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Why is reforming capitalism so essential? In the latest issue of Liberties Quarterly, Tim Wu argues that unregulated capitalism not only leads to economic monopolies, but also drives populist anger and authoritarian politics. In “The Real Road to Serfdom”, Wu advocates for "decentralized capitalism" with distributed economic power, citing examples from Scandinavia and East Asia. Drawing from his experience in the Biden administration's antitrust efforts, he emphasizes the importance of preventing industry concentration. Wu expresses concern about big tech's growing political influence and argues that challenging monopolies is critical for fostering innovation and maintaining economic progress in the United States.Here are the 5 KEEN ON AMERICA takeaways from our interview with Tim Wu:* Historical Parallels: Wu sees concerning parallels between our current era and the 1930s, characterized by concentrated economic power, fragile economic conditions, and the rise of populist leaders. He suggests we're in a period where leaders are moving beyond winning elections to attempting to alter constitutional frameworks.* The Monopoly-Autocracy Connection: Wu argues there's a dangerous cycle where monopolies create economic inequality, which generates populist anger, which then enables authoritarian leaders to rise to power. He cites Hugo Chavez as a pioneer of this modern autocratic model that leaders like Trump have followed.* Decentralized Capitalism: Wu advocates for an economic system with multiple centers of distributed economic power, rather than just a few giant companies accumulating wealth. He points to Denmark, Taiwan, and post-WWII East Asia as successful examples of more balanced economic structures.* Antitrust Legacy: Wu believes the Biden administration's antitrust enforcement efforts have created lasting changes in legal standards and public consciousness that won't be easily reversed. He emphasizes that challenging monopolies is crucial for maintaining innovation and preventing industry stagnation.* Big Tech and Power: Wu expresses concern about big tech companies' growing political influence, comparing it to historical examples like AT&T and IBM. He's particularly worried about AI potentially reinforcing existing power structures rather than democratizing opportunities.Complete Transcript: Tim Wu on The Real Road to SerfdomAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. We live in very strange times. That's no exaggeration. Yesterday, we had Nick Bryant on the show, the author of The Forever War. He was the BBC's man in Washington, DC for a long time. In our conversation, Nick suggested that we're living in really historic times, equivalent to the fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, perhaps even the beginnings of the Second World War.My guest today, like Nick, is a deep thinker. Tim Wu will be very well known to you for many things, including his book, The Attention Merchants. He was involved in the Biden White House, teaches law at Columbia University, and much more. He has a new book coming out later in the year on November 4th, The Age of Extraction. He has a very interesting essay in this issue of Liberties, the quarterly magazine of ideas, called "The Real Road to Serfdom."Tim had a couple of interesting tweets in the last couple of days, one comparing the behavior of President Trump to Germany's 1933 enabling act. And when it comes to Ukraine, Tim wrote, "How does the GOP feel about their president's evident plan to forfeit the Cold War?" Tim Wu is joining us from his home in the village of Manhattan. Tim, welcome. Before we get to your excellent essay in Liberties, how would you historicize what we're living through at the moment?Tim Wu: I think the 1930s are not the wrong way to look at it. Prior to that period, you had this extraordinary concentration of economic power in a very fragile environment. A lot of countries had experienced an enormous crash and you had the rise of populist leaders, with Mussolini being the pioneer of the model. This has been going on for at least 5 or 6 years now. We're in that middle period where it's moving away from people just winning elections to trying to really alter the constitution of their country. So I think the mid-30s is probably about right.Andrew Keen: You were involved in the Biden administration. You were one of the major thinkers when it came to antitrust. Have you been surprised with what's happened since Biden left office? The speed, the radicalness of this Trump administration?Tim Wu: Yes, because I expected something more like the first Trump administration, which was more of a show with a lot of flash but poor execution. This time around, the execution is also poor but more effective. I didn't fully expect that Elon Musk would actually be a government official at this point and that he'd have this sort of vandalism project going on. The fact they won all of the houses of Congress was part of the problem and has made the effort go faster.Andrew Keen: You talk about Musk. We've done many shows on Musk's role in all this and the seeming arrival of Silicon Valley or a certain version of Silicon Valley in Washington, DC. You're familiar with both worlds, the world of big tech and Silicon Valley and Washington. Is that your historical reading that these two worlds are coming together in this second Trump administration?Tim Wu: It's very natural for economic power to start to seek political power. It follows from the basic view of monopoly as a creature that wants to defend itself, and the second observation that the most effective means of self-defense is control of government. If you follow that very simple logic, it stands to reason that the most powerful economic entities would try to gain control of government.I want to talk about the next five years. The tech industry is following the lead of Palantir and Peter Thiel, who were pioneers in thinking that instead of trying to avoid government, they should try to control it. I think that is the obvious move over the next four years.Andrew Keen: I've been reading your excellent essay in Liberties, "The Real Road to Serfdom." When did you write it? It seems particularly pertinent this week, although of course you didn't write it knowing exactly what was going to be happening with Musk and Washington DC and Trump and Ukraine.Tim Wu: I wrote it about two years ago when I got out of the White House. The themes are trying to get at eternal issues about the dangers of economic power and concentrated economic power and its unaccountability. If it made predictions that are starting to come true, I don't know if that's good or bad.Andrew Keen: "The Real Road to Serfdom" is, of course, a reference to the Hayek book "The Road to Serfdom." Did you consciously use that title with reference to Hayek, or was that a Liberties decision?Tim Wu: That was my decision. At that point, and I may still write this, I was thinking of writing a book just called "The Real Road to Serfdom." I am both fascinated and a fan of Hayek in certain ways. I think he nailed certain things exactly right but makes big errors at the same time.To his credit, Hayek was very critical of monopoly and very critical of the role of the state in reinforcing monopoly. But he had an almost naivete about what powerful, unaccountable private economic entities would do with their power. That's essentially my criticism.Andrew Keen: In 2018, you wrote a book, "The Curse of Bigness." And in a way, this is an essay against bigness, but it's written—please correct me if I'm wrong—I read it as a critique of the left, suggesting that there were times in the essay, if you're reading it blind, you could have been reading Hayek in its critique of Marx and centralization and Lenin and Stalin and the Ukrainian famines. Is the message in the book, Tim—is your audience a progressive audience? Are you saying that it's a mistake to rely on bigness, so to speak, the state as a redistributive platform?Tim Wu: Not entirely. I'm very critical of communist planned economies, and that's part of it. But it's mainly a critique of libertarian faith in private economic power or sort of the blindness to the dangers of it.My basic thesis in "The Real Road to Serfdom" is that free market economies will tend to monopolize. Once monopoly power is achieved, it tends to set off a strong desire to extract as much wealth from the rest of the economy as it can, creating something closer to a feudal-type economy with an underclass. That tends to create a huge amount of resentment and populist anger, and democracies have to respond to that anger.The libertarian answer of saying that's fine, this problem will go away, is a terrible answer. History suggests that what happens instead is if democracy doesn't do anything, the state takes over, usually on the back of a populist strongman. It could be a communist, could be fascist, could be just a random authoritarian like in South America.I guess I'd say it's a critique of both the right and the left—the right for being blind to the dangers of concentrated economic power, and the left, especially the communist left, for idolizing the takeover of vital functions by a giant state, which has a track record as bad, if not worse, than purely private power.Andrew Keen: You bring up Hugo Chavez in the essay, the now departed Venezuelan strongman. You're obviously no great fan of his, but you do seem to suggest that Chavez, like so many other authoritarians, built his popularity on the truth of people's suffering. Is that fair?Tim Wu: That is very fair. In the 90s, when Chavez first came to power through popular election, everyone was mystified and thought he was some throwback to the dictators of the 60s and 70s. But he turned out to be a pioneer of our future, of the new form of autocrat, who appealed to the unfairness of the economy post-globalization.Leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orbán, and certainly Donald Trump, are direct descendants of Hugo Chavez in their approach. They follow the same playbook, appealing to the same kind of pain and suffering, promising to act for the people as opposed to the elites, the foreigners, and the immigrants. Chavez is also a cautionary lesson. He started in a way which the population liked—he lowered gas prices, gave away money, nationalized industry. He was very popular. But then like most autocrats, he eventually turned the money to himself and destroyed his own country.Andrew Keen: Why are autocrats like Chavez and perhaps Trump so much better at capturing that anger than Democrats like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?Tim Wu: People who are outside the system like Chavez are able to tap into resentment and anger in a way which is less diluted by their direct information environment and their colleagues. Anyone who hangs around Washington, DC for a long time becomes more muted and careful. They lose credibility.That said, the fact that populist strongmen take over countries in distress suggests we need to avoid that level of economic distress in the first place and protect the middle class. Happy, contented middle-class countries don't tend to see the rise of authoritarian dictators. There isn't some Danish version of Hugo Chavez in the running right now.Andrew Keen: You bring up Denmark. Denmark always comes up in these kinds of conversations. What's admirable about your essay is you mostly don't fall into the Denmark trap of simply saying, "Why don't we all become like Denmark?" But at the same time, you acknowledge that the Danish model is attractive, suggesting we've misunderstood it or treated it superficially. What can and can't we learn from the Danish model?Tim Wu: American liberals often misunderstand the lesson of Scandinavia and other countries that have strong, prosperous middle classes like Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. In Scandinavia's case, the go-to explanation is that it's just the liberals' favorite set of policies—high taxation, strong social support systems. But I think the structure of those economies is much more important.They have what Jacob Hacker calls very strong "pre-distribution." They've avoided just having a small set of monopolists who make all the money and then hopefully hand it out to other people. It goes back to their land reform in the early 19th century, where they set up a very different kind of economy with a broad distribution of productive assets.If I'm trying to promote a philosophy in this book, it's for people who are fed up with the excesses of laissez-faire capitalism and think it leads to autocracy, but who are also no fans of communism or socialism. Just saying "let people pile up money and we'll tax it later" is not going to work. What you need is an economy structured with multiple centers of distributed economic power.Andrew Keen: The term that seems to summarize that in the essay is "architecture of parity." It's a bit clunky, but is that the best way to sum up your thinking?Tim Wu: I'm working on the terminology. Architecture of equality, parity, decentralized capitalism, distribution—these are all terms trying to capture it. It's more of a 19th century form of Christian or Catholic economics. People are grasping for the right word for an economic system that doesn't rely on just a few giant companies taking money from everybody and hopefully redistributing it. That model is broken and has a dangerous tendency to lead to toxicity. We need a better capitalism. An alternative title for this piece could have been "Saving Capitalism from Itself."Andrew Keen: Your name is most associated with tech and your critique of big tech. Does this get beyond big tech? Are there other sectors of the economy you're interested in fixing and reforming?Tim Wu: Absolutely. Silicon Valley is the most obvious and easiest entry point to talk about concentrated economic power. You can see the dependence on a small number of platforms that have earnings and profits far beyond what anyone imagined possible. But we're talking about an economy-wide, almost global set of problems.Some industries are worse. The meat processing industry in the United States is horrendously concentrated—it takes all the money from farmers, charges us too much for meat, and keeps it for itself. There are many industries where people are looking for something to understand or believe in that's different than socialism but different than this libertarian capitalism that ends up bankrupting people. Tech is the easiest way to talk about it, but not the be-all and end-all of my interest.Andrew Keen: Are there other examples where we're beginning to see decentralized capitalism? The essay was very strong on the critique, but I found fewer examples of decentralized capitalism in practice outside maybe Denmark in the 2020s.Tim Wu: East Asia post-World War II is a strong example of success. While no economy is purely small businesses, although Taiwan comes close, if you look at the East Asian story after World War II, one of the big features was an effort to reform land, give land to peasants, and create a landowning class to replace the feudal system. They had huge entrepreneurism, especially in Korea and Taiwan, less in Japan. This built a strong and prosperous middle and upper middle class.Japan has gone through hard times—they let their companies get too big and they stagnated. But Korea and Taiwan have gone from being third world economies to Taiwan now being wealthier per capita than Japan. The United States is another strong example, vacillating between being very big and very small. Even at its biggest, it still has a strong entrepreneurial culture and sectors with many small entities. Germany is another good example. There's no perfect version, but what I'm saying is that the model of monopolized economies and just having a few winners and hoping that anybody else can get tax payments is really a losing proposition.Andrew Keen: You were on Chris Hayes recently talking about antitrust. You're one of America's leading thinkers on antitrust and were brought into the Biden administration on the antitrust front. Is antitrust then the heart of the matter? Is this really the key to decentralizing