09/01/2025
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Divide and Be Conquered – The Dispatch
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The size of the American enterprise as compared to that of smaller countries
has always ensured that American life interacts in a particularly intense way
with mass media. All modern societies are vulnerable to mass-media influence,
of course, but consider, for comparison, a country such as Iceland, which is a
real country, a rather nice […]
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U.S. Freezes Visas For Palestinian Passport Holders Amid Mounting National
Security Threats
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U.S. Freezes Visas For Palestinian Passport Holders Amid Mounting National
Security Threats Weeks after the Trump administration paused approvals of
visitor visas for people of Gaza, the New York Times now reports that the
administration has broadened the suspension to cover nearly all categories of
visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders. NYT cited an August […]
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Bitcoin No Longer Plays Gold's Game
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Bitcoin No Longer Plays Gold’s Game Authored by Armando Aguilar via
CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin was treated as a purely inert asset for years: a
decentralized vault, economically passive despite its fixed issuance schedule.
Yet more than $7 billion worth of Bitcoin already earns native, onchain yield
via major protocols — that premise is breaking down. Gold’s […]
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Opioids More Likely To Kill Than Car Crashes Or Suicide
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Opioids More Likely To Kill Than Car Crashes Or Suicide The National Safety
Council reports that Americans are more likely to die from an opioid overdose
than a car crash or suicide. As Statista’;s Katharina Buchholz shows in the
following chart, the likelihood of dying from opioid use in the U.S. increased
from lifetime odds of one in 96 in 2017 to one […]
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Russia Gears Up For New Nuclear Missile Test
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Russia Gears Up For New Nuclear Missile Test Authored by RFE/RL Staff via
OilPrice.com, Significant activity on Russia’s Novaya Zemlya archipelago
indicates an impending test of the nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile,
known as Skyfall by NATO. The Burevestnik, a complex system designed to carry a
nuclear warhead and evade missile defenses, has a history of […]
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