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NEW ESSAY: E. Musk: The AI Oligarchy Needs More Scrutiny Than The Technology

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Ellon Musk is the deus ex machina of conservatives and other Beltway careerists. … He, the divinity of Deep Tech, will perennially preach the anti-AI gospel. But behind the scenes …~ilana 

New essay is “E. Musk: The AI Oligarchy Needs More Scrutiny Than The Technology.” It appeared on LewRockwell.com, anti-state, anti-war, pro-market, at The Unz Review, and on ilana mercer’s FPV Resistance on Substack.

Excerpt: 

FOR THE LUCKY ONES, “Black October,” the PHP code vulnerability that roiled cyberspace, might have begun with a slightly urgent tone in the otherwise scrupulous calm of a software engineer.

He or she would have sternly directed the fortunate individual, whose online universe they oversee, to a likewise careful, managed web-hosting service. There, the cybersecurity expert coders would have already implemented “the fix”—and would be hard at work fencing vulnerable websites in their charge. We hope.

The story would later go around that the vulnerability of PHP, a “general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development,” is a feature of 70 percent of websites worldwide. (The last word is probably a redundancy, but it works to stress the point.) That’s just how pervasive PHP is. If not patched, its vulnerability would allow unauthorized access to countless web systems.

Originally created by a Danish-Canadian, PHP was later “parsed” along the way, whatever than means in computer jargon, by two Israeli programmers. Since the word “paranoia” implies irrational distrust; feel free to come up with a better descriptor of my febrile thinking as to anything Israelis unleash on the world—no matter how long ago the Israeli segment of the PHP code was abandoned and ceased to be supported.

Reasonably or unreasonably, the PHP digital drama soon led to the question of AI (Artificial Intelligence) “run amok,” a risk that PHP software developers had deemed positively esoteric, before AI accelerated that risk.

Experts worried, reported the capable Krystal Ball, that this particular fix (“a patch”), just by way of an example, can be—promises to be—reverse engineered to hack, hack, hack. Scrupulously calm and understated herself, Ms. Ball is a former accountant with a degree in economics. She carries the Breaking Points podcast.

Consider: So munificent and beneficial an industry is AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) or AI (Artificial Intelligence)—that you had better start defending against its onslaught, if you know what’s good for you. That’s yet another conclusion to draw from the PHP digital drama. 

One grim reality of the AI scam industry is simply that small business has fewer resources to divert toward digital fortification.

The too-big-to-fail principle is another feature of the AI oligarchic economy. Those most vulnerable to systemic software penetration, surmised Ms. Ball, will thus be the smaller outfits and organizations. Economic behemoths the state won’t let fail.

Hacked, hobbled in the workforce, or forced to pay: The little man or woman will be unduly marked for suffering in some way or another by the hot-air industry that is AI.

Prospective investors should certainly study Ron Unz’s distillation of the “industry’s stark financials,” which will likely see “top AI executives and investors retain much of their current wealth, amounting to billions or tens of billions of dollars, while foisting the trillions of dollars of looming financial losses upon the suffering American taxpayer.”

This is why Elon Musk, the face of the Deep Tech Oligarchy, has deigned, now-and-again, to disgorge a few foreboding words against AI. It’s a show and a sham for the benefit of the moron media and the Musk fanboys. …

… READ the rest: “E. Musk: The AI Oligarchy Needs More Scrutiny Than The Technology“

©2026 ILANA MERCER
The Unz Review, November 2
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Ilana Mercer, a widely published paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, decades back, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. Because it’s our duty. 

Essay: Oct. 7 Will Forever Mark Israel’s Big Reveal

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NEW ESSAY is “Oct. 7 Forever Marks The Big Reveal: ‘We See You, Israel, We Revile You, We Reject You!’” You can read it now on The Unz Review, on LewRockwell.com, anti-war, anti-state, pro-market. Find it on ilanamercer’s FPV Resistance on Substack, where we can also chat.

And, shortly, on IlanaMercer.com.

Excerpt:

What Israel has done, is doing, to Gaza has not sprung ex nihilo from October 7.

Genocide is not a situational counter-response to aggression. It’s a coming-out event of sorts.

Differently put: There are no legitimate antecedents to genocide. Genocide is not a “war crime” to which a set of mitigating or exculpating legal defenses can attach.

Genocide is a stand-alone indefensible crime—“the blackest of all crimes”—for which there are no extenuating circumstances and to which no traditional legal defenses attach.

Ethnocide, depopulation, domicide and daily mass murder can never be explained away or exculpated using argument from law, ethics or history.

In essence, talk to the hand about October 7, 2023; because the face isn’t listening. Just as there are no legal or moral extenuating circumstances for genocide, so it is that there are no historical defenses for this “blackest of all crimes,” for genocide.

