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How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 15, 2024 / Government, History, Technology / 9 minute read

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I truly wish these companies were genuinely private, but they are not. They are de facto state actors. More precisely, they all work hand-in-glove and which is the hand and which is the glove is no longer clear. Coming to terms with this intellectually is the major challenge of our times. Dealing with it juridically and politically seems like a much more daunting task, to say the least. The problem is complicated by the drive to purge serious dissent at all levels of society. How did American capitalism become American corporatism? A little at a time and then all at once.

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The War Between Knowledge and Stupidity

Bert Olivier / March 14, 2024 / Philosophy, Technology / 11 minute read

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Judging by the fight between knowledge and stupidity today, the latter ostensibly still has the upper hand, but as more people are awakening to the titanic struggle between the two, knowledge is in the ascendant. It is up to us to tip the scales in its favour – as long as we realise that it is a never-ending battle.

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Reflections on Brownstone’s Retreat

David Barnhizer / March 13, 2024 / Government, Media, Technology / 22 minute read

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People participating at the Brownstone Institute Retreat understand what is happening. It was a relief to be reminded that a wide range of committed and highly intelligent people understand the critical importance of challenging and interdicting what is being attempted. This resistance to power was a theme that ran through many of the presentations and discussions we experienced at the Retreat. I feel privileged to have been a part.

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How the Sea Turns Stones Into Pebbles

Thomas Harrington / March 8, 2024 / Society, Technology / 7 minute read

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We’ve become, through a series of coercions and inducements forced on us by the government since 2001, and made banal through cult-like invocations and rituals, a nation of first-class “skimmers” there for the taking by anyone who feels like tossing us out into the encroaching waves of the deep blue sea.

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Technocrats Cut Ireland at the Knees

Sinead Murphy / March 7, 2024 / Philosophy, Society, Technology / 15 minute read

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For many years now, Ireland has been subject to a particularly intense cultural offensive. Why this should be so is an open question. It may be that Ireland is – or was, at least – more than usually culturally robust, an opportunity for the technocrats to really cut their teeth.

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Technology: Weapon of the People

Bert Olivier / March 7, 2024 / Media, Philosophy, Technology / 10 minute read

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In sum, while the poisonous aspect of the media pharmakon has not nearly exhausted its toxic potency, the curative side has incrementally been gaining strength and therapeutic effectiveness, as reflected in the anxiety of the ‘Davos elites,’ detectable in their worry, that they no longer ‘own the news.’ They thought they had it all under control, but were caught unawares by the unexpected power of the alternative media – those ever-expanding digital spaces of the machine inhabited by the resistance.

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Censorship Literally Cannot Work

David Thunder / February 27, 2024 / Censorship, Technology / 7 minute read

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There was a time when heretics were censored for undermining the eternal truths of the faith; now, scientists are censored for propagating whatever passes for “misinformation” on the censorship boards of social media companies.

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Google has Usurped Democracy

Robert Malone / February 22, 2024 / Government, Technology / 28 minute read

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We hear a lot about “election integrity” or lack thereof, particularly around the issues of counting the vote and the ballot box. But the truth is that elections are more likely to be stolen via search engine manipulation effects (SEME).

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A Digital Coup d’Etat

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 22, 2024 / History, Technology / 6 minute read

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All these efforts were global in scope. This whole model truly stretches the bounds of plausibility. And yet all the evidence points to exactly the above. It just goes to show that even if you don’t believe in conspiracies, conspiracies believe in you. It was a digital-age coup d’etat unlike anything humanity has ever experienced. How long will it take us to process this reality? We seem to be only at the early stages of understanding, much less resisting.

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ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn

Rob Jenkins / February 21, 2024 / Education, Technology / 7 minute read

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Will artificial intelligence become the greatest boon to higher education since online learning? (This assumes that online learning was a boon, which is a topic for another day.) Or will it mean the utter destruction of academia as we know it? Those are the two views I see expressed most often these days, with various individuals I respect taking opposite sides.

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American Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come Before the Election

Aaron Day / February 20, 2024 / Censorship, Economics, Government, Technology / 14 minute read

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Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable tokens controlled by governments. Your financial choices could be suppressed, and privacy eliminated. Based on what I’ve learned and experienced directly, this could happen before the 2024 election. The best way to stop it is through direct action, not through politics.

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Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

Debbie Lerman / February 11, 2024 / Censorship, Technology / 8 minute read

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Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here. This is not a futuristic dystopia. It’s happening now. Government agencies are working with universities and nonprofits to use AI tools to surveil and censor content on the Internet. This is not political or partisan. This is not about any particular opinion or idea.

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