Venezuela Tries To Pay Russian Debt With Cryptocurrency Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, If crisis-hit Venezuela was hoping to pay off its US$3.15-billion debt to Russia with its new cryptocurrency, those hopes have been shattered as the Russian Finance Ministry announces that it won’t be accepting digital coin. Venezuela will not be paying any part of …

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Visualizing The 50 Most Important Life-Saving Breakthroughs In History For most of civilized history, life expectancy fluctuated in the 30 to 40 year range. Child mortality was all too common, and even for those that made it to adulthood, a long and healthy life was anything but guaranteed. Sanitation was poor, disease was rampant, and …

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ECB Finds €10 Billion In European Bank Loan "Miscalculations" By now it is, or should be, well-understood that the biggest deflationary virus at the heart of the European financial system is the ~€1 trillion mountain of bad loans  (of which which over €230 billion is found in Germany and France) and which casts a giant …

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91% Of Cypriots See 'Fake News' As A Problem (And They're Not Alone In The EU) According to a recent Eurobarometer survey, at least seven in ten respondents in all 28 EU member states perceive fake news to be a problem in their country. You will find more infographics at Statista The share was highest in …

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Diplomacy For Peace Or Preparations For War? Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, After a series of high-level meetings between officials from Seoul and Pyongyang, the proposal for a face-to-face meeting between the American and North Korean leaders appeared before President Trump, who without much hesitation accepted, upsetting the last 50 years …

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Tolerance Cuts Both Ways: Freedom For The Speech We Hate Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, Tolerance cuts both ways. This isn’t an easy pill to swallow, I know, but that’s the way free speech works, especially when it comes to tolerating speech that we hate. The most controversial issues of our day …

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South African Politician Blasts "Racist" Australia For Harboring Fleeing White Farmers In perhaps the most Orwellian statement of the day, the head of South Africa’s radical Marxist opposition party – who declared his party was “cutting the throat of whiteness” – called Australia a “racist country” for offering fleeing white farmers a refuge. As we …

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US Threatens Sanctions For European Firms Participating In Russian Gas Pipeline Project As previewed overnight, the U.S. State Department is warning European corporations that they will likely face penalties if they participate in the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, on the grounds that “the project undermines energy security in Europe“, when in reality …

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German Spy Agency Admits North Korean Rockets Can Hit Europe Amid a relative detente in US-North Korea relations, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency told lawmakers that North Korean rockets tipped with a nuclear warhead now have the capacity to strike Germany and central Europe.   In a closed-door meeting, Deutsche Welle reports that BND Deputy Director …

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France: Toward Total Submission To Islam, Destruction Of Free Speech Authored by Guy Milliere via The Gatestone Institute, After the murders of much of the staff at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, the hostage-taking and slaughter at a kosher supermarket two days later confirmed what was already obvious: …

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