This Friday is our last day to have Dr. Bradley as this location. Join us for June's constitution bootcamp.
We still don't know what we're doing after June, but we're working on it.
www.DefendingUtah.org/BootcampMonthly
We still don't know what we're doing after June, but we're working on it.
www.DefendingUtah.org/BootcampMonthly
From Empire to Republic: How the Founding Generation Broke Away from Britain’s Public-Private Power Structure
"The Revolution Was About More Than a King
Most Americans are taught that the American Revolution was simply a rebellion against taxation or the authority of King George III. While those issues mattered, the deeper conflict was far larger.
The Founding generation was increasingly resisting an entire imperial system where political power, banking interests, monopoly corporations, military enforcement, and privileged commercial elites had become deeply intertwined.
The colonists believed they were confronting a form of concentrated power that threatened liberty itself."
https://ironcountynews.org/from-empire-to-republic-how-the-founding-generation-broke-away-from-britains-public-private-power-structure/
"The Revolution Was About More Than a King
Most Americans are taught that the American Revolution was simply a rebellion against taxation or the authority of King George III. While those issues mattered, the deeper conflict was far larger.
The Founding generation was increasingly resisting an entire imperial system where political power, banking interests, monopoly corporations, military enforcement, and privileged commercial elites had become deeply intertwined.
The colonists believed they were confronting a form of concentrated power that threatened liberty itself."
https://ironcountynews.org/from-empire-to-republic-how-the-founding-generation-broke-away-from-britains-public-private-power-structure/
A grassroots effort in Manti, UT is aiming to revive the Manti Pageant in a whole new way.
Bringing practical insights and strong inspiration to the movement to restore freedom to local communities, Defending
Utah founder Enoch Moore spoke in Manti, UT at the Manti Tabernacle in support of Religious Freedom.
To get involved or support the new grassroots Manti Pageant in any way, visit their website at https://www.spiritoffreedompageant.com/
Watch/Listin to Enoch's Speech at: New Manti Pageant? Freedom Fireside w/Enoch Moore | Remember Who You Are - Defending Utah
Bringing practical insights and strong inspiration to the movement to restore freedom to local communities, Defending
Utah founder Enoch Moore spoke in Manti, UT at the Manti Tabernacle in support of Religious Freedom.
To get involved or support the new grassroots Manti Pageant in any way, visit their website at https://www.spiritoffreedompageant.com/
Watch/Listin to Enoch's Speech at: New Manti Pageant? Freedom Fireside w/Enoch Moore | Remember Who You Are - Defending Utah
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Engineered Division, Followable Leaders, and the Politics of Destabilization
"The War Most People Never See
Most people imagine conflict as armies crossing borders, bombs falling from the sky, or tanks rolling across nations. Yet throughout history, some of the most effective battles have been fought inside the minds of populations.
The modern battlefield is increasingly psychological. Instead of conquering territory, the objective is to shape perception. Instead of defeating an enemy army, the goal is to influence how millions of people think, feel, and react.
Behavioral expert Chase Hughes describes a recurring pattern in psychological operations:
“If you are on the Left and you open your feed, you’ll be shown the dumbest idiot on the other side they could possibly find. If you’re on the Right, the exact same thing happens.”"
https://ironcountynews.org/engineered-division-followable-leaders-and-the-politics-of-destabilization/
"The War Most People Never See
Most people imagine conflict as armies crossing borders, bombs falling from the sky, or tanks rolling across nations. Yet throughout history, some of the most effective battles have been fought inside the minds of populations.
The modern battlefield is increasingly psychological. Instead of conquering territory, the objective is to shape perception. Instead of defeating an enemy army, the goal is to influence how millions of people think, feel, and react.
Behavioral expert Chase Hughes describes a recurring pattern in psychological operations:
“If you are on the Left and you open your feed, you’ll be shown the dumbest idiot on the other side they could possibly find. If you’re on the Right, the exact same thing happens.”"
https://ironcountynews.org/engineered-division-followable-leaders-and-the-politics-of-destabilization/
You Can’t Even Imagine the Scale of the Catastrophe (Roman Yampolskiy on Superintelligence, AI Control, and Humanity’s Last Invention)
"Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant possibility. According to AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy, humanity is already living through the transition from AI as a tool to AI as an autonomous agent.
