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#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#georgewashington #foundingfathers #usa #revolution #Government #GovernmentFailure #Republicans #Duopoly #Plutocracy

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 22 “The Big Stick and the Square Deal” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/2…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #government #oligarchy #plutocracy #power #tyranny #wealth

#democrats #republicans #duopoly #plutocracy #corporations

USA Artificial Intelligence Energy Spending Compared To European Renewable Energy Wasting

AI Energy Spending And Renewable Energy Wasting 

To a friend: Glad, and unsurprised, that the AI potentially saved your life. Although I have long been aware of Deep Vein Thrombosis, DVT, I could imagine having symptoms without recognizing them and being called promptly to order by an AI. AI diagnosis is the future, now. Everybody ought to have a personal health AI Agent.

Actually my beloved dog has been gravely sick in his eyes for several months, one of which was coming out of his head initially. We went to see top specialists, spending much time and money. Part of the treatment worked, but also damaged his eyes (in a rare complication also occurring in humans for whom the same drug is prescribed in the same condition). His symptoms changed and  we were prescribed other drugs. Seeing further, but different, deterioration, even after the last expensive specialist visit, we are using AI in depth, and got interesting suggestions we immediately implemented.

I am extremely aware of DVT, and always take aspirin at significant doses before, during and after (intercontinental) flights. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that flying causes DVT (hey, I should ask Chat AI about the latest on DVT and flying; didn’t Jane Goodall die of it?). Although aware of DVT, having symptoms of it may well escape my attention, and an AI would help refocus me in a timely manner..

After reading several virulent anti-AI essays and comments, I did a bit more of the thinking which has been trotting in my head on that subject. My first reaction to acerbic critiques of AI is generally that they sound similar to the critiques directed at printing when it first appeared. Within a century, in a country as powerful and enlightened as France, thanks to the tyrant Francois Premier (et dernier!)printers were actually burned alive until reduced to a crisp. Consider the case of Etienne Dolet (although he was a friend of the influential doctor, philosopher and writer Rabelais). Some countries (like the Ottoman empire) outlawed printing for centuries (the result that Arabic and Persian fables such as the thousand and one nights were published in France first… So the “Orient” became literate in Occident…)

You see I am writing from Europe, and more exactly France, where the local oligarchic imbeciles known as legislators, professional wheeler-dealers who should not exist, are actually thinking of writing some anti-AI legislation. Next week. 

Already AI in Europe means slavery to US Artificial Intelligence. This is not happening because European researchers are less intelligent. Far from it, many have contributed in a major way to the development of AI, and have become legendary.

Here are the three founding fathers of AI: one from London, two from Paris:. One was born in London, and got the Nobel Prize for his foundational work on AI (AI uses extremely high dimensional multivariable calculus… So the mathematicians having developed this over centuries ought to be retrospectively thanked…). The other two were born in Paris, France.

Geoffrey Hinton: Born in London, UK, in 1947, Hinton is British-Canadian. He maintains strong ties to both countries through his education (Cambridge and Edinburgh) and long career at the University of Toronto.

Yann LeCun: Born in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, greater Paris, France, in 1960, LeCun is  now Franco-American. His early education was in Paris, and he later naturalized in the US while working at NYU and Meta.

Yoshua Bengio: Born in Paris, France, in 1964, Bengio is also Canadian. He moved to Canada and studied at McGill University in Montreal, He built his career there as a professor. One more exiled French.

Now, of course, if one is French and a genius, one will move away precipitously from the Woke Capital (Paris), where the only legal foreigners are illegals (getting free everything), or celebrities and plutocrats make luxury goods for snobbish Chinese (that will work until the Chinese start to despise the Europeans!)

*** . 

Why is AI developing mostly in the USA?

It’s happening because the US GDP dwarfs that, of, say, France. By a factor of eight or something like that. But not just that. The USA priorities are more oriented towards technological-economical performance, while France, and most of Europe, following, has focused on the woke-social-conservative-environmental development. France has done this in ALL domains in recent years, except for military technology, where France builds systems which are often world’s best, but in ridiculously small quantities.

