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Dining & CookingMaison Vauron Celebrates 25 Years As New Zealand’s Home Of French Wine & Cheese <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2015878/maison-vauron-celebrates-25-years-as-new-zealands-home-of-french-wine-cheese/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.diningandcooking.com/2015878/maison-vauron-celebrates-25-years-as-new-zealands-home-of-french-wine-cheese/</a> #25 <a href="https://vive.im/tags/a%C5%9F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aş</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/aucklands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aucklands</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Cafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cafe</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/celebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow 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hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#housing</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/jeanchristophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jeanchristophe</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/lunch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lunch</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/MAISON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAISON</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/muchloved" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#muchloved</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/new" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#new</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/newmarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newmarket</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Of" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Of</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/peter" 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Chuck DarwinTop F.D.A. Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marks</a>, 💥abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robert</a> F. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kennedy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jr</a>.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was⚠️ irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather ❌he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Dr. Marks wrote to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sara</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brenner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brenner</a>, the agency’s acting commissioner.Dr. Marks resigned under pressure, according to a person familiar with the matter who said an official with the Department of Health and Human Services told Dr. Marks on Friday that 🔥he could either resign or be fired.Hours earlier in West Virginia, 👉Mr. Kennedy asserted that Covid did not kill healthy people, contrary to research showing that 30 percent of those who died early in the pandemic did not have underlying conditions. Mr. Kennedy has also extolled the value of 👉vitamin A as a treatment during a major measles outbreak in Texas, while downplaying the value of <a href="https://c.im/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a>. On Thursday, he announced that he was creating a new 👉office to study "vaccine injuries".<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/health/fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/health/fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Head·word /ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ n.[8½ years ago today]I found my <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/doppelganger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doppelganger</a> in a <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#painting</a>. The <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/cyrillic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyrillic</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/inscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inscription</a> makes me think he was called <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> and was a <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/missionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#missionary</a> in <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a>. | <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/typographyinthewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typographyinthewild</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typography</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russian</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/russiantypography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russiantypography</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/cyrillictypography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyrillictypography</a>(First posted 8 Sept. 2016 by me [@]munk_typography@instagram.com)<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/BestOfMyGrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BestOfMyGrams</a>

Chuck DarwinThe near-total freeze on foreign aid from the United States has many vocal detractors, but it also has passionate backers —and nowhere more so than in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s self-styled “illiberal democracy” has made him a darling of the global far right and an ally of President Donald Trump.Hungary recently escalated its efforts to stamp out pro-democracy groups and media organizations that rely on foreign funding by naming a government minister to investigate USAID’s activities. Today, that minister, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andr%C3%A1s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#András</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#László</a>, was received in Washington by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marocco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marocco</a>, the top American official disassembling the agency from the inside. The meeting, which was confirmed by a U.S. official and another person familiar with the gathering, reflects the convergence of interests between Budapest and Washington. Like the Trump administration, the Hungarian government has giddily embraced the idea that U.S. aid programs are not only wasteful and unnecessary but also criminal. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/hungary-joins-doge-effort/681923/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/hungary-joins-doge-effort/681923/</a>

GenomIncDas könnte echt gut werden, Sorgen macht mir nur das auch RTL mit im Boot ist. Ansehen werde ich mir die Serie aber bestimmt. <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/schweiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schweiz</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/srf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#srf</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/rtl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rtl</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Serie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Serie</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/heidi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heidi</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Berge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Berge</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Frankfurt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Frankfurt</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/klassiker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#klassiker</a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Buch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Buch</a> SRF und RTL bringen Neuauflage des Klassikers «Heidi» als Serie auf die Bildschirme - Medienportal - SRF <a href="https://medien.srf.ch/-/srf-und-rtl-bringen-neuauflage-des-klassikers-heidi-als-serie-auf-die-bildschirme" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://medien.srf.ch/-/srf-und-rtl-bringen-neuauflage-des-klassikers-heidi-als-serie-auf-die-bildschirme</a>

Chuck DarwinThis was <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>'s doing (co-founder of Facebook, pontificator that wealthy people should get more votes than poor people). Eliminating the opposition media, ending Wall Street investment in alternative media...that was all part of the plan leading up to this moment. <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_z4TGEhtdDA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_z4TGEhtdDA</a>