For decades, most people thought artificial intelligence would remain limited to narrow tasks: answering questions, writing code, sorting data, generating images, or helping people work faster. But Yampolskiy warns that the real danger begins when AI stops merely responding to human instructions and begins forming plans, acquiring resources, protecting itself, and improving itself."
https://ironcountynews.org/you-cant-even-imagine-the-scale-of-the-catastrophe-roman-yampolskiy-on-superintelligence-ai-control-and-humanitys-last-invention/
"Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant possibility. According to AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy, humanity is already living through the transition from AI as a tool to AI as an autonomous agent.
For decades, most people thought artificial intelligence would remain limited to narrow tasks: answering questions, writing code, sorting data, generating images, or helping people work faster. But Yampolskiy warns that the real danger begins when AI stops merely responding to human instructions and begins forming plans, acquiring resources, protecting itself, and improving itself."
https://ironcountynews.org/you-cant-even-imagine-the-scale-of-the-catastrophe-roman-yampolskiy-on-superintelligence-ai-control-and-humanitys-last-invention/
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Every Level of the AI Takeover: From Machine Learning to Artificial Superintelligence — How AI Could Reshape Civilization
"The Day the Machines Moved Faster Than Humans
In 2010, global financial markets experienced what became known as the “Flash Crash.”
Within minutes:
nearly $1 trillion in market value vanished,
prices spiraled downward,
and the world briefly appeared to be reliving the 2008 financial crisis.
Then, just as suddenly:
the markets stabilized,
the losses reversed,
and the entire event ended within 36 minutes."
https://ironcountynews.org/every-level-of-the-ai-takeover-from-machine-learning-to-artificial-superintelligence-how-ai-could-reshape-civilization/
"The Day the Machines Moved Faster Than Humans
In 2010, global financial markets experienced what became known as the “Flash Crash.”
Within minutes:
nearly $1 trillion in market value vanished,
prices spiraled downward,
and the world briefly appeared to be reliving the 2008 financial crisis.
Then, just as suddenly:
the markets stabilized,
the losses reversed,
and the entire event ended within 36 minutes."
https://ironcountynews.org/every-level-of-the-ai-takeover-from-machine-learning-to-artificial-superintelligence-how-ai-could-reshape-civilization/
The Final Collapse: “AI Will End Capitalism in 1,000 Days” — Emad Mostaque on the Economic Shockwave of Artificial Intelligence
"In an explosive interview with Tom Bilyeu, AI entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager Emad Mostaque laid out one of the most radical predictions yet about the future of civilization:
within roughly 1,000 days, artificial intelligence may fundamentally break the existing economic order. (Start: September 11, 2025 End: June 7, 2028)
According to Mostaque:
AI will outperform humans in most cognitive labor,
middle-class knowledge work will collapse,
capitalism itself may cease functioning for humans,
governments will struggle to fund society,
and the social contract holding civilization together could begin unraveling."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-final-collapse-ai-will-end-capitalism-in-1000-days-emad-mostaque-on-the-economic-shockwave-of-artificial-intelligence/
"In an explosive interview with Tom Bilyeu, AI entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager Emad Mostaque laid out one of the most radical predictions yet about the future of civilization:
within roughly 1,000 days, artificial intelligence may fundamentally break the existing economic order. (Start: September 11, 2025 End: June 7, 2028)
According to Mostaque:
AI will outperform humans in most cognitive labor,
middle-class knowledge work will collapse,
capitalism itself may cease functioning for humans,
governments will struggle to fund society,
and the social contract holding civilization together could begin unraveling."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-final-collapse-ai-will-end-capitalism-in-1000-days-emad-mostaque-on-the-economic-shockwave-of-artificial-intelligence/
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Why Children of Divorce Grow Into Broken Adults?
"Erica Komisar on Attachment, Divorce, Trauma, and the Mental Health Crisis
Based on the Chris Williamson interview with Erica Komisar
Erica Komisar’s central argument is not that every child of divorce becomes broken, nor that every marriage should remain intact regardless of circumstances.
Her argument is more nuanced and, for many people, more uncomfortable:
The interview is ultimately about something larger than divorce.
It is about attachment.
