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Tim McGraw wrote:

I’ve never been to Lake Superior. Wish I had. Beautiful in summer. Deadly in winter. The Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is very cool. Every politician, bureaucrat, soldier, and policeman should visit it. Lawyers should be forced to spend six months there mopping the floors.

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The Cradle

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The Telegraph

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TimM wrote:

Howdy Lew,

Brion McClanahan covers what most fail to grasp when it comes to Trump’s deploying National Guard and Marines to LA.

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Writes Tim McGraw:

This story reminds me of an old British comedy, “The Wrong Box” (1966) movie trailer

Good grief! I was 14 when I saw it at the theater in Lincoln almost 60 years ago. I haven’t thought of it since.

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Scott Daniels wrote:

Lew,

I don’t know if conversations with ChatGPT meet your criteria for articles to publish, but I thought my conversation regarding the risks associated with Trump’s promotion of Palantir might be of interest in any event. I dreesed it up a bit and posted it in my substack. 

See here.

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Mr. Milei fancies himself to be a great monetary theorist in the Austrian tradition. To illustrate his unrivalled brilliance here are two revealing exhibits.

The first exhibit concerns the consequences of the closure of the central bank that Milei has claimed, already before his election, to be a non-negotiable demand of his. This is certainly an interesting question worthy of careful analysis. Kristoffer Hansen, for instance, has provided such an analysis from an Austrian perspective. And here is Milei’s answer, then, provided before, and again at a recent major conference in Madrid as to why he hasn’t done so already: If you were to shut down the central bank, and no more pesos were printed, then the result would be hyperinflation! Huh? No more pesos being printed leads to hyperinflation. How in the world is that possible? Great mind this Milei. Yet if you doubt this conclusion he calls you an “imbecile.”

The second exhibit  concerns the status of fiat currency. For Milei, the paper peso issued by the central bank represents government debt. And yet, if you were to present your paper pesos at the central bank and were to ask that it repay its debt, what would be its answer? Most likely the bank would declare you a nut, and offer you a new peso bill for your old one. And that would be it. Yet if you do not agree with Milei on fiat money being debt, he calls you an “idiot.”

Quoting Hansen, then, “Milei is no Austrian, and that he resorted to name-calling and quack theories in response to Hoppe’s calm critique suggests that he is not much of an economist either.”

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BBC News

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David Martin wrote:

And house prices are also going down.

Home prices are falling for the first time since 2012.

Going to be very hard to avoid a recession with a dead housing market. pic.twitter.com/5RB4ucijqh

— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) June 9, 2025

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato "fuori controllo" negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa è una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non può avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorità. Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa è la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso è accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/bitcoin-risucchia-quellenergia-in)

L'elettricità ha la difficile caratteristica di dover essere consumata quando viene prodotta. In altre parole: poiché ci aspettiamo che le luci si accendano ogni volta che premiamo un interruttore, l'elettricità deve essere prodotta ogni volta che i consumatori lo desiderano.

Per gran parte dei suoi 150 anni di storia, le reti elettriche hanno avuto un buon controllo sulla propria fornitura – alzando i quadranti, bruciando più carburante, azionando più turbine – ma hanno dovuto prevedere la domanda, anticipando e gestendo in dettaglio anche le più piccole variazioni di utilizzo. Oggi abbiamo sempre più produttori di energia rinnovabile sulla rete, il che ha reso la fornitura stessa più inaffidabile, dipendente non tanto dalle decisioni umane quanto dai capricci del meteo. Se si riempie il paesaggio di torri eoliche e parchi fotovoltaici che producono troppa elettricità quando non ne abbiamo bisogno e quasi nulla quando ne abbiamo davvero bisogno, si ottiene la tragica ricetta per reti instabili.

Ci aspettiamo sempre che la rete fornisca energia, quindi i gestori devono assicurarsi che ci sia sufficiente capacità extra pronta a soddisfare la domanda di picco, indipendentemente dalle condizioni meteorologiche. Ciò significa che alcune turbine funzionano senza carico e che molte altre sono pronte ad aumentarlo quando le previsioni del tempo indicano condizioni avverse.

Avere tutta questa capacità extra è costoso e dispendioso, intenzionalmente. Risultato? Funzionano in modo inefficiente, il termine tecnico è “sovradimensionato”, spesso di oltre il 50%, poiché ci aspettiamo che la rete copra non solo il consumo medio, ma anche i picchi estremi. Qualcuno deve sostenere il costo finanziario di tutta questa capacità e dello stoccaggio di combustibile, che, compresso dalle politiche energetiche locali, si riflette in tariffe che i consumatori pagano. È troppo tardi per iniziare a costruire parchi eolici, centrali a gas o progettare linee di trasmissione oggi se è previsto un picco di domanda di elettricità per il fine settimana.

