Apple To Pay $113 Million Settlement Over Its iPhone 'Batterygate' Slowdowns (cnet.com)
The settlement involves the 2017 revelation that Apple was purposely slowing older phones when their batteries began to degrade.
tag > Economics
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The Secret Club for Billionaires Who Care About Climate Change (Bloomberg, alt)
Creo Syndicate helps the world’s richest families invest in businesses fighting global warming.
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How did France get all that gold?
"France has the fourth largest gold reserves of 2,436 tons, without a single gold mine in France. Mali (occupied by France) does not have any gold reserves in its banks, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons per year. How did France get all that gold?"
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Deutsche Bank Recovery Plan: Tax People for the “Privilege” of Working from Home
Deutsche Bank warns of too much Corona goverment aid - "Allow creative destruction"
Deutsche Bank Admits It Helped Hitler : Confronting a Dark Past (1995)
Deutsche Bank AG actively aided the expropriation of Jewish businesses and helped Hitler consolidate control over Germany's neighbors between 1933 and 1945, according to a history of the bank to be published in March.
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The week in review, focus on #Politics & #Economics
The ECB Podcast - Is it time for a digital euro?
What is a digital euro? What would its benefits be and how would it affect the way we make payments? When could it be ready?
All the good things a digital euro could do – and all the bad things it will
Few other documents has been sent to me as often as the recent deliberations of the European Central Bank (ECB) on a digital euro. There is obviously a great deal of suspicion with regard to plans of a digital euro. The following analysis will try to answer the question if this suspicion is justified.
Updates on China's Digital Yuan
Digital yuan gaining wider currency
China tech regulators try to avoid American trap
Country's Internet giants warned against stifling competition through monopolistic control of data
China scores victory as 15 Asian nations sign world’s biggest free-trade deal
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership accounts for about one-third of the world’s population and economy, but does not include the United States. Agreement paves the way for lower tariffs, less red tape and post-pandemic growth, observers say
RCEP set to supercharge the New Silk Roads
World's biggest free trade pact isn't about excluding the US or China's geopolitical ambitions but rather the natural evolution of Asian integration
Google Launches App That Lets Banks Remotely Lock Your Android Device
With the device locked, users will be able to access very limited functions in their smartphones. These include emergency calls, incoming and select outgoing calls, settings, and backup and restore service.
EU Governments plan to ban strong encryption
The Vienna terrorist attack is an opportunity for governments to expand surveillance. Online services should have to deposit duplicate keys with authorities.
Coronavirus has been circulating in Italy since September last year, researchers say
Findings ‘may reshape history of pandemic’, scientists say
GCHQ begins operation against Russian disinformation on COVID-19 vaccine
GCHQ is using tools that were originally developed to tackle ISIS recruitment in its fight against disinformation
It’s the destruction of people’s lives. It is the destabilization of civil society. And for What? The Lies are sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. 24/7, Incessant and repetitive “Covid alerts” for the last ten months. … It is a process of social engineering.
Government of Canada Tender Notice: Programmable Hydraulic Guillotines
Statistics Canada (STATCAN) has a requirement for the purchase, delivery, off-loading and commissioning of 2 new Programmable Fully Hydraulic Guillotines
Announcement from the U.S. acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller
"We are not a people of perpetual war - it is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought. All wars must end." <- No matter how disgusting and full of BS the trumpers are - such a statement the world has never heard from a leading US mil leader
Egypt announces the biggest archaeological discovery in 2020 at Saqqara Necropolis
'We have discovered only one percent of the antiquities buried in the Saqqara Necropolis,' Antiquities Minister El-Enany said, pointing out that many other discoveries will follow
Virtual Influencers Make Real Money While Covid Locks Down Human Stars
The pandemic isn’t a problem when you’re computer-generated.
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The European Investment Bank, largest multilateral bank worldwide, approves €1 trillion green investment plan to become EU's ‘climate bank’; to align to Paris Agreement; and to cease funding fossil fuels by 2022 - #Regenerative #Economics #Politics #Cryptocracy
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Subscriber City: What happens when you need an app to access anything (reallifemag)
"Apps merge the need to isolate with a celebration of convenience, as though having our access to the world mediated by tech companies were the silver lining" ... "Once consumers were trapped in the garden, lured in by ease of use and escape from the chaos of the open web, platforms could treat users however they wanted to" ... "In the emerging subscriber city, segregation will be obscured by a screen-thin veil of convenience and optimization"
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Seven out of ten workers in the German meat industry are precariously employed
The data from the federal government speak for themselves: the majority of workers in the meat industry are neither permanently employed nor well paid. And the number of employees from abroad is growing.
#Comment: An industry which very frequently treats animals like garbage, inevitable can't & won't care about it's employees or customers either. It's a ticking time bomb.
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The Great Reset for Dummies - Where do we go from here? - by Tessa Lena
"The peasants are getting fat, and they are breeding! Oh no!" -
China seeks ‘complete’ economic self-reliance (globaltimes)
Satterfield cartoon on Chinese monarchy (1915) Domestic innovation to gain main focus, but opening to the world to continue: experts
Sixty key points for formulating China's 14th FYP and future targets for 2035 (CGTN)
The full text of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee's proposals for mapping out the blueprint for China's development in the next 15 years was made public. The proposals outlined 60 key points for formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025, FYP) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035.
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Norwegians Got Paid To Use Electricity As Prices Fall Below Zero
"Electricity prices in Norway fell below zero for the second time in history early on Monday, and residents in southern Norway ‘got paid’ for using electricity as power producers have to pay to sell electricity when prices are negative."
#Comment: If this pattern became permanent, how long do you think until the folks currently controlling power would pass on the savings? Or would they keep quiet - just for fun?
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From Big Six to Big Four (2019)
OECD study sheds light on concentration and competition in seed markets.
The Big Six, as described in the wiki on DuPont
"On the other hand, if Monsanto and Bayer, the 1st and 3rd largest biotech and seed firms, together with Dow and DuPont being the 4th and 5th largest biotechnology and seed companies in the world respectively, both went through with the mergers, the so-called "Big Six" in the industry would control 63% of the global seed market and 76% of the global agriculture chemical market."
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Press TV, the Iranian equivalent of the BBC, announcing that Iran will use bitcoin as part of its import settlement system. It will export bitcoins and import things barred to it from the U.S.
"Can Iran and the US re-engage after the election?" - Webinar with Asia Times columnist Pepe Escobar and renowned Iran expert Mohammad Marandi (October 28 2020)
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How An Economic Hit Man Operates:
- Identify 3rd World Country With Valuable Resources
- Arrange Huge Loan To That Country From The IMF
- Give Bankers Corporations This Loan Money To Build Infrastructure.
- Poor Country Defaults On Loans
- Bankers Claim Valuable Resources
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Richard Werner: Today’s Source of Money Creation
Shifting from Central Planning to a Decentralised Economy - by Richard Werner
Paper presented at the 14th Rhodes Forum: Dialogue of Civilisations Research Institute, Panel 2: Economic Alternatives when Conventional Models Fail, Rhodos, Greece, on 1 October 2016
Richard Werner - ECB wants to become the only bank in town
Conversation with Prof. Richard Werner
Richard Werner on digital currencies, from https://twitter.com/professorwerner
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