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Monday, October 13, 2025

Artificial Intelligence: An Existential Threat - But To Humanity Or Savings And Investments

 

Stock market analysts and investment bankers have been saying for a few months the the AI bubble rapid  i.e.the surge in the value of these companies based on stock market trading in their shares, about to burst? Big tech’s gargantuan capital outlays – surging tenfold in the three years since ChatGPT was publicly launched – look increasingly unsustainable. 

By some measures, artificial intelligence (AI) now sucks up more than half of America’s combined investment pool. Yet the promised uplift to business productivity hasn’t materialized. 

According to techopedia.com, investment in artificial intelligence has sailed past levels last seen during the peak of the dotcom bubble. Jens Nordvig, founder and CEO of macroeconomic consultancy Exante, says AI-related capital expenditures now represent about 2% of America’s GDP. But scepticism is in short supple with people like Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, the world's biggest asset management firm fully on board with the hype.

Big tech AI data center spending has risen 10x in the last three years alone. The arrival of ChatGPT in 2022 has led to an AI bubble so big it’s consuming more than half of America’s cumulative investment pool. 

So unquenchable is the industry’s thirst for cash that the world’s biggest economy may not have enough to slake it. OpenAI chief Sam Altman has already been fundraising beyond America’s shores, hoping to raise some $7 trillion from sovereign wealth funds and other sources in the UAE and elsewhere. AI has been said to pose an existential threat, not to humanity itself but to our savings, pensions and investments.

The AI euphoria driving this is partly due to global debt having ballooned from $64 trillion in 2000 to $338 trillion today. Every major asset — stocks, bonds, property — has been inflated by decades of easy money. What looks like prosperity is really devaluation in disguise.
 
Meanwhile, most investors no longer pick stocks; algorithms do. Trillions flow automatically into ETFs that chase price momentum, not profit. When liquidity dries up, everything will fall together.

Even the gains AI firms are making come at a cost elsewhere. As the industry sucks up all the available capital, it’s also consuming massive amounts of electricity. Hyperscale data centers use roughly 4.5% of America’s electricity, a figure that could triple in the next two years. That’s raising electricity prices – up about 13% on average between October 2022 and June 2025.  

AI centers require significant power to operate and a lot of water to keep them cool, straining local grids and raising utility water prices in areas where these data centers are concentrated. That puts upward pressure on inflation, making both households and businesses more costly to run.

And the supposed AI “revolution that is going to kick off the fourth industrial revolution and even pose an existential threat to humanity? A July MIT study found 95% of AI projects deliver zero profit. Yet trillions in capital keep flooding in. Data-center investment alone could exceed $5 trillion by 2030 — which would require AI services to generate revenues equal to 10% of total U.S. GDP just to break even. Pure fantasy economics and yet the oligarchic insanity over an AI takeover of everything goes on unabated. 

On top of all that it emerged last week that AI large language models can quite easily be 'poisoned' and caused to spew out gibberish by hackers. 

AI is a massive mis-allocation of capital running in trillions of dollars. Now the data-center theme seems to be going out, people rejecting data centers across the west, due to their energy issues, and effect on fresh water sources.

So many sub-sectors of  stock markets have already been falling 6 months or more (transportation, chemicals, materials etc.) but this has largely been concealed because a few big tech corporations heavily invested in AI have propped up the indexes so the headline figures have looked good.

As Wall Street, Lndon and other stock exchanges brace themselves for tech carnage, analysts are starting to wonder if a bigger financial collapse than the dot-com collapse is just around the corner.  

AI may be approaching its moment of truth. A technology built to unleash the economy is starting to weigh it down.

 The investment flows that have and are still inflating the AI bubble are dependent on monetary flows, and right now we seem to be seeing another liquidity crunch, which will take down everything.  The key issue is who is going to save the banks that are too big to fail this time. 


 

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Welcome to the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Technological Deceit
Pretty soon, computer wizardry and artificial intelligence will allow video footage to be created that is practically indiscernible from the real deal. Add holographic technology, and soon a person apparently be speaking live on screen and you’d never know it was fake. The ethical ramifications of AI and technology are simply mind-boggling.

WikiLeaks have today released documents from the Vault 7 cache, a group of leaked information which contains details on the CIA Angelfire spyware tool which was developed to facilitate loading and execution of implants targeting computers using Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Electrosensitivity - the Wi - Fi disease.
So you thought people who wear tinfoil hats are crazy conspiracy theorists? Not so fast there, some of them might actually be onto something.While these people are not tinfoil hat wearers either literally or in a metaphorical sense, the measures they take to avoid exposure to electromagnetic radiation (radio - activity) can seem rather paranoid until you know more about them.

Google: Benefactor Of Mankind Or Evil Empire (or buch of idiotic nerds who got lucky?)
They way Google has come to dominate the internet just as the internet has come to dominate our lives can't all be down to good luck and careful planning can it? As this page develops you will see how sinister forces guided Google to their current position.

Shock, Horror! Millennials Safe Space Violated As Facebook Algo Accident Exposes Them To Diverse Ideas Late last month (August 2016,) the Zuckerbugger's zoons put an algorithm in charge of the Facebook “trending” feature, to select the most popular topics, articles and keywords on the web in a narrow timeframe and with due respect for the 'safe space' of millenials who can be traumatised if they encounter microaggrrrrressions in the form of controversial ideas or unorthodox opinions ...

Government Paid Trolls Are Using 'Psychology-Based Influence Techniques' in Social Media
Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid government troll? Well, there is a very good chance that you were not imagining things. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have solid proof that paid government trolls are using “psychology-based influence techniques” on social media websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

Zuckerberg reveals Facebook Working On Apps 'Smarter Than Humans'
In an online Question and Answer session this week Facebook supremo and founding megalomaniacal sociopath Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is engaged in building AI systems "that are better than humans at our primary senses."