capitalism?Tim Wu: I think it's a big tool, one of the tools of managing the economy. It works by preventing industries from merging their way into monopoly and keeps a careful eye on structure. In the same way that no one would say interest rates are the be-all and end-all of monetary policy, when we're talking about structural policy, having antitrust law actively preventing overconcentration is important.In the White House itself, we spent a lot of time trying to get other agencies to prevent their sectors, whether healthcare or transportation, from becoming overly monopolized and extractive. You can have many parts of the government involved—the antitrust agencies are key, but they're not the only solution.Andrew Keen: You wrote an interesting piece for The Atlantic about Biden's antitrust initiatives. You said the outgoing president's legacy of revived antitrust enforcement won't be easy to undo. Trump is very good at breaking things. Why is it going to be hard to undo? Lina Khan's gone—the woman who seems to unite all of Silicon Valley in their dislike of her. What did Biden do to protect antitrust legislation?Tim Wu: The legal patterns have changed and the cases are ongoing. But I think more important is a change of consciousness and ideology and change in popular support. I don't think there is great support for letting big tech do whatever they want without oversight. There are people who believe in that and some of them have influence in this administration, but there's been a real change in consciousness.I note that the Federal Trade Commission has already announced that it's going to stick with the Biden administration's merger rules, and my strong sense is the Department of Justice will do the same. There are certain things that Trump did that we stuck with in the Biden administration because they were popular—the most obvious being the turn toward China. Going back to the Bush era approach of never bothering any monopolies, I just don't think there's an appetite for it.Andrew Keen: Why is Lina Khan so unpopular in Silicon Valley?Tim Wu: It's interesting. I'm not usually one to attribute things to sexism, but the Justice Department brought more cases against big tech than she did. Jonathan Kanter, who ran antitrust at Justice, won the case against Google. His firm was trying to break up Google. They may still do it, but somehow Lina Khan became the face of it. I think because she's young and a woman—I don't know why Jonathan Kanter didn't become the symbol in the same way.Andrew Keen: You bring up the AT&T and IBM cases in the US tech narrative in the essay, suggesting that we can learn a great deal from them. What can we learn from those cases?Tim Wu: The United States from the 70s through the 2010s was an extraordinarily innovative place and did amazing things in the tech industry. An important part of that was challenging the big IBM and AT&T monopolies. AT&T was broken into eight pieces. IBM was forced to begin selling its software separately and opened up the software markets to what became a new software industry.AT&T earlier had been forced to license the transistor, which opened up the semiconductor industry and to some degree the computing industry, and had to stay out of computing. The government intervened pretty forcefully—a form of industrial policy to weaken its tech monopolies. The lesson is that we need to do the same thing right now.Some people will ask about China, but I think the United States has always done best when it constantly challenges established power and creates room for entrepreneurs to take their shot. I want very much for the new AI companies to challenge the main tech platforms and see what comes of that, as opposed to becoming a stagnant industry. Everyone says nothing can become stagnant, but the aerospace industry was pretty quick-moving in the 60s, and now you have Boeing and Airbus sitting there. It's very easy for a tech industry to stagnate, and attacking monopolists is the best way to prevent that.Andrew Keen: You mentioned Google earlier. You had an interesting op-ed in The New York Times last year about what we should do about Google. My wife is head of litigation at Google, so I'm not entirely disinterested. I also have a career as a critic of Google. If Kent Walker was here, he would acknowledge some of the things he was saying. But he would say Google still innovates—Google hasn't become Boeing. It's innovating in AI, in self-driving cars, it's shifting search. Would he be entirely wrong?Tim Wu: No, he wouldn't be entirely wrong. In the same way that IBM kept going, AT&T kept going. What you want in tech industries is a fair fight. The problem with Google isn't that they're investing in AI or trying to build self-driving cars—that's great. The problem is that they were paying over $20 billion a year to Apple for a promise not to compete in search. Through control of the browsers and many other things, they were trying to make sure they could never be dislodged.My view of the economics is monopolists need to always be a little insecure. They need to be in a position where they can be challenged. That happens—there are companies who, like AT&T in the 70s or 60s, felt they were immune. It took the government to make space. I think it's very important for there to be opportunities to challenge the big guys and try to seize the pie.Andrew Keen: I'm curious where you are on Section 230. Google won their Supreme Court case when it came to Section 230. In this sense, I'm guessing you view Google as being on the side of the good guys.Tim Wu: Section 230 is interesting. In the early days of the Internet, it was an important infant industry protection. It was an insulation that was vital to get those little companies at the time to give them an opportunity to grow and build business models, because if you're being sued by billions of people, you can't really do too much.Section 230 was originally designed to protect people like AOL, who ran user forums and had millions of people discussing—kind of like Reddit. I think as Google and companies like Facebook became active in promoting materials and became more like media companies, the case for an absolutist Section 230 became a lot weaker. The law didn't really change but the companies did.Andrew Keen: You wrote the essay "The Real Road to Serfdom" a couple of years ago. You also talked earlier about AI. There's not a lot of AI in this, but 50% of all the investment in technology over the last year was in AI, and most of that has gone into these huge platforms—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini. Is AI now the central theater, both in the Road to Serfdom and in liberating ourselves from big tech?Tim Wu: Two years ago when I was writing this, I was determined not to say anything that would look stupid about AI later. There's a lot more on what I think about AI in my new book coming in November.I see AI as a classic potential successor technology. It obviously is the most significant successor to the web and the mass Internet of 20 years ago in terms of having potential to displace things like search and change the way people do various forms of productivity. How technology plays out depends a lot on the economic structure. If you think about a technology like the cotton gin, it didn't automatically lead to broad flourishing, but reinforced plantation slavery.What I hope happens with AI is that it sets off more competition and destabilization for some of the tech platforms as opposed to reinforcing their advantage and locking them in forever. I don't know if we know what's going to happen right now. I think it's extremely important that OpenAI stays separate from the existing tech companies, because if this just becomes the same players absorbing technology, that sounds a lot like the darker chapters in US tech history.Andrew Keen: And what about the power of AI to liberate ourselves from our brain power as the next industrial revolution? When I was reading the essay, I thought it would be a very good model, both as a warning and in terms of offering potential for us to create this new architecture of parity. Because the technology in itself, in theory at least, is one of parity—one of democratizing brainpower.Tim Wu: Yes, I agree it has extraordinary potential. Things can go in two directions. The Industrial Revolution is one example where you had more of a top-down centralization of the means of production that was very bad for many people initially, though there were longer-term gains.I would hope AI would be something more like the PC revolution in the 80s and 90s, which did augment individual humanity as opposed to collective enterprise. It allowed people to do things like start their own travel agency or accounting firm with just a computer. I am interested and bullish on the potential of AI to empower smaller units, but I'm concerned it will be used to reinforce existing economic structures. The jury's out—the future will tell us. Just hoping it's going to make humanity better is not going to be the best answer.Andrew Keen: When you were writing this essay, Web3 was still in vogue then—the idea of blockchain and crypto decentralizing the economy. But I didn't see any references to Web3 and the role of technology in democratizing capitalism in terms of the architecture of corporations. Are you skeptical of the Web3 ideology?Tim Wu: The essay had its limits since I was also talking about 18th century Denmark. I have a lot more on blockchain and Web3 in the book. The challenge with crypto and Bitcoin is that it both over-promises and delivers something. I've been very interested in crypto and blockchain for a long time. The challenge it's had is constantly promising to decentralize great systems and failing, then people stealing billions of dollars and ending up in prison.It has a dubious track record, but it does have this core potential for a certain class of people to earn money. I'm always in favor of anything that is an alternative means of earning money. There are people who made money on it. I just think it's failed to execute on its promises. Blockchain in particular has failed to be a real challenge to web technologies.Andrew Keen: As you say, Hayek inspired the book and in some sense this is intellectual. The father of decentralization in ideological terms was E.F. Schumacher. I don't think you reference him, but do you think there has been much thinking since Schumacher on the value of smallness and decentralized architectures? What do people like yourself add to what Schumacher missed in his critique of bigness?Tim Wu: Schumacher is a good example. Rawls is actually under-recognized as being interested in these things. I see myself as writing in the tradition of those figures and trying to pursue a political economy that values a more balanced economy and small production.Hopefully what I add is a level of institutional experience and practicality that was missing. Rawls is slightly unfair because he's a philosopher, but his model doesn't include firms—it's just individuals. So it's all about balancing between poor people and rich people when obviously economic power is also held by corporations.I'm trying to create more flesh on the bones of the "small is beautiful" philosophy and political economy that is less starry-eyed and more realistic. I'm putting forward the point that you're not sacrificing growth and you're taking less political risk with a more balanced economy. There's an adulation of bigness in our time—exciting big companies are glamorous. But long-term prosperity does better when you have more centers, a more balanced system. I'm not an ultra-centralist suggesting we should live in mud huts, but I do think the worship of monopoly is very similar to the worship of autocracy and is dangerous.Andrew Keen: Much to discuss. Tim Wu, thank you so much. The author of "The Real Road to Serfdom," fascinating essay in this month's issue of Liberties. I know "The Age of Extraction" will be coming out on November 10th.Tim Wu: In England and US at the same time.Andrew Keen: We'll get you back on the show. Fascinating conversation, Tim. Thank you so much.Hailed as the “architect” of the Biden administration's competition and antitrust policies, Tim Wu writes and teaches about private power and related topics. First known for coining the term “net neutrality” in 2002, in recent years Wu has been a leader in the revitalization of American antitrust and has taken a particular focus on the growing power of the big tech platforms. In 2021, he was appointed to serve in the White House as special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy. A professor at Columbia Law School since 2006, Wu has also held posts in public service. He was enforcement counsel in the New York Attorney General's Office, worked on competition policy for the National Economic Council during the Barack Obama administration, and worked in antitrust enforcement at the Federal Trade Commission. In 2014, Wu was a Democratic primary candidate for lieutenant governor of New York. In his most recent book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (2018), he argues that corporate and industrial concentration can lead to the rise of populism, nationalism, and extremist politicians. His previous books include The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (2016), The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (2010), and Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World (2006), which he co-authored with Jack Goldsmith. Wu was a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and also has written for Slate, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. He once explained the concept of net neutrality to late-night host Stephen Colbert while he rode a rollercoaster. He has been named one of America's 100 most influential lawyers by the National Law Journal; has made Politico's list of 50 most influential figures in American politics (more than once); and has been included in the Scientific American 50 of policy leadership. Wu is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a law clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Writing comes in waves, and sometimes even the most disciplined of approaches needs a little refresh. Author Rachel Louise Snyder takes us through her writing process: what it used to look like, what it looks like now, and how she gets inspiration from unexpected places. Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of "Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade," the novels "What We've Lost is Nothing," "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us" and the memoir "Women We Buried, Women We Burned." Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine, the Washington Post and on NPR, and she was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. "No Visible Bruises" was awarded the 2018 Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the 2020 Book Tube Prize, the 2020 New York Public Library's Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Sidney Hillman Book Award for social justice. It won Best Book in Translation in Taiwan in 2021 and has been translated into Russian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, and others. It received starred reviews from Kirkus, Book Riot and Publisher's Weekly and was named one of the best books of 2019 by the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, the Library Journal, the Economist, and BookPage; the New York Times included it in their “Top Ten” books of 2019. "No Visible Bruises" was also a finalist for the Kirkus Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Award, and the Silver Gavel Award. Over the past two decades, Snyder has traveled to sixty countries, covering stories of human rights, gender-based violence, natural disasters, displacement and war. She lived, for six years, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and two years in London before relocating to Washington, DC in 2009. Originally from Chicago, Snyder holds a B.A. from North Central College and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2020-2021. Originally from Chicago, she has a joint appointment as a professor in journalism and literature at American University.

No matter where a business is located, there is a high chance that business has customers in other places around the world. In addition to those goods and services crossing boundaries, so can the payment and the payout. Today, Richard Meszaros, Vice President and Head of Cross Border Money Movement for North America at Visa Direct, and Robert Clayton, Vice President of Digital Payouts at Fiserv, examine the innovations that support and enable budding entrepreneurs, artists and craftspeople who can't make a living solely by selling their goods locally, and raise fortunes globally. You won't want to miss this engaging new episode of Money Travels, brought to you by Visa. Follow UsWebsite https://www.visa.com/visadirectLinkedIn @Visa DirectPresented by Visahttps://usa.visa.comVisa Direct capability enabled through a financial institution partner.Visa Direct product availability and functionality varies by market.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.Visa neither makes any warranty or representation as to the completeness or accuracy of the information within this podcast, nor assumes any liability or responsibility that may result from reliance on such information and any information from third parties. The information contained in this podcast is not intended as investment or legal advice, and listeners are encouraged to seek the advice of a competent professional where such advice is required.All brand names, logos and/or trademarks are the property of their respective owners, and do not necessarily imply product endorsement or affiliation with Visa.Visa Direct product availability and functionality varies by market.Visa Direct's actual fund availability depends on receiving financial institution and region.Use cases are for illustrative purposes only. Program providers are responsible for their programs and compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.The Visa controls described in this podcast are for Visa's internal compliance purposes. Visa Direct clients and participants should always consult and seek approval from their internal compliance teams on sanctions screening controls and processes. Visa Direct clients and participants are solely responsible for their own compliance with applicable laws and regulations.This podcast contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that relate to, among other things, our future operations, prospects, developments, strategies, business growth and financial outlook. Forward-looking statements generally are identified by words such as "believes," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "may," "projects," “could," "should," "will," "continue" and other similar expressions. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made, are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond our control and are difficult to predict. We describe risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, any of these forward-looking statements in our filings with the SEC. Except as required by law, we do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.Certain Visa Direct Services involve the use of third party service providers, other financial institutions (such as network partners) and local clearing schemes.Visa Direct Wallet is not yet commercially available. Please consult your Visa Representative for further information.

