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#AxisOfEasy 197: Belarus Blogger And Journalist Snatched Off Of Hijacked Plane

May 25, 2021

Android apps leak data vs misconfigured cloud backends,
Personal security app plans private security response,
Belarus blogger and journalist snatched off of hijacked plane…this and more in this week’s Axis of Easy # 197

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Fed to Treasury Dealers and Congress: We Can’t Count On You, We’re Taking Charge

May 24, 2021

The Fed sees itself as trapped by the incompetence and greed of the other players and by its own policy extremes that were little more than expedient “saves” of a system that is unraveling due to its fragility and brittleness.

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FOMO Is Loco

May 21, 2021

We can also posit a general rule that those who inherit wealth and succumb to FOMO are eventually less wealthy while those who are wealthy and take a pass on FOMO / hoarding at the top of the manic frenzy increase their wealth.

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Perpetual propaganda

May 21, 2021

What is the difference between conspiracy and diplomacy? Context and transparency? Or just authority vs innuendo? Similarly there’s a fine line between propaganda and news when power is involved, and news is increasingly driven by opinion, which provides an excellent opportunity for propaganda.

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U.S. Stimulus Has Created a Boom–in China

May 19, 2021

Maybe maximizing corporate profits isn’t all that matters. Maybe national security and resilience matter, too, and if they do, then reshoring critical supply chains should be a higher priority than Corporate America’s (mostly tax-free) profits.

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#AxisOfEasy 196: Doc Searls: How The Cookie Poisoned The Web

May 18, 2021

DarkSide Ransomware group shuts down after cyber counter-attack,
Amazon devices will form mesh networks in your neighbourhood,
25% of Tor exit relays spying on users … this and much more in Axis of Easy # 196

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Contributors

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Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

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Jesse Hirsh

Futurist, researcher and public speaker, Jesse Hirsh has been active in technology and commenting on it across the media for 25 years. His premium newsletter service operates from Metaviews.ca.

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Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.