War On Cash - A Country By Country Guide
More on the global war on cash being waged by ruling elites in parallel with their war on privacy as they try to exert total control over everything.

Obama Crowns Himself Emperor Of The Internet
Barack Obama's seizing control of the internet by executive fiat is a serious breach of The US Consitution but for the rest of the world is perhaps the clearest idication yet of what the man is all about. Comparisons with Hitler can no longer be dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

Online shills paid to control your perception by spreading propaganda using up to 10 online personas
Libertarian and freethinking bloggers and new media writers are having a great time. For years our efforts to warn people about the opush towards global fascism earned us hate attacks and accusations that we were conspiracy theorists. And now, alomst daily, another of those conspiracy theories is being proved true

War On Cash Begins, It Is Not About Keeping You Or Your Money Safe From Muggers
Government and big busin.ess has been nudging us towards abandoning cash for electronic money for a long time. Now the Frech government has become the first to move towards making cash illegal (because government can't keep tabs on what you do with your money when cash passes from hand to hand ...

Being Evil? Just Another Day At The Office For Google Boss.
Google boss Eric Schmidt has defended Google's barely legal tax avoidance practices saying Googl;e's contribution to UK national life is more important than the money they owe us. boycott Google, Big is a good serach engine.

Neuromancers and other neuroscience fiction
n recent years the scientific community have been clamouring to tell us thy are close to mapping the workings of the human brain and understanding the workings of the human mind. now I recall while recovering from a brain haemorrhage fifteen years ago being told by a very good doctor that medical science was only just starting to understand that the brain (a physical organ) and the mind (a mystery) were very different things. And I have neither read nor heard anything since to make me think he was wrong.

Quantum Soul
Science has for two hundred years dealt with the mystery of human consciousness by conflating the mind with the brain. In spite of a growing hill of evidence that the two are very different things and…

Black Hat Biotech Beyond The Law (Black Hat part 2)
In the first part of Black Hat Biotech I reported on how a single corporation are close to establishing a monopoly as supplier of seed for the world's staple food crops.Now we look at how that same corporation either by buying political influence or other, less ethical means (if you know what I mean) has come close to ...

The Grand Illusion Of Self And The Key To Slowing The Ageing Process?
We all have an idea of who and what we are but is it anywhere near the truth. Science scoffs at notions like mind over matter but what if there is more mind than matter. The Hindu and Buddhist concept of Maya tells is what we think of as reality is an illusion ... (Index Philo and Sophia)

Obama's Dr. Evil Presidency OKs Biological Warfare Research Using Human Babies
This shocking article embedded here from Nature News shows how deeply corrupt and morally deficienty the Obama Adminidtration truly is. OKing experiments on American babies for a program that can only be aimed at handing more taxpayers money to Big Pharma is extreme even for the crack smoking, rent - boy fucking President of the New World Order's puppet regime.

Eugenics Belongs To The Left Not The Right Whenever the topic of population growth is brought up in a forum or comment thread usually on climate change, and it is suggested that any policy to save the environment must include measures to curb the…

Climate Fraud Watch: How The United Nations Made 50 million Refugees Disappear.
A decade ago The United Nations promised us that if carbon emissions were not curbed sea levels would rise swamping island nations and low lying coastlines and there would be 50 million refugees. Well carbon emissins increased, temperatures got sightly cooler and the refugess disappeared...

Facebook boss Zukerberg Wants To Own The Internet Facebook's latest acquisition Whatsapp cost $19bn, that's $40 per user. Whatsapp charge their users $1 per year. That means it will take Facebook 40 years to recover their outlay. And people are buying shares in this company? Insane. Facebooks Latest Violation Of Users PrivacyThe Daily Stirrer looks at Facebooks latest embarrassing climbdown after initially denying a new data mining scheme covertly violates users privacy ... Google's Schmidt Tells US Senators "We're Not MocrosoftGoogle executive chairman Eric Schmidt, giving his testimony to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee that focuses on antitrust began by recalling a ghost of the committee's past: Microsoft. Schmidt never actually mentioned its arch enemy but it is clear ... IBM Develop Computer Chips To Replicate The Human BrainTodays main story deals with an old chestnut that resurfaces ever two or three years. Some scientists dream of creating life in a test tube or growing human clones for spare parts. Others dream of using drugs or chip implants to turn us into unthinking automatons. And still more want to build machines that think like us and have human senses ... Facebook's Privacy Priacy Once again Facebook are in trouble over their contempt for users privacy. It is quite astounding that this upstart corporation that is quite open about its ambition to control the internet does not seem to understand there are lines that cannot be crossed when it comes to broadcasting or "sharing" details of users private lives. Webupon Facebook - privacy issues

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Saturday, June 15, 2024

SStarmers and Labour's Politics Of Envy Will Trigger A Class War

 

 

Were Britain a rich country with a heafty reserve of capital, and desperate to reduce the size of its mountain of surplus wealth the Conservative Party election manifesto, published earlier this week  might make some sense. Unfortunately our problem is one of  low productivity and chronically low savings, with our current savings rate putting us near the bottom of the OECD league table, and globally somewhere between Zimbabwe, Ukraine and Burkina Faso. 

In this context, Britain’s status as a productivity desert – with British workers producing 15 per cent less per hour than their American peers – makes a lot more sense. As the economist John Van Reenen has noted, a recent slowdown in the accumulation of capital per worker goes a long way to explaining our post-financial crisis “productivity puzzle”.

