“China ready to crush the petrodollar and reserve currency” and other Tweeted Links…

China ready to crush the petrodollar and reserve currency with new oil contract backed by Yuan and gold [thedailyeconomist.com]

How Rich Chinese Use Visa Fixers to Move to the U.S. [bloomberg.com]

[]( "Arman Eshaghi [es_arman]") Today, I was denied entry to the USA for a scientific conference, because of where I was born #TravelBan [twitter.com]

Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana.… [twitter.com]

Forward Press [baltimoremagazine.com] via @baltimoremag My Big Brother #PaulCoates is a hero. Take a minute and rea… [twitter.com]

Washington AG Bob Ferguson: Motel 6 employees divulged the private info of at least 9,150 guests to ICE agents with… [twitter.com]

Banks are telling customers they’re better off paying 2018 property taxes directly and settling up with the bank la… [twitter.com]

Ed Young from the @NAACP was kind enough to record my talk in Hawai'i. Here is a link: [drive.google.com]… [twitter.com]

Important work by Jemima Pierre on Haitians detained under deplorable prison-like conditions in California. [twitter.com]

Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans… [twitter.com]

155 years ago today, the largest mass execution in U.S. history took place under the orders of Abraham Lincoln. On… [twitter.com]

The Most Awesome Codebreaker in World War II Was a Woman | Backchannel [wired.com] via @backchnnl

Happy Birthday Cyril Lionel Robert James aka CLR James (4 Jan 1901 – 31 May 1989) was an African-Trinidadian histor… [twitter.com]

Google Accused of Trying To Patent Public Domain Technology [yro.slashdot.org] » @BreakingBrown

Some African Cultural Concepts By Steve Biko [chimurengachronic.co.za]

Physiocracy - Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org] <= @RowenaMonde

“the Phys­iocrats were the only School of eco­nom­ics to prop­erly con­sider the role of energy in pro­duc­tion” —S… [twitter.com]

The Thiaroye Massacre: Senegal 1944 [blackthen.com]

Flash Black Photo: Black Wings: Tuskegee Airmen, World War 2 [blackthen.com]

Bakhshali manuscript: oldest recorded use of the zero symbol [theguardian.com]

“How we invented nature” [newhumanist.org.uk]

Two museums are having a fight on Twitter and it's gloriously informative [newstatesman.com]

A database is preserving Africa's archaeological wonders using 3D technology [cnn.it]

The 'internet of things' is sending us back to the Middle Ages [theconversation.com]

U.S. Wireless Industry Is Finally Competitive, FCC Says [wsj.com]

How the Minimum Wage Affects Restaurant Hygiene [npr.org] » @soulphoodie

Solar now costs 6¢ per kilowatt-hour, beating government goal by 3 years [arstechnica.com]

Kwesé Play Partners With Roku And Netflix To Launch In South Africa [iafrikan.com]

To curb outbreak, San Diego will power wash “fecally contaminated” city [arstechnica.com]

My Favorite Bugs from My Four Years Living in New York City [newyorker.com] » @khemenutwilhite

“Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?” [aeon.co]

How a photographer snapped this tragic photo of a seahorse lugging a Q-tip [theverge.com]

The Drone King, An Incredible Animation of a Newly Discovered Unpublished Story by Kurt Vonnegut [laughingsquid.com]

with more financial resources [kintespace.com] would release a motion picture document about the solar retur… [twitter.com]

Martin Scorsese Names His Top 10 Films in the Criterion Collection [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

'Teen Idol Frankie Lymon’s Tragic Rise and Fall Tells the Truth About 1950s America -- The mirage of the singer’s s… [twitter.com]

Watch: Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile reciting his poem "Anguish Longer than Sorrow" in 2009 at a Poetry Festival… [twitter.com]

The great nutrient collapse [politico.com] » @MindOverMunch

Someone asked "What is it that keeps the young black mans spirit from achieving peace?" I think it's hard to be pea… [twitter.com]

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