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The United States of Impunity

AI is the whiff of perfume that’s supposed to mask the stench of terminal moral decay.

It is appropriate to discuss the United States of Impunity on Bastille Day, which commemorates the start of the French Revolution in 1789, for the United States of Impunity is just as impervious to real change as the French monarchy, the Ancien Regime.

It’s impossible to discuss the United States of Impunity without being dismissed as a raving lunatic because the moral decay that has turned the USA into the US...

Threatening the Russians With an Ultimatum Will Backfire Severely and Will Set the Stage for Nuclear War

So is this how it all ends?  I don’t even know how to describe the emotions that I am feeling right now.  There was so much hope a few months ago that there would be peace, but both sides appear completely uninterested in making substantial compromises at this point.  Instead, both sides are poised to dramatically escalate the war.  If we continue going down this path, it isn’t going to end well.  For decades, our leaders have been conducting war game scenarios in which a conflict in Ukraine lea...

Offshore Gold Storage

“If your gold is outside the US, it gives you another degree of insulation should the United States decide that you shouldn’t own it.” – Doug Casey

I’ve been a holder of gold since the 1970’s. At that time, I was purchasing gold and silver for business reasons and found that, as the price was steadily increasing, I’d be wise to buy more than I needed immediately, as I’d most certainly profit from it in the near future.

At that time, I was buying most of my precious metals in Hatton Garden, the c...

Fact-Checking the Jeffrey Epstein Case and Many Other Conspiracy Theories

I’ve spent a good deal of my time over the last couple of months processing fact-checking runs produced by OpenAI’s ChatGPT Deep Research AI.

While ordinary chatbots respond to questions within seconds, this Deep Research AI system may easily take thirty minutes or more to produce its response to complex research requests, being widely regarded as the most powerful such system that is currently available to the general public.

Given the likely computer resources required, it’s hardly surprising ...

Interest Groups Are Stronger Than President Trump

We are six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, really his first presidency as his previous four years he was staffed by the ruling establishment with his opponents.

Washington taught Trump a lesson, and this time he is staffed with  people who share the values he expressed in his campaign.  

Nevertheless, the Trump administration is now at odds within itself and with a significant percentage of its MAGA supporters, if news reports can be believed.  The issue splitting the Trump forces is the ...

Russia’s Doctrine of ‘Peaceful Coexistence’. A Solution to Avoiding WWIII?

First published on Global Research on December 22, 2022

Introductory Note 

The doctrine of  peaceful coexistence  was first formulated by Moscow in the wake of the 1918-1920 war against Soviet Russia.

It was presented to  the Genoa Conference in  April  1922.

The “unspoken” 1918-20 war against Russia (barely acknowledged by historians) was launched two months after the November 7, 1917 Revolution on January 12 1918.

It was an outright “NATO style” invasion  consisting of   the deployment of more than 2...

By the Numbers — Western Propaganda on Russian Losses

Over the past week, the Western media has frantically pushed the narrative that Russia is suffering massive losses. Marco Rubio’s remarks in Kuala Lumpur a couple of days ago is a typical example:

One hundred thousand since January? But it is not just Rubio… The Economist provides a more modest estimate, but the key word is estimate:

As of July 9th our tracker suggests there have been between 900,000 and 1.3m Russian casualties since the war began, including some 190,000–350,000 deaths. That up...

Southern Baptists Get Sports Betting Wrong

At the recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in Dallas, the attendees failed to pass a motion to prohibit member churches from having women pastors. The motion, which needed a two-thirds majority to pass, received 3,421 votes in favor and 2,191 votes against. However, other resolutions did pass that go beyond an intra-denominational issue.

A collective resolution passed that urged Christians to “celebrate and embrace marriage and childbearing”; called for the overturning...

Three Choices, None Good

The moral rot of unlimited debt looks “free” but it’s unaffordable in the end.

We like to think we’re special and this moment in history is special, but alas, we’re still running Wetware 1.0 which was coded between 300,000 and 60,000 years ago, when the last “out of Africa” migration finally got traction. Since then, the code has been tweaked a bit here and there (adults can now digest dairy products, etc.), but we’re running the old code, and so we make the same mistakes and follow the same emo...

Trump Terrified by BRICS Strategic Threat

You want war? Bring it on.

This is it. The ruling classes of the Empire of Chaos, plus the current, clownish Circus Ringmaster have finally realized that BRICS is a serious strategic threat – and existential challenge – to their unilateral domination of the current system of international relations.

They didn’t come to this conclusion by carefully scrutinizing the BRICS annual summit in Rio – or last year’s ground-breaking summit in Kazan for that matter: they are lousy at doing basic homework.

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