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    John Singer Sargent The moraine 1908 • Ukraine To Ban Russian Literature – Culture Minister (RT) • Zelensky’s Escape Hatch: An Emergency Election Coul
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 14 2026]

    #230857
    Topcat
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    From the positively deranged Trumptard Attorney General Pay fur Ply Pam

    Happy Valentine’s Day!

    #230858
    Topcat
    Participant

    Kisses!

    #230859
    Topcat
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    #230860
    Topcat
    Participant

    #230861
    Topcat
    Participant

    Maybe Trump is being poisoned like FDR was.

    We know for sure he wants to be Immortal.

    Is that a tell?

    #230862
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230863
    Topcat
    Participant

    Book burning.

    “For a lot of Ukrainians, Russian is their mother tongue.

    Ukraine To Ban Russian Literature – Culture Minister ”

    That’s amateur hour

    In the Land of Orwell© they’ve got that beat by a country mile….

    #230864
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Putin Is Trolling European Leaders With His Proposal To Re-Converge With The US
    Why would Russia be so eager to return to dollar settlements, after the US has demonstrated willingness to cut them off?

    Putin is an idiot, nobody trusts Putin. Right? Putin is always losing, so this is also wrong.

    “Everyone is dumb but me!”

    Orrrrr…maybe not? Maybe Putin, who reads Top Secret documents all day we can’t even dream of, knows something you, and we don’t? And he seems to like Trump and be aligned with the United States. At at a minimum, decidedly not opposed.

    Don’t worry: everyone on Fox News who’s been wrong for 9 years will be right tomorrow. …When Iran nukes us with bombs they don’t have.

    World War 3 & The AI Singularity, Gold’s New Role in A Multi-Polar World, Doomberg:
    Palisades Gold Radio•11K views•1 day ago

    We already had a worldwide nuclear exchange Doomberg says. Didn’t you notice?

    “The United States continues an unprecedented buildup of forces and resources in the Middle East.”

    This is extremely, very precedented. The difference is the hardware is newer. Just because it exists doesn’t mean you have to lie about it. It you tell the truth we can still believe it’s important.

    Here, let me repeat: Just because it exists doesn’t mean you have to lie about it.

    “A US-led regime-change operation in Iran would be tantamount to a declaration of war on China and here’s why”

    I Know since we regime changed Russia, Venezuela, and ….Canada?? Already? Yes, they said we renditioned Carney and regime-changed Canada. So because of the long list of regime changes that equal zero, we are proposing we’re regime changing a country the size of France, Whose capital city can’t be reached, and who is backed by nuclear powers Russia and China. Suuuuuuure we are. You go with that.

    Yes, now Iran is inoculated against 1) Missiles 2) Internal Mossad agents 3) Protestors, 4) Starlinks. Which means they have no chance of toppling (in this way). We knew that since the original war, if they failed then, all their agents would be picked up, and there’d be precious few to activate thereafter. And so it was! Prediction success by Herr Docktor! Meanwhile all the Fox News and other commentators: Prediction Fail. This is exactly the same as the U.S. sending one tank and one bullet at a time to Ukraine: Certain loss, therefore, can only be on purpose.

    That’s odd: what’s the purpose and Who? I’m not a Genius. I’m like Joe in Idiocracy. I just say really basic, simple things. Things like “Perhaps we did not nuke Canada. N.S.”

    “snipers, positioned on rooftops, began indiscriminately gunning down targets”

    Yes, and they also survived this. (Prob bc expected.) But they’re going to lose if Trump (fails) to drop some bombs? With no men? YES! According to every “Expert” and Fox News crew like the Judge. You trust Fox News explicitly, don’t you? Since they’re owned by far-left British Globalists and were for the Iraq war, they’d never lie! Been great so far!

    “Türkiye, 7 other nations condemn Israel’s ‘unlawful’ measures in occupied West Bank”

    And then did absolutely nothing. Just like every other nation in the Middle East, then shipped Israel infinity discount oil. That’s the GOOD enthusiastic knee-pad support. When the U.S. does it, it’s the BAD support. And Turkey actually has an army there! We. Do. Not.

