The lack of prosecution of US bankers responsible for the great financial crisis has been a much debated topic over the years, leading to the coinage of such terms as "Too Big To Prosecute", the termination of at least one corrupt DOJ official, the r
As Spain's government tries almost everything it can to stop an independence referendum Sunday in the restive northeastern region of Catalonia, the standoff is escalating into a constitutional crisis emblematic of the larger forces tearing at Europ
This week the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem is seeing further infrastructure growth as wallet providers, merchants and exchanges continue to announce BCH support. The entire BCH network is seeing improvements every day, while the legacy chain and Segw
In what is probably a "slightly" exaggerated figure, North Korea claimed on Thursday that some 4.7 million students and workers have volunteered to join or re-enlist in the North Korean army since Kim Jong Un called Donald Trump a "dotard" and vo
Welcome to the Atlantic Council. A think tank which isn't given to introspection and which ultimately amounts to NATO's propaganda arm. This week, I endured an Atlantic Council echo-chamber to spare you the bother.
Stimulation of the vagus nerve allows patient who had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years to track objects with his eyes and respond to simple requests
The weird odyssey of President Donald Trump's travel bans continues. The original ban, signed as an executive order Jan. 27, barred absolutely all immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The countries had actually been ch
Airlines worldwide were forced to delay flights Thursday as a global flight-bookings system operated by Amadeus IT Group SA suffered what the company called a "network issue."
President Donald Trump ordered the Jones Act to be waived for shipments to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico immediately at the request of Governor Ricardo Rossello, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday.
President Trump's recent rant to the United Nations was a rehash of George W. Bush's post 9/11 "Axis of Evil" fantasy in the 2002 State of the Union, which ultimately took the United States down the road to disaster with the ill-fated invasio
Elbow-to-elbow seating, oversized comfort pets, midcabin standoffs -- and passengers armed with their smartphones. A new era in air travel has some Americans tweeting mad.
$60 Billion plus is the U.S. dollar equivalent to how much Bitcoin is currently in circulation. That amount of money would keep the Estonian government running at current expenditures for almost 60 years.
The significance of the shift taking place on a geo-political basis to unseat the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency cannot be understated. It is, by all means, a complete upending of the financial and economic systems as we have come to k
The tide is finally shifting in Silicon Valley. The same companies once heralded as crusaders of a bright future are increasingly being seen as hoarders of vast, unchecked power. Franklin Foer, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, has been ques
Companies like Elon Musk's mysterious Neuralink work on connecting human brains--the magnificent blobs of neurons--to the internet, the digital land of Russian cats and racism. But some experts are questioning the ethics and security of the interne
When Alexander Fleming came back from a Scottish vacation in the summer of 1928 to find his London lab bench contaminated with a mold called Penicillium notatum, he kicked off a new age of scientific sovereignty over nature. Since then, the antibioti
When Alexander Fleming came back from a Scottish vacation in the summer of 1928 to find his London lab bench contaminated with a mold called Penicillium notatum, he kicked off a new age of scientific sovereignty over nature. Since then, the antibioti
wildly over-projecting rises in global temperature...(Natural News) Belief in the concept of catastrophic man-made global warming is now virtually demanded of everyone who wants to be taken seriously and perceived to be a thinking, educated person. S
Ryan Pickrell for The Daily Caller News Foundation via Western Journalism reports, North Korea is a land of truly unspeakable horrors, according to the tales of defectors who escaped the oppressive grip of the Kim family.
MISSED ONE IMPORTANT DETAIL...Ellysa Chenery for Western Journalism reports, Christian numerologist David Meade is predicting the world will come to an end on Saturday. His prediction is based on an interpretation of Bible passages and astronomical e
Following a stronger-than-expected Eurozone PMI print this morning, Markit reports a mixed bag for preliminary September US PMIs with Manufacturing limping higher but Services missing expectations and slipping notably. After 5 straight months of gain
For the third time in as many weeks Israel has reportedly bombed positions inside Syria. Syrian state media along with multiple regional outlets showed fires burning at a facility near the Damascus international airport in the early hours of Friday.
Litecoin creator Charlie Lee says a trusted source has told him that China will not ban bitcoin mining operations or the bitcoin network. He says the rumors are being propagated by large-scale traders who are attempting to manipulate the bitcoin pric
Lugging an AK-47, fighting ISIS in Syria - Amir Taaki has seen some shit. But, through it all, the hacker - best known for writing crypto code in abandoned London flats and creating one of the earliest dark markets powered by bitcoin - has kep
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