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In 1982 the artist Jenny Holzer placed the inscription PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT on New York’s Times Square. It could be translated as “Protect me from what flatters my comfort and satisfies my desires.” Holzer’s artistic intervention is quoted by Roberto Simanowski toward the end of his book on Language Machines. “Protect me from the effects of my own inventive power.” This inevitably also recalls Goethe’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice:

“Lord, the need is great!

Behind the term language machine or language model (Large Language Model) lies Artificial Intelligence, which currently serves as a dazzling metaphor for almost everything that drives or threatens us from the digital realm. AI is the fundamental innovation of the present. It reshapes our world in many respects; it represents the fourth human blow after Galileo (overcoming geocentrism), Darwin (evolution theory), and Freud (psychoanalysis). Unlike the first three, it does not arise from observing (human) nature; rather, it was created by humans, in a sense the crowning achievement of their inventive spirit — which may, in turn, threaten to surpass humans themselves.

What are language machines?

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https://figu.org/files/figu_zeitzeichen sonderausgabe/figu_zeitzeichen_sa_185.pdf

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Doug Casey on the Death of Privacy … and What Comes Next

Doug Casey, January 12, 2016

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Doug Casey: Let me draw your attention to three truths that my friend Nick Giambruno has pointed out about money in bank accounts:

The money isn’t really yours. If the bank goes bankrupt, you are only an unsecured creditor.

The money isn’t actually there. It has been lent out to borrowers who are illiquid or insolvent.

The money isn’t actually money. It is credit created out of thin air.

The point is: cash is freedom. And when the State restricts the utility of cash — physical dollars that leave no electronic trail — it restricts your personal freedom to act and undermines your privacy. Governments are naturally opposed to personal freedom and personal privacy, because these limit their control — and governments are entirely about control.

International Man: Governments will likely mandate Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as the “solution” when the next real or contrived crisis hits — which is probably not far off. What’s your perspective? What are the implications for financial privacy?

Doug Casey: CBDCs are proposed as a solution, but in truth they are a gigantic problem.

If CBDCs are successfully implemented, everything you buy or sell and every income

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"Bring the gold back from the USA," demands Der Spiegel. Germany wanted to misappropriate reserves of the Russian National Bank.

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The assets of central banks are considered sacrosanct. That's why Russia placed some of them in the West. And that's why the German Bundesbank sees no problem with storing more than a third of its gold reserves in the USA. "Bring the gold back," however, was the recent headline in Der Spiegel. President Donald Trump has repeatedly proven that he "doesn't give a damn about international law." Finance editor Tim Bartz considers it "irresponsible" to store 1,236 tons of German gold, worth around 150 billion euros, in a country "whose leadership has no scruples whatsoever." The repatriation, justified by the "Germany first" principle, should surely convince the super-nationalist Trump, he argued. Since 2013, the Bundesbank has only repatriated 300 tons from the USA. However, Der Spiegel had actually advocated for the use of over 200 billion dollars' worth of state assets held by the Russian central bank for Ukraine. Most of Russia's central bank money held abroad is deposited at the European clearing house Euroclear in Belgium. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were particularly vocal in their support for repurposing this Russian national bank currency. "In the end, the EU lost its nerve," lamented the Tamedia newspapers. "Nip it in the bud," commented Peter A. Fischer in the NZZ. If the property of the Russian central bank is not respected, "who then guarantees" that "gold and central bank money held in New York w

#Gold #GoldReserves #Economics #Geopolitics #Finance #CentralBank #Bundesbank #InternationalRelations #GermanGold #FinancialNews #EconomicHistory #DerSpiegel #USAGermany

https://figu.org/files/figu_zeitzeichen sonderausgabe/figu_zeitzeichen_sa_184.pdf https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/we-are-free-world-now-europe-declares-war-free-speech

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"We Are The Free World Now" - Europe Declares War On Free Speech

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“We are the free world now.”

Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, captured the pearl-clutching outrage of Europeans after the Trump administration did what no prior administration has ever done — stand up to Europe to defend the freedom of speech.

