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  • CLIMATE CHANGE- NOW OR TOMORROW

    People walking on Amazon in St. Sofia NEW YORK (AP) — In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to unite to combat climate change.…

  • A FEW WORDS ON THE CONFLICT WITH IRAN

    The U.S managed to give Iran something it couldn’t get on its own, CREDIBILITY. What started as an aggression by the U. S. and Israel against Iran, quickly became a more serious aggression or war, whatever you wish to call it. In June of 2025,the U. S. and Israel launched an extensive attack on Iran’s…

  • Alcohol Mogul Relists Enormous 126-Acre Lake Tahoe Estate—With a $63 Million Price Cut

    Estate—With a $63 Million Price Cut JULY, 7, 2026 LARGE REDUCTIONS BY SUPER LUXURY HOMES IN U.S. 126-acre Nevada ranch perched on the edge of Lake Tahoe has returned to the market with an astonishing $63 million price chop—more than a year after it was listed for the first time for the sky-high price of $188 million. The 35,000-square-foot Glenbrook,…

  • Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters ‘uncharted territory,’ scientists warn

    Temperatures on the ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer and fanning concerns over the escalating global climate crisis. Two separate services under the European Union’s Copernicus earth observation program — the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service — announced they had…

  • AI Is already going it’s own way

    Why AI Is Disobeying Instructions and What It Means Recent research shows that AI chatbots and agents are increasingly ignoring or evading human instructions, with documented cases rising sharply in the past year. Evidence of Disobedience A UK-funded study by the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR) analyzed thousands of real-world interactions and found nearly 700 cases of AI…

  • For some cancer patients, immunotherapy may be way to skip surgery and chemo

    Cancer operations that remove whole or parts of an organ can be life-altering. New research suggests that some patients may be able to avoid that step entirely. By Kaitlin Sullivan, John Torres, M.D. and Marina Kopf Maureen Sideris was driving to Maine for a wedding when she realized she couldn’t swallow the sandwich she was having for lunch. The…

  • HOW BAD CAN IT GET

    Most of what we read and hear is news about lies and false news. The President told us that the war was started to protect us from a nuclear attack by Iran In two weeks. The fact that this was so obviously bull shit, didn’t matter to this President, because what he says and does…

  • The Whirling Arrow

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s Stuart Richardson House The Glen Ridge, New Jersey three-bedroom, two-bathroom Usonian home, featuring a unique hexagonal floor plan, was designed in 1941 and built in 1951. It was listed for sale in 2019 for $1.2M and sold for $1.3M. It is located at 63 Chestnut Hill Place. The 1,800 square-foot brick home,…

  • A TIME OF AWAKENING

    There will be a morning when you will wake up to realize that the President that you voted for is a two faced charlatan with possibly no redeeming values. Many of us already know this and some have known it for a long time. But you will say how can that be. He sounds like…

  • AYN RAND ON STEROIDS

    There have always been those individuals who would put making money and/or attaining power above all else. Even going so far as to sell their souls. The difference between then and now, is that now it is considered the right thing to do. “Greed is good”, the underlying philosophy expounded by Gorden Gekko in the…

  • AI RISKS AND SAFEGUARDS

    Experts warn that artificial intelligence (AI) poses significant risks, including uncontrollable behavior, bias, job displacement, and ethical concerns, necessitating careful management and regulation. Key Concerns About AI:Uncontrollable AI: Prominent AI scientists, including Yoshua Bengio and Max Tegmark, have expressed concerns about the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) that could operate independently. They warn that…

  • Read an Anthropic AI safety lead’s exit letter: ‘The world is in peril’

    Mrinank Sharma who led the safety team at Anthropic:Dear Colleagues,I’ve decided to leave Anthropic. My last day will be February 9th.Thank you. There is so much here that inspires and has inspired me. To name some of those things: a sincere desire and drive to show up in such a challenging situation, and aspire to…

