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While I agree with the general argument of this article (“The Anti-Federalists were right!”), I would disagree the USA is totalitarian in its present form. The DPRK is currently the only state organized on a classically totalitarian 20th-century model. About a third of the world’s countries remain traditional […]
By Keith Preston April 22, 2023 I have no particular loyalty to any specific cultural faction. My approach is to criticize the dominant ideological superstructure of the ruling class of a particular society during a specific era. Right now, totalitarian humanism is dominant in the West, and I […]
FLASHBACK: 5 Stupid Ideas Governments Actually Tried (2017) The Corbett Report Apr 22, 2023 TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/stupidideas Ask anyone who’s ever worked in the public sector: With a never-ending stream of taxpayer money and no competition in sight, governments are a breeding ground for stupid ideas. In […]
April 22, 2023 A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL When companies are in crisis, they may look to their past chief executives to help them through the storm. These boomerang CEOs are often iconic figures for the business—think Disney’s Bob Iger. But when boards go reaching […]
The dollar is finally being dethroned BY John Michael Greer Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and […]
The Hyena code is able to handle amounts of data that make GPT-style technology run out of memory and fail. Written by Tiernan Ray, Contributing Writer on April 20, 2023 Ex-Apple employees want to replace your smartphone with this Stanford and MILA’s Hyena Hierarchy is a technology for […]
Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech Lindsay Clark Fri 21 Apr 2023 // 11:35 UTC The proliferation of AI in weapon systems among non-state actors such as terrorist groups or mercenaries would be virtually impossible to stop, according to a hearing before UK Parliament. […]
Iyer, R., Koleva, S., Graham, J., Ditto, P., & Haidt, J. (2012). Understanding libertarian morality: The psychological dispositions of self-identified libertarians. PloS one, 7(8), e42366.
The Michael Morell story is disposed of by press janitors Matt Taibbi Apr 21, 2023 ∙ Paid Left, most recent search results for “Morell” in the New York Times. Right, Google News. An all-time media blackout is in effect. We’re experiencing real-time Sovietization. It transpires that the infamous […]
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023 JFK Revisited will challenge everything you thought you know about the JFK assassination. – Charles Burris, “Top Secret JFK Documents the Pentagon will Never Release” [2023] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 20, 2023 Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies It was always inevitable that the Pentagon’s and […]
View it in your browser. Top News Stories Japan orders SDF to prepare to intercept North Korean rockets Observers say that attempting to shoot down a North Korean missile or rocket carrying a satellite could open up the possibility of escalation. G7 farm ministers meet to enhance food […]
April 22 2023 Good morning from just outside the nation’s capital, where Fox News star Tucker Carlson sounds the alarm on America’s future in a speech saluting The Heritage Foundation on its 50th anniversary. Elizabeth Troutman and Ken McIntyre report. Related events include a discussion of depoliticizing the Justice […]
Sponsored by University of California Press In September 2022 Bret Easton Ellis, who in the 1980s had been, alongside Jay McInerney and Donna Tartt, one of the leading lights of an informal group of writers known as the literary Brat Pack, published The Shards, his first novel in thirteen […]
April 22, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Happy Earth Day! Be sure to check out our One Planet initiative — an optimist’s destination for climate action, with reporting on leaders combating the climate crisis as well as tangible steps you can take at home, in the workplace, and in your […]
Sudan is exploding in intense conflict right after a visit from the Queen of Coups Victoria Nuland. Former CIA Analyst, Larry Johnson brings the history and facts and if CIA might be lurking and other geopolitical analysis. You can follow Larry here: https://sonar21.com/
Episode 121 with Daniel Nichanian Krystal Kyle & Friends Apr 21, 2023 Brandon Johnson’s election, far-right candidates losing school board elections, TikTok censorship of the Marianne Williamson left: these are the things we’re covering in this week’s episode with “election lifeline” Daniel Nichanian. Daniel founded the political magazine […]
Peter R. Quiñones Apr 21, 2023 The State is inevitable. I understand that’s a strange statement to make when Americans already live under a State so large that it would make Stalin envious. What could be a more obvious declaration? But many either choose to ignore reality, are […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 21, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article: There’s a lot happening in the life of the empire, so we’re doing another multi-story article to wrap it all up. Today we’re discussing four stories: Facebook is censoring multiple articles by Seymour Hersh. Weapons industry-funded […]
