May 3, 2026

Paul Collier

The War for Liberty Starts with Artificial Intelligence Machines

Much  of the patterns of consumption that you find yourself being pulled into is the product of a war between competing armies of digital thinktank ninjas creating algorithms designed to splatter your mind with yes or no reflexively, without even having to take one drop of agency of self to make the decision that automatically flows into your being.

The more unaware you are of your own preferences, your own beliefs, and why you have them or hold to them, the more you become the product that is triggered to consume a product.  The product is political, social, pleasurable, practical, essential, lifes-saving, indulging.  The product is the limited ‘choice’ you are shuttled into making by clever algorithms that spit fire into your screens, even when you’re going to the bathroom.

You become the code itself.  You are more than battery, you are the matrix code itself.  The battery is the mind captured by your own will to submit to the code outside of you.

You stitch the code with every angry emoji and every long comment convincing another Christian sky daddy idiot that God died when Nietszche made it so.  You are the code.

This world that such a soul is trapped inside is created by teams of warring artificial intelligence machines working in deep learning meshness to create and adopt portals and doors to assure the programmed ethics was baked into the whole affair, as in, only the narrative of the machines gets through.  We have entered a new age, the age of the deep learning barons, racing to consolidate intellectual potential and lock it behind intellectual property laws, and walls of billionaire-level lawyers,  with walls of government agencies with guns willing to back up the words of the courts, where the ownership of thought is declared.

As these machines evolve in efficency, and the best rise in initial and ongoing cost (something far more likely if these machine innovations are locked behind intellectual property walls), lives will be led to favor this or that value at a moment’s notice, where today’s villains are tomorrow’s always has been heroes, where information truly is the reality of the power to create narratives that can easily be flooded into the vast majority of human eyes, on platforms controlled by the few.

IP might have a necessary role in society, but IP that creates monopolies on the use of high-level AI machines by the very, very, very few will put the vast majority of humanity at disadvantages that might be far more profound than anything that has ever come before this.  Conversevly, if AI machines can be created through open source so that the most sophisticated machines can still be home-built by almost anyone, then these machines could level the ‘expert’ playing field for humanity, giving those in power new “inspiration” to suddenly rediscover the nobility of a Bill of Rights restricted power, be it civic, market, or social, so long as it occupies public space.

A power disbursed creates ‘liberal” central power,  A power concentrated creates tyranny of the very, very, very few over the many, a scenario that the DNC would so wish to see happen as a result of the further development of AI by humanity.

This article from Army Technology is revealing a little more than, perhaps, it would want to reveal to folks like you and me when it exposes that the top concern in business in 2021 has been artificial intelligence.  At number two, previously number one, was augmented realty.  These potential AI Barons all recognize the potential for consolidation and control, as well as the flip side, the potential for loss of consolidation and control should the small scale enterprises have the same intellectual power as the mega-corps like Alphabet do.

Why is AI an obsession for business insiders?

From www.army-technology.com
2021-11-10 01:56:45
Giacomo Lee
Excerpt:

Business leaders are still worrying about artificial intelligence (AI), but with Facebook pushing hard into the metaverse, augmented reality (AR) has also proven a massive concern for corporate chieftains.

That’s according to analytics firm GlobalData. The company defines a theme as any issue that keeps chief executives awake at night. In a thematic survey published in October 2021, GlobalData gauged the business community’s current sentiment towards emerging technologies that kept executives stirring into the early hours.

The research found that AI was the technology perceived as most disruptive in Q3 2021, regaining its position from AR, which, as Verdict previously reported, held the top spot in the previous quarter.

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Biden Losing the Non-Partisan Voter, Independents, in Droves

The most popular President in American history and the victor of America’s first “pioneering” mass mailer election, Joe Biden, is  somehow losing people in droves, across all political denominational lines, but ESPECIALLY among the non-partisan voters, the people who still primarily vote with their wallets, the mostly unaffected by the bounty of the exploits, either to the good or the bad.

These people, who just want to do people enjoy life stuff, are leaving Biden faster than Biden left Afghanistan, and that’s pretty hardcore fast.  Just ask the Taliban, who LOVED the rapid retreat.

