. The Arabians stayed inside of a fortress called Herodium in the Judean desert. Simon sent one of his companions, Eleazar, to go to the fortress and demand that the Arabs surrender it. When Eleazar approached the Arabs, they did not know his intentions, but once he made mention of surrendering Herodium, they fell upon him, and Eleazar, having nowhere to flee, ran out of the fortress and fell to his death. Simon eventually invaded Idumea where he overtook the city of Hebron and took it for himself. He ravaged Idumea, laying waste the villages and cities, and “Idumea was greatly depopulated” (Josephus, Wars, 4.9.6).
Upon the fecund earth and upon the green meadows and farms, Simon’s army trampled; and if green lusciousness was before him, a desert was left behind his army, from the fires they spread, and the earth — from being soft, dark and fertile — was abandoned, left to be hard and rigid, the only thing watering it being the blood of those they butchered. The Zealots, seeing what Simon had done to their Arab Jewish allies, were deeply afraid and so kidnapped Simon’s wife with the expectation that he would lay down his arms. Simon went into an uncontrollable rage, and set himself and his forces at the wall of Jerusalem. Elderly people, as was customary, would exit the city to collect wild herbs or sticks, and these Simon butchered without mercy. Anyone who left the city was killed under his watch. So filled with frothing rage was Simon, that it was said that he was “almost ready to taste the very flesh of their dead bodies.” “He also cut off the hands of a great many, and sent them into the city to astonish his enemies, and in order to make the people fall into a sedition, and desert those that had been the authors of his wife’s seizure.” (Josephus, Wars, 4) 
Those whose hands were cut off would return to the city and declare a message from Simon: that Simon swore by the God of the universe that if they did not return his wife that he would “break down their wall”, that he would inflict the same punishment as he did to those who exited the city, not sparing age nor distinguishing the guilty from the innocent. The Zealots, struck with such deep fear, returned his wife back to him, but at this point — in the words of Josephus — “sedition and civil war prevailed” in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the Romans were advancing. The general Vespasian took over the Gophnitick and Acrabattene toparchies, he then seized Bethel and Ephraim. One of Vespasian’s commanders, Cerealis, laid waist Upper Idumea, invading Caphethra and taking over Capharabim. He then took over Hebron where he slaughtered all of the young men and burnt down the city. Simon returned to Idumea where he resumed his war against the Arabian Jews, driving many of them to flee to Jerusalem. Simon preemptively met them at this very city where he encompassed the walls, and anyone who tried to enter Jerusalem was slain.
Meanwhile, inside of the city of Jerusalem, the spirit of Sodom lingered. The inhabitants of the city were terrified of Simon and his forces, more so than they were of the Romans. Fear was deeply entrenched in their hearts, due to those who were without the walls, but within the walls was something abysmal, something evil, something that was beyond the natural order. John’s followers — the Zealots — in Jerusalem were thirsty for the blood of the rich, an ancient testament to the presence of the demon of fanatical madness, which mankind has seen numerous times (be it in revolutionary France or in Bolshevik Russia). They raided the homes of the wealthy, stealing their possessions with their insatiable lust for power and their endless greed. The have-nots wanted to become the haves, and those that called themselves Zealots only had zeal for their own power. They murdered men at random and raped women, and all of this evil was sport to them. How much blood they could shed, how many women they could ravish, was a measurement of their success. Another phenomena manifested itself: these Zealots began to decorate their hair and wear women’s garments and put on makeup. Mascara was under their eyes as they made the entire city of Jerusalem into a homosexual orgy. Jerusalem had become Sodom. With makeup around their crazed eyes, they slaughtered; while they dressed as women, they acted like merciless mercenaries; while they walked like women, they slaughtered with their swords. Jerusalem became Sodom. As Josephus described the madness:
