End Of The American Dream

A lot of the experts didn’t think that this would happen.  Once the pandemic subsided, global supply chains were supposed to return to normal.  But now “hundreds of drugs” are in short supply in the United States, and even CNN is admitting that we are in the midst of “the worst food crisis in modern history”.  As I did research for this article, I was stunned by what I discovered.  Things are worse than I realized.  I knew that a lot of drugs were in short supply, but it turns out that there have been shortages of many of our most basic antibiotics since last October, and now Pfizer is telling us that several types of penicillin will completely run out later this year… (Read More...)

It has often been said that “as California goes, so goes the nation”.  If that is actually true, we are all in very big trouble.  Once upon a time, California was a spectacularly beautiful state with a booming economy.  In fact, decades ago I very seriously considered moving there.  But now “the California dream” has become “the California nightmare”, and there is no turning back.  The state is relentlessly plagued by crime, homelessness, drugs and other extremely severe social problems.  In recent years, the number of people moving out of the state has greatly exceeded the number of people moving into the state, and many of those that are leaving are relocating to red states such as Florida… (Read More...)

Chinese President Xi Jinping has made reunification with Taiwan one of his most important foreign policy goals.  If he was actually able to pull it off, he would be a national hero in China.  But there is a huge problem standing in his way.  The moment that China invades Taiwan, a war with the United States will begin.  Xi Jinping understands this very well, and so if an invasion of Taiwan is going to happen it must take place at a moment that is favorable to the Chinese.  Many would argue that we will be in such a window of opportunity for about the next year and a half.  Right now, the U.S. and other western nations are pouring vast amounts of military resources into the conflict in Ukraine.  As a result, they are ill-prepared to militarily confront a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.  In addition, Xi Jinping knows that Joe Biden would not use nuclear weapons if the Chinese move against Taiwan.  It would be a conventional war, and such a scenario would greatly favor China.  But if the Chinese wait until after the next presidential election in the United States, Donald Trump or another Republican could be in the White House, and the risk of sparking a nuclear conflict would go up substantially. (Read More...)

Will millions of people soon be looking to artificial intelligence for spiritual guidance?  Such a notion may sound crazy to you, but we should not underestimate how rapidly AI is changing our world.  Earlier today, my wife showed me some of the things that ChatGPT is capable of doing.  In just a matter of moments, it can produce extremely sophisticated answers to very complex questions.  Honestly, I was extremely impressed.  Other AI programs are capable of producing very realistic photos, artwork and videos.  Of course what we are seeing right now is just the beginning.  AI technology is advancing at an exponential rate, and given enough time it would be millions of times more powerful than it is right now. (Read More...)

Should we just go ahead and give free needles and free crack pipes to everyone in America?  After all, if New York City and Los Angeles plan to solve their raging drug problems by handing out free drug paraphernalia to addicts, perhaps we can solve our nationwide drug crisis the same way.  Let’s make the entire country one big “harm reduction zone” and then everything will return to normal, right?  Unfortunately, that is not the way that the real world works.  If you give addicts what they need, they will thank you.  And then they will go ahead and do drugs right in front of you. (Read More...)

Highly advanced aircraft of unknown origin have been flying around in our skies for a long time, and now a whistleblower has come forward with claims that the U.S. government has actually been able to retrieve “intact and partially intact vehicles”.  If what is he is alleging turns out to be accurate, it has the potential to change everything.  But this whistleblower is also warning that there has been a concerted effort by elements inside the intelligence community to keep this information away from Congress and away from the U.S. population as a whole.  They don’t want us to know the truth, and that should greatly alarm all of us. (Read More...)

Given enough time, artificial intelligence would completely dominate our society.  AI technology has been growing at an exponential rate, and it can already perform thousands of tasks better than humans can.  Eventually, there would be very few jobs that AI could not do more efficiently than we can.  Just look at all the things that ChatGPT can do right now.  There is no way that we can compete with that.  As AI technology continues to become even more sophisticated, millions upon millions of jobs will be lost, and that will create a giant underclass of people that are simply not needed by society. (Read More...)

If farmers and ranchers don’t produce enough food, we don’t eat.  So we should always be very thankful for our hard working farmers and ranchers.  Unfortunately, farms and ranches all over the United States have been hit by a string of disasters in recent months, and as a result food production has taken a turn for the worse.  So does that mean that we should expect that there will soon be shortages of certain items?  Unfortunately, it appears that is likely to be the case.  For example, it is being reported that approximately 90 percent of Georgia’s peach crop for this year has been destroyed… (Read More...)