Looking at policies to incentivise saving and growth proposed in the Labour Party  manifesto it appears the Labour leadership is happy to drive both down further, so long that it can claim to be attacking the unworthy rich – unworthy, here, being defined in its usual sense of “doing better than myself”. 

Ironically while speaking in Middlesbrough, Labour leader Keir Starmer described Conservative manifesto as “a Jeremy Corbyn-style wish list” full of unfunded pledges.

And it’s here, perhaps, that the answer to what Sir Keir Starmer is for emerges. The only group the Labour Party appears to consider “worthy”, is, with a weary predictability, those in the employ of the state.

The only surprisingly sensible policy proposed by Starmer is to accelerate repairs to our roads. Yet how a Labour Government would fund such a project is not clear.  Promises, promises!!

According to their campaign [ropaganda all the main Parties want to do is to further bankupt us and destroy our businesses with their groupthink obsession of achieving Net Zero and hang the economic consequences; never mind that it will make not the slightest difference to the world’s climate.

Nor do we want them to increasingly oversee our personal health and safety. We can look after ourselves thank you very much without resorting to the banning of smoking, drinking, vaping or any other occupation or activity which the self-appointed rulers (closet tyrants) deem to be an unacceptable danger.

We need a government that promises to get off our backs yet Conservatives and Labour can only promise more and more laws, more regulatory bodies and more obstacles put in the way of actually getting things done.

This is not a new problem of course. 2000byears ago this was being written:“The worse the state, the more laws it has”. ( Cornelius Tacticus cAD55-116.)

And as the two main parties, lacking ideas about how to actually solve ourproblems, attempt to scare people into voting for them by demonising the opposition, I am often reminded of a comment made by the American political commentator, H L Mencken, in the 1930s:“The fundamental art of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”.

We in the UK have seen chip on the shoulder socialism big time from the devolved governments in Scotland and Wales,beautiful areas of the country where the so called "rich" reside, are searched out by the lefties in our wonderful Parliament to be devastated by grotesque housing estates portable buildings hair brained "improvement scheme's"that improve nothing except the salaries of bureaucrats whp administer the mess. 

( Wasn't it Abraham Lincoln who said that we can't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer? )  

 


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BBC scandal – Breast beating, politically correct broadcaster has links to gangters, banksters and the arms trade As news leaks out from the inner sanctums of the BBC about cronyism and corruption in the corporations management structure, people are starting to wonder if the Clarkson fiasco was engineered to deflect attention from the way the BBC has been infiltrated by corporate business, and the linked issue of political bias in its news coverage of the election campaign.

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Is The Internet Killing Democracy?
What is happening to democracy in Europe? While we in England laugh at the contortions of the Scottish and Irish governments as they attempt to justify to an already alienated voter base their authoritarian policies, notably the 'hate speech' laws that are so loosely drafted anyone in either of those countries could find him or herself in prison for saying anything about anything

Dystopia Watch: German Intelligence Chief Defends Efforts to Surveil Citizens “Thought and Speech Patterns”
The German Homeland Security Ministry, in stubbornly trying to defend its controversial and widely criticised plans to control the speaking and writing engagements, and restrict the access to travel and economic activity of political dissidents (and their definition of political dissidents can mean members of mainstream political parties that oppose the ruling coalition.

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Dutch Election Betrayed As Geert Wilders As EU Brokered Opposition Party Blocks Efforts To Form A Ruling Coalition
Geert Wilders, leader of the victorious Freedom Party in last November's Dutch General Election has been forced to give up his efforts to form a coalition that could command a majority in the Netherlands' state assembly and now accepts he will not be the next prime minister of the Netherlands after talks based on him leading the next government were unsuccessful.

Why Are Government Psyop Experts And Propagandists Distancing Themselves From Behavioural Science?
The state’s reliance on behavioural science strategies – ‘nudges’ – to influence compliance with covid restrictions has been widely documented. The many psychologists and behavioural scientists during the covid event (such as those in the SAGE group, and the Behavioural Insight Team, BIT ) have been assumed to hold some responsibility for using these methods in media campaigns.

Furious French Farmers Stage Shitfest Protest In Toulouse</b?
Inspired perhaps by the protests of farming communities in Germany and Netherlands, angry French farmers gathered in the historic city of Toulouse, South - west France this week and dumped piles of farmyard manure on the steps of City Hall and in the streets and squares in fron of other public buildings. Such shitfest protests are a favourite tactic of French farmers when they want to let their government know its policies stink ...

Thousands Of Tractors Blocks Berlin Traffic Over Plan To End Diesel Subsidy
Thousands of German truck drivers, farmers, and agricultural workers parked in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin yesterday as another massive protest over the government's 'green' plans to end tax breaks on diesel fuel and subsidies to farmers prevented from getting the best out of their land by loonytoons EU 'rewilding' policies.

German Farmers target nation's vice chancellor in subsidies protest
German farmers angered by cost-saving plans impacting the country's agricultural sector blocked the EU state’s vice chancellor from disembarking a ferry on Thursday, in a protest that was criticized by both government and opposition figures. The farmer's ager was triggered by financial cutbacks imposed by EU policy on member state’s agricultural industries have.

Irish farmers protest plans to cull livestock to meet climate targets
Farmers in Ireland are protesting government proposals to cull livestock — including up to 200,000 cows — in an effort to meet national and European Union (EU) climate targets. According to Ireland’s Independent, up to 65,000 dairy cows and 10% of the livestock herd would have to be removed from the national herd every year for three years at a cost of €200m ($215.2 million) if the farming sector is to “meet its climate targets.”