Bytes EuropeSailGP Auckland: Dylan Fletcher on return to Great Britain team and rivalry with Peter Burling and Blair Tuke <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/664370/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/664370/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/and" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#and</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/auckland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auckland</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blair</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Britain</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/burling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#burling</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/came" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#came</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/dylan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dylan</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/fletcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fletcher</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/fletchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fletchers</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/great" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#great</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreatBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatBritain</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/on" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#on</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peter</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/return" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#return</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/rivalry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rivalry</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/sailgp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sailgp</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/sense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sense</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/team" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#team</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/to" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#to</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tuke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tuke</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedKingdom</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/with" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#with</a>

Chuck Darwin“I personally feel like if you would like to stay with us, then I would ask if we could lay hands on you and pray,” a woman said.“We won’t hurt you,” another woman said.“We just take everything to God,” a woman sitting next to me said. “Don’t take it personally.”The praying began, and I waited for the judgment.How all of this came to be is a story with many starting points, the most immediate of which is Trump himself. In the lead-up to the 2016 election, establishment leaders on the Christian right were backing candidates with more pious pedigrees than Trump’s. He needed a way to rally evangelicals, so he turned to some of the most influential apostles and prophets of the NAR, a wilder world where he was cast as God’s “wrecking ball” and embraced by a fresh pool of so-called prophecy voters, people long regarded as the embarrassing riffraff of evangelical Christianity. But the DNA of that moment goes back further, to the Cold War, Latin America, and an iconoclastic seminary professor named <a href="https://c.im/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C</a>. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wagner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wagner</a>.He grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, and embraced a conservative version of evangelical Christianity when he was courting his future wife. They became missionaries in Bolivia in the 1950s and ’60s, when a wave of Pentecostalism was sweeping South America, filling churches with people who claimed that they were being healed, and seeing signs and wonders that Wagner initially dismissed as heresy. Much of this fervor was being channeled into social-justice movements taking hold across Latin America. Che Guevara was organizing in Bolivia. The civil-rights movement was under way in the United States. Ecumenical organizations such as the World Council of Churches were embracing the theology of liberation, emphasizing ideas such as the social sin of inequality and the need for justice not in heaven but here and now.In the great postwar competition for hearts and minds, conservative American evangelicals —and the CIA, which they sometimes collaborated with —needed an answer to ideas they saw as dangerously socialist. Wagner, by then the general director of the Andes Evangelical Mission, rose to the occasion. In 1969, he took part in a conference in Bogotá, Colombia, sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association that aimed to counter these trends. He wrote a book —"Latin American Theology: Radical or Evangelical?" —which was handed out to all participants, and which argued that concern with social issues “may easily lead to serving mammon rather than serving God.” Liberation theology was a slippery slope to hell.After that, Wagner became a professor at "Fuller Theological Seminary", teaching in the relatively experimental field of church growth. He began revisiting his experience in Bolivia, deciding that the overflowing churches he’d seen were a sign that the Holy Spirit was working in the world. He was also living in the California of the 1970s, when new religions and cults and a more freewheeling, independent, charismatic Christianity were proliferating, a kind of counter-counterculture. Droves of former hippies were being baptized in the Pacific in what became known as the "Jesus People" movement. Preachers such as John Wimber, a singer in the band that turned into the Righteous Brothers, were casting out demons before huge crowds. In the ’80s, a group of men in Missouri known as the "Kansas City Prophets" believed they were restoring the gift of prophecy, understanding this to be God’s natural way of talking to people.

Chuck DarwinPronomos Capital's Rogue Gallery<a href="https://c.im/tags/Patri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Patri</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Friedman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friedman</a> spent 10 years coding at Google, starting in 2004, and has run the angel fund ZIG since 2011. His personal investments include 💥Palantir (2009 => IPO 2020) and 💥Matterport (2011 => IPO 2021). In 2008, he founded the "Seasteading Institute" with seed funding from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>, In 2009 he started "Ephemerisle", the largest self-organizing festival on water, andIn 2011 he co-founded "Future Cities Development ", which had the first MOU for a modern charter city in 2012.Patri is on the board of the "Startup Societies Foundation" and advises a variety of new governance projects. He speaks and interviews regularly around the world. He has a BS in Math from Harvey Mudd, an MS in CS from Stanford, and an MBA.<a href="https://www.pronomos.vc/people" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pronomos.vc/people</a>

