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July 2025

Your Home Isn’t an Investment; It’s a Hostage Situation
Homeowner or money-renter? Who’s really in control and is this whole thing a sham?
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Brewing Profit: The Hidden Math Behind Your Latte
A side-by-side look at how Starbucks standardizes profit from Toronto to Manila.
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Goodbye, Human Capital: Meet JoblessGPT™, Layoff-as-a-Service
Proudly automating your redundancy so management can get back to doing what matters: earning stock-based compensation.
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Fire the Taxman, Hire a Bank: How Citizens Can Fund the Future
A national-bank swap that could replace income tax with community investment.
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Second Lives, First Laughs: From Cookie Tins and Bottle Roofs to Flip-Flop Avengers
How a Danish-cookie tin, 100 soda bottles, and a pair of storm-battered flip-flops became unlikely climate cheerleaders.
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Canada Day: Unwrapping the Myth of Modern Nations
A 12,000-year memory collides with modern-day mythmaking. In this deep-dive, we dissect how a freshly minted national birthday slams into stories that…
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June 2025

Built for Cars, Unfit for Humans
A global tale of advertising and asphalt that pushed cars to the top of the food chain.
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Beans Before Bullets—Gardens Feed You, Latrines Save You
Hoarding tactical gadgets while skipping the humble art of soap puts doomsday preppers on the fast track to plague-ridden petri-dish bunkers
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Hollow Wealth: How Cheap Clothes Bankrupt Real Prosperity
How fast fashion’s record profits rest on half-price livelihoods.
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Democracy—Rigged by Design
Keep calm, keep buying, keep voting every few years—the system is working.
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