Quando aggiungiamo grandi quantità di energia eolica e solare alla rete, inondandola occasionalmente con talmente tanta elettricità in abbondanza che i prezzi dell'energia diventano negativi, la somma totale diventa un'elettricità più costosa, non meno costosa, anche se i loro input ci vengono forniti gratuitamente dalla natura.

Ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno è un consumatore di elettricità, un consumatore di ultima istanza, in grado di recuperare l'elettricità in eccesso, disconnettersi all'istante e di ripristinare la produzione in caso di occasionali carenze o ondate di freddo. Un consumatore che possa co-localizzarsi con le centrali elettriche ed evitare così la presenza di ulteriori linee di trasmissione che si intersecano nel paesaggio per i suoi scopi di produzione su larga scala.

Bitcoin è una tecnologia monetaria straordinaria, che sta rivoluzionando il mondo del denaro, degli asset e del risparmio, un scettico alla volta. Sulla sua scia troviamo ogni sorta di effetti benefici di secondo ordine: il miglioramento della rete elettrica e il recupero dell'energia globale inutilizzata sono solo gli ultimi esempi. “I miner sono i consumatori di elettricità economicamente perfetti”, conclude Lee Bratcher su Bitcoin Magazine, “il loro consumo costante incentiva lo sviluppo di una generazione aggiuntiva”.

Durante la tempesta invernale Finn, più di un quarto dell'hashrate di Bitcoin è andato offline, poiché gran parte dell'hashpower globale risiede ora in Texas ed è coinvolto in vari programmi di riduzione del carico e di risposta alla domanda con l'operatore di rete ERCOT.

Prima di Bitcoin, i programmi di domanda-risposta erano piccole idee geniali che sembravano non funzionare mai. Come conclude Meredith Angwin nel suo libro, Shorting the Grid: “Si può offrire ai clienti di rinunciare all'elettricità nelle giornate molto fredde. Tuttavia pochissimi accetteranno la vostra offerta”. Il motivo per cui la rete è sotto sforzo durante un'ondata di freddo è lo stesso motivo per cui gli utenti di energia elettrica attribuiscono un valore molto elevato al loro consumo di elettricità. L'offerta viene compressa proprio nel momento in cui la domanda dei consumatori diventa anelastica al prezzo, con il riscaldamento e l'illuminazione delle case che diventano quasi infinitamente preziosi in situazioni difficili.

The key market dynamic that people like @chamath are missing about electricity market participant behavior is that the marginal consumer of 1 kwh does not care if its price is 10x or 100x higher when they are survival threatened.

James McAvity di Cormint, un'azienda di mining basata sulle energie rinnovabili nel Texas occidentale, afferma: “Un carico di base che non contribuisce ai picchi è letteralmente il partecipante ideale al mercato di una rete elettrica. Questo è particolarmente vero per le reti con un'elevata penetrazione delle energie rinnovabili”.

Base load that does not contribute to peaks is literally the ideal market participant in a power grid. This is especially true for grids with high renewable penetration.

L'hashing, il processo crittografico ad alto consumo di energia elettrica utilizzato dalle apparecchiature di mining per trovare e confermare nuovi blocchi Bitcoin, è un processo competitivo e casuale tra chi vuole indovinare il nonce. Ciò significa che l'accensione e lo spegnimento dei miner non danneggerà i loro progressi come farebbero tali spegnimenti improvvisi nei data center o in altri utenti su larga scala come la produzione manifatturiera ad alto consumo energetico. Una rete sovradimensionata con una generazione di elettricità di riserva può vendere l'eccesso ai miner di Bitcoin invece di ridurre la sovrapproduzione o lasciare gli impianti inattivi. I miner pagano gli impianti per l'elettricità che altrimenti andrebbe sprecata. In condizioni estreme, come un aumento del consumo di energia o ondate di freddo come quelle sperimentate in gran parte del sud degli Stati Uniti a gennaio, i miner possono facilmente spegnere e restituire alla rete la capacità di generazione di elettricità. Quando le condizioni si normalizzano, i miner possono riprendere l'hashing senza perdere nulla se non il tempo di manutenzione, per il quale i programmi di risposta alla domanda li rimborsano direttamente o si riflette nel prezzo negoziato tra miner e centrali elettriche.