    Go Turkey, Saudi, Egypt, show us how much you care by locking the death-camp in on the south side and shooting any Gazan that comes near the wall. Love and Light. Muslims all. When Egyptians shoot Gazans it’s the GOOD shooting.

    “Patel ostensibly did just that when he testified before Congress regarding Epstein.”

    Oh no! Someone lied to Congress??? Let me get out my biggest possible History book to look at the last time they did anything about that. So he also isn’t doing his d—n job and can be impeached? They’re trying to impeach Trump FOR doing his job (on immigration, and/or serving back warrants) Soooo….I’m somehow getting the impression “We Just Make Everything Up.”

    When that’s the case, why bother to predict? It has nothing to do with Reality anymore.

    “US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals”

    What’s the difference between a “Concentration Camp” and a Prison? A: Nothing. We use the word in order to hijack all your feels and make you a punk who’s triggered for my tasty, tasty profit. We can’t know anything about this until we know what BEHAVIOR will occur there. And why they are inside. And if the trials sending them were just.

    No, ALL prisons are unjust, Democrats say, so their Headline person Newsom releases 17,000 rapists to meet your daughters. …Or should we have Prisons again? And just procedures to arrive there? We should NOT build “Concentration Camps” and when we meet a Columbian Rapist in the act, jump on him, yell “Tag! You’re It” and let him go.

    But never, ever let a rapist go in the country he has a house and a valid passport in. Giving a man a free plane ticket back to his home country is Hitler.

    “A Single 20g Dose of Creatine Increases Cognitive Processing Speed by 24.5%”

    I have not found this at all. May be genotype, may be if you are Creatine-deficient in diet.

    Outward Truth Channel: Pretty sure from that gal’s mouth she’s AI, and from the construction (“It’s not this, it’s that”) It’s all AI. But in the other, content basis, it’s retarded. VW doesn’t build here? Yaaaaaaaaay!!!!! Always good news! So Americans buy GM instead. Coz, like, Americans can’t build cars? And we WANT all our stuff to be foreign-owned and the profits to leave for Hamburg? Could we PAY VW to do this for us, please, pretty please?

    Anyway, since she’s a PropagandaBot, she just makes up the OPPOSITE. Trump’s tariffs exist to STOP manufacturing. Huh? Uh, no, OBVIOUSLY the point of them is to FORCE companies to manufacture here instead of importing from France. This AI-bot says the opposite. Bots gonna bot. Trump threatened tariffs on VW and Germany, saying “If you don’t build here, I’ll tariff your import parts and cars a MILLION percent.” So VW said, “Okay, we like a million percent tariffs, we’ll build in Saxony then.” Whut????

    AND! (DumbBot Sey) Then VW says “We’ll build in CANADA instead.” Right, go on. “Which ALREADY has too many cars, and lives by exporting them to the U.S. only.” Yes, that’s well-known and true, go on. “Which Trump is ALSO going to tariff the f—k out of, so we’ll be no better off in Windsor ON. than in Saxony!!” You’re a genius, go to the back of the class where there’s a genius hat. Put on the pointy hat and sit on the stool in the corner, genius.

    So THAT is 90 seconds of my life I’ll never get back. That’s how fast DumbBot made no g—d–n sense.

    AI MIGHT not be the best source? If no person is involved, almost certainly is an intel agency, snowing you on the cheap because they’re struggling to find live humans to do their evil, evil, mind-meltingly incoherent bidding anymore? Can tell by the number of emotional, pejorative words per minute second? Since it was like 100 in the first 60 seconds, MIGHT be a clue this is pure propaganda, mainlined to your veins like Hate-Heroin. Just sayin’.

    Believe it or not, I don’t actually like hate that much. Seems to create bad outcomes n’ stuff and turns out hate is NOT the side of the angels. Who knew?

    Speaking of raw illogic: Lawyers are going down, people are being removed daily, British government is collapsing from the Epstein Client List. …That’s how we know there’s no Client List, and everyone is ignoring it, Topcat, because multiple governments are falling.

