Zero Hedge
Amid hopes for more mainstream adoption, thanks to CME launching Bitcoin futures, and expectations of another ‘fork dividend’ as the SegWitzx software update looms, Bitcoin prices have soared above $6600 this morning…
It appears traders are rotating out of other cryptos into Bitcoin once again…
Twitter’s pitch deck for RT?
21st Century Wire says…
In what appears to be a coordinated attack on RT and Sputnik, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (@jack) has declared all advertising purchased by the two media outlets unfit for the online news and social networking service.
Ever since the defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016, Silicon Valley firms like Google and Facebook – all of who backed Hillary Clinton and ploughed huge sums of money into her losing campaign – have been on a mission to try and marginalise and disappear alternative news content which runs counter to the mainstream party line.
Zuckerberg: Sold-out his use base for fame and fortune.
Now Facebook wants to charge publishers and businesses who want their content to be visible in the site’s News Feed section.
The world of personal digital devices is moving at a rapid rate and few cyber pundits are as well positioned to comment on all of these developments – as cyber security expert John McAfee.
While attending an international tech conference in Romania, McAfee discusses a number of important personal privacy issues, including how hackers can access your smartphone and why, and the safety of crypto-currencies in today’s world of data-mining, along with trojan horses, the strategy behind malware and remote cyber attacks.
Our weekly documentary film curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE.
21st Century Wire says…
We’ve been covering the anti-vaccine movement (and the science) for quite some time. The dangers of aluminum and the neurotoxicity of vaccines are well-documented. Now, this debate has turned up in a court of law. Which prompts us to ask this question again:
This is a story about how once trusted mainstream media outlets like Washington Post and the New York Times have used their vast platforms to distort reality and spread disinformation en masse – to both the American and global public. It’s also a story about a new “excuse industry” which has sprung up to medicate Hillary Clinton’s tragic defeat.
As our consumer society becomes more and more obsessed with convenience and enamored with technology, the harbingers have never been clearer: man is putting his faith in machines, over himself and the divine. In this new digital technocracy, the machine will usurp both the self and the divine as man’s prime directive. Welcome to the future…
David Thrussell
New Dawn Magazine
