The Beautiful Death of CNN

[The following post is by TDV Editor, Jeff Berwick]

I grew up behind the iron curtain in the 1970s in communist northern Canada with a black and white TV that you actually had to get up to change the channel on the knob.  The knob had theoretically 13 channels but only 4 of them actually had anything on them.

One was the government propaganda channel, CBC, the other was CTV and then there was some sort of local channel and there was also something on channel 13, if memory serves, but it mostly looked like a snowstorm through the rabbit ears.

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Video Proof that Bitcoin Today is like the Internet in 1995

[The following post is by TDV Editor, Jeff Berwick]

The internet has changed the world. It has changed the way humans interact and do business. There aren't many people today who could even imagine their life without the internet.

It's amazing to consider that just twenty years ago most people didn't even know what it was.

For instance, in 1995, in the following clip, David Letterman and Bill Gates discuss the internet.

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The Solutions to Ferguson And All The World’s Problems Lie Within You

[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

On this day, Thanksgiving, which is a celebration of a day centuries ago where Americans welcomed and fed undocumented immigrants… and then those undocumented immigrants went on to wholesale slaughter the early Americans… and with so many problems in the world today from Ferguson, to Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria (note which government is intricately involved in all these and many more conflicts) we thought we'd make today's communique short and sweet.

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