And what would you prefer?

Another cold war with possibility of it turning into a hot war? or Peace between Russian and USA?

In my eyes peace is the preferable outcome. Not a debate about which intelligence service is more honest than another intelligence service (hint they are both dishonest). Stop being distracted by misinformation and focus on the important things. Such as a continued peaceful relationship between 2 very potentially dangerous countries.

The people of a country never gain anything from warlike behavior between nations. But, the rich and powerful do, think about that for a moment.

That's good, I think you'll like it. It's 4 parts, so set aside almost 4 hours all up. It is basically about the history of PR and marketing spanning corporations but also politics. In the first episode there is a bit talking about getting women to smoke, that's where it starts getting interesting.

And of course it is on youtube.

People are not going to wake up when they are still willing to be told what is right and wrong by other people rather than thinking for themselves. This is why I mentioned that particular documentary, because it delves into that, which Hairy could benefit from listening to.

Holy shit man, are you serious? USA and Russia are the 2 biggest nuclear powers in the world, if you don't want peace and nice relations between them you are fucking twisted. "Peace means surrender" wow, just wow.

USA intelligence is the thing you distrust the most of anything. Weapons of Mass destruction, bay of pigs, drug running, overthrowing of democratically elected governments, hunter of whistleblowers, and many more insanely horrible acts against world peace. But as soon as Trump indicates they may be wrong or not 100% honest, Trump is the bad guy. Blows my mind.

There's a BBC documentary called the "century of the self" I suggest you watch it in full.

Edit: You need to drop this right vs left conservative vs progressive bullshit. It will prevent you from seeing what is right and wrong.

FYI the comment from the person I mentioned

Bring China to its knees - um - you know what? China has just realised that this is a possibility. China is realising that its switch to a consumer lead economy vs "factory to the world" will take a lot longer than anticipated and the powers that are know that food security is still a major problem. It is clear from our sources that there was a massive misread on the part of the Chinese who thought that Trump would back down. There is a lot happening in China right now pointing directly to trouble brewing - from protests by retired military personnel to paint and faeces being thrown on XJP pictures and court buildings (some thoughts that this is being stirred up from foreign sources so expect another "westerner" crackdown). So all up, this is a very dangerous time in China, XJP can not appear weak to the populace, thus the massive propaganda campaign underway (from WeChat to subway advertising, singing people in subways and the usual rules for media outlets). The soybean tariffs will be paid by the government if the beans are added to the strategic reserve - this alone shows what is really happening.  And as for the slowdown, well it is real, from Evergrande chairman to gov officials, it has been acknowledged as happening, but GDP will still print 6.7/6.8%.
Trumps timing was sublime - he actually caught the Chinese in full Moutai celebrations over the Xi for Life event and in so doing, made sure that Xi has to respond. Xi's real problem is that any response he makes from Yuan deval (we are hearing 10=15% being accepted) to imposing tariffs to limiting imports hurts China more than anything else. Your comment about China suddenly not needing 20% of its IO supplies from Oz is interesting. I had the same comment made to me when I was in Beijing last month.

Honestly, I hope everywhere is the driver of the price. People need to realize that they are getting screwed over big time financially and that bitcoin is one of, if not the only, thing that can protect them and they can use to fight back with.

I'm thinking that a bottom may be close myself. Bitcoin's strongest selling point is escape from banks and fuck wit governments. With the US now actively attempting to destroy the status quo post Bretton Woods environment, various governments, and banks, are going to start adding more restrictions to global flows, and start coming down harder on their populace, as their people will no doubt get more restless with the credit bubble tapping out.

I think China will be a driver of the btc price again, despite what people are saying I think they are close disaster. I read a comment recently from a man who has a lot of business in China and has a lot of connections with high up party members and business leaders. Things don't sound good.

Camku is the guy, I used his services. Pretty easy, gives screenshots of transactions, lots of positive feedback. you can also claim the coins youreself using ymgve script, the hard part is selling them on exchanges mostly only accepted on shit chinese exchanges.

Here's a link to him https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinAirdrops/comments/8gf642/hard_fork_selling_extraction_services_kyc/

I truly hope so

of course they are here to stay. But in no way is btc technologically crippled. You've been drinking the alt kool aid on that one.

well they aren't being used to increase today are they, the btc dominance has dropped substantially in the last week. That's not good.

For fucks sake, alts a rising at a stupid speed again, with btc being a laggard. Here I was thinking that this alt shit had ended and btc would be the main show again. 

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Fuck yeah, checking the price is a happy experience again (today at least). hahaha to all the shorters. That's what you get when you try to go against what is possibly one of the greatest innovations of all time.

He did. In fact back in March (or near then anyway) of last year he produced a chart with the prediction that the price would go to 15k by the end of the year and then drop down to 7k.

So pretty fucking good in my books

Are they though? futures are closed over the weekend, those price are before the latest dip.

pump fucker pump 

Probably not much different then.

Do you know when it was that you last looked? I might take a look myself to see if those things have changed.

my last bit of love now given