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#AxisOfEasy 261: PayPal Scam Uses Invoices Sent Through Their Website

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 30, 2022 | 1 Comment
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PayPal Scam Uses Invoices Sent Through Their Website,
Defense operators of the U.S. Cyber Command have returned from Croatia following an investigation of malicious cyber activity
An updated version of Escanor RAT malware is being distributed via Microsoft Office documents and PDF files … this and more in AofE #261

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Make Sure You Download the Latest Ministry of Propaganda Updates

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 29, 2022 | 0 Comments
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While it’s fun to sort all the propaganda into various boxes, we would do well to look for what all the marketers / MoP players seek to mystify. It’s time once again to check for Ministry of Propaganda updates, which like Windows and iOS is constantly being updated to counter new threats and enhance the user experience (heh).

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Economies Can Burn Out, Too–And They Are

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 26, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Economies can burn out, too, and they’re already sliding into the final stages of burnout. Burnout has a startling knack for sneaking up on us. We’re stressed and tired but still functioning at a high level, and then suddenly our capacity to keep going collapses. We are no longer able to function no matter how much we (or others) cajole us.

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What’s Worse Than Inflation? Depression + Inflation

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 24, 2022 | 0 Comments
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If “markets” controlled by the rich are allowed to distribute essentials, the result will be civil disorder and the overthrow of regimes. What’s worse than inflation? Depression + Inflation. And that’s where we’re heading.

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#AxisOfEasy 260: The Newest Anti-Tracking Tool That Checks If You’re Being Followed

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 23, 2022 | 5 Comments
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The Newest Anti-Tracking Tool That Checks if You’re Being Followed,
Amazon’s Acquisition of the Roomba Is Dangerous,
Beware of fake Cloudflare protection screens Optimizing for Featured Snippets … this and more in AofE #260

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The Fed Can’t Stop Supply-Side Inflation

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 22, 2022 | 0 Comments
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The Fed and other central banks have zero control of supply-driven inflation, period. America’s financial punditry is bewitched by four fatal fantasies: 1. Inflation is demand-driven. If the Federal Reserve (or other central banks) reduce demand with monetary tools like raising interest rates, inflation will cool.

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The Real Story of America Abandoning the Gold Standard

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 18, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Even currencies maintaining convertibility to gold are still subject to bond yields, interest rates, trade and capital flows. It’s widely held that all of our financial woes are the result of abandoning the discipline of the gold standard in 1971.

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#AxisOfEasy 259: Amazon Plots To Turn Surveillance Network Into Reality TV Series

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 16, 2022 | 7 Comments
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Amazon plots to turn surveillance network into reality TV series
A cyberattack targeted Finland’s parliament after the US moved to admit the country to NATO
RAT malware used in Cuba ransomware attacks… this and more in AofE #259

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Deglobalization Is Inflationary

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 15, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Price cutting is being replaced with price gouging, a substitution that consumers recognize as inflation.. Globalization was deflationary, Deglobalization is inflationary. The entire point of globalization is to 1) lower costs as a means of maximizing profits and 2) find markets for surplus domestic production.

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A Tale of Two Recessions: One Excellent, One Tumultuous

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 11, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Events may show that there are no winners, only survivors and those who failed to adapt. Some recessions are brief, necessary cleansings in which extremes of leverage and speculation are unwound via painful defaults, reductions of risk and bear markets.

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A Most Peculiar Recession

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 10, 2022 | 0 Comments
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So what are conventional pundits missing today? I would start with three dynamics. Only old people experienced real recessions–those in 1973-74 and 1980-82. Recessions since then have been shorter and less systemic.

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#AxisOfEasy 258: Meta Is Being Sued For Giving US Hospitals A Data-Tracking Tool That Allegedly Disclosed Patient Information To Facebook

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 9, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Hackers Exploited Atlassian Confluence Bug to Deploy Ljl Backdoor for Espionage
Ukraine Shutters Major Russian Bot Farm Investment Fraud Drench European Investors via Thousands of Fake Sites
Meta is being sued for giving US hospitals a data-tracking tool that allegedly ended up disclosing patient information to Facebook… this and more in AofE #258

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Are Older Workers Propping Up the U.S. Economy?

