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Crypto contradiction: Boom Bust explores how governments try to control cryptocurrencies that were not meant to be regulated China’s Central Bank has unveiled plans to roll out its own digital currency, which will be called DCEP (Digital currency Electronic Payment). Beijing has been working on the project for about five or six years. RT’s Boom Bust talks to Todd Horwitz of Bubba Trading about the latest in digital currency developments. “If you look at the whole cryptocurrency world, the biggest problem is that everybody, including China’s Central Bank, wants to have control of it,” he says. //www.youtube.com/embed/XXjOG13x8VA Horwitz reminds us that “the whole idea behind cryptocurrencies, such as bit...

Brussels court postpones extradition hearing on ex-Catalan leader Puigdemont to December 16 Catalonia’s pro-independence former leader Carles Puigdemont said on Tuesday that a Brussels court had postponed to December 16 a hearing on an arrest warrant from Spain for his extradition, Reuters reported. Puigdemont went into self-imposed exile in Brussels after Catalonia made a failed independence bid in October 2017, when he headed the region’s government. Spain, which previously failed to have Puigdemont extradited, renewed the attempt after its Supreme Court this month sentenced nine other separatist leaders to up to 13 years in jail for their role in the events of 2017. A lawyer for Puigdemont, Simon Bekaert, said the legal arguments remained the same as they were just after th...

Taliban should call 1-month ceasefire to prove they still have control of militant forces – Kabul The Taliban should call a one-month ceasefire to prove they still control their forces, Afghanistan’s national security advisor said on Tuesday. Hamdullah Mohib, a strong critic of earlier US-Taliban negotiations that excluded his government, said the Taliban no longer operate as a cohesive body and some commanders may have joined Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), AFP reported. “If the Taliban really want peace, they should prove how much control they have over their commanders and how much they really obey their commands,” Mohib said. Observers have sometimes questioned whether there is a disconnect between the Taliban’s political wing, based in Doha, and its military commanders...

Pilot catches bird EXPLODING on VIDEO after colliding with Russian airliner Unsettling footage purportedly taken from inside a Russian airliner shows a bird smashing into the cockpit windshield, making the pilot filming to drop his phone in shock. The gruesome mid-flight incident was captured on camera by a pilot filming from the cockpit of a Boeing 737, according to reports. As he films the surrounding landscape, a bird suddenly appears in front of the aircraft. The plane then slams straight into the unlucky feathered creature, splattering its insides all over the windscreen. A loud thud can be heard on impact. Clearly startled, the pilot drops his cellphone and shouts, “Oh, s**t.” Although it appears the aircraft was unharmed, “bird strikes” can p...