This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio barred five figures closely associated with European censorship efforts from traveling to the U.S. This includes Thierry Breton, the former European Union commissioner responsible for digital policy.

In a post on X, Rubio declared that the U.S. “will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship” and will target “leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States.”

Breton achieved infamy as one of the architects of the massive EU censorship system, which is now being globalized. Armed with the notorious Digital Services Act, Breton and others threatened American companies and officials that they would have to yield to European standards of free speech. After Breton learned that Musk was planning to interview Trump before the last presidential election, he even warned the X owner that he would be “monitored” and potentially subject to EU fines.

Socialist Glucksmann is now irate at “this scandalous sanction against Thierry Breton.”

“We are Europeans,” he declared.

“We must defend our laws, our principles, our interests.” In other words

#FreeSpeech #Censorship #Politics #EuropeanUnion #USPolitics #DigitalServicesAct #Geopolitics #PoliticalCommentary #WorldNews #Freedom #BigTech #EUCensorship #WarOnFreeSpeech #FreeWorld #TechPolicy

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Chemicals in Food Cause Trillions in Damage

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Most foods contain more or less chemicals that have entered them from soil, water, or during the manufacturing process.

Synthetic chemicals endanger health and the environment and cost trillions of dollars each year. That is the result of the study Invisible Ingredients (“invisible ingredients”), published in December, which deals with the four most frequent synthetic chemicals in the food system. According to the study, bisphenols, pesticides, PFAS, and phthalates have serious consequences for humans and nature.

You can hardly escape them, even if you grow your vegetables pest‑free yourself and milk the cow by hand. Whether phthalates as plasticizers in plastic gloves, PFAS in the soil and in pans, bisphenols in water pipes, or chemicals in plastic containers — they are everywhere, even in the air. When food is produced and processed on an industrial scale, of course there are a few more sources of contamination: conveyor belts, milking machines, plastic film, seals, and pizza boxes, for example.

3 Trillion Dollars in Damage Each Year

The four groups of chemicals investigated contribute significantly to rising cancer rates, developmental disorders, and infertility, and they destroy the foundation of global agriculture, the researchers list.

Overall, these impacts alone cost the world economy around 3 trillion dollars each year. Between 1.4 and 2.2 trillion fall on the health system, and

#FoodSafety #ChemicalsInFood #Health #Environment #Pesticides #PFAS #EndocrineDisruptors #PublicHealth #WhatsInMyFood #ToxicFree #CleanEating #ScienceExplained #HealthAndWellness #SustainableLiving

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Because of the Atomic Bomb: U.S. Military Gave PFAS a Decisive Boost

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PFAS are currently occupying authorities throughout Switzerland down to the municipal level. Yet people still know little about these substances. That the so‑called “forever chemicals” are toxic and trace back to the invention of Teflon has only become known to a broader public in the last ten years. Because of a lawsuit, the first media reports about the dangers of the plastic circulated in the U.S. back then.

With a narrative non‑fiction book, U.S. journalist Mariah Blake now contributes another big piece to the knowledge about PFAS. Blake was one of the first journalists to report extensively on the poisoning around Dupont’s Teflon factory in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 2015.

In They Poisoned the World (the German translation will appear at the end of February 2026), Blake goes particularly far back. She tells of another poisoning scandal around the company Saint‑Gobain in New York State, of successful resistance, and of the hitherto little‑known history of the substances, which goes back almost a hundred years.

Manhattan Project Was Crucial for PFAS Development

The details, Blake said in a podcast interview, were new even to her: because decisive for the development and commercial spread of the material was the so‑called Manhattan Project, with which the U.S. developed the atomic bomb in World War II.

In Blake’s account, a Dupont chemist accidentally developed Teflon. In 1938, Roy Plunkett was working on the development of a new refrigerant with the highly toxic gas fluorine when he found, after an experiment, a cert

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Published by Robert Reich on Substack; Infosperber

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Super-rich people did not become wealthy through hard competition. Their success lies in corrupting the state. Extremely so in 2025 in the USA.