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 8, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Are 55 and older workers propping up the U.S. economy? The data is rather persuasive that the answer is yes. The chart of U.S. employment ages 25 to 54 years of age and 55 and older reveals a startling change. There are now 20 million more 55+ employed than there were in 2000, an equivalent of the entire workforce of Spain.

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Rather Than Focus on What You Don’t Control ("The News"), Focus on What You Do Control: What You Grow, Eat and Own

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 5, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Now that globalization and financialization are finally unraveling, people are slowly awakening to the national security foundations of localizing production. What exactly is “the news” other than an inducement to passivity, despair and derangement?

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#AxisOfEasy 257: An Update To Facebook’s Link Schema Aims To Fight Privacy Browsers And Privacy Plugins

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 3, 2022 | 3 Comments
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Reuter’s study revealed the Kremlin’s secret operations in Ukraine,
An update to Facebook’s link schema aims to fight privacy browsers and privacy plugins,
For the first time in its history, Meta reported a decline in revenue and missed earnings expectations… this and more in AofE #257

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China at the Crossroads

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 3, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Watch where capital is flowing. That’s pretty much all you need to know to predict the future. The word “China” evokes strong emotions, so let’s set it aside in favor of a simple syllogism:

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Can We "Export Inflation?" Yes We Can, Yes We Are

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 1, 2022 | 0 Comments
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A strong currency exports inflation to those nations which do not issue the currency. Though it’s difficult to be confident of anything in the current flux, I am pretty confident of three things: 1) price is set on the margins 2) currencies are the foundation of every economy 3) the financial forecasts issued to calm the public do not reflect operative geopolitical goals. Every national government has “global interests.”

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What Can The Beatles Teach Us about Management?

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 30, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Own your work. Don’t give it away or let others profit at your expense. Leverage it when opportunities arise. What can The Beatles teach us about management?

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How Much of "Inflation" Is the Price Being Jacked Up Under the Excuse of "Inflation"?

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 29, 2022 | 0 Comments
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The problem for global corporations feasting on “Inflation” profiteering is that the vast majority of consumers can’t afford another lavish vacation, overpriced vehicle or specious subscription.

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There Won’t Be Any Winners Because The Status Quo Is Corrupt Everywhere

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 27, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Systemic corruption on this vast scale optimizes failure and collapse. Debating which nations will “win” as the global economy unravels is a popular but pointless parlor game. Since the status quo in every nation is deeply, profoundly, systemically corrupt, there won’t be any “winners,” there will only be losers.

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#AxisOfEasy 256: Verified Twitter Vulnerability Exposes Data From 5.4 Million Accounts

By Mark E. Jeftovic | July 26, 2022 | 2 Comments
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Verified Twitter Vulnerability Exposes Data from 5.4 Million Accounts,
A “massive cyber-attack” hits the Albanian government,
Apple has settled the Butterfly Keyboard case for $50 million … this and more in AofE #256

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What’s Truly Important? The Global Revaluation Is Accelerating

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 25, 2022 | 0 Comments
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How much gold will you trade for a few eggs? It depends on how hungry you are. Two ideas will help us understand the rest of this tumultuous decade: core-periphery and the revaluation of what’s truly important: systemic adaptability, transparency, accountability, risk, capital and resources.

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When You Put Too Many Eggs in One Basket…

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 23, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Greed is good until all the vulnerabilities and fragilities of systemic risk asymmetries manifest. When you put too many eggs in one basket, you create systemic fragility: if anything knocks that basket over, the loss is so overweighted that the entire system unravels. Why do we put too many eggs in one basket?

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Why the Labor Shortage Isn’t Going Away

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 20, 2022 | 0 Comments
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It’s getting hard to fill toxic low-pay jobs, and that’s not going to change. The nature of work and the labor market are changing in ways few discern or perhaps are willing to discern because these changes are disrupting the exploitive system they want to remain unchanged.

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#AxisOfEasy 255: CRTC Chair Ian Scott Confirms Bill C-11 Can Be Used To Pressure Internet Platforms To Manipulate Algorithms

By Mark E. Jeftovic | July 19, 2022 | 4 Comments
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CRTC Chair Ian Scott Confirms Bill C-11 Can Be Used To Pressure Internet Platforms to Manipulate Algorithms,
The Chinese surveillance state encounters resistance from the public,
Federal agencies warned healthcare organisations about North Korean ransomware attacks … this and more in AofE #255

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Mark E. Jeftovic

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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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

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