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The Barbaric and Beautiful Face of Power

12 Apr 2023 19 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

"For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm." - Conan On Monday, the 10th of April, I covered the metaphysics and history of de Jouvenel’s Power. Today, what I will endeavor to cover is Power’s essence or character a...

Power's Immutability

10 Apr 2023 15 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

As soon as I finished the works by Burnham I could get my hands on, I immediately turned to another mid-20th-century political scientist: Bertrand de Jouvenel. His work On Power: The Natural History of its Growth is monumental. Its lofty aims are mad...

The victim of gold reserve act - next part

8 Apr 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Sdom

This way,the beatifull shiny coin, started an exciting journey. Unfortunately, unlike this coin, seven other double eagles didn’t have such a luck,, and were seized or voluntarily turned in to the Secret Service, in the first year of investigation, t...

The Manager's Beast

3 Apr 2023 8 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Why did James Burnham believe that a social revolution occurred after WWI? Over the past several weeks, I’ve taken the time to read Burnham’s essential works. I started with Suicide of the West, proceeded to Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom, and...

Sumatra, Samosir island on Lake Toba, Tuk Tuk town - my journey around Indonesia

1 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

  Cannibalism in the 20th century? Kanibalizm w XX wieku? The underrated Sumatra belonging to Indonesia has Lake Toba, which is the world's largest island freshwater lake. But on this island, i.e. in Sumatra, there is another island lying in L...

Journey from Semarang to Surabaya - Java island, My trip around Indonesia

29 Mar 2023 1 minute read 3 comments marianomariano68

  Not every traveler knows that the island of Java is perfectly connected. The network of trains, for example, is very extensive and you can get as far as Banyuwangi, a place where there are cheap ferry crossings to the island of Bali. Nie każd...

The Year 1971 As a Starting Point For Cryptocurrency

28 Mar 2023 5 minute read 5 comments SimpleSwap

As we all remember, the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin  (BTC), appeared in 2008. It made a path for other projects like Ethereum (ETH) or Tether (USDT). But if you search the Internet for information about crypto history, you can also find mentions of...

For “Sepideh”, For “Dawn”, “Woman, Life, Freedom”

24 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr

    “Sepideh Qolian” is a young Iranian activist who has become one of the symbols of resistance in the 2022 Iranian revolution This unbelievably brave woman, who was arrested during the labor protests 5 years ago along with several workers, has been...

The Forgotten Wonder of the World? PERSEPOLIS IRAN

23 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Drew Binsky

PERSEPOLIS: The Forgotten Wonder of the World?   You know how some places just WOW you?   That's what's happening to me right now, at Persepolis in Iran. Persepolis is the name of the former capital of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire.   Archa...

Oldest videos about Bitcoin - Bitcoin network as BitTorrent

22 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  Around three weeks ago, I wrote a post about the oldest video about Bitcoin on YouTube. I aim to write more articles about Bitcoin videos created and uploaded during the early 2010s.  This post is about a video by entrepreneur Molly Templeton who h...