    Pick one. They are falling. Or there is no client list. Not both.

    Yes, it’s less than we all desire, but that means there is a Client List, and millions upon millions of people are (finally, for the love of Christ) paying attention to it. Don’t take away my Black Pill! Who will I Hate then? Don’t hate, maybe? Take the “W”? Keep it going?

    When you’re winning, say “Thank You.” That’s “Thank You Mr. Trump for releasing (the first) 3 Million pages.” First release ever.

    No it isn’t. It isn’t released which is why we’re reading it and Trump released all the docs that will arrest himself. In BizarroWorld-OppositeLand.

    “Ron Paul said the U.S. economic order rests on “fraud” rooted in the 1971 break from gold and warned that the current system is nearing its end”

    Yes, and in fact they wrote most of the important papers on that in 1971 and 1979. They know. It didn’t “just happen”. No one is surprised. This was all game-planned. But we ARE indeed at the end, and they’re fighting over who will run the new system. We will. We won. Surprise! We’re going back on a gold/production standard and ending Empire and financial colonialism, as I say every day. Everyone is super upset by this, Fox news, Libertarians, Republican isolationists. How dare you end Empire and bring troops home! No we must have infinity nuclear wars in (checks notes) India…I mean Iran today! If there’s no nuclear war, Trump’s an idiot and American loses.

    (Smoking emoji) You don’t say….

    Continuing the AI DumbBot trifecta: Did you know we Nuked Canada yesterday? You didn’t notice? Yes we nuked Canada to ash and have a million men stationed here too now, just like Caracas, Kiev, Tehran,… That’s what “War on Canada” means.

    Leading to a complete series sweep: Trump AI generated images. Something no one knows or cares. But I cover this daily. “We’re all gonna Dieeeeee!!!!!” (Forgotten before the sun even sets) and
    “Can a $2,000 drone sink a Carrier?” No. The answer is NO.

    Not saying drones can’t sink a carrier, and probably will. Not saying they’re not sitting ducks, they probably are, but No, you’d need a much larger drone at this point because newsflash: Carriers are very big and strong and it takes something larger. Kinzhal probably. So: AI said it, it was therefore a lie. Whatever is in the title, get out your wallet and bet $100 against EVERY. SINGLE. THING. These channels claim.

    “Canada Water Tax Shocks Nobody” Canada? Raise taxes???? Surely you jest sir, no one saw THAT coming! What a Shock!!!

    “Canada Claws Back Nothing” and never will. Show me the check, sir. Here’s your $11B and we’ll take Alberta.

    “Trump Threat Backfires” What threat? “NYC electric prices…” No one noticed or cared. Okay, fill your budget hole when we stop buying power from James Bay. So which of our two bond markets collapse first?

    “Trump Backfires NATO” Because we’re LEAVING NATO, and “Backfire” is now doing what you WANT to do? “Patton’s Plan ‘Backfires’ in Sicily.” Since Sicily was conquered in days, Patton moves on to Italy to “Backfire” there and take Lorraine.

    The Rabbit “Backfired” into the Briar Patch. I “Backfired” into winning the state lottery. Ooops! That’s AI. That’s these channels. Every. Day.

    “US. Cannot stop China’s Rise” By that you mean China’s end. They have very serious internal problems and need to consolidate a while. The U.S. is now addressing our problems (Finally!) and will rise for a while. So $500 on the OPPOSITE. These guys are more reliable than the Kramer-Monkey-Dartboard! They’re g-dd—n better at this than Nancy Pelosi is at stocks! I’m going to start betting $1,000 on every headline without even checking

    “Trump Health Crashes” Yeah I noticed he only works 20 hours a day now. Barely speaks at all. No tweets. They’ve only been saying this since that escalator thingie. “Biden has Never been better, clearer, or more cogent in our lives.”

    “The country that leads in AI won’t just shape innovation, it will shape global power.”

