"Elon Musk, for example, is among the richest Americans but seems to be a backer of free speech that the establishment hates. His social platform is the only one among the high-impact products that permits speech that contradicts regime priorities."
"So too when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., – a scion of a “great family”👀 – has broken with his clan to support the rights of the individual and a restoration of the freedoms we took for granted in the 20th century..
"His entry into the race for the Democratic nomination has disrupted our whole sense of where the “great families” stand on fundamental questions... ".. 👀🍿
"The reason conspiracy theory has been unleashed as never before in our lifetimes is because nothing truly is what it seems to be. This traces to the reversal of alliances that have characterized the struggle for liberty over 800 years...
"We no longer have the barons and lords and we no longer have the great fortunes: they have thrown their lots in with the technocrats...
"Meanwhile, the supposed champions of the little guy are now fully aligned with the most powerful sectors of society, yielding a fake version of the left..."
Jeffrey A. Tucker , Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute🤔
"We only have the intelligent bourgeoisie .. that is well-read, clear-thinking, attached to alternative sources of news, and ONLY NOW in our post-lockdown world has become aware of the existential nature of the struggle we face" - J. Tucker
Only now? Really? 🤔
Phew.. that article went on and on about the 'Great Families'
Thought I'd do a little more delving..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_T…
" Jeffrey Albert Tucker is an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur and advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin .."..
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"n 2018, Tucker endorsed Liberland, a micronation claimed on a disputed sandbank between Croatia and Serbia that accepts the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin , Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum .."..
In 2020, Tucker helped organize the Great Barrington Declaration , signed at AIER , which advocated the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions
On the origins of AIER: aier.org/edward-c-harwo…
"Vice President Vannevar Bush of MIT suggested that an independent research organization offering its results directly to the public might be possible. Col. Harwood began operations in 1933 "
Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during WW2 headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_…
including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project
Vannevar Bush joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1919, and founded the company that became the Raytheon Company in 1922
"During his career, Vannevar Bush patented a string of his own inventions. He is known particularly for his engineering work on analog computers, and for the memex [introduced in his 1945 essay "As We May Think "]
" DARPA has launched the Memex program. Memex seeks to develop software that advances online search capabilities far beyond the current state of the art." darpa.mil/program/memex
"DARPA plans to develop Memex to address a key Defense Department mission: fighting human trafficking. 👀
Human trafficking is a factor in many types of military, law enforcement and intelligence investigations and has a significant web presence to attract customers..."
"The use of forums, chats, advertisements, job postings, hidden services, etc., continues to enable a growing industry of modern slavery. An index curated for the counter-trafficking domain, along with configurable interfaces for search and analysis,
would enable new opportunities to uncover and defeat trafficking enterprises. 🤔
..To familiarize potential participants with the technical objectives of Memex, DARPA has scheduled a Proposers' Day on Tuesday, February 18, 2014, in Arlington, Va.
forbes.com/sites/jamesdet…
"As AI gets smarter, it's crucial to stay ahead of criminals and terrorists. Deep Instinct's computer protection software includes an artificial neural network .."
"Alphabet -owned Google bought DeepMind, a U.K.-based research company, in 2014 for more than $500 million. Google and DeepMind , along with Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft are founders of Partnership on AI " partnershiponai.org/team/
> BBC R&D 🤔
"BBC Design & Engineering was an operational business division of the BBC, which combined the BBC Digital, BBC Engineering & BBC Worldwide Technology divisions. It is responsible for all of the BBC's digital media services including BBC Online, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Desig…
BBC Red Button and BBC iPlayer, BBC mobile apps, internal technology services, technology procurement and BBC Research & Development . It was headed by the Chief Technology and Product Officer; Matthew Postgate "
"The convictions follow a painstaking investigation by West Yorkshire Police’s Economic Crime Unit which established that vast amounts of bank notes from criminal networks across the country were being laundered under a veil of legitimacy." westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/f…
"Detectives unearthed large amounts of cash being credited to the bank account of Fowler Oldfield collected from three different sites: Fowler Oldfield’s own premises at an industrial-style unit at Hall Lane, Bradford, the offices of Stunt & Company, liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…
Daily Mail, Today
"Cocaine playboy's extraordinary friendship with the King ..
despite leading a life of hedonistic excess, James Stunt, the ex-husband of Formula 1 heiress Petra Ecclestone, inveigled his way into the very highest of royal circles..
Perhaps predictably, however, it was a relationship that ended in acute embarrassment when Charles, whom Stunt had loaned a series of supposed masterpiece paintings, was embroiled in an audacious fake art scandal first exposed by this newspaper." archive.is/nc9Q9
"Aside from the occasional dog walker, the 2,300-acre estate, once the home of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who died when his superyacht, Bayesian, sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak storm last August, is eerily quiet...
"Prince Harry gives astonishing interview about his father who 'won't speak to him' but claims he wants 'reconciliation' with his family because he has 'forgiven them'"
"The village of Bramshaw is stretched out for several miles along the B3079 road, with the church to the north, the hamlet of Brook to the south and Stock's Cross [the site of former stocks and gallows] at its centre."🎶 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramshaw