Caitlin Johnstone discards the high-flown dogma around space colonization and challenges readers to accept themselves and life on planet Earth. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com It’s rare to get a billionaire to share their grand plans for the future, which is…Read more →
Silicon Valley is obsessed with extending human life, either on this planet, or in cyber space.
MintCast hosts Whitney Webb and Alan MacLeod recently interviewed investigative journalist Yasha Levine about his most recent book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet and his most recent articles on the xenophobia that lies beneath Russiagate and how this new anti-Russia fervor has impacted the Russian-American immigrant community at the national level.
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New UK government legislation to regulate online speech and content is coming in now – and which claims to be protecting children and adults from “online harm.” What is online harm? How will the government define ‘abuse’, ‘disinformation or ‘abuse of public figures’? Is this an end-run tackle of free speech and criticism of the state? It’s happening now.
Perhaps the one positive thing that’s come out of RussiaGate is that no one believes Silicon Valley’s global utopianism anymore.…
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This week I was joined by legendary anti-fascist researcher and radio host Dave Emory. We started off the conversation by discussing the surveillance state and its influence on everyday life. Dave and I talked about Silicon Valley and the military and intelligence links behind the creation of the internet. We also touched on Snowden and his mysterious past and connections to right wing figures like Bruce Fein. Later we talked about Tulsi Gabbard and her popularity amongst many on the left.
IMAGE: Valley of the Demigods: Ray Kurzwel, the Zuckerbergs, and Peter Thiel.
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No sooner did I post last Tuesday's blogs about the strangeness surrounding the latest fires in California than I began to receive all sorts […]
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Long time listener and friend Nick aka @ArtisanLoaf joins me this week. We discussed Elon Musk, his various companies, and his strange and often bad business practices. We started off by talking briefly about Musk’s privileged upbringing in South Africa. We talked about Musk’s first big start with PayPal and his business relationship with Peter Thiel. We then moved onto Tesla and the way the company has been run. We discussed the poor business model that the company has employed under the leadership of Musk.
