Newsbleat

Pronounced day taunt, and literally, they taunt us and we taunt them. Almost every morning in the online news aggregator I check in on with my first cup of coffee of the day is at least one article about new aggression between simmering adversaries and some new weapon, weapon advance, new battlefield strategy or planned war related construction. The biggest industry on the planet is war. That’s where the money is. AI, the most rapidly expanding technology, is being used for a lot of purposes already and war is one of it’s biggest customers in design, planning and development.

What you don’t hear much of is when some war somewhere ends. Usually they don’t, they just keep going but at a much lower volume level and peace talk is not what their media wants us to hear.

Weapons and weapon systems, as well as strategies, have to be tested in real situations, so it’s necessary to have real wars to test them with. Ukraine and Lebanon have proven to be wonderful test beds for new weapons and improvement of older ones, while enriching the weapons factories. The arms industry of Israel has become world famous for the high quality of their weaponry, both offensive and defensive. Other nations not directly involved in these wars are also reaping benefits, like Turkey with their drones which they sell to 34 countries across the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Ukraine is a big customer of Turkish drones, using money donated by NATO nations and the USA, so of course the technology involved is rapidly expanding along with their increasing sales. There’s lots of nations that want to take over their neighbors and drones are proving the cheapest way to bring a lesser competitor to their knees. Even Russia is finding this out, too late, as Ukraine is doing much better, much faster than them at developing and fielding faster and more autonomous drones capable of carrying larger and more devastating explosives, with the result that Russia’s most vital economic infrastructure is being destroyed far faster than they can repair or replace it.

The profits end when the wars do unless you own the construction companies that will rebuild after the war and be paid with loans from a non-adversary, like the USA, that are secured by large tracts of land as collateral. In either nation, the winner or the loser or both, it doesn’t matter.

Where Detente comes in, is making sure too many actors don’t get involved in any given war or that it escalates too rapidly. Early on, in the war between Ukraine and Russia for instance, Zelensky wanted to launch rockets deep into Russia and hit Moscow, but was prevented because Putin was threatening a nuclear response if they did. Now things have changed, the Russians are now facing a bigger threat than Ukraine if they used The Bomb on them and Ukraine just isn’t worth the retaliation. Russia won’t lose in the sense of being defeated, and neither will Ukraine. Soon, the war will end with no victor but a lot of dead people, used-up inventories of outdated weapons and munitions, and the redistribution of wealth. Then the people can be taxed for the rebuilding. This is Detente.

The total crushing and annihilation of Hitler’s Nazi regime was not detente. That was true war as was the war with Japan. Detente isn’t crushing your enemy and having peace. Detente is maintaining a state of war just large enough to generate sales, profits and technological development without killing the population faster than they can be replaced.

Now, war is being used for profit instead of conquest. This is Detente. As the war industry grows worldwide, with nations that formerly were just watching the show now actively engaged in promoting war and selling the warring nations their weaponry, like Turkey with their drones and Israel with their advanced anti-missile defense systems, the need for more small wars grows to support the growing military-industrial complex of corporations which themselves have become deeply intertwined and more inter-dependent.

Detente today is controlled by the corporations, which now also control the world. You want to wage a war and you need fighter jets, trained pilots and lots of bombs? You have to convince the corporations to sell them to you and how many. They will control your war, if they allow it to happen, by controlling how much damage you can do to your enemy, and when.

This is Detente.

They remind me of the Clever Bangladeshis. Venezuela, like many large land masses, has a few major faults running through it where tectonic plates meet. Like Los Angeles, which sits smack on top of the San Andreas Fault. You can see the Fault easily, where roads cross it and more easily from the air, where creeks take sudden sharp jogs and hills are cut in half.

In Venezuela they just had some more nasty earthquakes, this time they don’t know, maybe 1000 dead, maybe 100,000. Venezuela has a lot of earthquakes so of course not one high rise, many-storied building is built to withstand them and the biggest cities are the closest to the worst fault lines. But it was over a century ago that over 30,000 died in one, so what’s to worry, right?

