Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #globalisation, aggregated by home.social.
Excerpt from Miriam Posner's book Seeing Like a Supply Chain
'it’s entirely possible to develop a lightning-quick, astoundingly efficient supply chain without having any notion of where goods are produced. In fact, this ignorance is actually a precondition for the low-cost, high-speed delivery times to which consumers have grown accustomed'
#supplyChains #industry #globalisation #union #bookstodon
https://www.promarket.org/2026/11/07/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/
This is a shit translation (google translate) of the French quoted from a Mediapart blog. But I'm lazy today so it will have to do. It gets the message across that *wars* are good for the *markets*, the *shoreholders* and the *fossil fuel enterprises*. The subtext is that most democratice governments, full-on acolites of #EconomicRationalsim are happy with the resulting *transfer of wealth* from us plebs to the 1% on top of the economc pile. It's more than high time we changed our *leadership* to something that cares about the people and puts them ahead of market *grifters*.
> "The results for the third quarter of 2026 confirm this (net profit of $8.3 billion... in ONE quarter; +127% in one year): **TotalEnergies** thrives when wars start generate energy crises. When prices soar, profits explode. For the benefit of shareholders: the group plans a 5.9% increase in the 2026 dividend as well as $2.5 billion in additional share buybacks in the fourth quarter, then again in the first quarter of 2027."
BTW: The crazy deregulation that allows enterprises to buy back their shares is a straight out legal (for now) way to increase the share price and add value without producing a damned thing. That is not an efficient use of resources, it's just market manipulation and insider trading by another name.
#Economy #Total #FossilFuelIndustries #UkraineWar #Us-IsraeliWars #FossilFuelCartels #InsiderTrading #SuperProfits #Grifters #Rentiers #ShareMarketFraud #France #FinancialMarketsDeregulation #Globalisation #IndustrialMilitaryComplex
The global economy is muddling through against the odds. But a storm is coming | Larry Elliott
By Larry Elliott
Finance ministers gathering for the IMF annual meeting know the need for multilateral cooperation to deal with many crises. There is little chance of that
#InternationalMonetaryFundIMF #Globaleconomy #Economics #Austerity #Globalisation #DonaldTrump #AIartificialintelligence #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #China #AsiaPacific #TheGuardian #LarryElliott
The global economy is muddling through against the odds. But a storm is coming | Larry Elliott https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/15/global-economy-multilateral-cooperation-crisis-imf #InternationalMonetaryFundImf #GlobalEconomy #Economics #Austerity #Globalisation #DonaldTrump #AiArtificialIntelligence #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #China #AsiaPacific
VIDEO: RBA is engineering an economic slowdown but at what cost? Ian Verrender explains – ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
VIDEO: RBA is engineering an eco…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #ABCNews #abcnewsaustralia #Artificialintelligence #AU #Australia #Business #businessnews #defence #EconomicNews #employment #Energy #factories #Finance #financenews #globalisation #interestrates #Jobs #money #recession #thebusiness #Trading #unemployment
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/917973/
Whiplashed middle powers seek new alliances as Trump rages on world stage
By Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
While world leaders prepare for annual UN gathering, shifts in the global order continue in the face of a disruptive American president
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/21/us-allies-donald-trump-world-un-global-order
#USforeignpolicy #DonaldTrump #Trumpadministration #Globalisation #Worldnews #USpolitics #USnews #UnitedNations #China #Canada #Europe #SouthKorea #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #TheGuardian #PatrickWintourDiplomaticeditor
Whiplashed middle powers seek new alliances as Trump rages on world stage https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/21/us-allies-donald-trump-world-un-global-order #UsForeignPolicy #DonaldTrump #TrumpAdministration #Globalisation #WorldNews #UsPolitics #UsNews #UnitedNations #China #Canada #Europe #SouthKorea #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica
Italians, in a business context, what would be a sentence that looks like perfectly normal Italian sentence but is actually an insult?
#languages #linguistic #i18n #l10n #G11n #internationalisation #internationalization #localisation #localization #globalization #globalisation #FollowerPower
"Whenever someone starts talking about the free market, its a good idea to look around for the man with the gun."
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
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What are the hidden costs of #globalisation? 🤔 The documentary #film / #movie “The #Economics of Happiness” highlights how it can worsen #inequality, #ClimateChange , conflict and livelihoods - and how GDP can fail to reflect real #wellbeing.
The alternative? GO #LOCAL! 🌱 Support local food, business, finance & energy, strengthen #communities, and #reconnect with people and #nature. 🌍💚
Watch the film add-free or download on Vimeo, see https://www.localfutures.org/programs/the-economics-of-happiness/
https://carrickryan.substack.com/p/the-truth-is-behind-the-headlines
'#Populism, by its nature, rests upon the notion that all of the complex problems that #society is compelled to address actually have very simple #solutions.
'To hold this world view, it necessitates a deep mistrust of #expertise, of #institutions, and of #science, and anyone else that dares explain why the "simple solution" has already been dismissed from calculations.
