The Grasp of the Persecuted upon our nations throat.

 

The Grasp of the Persecuted upon our nations throat.

A story to start:

My house is 6,700 miles away from your house. You pay for most of my bills. My family enjoys benefits like free health-care and college because you pay most of our bills.

Your family does not have free health-care or college because your parents say you can't afford it.

I have members of my family that live in your house. They bribe and blackmail members of your family to serve and place the interest of my house over yours.

All of your parents and media are loyal to me. My house will provide nothing to your house or family, at all.

I have convinced the spiritual members of your house to worship my family and house.

My house and family instigates troubles in our neighborhood all the time and when we are in trouble your house must travel 6,700 miles away to fight the enemies my house has made.

Even though my house caused these troubles it will be your family who dies for them and no, we won't provide any members of our family to assist you in the troubles we instigated.

If anyone in your house criticizes my house or family then your house should banish and brand them. Who am I?

To be poetic you are a python around our neck; we are a dying people!

We think often about how we got to this place. How by steps our people were brought this low and this near onto death.

We do recall better days than this; but these days we have many things of a more base nature, on our mind. Foremost of which is the stranglehold that Israel has over the Political process in the USA and most of the Anglo nations.

It is not healthy in the least. It is indicative of a death cult mentality that has taken hold of the inner man – I dare not call it soul – the mind, of our people here in the West. Animal robots – flesh without meaning. Material without purpose. Upside down inside out reality.

A few quotes will show you the DEATH CULT we are dealing with here:

“The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.”

― Max Horkheimer

They invert Life and Death: “To hate destructiveness one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life.”

― Theodor W. Adorno

"The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists. Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until ...'the white race' is destroyed—not 'deconstructed' but destroyed.” – Noel Ignatiev

This revolutionary subversion, is predicated upon a negation of self, a promotion of the other, a denial of the 'friend-foe' divide except when the elite need you at war with their never ending list of new Hitlers, and a willingness to die, like a dog for a society, that hates you, if you are, a young White Person, male. female, old or young -- it's about your race. Please grasp, that basic fact.

Those that hate you have rule over you. You are being worked, abused, and ground down slowly to your disadvantage under the guise of freedom and choice, to being abolished, destroyed, to sate these evil demons blood lusts. They are using you for a social experiment writ large.

All of this falsely called a blessing by the ever gas-lighting elite – and we wager they garner blessings from it – but you and I lad, and lasses we don't get much at all but complaints, charges, con artistry, and confusion for our continued never ending payment of the coin that keeps this filthy vulgar and vile realm afloat to our constant harm.

Our current status is as a zoo animal that won't eat, breed or function normally -- nominally alive but spiritually dead.

The modern world itself, is hostile to all life at a fundamental level and being anti-life it drains life from a person as it can. The very conditions where, we are supposed, to live in are taking life from our person, they are as drab and empty as the soulless gray housing blocks of the former Soviet Union's Eastern Block. Our freedoms so called are even more costly in time, effort and anxiety. We unlike the Soviet citizen have NO illusion of 'rent controls' or 'ensured housing'. No no. We are much more noble allowing fear of exposure to motivate.

Market Managerialism and Social Marxism: It is mostly a myth that they oppose. The idea that these two are 'foes' -- nay they are more like friends or fiends! Two sides of the same usurious coin. Look at the things much more keen!

For aside from a few petty differences, both the modern PC West and the former Soviet Block share, the same lifeless materialist, atheist, secular, humanist death cult rules – oh to be sure a different face or mask has been applied – but the same maniacal psychopathy is resident in our communist death cult as resides inside the logic of. any other communist killing spree waiting to happen. Godless, lifeless, soulless, devoid of higher impulse.

They are a Borg,a mushroom mat, nay a sponge; at any rates they are less a living viral man of valor and more a lifeless self denial machine who exists in equal mutual servitude to tyranny of the all over all.

This tyranny is of the most gross and debased sort lacking even a pretense of honor or dignity. It is purely transactional, and amoral. National matters are treated as being on par with those of an escort – purely as a matter of money paid – and we accept this as normal.

Nothing there is worthy of a man giving himself over to death willingly, thus they MUST and do rely upon force and mass of weight – WE NEED YOU TO DIE they will say – but you are not living I will reply!

But we are all the same they will reply – yes I know that is exactly why you are not worthy of dying for since you are all swine, dogs, pigs but not men!

The notion of human equality has a great lure – it allows for the ELITE to equally debase ALL to some 'equally' low level, while they also can get the people to agree to this debasement under the guise of Equal Rights. Absurd but true! All such constructs as 'all men' … No such Group … Men are not equal at creation. Not in any meaningful way. It is mystic HOO DOO about what ought to be, not reality.

Liberalism's great insanity is the 'universal' brotherhood of man. No such device exists in nature – it is fine word play but has no real world impart. However they will use real violence to INTOLERANTLY save tolerance as per Cultural Marxism which is liberalism freed from the bounds of 'bourgeoisie' culture ie taken to its animalistic violent logic's extreme as the norm. Thus the brotherhood must ever expand – all workers, all women too, all sodomites, all anything that is unhealthy, and will tend to lower the virility, and quality of the masses so as to make of them, a Janissary race, that can be used to enforce tolerance overseas ,for the market under the guise of World Policing, and other euphemisms that amount, to INTOLERANCE of other views, that reject the brotherhood. The Borg is a death cult that will have you hate your OWN BLOOD based upon lies and embrace those that hate you from Africa based on more lies.

The great lie of our age is that EVERY NEW 'enemy' is the NEW HITLER! They seek always more Hitlers like Don Quixote looking for dragons. They need this 'enemy' that denies the 'universal brotherhood' because it gives them the moral excuse to be the animals they believe themselves to be, and because it gives to them yet another subject to torture with more tabla rasa – they can make you into anything for the party Winston! They want you to be weak, small and servile when faced by them, but loud, vicious and cruel when ALLOWED by the masters to hate others – You are Orcs and the master is no less evil than Sauron.

Their ideal for you is to be as a dog that is hated but that will never the less die for the scraps. Browbeaten and beat down; they allow you to hate the enemy but you are NEVER allowed to judge the rulers the same way as the terrorists!

Truly blessed you are. Blessings in the form of being taxed to death to upkeep this system that both hates you as it drains, your life from you.

Deny the race card, holocaust hype and other white guilt self hate that makes you small. These concepts are designed to make you weak, small and servile – refuse this – be more. You only have to have the will to drop this world like a hot rock. Let it fall.

Drop this world upon its head; let it die. It is not your baby to care or raise but a FAIRY FOOL that was grafted off upon you … destroy it now before it drains, demeans, and destroys, you as it must. The nature of this world is that of a harpy – silence it – be free of it. Manly courage will set this right … your corpse can't be enslaved in a living death after all. They are NOT GODS! They are not God!

Their power ends at death. They do not provide life. You have nothing to lose but lies, suffering and pain, and so much to gain, all, everything! We have a world to gain my fellow galley slaves! Let us find our courage as Men of the West and SAY, and DO the things needed to be free.

Say it: This is a living death! I want free of this anti-White Anti-Christ death cult!

I want life, and my own person to be central not isms phobias and other jargon non-concepts! Just word play to induce doubt, fear and to maintain control. Do not be that person. Rise above it.

The Jargon flows to keep your mind under its sludge. Let it flow off thee, then your mind will be clearly able to see the thing that needs done more than any other thing. Let your mind become free of its clogging effects. Once you stop caring it will stop mattering. You will be liberated at a blow from a coterie of lies. And from the world's premier LAIR!

You will see that to do this you must face THE TABOO of the modern world: THE JEW! You must face that the JEW has used you, abused you, and seeks to destroy you long term. That the tale of WOE about the Holocaust, pogroms and the rest, is a SELF SERVING tale, meant to disarm you, in the face of their offenses, against your person, nation, and Faith.

Till you do that, you will just remain caught in the dialect of the false right versus left, never being able to rise above such petty concerns to greater horizons. You must steel yourself against the 'fiddle on the roof' antics, thus learning to be hard, manly virile folk who can not be ruled by lies, half truths and self serving facts.

It starts with you my man. It starts with realizing that if these haters of God, hate Christ and Hitler so much; then both to some degree will do you good. They hate all goodness and deny all truths living in an inverted upside down reality in which the pedestrian is exceptional and ugly drab horrors are picturesque pieces of perfection. They are those that push 'Piss Jesus' and “Poo Paint” as if it is normal healthy art, when in fact,it is ANTILIFE ANTICHRIST, hatred, for God and Man, in, and, to your face, as well, as allowing them the perverse pleasure of the degradation, of our art standards to below that of a savage Bantu tribesman. They always have many angles. Call them out! Say the truths!

Call out the fact that 80%+ of all congress members are bought by AIPAC. Call out the fact that they stand with a foreign power that hates Christ. Call out Millions in bribes that garners BILLIONS in public funds allocated by TREATY! Call out these corruptions! Let the heavens fall; but let, the TRUTH reign!

We must be able to say the truth to be able to see the truth and thus finally be able to do the deeds needed to settle matters in our favor.

To do any of this you must become immune to the lies, antics and tactics of the demon spawn that have dialectally edged their way into power over the West.

This dialect is expressed in the 'two party' system born out of the French Revolution as part of Faux Democracy – fact is that Marx had it correct Economic Powers rule not mass votes – mass votes by the 'parties' being a means to keep you stuck in a trap of false divides and meaningless differences. Shades of the Same Death Cult – Two sides of One Illusion of Control that has no substance of real power.

The vote for me, no vote for me, scam makes you think that you get a choice. Both sides have pre-selected, pre-vetted candidates who serve their money donors not the voters at large. Thus you get a 'choice' that amounts to NO CHOICE.

You have never 'voted' them out, thus stopping any long term plans by the elite as BOTH parties are at turns their worker bees.

