Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Gordon Brown Calls for Global Government to Tackle Coronavirus
March 27th, 2020Tell me another one. Via: Guardian: Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown of […]
U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS: 3.283 MILLION
March 26th, 2020It’s as if the U.S. had been hit with a nuke, minus the mushroom cloud, over what amounts to a scam. See: 12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic Whatever this is, it makes 9/11 look like Tiddlywinks. Via: Yahoo Finance: The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy, and data released Thursday morning […]
Coronavirus Could Infect Privacy And Civil Liberties Forever
March 26th, 2020Via: Forbes: From a technological perspective, the coronavirus pandemic is one massive testbed for surveillance capitalism. More specifically, it’s a testbed for new, much more large-scale forms of surveillance. Already, governments in Italy, Germany, Austria, China, South Korea and Taiwan have begun analysing smartphone data so as to determine to what extent populations are really […]
British Government: COVID-19 No Longer Considered To Be A High Consequence Infectious Disease In UK
March 25th, 2020This Covid-19 operation is at least as sloppy as 9/11. My greatest concern, at this point, is that they will have to attempt to try to make it real somehow. How? Because the effects range from no symptoms to death, I’m wondering: Is this a binary weapon? Can a kill switch be flipped for a […]
By the Numbers, Coronavirus Does Not Register as a Dire Global Crisis
March 25th, 2020Via: Globe and Mail: Is COVID-19 a global crisis? Certainly for people who can’t add.
Why Did Hundreds Of CEOs Resign Just Before The World Started Going Absolutely Crazy?
March 25th, 2020Via: End of the American Dream: In the months prior to the most ferocious stock market crash in history and the eruption of the biggest public health crisis of our generation, we witnessed the biggest exodus of corporate CEOs that we have ever seen. And as you will see below, corporate insiders also sold off […]
Negative Rates on 1-Month and 3-Month Treasury Bills
March 25th, 2020Via: CNBC: The coronavirus crisis has brought another first to U.S. financial markets — negative yields on government debt. Yields on both the 1-month and 3-month Treasury bills dipped below zero Wednesday, a week and a half after the Federal Reserve cuts its benchmark rate to near zero and as investors have flocked to the […]
“Mobile Phone Industry Explores Worldwide Tracking of Users”
March 25th, 2020It’s coming fast and furious now. This coronavirus thing is Al-Qaeda x 1000. How long until: “5G to Battle Coronavirus” Via: Guardian: The mobile phone industry has explored the creation of a global data-sharing system that could track individuals around the world, as part of an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19. The Guardian […]
New Coronavirus Stimulus Bill In Congress Creates U.S. Digital Dollar
March 23rd, 2020Via: Forbes: As the markets continue to drop and the U.S. looks to Congress for agreement on a massive stimulus package to save the economy from impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the newest offer by House Democrats includes a very forward-looking kind of stimulus: the creation of a ‘digital dollar’ and the establishment of ‘digital […]
The U.S. Space Force’s New Mission? Protecting 5G
March 23rd, 2020Via: Popular Mechanics: Space-based internet traffic will fall under the nation’s newest armed service. Related: Tonight’s Successful Starlink Mission Makes SpaceX the World’s Largest Satellite Operator, Was First U.S. Space Force Launch FCC Approves SpaceX to Deploy up to 1 Million Small Antennas for Starlink Internet Network