This development of underdevelopment is EXTREMELY ANTI-FRENCH, when looked at on the scale of the last 25 centuries. Way back, Rome was getting weapons and armor from the Celts, and Gaul developed MECHANICAL HARVESTERS to the point that small Gallic farmers used the mechanical harvesters rather than slaves, and the Gallic economy resisted the establishment of slave driven giant agrobusinesses… After Gaul came under Franco-Roman management, Queen Bathilde promptly outlawed slavery (657 CE) and the Imperium Francorum-“Renovated Roman Empire” developed massive husbandry, systematic automation and mechanical leverage, to replace slavery… However France started to change attitude in the Sixteenth Century, when she refused to colonize North America, and, instead, traded with the Natives while teaching them civilization (so that the newly civilized “Indians” could be genocidized by the savage Iroquois…) The French development of this woke attitude culminated with the ejection of France from North America 250 years later… And various subsequent military defeats, including versus the Nazis (when it turned out that France’s own creation, the USA would not help in a timely manner…).

The result of the European policies has been an ever increasing dependency upon the USA and China, in ever more crucial domains. Part of this dependency is simply the mechanical effect that the USA and China make up 50% of the world’s GDP (and are economically entangled).

If one is European and really excellent in tech or science, the probability is high, should one be ambitious, to end up in the USA, with immensely larger budgets, salaries and opportunities. Meanwhile the French Federal Budget to “associations” exceeds high education AND research… Combined. “Associations” are just a woke trick for the Socialists in power (de facto) for 46 years to keep getting votes while, and in spite of the fact that, they ruin the country. (Anti-democratic) Associations get about $50 billion per year, nearly as much as defense.

***

All of Europe has been doing “renewable” energy, and it’s partly a scam:

How does one “renew” in a typical foggy European winter night with extreme cold and no wind? Well, one does not. In parts of Europe, electricity prices have peaked ten times above the average of just a few years ago. In particular, Europe does not have enough energy for AI (except for places with lots of hydro power, and small populations, like Norway).

Carbon-free energy could have been developed, but the development and even maintenance of nuclear energy was discontinued in the 1990s… So now the US and China can use old European nuclear research and forge ahead.

***

AI provides humanity with AGENCY. Just like printing or bronze metallurgy. AGENCY is more important than even Liberty. No agency, no liberty. Reciprocally, liberty does not necessarily provide agency: prehistoric people were free, but couldn’t do much, because they had little agency.

The environmental problems caused by AI are real, but they call to develop more carbon free energy. Some have suggested putting AI in space, where solar energy is abundant.

***

Renewable Waste:

Speaking of renewables, studies related by the BBC in April 2026 show that, to make 45 GW of renewable electricity in Great Britain (the present electric power necessary to satisfy peak electric consumption of the UK), one needs to install 135 GW of mostly conventional (that is, carbon) energy. This ridiculous ratio, 135 to 45, shows that, instead of worrying about AI which they can’t power up, Europeans should rather worry about the renewable folly they engaged in without thinking it through. 

One of the causes for the ridiculous ratio is the necessity to build millions of kilometers of extremely high tension wires all over Europe, criss crossing… which is NOT feasible, so it’s not done, and local conventional backups are needed, all over…China had no problems installing such lines (those who too deeply disagree get shot), and, moreover, China has a simpler geography (hydro, wind and solar to the west, cities to the east). So China installed 250 GW of solar… And is not finished: the Hormuz blockade has blocked 30% of Chinese fuel imports… So China needs to develop more renewable energy…

***

When I confronted Chat GPT with my sophisticated Tired Light hypothesis based on SQPR, it violently disagreed, calling me incompetent, obsolete, uneducated and from another age (to put it in only a few words)… Until the AI realized it had misunderstood, and started to run codes to check if my alternative to QFT actually predicted the correct Tired Light phenomenon. It did. That, no doubt, used electricity (the argument ran over weeks).   

However, most answers will require in the future less and less genuine research. Google just announced it found a way to make AI six times more efficient. In general, all AI are going to develop standard answers to FAQs…

***

Humanity’s progress toward our quasi-divine present status, has been measured in spending ever more ABSOLUTE WORTH ENERGY. Basically doing ever more amazing things by manipulating energy. The Maltusian energy policy tried in Europe has thoroughly failed. It only achieved a relative collapse of the per capita GDP of Europe relative to peers, and new peers who are increasingly superior, such as China. A large body of evidence points to deliberate malfeasance, as Europe became mostly dependent upon plutocratic tyrannies for its energy procurement.  The same corrupt and extractive regimes then invested in Europe at premium prices, making European plutocrats wealther than ever. Please explain to me why Merkel closing German nuclear energy, which never had an accident, to build another twenty-four (24) coal plants, can make sense… Besides the obvious explanation that, just as she started her career in the service of a dictatorship monitored by Putin, she kept on going just the same, but more discreetly… In plain sight.