"Go To Hell": Brave EU Politician Tells Globalist Politicians And Billionaire Pshycopaths
As the pushback against an elitist power grab that would end democratic government and establish an authoritarian, technocratic global government struggles to gain momentum in the face of a torrent of scaremongering propaganda, Anderson, a member of Germany's AfD party, has been a consistently vociferous opponent of Klaus Schwab’s Word Economic Forum (WEF) and its ‘Great Reset’ and agenda 2030 power grab.

Implosion of Germany's Green Party Threatens To Destabilse EU
With the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 US election, the far left parties in Liberal Democracies celebrated the defeat of the far right. At around the same time it appeared that Germany's AfD party, Italy's Lega and and the Sweden Democrats had been discredited and surges in their popularity had been halted by negative propaganda campaigns while Germany's Green Party were at the height of their popularity and were hailed as Europe's great hope for a clean, net zero, woke, gay and trans friendly future.

French President Macron Narrowly Survives Confidence Vote Over Dictatorial Pension Reforms
Riots erupted agross France again today after French President Emmanuel Macron pushed through his pension reform act, raising the retirement age without bothering to present his proposal to the National Assembly so representatives could vote on bit. The public backlash has exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions, and there is now a good chance that a no-confidence vote this week could collapse his government.

The Great Genocide: Dutch Govt Plans to Shut Down Up To 3,000 Farms To Comply With Euronazi Union Green Law
As we reported earlier in the year, in order to comply with new, economically suicidal European Union environmental laws the Dutch government’s plans to force the closure of thousands of dairy and livestock farms in order to comply with the latest and most insane to date batch of EU environment laws which aim to limit notrogen as well as Carbon Dioxide emissions. The European Union green agenda directive has been branded as the “Great Reset turned up to eleven”.

French Police Use Teargas As Freedom Convoy Brings Thousands Of Protestors To Paris
Inspired by Canada's freedom Convoy, a sponaneous protest by drivers of heavy trucks against the fasistic and oppressive curtailment of individual freedoms by Prime Minister Trudeau's regime, French truck drivers protesting President Macron's similarly authoritarian measures converged on Paris where they were met by riot police enforcing Macron's ban on protests against government policy ...

University free speech society told free speech a 'red risk', external speakers must be vetted

Sheffield University’s recently formed Free Speech Society has been warned that free speech is a “red risk” and all external speakers at events it organises will have to be vetted by the University Thought Police squad and the topics they intend to talk about shown to be in line with ideas and opinions the titty - sucking babies who run the Student Union are not frightened by.

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Monday, April 29, 2024

WSJ Warns Of A Global Wealth Tax As Biden Clown Show Promises To Fight Racial Wealth Inequality

29 April  2024

Watch Out for a Global Wealth Tax

The Wall Street Journal says Watch Out for a Global Wealth Tax

 As the ruling elites kleptosocialist agenda advances, the demand to tax and redistribute income is becoming irresistible as governments, agencies of state, business and the media fall to the glamor* of woke ideology. Details of the latest scam arrives in a proposal by four countries in the G-20 group of nations to impose a 2% wealth tax on the world’s billionaires.

WSJ writes:

“The tax could be designed as a minimum levy equivalent to 2% of the wealth of the super-rich,” write economic ministers of Germany, Spain, Brazil and South Africa in the Guardian. 

They say the levy would raise about $250 billion a year from some 3,000 billionaires and “would boost social justice and increase trust in the effectiveness of fiscal redistribution.” The countries plan to float this at the next G-20 meeting in June.Presumably, the plan is to have the G-20 endorse the idea, including President Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Then negotiate a global tax deal that would wait until Democrats control all of the U.S. government to approve it, even if that takes many years."

That’s more or less what Ms. Yellen has done with her global minimum tax on corporations, and the four ministers are candid in saying the G20 proposal is their model. The wealth tax “is a necessary third pillar that complements the negotiations on the taxation of the digital economy and on a minimum corporate tax of 15% for multinationals,” the ministers write.

Ms. Yellen went along with the ideas of 2% and fiscal redistribution, though they would subject American companies and wealthy individuals to foreign tax raids of the kind to which the U.S. government has always been opposed. An architect of the wealth tax idea is French socialist Gabriel Zucman, currently employed as a professor of economics and public policy by the University of California (say no more,) who was also behind  Yellen’s failed global minimum tax scheme. 

This idea could cause economic turmoil if G20 governments try to implement it, as there will be an exodus of money to places like Dubai, Singapore, The Cayman Islands and Lichtenstein. Schemes like this are doomed from the start, recall the notorious Robing Hood Tax proposed around 15 years ago which planned to levy a half of one per cent tax on ALL financial transactions.

When I wrote that such a tax could not possibly work, lefties could not wait to pile into the thread accusing me of hating the poor and accusing me of being a Scrooge like figure if I begrudged 50 pence tax when I spend £100. I was very happy to expose their ignorance by telling them that no, I would not miss a few pennies tax on my financial transactions, but corporate and inter - bank transactions in the financial markets work not on percentage points but Basis Points (bips), a Basis Point being one hundredth of one per cent, and the profit margins involved are often less than half a percentage point.   

Once a global wealth tax is in place, you can be sure that billionaires won’t be the last target, although the suggestion that billionaires will fund a redistribution of wealth to the world's poor is clearly bollocks. Billionaires have their wealth tied up in networks of offshore shell companies and trusts that are so opaque the tax agencies can never unlock them.

However the Biden Administration is a Pythonesque circus of far left globalists who are always happy to cede more sovereign power to multilateral institutions while hiding their own business affairs on tax havens. President Biden is campaigning on a wealth tax of his own that would impose the highest tax rates on Americans since before the Reagan tax reform. For this crowd, talk of taxing American billionaires to redistribute income around the world is just the usual empty rhetoric, designed to secure the working class vote with promises of jam tomorrow, a phrase which, appropriately perhaps, comes from Lewis Carroll's story, Alice In Wonderland.

