“The Norwegian and British reports come approximately one week after U.S. Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard expressed her opposition to the suggestion of central bank-issued cryptocurrencies.”
Read more: https://news.bitcoin.com/norway-and-england-contemplate-central-bank-issued-cryptocurrencies/
“The Harare High Court has lifted a ban by the central bank which barred all banks and financial institutions from offering services to cryptocurrency exchanges. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) failed to appear for court proceedings.”
Read more: https://www.ccn.com/breaking-zimbabwe-court-lifts-central-banks-banking-ban-on-bitcoin-exchanges/
“Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the ‘import’ of labor — the in-migration of human beings.”
Read more: https://liberty-intl.org/2018/05/open-borders-trade-migration-entrepreneurship-and-prosperity/
“This wasn’t some newborn infant, you know? This was a baby who could probably sit up independently. I was scared, but I acted quickly.”
Read more: https://www.theonion.com/idf-soldier-recounts-harrowing-heroic-war-story-of-kil-1826048745
“The woman shot was between the ages of 16 and 24 and was shot ‘in the head with a single gunshot.'”
“East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned.”
Read more: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/on-poisoned-ground-burns
“Chicago required the use of lead service lines between street mains and homes until Congress banned the practice in 1986. Yet as Mayor Rahm Emanuel borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to overhaul the city’s public water system, Chicago is keeping lead service lines in the ground.”
“Guess where the economically forgotten people live? The majority of these ‘ALICE’ households live in America’s largest cities.”
Read more: https://weissratings.com/articles/the-building-backlash-of-america-s-economically-forgotten
“70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license; today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license.”
“Sheriff Buffett isn’t just any sheriff. He’s the son of Omaha billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and he’s used his family wealth both to finance law enforcement spending in the county and to basically buy his way into the sheriff’s office.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/09/illinois_cops_warning_if_you