Tech elites are now replacing another class of American workers; instead of offshoring factories, they are onshoring low-wage Indian immigrants. “Tamil power in the White House!” Alok Sama, ex-Softbank president, gushed with ethnic triumphalism when Sriram Krishnan was named AI policy advisor to President Trump. Krishnan is a Silicon…
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California Dreamin’
“Call me crazy, but I think Dem politicians in LA publicly encouraging riots helps explain why they’re also incapable of issuing building permits for the fires months ago.” —Mark Hemingway And pretty soon, expect action in a dozen other states, you can be sure, because just as…
The Riots are a Gift to Trump
What better way to advance the president’s agenda than rioters flying the Mexican flag? Los Angeles continues to witness clashes between Hispanics and law enforcement. Since the weekend, agitators have torched cars, looted, and caused general mayhem in response to ICE arresting illegal alien felons. The rioters…
The Great Unraveling — How America’s Most Powerful Alliance Collapsed in 72 Hours
Trump, Musk, and the $152 billion question: Can populism survive elite defection? The spectacle that unfolded late this week between Donald Trump and Elon Musk represents more than a collision of egos. What we saw emerge from their respective social media platforms on Thursday was a seismic…
The Deep State is Still Sabotaging Presidential Policies
Ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar reminds us of subtle maneuvers by deep state actors to sabotage presidential policies. When a U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union President Dwight Eisenhower had not be informed about its real mission. The CIA claimed that it had been a weather…
The Silence of the Bears
Russia’s leadership is in ‘conclave’ determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges onto civilian trains heading to Moscow; attacking the Kerch Bridge;…
‘The EU is Not Europe!’ – Marine Le Pen Rallies Nationalists
French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen launched a scathing attack on the trajectory of the European Union at the Patriots for Europe rally in France on Monday, declaring, “We don’t want to leave Europe. We want out of this Europe, because it is not Europe.” Addressing a…
Some Reflections on AI
Translated from the Swedish and originally published here. Part 1: Understanding without Using Language Why do we even talk about artificial intelligence? Why do we say algorithms learn? Why do we claim we communicate with computers? What makes these metaphors so compelling that we don’t see them as…
When Will Russia Win the War?
Alexander Dugin declares that only a full societal awakening to the sacred purpose of the war will bring victory, as peace is impossible and the true battle has only just begun. The latest round of negotiations in Istanbul, in my view, was extremely important from a symbolic…
Surveillance Recordings Show OKC Bombing, Accomplices
FBI records, testimony, reveal seized footage. “All they showed us were a series of video still photographs showing the Ryder truck, but no one in or around the vehicle.” “We were never allowed to see the photo evidence from the cameras on the Murrah Building that…