Chuck DarwinSteve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’Ex-Trump adviser denounces tech CEO’s embrace of some forms of immigration and vows to ‘take this guy down’In an escalation of discontent among the highest-profile far-right followers of Donald Trump, his former adviser Steve Bannon has called Trump’s newest favorite, Elon Musk, “racist” and a “truly evil guy”, pledging to “take this guy down” and kick him out of the Maga movement.In an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper in Italy, excerpts of which were publishedthis weekend by Breitbart, Bannon criticised Musk’s embrace of some forms of immigration and vowed to ensure that Musk does not have top-level access to the White House.“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon said. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it – I’m not prepared to tolerate it any more.”He added: “I will have Elon Muskrun out of here by inauguration day”, which falls on 20 January. “He will not have full access to the White House. He will be like any other person.”Musk became one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders, and certainly his richest, during the Republican’s ultimately successful campaign to regain the US presidency, spending reportedly about $270m and being rewarded with a place at Trump’s side ever since. After his victory Trump tapped Musk to help lead an advisory group theoretically dedicated to cutting US government spending by up to $2tn, a quarter of its entire budget.But Musk’s embrace of H-1B visas, which allow companies – such as Musk’s own SpaceX and Tesla – to hire skilled professionals and engineers from outside the US, has been taken badly by other Maga acolytes who are opposed to nearly all forms of immigration. Musk, who was born in South Africa, has himself held an H1-B visa.“This thing of the H-1B visas, it’s about the entire immigration system is gamed by the tech overlords. They use it to their advantage. The people are furious,” said Bannon, whom Trump fired from his White House position during his first administration but who later reinvented himself through his War Room podcast as one of the chief evangelists of the Maga movement.Bannon further widened his aim to attack Musk’s fellow tech giants <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sacks</a> for having South African heritage.“He [Musk] should go back to South Africa,” Bannon said. “Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”Arguing that Musk’s “sole objective is to become a trillionaire” and calling him a proponent of “techno-feudalism on a global scale”, Bannon said, “I don’t support that and we’ll fight it,” adding: “He won’t fight. He’s got the maturity of a little boy.“He will do anything to make sure that any one of his companies is protected or has a better deal or he makes more money.“His aggregation of wealth, and then – through wealth – power: that’s what he’s focused on.”<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alex</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a> is a multi-billionaire who serves as the CEO of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a>, a controversial software company that has been much more willing than some others in Silicon Valley to provide technology to Western governments for military and policing applications. The company has been described as “the West’s AI arms dealer” and criticized for its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Israel Defense Forces. Unlike his more famous Palantir co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>, a reactionary MAGA supporter, Karp describes himself as a socialist (he, like Elon Musk, seems to have some idiosyncratic personal definition in mind that has nothing in common with the socialist tradition). Some comments that Karp recently made at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute about why Democrats lost were widely recirculated online. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> described the clip of Karp speaking as “based” and it racked up millions of views. It’s framed as a critique of woke ideology, but it is in fact mostly an argument about U.S. foreign policy and as such is a very useful way to examine some common American myths that are used to justify what I consider to be an incredibly dangerous set of policies. Karp argues, essentially, for a philosophy that is often called (by its advocates) "peace through strength". He says that America needs to frighten its enemies, and that while the “Berkeley faculty” do not understand this, the Real Americans do, and thus an agenda that wins popular support will focus on keeping people safe against external threats. "Scare the enemy shitless" seems to be Point 1 of Karp’s thinking about foreign policy, Point 2 (the only other point) being, We In The West Are Better Than Other People, Who Are Bad And Want To Destroy Us. “We have a consistently pro-Western view that the West has a superior way of living and organizing itself, especially if we live up to our aspirations,” Karp said. This is how he justifies his company’s firm support of Israel, a stance that has caused some Palantir employees to quit as Israel has wiped out more and more of Gaza over the last year: “From my perspective, it’s not just about Israel… It’s like, ‘Do you believe in the West? Do you believe the West has created a superior way of living?’”I haven’t found Karp saying anything more sophisticated about foreign policy than these two talking points,* namely that the West is good and must be protected from the bad people, and that the way to do that is through threatening violence against not just those who hurt us, but also everyone from their “friends” to their “mistress.” Taken together, I think these add up to a highly irrational worldview that, if it is held by powerful people who may shape the future of U.S. foreign policy, endangers the entire future of human civilization. <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fables-of-weapons-dealers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fables-of-weapons-dealers</a>

