According to Venezuela’s far-right opposition and the Trump administration, Nicolas Maduro’s election in 2018 was fraudulent. They argue that Guaidó, as president of the National Assembly, is next in line for the presidency. Over 50 countries, mostly in Europe and in North and South America...
To me this suggests that someone waited to have a full hand count and then manipulated the machine count to match the percentages before reversing them. This may have happened in a single large county. Drew mentioned that the machine-counted votes took up to 4 hours longer to be released ...
Let’s not get it twisted though. Black folks are not new to this country music thing. The first “string bands” in this country were comprised of enslaved people. Moreover, the root of country music isblues, of which Santi Elijah Holley said, “It’s Black as hell.” When I was g...
“The morgues were packed almost to the ceiling with bodies stacked one on top of another. The morticians worked day and night. You could never turn around without seeing a big red truck loaded with caskets for the train station so bodies could be sent home. We didn’t have the time t...
Up until a hundred years ago or so, we always trusted in someTHING to represent money. However, something happened along the way, and we’ve changed our trust model from trusting someTHING to trusting in someONE. Let me explain. Over time, people found it too cumbersome to walk around the...
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Bitcoin is already alleviating suffering for Venezuelans. Rather than allowing hyperinflation to steal all their cash, they’re making the government pay for its own mistakes. About the only reason Americans aren’t doing the same thing is that BTC transaction costs are getting kind of ridiculous...
Analysts and officials are once again trying to predict what a ‘fair’ price for oil is – a prediction that must take into account the summer driving season, the possibility of new sanctions on Iran, elections in Venezuela and Iraq, continuous OPEC chatter about “mission accomplished or not...