My first thought was immediately AKON when I saw that coin's name LOL. Haven't heard from the guy for a while.

Considering the project head is a celeb I'm already assuming that it's centralized and the coins are acquired via an arbitrary manner. My view might change if I get more information about the coin but I'm not optimistic. The only thing this could be good for is introducing people to the concept of what a crypto is and they might hear about bitcoins and what sets it apart from these other shitcoins.


It's possible. I mean, I don't remember AKON being that rich or influential. China have big interest on Africa and this could be a test run for their own cryptocurrency, on what effect would having a certain area dump fiat.

The only way the debt is going to be fixed is with a total global economic reset and tearing down The Federal Reserve, and Trump knows this. He is preparing us for this inevitability. The only question is how hard is this reset going to be. He has been preparing us for this moment by incentivizing domestic industry so that we can be more independent, as once the system ends the US will lose the distinct advantage of being home to the printing press.

What does some one do just before they file for bankruptcy? They max out all of their credit cards and take on as much debt as possible to get a hold of anything they think they can keep, then they file. Trump knows the debt trap is an inescapable black hole, but it is also one based on an odious premise of inflationary fractional reserve fraud. Right now he is maxing out the credit cards to get all we can out of this sham system before it collapses under its own weight. These are all strategies Trump has lots of experience leveraging. People suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome often point to his bankruptcies as failures, but actually they are evidence of his economic genius, because if done correctly bankruptcy can lead to a net gain. It is only a matter of time before the current economic order fails. The orderliness of this collapse is still yet to be determined.

You should try podcasts in the car.  Not all on my list, but NPR's 'The NPR politics podcast',  'Up First', and 'Planet Money' podcasts are all pretty good, and non-politics 'Click and Clack' and 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me'  are also available to listen on demand.  BBC must have some good ones also.

Google News. Yeah I know, big brother, but I created a brand new Google account with no search history and it works quite well, without nonsense like "you googled Tesla once so here's what Musk tweeted today". Offline feature is extremely useful when traveling.

BBC and NPR in the car, mostly because I can't stand ads and screaming and stupid sounds effects on commercial radio.

This is operating under the assumption that they don't want civil war. In that case they very much would move forward with this plan.

No one said "kill it", just stop using it so it is clear the only people who do are censorious douchebags who can't handle a critical debate. I find the very idea of a self moderated thread in this section repugnant. The small advantage of being able ot filter out a small amount of low effort posts the moderators won't remove by forum rules is totally overshadowed by its potential for abuse to censor.

Virginia is going to be the dry run for nation wide gun control. The government has no respect for any of our rights. The ONLY thing preserving ANY of our freedoms is that the US citizenry is armed to the teeth. "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."

Upon review of more information here: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/northam-declares-state-emergency-virginia-because-armed-militia-groups-plan-storm-capitol

It is clear this "state of emergency" is an unconstitutional and tyrannical act aimed directly at preventing law abiding gun owners from protesting and exercising their 2nd amendment rights. This is just an back door way to shut down the protest by making it "illegal" for the protestors to show up with firearms, the entire purpose of the demonstration. This dipshit is playing with fire. Much like the rest of the left L.A.R.P.ing revolution, eventually if they pretend long enough they are going to get a real one, and they won't end up on top.



P.S. Stop legitimizing self moderated threads in Politics and Society. Only weak minded simpletons need to curate political discussion, and as far as I can tell you don't even use it anyway. All you are doing is giving legitimacy to the toolbags who use it for censorship.

It is not a requirement. The constitution gives the house the sole authority to impeach and the senate the sole authority to hold an impeachment trial. The transmission of articles has to do with house and senate rules that can be changed on a simple majority vote of the respective bodies to change their rules.

Some were calling for the rules of the senate to be changed to allow for a trial without “transmission” of the articles via a simple majority vote.

