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  In March, somewhat out of the blue, ECB President Mario Draghi issued an odd statement confirming that the European Central Bank needs to approve any operation in the foreign reserves of euro zone countries, including gold and large foreign currency holdings. Specifically, Draghi made this statement to two Italian…
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  Both Beijing and Moscow seem to have sent an unspoken ultimatum to the New World Order in Washington and elsewhere: Venezuela is not going to become another Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya. We have seen how Russia sent military troops to Venezuela, and China is backing Russia. New World Order agents like John Bolton…
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      The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a mandate that’s been 15 years in the making to integrate government databases for ID verification. The plan always has been to make this a requirement for passengers, and it has started rolling out in select areas. Furthermore, private…
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  In the last few years, electric vehicles have seen a significant rise all over the world. It was such a big hit that the biggest automakers in the market started making plans to go electric. It is also expected that very soon, we can see a 100% switch from diesel cars to EVs. One of the biggest reason to…
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  The Danish government is considering giving stores and gas stations the option of becoming cash-free as a measure against crime. Lawmakers are to consider easing current rules which make it compulsory for the vast majority of stores to accept cash payments, DR reports. Suggested changes to the rules would allow…
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    NASA’s ongoing, decades-long survey of polar ice has yielded some truly incredible photographs over the years, but one recent still captured what appears to be a perfectly, almost impossibly rectangular iceberg. Snapped by NASA’s ICE mission, as part of Operation IceBridge, the giant tabular iceberg…
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  Scientists have discovered a gigantic cavity growing under Antarctica that they say is roughly the size of Manhattan and stands almost 1,000 feet tall. The huge opening at the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier – a mass known as the “most dangerous glacier in the world” – is so big it…
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Al-Rumahiya, Saudi Arabia, Jan 22, 2018, REUTERS: The dromedaries paraded down a dusty racetrack as judges rated the size of their lips, cheeks, heads and knees. Crowds of men watched from the bleachers, hooting when the beasts representing their own tribe loped down the track. A…
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  The “discovery” of places or living things in nature about which very little is known or reported seems to pique our interest. This is perhaps because they are usually things that are existing or occurring right under our nose. One delightful example comes from Australia-based entomologist Tim Heard,…
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  Ancient Origins A strange chalice made its way into the British Museum’s collection in the 1950s. It is a 1,600-year-old jade green Roman artifact called the Lycurgus Cup. The image on the chalice is an iconic scene with King Lycurgus of Thrace, but the element that sets this cup apart is the effect…
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