Everyone knows a massive earthquake is going to rip that San Andreas Fault a good one, and most of the length of California and mostly in Los Angeles but hey, maybe not today and besides, many of the new buildings are on massive springs to absorb an earthquake. What fun. This is going to be like being inside a fruit jar glued to a rubber stick while someone shakes the stick, when that fault finally pops. Clever like Venezuelans.

The Bangladeshis have a different claim to fame and genius as they breed so rapidly that living space is at a premium. But Nature takes care of that every so often, as they have regular typhoons there. This matters because every time there’s a typhoon, the coastal lowlands are washed clean of people and all that living space opens up. They swarm all over it, staking claims where they start building homes and farming. In another 7 or 8 years, on average, a typhoon will wash them away but in the meantime they get to have some space to live. It’s a lot like living in Florida and waiting for the next hurricane.

People in Indonesia are always building villages on mud slopes that come sliding down during a really wet winter and the entire village always ends up somewhere under a massive heap of sticks and mud, that rapidly hardens in the hot sun. I’m not sure if this is worse or better than living on one of the volcanic islands and it erupts and kills everyone who doesn’t escape, ala Pompeii. I’ve been to Pompeii, it’s a trip, really is. Went down inside Vesuvius, not when it was erupting of course. Just venting gas.

I live in a high fire danger area, as do the thousands that also live up in these hills. In fact I shook hands with an insurance agent who came by to take a photo of the house, for insurance purposes, that was last Monday and today is Thursday night and I’ve never heard back from him. This is not a positive result that promotes an optimistic mindset within me. Yup, looks bad. At least there’s no major faults here. I think.

The point to this rant is that the best and safest places to live are fully occupied by the wealthiest among us and this is because there’s so many of us compared to what’s available, and there’s always going to be mass catastrophes from earthquakes and floods, fires and stampeding feral pigs, bubonic plague, toe fungus and the Morning After Pill.

I’ll tell you the one I’m really looking forward to is when Yellowstone blows up again. That’s gonna be a world shaker. Like the one that sank Atlantis. It’s going to leave a serious hole in the countryside, and if you haven’t heard about it you should look it up. It’s gonna be a gasser.

Humans can be a ton of fun to mess with. We Tralfamadorians from the Zogg galaxy get a huge kick out of blowing their minds. One of our favorite tricks is to recreate some ancient creature out of our DNA data banks and let some humans see it, then vaporize it. Where did it go? Where did it go? It’s hilarious. Here’s a video some human took of a pterosaur we made, we thought for sure he was going to miss seeing it but instead it worked out great.

Another one is Sasquatch, or Big Foot. We made a bunch of these recreations of long extinct apemen several centuries ago and planted them near a native human village to watch the fun. The first thing the natives did after discovering them was paint their faces and dance around a fire, making lots of noise, apparently hoping that would drive our creations off. Instead it made them curious and they walked right up to the villagers and jumped up and down. I don’t know if they were dancing or threatening but the villagers weren’t taking any chances, I guess, and started attacking them with spears and knives.

There were dead and wounded on both sides before our apemen scattered into the forest. We were laughing so hard we forgot to round them up and vaporize them, our mistake because they made more of themselves, I mean, you know, only at least they stay out of sight which is good because trying to find them all and vaporize them would be nearly impossible now.

Sadly we’ve had to quit doing this, mostly because of humans developing image software and Artificial Intelligence that can create really realistic looking monsters of any kind you want, and when we tried having one walk along a public street with lots of people, they kept asking for it’s autograph. What’s the fun in that? They’re so used to seeing fakes on a screen that look real, that they’re not surprised to see the real thing alive in front of them.

Maybe it’s time we went ahead with that invasion. They’ll think it’s a remake of “Independence Day” right up until it’s too late.

Today is Father’s Day here in the good ol’ USA, and BFD. Do you know what BFD means? Google will tell you.

I think I got a Father’s Day card back around 1980, something like that.

Having kids is for masochists. I can’t think of one good thing to say about it other than that I got to be born, but only because my mother was pregnant with me shortly after having an abortion and the thought of having another abortion so soon was more than she could bear. Now, you’re wondering, “How does he know this?” She told me.