Some legal scholars disagree with the above but I don’t think the argument holds water.

wage gap is false news
instead of leveling workers from 0-cleaner to 20-manager and then numbered the wage average column by column

EG
00- M:$20k W:$19k - M0staff W20staff
20- M:$200k W:190k - M1staff W0staff

you would only see a 5% discrepancy.

but some activists show that stat above to be:
"no women earns $200k. theres a 2000% discrepancy.. cleaners deserve a payrise to balance the numbers"
"1 man earns as much as 20 women in this workplace, but that man does not work 20x more than a woman"

.. however instead. the company should just look for a female thats trained to do the management job better than the man they hired. and replace the man..
but the the men would claim its an all women company thus no longer gender equal

owning a single shot gun for self defense is one thing
but owning a fully autimatic rifle that can fire 30 shots in a couple seconds is another

there are many gun owners that will take the gun control laws as a 'militia attack' against people and feel its their constitutional right to fight and defend their rights using force.
and some feel if police stop them protesting or telling them to disburse as the same 'militia attack'

so yea i do see some violence occuring because there are some nutters in the gun owning community
this does not mean its going to be some big civil war citizen vs government army of thousands of guns being shot on both sides. but it only takes a couple nutters to cause chaos.

things can escalate fast.
at most when there is no actual war/threat to immediate life. a gun should not be even in someones hand.
and yes that includes cops. have them holstered and no where near having their finger on the trigger finger. that goes for both sides.

i can see it escalating fast here some gun owners will think its perfectly safe for them to shoot into the air 'coz no one gets hurt' and some people to point weapons at police(even without gun loaded) as some innocent protest thinking 'coz no one gets hurt'

the reality is though when a innocent shot is heard. panic occurs. when a gun is pointed at you, loaded or not. panic occurs
andits this panic.. and the hurd mentality of people reacting to it than can cause incidents

EG if someone points a gun at you and you dont know if its loaded. you have to automatically treat it as a threat to life. meaning yo can fire back. so yea an officer might think they are getting threatened and then shot first to defend themselves. then another person see's it as a civil attack and fires back. then all of a sudden .. chaos

...
the best way for gun owners to truely peacefully protest and show they actually have the smarts to actually own a gun. is to show they dont need to wave it around in public.
.. then again. so should the police too

i agree equal oppertunity.
and i agree that sometimes women who have 6 months off work(maternity) and more sickdays(due to mentruation) than a man should not be paid equally if they are not performing to the same standard as a man.

however to equal the balance men should too have equal paternaty break rather than forcing women to only have a couple months off to try to be as competitive as men.

many work places have introduced flexitime so that if a mother has to take a kid to the dentist she can make up the time later in the day. this is not gender bias by saying work from 11-7 instead of 9-5 because lil jimmy has a 9am appointment.
women have tried to say its gender bias by thinking that if they cant go home at 5pm like others they are being mistreated. without realising they didnt turn up til 11 which is the opposite of being mis-treated.

i found many times a female cleaner thinks they deserve the same pay as a man in a higher position, purely because of some gender difference.
the pay should reflect the skills, talents and labour required to perform the role and the work load results of that task.

in real estate men who sell more houses have it where women get angry they are not getting the same bonuses as men and think its a gender bias scenario. reality is a female real estate agent should try to sell an equal amount of housing if she wants equal bonus.

sometimes women dont realise that to have 6 months of maternity pay is half a years salary. and many men usually have to pay the company for extra time off for equal paternity time. so women should treat maternity as a bonus and not a 'right'

yes women have the right to have kids but when personal life impacts the business the business has the right to find a replacement.  and keeping someone on should be a bonus.
many men dont get the chance to just say to their boss they want 6 months off-full pay to have time with family

many times i have seen the gender bias try to be used to try giving women alot more bonuses, pay rises, promotions, special treatment, than men.. purely out of fear of being sued due to some sexual harassment/gender bias/ inequality accusation.

as long as no employer has a 'all boys club' that only highers men. then women do have the oppertunity. but i see no reason why a nurse should feel she deserves the same pay as a doctor. when she has only had basic training of taking a blood sample. when surgeons spend upto 10 years training

I think your estimation of the public support the Iranian citizens have for their government is WAY off base. The sanctions against Iran alone have done their job and have sowed much discontent for their leadership. When the economy isn't doing well the government gets a lot of resistance, this is nearly universal. Also I think you are underestimating the modernization of Iran and their citizen's desire to be more moderate. There are lots of signs of this if you bother to look. While I think the Western intelligence agencies certainly are playing a role in the unrest in Iran, it would not be possible if there was not a large popular push for it.



