UBS Is Using Ethereum Technology To Soften The Impact Of MiFid II After devising blockchain-based systems to help facilitate equity and bond trading (remember Goldman’s cryptocoin?) as well as derivatives clearing, some of the leading banks in the blockchain space are banding together to build a system that they hope will help banks streamline another …

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Yes, The FBI Is America's Secret Police Authored by James Bovard via TheHill.com, Politifact delivered a “pants on fire” slam to Fox News on Friday because one of its commentators asserted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation “has become America's secret police.” The FBI has legions of new champions nowadays among liberals and Democrats who …

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FRee BiTCoiN ORNaMeNT //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Greenwald: The U.S. Media Just Suffered Its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages Authored by Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, Friday was one of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. The humiliation orgy was kicked off by CNN, with MSNBC and CBS close behind, with …

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Time For Détente With North Korea Authored by Robert McCoy via The Strategic Culture Foundation, While the military and political environments on the Korean Peninsula have evolved, American policy towards the North has not changed since 1991 North Korea’s Hwasong-14 ICBM. Photo: KCNA via Reuters The reality is North Korea has nuclear weapons – perhaps …

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"The Threat Is Real" – Millions In Tokyo Join Nuclear Strike Evacuation Drills Earlier this week, Hawaii reportedly tested its system of nuclear sirens for the first time since the 1960s as the state’s governor warned that he was taking North Korea’s threats of nuclear annihilation extremely seriously. Today, the Telegraph is reporting that the …

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THE BLIND CONSPIRACY: The Gold Market Is Heading Towards A Big Fundamental Change By The SRSrocco Report, The gold market is heading towards a big fundamental change that few are prepared.  While many analysts in the alternative media community suggest that the gold price is manipulated due to Fed and Central bank intervention, there is …

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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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