Among this salt of the earth group, Biden gets a 66 percent disapproval rating, a massive thumbs down from the vast majority of Americans not pinning their eyeballs to partisan agit prop, be it the left or the right (which is, mostly, at the highest levels, either feckless but content losers, or designated losers in the fake politics game).

This group, the people not glued to Fox News or MSNBC, not waiting for the next Tim Pool Lukewarn Revolutionary livestream or the next Young Turks Race Baiting Meltdown, this group has seen enough in the daily living they can’t avoid to come to the conclusion Joe sucks at being President, for what that’s worth, and it might be worth a lot come 2022, if the DNC pork barrel fails to deliver the fat to this same group (and I am betting my next three lunches that it won’t).

It does not bode well for Joe, but then again, he is the sometimes looking at you like he’s actuallly there face of the DNC, the machine that controles the fundamental means of social, civic, and cultural production, making all our dreams come true, right after they defined what they are for us, without our consent, or even input.  The experts know best.

Only the vast majority of Americans are starting to see what some of us knew long ago, the experts are mostly reflections of the will of the most powerful in the land they occupy.

A crushing two-thirds of independents disapprove of Joe Biden’s job performance

From www.theblaze.com
2021-11-08 17:50:00
Chris Pandolfo
Excerpt:

 

President Joe Biden’s approval rating has sunk to a new low as Republicans appear to be in a strong position to retake one or both houses of Congress in next year’s midterm elections.

According to a USA Today/Suffolk University Poll taken last Wednesday through Friday, Biden’s approval rating has fallen to just 38%, with his disapproval rating climbing to 59%, the worst numbers recorded by this poll for the president since he took office. It’s even worse than the 41% approve (55% disapprove) rating the poll recorded in August during Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Biden took the hardest hit with independent voters, of whom an overwhelming 67% disapproved of his job performance.

More than two-thirds of Americans say the country is on the wrong track, and 45% of respondents said Biden is doing a worse job as president than they expected.

One in five survey respondents said the most important thing for Biden to do over the next year would be to resign, retire, or quit….

 

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The largest investment firm in the world, State Street, is enacting policies aligned with the DNC, policies based on assumption of guilt by association, genetics, and ‘normative’ life choices.

In keeping with that model, the wizards at State Street have decided they will be enacting a “check with us before you hire the white guy” policy to assure white guys are not given too many opportunities that take away from the ‘everyone but white people’ group derisively termed “people of color,” though white acolytes of the DNC moral code use the term in ways they imagine are affectionate (when affection is really fetishism, but we’ll save that for another story).

The whole world versus the whites.  That’s not creepy at all as your foundational assumption about the reality of the world, the reality of humanity.  And these are the ‘trust the science’ gang.

In point of fact, there most likely are still ongoing stigmatizations within this powerful law firm that might be preventing certain people groups from gaining fair access.  There are also socio-cultural value structures that are viewed differently when through a lens that is, say, of some form of mostly white dominated spaces in America that cause whites to devalue those that don’t represent values they assume are universal to all of humanity.

In other words, there is much value to being aware of the historical contextualities of peoples here in America, and, really the world, and using that awareness to not be heuristically governed by underlying assumptions that might not directly be from an assumption of race supremacism but end up dominantly negatively impacting people groups that aren’t represented in these white dominated spaces.

I want to make it clear here that I have no problem with  white dominated spaces, so long as they are emergent and non-coercive in nature, or any other type of ethnically dominated spaces.  My issue is not with geographical circumstances that, more often than not around the world today, are dominated by one particular, very specific ethnic group (including among the ‘whites,’ who have multiple distinct ethnicities, many of which continue to threaten one another and believe one or the other is superior to the other).

My issue is with lack of awareness of the multipliticies of peoples and the circumstances that many in some groups have found themselves within at birth, and for that and that alone have suffered coercive diminishment of an access to a pursuit of happiness as they define it.

So long as a Bill of Rights land is filled with spaces where such circumstances arise, we as a people are failing.  Being aware of these failues, and working to correct them, for the good of the whole Bill of Rights Republic, is a healthy path forward for America, but doing it by stigmatizing groups of people is hardly the path to end racism and bigotry that the DNC solution claims it offers.

Training your staff to be aware of potential cultural and social differences that might unfairly discriminate certain people groups is a wonderful Bill of Rights ethos for a company to have.  Creating a mandatory ‘check with us before you hire a white guy” stigmatizes every white male, and makes them all tacitly guilty of being racists, the number one sin in the DNC social moral code.