As is so often the case, the US Constitution is the main obstacle to this globalist scam Letting the G-20 set US tax rates would be unconstitutional, but since when did The Biden Administration give a damn about the constitution, the law or the inalienable human rights set out in the Geneva Convention?

Besides, if Democrats get control of the Senate, House and White House they may try to pack the courts with activist judges again, as happened in the Clinton and Obama presidencies. For the sake of balance the Republicans did the same in the Bush 2 era.

READ MORE  in this US Treasury PDF, "General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals" but be warned, its about 250 pages without any jokes or cartoons. (OK, I admit I  only read a summary in the Financial Times.)

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Dont Dictate To Us On Human Rights, Justice Secretary Raab Tells EU
Justice Secretary Dominic Raab told the Conservative Party Conference last month Boris Johnson had given him the task of rewriting the The Human Righrs Act when he moved him from the Foreign Office in September’s reshuffle. This week Raab revealed details on how he plans to block interference from Strasbourg in British matters as part of his remit.

Soros Is Responsible for Europe's Immigration Crisis Says Hungary's Viktor Orban
With Britain's Conservative Government pressing ahead with a 'hard Brexit agenda, and the Trump administration setting abou demolishing the expressway to socialism Barac Obama had spent eight years contruction, there is a lot of speculation and precious little hard evidence to indicate where the globalist elite, having seen their ambition for a world government thwarted will go next.

Post Trump and Brexit, Predicting The Globalists Next Move
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has made the American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros for the current refugee movements in Europe with responsibility. "This invasion (of migrants) on the one hand steered from the tractor business, on the other hand of those (human) activists who support everything that the nation-states weakens,

Goodbye Freedom, Hello Global Governance.
If at any time during the chaos the past eighteen months you have wondered what kind of idiots are running the world and have gleefully trashed economies, disrupted social and commercial life and stripped citizens of their rights and liberties only to bring us, in late October 2021, right back to where we were in late February 2020 when the words pandemic and COVID crept into our consciousness ...

We need a referendum on net zero to save Britain from the green blob

from The Daily Telegraph
As with membership of the EU, the political elite is imposing a revolution on the public without consent. Does the blob never learn? Voters don’t like being treated like naughty children

More Mega-Banks Join The Anti-Dollar Alliance
Right now, most international financial transactions must pass through the US banking system’s network of correspondent accounts. London may be the global capital for currency trading, but the fact that international trades are settled inm US Dollars, the defacto global currency, gives the US government an incredible amount of power. And as we have seen over the past few decades they have not been shy about using and abusing that power.

Globalization: The False Narrative and The Death Of Western Steel Industry
In popular perception, the downfall of the steel industry in Britain, Europe and the USA symbolizes the decline of manufacturing industry in the developed world more clearly than any other of the past half century's economic trends. Over the past few months in Britain two of the last remainings blast furnace steel manufacturing plant, Redcar in North East England and Port Talbot in South Wales have been in the news, both were threatened with closure, in both cases that would have had dire consequences for the local economies. Similar stories have been played out in Germany, France, Sweden, Italy and, most drastically in the USA where the area dubbed 'the rust belt ...

If You Look At How Fast Global Trade Is Unravelling, You'll Get Dizzy
Governments constantly make positive noises about the health of their economies although most people who are in work have felt no improvement on the position they were in after the crash of 2008. Wagest are stangnant, employment has reduced somewhat (see below) and while the banks are printing money and the super rich are widening the gap between themselves and ordinary people faster than ever, the real situation is frightening.

Bilderberg: It's That Time Of Year Again
Every year, the world's richest and most powerful business executives, bankers, media heads and politicians sit down in some luxurious and heavily guarded venue, and discuss how to steer the global economy in a way that maximizes profits for all involved, while perpetuating a status quo that has been highly beneficial for a select few, even if it means the ongoing destruction of ...

News From Davos: America Is Finished Global Governance And NWO To Rule
The World Economic Forum held their annual conference at the exclusive Alpine resort of Davos-Klosters this week. Two thousand five hundred politicians, celebrities, and business leaders from all over the world gather every year for this “Bilderberg style” meeting [ ... ] One of the most significant discussions held at this year's Davos powerfest concerned the growing hostility between citizens and the power elites. "If [the] growing disconnect between governments and citizens is not fixed rapidly, there can be no legitimate, accountable and trusted global cooperation, problem solving or governance." - WEF Everybody’s Business Report

"Go To Hell": Brave EU Politician Tells Globalist Politicians And Billionaire Pshycopaths
As the pushback against an elitist power grab that would end democratic government and establish an authoritarian, technocratic global government struggles to gain momentum in the face of a torrent of scaremongering propaganda, Anderson, a member of Germany's AfD party, has been a consistently vociferous opponent of Klaus Schwab’s Word Economic Forum (WEF) and its ‘Great Reset’ and agenda 2030 power grab.

EU Power Grab Backed By France, Germany, Aims To End Member States Right To Veto Bureaucrats Policy Moves
In what may spell the end for the European Union's ambition to become a federal superstate, Germany and France plan to end the right, currently held by every member state to veto any policy proposed by the Brussels bureaucracy before the end of this year.The debate over the issue has led to increased tensions between members in recent months, but has now been put back on the agenda.

Germany is Now A “Total Dictatorship” Says Dutch Journalist
A Dutch journalist has claimed that Germany is now a “total dictatorship”. This may seem like a case of the pot calling the kettle black given the Dutch government's plan to evict up to 3000 farmer from their land and return those acreages 'to nature' in a bid to lead the way among EU member states, to enforce total compliance with the latest loonytoons EU climate policy which requires EU members to reduce that dangerous pollutant nitrogen, which accounts for 78% of the air we breathe ...