“Now this Simon, who was without the wall, was a greater terror to the people than the Romans themselves, as were the zealots who were within it more heavy upon them than both of the other; and during this time did the mischievous contrivances and courage [of John] corrupt the body of the Galileans; for these Galileans had advanced this John, and made him very potent, who made them suitable requital from the authority he had obtained by their means; for he permitted them to do all things that any of them desired to do, while their inclination to plunder was insatiable, as was their zeal in searching the houses of the rich; and for the murdering of the men, and abusing of the women, it was sport to them. They also devoured what spoils they had taken, together with their blood, and indulged themselves in feminine wantonness, without any disturbance, till they were satiated therewith; while they decked their hair, and put on women’s garments, and were besmeared over with ointments; and that they might appear very comely, they had paints under their eyes, and imitated not only the ornaments, but also the lusts of women, and were guilty of such intolerable uncleanness, that they invented unlawful pleasures of that sort. And thus did they roll themselves up and down the city, as in a brothel-house, and defiled it entirely with their impure actions; nay, while their faces looked like the faces of women, they killed with their right hands; and when their gait was effeminate, they presently attacked men, and became warriors, and drew their swords from under their finely dyed cloaks, and ran every body through whom they alighted upon.” (Josephus, Wars, 4.9.10)
Those who fled Jerusalem to escape the sodomitic terror were slaughtered by Simon who was waiting outside. The nightmare was never ending. The Arabs, seeing the madness of the Zealots, and how cruel they were, and also being desirous for John’s power over the city, sought to destroy the Zealots out of hatred for their evil ways. The Arabians unsheathed their swords and butchered many of the Zealots, so much so that they fled into the Temple. The remaining authorities wanted to have John removed, and they would invite Simon into Jerusalem to take it over. This is what took place prior to the final destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. But let us look at what Josephus wrote when describing Jerusalem’s sodomite presence. These sinister persons were the followers of John, meaning that they were Zealots, or people who had zeal for the Law of God. How could people who call themselves Zealots put on mascara and wear women’s clothes, and partake in homosexuality?
It is just like those conservative figureheads who will speak of the Bible or patriotism, and at the same time will promote Sodom. We see this in people like Milo Yiannopolous, a Jewish conservative talker who elevated pederasty stating: “some of the most important enriching, and incredibly life-affirming, important, shaping relationships are between younger boys and older men.” We see this in Dennis Prager, a rabbi who teaches the Torah and is very popular amongst American conservatives, when he said: “The Bible said: ‘Men, you are as happy with boys — I don’t mean 8 year olds, 15 year olds — just as a grown man is happy with a 15 year old girl. In that sense, homosexuals and heterosexuals are identical.” The rabbi also said: “I actually believe bisexual is the norm.” 
The sodomites of Jerusalem wore women’s clothing and outlined their eyes with mascara, and at the same time they were warriors who butchered people. These are paralleled to the far-Right or tribalist groups that exist in north America and Europe. There is the movement of Jack Donovan, a sodomite and ideological terrorist who wants people to hold violence as  “sacramental.” Just as the Zealots of Israel knew God and did not honor him as God when God gave them up to dishonorable passions (Romans 1:21, 26), so does the Right-wing of today express respect to Christianity, while appealing to Sodom. This can be seen in the Right-wing party in Greece, the Golden Dawn, which appeals to Orthodox Christians while their leader, Nikolaos Michaloiakos, once praised Luciferianism as the religion of Greece. 
In the year 2013, the Greek journalist, Dean Kalimniou, wrote an in depth article entitled, Golden Dawn and the Devil. In this article Kalimniou recounts how before Michaloiakos entered the Greek parliament he wrote a preface for a poetry book written by Odysseus Paterakis, a Greek occultist, entitled, “The Shining Darkness of Lucifer – The National Greek Religion.” In his preface, Michaloliakos expresses his desire, not for the return of Christ, but for the coming of the kingdom of Satan which, he believes, will arrive to overthrow Christianity in Greece. Michaloiakos looks forward to the time when Satan will oust “twenty centuries of darkness,” restore “lost Paradises of old” which comprise the “future world of our dreams, which by our own Will, shall become a reality”. Michaloliakos, the leader of the nationalist Golden Dawn party, is calling for the coming of the kingdom of Lucifer. 
