Category: Silicon Valley

EO 14243 and Trump’s Data Consolidation: The Hidden Agenda Behind Big Tech Surveillance

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

As the implications of Executive Order 14243 (Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos) unfold, concerns about mass data aggregation and AI-driven surveillance are growing. This isn’t a distant possibility—it’s happening now, reshaping governance in ways that will only become clear when the consequences are irreversible. For those still questioning the scale of this transformation, consider this from Brian Berletic on Twitter:

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Network States: The New Frontier of Soft Power and Corporate Feudalism

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

They sell the dream of autonomy—self-governing, tech-powered havens untethered from old institutions. But look closer, and you’ll see that Network States aren’t a rebellion against centralized power. They’re a rebrand, a more sophisticated, digitally optimized iteration of company towns, where the people inside serve the system without ever realizing they were locked in from the start.

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Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador Dictatorship: Made in Israel

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Nayib Bukele may be Palestinian, but the dictatorship he has built in El Salvador is very much made in Israel. From arming his security forces to supplying him with weapons and high-tech surveillance tools, MintPress explores the Israeli influence helping to prop up the man who calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator.”

Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador Dictatorship: Made in Israel

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Trump, Gaza, and the Network State: Tech Colonialism Rises + Cuba

Trump, Gaza, and the Network State: Tech Colonialism Rises + Cuba

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump, Gaza, and the Network State: Tech Colonialism Rises

Trump’s fixation on taking Gaza, like his obsession with acquiring Greenland, reveals a clear alignment with the Network State ideology.

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But don’t take my word for it. Earlier this month, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey gave a statement to Pirate Wiresin which he proposed a new “Liberty City” at the site of the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba. (Pirate Wires is a website owned by Peter Thiel deputy Mike Solana.)

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I’ve suspected for a while that these Network States could be used as staging grounds for regime change operations, and, well… seems I wasn’t too far off. 

NED targets Cuba with $6.6 million in 2025

Trump Administration Restores US National Endowment for Democracy’s Funding

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Trump billionaire tech ally Peter Thiel sells ‘smart’ AI ‘war fighting’ system to NATO while talking up U.S. trade war with China

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump billionaire tech ally Peter Thiel sells ‘smart’ AI ‘war fighting’ system to NATO while talking up U.S. trade war with China

Thiel went on to say he believes some industrial capacity should be moved from China back to the U.S., where it will be handled mostly by AI and robots, and the rest should be moved from one communist country, China, to another communist country, Vietnam.

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So don’t believe all the talk about Trump wanting to leave NATO. His buddy and financial backer, Peter Thiel, is totally invested in NATO as a war fighting machine.

Tariffs, Economic War, and the Emerging Post-American Order

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Tariffs, Economic War, and the Emerging Post-American Order

My commentary: The tariffs imposed under the Trump administration are not genuinely aimed at revitalizing American industry. Rather, they function as a tool to destabilize China’s economic growth and position the U.S. to provoke a potential military confrontation. These punitive measures are designed to persist unless nations acquiesce to the administration’s demands, effectively coercing them into aligning with its confrontational economic agenda against China. 

Disclosure: Van Jackson used to work for Center for American Century (CNAS). 

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