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Antisemitism in 2023

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This is a difficult post to write, so please bear with me. I am honoured to consider Ethan Gutmann a friend and I hope this post honours that friendship. Until earlier this year I thought Ethan and I had very a different lineage. Then I discovered I am a distant descendant of Rebecca of Flanders who was a crypto-Jewess and of the Khazar Jews of Eastern Europe who married into the Scottish royal family from which I am descended. Then I found that my great-great-grandmother was a Messianic-Jewess. But that was emotionally as far as it went. Decades ago I walked through the gas chambers of Auschwitz and I felt a sickness. Almost more so when I saw the punishment cell just 1m x 1m for four prisoners. I met survivors in Poland. Christians who claimed almost as many Christians as Jews were killed there, though I could not verify that claim. It was a memory burned into my psyche. Block 11  and  (left)  the "death wall", Auschwitz I, 2000 photo by  Anneli Salo Then 7 October happ
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The Impending Economic Tsunami

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Please note this is a work in progress and any comments are appreciated. Peer Review additions February 2022 shown in purple Quick read summary Since Homo Sapiens appeared on this planet they have been subduing it. Being sapiens they developed models for the economy which we now call GDP . In recent years there have been changes to the SNA, which is the UN document countries use to calculate GDP. I question the reliability of the global and national GDPs as measurement instruments. It started with the bursting financial bubbles of 2008. Then added cryptocurrencies that aren’t even paper linked to economic activity. Add to that climate change. Then Covid 19. And consumption will plateau due to a population no longer expanding. We have banking instruments that are virtual and, in some cases, recursively virtual. And the SNA champions those activities. I thus perceive we are heading toward some sort of  Impending Economic Tsunami !  The GDP figures are inaccurate, in part because the mo
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