Kit Knightly IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva has called for every government to implement some form of carbon taxes or “carbon pricing” in the near future. Yes, we’re into week two of the UN’s COP28 climate change summit, and the hits just keep on coming. For example, yesterday it was announced sixty-three world governments have pledged …
Kit Knightly As of this morning, we are four days into the two-week climate change summit in Dubai. Yes, as we can all note for the thousandth time, literal fleets of private jets have descended on the desert so that bankers and billionaires can talk about making sure we don’t drive anymore or eat too …
Kit Knightly Last week the United Nations Development Program officially launched their new initiative promoting “Digital Public Infrastructure” (DPI) around the world. The “50in5” program – so-called because it aims to introduce DPI in fifty countries in the next five years – began with a live-streamed event on November 8th. For those of you unsure …
Riley Waggaman Alexei Moiseev, Russia’s deputy minister of finance, is the world’s most candid space lizard. When he announced in a September 2021 interview that “the digital ruble is a replacement for the cash ruble”, skeptics and haters spread hurtful rumors that Moiseev’s refreshing and award-winning honesty had been taken out of context. Here’s what Mr. Moiseev told …
Simon Elmer ‘Today, it is not the city but rather the camp that is the fundamental biopolitical paradigm of the West.’ Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 1995 In Part 1 of this article, I identified the apparatuses of biopower by which our freedoms and our democracies are threatened in the West …
Kit Knightly The global elite plan to introduce a near-permanent “global state of emergency” by re-branding climate change as a “public health crisis” that is “worse than covid”. This is not news. But the ongoing campaign has been accelerating in recent weeks. I have written about this a lot over the last few years – …
Riley Waggaman Sputnik V no longer protects against COVID-19 and will have to be replaced with an “updated” vaccine, according to Gamaleya Center director Alexander Gintsburg. The mastermind behind Russia’s flagship shot claimed in a recent interview that Sputnik V had been effective against COVID-19 “from August 2020 until somewhere around July 2022,” but that …
Kit Knightly Just a brief note on the current state of digital currencies around the world, there’s been some big news. A few days ago it was reported that China had become the first country to conduct cross-border trade using its own central bank-issued digital currency: The digital yuan has been used for the first …
Are you aware of the Great Travel Reset that is already underway? You should be! Are you outraged about the fact that one of your most basic human rights is being stolen from under your very nose? You ought to be! Are you willing to spend more than a few minutes a week informing yourself …
Kit Knightly “We need a new approach to digital identity”, so say the authors of an “Agenda Article” for the World Economic Forum, published on the 28th of September. Digital ID has been in the news a lot lately, obscured for the past week in the mist of the Israel-Hamas situation. Last month the United …
