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How Societies Collapse: Or, The Eerie Parallels Between Rome, Nazi Germany, and America
How Societies Collapse: Or, The Eerie Parallels Between Rome, Nazi Germany, and America A little reflection occurs to me every time I write about American collapse. Societies collapse in much the same way — there is something like a universal way of collapse. Yet the whole problem begins with the fact that human beings, having needy egos, find their […]
The Controversy around Skin in the Game
The Controversy around Skin in the Game Skin in the Game is another addition to the Incerto, now volume 5; I avoided duplication by referring to where in the Incerto some points were developed such as via negativa or monoculture of forecasters or expert problems. You simply don’t repeat in chapter 23 what was said in […]
The Return Of Ben Swann May Be The Most Interesting Thing Happening In Alternative Media Right Now
The Return Of Ben Swann May Be The Most Interesting Thing Happening In Alternative Media Right Now “The Russian envoy to North Korea warned President Trump not to place any further sanctions against North Korea or Kim Jong-un surrounding ‘supplies of oil’,” says a clean-cut reporter in a polished, professional newscast presentation. “To do so, he […]
‘Mother Jones’ Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar Leftists
‘Mother Jones’ Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar Leftists When news first broke that Medium, one of my primary blogging platforms, had closed the accounts of Trump-supporting pundits Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer, I tweeted the following in response: “The only people cheering for this are leftists who haven’t been paying attention and […]
Russiagate Isn’t About Trump, And It Isn’t Even Ultimately About Russia
Russiagate Isn’t About Trump, And It Isn’t Even Ultimately About Russia MSNBC’s Chris Hayes recently asked a question of his Twitter following that was so heavily loaded it wouldn’t be permitted on most interstate highways: “Aside from genuine cranks, is there anyone left denying it was the Russians that committed criminal sabotage in the American election?” […]
Five Reasons To Be Absolutely Certain That The Establishment Is Lying About Syria
Five Reasons To Be Absolutely Certain That The Establishment Is Lying About Syria Whenever you see UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on video she’s trying to start World War Three. At today’s UN Security Council Haley gave remarks about why the UN should “take action” against two of the US power establishment’s favorite targets, Russia and the […]
City of London financiers contemplate “imminent” 2018 US stock market crash of up to “50%”
City of London financiers contemplate “imminent” 2018 US stock market crash of up to “50%” Coming dramatic decline of US stock prices would trigger global recession, finds grim forecast to be explored at roundtable hosted by British financial services think-tank A new analysis published on the website of a London-based think-tank, funded by the world’s biggest […]
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Tech Journalism, Fake News and the Russia Threat Narrative
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Tech Journalism, Fake News and the Russia Threat Narrative “At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question … Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.” George Orwell, 1945, ‘The Freedom of […]
WikiLeaks Has Published Leaks On Trump Admin And Russia, And Is Seeking More
WikiLeaks Has Published Leaks On Trump Admin And Russia, And Is Seeking More WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange recently posted a harsh criticism of what he calls Trump’s “subservience to Saudi Arabia’s military adventurism in Yemen” and the explosion of civilian deaths caused by this administration’s greatly escalated drone assassination program. This received an angry backlash from […]
Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.
Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself. From Salt Bae, via Facebook I’m a permaculture farmer. My goal is to develop natural ecosystems that produce food. My dream is a world with ready access to a diet that nourishes the body of the consumer, provides a living for the producer, and […]
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State You might say, having read some of my recent essays, “Umair! Don’t worry! Everything will be fine! It’s not that bad!” I would look at you politely, and then say gently, “To tell you the truth, I don’t think we’re taking […]
The tricks propagandists use to beat science
The tricks propagandists use to beat science A model of the way opinions spread reveals how propagandists use the scientific process against itself to secretly influence policy makers. Photo: Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images Back in the 1950s, health professionals became concerned that smoking was causing cancer. Then, in 1952, the popular magazine Reader’s Digestpublished “Cancer by the Carton,” […]
The Battle for Truth
2018 Edelman Trust Barometer The Battle for Truth As we begin 2018, we find the world in a new phase in the loss of trust: the unwillingness to believe information, even from those closest to us. The loss of confidence in information channels and sources is the fourth wave of the trust tsunami. The moorings of […]
Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started List
Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started Listening Throughout the near entirety of human history, a population’s understanding of what’s going on in the world has been controlled by those in power. The men in charge controlled what the people were told about rival populations, the history of their tribe and […]
Can Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales fix the news?
Can Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales fix the news? Traditional media is broken, the tech entrepreneur says. But will his new reader-funded service be any better? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stands in the doorway to his office Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 in St. Petersburg, Fla. — AP Photo/Steve Nesius Jimmy Wales has already triggered one global information revolution. Now he is […]