Truly this is the religion of those who portray piety while uplifting the religion of strength, the cult of masculinity and the altar of Sodom. The Zealots of Jerusalem adorned their hair, and the wicked in the Wisdom of Solomon say amongst themselves: “Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.” (Wisdom 2:8) While they presented themselves as feminine, the Zealots of Jerusalem slew the innocent, and they saw murder as a form of sport; and the wicked described by Solomon conspire thusly:
“Let us oppress the righteous poor man;
let us not spare the widow
or regard the gray hairs of the aged.
But let our might be our law of right,
for what is weak proves itself to be useless.” (Wisdom 2:10-11)
Sodom portrays itself as amongst the godly, or will place itself in the ranks of ‘orderliness’ and ‘manliness,’ masquerading itself with righteousness while it advances its callousness. The madness that was seen on Golgotha, when an innocent man was nailed to a cross before scoffers, further demarcated the two cities — the Jerusalem on high and the Jerusalem of earth. The heavenly Mount Zion is where Moses spoke with God face to face, as a man speaks to his friend (Exodus 33:11); where he received his zeal to combat the worshippers of madness who elevated the golden calf; where king Josiah was inspired to “brake down the houses of the sodomites” (2 Kings 23:7); it is in the heavenly Mount Zion where Christ had the zeal to unsheathe His whip and drive the thieves out of the Temple. But, in the earthly Jerusalem, the Temple is no longer a house of prayer for all nations, but a house thieves; it is the earthly Jerusalem that becomes a brothel-house (to quote Josephus), it is in the earthly Jerusalem where Christ is murdered, where Truth is slain, where madness prevails; it is earthly Jerusalem that is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.     
 
 
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London, United Kingdom:
Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, has been caught offering investors access to the Kremlin in exchange for personal gain, according to a Sunday Times and Channel 4 investigation.
The embarassing claims come at a time of disastrous relations between London and Moscow, notably after the 2018 poisoning of a former Russian spy in England.
Prince Michael told undercover reporters posing as investors from South Korea in a virtual meeting that for 10,000 pounds (11,500 euros) a day he could make "confidential" representations to Russian President Vladimir Putin's entourage.
Channel 4's Dispatches programme and the weekly newspaper set up a fake South Korean gold company -- House of Haedong.
The prince said he could also give the company a royal endorsement in a recorded speech for $200,000 dollars (164,000 euros), with his Kensington Palace home as a backdrop.
In a recorded meeting with the undercover reporters, his business partner Lord Reading called the prince "Her Majesty's unofficial ambassador to Russia".
"I think ... this is kind of slightly discreet, we're talking relatively discreetly here," he reportedly said.
"Because we wouldn't want the world to know that he is seeing Putin purely for business reasons, if you follow me."
Reading had used an event at Kensington Palace in 2013, in which the prince was a guest, to sell access to Putin, the investigators said.
The event also offered a chance to personally meet the Russian leader at a future date.
Prince Michael's office told the British Press Association he had no special relations with Putin and "receives no public funding and earns his own living through a consultancy company that he has run for over 40 years.
"They last met in June 2003 and Prince Michael has had no contact with him or his office since then.
"Lord Reading is a good friend, who in trying to help, made suggestions which Prince Michael would not have wanted, or been able, to fulfil."
Reading admitted an error. "I made a mistake and over-promised and for that, I am truly regretful," he said.
The 78-year-old prince was decorated with Russia's Order of Friendship in 2009 when Putin was prime minister.
"Royals for Hire" shows Monday on Channel 4.
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President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed that Russia will "firmly" defend national interests and denounced the return of "Russophobia", as the country marked the 76th anniversary of victory in World War II. 
His speech to thousands of soldiers and veterans on Red Square came as tensions between Moscow and the West in recent weeks have recalled the Cold War over the conflict in Ukraine and a litany of spy scandals in Europe.
"The Soviet people kept their sacred oath, defended the homeland and freed the countries of Europe from the black plague," Putin told the crowd.
"Russia consistently defends international law. At the same time, we will firmly defend our national interests to ensure the safety of our people," Putin said.
