Monday, November 29, 2021

"Zuckerberg’s Meta Endgame Is Monetizing All Human Behavior" (FB; MVRS)

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At least he's thinking big. From VICE, November 1: Exploiting data to manipulate human behavior has always been Facebook’s business mode...

"Regulate Crypto To Stop Chinese And Russian Manipulations – Hillary Clinton"

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Is Madame Secretary of State angling for President again? She seems to be popping up in the news and other venues more frequently of late. F...

"Humans Have Broken a Fundamental Law of the Ocean"

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From Wired, November 23: The size of undersea creatures seemed to follow a strange but stable pattern—until industrial fishing came along. O...

When the Harvard Boys Did Mother Russia (Steyer and Summers, Shleifer and Sachs)

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There are a lot of secrets that have yet to be exposed and the amount of money taken out of Russia and Ukraine, not just by the oligarchs bu...

"The US Military is Expanding Its Operations In Greece. The Reason Might Be Russia"

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You don't say: Wikipedia The distance from Istanbul (Turkey) to  Sevastopol (Crimea) is less than 350 miles (550 km) As noted in the i...

"South Korean Draft Law Calls for Life Sentences for Crypto Market Manipulators"

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From CryptoNews, November 24: The South Korean government has unveiled a new draft crypto law that includes strict punishment for token mar...

Capital Markets: "Sentiment Remains Fragile"

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 From Marc to Market: Overview: The fire that burnt through the capital markets before the weekend, triggered by the new Covid mutation, bur...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

Media: The Kyiv Post Has Closed

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We will be removing it from the blogroll on Dec. 1. From .Coda's Oligarchy newsletter: Oligarchy is a weekly newsletter tracking how the...

South African Virologists Advise: Chill

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They also posit one reason the variant was found in South Africa—SA is pretty good at virology, thank you very much. From India's WION N...

"UK Law Commission Gives Smart Contracts The Green Light"

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From Artificial Lawyer, November 25: The UK’s Law Commission has today confirmed that ‘the existing law of England and Wales is able to a...

"How foreign investors are tapping into Germany's late-stage VC boom"

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 From PitchBook, November 25: Germany's government may have changed but appetite for Europe's second-largest VC hub has not as well...

The World Economic Forum Is Very Excited By Play-to-Earn Gaming and The Metaverse

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Following on " Izabella Kaminska Explores The Metaverse And Hits The Jackpot " From the WEF, November 22: What play-to-earn gaming...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Questions Rabobank Was Asking: "Is Someone Trying To Delay The Global COVID Recovery To Ram Through Even More Stimulus"

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Western economies were already tipping over in q4 of 2019, with the financial system showing signs of serious stress, see after the jump, bu...

Izabella Kaminska Explores The Metaverse And Hits The Jackpot

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From the Financial Times: The metaverse is just the latest incarnation of Las Vegas Facebook’s reinvention aims to create a standardised vi...

"The deal that the American elite chose to make with China...."

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 From Tablet Magazine: The Thirty Tyrants The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens...

Supply Chain Crisis: Beanie Babies Airlifted From Chinese Factories to Chicago Amid Holiday Crunch

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The heart wants what the heart wants  From Yahoo Finance, November 15: Supply chain constraints won't keep Beanie Babies from reaching ...

"Hitler's Handouts: Inside the Nazis' welfare state"

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A companion piece to yesterday's " An Excellent Definition Of Fascism ". From Reason Magazine: Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plu...

"‘Serial swindler’ Inigo Philbrick made £65m selling paintings twice"

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From The Times, November 23: A former Mayfair art dealer faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to conning art buyers out of...