Episode 24Follow The HostDownload the AppSurvival Specialist Cockatoo PaulIn this repurposed rewind of an old podcast episode, I welcome Paul Cockatoo, a survival specialist, and musician, as my guest. Paul discusses his background as a professional musician and his love for nature, as well as his survivalist course and the skills he teaches. The conversation covers topics such as basic survival skills, identifying edible plants, veganism, and the use of guns in emergencies. Paul also shares his extensive library of over 4,000 books and the importance of being open to facts and logic. Topics of DiscussionPaul's BackgroundMusical Abilities: Playing Multiple InstrumentsSurvivalist CourseSurvival Skills and DifficultyTime Spent in the BushBasic Survival KitBird Language and Survival SkillsAdapting Survival Skills to Different EnvironmentsEdible Plants, Veganism, and SurvivalPaul's extensive book collectionDonating books to Aboriginal communitiesTeaching survival skillsAbout The ShowThoughts of a Random (Citizen Remote Podcast) is a podcast oriented around open ideas, entrepreneurship, travel, investing, politics, philosophy, and an odd take on history. Together with Toarc United & Citizen Remote we talk with thought leaders from all around the world to stir the innovative mind. This podcast specifically talks about the importance of having an international perspective, the ins and outs of the business world, the entrepreneurial life, the digital nomad life, investing and ways to enjoy life in the new age.Businesses worldwide have very quickly oriented themselves around freelancing, digital nomads, remote workers, and diluting borders. If you'd like to find out how you can benefit on an individual or entrepreneurial level from that change, this podcast is for you & Citizen Remote can help.If you're a startup, needing to find useful tools, wanting to build custom software or generally struggling with the next steps you should be taking to optimize your companies bottom line Toarc United can help.Like the show?? Please leave a Review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Apple ReviewsSpotify ReviewsPodchaser ReviewsSponsored by: Toarc United & Citizen RemoteDisclaimer: None of what is mentioned on Thoughts of a Random Citizen or from Toarc United should be taken as investment or legal advice of any kind. Support the showFollow Citizen Remote

