Visualizing The 4,000 Year History Of Global Power Imagine creating a timeline of your country’s whole history stretching back to its inception. It would be no small task, as VisualCapitalist's Nick Routley explains, simply weighing the relative importance of so many great people, technological achievements, and pivotal events would be a tiny miracle in itself. …

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Crypto Surge Sparks Establishment Panic: Bans, Crackdowns, & Fatwas As Bitcoin "Undermines Governments, Destabilizes Economies" The last few months have seen increasing notice being paid to Bitcoin (and the broader cryptocurrency space) by those that control the status quo. At first it was simple 'negative'-speak – "you'd be a fool to buy Bitcoin"-esque comments spewed …

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Trump Congratulates ABC For Firing Brian Ross Over "Horrendously Inaccurate" Report Update: Just hours after he told a group of reporters that he's "not worried" about Mike Flynn's decision to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller because – as Trump put it – "there's been absolutely no collusion and we're prefectly happy with that," the …

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Paul Craig Roberts: "Can't You See War On The Horizon?" Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, According to news reports in the British press, Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed Russia’s industries to prepare themselves to be able to make a quick switch to war production. Clearly, the Russian government would not make such an announcement …

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Paul Craig Roberts: "Is Washington The Most Corrupt Government In History?" Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Robert Mueller, a former director of the FBI who is working as a special prosecutor “investigating” a contrived hoax designed by the military/security complex and the DNC to destroy the Trump presidency, has yet to produce a scrap of …

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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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