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Assessing the spread of covid surveillance

By Jesse Hirsh | November 18, 2020 | 0 Comments
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If we are to accept that all data, is health data, then we also ought to entertain the possibility that data transforms us, at the very least in the form of feedback.
The more data we have about or body, and our health, the greater the likelihood our behaviour will change, hopefully as a means of improving our health, but that’s not always the case.

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Vaccines–Too Little, Too Late?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 18, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Trust in institutions, authorities and Big Pharma are scraping the bottom of the barrel, and rushing these vaccines into mass use with extremely high expectations of efficacy is setting up the potential for a devastating loss of trust in the vaccines should they fail to live up to the claims of 100% safety and 95% effectiveness.

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#AxisOfEasy 172: Ticketmaster To Require Immunity Passports For Event Attendance

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 17, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Ticketmaster to require immunity passports for event attendance,
DNS cache poisoning attacks are back and
AxisOfEasy Salon #30: The one, the only Doc Searls.. this and more in AofE #172

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U.S. Healthcare Is Unraveling

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 17, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The confidence that there will always be facilities and professionals to care for us is no longer realistic. I’ve covered the systemic problems of U.S. healthcare for over a decade, and as a result I’ve attracted numerous healthcare professionals as correspondents. I’ve been corresponding with some for almost 15 years, and this correspondence has given me a sobering education in the realities of our fully financialized (and thus hollowed-out) healthcare system.

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Don’t Blame Covid: The Economy is Imploding from Over-Capacity and Corrupt Cartels

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 16, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Now that the bubble has burst, the hope is that removing the pin will magically restore the burst bubble. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Here’s the fantasy: if we stop the shutdowns, the economy will naturally bounce back to its oh-so wunnerful perfection of Q3 2019.

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Prepare for Winter

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 14, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Realism must precede optimism or the optimism will collapse as the tsunami of reality comes ashore. It’s time to prepare materially and psychologically for a winter unlike any other in our lifetimes.

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"The Great Reset" Already Happened

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 12, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there’s nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize. The global elites’ techno-fantasy of a completely centralized future, The Great Reset, is addressed as a future project. Too bad it already happened in 2008-09.

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Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Covid Vaccines (Because You Can’t Be Bullish Anymore)

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 11, 2020 | 0 Comments
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In such a highly polarized, politicized environment, is such a scrupulously objective study even possible?

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Future Fibre: Broadband’s political moment

By Jesse Hirsh | November 11, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The pandemic psychology is shifting as most people wrap their heads around how long it will last, and what the world might be like, if and when it ends.

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#AxisOfEasy 171: Police Pilot Program Will Live Stream Neighbourhood Ring Cameras

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 10, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Ledger owners lose over 1M XRP to homoglyph attack,
Police pilot program will live stream neighbourhood Ring cameras and
AxisOfEasy #29: A Deep Dive into the Network State… and more in Axis of Easy #171

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There’s No Vaccine for a Terminally Ill Economy

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 10, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many and you guarantee collapse. Very few are willing to face the reality that the U.S. economy was on life support long before Covid came on the scene.

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No Wonder the Super-Rich Love Inflation

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 9, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Asset inflation benefits the super-rich more than anyone else because they own the vast majority of these assets. With the reflation euphoria running full blast, maybe central banks will finally get all that inflation they’ve been pining for. So let’s ask –who will benefit from inflation?

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Forget GOAT, Look at GBOAT: The Greatest Bubble Of All Time

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 6, 2020 | 0 Comments
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So enjoy the GBOAT (greatest bubble of all time) but watch the clock. Sports fans debate who qualifies as GOAT–the greatest of all time in hoops, Kobe, Jordan, Kareem, Magic; in boxing, Ali, and so forth. What we have today is GBOAT–the greatest bubble of all time. That it’s GOAT is beyond doubt, as the charts below reveal.

