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Curtis Yarvin: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Max Borders
Quillette
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Curtis Yarvin
© QuilletteSoftware Developer Curtis Yarvin
At the center of neoreactionary thinking is a cluster of unworkable ideas.

The first time I read Mencius Moldbug, I chuckled. There was something Voltairean about him. Though Unqualified Reservations was a vanilla-looking blog, I could still imagine a curmudgeon with an ink well and quill, furiously scribbling about this or that shibboleth, pulling no punches, suffering no fools. Moldbug gave it good and hard to progressives, libertarians, and conservatives alike. For this, he was eventually anointed High Priest of the "Dark Enlightenment."

Moldbug, it turned out, was the nom de guerre of software developer Curtis Yarvin, and since he discontinued blogging, his star only seems to have risen, especially on the "post-liberal" Right. He's spoken for over an hour to Fox's Tucker Carlson; he's appeared on Michael Anton's Claremont Institute podcast the American Mind; and most recently he's written longform essays for Compact and UnHerd. If you're a basement-dweller with a webcam and a mic, he might just show up for a chat.

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Stock Up

Big companies enrich themselves at public expense and government is complicit

Rod Driver
Daily Sceptic
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Capitol/Building
© UnknownThe Revolving Door
Up until approximately 1890, economists understood that a key part of the economic system is what are known as rents, or 'free lunches'. This means unearned income or excess profits. They recognised that a key goal of economics should be to eliminate rents. Recent economic theory does not talk about rents very much - there is an incorrect assumption that all income is earned. The people and companies who receive excess wealth from rents are usually described by the media as wealth-creators, but this is partly propaganda. Many of them are 'rent-seekers' (also known as rentiers) - people who know how to take money from the system because they understand how it is rigged.

The current system is now dominated by rents. This includes monopoly profits, offloading costs onto others (externalities), asset-price inflation; crime, a rigged international system, tax manipulation, resource extraction; regulatory capture; and power imbalances allowing for exploitation of staff, customers and suppliers. This article will focus on one particularly important rent: government subsidies.
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Question

Met police invoke "national security" to block information over Epstein meeting with US Senators in UK

Whitney Webb
Unlimited Hangout
Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:05 UTC
foxcote house britain epstein senators
Foxcote House, North Warwickshire, UK
In connection with Whitney Webb's upcoming book on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, One Nation Under Blackmail, Unlimited Hangout filed a Freedom of Information request asking UK law enforcement and the Ministry of Defence the identity of two sitting US senators who were present at Foxcote House in North Warwickshire, UK on September 1, 2002. UH contributor Johnny Vedmore had previously obtained information from eyewitnesses of that meeting that, not only were two US Senators present at that location that day, but that Metropolitan Police officers had supplied security for the meeting. The FOI request was filed to Metropolitan Police, the UK Ministry of Defence and North Warwickshire Police and only a response from the Metropolitan Police was received.

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2 + 2 = 4

The Fed isn't fighting inflation, it's fueling it

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Yellin Powell
© Jesse's Cafe American - https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
The media would like to believe the Fed is doing everything in its power to fight inflation, but it's not true.

Yes, the Fed raised rates by 50 basis points in May and, yes, the Fed is trying to sound as "hawkish" as possible. But these things are designed to dupe the public not to reduce inflation. Let me explain.

The current rate of inflation in the US is 8.6%, a 40-year high.

At its May meeting, the Fed raised its target Fed Funds Rate to 1%. Here's the scoop:
"The Federal Reserve recently announced that it's raising interest rates by half a percentage point, bumping the federal funds rate to a target range of 0.75-1.00%." (The Spokesman-Review)
Got that? So the Fed's rate is still a measly 1%. That's what the media is trying to hide from you, and that's why you might have to read 9 or 10 articles before you find a journalist who provides you with the actual rate.
Why are they hiding the rate?
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Pirates

'We're almost out of ammunition and relying on western weapons', says Ukraine

Isobel Koshiw
The Guardian
Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:06 UTC
ukraine rocket
© Aris Messinis/AFP/GettyUkrainian troops fire rockets towards Russian positions at a frontline in the Donbas region.
Ukraine's deputy head of military intelligence has said Ukraine is losing against Russia on the frontlines and is now reliant almost solely on weapons from the west to keep Russia at bay.

"This is an artillery war now," said Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence. The frontlines were now where the future would be decided, he told the Guardian, "and we are losing in terms of artillery".


Comment: Close; the West is, across the board, losing its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.


"Everything now depends on what [the west] gives us," said Skibitsky. "Ukraine has one artillery piece to 10 to 15 Russian artillery pieces. Our western partners have given us about 10% of what they have."
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Light Sabers

It is time for Israel's gut punch?

