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1. “Lab-grown meat could erase the need for farming”

Professor Luke O'Neill of Trinity College gave an interview to the Show Me the Science podcast a few days ago, praising the rise of "lab-grown" or "cultivated" meat, and predicting it would spell the end of animal farming in the future. To emphasise the supposed need for this transition, the biochemist cited the widely-repeated cliché …

2. Technocracy Ascending-Part 5: The Common Good Utopia?

In Technocracy Ascending Part 4, Dark Enlightenment, the Neoreaction(NRx) movement, and accelerationism were exposed as the ideological forces behind the technocrats in the Trump administration. This installment investigates how both Eastern and Western technocrats are creating high-tech utopian societies that supposedly advance the common good of all. Howard Scott of Technocracy Inc. and his merry band of …

3. Mutant Rice and Bill Gates’s Lab Rats: Grand Experiments in India’s Fields 

In late 2024, Bill Gates sparked outrage in India after describing the country as "a kind of laboratory to try things" during a podcast with Reid Hoffman. Gates emphasised the nation's stability as a "testing ground" for global initiatives. His remarks were widely condemned. Social media erupted, with many Indians accusing Gates of reducing their …

4. Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town

"Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present." T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets "You can't repeat the past," says Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great …

5. Who Cares?

I constantly complain about how the sheep-folk don't see the world falling apart around them. They don't see the erosion of our freedom of speech rights, they don't see children being coerced into medications and "gender-affirming" surgery, and they don't see the unfairness in allowing men to compete in women's sports. They also obviously do …

6. Treebeard’s Razor: The Ents Weigh in on AI Art and Writing

There is still a lot of excitement about generative AI. Clearly then, not enough cold water has been thrown on it. I am here to help. First we need to equip ourselves with a philosophical razor, Treebeard's Razor. Treebeard is an Ent, a tree man character from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. …

7. WATCH: UK Censorship and the Future of BitChute

Ray Vahey, founder of BitChute.com, joins James Corbett to discuss the recently introduced UK Online Safety Act of 2023 and how it has forced BitChute to discontinue its video sharing service for UK residents. We discuss the history of the Online Safety Act, how it impacts all online platforms in the UK, and what concerned …

8. Inside CBDC’s Anti-Trump Rebrand

The planned rollout of a planet-wide network of "interoperable" digital currencies has shifted gears this year. Digital Currency is still the endgame, but – in keeping with the spirit of the age – it seems they are changing the method to create the illusion of sides and choices. We covered this briefly our most recent …

9. Let’s talk about…India vs Pakistan

Early this morning, the Pakistani government claimed the Indian military had launched missiles at several sites in Pakistan and the Pakistan-administered Kashmir region. India confirmed this story, claiming it had struck "terrorist infrastructure" in retaliation for the alleged terrorist attack carried out in Pahalgam on April 22nd. Pakistani officials counter-claimed there were no terrorists or …