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The presidency was never meant to be a throne. The Constitution was never meant to be optional. And the people were never meant to be silent.
In this world, energy is distributed through massive fields of concentrated solar power. Once-thriving family farms are now obsolete, giving way to systems managed by AI, robotics, and swarms of drones called ‘agrobots.’
If the financial system ever goes down, the commons can provide a way to operate a means of exchange, so we can keep doing stuff for each other without their money, accounts and payment systems.
America’s trade deficit is a measure of the profligacy of America’s corporate ruling class, more specifically the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars.
American author Biff Thuringer’s powerful, entertaining and finely-crafted novel “Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic” depicts “a complicated shell game”, “a billion-dollar shadow economy in dirty toxic chemicals”.
Aya Velázquez is one of the journalists who broke the Robert Koch Institut Leaks story, which documented how government officials and health authorities deceived the German public during the roll-out of the New Normal in 2020-2022.