The Russian leader also condemned what he called a creeping return of ideologies of the time, when "slogans of racial and national superiority, of anti-semitism and Russophobia, became ever more cynical".
His speech came at the start of an annual parade that military hardware roll through the streets of Moscow.
More than 12,000 military personnel took part in Sunday's parade, as well as some 190 pieces of military equipment and 76 fighter jets and helicopters. 
Victory Day parades, which only became an annual event after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and have taken on increasing importance in projecting Russia's renewed military might during Putin's two decades in power, also took place Sunday in dozens of cities across the nation.
'Victory of the entire Russian people'
A survey this week by state-run pollster VTsIOM showed that 69 percent of Russians view Victory Day as the most important holiday on the calendar.
A third of respondents said they would take part in the celebrations, while a fifth said they would watch on television.
"For me and my family, this holiday marks the victory of the entire Russian people," Yulia Gulevskikh, a 31-year-old accountant, told AFP in the Far East city of Vladivostok.
"We are proud, remember and honour all our relatives and friends. And all the brave soldiers," she added, noting she was happy the parade took place despite pandemic measures.
This year's Victory Day was the second during the coronavirus pandemic.
Russia has lifted nearly all of its measures to limit the spread of the virus, though it has kept a ban in place on mass gatherings in most regions. 
As of Sunday, total infections stood at nearly 4.9 million and fatalities at over 113,000, according to a tally by health officials.
But authorities have been criticised for downplaying the severity Russia's outbreak by counting only fatalities where the coronavirus was found to be the primary cause of death after an autopsy.
Figures released by Russia's statistics agency last month showed that the country had actually recorded some 250,000 virus-related deaths by the end of March.
Tensions with the West
Sunday's commemorations came as Russia in recent weeks has seen its diplomats expelled from a clutch of European countries over espionage scandals, while the United States and the European Union have levied new sanctions on Moscow over the treatment of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and allegations of hacking and cyberattacks.
Tensions have also soared over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which erupted after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and where Moscow is widely seen as backing pro-Russia separatists.
Clashes between the government and separatists have been intensifying since January in a conflict which has claimed more than 13,000 lives.
Russia last month amassed 100,000 troops near Ukraine's borders and in Crimea, its biggest buildup since 2014, though it quickly announced a drawdown in what many saw as a test for new US President Joe Biden.
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On "Saturday Night Live", Elon Musk Reveals He Has Asperger's Syndrome

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Elon Musk kicked off his "Saturday Night Live" debut by declaring himself to be the first person with Asperger's syndrome to host the US comedy sketch show.
"Or at least, the first person to admit it," he said.
In his opening monologue, the eccentric tech entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX offered an explanation for some of his past eyebrow-raising behavior.
"Look, I know I say or post strange things but that's just how my brain works. To anyone I've offended I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship," he said. "Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"
Musk has previously drawn criticism for moves like publicly mocking the US Securities and Exchange Commission and calling a cave diver who rescued boys trapped in Thailand a "pedo guy".
But on SNL, the billionaire took swipes at his own expense. He joked about his tweets, his son's unusual name -- X Æ A-12 -- and that time he smoked weed on Joe Rogan's podcast.
And of course, as a big booster of cryptocurrencies, he once again enumerated the benefits of dogecoin.
Pressed on what exactly dogecoin is, Musk called the cryptocurrency -- which now has a market value of around $72 billion -- "an unstoppable vehicle that's going to take over the world".
But then he agreed that actually "it's a hustle".
For the second time in a week, the world's second-richest person seemed to drive the value of the digital asset. Not long after its recent surge after Musk's Twitter endorsement, it was sent on a brief tailspin during his SNL performance. 
It dropped to as low as 49 cents during the broadcast after a pre-show high of about 74 cents, according to CoinDesk.
During the show, cast members wondered aloud why exactly the tech billionaire would want to join their set. 
With a segment of a Chinese rocket re-entering Earth's atmosphere around the time of the live broadcast, they concluded that the spaceman "needed an alibi."
