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The Private Fiefdom as Planetary Project

Raymond Craib reviews five new books to show that we ignore “Freedom Cities” and proprietary states at our peril.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/th

We must pay close attention to these libertarian schemes, even though History shows these projects fail spectacularly, as we see the rising influence of Silicon Valley billionaires.

Theo Wold—senior counselor at Peter Thiel’s Palantir—celebrates the idea of revoking Washington D.C.’s home rule, thus enabling a federal takeover of D.C. Might this be a first step toward making DC a “Freedom City” & giving Thiel or one of his surrogates control of the District? #NetworkState 1/

i guess "god's wrath will throw fire upon the sodomites" is what passes for a #libertarian take in 2025, because this is one of the main guys trying to build the #NetworkState.

(he's the CEO of #Praxis, "the world's first digital nation" that's funded by a lot of the crypto bros including Peter Thiel, #Balaji, Joe Lonsdale, the #Winklevoss twins, #Paradigm (big crypto fund), a #Worldcoin guy, and a bunch of others). cc: @gilduran.com @gilduran

* the tweet: x.com/drydenwtbrown/status/193
* more on Dryden Brown: motherjones.com/politics/2023/

#pride#lgbt#Thiel

$215 million fine for a San Francisco based AI/fintech (and I'm assuming crypto) VC fund GVA Capital that was laundering money for russian oligarchs (at least until someone makes some "arrangements" with the #Trump family)

few understand the extent to which a lot of these tech VC funds exist mainly as ways to launder / re-onshore criminal assets...

(h/t @cybeardjm)
ofac.treasury.gov/media/934366

#uspol #uspolitics #nerdreich #sanfrancisco #SFpol #russia #ukraine #putin #SuleimanKerimov #corruption #NetworkState #Ukrainewar #sanctions #GVACapital #VentureCapital #AI #fintech #Putin #OFAC #crypto

Analysis: "Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation"

The broligarchs are solving this "problem":

"For thought leaders who want to move fast & break things, what can be done about laws that get in the way?"

One “special economic zone" is Próspera in Honduras, "an autonomous jurisdiction with limited regulations."

And "a tech-backed carveout of Native territory already exists".

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#Broligarchy #USPol #EuroPol #NetworkState #Thiel .

Mother JonesTech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservationAnd hope to gobble up some land near you.

Analysis: "Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation"

The broligarchs are solving the problem: "For thought leaders who want to move fast & break things, what can be done about laws that get in the way?"

One “special economic zone" is Próspera in Honduras, "an autonomous jurisdiction with limited regulations."

And "a tech-backed carveout of Native territory already exists".

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#Broligarchy #USPol #EuroPol #NetworkState #Thiel .

Mother JonesTech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservationAnd hope to gobble up some land near you.

Un article dans Libé du 29/05 sur le concept des "Network States" et autres "Freedom Cities" très en vogue chez les libertariens nourris aux mamelles de la Silicon Valley.

Original : liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/
Archive : archive.ph/cuAnP

PS: je travaille sur un long post sur ce sujet pour mon blog depuis un certain temps. A suivre...

Prospera, une enclave libertarienne installée sur l’île hondurienne de Roatán.
Libération · «Network states» : les rêves de sécession des rois de la techBy Nastasia Hadjadji

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale recently accused Balaji Srinivasan of “insane CCP thinking” for not getting behind the project of fusing Silicon Valley to the Pentagon.

It exposed a disagreement on how to best expand the power of the tech elite, but not on tech’s deeper right-wing turn.

disconnect.blog/p/the-ideologi

Disconnect · The ideological rift on the tech rightBy Paris Marx

I'm too tired to summarize. Suffice to say: the "network state" cretins just loooooove to throw around anarchist-y sounding jargon (anarchists being well known for their eternal quest to find that one special kind of state that will fix everything).

Fuck those guys.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ rightBy Jason Wilson

A long read on how anti-democracy bros are settling up yet another settlement, this time in Wyoming.
Story, WY is about 400 miles north of Denver, CO. The article details the laws in WY that allow for anonymous incorporation. #Wyoming #NetworkState #RightWingStrongHold #DAO #Compound
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ rightBy Jason Wilson