Dutch farmers block roads with tractors in protest of government plan to seize thousands of farms over “climate change”
With the cost of energy and food prices already sky high and set to go higher, the , billionaire psychopaths have declared war on the food that sustains us. The European Union having failed to completely remove the gas essential to all lifeforms, Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere, is now setting itself up to remove another esstential gas, nitrogen - which accounts for 70% of the air we breathe.

Negative Interest Rates - Final Nail In The Coffin Of Neoliberalism? Negative interest rates, in plain terms a situation in which we pay bankers for holding our money, are the latest ruse of politicians and economists to make uis start spending our investments and savings, thus kickstarting the global economy thy have screwed up.

The age of financial privacy is over
Yes you read that right. The fascist regime in the USA has usurped to itself the right to raid bank accoutns anywhere is the world. At the moment they are only stealing money by way of tax demands from people who were born on US soil even if those people have not lived in the USA since childhood and have never be employed by a US business.

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Taxes Will Rise If Government Do Not Raid Bank Accounts Taxes will have to rise unless officials are given new powers to raid people’s bank accounts, David Cameron has said.

The Treasury select committee warned that allowing HM Revenue and Customs to remove cash from bank accounts without court orders is “very concerning” because of its history of mistakes.
The committee said that taxpayers could suffer “serious detriment” if officials are able, either by mistake or through an “abuse” of power, to take money from people who have done no wrong.

Magic Money - How The Fractional Reserve Banking System Conjures Money From Fresh Air:
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Thursday, June 29, 2023

COVID To Blame For Inlation Says Economically Illiterate Bank Of England Chief

 An interesting insight into why the liberal democracies are all in the throes of financial crises emerged yesterday as a result of a pissing contest between the current head of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, and his predecessor Mark Carney.

Canadian national Carney was always a supporter of the European Union and throughout his tenure at the BoE from 2013 to 2020 was a strong supporter of closer economic integration with the European Union and then of the 'Remain' campaign and finally of efforts by certain billionaire psychopaths and globalist politicians to habe the referendum result overturned. Since leaving his role at the Banl he has consistently spoken and published articles claiming Brexit is to blame for everything from inflation to extreme weather events. 

The current BoE chief Andrew Bailey said in an obvious rebuke to Carney earlier this week that Covid is to blame for the inflation crisis rather than Brexit, which is still wrog but not as stupidly wong as Carney's belief that Brexit is to blame for everything

Mr Bailey said the pandemic is the key problem, as workers who left the jobs market during Covid do not appear to have returned, leaving a sustained hole in the economy.

It should be obvious to anyone who has more tits or testicles that inflation is caused by banks, more specifically the central banks. While theidiotic responses of the debeloped nations to the COVID pandemic led to an orgy of money printing, which certainly did not help, inflation is an upwards movement of wealth. Bankers, as always, hide behind false accusations, always pointing towards big events and not their own nefarious activities in stripping the wealth away from ordinary people. People are left not knowing who to blame in this instance because saying it is ‘Covid’ or ‘Brexit’ is to cloud the issue in political blaming and point towards the governing party at the time, namely the Tories, who have no ability to make financial decisions without the say so of their banking overlords. Inflation, just like the banking crises of 2008 and 1929, was caused by central banks, the only winners in this game.

The inflation we are experiencing may have originated with manufactured supply chain shortages – starting with the gas and oil price in the Autumn before the start of the Ukraine war but these shortages are being caused by a combination of government policy globally (in response to UN Agenda 2030) and a change in the strategic orientation of large corporations to an ESG agenda – otherwise known as stakeholder capitalism. The banks also have a role in setting high interest rates but these are mainly an attempt to fix the broken debt markets. While the COVID policies were ridiculously over the top considering the true level of threat posed by the disease, the orgy of money printing kicked off by lockdowns, on the back of a decade of idioically cheap credit which encouraged a growth of deby to eye watering levels, and then followed by steep increases in interest rates have reduced the value of money while simultaneously raising the cost of goods and services. And it is all down to mismanagement of the money supply by central banks as they choose to serve political ideologies rather than practical economic consideratons. RELATED:

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If the government & energy companies refuse to act then ordinary people will! Together we can enforce a fair price and affordable energy for all," tweeted "Don't Pay UK," an anonymous group spearheading the effort to have more than one million Brits boycott paying their power bill by Oct. 1.

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All three mainstream parties in the May 2015 General Election are focusing, as they did last time, on fairness, equality and helping 'the poor'. As their senior spokesmen piously pontificate there will be no trace of irony from either Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrat while the spout such bollocks, even though they know their economic policies will penalise the poor.

Things That Make You Boggle ... Like The Misplaced Confidence Of Academics
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Inland Revenue a Dysfunctional department that ‘can’t be trusted’ with power to raid bank accounts
Plans to let the taxman take cash out of people’s bank accounts without their permission were condemned by MPs after Rebecca Benneyworth, of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, warned the department is ‘shooting itself in the foot.’ She told the ICAEW conference : ‘Public trust in HMRC would be eroded very quickly if cases come to light where funds have been incorrectly removed. ‘HMRC cannot afford to have public opinion turn against the tax system and those charged with administering it.’Accountants have warned HMRC cannot be trusted ...

The Second Wave Of The Debt Tsunami or The Coming Of The New World OrderAs the debt crisis stumbles on in Europe, the U S A and around the third world all politicians and governments can do is keep kicking the can further down the road. Nobody is prepared to admit that the economic model based on perpetual growth funded by personal debt and public spending has failed. So where do we go from here?
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If the government & energy companies refuse to act then ordinary people will! Together we can enforce a fair price and affordable energy for all," tweeted "Don't Pay UK," an anonymous group spearheading the effort to have more than one million Brits boycott paying their power bill by Oct. 1.

