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Sat, 16/08/2025 - 10:05
by Vijay Selvam* Bitcoin has failed. Seventeen years since inception, Bitcoin remains a solution in search of a problem.  With its eyewatering volatility, it has flopped as an inflation hedge. The much-touted scarcity of its 21-million-coin cap is rendered meaningless in a landscape teeming with thousands of other cryptocurrencies, each claiming to be scarce in its own […]
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Sat, 16/08/2025 - 07:45

There is an old European folk tale, which most of us know as ‘Chicken Licken’. In the course of the story, the title character wanders around telling various animals (Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey) that the sky is falling down. They believe him, and together they head off on a mission ‘to […]

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Sat, 16/08/2025 - 05:12

CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to assist Israel’s theft of US nuclear material and global spying operations.  Veteran CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton secretly oversaw a top-level spy ring involving Jewish émigrés and Israeli operatives without “any clearances” from Congress or Langley itself, according to recently declassified documents published as part of the Trump administration’s pledge to disclose all available information on the […]

The post Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show appeared first on The Grayzone.

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Sat, 16/08/2025 - 03:00

They say women disappear with age, but if that’s true, why do their necklaces keep getting bigger?

Society shuns women with crow’s feet and crepey underarms. And honestly, I get it. Aging is grotesque. That’s where I come in.

I give voice to the voiceless. When a middle-aged woman walks into Reformation, the salespeople barely blink. But if she wears a large mustard-yellow acrylic choker designed by a Scandinavian architect? She exists!

You may have seen me wrapped around the neck of Isabella Rossellini, or strewn on a nightstand beside a bold-colored pair of cat-eye reading glasses and a copy of Miranda July’s All Fours. You most definitely have seen me at the MoMA Design Store.

Sometimes I turn up at an independent bookshop adjacent to an heirloom tomato candle. Why do bookshops sell oversized jewelry and vegetable-scented wax? Because, like middle-aged women, they’re also desperate to remain relevant.

I can be made of prewar German beadwork, fair-trade tagua shells, or eighteen miniature jewel-toned cinderblocks. I’m often chartreuse. And, I’m always angular—much like the collagen-starved face of any woman wearing me.

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Sat, 16/08/2025 - 00:44

Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. This state-backed tactic aims to distract from war crimes and sell apartheid to a younger generation increasingly critical of Israel.

The post Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide appeared first on MintPress News.

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Fri, 15/08/2025 - 23:51
One of the themes of this blog is that, with some exceptions, the people who are most dangerous are politicians. Since rich people own politicians, indirectly, they are included. We’ve been, as a society, obsessed with serial killers for some time. They are seen, by many, as the ultimate evil. The average serial killer is […]