Anyone studying online disinformation will eventually come to the realization that much of it can be traced back to the oil and gas industry — specifically to groups like the Council for National Policy, created by and for oil and industrial interests. These networks have a deep history of fascist activity in the United States, where they were born primarily as a reactionary response to the New Deal and fears of "creeping socialism."

Brent Allpress is an architectural academic based in Melbourne, Australia, and has been studying these networks in detail for the last several years. He has collaborated with authors such as Anne Nelson (Shadow Network) and filmmakers Dr. Charles Kriel and Kat Gellein (People You May Know).

He has come to believe that most all of the political conflict we are experiencing is rooted in the carbon crisis, of which the January 6th insurrection was one expression. Today, the conflict rages on as oil industry influence (going so far as to vacuum up psychological profiling data) determines whether, how quickly, and how well we may respond to the looming carbon disaster.

And cryptocurrency, by creating demand for even more energy and forestalling our response, is only making things worse. This is a must-listen session for a planet out of time.

The Death of the Carbon Coalition
Existing models of U.S. politics are wrong. Here’s how the system really works.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/12/carbon-coalition-median-voter-us-politics/

Shadow Network (Book, Anne Nelson)
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Network-Media-Secret-Radical/dp/163557319X/

People You May Know (Film, Kriel & Gellein)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12606876/

The Aftermath of Cambridge Analytica (TEDxMidAtlantic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd5pxDEXBWA

Oil, Data, and Psychological Warfare with Brent Allpress

Dave Troy is a technologist, historian, and disinformation researcher.

Oil, Data, and Psychological Warfare with Brent Allpress

David Troy