In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss how some sociologists have come to theorize the phenomenon of globalization. They do so by examining what's come to be known as the ‘Great Globalization Debate', as described by David Held et al.'s highly influential work, Global Transformations. Eric and Louis believe fans of the cult television show, the Sopranos, will especially enjoy this episode, as they probably spend too much of it doing a bad impersonation of the deplorable Sopranos character, Richie Aprille.Music and sound effects for this episode come from various sources and is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License/the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 or is covered by a SFX (Multi-Use) License. Tracks include: https://freesound.org/people/Tuben/sounds/272044/ https://freesound.org/people/funnyman850/sounds/194812/ https://freesound.org/people/colorsCrimsonTears/sounds/562296/ https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/563765/ https://freesound.org/people/Fupicat/sounds/607207/ https://freesound.org/people/Kagateni/sounds/404359/ https://freesound.org/people/JPMusic82/sounds/415511/The opinions expressed in the Sociology of Everything podcast are that of the hosts and/or guest speakers. They do not reflect the opinions of anyone else at UniSA or the institution at large.The Sociology of Everything podcast | www.sociologypodcast.com

Saronik talks to Kim about Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson's seminal 2013 book Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor, where they use the concept and ubiquity of border and border-thinking for political innovation. Other works touched upon are Biju Matthew's Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City, The Communist Manifesto, and Kenichi Omae's The Borderless World. The image is from the cover of Taxis as Public Transport: A Bibliography, published in 1979 by the US Department of Transportation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new album "Crisálida," Panamanian-born and Boston-based jazz pianist and composer Danilo Pérez uses a mix of musical styles from South America to the Middle East to evoke a reality without borders.

In this special episode of How to be the difference, the host Paul Lynskey chats with the three Co-Founders of The Intern Group's: Johanna Molina, Head of Impact David Lloyd, CEO and Lee Carlin, Head of Global Talent and Experience. In this conversation, the three guests talk about how their paths joined when they decided to create The Intern Group, and they share with us the story of the company that provides intern job opportunities for students all over the world.Although they come from different backgrounds, David, Johanna and Lee have always had one thing in common: their desire to travel the world and meet people from different cultures and countries. Since a young age, all three of them lived vital experiences that ignited this curiosity in them: Johanna traveled through Latin America in a car with her father and sister, David spent one year in Argentina learning about a completely different culture, and Lee attended a school where his classmates were the sons and daughters of immigrants from very different countries. After going into more traditional career paths, they realized that this passion was shared with many talented people from different parts of the world. But, in many cases, these were people that lacked access to opportunities that would enable them to live those same experiences that shaped them. That is how they created The Intern Group, to build a bridge between brilliant people and brilliant companies, offering them job opportunities as interns in other countries. The ultimate goal was and still is to inspire and encourage people to believe in and challenge themselves, discover their passion and realize their potential.In this episode, the guests talk in detail about their backgrounds, share insights about how important it is to get out of your comfort zone, about the company's pilot programs in its beginnings, and about how the company shifted its purpose when the pandemic hit in 2020.Outline of the episode:[01:30]- Introducing the guests[01:37]-Johanna Molina[01:56]-David Lloyd[02:03]-Lee Carlin[02:25]- Meeting each other, creating The Intern Group[02:35]-Johanna's background[04:40]-Johanna meets David[06:18]-David's background[10:25]-David leaves the finance world to create The Intern Group[11:47 ]-Lee's background[14:50]-Lee joins The Intern Group[16:50]- Milestones and challenges along the way[16:55]-David shares the igniting idea for The Intern Group, its initial pilot programs[18:30]-Johanna on the first years of The Intern Group[21:05]-Lee's insights on the early stage of The Intern Group[24:10]- Pivotal moments for the company[24:30]-Lee on the first full scale program and on the company's values[27:36]-David on the first partnership, featuring on the press and Covid-19[30:41]-Johanna on The Intern Group scholarships and the pandemic[33:20]- One moment that stood out[33:26]-Johanna's choice[35:45]-Lee's choice[41:15]-David's choice[44:00]-Where is The Intern Group headed to?[44:15]- David on building a borderless world for talent[45:23]-Lee on scaling the company's impact[46:27]-Johanna on offering limitless opportunities

In this episode, we chat about how we are seeing the beginnings of a borderless world and what this means. Giving our take on where the crypto market is at the moment and what we believe will happen in the coming months. We discuss:02.30 – Stagnant Prices11.30  – El Salvador16.30 – Move Here & Get Bitcoin27.30 – March Pump?Scotland Bitcoin Tweet: https://twitter.com/nocrypticcrypto/status/1483626673312522243?s=21Will Clemente Tweet: https://twitter.com/WClementeIII/status/1482861890703343621?s=20Max Keiser: https://youtu.be/VqtGk6St9ykSign Up to Crypto.com Crypto Card and Get $25 FREE: https://crypto.com/app/cryptostandard Discord Community: https://discord.gg/7XGdkbJCdaYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYUf-KrEQN3RbGi5xWZfXSQ TwitterPodcast - https://twitter.com/NoCrypticCryptoJordan- https://twitter.com/jayw132?s=21Jim- https://twitter.com/crypto_standard?s=21 If you have any questions at all, please contact us at hello@crypto-standard.co.uk or reach out to us on social media as we would love to help. Please remember we are not financial advisors and nothing in the podcast is advice, we are just trying to educate you on the world of crypto. If you like the podcast, we would really appreciate it if you could leave us a review. Thank you and see you for the next episode.

A Borderless World - Nomadcities is Building the First Country Online @nomadcities is challenging the definition of “country”, by building the first country online! An initiative that can also help build a peaceful free world. A world where geographical borders are no longer an issue or an excuse for governments to engage in violence or aggression.