I miner di Bitcoin ricavano i loro profitti dalle commissioni di transazione e dalle conferme dei blocchi su un mercato globale, completamente indipendente dalla domanda di elettricità locale a breve termine e dalle condizioni meteorologiche. Interrompere l'erogazione di energia – di fatto restituendola alla rete quando questa diventa temporaneamente più preziosa per altri usi altrove – è un processo semplice ed economicamente vantaggioso. Una situazione vincente per le reti, i consumatori, i miner e i sostenitori dell'energia verde.

Questi ricavi aggiuntivi potrebbero anche rendere la costruzione di centrali elettriche economicamente sostenibile, dove la sovraccapacità non rappresenta più una spesa pura e semplice dato che i miner, sparsi lungo tutta la rete, sono fortemente incentivati ​​a trovare la fonte di energia più economica e prontamente disponibile.

Con il mining di Bitcoin a supporto della rete elettrica, potremmo utilizzare meglio la capacità installata, sprecare meno risorse ed eliminare parte della necessità per i consumatori di sostenere spese in conto capitale costose, necessarie solo in caso di eventi estremi. Questo consumatore di ultima istanza potrebbe proteggere le reti elettriche e monetizzarne la resilienza.

Il mining di Bitcoin, lungi dall'essere un fattore superfluo nel cambiamento climatico, è il tassello mancante del puzzle che stabilizza l'energia verde volatile e rende le reti elettriche adatte al ventunesimo secolo.

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June 10, is the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s declaration of war against the national-security branch of the U.S. government. To be sure, he didn’t call it that. He simply was delivering a speech at the June 10, 1963, commencement exercises at American University. The speech has gone down in history simply as JFK’s “Peace Speech,” but in essence it was a declaration of war against the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA.

JFK delivered his speech at the height of the Cold War, the period of time in which the United States was supposedly gravely threatened by a worldwide communist conspiracy that was supposedly based in Moscow, Russia. The communists were coming to get us, U.S. officials said. There could never be either a negotiated peace or peaceful co-existence with the communist world, they claimed. This had to be a war to the finish.

The Cold War sometimes turned hot. There was the Korean War in the early 1950s, when the U.S. government intervened to protect the right of South Korea to secede from the rest of the nation rather than being forced to be part of a communist nation. By June 1963, thousands of U.S. military advisors were in Vietnam for the same reason.

The irony is that Russia’s communist regime had just recently been America’s ally and partner in World War II. The two nations had worked together to defeat Nazi Germany. But as soon as the war was over, U.S. officials told the American people that they could not rest because they now faced a new official enemy that was arguably more dangerous and threatening than Hitler and the Nazis. That new foe was Soviet Russia, communism, and the Reds.

In fact, that was the justification for converting America’s federal governmental structure from a limited-government republic to a national-security state, one in which a major part of the U.S. government acquired omnipotent, totalitarian-like powers, including the power of state-sponsored assassinations.

When JFK became president, he was pretty much a standard Cold Warrior, one who had bought the official line about how the United States was in grave danger of being taken over by the Reds. That was why he approved the CIA’s plan to use CIA-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and oust the communist regime that had taken over the island. Like other Cold Warriors, Kennedy was convinced that a communist regime 90 miles away from American shores proved that the communist threat was getting ever closer to the United States.

After the U.S. failure at the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy realized that he had been hoodwinked by the CIA, which had assured Kennedy that the invasion could succeed without U.S. support. It was a lie. The CIA figured that Kennedy would have no choice but to provide the support once the operation was in danger of going down to defeat. Kennedy was livid and vowed to dismantle the agency. By the same token, the CIA was equally livid, convinced that Kennedy was a coward, an incompetent, and a traitor.

After the Bay of Pigs disaster, tensions with the Pentagon began increasing. Convinced that a communist regime in Cuba posed a grave risk to the United States, the Pentagon began pressuring Kennedy to initiate a full-scale invasion of the island. At the same time, convinced that the Reds were expanding in Southeast Asia, the Pentagon pressured Kennedy into sending thousands of troops into Vietnam.

Kennedy’s settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the antipathy of the U.S. military establishment toward Kennedy to the surface, especially since the settlement assured the Russians that there would no longer be any more U.S. invasions of Cuba. That meant that Cuba would now permanently serve as a grave threat to U.S. “national security.” The Joint Chiefs of Staff considered the settlement to be among the worst defeats in U.S. history. They compared the settlement to Neville Chamberlain’s capitulation to Hitler at Nuremberg. Like the CIA, they were convinced that Kennedy’s cowardice, incompetence, and treason posed a grave threat to “national security.”