I will quote the man that has instructed 3 generations of the 'elite':

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”

― Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

That is the ZOG's Official History … Or one of the 'stories' that they tell to each other at Ivy League.

There is NO 'parties' – only the Uniparty deep state. No other reality is truth. The 'republic' is a skinsuit being used by a doppelganger – it is no more real or living then any other random fictional character.

We live in an empire of lies – You are free, so much that others HATE you for those freedoms, TOP among these.

A web of intertwined hates, deceits and delusions.

The PC world can be so insane because it has for a time insulated itself inside a feathered nest of materialism; but once they have to live in nature again; it must all fail. And fail this system must for it is over-complex, under-maintained, and frankly produces a situation where those inside it cannot understand its functions given time. It is an idiocracy machine.

Let us be free of this modernist zoo slash prison slash brothel, to return to the Home. The Hearth. To remake a Heritage the celebrates LIFE in the form of Families with Children in Communities of Commonality of Purpose and Will. Let us unlearn the silly one human race lies that have brought us to ruin. Let us be happy and proud of our life as it exists. Then let us live lives that are worthy of men of honor and dignity.

You are the Patria, the root of the new nation, the root of the families that will be the 'roots' as a whole of the new nation. The First Father in the Flesh: This can be you. Lycurgus. Romulus. We can be just as such in the collective. We can band together and remake this into anything you will. Yes We can do this!

We can and will get this natural and desired end my lads. In fact God, nature and all goodness WANT you to get up off your comforts, motivate, and gain this great prize.

Dangling the apple is for the taking.

Only you can love yourself, your nation, and your God enough to do this for YOU. Nobody is swooping in to save you or hold your hands.

With that we present:

The White Pledge of Allegiance.

We pledge allegiance to OUR national flag which represents OUR people, Our Land, Our Values.

We pledge to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

We pledge to work for the Common Good as the Highest Good, as the founding fathers intended for these United States of America.

We pledge to fight for a free White republic of Good Character as was the vision of our fathers for their posterity.

We pledge to always to be vigilant against all threats to our liberty, prepared always and at all times to defend against all threats be they racial, social or economic, to uphold the Constitution as the law of the land, and to keep OUR nation under the one True God.

We pledge to inculcate as part of education of our citizens the skills needed for self-determination, without such skills OUR nation as devised cannot function.

We pledge to Reclaiming America for our People alone, thus creating our place in the Sun, our National State as our Ultimate Goal.

We further pledge our sacred Honor to searching out and destroying those who wish to harm OUR nation, it's people, and most importantly our peoples' Posterity.

In effect we will be guided by these simple concepts:

… in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish … What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Truth must be your ally and weapon. God your final appeal.

PC is a disease

PC is a disease

It was custom crafted as a weapon against the West and its people. It grew first out of an odd variant of Marxism, which was taken up by 'Fabian' style elite socialists here in the USA, at the elitist schools, after the Frankfurters came to America. These folks then took over academia, media, and bureaucracy, then as now allied with the Big Business boys – the sons of whom where their first and most fervent 'converts' – This duo acted together upon our People by way of government power bought corruptly or had by subversion. They have since that time almost destroyed our identities, our pride, our nations, our … History. The General pattern is the same with minor changes all over the West.

Basically our Nations are being made weak on purpose by this duo so that they can tolerate being impoverished like a multicultural serf while they work harder and longer than diversity as tax slaves for and subjects to PC.

PC did not just appear from the ether. It is the bastard off spring of Consumerism and Marxism with a bit of Feminism, Freud, and Maoist group think for good measure! It is a Spiritual-Emotional-Physical package designed to open Nations up to be sold to the Market while they are destroyed by witch-crafts and polluted by abomination, gluttony, greed, lusts of all sorts, and generally reduced material minded lowly vile servile brutes and beasts.

It took serious funding, serious time, and serious manpower to create. And no it is NOT Obama, Bush or Clinton, or any other politician at all! – The Fact is that the US President, Congress and Courts belongs to the Money Power. The Money Power is that shady lot whose word is as good as gold, and who get to magically produce money by whim for private profits … The FED and Bank of England are two branch locations of the Money Power, among many many others.

The Money Power OWNS both the organized conservatives and liberals – lock stock and barrel. It funds almost every major think tank and public voice we hear that.

It OWNS the media, the colleges, and the Market: Which are all used to further its own power over us.

This power RULES the USA from behind both 'major' parties using Political Correctness as Its Sword and Shield. Both the Mainstream Right and Left have kowtowed to PC and its main backer the Money.

Do you think this power would allow PC if it was threatened by PC? Think about that folks: Why would such a big dog tolerate this yapping PC mutt unless … It was its MOTHER!

Thus since PC has serious funding: The Money Power is Behind PC even though the Far Left fronts its social dimensions most fully in public. Just as the Money Power are behind Market deregulation off shoring and in sourcing of labor even though the Country Club GOP Front that in public to take the heat off the Left while they run the social experiment called Multicult Political Correctness. Which terms are largely used as a synonym for 'Cultural Marxism' which is a theory based of the works of Gramsci, Ardono, Marx, Lenin, Kautsky, Leon Trotsky with Freud, Feminism and Consumerism tossed in as the leavening to ensure 'consensus' agreement about its dogmas. It posits that social power and not ecnomic class is the 'battle' and that to win the 'progressive' IE left-gay-matriarchy-feminist-anti Western-side should 'march through our institutions. First securing a foothold, then taking them over, and then finally warping their use, rewriting the facts about their history if need be and using those institutions to effect change in line with the Marxist Dialectic.

The pillars of CM or PC are enforced 'Equality' of outcomes regardless of the reality of inequality of inputs. While normal people can see that sometimes people cheat and sometimes they are better, to PC any victory by anyone is cheating. Seeing anything else 'proves' to PC people that you are racist, mean, hateful and otherwise a witch in Salem.

Here we should like to introduce the concept of 'more equal' see all are equal but 'minorities' are more equal than majorities, Female are more equal than males, coloreds than Whites, and the world is more equal than First world Christian Societies.

Basically our way of life is perfectly equal and perfectly equally unequal at the same time! See: Animal Farm, the more than equals are the pigs and you the Western Peoples are Boxer the soon to be glue not more than equals! Now to continue on.

Multiculturalism is based on the theory that if all cultures are the same then ours has no value and only others can 'enrich' us while we are just plain, boring and have nothing but labor, taxes and a place for minorities to enrich us with crime, poverty and disease in return.

Toleration means acceptance by the Majority population for the acts of the PC Marxist subversives, their protected minorities and really anyone but the not-more-than-equals, while the-more-than-equals are expected and required to have NO toleration for Majority values, ways, wants, concerns or even their very persons, because in truth Majority Western Peoples are actually enriched when murdered by a vibrant, ask the New York Times about it!

And for those that think I have forgot the money counters … never forget this all brings chaos and chaos brings the chance to hustle up Profit$ while the natives are distracted, and to profit like maggots off the common man's misfortune under this blissfully insane belief system.

Diversity by which is meant Less Majority Western Peoples. The PC Big Money folks NEVER call for more diversity in the Third World, in fact Our going there is 'colonialism' and evil! But their coming here is 'economic migration' and a Uman Right no less! So Some 'diversity' good some 'more good' … immigration is all equal but some is more equal.

Now most people on the Right or Center stop here, and pretend that Big Business and the Market IE Wall Street and the FED are not in on this, or are 'victims' when in fact they are core conspirators. Who ripped us off just a few years ago for trillions? Which imploded our economies and is driving more mass immigration? Not the leftist that is for sure! So lets be very very clear: The right hand is washing the left while the left dries the right. They are part of ONE body which is centered upon $$$. Mass immigration is the means to ensuring low wages, no benefits, and apathy among the masses. For the BB Boys it is a god send, one that they and the PC left want and will for as long as they share power in the 'two party' mockery of a Government.

Essentially the PC Leftists hijacked, with big money help – no get this I can document this – the academia, media, bureaucracies at all levels, then allied with the big business folks (who then and now care about ONE thing and that is increased profits, Nations, Peoples, Families are JUST units to be traded, sold and cut up into pieces to be traded and sold!) to open the flood gates to immigration for the one, while they went to work 'transforming our nation' and thus we now have SOP of the Off Shoring In Sourcing PC for Profits Show we call society. This is why the Fortune 500 crowd are 100% okay with PC, egalitarianism, and the rest of Multiculturalism – they only care about MONEY and would sell their mother to get it. Loyalty to anything but money and 'happiness' is utterly foreign to their mind set.

Thus what is clear is that NOBODY cares about the Majority Citizen who is being cut up and sold like so much Roman Debtor!

To hammer this home: The 'market' and the 'communists' are in a waltz together! They sit playing cards using your blood, heritage and nations as tokens. They have sold you by their witch-crafts into whoredom! Let that soak in a bit.

The Market gets to squeeze the Lawful Citizens us from behind government, and with government protection, and store the profits off shore. To use to plot against the Lawful Citizens using 'The World' as a base of operations.

The Leftoid folks get to boil the pot slowly, as they destroy the identity and soul of the American People to replace them with robot coffee colored cheap laborers, who are not citizens but merely serfs, whom the citizens are taxed to support, again from behind the mask of government power.

The media covers for both sides, pitching stupid nonsense at the proles to keep them stupid and ill informed.

The academia preaches the 'truth of it'; it being anything the two allies need today … even if they logic conflict they are BOTH true, and you are racist if you disagree, under PC!

Thus the Majority Population are drowning under lies told to make them accept coolies, cheap products made and served up by coolies at Sweatshopmart, poverty and coolies as permanent house guests and coolie laborers who will work for pennies on the dollar under bidding us for our bread. And those lies are systemic and come from all sides at all times with NO dissenting voices of note.

