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Technocracy Roundtable | Pax Silica: Who Owns the Rails of the AI Civilization?

May 19, 2026

The U.S. State Department's Pax Silica initiative reframes Pax Americana for the AI age — chips, semiconductors, critical minerals, energy, data centers, payment rails. This week in Beijing, two of the Trilogy of Boards Patrick Wood predicted clicked into place. The Trilogy is now whole. In this two-and-a-half-hour conversation, Courtenay Turner and Patrick Wood — co-authors of The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America — walk the architecture being built around you: Pax Silica,...

Ep. 500: The Shadow of the Dalai Lama | Jamie Hanshaw Dyer | The Courtenay Turner Podcast

April 20, 2026

Episode 500 of The Courtenay Turner Podcast. My guest is Jamie Hanshaw Dyer — author, researcher, and the person I called when I finally opened the book I'd been avoiding for three years. The book is "The Shadow of the Dalai Lama: Sexuality, Magic andPolitics in Tibetan Buddhism" by Victor and Victoria Trimondi. Itis six hundred pages long. A physical copy costs around six hundreddollars. Almost no one in the English-speaking world has read it.In this conversation, Jamie and I walk through ...

Ep.499: Phoenix Rising or Civilization Burning?

March 13, 2026

Are Brett and Eric Weinstein principled outsiders — or architects of a technocratic reboot of America? Investigative journalist Johnny Vedmore joins Courtenay Turner for a deep-dive into the documented trail of connections, papers, and associations that reveal what the Weinstein brothers are actually building — and who they are building it for. In this episode: 🔹 How the Intellectual Dark Web functions as a managed cultural dialectic — not a spontaneous insurgency 🔹 Eric Weinstein's UN migr...