Monthly Archives: July 2018

“Ominous but unverified intelligence reports cite Chinese and Russian progress in hypersonic weapons – missiles that launch toward space and then turn to race toward their targets at five times the speed of sound, allegedly rendering any form of defense … Continue reading →

Take a lesson from the ants and bees if you want to know where technocracy leads. The concept of technocracy was explored in the previous blog entry. The technocrats intersect with the Deep State. Opposed to the unelected mandarins of … Continue reading →

“America is in a funk,” wrote Thomas Hine in 2008. Writing in USA Today, Hine was nostalgic for the 1970s, when the “technocratic, corporate liberal consensus” “had run aground.” [1] In 2010, then-President Barack Obama “said people are feeling a … Continue reading →

Russia Today reports that Ecuador is ready to hand over the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the UK in “coming weeks or even days.” [1] This opens up a whole can of worms. Assange has been for years like the … Continue reading →

Sufficient to this day is the evil thereof. That sentence had been running through my mind lately. Where had I heard it before? I did a search on it, and found out it comes from Matthew 6: 34. So that … Continue reading →

U.S. President sits down for talk with Russian President. Newsfakers go crazy. That is the boiled-down headline for July 17, 2018. At the Helsinki summit President Donald Trump “questioned claims by US intelligence agencies that the Russian government ‘meddled’ in … Continue reading →

The see-saw goes up (Trump imposes tariffs); the see-saw goes down (Clinton pushes “free trade”). But the Tariff See-Saw has been going on longer than this. (Background: The Tariff See-Saw, Ersjdamoo’s Blog, July 15, 2018.) Previous to 1839 the “Free … Continue reading →

Results are piling up several months into the Trump administration’s aggressive rollout of tariffs on imported products, reports NPR. “And not all of them are negative.” [1] In the 1990s, the Clinton administration was proclaiming the glories of free trade … Continue reading →

The release of an indictment against a dozen Russians, alleged officers in the GRU, came as US President Donald Trump was meeting with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle. [1] It was the New Moon at Windsor Castle, foreseen in the … Continue reading →

It is the calm before the storm today, 7/11, one day before the New Moon of July 12th, which arrives at 2:48 UTC (9:48 pm central time). Going by UTC time the New Moon arrives July 13th (Friday the 13th), … Continue reading →