The error of European ways (except for the ever wealtheir European plutocrats) is so deep that France, which used to be the wealthiest significant European country per capita, has fallen below the EU average. Woke is dope. Putin knows all this, and that’s why he attacked. He just did not anticipate that Ukrainians believed in agency and progress, nor that the USA (Trump first, then Biden) would send them so many weapons to give Ukrainian agency a chance… . 

To be against AI is as intelligent as to be against health care (AI will dominate health care very soon). Anyway, what to expect from people who are against intelligence?

Patrice Ayme . 

USA Artificial Intelligence Energy Spending Compared To European Renewable Energy Wasting

AI Energy Spending And Renewable Energy Wasting 

To a friend: Glad, and unsurprised, that the AI potentially saved your life. Although I have long been aware of Deep Vein Thrombosis, DVT, I could imagine having symptoms without recognizing them and being called promptly to order by an AI. AI diagnosis is the future, now. Everybody ought to have a personal health AI Agent.

Actually my beloved dog has been gravely sick in his eyes for several months, one of which was coming out of his head initially. We went to see top specialists, spending much time and money. Part of the treatment worked, but also damaged his eyes (in a rare complication also occurring in humans for whom the same drug is prescribed in the same condition). His symptoms changed and  we were prescribed other drugs. Seeing further, but different, deterioration, even after the last expensive specialist visit, we are using AI in depth, and got interesting suggestions we immediately implemented.

I am extremely aware of DVT, and always take aspirin at significant doses before, during and after (intercontinental) flights. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that flying causes DVT (hey, I should ask Chat AI about the latest on DVT and flying; didn’t Jane Goodall die of it?). Although aware of DVT, having symptoms of it may well escape my attention, and an AI would help refocus me in a timely manner..

After reading several virulent anti-AI essays and comments, I did a bit more of the thinking which has been trotting in my head on that subject. My first reaction to acerbic critiques of AI is generally that they sound similar to the critiques directed at printing when it first appeared. Within a century, in a country as powerful and enlightened as France, thanks to the tyrant Francois Premier (et dernier!)printers were actually burned alive until reduced to a crisp. Consider the case of Etienne Dolet (although he was a friend of the influential doctor, philosopher and writer Rabelais). Some countries (like the Ottoman empire) outlawed printing for centuries (the result that Arabic and Persian fables such as the thousand and one nights were published in France first… So the “Orient” became literate in Occident…)

You see I am writing from Europe, and more exactly France, where the local oligarchic imbeciles known as legislators, professional wheeler-dealers who should not exist, are actually thinking of writing some anti-AI legislation. Next week. 

Already AI in Europe means slavery to US Artificial Intelligence. This is not happening because European researchers are less intelligent. Far from it, many have contributed in a major way to the development of AI, and have become legendary.

Here are the three founding fathers of AI: one from London, two from Paris:. One was born in London, and got the Nobel Prize for his foundational work on AI (AI uses extremely high dimensional multivariable calculus… So the mathematicians having developed this over centuries ought to be retrospectively thanked…). The other two were born in Paris, France.

Geoffrey Hinton: Born in London, UK, in 1947, Hinton is British-Canadian. He maintains strong ties to both countries through his education (Cambridge and Edinburgh) and long career at the University of Toronto.

Yann LeCun: Born in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, greater Paris, France, in 1960, LeCun is  now Franco-American. His early education was in Paris, and he later naturalized in the US while working at NYU and Meta.

Yoshua Bengio: Born in Paris, France, in 1964, Bengio is also Canadian. He moved to Canada and studied at McGill University in Montreal, He built his career there as a professor. One more exiled French.

Now, of course, if one is French and a genius, one will move away precipitously from the Woke Capital (Paris), where the only legal foreigners are illegals (getting free everything), or celebrities and plutocrats make luxury goods for snobbish Chinese (that will work until the Chinese start to despise the Europeans!)

*** . 

Why is AI developing mostly in the USA?

It’s happening because the US GDP dwarfs that, of, say, France. By a factor of eight or something like that. But not just that. The USA priorities are more oriented towards technological-economical performance, while France, and most of Europe, following, has focused on the woke-social-conservative-environmental development. France has done this in ALL domains in recent years, except for military technology, where France builds systems which are often world’s best, but in ridiculously small quantities.