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Here’s Our Historical Analogy Menu: Rome, the USSR or Revolutionary France

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 5, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The core dynamic is ultimately the loss of social cohesion within the ruling elites and in the social order at large. There’s a definite feeling to the euphoria that the world didn’t end on November 3. And what better way to celebrate the victory of what passes for normalcy with a manic stock market rally?

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Can an AI registry open the black box society?

By Jesse Hirsh | November 5, 2020 | 0 Comments
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One of the primary reasons that a black box society is anti-democratic is the inability to scrutinize or understand the decisions algorithms make about us.

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What We Don’t Elect Matters Most: Central Banking and the Permanent Government

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 4, 2020 | 0 Comments
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We’re Number One in wealth, income and power inequality, yea for the Fed and the Empire! If we avert our eyes from the electoral battle on the blood-soaked sand of the Coliseum and look behind the screen, we find the powers that matter are not elected: are owned by a few big banks Federal Reserve, run by a handful of technocrats, and the immense National Security State, a.k.a. the Permanent Government.

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#AxisOfEasy 170: Drop What You’re Doing AGAIN And Upgrade Chrome AGAIN

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 3, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Drop what you’re doing AGAIN and upgrade Chrome AGAIN,
New scam using Google to send malware links,
Mailchimp will henceforth deactivate accounts sending “misinformation,” and more in Axis of Easy #170

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Our Imperial Presidency

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 3, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Regardless of who holds the office, America’s Imperial Project and its Imperial Presidency are due for a grand reckoning. While elections and party politics generate the emotions and headlines, the truly consequential change in American governance has been the ascendancy of the Imperial Presidency over the past 75 years, since the end of World War II.

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Want Hope and Real Growth? Let the Dead Forest of Corruption and Fed Manipulation Burn Down

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 1, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Wake up, America, and see the Fed for what it really is: a totalitarian tool of kleptocracy. You know what happens when fire suppression policies limit forest fires: deadwood piles up and all the trees killed by bark beetles are awaiting a spark to ignite.

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"Capitalism" Is No Longer Attractive to Capitalists

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 30, 2020 | 0 Comments
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This “capitalism” is only attractive to parasites, predators, kleptocrats, legalized looters, embezzlers, fraudsters and all those insiders whose palms get greased along the way.

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Future Fibre: Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias

By Jesse Hirsh | October 29, 2020 | 0 Comments
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As part of our ongoing Future Fibre series we’ve profiled communities in Europe and North America, however we’ve neglected our companeros in Mexico, largely due to my Spanish not being as strong as my English or even French. So today let’s take a look at a fantastic project in Southern Mexico that seeks to help indigenous communities take control of the Internet and by extension their economic and political futures.

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ALICE Doesn’t Work Here Anymore

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 28, 2020 | 0 Comments
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What the political class and the Financial Nobility don’t yet grasp is that ALICE will never go back to her insecure, low-wage job, ever. Meet ALICE: Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, at least she was employed until the pandemic presented impossible choices between taking care of her children and their education, and her aging parents, and keeping her demanding, low-wage job.

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Future Tools: HestiaPi

By Jesse Hirsh | October 28, 2020 | 0 Comments
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We can joke that the smart home is just a ruse for the surveilled home, but there’s no reason that has to be the case. It is possible to embrace automation and protect your privacy.

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Flying Blind: Clueless about Risk, We’re Speeding Toward Systemic Failure

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 28, 2020 | 0 Comments
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For all these reasons, the risks of systemic collapse are much higher than commonly anticipated. There’s an irony in discussing since we all have an instinctive reaction to visible risk, we think we understand it. But alas, we don’t, especially when the risk is invisible and systemic.

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#AxisOfEasy 169: Stop What You’re doing: Chrome 0-Day Edition

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 27, 2020 | 0 Comments
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New Chrome 0-day, upgrade now
Beyond the pale! Ransomware could target coffee machines
GitHub suspends multiple Youtube-DL repositories after RIAA DMCA notice and more in Axis of Easy # 169

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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.