Season 8: Impact of Technological FactorsThe technological factor is critical in the 21st Century. It is one of the determinants of Lean and Productive Organizations. Information and Communications Technology penetration is the key to business success in the Borderless World.  In this podcast, we study the importance of technology & ICT penetration in International business.  AtyaasaaOnline is an E-learning portal that people can preview and learn for free. You can also visit Niket Karajagi's body of knowledge on his Virtual Coaching Portal https://niketkarajagi.com.AtyaasaaOnline Tech-Enabled Borderless Organization Development Portal

With the COVID-19 lockdowns forcing people to stay in their homes and, if possible, not go into the office, businesses have adapted, and remote work has boomed.Remote work tools have been available for years, but companies and individuals have realised that the office is less critical while on lockdown. With workers no longer having to go into the office and restaurants, bars and entertainment either closed or heavily restricted, what is the benefit to living in the city?There has been a growing exodus from major cities during the pandemic, but the coronavirus restrictions are not the only reason. Many in the US have moved to other states or even countries, to benefit from preferred business regulations or tax rates.In A Borderless World, we find out what is behind this exodus from major cities, how accessible global migration will change the way we live and what cities of the future will look like.- - - - -Show notes and transcription: DEF076 - Show Notes- - - - -Timestamps:Coming soon…- - - - -The success of Defiance will be largely down to the support of you, the listener. Below are a number of ways you can help:- Subscribe to the show on your favourite app so you never miss an episode:iTunesSpotifyDeezerStitcherSoundCloudYouTubeTuneIn- Leave a review of the show on iTunes (5* really helps, if you think the show deserves it).- Share the show and episodes out with your friends and family on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.- Follow Defiance on social media:TwitterFacebookInstagramYouTube- Subscribe to the Defiance mailing list.- Donate Bitcoin here: bc1qd3anlc8lh0cl9ulqah03dmg3r2uxm5r657zr5pIf you have any questions then please email Defiance.- - - - -

In Episode 4 of ‘Conversations with Neighbours,' we ask what remains of the political and cultural ideas that imagined Africa as the 'utopia of a borderless world'? Ghanaian architect and scholar, Kuukuwa Manful, reflects on the place of minor histories in deepening our understanding of pan-africanism; Nigerian writer, Emmanuel Iduma takes us with in his search for an atlas of a borderless world; Egyptian sociologist Sara Salem takes us up in the air as she unravels the workings of coloniality and capital from the vantage point of the sky.

"What used to be called outsourcing has become normalized and standardized as remote teams"In this episode of Build The Future, we talk with Alex Bouaziz, the founder of Deel which is a startup that streamlines compliance, onboarding, and payroll for remote teams.We talk with Alex about the future of work, what people get wrong about remote work & the independent contractor model, and how offloading the work of dealing with laws in every country is going to accelerate us to a future where talent, wealth, and access are available to all.Resources:Learn more about Deel and see how they can help you streamline your global hiring process :)

We live in a Borderless-World influenced by technology. Global businesses are the norm of the day. Learn what it takes to demonstrate a Global Mindset. We live in the era of Born Global companies. AtyaasaaOnline Tech-Enabled Borderless Organization Development Portal

cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis Karoli is the founder of Jobbatical, the company that offers relocation and immigration services to top firms like Transferwise and Twilio. Karoli is passionate about creating a borderless world and re-designing the future of work. What’s in this episode? 1) How to receive DMs on Twitter from top-tier VCs and closing $10M 2) Pivoting after realizing that your service is a vitamin rather than a pill 3) Talent arbitrage opportunity and the talent shortage that will cost $8T globally 4) Re-thinking the main pillars of the society that we created artificially 5) Country most people are moving away from and where they relocate You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.

Cybersecurity risk is unavoidable, but a sensitive data breach does not have to be. In this podcast we dissect the mindset and motivations of hackers, discuss the likelihood of a breach event, and explore ways business can protect their sensitive data from unauthorized exposure.

We were curious about how international teams could work effectively together and felt that cultural-training was an opportunity in the corporate marketplace... Read the trends I think that the workplace today is very much driven by the primary forces of digital technologies and globalization and that combination is creating a complex, inter-cultural environment. So, where 'globalization' has been a major influence within organizations, digital technology has started to play a major role. The idea of the borderless workplace is where people who are working in teams across different geographies and timezones need the kinds of skills and support for those environments. Develop your idea "We were starting with an early-stage idea and we were focused on how we could turn that into a business idea. Cultural intelligence has developed significantly very much in line with the way that organization in the workplace have changed. What we have noticed over the course of our existence as a business, is the increasing adoption of digital technology"..... Now listen to the rest of the episode to learn more!.... Some takeaways for you today:  What brought Chris to the training business world Why clients need cross-cultural collaboration training How Chris has structured the TMA World operation How your training can better serve international clients How TMA World's attracts the right associates for the brand Which business challenges require TMA World's unique help Which unfair advantage TMA World has over competitors Which marketing channel has been most rewarding Some helpful resources for you:  TMA World- Corporate training website for TMA World Country Navigator- Online cross-cultural training tool LinkedIn- Chris Crosby's profile on LinkedIN HBR Review- Article explaining Cultural Intelligence [2004] Forbes- Why Cultural Intelligence Matters [2019]

The recipient of an Overseas Press Award for her contributions to This American Life, Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of No Visible Bruises. A ''gut-wrenching'' (Esquire) and intimate investigation into the scope and root causes of one of America's most urgent social crises, it was awarded the prestigious J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award. Her other books include Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade and the novel What We've Lost Is Nothing, a chronicle of the intrigues and prejudices left in the wake of a mass burglary in a suburban Chicago neighborhood. An associate professor at American University, Snyder has published in a litany of periodicals, including the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Magazine. (recorded 6/26/2019)

Join Michael and guest co-host Madelin Vargas as we speak with Rachel and discuss her new book: "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us" Rachel Louise Snyder is an American Journalist and Author. Rachel's new book, "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us." Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and elsewhere. Her other books include Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, and the novel What We've Lost is Nothing. She has been the recipient of an Overseas Press Award for her work on This American Life. No Visible Bruises was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Work-inProgress Award. An associate professor at American University, Snyder lives in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Twitter at @RLSWrites This week's guest co-host is Madelin Vargas, who is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and psychotherapist in private practice. Her practice "Journey To Wellbeing Counseling, LLC" is located in Pembroke Pines, Florida. To learn more about her or to book a consultation, visit her website at: www.journeytowellbeing.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themichaelcalderinshow/message

Rachel Louise Snyder is an American Journalist and Author. Rachel's new book, "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About  Domestic Violence Can Kill Us." Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and elsewhere. Her other books include Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, and the novel What We've Lost is Nothing. She has been the recipient of an Overseas Press Award for her work on This American Life. No Visible Bruises was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Work-inProgress Award. An associate professor at American University, Snyder lives in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Twitter at @RLSWrites This week's guest co-host is Madelin Vargas, who is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and psychotherapist in private practice. Her practice "Journey To Wellbeing Counseling, LLC" is located in Pembroke Pines, Florida. To learn more about her or to book a consultation, visit her website at: www.journeytowellbeing.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themichaelcalderinshow/message

Whether we call it domestic abuse, private violence, or even intimate terrorism in America domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime. The World Health Organization deemed it a “global epidemic,” and yet too often it remains locked in silence, even as its tendrils reach unseen into so many of our most pressing national issues. Acclaimed journalist Rachel Louise Snyder took the stage to deliver a reckoning with this urgent and widespread problem with insight from her powerful new book No Visible Bruises. She was joined onstage by KUOW’s Sydney Brownstone, and together these two journalists reveal the scale of domestic violence in our country. They framed key stories that demolish common myths—if things were bad enough, victims would just leave; a violent person cannot become nonviolent; shelter is an adequate response; and the insidious notion that violence inside the home is a private matter. Through the stories of victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the country, Snyder and Brownstone took us on a sobering exploration of the real roots of private violence, its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it. Rachel Louise Snyder’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post,the New Republic, and elsewhere. Her books include Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, and the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing. She has been the recipient of an Overseas Press Award for her work on This American Life. Sydney Brownstone is the online editor for KUOW, and a contributor to The Stranger, Fast Company, Mother Jones, and Village Voice. Brownstone’s writing covers topics of general news, the environment, and sexual assault, and in 2017 her coverage of the Seattle porn scammer Matt Hickey was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Recorded live at The Forum at Town Hall Seattle on May 21, 2019.