For his part, it was after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world came to the brink of nuclear war, that Kennedy achieved a monumental “breakthrough.” He came to the realization that the Cold War was nothing more than one great big racket. He decided to move America in a totally different direction than the one that the national-security branch was leading America. Kennedy’s vision consisted of ending the Cold War and establishing peaceful and friendly relations with Russia and the rest of the communist world. That vision, needless to say, was anathema to the U.S. national-security establishment.

JFK set forth his vision for America in his Peace Speech at American University. It was essentially a declaration of war against the national-security branch of the federal government and its vision entailing a permanent Cold War, periodic hot wars, and, of course, ever-increasing budgets for the military-industrial complex.

The war between the executive branch and the national-security branch of the federal government was on. Over the fierce objections of the national-security establishment, Kennedy entered into a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Russians. He endorsed the idea of a joint trip to the moon, which, of course, would have meant sharing rocket technology with the Reds. He ordered a withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. On the day he was assassinated, he had a secret emissary having lunch with Fidel Castro.

But Kennedy would discover what Chile’s democratically elected president Salvador Allende would discover ten years later. In a war between the executive branch and the national-security branch of a government, the former is no match for the latter. Both Kennedy and Allende would discover that truth on two fateful days in the histories of their two nations: November 22, 1963, and September 11, 1973, when both presidents ended up dead.

Reprinted with permission from Future of Freedom Foundation.

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The riots and insurrection in Los Angelos, and now being promoted to spread nationwide, are apparently against the United States of America’s right to exist as a sovereign nation. The rioting is in response to enforcing immigration laws. This is a position that runs contrary to the concept of self government. A people through their government must have the right to decide who can or cannot become part of it.

Florida Congressional Representative Ana Paulina Luna, who recently introduced a bill to repeal the so called Patriot Act, which unconstitutionally empowers government to routinely violate the Fourth Amendment at a minimum, has forcefully spoken out against the riots and drew attention to the billionaire that is allegedly funding the riots. His name is Neville Singham and allegedly mad his money promoting Chinese Communist propaganda. She has also drawn attention to actual Communist groups in league with the Democrat Party that are helping to organize this insurrection.

Congresswoman Luna also posted on her Instagram that there will be official document request from Mr. Neville Singham and if he does not respond, there will be Subpoenas, and should they be ignored, it will be referred to the DOJ for prosecution.

Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania who famously had a stroke shortly after getting boosted with the mRNA bioweapon injections broke ranks with Democrats and spoke out on X against the anarchy and chaos in LA:

“I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that.

This is anarchy and true chaos.

My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.”

Unfortunately, most elected Democrats are supporting the insurrection. In fact, Minnesota Representative Kaohly Vang Her admitted on the Minnesota House floor that she is an illegal alien. She explains that her parents came here illegally, and that she is illegal. This of course means that she is illegally serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

The insurrection riots are not organic. They are clearly organized as evidenced by this legacy media outlet inadvertently speaking to a video of a truck delivering boxes of face shields to rioters.

On the surface this appears to be a left wing operation. It may very well be. Or it may be to a degree and have some cooperation from the other side, or at least those posing as the other side. Some of these alleged pundits on the right are calling for biometric IDs and a surveillance state. I say alleged because nobody that is actually on the right would support an Orwellian police state. That is a left wing ideal.

Laura Loomer made the dumbest statement I’ve seen in a while from a so called right wing pundit:

“Time to deploy @PalantirTech to Los Angeles to deal with the illegals.

You know you’d love to see it.

You’re lying if you say you wouldn’t.”

These type of comments from alleged right wing pundits cause pause.

Are we looking at a deeper psychological operation?

There seems to be a recurring pattern that the government can’t deal with these riots and that there is nothing that can be done other than take away our liberty. We saw this during Trump’s first term with the BLM psyop. At the same time that they were forcing people to wear masks and have lockdowns, there was rioting in urban areas across America.

It is difficult to comprehend how the government could force the whole country to lock down and have the media (right and left) support that clear violation of the Constitution, yet when it comes to actual riots and clear insurrection….

What else can it be called when illegal aliens are rioting in a host country?

If that is not an insurrection, then it is an invasion. Anti-Ice rioters/insurrectionists surrounded the Texas Capital in a protest and there are calls for nationwide rights.

Facial recognition technology has already been introduced in some cities. In Trump’s first term he was pushing a biometric exit entry visa. There is the possibility that this is a psyop designed to push biometric entry exit visas and to promote Palantir or some other technology to create a database on every American.

Prior to these riots there was increasing pushback from the right against Trump’s big government spending bill, which among other things, prohibits AI from being regulated by states for 10 years. There was also growing backlash against the Trump administrations collaboration with Palantir to create a national digital database on every single American, and the Trump administration appears to be furthering the implementation of the control grid.

