Category: Economy

Net Zero, The Digital Panopticon, & The Future Of Food Net Zero, The Digital Panopticon, & The Future Of Food Authored by Colin Todhunter via Off-Guardian.org, The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these …

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Russia Producing 3 Times More Shells Than US, Europe Combined: NATO Report Russia Producing 3 Times More Shells Than US, Europe Combined: NATO Report Authored by Will Porter via The Libertarian Institute, Russia’s defense industry is turning out nearly three times more artillery shells than its American and European counterparts, according to a NATO intelligence …

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Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, “Beware the Ides of March,” Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer’s warning Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending assassination on March 15. The death of American liberty happened around …

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Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany's Nose? Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany’s Nose? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, There are indeed plans for a conventional Western intervention in Ukraine despite their leaders’ denials over the past two weeks, but …

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Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder? Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder? Authored by Michael Barone via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president in 2024. (Left) President Joe …

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Smedley Butler Explains The Latest Excuse For American Intervention In Ukraine Smedley Butler Explains The Latest Excuse For American Intervention In Ukraine Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Senior Fellow Alex Pollock drew my attention to an important quotation by Smedley Butler:  1935 speech and later a book by Major General Smedley D. …

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Ex-Google Engineer Arrested, Charged With Stealing AI Trade Secrets For China Ex-Google Engineer Arrested, Charged With Stealing AI Trade Secrets For China Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former Google software engineer has been indicted on charges of stealing artificial intelligence-related trade secrets while working for Chinese competitors seeking to …

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Escobar: The Global South Converges To Multipolar Moscow Escobar: The Global South Converges To Multipolar Moscow Authored by Pepe Escobar, Here’s the key takeaway of these frantic days in Moscow: Normal-o-philes of the world, unite. These have been frantic multipolar days at the capital of the multipolar world. I had the honor to personally tell …

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Worldwide Decline Of Freedom Outweighs Improvements Worldwide Decline Of Freedom Outweighs Improvements Democratic watchdog organization Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world’s most free and most suppressed nations. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, the report is considered a key barometer for global democracy and this year’s edition found that global freedom has declined for …

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Fed Bubble Ignites "Great Retirement" Wave As Baby Boomers Party Like It 1999 Fed Bubble Ignites “Great Retirement” Wave As Baby Boomers Party Like It 1999 As the Magnificent 7 tech stocks and home prices grind higher, there has been a massive surge in the number of Americans taking early retirement. Bloomberg has coined this phenomenon the “Great …

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