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Newsletter Nr. 1.314
Amsterdam, February 28, 2025


Phantom Nexus - A Detective Story in the Hidden Realms of Synthetic Reality - David Lane

My name is Damian Holt. I've been called a lot of things over the years—private investigator, cyber-sleuth, bounty hunter of the digital realm—but “detective” is the one that sticks best. My office is a neon-lit shoebox perched on the twentieth floor of an aging tech-hub in the heart of New Manhattan. The window, smudged by decades of pollution, provides a half-hearted glimpse of the city sprawl, a labyrinth of steel and circuits that merges into a single glowing tapestry after midnight.

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The Three Dictatorships - And the Democracy that Never Was - Joe Corbett

Let's cut to the chase. The three dictatorships referred to in the title of this essay are, first, the dictatorship of the proletariat (or working class) written about by Marx and Engels and then put into practice by Lenin and Mao; second, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie written about by political philosophers of the enlightenment and put into practice by the founding fathers of America; and third, the dictatorship of the aristocrats and the oligarchs of the ancient and feudal regimes, including the neofeudal regime currently making a comeback in the global world order. 

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https://www.integralworld.net/corbett119.html