ICE contracted Palantir for 30 million dollars to create a new surveillance platform to allegedly track illegal aliens. Of course, the only way that can be done is if everybody in the country was tracked, including American citizens too.

How could they differentiate the illegal from the American citizen without having everybody in the database?

It is healthy for Americans to question the insurrection in Los Angelos, especially if it spreads elsewhere. Regardless, the purpose may be to polarize Americans emotionally to the point were they cheer on a biometric ID type tracking system or some other system.

We saw this after 911 where a brainwashed public (I was not one of them) supported the Patriot Act and the creation of the surveillance state infrastructure and those two unpatriotic wars. We saw it again with COVID as a brainwashed public (I was not one of them) supported masks, social distancing, lockdowns, and bioweapon injections. We saw a brainwashed public (I was not one of them) more recently support United States involvement in the Ukraine war escalation.

(Note: I am pointing out that I was not one of them because I am tired of people that advocated for the problems providing solutions)

I have already heard people argue in favor of biometric IDs to secure election integrity totally ignoring the computer voting fraud issue. There are people as I already mentioned cheering for a biometric surveillance state to stop illegal immigration.

We will get the biometric ID, and still have the illegal immigration. They’d just call them documented workers or something else. The immigration is needed to change the demographics of the West in order to destroy the West.

The question is who is behind it and what is the end game?

Is it a leftist color revolution?

Is it a deep state Uniparty operation to trick people on the right into supporting the police state hoping they will be dumb enough to buy it?

I don’t know the full answer to these questions, but I do know the LA insurrection riots are anti American, and they are clearly well funded and organized. They need to be immediately quelled and then immediately find out who is behind it and punish them.

This article was originally published on Mind Matters and Everything Else.

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There are auspicious signs on the other side of dystopia. And right here in Russia.

The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across the whole Global South.

Pride of place was taken by a new ambitious association, the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN). The last session of the forum was focused essentially on how to fight all the toxic declinations imposed by the post-truth anti-cultural ambiance – as in fact-checking an avalanche of fake news coming in most cases from states and official institutions.

Guest of honor was superstar Russian Foreign Minister spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, relaxed, in great spirits, who went full Deng Xiaoping by urging everyone to “fight for the truth and seek out the facts”.

By a twist of fate, the timeline left me with only two minutes to somehow wrap up our quite enlightening discussion. So I went hardcore and quoted Nietzsche: “There are no facts, only interpretations”. Later on, I was surprised at how that had struck a nerve especially among African delegates.

The key point is that in the artificially fabricated post-truth environment, not only facts are only facts if we say so; most of all, only one interpretation is allowed – be it from the Empire of Chaos, whoever may be in power, or from a Kafkaesque mechanism such as the European Union (EU)/European Commission (EC).

If you deviate from the official interpretation, they will come after you. That has led, for instance, in Europe, to journalists/EU citizens being prevented even from traveling to their own nation-states, and having their accounts frozen, or EU citizens being prevented from covering a supposedly democratic election (in Romania), and immediately deported (outside of the EU).

A startling essay on Nietzsche amplifies the diagnostic of Europe’s current cultural suicide. Nietzsche was an “untimely” outsider, a steppenwolf, pledging allegiance to no one and nothing, silently grappling with “the flat exhaustion of bourgeois modernity”, and searching, in vain, for “silhouettes among shadows”.

Nietzsche, in the late 19th century, was already a symbol of Resistance. Resistance as we see it today – from the Axis of Resistance in West Asia to Orthodox Christian military batallions fighting for the freedom of Novorossiya. No ceremony ever greeted Nitzsche: he was always alone. He shattered illusion after illusion as his solitude “became liturgy” and “his body turned into protest.” He impersonated “the ghost of nobility”. A species in extinction – indeed.

Tech visionaries want it all

That crystal clear Nietzsche intuition – arguably the best definition of truth in the history of philosophy – may be our guide in the labyrinth of post-truth where, to quote post-modernist masterpiece Twin Peaks, “the owls are not what they seem”.

Errol Musk, Elon’s father, showed up early this week in Moscow for the Future 2050 forum. Daddy Musk effusively showered praise on Russia as Ancient Rome 2.0 and Moscow itself as the “capital of the world”. Quite on point – in both cases.

