Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
What’s no longer affordable is eventually jettisoned, including high-rent homes and apartments.
Unconventional Move: ALPHV Ransomware Group Files SEC Complaint Against Its Own Victim,
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp Files Lawsuit Against 20 Major Media Companies Over Coordinated Media Attack,
Canadian Police and Military Suffer Data Breach via Attack on Third-Party Moving Companies … this and more in AofE #325
If Black Friday is a bust, it may be a harbinger of what the mainstream has long considered impossible: the American consumer is well and truly tapped out.
There are times when the only triumph within reach is survival.
There’s actually something refreshingly wonderful about enjoying all the traditions without the obligation to buy or make gifts.
Can an economy in which 10% of the households qualify as middle class claim to offer widespread opportunities for secure prosperity? No, it cannot.
Microsoft and Facebook Announce Their Election Interference Plans Ahead of 2024,
What Users Need to Know About the New Outlook App,
Middle Eastern APT Group Uses Gaza as Lure for Latest Phishing Campaign … this and more in AofE #324
Why does the phrase “bread and circuses” keep coming to mind?
Social trust, a baseline measure of social stability, has eroded.
Consider this description of America’s discontent:
It was interesting to compose a melody in a dream.
Of Two Minds is devoted to exploring socio-economic dynamics, so it leaves out 95% of my life.
Amazon’s Secret Algorithm Generates $1B+ Profits Through Price Manipulation,
Ontario Hospitals Report Data Theft and Online Publication After Cyberattack,
Optus Outage Leaves Millions Without Service, Cause Still Unknown … this and more in AofE #323
As in the Gulag it replicates, the innocent are swept up with the guilty in a disconcertingly unjust ratio.
Politically, what’s the easier play: cut entitlements, the vast majority of which flow to the bottom 90%, or “claw back” the ill-gotten gains of the top 1%?
Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky Over Spying Concerns,
Berlin Regional Court Bans LinkedIn from Ignoring “Do Not Track” Signals,
Canadian House Ethics Committee Pushes to Punish Online Platforms that Allow “Misinformation” to Spread … this and more in AofE #322
Maybe the question isn’t just “how much do you spend on food,” but “what value are you getting for what you spend in time and money for food?”
What will break is not as predictable as the reality that the current trajectory is untenable and unsustainable.
Rather than mocking the Counterculture, we would benefit from re-acquiring its values that favored frugality and the ownership of skills, work, enterprise and land.
Westminster Declaration Highlights Threat of Digital Censorship,
Instagram Chief says Threads Censorship only “Temporary,” Despite No Official Deadline,
Cookie Hijacking Attempt on Okta Support System May Have Exposed Customer Files … this and more in AofE #321
Once the chasm widens a bit more, the “efficient market” cover story bridge collapses into the abyss.
Who needs a healthy populace rich in well-being when you can have trillions in annual corporate profits?
Browser Update Scam Takes a Decentralized Turn with Cryptocurrency Blockchain,
Micfo LLC CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison Over Wire Fraud,
Nurse in Hot Water with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan Over Social Media Posts Criticizing Province’s COVID Mandates … this and more in AofE #320
If things unravel, these risk-reduction strategies quickly shift from “nice to have” to “essential.” But by then, it will be too late to put them in place.
That’s the difficulty with nonlinear, mutually reinforcing crises: our over-confidence, hubris and refusal to consider sacrifices will be our undoing.
Once leadership of this nature is properly understood, Ms. Swift is eminently qualified to be President.
Carbon Passports: A Dystopian Surveillance Threat,
Diabetes Drug, Ozempic, Suppresses Patients’ Appetite, Sending Drugstores Nationwide into a Panic,
Ancestry Website, 23andMe, Data Stolen in Attack Targeting Jews… this and more in AofE #319
Contributors
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.
The Canadian Bitcoiners
Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com
Charles Hugh Smith
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.