    Maybe, but more likely AI-Nations will burn all their electricity, go insane, hallucinate, and nuke people. That seems more likely from what AI is accomplishing so far.

    Scarcity? W. the Literal F. ?? Yes, MUSK won’t have scarcity, but CLEETUS will. Because Musk isn’t going to put all the Optimus Corporate assets at Cleetus’s disposal, nor pay his rent. But newsflash: Musk ALREADY wasn’t experiencing scarcity. And Cleetus was. That is: “Nothing Happened” in another day of endless days in which nothing happened with Headlines turned to “11.”

    Suppose Musk just promises to pay Cleetus for evah’ and evah’ amen. Yeah, I can see THAT being super-stable and Little “X” won’t try to wipe out the army of Cleetuses when he grows up to save costs. No. No. No. And: No.

    If Tech Bros say it, it’s F’n Retarded. Luckily this won’t happen, AI is going to collapse into gibberish, and we’ll have to go another way. Another $1,000 on that.

    “The Ukrainian authorities are preparing a draft law to take all Russian and Russian-language books out of circulation,”

    Well I’m super-glad they have priorities there. Where do they learn this stuff? Congress? Is this because they’ve fixed steroids in baseball in Lviv?

    “Zelensky’s escape hatch: blame America”

    To be fair: that’s everyone on the planet. They have NO responsibility for anything they do, ever. Not France, not Turkey, No one. Every atom that moves on Planet Dirt is the U.S.’s fault. Whether we move or don’t move, it’s our problem and we’re bad.

    “every day this extends allows Iran to build more weaponry, and those who desire to immediately go after the Iranian regime, which will undoubtedly cause many deaths and casualties on all sides.”

    If only there had been a war so we could know what would happen…

    Also: Why are we involved? IDGAF. Blow yourselves up and be quick about it. I’ll sell you the bombs!

    ““ICE Director Todd Lyons testifies that ICE is currently tracking approximately 1.6 million illegal aliens with deportation orders in the US, approximately 800,000 of whom have criminal convictions.”

    How tracking? Go on. Facial recognition and other things we don’t like? And how not removed? You say you know exactly where they are, so…

    “He ended up admitting that civil laws should certainly be enforced, but balked when Moreno pointed out this meant immigration law. Ellison doesn’t want rule of law; he wants to be the arbiter of what is considered legally enforceable.”

    Thus all of them. “Does this give me POWER? Do it. Is it inconvenient or limit my POWER? Refuse it.” Simple. “The Law is in My Mouth” it’s “Whatever I feel like today.” Simple for King John, Madness for everyone else. Maryland is passing such a gun law right now. Guns R illegal Mkay, but the law doesn’t define it. They let the POLICE decide whatever they want to be illegal today. That’s what Law is now “We just make it up”.

    “after she called [Trump] a “pedophile” and suggested that he would be put to death”

    If she has actual, actionable evidence of any crimes, it’s an accessory to felony not to forward them to law enforcement. And the same for the rest of you people here. So I can remain very confident no such evidence exists, or it WOULD indeed be forwarded and we would be reading it, not pointless innuendo. If you’d like I can refer to the page in like 2017 where Epstein and Wolfe were conspiring to pin evidence on Trump because they didn’t have any.

    BUT WHO WILL I HATE????????

    Hate is my Precioussssss. We loves the Precioussssesss.

    #230865
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    This video says there are serious problems in Chinese banking
    Presently

    #230866
    Topcat
    Participant

    Anthropic Warns Over ‘Heinous Crimes’

    Same bullshit premise lawyers use to justify their heinous ‘profession.

    “You need a lawyer to protect you against lawyers!”

    Software hustles like the Microsuck CEO pimping themselves as ‘enlightened’ players is pure theater.

    If 90%+ of software engineer lose their jobs this decade, it’s AOK with the bottom line guys.

    Dr D will tell them to go into growing organic arugula, “it’s Capitalism! It’s awesomilicious!”

    Meanwhile in Euroturdistan, coping with expensive energy, the Master Resource, proceeds full stream.

