FTR#1378 Team Trump Takes the Field, Part 4

Intro­duc­tion: High­light­ing the rise of what many call “Tech­no-Fas­cism,” this broad­cast begins with dis­cus­sion of fas­cism in Manchuria and Japan under Nobusuke Kishi. Kishi’s “Manchuri­an lega­cy” is a dom­i­nant con­sid­er­a­tion in Korea and should be reflect­ed on against the back­ground of what is hap­pen­ing in both Korea and the U.S.

Sup­ple­ment­ing dis­cus­sion of Kishi, we detail analy­sis of anoth­er form of “Tech­no-Fas­cism,” root­ed in the Sil­i­con Val­ley and fea­tur­ing the ide­o­log­i­cal pre­cepts of Cur­tis Yarvin, aka “Men­scius Mold­bug.”

For all its appar­ent nov­el­ty, this ide­ol­o­gy is a high-tech ver­sion of Mus­solin­i’s Cor­po­rate State.

” . . . . Instead of advo­cat­ing for a con­sti­tu­tion­al repub­lic with min­i­mal gov­ern­ment, this new strain of thought push­es for a pri­vate, post-demo­c­ra­t­ic order, where those with the most resources and tech­no­log­i­cal con­trol dic­tate the rules. In this vision, pow­er doesn’t rest with the people—it belongs to the most com­pe­tent ‘exec­u­tives’ run­ning soci­ety like a CEO would run a com­pa­ny. . . .”

FTR#1377 Team Trump Takes the Field, Part 3

Intro­duc­tion: The pro­gram begins with read­ing of two arti­cles dis­cussing the arrival of fas­cism in Amer­i­ca. The arti­cles are lim­it­ed in scope, how­ev­er, Mr. Emory feels a degree of sat­is­fac­tion to see the over­due recog­ni­tion of the true nature of the unfold­ing apoc­a­lypse.

From Hen­ry Giroux: “We live in per­ilous times. The mobi­liz­ing pas­sions of fas­cism are no longer a dis­tant echo of history—they are here, surg­ing through the Unit­ed States like an elec­tric cur­rent. We are in a peri­od of social, ide­o­log­i­cal, and racial cleans­ing. . . . Amer­i­cans are not wit­ness­ing a slow drift toward author­i­tar­i­an­ism. They are liv­ing through the vio­lent, coor­di­nat­ed seizure of demo­c­ra­t­ic life by fas­cist forces embold­ened by indif­fer­ence,  cru­el­ty, and the archi­tec­ture of unac­count­able pow­er. . . .”

Fol­low­ing that read­ing, Mr. Emory presents an infor­ma­tive inter­view by Amy Good­man of a Guardian jour­nal­ist who details the fas­cist forces shap­ing both Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

The influ­ence of Elon Musk’s grand­fa­ther on the devel­op­ment of tech­no­crat­ic fas­cism is a top­ic that will be explored in future pro­grams.

FTR#1376 Team Trump Takes the Field, Part 2

Intro­duc­tion: Con­tin­u­ing dis­cus­sion of the spec­tac­u­lar first months of the Trump regime, we begin with the exo­dus of a Yale pro­fes­sor who wrote a 2018 book about fas­cism. He feels the U.S. may be head­ed for a fas­cist dic­ta­tor­ship. A crit­i­cal piece of analy­sis con­cerns the grow­ing ease with which bioter­ror­ism can be per­pe­trat­ed. Plac­ing the onus on Rus­sia, Chi­na, North Korea or “ter­ror­ists” the author dis­re­gards the fun­da­men­tals of the emer­gent syn­thet­ic biol­o­gy.

The omi­nous warn­ing from the doc­tor about the grow­ing threat of bioter­ror­ism should be seen against the back­ground of RFK, jr.‘s stew­ard­ship at HHS. He has been cut­ting staff with the result that the abil­i­ty of the U.S. to ade­quate­ly deal with a pan­dem­ic is dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduced.

The bal­ance of the broad­cast con­sists of dis­cus­sion of the Trump/Musk regime as a coup d’e­tat. Inter­est­ing­ly, none of those who wrote about the fact that a coup is under­way have rec­og­nized that on 11/22/1963, the U.S. had a fas­cist coup. What we are see­ing now is the result of that deeply trag­ic neglect.