the Chronycle

A guide to the United States of America's flirt with fascism

The current social, political, and economic upheaval in the United States and the area that Steve Bannon refers to as the "Judeo-Christian West" (read: wherever white people have traditionally been the majority population group), have prompted me to keep a log of articles, written pieces, and documentary films that provide a frame of thought to understand the situation.

This is the list as of Saturday, May 20th, 2017. I've tried to create a logical sequence with the items, so the first items are a macro starting point and the last items are more specific and optional. But certainly every single item is relevant, and i encourage anyone to read through all the materials.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world

The Bizarre Far-Right Billionaire Behind Trump's Presidency - Robert Mercer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQUkaEVe7II

Bannon's War
The inside story of Trump adviser Stephen Bannon’s war
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/bannons-war/

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/peter-navarro-trump-trade-china-214772

Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware
WIRED Magazine - Future Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/28/steve-bannons-dark-pursuit-of-a-meaningful-life/

Donald Trump - entire 1987 CNN interview on Larry King Live
gives an excellent overview of Trump's personality, world view, and motivations (or lack thereof)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8wJc7vHcTs

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/zut-alors-bannons-taste-for-franco-fascists.html

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/05/bigger-than-fake-news-trumps-rise-was-fueled-by-a-deeper-narrative-of-fake-history/

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/08/white-terrorism-is-different-says-white-congressman-and-unfortunately-hes-right/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/08/a-sobering-look-at-what-betsy-devos-did-to-education-in-michigan-and-what-she-might-do-as-secretary-of-education/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/29/devos-picking-a-school-should-be-like-choosing-among-uber-lyft-or-a-taxi/

PBS Frontline
United States of Secrets
Part 1: The Program
with a very nice video clip of the alleged commercial airliner that hit the Pentagon at 12:15 - good luck finding a plane in that video clip though :)
May 13, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yD1fclzs1g

PBS Frontline
United States of Secrets
Part 2: Privacy Lost
May 20, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5olgdKuD0No

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/trumps-silence-on-radical-racist-terror-is-p-c-run-amok.html

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/07/white-fear-in-the-white-house-young-bannon-disciple-julia-hahn-is-a-case-study-in-extremism/

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/trumps-terrifying-online-brigades/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/a-normal-persons-guide-to-how-far-right-trolls-talk-to-each

Hate Symbols Database
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols

one of the organizations funded by Robert Mercer
http://www.bafbf.org/columns/an-unreasonable-approachto-the-black-vote-2/

Facebook algorithms create cultural and opinion echo chambers
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/11/only-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-can-save-us-from-donald-trump/

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
plenty of evidence that the US government completely missed and miscalculated the impact of computer science and technology on society
this case is by far the biggest mistake of the Barack Obama administration, and one of the few times that MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was a traitor to its own mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58 http://boingboing.net/2014/06/29/internets-own-boy-free-cc-l.html

Competition Is For Losers - Says Billionaire Peter Thiel
this Silicon Valley tech investor famously funded Trump's campaign, everybody asked for him to resign from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg defended him
as you can see, this guy is not an idiot, in fact delivers deep business insight
but somehow he supports Trump
the fact that educated, financially hyper-successful people can't tell right from wrong, shows how extraordinarily complex this Trump situation is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6K8PZxyQfU

The Mathematical Mind, Peter Thiel and Trump (Eric Weinstein Pt. 1)
and here is Peter Thiel's Managing Director being in complete denial, or rather believing in magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FmSGwvTzxk

Implicit bias and its implications for the life outcomes of boys and young men of color
Rev. Dr. Bryant T. Marks, Educator, Morehouse College
My Brother's Keeper Symposium, February 17, 2017, afternoon session
http://www.nysed.gov/video/my-brothers-keeper-symposium-february-17-2017-afternoon-session

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/05/01/why-did-trump-win-new-research-by-democrats-offers-a-worrisome-answer/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hate-crime-in-super-progressive-portland-should-surprise-no-one/2017/06/01/d3b99782-46d8-11e7-a196-a1bb629f64cb_story.html

S-Town
a striking example of extreme complexity in personal, local, national, and global culture in the 21st century
https://stownpodcast.org/

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-vote-results-drug-overdose-deaths-2016-11

http://www.mintpressnews.com/MyMPN/2016-trump-meth-heroin-the-white-mans-burden/

http://kurzman.unc.edu/the-meth-vote/

PBS Frontline
The Meth Epidemic
February 14, 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVpyX9UP-Kw

the fifth estate
OxyContin - Time Bomb
September 2, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNOHAJs9dBY

Benzo Withdrawal - Welcome To Hell
Brian Baxter
August 24, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Wlx_UzWYg

Vice - The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of1k5AwiNxI

This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America
October 8, 2015
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/

Michael Anton
another extremely dangerous white man
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/12/dark-essays-by-white-house-staffer-are-the-intellectual-source-code-of-trumpism/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/what-a-failed-trump-administration-looks-like.html

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/why-the-leaks-wont-stop-214824

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/01/28/the-constitution-was-designed-to-weed-out-demagogues-it-has-evolved-in-ways-that-encourage-them/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/what-is-the-emoluments-clause-does-it-apply-to-president-trump/2017/01/23/12aa7808-e185-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/what-emoluments-clause-what-does-it-mean-president-n771081

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/d-c-maryland-officials-hit-president-trump-lawsuit-n771011

http://www.arabianow.org/president-trump-saudi-arabia-investment-economy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Saudi_Arabia

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-conservatives.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court.html

State Legislatures and ALEC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMgfBZrrZ8

The One Percent
made by an heir of the Johnson and Johnson family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc

Weird Ways of the Elite Documentary
2017
a lot of this information is hard to believe, but an alarming of it actually checks out and after all, maybe this lunacy isn't that surprising...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTm_6nUCKKE

Vladimir Putin's Rise To Power
another extremely dangerous white man - perhaps the most short-sighted of them all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY3Uz4ELwM0

PBS Frontline
Money, Power, and Wall Street
April 24, 2012
Parts 1 and 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD3QDe1cEyQ
Parts 3 and 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0w82f7Ck_k

PBS Frontline
The Warning: Brooksley Born
October 20, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PubAAqLEaQ

Bigger than Enron
on the regulation of the accounting profession
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeFdIHWy8cw

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World
by Niall Ferguson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrtB5lp60s

Meltdown
the 2008 financial crisis, country by country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4XfNiqwQDo

Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness
by Simon Sinek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXWNChoIluo

French Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZir1L7fSY

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/18/brazil-is-engulfed-by-ruling-class-corruption-and-a-dangerous-subversion-of-democracy/

http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/controversy/population-control/the-global-baby-bust.html

O'Reilly vs Stewart debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmr3XvaoVW4

Stephen Colbert interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
January 29, 2010
Montclair Kimberley Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfj_ItsEOY

Brad Katsuyama - The Stock Market had become an Illusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqqCwhPlyU

The Great HFT Debate With Michael Lewis On CNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcpmHyPD_PY

An Evening with Brad Katsuyama and Michael Lewis
2016-01-21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Olf2TiuAos

The SEC approved IEX’s bid to be a new US stock exchange and fight high-frequency traders
https://qz.com/709271/iex-sec-approval-stock-exchange/

Happy reading, watching, and thinking!

the Chronycle

A guide to the United States of America's flirt with fascism

philip m. shearer

2017-05-20

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