New Normal Newspeak #5: “Recession”
Our new series of micro-articles deals with the newly everyday occurrence of the modern media simply changing what a word means.
Topic
Economics
A collection of 185 articles
Goldman Sachs Teams Up with Google's 'Director of Regime Change' to Influence Global Politics
Jared Cohen, a former Google executive nicknamed the “director of regime change” by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, hired to advance the notoriously powerful investment bank’s policy goals around the world
Google Researchers: 'Democratic AI' Would Be Better at Governing America than Humans
Researchers at Google’s DeepMind AI division reportedly ran a number of experiments where a deep neural network was ordered to distribute resources in a more equitable way that humans preferred.
President of Bankrupt Sri Lanka Calls Vladimir Putin Looking for Cheap Oil
Embattled socialist President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka revealed on Wednesday he had called Russian strongman Vladimir Putin seeking help to purchase oil amid what the nation’s prime minister has called the “complete collapse” of Sri Lanka’s economy. Sri Lanka’s overture to Russia – reportedly to discuss issuing
Xi Jinping Tries to Calm Skittish Investors with Rallying Cry to ‘Do Business in China’
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping delivers a keynote address to the BRICS Business Forum that urges foreign investors to “do business in China.".
WaPo's Singletary: 'Stop Complaining,' 'Calm Down' About Inflation -- You Are 'Not Suffering'
Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that many Americans were “not suffering” as much as they think from inflation.
Pouring Poison and Planting Seeds of Dependency
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Do you remember the iconic Union Carbide image from the 1950s or early 1960s? The one with the giant hand coming from the sky, pouring pesticides onto Indian soil.
The blurb below the image includes the following:
Science helps build a new India – India has developed
The REAL agenda behind the created food crisis
The created food crisis, whether real or a smoke-and-mirrors psy-op, is all about tearing down the global food system and “building back better” – a new dystopian food system built by corporate monoliths and rigidly controlled in the name of the greater good.
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Russia fast-tracks CBDC: Digital ruble to be used in “real operations” in 2023
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Citing the imposition of western sanctions, the Bank of Russia announced on Wednesday that it was accelerating the rollout of its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
The first stage of testing for the digital ruble began in January and was originally supposed to finish in 2024.
Breitbart Business Digest: The Public Demands Action to Fight Inflation
Joe Biden is discovering a political truth that no president has had to confront in decades: Americans hate inflation.
90% of nations planning Central Bank Digital Currency
A new report from the Bank of International Settlements estimates that up to 90% of national central banks are at least in the planning stages for launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC):
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Nine out of 10 central banks are exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and more
Economic Devastation: The Real “Long COVID”
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There is a terrifying prospect that in excess of a quarter of a billion more people will fall into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 alone. Without immediate radical action, we could be witnessing the most profound collapse of humanity into extreme poverty and suffering in
Economic Devastation: The Real “Long COVID” The “pandemic” has already plunged a quarter of a billion people into poverty, and IMF “Covid loans” are set to make it all much worse.
There is a terrifying prospect that in excess of a quarter of a billion more people will fall into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 alone.
‘We the People’ Are the New, Permanent Underclass in America
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“We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.”
Herbert Hoover
This is financial tyranny.
The U.S. government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have
Despite sanctions the ruble is stronger than before the war. Why?
It’s official, as of right now the Russian ruble is worth more US dollars than before the invasion of Ukraine.
On the 22nd of February this year, one US dollar would exchange for just over 79 rubles. As of the time of writing, it is now 78.
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