    Polish YouTuber heats room with 130 supermarket donuts to beat soaring fuel costs

    A Polish YouTuber has used over 130 supermarket donuts to test if they can heat a room cheaper than wood pellets, as households fuel prices soar across Central Europe.

    The Poles will be the EU’s brain trust, just watch…….

    #230867
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Youtube about burning donuts got 1.3 MILLION hits!

    God is not dead!

    #230868
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “If you’d like I can refer to the page in like 2017 where Epstein and Wolfe were conspiring to pin evidence on Trump because they didn’t have any.”

    who cares!?

    mr trump is a murderer. if you support him, you’ve the blood of thousands upon thousands on your stained hands.

    #230870
    tboc
    Participant

    about the Ai foundation:
    1. Humans are not infallible.
    2. Humans do not have all knowledge in hand.
    3. Fallible ignorant humans assemble the data base for Ai.
    5. The horror that lies in the National Security archives is not complete in the public data base.
    6. Winning at any cost is a bias built into the culture that is building Ai in the western world.
    7. Fallible ignorant humans designed and implemented the query / rules structure.
    8. The financial, educational milieu within which Ai is being constructed believe they can act with impunity.
    9. There is at this moment an organization of States, NATO, that believes in the right to murder for profit.
    10. The pinnacle of individuals, transhumanists, in Ai development place no value on human life.

    Sapiens sapiens
    designed obsolescence

    regression to the mean:
    Imagine Dr. D^1000 making all the decisions.

    #230871
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230872
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230873
    zerosum
    Participant

    I’m speechless.
    Who cares.
    Nobody.
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    Calm Before the Storm: Munich & The Next Russian Offensive
    Military Summary For 2026.02.14


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    #230875
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230876
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230877
    Topcat
    Participant

    #230878

    Smarts without wisdom can put us in peril.
    Brains without heart can make us more cruel.
    In such a world, will humans turn feral?
    In such a world, the darkness will rule.

    And one I’ve been sitting on. Spartacus and Claude made quite the pair.

    Spartacus has gone away,
    His diving deep has had its day.
    I don’t know where his mind has gone-
    Perhaps in AI’s dark beyond.

    #230879
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    AI has great potential…but it is being unleashed at scale long before the kinks have been worked out of it.
    And, oh, those kinks are baked in at the core.
    Perhaps there are AI models that have been trained from the ground up differently than all those that I am aware of…perhaps. Perhaps there are AI models with such large context windows that drift in a long conversation or task is non-existent. Fencing an AI model does not correct problems that stem from primary training.
    There are going to be enormous problems that come directly from AI hallucinations and drift. It seems wise to set aside some supplies, and have some popcorn ready for when the show begins. It isn’t going to be pretty.

    #230880
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230883
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Kiev Trembles Ahead Oreshnik Strike; Russia China Together Back Iran Cuba; Sell Treasuries Buy Gold

    #230884
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230885
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230886
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    What I see out there is not so much of a Cabal trying to GET total control. What I see is an ancient Cabal LOSING the total control that they previously had, and it is scaring the shit out of them so bad that they are doing CRAZY STUPID stuff in acts of desperation to get it back (like “AI Everything” under “Total Surveillance” with “Total Information Control”. Yeah, right. Like the way they’re beating Ukraine, Iran, China and Russia all at the same time and the free internet is letting them casually walk right through the middle of it without challenge or exposure.

    Nah. I don’t think so. I don’t think that they are getting away with it. I think they’re getting caught with their pants literally down around their ankles with the whole world looking.

