As those who have been following the How BlackRock Conquered the World series know by now, BlackRock, Inc. started out as an asset management subsidiary of investment giant The Blackstone Group, but quickly spun off into its own entity. It made its mark by emphasizing...
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Another Another 25 Books You Should Read
Well, I can't say I didn't ask for it. You see, at the end of last year (*CORRECTION: 2020!) I released an article titled Another 25 Books You Should Read in which I wrote that "I can keep recommending books as long as people keep requesting me to." But I just had to...
Interview 1719 – James Corbett Kills A Sacred Cow
via How To Kill A Sacred Cow podcast: James Corbett of The Corbett Report joins us to talk about the bait and switch narratives used by authoritarians to enact ever harsher controls on the proles. If the history of the media has taught us anything, it's that it is a...
The Bystander Effect – #SolutionsWatch
The bystander effect describes a seeming paradox: the more people who are around to help in a given emergency, the less likely that any one individual will actually stop to help. Today James dives into the psychology underlying the bystander effect and explains how we...
Episode 381 – Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers?
We've all come across online fact checkers that purport to warn us away from independent media sites under the guise of protecting us from fake news. But who is behind these fact check sites? How do they operate? And if these ham-fisted attempts at soft censorship...
Interview 1986 – Digital Papers, Please! on the IMA Panel
via Off-Guardian.org: The Independent Media Alliance convenes once again, this time to discuss the global roll out of digital identity programs. We talk definitions, use cases, cyber-ethics, personal lines in the sand and much more. VIDEO COURTESY THE LAST AMERICAN...
Episode 450 – Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers? I Will!!!
So we all remember the rhetorical question I asked three years ago, right? Who will fact check the fact checkers? Well, guess what. It isn't a rhetorical question. It's a real question with a real answer: I will! That's right, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work...
The Story of the Century Just Broke (And No One Noticed)
If you're a good, credulous consumer of the lamestream media, you likely take it as a given that Russian hackers present the greatest danger to the human species in the history of our planet. Or is that Chinese hackers? Or maybe North Koreans? Meh, whatever. Details,...