The 2025 US National Security Strategy is a panic manual for a declining empire. It confesses the old model of global exploitation failed, hollowing out America’s own industrial base. the solution it proposes is a brutal shift enforcing a "Trump Corollary" for colonial control of Latin America, demand Europe fend for itself, and wage total economic war on China. This is the blueprint for capitalism’s new, zero-sum phase.
America's Panic Manual
The 2025 Blueprint for a Zero-Sum World
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European governments are preparing to revisit one of the EU’s most controversial surveillance ideas: forcing online services to retain vast amounts of user data for up to a year.
Reclaim The Net
EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps
A rewrite of Europe’s privacy rules could turn every click, call, and login into a year-long entry in a government ledger.
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Oracle reportedly delays several new OpenAI data centers because of shortages — tight material and labor supply frustrate expansion plans, possibly by a year or more.
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Oracle reportedly delays several new OpenAI data centers because of shortages — tight material and labor supply frustrate expansion plans, possibly by a year or more
A delay of possibly one year or more
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The gradual but relentless economic decline of Europe. Chart shows its share of global GDP PPP.
Client Challenge
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Oracle just lost $35 billion in market cap in 48 hours. Oracle's five-year credit default swaps hit 126 basis points. The highest since the 2008 financial crisis. Oracle's free cash flow this quarter was negative $10 billion. This is the company upon which OpenAI's entire compute infrastructure now depends. Morgan Stanley's Lisa Shalett last month: "We're in the seventh inning." Looks like the reckoning just arrived and the bubble is popping.
THE THERMODYNAMIC RECKONING
How a $610 Billion Circular Financing Architecture, the Laws of Physics, and the Ghosts of Railway Mania Are Converging to Reshape Global Finance
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