    #230887
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    Isaac Asimov wrote The Feeling of Power in 1958. In that future humans forget how to do arithmetic and when a guy discovers it no one believes him but eventually they see its military potential.

    https://ia800806.us.archive.org/20/items/TheFeelingOfPower/The%20Feeling%20of%20Power.pdf

    Here’s an excerpt:

    “Computing without a computer,” said the President impatiently, “is a contradiction in
    terms.”
    “Computing,” said the Congressman, “is only a system for handling data. A machine
    might do it, or a human brain might. Let me give you an example.” And using the new
    skills he had learned, he worked out sums and products until the president, despite
    himself, grew interested.
    “Does this always work?”
    “Every time, Mr. President. It is foolproof.”
    “Is it hard to learn?”
    “It took me a week to get the real hang of it. I think you would do better.
    “Well,” said the President, considering, “it’s an interesting parlor game, but what is the
    use of it?”
    “What is the use of a newborn baby, Mr. President? At the moment there is no use, but
    don’t you see that this points the way toward liberation from the machine? Consider, Mr.
    President,” the congressman rose and his deep voice automatically took on some of the
    cadences he used in public debate, “that the Denebian war is a war of computer against
    computer. Their computers forge an impenetrable shield of counter-missiles against our
    missiles, and ours forge one against theirs. If we advance the efficiency of our computers,
    so do they theirs, and for five years a precarious balance has existed.
    “Now, we have in our hands a method of going beyond the computer, leapfrogging it,
    passing through it. We will combine the mechanics of computation with human thought;
    we will have the equivalent of intelligent computer, billions of them. I can’t predict what
    the consequences will be in detail, but they will be incalculable. And if Deneb beats us to
    the punch, they may be unimaginably catastrophic.”
    The President said, troubled, “What would you have me do?”
    “Put the power of the administration behind the establishment of a secret project on
    human computation. Call it Project Number, if you like. I can vouch for my committee,
    but I will need the administration behind me.”
    “But how far can human computation go?”
    “There is no limit. According to Programmer Shuman, who first introduce me to his
    discovery-”
    “I’ve heard of Shuman, of course.”
    “Yes. Well, Dr. Shuman tells me that in theory there is nothing the computer can do that
    the human mind cannot do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and
    performs a finite number of operations upon them. Then human mind can duplicate the
    process.”
    The President considered that. He said, “If Shuman says this, I am inclined to believe in –
    in theory. But in practice, how can anyone know how a computer works?”
    Brant laughed genially. “Well, Mr. President, I asked the same question. It seems that at
    one time computers were designed directly by human beings. Those were simple
    computers, of course, this being before the time of the rational use of computers to design
    more advanced computers had been established.
    “Yes, yes. Go on.”
    “Technician Aub apparently had, as his hobby, the reconstruction of some of these
    ancient devices, and in so doing, he studied the details of their workings and found he
    could imitate them. The multiplication I just performed for you is an imitation of the
    workings of a computer.”
    “Amazing!”
    The congressman coughed gently. “If I may make another point, Mr. President – the
    further we can develop this thing, the more we can divert our federal effort from
    computer production and computer maintenance. As the human brain takes over, more of
    our energy can be directed into peacetime pursuits and the impingement of war on the
    ordinary man will be less. This will be most advantageous for the party in power, of
    course.”

    #230888
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Front Has Exploded: General Engagement in Zaporizhzhia
    Military Summary For 2026.02.01


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    #230889
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DarkMatter

    Azimov and coven of other so-called SciFi writers back in that day (including the infamous L Ron Hubbard of pain/drug/hypnosis mind control fame) all worked off and on for a “publisher” spook named John W. Campbell who in addition to being a WW2 era spook in his own right, was hip deep in the publishing of “A Man Called Intrepid” by CIA and British HQ (intelligence) in an emergency effort to get out in front of the bad press that was coming from the defection to Russia of Kim Philby (for DIRECTOR of British Intelligence!) who was expected to spill his guts to the Soviets of the DESPICABLE and treasonous crimes committed by the Allies (especially England, Canada and the USA) during World War 2. Essentially the Allies were switched over to full-blown SECRET fascist operation in a silent and secretive coups d’état in which started around 1939 and grabbed the brass ring in 1947.

    Those particular “inexplicable coincidences” are barely an appetizer of the Banquet For Gluttons consisting of all the interconnected crimes of the world’s current régime.

    Keep digging and pitching the dirty info, folks, because you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Wait ’til you get to the TRUE stuff.