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All three mainstream parties in the May 2015 General Election are focusing, as they did last time, on fairness, equality and helping 'the poor'. As their senior spokesmen piously pontificate there will be no trace of irony from either Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrat while the spout such bollocks, even though they know their economic policies will penalise the poor.

Things That Make You Boggle ... Like The Misplaced Confidence Of Academics
Why are economics academics always so sure that their predictions are correct. Given the abysmal record on economists on calling the economic trends correctly even after they have happened let alone ahead of the trend, you would think exponsents of the dismal science would be a little more cautious in proclaiming their gusses as evidence backed facts. They never seen to learn however.

Inland Revenue a Dysfunctional department that ‘can’t be trusted’ with power to raid bank accounts
Plans to let the taxman take cash out of people’s bank accounts without their permission were condemned by MPs after Rebecca Benneyworth, of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, warned the department is ‘shooting itself in the foot.’ She told the ICAEW conference : ‘Public trust in HMRC would be eroded very quickly if cases come to light where funds have been incorrectly removed. ‘HMRC cannot afford to have public opinion turn against the tax system and those charged with administering it.’Accountants have warned HMRC cannot be trusted ...

The Second Wave Of The Debt Tsunami or The Coming Of The New World OrderAs the debt crisis stumbles on in Europe, the U S A and around the third world all politicians and governments can do is keep kicking the can further down the road. Nobody is prepared to admit that the economic model based on perpetual growth funded by personal debt and public spending has failed. So where do we go from here?
Britain' Leaders Must Ignore The Messianic Promises Of This False Prophet Of Economic SalvationAccording to his fans Paul Krugman is the greatest economist of his generation. So why does he telln us he can solve the economic crisis when all he can offer is a return to the borrow and spend policies that created the mess in the first place.

U S Regional Bank First Republic Crashes As America's Banking 'Crisis In Confidence' Becomes Contagious
Shares in America's First Republic Bank's crashed when the New York stock market opened for trading this morning. The crash was triggered by a statement issued on Sunday night that sought to ease investor worries about the bank's liquidity situation in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. Shares in the San Francisco based regional bank are down 60% on last week's close.

Naked Bankers Go For Gold
... That gold sale in 2013 was a naked short. The seller had no gold to sell. COMEX reported having gold only equal to about half of the short sale in its vaults, and not all of that was available for delivery (quite a lot of it belonged to the german government) In effect the naked shorting of gold could only work because really the right hand was selling to the left hand.

Things That Make You Boggle ... Like The Misplaced Confidence Of Academics
Why are economics academics always so sure that their predictions are correct. Given the abysmal record on economists on calling the economic trends correctly even after they have happened let alone ahead of the trend, you would think exponsents of the dismal science would be a little more cautious in proclaiming their gusses as evidence backed facts. They never seen to learn however.

Was The Banks' Cypriot Smash And Grab A Rehersal
When I started here at Bubblews back in early March the big story was the financial meltdown in Cyprus and the international response that shocked the world. The political leaders and international bankers whose incompetence and irresponsibility caused ...

Money Index Tax The Rich, Hurt The Poor
The loopy left in Britain and the USA have, throughout the cedit crunch, chanted their Tax The Rich mantra. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it of course and the left have still not learned from all the other economic catastrophes caused by attempts to redistribute wealth that taxing the rich huts the poor most.

The Folly Of Using Inflation To Reduce The Debt As the Obama administration starts to seriously consider minting Trillion dollar coins to reduce debt by fuelling massive inflkation the Daily Stirrer's finance expert explain why this would not work and would have catastrophic consequences.

A Dickensian Christmas Gift: Mister Micawber's Economic Wisdom
Despite the ever growing dunghill of evidence to the contrary lefty politicians around the world continue to call for higher taxes, more government spending and collectivist solutions while the clueless Obama administration embark on another futile round of "quantitative easing. What they are trying to do is inflate away debt but inflation is the curellist stealth tax. (Also posted at Scribd)

Green Policies Will Not Save The Planet But Are Costing Poor Families The EarthPoliticians bleat about the plight of the poor then press on with their clean, green, sustainable energy policies which include stealth taxes to subsidise expensive and inefficient wind turbine and solar panel power generators. Can they not see it is the green agenda that is driving up inflation ...
Drop in UK inflation Is Not Good NewsThe Office for National Statistics has reported a sharp fall in the Consumer Prices Index - down from 4.8 per cent in November to 4.2 per cent last month - was the sharpest drop in the annual rate since December 2008 when the UK was in recession and VAT was reduced. Government ministers and propagandists will try to talk this up as a sing that the economy is starting to recover. We should be wary however, in the current economic circumstances a drop in inflation, especially one this rapid in what is traditionally the best month of the year for retailers, is not good news ...
Financial MadnessWas the credit crunch as the media called it really caused by the geed and incometence of the banks and the inabiliy of us ordinary punters to manage our affairs. Or was it all due to the financial madness of politicians who engineered a a system that depended on infinite growh in a world of finite resources.
Shock, Horror! Coalition Spending Cuts Cuts Will Mean 50,000. NHS Job LossesPredictably the left are screaming about the claimed 50,000 jobs that will have have to be axed by NHS trusts across the nation to meed government budget reduction targets. What NHS managers are doing however is following in the footsteps of Labour controlled councils and rather than losing the candy - floss jobs created by empire building bureaucrats are slashing front line services to punish users of the service for ...
Interest Rates Must Start To Rise Very SoonThe Daily Stirrer has warned you to brace yourselves for rises in interest rates. As it is the Bank of England has kept rates at an insanely low level for far too long in the face of evidence that their policy had completely failed to achieve its stated aim and boost the economy. Now with the economy stagnant, the jobless figures flatlining but likely to increase as public sector jobs are shed and inflation

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Friday, February 04, 2022

Interesting Times

 by Yotivationnation @ Minds.com

Are we not living in Exciting Times...Anyone need a refill on thier popcorn... 
 
