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Trump Wants Charlie Kirk to Be His Horst Wessel—Don't Give Him the Opportunity
The greatest tragedy of Kirk’s murder would be President Donald Trump successfully exploiting the senseless killing as a pretext to carry out a nationwide crackdown on the political left.
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The World Cannot Afford Electric Vehicles
If we embraced integrated public transport rather than the rush to fill our cities with EVs, there would be much more space for parks and society on foot.
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Critically Rethinking Minerals—and the Cost of Extraction
In the green transition, the IEA predicts lithium usage will rise by 40 times the current amount by 2050, while graphite, nickel and cobalt use will increase 20 times. Can we imagine a different future?
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Digging Deep into Trump's Aims to Annex Greenland
Behind the scenes, the billionaires backing Trump have serious plans to build a techno-futuristic, regulation-free city on Greenland to serve as a stepping stone to Mars.
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Minerals, Like Oil, Will Drive the Wars and Conflict this Century
Minerals touted as essential for the “Green Transition” are central in ongoing wars from Ukraine to Myanmar, and to Trump's ambitions to take over Canada and Greenland.
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Rug Pulls, Stable Coins and Selling the American Presidency
A rug pull occurs when a ‘meme’ or ‘shit’ coin is created, investors pour in, and the price spikes — at which point the early stakeholders sell and tank the coin’s value, as happened with the $TRUMP token.
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The Global Resistance to Musk Is Growing
One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.
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Elon Musk Has the Blood of 19 Kentuckians on His Hands
There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
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Elon Musk's Global Takeover as Information Overlord
Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.
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Confederacy of Dorks: Curtis Yarvin and the Techno-feudalists
Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.
