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[ad_1] A bridge can connect two systems. It can also decide which traffic is allowed to cross. In January, I published “The Tokenization of Everything.” The argument was not that blockchain is evil or that every tokenized asset is a control device. The argument was narrower and more dangerous: once property, money, credentials, and access rights are converted into programmable digital instruments inside a regulated, bank-integrated ecosystem, ownership quietly mutates into conditional permission. Tokens are not neutral representations of property. They are code that can be designed to expire, freeze, restrict, or revoke based on compliance scores, policy triggers, or algorithmic…

[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich appears to have found the perfect way to answer a reported ICC arrest warrant request for war crimes: announce more war crimes. According to Common Dreams, Smotrich said the ICC prosecutor had secretly sought a warrant tied to the forced expulsion of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. His response was not…

[ad_1] Thucydides. This is the plaster cast bust currently in exposition of Zurab Tsereteli’s gallery in Moscow. Photograph Source: shakko – CC BY-SA 3.0 History doesn’t repeat itself, but there are relevant analogies in any discussion of historical events, and these can be helpful.  The current tensions in Sino-American relations are reminiscent of both the Peloponnesian rivalry and war between Athens and Sparta in the 5th-century B.C. (as recounted by the Athenian historian Thucydides) and the European rivalry between Germany and Britain in the years before World War I. Harvard Professor Graham Allison wrote about the example of the Peloponnesian…

[ad_1] Cooper with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photograph Source: U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Ito – Public Domain Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command whose responsibilities include coordinating attacks on Iran, recently testified at a Senate hearing. Cooper said that when it comes to Iranian civilian deaths caused by US missiles, the United States has done a practically flawless job. The New York Times reported that Cooper suggested: “the US military’s record … had been near perfect.” According to Admiral Cooper, near perfection apparently translates to an estimated 1,700 civilian deaths in Iran since February…

[ad_1] Former Winnipeg police officer Matthew Kadyniuk accepted a two-year non-custodial sentence after pleading guilty to breach of trust and theft under $5,000 ($3,638 U.S.). In 2024, Kadyniuk and another officer were caught stealing during an undercover “integrity test.” While responding to a fake vehicle break-in, the two officers took items—including cash, cigarettes, and bear spray—from a backpack allegedly belonging to the suspect. The theft was secretly recorded as part of the undercover operation. Kadyniuk, who resigned from the police force after his arrest, will spend the first year of his sentence under house arrest and the second year under…

[ad_1] Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) is one of the good guys. In fact, he’s one of the very few members of Congress who believes what he says about limited government, individual freedom, and the U.S. Constitution. If you support these things, you’ll support Thomas Massie, and if you oppose him, it’s because you oppose these things. We’ve just seen the DC Republican establishment come out in an unprecedented campaign against an incumbent member of their own party because Donald Trump told them to. This action is profoundly meaningful and instructive about the system of governance we have in this country. First, it…

[ad_1] Image by Wikipedia. In Bolivia, after weeks of protests against the proposed privatization of indigenous lands, the Rodrigo Paz government is setting the stage for mass repression against political opponents. The president, who calls himself a democratic centrist, has unleashed a systematic campaign of criminalization and stigmatization against Bolivia’s indigenous and popular movements. What we are witnessing is the deliberate rhetorical construction of an enemy within, designed to legally and politically justify the dismantling of democracy, the Plurinational State, and the rights of indigenous peoples along with them. From the highest levels of government, there has been a highly…

[ad_1] New on the Daily Grail Patreon page: Early access to our full interview with Karin Austin on the alien abduction phenomenon, and her work preserving the research of Dr John Mack at the Archives of the Impossible – check it out! These Apollo ‘UFO’ images have been public for decades. So why are people talking about them now? The Sun blasted a mysterious radio signal for 19 straight days – here’s what we know. Millions report near-death experiences. Are these the brain’s final “simulation” of life, or is there something else going on? Why did Trump post a sexy…

[ad_1] If Thomas Massie were president, there would be no American involvement in the war in Iran. Rep. Massie (R-KY) introduced a bipartisan resolution barring “unauthorized hostilities” against Iran and said flatly that, “The ongoing war between Israel and Iran is not our war.” Massie respects the Constitution: Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war. A Massie presidency would not begin hostilities at the behest of a foreign nation and then pretend the War Powers Resolution clock never started when Iran didn’t turn out like Venezuela (which he also wouldn’t have started). If…

[ad_1] Photo by Edwin Hooper Interest rates are rising as if this will simply compensate investors for the risk of inflation. The reality is that it will increase the economy’s inability to cope with the breakdown that is already in progress. How Did the Myth of Interest Rates Rising in Response to Price Inflation Begin? The moral rationalization is to protect the purchasing power of creditor claims on debtors, as measured by the purchasing power of debt payments over consumer prices. The pretense is that creditors use their interest to buy goods and services. But already in the 18th century,…