I would even go so far as to say companies that lack ethnic diversity would do well to attempt to find talented and reliable people that represent multiple ethnicities, and, in general, the larger the company is and the broader the audience, the range of expressions that humans represent just by being or choose to be represented by.

Being aggressively inclusive is fantastic, but targeting any one group for exclusion, and impugning any one group with generational sin is as bigoted, as racist as the racism and bigotry the DNC social moral code claims it will end if you just follow the code to the letter.

Isaiah 32: 7 (ESV)
As for the scoundrel—his devices are evil;
    he plans wicked schemes
to ruin the poor with lying words,
    even when the plea of the needy is right.

The plea of the needy is real, across this land, and in the course  of allegedly attempting to help one group of needy, the DNC social moral code is creating tons more, so now we are all becoming needy, and we all are becoming more hostile not to the ones that have manipulated us into the existential affair, the corporate, social, media, and political leaders that give power to this new social moral code, we turn our hostilities to the particular groups being targeted by the DNC for salvation or damnation, while our executuves make bank from the content our meltdowns create (all of which will be copyrighted by the same executives).

The revolution will not be televised, it will be copyrighted by the victors.

As usual, our method of governing through death and threat of suffering is yielding exploitive authoritarian “solutions” to real pain and suffering from the people.  As a people of God, we are called to not fear death, or to use it to spread the gospel or make disciples.  We make disciples by being disciples first, to one another, to love as Christ loves us and showed His love particularly when he walked the earth as both God and  man, was crucified and in the tomb three days before He rose from the dead and conquered death.

We do not rule through fear and pain, but through love and service, with grace that has a taste of salt to it.  We speak hard truths, but with a hope of restoration. All of these values are absent this DNC code, and where the DNC code fails, our righteous code prevails, so long as we practice it first among ourselves, in our daily lives, in complete communities, our way conquers death and welcomes suffering, even as we also revel in the joy God gives us to experience in the here and now.

Our way conquers racism and bigotry by making us all sinners redeemed without earning it, and while we yet hated God.  Our way humbles the haughty, be it in a sense of righteousness, understanding, or immortality.  Our way leads to the low places being lifted up so that the high places are brought low in service, in a flippening of power that can only occur when the people as a whole submit to the same redemption, Christ on the Cross and the Empty Tomb.

If we wish to conquer the fallen world, we best be able to show it what a complete life in Christ in complete community with fellow believers offers in contrast to what the executives laughing at the struggles between the needy have now mostly forced on us by coercion or ‘consent.’

So long as we are not self-sustaining and reliant on other disciples, we are but a feckless fringe on the outskirts of the heart of the earth’s power, wholly dependent on its structures for our daily sustenance, as I myself can attest to.  This corporation will not be moved, nor should we try to move it, to reflect our values.  Rather, we should ween ourselves off of our dependence on Egypt and be bold enough to wander into the desert, with no idea where God might be leading us next.

But do let’s pray for these leaders that God might remove the spirit of deceit from their tongues, their ears, their eyes, their minds, their hearts, and come back to the justice that glorifies God, not the created, as the DNC social moral code does, the book of Ba’al, the book of Molech.

Leviticus 20:

1 The LORD said to Moses, 
2 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. 

This is the old covenant, but the spirt of the law remains, and in that spirit, we should rightly recognize the nature of the spiritural assault on the people of God and this land, and remember we do not rely on the powers and principalities of this earth but on the spiritual powers over spiritual authorities.  We do not govern with death, but with love, that is grace with the flavor of salt, as seen, heard, and felt by the fallen around us through how we conduct ourselves as professing disciples of Christ.

John 13
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Rulers are servants and enemies are people we love, and hope to see restored, forgiven, concepts anathema to the DNC social moral code, now attempting to move from the HR departments to the letters  of law with the lethal power of the state behind it.  In other words, things appear about the same as they’ve been since civilzations first emerged, at least.

State Street, One of World’s Largest Investment Firms, Requires Permission for Staff to Hire White Males

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-11-08 18:00:03
Mary Chastain
Excerpt:

State Street is one of the largest investment firms in the world. It employs 39,400 people in 27 countries, including 2,500 in Ireland.

