Article (book review) by Marian Halcombe.
Excerpt:
Jacob Siegel’s central claim is not subtle and does not need to be. After 2016, America’s governing class concluded that democratic outcomes could no longer be trusted. Rather than persuade the electorate, it set out to manage it. Rather than defeat its opponents, it reclassified them as security threats. What followed was not a breakdown of institutions, but their smooth and enthusiastic repurposing.
Article by Mark Keenan.
Se also: “How Much Energy Will It Take To Power AI?“
And this: “In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses“
Article by co2coalition.org
Article by Vijay Jayaraj.
Excerpt:
The collapse of the Paris Agreement and the unmasking of the net zero illusion were never hard to predict for anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty. It didn’t take a fancy research title or an advanced degree. The writing was carved deep into the stone of energy reality, which no press release, no activist lobby and no billionaire-backed foundation could erase.
Easy to understand article by Reginald Godwyn about how our current money system is at the heart of the progressing corruption of societies around the world.
Article by Gary D. Barnett.
He starts it off with a quote from Edward Bernays‘ 1928 book ‘Propaganda‘, in which he writes:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.“
(Bernays, by the way, was a nephew of Sigmund Freud.)
Then, in his own article, Barnett writes:
For most, it is a struggle to just get up and face the day, or at least that is the case for a majority of the population. Because of that, most choose to hide from reality in order to satisfy a dream-state, instead of facing the truth. It is as if the entirety of this population is in a mind-control experiment, and are being hypnotized to accept their own slavery as the best option. AI, if allowed to take over society, can accomplish that designed outcome, just as is sought by the oligarchs.
He ends his article with these words:
This reality is not accidental, it has been purposely created in order to capture the psyche of the majority. Something is greatly amiss here, as so many of this population have effectively given up on actual life in favor of a State-structured life based on fraudulent perception as a way of escaping what is real. This is terribly disturbing, as the last thing needed at this time is a country full of obedient zombies. This makes me wonder if the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” was simply a prescient preview of things to come.
“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”
Article by Juan Fernando Carpio.
Tom Woods interviews the author of this new book.
From the video description:
Jeff Fynn-Paul discusses the controversial questions surrounding European exploration and settlement in the new world: did they steal the land? Were they racist? Were they “anti-Indian”? Did they commit genocide? And many others.
Article by Anthony Watts.
6-minute video by “10MinuteTop5”
Article by Chris Morrison, from The Daily Sceptic.