“The head of the Bank of International Settlements has predicted a bad ending for cryptocurrencies, calling for an end to their production in a recent interview.”
Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/bis-chief-says-stop-trying-to-create-money-in-new-crypto-critique/
“According to the article, the main impetus for buying cryptocurrencies are either for criminal activities, creating a sense of community, security against ‘real or imagined’ state oppression, and the thrill of trading.”
“The currency war has arrived. So say some of the best and brightest in the $5.1 trillion-per-day foreign-exchange market.”
“It seems that we may need to be reminded every generation or so of the perils of foreign military intervention and the simple truth asserted by General Graves.”
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/18/when-the-u-s-invaded-russia/
“It was the single greatest blow to the War Party since it turned Imperial Washington into a colossal menace bent on global hegemony when the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of history in 1991.”
“Federal agencies seized over $5 billion in 2014, which was more than the amount of property burglarized that same year, $3.9 billion.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/keeping-cops-hands-out-of-your-pockets/
“There’s a category of story we call ‘Them Not Us’—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.”
“The NTIA said that its assessment rested ‘in large part on China’s record of intelligence activities and economic espionage targeting the US, along with China Mobile’s size and technical and financial resources.'”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/us-government-asks-fcc-to-deny-china-mobiles-license-request.html
“Rhodes has been described as being so trusted and close to Obama that he was ‘in the room’ for almost every foreign policy decision of significance that Obama made during his eight years in office.”
“If the U.S. government will lift economic sanctions against North Korea if it ‘denuclearizes,’ why not lift the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba?”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/20/cuba-denuclearized-in-1962-why-continue-the-embargo/