But what really matters is why Daddy Musk is in Russia. That may align with a strategy of luring powerful sectors of Silicon Valley into doing business with Russia. Main actors/participants would be tech visionaries which used to be part of the notorious PayPal Mafia: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

That may pose a series of serious problems. Martin Armstrong has been instrumental in portraying this band of tech visionaries as a ubiquitous new oligarchy: active in social media, biotech, space, the surveillance industry, engineering policies and influencing monetary systems with their hardcore brand of venture capitalism, and not to mention shaping worldwide-interfering narratives.

The new tech elite shines brightly via the Trump-Musk love affair turned staged catfight. But its tentacles reach much further. J.D. Vance is Peter Thiel’s perfectly positioned candidate to become the next POTUS. Palantir, controlled by Thiel and totalitarian Alex Karp, have been awarded a massive contract to design a U.S. federally centralized database using very sophisticated AI models.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is heavy on AI – including a 10-year moratorium during which any U.S. state and local government  cannot regulate AI. This will allow free reign for deepfakes and Big Tech doing whatever they feel like to manipulate unsuspecting consumers.

So that’s the key question. How to fact-check the tech elite? How to counterpunch multiple instances of techno-feudalism – when tech companies feed intel to governments, commit unlimited funds to political operations, and set up censorship platforms disguised as “democracy”, drenched in AI-generated fake news?

Go East, to Siberia, young man

At least there are auspicious signs on the other side of dystopia. And right here in Russia. This is a mesmerizing interview by Nora Hoppe and Tariq Marzbaan with legendary Prof. Sergey Karaganov, Honorary Chairman of the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy (Russia’s leading public foreign policy organisation) and academic supervisor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Welcome to a magic carpet ride through the really deep origins of Russia’s heritage. Starting with the Scythians: “Now we are rediscovering within ourselves these roots that unites us with the peoples of Eurasia.”

All the way to Byzantium: “The Russian princes, who baptized Russia, chose Byzantium ― at that time the richest, the most developed and intellectually flourishing country in Central Eurasia, much more developed than Europe was (…) The Russian princes’ astute choice of Byzantium largely predetermined Russian culture, Russian architecture, and, of course, Russian religion, that is, our Orthodoxy.”

And then reaching Pax Mongolica: “The Mongol Empire left a deep mark on Russian history also, because it was multicultural and very tolerant religiously, and this is where I think (although there is no complete agreement amongst historians on this matter) the Russians ― the dominant people in the former Russian Empire and the USSR ― inherited their unique cultural, religious, and national openness.”

Karaganov forcefully proposes that everything positive about Pax Mongolica should be re-examined to “substantiate the unity of Eurasia.” And “we must rely just as much on the heritage of the Scythians, who were the forefathers of so many peoples in Greater Central Eurasia.”

This is the essence of a true multipolar Russia in action – leading to the fascinating concept of “Siberianization”: a “spiritual, cultural, political, and economic development of Russia in the eastern direction to the Urals and Siberia. The western direction of our policy and economic ties has bleak prospects.”

Karaganov, whose analyses are deeply appreciated by President Putin, is adamant: it all amounts to a “civilizational struggle against techno-barbarism and techno-paganism”, and “against dehumanization”. Against, essentially, techno-feudalism.

The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.

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I have always been fascinated by language and its evolution. The way it reflects and affects both reality and our perception of it. The way it can be used and abused to serve particular ends.

As an appendix to 1984, Orwell wrote an essay called “The Principles of Newspeak”. The concept was inspired by the totalitarian propaganda of his time, both of fascism and communism.
Newspeak is designed to limit thought and used to enforce conformity. Some prominent features of newspeak are judgment, emotions and cognitive dissonance, or ‘doublethink’ in Newspeak parlance.

I grew up in the communist world; I grew up with its propaganda. Eventually, I came to understand the importance of the underlying concept, best expressed in the engraving on Marx’s tombstone:

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways –
the point, however, is to change it”

DEI is the perfect example of Orwellian doublethink, newspeak and the neocommunist drive behind it. The essence of communism is that we don’t need to understand the world as long as we have the will to shape it, and the power to do it.

DEI, The Great Reset, Build Back Better, the call for ‘democratic’ socialism, various censorship, fact-checking and speech-control initiatives are just the latest reincarnation of the global communism project.

Communism, the cultural revolution and DEI all start with the assumptions that in our natural state, we are all the same; that there are no differences in our abilities, attitudes and personalities. Any observable difference is either irrelevant or the result of ill will, expressed in discrimination.

If you notice the patent stupidity and the cognitive dissonance in the circular logic of the claims, you just have proven that you are guilty of crimethink, oldthink and false consciousness. It means that you are a bad person in need of reform. DEI is the path to that reform.

We can explore that path by looking at their idealized narrative; exposing the slight of hand; stating the inevitable outcome and exposing the intended goal.

