This is the quiet truth of institutional work: improvement doesn’t buy freedom. It buys responsibility without ownership. This guest essay by longtime correspondent 0bserver describes the core dynamics of work in America and the global economy: if we don’t own our work, we only “rent” our income and the life it funds. I discuss the process…
The power structure which birthed the Epstein abuses is not going to do anything about the Epstein abuses. The only thing that might possibly change is that some people may become radicalized against that power structure. Reading by Tim Foley: I need you to understand that nothing is going to be done about anything in…
Asystemic ‘Great Dispossession’ is being beta-tested in India. It is a playbook for the end of food sovereignty, driven by the debris of the Bretton Woods system and the insatiable need for ‘market confidence’. India—the World Bank’s largest-ever borrower—is being forced to swap its indigenous agrarian economy for a model that serves credit-rating agencies and…
In a landmark courtroom triumph widely seen as the first of its kind against the gender transition industry, a jury has granted $2 million in damages to a young woman who was permanently disfigured by so-called “gender-affirming” doctors during her teenage years. In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth covers the good news…
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that “In just a few days, the world will move to a more dangerous state, compared to what we had so far.” Peskov is referring to a key nuclear reduction treaty between Russia and the United States that expires on February 5th. Peskov added that if the U.S. rejects…
These crypto products receive the same German tax treatment as directly held bitcoin. What to know: ING Deutschland, Germany’s largest retail bank, now lets customers buy crypto exchange-traded products tracking bitcoin, ether and solana directly through its ING-DiBa Direct Depot securities accounts. The crypto-backed products, issued by firms such as 21Shares, Bitwise and VanEck, are…
Inflation is an elusive term. In 1983, Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defined Inflation as: “An increase in the amount of currency in circulation, resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden fall in its value and rise in prices: it may be caused by an increase in the volume of paper money issued or of gold mined,…
BRICS — a significant economic bloc of emerging nations comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — is fast shifting its reliance on the US Dollar to gold through the accumulation of the precious metal. Although officially BRICS nations hold around 20% of the global gold reserves, they, along with their strategically allied states…
Popular opinion is missing the sea change in the UK’s crypto operating environment. Beneath regulatory criticism, the UK is accelerating its crypto evolution Opinion by: Daniel Taylor, head of policy at Zumo We’re approaching five years since we first heard about the “global crypto hub UK,” and the United Kingdom has drawn its fair share of…
Those acting with impunity are confident that their powers or god-like because they appear so in the human realm. But there are limits to everything in the human realm. One of the first things we learned about the Internet is that anything sent via email could readily become public and anything created on a computer might…
