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El Presidente Nayib Bukele tomó por sorpresa al mundo entero cuando anunció que El Salvador se convertiría en el primer país en adoptar una criptomoneda como moneda de curso legal junto con el dólar. Plan Cuscatlán: de las Pandillas al Bitcoin, es un podcast documental de 5 episodios que investiga cómo El Salvador se embarcó en este experimento y que consecuencias trajo para el país. Plan Cuscatlán es una producción de Mantel @mantel.world www.mantel.world La conducción y producción periodís ...
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Each week, host Scott Harris conducts interviews on a wide range of political, economic and social topics with individuals and representatives of organizations not ordinarily accessible in the mainstream media. This show airs weekly on WPKN (wpkn.org) and streams here in podcast form.
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In a crowded landscape of new millionaires and infinite upside expectations, Aviv Milner investigates the Blockchain bubble to ask what will happen when the music stops. From NFTs to Binance pump tokens, this podcast takes a deeper look at the damage done by a completely unregulated market.
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We are here to raise the financial game by interviewing subject matter experts. At Greater.Finance you will find lots of crypto-related content as we believe it is the future. Join our quest for glory by listening to the episodes and subscribing to the channel. We look forward to having you on board!
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The Freewheeling Diplomat -- Colin Cleary -- served for over three decades in the U.S. Foreign Service. Free now to speak for himself, he offers a practitioner's perspective on key U.S. Foreign Policy challenges. Drawing on his years at U.S. Embassies in Ukraine, Russia and Poland -- as well as other postings -- he has been devoting particular attention to Russia's war on Ukraine. As the podcast moves forward, the Freewheeling Diplomat will be expanding to other topics. Colin Cleary is an Ad ...
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Observations and conversations of the upside down worlds we live in. Nothing is quite as it seems when you dare to question your perceptions and open doors to the unexpected. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/up-is-down-podcast--3564656/support.
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COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.…
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has an approval rating of about 50%. Unemployment in the country is at its lowest level in a decade and the economy is expected to grow about 3% this year, beating forecasts from just a few months ago. But despite all that, in recent mayoral elections across the country, Lula's Workers’ Party (PT) finis…
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Will Microsoft become the next Microstrategy? FEATURING: Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/satoshispage) Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: The ECB is wrong about Bitcoin — It’s central banks that are unfair https://cointelegraph.com/news/ecb-wrong-about-bitcoin-central-banks-unfa…
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Will Italy’s plan to double taxes chase away bitcoin innovation? FEATURING: Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: FBI arrests Alabama man for SEC X hack that spiked price of bitcoin https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/10/17/sec-hack-bitcoin-price-fbi-arrest-man.html Source: CNBC Coinbase shares up 27% in October as Bitcoin rallies to $…
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New HBO Documentary claims Peter Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto. He says No. FEATURING: Daniel Cawrey (https://twitter.com/danielcawrey) Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/arcbtc) Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/satoshis_page) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: A New Bitcoin Documentary Reopens the Search for Satoshi Nakamoto http…
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COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.…
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Jam packed show with incredible updates on every story we follow including Puff Daddy’s new lawyer!!! FEATURING: Ugly Old Goat (https://twitter.com/Uglyoldgoat1) Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: In the future of money, who holds the power? https://x.com/HBODocs/status/184186327…
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Latin America is the world's breadbasket. The region is now the source of more than 60% of the world’s soy, almost half its corn and more than a quarter of its beef. At the same time, about 28% of people in Latin America and the Caribbean don’t have enough food for themselves. On today’s podcast, we’ll explore Latin America’s so-called “food parado…
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1) Trump's Fascist Threats Increase as 2024 Campaign Nears End Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of "How Fascism Works," talks about his newest book, "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite The Past To Control The Future," and the threat posed to democracy by Donald Trump and the Republican Party …
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In September 2024, Mexico’s legislature quickly approved a series of constitutional reforms at the behest of outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The revisions, among other things, fundamentally change the nature of the country’s judiciary and fundamentally and permanently change the role of the armed forces in public security. Under the…
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1) Trump, GOP Plan to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose Justin Glawe, an independent journalist, frequent contributor to Rolling Stone magazine, writes the newsletter American Doom. Glawe, whose forthcoming book is tilted, “If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened,” discusses the important issues examined in h…
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Although Democrats still lead among Latinos, Republicans have grown their share of support among that community in the last two elections. Looking ahead to the upcoming contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, we discuss some of the reasons for that shift, the long and little-known history of the Latino population in the United States and ho…
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1) US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel's Brutal Gaza War Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, talks about his latest book, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine," with a just published revised edition that includes a new afterword on the G…
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Sometimes I guess it pays to be a rat. FEATURING: Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/satoshispage) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: Caroline Ellison, Star Witness at FTX Trial, Is Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/caroline-ellison-ftx-sentence.html Source: NY Times Bitcoin ETF …
