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Thank you for another winning article, Alex. You keep opening up our eyes to the Truth about the "bankstas", and in so doing, you empower us to resist and peacefully protest the ongoing assault.

Like the waves cannot be stopped from returning to the ocean, the Truth always comes to light thanks to people like you.

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Thank you!

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Strong article as usual, but a cautionary note - not everything you don't like is socialism.

The behaviour of the bankstas you describe is of course not socialism - when people talk about "socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the plebs" they are of course being ironic - the behaviour of the bankstas is anything but socialist - to unironically describe it as such is either due to ignorance, or disingenuity.

In fact, the only thing these bankstas actually fear is authentic socialism - why do you think they work so hard to destroy it through sanctions? Why do they produce so much anti-socialist and anti-communist propaganda?

What we are actually witnessing in the collapse of the EU - and perhaps the West as a whole - is the parasitic imperialism of the ruling classes directed inwards - an internalisation of their criminality. Or if you like end-stage capitalism.

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Yrs, you are correct. Terminology is more "wide usage" than exactly correct.

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Hide in Brazil?

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No use. Stand the ground and fight back.

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Well put. Thanks.

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Oct 27Edited

to learn how world works you need knowledge of economics. Read Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt and Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell

Socialism for the Uninformed by Thomas Sowell

Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.

While throngs of young people are cheering loudly for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, socialism has turned oil-rich Venezuela into a place where there are shortages of everything from toilet paper to beer, where electricity keeps shutting down, and where there are long lines of people hoping to get food, people complaining that they cannot feed their families.

Facts are seldom allowed to contaminate the beautiful vision of the left. What matters to the true believers are the ringing slogans, endlessly repeated.

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This is idiotic and I would say wilfully ignorant! And it completely ignores the fact that - in the example of Venezuela - the US regime will sanction the life out of any country that goes against it's interests.

For example - both KSA and Venezuela are oil rich countries - one is wealthy, the other experiences great difficulties - why? Because KSA is not a threat to the US regime interests, whereas Venezuela will not roll over and allow the US regime companies to rape the country of it's resources. Why do you think the US regime fixates on Venezuela so much?

If Venezuela has no toilet paper it is because of US regime sanctions.

If Venezuela experiences blackouts it is because of US regime sponsored sabotage.

If Venezuela experiences food insecurity it is because of US regime sanctions.

To deny the effects of US regime sanctions on Venezuela - or on any country deemed unfriendly to the US regime - is to deny reality.

And to describe Bernie Sanders as an "avowed socialist" is insane - the best you could say about Bernie Sanders is that he is little more than a shepherd of US regime liberals.

Not to mention the fact that "ringing slogans, endlessly repeated" is a phrase that can be applied to any ideologically committed group, including avowed capitalists and conservatives: "I pledge allegiance to the flag..." and so on.

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you are saying that Thomas Sowell is ignorant

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Very quick with the ad hom.

Because Venezuela had Hugo Chavez and now Nicolas Maduro. And KSA did not.

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We are presented with the merger of big business and the state which is otherwise called fascism. In panic now the west has ripped off the mask to show its true face. Within the oligarchy there will and likely are feuds and fights which will go unreported, but are not unnoticed. Now what they're afraid of is the ten percent rule; https://www.livescience.com/15231-belief-opinion-shift-majority-minority-10-percent.html

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Ok Hillary. Was Wondering where you have been 😉

We just need good socialist bankstas and then all is well 😂😂😂

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How to tell people you are a US regime subject without telling them you are a US regime subject.

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IM from 🇨🇦 and have lived in a very socialist system controlled by bankstas for a very long time.

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Socialist system? I think you mean Liberal system. You do understand the difference between Liberalism (or Neoliberalism) and Socialism? For the record I despise Hillary, and the US regime's ironically named Democrats - I despise Justin Trudeau and his (neo) liberal ilk.