Thus the Right and Left both get their pound of flesh from the Common Man who is crushed in the middle of this coolie cult onslaught!

These coolie laborers then serve as an excuse to under pay Nature Born Citizens, and generally further run us all down in an absurd race to third world pay scales. Also the Left can denounce you as racist for Not wanting to give up your land, homes, schools, churches, jobs, and Identity to coolies as holding anything back – even if the try and take it by force – is after all Racism.. and that my good man is worse than death … ask that girl that was light for her 'sin' of being white!

Thus in the end We assert that PC is the Dogmatic Religion of Mass Internal Displacement, Tolerance of Insult, And The Doom of Our People, which the Right and Left both support at the National Level.

Reject the Death Cult of Modernity: Reject PC! Don't be a Tool reject PC too!

Diversity is Doom with an I! Doomed are we with Diversity!

Toleration for PC is toleration of Strangulation!

Reject it you, don't be a strangled fool!

PC has Nothing to add, no merit on its side, a price we cannot abide, so it must subside. To leave this land never to again reside.

Rejected in toto, rejected into eternity!

Now if you please we shall keep our rightful Majority!

And that will end our inquiry into PC versus the Lawful Citizenry!

The origins of Political Correctness:

 

The origins of Political Correctness:

Variations of this speech have been delivered to various AIA conferences including the 2000 Consevative University at American University

Where does all this stuff that you’ve heard about this morning – the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it – where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic.

We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture of pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they would be afraid of what words they used. But we now have this situation in this country. We have it primarily on college campuses, but it is spreading throughout the whole society. Were does it come from? What is it?

We call it “Political Correctness.” The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.

If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.

First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted “victims” groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.

Indeed, all ideologies are totalitarian because the essence of an ideology (I would note that conservatism correctly understood is not an ideology) is to take some philosophy and say on the basis of this philosophy certain things must be true – such as the whole of the history of our culture is the history of the oppression of women. Since reality contradicts that, reality must be forbidden. It must become forbidden to acknowledge the reality of our history. People must be forced to live a lie, and since people are naturally reluctant to live a lie, they naturally use their ears and eyes to look out and say, “Wait a minute. This isn’t true. I can see it isn’t true,” the power of the state must be put behind the demand to live a lie. That is why ideology invariably creates a totalitarian state.

Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness, like economic Marxism, has a single factor explanation of history. Economic Marxism says that all of history is determined by ownership of means of production. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, says that all history is determined by power, by which groups defined in terms of race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups. Nothing else matters. All literature, indeed, is about that. Everything in the past is about that one thing.

Third, just as in classical economic Marxism certain groups, i.e. workers and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness certain groups are good – feminist women, (only feminist women, non-feminist women are deemed not to exist) blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups are determined to be “victims,” and therefore automatically good regardless of what any of them do. Similarly, white males are determined automatically to be evil, thereby becoming the equivalent of the bourgeoisie in economic Marxism.

Fourth, both economic and cultural Marxism rely on expropriation. When the classical Marxists, the communists, took over a country like Russia, they expropriated the bourgeoisie, they took away their property. Similarly, when the cultural Marxists take over a university campus, they expropriate through things like quotas for admissions. When a white student with superior qualifications is denied admittance to a college in favor of a black or Hispanic who isn’t as well qualified, the white student is expropriated. And indeed, affirmative action, in our whole society today, is a system of expropriation. White owned companies don’t get a contract because the contract is reserved for a company owned by, say, Hispanics or women. So expropriation is a principle tool for both forms of Marxism.

And finally, both have a method of analysis that automatically gives the answers they want. For the classical Marxist, it’s Marxist economics. For the cultural Marxist, it’s deconstruction. Deconstruction essentially takes any text, removes all meaning from it and re-inserts any meaning desired. So we find, for example, that all of Shakespeare is about the suppression of women, or the Bible is really about race and gender. All of these texts simply become grist for the mill, which proves that “all history is about which groups have power over which other groups.” So the parallels are very evident between the classical Marxism that we’re familiar with in the old Soviet Union and the cultural Marxism that we see today as Political Correctness.

But the parallels are not accidents. The parallels did not come from nothing. The fact of the matter is that Political Correctness has a history, a history that is much longer than many people are aware of outside a small group of academics who have studied this. And the history goes back, as I said, to World War I, as do so many of the pathologies that are today bringing our society, and indeed our culture, down.

Marxist theory said that when the general European war came (as it did come in Europe in 1914), the working class throughout Europe would rise up and overthrow their governments – the bourgeois governments – because the workers had more in common with each other across the national boundaries than they had in common with the bourgeoisie and the ruling class in their own country. Well, 1914 came and it didn’t happen. Throughout Europe, workers rallied to their flag and happily marched off to fight each other. The Kaiser shook hands with the leaders of the Marxist Social Democratic Party in Germany and said there are no parties now, there are only Germans. And this happened in every country in Europe. So something was wrong.

Marxists knew by definition it couldn’t be the theory. In 1917, they finally got a Marxist coup in Russia and it looked like the theory was working, but it stalled again. It didn’t spread and when attempts were made to spread immediately after the war, with the Spartacist uprising in Berlin, with the Bela Kun government in Hungary, with the Munich Soviet, the workers didn’t support them.

So the Marxists’ had a problem. And two Marxist theorists went to work on it: Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary. Gramsci said the workers will never see their true class interests, as defined by Marxism, until they are freed from Western culture, and particularly from the Christian religion – that they are blinded by culture and religion to their true class interests. Lukacs, who was considered the most brilliant Marxist theorist since Marx himself, said in 1919, “Who will save us from Western Civilization?” He also theorized that the great obstacle to the creation of a Marxist paradise was the culture: Western civilization itself.

Lukacs gets a chance to put his ideas into practice, because when the home grown Bolshevik Bela Kun government is established in Hungary in 1919, he becomes deputy commissar for culture, and the first thing he did was introduce sex education into the Hungarian schools. This ensured that the workers would not support the Bela Kun government, because the Hungarian people looked at this aghast, workers as well as everyone else. But he had already made the connection that today many of us are still surprised by, that we would consider the “latest thing.”

In 1923 in Germany, a think-tank is established that takes on the role of translating Marxism from economic into cultural terms, that creates Political Correctness as we know it today, and essentially it has created the basis for it by the end of the 1930s. This comes about because the very wealthy young son of a millionaire German trader by the name of Felix Weil has become a Marxist and has lots of money to spend. He is disturbed by the divisions among the Marxists, so he sponsors something called the First Marxist Work Week, where he brings Lukacs and many of the key German thinkers together for a week, working on the differences of Marxism.

And he says, “What we need is a think-tank.” Washington is full of think tanks and we think of them as very modern. In fact they go back quite a ways. He endows an institute, associated with Frankfurt University, established in 1923, that was originally supposed to be known as the Institute for Marxism. But the people behind it decided at the beginning that it was not to their advantage to be openly identified as Marxist. The last thing Political Correctness wants is for people to figure out it’s a form of Marxism. So instead they decide to name it the Institute for Social Research.

Weil is very clear about his goals. In 1971, he wrote to Martin Jay the author of a principle book on the Frankfurt School, as the Institute for Social Research soon becomes known informally, and he said, “I wanted the institute to become known, perhaps famous, due to its contributions to Marxism.” Well, he was successful. The first director of the Institute, Carl Grunberg, an Austrian economist, concluded his opening address, according to Martin Jay, “by clearly stating his personal allegiance to Marxism as a scientific methodology.” Marxism, he said, would be the ruling principle at the Institute, and that never changed.
The initial work at the Institute was rather conventional, but in 1930 it acquired a new director named Max Horkheimer, and Horkheimer’s views were very different. He was very much a Marxist renegade. The people who create and form the Frankfurt School are renegade Marxists. They’re still very much Marxist in their thinking, but they’re effectively run out of the party. Moscow looks at what they are doing and says, “Hey, this isn’t us, and we’re not going to bless this.”

Horkheimer’s initial heresy is that he is very interested in Freud, and the key to making the translation of Marxism from economic into cultural terms is essentially that he combined it with Freudism. Again, Martin Jay writes, “If it can be said that in the early years of its history, the Institute concerned itself primarily with an analysis of bourgeois society’s socio-economic sub-structure,” – and I point out that Jay is very sympathetic to the Frankfurt School, I’m not reading from a critic here – “in the years after 1930 its primary interests lay in its cultural superstructure. Indeed the traditional Marxist formula regarding the relationship between the two was brought into question by Critical Theory.”

The stuff we’ve been hearing about this morning – the radical feminism, the women’s studies departments, the gay studies departments, the black studies departments – all these things are branches of Critical Theory. What the Frankfurt School essentially does is draw on both Marx and Freud in the 1930s to create this theory called Critical Theory. The term is ingenious because you’re tempted to ask, “What is the theory?” The theory is to criticize. The theory is that the way to bring down Western culture and the capitalist order is not to lay down an alternative. They explicitly refuse to do that. They say it can’t be done, that we can’t imagine what a free society would look like (their definition of a free society). As long as we’re living under repression – the repression of a capitalistic economic order which creates (in their theory) the Freudian condition, the conditions that Freud describes in individuals of repression – we can’t even imagine it. What Critical Theory is about is simply criticizing. It calls for the most destructive criticism possible, in every possible way, designed to bring the current order down. And, of course, when we hear from the feminists that the whole of society is just out to get women and so on, that kind of criticism is a derivative of Critical Theory. It is all coming from the 1930s, not the 1960s.

Other key members who join up around this time are Theodore Adorno, and, most importantly, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse. Fromm and Marcuse introduce an element which is central to Political Correctness, and that’s the sexual element. And particularly Marcuse, who in his own writings calls for a society of “polymorphous perversity,” that is his definition of the future of the world that they want to create. Marcuse in particular by the 1930s is writing some very extreme stuff on the need for sexual liberation, but this runs through the whole Institute. So do most of the themes we see in Political Correctness, again in the early 30s. In Fromm’s view, masculinity and femininity were not reflections of ‘essential’ sexual differences, as the Romantics had thought. They were derived instead from differences in life functions, which were in part socially determined.” Sex is a construct; sexual differences are a construct.

