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About Those Vaccine ID Cards…

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 3, 2020 | 0 Comments
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An idea that’s simple as an abstraction–vaccine ID cards–turns out to be extremely difficult once real-world operational realities must be dealt with. Authorities around the world have made it clear that they will do “whatever it takes” to vaccinate their citizenry with one of the first available vaccines.

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Do You Really Think the Empire Will Sacrifice the Dollar to Further Enrich Billionaires?

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 2, 2020 | 0 Comments
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As for stock markets–the devil take the hindmost. Let’s keep it simple: US dollar up, stocks down. US dollar down, stocks up. Stocks up, billionaires get richer. Since that spot of bother in March 2020 when the US dollar (USD) soared and stocks cratered, the USD has been in a free-fall, boosting the wealth of America’s Robber Barons and various other skimmers, scammers and other undeserving scoundrels.

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#AxisOfEasy 174: Drupal Deploys Emergency Fix For Critical Vulnerability

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 1, 2020 | 2 Comments
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Last week, a report surfaced that Zoom had shut down the accounts of student survivors of the Tiananmen Square massacre who were meeting virtually to commemorate the June 4, 1989 event.What to do about fake news when the gatekeepers are worse …and more in AofE #145

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What to do about bias?

By Jesse Hirsh | December 1, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The relationship between algorithms and bias is both problematic and an opportunity. Problematic in that it has the potential to amplify and exacerbate entrenched biases and inequality. However it’s also an opportunity as we can now document and identify institutional or cultural bias in ways that were not previously possible.

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2021 is Already Optimized for Failure

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 30, 2020 | 0 Comments
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One sure way to identify a system “optimized for failure” is if all the insiders are absolutely confident the system is “optimized for my success”. I often discuss optimization here because it offers an insightful window into how systems become fragile and break down.

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Moral Decay Leads to Collapse

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 27, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Our national claim of moral superiority is no longer plausible. A very strong case can be made that America is now a moral cesspool. Consider just three cases: Jeffrey Epstein, the CEO of Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase.

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Future Fibre: Wifi Dabba

By Jesse Hirsh | November 27, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Wifi Dabba is a fascinating story from India about innovation in broadband, even though the company happens to be based in Delaware, with offices in California, and is backed by major silicon valley venture capital. The company is focused on providing broadband Internet to the next billion users, and their plan begins in urban India.

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A Dimly Lit Thanksgiving

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 26, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Our overweening faith and confidence in our wealth and power make this a dimly lit Thanksgiving. A public expression of gratitude by victorious sports stars, lottery winners, etc. is now the convention in America: coaches, teammates, family and mentors (or agents) are recognized as an expression of the winners’ humility and gratitude for everyone that contributed to the success.

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The Future of Education

By Jesse Hirsh | November 26, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Happy Thanksgiving to our American subscribers. Hopefully you’re spending it with your social bubble and connecting with extended family via the Internet?

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#AxisOfEasy 173: Hackers Target Crypto Exchanges Via Their Domain Registrar

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 24, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Hackers target crypto exchanges via their registrar
Vatican cries foul after pontiff “likes” racy pic on Instagram
Now available on the Internet: Music
and dont forget to check out the AxisOfEasy Salon #31: The Covid Episode

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Our Frustrations Run Far Deeper Than Covid Lockdowns

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 24, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The reality is the roulette wheel is rigged and only chumps believe it’s a fair game. It’s easy to lay America’s visible frustrations at the feet of Covid lockdowns or political polarization, but this conveniently ignores the real driver: systemic unfairness.

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Why I’m Hopeful About 2021

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 23, 2020 | 0 Comments
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What we need is not a return to the corrupt, tottering kleptocracy of 2019, but a re-democratization of capital, agency and money. I’m hopeful about 2021, and no, it’s not because of the vaccines or the end of lockdowns or anything related to Covid. The status quo is cheering the fantasy that we’ll soon return to the debt-soaked glory days of 2019 when everything was peachy.

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A glaring hole in the digital charter

By Jesse Hirsh | November 20, 2020 | 0 Comments
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This week the Canadian government introduced legislation titled the “Digital Charter Implementation Act” which proposes to upgrade the country’s privacy laws while also creating a new regulator, to govern both data and AI.

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The One Chart That Predicts our Future

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 20, 2020 | 0 Comments
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That our “leadership” reckons “bread and circuses” is what the stripmined bottom 90% want is beyond pathetic. There’s one chart that predicts our future, and no, it’s not related to Covid–it’s related to capital, specifically the concentration of capital and power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many.

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Future Tools: ZoneMinder

By Jesse Hirsh | November 20, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Given our recent discussions about surveillance, especially in the context of a pandemic, it makes sense to take a moment to examine open source surveillance systems. After all, surveillance is seductive. As it increases in accessibility and ease of use, more people will be tempted to use or play with such systems.

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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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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. 

The Canadian Bitcoiners

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.