It saddens me that so many people of the US regime - and it seems Canada - are confused by what the Left actually is - the Western MSM (and other instruments of ideological and repressive state apparatus) have successfully persuaded people into believing that Liberalism is the Left which is incredible to me - which is akin to convincing people that a hammer to the head is good for you.

The authentic Left is anti-war, pro-worker, is for free healthcare, is for free education, and is pretty much the antithesis of everything that both the Liberal and Conservative parties represent. But it is in the interests of the elites that the masses think that the Liberals are the Left, in order to discredit the authentic Left. Sadly many people are persuaded by this elite propaganda.

I would suggest you find out what actual Socialism is, and what the authentic Left is, and the difference between the faux-left of the liberal classes of the West, and the authentic Left which currently does not exist in any meaningful way in the West - but I think from your original comment that your time would be better spent watching Joe Rogan or some such.

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what is passing for "liberalism" today is what was called fabian socialism in England.

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Correct.

But Fabianism / Fabian Socialism is not quite the same thing as Marxist Socialism or Leninist Socialism - I would say it is reformist in nature, rather than revolutionary.

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no major economical difference in operation between socialist, marxist, nazi, fascist,

what they stand for:

big powerful state as saviour

central bank and fiat money

government compulsory education

big standing army and police

big bureaucracy from cradle to grave

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You are describing the Western system we have all grown up in. And including Socialist and Marxist in the same sentence as Nazi and Fascist clearly denotes your lack of understanding in what those terms actually mean. Doubtless your response will be something of the order of "but the Nazis - Socialism was in their name".

I offer you the same advice - not everything you don't like is socialism.

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When I was young I was idealistic like you and still have similar values that all of humanity have access to everything they need and most of what they want and the freedom to create what their heart desires to make a good life for themselves and community. Experience and wisdom, many years of study and travel, 1000 books and a thousand people met has led me to see the possibility of a truly free world that encompasses my values and hope for humanity but its now so obvious it cannot come from and type of centralized control systems such as what has governed and manipulated our lives for so long. It must start with sound money that is decentralized and can never be debased and manipulated thus allowing for the natural deflation expected in a truly free market where humanity benefits from the productivity gains and technological gains that come from our innovation. Once we have that system we will have the greatest renaissance; greatest growth in prosperity in history where art and music and true science have value again so every child can be who they came here to be and prosper while adding value to the rest of humanity whether local or throughout the entire world.

There’s no label for this bc we have not experienced it yet but we will be sooner than you think.

Best wishes to you 🙏

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All that experience, travel, all that acquired wisdom and understanding, all that exceptionalism, and you greet someone with an "Ok Hillary..." - to paraphrase an old meme: "Son, I am disappoint!"

From what you wrote you seem to have spent most of your time consulting with Ayn Rand devotees - if I may offer some advice, try to broaden your horizons - your over-wraught undergraduate compulsion to share your exceptional background is emblematic of a North American ontogeny, but to the truly erudite is symptomatic of a paucity of honest erudition acquired only through meaningful scholarship. In short, I care not for your opinions, nor your cosmopolitan perambulations.

Also, I am pretty sure I am old enough to be your father.

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These folks are so screwed, & I never would have dreamed anything like this could ever exist. Thx so much for showing where the US is going if we don't do an about face.

Plz everyone, vote MAGA so we have a chance to dismantle the current state of affairs, assuming it's not already too late.

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Vote MAGA (Make America Great Again) to arrest the decline of the EU, and the West in general? I assume you mean people should vote for Trump - a barely literate failed businessman and salesman that has been captured by foreign interests, and so on.

It's not like he hasn't already served as president for 4 years and did absolutely nothing apart from assassinate resistance leaders in West Asia that defeated ISIS, pushed the Abraham Accords upon the world, and filled his cabinet with swamp members - when he said he would drain the swamp he meant straight into his cabinet.

The problems of the US regime will not be solved by voting for Genocide Supporter 1 or Genocide Supporter 2 - the US regime is a cancer that has spread around the world, and needs to be excised - for the people of the US regime to make it through the coming decade there will need to be a revolution.