I disagree. The scenario I outlined in a lot of ways is a lot more hands off. If he was covertly meddling with China, not only would that piss them off more IMO, it would be very bad optics for him as well as de-legitimize the Hong Kong freedom movement. This would also serve to sow even more distrust from them than they already have being a highly suspicious people living in a low trust society used to saying one thing and doing another. This atmosphere is antithetical to a productive negotiation.

Him mildly and publicly supporting Hong Kong could even be interpreted by China as being a political move to satiate the US and world population as long as he is not too hamfisted about it, which he hasn't been. Additionally him giving a bit of a prod over Hong Kong but not full on addressing it is in a lot of ways a power move that creates a lot of leverage for him to use over China in the trade negotiations.

In effect he is saying I could make this much worse for you, and you really couldn't do much about it other than what you are already doing. IMO he has been handling China expertly in spite of the media critique of his approach to the situation. China is hurting a lot more than is publicly being disclosed over the pressure he is applying. This is not without cost for the USA of course, but IMO this needed to be done 20 years ago, and avoiding it would only seal our fate and slowly allow China to start taking control here in the US. This is not just about the economy but preserving our way of life. The interesting thing too is even though short term this is somewhat painful for the US economy as well, longer term it is pushing development of domestic industry putting us in a much better strategic position and creating a more independent North American industrial base.

Localbitcoins started KYC'ing people long time ago. If you knew it and still decided to take the risks, you had it coming. Any business with a .com domain name has a secret partner: The U.S.

Unlucky for you, Iran is the country they decided to bomb next.

He absolutely could and would dare to openly support the Hong Kong protests, but he doesn't have to. The simple fact that China knows a crack down on Hong Kong would be bad optics for them as well as hurt them at the negotiating table with the US is already quite a bit of help to them. I recently heard some one float the idea of inviting Hong Kong to be the 51st state in the union. I think that would be a great idea

The thread is called "What news sources do ya guys use?" not "TwittySeal Obsessively Beats His Wienerschnitzel Over Others Having The Audacity To Not Have The Same Opinions As His."

I thought "the a pseudonym" was Duden... make up your mind. "Pretty much all" of your generalizations are fucking bullshit. You remind me of those teachers in the 90's who would always say "the internet is not a valid source" regardless of who actually published it on the internet. The internet had valid sources even back then, but much like those teachers you are incapable of differentiating the value of anything you are not trained to accept.

At the very sound of the words "Zero Hedge" in your mind, like the sound of a bell, you are triggered to froth at the mouth by the mere existence of ideas outside of your bubble of confirmation bias. Knowing full well you would never be able to defend the ideas you have, challenged by the words contained within this venue of free thought, your only strategy is a blanket dismissal of everything contained within it to protect your precious and comforting confirmation bias.

Also, just for reference these are the current references on the Zero Hedge front page first 10 articles:

1. Reuters, Sky News Arabia, Fox News
2. Paul Krugman (direct source)
3. Reuters
4. Eric Margolis (author)
5. Bloomberg
6. The Guardian
7. the San Diego Union Tribune
8. Adil Abdul-Mahdi (direct source), The Saudi Gazette, Fort Russ News, Bloomberg, Egypt Today
8. The Baltic Dry Index, analyst Karel Mercx (direct source)
9. The New York Times, Business Insider, Stripes, The Nation, CNBC, Quartz, CBS News, Tom Dispatch, The Hill, CNN, Telegraph, Forbes, Politico, The Guardian, Washington Post, L.A. Times
10. NY Fed Repo Operations, Fed Liquidity Injections, Curvature Securities


What a filthy den of lunatics and conspiracy theories! Everyone go back to the controlled opposition Drudge Report! Not everyone has figured out Drudge doesn't control it anymore yet!

Sadio Mane earns £150,000 a week (and that's not including any performance-based bonuses and sponsorships) so he could buy a couple of Ferraris every month if he wanted, but there's only so much money someone needs before it becomes unnecessary and it's nice to see people actually do something good with their money rather than just blow it all on overpriced clothes and cars. I'm surprised more players don't do it really as nobody needs the amount of money they earn. I wouldn't even know what to do with 150k a week. £150k a year would make you a very wealthy person in the UK and you'd be in the top 1% on that alone.  


Of you could probably buy thousands of cheaper cars instead and help even more.

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