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It's odd, when I think of Fascism it is such a different thing than described in this article and many others. I feel that fascism is an unholy alliance between the state and corporate interests, where the corporations support the state through private enforcement of unconstitutional laws, while the state supports the corporations through favorable policies and mandates.

It seems to me that because WWII Germany was both a fascist and racist state they have been conflated to be one in the same.

The creation of Good Information Inc. by one of the largest political donors in the world seems to me to be a far better and terrifying example of true fascism.

https://www.axios.com/soros-hoffman-disinformation-tara-mcgo...

Is it as misleading as calling the graph or chart a plot?

Seems a bit click-baity to me. it may be accurate but is exploiting the duality of the word "plot"'s meaning.

I guess time will tell...;TLDR

one of us will be eating crow soon enough.

The other side of that coin is who will the West buy their goods from, I would rather be in the position of having too much to sell than not enough to buy.

The EU is already dependent on Russian natural gas and middle eastern oil so they will be forced to accept the new trade rules even if under protest.

There is a possibility that the commonwealth countries along with the US might be able to put up a good fight but the current state of anti colonial rhetoric from within most commonwealth countries will most likely push the current leaders of these countries out of power and one by one they will join the rest of the world...The sun has been setting on the British Empire for a while now.

Fair enough, the IMF itself is an international construct funded by world governments but it's directors and governors are appointed positions held by individuals chosen by a few wealthy individuals. It is not a government organization just like the US Federal Reserve Bank which also gets mistaken for a government organization.

>>>Will Saudi Arabia join in when it means the US abandons them...

The Saudis have already entered a mutual defense pact with Russia

>>>It's just a fancy title. Dollar is the reserve currency, but Euro, Pound, Yen, etc...

Actually it isn't, that is why sanctions work so well, Russia and China just entered into an agreement to trade directly between themselves without converting to USD first. It wont be long before Syria, Iran, North Korea, Argentina, Cuba and several African nations join the fray. Not to mention a large number of other out of favor political leaders that are sick of US led regime change or coup attempts constantly testing them..Think Bolsonaro, Duterte, Aung San Suu Kyi.

These are the countries that hold the resources needed for a productive world and soon enough the rest of the world, including the West will be forced to follow them into an new non US hegemonic world, regardless of the number of guns and bombs Uncle Sam has.

I find it amazing how so many people don't know that the IMF is an NGO made up of a few wealthy people.

I suspect the "Financial System" being referred to is the SWIFT system and chances are in the next few years it will be replaced by a new Sino-Russian system backed by Saudi oil.

No cyber attacks will be needed to bring SWIFT down, just a few too many sanctions being wielded like cudgels by over eager bureaucrats trying to impose their "Morality" on the rest of the world.

I suppose it is possible that is the point, they want to be prepared for the backlash sure to follow when the Greenback is no longer the reserve currency.

Nope, but what I want to know is did she get the job?

I can think of a bunch that I would avoid, but I suppose the best would be a "Dad Joke" that somehow fits into the companies marketplace.

Eg. For a coding Job I might use

Q. How did the programmer die in the shower? A. He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

This is only one side of the story. Yes the North American exchanges have changed policy and this is pushing many Chinese listings out, but there is an even more concerning thing going on in China currently. It seems that Beijing has decided not to bail out companies who's bonds are held by foreigners, more to the point it is only facilitating the servicing of interest payments on Sino held bonds.

We are soon going find out what happens when globalization collapses.

I wonder if he will be sentenced to 4 years of fund raising for Eric Swalwell's campaigns?

Seems awful short to be the complete guide... a reasonable person such as Aristotle might even say it is more of a incomplete introduction.

In short we don't, at least not intentionally.

Just like in the past but on a much grander scale it will be our trash that provides the least corrupted record of our society. I believe it was a Futurama episode that joked about the AOL CD ROM mountain which would probably be dwarfed by the K-Cup one now.

If I had to come up with an method to provide a more secure way to store our history and pass it on to future generations...and had unlimited funds. I would land a multiband and frequency transmitter on Halley's Comet set to broadcast every 80 years or so when it comes into range of the earth.

You seem to be arguing with me about something that I qualified as a rumor but just to button up this thread I did do a bit of research and found the article below.

Here is a snippet from it and I would suggest seeking answers from those who have a greater expertise/knowledge of these devices.

>>>The system used a "horn antenna" to blast a beam of microwave energy at between 30GHz and 100GHz through a building wall: "If people are speaking inside the room, any flimsy surface, such as clothing, will be vibrating.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/22/gchq-warned-la...

I am not saying that the Stasi built a cyclotron across from the west German embassy then used it to bounce sub atomic(Radioactive) particles back to their spectrum analyzers to eavesdrop on western bureaucrats, but then again I'm not saying they didn't.

Yes it is, I wonder if the "Visible" component of that statement is the most important part. There is so much propaganda floating around these days I sometimes wonder if the "Paper Tiger" concept deserves more credit than it gets.

That being said it does seem that when Beijing speaks, companies listen and eagerly change their policies.

IDK maybe some sort of Xray like beams were used for better penetration? If the stories are even true, it could have been as simple as changing the curtains to remove listening devices or vary the resonant frequencies.

Laser microphones were projects that also made their rounds through electronics magazines, mostly in the classifieds on the last few pages right next to the sea monkey adds.