Divorce is simply one of the most powerful disruptions of attachment that modern children experience."
https://ironcountynews.org/why-children-of-divorce-grow-into-broken-adults/
"Erica Komisar on Attachment, Divorce, Trauma, and the Mental Health Crisis
Based on the Chris Williamson interview with Erica Komisar
Erica Komisar’s central argument is not that every child of divorce becomes broken, nor that every marriage should remain intact regardless of circumstances.
Her argument is more nuanced and, for many people, more uncomfortable:
Children are biologically dependent on stable attachment relationships, and divorce almost always disrupts those relationships. The consequences often appear decades later in the form of anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, relationship instability, insecurity, and difficulty coping with adversity.
The interview is ultimately about something larger than divorce.
It is about attachment.
Divorce is simply one of the most powerful disruptions of attachment that modern children experience."
https://ironcountynews.org/why-children-of-divorce-grow-into-broken-adults/
How the “Disinformation” Industry Manipulates Reality
"Jacob Siegel on the Information State, Censorship, AI, and the Crisis of Liberty
The modern “disinformation” industry presents itself as a neutral defense of truth. Its language sounds civic, scientific, and protective. It claims to fight falsehood, defend democracy, protect public health, and ensure that citizens receive accurate information.
But according to Jacob Siegel, special features editor at Tablet Magazine and author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, this industry is not merely about truth. It is about power.
In his interview with American Thought Leaders, Siegel argues that the disinformation complex grew out of a deeper political transformation: the rise of an “information state” where government agencies, technology platforms, NGOs, universities, media organizations, and private contractors coordinate to shape...."
https://ironcountynews.org/how-the-disinformation-industry-manipulates-reality/
"Jacob Siegel on the Information State, Censorship, AI, and the Crisis of Liberty
The modern “disinformation” industry presents itself as a neutral defense of truth. Its language sounds civic, scientific, and protective. It claims to fight falsehood, defend democracy, protect public health, and ensure that citizens receive accurate information.
But according to Jacob Siegel, special features editor at Tablet Magazine and author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, this industry is not merely about truth. It is about power.
In his interview with American Thought Leaders, Siegel argues that the disinformation complex grew out of a deeper political transformation: the rise of an “information state” where government agencies, technology platforms, NGOs, universities, media organizations, and private contractors coordinate to shape...."
https://ironcountynews.org/how-the-disinformation-industry-manipulates-reality/
Iran, Israel, and the Theater of Consent: Professor Jiang’s Three-Theory Breakdown
"Professor Jiang Xueqin opens with one sentence that frames the entire crisis:
Donald Trump said Netanyahu would have “no choice,” because Trump “calls the shots.” On the surface, that sounds like the United States is fully in command. Washington gives the order. Israel obeys.
But within hours, Israel struck Iranian targets.
Mainstream media immediately turned the story into a simple humiliation narrative: Trump tried to restrain Netanyahu, Netanyahu ignored him, and America looked weak.
Jiang argues that this explanation is too shallow. The real question is not simply, “Who controls whom?” The deeper question is:
Why do both sides need the world to believe they are in conflict?"
https://ironcountynews.org/iran-israel-and-the-theater-of-consent-professor-jiangs-three-theory-breakdown/
"Professor Jiang Xueqin opens with one sentence that frames the entire crisis:
Donald Trump said Netanyahu would have “no choice,” because Trump “calls the shots.” On the surface, that sounds like the United States is fully in command. Washington gives the order. Israel obeys.
But within hours, Israel struck Iranian targets.
Mainstream media immediately turned the story into a simple humiliation narrative: Trump tried to restrain Netanyahu, Netanyahu ignored him, and America looked weak.
Jiang argues that this explanation is too shallow. The real question is not simply, “Who controls whom?” The deeper question is:
Why do both sides need the world to believe they are in conflict?"
https://ironcountynews.org/iran-israel-and-the-theater-of-consent-professor-jiangs-three-theory-breakdown/
The Authoritarian Dynamic: How Fear, Chaos, and Social Fragmentation Push Societies Toward Control
"Jonathan Haidt’s point is profound:
A healthy society requires both people who push for change and people who preserve what already works.
In The Righteous Mind, Haidt explains that conservatives and progressives serve different functions inside a civilization.
Progressives tend to ask:
“How can we improve what is broken?”
Conservatives tend to ask:
“Why does this tradition exist before we destroy it?”
