Tag: surveillance

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Communism’s hallmark, a command economy, is a failed system. Centrally planning pencil production over five years is ludicrous—even with AI. But the command economy has one use: as a reference point, or thought experiment, for other economic systems. Assuming we had a one-party state ruling the nation as conceived as one factory, one farm, and one office, how would we run things? (more…)

Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech”

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The ruling elites in Canada want a silent citizenry incapable of challenging them. They want to avail themselves of the boons of technology with none of its drawbacks; they wish to become a political and economic class immune to criticism. The multicultural system that they preside over is inherently unstable; and increasingly, maintaining the status quo requires authoritarian controls over free speech.

In theory, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of expression under section 2(b): “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: . . . freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.” This was once a cornerstone of Canadian democracy that includes the right to communicate ideas, even unpopular ones. (more…)

Image by Phil Eiger Newman

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Although I have a bit of a following from my articles here and elsewhere, I also write literature, mostly irreverent pastiches of science fiction and fantasy. I’m far less known for that; much like HP Lovecraft, I’ll probably be dead before becoming famous for my books. (Perhaps I should’ve written about sparkly vampires instead? Or maybe wish fulfillment chick lit featuring a billionaire with washboard abdominals hell-bent for BDSM?) Anyway, it is what it is. Here I’ll present a timely timeline of alternative history dunked in political satire, ripped from the headlines—well, kinda sorta. (more…)

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Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
New York: Crown Currency, 2025

Appeals to virtue and character, having been excluded for the most part from the civic and political realms, have migrated, or rather, been co-opted and appropriated, by the corporate. In 2013, Ram Trucks produced a television commercial featuring a speech titled “So God Made a Farmer” from 1978 by Paul Harvey, a radio broadcaster born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (more…)

An Estonian ID card inserted into a digital ID reader. Estonia has been using digital ID since 2018. Photo courtesy of Flickr.

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How time flies, said Fred with scintillating originality. When I was a young lad in rural Virginia in the mid-Sixties, the only thing digital was the local drive-in movie, known colloquially as the Finger Bowl. Now the world runneth over with bits and bytes and screens and all. Regarding which: (more…)

Lisa Edwards, shortly before her unnecessary death.

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In response to 2014’s absurdly overblown and preposterously misguided public outrage over Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri , President Barack Obama asked the federal government to allocate $263 million to provide police departments nationwide with body cameras so they could finally film all these white-supremacist cops wantonly and sadistically brutalizing black bodies in the streets. (more…)

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Not long ago, I met with some of my fellow deplorables. For the first time, I got to see one of our vast subterranean bases. I was pretty jazzed about that! (Naturally, gratitude for permission to use these cavern complexes goes to our Vril-ya comrades way down under — mighty white and out of sight!) (more…)

Merrick Garland

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Whenever the topic of white supremacy comes up among normies, we should always ask the question, “Which do you prefer: white supremacy or non-white supremacy?” Of course, given such a stark choice, most polite company will search for a third option. “Why do we need racial supremacy at all? Why can’t we have a society in which people of all races are treated equally?” That sounds nice, but we should point out that this is clearly not the goal of the Left — especially the non-white Left. (more…)

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Those money-makers and power-seekers who would sacrifice anybody and anything — the whole world — to their personal ends. . . hide their cynical self-centredness under a noisy lip-adherence to the dogma of the “dignity of all men” . . . while bus[il]y causing, directly or indirectly, in view of their goal, the suffering and death of any number of human beings. . . (more…)

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If An Agent Knocks is a guidebook written by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Although they’re a left-leaning advocacy group, they’re not the sort likely to make you run away screaming as if Cthulhu is trying to eat your mind. Actually, some of their causes may be of interest. The intended audience is those who might be targeted by politically-motivated investigations and harassment under color of law. I’ll go over the basics, and add my extensive commentary as usual. (more…)

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Joe Biden has only been president for a little over a week, but the system is already emboldened to bare its ugly face. It now persecutes political enemies for memes, imposes a permanent military occupation in the capital, shuts off the markets to populist forces, and replaces popular symbols of the historic American nation (more…)

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New World Order proposals tend to appear feel-good or sensible on the outside, then reveal themselves to be rotten upon closer inspection. The International Monetary Fund’s new big idea about personal credit scores is no exception.

The IMF, of course, is one of those big international institutions (more…)

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What are the implications of Joe Biden’s plans for internet censorship and a federal task force meant to combat hate speech? First, I will speak of the vulnerabilities in popular “far-right” organizations that could be exploited by this development, then I will talk about what I believe will happen if these plans actually go into effect. (more…)