NOTE: THIS IS THE ENGLISH ORIGINAL OF A COLUMN SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED BY LEADING RUSSIAN BUSINESS DAILY VEDOMOSTI:

https://www.vedomosti.ru/opinion/columns/2023/04/10/970144-konets-sveta-dlya-gegemona

THANK MOG…. Thank Mog I am an atheist…  OMM! Oh my Mog!

A few years back, nearly ten years now, I wrote a book about AI — Artificial Intelligence. It was published in a very limited edition. 

Basically I advocated the importance of AI in taming our inherited natural traits of aggressiveness while not falling into the trap of submissiveness. This is (individual) evolution of homo sapiens: we are born in pain and we die.

In between all this, we, individually and socially, try to make sense of what’s what. And most we really need is food. Daily preferably. In order to get this essential ingredient, we kill beasts, we destroy carrots and we fight each other or we look at each other as if we’re aliens…

THE HEADING OF THIS ARTICLE COMES FROM A FAMOUS CONTROVERSIAL NOVEL: SISTER CARRIE (1900) Chapter XLII, BY THEODORE DREISER. This novel WAS POSSIBLY MORE RISQUE THAN THE EUROPEANS AND ENGLISH NOVELS AT THE TIME. IT WAS ABOUT PURSUING THE "AMERICAN DREAM"... WHO KNOWS WHAT THIS ILLUSION IS ON A GREATER PLANE THAN ORDINARY HAPPINESS AND DECENT COMPANIONSHIP?...

Spring (1921)

BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

To what purpose, April, do you return again? 

Beauty is not enough. 

You can no longer quiet me with the redness 

Of little leaves opening stickily. 

I know what I know. 

The sun is hot on my neck as I observe 

The spikes of the crocus. 

The smell of the earth is good. 

It is apparent that there is no death. 

But what does that signify? 

Not only under ground are the brains of men 

Eaten by maggots. 

Armed FBI agents have arrested a 21-year-old military reservist believed to be behind the leaking of classified Pentagon briefings, including on the conflict in Ukraine. The government was assisted in its manhunt by the same media organizations that published the contents of the files.

Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed the arrest of Jack Teixeira on Thursday afternoon, shortly after the FBI announced that its agents had conducted an “authorized law enforcement activity” at his home in North Dighton, Massachusetts. 

Earlier on Thursday, the New York Times (NYT) identified Teixeira as the figure responsible for posting hundreds of classified military documents on a Discord server where the paper said “about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.” 

AS OUR ILLUSTRIOUS AMERICAN "INTELLIGENCE" AGENCIES ARE STILL WORKING HARD TO FIND THE ORIGIN OF COVID (BATS — PANGOLINS — RACCOON DOGS — OR LABS [Ukrainian, Chinese, American?]) THE PANDEMIC WAS A BOON FOR PHARMACEUTICALS WHO MANUFACTURED VACCINES OF VARIOUS EFFICACITY, WITH THE EXPRESS BLESSING OF GOVERNMENTS FOR COMPULSORY VACCINATIONS, WITH NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR SIDE-EFFECS (AND THERE WERE MANY) SINCE PRESIDENT REAGAN ABOLISHED SUCH RESPONSIBILITY.

VACCINE MANDATES BECAME PART OF A TACTIC BY GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE AND SOME STRANGE (MIS?) INFORMATION CAME TO LIGHT IN REGARD TO MANIPULATION OF DATA AND POOR LAB PRACTICES. 

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MEANWHILE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoyTQWJN29w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PamH-yrvtx8

Megyn Kelly joins Freddy Gray to take a look at the wider picture following Donald Trump's arrest. The presidential candidates' ratings have surged in the polls – has this rejuvenated Trump's campaign?

WEIRD..... 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: CLOWN TRUMP VS JOE FORGETFUL?/// AMERICA HAS LOST IT.... RUNNING MATES? TRUMP MAXWELL MIGHT CHOOSE IVANKA — WHILE JOE SENILE COULD CHOOSE HILLARY.... 

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW....

GUS CARTOON ABOVE FROM 2016.... BEFORE THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvz1S31VyI0

Another delay in the delivery of Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles (MRAPs) to Haiti means that Haitian police will have to wait even longer for the vehicles they desperately need to protect their dwindling force from Haiti's ruthless and well-armed gangs.

The manufacturer has confirmed for CBC News that the earliest potential delivery date is May 3 — and that is subject to change.

Journalists and Activists Gather in DC, Call for Assange’s Release on 4-Year Anniversary of Arrest

The event took a bizarre twist when a man with a newly-inked tattoo reading “Free Assange” stripped off his clothes and doused the ground with gasoline in an apparent attempt at self-immolation. Horrified onlookers could be heard screaming before CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou leapt into action and talked the man out of the gruesome stunt.

Footage of the incident shows the man, who was later arrested, screaming, "do you know what he's doing in there?" before a visibly-angry Kiriakou, who was jailed for two and half years for exposing the CIA’s torture program responded: "I do – I went to prison!"

Embracing the empire: What does NATO accession mean for the once famously neutral Finland?

The US-led NATO military bloc has expanded once again, extending its border with Russia by almost 1300km.

This week, Finland officially became the 31st member state of NATO. Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto finalized the process by handing over the accession documentation to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

The move may further aggravate tensions between Russia and the West. Analysts in Moscow argue that Helsinki has undermined its own security in a misguided effort to strengthen it.

当下，作为拜登任内首个访美的外国领导人，日本首相菅义伟正与拜登就同中国战略竞争等众多议题进行对表。与此同时，拜登政府高调派遣前官员访台并于近日反复派遣美军舰闯南海，还不断怂恿欧洲盟友将军事行动移往亚太，不间断地在该地区搞联合军演。种种迹象表明，美方并不愿意看到一个持久稳定的亚太局势，相反，制造或煽动危机使该地区始终处于紧张、危机乃至适度冲突状态，合乎美国推进“印太战略”的需求。

Over the past thirty years, the United States has become a veritable sower of global chaos, and the regions in which it has been involved have not only often found themselves in chaos and crisis, but the great internal divisions of the United States also get worse and are difficult to cure. America's political elite is exceptionally anxious and desperate for a bigger crisis. The United States, which is not a thoughtful country, is currently trying to provoke more serious conflicts or crises in the Asia-Pacific region, by operating at a deeper level a process of external transformation of internal contradictions.

White House officials feigned ignorance over the August 2022 FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in search of classified documents, with President Joe Biden assuring he had “none, zero, not one single bit” of advance notice. Trump has called the raid a coordinated element of a broader “witch hunt” against him by Biden and the Democrats.

The FBI received access to National Archives records related to the Trump classified documents investigation using a “special access request” granted by the White House on behalf of the Department of Justice, lawyers with America First Legal, a Washington-based legal advocacy, have announced.

A leak of apparently classified Pentagon documents concerning US military plans in Ukraine, as well as sensitive information linked to China and the Middle East, has prompted a heated debate about the origins and value of the trove. Who is behind the dump, and is it genuine?

BY EKATERINA BLINOVA

Tis the season of ex-prime ministers. “Julia”, a blistering play climaxing in Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech, has just opened in Sydney. There was the Keating show at the National Press Club in Canberra, more King Lear than Placido Domingo. Kevin Rudd is striding the international boards again in Washington, this time as Australia’s US ambassador.