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Cycles, Systems and Seats in the Coliseum

December 10, 2020

The idea that debt, leverage, speculation, greed, exploitation and parasitic elites can expand exponentially forever is magical thinking. Contrary to first impressions, I am not a doom-and-gloomer; I’m a systems-cycles-er meaning I’m interested in where systems and cycles are heading.

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FireEye and the value of information

December 9, 2020

We’re a couple of weeks away from the darkest day of the year, and while there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, what if that light is a train headed towards us and not an exit from the situation we’re in?

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#AxisOfEasy 175: Secrecy Around Top Canadian Cyber-Security Intelligence Officer Caught Spying For China

December 8, 2020

Secrecy around top Canadian cyber-security intelligence officer caught spying for China
S&P to launch crypto-currency indexes in 2021 as Niall Ferguson endorses Bitcoin (OOtc article) plus Salon #33: Ethereum 2.0 could be the scaffolding of the Network State.. and more in Axis of Easy #175

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Welcome to the U.S.S.A.’s Banquet of Consequences

December 8, 2020

The incontestable incompetence of the USSA’s monopolies, institutions and agencies is about to take center stage in 2021. When I mention that the U.S.A. feels increasingly like the U.S.S.R., a surprising number of people tell me they feel the same way.

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Asking the AI gods to be fair

December 7, 2020

A key ingredient towards understanding technology is an understanding of media. Not that either are ever truly accomplished, as the consequence of the medium being the message is that we and our media/technology are always changing.

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Covid Is Toppling America’s "Points of Failure" Dominoes

December 6, 2020

Sorry Fed, it’s too late. The dominoes are already toppling, and every point of failure is being exploited by the catalyzing effects of Covid. America’s many points of failure leverage points where a break brings down the entire system–are falling like dominoes, a process catalyzed by Covid.

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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.