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Wholeheartedly agree. Plebs in the US are brainwashed (like Pavlov dogs) to view their internal politics as Black & White (or Red & Blue): Red = Good / Blue = Bad, or the other way around. They (plebs) totally lack the critical thinking skills to see their political and economic system for what it truly is -- a warmongering regime (regardless of who is the "president" or what color "controls the congress"), owned and run by banksters, most of whom are Zionists / Talmudists.

It therefore does not matter one bit if the plebs "elect" (whatever that means in the US these days) a total dummy who does not have even 2 brain cells in her head or a pompous, narcissistic Israel-lover, who will be doing the Israel's and Talmudist / Zionist banksters bidding every step of the way.

Until the entire control structure of the US and its vassals (EU) radically changes -- which is extremely unlikely without a civil war or a total destruction of the regime via economic collapse (the hyperinflationary style) -- all the "voting" will change absolutely nothing.

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Correct democracy is bad form of government, Socrates learned that hard way.

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And we learn it every day.

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well, You Can't Beat Something With Nothing, you need to replace it with something. America revolution was mistake, George III was not tyrant and people where bamboozled in supporting revolution.

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As an outsider (black South African) I doubt if MAGA has all the tools to reverse the downward spiral on the part of the West.. I see dangerous chaos even more whoever wins the Nov 5 election in the US.. There's just too much axe-grinding going on in the US much more, but also in the US-led West in general..

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Voting does not help at all. It's an illusion.

In 2005 the Netherlands(NL) had a referendum about the dutch constitution and the EU, 62% said NO!!!

They threatened with war, no water, gas+ electricity, riots and a lot more, this happened, on local and national level.

What really happened NL ignored its referendum, rearranged the paragraphs and the NL constitution was thrown under the EU monster.

They turned a voted 62% Yes to a NO with Voting, and are now afraid of referendums, seriously, they forbid them for a while and now have special conditions.

The old classic way was 50%+1, well not anymore. What it is right now I no longer care.

That was the last time I ever voted.

Remember Not voting is also voting but it only works as usual if a large group needs to do this. I think this would really scare the shit out of them.

Not voting means; No you are no good enough with what you offer or (my favorite) ;

Your bollocks is shite and I see right through you!!

Trump is responsible for killing your fellow americans with operation WarpSpeed, My blood is the vaccine, yadada.

And do not be stupid like Karen Kingston; who says; He was forced to implement those restrictions-mandates, well then he is not in charge, and not the president of the USA. So who is?

The Biden and co, are not worth voting on to.....

Kennedy is a joke to, he is pro vaccinating (old no corona), his words.

So there is only one option; STOP VOTING!!!

Just my 2 cts.

Cheers

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Direct democracy originaly was meant for small city states, but even there not everyone had right to vote, and all votes did not have same weight.

In America your vote is 1/200 million, does not mean nothing, in reality rich buy votes by giving donation to both parties, and no matter who win they are winners.

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A fascinating read, especially for non-Europeans. Krainer at his best.

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Thank you David!

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... and an appalling read for Europeans!

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Perhaps the same as the proverbial frog in a gradually boiling pot of water.. The Europeans and the Brits have been misled and abused by their ruling classes for a long time. Take for instance the Brits. Do they really need the extremely rich monarchy to do what for them? In my view, the Brits monarchy has long passed its usefulness if ever there was any usefulness by it..

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The Monarchy are a distraction and useful idiot soap opera. Ultimately they, like the British State are controlled from Washington where the heads of the global gangsters plan global dominance.

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if you want to say that American revolution was mistake, I agree with you. Beauty of monarchy is that majority of people knows -- that monarch is not your friend father or mother, but in democracy suddenly "government' is our friend and father and mother.

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I’m struck by the irony of the US having thus far failed to contain China, but succeeded royally (if you’ll pardon the pun) in containing Europe, neutering it one member state at a time. One can only conclude that the oligarchs who collectively lurk behind the thrones of Europe have their eyes fixed on a much bigger prize: namely, a seat at the top table of Schwab’s one-world-government, plundering the entire globe, not just a piddly continent.