This development of underdevelopment is EXTREMELY ANTI-FRENCH, when looked at on the scale of the last 25 centuries. Way back, Rome was getting weapons and armor from the Celts, and Gaul developed MECHANICAL HARVESTERS to the point that small Gallic farmers used the mechanical harvesters rather than slaves, and the Gallic economy resisted the establishment of slave driven giant agrobusinesses… After Gaul came under Franco-Roman management, Queen Bathilde promptly outlawed slavery (657 CE) and the Imperium Francorum-“Renovated Roman Empire” developed massive husbandry, systematic automation and mechanical leverage, to replace slavery… However France started to change attitude in the Sixteenth Century, when she refused to colonize North America, and, instead, traded with the Natives while teaching them civilization (so that the newly civilized “Indians” could be genocidized by the savage Iroquois…) The French development of this woke attitude culminated with the ejection of France from North America 250 years later… And various subsequent military defeats, including versus the Nazis (when it turned out that France’s own creation, the USA would not help in a timely manner…).

The result of the European policies has been an ever increasing dependency upon the USA and China, in ever more crucial domains. Part of this dependency is simply the mechanical effect that the USA and China make up 50% of the world’s GDP (and are economically entangled).

If one is European and really excellent in tech or science, the probability is high, should one be ambitious, to end up in the USA, with immensely larger budgets, salaries and opportunities. Meanwhile the French Federal Budget to “associations” exceeds high education AND research… Combined. “Associations” are just a woke trick for the Socialists in power (de facto) for 46 years to keep getting votes while, and in spite of the fact that, they ruin the country. (Anti-democratic) Associations get about $50 billion per year, nearly as much as defense.

***

All of Europe has been doing “renewable” energy, and it’s partly a scam:

How does one “renew” in a typical foggy European winter night with extreme cold and no wind? Well, one does not. In parts of Europe, electricity prices have peaked ten times above the average of just a few years ago. In particular, Europe does not have enough energy for AI (except for places with lots of hydro power, and small populations, like Norway).

Carbon-free energy could have been developed, but the development and even maintenance of nuclear energy was discontinued in the 1990s… So now the US and China can use old European nuclear research and forge ahead.

***

AI provides humanity with AGENCY. Just like printing or bronze metallurgy. AGENCY is more important than even Liberty. No agency, no liberty. Reciprocally, liberty does not necessarily provide agency: prehistoric people were free, but couldn’t do much, because they had little agency.

The environmental problems caused by AI are real, but they call to develop more carbon free energy. Some have suggested putting AI in space, where solar energy is abundant.

***

Renewable Waste:

Speaking of renewables, studies related by the BBC in April 2026 show that, to make 45 GW of renewable electricity in Great Britain (the present electric power necessary to satisfy peak electric consumption of the UK), one needs to install 135 GW of mostly conventional (that is, carbon) energy. This ridiculous ratio, 135 to 45, shows that, instead of worrying about AI which they can’t power up, Europeans should rather worry about the renewable folly they engaged in without thinking it through. 

One of the causes for the ridiculous ratio is the necessity to build millions of kilometers of extremely high tension wires all over Europe, criss crossing… which is NOT feasible, so it’s not done, and local conventional backups are needed, all over…China had no problems installing such lines (those who too deeply disagree get shot), and, moreover, China has a simpler geography (hydro, wind and solar to the west, cities to the east). So China installed 250 GW of solar… And is not finished: the Hormuz blockade has blocked 30% of Chinese fuel imports… So China needs to develop more renewable energy…

***

When I confronted Chat GPT with my sophisticated Tired Light hypothesis based on SQPR, it violently disagreed, calling me incompetent, obsolete, uneducated and from another age (to put it in only a few words)… Until the AI realized it had misunderstood, and started to run codes to check if my alternative to QFT actually predicted the correct Tired Light phenomenon. It did. That, no doubt, used electricity (the argument ran over weeks).   

However, most answers will require in the future less and less genuine research. Google just announced it found a way to make AI six times more efficient. In general, all AI are going to develop standard answers to FAQs…

***

Humanity’s progress toward our quasi-divine present status, has been measured in spending ever more ABSOLUTE WORTH ENERGY. Basically doing ever more amazing things by manipulating energy. The Maltusian energy policy tried in Europe has thoroughly failed. It only achieved a relative collapse of the per capita GDP of Europe relative to peers, and new peers who are increasingly superior, such as China. A large body of evidence points to deliberate malfeasance, as Europe became mostly dependent upon plutocratic tyrannies for its energy procurement.  The same corrupt and extractive regimes then invested in Europe at premium prices, making European plutocrats wealther than ever. Please explain to me why Merkel closing German nuclear energy, which never had an accident, to build another twenty-four (24) coal plants, can make sense… Besides the obvious explanation that, just as she started her career in the service of a dictatorship monitored by Putin, she kept on going just the same, but more discreetly… In plain sight.

