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Central Bank Investment Advice

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US-Iran Ceasefire - Day One

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Subscribe to Free Palestine TV . He answered my questions about the border between Oman and the UAE. See  Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Jr. on Trump's Latest Projectile Vomit Speech .  Subscribe to Rachel Blevins . Oman is host to US bases as well as British ones.  See the book  Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran  by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. See also  The Global Currency Exchange .  Subscribe to  Glenn Diesen .  Subscribe to Al Jazeera . Subscribe to Daniel Davis .  What a disgrace!  Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute .  Subscribe to  Al Jazeera English .  Subscribe to  Dialogue Works .  Subscribe to  Judging Freedom .  Subscribe to  Dialogue Works .  Subscribe to  Free Palestine TV .  There is no International law, and there hasn't been any since the United Nations was established. The UK and the USA have bee...

Rafflesia lagascae parisitizing Tetrastigma loheri

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My comment : If we put our minds to it with all this mRNA technology, then Human beings could be sporting tumors like this in a few decades. Imagine that, a fly-polinated tumescence sharing your very own geneome!  Subscribe to  Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't .  Subscribe to Merogenomics . 

Alex Krainer on the Economic Outlook

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I can't believe I spent so long listening to a hedge-fund manager! See  https://alexkrainer.substack.com/ . My comment :  30:08 I am not so pessimistic. I think there are ways out of a severe economic depression, but they require a level of education among the general populace which is far beyond that permitted by the kakistocracy. 43:51 HSBC in 2012 found to have laundered close to US$1 billion on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel. See  HSBC is the New BCCI  and  Bill Browder is Still Obsessed With The Idea That Vladimir Putin is Obsessed with Him . That state visit by Obama in 2012 was something wasn't it? Then a few months later Britain and the US bombed Tripoli. That was about banking too.  Michael Hudson on Nuclear Economics 16:35 Why hasn't the stock market dropped? Because there's too much liquidity in the financial stratosphere. This is the result of 18 years of quantitative easing. See  Clara Mattei on Capitalism, Austerity and Academia .  ...

Clara Mattei on Capitalism, Austerity and Academia

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Recorded at a Rethinking Economics Oxford event, moderated by Panos Tsoukalis. See her book  Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention . Subscribe to FREE . 

David Linden on Psy-medicine

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The whole thing:  Subscribe to  Big Think .  Maybe Mark Twain wrote himself to suicide?  Subscribe to  Pursuit of Wonder . 

Audrey Henson on Oracle and Privacy

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This is really interesting. She looks into the principle behind the Third Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Third Amendment (Amendment III) to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering (mandatory housing) of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent, forbidding the practice in peacetime. The amendment was a response to the Quartering Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain during the buildup to the American Revolutionary War, which had allowed the British Army to lodge soldiers in public buildings. My comment : This is a hiding to nowhere. You cannot effectively protect personal data using legislation because the nature of the technology used to process that data makes it effectively impossible for anyone to verify compliance with the legislation. So any such protection is just an empty promise and the only purpose it could possibly serve would be to lull people into a false sense of security.  See  Robert Elder - W...

Nancy Sinatra's Boots is Sixty

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Concrete Botany

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See  Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance, by Joey Santore . See his YouTube post  for more about the book.  The bleak barren wasteland of neglected urban infrastructure serves as an example of an ecological phenomenon known as "primary succession", however the cast includes a patchwork of non-native species from all over the globe. What plant species are able to thrive amidst the homeless camps, human bleakness (wealth disparity 101), garbage and concrete? Subscribe to  Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't .  Tamaulipan Thornscrub - Less than 1% of this ecosystem is formally protected. Most of what remains sits on private ranch land, unrecognized or actively cleared. We spent a day walking his land to understand what's actually out there, and why it matters. Subscribe to  Cory Ames .