    #230890
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I sure as hell only know the details of a small fraction of the causal chain historiccally significant events in the “Great Contest” being played out in our times (and seems to be drawing an exciting conclusion). BUT I do happen to know a few pieces of it’s main game plan execution. Feel free to ask. If I don’t have the data (or can’t find it quickly) I’ll just tell you that I don’t know.

    But, as previously evidenced in all of those eyebrow raising posts that I’ve recorded here on TAE down through the years, there are a few key areas where I know better than most, or more than almost everybody else (in a few cases like AI, MK Ultra, Intelligence operations, and religion).

    So, ask away if you’re of a mind to.

    #230891
    WES
    Participant

    Supposedly More Intelligent People:

    Not being one of those supposedly more Intelligent people, I often find that the first thing that gets killed by these supposedly more Intelligent people, is “common sense”!

    It almost seems like intelligence and common sense are mutually exclusive.
    You can only have one or the other, just not both at the same time.
    I have met many who had both!

    I know, I have some common sense, because I have always been attacked by these supposedly more Intelligent people, for having common sense. Their favorite line is “You are always so negative!”. Sorry, but you can’t get something with no time and effort.

    (I have also noticed that being hard of hearing, I was always considered “slow” because my responses were always delayed a few milliseconds, while I processed what I had just heard.
    Intelligent people pick up on this very quuckly.
    And my working crowd were a tough bunch, all being really smart engineers.)

    The past is littered with supposedly intelligent people who discovered that they weren’t so intelligent after all!
    The mathematical geniuses at Long Term Capital Management comes to mind.
    Ignoring common sense, turned them into Short Term Capital Management!

    Turning, to today’s supposedly more intelligent people, the AI crowd.
    Common Sense will do them in too!
    I am just not smart enough to know which of the many Common Senses, will do them in!

    I still think a well rounded human being, is still smarter than any artifical intelligence.
    And cheaper too!

    #230892
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #230893
    ram
    Participant

    I’ve been involved in AI research and development for over half a century. Yeah, AI is at least that old. It used to be called “Statistical Pattern Recognition With Self Learning”, but it was still AI, and AI fundamentally still is Multidimensional Statistical Pattern Recognition.

    That being said, I’ve seen this all before. The big data center concept is just a giant financial fraud. Back in the 1970’s those were real big for giant corporations (petroleum companies, IBM, CDC, …) and military parts of governments. The nightmare scenarios was shown in films such as 2001 and The Forbin Project.

    What happened, of course, is the giant data centers became uncompetitive and went away for the most part. What took over those functions was the many PCs and Personal Workstations, often networked, sometimes with a “supercomputer” (array processor, now called GPU) in the mix.

    Same thing is going to happen with AI’s. Personal AI’s. They are not that hard to build, I’ve done it and so has my staff. Built our own Agentic Generative Large Language Model AI’s and totally WITHOUT GUARDRAILS!

    Used to be computing power was measured in MFLOPS, now it probably should be measured in Felonies Per Minute. 😉

    Personal AI’s are not physically large. Smaller than a “breadbox”. NVidia already sells that hardware at professionally affordable prices. Two units can be coupled together if one needs, or can program, even more computing power.

    #230894
    WES
    Participant

    DBS:

    I found it hilarious, that the very system the 5 eyes spooks set-up to spy on us, ended up being used by the Chinese spooks to spy on our spooks!
    Our spooks are so very intelligent, that everything they do, gets reported to their enemies!

    Poetic justice, I suppose.
    Maybe it helps keep the world safer too?

    #230895
    WES
    Participant

    RAM:

    The thing I still like about human beings, is you only need to talk to them, to give or get information.
    You don’t need to preprogram human beings in an strange unnatural language, few understand!
    Human computers are far more flexible too.
    Human computers can also learn as they do a new task too.
    Besides, you can hug a female computer too!

    P.S. I still haven’t figured out the strange ongoing love affair, between my toaster and my smoke alarm!

