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October 1, 2025 Hi again. It’s Al Letson, host of Reveal and More To The Story. I have to tell you, cryptocurrency still puzzles me. This intangible, under-regulated system of blockchains and meme coins seems to be making a handful of people a lot of money. (Not me.) Still, I’ve never fully wrapped my head around it. And that’s one of the reasons I brought in independent tech journalist Molly White to lay it all out for me. Molly has been thinking and writing about the many ups and downs of the crypto industry for years, often with a critical eye. She routinely calls out the industry for failing to live up to the promises of offering people a decentralized digital currency that doesn’t rely on the backing of a bank or government. And lately, she’s particularly focused on how crypto has started influencing our elections. This More To The Story episode comes sandwiched between Reveal’s new two-part series about the epic rise and fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. You might remember a few years ago when FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of fraud after FTX collapsed and billions of dollars worth of crypto vanished. The first episode—"The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 1"—just came out. It features exclusive prison conversations with Bankman-Fried and reexamines the company’s bankruptcy, one of the most expensive in US history. I hope you check out all of our crypto reporting in the Reveal feed on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. —Al Letson

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 democracynow.org Stories "Thirsty for Democracy: The Poisoning of an American City": Special Report on Flint's Water Crisis Today, we go to Flint, Michigan, for a Democracy Now! special on the ongoing Flint water crisis. In 2014, an unelected emergency manager appointed by Michigan ... Read More → Michigan's Water Wars: Nestlé Pumps Millions of Gallons for Free While Flint Pays for Poisoned Water As Flint residents are forced to drink, cook with and even bathe in bottled water, while still paying some of the highest water bills in the county for their poisoned water, we turn to ... Read More → What Did GM & the Governor Know? GM Stopped Using Flint Water Over a Year Before Emergency Declared In October 2014, General Motors recognized the Flint water was corroding its engines. They got permission from the city's unelected emergency manager—who was appointed ... Read More → Meet the Flint Official Whose Bid to Restore Safe Drinking Water Was Blocked by an Unelected Manager To learn more about how how Flint ended up with an unelected emergency manager, we spoke with Flint City Councilmember Eric Mays. Eleven months ago, in March ... Read More → Inside How Citizens, Journalists, Doctors & Scientists Exposed the Flint Water Crisis Cover-up We speak with Curt Guyette of the ACLU of Michigan. He is an investigative reporter who was just named Michigan Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. ... Read More → Headlines → Obama Says He Will Tap "Indisputably Qualified" Candidate for Supreme Court Poll Shows Sanders, Clinton Tied in Nevada Ahead of Caucus U.N. Says Yemen Faces "Humanitarian Catastrophe" with Over 6,000 Dead Cuba and U.S. Sign Deal to Restart Commercial Flights for 1st Time in 50 Years Utah: Author Terry Tempest Williams Buys 1,750 Acres of Oil & Gas Leases to Block Drilling South Dakota Could Become 1st State to Pass Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bill Chicago: 12 Arrested After Blocking Traffic to Protest Deportations Providence College Students Stage Sit-in over Racism on Campus Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1st U.N. Secretary-General from Africa, Dies at 93 Forward this email → Donate today →

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With Investigations in Nevada and Utah, BLM Moves to Quell Rising Antigovernment Ire 16MAI14

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THESE "patriots" challenging the BLM with weapons are terrorist, no different than al qadea or boko haram. They would have willingly killed US government officials if outgunned BLM agents had tried to take further action. This is further proof of the assault on our Republic by agents and supporters of the right wing fanatics of the Tea Party. Allowing those who have broken the law, who threatened federal agents with deadly force must be brought to justice unless we, as a nation, are ready to accept becoming like Mexico, Lebanon or Nigeria, where militants and warlords control areas of the nation with impunity. Our government has the responsibility to the rest of us to enforce the law and stop these people before some innocent civilian on federal public land or a federal agent doing their job is killed. 