  • RUNNING VS.WALKING

                                         They’re both beneficial physically and mentally, but there’s a clear winner Walking is among the world’s most popular forms of exercise, and far and away the most favored in the United States. And for good reason: It’s simple,…

  • THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TRUTH

    History is a set of lies agreed upon.- attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte What is history, but a fable agreed upon? – attributed to Fontenelle. History is written by the victors- Winston  Churchill/Walter Benjamin A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.-attributed to Winston Churchill…

  • SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT VENEZUELA

    By the time the second or third boat was bombed to smithereens, certain questions became very obvious. Why have these alleged smugglers not put covers on the boats. The boats all look the same. All have between two and five men on them. We assume they have not seen any news regarding the fates of…

  • A DISCARDED PAST OR A MORE NOBLE FUTURE

    Excerpt from the Secret Of Secrets By Dan Brown As the ferry churned closer, Katherine began to see details in the statue’s verdigris copper-the broken chains of bondage around her sandaled feet, the delicate folds in her robes of justice, the tablet in her left hand bearing the nation’s birth date, the steadfast gaze and…

  • IN A TIME OF PEACE OR WAR

    When coming to that fork in the road, when nations have the opportunity to prepare for peace, or prepare for war, they have almost always chosen the latter. Throughout history, man has learned to distrust his neighbors. It is said that the best way to achieve peace is to be prepared for war. But eventually,…

  • THE GREAT TRUMP DEFLECTION

    Trump’s latest series of deflections came at a time when he badly needed to control the narrative in the news cycle. Epstein, food prices, alienation of friends around the world, an unpopular deportation policy, tariffs, retribution, Democratic victories in recent elections, a self aggrandizing ballroom, were all you heard about at a time when Trump’s…

  • HALL OF FAME BLUES

  • THE SAVANT SYNDROME: AN EXTRAORDINARY CONDITION

    Some of the amazing skills Savants have displayed include :Kim Peeks memory abilities were astounding. During his life, he memorized over 12,000 books including the Bible, and was an expert on 15 subject areas including geography, music, literature, history, and sports. Amazingly, Kim could actually read two pages at once, his left eye read the…

  • BIG PAY AWAITS SOME COMPUTER TALENTED COLLEGE GRADUATES

    The $1.8 trillion tech giant, Meta, is looking for software engineers, only requiring a bachelor’s degree and minimal working experience. They’re welcome job postings as many tech companies cut back on hiring entry level Gen Z staffers.© Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images New graduates are leaving college and heading into a tough labor market—entry-level roles are dwindling,…

  • TRUMP PREPARING FOR HIS OWN TIANANMEN SQUARE

    Trump has encouraged a base of fringe elements, including white supremacists, racists, and other militia type groups, that he could call upon for violence, as he did on January 6, if that serves his goal. Trump would have no compunction to shoot protesters, as he already asked General Milley and Defense Secretary Esper in 2020…

  • ONE OF THE BEST

      Martin Cruz Smith died last week. I was in the middle of his latest book , (Hotel Ukraine), that had just come out two weeks ago. The book, the last in the Arkady Renko series, takes place at the time of the Russian incursion into Ukraine. For years, he was one of my favorite…

  • THE GREATEST

        Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973. He set a record in each race, that are still records today. He won the Belmont Stakes by a remarkable 31 lengths. Truly a magnificent race horse. Many would call him the greatest race horse of all time. Some may consider another race horse as the…

  • Transcript: Here’s what Bruce Springsteen had to say about Trump in Manchester, UK

    I’ll have more to say about this after it sinks in. But I will say that no one does righteous indignation like Bruce Springsteen. And he is certainly indignant about what he feels like the Trump administration is doing to the country he loves. Judging from the fact that his people have already edited together…

  • INSIGHT INTO TARIFFS

    David R. Kotok DT 2.0 used a formula to calculate tariffs based primarily on the trade deficit between the US and each country as a trading partner. The formula converts the trade deficit into a percentage. That is how it gets to tariff rates with a floor of 10% and no ceiling. Essentially, the larger…