From the UK to America, sovereignty is under assault by the open-borders Left. Pat Buchanan and Nigel Farage join Laura to discuss the ramifications of the globalists' agenda, and what we need to do to preserve national sovereignty.

--{ "The Foundations, Unelected, Undetected: A Vast Part-machine Multi-layered Superstructure Directs all Humans, Systems, the Future, Culture" © Alan Watt }-- Massive Changes Underway - H.G. Wells, Change in the Air - Albert Pike, Preparing Groundwork for Revolution - Pike Trained Mazzini - Mazzini was a Good Friend of Bertrand Russell's Mother - Control of Media - Globalism - Futurist Societies - Socialism, Marxism - Soviet, Rule by Councils - Winston Churchill - Created Opposition - Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis - Planned, Accelerated Evolution of Everything - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World - Soma, Drugs to Keep You Happy - The Perennial Philosophy; The Right of Those Who Know to Rule Over the Lesser Beings - Plato's Book, The Republic - The Guardian Class at the Top - Children, Organized by Adults, Making Demands for Sustainability, Vegetarianism - In Every Profession People Sell Out, Become Change Agents - Bureaucracy Living Well Off the Taxpayers - Scientific Socialism - Power has Always Used Fear on the People - Britain's Poor Houses - Free Trade - In Brave New World, the Creation of Types of Humans for Each Kind of Work - Terms You Hear; Sustainability, Borderless World, Overpopulation - League of Nations; Bypass Politicians - Carroll Quigley - Children Most Heavily Targeted with Propaganda - Nihilism - Hope - Incredible Destruction of Human Life in War - Gulf War I, Plundering of Oil Fields - Central Banking System; World Bank, BIS, IMF - Technocrats, Technocracy - George Orwell on the Dangers of Socialism - Brexit is a Soap Opera for the Public - Donald Trump, Tweets - Academia - Truth can Be Taken as an Act of Treason - Intolerance - Fear can Motivate People to be Very Nasty to You; Fear of Losing Job, etc. - Scotland, Merchants Controlled Everything; Clearances Not only in Highlands but All Over Scotland - Irish Famine - The Weavers - Corn Laws - Exporting Criminals to Botany Bay and the Americas - Cheviot Sheep - Scottish Highlands Genocide - Creation of Kilts; Scottish Regiments used as Shock Troops - The Abused End Up Getting Used - Families Who were Burned Out of Their Homes, Living in Churchyards, Waiting for Help - No Validation anymore of a Just War, so Troops Today are Living on a Cocktail of Drugs - The World Economic Forum - 51% of Young Americans are Single; Delayed Marriage Phenomenon, Waithood - President Trump Signs Executive Order on Free Speech at College Campuses - General Social Survey funded by National Science Foundation - The Food We Eat - Bisphenol A - Weedkiller Roundup Removed from DIY Store Shelves - Monopoly Power - Insulin Crisis in America - AI Handling Routine Tasks - Google, Medical Records in UK - St. Joseph's Oratory Stabbing - The Family Unit is a Small Tribe - All Socialist Doctrine wants to Eliminate the Family and Religion - Covenanters Slaughtered in Scotland; No King but Jesus - Outlandish, Award-Winning Campaign to Redistribute School Funds and a Teacher who Said she was Forced to Scrub the Loos - WEF Funding Futurist Societies and Groups to do with Psychology, Sustainability - Lab Meat - We're Way Beyond Frankenfood - Veganism - Drugs of any Kind can Flatten Your Emotions - Neurolinguistics - Scientific Dictatorship (Tyranny) is Ruthless. *Title and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Mar. 24, 2019 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)

[YouTube Video Version: https://youtu.be/68ZDOKTNKvw As predicted by many, the increasing intensity of domestic terrorism and civil unrest hasn't resolved itself in our country. Here in America, we're dealing with what seems like a tornado of issues; crises which took decades to comprehend are being foisted upon us daily. Information changes us and we are being purposefully overloaded into pacification. In a world of alleged abundance, drawing the line is an audacious thing. As society continues to devolve and degrade itself, we're asking others to wallow in our own self-pity and self regard, abdicating our own power and rights to a system designed to usurp them. All this new world requires is your obedience. What better way to subdue the population into submission than overwhelm them with misinformation while simultaneously poisoning their resources? You'll rot their brains and their minds, making them ripe for rule. The days of collectivism are upon us and many don't have the mental fortitude to say no. Become An EXCLUSIVE Member: https://www.patreon.com/FreedomFaction Website: http://factionsoffreedom.jimdo.com/ Newsletter Sign-Up: http://eepurl.com/c-V3MD Email: FreedomsFaction@Gmail.com Instagram: @Freedom_Faction, @Freedoms_Faction FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/factionsoffreedom/ Twitter: @FreedomsFaction, @NoizceEra Donate: https://www.paypal.me/noizceera Store: https://factionsoffreedom.jimdo.com/store/ Operation Dunamis: https://www.gofundme.com/operation-dunamis

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis), CTO of Coinbase, joined Erik on stage in San Francisco at the Founders Embassy Borderless Summit in June 2018 for a fascinating conversation about the coming impact of blockchain technology. They discuss how the world will change as work and entertainment — but especially finance — become virtual. Balaji explains why governments will need to compete for the best individuals and explains the new role of government in a “borderless” world. He also discusses his recent exits and his new role as CTO of Coinbase. Balaji gives his surprising advice for new grads looking to start a company and explains why your “personal burn rate” is one of the most important metrics to track. Erik talks to Balaji about Balaji's lesser known history buff side and they discuss world finance, world history, and China.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Shawn Xu is our researcher, Colin Campbell is our audio engineer, and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis), CTO of Coinbase, joined Erik on stage in San Francisco at the Founders Embassy Borderless Summit in June 2018 for a fascinating conversation about the coming impact of blockchain technology. They discuss how the world will change as work and entertainment — but especially finance — become virtual. Balaji explains why governments will need to compete for the best individuals and explains the new role of government in a “borderless” world. He also discusses his recent exits and his new role as CTO of Coinbase. Balaji gives his surprising advice for new grads looking to start a company and explains why your “personal burn rate” is one of the most important metrics to track. Erik talks to Balaji about Balaji's lesser known history buff side and they discuss world finance, world history, and China.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Shawn Xu is our researcher, Colin Campbell is our audio engineer, and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Join Andrew Colvin, Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), as he discusses the implications of destabilization in fragile and failed states for combatting transnational terrorism and organized crime in the West. After Commissioner Colvin’s remarks, Seth G. Jones, Harold Brown Chair and Director of the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, will host a moderated armchair discussion. This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.

