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Tuesday, December 6th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Linda Kinstler 1843 Magazine, May 15, 2022 “Though it may not be a cult, effective altruism is a kind of church – one that has become increasingly centralised and controlled over time.” In June 2017, Stern, a liberal German magazine, published an article, “Why your banker can save more lives than your doctor”, introducing […]
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Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò and Joshua Stein The Guardian, Nov. 16, 2022 ‘Earn to give’ appeals to those who have successfully chased high-risk investments like crypto.” Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent alleged fraud raises familiar questions about the reliability and regulation of cryptocurrency. But it also calls into question “effective altruism”, an intellectual movement in philanthropy. If the […]
Tuesday, December 6th 2022 / Tuesday, December 6th 2022
December 6, 2022 Doris Strub Epstein Samidoun, the “ Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,” is based in Vancouver and has chapters, and affiliates, with links worldwide. Since March 2021, Samidoun has registered as a not-for-profit organization in Canada. The organization advocates for “innocent” prisoners incarcerated in Israel’s jails. However, most of these prisoners are convicted […]
Annie Lowrey The Atlantic, Nov. 17, 2022 “The irony is rich: A movement devoted to addressing poverty encouraged its adherents to become as wealthy as possible.” The spectacular collapse of the cryptocurrency trading firm FTX has raised a number of urgent questions. Why did the founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, get such fawning media coverage? Will his […]
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New Yorker, Dec. 1, 2022 “If you’re personally affected by what’s happening, the community health team wants to be here for you. We’ve already heard from people who are feeling worried, angry, or sad.” One of the inevitable questions to have attended the abrupt undoing of the erstwhile billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried—the overnight collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, December 5th 2022
SCI-FI SCENARIOS American Anarchy, Chinese Control, International Intermediate: Balaji Srinivasan, The Network State.com, July 4, 2022 — Here we give a bit more detail on a sci-fi scenario in which the US descends into a chaotic Second American Civil War, the CCP responds with the opposite extreme of a total surveillance state that traps wealth in […]
Monday, December 5th 2022 / Monday, December 5th 2022
Joan Swirsky The Post & Mail, Oct. 12, 2022 “With all this success, it is no wonder that the lunatics who are running the insane asylum that is America today have inflicted their warped vision of the world on a tremendous number of people, thanks largely to a corrupt leftist media who are literally paid […]
J. Peder Zane, Real Clear Politics, Dec. 1, 2022 “The attacks on Musk shed light on a darker mystery of American life: Why did the left attack Trump so savagely? Yes, Trump is a coarse, combative man who has the same relationship with truth as a used-car salesman. But that hardly makes him an outlier […]
Kathryn Joyce Salon, Nov. 21, 2022 “Republicans’ disappointed hopes in the midterms are fueling an intellectual civil war over the future of the American right.” On a Friday night in early October, in a downtrodden city in eastern Ohio, a speaker laid out a grim vision. At the height of 2020’s first, most terrifying […]
B. Duncan Moench Tablet, Nov. 29, 2022 “There’s nothing sacred about 50-state America.” All national declines ebb and flow. The street violence and chaos of the summer of 2020 marked the moment the curtain was pulled back, the country’s true psychic state revealed for a single season before the curtain fell once more — […]
Friday, December 2nd 2022 / Friday, December 2nd 2022
“This was the entity that hacked into Equifax and literally collected information on close to 150 million Americans. In a world where the analogy is ‘data is the new oil,’ we should be concerned about all this data about American citizens ending up in the hands of the Communist Party of China.” – […]
Jonathan Frenkel Israel 21C, Sept. 8, 2020 “Sadly, anti-Semitism has also thrived on TikTok” As is the case with social media, the tide ebbs and flows when the newest application reaches the hands of digital natives. Facebook made way for Snap and Instagram, and now Instagram is yielding to the latest social media giant out of […]
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