'These are the natural adversaries of anyone intoxicated by overconfidence as a result of the Dunning Kruger Effect; a phenomenon by which those with the least amount of knowledge on a complex topic are so deficient in knowledge that they do not understand how much they don't know.
'Within that context, the visible impatience from those who spent decades studying the minute nuances of a topic can be indiscernible from arrogance, or potentially even intentional obfuscation.
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'Polling data has consistently shown that One Nation's support is strongest among people without a #university degree, particularly when combined with older age and living in regional or #rural Australia. These are, in many ways, those that have benefited the least from #globalisation and those that suffered the most from growing #economic #inequality.
'#Conspiracy theories offer an explanation for their loss of #status and #wealth that appeals to our natural instinct to blame misfortune on the malicious acts of others. It is cathartic to attribute grievance to the immorality of a nefarious "elite" rather than our own failure to adapt to a rapidly changing world....'
AI may be the toughest challenge Anthony Albanese faces this term. Guardrails are urgently needed | Peter Lewis
By Peter Lewis
Coherent decision-making and internal accountability are critical to meeting this manic moment
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/australia-ai-challenge-anthony-albanese
#Datacentres #AIartificialintelligence #Australianews #Economics #Australianeconomy #Laborparty #AnthonyAlbanese #Sydney #Australianpolitics #Globalisation #Technology #TheGuardian #PeterLewis
AI may be the toughest challenge Anthony Albanese faces this term. Guardrails are urgently needed | Peter Lewis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/australia-ai-challenge-anthony-albanese #Datacentres #AiArtificialIntelligence #AustraliaNews #Economics #AustralianEconomy #LaborParty #AnthonyAlbanese #Sydney #AustralianPolitics #Globalisation #Technology
The #Land Lord's Game
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...
* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936
* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services
* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.
* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,
* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)
* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.
Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples
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However, those local beliefs are completely out of touch with the brutal, hyper-technical reality of how the globalized world actually operates now. People are living in a moral framework that doesn't match the modern machine.
The centre left is not dead. A progressive new counter-Trumpian movement is on the way https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/04/centre-left-not-dead-new-counter-trumpian-movemen #Europe #Globalisation #Barcelona #Spain #WorldNews
The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History
#Identitypolitics, is what happens when liberalism turns inward and fragments - call it mad liberalism. #Culturewar is what happens when that same liberalism hardens and lashes out - bad liberalism. Both look like opposites, but they come from the same place. The uncomfortable part is both were pushed onto the "left" as the way to fight #neoliberalism the very system that’s been tearing apart the social fabric for decades. Instead of building collective power, we pushed endless identity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-the-peace-dividend-and-the-return-of-history/
One of the things thar disturbs me about Heinz Watties announcement that they were closing down their vegetable and food processing plants in Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland is how a large foreign corporate took over the company abd is slowly destroying it. Over some years now they have stopped using locally grown produce and substituted imported products e.g. asparagus, tomatoes and corn, from much cheaper source countries like Peru and Thailand. Local farmers lose contracts. #Aoteroa becomes more dependent on imported food in place of more secure home grown food. So Heinz is increasing our food security risk. That should be a concern for every Kiwi. Something similar occured with Mondelez. Huge global cirporatiins like these are like vultures stripping everything down to the bone. #foodsecurity #globalisation #corporations #risk
Airwallex signs multi-year Essendon AFL guernsey deal
Airwallex has signed a multi-year co-major partnership with Essendon Football Club, marking t…
#NewsBeep #News #AFL #airwallex #AU #Australia #Australian #AustralianFootballLeague #B2B #DigitalTransformation #Europe(European) #ExpenseManagement #fintech #globalexpansion #globalisation #licensing #Melbourne #middleeast #SanFrancisco #singapore #spendmanagement #sports #SportsTechnology(SportsTech) #Startups
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/515006/
Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#analogueArt #mentalCinema #contemporaryArt #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #inkjetPrint #mixedMedia #acrylicColours #climateActionNow #saveBioDiversity #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #NoRacism #noAFD #NoFascism #skeleton #vanitas #fragilitas #finiteness #mortality #mementomori #globe #terrestrialGlobe #earth #globalisation #globaljustice #planetaryBoundaries #screamingLoud #screamingHeads #screamingMen #despair
“The precarious nature of liberal #globalisation had been pointed out many years earlier by the British economist Lionel Robbins. The #liberal #economic project had failed to understand that a global liberal #economy needed a #political foundation.” open.substack.com/pub/robertsk... #MarkCarney
On Mark Carney and the Fate of...
@adamtooze makes the important point that globalisation is essentially a Eurasian story (with some stats to underline that observation), and so globalisation as a global political economic phenomenon is only over when Eurasia modifies its behaviour.
The end of globalisation isn't something that is driven by the Tangerine Tyrant's (and US) economic policies.... rather, the pivot away from the US may see just globalisation continue minus the US!
#globalisation #politics
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-433-globalization-as-a
...Zeit, wieder einmal über Grundeinkommen für Alle nachzudenken
#CH #Politik #Ökonomie #NeoLiberalismius #Globalisation #Kapitalismus #Oligarchie #Feudalismus #Demokratiezerstörung