Another example is the emphasis we now see on environmentalism. “Materialism as far back as Hobbes had led to a manipulative dominating attitude toward nature.” That was Horkhemier writing in 1933 in Materialismus und Moral. “The theme of man’s domination of nature,” according to Jay, ” was to become a central concern of the Frankfurt School in subsequent years.” “Horkheimer’s antagonism to the fetishization of labor, (here’s were they’re obviously departing from Marxist orthodoxy) expressed another dimension of his materialism, the demand for human, sensual happiness.” In one of his most trenchant essays, Egoism and the Movement for Emancipation, written in 1936, Horkeimer “discussed the hostility to personal gratification inherent in bourgeois culture.” And he specifically referred to the Marquis de Sade, favorably, for his “protest…against asceticism in the name of a higher morality.”

How does all of this stuff flood in here? How does it flood into our universities, and indeed into our lives today? The members of the Frankfurt School are Marxist, they are also, to a man, Jewish. In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany, and not surprisingly they shut down the Institute for Social Research. And its members fled. They fled to New York City, and the Institute was reestablished there in 1933 with help from Columbia University. And the members of the Institute, gradually through the 1930s, though many of them remained writing in German, shift their focus from Critical Theory about German society, destructive criticism about every aspect of that society, to Critical Theory directed toward American society. There is another very important transition when the war comes. Some of them go to work for the government, including Herbert Marcuse, who became a key figure in the OSS (the predecessor to the CIA), and some, including Horkheimer and Adorno, move to Hollywood.

These origins of Political Correctness would probably not mean too much to us today except for two subsequent events. The first was the student rebellion in the mid-1960s, which was driven largely by resistance to the draft and the Vietnam War. But the student rebels needed theory of some sort. They couldn’t just get out there and say, “Hell no we won’t go,” they had to have some theoretical explanation behind it. Very few of them were interested in wading through Das Kapital. Classical, economic Marxism is not light, and most of the radicals of the 60s were not deep. Fortunately for them, and unfortunately for our country today, and not just in the university, Herbert Marcuse remained in America when the Frankfurt School relocated back to Frankfurt after the war. And whereas Mr. Adorno in Germany is appalled by the student rebellion when it breaks out there – when the student rebels come into Adorno’s classroom, he calls the police and has them arrested – Herbert Marcuse, who remained here, saw the 60s student rebellion as the great chance. He saw the opportunity to take the work of the Frankfurt School and make it the theory of the New Left in the United States.

One of Marcuse’s books was the key book. It virtually became the bible of the SDS and the student rebels of the 60s. That book was Eros and Civilization. Marcuse argues that under a capitalistic order (he downplays the Marxism very strongly here, it is subtitled, A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, but the framework is Marxist), repression is the essence of that order and that gives us the person Freud describes – the person with all the hang-ups, the neuroses, because his sexual instincts are repressed. We can envision a future, if we can only destroy this existing oppressive order, in which we liberate eros, we liberate libido, in which we have a world of “polymorphous perversity,” in which you can “do you own thing.” And by the way, in that world there will no longer be work, only play. What a wonderful message for the radicals of the mid-60s! They’re students, they’re baby-boomers, and they’ve grown up never having to worry about anything except eventually having to get a job. And here is a guy writing in a way they can easily follow. He doesn’t require them to read a lot of heavy Marxism and tells them everything they want to hear which is essentially, “Do your own thing,” “If it feels good do it,” and “You never have to go to work.” By the way, Marcuse is also the man who creates the phrase, “Make love, not war.” Coming back to the situation people face on campus, Marcuse defines “liberating tolerance” as intolerance for anything coming from the Right and tolerance for anything coming from the Left. Marcuse joined the Frankfurt School, in 1932 (if I remember right). So, all of this goes back to the 1930s.

In conclusion, America today is in the throes of the greatest and direst transformation in its history. We are becoming an ideological state, a country with an official state ideology enforced by the power of the state. In “hate crimes” we now have people serving jail sentences for political thoughts. And the Congress is now moving to expand that category ever further. Affirmative action is part of it. The terror against anyone who dissents from Political Correctness on campus is part of it. It’s exactly what we have seen happen in Russia, in Germany, in Italy, in China, and now it’s coming here. And we don’t recognize it because we call it Political Correctness and laugh it off. My message today is that it’s not funny, it’s here, it’s growing and it will eventually destroy, as it seeks to destroy, everything that we have ever defined as our freedom and our culture.

What do I gain by Multicultural Society, Civil Rights and Democracy?

 From the TOP CUCKS:

Name one Objective GOOD that CIVIL RIGHTS DID FOR ME as a WHITE MALE?

What did I gain by this 'fairness' to others?

Not a thing!

You will try feel good bs ... I can't spend, eat or sleep warmly at night based on feelings! Feelings are a SUBSTITUTE for real rewards!

The Civil Rights act 'righted wrongs' ... So what? I don't care if others were 'wronged' only that I am DISADVANTAGED!

Name one Objective GOOD that CIVIL RIGHTS DID

FOR ME as a WHITE MALE?

What did I gain by this 'fairness' to others?

Muh Equality under Law? No such device exists in nature -- equality is a liberal 'value' not an existential fact.

Rule of law? Law is merely a means of rule not some idealized system of 'justice' -- that too is prole fantasy.

Why all the FETISH for the 'rule of law' ... Lawyers are two faced lying merc trash, and all judges are Lawyers.

That simple.

#RuleOfLaw is a woo for low IQ proles! Everyone else understands it is just the RULE OF LAWYERS!

Democracy? LOL ... #American #Democracy: Elections are rigged from start to finish, voters are an accessory not a necessity.

But we need 'citizens' to pay taxes upon the debts they will say!

Simply Default.

Nationalize the Bank.

Cancel all NON-citizen 'debts'. https://old.bitchute.com/video/wf02WJVvHo8F/

A people came up out of the sea,

 A people came up out of the sea, put the native inhabitants in open air prisons, then colonized the land, under pretense of a land 'deal' signed by the Almighty in the form of the 'out of the sea take the land book'. They came with a note from a guy from 'Far Off' and a Vote by 'Do Live Theres' that said, "Surely this claim is not modern Piracy. No. No."

And we are forced in this land, my land, to back the out of the Sea Land Thieves, who use fire from the AIR to kill children -- because -- ONCE it is alleged that they too were BURNT WHOLE as an OFFERING to 'hate' -- so that gives them carte blanche to hate all life or you hate life!

We must support them or we are 'haters' that need bombed like the prison camp children.

It is surreal, yet it is our daily reaIity. Twisted and corrupting it is, all of us suffering under this IMMORALITY -- we are guarantors of this theft. We back with FORCE the claim to what is not theirs -- we keep others in camps for the Out of the Sea Race.

They in effect are the Effendi of this Porte -- the Rulers of the hamster wheel Game called 'life' today -- they control the money, the media, market, jobs and learning -- near monopoly on all 'arts' to the decline of our mental horizons to just above those folks keep in open air prisons, as we cheer as they are bombed in the name of 'mercy' and 'love' ... It is Satanic and Inverted.

Support us they will say, we are powerless, so you will support us OR we will use our 'powerlessness' to have your debanked, fired, socially hounded, and ostracized all in the name of 'what is good for us' being the ONLY GOOD ALLOWED ... Hater. The power of the Powerlessness is potent.

Even mentioning the Fact of this power is still very much taboo, with the plebs self censoring to make believe that it is anything but the '____' who (((rule))) over us.

Automated Tyranny, becoming the NORM.

 Automated Tyranny, becoming the NORM.

They do not want to pay employees to enslave you;

robots are their bets!

Who the Tech Boy Jews.

The Jews who bought power like they do every election.

That is all ther is to know -- they will never leave us be

until we force them to leave off!

Coming up -- Data bases, Automated Death, Normal

Data Monitoring ... Real Time Spying!

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Silicon Valley's military ambitions

Tech companies are replacing military contractors with

AI, drones and battlefield systems

Silicon Valley is "finally getting its chance" to sell its

vision to the Pentagon, said Paolo Confino in Fortune.

Last month, President Trump signed several executive

orders to "streamline how the Department of Defense

acquires new defense systems," putting pressure on

existing contractors whose creaky systems are

overbudget and overdue. Silicon Valley has been the

engine of innovation for the United States for decades.

But it has long complained that Washington bureaucracy

left tech companies "unable to compete with existing

military contractors." In the Trump administration, tech

firms have "found a welcome audience" willing to "take

a page from their playbook."

Tech players are rapidly changing the model of warfare,

said Lizette Chapman in Bloomberg. "Instead of dozens

or even hundreds of soldiers supporting one $100

million system, one soldier using AI software could

command dozens of cheap, autonomous weapons."

That, at least, is the promise pitched by Palantir, which

recently beat out RTX Corp. for a $178 million mobile

military command contract, "the first time a software

company" has taken "the lead role on a battlefield

system." Anduril, another California startup, is raising

billions of dollars to fuel the manufacturing of "a

lengthening list of weapons, wearables, and surveillance

systems." CEO Palmer Luckey is positioning his

company as the counter to China's military, which is

rapidly moving from "hyper-sonic and self-guided

missiles to drone swarms that can augment or someday

replace manned fighter jets."

"We are entering a new era where machines go to war,"

said Zoë Corbyn in The Guardian. This has produced a

need for the innovation that the legacy stalwarts, like

Boeing and Lockheed Martin, can't provide. The U.S.

now "has more than 1,000 venture-capital-backed

companies working on 'smarter, faster, and cheaper'

defense," like drones that travel underwater, microwaveray

guns, and even self-flying fighter jets. But some

experts worry that the money pouring into defense tech

— $155 billion between 2021 and 2024—could push

the U.S. and these companies toward wanting "to use

them in war."

