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by Anthony Murdoch | LifeSite News One of Canada’s largest business advocacy groups has warned that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party win in last week’s federal election will “further stagnate” the nation’s already weakened economy. Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses Canada (CCMBC) President Catherine Swift warned in a statement last week that commitments by the federal government for carbon “net-zero” emissions will create more regulatory burdens and will ultimately negatively impact the Canadian economy. “The net zero climate agenda coupled with big government and regulatory overreach has proven itself to be disastrous for the economy generally, and is […]

by Didi Rankovich | Reclaim The Net By 2027, the European Union (EU) is set to use its Anti-Money Laundering regulations (AMLR) to ban privacy cryptocurrencies (crypto-asset accounts allowing anonymization of transactions) and anonymous accounts (accounts using anonymity-enhancing coins). This is interpreted by observers to be defined in the Markets in Cryptao-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) has come out with its “AML Handbook” focusing on how AMLR obligations affect crypto asset service providers (CASPs), as well as financial and credit institutions. These “strict” prohibitions are contained in AMLR Article 79, the key takeaway being that they will […]

by Michael Snyder | End of the American Dream Over the past few years, there has been a tremendous amount of buzz about an imminent “reset” of the global economy.  Well, what we are currently witnessing may not look like what they were anticipating, but a “reset” of the global economy is definitely here.  Trillions of dollars were invested to set up the global supply chains that we have today.  I have always argued that we should have never allowed ourselves to become so dependent on goods that are made elsewhere, and making more things in this country is a […]

by John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute    “This is economic sabotage. Whether through malice or incompetence or, more likely, both Trump is isolating the United States on the world stage, tanking the markets, worsening inflation, and burdening working families with the cost of his 18th-century cosplay. These aren’t policies. They’re performance art. And the rest of us are footing the bill.”—Oregon’s Bay Area (blog post) What we’re witnessing is the calculated use of emergency powers to concentrate power in the hands of the president, enrich the Deep State, and dismantle what remains of economic and constitutional safeguards. […]

by Anthony Murdoch | LifeSite News A 2023 video by the World Economic Forum shows Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, then working as an executive for Brookfield Asset Management, heralding the idea of “net zero” climate goals in order to spur a financial “revolution.” “Time is running out to make this transition to net zero, to have a sustainable world,” said Carney in the three-minute video which was released as part of the WEF’s Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems series. “We need to transition the energy system on the scale of the industrial revolution at the speed of the digital […]

by Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project When Donald Trump announced his bold opposition to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), many cheered. “Finally,” they said, “a politician who’s putting a stop to the technocratic surveillance money.” But as with most things in politics, the devil is in the details — and what’s happening now is a classic bait-and-switch. While Trump is busy posturing against CBDCs, his administration is actively laying the groundwork for stablecoins to fill the exact same role. Same control grid, different branding. Legislation like the bipartisan GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins) […]

Landowner Carlos Roberto Simonetti gets three harvests per year from the corn, soy and cotton plantations on his 17,000-hectare (about 42,000 acres) farm called Fazenda Natureza Feliz, or Happy Nature, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Over the course of four years, he would also get what he calls a fourth harvest, this time from the forested areas of his property, located where the Cerrado savanna meets the Amazon Rainforest. That’s because Simonetti would receive regular payments for protecting native vegetation beyond what the law requires, as part of a pilot project for payment for ecosystem services (PES) run by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), an NGO, in the states of Mato Grosso and Pará. The program, called CONSERV, gives landowners financial incentives to keep the forest standing even in areas which they are legally allowed to clear. The pilot project, which initially ran between 2020 and 2024 on 23 different properties, protected 20,707 hectares (about 51,170 acres) of land in the Cerrado and Amazon biomes with funding from the governments of Norway and The Netherlands. Ongoing contracts funded by Soft Commodities Forum members – agribusiness companies committed to preserving the Cerrado – are protecting a further 7,000 hectares (about 17,300 acres) in the states of Mato Grosso and Maranhão. IPAM is now seeking to scale up the program without relying on donations. The risk of legal deforestation The idea for CONSERV goes back to 2016, when an internal IPAM report calculated that around 1.5 million hectares (3.7…This article was originally published on Mongabay