Many concerns are zinging through the zeitgeist these late days of the republic. You are correct to be anxious about them. Just understand that the more events spool out in the direction of danger, the more you will be warned against “disinformation” … by James Howard Kunstler: Everyone I know is walking around in a […]
Naomi Wolf: It’s not over. It’s just begun.
For the last two days I’ve felt an uneasy sense of grief, or of a heavy pressure on my heart. At first I could not figure out the cause of it. Nothing unusual was wrong in my personal life. My loved ones were safe and well, thank God. The battle for liberty was ongoing, as it […]
Jonathan Turley: Stay calm and censor on! Musk called before parliament.
Elon Musk must answer to parliament for his desire to make Twitter a free-speech platform. According to Jonathan Turley, one must apparently be very careful about not encouraging too much free speech in the UK these days: by Jonathan Turley: I previously wrote about Hillary Clinton’s call on European countries to pass censorship laws to […]
James Howard Kunstler: “Disinformation” is just a boot in your face
Behind all this disinformation rhetoric is the growing panic in the Left that they are culpable for an enormous raft of crimes committed against their own country, and will eventually end up in court, in prison, or worse…. by James Howard Kunstler: Since Elon Musk pounced on Twitter, are you not amazed to see just […]
James Howard Kunstler: “This is This”
Elon Musk explained to America’s Maoist managerial legions: “Free speech is free speech” — as if, a week after Twitter’s surrender to Elon, there was some part of the formulation that the Left didn’t understand. (Apparently, all of it.) by James Howard Kunstler: “This is this,” Di Niro’s character “Michael” famously told Cazale’s “Stan” […]
Matt Taibbi: Savor the Great Musk Panic
Drinking the delicious tears of blue-check hypocrites, who’ve suddenly discovered the perils of a privatized speech landscape. This is the elite argument against free speech: “If you favor ‘all legal speech,’ you really just want to slander, threaten, and harass… by Matt Taibbi: The New York Times earlier this week ran a guest essay by […]
Glenn Greenwald: Former Intel. officials say Big Tech monopoly vital to national security
When the U.S. security state big guys like James Clapper and Leon Panetta announce that Big Tech’s centralized censorship power must be preserved so they can censor harmful information, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves…. by Glenn Greenwald: A group of former intelligence and national security officials on Monday issued […]
Mark Nestmann: This Is why internet privacy is gone…
by Mark Nestmann: Over the years, we haven’t shied away from highlighting the threat to our privacy that our hyper-connected world poses. Whether it’s Big Brother spying on your smartphone, Google treating your personal data as its own, or Apple proposing a plan to automatically scan your iPhone or iPad for child pornography, both Uncle […]
Dr. Harari’s apocalyptic vision of “human hacking”
From David Haggith at The Great Recession Blog: In the video below Dr. Harari warns the World Economic Forum about the near future of humanity when cyberwar will take place in the human mind, when humans can be hacked and controlled like data and the human genome reprogrammed for all time to come. I’ll lead […]
James Howard Kunstler: You’ve Been Misinformed
From James Howard Kunstler: Half the nation doesn’t believe anything it is told by those in authority and the other half revels in its reckless abuse of authority…. Isn’t it obvious by now that pervasive dishonesty is the foremost crisis of many crises in Western Civ generally and American life in particular? All our authorities […]
Twitter’s Chickens Come Home to Roost
From Matt Taibbi’s Substack: The Great Elon Musk panic of 2022 is revealing a big fat boatload of blue-check hypocrites Elon Musk has reportedly attempted to purchase Twitter, and I have no idea whether his influence on the company would be positive or not. I do know, however, what other media figures think Musk’s influence […]
Michael Snyder: The “Doomsday Preppers” Were Right
From Michael Snyder’s Economic Collapse blog: For years, there was a great debate about what the future of our society would look like. The irrational optimists kept assuring us that we would never suffer any serious consequences for decades of incredibly foolish decisions, and they kept promising that a new golden age of peace and […]
New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms”
From The Intercept: Also: “grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others. AMAZON WILL BLOCK and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a variety of […]
Mark Nestmann: Uncle Sam Will Pay You to Rat on Your Friends and Family
From The Nestmann Group: Want to earn some extra cash? It’s easy…just participate in one of the many “paid informant” programs run by various US government agencies. Think your neighbor…or that brother-in-law you don’t like—is a tax cheat? Then download IRS Form 211 to claim your reward—at least 15% of the “additional taxes, penalties, and […]
IRS Rolls Out Artificial Intelligence Tools for Enhanced Audits
From Mark Nestmann: A few months ago, I received an invitation to attend a lecture with the mind-numbing title, “The Transformation of Tax & Customs Law into the Digital World of Processes, Automation and Predictions.” I wasn’t able to attend, but it reminded me that like the android hosts in Westworld, the IRS was developing […]
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