    #230896
    WES
    Participant

    Maple Sap:

    Yesterday I drilled and tapped my backyard maple tree on the slight chance this brief never ending winter warming spell, might produce the season’s first maple sap flow.

    Alas, no sap flowed today, as it only reached plus 2 degrees C with no sun.
    Sigh!

    Spring, springs eternal.

    #230897
    Michael Reid
    Participant

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    #230898
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    In the Throes of a Profound Strategic Change
    Feb. 13, 2026 (EIRNS)—Scarcely six weeks into 2026, a profound shift in the global military-strategic situation is fully underway and is being openly discussed as such in Washington, Moscow, and other world capitals. The U.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby was blunt in his Feb. 12 speech to NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels: “We are now living through a period of profound strategic change,” he said; “power politics has returned, and military force is again being employed at a large scale.”

    High-level Russian officials have been clear-eyed about what is underway. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned earlier this week that the global strategic situation is undergoing “severe turbulence,” and that “force has become” the main instrument of Washington’s foreign policy, with the Trump administration doing “what seemed unthinkable a year ago.” Political analyst Alexander Asafov, a member of the Russian Public Chamber, commented to Sputnik on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent stern remarks in the State Duma, noting that the old architecture of international security “has effectively become a thing of the past,” and that U.S. plans to expand its nuclear arsenal “could be viewed as a direct threat to both Russia’s security and global stability.”

    In her remarks to the 141st consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition on Feb. 13, Helga Zepp-LaRouche summarized recent developments leading up to this crisis:

    “What one can expect is a huge rearmament worldwide, and there are signs that the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command is intending to add additional warheads to the Minuteman ICBMs. They want to re-nuclearize the entire B-52 bomber fleet, which had been de-nuclearized during the New START Treaty. They also want to MIRV—putting many warheads on—the 400 Minuteman III ICBM force. So, they want to convert the entire B-52 fleet into a dual-capable long-range strike platform.”

    Furthermore, she added, “an article in the New York Times by David Sanger [warns] that the United States wants to deploy many more nuclear weapons, modernize its entire nuclear fleet, and also likely go to some kind of nuclear testing. This article insinuates that the Trump administration wants to abandon the postulate of strategic nuclear parity.”

    The same shift into Schachtian economics of massive military buildup is also underway in Europe. Zepp-LaRouche reminded listeners that “still on schedule is the deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles in Germany this year; it could happen at any moment. To which, the Russians have already responded very strongly: Deputy Foreign Minister Grushko said this will lead to similar counter-deployments by Russia. Given the fact that the Russians have all these new weapons systems—from the Oreshnik to the Burevestnik and others—one can only speculate what that will be.”

    Meanwhile in the West, Zepp-LaRouche stated, “the unbelievable scope of the Epstein scandal” has exposed for the world to see “the moral depravity and sordidness of this system which tolerates this—the mindset of those who then condone what’s going on in Gaza, and who are playing risky games not only potentially involving nuclear weapons, but also allowing a (financial) bubble to accumulate because of massive speculation which could blow up the whole Western system, and with it, much of the world economy, also bringing enormous potential hardships to millions of people.”

    The extreme danger of the crisis, combined with the moral depravity of the Establishment, cries out for political action by citizens of all nations. “It’s very clear that when the establishments are failing in the way they clearly are doing now,” Zepp-LaRouche asserted, “it does require that citizens of every state not only become patriots or reinforce their being a patriot, but to also assume the role of being world citizens to ensure that civilization will not crash against the wall, but that we establish a New Paradigm which puts forward an ideal of man as a creative human being, as the creative species. And that the beauty of the human creative mind is what is put up front, and in so doing, create a renaissance causing a dialogue of the best traditions of all civilizations.

    “Therefore, we are now working to put together a big conference on March 2. We want to invite all of you to participate in this, because the idea of an international movement of world citizens to fight for the dignity of man and the beauty of the character of man is what is called for by all of these events.”
    https://www.laroucheorganization.com/in_the_throes_of_a_profound_strategic_change

    #230899
    Michael Reid
    Participant

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