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Dogecoin was quoted as low as $0.47 on crypto exchange Binance, down 28% from levels around $0.65 before the show.
The billionaire Tesla Inc chief executive hosted the show at 11:30 p.m. EDT on Saturday (0330 GMT on Sunday).
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts had for days been eager to see what he would say, after his tweets this year turned the once-obscure digital currency into a speculator's dream.
Asked 'what is dogecoin', Musk replied, "It's the future of currency. It's an unstoppable financial vehicle that's going to take over the world."
When a show cast member Michael Che countered, "So, it's a hustle?", Musk replied, "Yeah, it's a hustle." And laughed.
Musk is the rare business mogul to have been asked to host the venerable comedy TV show. The timing puts Musk back in the spotlight just as Tesla's stock is losing steam following last year's monster rally.
The unconventional CEO has posted numerous comments about cryptocurrencies on Twitter and criticized regular old cash for having negative real interest rates.
"Only a fool wouldn't look elsewhere," he said in February.
His cryptic tweets "Doge" and "Dogecoin is the people's crypto" that month kicked off a rally in dogecoin - created as a parody on the more mainstream bitcoin and ethereum.
On Thursday, Musk tweeted: "Cryptocurrency is promising, but please invest with caution!" with a video clip attached in which he said, "it should be considered speculation at this point. And so, you know, don't don't go too far in the crypto speculation ..."
But he also said, in the video, that cryptocurrency has a "good chance" of becoming what he called "the future currency of the Earth."
On crypto data tracker CoinGecko.com, dogecoin has jumped more than 800% over the last month and is now the fourth-largest digital currency, with a market capitalization of $73 billion. It hit a record high Thursday above $0.73.
It has overtaken more widely used cryptocurrencies such as litecoin and tether.
Tesla said in February it bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin and would soon accept it as a form of payment for its electric cars, a large stride toward mainstream acceptance that sent bitcoin soaring to a record high of nearly $62,000.
Tesla shares closed 1.3% higher at $672.37 on Friday.
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COVID-19 Virus Airborne, Can Spread Beyond 6 Feet: Top US Medical Body

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New Delhi:
The principal mode by which people are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is through very fine aerosolised particles released during respiration, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in new guidelines on Friday, almost a month after the <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/lancet-study-sheds-light-on-10-scientific-reasons-why-coronavirus-is-airborne-2415028" target="_self">Lancet found the virus is transmitted through the air</a>.
The top US medical body said the risk of transmission is greatest within three to six feet of an infectious source where the concentration of these very fine droplets and particles is greatest.
Modes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are now categorized as inhalation of virus, deposition of virus on exposed mucous membranes, and touching mucous membranes with soiled hands contaminated with virus.
"People release respiratory fluids during exhalation (quiet breathing, speaking, singing, exercise, coughing, sneezing) in the form of droplets across a spectrum of sizes.1-9 These droplets carry virus and transmit infection," said the top US medical body.
The smallest very fine droplets, and aerosol particles formed when these fine droplets rapidly dry, are small enough that they can remain suspended in the air for minutes to hours, it said.
"The risk for infection decreases with increasing distance from the source and increasing time after exhalation," it said.
Although infections through inhalation at distances greater than six feet from an infectious source are less likely than at closer distances, the health body added.
"These transmission events have involved the presence of an infectious person exhaling virus indoors for an extended time (more than 15 minutes and in some cases hours) leading to virus concentrations in the air space sufficient to transmit infections to people more than 6 feet away, and in some cases to people who have passed through that space soon after the infectious person left," it said.
The body said that existing recommendations like physical distancing, use of well-fitting masks, adequate ventilation and avoidance of crowded indoor spaces remain effective against the virus.
"These methods will reduce transmission both from inhalation of virus and deposition of virus on exposed mucous membranes. Transmission through soiled hands and surfaces can be prevented by practicing good hand hygiene and by environmental cleaning," it cautioned.
 
 
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The risk for infection decreases with increasing distance from the source, it said (File) New Delhi: The principal mode by which people...