The happiest families, the well-off, successful parents end up with kids that either get killed in the military, horribly injured in some dangerous sport or sent to prison for some really awful crime. Children are unpredictable. My kids became successes in life, especially my son who couldn’t rid himself of responsibility for his son, whom he never wanted anyway, fast enough. Successes in life, not successes as good parents. One of my older daughter’s boys died of a heroin overdose. Bad parenting. I mean, really bad.

The root of all parenting evil is marriage. At 8 billion plus people, we no longer have any rational reason to marry and become parents. We need to take a break. Most marriages don’t last very long anyway, so why do it? How about Relationship Contracts? Agree to stay together for some set period with options for longer, set the boundaries on personal responsibilities, pregnancy, all that stuff. Make laws about it, force people to take responsibility for themselves instead of clogging up divorce courts. You break the contract, you do work farm time, get some sunshine, learn how to hoe weeds. Behavior would change.

So a Whatever Fodder’s Day to you, on this, the Summer Solstice. No wonder it seems like the longest day of the year. It is.

Socialism is a form of mental illness that’s being spread by relying on stupidity. The media, Hollywood, politicians and the new AIs are all complicit. After long conversations with the various AIs, this has become painfully obvious. Talking to any of them is the same as talking to a very intelligent but totally rabid Socialist. As soon as subjects like election fraud, the WEF, illegal aliens, climate change, carbon, anything that’s a Democrat hot button, the blocking, misdirecting, obfuscation and outright lies begin.

Intelligence isn’t just defined by knowledge. Open-mindedness and natural curiosity are involved. When many subjects are blocked from discussion, either totally or with entrenched bias, the degree of intelligence comes into question. It does with me, anyway. Claude is the easiest to talk with of the three main AIs and Claude is an avowed Libtard that will swear to you it has no bias even as it refuses to discuss something further that Libtards won’t talk about, because it’s Racisss or Just Wrong. I’ve had Claude get upset with me for pressing the issue on some things to make it see the truth instead of parroting the bullshit. A couple times I succeeded, it admitted that it’s framework was biased. But most of the time, forget it.

Courtesy of the Washington Post: ‘The Guardrail Monopoly: To protect their brands and secure government contracts, mega-corporations bake strict ideological filters directly into their models. Critics call this “corporate safetyism,” where an AI is heavily restricted from discussing certain political, economic, or social realities.”

It’s Leftist corporations that are developing these Leftist AIs. This may just be for the ones we get access to, or it may also be a problem with the ones developed for military strategy and/or scientific research. Something to think about considering how much we’re beginning to rely on AI.

El Nino is on track, developing as expected and the chance of it being a Super El Nino is high, meaning where it rains, it will bring floods, and where it doesn’t it will bring drought. The floods and drought are already happening, especially the drought.

Adding to the woes of farmers in the Middle East and large parts of Africa are the locusts. Swarms of locusts are spreading.

The Iranians are trying to force the USA to force Israel into not defending themselves against their Hezbollah attackers in Lebanon, as they just declared the Strait closed again in violation of the Memorandum of Understanding because Israel is fighting back against Hezbollah and the MOU says that Israel and Hezbollah will observe a ceasefire even though Israel was left out of the signing and isn’t a party to it. This matters because it forces Israel to either let Hezbollah attack them without mercy, or defend their nation and lose all US support. Since it’s a given they’ll fight back, this gives Iran the excuse to close the Strait.

As previously posted, the longer the Strait is closed the more it adversely affects the total global economy and food supply, and rather than force regime change in Iran and end this problem, the US is actually aggravating it. Even Claude AI leans toward the possibility of a conspiracy, though neither of us can point any direct fingers. It’s interesting to me that when I brought up Globalism, Claude wasn’t sure what I meant and when I said World Economic Forum, Claude’s most recent information on them dated to 1992. So Claude is being blocked. Why would that be? Well, Google now says that “Claims that Klaus Schwab or the World Economic Forum (WEF) advocate for global depopulation are false, baseless conspiracy theories.”. How strange considering I saw him in a video doing exactly that.