A healthy civilization needs both forces in tension."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-authoritarian-dynamic-how-fear-chaos-and-social-fragmentation-push-societies-toward-control/
"Jonathan Haidt’s point is profound:
A healthy society requires both people who push for change and people who preserve what already works.
In The Righteous Mind, Haidt explains that conservatives and progressives serve different functions inside a civilization.
Progressives tend to ask:
“How can we improve what is broken?”
Conservatives tend to ask:
“Why does this tradition exist before we destroy it?”
A healthy civilization needs both forces in tension."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-authoritarian-dynamic-how-fear-chaos-and-social-fragmentation-push-societies-toward-control/
Three Tips to Spot a Truth-Teller
"The Battle You Do Not Know Is Being Fought
Connor Boyack begins with a warning:
You cannot win a battle you do not know is being fought.
His argument is that we are in a mind war and a spiritual war. The battlefield is truth versus deception. Too many Christians and Latter-day Saints know this only in theory, but do not recognize how it operates in daily life."
https://ironcountynews.org/three-tips-to-spot-a-truth-teller/
"The Battle You Do Not Know Is Being Fought
Connor Boyack begins with a warning:
You cannot win a battle you do not know is being fought.
His argument is that we are in a mind war and a spiritual war. The battlefield is truth versus deception. Too many Christians and Latter-day Saints know this only in theory, but do not recognize how it operates in daily life."
https://ironcountynews.org/three-tips-to-spot-a-truth-teller/
Dopamine Nation (Dr. Anna Lembke): How Pleasure, Pain, Addiction, and Modern Life Are Rewiring the Brain
"Based on The Diary of a CEO interview with Dr. Anna Lembke
Dr. Anna Lembke’s central message is simple but powerful: dopamine is not just about pleasure. It is about motivation, survival, craving, pain, addiction, and balance. In the modern world, our brains are surrounded by easy pleasure—phones, sugar, alcohol, pornography, social media, work, shopping, cannabis, video games, and endless stimulation. The problem is not that pleasure exists. The problem is that too much pleasure without effort pushes the brain into pain."
https://ironcountynews.org/dopamine-nation-dr-anna-lembke-how-pleasure-pain-addiction-and-modern-life-are-rewiring-the-brain/
"Based on The Diary of a CEO interview with Dr. Anna Lembke
Dr. Anna Lembke’s central message is simple but powerful: dopamine is not just about pleasure. It is about motivation, survival, craving, pain, addiction, and balance. In the modern world, our brains are surrounded by easy pleasure—phones, sugar, alcohol, pornography, social media, work, shopping, cannabis, video games, and endless stimulation. The problem is not that pleasure exists. The problem is that too much pleasure without effort pushes the brain into pain."
https://ironcountynews.org/dopamine-nation-dr-anna-lembke-how-pleasure-pain-addiction-and-modern-life-are-rewiring-the-brain/
Drey v. Oracle: The Third Amendment Case Nobody Has Filed Yet
"The Forgotten Amendment
The Third Amendment is usually treated like a constitutional antique.
Everyone knows the First Amendment. Many fight over the Second. The Fourth Amendment shows up in every police drama. But the Third Amendment sits quietly between them, almost forgotten:
“No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner…”
Most Americans think of it as the “quartering soldiers” amendment — a rule from another age, meant only to stop British troops from sleeping in colonial bedrooms.
But the deeper principle was never just about beds, boots, and bayonets.
It was about military power being inserted into civilian life without consent."
https://ironcountynews.org/20617-2/
"The Forgotten Amendment
The Third Amendment is usually treated like a constitutional antique.
Everyone knows the First Amendment. Many fight over the Second. The Fourth Amendment shows up in every police drama. But the Third Amendment sits quietly between them, almost forgotten:
“No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner…”
Most Americans think of it as the “quartering soldiers” amendment — a rule from another age, meant only to stop British troops from sleeping in colonial bedrooms.
But the deeper principle was never just about beds, boots, and bayonets.
It was about military power being inserted into civilian life without consent."
https://ironcountynews.org/20617-2/
The Albanian Island Controversy: Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and the Luxury Resort Revolt (Jimmy Dore)
"A Private Island for the Few
The Jimmy Dore Show frames the Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Albanian island project as more than a luxury real estate story. In the episode with Bek Lover, the conversation becomes a larger indictment of elite land grabs, political access, environmental destruction, and the privatization of national heritage.