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You are right.. Schwab-ism is the new opium of the people so far as the ruling class is concerned in Western Europe..

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yep

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Very good summary of the current situation. As you say, we can already see where things are headed. Discontent will continue to grow as the cost of essentials (housing, food, energy, etc.) increasingly eats away at the population's disposable income. The EU has no solution to this, so they will resort to increasingly drastic measures to suppress dissent. At some point in the 2030s, the situation will probably become critical.

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Great artilce. I never heard of the ESM. I always learn something new. This whole "sovereign immunity" scam will go away with the next iteration of "torches and pitchforks".

One thing the politicians always say, is "No one is above the law." Turns out, lots of folks are above the law. The more I dig, the more I find. Bankers are, via the BIS Sovereign Immunity. EU officials. ECB officials. My guess would be the FED as well. There is another sovereign state in Rome besides the Vatican. It appears to be the precursor to the Jesuits/MI6/CIA. It is either the sister organization to the Templars, or the Templars are an offshoot. They predate the Templars by a few years. They may very well have all been mercenary armies for the for the Venetian "Banksta's".

Just to keep it confusing, they go by multiple names. Hospitaller Knights. Knights of Malta. But they have an official title, are a sovereign state, and have "observer" status at the UN. They run a bunch of NGO's for war Refugees, and medical philanthropy. Probably human trafficking. The official name is:

The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalum, of Rhodes, and of Malta.

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Thank you John!

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@John D. Reddick

Well bloody... Another rabbit hole. Right in front of me for several reasons and I didn't notice.

https://youtu.be/LNClI4KBKy4?si=uCbeyv7_Ll8MRPvG

They have THEIR OWN LICENSE PLATES in Italy (and elsewhere?) too, much as treaty tribes in USA, a certain barometer of status. If they've got the sizeable employee base claimed in Wikipedia, somehow they avoided the asset seizures by pope & Bourbon king which Jacques de Molet and his boys suffered?

Recruitment, training? Where is their data infrastructure/physical archive located.

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Looking at Ireland in dark blue is true and the funny thing is that lots of the people just making ends meet are the one's who have so called good jobs in big pharma etc , almost everything they earn is going right back out to keep a roof over their heads , the needed car on the road and food on the table . But they still believe they are successful and have bettered themselves.

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Gill Scott-Herron: "Plastic people with plastic minds are on their way to plastic homes."

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"my pronouns are kiss my a$$"

-Roseanne Barr

*she meant her a$$, not Nicholas Rockefeller's

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Central banking has been a corrupt, mercantilist scheme and an engine of corporate welfare from its very beginning.

British Central Banking

Central banking in England rose out of the British government’s demand for funds to continue King William’s War in the 1690s, on the heels of the Glorious Revolution. Private creditors became hesitant to loan money to the government in this time when revenue ran desperately low. In 1694, the British government accepted the proposal from William Paterson to establish the Bank of England; the government received its badly needed loans in return for granting special privileges to the Bank. Paterson further demanded that the government deem the new Bank’s notes legal tender. The British government refused, but Parliament did grant the Bank the power to issue new notes to pay for government debt and the advantages of holding all government deposits. The Bank of England was thus created as a way to serve the military interests of the British Empire.

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Great feedback, thank you!

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I similarly mark the Bank of England as a turning point that led to financial capitalism. It was the beginning of nearly limitless cheap credit. Bankers, not governments now set the criteria for money creation- i.e their own profits. The government was relegated to being the defacto tax collectors for the bankers/bond holders through interest on national debt. It was a keystone event in the emergence of financial capitalism because it provided full state legitimation for the process of private banking and credit creation. This event also effectively married the political interests of the State with those of the financial class, giving the latter significant new monopoly power as primary creators of credit and suppliers of money to the economy. Direct lineage to the ESM.

