290) The hidden subtext of Mark Carney’s WEF speech, and how it shows that while “everything is changing,” nothing is changing — (Also, Reason #38 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism)
I applaud Mark Carney for his speech, for throwing down the gauntlet, for taking a sttand against the fortress-like, impoverished world of “great powers” dominating everything. It was a powerful, epoch-shifting speech, and brilliant in its pragmatism.
But the world of depraved corporate greed that puts profit over people, over Life, over rights, over love, remains firmly in place. Just diversified.
289) Mark Carney’s History-making Speech - 2026 World Economic Forum
Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.
279) The cost of feeding the dogs of war (and the utter imbecility of the decision-makers behind it)
Imagine that you wanted to personally fund a $10 billion [war], and you make, say, $80,000 per year. You would have needed to start working ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, about 60,000 years BEFORE stone-tool-using Homo sapiens were interbreeding with Neanderthals, and you would have had to save every single penny.