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When Weaponizing the Dollar Backfires - How China Is Quietly Undermining U.S. Financial Hegemony

6 May 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Heath Muchena

“The United States is treating its currency like a weapon. But China is treating it like ammunition.” The United States has long benefitted from an unprecedented financial privilege: the U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. That pr...

Seeds Of Doubt - 11 MAY 2025

11 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Myxoplixx

In the dead of night, as the world slept, a flurry of cryptic maneuvers unfolded across continents, each move a thread in a tapestry of power plays so brazen, yet covert, they defy mere coincidence. The pieces are set, the players obscured, but the p...

THE ENLIGHTENMENT: Why Freedom of Speech Matters

29 Jan 2025 5 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked

I have way too many thoughts in a day, often about random nonsense, so I thought it best to just get them out of my cluttered brain and onto paper... or a screen, rather, and see if people care to comment on them or not. Because sometimes, mate, bore...

DAWN of the REPUBLIC, 509 BC: The Battle of Silva Arsia

28 Jan 2025 15 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

New series. 200 battles. 2,000 years of history. Let's get to it.     ROME'S FOUNDING LEGEND   PRINCE AENEAS According to legend, the foundation date for what would become “The Eternal City” is the 21st of April, 753 BC. In their own legends, Romans...

THE 2nd SICILIAN WAR, 410 - 404 BC: Hannibal's Vengeance

14 Aug 2024 28 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked

While the Greek states fought off the Persian Empire in the early fifth century BC, defeating Darius and Xerxes's armies at Marathon, Salamis, Plataea and Mycale, the Greeks of Sicily simultaneously defeated a vast Carthaginian invasion force at the...

A HISTORY OF ROME IN 200 BATTLES

28 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

'Ello again. Still alive.   Since I don't have proper access to my Greek history sources right now, I thought I'd make an informal start on Roman history. I've also been between jobs and even between houses right now, so things are a little funny in...

The rich grandmother of the average Russian

5 Mar 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z8hC8wob8QSl42jG And let's calculate the pension of your rich grandmother in the happiest country? How is the pension calculated? There's a teenager writing to me in private messages. First of a...

FDIC Reversing Anti-Crypto Policies: The New Crypto Frontier

3 Apr 2025 4 minute read 0 comments MintDice.com

On March 28th, 2025, crypto enthusiasts everywhere rejoiced when the FDIC reversed several anti-crypto policies that had been enforced during the Biden era. But are these reversals good for the people, or just the banks? While we are always happy tha...

But what if you don't steal? Let's look at the example of Estonia

28 Apr 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aA0wj5sPyHqtzDjw Today we will talk about the small Estonian town of Narva by Russian standards. It is located right on the border with Russia, and therefore, it is in great demand among our com...

Wrapping Up the Last Engage2Earn Missions

5 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments auspol

G'day folks, Just dropping in with a quick post to tie off some loose ends from our recent Auspol Engage2Earn election campaign here on Bulb and make sure everyone's caught up on the bigger picture we discussed last time.   What’re youse doing?#24  ...