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Chatter #295 – Michael Diamant: Modern Buildings Are Ugly, We Must Return To Classical Architecture

Are you ready for an episode on architecture that will completely change the way you look at buildings and cities? Michael Diamant is a Swedish activist for new traditional architecture. He believes that modernist architecture is ugly, has taken over the architecture world, and has slowly been ruining our cities for the past…

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Chatter #267 – Tom Burgis on Dirty Money, Kleptocracy, and the Web of Global Financial Corruption

Tom Burgis is an award-winning investigative reporter focused on domestic and international financial crime and corruption. He has exposed major corruption scandals, covered terrorist attacks, coups and forgotten conflicts, and traced dirty money from the Kremlin to Washington.  His first book, The Looting Machine, was published in 2015. It revealed how the exploitation…

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Chatter #244 – Christopher Leonard – ”Fed-Pilled” – The Lords of Easy Money And The Federal Reserve

Christopher Leonard is the author of the new book The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has…

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Chatter #194 [Live] – Chris Martenson On Institutional Collapse and Disaster Capitalism

On this episode of Chatter I am speaking to Chris Martenson. I have been paying more and more attention to Chris’s channel Peak Prosperity as one of the best places to find calm analysis of the current state of the world. In this episode I wanted to speak to Chris about whether our…

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Corruption? In the UK?

This article was originally posted on 99percent.org. We are all aware that in some countries – like Somalia, Venezuela and Afghanistan – corruption is endemic and hugely damaging. As Robert Zoellick, former President of the World Bank put it, “Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral…

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What Are NFTs?

A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is a piece of data that is stored on a blockchain that certifies a digital asset to be unique. An NFT can represent pictures, videos, GIFs, audio and other types of digital files. Since they are stored on the blockchain they can be used to verify ownership and authenticity….

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