Chuck DarwinRather than buying Greenland, Dryden Brown wondered whether he could work with the government to create a new city, purposefully built on uninhabitable land. “What if we can sort of build a prototype of Terminus?” he said, referencing Elon Musk’s preferred name for a city on Mars.A member of the Danish parliament was not amused. “Greenlandic independence requires approval by the Danish parliament and a change of our constitution,” politician Rasmus Jarlov tweeted. “I can guarantee you that there is no way we would approve independence so that you could buy Greenland.” But, if building a new city in Greenland were just a question of financials, Brown has the resources to do it — kind of. For the last five years, Brown, along with co-founder Charlie Callinan, has been at the helm of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Praxis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Praxis</a>, a network state startup with the explicit goal of creating a city. He emphasized Praxis as an internet-first ideology — one that has courted controversy, like when a Praxis member guide reportedly said that “traditional, European/Western beauty standards on which the civilized world, at its best points, has always found success.”Despite the controversy, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>-backed project recently raised $525 million, with a major asterisk: The startup has the ability to draw down the money as it hits specific milestones in its city-building project. So for now, Praxis is an internet ideology in search of a physical home. The group hosted 250 Praxis-supporters in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, earlier this month, where attendees like Bedrock’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Geoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geoff</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lewis</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mamuka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mamuka</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bakhtadze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bakhtadze</a>, former prime minister of Georgia, were presented with different location options for Praxis. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/i-went-to-greenland-to-try-to-buy-it-meet-the-founder-who-wants-to-re-create-mars-on-earth/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/i-went-to-greenland-to-try-to-buy-it-meet-the-founder-who-wants-to-re-create-mars-on-earth/</a>

Chuck DarwinBilderberg Group changes itself for the modern world – and return of Trump Several of Bilderberg's 31-member steering committee have senior roles in the defence industry. The billionaire former Google boss, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eric</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schmidt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schmidt</a>, chaired the recent National Security Commission on AI, and is now busy launching a kamikaze drone company aimed at the lucrative Ukraine market. Meanwhile, the hugely wealthy Swedish industrialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marcus</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wallenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wallenberg</a> is chair of defense manufacturer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Saab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saab</a>, which enjoyed a 71% boost in orders in the first nine months of 2024, largely due to the war with Russia. The tech luminary and Donald Trump insider <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> founded the fast-growing robotics company <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anduril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anduril</a> and the booming surveillance and AI giant <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a>. His loyal lieutenant <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alex</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a>, the CEO of Palantir, was voted on to the board of Bilderberg a few years ago. Karp, who claims his company is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine”, recently told the New York Times that the US will “very likely” soon be fighting a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran. In some respects, the geopolitical mood today is not so different from how it was in the 1950s, when Bilderberg was born.Top of the agenda at the first meeting in 1954 was “the attitude towards communism and the Soviet Union”, with the “strictly confidential” conference report referring repeatedly to “the communist threat”. Seventy years later, at the most recent summit in Madrid, the primary threat is “Russia”, which sat grimly at the foot of the conference agenda underneath “Ukraine and the world”, and “the future of warfare”.In 1954, the alliance was facing “the emergence ofcommunist imperialism”. In 2024, it’s up against what Stoltenberg calls “the emerging axis of autocrats”, headed by Russia, China and North Korea.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Stoltenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stoltenberg</a> and his successor as secretary general, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rutte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rutte</a>, were both at this summer’s Madrid meeting. Joining them in the conference hall were a clutch of high-up Pentagon officials and Nato’s second most senior military leader, US general <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cavoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cavoli</a>, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. It was Cavoli’s second conference, and he’s not the first Saceur to attend the talks: they’ve been coming along to strategise since the mid-60s. Bilderberg has always had close links with the military: its founders included senior members of British and American intelligence, and a previous Nato leader, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lord</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carrington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carrington</a>, chaired the group from 1990 to 1998.Even the shamefaced resignation of its founding chair, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prince</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bernhard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bernhard</a> of the Netherlands, had a military twist: he was caught up in the Lockheed bribery scandal of 1976, the only year (pre-Covid) that the conference was cancelled. And it’s telling that arguably the most dominant figure at Bilderberg in the last several decades was the grand strategist and warmonger, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Henry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Henry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kissinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kissinger</a>, who was lauded as a foreign policy genius by some and despised as a mass-murdering war criminal by others.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/jens-stoltenberg-bilderberg-group-trump-presidency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/jens-stoltenberg-bilderberg-group-trump-presidency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

