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#AxisOfEasy 149: Facebook rebrands Libra as Novi to try again

June 9, 2020

CCP monitors foreign WeChat to tune domestic censorship…Negative oil price triggers trading software bug, wipes out trader…
What to do about fake news when the gatekeepers are worse …and more in AofE #145

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Deep State to Powell: Stop Goosing Stocks Higher Or You’ll Re-Elect Trump

June 9, 2020

Come on, Jay, you can always goose stocks back to new highs after the election.Indulge me for a moment in some backroom speculation. It’s absurdly obvious that the unelected, permanent, ever-expanding National Security State, a.k.a the Deep State,…

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Global Crisis: the Convergence of Marx, Kafka, Orwell and Huxley

June 8, 2020

The global crisis is not merely economic; it is the result of profound financial, sociological and political trends described by Marx, Kafka, Orwell and Huxley.The unfolding global crisis is best understood as the convergence of the dynamics described …

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What Lies Ahead: Destabilizing Social Stratification

June 5, 2020

The bill for extreme wealth/income inequality is now overdue, and the penalties for ignoring the bill will be as extreme as the inequality.Our socio-economic-political system–let’s call it the status quo–has been hollowed out by extremes of weal…

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Amazon spikes book on COVID-19 and lockdowns: only official sources permitted

June 5, 2020

Yesterday, author Alex Berenson reported via Twitter that Amazon had spiked his new book about COVID-19 and the lockdowns. Berenson is a former New York Times reporter, author of other books, fiction and non-fiction,

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When Institutions Fail, Fragmentation and Decentralization Become Solutions

June 4, 2020

That which has failed is unsustainable, no matter how many trillions the Federal Reserve tosses against the tides of history.The chapter titles of Michael Grant’s excellent account of The Fall of the Roman Empire identify the core dynamics of…

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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.