The error of European ways (except for the ever wealtheir European plutocrats) is so deep that France, which used to be the wealthiest significant European country per capita, has fallen below the EU average. Woke is dope. Putin knows all this, and that’s why he attacked. He just did not anticipate that Ukrainians believed in agency and progress, nor that the USA (Trump first, then Biden) would send them so many weapons to give Ukrainian agency a chance… . 

To be against AI is as intelligent as to be against health care (AI will dominate health care very soon). Anyway, what to expect from people who are against intelligence?

Patrice Ayme . 

USA Artificial Intelligence Energy Spending Compared To European Renewable Energy Wasting

AI Energy Spending And Renewable Energy Wasting 

To a friend: Glad, and unsurprised, that the AI potentially saved your life. Although I have long been aware of Deep Vein Thrombosis, DVT, I could imagine having symptoms without recognizing them and being called promptly to order by an AI. AI diagnosis is the future, now. Everybody ought to have a personal health AI Agent.

Actually my beloved dog has been gravely sick in his eyes for several months, one of which was coming out of his head initially. We went to see top specialists, spending much time and money. Part of the treatment worked, but also damaged his eyes (in a rare complication also occurring in humans for whom the same drug is prescribed in the same condition). His symptoms changed and  we were prescribed other drugs. Seeing further, but different, deterioration, even after the last expensive specialist visit, we are using AI in depth, and got interesting suggestions we immediately implemented.

I am extremely aware of DVT, and always take aspirin at significant doses before, during and after (intercontinental) flights. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that flying causes DVT (hey, I should ask Chat AI about the latest on DVT and flying; didn’t Jane Goodall die of it?). Although aware of DVT, having symptoms of it may well escape my attention, and an AI would help refocus me in a timely manner..

After reading several virulent anti-AI essays and comments, I did a bit more of the thinking which has been trotting in my head on that subject. My first reaction to acerbic critiques of AI is generally that they sound similar to the critiques directed at printing when it first appeared. Within a century, in a country as powerful and enlightened as France, thanks to the tyrant Francois Premier (et dernier!)printers were actually burned alive until reduced to a crisp. Consider the case of Etienne Dolet (although he was a friend of the influential doctor, philosopher and writer Rabelais). Some countries (like the Ottoman empire) outlawed printing for centuries (the result that Arabic and Persian fables such as the thousand and one nights were published in France first… So the “Orient” became literate in Occident…)

You see I am writing from Europe, and more exactly France, where the local oligarchic imbeciles known as legislators, professional wheeler-dealers who should not exist, are actually thinking of writing some anti-AI legislation. Next week. 

Already AI in Europe means slavery to US Artificial Intelligence. This is not happening because European researchers are less intelligent. Far from it, many have contributed in a major way to the development of AI, and have become legendary.

Here are the three founding fathers of AI: one from London, two from Paris:. One was born in London, and got the Nobel Prize for his foundational work on AI (AI uses extremely high dimensional multivariable calculus… So the mathematicians having developed this over centuries ought to be retrospectively thanked…). The other two were born in Paris, France.

Geoffrey Hinton: Born in London, UK, in 1947, Hinton is British-Canadian. He maintains strong ties to both countries through his education (Cambridge and Edinburgh) and long career at the University of Toronto.

Yann LeCun: Born in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, greater Paris, France, in 1960, LeCun is  now Franco-American. His early education was in Paris, and he later naturalized in the US while working at NYU and Meta.

Yoshua Bengio: Born in Paris, France, in 1964, Bengio is also Canadian. He moved to Canada and studied at McGill University in Montreal, He built his career there as a professor. One more exiled French.

Now, of course, if one is French and a genius, one will move away precipitously from the Woke Capital (Paris), where the only legal foreigners are illegals (getting free everything), or celebrities and plutocrats make luxury goods for snobbish Chinese (that will work until the Chinese start to despise the Europeans!)

*** . 

Why is AI developing mostly in the USA?