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Chuck DarwinScientific racism today must be seen and rejected for what it truly is —a hollow attempt to dress discrimination in the garb of science and reasonAcross Europe and the U.S., racist and anti-immigrant groups have embraced long-discredited ideas that races constitute biologically separate groups differing in everything from intelligence to birthrate. With immigration a defining topic in fractious debates on both sides of the Atlantic, <a href="https://c.im/tags/scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientific</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> is now explicit in right-wing discourse.In October an exposé in the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper revealed a network dedicated to proliferating race science worldwide had received years of funding from Silicon Valley. That same month came Donald Trump’s comment decrying immigration as “a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” In June it was revealed that a U.K. Reform Party candidate had previously insisted that sub-Saharan Africans were lowering IQ in the country.But while its modern advocates rebrand scientific racism as “human biodiversity,” such insidious euphemisms are just attempts to give a veneer of respectability to hateful, pseudoscientific beliefs.These beliefs have a dark history tied to the racial pseudoscience of <a href="https://c.im/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eugenics</a>, and its popularity sadly continues unabated. On social media, avowed racists misrepresent genetic research to bolster the narrative that white people are intrinsically superior. In the rarefied world of Silicon Valley, race science has made a dark renaissance, elevated by Google and other search engines. (In response to a request for comment from Scientific American, a representative of Google cited a statement from the company that had been included in a Wired article on this subject: “Our goal is for AI Overviews to provide links to high quality content so that people can click through to learn more, but for some queries there may not be a lot of high quality web content available.”) Last year a then forthcoming book, "The Origins of Woke", by right-wing author <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Richard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hanania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hanania</a> was lauded by tech industry figures <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sacks</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>. That same year the Huffington Post reported that Hanania had previously written under a pseudonym for white supremacist websites.He then wrote an essay in which he claimed to give “an explanation for why I wrote such things, and why I no longer hold such views.” But critics suggest those views are reflected in his book and in racist comments he has continued to make, including his suggestions that people of color need aggressive policing and more incarceration. <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silicon-valley-is-reviving-the-discredited-and-discriminatory-idea-of-race/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silicon-valley-is-reviving-the-discredited-and-discriminatory-idea-of-race/</a>

Comic CrusadersPeter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare in Theaters 1/13/25-1/15/25 Only From Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios, the makers of Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 1 & 2, comes Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, a new entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe. Written and directed by Scott Chambers, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare arrives in theaters for... <a href="https://comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/comic-book-previews/peter-pans-neverland-nightmare-in-theaters-1-13-25-1-15-25-only/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/comic-book-previews/peter-pans-neverland-nightmare-in-theaters-1-13-25-1-15-25-only/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peter</a> pan <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movie</a>

INBELLA‘September 5’ movie relives horrifying Munich Olympics massacre <a href="https://www.inbella.com/803747/september-5-movie-relives-horrifying-munich-olympics-massacre/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.inbella.com/803747/september-5-movie-relives-horrifying-munich-olympics-massacre/</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/affiliate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#affiliate</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arts</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Benjamin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Benjamin</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BenjaminWalker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenjaminWalker</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/conflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conflict</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#documentary</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/DocumentaryFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DocumentaryFilms</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/DRAMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DRAMA</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/DramaFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DramaFilms</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Entertainment</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/EntertainmentNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EntertainmentNews</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#films</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hamas</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Jennings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jennings</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Jim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jim</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JimMcKay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JimMcKay</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/KylieJenner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KylieJenner</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/LOCAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LOCAL</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/LocalAffiliateArtsU0026Entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LocalAffiliateArtsU0026Entertainment</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/McKay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#McKay</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/neutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neutral</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/olympics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#olympics</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Overall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Overall</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/OverallNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OverallNeutral</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/PeterJennings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeterJennings</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/PeterSarsgaard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeterSarsgaard</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Sarsgaard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sarsgaard</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/u0026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#u0026</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Walker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Walker</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#War</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/WarU0026Conflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarU0026Conflict</a>

