Tucker interviewed Mike Benz, an extremely knowledgeable if also controversial conservative free speech advocate. His intel is troubling.
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Thursday, July 31, 2025
Mike Benz, Former State Department Head of Cyber Portfolio, Discusses Extent and Mechanisms of Censorship with Tucker Carlson
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 19 Comments »
Cult of the Drone: At the Two-Year Mark, UAVs Have Changed the Face of War in Ukraine – But Not Outcome
Small, cheap, explosives-laden drones are ubiquitous in the war in Ukraine, but how effective are they?
Topics: Europe, Guest Post, Russia, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 44 Comments »
Carmakers’ EV Enthusiasm Fizzles Out as Consumers Pull Back
Automakers are warning EV sales are falling short of the level needed to meet climate change containment goals. What to do?
Topics: Auto industry, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:21 am | 78 Comments »
Links 2/18/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 276 Comments »
European Governments Look for Ways to Send Ukrainian Refugees Home
Europe’s fatigue with hosting refugees coincides with Kiev’s desperation for soldiers.
Topics: Europe, Legal, Politics, Russia, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 31 Comments »
Dead Smoke Alarms, Moldy Rooms, Empty First Aid Kits: Farmworkers Endure Unsafe and Substandard Housing Across US
US agriculture workers are in desperate need of labor action as the employers (and regulators) do next to nothing to ensure safe working and living conditions.
Topics: Commodities, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 16 Comments »
Links 2/17/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 244 Comments »
IM Doc Warns of Coming Medical Dystopia in the US via Pervasive Recording of Visits, AI Test Ordering and Upselling
The coming horror of the loss of privacy and degradation of service via the brave new world of AI administered medicine.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 70 Comments »
Russiagate Revived in Latest MI6 Operation Against Russia — A Spy Alone Is Spy Baloney
Russiagate fever reaches a new pitch with a new supposed spook-tells-all tale of Russia fixing the Brexit vote.
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Russia, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:04 am | 34 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/16/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 131 Comments »
Bizarre Valedictory Interview by CalSTRS Investment Chief, Chris Ailman, Asks Private Equity to Be Nice and Share with Workers
A revealing, and not at all in a good way, discussion of private equity by departing CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Chris Ailman.
Topics: Credit markets, Dubious statistics, Income disparity, Investment management, Investment outlook, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 11 Comments »
Links 2/16/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 205 Comments »
France’s Macron Government Is Trying to Criminalise Criticism of Officially Recommended or Mandated Medical Treatments
A new escalation in the war on what governments deem to be medical mis-, dis- and mal-information appears to be under way.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 31 Comments »
Israeli Siege Has Placed Gazans at Risk of Starvation − Prewar Policies Made Them Vulnerable in the First Place
The more you look at the genocidal actions of Israel, the more the clear its abject lack of morality becomes.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Legal, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 28 Comments »
NYC Squeezing Migrants Out of Waiting Rooms, Effectively Forcing Them on to the Streets
NYC Mayor Adams wants to close overflow sites where migrants evicted from shelters sleep on the ground while waiting for a new cot
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:51 am | 12 Comments »