State Street commissioned the Fearless Girl statue on Wall Street. It moved the statue to the New York Stock Exchange.

The company also vowed to “increase spending with diverse suppliers over the next three years.” They want to “hold ourselves accountable for strengthening black and Latinx owned businesses.”

Uh oh. State Street did not capitalize black!!

So I guess it doesn’t surprise me that bosses at State Street must have permission before they hire white males:

The policy is part of a drive by State Street, which employs 2,500 people in Ireland, to improve diversity within its middle and senior management. The multinational aims to triple the number of black, Asian and other minority staff in senior roles by 2023, and executives’ bonuses will be lower if they do not meet the targets.

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DNC Power Source, Xi’s China, Prepares to Wipe out the Uyghe

The Uyghurs as a people are about to disappear from the face of the planet, and it’s all thanks to Han Supremacism as cultivated by Chairman Xi, the man who enables American corporations to do to Americans the anti-American things these corporations are now empowered to do.

While American corporations lead the charge against muh racisms and bigotries,  lecturing to Americans every chance they get on how miserable our moral failings, and assuring us they will condition us by hook or by crook to “do better,” even if it costs us our jobs, even our lives. they’re also relying on Chinese fascit-powered market yuans and cheap Chinese labor to continue to provide for Americans products and services dipped in an America-hating, family-demonizing, human-invalidating, racist and bigoted agit prop additives, additives to our products and services our Constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights, SPECIFICALLY says we’re not to do to one another, NO MATTER YOUR JUSTIFICATION!

(Sorry, shouted for the people in the back still not paying attention)

While American corporations continue to deride their own customers, their own employees, and continue to assume their small coven of experts knows best for our lives when it comes to bad morality, misinformation, and hate (all of which their algorithms will protect us from, as well as assure the offenders get the complete market assassination treatment as well), they’re making money doing deals with the Chinese Communist Party, which is nearing the finishing stages of eliminating a whole ancient peoples, the Uyghurs, from existence, all in the name of advancing the interests of what Chairman Xi and his acolytes assume is the superior race of the world, the Han.

For a cliffnote version, look here-
The antifa corporatists are only in power because of their reliance on the fascist-created and enabling power of Chairman Xi’s China, which is about to eliminate the Uyghurs from the face of the planet, the way fascists do.

The Enclosure of China’s Uyghurs

From lareviewofbooks.org
2021-11-08 18:01:55

Excerpt:

CHINA’S DETENTION OF as many as 1.5 million Uyghurs, members of a predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group, constitutes the largest internment of a religious minority since World War II. As skyscrapers rise above the arid steppes and oasis towns of Xinjiang, monuments to China’s modern prosperity, a dispossessed ethnic and religious underclass faces a density of surveillance that eclipses even the secret police of communist East Germany. Those deemed “suspect” are relegated to the 21st century’s largest system of reeducation camps, which extend across a vast territory more than twice the size of Texas. Here they enter what the Holocaust survivor Primo Levi described as the “gray zone,” where victims are stripped of their dignity and humanity, forced to walk like dogs, eat pork, and recite odes to the Chinese Communist Party’s leader Xi Jinping.

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Not ALL of the wanna-be science-kings menz wants to get the vaccines agains, or something like that.  Humpty Fauci, as the story goes, has a problem on top of that wall of his, not all of the Fauci soldiers below that have continually helped put Humpty Fauci back together again are ready to stand by and collect the egg shells again.

One of his top scientists, Dr. Matthew Memoli, refuses to get the vaccine, contra to the king of science’s great declaration that to reject the Fauci is to reject the science.  Well, Memoli is rejecting the science, which is problematic for Humpty Fauci, as you can now hopefully clearly see.

I love a good nursery rhyme but this one has no ryhme and it doesn’t help me at all fall asleep.

One Of Fauci’s Top Scientists Opposes Vaccine Mandates, Is Unvaccinated

From dailycaller.com
2021-11-08 18:33:22
Dylan Housman
Excerpt:

 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold a roundtable discussion on the ethics of vaccine mandates Dec. 1, and it will feature a scientist from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency making the case against forced vaccination for COVID-19.