Chuck Darwin🆘 Your government is in the hands of super-rich people who never had to show anything to anybody! And you can bet they plan to run the country the same way they have run their companies: using shell games and pyramid schemes, fraud and shakedown, answerable to virtually no one.These are people who have thrived in a culture of unaccountability and self-dealing. They are also people who have convinced themselves that the accrual of wealth to themselves is a boon to the nation at large. They like to think of themselves as job creators, dynamic players in shaping the global economy. Because their magnificence exists to benefit us all, the reasoning goes, they need not show us the methods by which they perform their magic. And indeed we do all stand, mouths agape, at the show, dazzled by the 22,000-square-foot mansion (with a 6,200-square-foot guest house) that serves as the home address of secretary of education <a href="https://c.im/tags/Betsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Betsy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeVos</a>, or the 203-foot yacht (with an elevator inside) owned by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercer</a>, the Trump donor and patron of chief White House strategist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> K. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bannon</a>. (Mercer’s daughter, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rebekah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rebekah</a>, is said to have great influence in the West Wing.)The source of Mercer’s wealth is ♦️Renaissance Technologies LLC, a privately owned firm known as a hedge-fund sponsor, which was built by scientists who learned how to run algorithms that identify signals emanating from great masses of data in order to generate profitable financial trades. After Renaissance founder and math wizard James Simons, a big donor to Democratic candidates and political action committees, retired and kicked himself upstairs to serve as the company’s chairman, Mercer became co-CEO with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brown</a>, his longtime research partner.At the Renaissance office in East Setauket on New York’s Long Island, no sign is visible from the road to tell you you’ve arrived at the headquarters of a rare kind of casino —one that moves billions of dollars around the world. Thick plantings of trees obscure any view of the low-slung Renaissance building from the public side of the security gate.Renaissance is spectacularly successful —Investopedia named Renaissance Institutional Equities, the LLC’s largest entity, the top-performing hedge fund of 2016, after it yielded investors a return of 20 percent for the year. Mercer’s genius as a data and systems geek is part of the super-secret sauce of this “quant fund” that turned other people’s assets-minus-liabilities into riches for his investors. It’s like a very complicated version of counting cards at the blackjack table. But the best-performing fund at Renaissance is one that only its employees can join —and indeed they must in order to actualize their full compensation package. Bloomberg’s Katherine Burton described the employee-only Medallion fund as “finance’s blackest box.” <a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/what-we-do-is-secret-stan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thebaffler.com/salvos/what-we-do-is-secret-stan</a>

