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  1. Digital Asset Investor Doubles Down: XRP Is ‘Not an Investment’ but a 200-Year Financial Shift — BigGo Finance

    A well-known crypto commentator is making an unusually sweeping claim about XRP, arguing the digital asset should not…
    #Economy #bankforinternationalsettlements #BlackSwanCapitalist #centralbank #CentralBanks #DigitalAssetInvestor #InternationalMonetaryFund #RippleLabs #U.S.SecuritiesandExchangeCommission #Versan #worldbank #xrp
    europesays.com/3235544/

  2. #Ghana hollows out #forests and green protections to advance #mining interests

    Malavika Vyawahare
    28 Aug 2024
    via @mongabay

    Key points:

    - The Ghanaian government has significantly ramped up the approval of mining permits under legislation passed in late 2022, intensifying concerns about runaway environmental damage.

    - The country is already the top #gold producer in #Africa, but much of the mining is done in #forest reserves and other #biodiverse #ecosystems.

    - The government has long cracked down on artisanal illegal #GoldMiners, but activists say the real damage is being wrought by #industrial operations, both legal and illegal.

    - A debt default in 2022 has seen #Ghana lean even more heavily on its gold to mitigate the crisis, prompting warnings that such a policy is neither #economically nor #environmentally #sustainable.

    Read more: news.mongabay.com/2024/08/ghan

    #ApampramaReserve #HeritageImperial #WaterIsLife #SaveTheForests #NoMiningWithoutConsent #CorporateColonialism #C&GAleska #GoldMining #GSBA #LithiumMining #BodiForestReserve #IMFLoans #WorldBank #IMFLoanSharks