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"Bankers, not governments now set the criteria for money creation- i.e their own profits."

nonsence which assume "government" is your friend

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Well I know the bankers are not my friend. If the government was not owned by the bankers and was a real democracy it might actually do some good. The Bank of England was created to serve the interests of the financiers...who ran the empire and still do.

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democracy is not freedom, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and everyone until 1950 new that. Government is not 'us' or 'our friend', central bank national or private is not our friend.

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Interesting text, informative. I always look forward to your analyses. Very insightful.

There are two main prisms through which I'm trying to understand what's going on. The first is the economic, financial, political, social issues. The other is issued concerning physical stuff - energy and other resources, the availability of which is declining, if not nearing depletion in not too distant a future.

How do you connect the two? In regard to how things will develop in the coming decades if not years? Political, social, and economic issues are one thing, but if the 'trucks stop running' (title of a book on post-oil future), it's whole 'nother ball of wax ...

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Thank you. I'll try to answer some of those questions in future articles.

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"Article 35: directors and governors will enjoy full legal immunity beyond their time in office and in both international law and that of the EU member states."

Quelle surprise! This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that western governments (and others) are not democracies. When the ruling class shoves their rules and regs and legal immunities down the throats of "average" citizens, and those citizens are not able to make any changes in how the government is run, this is a direct illustration of an oligarchy (government controlled by a small group of wealthy and powerful people).

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The "democracy" part is only there to give the people an idea that they can change things through the institutions which are deliberately organised so that they never really can. So time and energy gets wasted in a maze of rules, laws, procedures...

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I was not aware of the existence of the ESM. I knew that something was created when the EU forced Cypriot bank customers to bail out their banks, but I did not know that this arrangement now applies to every EU member. Obviously, most EU citizens are unaware of this arrangement and the fact that they have been "shafted". A similar arrangement also applies in the USA and the UK and the citizens of these countries are also unaware of what has been created. It is blatantly obvious that all western countries have criminals in charge at all the political and administrative levels, which control these countries. The so-called democratic system does not work because it is actually exactly the opposite of "democratic". We have "minority rule", which means that the parasites at the top are relentlessly exploiting everybody else. Only radical change - in every respect - can remedy this grotesque and utterly unjust and amoral situation.

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Socialism for the already rich, can't see why that hasn't worked.

Taxation without representation, that seems to be the new law in all the land.

Being cancelled for speaking out?

ScKamala shut down my Grasshopper taxi business forevermore when I ran for mayor of SF killafornia against Gruesome Gavin Gruesome Newsom.

ScKamala put me in jail, solitary isolation.

I hope RFKjr will have a way to change some of this mess, else I shall continue in my workslavery until I can't anymore then I will just disappear

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These days with AI they failed in making self driving cars and replacing skilled workers....

But AI can easily do what executives and upper management does. It can be corrupt like those groups, but it won't be inept.

So let's replace politicians and economists with AI. Replace all bullshit jobs with AI. After all, these jobs tend to be over paid and whenever there's an issue we blame it on a person instead of the system being broken.

With AI there's no excuse for "people making mistakes".

And people will not blindly accept a crazy decision from AI like they do with politicians and economic assholes.

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I am starting to think they are successful with self-driving cars, but not for us plebes. If they let us have them, then we have sophisticated, inexpensive drones. Load them up with bombs, and send them to an address.

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They're good at that, but only because it's not common so it'll look safe.

But when it comes to commercial applications, these self driving cars are unpredictable on imperfect roads. That's why Tesla had to stop people from bypassing their dead man switch... 😂

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Suppose that there will be a world wide inescapable disaster. Not caused by humans, but by a nearby star.

The ransacking of what will soon be in ruins, then makes sense, doesn't it? Those in the know and in power throw caution to the winds.

Winds ...Did we know that the fastest winds are on Neptune? The universe is not governed by gravity alone but by a far more powerful force: Electromagnetism. AC reverses polarity every so often, doesn't it?

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On the topic of "crushing the resistance" don't forget the Gilets Jaunes...heroes to me.

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Yes, but Covid dispersed them completely.

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