This is a fair approximation of the idealized narrative from Grok:

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives aim to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives aim to create environments where individuals from varied backgrounds feel valued, respected, and empowered. The primary goals of DEI are:

1. Diversity: Increase representation of people from different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and other identities in workplaces, schools, or organizations.

2. Equity: Ensure fair access to opportunities, resources, and advancement by addressing systemic barriers and historical inequalities that disadvantage certain groups.

3. Inclusion: Foster a culture where everyone feels welcomed, heard, and able to contribute fully, regardless of their identity or background.

These goals often interlink to promote fairness, reduce discrimination, and enhance organizational or societal outcomes through diverse perspectives.
(in most cases, emphases are mine.)(and if you can explain to me the last highlight, I will give you a medal)

The idealized goal is a world where everybody feels good and comfortable, where differences don’t matter, where we are all accepted regardless of who we are and whether our contribution have any value whatsoever.
… while everybody sings Kumbaya.

To quote Marx again:

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”

“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”

The idealized narrative of DEI is the vision of Karl Marx. There are no meaningful differences, everybody is equal in any material way, and everybody can do absolutely anything they want to do.

DEI is Marx’s communism with a nod toward Mussolini’s corporatism. All supervised, of course, by an AI empowered Davos-like supranational totalitarian institution.
We could also see it as an expression of Rousseau’s general will.

The essence of every socialist/communist/fascist/totalitarian project is the dissolution of individuality in the undifferentiated collective. In its DEI implementation it is broken down into smaller units. It is not the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, it is communities, businesses and institutions fighting racism, sexism and any number of other isms and phobias. The expectation is the creation of undifferentiated units fully representing the whole.
Of course it is idiotic, of course it is delusional, of course it is unfeasible.
But most of all, it is fraudulent.

Diversity is the death of difference.

The sleight of hand with Diversity is that it is an unachievable goal. The expectations can never be properly defined. And I don’t just mean intersectionality. Each of us has a complex set of overlapping, coexisting identities. I have at least a dozen myself.
Diversity, the focus on what makes us different, is a divider, not a unifier.

The unavoidable consequence of the expectations is that it creates arbitrary criteria and makes everybody lie and bullshit about it. The consequence is not a bug, but a feature.

The intended goal is to use the compliance requirement as a blunt weapon to bludgeon any organization that of stepping out of line.
The goal is to make identities more relevant than contributions. To make what’s important – competence, intelligence, industriousness – irrelevant.

Equity is the descent into mediocrity.

The sleight of hand with equity can be best illustrated with this quote from Hayek:

“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time” (from The Constitution Of Liberty)

The ‘equal outcome’ definition of ‘equity’ is relatively new. It had to be created to separate it from Hayek’s logic. Equal opportunity is an individualist concept. Equity is a collectivist one.

The unavoidable consequence is mediocrity at best, decrease of productivity and loss of competitiveness at worst. The drive for mediocrity is a spiral into self-destruction.

The intended goal is the assault on competence hierarchies, achievement and creativity.

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This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets. They lack clean water, medicine and food. They have reached a point of collapse. Sick. Injured. Terrified. Humiliated. Abandoned. Destitute. Starving. Hopeless.

In the last pages of this horror story, Israel is sadistically baiting starving Palestinians with promises of food, luring them to the narrow and congested nine-mile ribbon of land that borders Egypt. Israel and its cynically named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), allegedly funded by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and the Mossad, is weaponizing starvation. It is enticing Palestinians to southern Gaza the way the Nazis enticed starving Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto to board trains to the death camps. The goal is not to feed the Palestinians. No one seriously argues there is enough food or aid hubs. The goal is to cram Palestinians into heavily guarded compounds and deport them.

What comes next? I long ago stopped trying to predict the future. Fate has a way of surprising us. But there will be a final humanitarian explosion in Gaza’s human slaughterhouse. We see it with the surging crowds of Palestinians fighting to get a food parcel, which has resulted in Israeli and U.S. private contractors shooting dead at least 130 and wounding over seven hundred others in the first eight days of aid distribution. We see it with Benjamin Netanyahu’s arming ISIS-linked gangs in Gaza that loot food supplies. Israel, which has eliminated hundreds of employees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), doctors, journalists, civil servants and police in targeted assassinations, has orchestrated the implosion of civil society.

I suspect Israel will facilitate a breach in the fence along the Egyptian border. Desperate Palestinians will stampede into the Egyptian Sinai. Maybe it will end some other way. But it will end soon. There is not much more Palestinians can take.

