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#AxisOfEasy 327: Iran-Affiliated Hackers Attack Water Authorities Across Multiple US States

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 8, 2023 | 2 Comments
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Iran-Affiliated Hackers Attack Water Authorities Across Multiple US States,
US State Department Faces Lawsuit Over Accusations of Funding Censorship Technology,
23andMe confirms Hackers Stole Nearly Half of its Customer Data … this and more in AofE #327

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Irony Alert: The American Dream Is Only Affordable Overseas

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 6, 2023 | 0 Comments
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This is not to suggest living/working overseas is a panacea or easy–it isn’t.

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We Feel Poorer Because We Are Poorer: Here’s Proof

By Charles Hugh Smith | December 3, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Measured by the purchasing power of our wages/work, we’re definitively poorer, as it takes far more hours of work now to pay rent.

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#AxisOfEasy 326: LockBit Ransomware Group Claims 1.5TB Of Stolen Documents Against Canadian Government

By Mark E. Jeftovic | December 1, 2023 | 2 Comments
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LockBit Ransomware Group Claims 1.5TB of Stolen Documents Against Canadian Government,
Unencrypted Messages Lead to Removal of Nothing Chats from Play Store,
easyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic will be speaking at SplinterCon … this and more in AofE #326

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Never Mind Bogus Measures of Inflation–Purchasing Power Is What Counts, and It’s Decaying

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 30, 2023 | 0 Comments
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If your earnings rose by 34% from January 2020 to October 2023, congratulations, the purchasing power of your labor kept pace with higher costs.

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What Happens When Millions of Renters Can No Longer Afford High Rents and Move Back Home?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 27, 2023 | 0 Comments
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What’s no longer affordable is eventually jettisoned, including high-rent homes and apartments.

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#AxisOfEasy 325: Unconventional Move: ALPHV Ransomware Group Files SEC Complaint Against Its Own Victim

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 24, 2023 | 1 Comment
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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

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Black Flag Friday: Could Black Friday Be a Harbinger of a Tapped-Out Consumer?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 24, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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.

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Thanksgiving: When Gratitude Is In Short Supply

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 22, 2023 | 0 Comments
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There are times when the only triumph within reach is survival.

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This Holiday Season, Give the Wonderful Gift of Nothing

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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There’s actually something refreshingly wonderful about enjoying all the traditions without the obligation to buy or make gifts.

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What’s It Take To Be Middle Class Now?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 17, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Can an economy in which 10% of the households qualify as middle class claim to offer widespread opportunities for secure prosperity? No, it cannot.

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#AxisOfEasy 324: Microsoft And Facebook Announce Their Election Interference Plans Ahead Of 2024

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 17, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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

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Check All That Apply: Artifice, Suppression, Deceit, Denial, Delusion

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 15, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Why does the phrase “bread and circuses” keep coming to mind?

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Can We Reverse America’s Distemper?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 13, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Social trust, a baseline measure of social stability, has eroded.
Consider this description of America’s discontent:

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The Original Song That Came To Me in a Dream

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 12, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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.

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#AxisOfEasy 323: Amazon’s Secret Algorithm Generates $1B+ Profits Through Price Manipulation

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 10, 2023 | 2 Comments
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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

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The Invisible Court’s Verdict: You Are Hereby Exiled to Digital Siberia

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 9, 2023 | 0 Comments
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As in the Gulag it replicates, the innocent are swept up with the guilty in a disconcertingly unjust ratio.

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Who’s Wealth Will Get "Clawed Back" First?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 6, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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%?

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#AxisOfEasy 322: Canada Bans WeChat And Kaspersky Over Spying Concerns

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 3, 2023 | 3 Comments
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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

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How Much Do You Spend on Food?

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 2, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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?”

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We’re Eating Our Seed Corn

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 31, 2023 | 0 Comments
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What will break is not as predictable as the reality that the current trajectory is untenable and unsustainable.

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The Counterculture Everyone Forgot

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 29, 2023 | 0 Comments
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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.

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#AxisOfEasy 321: Westminster Declaration Highlights Threat Of Digital Censorship

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 27, 2023 | 7 Comments
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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

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Our Neofeudal, Neocolonial World

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 26, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Once the chasm widens a bit more, the “efficient market” cover story bridge collapses into the abyss.

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The Profitable Destruction of Americans’ Health

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 23, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Who needs a healthy populace rich in well-being when you can have trillions in annual corporate profits?

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Contributors

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.