These supposedly worked on the principal that peoples voices would create vibrations on window glass and that by shining a laser beam on said window, it was possible to demodulate the observed laser changes back into sound.

I heard rumors that certain 3 letter agencies used more powerful particle beams to penetrate heavy curtains and other sound dampening measures employed in embassies as counter surveillance. As I heard it, the curtains needed to be changed on a regular basis due to them becoming radioactive.

If these devices actually existed and miraculously worked I would be very impressed with the operators that managed to calibrate them, given all the unknown variables presented in the field.

Mandate Mandarin language classes for everyone 30 years old and younger. Pull another Roosevelt and buy/confiscate American gold at 5000 USD/ounce, then re tie the US dollar to gold at 10000 USD/ounce to ensure hegemony for the next 100 years..(Before China does it first with their citizens gold)

Interesting, come to think of it I haven't seen any Winnie the Poo merch on there either.

>>>I've also heard this bullshit before from older generations, including my parents.

Mark those words my friend...There is truth in them and one day not too long from now that same BS will be coming out of your mouth, I guarantee it!

On a side note, put some of your savings into physical precious metals it may very well be the only thing that will allow You to prosper in the next decade.

So what You are saying is You and your partner are Dual Income No Kids or (D.I.N.K.s) and still struggling to get by? Now is the time to make some changes, You probably both have cell phone contracts totaling over $100 USD per month, chances are there is a just as much going out in other digital subscriptions, maybe You even have that stuff that makes your toilet water blue...literally flushing money away.

IDK your situation but have heard the same excuses for a long time. You have the ability to make changes before You get tied down with responsibilities like kids and debt, make the choice to change your lifestyle now before that choice is made for You.

>>>Today many of those people live in 7 figure homes in the middle of prime city centers.

Many of those people live in their same homes, the city grew up around them. At risk of making a generalization, too many young people feel they should get to start at the top. People who bought homes in the 70s spent a lifetime accumulating their wealth, many of them have supported two generations of children and are still working to support the next generation. It is much easier to just throw up your hands and cry out "The World is Unfair". A choice is made to just give up rather put in the hard work required to succeed, that choice is about to go away along with the opportunities that todays youth have squandered.

Hard times are right around the corner, the good news is that housing prices are going to come down. The bad news is it won't make a difference to the people complaining about not being able to afford them as the cost/wage ratio means nothing when You don't have a job.

My house is currently valued at 100K USD that is not an unreachable goal. It might not be right next to your favorite coffee shop but that just one of the sacrifices You make when You want to own a home.

BTW in the 70s we didn't have lattes, it was just plain old coffee and what is this holiday's thing You are talking about? It sounds like something the privileged think they are entitled to.

yeah and most of those parents have been refinancing their homes to support their spoiled children. That is going to end real soon and many of those kids are going to witness their parents lose their homes and become impoverished due to their lazy yet extravagant lifestyles.

Many people have a misguided belief that home ownership was easy in the 70s, 80s or even the 90s. Yes the prices were lower and maybe the cost/average income ratio was lower but I can attest to the fact that it was no easy feat even back then.

Plenty of people lost their homes, renters had far less rights and although when looking at things through averages seems to indicate a better off middle class, the wages of the top 10% middle class (Mostly Unionized) were propping up a huge amount of the middle class that were grinding it out living paycheck to paycheck with none of the social safety nets currently in place.

I find it incredulous that so many people are blind to what is coming in the next few years, there is a huge sense of entitlement and victimhood based on some idea that the world was easier back then. We are coming out of what I consider almost 35 years of prosperity resultant from "Winning" the cold war but a reconning is right around the corner.

I don't expect many to take my advise but if I was in debt, renting a home and unemployed, I would stop bitching about minimum wage and would be finding a job real fast, the days of help wanted signs in every window are about to end.

Lemmings was such a great and innovative game, I still have the original box and floppy and will have to play it again soon.

Does anyone know of a web emulator that would save me some time?

The cloud would be the totality of devices connected via the Internet? Hence the prefix "Inter"?

or the cloud would be the devices AND the connections?

Fair enough, there may be a distinction between renames and differentiating between distinct concepts.

Network Attached Storage became Cloud Storage, The internet became the net and now is the cloud?

That is a good point, I have always thought of crypto as the task required to add new blocks and transactions to the chain but it may be the function involved in validating it instead. Similar to a CRC check.

And the neat thing about the word crypto is that is also a relatively new term derived from cryptography.

Of course this still begs the question what do You think will be next?

I would be thrilled to buy some of these sacks at 3X face value, the best price I could find was 20X face. Are You sure You are not remembering what they were going for in the past?

here is a Google search I did regarding this idea:

>>> How many US silver coins make an ounce? There is 0.18084 troy ounce of pure silver in a standard pre-1965 90% silver quarter. So, it takes about 5.5 pre-1965 90% silver quarters to have a full troy ounce of silver.

Current spot price of silver ~22 , lets say $20...so 20/5.5 = $3.60 or approx 14.5 X Face. Still a better deal but that is not the prices the sellers are asking that would be more what a dealer may offer to buy at.

I have looked into buy these coins just now and it seems many people must think the same thing as they are way more expensive than buying uncirculated coins made by the British and Canadian mints. US silver eagles are also crazy expensive for some reason.