Dr. Matthew Memoli runs a clinical studies unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the agency headed by Dr. Fauci, and will make the case against vaccine mandates at the NIH event, according to The Wall Street Journal. Memoli has said he supports COVID-19 vaccination in high-risk populations, such as for the elderly or obese, but emailed Fauci on July 30 to say that mandatory vaccination is “extraordinarily problematic.”

All NIH employees…

 

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EU Social Media Regs Are “Pioneering” Model for US, ABC News Declares

ABC News Writer Assumes the Sale to Condition You to Welcome EU-Style Social Media Controls – Media Analysis

Kelvin Chan, a business writer for ABC News, recently penned an article called “Europe bolsters pioneering tech rules with help from Haugen.”

In the headline itself, Chan is using a tactic that I personally refer to “Assuming the Sale,” one which I have documented in past media analysis reports.  The writer uses the adjective “pioneering,” which is a value-assuming term based on a presuppositional shared ‘hierarchy of value” as the well-known clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson phrases it.  I myself simply prefer to it as the value that emerges from preference, or preference, to short-cut the term.

Value emerges from preference, and preference is not universal, as preference is, more often than not, tied to aggregates of like humans to be accomplished, such as preference to pursue an understanding of Christ.  In aggregate, humans that share this preference will be far better equipped to grow in understanding, and thus get better at achieving this shared preference.

Preference is not universal, so value is not universal, but this writer is assuming that the values inherint in the EU’s framing of law that restricts digital social platform activity within their borders are naturally the same as the reader’s.  If it’s not, at heuristic levels of understanding, your mind-body is adopting to an assumption of a reality of power that is based on this writer’s value they hope you will have has become your value through the process of assuming the sale.

Never ask a yes or no question, only ask questions that assume the sale.  Never make statements that do not assume the sale is a forgone conclusion.

This news blurb is newsworthy in and of itself, I believe, but also offers a very succinct demonstration of the “assume the sale” tactic of the agit prop agent of the DNC, which this writer in fact or de facto actually represents.   There is a lot more agit prop in here as well, mostly focused on other value-assuming words like “misinformation” and “harm” to give justice to the EU way of regulating human action in this digital media within their borders.

As you read the rest of the news blurb, and should you hopefully chooose to read the whole article. you will see just how foundational to the whole flow of adjectives this writer uses to describe every aspect of the EU’s “pioneering” spirit behind their tech rules, with “pioneering” implying, assuming that the EU way is the right way for all, objectively, and we don’t even have to make the argument (it’s so obvious), so we will just use language that assumes it to be true, thus making it true perceptively to the uncritical mind.

Europe bolsters pioneering tech rules with help from Haugen

From abcnews.go.com
2021-11-08 18:39:13

Excerpt:

European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world that have been slower to regulate Facebook and other social media giants facing increasing blowback over misinformation and other harmful content that can proliferate on their platforms…..

….Jan Penfrat, senior policy adviser at digital rights group EDRi.

The question, Penfrat said, should also be: “Why is the U.S. so much lagging behind? And that may be because of the immense pressure from the homegrown companies” arguing to officials in Washington that stricter rules would hobble them as they compete with, for example, Chinese rivals.

Drawing up a new package of digital rules for the 27-nation European Union is getting a boost from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who answered questions Monday in Brussels from a European Parliament committee. It’s the latest sign of interest in her revelations that Facebook prioritized profits over safety after the former data scientist testified last month to the U.S. Senate and released internal documents.

If the EU rules are done right, “you can create a game-changer for the world, you can force platforms to price in societal risk to their business operations so the decisions about what products to build and how to build them is not purely based on profit maximization,” Haugen told lawmakers. “And you can show the world how transparency, oversight and enforcement should work.”

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The sweet mystery, the brass that flowed like honey

Over ivory tessellations of the lattice of the mind,

Like drip,

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The honeyed pearl alight with seas of foreign planets

And home-deep bellies of salt-black brine.

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My itching eye burns latticed splice across the panorama of flowing honey

Over roiling seas, see, ‘let me in, by the steam’s aspiring jet the froth of honey blooms as lilies in a gently sweeping valley…”

Or deny it, if you will, that drip.