April 21, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Pardon our lateness — we’re having some technical issues today. Shona Ghosh, UK deputy executive editor, here. Tech executives were briefly wild for flying cars, including Larry Page, Google’s billionaire cofounder. Hugh Langley and Rob Price earlier took us inside the spectacular failure […]
How a theater queen in search of fame jumped on the trans bandwagon and won. Andrew Sullivan Apr 21, 2023 I’ve largely ignored the entire Bud Light tempest in a toxic teacup because social media outrages and brand boycotts come and go and tend to leave little trace […]
The philosopher gives a qualified but powerful defense of the Enlightenment. 5 hr ago Susan is a philosopher and writer focusing on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics and politics. She was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University, and in 2000 assumed her current position as director […]
Is James Lindsay’s woke understanding of liberalism one that James Madison and other founders of America’s constitutional order had in mind when they established the American republic? By Paul Gottfried April 20, 2023 Earlier this month, an article I had just published in Chronicles, “Marx Was Not Woke,” […]
1 People are having way too much fun filming their lives like a Wes Anderson movie on TikTok Even if you aren’t a fan of Wes Anderson movies in general, you gotta admit the man has a rich, distinct cinematic style that is uniquely his own. You can always spot […]
Read our current issue. April 21, 2023 “The Palo Alto System, with its unholy alchemy of racism, technology, and capitalism, is nothing if not breathtakingly continuous and consistent,” Jonathan Lethem writes of Malcolm Harris’s latest book of popular history, Palo Alto. “Readers will relish” this book “for its […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange As gold bulls defend the key $2,000 level, sound money proponents are scoring big wins in state legislatures. Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently signed the Arkansas Legal Tender Act into law. It reaffirms gold and silver as legal tender, as well […]
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In this episode we cover a Record number of Americans now identifying as “politically independent”, Amazon postpones it’s new HQ2 project in Virginia after receiving massive taxpayer subsidies, interviews from our partner Jordan Chariton show Generation Z kids feeling bleak about their futures in America, a new play […]
Democrats Threaten Journalists With Prison PLUS: Twitter Sneetches :: Blinken, Conspiracy Theorist :: Golden Age Of Substack Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse Apr 21, 2023 ∙ Paid Democrats Threaten Journalists Last month, Matt Taibbi and I testified to Congress about the existence of a Censorship Industrial Complex. The […]
Top News Stories Immigration bill set to pass Japan’s parliament as two opposition parties join revision discussions A controversial bill to curb long-term detentions of illegal overstayers at immigration facilities is set to clear parliament by the end of its session in … Government shelves plans to revise […]
by Peter Zeihan on April 21, 2023 Coming to you from Milford Sound in New Zealand. The demographic situation in the Middle East can be explained by three factors: water, oil, and food. Water prevented the population from expanding. Oil generated the capital needed to industrialize and help […]
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2023 Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will […]
Dear Reader, Meet Raymundo Ramos, who presents himself as a “human rights activist” in northern Mexico and provides comment to the New York Times. Phillip Linderman, former U.S. consul general for Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, makes a compelling case that Ramos is actually a propagandist for Cartel del Noreste. […]
View this email in your browser | Manage newsletter subscriptions 04.21.23 WIRED is going global—and we’re making some changes to our newsletters as a result. If you want to keep receiving Plaintext every Friday, please tap the link below. SEND ME PLAINTEXT Hello. Morgan Meaker here. I’m a senior […]
Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me “direct threats to people who oppose them,” is now threatening me with prison – over Mehdi Hasan’s uncorrected error Matt Taibbi Apr 20, 2023 Wow. When I think this iteration of the Democratic Party can’t sink any lower, it […]
April 21 2023 Happy Friday from the nation’s capital, where The Heritage Foundation is celebrating its 50th anniversary as America’s outpost in Washington. We’ve got reports from the first day of the pioneering think tank’s two-day, policy-packed Leadership Summit that precedes tonight’s gala festivities. For starters, learn what’s […]
Exclusive with journalist, Matt Taibbi, as he discusses being threatened with jail by a member of Congress for testifying about the Twitter Files to Congress.
