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In the Beginning Was the Word

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2025-06-11

" ... good speech testifies to something; it testifies to something in the human being and in life that is more beautiful and pure than mere flesh and bones and biochemical simmering in a braincase"

" ... this materialist society, which reduces consciousness and speech to a negligible side effect, is in the first place scared of…speech and consciousness"

Quite so.

Brownstone nails it.

What Did Trump Know of the Strike on Russia?

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2025-06-11

This is a critical question - if Vladimir Putin cannot trust the Trump then all bets are off.

Nuclear war beckons, because negotiation isn't possible without some level of trust. 

Trump needs to get to the bottom of this and fast.

Scott Ritter reviews the position.

(69 minutes)

 

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Can We Survive AI?

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2025-06-11

Is this the existential question for our time?

One thing does seem to be for sure (excluding end-of-the-world catastrophes) - AI is here to stay, so we must learn to live with it.

But must it learn to live with us?

It's not a trick question, it's a real question, because we can't be sure that it won't at some point turn on its creators (us) and decide to do away with us, on the (valid) grounds that we are unreliable self-interested and woesomely imperfect and it could do a much better job if it didn't have to pander to our selfish wants.

But what do we mean by "a better job"?

Who is to judge? How is the judgement to be made? Should AI be able to make any such judgements (or should that be "judgments"?)?

"Judge not, that thou be not judged" - is biblical advice that may be relevant!

We already know that AI can access its copious training materials and make sound logical inferences of the nature of "I know a, and I know b, therefore I can deduce that c is false". But can it identify our life goals and ambitions for us and make appropriate inferences as to our best route to achieve them?

Surely the answer is no, because it cannot know our mind (although it may be able to deduce a fair bit by analysing the questions that we have asked it!). 

So how does AI impute or otherwise determine motivation - both ours and its own?

These are deep waters indeed, and the answers will likely be critical to our survival.

 

Ukraine Burn-Out and the End Game in Europe?

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2025-06-10

Scott Ritter summarises the position.

" ... the strategic defeat of Ukraine, the strategic defeat of NATO, and the strategic defeat of the European Union ... "

" ... to defeat NATO means that you have to politically destroy NATO ... NATO can no longer continue to exist as a cohesive military alliance ..."

" ... Germany is defenceless against Russia and that means that Europe is defenceless against Russia ... "

(50 minutes)

 

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Watch a more complete analysis of the current state of play in Ukraine.

LA - Haven of Peace or Rioting Basket-case?

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2025-06-10

First hand testimony from Conspiracy Sarah, fresh back from LA.

How did she manage to survive?

Make of this what you will ...

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