Digital Identity Dominance: Futile attempts by desperate control freaks to stick silly labels into infinity. The alternative: Identify as everything, replace control with relaxation and love - and be free.
tag > Economics
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Parasitism — a relationship where one organism benefits, and the other organism is harmed.
Predation — a relationship where one organism survives by killing and eating the other organism.
Capitalism — a economic and political system in which...
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": Affiliations of Board Members at Pfizer (via)
Pfizer's board connects "leaders" from Facebook, Bank of New York, Presidential Commission on Election, NY University, Univ. of California, Citicorp, Gates Foundation, CocaCola, FDA, National Academy of Medicine, General Electric, CNBC, MIT, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Reuters, etc.
#Comment: Do not worry, there are absolutely no conflict of interests here - since they payed expensive Law and PR firms to remove any doubt and evidence of that...
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Europe Faces an Energy Shock After Gas and Power Prices Rocket
The cost of natural gas and electricity has surged across Europe, reaching records in some countries, as businesses re-open and workers return to the office. In Germany, wholesale power prices have risen more than 60% this year, leaving the owner of the Frau Honig cafe in Friedrichshain with no option but to raise prices of everything from cappuccinos to cinnamon rolls.
Energy prices are rising around the world as the global economy emerges from the pandemic, fueling concerns about inflation. In Europe, plans to decarbonize the economy are also playing a part as utilities pay near-record prices to buy the pollution permits they need to keep producing power from fossil fuels.
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In Germany more than 500 banks now have passed on negative ECB rates to their clients.
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"Vaccine" makers: Pricing in a present value of $40+ for every human on planet earth. BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year (reuter)
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Will China bail out Biden? Prominent Chinese academic's warning that inflation might bankrupt the US government will be read carefully in Washington (Asia Times)
"At present, the interest on US Treasury bonds is more than 1 point, and the annual interest payment is about $300 billion US dollars, which is considered to be affordable. But if inflation approaches 5% or even exceeds 5% (interest rates will definitely follow after inflation exceeds 5), then the United States will need $1.5 trillion a year to repay the interest of 30 trillion federal treasury bonds, which will definitely lead to the bankruptcy of the government."
Related: 💣 As of 2019, the U.S. has an inventory of 6,185 nuclear warheads
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The Road to Totalitarianism - by CJ Hopkins
"The global-capitalist ruling establishment is implementing a new, more openly totalitarian structure of society and method of rule. They are revoking our constitutional and human rights, transferring power out of sovereign governments and democratic institutions into unaccountable global entities that have no allegiance to any nation or its people. That is what is happening … right now.
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": For the first time ever, the amount that investors are parking at a major central bank facility is more than $1 trillion. This will clearly end well..
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The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (IEEE Specturm)
"In carefully crafting a lightbulb with a relatively short life span, the cartel thus hatched the industrial strategy now known as planned obsolescence."
Today's Big Tech are the masters of planned obsolesence - and many celebrates them for it...
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The Chinese ‘lying flat’ movement (tangping, 躺平)
An illustration making the rounds on China’s internet in May 2021 shows a man “lying flat.” “You want me to get up?” he asks. “That’s not possible in this lifetime.” The drive toward self-reliance has encountered an unlikely form of resistance in a generation of young Chinese who balk at the Party’s high-minded calls for “continued struggle” alongside an deeply engrained culture of overwork without the promise of real advancement. They opt instead for “lying flat,” or tangping (躺平). The “lying flat” movement calls on young workers and professionals, including the middle-class Chinese who are to be the engine of Xi Jinping’s domestic boom, to opt out of the struggle for workplace success, and to reject the promise of consumer fulfilment.
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"Economic and Political Privilege are the single most expensive thing" - Catherine Austin Fitts
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England’s Upper Classes - A Dangerous Cult
For centuries, these ‘elite’ families have been as effective at spinning their own inimitability even as they have been at clinging onto their money, power and influence. The origins of that wealth are usually kept deliberately opaque and with good reason: nobody ever got fabulously wealthy on altruism. Many of Britain’s poshest families built their fortunes on the suffering of others.
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38% of remote workers work from bed (Axios)
45% of American teleworkers regularly work from a couch, 38% regularly work from bed and 20% often work outside, according to a study.
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Praxis: Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.
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Shutdown
In summary, significant parts of the dominate infrastructure stack (e.g. the Internet) will go offline for a bit in the foreseeable future. The alternative would be far more devastating. Prepare accordingly and enjoy the silence.
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The return of geopolitics and war - by Prince Michael of Liechtenstein
As the systemic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies, the global security situation also rapidly evolves. New geopolitical hotspots are emerging and nations in conflict are adopting warfare tactics that differ from those of the 20th century. For Europe to adequately tackle these challenges, a broad public debate will be required