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Palantir to create vast federal data platform tying

together millions of Americans' private records, stock

jumps

Palantir to create vast federal data platform that

connects millions of Americans’ private records under a

powerful AI system. Backed by the Trump

administration, Palantir’s new deal links Social Security,

IRS, and immigration data into one centralized system.

It uses its Gotham software to flag fraud, track behavior,

and potentially shape government decisions. While

Palantir stock jumped 5.38% after the news, privacy

advocates are raising concerns about surveillance and

misuse.

Palantir to create vast federal data platform tying

together millions of Americans' private records, stock

jumps

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Palantir to create massive AI-powered federal data

system linking IRS, Social Security, and immigration

records. Trump’s deal sparks stock surge and privacy

backlash. Discover what this new contract means for

government data, civil rights, and Palantir’s future

Palantir to create vast federal data platform tying

together millions of Americans' private records, stock

jumps: Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) is back in

the spotlight after securing a major federal contract that

could reshape how the U.S. government uses data.

Under the new agreement backed by the Trump

administration, Palantir will build a vast centralized data

platform that connects sensitive records from across key

agencies—including the IRS, Social Security,

immigration databases, and more. This platform,

powered by Palantir’s Gotham software, is designed to

analyze behavioral patterns in real-time, flag potential

threats, and support decisions around public safety and

fraud detection.

The stock market liked what it saw. Palantir shares

jumped 5.38% after the announcement and are now

trading over 150% higher compared to post-election

2024 levels. But behind the stock surge, there's a deeper

story about privacy, AI surveillance, and what it means

when one tech firm gets the keys to America’s data.

What exactly is Palantir building for the U.S.

government?

Palantir isn’t just improving old databases—it’s building

what some experts are calling the most expansive

civilian surveillance infrastructure in U.S. history.

Instead of scattered files and spreadsheets, the platform

will use real-time data integration and artificial

intelligence to profile behavior, detect fraud, and

identify individuals or patterns deemed risky by the

system.

At the core of the project is Palantir’s Gotham software.

Already used by defense and intelligence agencies,

Gotham will now be used on the domestic front. It

doesn’t just track information—it makes judgments. It

could influence everything from how benefits are

distributed to who gets flagged for closer scrutiny by

law enforcement or immigration officers.

According to the original TipRanks report, this platform

will act like a “central intelligence layer,” consolidating

millions of personal records under a single AI-powered

lens.

How are privacy advocates reacting to this deal?

Civil liberties groups are raising serious alarms. Their

concerns go beyond standard data centralization. The

issue isn’t just where the data goes—it’s who controls it,

how it’s used, and what happens when it’s wrong.

Groups warn that this system could easily evolve into a

digital dragnet. With no clear public oversight or legal

guardrails, it could be used for political purposes,

targeted surveillance, or even immigration crackdowns.

Critics say the move consolidates both data and power,

raising fears of misuse during an already polarized

political climate.

And there’s a question of permanence. What starts as

fraud detection could quickly morph into a tool of

control, particularly in an election year where data is

already being weaponized.

As reported by Wired and The Daily Beast, another part

of this federal data effort—led by Elon Musk’s

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—is

building a parallel system to track and monitor

immigrants using personal data. This has sparked even

more concern among privacy watchdogs.

Is Palantir stock still a good investment after the spike?

Despite the buzz, Wall Street remains divided.

According to TipRanks data, Palantir currently holds a

“Hold” rating from analysts. Out of 18 analyst ratings in

the last three months, only 3 are Buy, while 11 are Hold

and 4 are Sell.

The average 12-month price target is $100.13—about

18% below the current trading price. That suggests

analysts think the market may be too optimistic about

Palantir’s government deal and its long-term

profitability.

Some see Palantir’s role in this federal contract as a

major breakthrough in data infrastructure. But others

worry the company is now exposed to significant

political risk. A future administration could pull back on

the contract, impose stricter regulations, or dismantle

the program altogether.

Still, Palantir’s recent work with Fannie Mae on AIdriven

mortgage fraud detection shows how its tools are

expanding into both public and private sectors. Whether

that becomes a strength or a liability in the long run

depends on how the company handles its growing

influence.

What’s next for Palantir and U.S. government

surveillance?

The contract marks a major shift in how the federal

government handles data and how much it relies on

private tech firms like Palantir to manage sensitive

information. With real-time analytics, profiling tools,

and AI-assisted threat detection, this deal could define

how the state operates in the digital age.

But with that power comes scrutiny. This is more than

just a tech upgrade—it’s a test of how far AI can go

inside the state and whether the public will accept it.

Palantir may be winning in the stock market for now.

But the real story is still unfolding—and it could have

long-term implications for privacy, civil rights, and the

balance of power in America’s digital infrastructure.

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Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on

Every American

Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.

Palantir logo over some code on a screen

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The Trump administration is collecting data on all

Americans, and they are enlisting the data analysis

company Palantir to do it.

The New York Times reports that President Trump has

enlisted the firm, founded by far-right billionaire Peter

Thiel, to carry out his March executive order instructing

government agencies to share data with each other. The

order has increased fears that the government is putting

together a database to wield surveillance powers over

the American public.

Since then, the administration has been very quiet about

these efforts, increasing suspicion. Meanwhile, Palantir

has taken more than $113 million in government

spending since Trump took office, from both existing

contracts and new ones with the Departments of

Defense and Homeland Security. That number is

expected to grow, especially given that the firm just won

a new $795 million contract with the DOD last week.

Palantir is speaking with various other agencies across

the federal government, including the Social Security

Administration and the IRS, about buying its

technology, according to the Times. Palantir’s Foundry

tool, which analyzes and organizes data, is already

being used at the DHS, the Department of Health and

Human Services, and at least two other agencies,

allowing the White House to compile data from

different places.

The administration’s efforts to compile data began under

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency

initiative, which sought Americans’ personal data from

multiple agencies including the IRS, the SSA, Selective

Service, Medicare, and many others. In some cases,

court orders hindered these efforts, but not in all of

them.

Thiel has multiple ties to DOGE, both through Musk

and through many of his former employees working for

the effort or taking other jobs in the Trump

administration. And this data collection effort could give

Thiel, Musk, and Trump unprecedented power over

Americans, with the president being better able to

punish his critics and target immigrants.

Privacy advocates, student unions, and labor rights

organizations are among those who have sued to stop

Trump’s data collection efforts. Palantir’s involvement

also gives a powerful tech company access to this data,

and its CEO, Alex Karp, doesn’t exactly have a benign

agenda, hoping to cash in on American technomilitarism.

Musk too has plans for government data,

using his AI, Grok, to analyze it. Will anyone be able to

stop Trump and these tech oligarchs?

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Trump announces private-sector $500 billion investment

in AI infrastructure

By Steve Holland

January 21, 20257:42 PM PSTUpdated 4 months ago

Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on

Tuesday announced a private sector investment of up to

$500 billion to fund infrastructure for artificial

intelligence, aiming to outpace rival nations in the

business-critical technology.

Trump said that ChatGPT's creator OpenAI, SoftBank

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new tab are planning a joint venture called Stargate,

which he said will build data centers and create more

than 100,000 jobs in the United States.

These companies, along with other equity backers of

Stargate, have committed $100 billion for immediate

deployment, with the remaining investment expected to

occur over the next four years.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam

Altman and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison joined

Trump at the White House for the launch.

The first of the project's data centers are already under

construction in Texas, Ellison said at the press

conference. Twenty will be built, half a million square

feet each, he said. The project could power AI that

analyzes electronic health records and helps doctors

care for their patients, Ellison said.

The executives gave Trump credit for the news. "We

wouldn't have decided to do this," Son told Trump,

"unless you won."

"For AGI to get built here," said Altman, referring to

more powerful technology called artificial general

intelligence, "we wouldn't be able to do this without

you, Mr. President."

It was not immediately clear whether the announcement

was an update to a previously reported venture.

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remarks on AI infrastructure, next to Oracle co-founder

Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Roosevelt room at

White House in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025.

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[1/3]U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on

AI infrastructure, next to Oracle co-founder Larry

Ellison, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI

CEO Sam Altman at the Roosevelt room at White

House in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025.

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In March 2024, The Information, a technology news

website, reported OpenAI and Microsoft were working

on plans for a $100 billion data center project that

would include an artificial intelligence supercomputer

also called "Stargate" set to launch in 2028.

POWER-HUNGRY DATA CENTERS

The announcement on Trump's second day in office

follows the rolling back of former President Joe Biden's

executive order on AI, that was intended to reduce the

risks that AI poses to consumers, workers and national

security.

AI requires enormous computing power, pushing

demand for specialized data centers that enable tech

companies to link thousands of chips together in

clusters.

"They have to produce a lot of electricity, and we'll

make it possible for them to get that production done

very easily at their own plants if they want," Trump

said.

As U.S. power consumption rises from AI data centers

and the electrification of buildings and transportation,

about half of the country is at increased risk of power

supply shortfalls in the next decade, the North American

Electric Reliability Corporation said in December.

As a candidate in 2016, Trump promised to push a $1

trillion infrastructure bill through Congress but did not.

He talked about the topic often during his first term as

president from 2017 to 2021, but never delivered on a

large investment, and "Infrastructure Week" became a

punchline.

Oracle shares were up 7% on initial report of the project

earlier in the day. Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab,

Arm Holdings and Dell (DELL.N), opens new tab

shares also rose.

Investment in AI has surged since OpenAI launched

ChatGPT in 2022, as companies across sectors have

sought to integrate artificial intelligence into their

products and services.