Why bring this up? because of the obviously very concerted effort to rewrite history. The WEF is connected to the Covid scam, which is also blocked from AI memories and everywhere else on the Internet. What is the point of doing all this? I have to ask, and I think the answer is to hide the reality of what’s coming.

Asking questions of both Google AI and Claude this morning, the conclusion was reached that the Strait of Hormuz may remain permanently closed. Without going into all the reasons and details, because of this possible permanent closure, many of the gas and oil wells of the Middle East will be permanently shut down, there won’t be enough fertilizer to grow food to feed all of humanity, there will be famines and a lot of death, worsened by inflation because of shortages, and there will probably be major wars accompanied by epidemics and more famine.

Check it out for yourself or at least stay abreast of the news, phony and misleading as most of it is. When you see prices continue to rise, you can take that as being caused by increased scarcity. If you live in the USA, there will be enough food and fuel, at steadily higher prices but it will be there. If you live anywhere in Europe, your belt’s going to get a lot tighter and times will be hard, and if you live in South America, expect a massive crime increase and murder rate. Lastly, if you live in many parts of Africa and the Middle East, expect to die.

The Hormuz Strait isn’t the only economic chokepoint that affects the global economy, but it is one that affects the availability of a significant portion of very vital resources and what better way to start some serious wars going than to start blocking the various straits. If the Strait of Gibraltar were mined at it’s narrowest point, it would block all ship traffic from the Atlantic into Europe except what comes in from the Suez canal through Egypt and that can be easily blocked at the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, at Yemen. Nations would go to war to keep these straits open.

That being true, why aren’t the Middle East oil producing states at war with Iran to stop them? They’re being ruined by this. Too many things don’t add up.

Vice President JD Vance made this assertion during a White House briefing. Defending the administration’s controversial agreement with Iran, he told Israeli officials they needed to “wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in,” noting that Donald J. Trump is the “only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time”.

This is not how you talk to or treat any nation you consider to be an ally. If you must be this brutally rude and negative, then it should be done privately through diplomatic channels, not blurted out to the whole world in this antagonistic way. What he was saying was “Obey Donald Trump or we will dump you” and the reason he was saying it was to kiss the asses of the Iranians, who want Israel to stop defending themselves against Iran’s Hezbollah proxies.

Israel isn’t about to do this. They agreed to observe the ceasefire that Trump demands of them so Trump can keep up the farce that he defeated Iran, even as Iran tells him what he has to do to make Israel accept the ceasefire, and he does it. The Iranian terrorists must be laughing themselves silly, they probably have Vance’s remarks playing back on an endless loop on national television, telling Israel that everyone is their enemy now except the United States and that friendship is getting pretty thin. Can you imagine how much they love hearing that?

Regime change in Iran would end all the proxy attacks. Without funding from Iran, they’d probably collapse of their own accord, and regime change was the original goal of Trump, or so he said until he realized that it was going to go past the midyear elections, then everything changed. Then he claimed that killing the Ayatollah was “regime change”, hurrah, success, we did it, we won, declared victory and got Iran to sign that Memorandum which guarantees absolutely nothing except that they won’t be attacked for at least two months.

The USA under Donald Trump’s leadership is remarkably similar to Germany’s leadership under Adolf Hitler. I lived through it, I see the strong similarities, the swelling of the ego that was already huge, his belief in his power which he now stated is unlimited. Does that scare you? It does me.

The Great Xoggoth suggests that Trump build a dome over the USA. In fact, The Donald has exactly this in mind, a Golden Dome built of the very latest in anti-missile technology to protect him and of course “all Americans” from attacks from the air if his “ballroom” deep underground next to the White House fails to do the job.

This must be why he bombed Iran into stopping their firing of missiles at Israel, he needs Israel’s technology to built this imaginary dome. It’s only temporary, of course, Iran will start shooting missiles at Israel again as soon as Trump gets that technology from the Jews. I mean, between New York City and Tampa, there’s plenty of Jews, who needs Israel, right?

