Only independent podcasts and so on they are keeping our democracy and freedom which really is under threat. They are keeping it alive. So please give them any financial help you can.

It's a good investment, not immediately, but in the long term it's not that you get something

for it, but in the spiritual sense, the air intellectual that your breathing will be much better.

So please give the money to Noveira media and you will sleep better. The F.N. In the extraordinarily named soldier, Gregor MacGregor appeared in London.

In the early 19th century,

the extraordinarily named soldier, Gregger, appeared in London,

offering an enticing investment opportunity.

The new state of Poyaz, liberated, he said,

in the wave of Bolivarian revolutions that were sweeping South America

was beautiful and ripe for investment.

Boyd by a few thousand for the revolutions, impressed by McGregor's audience with King George IV, and perhaps intoxicated

by the newly coherent global capital markets. English investors poured money into the project.

Some showed even more dedication and 250 colonists set sale across the Atlantic for the promised shores. There was only one problem. The

country didn't exist.

When the colonists landed, instead of the thriving cities they were promised,

they found a mere handful of buildings, and rather more than a handful of mosquitoes. Within a couple of months, half were dead.

This mangling of scam, speculation, frenzy, and illusion contains the seeds of much of the

contemporary world.

And in recent years, these same tactics of illusion and fantasy

have played a major role in the construction of cities.

Now, instead of elaborate tales there are CGI renders and glossy

PDFs. Cities in general are composed as much of the spectral futures as they are of

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