With Investigations in Nevada and Utah, BLM Moves to Quell Rising Antigovernment Ire

By Ryan Lenz on May 16, 2014 - 2:43 pm 

The federal Bureau of Land Management kept a low public profile in the weeks following the armed standoff at Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch, where the government backed down in the face of opposition from heavily armed militiamen. But this week the agency took to the airwaves to promise that such incidents would not go unpunished.
Speaking with National Public Radio, BLM director Neil Kornze said the agency was intent on working through the legal system to address those who broke the law on April 12 when heavily armed antigovernment militias forced BLM to suspend a court-ordered roundup of rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle from roughly 600,000 acres of public lands. Photos and eyewitness accounts from the standoff indicate that the militiamen trained their guns on federal agents.
“I can’t say a lot because there’s an active investigation going on, but we are working hard to insure that those who did break the law are held accountable,” Kornze said on Monday’s episode of The Diane Rehm Show. “We are going to work through the legal system.”
“Some folks did break the law,” and they “are working hard to ensure that those who did break the law are held accountable,” he added.
Kornze’s comments are the first from the BLM since the Nevada standoff, and they come as other clashes between antigovernment “Patriots” and federal agents have popped up around the West.
In Utah, last weekend, antigovernment activists protested restrictions on the use of federal lands by riding ATVs into restricted areas of Recovery Canyon, which were closed to motorized traffic to protect archaeological sites from damage. Megan Crandall, a BLM spokeswoman in Utah, told Hatewatch that there were undercover agents in the Utah crowd documenting who violated federal law, and that the BLM was devoting “substantial resources” to pursue charges there, too.
“The BLM is continuing to investigate and will pursue all available redress through the legal system to hold individuals who broke the law accountable,” Crandall said.

Stop the Navy's war on whales -- NRDC BioGems News, March 2014

HERE is the NRDC's BioGems news with 2 calls to action. One is a petition campaign calling on Pres Obama to take action to protect Utah's Greater Canyonlands. The other is a e mail letter campaign to Sec of Defense Hagel calling on him to order US Navy explosives and sonar testing be move out of areas heavily populated by whales, dolphins and other marine mammals to prevent the deaths of approximately 1000 whales alone. Watch the video by Pierce Brosnan and click the link to send your letter.

March 2014 NRDC Takes Navy to Court to Save Whales We've filed suit in federal court to stop a reckless Navy plan for training with sonar and explosives that could injure or kill thousands of marine mammals over the next five years. We’ve also launched a powerful online media campaign, led by Pierce Brosnan, to mobilize public pressure on the Navy to end its senseless assault on whales. BioGems Defenders have already sent more than 193,500 messages to Defense Secretary Hagel. Make your voice heard now. It's Time to Protect Utah's Greater Canyonlands Located in the heart of Utah's Redrock Wilderness, Greater Canyonlands is truly one of America's last wild places. Its vast expanse boasts stunning plateaus and canyons, archeological sites more than 10,000 years old and habitat for a diverse range of wildlife. This irreplaceable landscape is threatened by potash mining, oil and gas drilling and potential tar sands development. This past week, President Obama took a bold step for wildland protection by adding Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands to the California Coastal National Monument. As the president continues to build his legacy on public lands, we are urging him to also permanently protect Greater Canyonlands. A Message from Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brosnan is committed to fighting a Navy training plan that could kill nearly 1,000 marine mammals. Judge Kills Keystone Route In a victory for landowners in Nebraska, a court has ruled that a state law which fast-tracked approval of the Keystone XL pipeline route in the state is unconstitutional. The court ruling is a major blow to TransCanada's plans to build Keystone through Nebraska. Learn more. Tufted Puffins in Peril NRDC is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the tufted puffin as an endangered species. In the last three decades, these football-sized seabirds -- which sport red bills and yellow tufts -- have seen their numbers along the Pacific coast plummet from more than 30,000 to fewer than 4,000. Learn more. Shell Oil Abandons Arctic Drilling 13,000 likes, shares and comments! Like us on Facebook for more popular content! We now have more than 1,000 YouTube subscribers and nearly 1 million views. Please subscribe here to get the very latest video updates. BioGems Defenders sent more than 100,000 messages, calling on President Obama to stop the Pebble Mine by directing the Environmental Protection Agency to use its authority under the Clean Water Act. Our voices have been heard! The EPA has just initiated that process.