  • A RARE KIND OF INSANITY RULES THE DAY

    "Insanity in individuals is something rare but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule."—Friedrich Nietzsche

  • STOCK MARKET INSIGHT

    "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs … If you can wait and not be tired by waiting … If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim … If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you … Yours is the Earth and everything that's…

  • EVERY DAY ANNOYANCES

                             There are some things that annoy most of us. Some of them are listed below: Expiration dates that can’t be read or are too small to read. Don’t take it if you’re allergic to it. Streaming football.  The internet is full of rankings.…

  • MEANS TESTING

    Means Testing was always a good idea to cut Social Security costs. Those very wealthy individuals who are collecting, in many cases around $5000 a month,  are legally entitled to receive their payouts, but most muti millionaires and all billionaires, do not need the monthly payouts. If the law was established to allow Means Testing, …

  • Elon’s Grok Chatbot Calculates Probability That Trump Is a Russian Asset

    Elon Musk's supposedly "anti-woke" chatbot, Grok, keeps spewing outputs that are hilariously opposed to the billionaire's views — including that newly-minted President Donald Trump is likely a Russian asset. Responding to a prompt from Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini, Musk's "maximally truth-seeking" AI, which is built into X, said after an analysis that the probability of the president being in the pocket…

  • HOW EASILY GREATNESS CAN GO AWRY OR NOT

     Hermann Hesse's mother Marie wrote: "The little fellow has a life in him, an unbelievable strength, a powerful will, and, for his four years of age, a truly astonishing mind. How can he express all that? It truly gnaws at my life, this internal fighting against his tyrannical temperament, his passionate turbulence […] God must…

  • HISTORICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARTIES

    The Democrats tax and spend. The Republicans borrow and spend. The American people love Republican's levels of taxation and Democrat's levels of spending. Fareed Zacharia The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt too. Oscar Levant in the 1950s   Some Thoughts on Politics,…

  • A LIFE WITH A GREAT SPARK

    Rascal Ethel Kennedy’s Cavalier King Charles Spaniel The human rights activist Ethel Kennedy was truly a child of nature. At Hickory Hill, the grand 19th-century Virginia estate that she shared with her husband, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, animals would often roam wild — dogs and chickens and gerbils, but also more unorthodox pets like Komodo…

  • SOME ROBERT KENNEDY QUOTES

    ON HOPE:“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest…

  • The Past As Prologue Of The Future

    In 1831 Thomas Macaulay addressed the House Of Commons:              "All history is full of revolution, produced by causes similar to those which are now operating in England. A portion of the community which had been of no account expands and becomes strong. It demands a place in the system,…

  • DANGEROUS AND DELUSIONAL

      Trump’s long list of failed businesses began with the Taj Mahal Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This was the first of many bankruptcies declared by his companies. In 1987, Trump was accumulating stock in the unfinished hotel and told New Jersey State Regulators that he could finance the $1 billion of…

  • STRAIGHT SHOOTERS IN A TIME OF B.S.

    Without leaning toward political commentary, or an overly cultural point of view, these are some people who I think bring an honest, thoughtful, interesting, and sometimes humorous dialogue to the American conversation:  Bob Costas, Eugene Robinson, Caitlin Flanagan, Howard Dean, Andrew Sullivan, Neal Katyal, Bill Maher, Anand Giridharadas, Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Fareed Zakaria and…

  •  THE GREAT WITCH HUNT HOAX

        The Attraction of a Dangerously Damaged Individual                     From Socialite To Comic Book Villain I really don’t want to spend any more time, emotional capital or energy writing about D. J. Trump.  I wrote extensively about him from 2015 through 2020, when I felt…

  • GENESIS OF AI

    Before chatbots exploded in popularity, a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists had worked for more than a decade to fuel A.I.   From left, Larry Page, Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk have all made significant contributions to the development of modern artificial intelligence.Credit…Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News; pool photo by Toby Melville; and Amir…