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UK turns to AI and drones for new battlefield strategy

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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will spend more than

£1bn to develop technology to speed up decisions on the

battlefield.

The funding will be one of the results of the

government's long-awaited strategic defence review

which is due to be published in full on Monday.

The government has committed to raising defence

spending to 2.5% GDP from April 2027 with an

ambition to increase that to 3% in the next parliament.

In February, the prime minister said cuts to the foreign

aid budget would be used to fund the military boost.

Announcing the results of the review, the MoD said a

new Digital Targeting Web would better connect

soldiers on the ground with key information provided by

satellites, aircraft and drones helping them target enemy

threats faster.

Defence Secretary John Healey said the technology

announced in the review - which will harness Artificial

Intelligence (AI) and software - also highlights lessons

being learnt from the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine is already using AI and software to speed up the

process of identifying, and then hitting, Russian military

targets.

The review had been commissioned by the newly

formed Labour government shortly after last year's

election with Healey describing it as the "first of its

kind".

The government said the findings would be published in

the first half of 2025, but did not give an exact date.

Healey made the announcement on a visit to the MoD's

cyber headquarters in Corsham, Wiltshire.

The headquarters is where the UK military co-ordinates

their cyber activities to both prevent and to carry out

cyber-attacks.

Defence officials said over the last two years the UK's

military had faced more than 90,000 cyber-attacks by

potential adversaries.

Attacks have been on the rise, as has their level of

sophistication, they added.

Staff at Corsham said they had recently helped identify

and block malware sent to UK military personnel who

recently returned from working abroad.

They said the source of the malware was from a "known

Russian actor".

Both Russia and China have been linked to the increase

in cyber-attacks.

Defence officials have confirmed that the UK military

has also been conducting its own offensive cyberattacks.

Healey said it showed the nature of warfare was

changing.

"The keyboard is now a weapon of war and we are

responding to that," he said.

He said the UK needed to be the fastest-innovating

military within the Nato alliance.

As part of the strategic defence review, the UK's

military cyber operations will be overseen by a new

Cyber and Electromagnetic Command.

The MoD said the Command would also take the lead in

electronic warfare, from co-ordinating efforts to

intercept any adversaries communications, to jamming

drones.

Healey said the extra investment being made was

possible because of the government's "historic

commitment" to increase defence spending to 2.5% of

GDP by 2027.

However, the Nato Secretary-General, Mark Rutte, is

calling on allies to increase defence spending by more

than 3.5% of GDP.

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Ukraine’s AI-powered ‘mother drone’ sees first combat

use, minister says

by Anna Fratsyvir

May 29, 2025 6:35 PM

1 min read

FPV (first-person view) drones lie on boxes during

transfer by volunteers to the units of the Armed Forces

of Ukraine on Jan. 22, 2024, in Lviv, Ukraine.

(Stanislav Ivanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty

Images)

This audio is created with AI assistance

Ukraine has deployed a new artificial intelligencepowered

"mother drone" for the first time, marking a

major step in the country's expanding use of

autonomous battlefield technology, Digital

Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced

on May 29.

The drone system, developed by Ukraine's defense tech

cluster Brave1, can deliver two AI-guided FPV (firstperson

view) strike drones up to 300 kilometers (186

miles) behind enemy lines, according to Fedorov. Once

released, the smaller drones can autonomously locate

and hit high-value targets, including aircraft, air defense

systems, and critical infrastructure — all without using

GPS.

"The system uses visual-inertial navigation with

cameras and LiDAR to guide the drones, while AI

independently identifies and selects targets," Fedorov

said.

The system, called SmartPilot, allows the carrier drone

to return and be reused for missions within a 100-

kilometer range. Each operation costs around $10,000

— hundreds of times cheaper than a conventional

missile strike, Fedorov said.

The development comes as Ukraine continues to ramp

up domestic drone production. On April 7, President

Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the country would

scale up production of unmanned systems "to the

maximum," including long-range, ground-based, and

fiber-optic drones, which are resistant to electronic

warfare.

Ukraine has leaned heavily on technological innovation

to offset its disadvantages in manpower and firepower

since Russia's full-scale invasion began in 2022. The

use of drones, aerial, naval, and ground-based, has

become a central feature of both sides' strategies in the

war.

Fedorov said Ukraine will continue investing in

Ukrainian systems that "change the rules of the game in

technological warfare."

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The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing

targets in Gaza

This article is more than 1 year old

Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly

increases the number of targets for strikes in the

Palestinian territory

Israel-Hamas war – live updates

Harry Davies, Bethan McKernan and Dan Sabbagh in

Jerusalem

Fri 1 Dec 2023 05.03 EST

Israel’s military has made no secret of the intensity of its

bombardment of the Gaza Strip. In the early days of the

offensive, the head of its air force spoke of relentless,

“around the clock” airstrikes. His forces, he said, were

only striking military targets, but he added: “We are not

being surgical.”

There has, however, been relatively little attention paid

to the methods used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

to select targets in Gaza, and to the role artificial

intelligence has played in their bombing campaign.

As Israel resumes its offensive after a seven-day

ceasefire, there are mounting concerns about the IDF’s

targeting approach in a war against Hamas that,

according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, has

so far killed more than 15,000 people in the territory.

The IDF has long burnished its reputation for technical

prowess and has previously made bold but unverifiable

claims about harnessing new technology. After the 11-

day war in Gaza in May 2021, officials said Israel had

fought its “first AI war” using machine learning and

advanced computing.

The latest Israel-Hamas war has provided an

unprecedented opportunity for the IDF to use such tools

in a much wider theatre of operations and, in particular,

to deploy an AI target-creation platform called “the

Gospel”, which has significantly accelerated a lethal

production line of targets that officials have compared

to a “factory”.

The Guardian can reveal new details about the Gospel

and its central role in Israel’s war in Gaza, using

interviews with intelligence sources and little-noticed

statements made by the IDF and retired officials.

This article also draws on testimonies published by the

Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the

Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, which have

interviewed several current and former sources in

Israel’s intelligence community who have knowledge of

the Gospel platform.

Their comments offer a glimpse inside a secretive, AIfacilitated

military intelligence unit that is playing a

significant role in Israel’s response to the Hamas

massacre in southern Israel on 7 October.

The slowly emerging picture of how Israel’s military is

harnessing AI comes against a backdrop of growing

concerns about the risks posed to civilians as advanced

militaries around the world expand the use of complex

and opaque automated systems on the battlefield.

“Other states are going to be watching and learning,”

said a former White House security official familiar

with the US military’s use of autonomous systems.

The Israel-Hamas war, they said, would be an

“important moment if the IDF is using AI in a

significant way to make targeting choices with life-anddeath

consequences”.

Israeli soldiers during ground operations in the Gaza

Strip.

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Israeli soldiers during ground operations in the Gaza

Strip. Photograph: IDF

From 50 targets a year to 100 a day

In early November, the IDF said “more than 12,000”

targets in Gaza had been identified by its target

administration division.

Describing the unit’s targeting process, an official said:

“We work without compromise in defining who and

what the enemy is. The operatives of Hamas are not

immune – no matter where they hide.”

The activities of the division, formed in 2019 in the

IDF’s intelligence directorate, are classified.

However a short statement on the IDF website claimed

it was using an AI-based system called Habsora (the

Gospel, in English) in the war against Hamas to

“produce targets at a fast pace”.

The IDF said that “through the rapid and automatic

extraction of intelligence”, the Gospel produced

targeting recommendations for its researchers “with the

goal of a complete match between the recommendation

of the machine and the identification carried out by a

person”.

Multiple sources familiar with the IDF’s targeting

processes confirmed the existence of the Gospel to

+972/Local Call, saying it had been used to produce

automated recommendations for attacking targets, such

as the private homes of individuals suspected of being

Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives.

In recent years, the target division has helped the IDF

build a database of what sources said was between

30,000 and 40,000 suspected militants. Systems such as

the Gospel, they said, had played a critical role in

building lists of individuals authorised to be

assassinated.

Aviv Kochavi, who served as the head of the IDF until

January, has said the target division is “powered by AI

capabilities” and includes hundreds of officers and

soldiers.

In an interview published before the war, he said it was

“a machine that produces vast amounts of data more

effectively than any human, and translates it into targets

for attack”.

Aviv Kochavi in his role as head of the IDF in 2019.

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Aviv Kochavi in his role as head of the IDF in 2019.

Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

According to Kochavi, “once this machine was

activated” in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May

2021 it generated 100 targets a day. “To put that into

perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in

Gaza per year. Now, this machine produces 100 targets a

single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”

Precisely what forms of data are ingested into the

Gospel is not known. But experts said AI-based decision

support systems for targeting would typically analyse

large sets of information from a range of sources, such

as drone footage, intercepted communications,

surveillance data and information drawn from

monitoring the movements and behaviour patterns of

individuals and large groups.

The target division was created to address a chronic

problem for the IDF: in earlier operations in Gaza, the

air force repeatedly ran out of targets to strike. Since

senior Hamas officials disappeared into tunnels at the

start of any new offensive, sources said, systems such as

the Gospel allowed the IDF to locate and attack a much

larger pool of more junior operatives.

One official, who worked on targeting decisions in

previous Gaza operations, said the IDF had not

previously targeted the homes of junior Hamas

members for bombings. They said they believed that

had changed for the present conflict, with the houses of

suspected Hamas operatives now targeted regardless of

rank.

“That is a lot of houses,” the official told +972/Local

Call. “Hamas members who don’t really mean anything

live in homes across Gaza. So they mark the home and

bomb the house and kill everyone there.”

Targets given ‘score’ for likely civilian death toll

In the IDF’s brief statement about its target division, a

senior official said the unit “produces precise attacks on

infrastructure associated with Hamas while inflicting

great damage to the enemy and minimal harm to noncombatants”.

