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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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Is America Sliding Inexorably Towards Its Breakup?

The domestic situation in America continues to spiral out of control, Robert Bridge writes.

In recent days, global attention has been focused on the explosive events in the Middle East and Ukraine, and that helps people to forget about the domestic situation in America that continues to spiral out of control.

Evidence that the American people are slowly starting to awaken from a deep stupor known as ‘the American Dream’ began in earnest on June 12 as Democratic Senator for California Alex Padill...

Mistrusting Government About Epstein and More

Last week the Department of Justice announced that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list” of prominent individuals who may have broken the law at Epstein’s private island. These individuals could be blackmailed by Epstein and whatever intelligence agencies were working with him.

In February, in response to a question about when Epstein’s client list would be made public, Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had it on her desk and would soon release it. She now says she meant she had a f...

We are Doomed if Trump Refuses to Terminate Criminal Enterprise in Government!

I estimate that half of the Federal Government’s Programs, Functions and Departments are Unconstitutional, making them Null and Void and a Criminal Enterprise. This is so because they are not authorized by the Enumerated Powers in the Constitution, and are rife with theft and corruption. Those activities having no legal foundation for existence, even if fraudulently enacted into law, can be eliminated with a stroke of President Trump’s pen. But we must still consider the following assumptions:

A...