What is Central Bank Digital Currency?

What is Central Bank Digital Currency?

What is money, who makes it, and what is the role of the State and the banking system? These are big questions. Money can be a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a store of value, and a standard of value. In other words, money serves multiple purposes. Money can sit in your pocket, reside in your checking account, or represent the value of your house…

What is the World Economic Forum?

What is the World Economic Forum?

Did you know that the most powerful and influential people in government and private industries from around the world have been meeting regularly for over 50 years? The World Economic Forum (WEF) bills itself as “The International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation”. From their public page: “Deeply anchored in the public and private sectors, the Forum is…

The Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum

The Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum or WEF was founded by Klaus Schwab in Geneva, Switzerland in 1971. It has developed into a futurist mix of private club and think tank where politicians, captains of industry and various thought leaders can meet, discuss policy and be seen at its yearly conclaves in Davos or China, and other…

Misinformation and Censorship

Misinformation and Censorship

One cannot watch much media these days without seeing a pundit from an elite journalistic or academic institution claim that this or that is “misinformation” or “disinformation.” Claims of misinformation and disinformation have blown up over the past five years.  While such claims appear to have the noble goal of spreading only factual information, do they really do so?…

Are Elections Honest?

Are Elections Honest?

Probably most would agree that the two-party system keeps important topics like peace and single-payer healthcare out of the public discourse and ensures that candidates outside the mainstream will never have fair access to the election process. We know that PACs and corporate campaign finance (Citizens United) have an outsized effect on who gets…

Climate Change

Climate Change

How do we know whether it is, on average, getting warmer or colder? We have been told the earth is dramatically heating up. On average, the world has heated up 1.1 degrees centigrade[1] (or 2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 1880s. According to the United Nations, if the increase since 1880 goes above 1.5 degrees centigrade (or less than 1 degree Fahrenheit more,…

What Happened to Medical Ethics During the Pandemic?

What Happened to Medical Ethics During the Pandemic?

We have a global crisis of medical ethics. In the last 3 years, under the excuse of the pandemic “emergency”, we have seen the destruction of the sacred doctor-patient relationship and the violation of fundamental human rights and the ethical principles of informed consent and bodily autonomy. Politicians and health officials have…

What’s Wrong with Health Equity?

What’s Wrong with Health Equity?

The call for health equity has become a rallying cry for public health – health for all and the ability for all people to reach their full health potential. In order to achieve this, public health aims to eliminate health disparities, essentially differences in health outcomes, for disadvantaged people in the population. For example, particular racial or ethnic groups may have…

Powerful Philanthropy

Powerful Philanthropy

With the founding of the United Nations in the immediate aftermath of WWII a powerful global framework emerged out of the rubble. While the United Nations is generally associated with “keeping the peace,” the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund soon arose to perform additional functions…

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