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The Fed raised rates — now what? FEATURING: Kyle Forkey (https://twitter.com/Theesehands) Vlad Costea (https://twitter.com/thevladcostea) Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/ArcBtc) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: BlackRock Says Clients Are Buying Bitcoin to Hedge Against US Debt Crisis https://decrypt.co/250205/blackrock-clie…
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1) Israel's Attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon Threatens to Ignite Long Feared Wider War John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus and Global Just Transition at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses his recent article, "A Ceasefire Is Not Enough in Gaza," focusing on Netanyahu's successive actions that appear designed to provoke a wider Mi…
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Claudia Sheinbaum will take office as Mexico's new president next week, on October 1, 2024. Often described as a technocrat, she also supports some of current President AMLO's more controversial policies, such as the judicial reform that was just approved. In this episode Vanessa Rubio, a professor at the London School of Economics and a former sen…
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1) Escalating Conflict Between Israel and Hezbollah Could Erupt into Regional War Jennifer Loewenstein, former associate director of Middle Eastern Studies and senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides analysis of Israel's two waves of attacks targeting Hezbollah via pagers and walkie-talkie explosions that killed at least 14…
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Will politics make the price go up? FEATURING: Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala) Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/Satoshis_Page) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: MicroStrategy Just Bought Another $1.1 Billion Worth of Bitcoin - Decrypt https://decrypt.co/249319/microstrategy-just-bought-another-1-1-billion-b…
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Mark Karpeles is back again. He just won’t leave. FEATURING: Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: Bitcoin Flounders Ahead of Friday Jobs Report That Might Push Fed to Slash Rates by 50 Basis Points https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/09/05/bitcoin-flounders-ahead-of-friday-jobs-r…
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Are baseball cards securities? The SEC must find out! FEATURING: Robert Allen (https://twitter.com/satoshisound) Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: SEC takes aim at NFT marketplace OpenSea https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/sec-takes-aim-at-nft-marketplace-opensea/ar-AA1pB…
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This podcast episode features Kendra McSweeney and Fritz Pinnow, part of a team investigating a new trend: the emergence of coca cultivation in Central America. McSweeney, a professor of geography at Ohio State University, has research human-environment interactions, cultural and political ecology, conservation and development, resilience, demograp…
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Is Bitcoin about to go parabolic? FEATURING: Jameson Lopp (https://twitter.com/lopp) Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala) Vlad Costea (https://twitter.com/TheVladCostea) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: The Bitcoin Bull Run Could Be Two Months Away https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-average-cycle-bull-run/ Source: Bit…
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1) Donald Trump's Repeated Stochastic Terrorism Now Targets Haitian Immigrants Wajahat Ali, creator of Left Hook substack, co-host of The Democracy-ish podcast, and author of "Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American," discusses the presidential debate and election campaign, with a focus on Trump's…
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They froze her assets, but did they look in the river? FEATURING: Jimmy Song (https://twitter.com/jimmysong) Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/Cryptopoly) Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/Arcbtc) Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/Satoshispage) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: Crypto Behemoth Coinbase Enters The Bitcoin DeFi Are…
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Javier Milei has so far succeeded in making drastic changes to Argentina's economic policies. In this episode we evaluate what has worked and what hasn't, and who have been the winners and losers. Milei's deep spending cuts have produced in the first 5 months of 2024 a primary fiscal surplus of 1.1% of GDP and inflation is down to about 4% a month.…
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1) New Book Warns Voters that 2024 is "The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism" Mark Green, former two-term New York City public advocate and author or editor of 26 books on U.S. politics, discusses his newest book, "The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024," which warns Americans that this November will be a choice between a Par…
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1) Gaza War Continues to Kill as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Hostage Deaths James Zogby, co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute, discusses the effort at last week's Democratic party nominating convention in Chicago to address U.S. policy supporting Israel's brutal war and mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Ga…
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The entry of Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential race has completely transformed the election. In this episode we ask what we can expect from her Latin America policy were she to win in November. How do leaders in the region perceive her? What are her views on migration? What can we learn from her record as Vice-President, tasked with the challe…
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• US Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War Horrors Dr. Ahmad Javed Yousaf, MD, an internist and pediatrician practicing in Benton, Arkansas, who will recount his horrifying experience providing life saving health care to Palestinian civilians under attack by Israel in Gaza, with a focus on what Americans should know about the human suffe…
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Bitcoin doesn’t care about your politics FEATURING: Daniel M. (https://twitter.com/dmnyc) Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/Satoshispage) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: US SEC approves first spot ether ETFs to start trading Tuesday https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-sec-approves-first-spot-ether-etfs-start-trading…
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Counterpoint with Scott Harris, Aug. 19, 2024 1) Assessing Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris' Economic Policy Proposals Matt Bruenig, president of People’s Policy Project, a left wing thinktank, discusses the important issues examined in his recent article, "Our Verdict on Kamala Harris’s New Plans," and issues related to economic policies being…
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