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees to focus on video products and warned that he might cry from a scratched eye during a virtual company-wide meeting Thursday after the social media giant lost $237 billion - the biggest single-day loss ever recorded. Shares in Facebook owner Meta fell 26 percent Thursday when the markets closed, after the social media giant issued a dismal forecast and reported its first decline in daily active users. Zuckerberg saw at least $29.7 billion erased from his net worth. 
 
The tech titan was the world's seventh wealthiest person on Wednesday, with a net worth of $113.1billion. But by market close on Thursday, he dropped off Forbes' top 10 list of billionaires - to No. 12 - as his personal net worth plunged to $83.4 billion. 
 
Facebook's stock closed the day at $237.76 per share, sparking fear in international markets and pulling the tech-heavy Nasdaq down by 3.74 percent Zuckerberg told his employees that the drop was due to a weak revenue forecast as the company faces an 'unprecedented level of competition' from TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance. 
 
The 37-year-old billionaire wore glasses and looked red-eyed, a person who attended the meeting told AdAge. Zuckerberg allegedly told his employees that he might tear up because he scratched his eye, and not because of the share drop." 
 
 
 

Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Reality Strikes Back

 

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

The status quo response would be amusing if the consequences weren't so dire.

Rather than stare at empty shelves, you have two options for distraction: you can don a virtual-reality headset and cavort with dolphins in the metaverse, or you can trade various forms of phantom wealth that always go up (happy happy!) because the Fed.

Neither distraction actually solves any real-world problems, a reality we can call the Revenge of the Real World We've entered a peculiar phase in American history in which illusions of wealth and control are the favored distractions from the unraveling of the real world economy and social order.

Printing trillions of currency units can't restore the global supply chain or social cohesion, Rather, jacking phantom wealth to the moon is only accelerating the collapse of the social order and the economy even as it accomplishes absolutely nothing in terms of solving real-world problems.

Let's start with the core economic realities of the 21st century:

1. The number of high-consumption ("middle class") people doubled from 1 billion to 2 billion. The human populace has expanded to 7.9 billion individuals, but poor people who don't have enough money to consume large quantities of energy, goods and services delivered by the global supply chain don't have much of an impact on global consumption of energy and resources. It's the number of people jetting around the world playing their part in the landfill economy (toss the old one, buy a new one) who drive "growth" (i.e. waste is growth).

Strangely enough, there are actual physical limits to resources being transformed into junk being dumped in the landfills. Humanity's rapacious appetite for stuff has extracted all the cheap-to-extract resources and now all that's left are the increasingly expensive-to-extract resources.

2. Corporate America offshored most of the production of essentials to exploit the low labor and energy costs, minimal environmental standards and currency arbitrage of overseas production. The net result has been an astounding increase in corporate profits. ... Continue reading >>>

 

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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Los Angeles Residents Fear Major Riots Are imminent, Poll Reveals

Given the current political climate in the USA after eight years of incompetence and divisive policies delivered by the Obama Administration, as well as the effect of ongoing economic conditions on the working and lower middle classes it is surprising the riots witnessed in the past few years have been relatively tame and of brief duration.

Riots in U.S. urban ghettos in the past lasted for days, with millions of dollars worth of damage done and many lives lost. That could be about to change however, According to a poll carried out among resident of Los Angeles someday soon we might 'see the LA river flowing with much blood,'  (paraphrased from Virgil's Aeneid.)

For the first time since the riots, there is an uptick in the number of Angelenos who fear that another civil disturbance is likely, according to a Loyola Marymount University poll that has been surveying Los Angeles residents every five years since the 1992 disturbances.

Nearly 6 out of 10 Angelenos think another riot is likely in the next five years, increasing for the first time after two decades of steady decline. That’s higher than in any year except for 1997, the first year the survey was conducted, and more than a 10-point jump compared with the 2012 survey.

The notorious 1992 LA riots were largely fueled by racial tensions. Next time, while racial divisions, depite the best efforts of the race-baiter president, Barack Hussein Obama, will only play a minor role, economic factors are likely to be the driver of civil disorder. Like a majority of Democrat run cities in the USA, Los Angeles is divided by an enormous and rapidly widening wealth gap, with unemployment and part - employment rising among low skilled groups, housing costs and other necessary expenses are crushing the lower classes.

“Economic disparity continues to increase, and at the end of the day, that is what causes disruption,” said Fernando Guerra, a political science professor who has worked on the survey since its inception. Unfortunately such economic conditions creat an ideal situation for political meddlers like billionaire psychopath George Soros to exploit, furthering his Marxist and globalist agendas.

“People are trying to get along and want to get along, but they understand economic tension boils over to political and social tension.”

Although the city’s unemployment rate last year was about half of what it was in 1992, the median income of Angelenos, when adjusted for inflation, is lower than it was around the time of the riots. Poverty rates still remain high at 22%, comparable with the years preceding the riots.

 It should be noted of course that conclusions such as those are based on the government's fraudulent way of counting the unemployed (i.e. excluding from statistics those unemployed for 99 weeks or more)

There’s something to be said for the idea that there’s a collective unconscious. When that many people feel that violent civil unrest is a real possibility, one should take notice. These people know what their city is capable of, so I can’t help but fear that their concerns are justified.



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