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What would sustain such fecundity beyond the tatters of time but

That she brooks the silver and pearls the distant seas

From which the unfolding of the force that cannot be contained

Drips onto open petals,

Honeyed and in a new bronze as if no time told

What newness yet could continue to unfold

China is Using US Warships as Target Practice

That’s right folks, China is using US warships as target practice in its naval war drills.  That same country that is clearly preparing for war against these here United States of America is also the same country the Biden adminstration wanted to assure we Americans were not trying to influence in any way.  We just want co-rule of the planet with China, or words to that effect.

Let me reinterpret that for you, the corporate-state alliance through the DNC is dependent on Chinese market dollars to insulate itself from its own American market source, we Americans it now serves through its vast monpolies.  Without Chinese dollars, American companies would go belly up immediately if they began producing the type of moral supremacist doggeral that has come out of the minds of the sicophants of the CCP who work in these inglorious creative sweatshops for barely employed college-coded kids living off Rama noodles and a smug sense of satisfaction that tweet storm they participated in got someone fired for saying a spade is a spade to a ‘person of color.’

This alliance needs capital, so China holds all the cards, because our companies simply refuse to be American companies anymore.  They would rather plumb with the CCP than Jefferson, even as the CCP designs war plans to deliver our demise.

Satellite images show China built mock-ups of U.S. warships

From www.washingtontimes.com
2021-11-08 10:17:49

Excerpt:

 

BEIJING (AP) — Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly for practice for a future naval clash as tensions rise between the nations.

China has massively upgraded its military in recent years, and its capability and intentions are increasingly concerning to the United States as tensions rise over the South China Sea, Taiwan and military supremacy in the Indo-Pacific.

 

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Will Blockchain be the Printing Press of the State-Corporate Church?

We are all experiencing a lot of uncertainty and loss during these troubling times as our own government here in America begins to target American  parents for resisting the wrong approach to combatting racism (mainly, by perpetuating it).  We live in times when our own government is fighting in the courts to acquire the power to force Americans to get jabs or lose jobs.

The ability of those on the top of the power pyramid to control narrative has never been more powerful in human history than it is right now.  The consolidation of most of our major commerical, cultural, and social institutions seems all but assured, as the aggressive ‘left’ infiltrated and shut the door behind them wherever they went.

But fret not, friends, for right before the leviathon known as the Catholic Church of Western Europe was splintered into a reformational splintering of priestly power it was at the height of power and held the most amount of control across Western Europe than it ever had up until its fall, which we’ll loossely date to the 16th century.  The printing press did in the central power of Rome, which relied on its exclusive access to the Word of God in the Vulgate Bible, the Latin translation from the Septuaginate translated by Jerome near the end of the 4th Century.

After the West received Hebrew and Greek texts from the East, partially through Muslims and partially through the Byzantines, even before Martin Luther printing presses were cranking out books of the bible in native languages translated from Greek and Hebrew texts older than the Latin Vulgate itself.

From Wycliffe in the 14th Century with his Lollards, who translated the New Testament from the Latin to English, said his plowmen with bibles printed on secret printing presses knew more about the scriptures than the priests did.  He wasn’t  wrong.

The center of power was unable to contain the free flow of priestly power, a high commodity in those days.  Most people still overwhelmingly lived spread out in the countryside, so coercive power was largely a matter of willing submission to a presumed divine authority that alone could wield such power over others.  That power was priestly power.

Today, the state controls us through a new priest, our reliance for products and services from a select few centers of power, be they the state or the corporation, both of which have a love-hate relationship that mostly comes together when assuring no competition rises from amongst the poors for the seats of power in either sphere.

Vitalik Burtin is hoping to combat this new priest in our lives by offering potential uses for blockchain technology that could enable communities at micro-scales to self-govern efficiently.   The most ambitious proposal is to design cities around crypto-technologies.  For now, some of these projects are already being experimented with governments that still rely mostly on our dependence on these monpolistic providers of human services, in a manner of speaking, but so was the printing press first used by the powers that be, but yet could not be contained.

Vitalik might be testing the bounds of self-governance technology, but he’s also hinting at something that others have suggested is possible, the creation of whole new notions of product and value for product through the new properties inherint in blockchain technology. NFTs are one of the earliest unexpected product with value to emerge from the unique properties of blockchain.