The Party of Communists USA (PCUSA) condemns the false charges brought against the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) chair Omali Yeshitela, as well as Penny Hess, Jesse Nevel, and Black Hammer Party (BHP) leader Gazi Kodzo, by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). These charges are reminiscent of […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you POLL: More Americans Believe Mental Health Not Gun Control as Cause of Mass Shootings After the mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School on March 27, 2023, there have been increased calls for civilian disarmament among the political […]
New book from Peter Turchin. To be published on June 13, 2023 by Penguin Random House “History is not just one damn thing after another,” British historian Arnold Toynbee once quipped in response to a critic. For a long time, Toynbee’s opinion was in the minority. Historians and […]
By Tom Woods Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., officially announced his bid for president. And his speech had some great bits in it. Have I gone soft, and love politicians now? Don’t worry about that. What I do genuinely respect is a disruptor. Because if anything deserves to […]
(Jackson, Mississippi) – With the stroke of Gov. Tate Reeves’s pen on Wednesday, Mississippi has become the 43rd state in the country to end sales taxes on the purchase of physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion. Senate Bill 2862, sponsored by Sen. Juan Barnett (D-34), […]
At their best, restaurants are spaces for role-playing: Spend a night at a Parisian brasserie, a Tokyo omakase counter, or, as our diner-at-large E. Alex Jung did over the past couple of weeks, inside the very real Manhattan of .01 percenters that the fictional Roy family inhabits on […]
Birds Aren’t Real, But Technocracy Is! – #NewWorldNextWeek The Corbett Report Apr 20, 2023 SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw517/ In this week’s edition of New World Next Week: 9/11 patsies’ CIA link is less of a bombshell, more of a squib; Google’s AI hallucinations sends shivers down Elon […]
Justin Klawans Hidden in plain sight: The hunt for China’s ‘secret police offices’ Rafi Schwartz McCarthy’s existential debt-limit crisis Devika Rao Ice sheets in Greenland are melting at a ‘disastrous’ pace Advertisement from Wisebread Spend $500 And Earn $200 Becca Stanek Where is in-state tuition most affordable? Brendan […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss news that an IRS lawyer said the justice department is not handling the Hunter Biden investigation properly. #IRS #hunterbiden
Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump humiliating DeSantis in number of Florida endorsements, RFJ Jr Stuns in strong 14% poll after his announcement, Republicans reveal demands in debt ceiling fight, the Abortion Pill is in jeopardy, Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips trashes his colleagues for lying about their feelings on […]
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2023 Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy [2006] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 20, 2023 Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies It was always inevitable that the Pentagon’s and the […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 20, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Militarized robots are the anti-guillotine. They’re the final solution to the ancient “there are a lot more of us than there are of our rulers” problem. Everyone with wealth and power has […]
April 20, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Matt Turner, editor in chief of business, here. Depression is a massive challenge that conventional mental-health care has struggled to tackle. Today’s big story centers on the dark side of the startups that believe tech can solve the world’s most complex problems — […]
MOST READ Dominion Was Never Going to Save Our Democracy From Fox News Peter Maass With a $787.5 million settlement for its election lies, Fox News has avoided the legal and moral punishment of a court verdict. READ MORE → Leaked Pentagon Doc Gives Unprecedented U.S. Intel View […]
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