To assert that you are just, justified or even coherent as you carry out that which cannot be just or justified—this is to embody a most grotesque incoherence and contradiction.

At minimum, Israel deserves—and has yet to receive—the unanimous revulsion and isolation reserved for entities whose existence is a confidence trick and a fraud upon us all.

Reality is truth, past and present. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. From the facts of this Twenty-First Century Genocide; certain truths immemorial and irrefutable that traverse time have emerged. Truths about Israel.

Through Gaza, the world has come to know Israel’s ways with the Palestinians, with their lands and homesteads—down to what Israeli terrorists habitually do to the intimate bits-and-bobs that make up a household.

Through Gaza, we have come to know Israel’s ways across the Levant and beyond. They unground and salt the earth forever. They uproot ancient communities and their olive groves. For fun. They deform babies and the baby faces of children for life.  …

…READ THE REST on The Unz Review, on LewRockwell.com and on ilanamercer’s FPV Resistance on Substack

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Ilana Mercer, a widely published paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, decades back, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide.

 

PODCAST (Update 9/28/026): NAZA Documentary: Why Taking A Prize For Documenting IDF Exploits Was Wrong & What’s The RIGHT Thing To Do

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NEW PODCAST:  “NAZA Documentary: Why Taking A Prize For Documenting IDF Exploits Was Wrong & What’s The RIGHT Thing To Do“:

The film directors of NAZA, a Jewish-Israeli documentary, have given us the Eichmanns of Israel—IDF mezzanine-level managers of mass murder—under the shield of anonymity, for a mainstream, entertainment-industry prize …

I’ll tell you why this is WRONG.

And, what’s the RIGHT thing to do.

LISTEN:

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UPDATE (9/28/026): If you prefer the (slightly altered) essay format, it’s here, on The Unz Review and on LewRockwell.com, anti-war, anti-state, pro-market: “The Eichmanns Of Israel Granted Anonymity In NAZA Documentary; Israeli Creators Bag Award“:

NAZA film producers ought to have taken down names.
NAZA producers should have deposed the serial killers as a police officer would depose a criminal.
NAZA producers then should have handed the footage, not to the Venice Film Festival, but to The Hind Rajab Foundation… ~ilana

READ ON AT The Unz Review and on LewRockwell.com.

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At IlanaMercer.com .

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ESSAY (9/12/026) On Conservative Kvetching About Contemporary Western Civilization’s Superiority

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War is the West’s way in the world; war on civilians ~ilana   

NEW ESSAY is “On Conservative Kvetching About Contemporary Western Civilization’s Superiority.” It appeared on The Unz Review and on LewRockwell.com, anti-war, anti-state, pro-market.

You can find it on ilanamercer’s FPV Resistance on Substack, where we can also chat.
And, on IlanaMercer.com.

Excerpt:

….Once-upon a time, I’d have said, more serenely, that when an American politician preaches about “the values that make our country great,” to quote Mrs. Clinton, and about “our ally Israel sharing these values,” to be spread far and wide, chances are they mean not ordered liberty, but a libertine order, where the Bill of Rights is subordinate to the Security-cum-Surveillance State apparatus, and any common-law traditions remaining are treated as living, breathing, mutating philosophical malignancies that must be made to second and reinforce the murderous apparatus just mentioned.

Without qualm, I’ll now venture that the contemporary version of civilization known as “western” has been repudiated to a great degree by the Axis of Genocide. “You can’t pull too many bricks out of that wall before it caves in,” to borrow from Louis Auchincloss (one of the great writers America once boasted).

The Axis of Genocide’s modus vivendi is instantiated across the West in every single institution of state and civil society. The “perpetrator block” encompasses nearly all western governments and the most powerful economic actors. Its military and civilian squadrons have not only adopted Israel’s inverted reality and morality, but have made it their own. 

The thing, the West, is in a state of putrefaction.

You’d think, then, that the conservative commentariat—many of whom rose through the military- or media-industrial-complex—would finally quell their yelling about “western civilization,” in the context of metastasizing, protracted western genocidal pursuits.

Not a bit. They continue to rabbit on about The (Christian) West vs. The Rest. They continue to figuratively remind us, with a sniff and a sneer, that The Rest once could not make iron or roll a wheel.

One notable exception to the warped rule, aside Jeffrey Sachs—a prince among intellectual and moral scullions—is Professor Stephan Walt, the intellectual in the famous pair that authored the seminal book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. 

During an August interview, Walt firmly but affably told Tucker Carlson that “people sometimes forget” about the “collapse” of norms against the use of violence, courtesy of the Super Power and its supremacist sidekick, Israel. In his words: …”

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