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The secretive crypto firm backed by Farage's biggest donor

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By Faisal Islam Verified
| MSN Malaysia Verified
Who is the biggest purchaser of the world's biggest safe haven asset - gold? China? Japan? One of the Gulf countries, perhaps? In fact, the single biggest buyer of the precious metal last year was a company you've probably never heard of – a crypto firm called Tether The El Salvador-based company runs USDT, the world's biggest stablecoin, which is a form of crypto backed up by hard currency.
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Jinnah's Promise And Pakistan's Constitutional Reckoning

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By Faisal Islam Verified
| The Friday Times Verified
On the morning of 11 August 1947, three days before the country he had spent his life building would come into existence, Muhammad Ali Jinnah stood before Pakistan’s first Constituent Assembly and said something that has never fully settled into the national consciousness. He said that religion, caste, and creed had nothing to do with the business of the State. He said every citizen was equal. He said his guiding principle would be justice and complete impartiality. He was not making a speech.
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Burnham's Manchesterism could change the UK, but is not yet a full economic plan

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By Faisal Islam Verified
| Yahoo Finance Verified
"True to the motto of this city, I am going to do things differently," Andy Burnham declared, a reference to the film 24 Hour Party People. His speech in Manchester did indeed show a rather different way of seeing and running the UK. The departing Greater Manchester mayor presented a diagnosis of what has caused economic malaise, rooted in his own experiences running the city and when he was previously in Cabinet.
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