Abdel Bari Atwan
The Cradle
Mon, 13 Jun 2022 21:00 UTC
israel damascus
© The CradleEye for an eye: Will Israel's illegal strike on Damascus airport invite a proportional retaliation against Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv?
In an escalatory attack on Syria last Friday, Israeli warplanes launched missiles strikes on Damascus International Airport, damaging runways, passenger terminals and crossing a major red line. Tel Aviv's latest aggression has put Syria's main passenger airport out of service for days, if not weeks, in a deliberate provocation against the Axis of Resistance.

This aggression, which violates all the previous rules of engagement, came in the immediate aftermath of a month-long Israeli military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean. These drills, we were told, mimicked real-time attacks against Iran, Syria, southern Lebanon, and even the likes of Yemen and Iraq.

Hundreds of illegal Israeli missile strikes against Syria have taken place over the past five years, under the pretext of bombing 'Iranian arms convoys to Hezbollah.' One time, these attacks have further evolved into the bombing of Syrian and Iranian military targets inside major cities in the Arab republic.

Comment: See also:

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US Journo: Media's U-turn in Ukraine crisis coverage reflects West's intention to abandon Kiev

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Ukrainian soldier
© AFP 2022/Anatoli StepanovUkrainian soldier
Western corporate media has been on the side of the US decision to arm Ukraine while relentlessly vilifying Russia; yet suddenly, the latest series of articles mark a noticeable change in tone and suggest that relations between Kiev and Washington are not as warm as they've been thought to be since late February, US journalist Max Parry says.
"I think the writing is on the wall that Kiev has unavoidably lost the war and the US needs a reason to disentangle itself from the quagmire in Ukraine. As we've seen in the past, Washington will abandon its own supposed allies for selfish reasons as soon as it is opportune to do so and I think that is really what's taking place here."
Thus, The New York Times on 6 June bemoaned the fact that Ukrainian soldiers have little if any skills to operate high-tech western weapons. The newspaper's 8 June op-ed revealed that the US intelligence community lacks a clear picture of Ukraine's war strategy and casualties while the Biden administration continues to provide Kiev with heavy weaponry.
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Light Sabers

RT France challenges EU Council over broadcast ban


RT
Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:23 UTC
RT France
© Ludovic Marin/AFP
The European Court of Justice is in the process, on Friday evening, of hearing RT France's appeal against the Council of the European Union after it suspended the channel's broadcasts. Both sides are making their case before 15 judges in Luxembourg.

Brussels is being represented by the legal department of the Council and several member countries have expressed their desire to participate in the process, including France, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.

RT France, meanwhile, has availed of the services of French lawyer Emmanuel Piwnica, the former president of the Bar Association at the Council of State and the Court of the Cessation of France, who has over 40 years of experience representing clients before France's top courts, as well as international and foreign equivalents.

The hearing began with an opening statement by Piwnica. However, shortly after he started making his opening statements, the channel's president, Ksenia Fedorova, reported that Twitter had unexpectedly decided to ban RT France's Communication service channel on the entire territory of the European Union.
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Eye 2

Switzerland's secretive banking system and the WEF's "Great Reset"

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Bank for International Settlements
It has often been said, Washington is the Belly of the Beast and Switzerland is the Head of the Beast. Considering a variety of dimensions, it is probably not far from the truth.

Switzerland is home to a number of highly dubious institutions and organizations.

Take the World Economic Forum (WEF) - the unelected NGO, with its unelected master, Klaus Schwab, based in Cologny, suburb of Geneva. This unelected but dirty-rich body of "luminaries", with tax-free status, pretends to decide over our future, the future of the world, and literally, the future of mankind.

Once a year, mostly in the second half of January, the WEF unites some 2000 to 3000 oligarchs and wannabe luminaries in Davos, Switzerland, to ruminate (often in secret chambers off the madding crowd) on how to make the world a better place. No, not for us the people, but for themselves, the elite.

Their private-jet pilgrimage to Switzerland leaves a carbon footprint behind, that is like blatantly spitting in the face of their "climate change" agenda, imposed on the world.
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Red Pill

The Reality Behind Conspiracy Theories and Domestic Terrorism

Matthew J.L. Ehret
Dissident Voice
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
new threat uncovered
Where "conspiracy theories" were once understood to be the driving force of world history (both for good or for evil), today's dumbed-down populus has increasingly become induced to believe that the term is synonymous with either insanity at best, or domestic terrorism at worst.

The fact is that the behaviorists attempting to "nudge" humanity into a Great Reset of technocratic feudalism have set their sights on "conspiracy theories" as the primary threat to their agenda which they assert, must be destroyed and subverted through a number of techniques enumerated as early as 2008 by Cass Sunstein (counsellor to Biden's Department of Homeland Security) in his essay "Conspiracy Theories".

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