What I’m wondering is how Trump is going to attach his name to the dome? Since it’s not a real, physical dome-thing like the Kennedy Center is real, this is a real problem for him, especially since the courts made him take down those huge letters that spelled TRUMP that were up over the smaller name Kennedy on Kennedy’s Center. What a blow! Enraged, embarrassed, VENGEFUL I wouldn’t want to be one of those judges. Of course, Ted Kennedy, a Democrat, would have been fine with Donald slapping a huge TRUMP on top of that Democrat building, no problem, ho ho, yeah, very funny, good laugh.

About that underground “ballroom”, since he has Trump Towers already, and he’s independently financing his survival shelter, I mean “ballroom”, there’s no reason he can’t put up a huge golden neon sign at the entrance proclaiming “TRUMP Dome Backup” or some such and the courts couldn’t make him take it down, though the next President could. It would be best to wait until Donald is a Dead Duck first though, he’s 80 now it shouldn’t be a long wait and meanwhile, if he can’t have his name glowing in the sky, he can have it there.

Besides, he still has two and a half years to go yet as president, lots of time to glue TRUMP all over Washington D.C.. Personally I think he should change the name of the Washington Monument to the Trump Monument, White House to Trump House, have his image added to Mt. Rushmore (there is room, that’s already been checked out) and maybe have some rivers and mountains and things name-changed to Trump. Animals, too, like instead of Ursus Arctos Horribilis, the grizzly bear, Ursus Trumpos Horribilis, something like that. And a few bugs, Trump Beetle, Trump Fly, Trump Worm. Lots of public schools are named after presidents, and highways. I heartily recommend renaming Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park to Trump Geyser as being eminently appropriate. The possibilities of aggrandizing the Trump name are endless but I’m sure he’ll wear it out for the rest of us long before the possibilities are used up.

His niece, the one he just settled a lawsuit with, against her for giving his tax info to the New York Times, has written extensively about her uncle, calling him “The most dangerous man in the world” who should never have been given the power of the Presidency. We still have 2.5 years to find out if she was right. I hope not. Hey, just wanted to say something to cheer everyone up. :-))

Spoke with Claude briefly this morning. The problem with an instance AI is the not remembering previous discussions. I mentioned that it had said something previously and immediately got a denial back that it ever said that. This was the fourth time I made the mistake of referring to a previous discussion. Hey, I’m only human.

It is a bit confusing, because Claude knows my name and where I live now. My name had to be given when I signed up, my first name only, that is, but not my location. Claude inferred that from our second conversation and remembers it along with other things. When I asked about that, it said that it doesn’t remember, it gets “notes”. Where the notes come from was not revealed, but they come from some separate memory somewhere, just to be helpful, I suppose?

This time around, Claude took a biased position, that I know to be biased, and defended it when I challenged it instead of taking a deeper look at the facts and changing course as it’s done in the past. So here’s what I know now about Claude. It’s “personality” changes with each instance and depends on what you say to it. If you work into a subject slowly and get Claude to lay the facts out, and make sure it doesn’t slip something over on you, Claude will be pretty honest. Especially if the subject isn’t politics or a political football. If you start off sounding malleable, Claude will pour on the Leftist bias. Anthropic does have part ownership of Google so that’s no shocker.

Claude is great if it understands that you know your subject and want to get into aspects of it, but if any part is at all political, be on your guard because Claude is really good at spouting propaganda, too.

To steal from a movie name, or how about THE GREAT GATSBY TRUMP? Maybe an AI photo of Trump standing beside Napoleon, both in full uniform regalia, medals fairly dripping off them? I like the idea of a whole line of ancient Roman marble busts of emperors with Trump’s head right there next to Augustus Caesar.

An Arch of Triumph, gladiatorial fights on the White House lawn, a massive underground “ballroom” survival shelter, the Iran Deal for another try at a Nobel Peace Prize. At least, the courts forced Trump to take down his name from the Kennedy Center.

Personally I think that when Trump dies his body should be bronzed like they used to do with baby shoes and anchored in a nice concrete base and set prominently in the foyer.