"Despite growing out of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin has led to the creation of a faster, leaner and crueler crisis of its own, an unregulated hellscape where the elites have found yet another way to get rich off of the backs of regular people’s money. Whatever “noble” goals Bitcoin and cryptocurrency allegedly has or … Continue reading Scam World
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Crony Connect
"Crony Connect allows you to identify politically-connected individuals, using data from Companies House, the Electoral Commission and the MP's Register of Financial Interests.How does it work? When you enter the name of an individual, Crony Connect looks for any companies linked to that individual in the Companies House database. Then it searches for the individual … Continue reading Crony Connect
Eat [and Drink] Less Plastic
Drink water from your tap. Drinking water is one of the biggest contributors to microplastic ingestion, but bottled water has about double the microplastic level of tap water, according to Mason, making it a poor choice for those who want to consume less plastic. Some bottled waters have also been found to have high levels … Continue reading Eat [and Drink] Less Plastic
GovDeals.com
"GovDeals provides services to various government agencies that allow them to sell surplus and confiscated items via the Internet. Each participating agency has its own auction rules and regulations and may be subject to government ordinances."-https://www.govdeals.com/ Search nearby and find out about all the weird stuff your government is trying to divest itself of. In … Continue reading GovDeals.com
Cesium & Plutonium Make The Best Nightmare Fuel
"Two security experts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory drove to San Antonio, Texas, in March 2017 with a sensitive mission: to retrieve dangerous nuclear materials from a nonprofit research lab there.Their task, according to documents and interviews, was to ensure that the radioactive materials did not fall into the wrong hands on … Continue reading Cesium & Plutonium Make The Best Nightmare Fuel
Government Attic
NSA poster from the 1950s available via http://governmentattic.org/
Explaining the ‘Mystery’ of Numbers Stations
"Numbers stations have been in existence since World War I. Over the years they have attracted sporadic interest from journalists, video game designers, and filmmakers. Despite this attention, there are few explanations of what these signals actually are. Too often, they are described as “spooky,” “creepy,” or “mysterious,” and the discussion stops there. It may … Continue reading Explaining the ‘Mystery’ of Numbers Stations
Is This Fascism?
"'You submit to tyranny,' Snyder writes, 'when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.'" —Snyder, Timothy. "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century" quoted in Gumbel, Andrew. "Is This Fascism?" Los Angeles Review of Books. July 24, 2017. Interesting discussion throughout regarding the Trump presidency. … Continue reading Is This Fascism?
Fair Representation Act
"Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer authored and introduced the Fair Representation Act, which would enact a series of reforms designed to make our elections more competitive and open them up to more parties. Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna of California and Jamie Raskin of Maryland have co-sponsored the legislation. The bill would do three things: require … Continue reading Fair Representation Act
The Cost of Wars
"One of the striking aspects of American military power is how little serious attention is spent on examining the key elements of its total cost by war and mission, and the linkage between the use of resources and the presence of an effective strategy. For the last several decades, there has been little real effort … Continue reading The Cost of Wars
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