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  • UNCTAD, the UN, COP29 – They Did it Again

    By Peter Koenig

    Already in November 2023, UNCTAD has made infamous headlines by announcing a digital future; see this:

    “UNCTAD – in blatant derogation of its historical mandate on behalf developing countries, namely the Global South–, will level the playing field, as the saying goes, on behalf of the entire UN System by announcing in a Press Release in Geneva on 15 November… Continue reading

  • Those Driverless Cars

    Look at this little girl with her mom hailing a driverless, autonomous taxi.This is the modernization of socialist economy in #China.And what will this little kid’s city look like when she’s an adult? Incredible transformations are underway.#robotaxi #AutonomousVehicles pic.twitter.com/dLcr9yW0lG— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) July 23, 2024

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  • Site Comments

    We continue with our fundraiser for the month of June. For GlobalSouth.co we will have to keep a fundraiser in some form or another going from now on. I repeat the original: Kindly donate! There are very few of us staunch independents left. And thank you and great blessings and please keep us on our… Continue reading

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  • Geoengineering – Weapon of Mass Destruction

    Solving the ‘Climate Crisis’ is Bad for Business and Worse for Politics

    For GlobalSouth.co by Peter Koenig
    25 March 202

    The article “Harvard Shuts Geoengineering Project” by Cauf Skiviers, explains Bill Gates, funder of the project, stopping Harvard from carrying out the study to Preserve the Climate Narrative.

    How is this relevant?

    That Bill Gates calls the shots on what… Continue reading

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  • Small Tech Note

    Generally people are trying to get to terms with The Hearty Salon.  It is a forum style, and not a flat page that needs to be taken away every now and again, because it gets too full.  I’ve changed one of the topics there to Testing and Messing and will leave that one up until… Continue reading

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  • A few site notes

    It seems as if we will be losing the longstanding Saker Blog from the lineup of fraternal blogs.  Larchmonter445 posted a lovely note on Andrei Martyanov:

    http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-sakers-blog-pepe-penned-excellent.html#comment-6103362789

    Somehow I cannot get directly to Larch’s post comments, but it is the first post in that thread.  Here it is, with a few very kind and sweet further comments: Larch445… Continue reading

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  • A few site comments

    Technical – Somewhere over the weekend we’re installing an image smusher – that is a thing to get my over-the-top imaging habits a little under control – I’m eating up disk space!   So, if strange things happen, it is the image smusher/smasher/to decrease size in kB and any strange thing will be fixed.

    Someone somewhere sometime… Continue reading

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  • An economic discussion

    Sometimes when you sweep away what you have been doing, and open space for new, the new comes in.  It is just how the universe works for me at least sometimes.

    What happened is that I am now part of an economic discussion with some heavy economists about the structuring of the new multipolar world.  The… Continue reading

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