My guest this week is Chris Dixon, who has written some of my favorite essays on technology and venture investing. Chris is a prolific investor and thinker, having been an entrepreneur, angel investor, and now partner at the well-known venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Our conversation focuses on major trends in technology, including cryptocurrencies and the future of autonomous vehicles and drones. Chris has a rule of thumb for technology trends: find out what smart people are working on during the weekend, and you’ll know what other will be doing years in the future. After surveying his old essays, it’s clear you use Chris’s writings as a similar litmus test. Hash Power is presented by Fidelity Investments Please enjoy this great conversation with Chris Dixon on the future of tech. For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Books Referenced Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World   Links Referenced Douglas Hofstadter Daniel Dennett How Aristotle Created the Computer New Yorker Cover on automation The World of Numbers website Jerry Neumann podcast episode David Tisch podcast ERC-20 Token Standard Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology   Show Notes 2:04 (First Question) – Why did Chris choose to study philosophy             2:23 – Douglas Hofstadter             2:24 – Daniel Dennett             3:20 – How Aristotle Created the Computer  3:35 – Where has his thinking and viewpoints changed the most having been in the real world  4:42 – What is the real driving force behind all of the technology that we are creating and will automation kill all of the jobs             6:16 – New Yorker Cover on automation             6:57 – The World of Numbers website 8:36 – A look at his history in networks and network design             11:03 – Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages             11:07 – Jerry Neumann podcast episode             12:32 – Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World 13:06 – What are the market and technological forces that make it difficult to regulate software hardware companies 14:39 – The best features of proprietary centralized networks and open networks 16:40 – What things are better centralized vs decentralized             22:30 – David Tisch podcast 23:03 – When it comes to cryptocurrencies, what are the concerns that the protocols themselves hold value and could this lead to centralization of the system problems             24:02 – Block size debate (topic)             26:40 – ERC-20 Token Standard 27:23 – Is the blockchain the answer to the stagnation of the big tech players  32:47 – Does Chris find investment in individual crypto tokens analogous to seed funding in companies  34:39 -  How does Chris think about the dichotomy of investing in people vs technologies             34:59 – Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology  37:45 – What organizational structures of companies are most compelling  41:50 – Any major trends in technology a cause for concern for Chris  42:34 – Any interesting trends by people looking to disrupt the centralization of internet power to a small few  44:09 – What major trends is Chris passionately pursuing  51:15 – If everyone agrees on a future trend of technology, can you still make money investing in them  52:20 – How do you encourage younger people to approach the world and a career differently in this ever-changing world  57:39 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Chris   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

David Gallup, head of World Service Authority (WSA) joins The Big Trade Series. David starts the conversation by introducing his organization and describing how they help the United Nations spread its universal values and educate citizens in a globalised world. Peter and David then talk about the “World Passport,” which is the WSA’s best-known product. David explains how the “World Passport” facilitates international free travel and immigration. Their exchange on the “World Passport” is followed by discussions on various topics including the potential of a “global currency” that supports the idea of “world citizenship,” deglobalization trends around the world and the WSA’s funding status. David wraps up the episode by sharing his thoughts on refugees and what his organization does to alleviate their suffering.

Eight years ago, Barack Obama arrived in Washington pledging to reverse the dramatic expansion of state surveillance his predecessor had presided over in the name of fighting terrorism. Instead, the Obama administration saw the Bush era's "collect it all" approach to surveillance become still more firmly entrenched. Meanwhile, the advanced spying technologies once limited to intelligence agencies have been gradually trickling down to local police departments. From the high-profile tussle between Apple and the FBI over smartphone encryption to debates over how to detect "lone wolf" terrorists before they strike, hard questions about modern privacy have figured prominently in the 2016 presidential race. Moreover, as WikiLeaks' sensational release of hacked Democratic Party e-mails demonstrated, surveillance isn't just a campaign issue: It's a campaign tactic too. As the nation braces itself for a new presidential administration, the Cato Institute will gather technologists, legislators, activists, and intelligence officials to survey the privacy landscape, look ahead to the issues Americans will be debating over the next eight years — from government hacking to predictive "big data" to the "Internet of things" — and examine how and whether Americans can still live at least occasionally free from prying eyes.The 2016 Cato Surveillance Conference See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tom Donahue Philly Freedom talk show discusses The Power Elite vs America First. Internationalism vs Nationalism. The Wall vs Borderless World. Trump vs NWO.

Facebook Black Sheep of Guns,My State Senator enforces my idea that he is an idiot,Gun Controllers target NICS denials,Another mother calls for background checks like the one her daughters murderer passed,Kerry informs graduates they are entering a "Borderless World",Austrian cops tell Sharia victim to dye her hair.

In recent years we have seen diseases spread around the globe at an alarming rate, from West Nile virus to SARS to swine flu. Globalization has magnified the potential reach of these diseases, increasing the speed with which they spread and the size of the population that can be affected. Rapid transmission over a large area, rather than the severity of the disease itself, is what transforms an illness into a pandemic.Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty emphasizes that pandemics can be fought effectively, both through simple health practices and new research. Drawing on his extensive experience in the fields of pathology and immunology, Dr. Doherty will discuss pandemics, how they spread and what we can do to prevent them.Speaker Peter Doherty is the Michael F. Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.For more information about this event, visit: http://www.worldaffairs.org/events/2013/disease-in-a-borderless-world.html

Brand new Boards of Canada called White Cyclosa starts the show this week. San Fran's Trifonic drops Parks on Fire, then we hear another brand new one, this time from Sigur Rós called Hrafntinna. The show goes mellowly beautiful with London UK's iambic playing Aura, then a nice one from The Album Leaf called Twentytwofourteen. Berlin based Apparat gets spun featuring the vocals of Anja Plascht (Soap&Skin) on a track called Goodbye. Germany's Mnemonic glitches it up a bit with an idm beauty called Sinnspiel and then Norway's Xerxes finds a groove with a remix of the Jonas Kroon track Her Er Eg. Celt Islam starts to dub it up with a Borderless World and the show wraps with two riddims from Fantan Mojah and 3gga & Emiliano.

Has the world entered a new dark age? What are our chances for recovery? Parag Khanna joins us to discuss his unique view of the current state of global affairs and how a new, non-traditional coalition of business executives, philanthropists, technocrats and others can bring about a modern Renaissance. Mr. Khanna will discuss how this “mega-diplomacy” has the power to improve education, protect the environment, rebuild failed states, battle terrorism, and make the global economy more just.

When Thomas Friedman wrote his popular book The World Is Flat one of its central arguments was that geography might soon become history. The proliferation of information technology and telecommunications networks has integrated the world in ways that were unimaginable in the past -- and this has transformed how companies produce and distribute products and services. One result of this transformation is the rise of networks of companies that are bound together through IT and logistics. How can firms strive for and gain competitive advantage in such an environment? Victor and William Fung group chairman and managing director of Hong Kong-based Li & Fung and Yoram (Jerry) Wind a professor of marketing at Wharton deal with this issue in their new book Competing in a Flat World: Building Enterprises for a Borderless World. They recently spoke with Knowledge at Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.