At the center is a proposed resort project tied to Kushner’s investment firm and publicly promoted by Ivanka Trump as a beautiful, restrained, visionary development. But to critics, especially many Albanians, the project represents something very different: a protected coastline being handed to the politically connected while ordinary citizens are excluded from their own land."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-albanian-island-controversy-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-and-the-luxury-resort-revolt-jimmy-dore/
"A Private Island for the Few
The Jimmy Dore Show frames the Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Albanian island project as more than a luxury real estate story. In the episode with Bek Lover, the conversation becomes a larger indictment of elite land grabs, political access, environmental destruction, and the privatization of national heritage.
At the center is a proposed resort project tied to Kushner’s investment firm and publicly promoted by Ivanka Trump as a beautiful, restrained, visionary development. But to critics, especially many Albanians, the project represents something very different: a protected coastline being handed to the politically connected while ordinary citizens are excluded from their own land."
https://ironcountynews.org/the-albanian-island-controversy-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-and-the-luxury-resort-revolt-jimmy-dore/
Jimmy Dore with Tucker Carlson: Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Thomas Massie, and Finding God Through the Propaganda Hellscape
"This interview between Jimmy Dore and Tucker Carlson is not a normal left-right political conversation. It is a conversation about collapse: the collapse of democracy, the collapse of trust, the collapse of media, the collapse of party labels, and the collapse of the old belief that America’s institutions are basically honest.
The central claim running through the interview is this: Americans are living inside a propaganda hellscape, where corporations, intelligence agencies, billionaires, media outlets, political parties, and foreign-policy interests shape what people are allowed to think, say, question, and believe. Dore argues that the people are not really represented anymore; Tucker keeps pressing the same deeper question...."
https://ironcountynews.org/jimmy-dore-with-tucker-carlson-charlie-kirks-murder-thomas-massie-and-finding-god-through-the-propaganda-hellscape/
"This interview between Jimmy Dore and Tucker Carlson is not a normal left-right political conversation. It is a conversation about collapse: the collapse of democracy, the collapse of trust, the collapse of media, the collapse of party labels, and the collapse of the old belief that America’s institutions are basically honest.
The central claim running through the interview is this: Americans are living inside a propaganda hellscape, where corporations, intelligence agencies, billionaires, media outlets, political parties, and foreign-policy interests shape what people are allowed to think, say, question, and believe. Dore argues that the people are not really represented anymore; Tucker keeps pressing the same deeper question...."
https://ironcountynews.org/jimmy-dore-with-tucker-carlson-charlie-kirks-murder-thomas-massie-and-finding-god-through-the-propaganda-hellscape/
Whitney Webb Says the Argentina Story Is Bigger Than Javier Milei
"The financial network behind power, banking, real estate, surveillance, carbon markets, and the coming digital system in Latin America
Introduction
This video argues that what is happening in Argentina cannot be understood by looking only at Javier Milei, Peter Thiel, or Argentine politics in isolation. The claim is that a much larger financial and corporate architecture is at work — one that connects U.S.-based oligarch networks, Argentine business elites, satellite surveillance, carbon-credit systems, Bitcoin side chains, stablecoins, and the gradual installation of a new programmable financial order across Latin America. The speaker says Whitney Webb’s recent posts are not merely about Milei in the abstract. They point to a documented network involving the control of Argentina’s power grid, its banking and real-estate sectors...."
https://ironcountynews.org/whitney-webb-says-the-argentina-story-is-bigger-than-javier-milei/
"The financial network behind power, banking, real estate, surveillance, carbon markets, and the coming digital system in Latin America
Introduction
This video argues that what is happening in Argentina cannot be understood by looking only at Javier Milei, Peter Thiel, or Argentine politics in isolation. The claim is that a much larger financial and corporate architecture is at work — one that connects U.S.-based oligarch networks, Argentine business elites, satellite surveillance, carbon-credit systems, Bitcoin side chains, stablecoins, and the gradual installation of a new programmable financial order across Latin America. The speaker says Whitney Webb’s recent posts are not merely about Milei in the abstract. They point to a documented network involving the control of Argentina’s power grid, its banking and real-estate sectors...."
https://ironcountynews.org/whitney-webb-says-the-argentina-story-is-bigger-than-javier-milei/