For those who fear automization of the work that grinds bones, you might be  comforted in the notion that unexpected opportunites for ‘work’ that pays is sure to emerge, not just from blockchain but many other emerging techs as well.  Who knows what unexpected products with value will emerge from the unique properties of reliable, cost-effective quantum computers?

But byeyond this news blurb about Vitalik Buterin’s push to expand blockchain’s usefulenss to empower self-governance, there are other technologies that we reguarly follow here on the Freedomist that also create more printing press threats to the powers that be.

The Catholic Church of the Middle Ages had to contest with the printing press.  The powers that be of today have to contend with blockchain, mesh communications, 3d printing, aquaponics, nanotechnology, and more.  Just within the 3D printing category there are numerous longterm threats to containing the access to these technologies that, despite all of your IP Laws, will not be contained where the necessity to avoid tyranny emerges.

The harder they press us, the more innovative we get, and the world is our oyster as far as the technologies available to us today to build among the Empire our own safe havens where a Bill of Rights people can live free.

Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, explores current experiments using various crypto approaches and applications to aid self-governance : Futurology

From www.reddit.com
2021-11-07 17:47:44
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/lughnasadh:


Submission Statement.

I’ve long hoped blockchain tech is going to be used for the kind of things Vitalik Buterin is talking about here. My problem with the current blockchain world is that it is absolutely overrun with get-rich-quick Ponzi scheme merchants. Blockchain badly need a not-for-profit sector. The global Green movement is dominated by not-for-profit NGO’s and they have done enormous transformative work on a global scale.


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From the statement being discussed:

One interesting trend of the last year has been the growth of interest in local government, and in the idea of local governments that have wider variance and do more experimentation. Over the past year, Miami mayor Francis Suarez has pursued a Twitter-heavy tech-startup-like strategy of attracting interest in the city, frequently engaging with the mainstream tech industry and crypto community on Twitter. Wyoming now has a DAO-friendly legal structure, Colorado is experimenting with quadratic voting, and we’re seeing more and more experiments making more pedestrian-friendly street environments for the offline world. We’re even seeing projects with varying degrees of radicalness – Cul de sacTelosaCityDAONkwashiProspera and many more – trying to create entire neighborhoods and cities from scratch.

Another interesting trend of the last year has been the rapid mainstreaming of crypto ideas such as coins, non-fungible tokens and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). So what would happen if we combine the two trends together? Does it make sense to have a city with a coin, an NFT, a DAO, some record-keeping on-chain for anti-corruption, or even all four? As it turns out, there are already people trying to do just that:

  • CityCoins.co, a project that sets up coins intended to become local media of exchange, where a portion of the issuance of the coin goes to the city government. MiamiCoin already exists, and “San Francisco Coin” appears to be coming soon.
  • Other experiments with coin issuance (eg. see this project in Seoul)
  • Experiments with NFTs, often as a way of funding local artists. Busan is hosting a government-backed conference exploring what they could do with NFTs.
  • Reno mayor Hillary Schieve’s expansive vision for blockchainifying the city, including NFT sales to support local art, a RenoDAO with RenoCoins issued to local residents that could get revenue from the government renting out properties, blockchain-secured lotteries, blockchain voting and more.
  • Much more ambitious projects creating crypto-oriented cities from scratch: see CityDAO, which describes itself as, well, “building a city on the Ethereum blockchain” – DAOified governance and all.

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Biden Jab or Job Mandate Crushed by 5th Circuit

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has just put a sudden halt to Biden’s dream of a jab for every arm or no job for you.  Citing grave constitutional concerns, the court put an immediate suspension to the Biden administration’s edicts, giving hope to Americans that somewhere in our government there still resides Americans, respectors of the Constitutional Bill of Rights Democratic Republic that these United States are legally bound to be.

US Federal Appeals Court Freezes Biden’s Coercive Vaccine Mandate

From thefederalist.com
2021-11-06 20:29:38
Haley Strack
Excerpt:

 

A federal appeals court blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on Saturday, just two days after the administration issued the law through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The rule requires employees at companies with 100 or more workers to get the jab by Jan. 4 or be tested for the virus weekly to avoid getting fired or racking up massive fines.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay, freezing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 mandate. The court’s decision came in response to a joint petition from entities in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah.

“Yesterday, I sued the Biden Admin over its unlawful OSHA vax mandate,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tweeted on…

 

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