November 2017 archive

US Coast Guard Operates Secret Floating Prisons In Pacific Ocean Last week, Seth Wessler wrote a story for the New York Times, in which he described “terror on the high seas”: an expansion of the maritime war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is operating a fleet of secret floating prisions in the Pacific Ocean. Coined …

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World's First Vending-Machine For The Homeless To Be Unveiled In UK In December; LA, NYC Next Year This is a first, a new charity in the UK called Action Hunger plans to install a vending machine for the homeless in December. The organization describes itself as a charity with a “new approach to combating homelessness.” The initial plan …

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The Saker: How I Became A Kremlin Troll Authored by The Saker, Today, with the kind permission of Phil Butler, I am posting the full text of my contribution to his book “Putin’s Praetorians: Confessions of the Top Kremlin Trolls“.  There are a couple of reasons for that.  The main one is that I strongly …

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Satoshi Secrets & Why Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Are "Lost" Forever Authored by Jeff John Roberts and Nicolas Rapp via Fortune.com, Just as gold bars are lost at sea or $100 bills can burn, bitcoins can disappear from the Internet forever. When all 21 million bitcoins are mined by the year 2040, the actual amount …

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Bitcoin Soars Above $9,000, Hits New All Time High On Burst Of Asian Buying Less than 24 hours ago, we noted that Bitcoin had broken above the recent resistance level around $8,300 and hit a fresh all time high of $8,650, observing that the world’s biggest cryptocurrency by market cap is now rising at a …

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RT & Michael Flynn: Is That The Case Mueller Is Going To Make? Authored by Alexander Mercouris via TheDuran.com, With every other attempt to put together a convincing Russiagate case having failed – the indictments against Manafort, Gates and Papadopoulos make no allusion to the collusion allegations at the heart of it, and the FBI …

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2nd Largest Gunmaker Nears Default As Americans Buy Fewer Firearms Post-Obama 2017 has seen the biggest drop in American firearms sales in history. After 8 years of almost incessant rises in NICS Firearms Checks (a proxy for 'legal' arms sales) under President Obama… source: NICS 2017 has seen a considerable drop (year-to-date) – the biggest …

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JFK Files Reveal Robert Kennedy And CIA Plotting False Flag Attacks To Provoke War With USSR False flag conspiracy theories have arisen from thousands of global tragedies ever since pirates allegedly spawned the term by flying the flag of the home country they were preparing to attack.  Of course, these “conspiracy theories” would be far …

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Geoblocking Prevalent For EU's Online Shoppers This week, the European Union agreed to end unjustified geoblocking after a late-night session. This relates to geoblocking the online trading of goods and services. As Statista's Niall McCarthy explains, the agreement means companies will not be able to prevent customers from visiting and doing business on their website due to …

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Zimbabwe Military Says Mugabe Impeachment Process Has Begun Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe baffled his country and the world last night when, instead of publicly announcing his resignation, he reaffirmed his intention to stay on as the head of state in Zimbabwe, and admonished members of his ruling ZANU PF party for their “arbitrary decision making” …

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