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Crypto Thieves, Fiat Currencies and Central Banks.

On a six-month record of stolen crypto and how essentially crypto should be working with, not against, Central Banks to create a universal crypto coin.    

Mutapa or $1.6 Billion Zimbabwe State Capture.

How the Mutapa Investment Fund (formerly known as the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe), used $1.6 billion to purchase shares in Kuvimba Mines, which owns about a dozen gold, lithium, nickel and platinum mines. Money that came from the people of Zimbabwe and was then funnelled to the ruling elite to be in turn stashed in the Middle East.    

No Power No Phone (or VIOP No VIOP Continued).

A discussion on how a major power outage did effectively knock out a country's entire telecommunication network, including 'fixed' lines, mobile phones and the Internet.    

To The Stars: yes, we will go to Mars.

  On how Musk is right on how the next great human migration will start by going to Mars and beyond.    

A Digital Swiss Franc

  On how the first CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) could be the Swiss Franc    

South African Election Results.

On how, an interesting development in the democratic election process is taking place in South Africa.    

Euro Elections: A Confounding View.

On how the Anglo-Saxon press has an inherent blind spot when reporting on European Union events.    

Hologram AI: your very own PA.

A discussion on how personal holograms can become your very own singing and dancing AI assistant.    

Initial Coin Offerings (ICO's): money for nothing.

  On how issuing new Crypto coins is money for old rope and is unlikely to change any time soon.    

AI Voices: Red or Not.

Musings on types of AI voices, our inherent reluctance to them and when they may be useful.    

No More Fake News

How even the diehard conspiracy theorists are beginning to notice Fake news for what it really is.      

AI and Our Data

 On how the data being used to train large language Artificial Intelligence models was never ours to give away in the first place.    

South African Elections (2): The Parties.

On how the election polls have moved from ANC with moderates to ANC with radicals, with two weeks to go.    

Central Banks: Fragmentation and Settlement.

A discussion on how the Swiss National Bank's 'Project Helvetia III' addresses multiple issuances of a countries national money, and how correct buying and selling of goods must be secure.     

COVID-19 and the Birth of the Mega Conspiracies.

How the initial cover up of the origins of the COVID-19 virus precipitated the proliferation of conspiracy theories.   I have started to use DaVince Resolve for the initial edit, as I am finding it is easier, or rather more efficient, to 'cut out' unwanted footage of the original raw take. However, that programs 'transition' options do not translate in CupCut when using its 'cut out' option. G M T Y Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azerbaijani Bambara Bashkir Basque Belarusian Bengali Bhojpuri Bosnian Bulgarian Cantonese (Traditional) Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Literary) Chinese Simp Chinese Trad Chuvash Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dhivehi Dogri Dutch Emoji English English United Kingdom Esperanto Estonian Ewe Faroese Fijian Filipino Finnish French French (Canada) Frisian Galician Ganda Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hill Mari Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igb...

Net on the News or News on the Net.

 On online news censorship, traditional online journalism and social media “news”.   Nothing really new as far as production is concerned, although someone mentioned that the voice sounded 'hollow' or like I was speaking in a boxy room. CupCut allows you to export the audio file separately. So I have tried various audio adjustments using CapCut itself (not great), DaVinci Resolve (really too complicated), AudioCity and Oceanudio. Really can't hear a difference, so it may be due to the speaker that person is listening on.

South African Elections (1)

  A primer on the major parties running in the election and some background and history.    

VOIP no VOIP

  On how a major power cut could lead to a shutdown of all telecommunications.    

TikTok Part 2

 Regarding the Banning or Selling of TikTok America.    

China: Russia is Going to Lose.

  Emphasis of a rather extraordinary view published recently in The Economist by a leading Chinese geopolitical expert based in Beijing.    Still no prestation change, although getting concerned that with the accelerated action in the US congress to banning TikTok, CapCut may get restricted.