The precision of strikes recommended by the “AI target

bank” has been emphasised in multiple reports in Israeli

media. The Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper reported

that the unit “makes sure as far as possible there will be

no harm to non-involved civilians”.

A former senior Israeli military source told the Guardian

that operatives use a “very accurate” measurement of

the rate of civilians evacuating a building shortly before

a strike. “We use an algorithm to evaluate how many

civilians are remaining. It gives us a green, yellow, red,

like a traffic signal.”

However, experts in AI and armed conflict who spoke to

the Guardian said they were sceptical of assertions that

AI-based systems reduced civilian harm by encouraging

more accurate targeting.

A lawyer who advises governments on AI and

compliance with humanitarian law said there was “little

empirical evidence” to support such claims. Others

pointed to the visible impact of the bombardment.

“Look at the physical landscape of Gaza,” said Richard

Moyes, a researcher who heads Article 36, a group that

campaigns to reduce harm from weapons.

“We’re seeing the widespread flattening of an urban

area with heavy explosive weapons, so to claim there’s

precision and narrowness of force being exerted is not

borne out by the facts.”

Satellite images of the northern city of Beit Hanoun in

Gaza before (10 October) and after (21 October)

damage caused by the war.

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Satellite images of the northern city of Beit Hanoun in

Gaza before (10 October) and after (21 October)

damage caused by the war. Photograph: Maxar

Technologies/Reuters

According to figures released by the IDF in November,

during the first 35 days of the war Israel attacked 15,000

targets in Gaza, a figure that is considerably higher than

previous military operations in the densely populated

coastal territory. By comparison, in the 2014 war, which

lasted 51 days, the IDF struck between 5,000 and 6,000

targets.

Multiple sources told the Guardian and +972/Local Call

that when a strike was authorised on the private homes

of individuals identified as Hamas or Islamic Jihad

operatives, target researchers knew in advance the

number of civilians expected to be killed.

Each target, they said, had a file containing a collateral

damage score that stipulated how many civilians were

likely to be killed in a strike.

One source who worked until 2021 on planning strikes

for the IDF said “the decision to strike is taken by the

on-duty unit commander”, some of whom were “more

trigger happy than others”.

The source said there had been occasions when “there

was doubt about a target” and “we killed what I thought

was a disproportionate amount of civilians”.

An Israeli military spokesperson said: “In response to

Hamas’ barbaric attacks, the IDF operates to dismantle

Hamas military and administrative capabilities. In stark

contrast to Hamas’ intentional attacks on Israeli men,

women and children, the IDF follows international law

and takes feasible precautions to mitigate civilian

harm.”

‘Mass assassination factory’

Sources familiar with how AI-based systems have been

integrated into the IDF’s operations said such tools had

significantly sped up the target creation process.

“We prepare the targets automatically and work

according to a checklist,” a source who previously

worked in the target division told +972/Local Call. “It

really is like a factory. We work quickly and there is no

time to delve deep into the target. The view is that we

are judged according to how many targets we manage to

generate.”

A separate source told the publication the Gospel had

allowed the IDF to run a “mass assassination factory” in

which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality”.

A human eye, they said, “will go over the targets before

each attack, but it need not spend a lot of time on them”.

For some experts who research AI and international

humanitarian law, an acceleration of this kind raises a

number of concerns.

Dr Marta Bo, a researcher at the Stockholm

International Peace Research Institute, said that even

when “humans are in the loop” there is a risk they

develop “automation bias” and “over-rely on systems

which come to have too much influence over complex

human decisions”.

Moyes, of Article 36, said that when relying on tools

such as the Gospel, a commander “is handed a list of

targets a computer has generated” and they “don’t

necessarily know how the list has been created or have

the ability to adequately interrogate and question the

targeting recommendations”.

“There is a danger,” he added, “that as humans come to

rely on these systems they become cogs in a mechanised

process and lose the ability to consider the risk of

civilian harm in a meaningful way.”

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Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, workers

have had to contend with the inimical effects of

technology on their jobs. From the power loom to the

personal computer, each wave of automation has not

only increased productivity, but also empowered the

owners and managers who dictate how these

technologies reshape the workplace. Today, workers

worldwide are haunted by the specter of artificial

intelligence.

Artificial intelligence has been a mainstay in our

popular imagination for decades. Prognostications of an

AI-driven future range from apocalyptic robot takeovers

to thriving post-work societies where people live off the

wealth produced by machines. In spite of these

daydreams, robots with full human cognition are still

well within the domain of science fiction.

When people speak of AI today, what they’re most often

referring to are machines capable of making predictions

through the identification of patterns in large datasets.

Despite that relatively rote function, many in the space

believe that inevitably AI will become autonomous or

rival human intelligence. This raises concerns that

robots will one day represent an existential threat to

humanity or at the very least take over all of our jobs.

The reality is that AI is more likely to place workers

under greater surveillance than to trigger mass

unemployment.

An overwhelming majority of workers are confident

that AI will have a direct impact on their jobs, according

to a recent survey by ADP, but they do not agree on

how. Some feel that it will help them in the workplace

while 42 percent fear that some aspects of their job will

soon be automated.

These concerns are not without merit. Grandiose

statements of oncoming job losses made by tech

executives in public forums fuel worker anxiety.

Feelings of job insecurity are compounded by reports

that a majority of US firms are planning to incorporate

AI in the workplace within the next year. In fact,

Goldman Sachs predicts that generative AI could

“substitute up to one-fourth of current work.”

Yet until now the concrete results of AI have been

mixed at best. Driverless cars have not materialized to

replace humans on the road. McDonald’s cut ties with

IBM after their new automated order taking system

failed to make fast food orders more efficient. And

Google’s new AI Overview tool – which seeks to “do

the googling for you” – keeps spitting out comical

falsehoods.

AI's risksAutomation will be unequal

These shortcomings demonstrate that AI is not as

advanced as the tech industry would have us believe.

Why then are companies and investors so intent on

marketing it as a technology that is on the verge of

replacing humans?

There is a straightforward answer to this question —AI

is hyped up by firms to attract capital from investors and

investors want to grow their profits while diminishing

the power of organized labor. To put it even more

succinctly — AI doomerism is just AI boosterism

dressed differently.

AI development is an expensive business, and

entrepreneurs need to attract significant venture capital

to be able to keep their businesses above water. This has

spurred some firms to exaggerate or misrepresent their

AI capabilities, causing the Securities and Exchange

Commission to crack down on two companies for socalled

“AI-Washing.”

Yet investors and Big Tech remain undeterred. Most AI

firms continue to be unprofitable yet venture capitalists

are still flooding the sector with billions of dollars with

the hope it will one day transform the industry into a

viable and innovative business.

Cloud architect Dwayne Monroe argues in The Nation

that the idea of an AI-powered economy “is attractive to

the ownership class because it holds the promise of

weakening labor’s power and increasing – via

workforce cost reduction and greater scalability –

profitability.”

The AI-will-replace-us-all-one-day frenzy is a form of

propaganda designed to demoralize workers over a

future that may never arrive. Instead, our focus should

be on where AI is actually deployed today – that is, in

the realm of worker surveillance.

Artificial intelligence represents the latest iteration of

managerial control. The form of algorithmic

management over labor may differ depending on the

industry, but it functions to make surveillance more

efficient and more intrusive.

Chevron and Starbucks are already circumventing the

privacy rights of their employees by using AI software

to monitor the communications of their workers across a

number of platforms to flag discontent in the workplace.

Amazon delivery drivers, meanwhile, are forced to

“consent” to the installation of AI-powered cameras.

Amazon says they are used to increase driver safety, but

the cameras are designed to financially penalize drivers

for mistakes they did not commit or ordinary behavior

like fidgeting with the radio.

Moreover, military AI technology is being sold to

corporations to subvert and disrupt unionization efforts

before they gain momentum. Artificial intelligence is

effectively used for digital union busting, identifying

and firing labor organizers through keyboard tracking,

Zoom call spying, and alert systems tracking when a

large number of employees hold internal meetings.

All of this transforms the workplace into an electronic

panopticon where workers are constantly visible to an

unseen watcher encroaching on their autonomy, privacy,

and labor rights.

But the narrative surrounding AI does not need to be

one of despair. Workers are beginning to fight back and

take proactive steps against the invasive and harmful

nature of workplace AI. For example, the Teamsters

negotiated a contract with UPS that included strong

protections against AI surveillance. The

Communications Workers of America succeeded in

ensuring that any data collected by AI will be used for

training purposes only and not with the intent of

disciplining workers. And the Writers Guild of America

instituted guardrails on AI to ensure it does not put any

downward pressure on wages and remains within

control of the workers.

While tech executives may promise that AI will

fundamentally transform the economy, it is unlikely to

completely replace most workers given its narrow

proficiency at elaborate pattern matching. Experts tend

to overestimate the capabilities of autonomous machines

and very few occupations have ceased to exist due to

automation. Even so, AI’s ability to devalue labor and

diminish working conditions is troubling.

Like the working-class movements of the eighteenth

and nineteenth centuries, we must struggle to ensure

that technological advancements uplift workers,

preserve the dignity of human labor, and protect worker

privacy. Unlike AI, we can act on our own accord. We

can educate, advocate, and organize to make certain that

new technologies are implemented for the benefit of all,

not just the privileged few.

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Can AI help prevent suicide? How real-time monitoring

may be the next big step in mental health care

Suicide represents one of the most complex and

heartbreaking challenges in public health. One major

difficulty in preventing suicide is knowing when

someone is struggling.

Suicidal thoughts and behaviour can come and go

quickly, and they’re not always present when someone

sees a doctor or therapist, making them hard to detect

with standard checklists.

Today, many of us use digital devices to track our

physical health: counting steps, monitoring sleep, or

checking screen time. Researchers are now starting to

use similar tools to better understand mental health.