Chuck DarwinA dollar is a dollar is a dollar But some dollars are different, because of how their owners obtain them and move them about. These are the dark dollars of private companies, dollars slithery in their expert avoidance of taxes, their paths rendered invisible by the absence of footprints.Critics of the Trump White House point to the obscene levels of wealth that you find among the inner circle of President Trump’s appointees and associates. Just as striking, though, is the provenance of all this loose cash: Trump’s trusted advisers have come into much of this wealth through private companies, whose financial balance sheets and so much more are shielded from public view. At least ten of Trump’s close political associates, including some of his cabinet picks, hail from the carefully shrouded world of private capital.💥Private companies play by a different set of rules than those governing firms that trade their shares on stock exchanges. Unlike their publicly traded counterparts, private companies don’t have to worry about facing irate shareholders. That’s because a private company’s principals have chosen those shareholders, who are often drawn from a founder’s family. No proxy fights or hostile takeovers to worry about; no bending to the will of big institutional investors.This is not to say that there are no big donors to Democrats who don’t also get their dough from private companies. For example, Democrats have long enjoyed the largesse of the Pritzker family, who took their Hyatt Corporation public only in 2009. Until then, it was a closely held private company. But no Democratic administration was ever dominated by the owners of privately held entities, and no administration of either party has ever represented so much wealth derived from such secretive entities.👉Little in the way of financial disclosure is required of privately held companies. When it comes to financial regulation, these companies reap the benefit of the government’s failure to call them to account. The same is true of private companies as large as the Koch Industries conglomerate or as adorably tiny as a startup founded by a lone millennial in a stocking cap.Sanctums of PrivilegeThis is not a screed against private companies. As a red-blooded American, I revel in tales of heroic entrepreneurship —of hatched-in-the-garage ideas that yield their underdog executors an unlikely pot of gold. This is, rather, a scream, the wail of a blues tune sung to my fellow red-blooded Americans: 🆘 Your government is in the hands of super-rich people who never had to show anything to anybody! And you can bet they plan to run the country the same way they have run their companies: using shell games and pyramid schemes, fraud and shakedown, answerable to virtually no one.These are people who have thrived in a culture of unaccountability and self-dealing. They are also people who have convinced themselves that the accrual of wealth to themselves is a boon to the nation at large. They like to think of themselves as job creators, dynamic players in shaping the global economy. Because their magnificence exists to benefit us all, the reasoning goes, they need not show us the methods by which they perform their magic. And indeed we do all stand, mouths agape, at the show, dazzled by the 22,000-square-foot mansion (with a 6,200-square-foot guest house) that serves as the home address of secretary of education <a href="https://c.im/tags/Betsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Betsy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeVos</a>, or the 203-foot yacht (with an elevator inside) owned by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercer</a>, the Trump donor and patron of chief White House strategist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stephen</a> K. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bannon</a>. (Mercer’s daughter, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rebekah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rebekah</a>, is said to have great influence in the West Wing.)The source of Mercer’s wealth is ♦️Renaissance Technologies LLC, a privately owned firm known as a hedge-fund sponsor, which was built by scientists who learned how to run algorithms that identify signals emanating from great masses of data in order to generate profitable financial trades. After Renaissance founder and math wizard James Simons, a big donor to Democratic candidates and political action committees, retired and kicked himself upstairs to serve as the company’s chairman, Mercer became co-CEO with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brown</a>, his longtime research partner.At the Renaissance office in East Setauket on New York’s Long Island, no sign is visible from the road to tell you you’ve arrived at the headquarters of a rare kind of casino —one that moves billions of dollars around the world. Thick plantings of trees obscure any view of the low-slung Renaissance building from the public side of the security gate.<a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/what-we-do-is-secret-stan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thebaffler.com/salvos/what-we-do-is-secret-stan</a>

Chuck DarwinAttendees, with white-and-red gift bags and lanyards, knew to be closelipped when approached by hotel interlopers or by the Times reporter, who was not invited to the closed-press festivities. But a copy of the agenda listed remarks by several tech billionaires, including the Anduril co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palmer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Luckey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luckey</a> and the venture capitalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marc</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Andreessen</a>, who spoke about his support for deregulating technology and the mixed reaction in Silicon Valley to his endorsement of Mr. Trump, according to attendees.There were tech up-and-comers, too: Donald Trump <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jr</a>. announced at the welcome dinner that he was entering venture capital. And days before the president-elect chose Robert F. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kennedy</a> Jr. for health and human services secretary, Mr. Kennedy spoke extensively about his public-health work to a standing ovation. Ms. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiles</a> also led a session on “2024 Election Analysis,” where she gave a preview of Mr. Trump’s first days as president.“It’s the domestic ‘Davos in the desert,’” said the Rockbridge backer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Omeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Omeed</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Malik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Malik</a>, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh, and Donald Trump Jr.’s new business partner.➡️Rockbridge began with more humility. Back in 2019, Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vance</a>, then best known as the author of “Hilbilly Elegy,” and a conservative media figure named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buskirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Buskirk</a> began informally hosting a series of small dinners that would eventually become called Rockbridge. The group drew early support from the venture capitalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> and eventually caught the attention of Donald J. Trump, who spoke at a few meetings.Once in the fall and once in the spring, Rockbridge began to gather at places like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Fla., or the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas for three days of political panels and business networking. Speakers included people like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tucker</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carlson</a>; the Thiel protégé <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Masters</a>; the casino mogul <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steve</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wynn</a>; the investor <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sacks</a>; and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Woody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Woody</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Johnson</a>, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets.Not all attendees have politics at the top of their mind. Some are primarily interested in business, seeing Rockbridge as a conservative-tinged version of the elite Sun Valley conference.<a href="https://c.im/tags/RockbridgeNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RockbridgeNetwork</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RebekahMercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RebekahMercer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/KenHowery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KenHowery</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LukeNosek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LukeNosek</a>

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