Geopolitics

There is a hubris problem: excessive pride, dangerous overconfidence, and complacency. It’s not only infected our political leaders, oligarchs, and intelligentsia; it’s infected the entire culture and all of us with it. Consciously or unconsciously we endlessly recycle the patent nonsense emanating from our academics, oligarchs, media presenters, and politicians.

Brace yourself: in 18 months, artificial super-intelligence will have arrived.

Renewable Industry faces insurmountable obstacles?

“If you satisfied every human desire, we would throw it all away just for something interesting to happen, just to give ourselves a challenge to overcome and prove that we are human beings…that man is still man and not keys on a piano.”

The adage, from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, refers to a pattern in the rise and fall of fortunes.

The very last thing you want to do is to be some kind of hero. If you fight against the madness, elevate yourself to defend an archaic principle like truth telling, you end up like Assange or Snowden. People only like their heroes in history and movies.

You cannot sustain mass alarmism toward a looming catastrophe, when the solution, Nuclear Energy, is plain to anyone not already benighted by a misanthropic animus. Normal people see thru it and pull away. Science that does not permit doubt is a religion.

US Major Michael Aquino had a brilliant idea. What he proposed was more audacious than original, and more unscrupulous than smart. It was an idea whose time had come. An idea that would energize the military, lift a nation from its malaise and transform the world.  The USA was profoundly...

Even the Used-Car-Salesman provides their customer with a warranty. Our mass media are accountable to no-one. When not trading lies, they trade in banality. They tear down the truth to elevate deception, they ignore the heroic to fawn over the craven. The following stories should not persist in a civilized...

Are you curious how the world got messed-up? Read Peter Thiel’s 2004 Essay: The Straussian Moment.  Thiel is a co-founder of PayPal, and the President of Clarium Capital. His estimated net worth is above $10 billion.  Billionaires routinely use their wealth to promote their own agenda. Part 1 detailed how...