As multiple crises roiled the Western banking industry this month, investors yanked money from bank accounts and stashed it in money market funds.
Category: 4 April 2023
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
The Restrict Act is being sold as a measure to ban TikTok, for being a “spy app” that benefits the Chinese government.
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AN AI PAUSE WON’T CUT IT: REJECT SCIENTISM OR BRACE FOR A POST HUMAN FUTURE
The quest of technology companies and AI advocates to create artificial intelligence that can outstrip human abilities, is finally undergoing some higher profile scrutiny.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Investigative journalist and freedom advocate James Corbett spoke recently to Bitcoin.com about the ongoing banking crisis, and how it might lead to the introduction of a U.S. digital dollar.
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AS FORECAST: U.S. WEAPONIZATION OF FINANCIAL SYSTEM HURTING US, NOT THEM
In March of 2022, we forecast that the U.S. was hastening the demise of the dollar as a world reserve currency by trying to weaponize the financial system against its enemies: “the unprecedented use of the existing modern international financial order crosses a line from which there is no going back…
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IT’S OFFICIAL: SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOW WORTHLESS
Social media has long been a cesspit of breathless rumors, baseless conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
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BREAKTHROUGH TURNS PLASTIC TRASH INTO ENGINE FUEL
Coffee cup lids, the plastic film encasing paper towels, and the infinite number of single-use plastic shopping bags can be the source of energy and raw materials, if we only knew how to unlock their chemical bonds at a practical cost.
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TOP TREND 2023, GOING GREEN LIKE IT OR NOT: ALGAE—IT’S GROWING ON MATERIALS SCIENTISTS
ExxonMobil may have shut down its algae-based fuel project, but no one else seems to be giving up on the idea of turning these stemless plants into industrial workhorses.
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FAKE NEWS CURATED BY THE DEEP STATE: GOVERNMENT SPIN DOCTORS CONTROL THE NEWS CYCLE
Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s the garden variety fake news that is not really “news” so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page and an active imagination.
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COVID MADE MCDONALD’S A PUBLIC HEALTH SAVIOR
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enlisted McDonald’s to promote its COVID-19 public health education campaign.