Robert Reich

They hold a monopoly, engage in insider trading, pay bribes, extort a major investor, or inherit a massive fortune. In 2025, billionaires showed themselves to be particularly shameless. In the USA, corruption became especially obvious.

For many years I have warned that ever more national wealth is ending up in the hands of ever fewer people. In the United States, one single percent of the population owns half of all stock-market values and 40 percent of total wealth, while ten percent of the population controls 90 percent of all wealth.

Often I then hear: “That’s just the free market” or “Competition has decided that they deserve it.”

Behind these political decisions stands an increasingly small group of super-rich people who have secured themselves a disproportionately large influence on politics. They have created five ways to accumulate a billion dollars or more:

Did Jeff Bezos earn his billions because he founded and built Amazon? No. Amazon dominates nearly 40 percent of all e-commerce retail — a monopolist protected

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True democracy requires vigilant, clear, neutral, and logical thinking according to the natural-creative guidelines and an unwavering understanding that the people alone have the authority to decide about anything and everything by themselves, without exception, and without any corrupt political, governmental, administrative, or other foreign regimes. The executive bodies exist only to carry out what the people have decided, ideally by unanimous or near-unanimous agreement.

For this, the basic prerequisite is unity among all people in awareness and knowledge of the immutable creative order that the creative Being has given. These guiding principles must be integrated and lived in everyday community life so that individuals and society thrive, living without war, tyranny, or dominion — in peace, freedom, harmony, and as a communal democratic society on the true path of evolution.

#Democracy #TrueDemocracy #SelfResponsibility #CriticalThinking #Politics #Philosophy #Freedom #PeaceAndFreedom #Society #PowerToThePeople #Consciousness #SpiritualAwakening #Government #FIGU

https://ca.figu.org/figu-zeitzeichen.html https://journal-neo.su/2025/12/29/us-seeks-greenland-grab-as-pursuit-of-primacy-accelerates/

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All under the guise of “pursuing peace” in a proxy war the US itself engineered, and is, for all intents and purposes, fighting against Russia simply through its Ukrainian proxies.

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The US continues setting the stage for wider and more dangerous escalation — both in terms of expanding an emerging global maritime blockade against Russian, Iranian, and even Chinese maritime shipping, as well as in terms of preparing Europe to feed itself into Washington’s proxy war as Ukraine’s fighting capacity collapses.

A New Base for Wider Proxy War with Russia

Existing US military bases in Greenland are located closer to Moscow than any other US military base outside of mainland Europe (including Türkiye) and the UK.

Assuming that open US plans to have Europe “double down” on supporting Ukraine, including expanding military industrial production and arms shipments to Ukraine as well as preparing “European and non-European troops” to actually enter into Ukraine proceed, all under a US-led “division of labor,” US military facilities across mainland Europe and the UK would run the risk of dragging the US itself into any resulting Russian-European conflict.

This would defeat the purpose of this “division of labor.” Thus, the US either reducing its military presence across mainland Europe and the UK or relocating essential operations to Greenland allows the US to provide close, but te

https://ca.figu.org/figu-zeitzeichen.html https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/9-signs-leaders-all-over-globe-have-come-down-really-bad-case-war-fever

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How close can we get to the edge without falling over? The largest military conflict in Europe since World War II is poised to go to the next level in 2026, war could erupt again in the Middle East at any moment, the U.S. is on the verge of starting a new war in Venezuela, and China is absolutely furious about a brand new weapons package that has just been approved for Taiwan. The dogs of war are clawing at the gate, and yet most people don’t seem too concerned. This is particularly true in the western world, and that is extremely unfortunate. We really are dangerously close to a nightmare scenario, and the clock is ticking.

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The following are 9 signs that leaders all over the globe have come down with a really bad case of “war fever”…

#1 The Europeans are feverishly preparing for war with Russia, and this is something that I covered extensively in a previous article. After months of hearing them talk about the potential for a direct conflict with Russia, it sounds like Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost his patience with them. In fact, Putin just referred to European leaders as “pigs” and “piglets”…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has derisively referred to UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as a “little pig” and openly discussed the