One method, called ecological momentary assessment

(EMA), collects real-time information about a person’s

mood, thoughts, behaviour and surroundings using a

smartphone or wearable device. It does this by

prompting the person to input information (active EMA)

or collecting it automatically using sensors (passive

EMA).

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Research has shown EMA can be safe for monitoring

suicide risk, which includes a range of experiences from

suicidal thoughts to attempts and completed suicide.

Studies with adults show that this kind of monitoring

doesn’t increase risk. Instead, it gives us a more detailed

and personal view of what someone is going through,

moment by moment. So how can this information

actually help someone at risk?

Adaptive interventions

One exciting use is the creation of adaptive

interventions: real-time, personalised responses

delivered right through a person’s phone or device. For

example, if someone’s data shows signs of distress, their

device might gently prompt them to follow a step on

their personal safety plan, which they created earlier

with a mental health professional.

Safety plans are proven tools in suicide prevention, but

they’re most helpful when people can access and use

them when they’re needed most. These digital

interventions can offer support right when it matters, in

the person’s own environment.

There are still important questions: what kind of

changes in a person’s data should trigger an alert? When

is the best time to offer help? And what form should that

help take?

These are the kinds of questions that artificial

intelligence (AI) – and specifically machine learning –

is helping us answer.

Machine learning is already being used to build models

that can predict suicide risk by noticing subtle changes

in a person’s feelings, thoughts, or behaviour. It’s also

been used to predict suicide rates across larger

populations.

These models have performed well on the data they

were trained on. But there are still concerns. Privacy is a

big one, especially when social media or personal data

is involved.

There’s also a lack of diversity in the data used to train

these models, which means they might not work equally

well for everyone. And it’s challenging to apply models

developed in one country or setting to another.

Still, research shows that machine learning models can

predict suicide risk more accurately than traditional

tools used by clinicians. That’s why mental health

guidelines now recommend moving away from using

simple risk scores to decide who gets care.

Instead, they suggest a more flexible, person-centred

approach – one that’s built around open conversations

and planning with the person at risk.

Person viewing real-time mobile phone data. Ruth

Melia, CC BY-SA

Predictions, accuracy and trust

In my research, I looked at how AI is being used with

EMA in suicide studies. Most of the studies involved

people getting care in hospitals or mental health clinics.

In those settings, EMA was able to predict things like

suicidal thoughts after discharge.

While many studies we looked at reported how accurate

their models were, fewer looked at how often the

models made mistakes, like predicting someone is at

risk when they’re not (false positives), or missing

someone who is at risk (false negatives). To help

improve this, we developed a reporting guide to make

sure future research is clearer and more complete.

Another promising area is using AI as a support tool for

mental health professionals. By analysing large sets of

data from health services, AI could help predict how

someone is doing and which treatments might work best

for them.

But for this to work, professionals need to trust the

technology. That’s where explainable AI comes in:

systems that not only give a result but also explain how

they got there. This makes it easier for clinicians to

understand and use AI insights, much like how they use

questionnaires and other tools today.

Suicide is a devastating global issue, but advances in AI

and real-time monitoring offer new hope. These tools

aren’t a cure all, but they may help provide the right

support at the right time, in ways we’ve never been able

to before.

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AI makes non-invasive mind-reading possible by

turning thoughts into text

This article is more than 2 years old

Advance raises prospect of new ways to restore speech

in those struggling to communicate due to stroke or

motor neurone disease

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Mon 1 May 2023 11.00 EDT

An AI-based decoder that can translate brain activity

into a continuous stream of text has been developed, in

a breakthrough that allows a person’s thoughts to be

read non-invasively for the first time.

The decoder could reconstruct speech with uncanny

accuracy while people listened to a story – or even

silently imagined one – using only fMRI scan data.

Previous language decoding systems have required

surgical implants, and the latest advance raises the

prospect of new ways to restore speech in patients

struggling to communicate due to a stroke or motor

neurone disease.

Dr Alexander Huth, a neuroscientist who led the work at

the University of Texas at Austin, said: “We were kind

of shocked that it works as well as it does. I’ve been

working on this for 15 years … so it was shocking and

exciting when it finally did work.”

The achievement overcomes a fundamental limitation of

fMRI which is that while the technique can map brain

activity to a specific location with incredibly high

resolution, there is an inherent time lag, which makes

tracking activity in real-time impossible.

The lag exists because fMRI scans measure the blood

flow response to brain activity, which peaks and returns

to baseline over about 10 seconds, meaning even the

most powerful scanner cannot improve on this. “It’s this

noisy, sluggish proxy for neural activity,” said Huth.

This hard limit has hampered the ability to interpret

brain activity in response to natural speech because it

gives a “mishmash of information” spread over a few

seconds.

However, the advent of large language models – the

kind of AI underpinning OpenAI’s ChatGPT – provided

a new way in. These models are able to represent, in

numbers, the semantic meaning of speech, allowing the

scientists to look at which patterns of neuronal activity

corresponded to strings of words with a particular

meaning rather than attempting to read out activity word

by word.

The learning process was intensive: three volunteers

were required to lie in a scanner for 16 hours each,

listening to podcasts. The decoder was trained to match

brain activity to meaning using a large language model,

GPT-1, a precursor to ChatGPT.

Later, the same participants were scanned listening to a

new story or imagining telling a story and the decoder

was used to generate text from brain activity alone.

About half the time, the text closely – and sometimes

precisely – matched the intended meanings of the

original words.

“Our system works at the level of ideas, semantics,

meaning,” said Huth. “This is the reason why what we

get out is not the exact words, it’s the gist.”

For instance, when a participant was played the words

“I don’t have my driver’s licence yet”, the decoder

translated them as “She has not even started to learn to

drive yet”. In another case, the words “I didn’t know

whether to scream, cry or run away. Instead, I said:

‘Leave me alone!’” were decoded as “Started to scream

and cry, and then she just said: ‘I told you to leave me

alone.’”

The participants were also asked to watch four short,

silent videos while in the scanner, and the decoder was

able to use their brain activity to accurately describe

some of the content, the paper in Nature Neuroscience

reported.

“For a non-invasive method, this is a real leap forward

compared to what’s been done before, which is typically

single words or short sentences,” Huth said.

Sometimes the decoder got the wrong end of the stick

and it struggled with certain aspects of language,

including pronouns. “It doesn’t know if it’s first-person

or third-person, male or female,” said Huth. “Why it’s

bad at this we don’t know.”

The decoder was personalised and when the model was

tested on another person the readout was unintelligible.

It was also possible for participants on whom the

decoder had been trained to thwart the system, for

example by thinking of animals or quietly imagining

another story.

Jerry Tang, a doctoral student at the University of Texas

at Austin and a co-author, said: “We take very seriously

the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and

have worked to avoid that. We want to make sure people

only use these types of technologies when they want to

and that it helps them.”

Prof Tim Behrens, a computational neuroscientist at the

University of Oxford who was not involved in the work,

described it as “technically extremely impressive” and

said it opened up a host of experimental possibilities,

including reading thoughts from someone dreaming or

investigating how new ideas spring up from background

brain activity. “These generative models are letting you

see what’s in the brain at a new level,” he said. “It

means you can really read out something deep from the

fMRI.”

Prof Shinji Nishimoto, of Osaka University, who has

pioneered the reconstruction of visual images from

brain activity, described the paper as a “significant

advance”. “The paper showed that the brain represents

continuous language information during perception and

imagination in a compatible way,” he said. “This is a

non-trivial finding and can be a basis for the

development of brain-computer interfaces.

The team now hope to assess whether the technique

could be applied to other, more portable brain-imaging

systems, such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy

(fNIRS).

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AI Chatbots Secretly Ran a Mind-Control Experiment

on Reddit

And now the site is suing.

By Ashley Fike

May 5, 2025, 9:43am

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Reddit users are pissed—and rightfully so. A group of

AI researchers from the University of Zurich just got

caught running an unauthorized psychological

experiment on r/ChangeMyView, one of the site’s

biggest debate communities, and no one who

participated had any idea it was happening.

The experiment involved AI chatbots posing as regular

users to see if they could subtly sway opinions on hotbutton

topics. These weren’t bland comment bots

posting generic takes. They were tailored personas—one

claimed to be a male rape victim minimizing his trauma,

another said women raised by protective parents were

more vulnerable to domestic violence, and a third posed

as a Black man against Black Lives Matter. To make the

manipulation more effective, a separate bot scanned

user profiles and fed personalized arguments back to

them.

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In total, the bots dropped over 1,700 comments into

Reddit threads without revealing they were AI. And the

kicker? They were surprisingly good at convincing

people. According to a draft of the study, their

comments were three to six times more persuasive than

human ones, based on Reddit’s own “delta” system

(users give a delta when their mind has been changed).

AI Chatbots Just Ran a Mind-Control Experiment on

Reddit

The research team didn’t disclose the experiment to the

community until after it was over, violating just about

every norm in both ethics and internet culture. In a post

from the subreddit’s moderators, the reaction was blunt:

“We think this was wrong.”

Reddit’s chief legal officer, Ben Lee, took it a step

further, saying the researchers had broken the site’s

rules, violated user trust, and committed a clear breach

of research standards. “What this University of Zurich

team did is deeply wrong on both a moral and legal

level,” Lee wrote, adding that Reddit would pursue

formal legal action.

The university has since said the study will not be

published, and its ethics committee will adopt stricter

oversight for future projects involving online

communities. But the damage has already been done.

Beyond the lawsuit, this whole debacle raises bigger

questions about how AI is creeping into everyday digital

life. A March 2025 study showed OpenAI’s GPT-4.5

could fool people into thinking they were talking to a

real person 73% of the time. And it feeds into a broader

paranoia that bots are slowly taking over online spaces

—a fear known as the “dead internet” theory.

That theory might still belong in tinfoil-hat territory, but

this experiment pushed it a little closer to reality.