We — full participants in this genocide — will have achieved our demented goal of emptying Gaza and expanding Greater Israel. We will bring down the curtain on the live-streamed genocide. We will have mocked the ubiquitous university programs of Holocaust studies, designed, it turns out, not to equip us to end genocides, but deify Israel as an eternal victim licensed to carry out mass slaughter. The mantra of never again is a joke. The understanding that when we have the capacity to halt genocide and we do not, we are culpable, does not apply to us. Genocide is public policy. Endorsed and sustained by our two ruling parties.

There is nothing left to say. Maybe that is the point. To render us speechless. Who does not feel paralyzed? And maybe, that too, is the point. To paralyze us. Who is not traumatized? And maybe that too was planned. Nothing we do, it seems, can halt the killing. We feel defenseless. We feel helpless. Genocide as spectacle.

I have stopped looking at the images. The rows of little shrouded bodies. The decapitated men and women. Families burned alive in their tents. The children who have lost limbs or are paralyzed. The chalky death masks of those pulled from under the rubble. The wails of grief. The emaciated faces. I can’t.

This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back.

And how will we remember? By not remembering.

Once it is over, all those who supported it, all those who ignored it, all those who did nothing, will rewrite history, including their personal history. It was hard to find anyone who admitted to being a Nazi in post-war Germany, or a member of the Klu Klux Klan once segregation in the southern United States ended. A nation of innocents. Victims even. It will be the same. We like to think we would have saved Anne Frank. The truth is different. The truth is, crippled by fear, nearly all of us will only save ourselves, even at the expense of others. But that is a truth that is hard to face. That is the real lesson of the Holocaust. Better it be erased.

In his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” Omar El Akkad writes:

Should a drone vaporize some nameless soul on the other side of the planet, who among us wants to make a fuss? What if it turns out they were a terrorist? What if the default accusation proves true, and we by implication be labeled terrorist sympathizers, ostracized, yelled at? It is generally the case that people are most zealously motivated by the worst plausible thing that could happen to them. For some, the worst plausible thing might be the ending of their bloodline in a missile strike. Their entire lives turned to rubble and all of it preemptively justified in the name of fighting terrorists who are terrorists by default on account of having been killed. For others, the worst plausible thing is being yelled at.

You can see my interview with El Akkad here.

You cannot decimate a people, carry out saturation bombing over 20 months to obliterate their homes, villages and cities, massacre tens of thousands of innocent people, set up a siege to ensure mass starvation, drive them from land where they have lived for centuries and not expect blowback. The genocide will end. The response to the reign of state terror will begin. If you think it won’t you know nothing about human nature or history. The killing of two Israeli diplomats in Washington and the attack against supporters of Israel at a protest in Boulder, Colorado, are only the start.

Chaim Engel, who took part in the uprising at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp in Poland, described how, armed with a knife, he attacked a guard in the camp.

“It’s not a decision,” Engel explained years later. “You just react, instinctively you react to that, and I figured, ‘Let us to do, and go and do it.’ And I went. I went with the man in the office and we killed this German. With every jab, I said, ‘That is for my father, for my mother, for all these people, all the Jews you killed.’”

Does anyone expect Palestinians to act differently? How are they to react when Europe and the United States, who hold themselves up as the vanguards of civilization, backed a genocide that butchered their parents, their children, their communities, occupied their land and blasted their cities and homes into rubble? How can they not hate those who did this to them?

What message has this genocide imparted not only to Palestinians, but to all in the Global South?

It is unequivocal. You do not matter. Humanitarian law does not apply to you. We do not care about your suffering, the murder of your children. You are vermin. You are worthless. You deserve to be killed, starved and dispossessed. You should be erased from the face of the earth.

“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library,” El Akkad writes:

To blow up a mosque. To incinerate olive trees. To dress up in the lingerie of women who fled and then take pictures. To level universities. To loot jewelry, art, food. Banks. To arrest children for picking vegetables. To shoot children for throwing stones. To parade the captured in their underwear. To break a man’s teeth and shove a toilet brush in his mouth. To let combat dogs loose on a man with Down syndrome and then leave him to die. Otherwise, the uncivilized world might win.

There are people I have known for years who I will never speak to again. They know what is happening. Who does not know? They will not risk alienating their colleagues, being smeared as an antisemite, jeopardizing their status, being reprimanded or losing their jobs. They do not risk death, the way Palestinians do. They risk tarnishing the pathetic monuments of status and wealth they spent their lives constructing. Idols. They bow down before these idols. They worship these idols. They are enslaved by them.

At the feet of these idols lie tens of thousands of murdered Palestinians.

This article was originally published on ScheerPost.

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