Mass surveillance at home and endless military projection abroad are the twin sides of the same coin of national security, which must simply be maximized as much as possible. Conspicuously missing from President Hollande’s decisive declaration of war however, was any mention of the biggest elephant in the room: state-sponsorship. A senior Western official familiar with a … Read more
Necessity is the mother of invention. When Christos Papaioannou noticed his car needed new tires, the Greek computer engineer bought them with euros—but used an alternative currency, called TEM, to pay his mechanic for the labor. His country has avoided a catastrophic exit from the common currency, at least for now. But a small but growing number of … Read more
If you have any interest in how Bitcoin, fintech, and decentralized ledgers generally could disrupt trading and settlement of financial instruments on global markets, make sure to take the time to watch this video. Fascinating stuff: For related articles, see: After Testing the Technology, NASDAQ Will Use Bitcoin Blockchain Like this post? Donate bitcoins: 35DBUbbAQHTqbDaAc5mAaN6BqwA2AxuE7G Follow me on … Read more
Regular Liberty Blitzkrieg readers will be well aware of the fact that I’m a huge fan of Martin Armstrong’s work. While I disagree with him on several key topics, including Bitcoin, his long-term macro forecasting record has no equal. One of his key forecasts for many years now is that 2015.75, or September 30/October 1, … Read more
SPIEGEL: Who uses these methods? Assange: The British GCHQ has its own department for such methods called JTRIG. They include blackmail, fabricating videos, fabricating SMS texts in bulk, even creating fake businesses with the same names as real businesses the United Kingdom wants to marginalize in some region of the world, and encouraging people to order from … Read more
More than 100 people were swept up in an unprecedented police crackdown on mainland human rights advocates on the weekend, with six – including four lawyers – criminally detained in what state media said was a nationwide operation to smash a “criminal gang”. It said “the criminal gang” comprised Zhou, Wang Yu, Wang Quanzhang, Huang as … Read more
At this point, anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention to the central planning economic totalitarians running the fraudulent global financial system is aware of the blatant push in the media to acclimate the masses to accepting a “cashless society.” In the mind of an economic tyrant, banning cash represents the holy grail. Forcing the … Read more
Our estimates show that the developing world lost US$991.2 billion in illicit financial flows in 2012, over ten times the amount of official development aid received by these countries in that year, and greater than the amount of net foreign direct investment received. From 2003 – 2012, US$6.6 trillion left developing country economies illicitly. Illicit … Read more
Ms. Chai’s film had simply grown too big. It had become a social phenomenon that threatened to run out of control. Just days ahead of the opening of the country’s largely rubber-stamp parliament, Ms. Chai had hijacked the national agenda with a riveting piece of investigative journalism. “Have you ever seen real stars?” she asks a … Read more
The future belongs to China. China is the next great nation. The 21st century will be dominated by China. I’m sure all of you have heard variations of the above prediction over the past decade or so. I know I have. Perhaps China will be the next great nation, but perhaps not. I’ll tell you … Read more