It’s happening because the US GDP dwarfs that, of, say, France. By a factor of eight or something like that. But not just that. The USA priorities are more oriented towards technological-economical performance, while France, and most of Europe, following, has focused on the woke-social-conservative-environmental development. France has done this in ALL domains in recent years, except for military technology, where France builds systems which are often world’s best, but in ridiculously small quantities.

This development of underdevelopment is EXTREMELY ANTI-FRENCH, when looked at on the scale of the last 25 centuries. Way back, Rome was getting weapons and armor from the Celts, and Gaul developed MECHANICAL HARVESTERS to the point that small Gallic farmers used the mechanical harvesters rather than slaves, and the Gallic economy resisted the establishment of slave driven giant agrobusinesses… After Gaul came under Franco-Roman management, Queen Bathilde promptly outlawed slavery (657 CE) and the Imperium Francorum-“Renovated Roman Empire” developed massive husbandry, systematic automation and mechanical leverage, to replace slavery… However France started to change attitude in the Sixteenth Century, when she refused to colonize North America, and, instead, traded with the Natives while teaching them civilization (so that the newly civilized “Indians” could be genocidized by the savage Iroquois…) The French development of this woke attitude culminated with the ejection of France from North America 250 years later… And various subsequent military defeats, including versus the Nazis (when it turned out that France’s own creation, the USA would not help in a timely manner…).

The result of the European policies has been an ever increasing dependency upon the USA and China, in ever more crucial domains. Part of this dependency is simply the mechanical effect that the USA and China make up 50% of the world’s GDP (and are economically entangled).

If one is European and really excellent in tech or science, the probability is high, should one be ambitious, to end up in the USA, with immensely larger budgets, salaries and opportunities. Meanwhile the French Federal Budget to “associations” exceeds high education AND research… Combined. “Associations” are just a woke trick for the Socialists in power (de facto) for 46 years to keep getting votes while, and in spite of the fact that, they ruin the country. (Anti-democratic) Associations get about $50 billion per year, nearly as much as defense.

***

All of Europe has been doing “renewable” energy, and it’s partly a scam:

How does one “renew” in a typical foggy European winter night with extreme cold and no wind? Well, one does not. In parts of Europe, electricity prices have peaked ten times above the average of just a few years ago. In particular, Europe does not have enough energy for AI (except for places with lots of hydro power, and small populations, like Norway).

Carbon-free energy could have been developed, but the development and even maintenance of nuclear energy was discontinued in the 1990s… So now the US and China can use old European nuclear research and forge ahead.

***

AI provides humanity with AGENCY. Just like printing or bronze metallurgy. AGENCY is more important than even Liberty. No agency, no liberty. Reciprocally, liberty does not necessarily provide agency: prehistoric people were free, but couldn’t do much, because they had little agency.

The environmental problems caused by AI are real, but they call to develop more carbon free energy. Some have suggested putting AI in space, where solar energy is abundant.

***

Renewable Waste:

Speaking of renewables, studies related by the BBC in April 2026 show that, to make 45 GW of renewable electricity in Great Britain (the present electric power necessary to satisfy peak electric consumption of the UK), one needs to install 135 GW of mostly conventional (that is, carbon) energy. This ridiculous ratio, 135 to 45, shows that, instead of worrying about AI which they can’t power up, Europeans should rather worry about the renewable folly they engaged in without thinking it through. 

One of the causes for the ridiculous ratio is the necessity to build millions of kilometers of extremely high tension wires all over Europe, criss crossing… which is NOT feasible, so it’s not done, and local conventional backups are needed, all over…China had no problems installing such lines (those who too deeply disagree get shot), and, moreover, China has a simpler geography (hydro, wind and solar to the west, cities to the east). So China installed 250 GW of solar… And is not finished: the Hormuz blockade has blocked 30% of Chinese fuel imports… So China needs to develop more renewable energy…

***

When I confronted Chat GPT with my sophisticated Tired Light hypothesis based on SQPR, it violently disagreed, calling me incompetent, obsolete, uneducated and from another age (to put it in only a few words)… Until the AI realized it had misunderstood, and started to run codes to check if my alternative to QFT actually predicted the correct Tired Light phenomenon. It did. That, no doubt, used electricity (the argument ran over weeks).   

However, most answers will require in the future less and less genuine research. Google just announced it found a way to make AI six times more efficient. In general, all AI are going to develop standard answers to FAQs…

***

Humanity’s progress toward our quasi-divine present status, has been measured in spending ever more ABSOLUTE WORTH ENERGY. Basically doing ever more amazing things by manipulating energy. The Maltusian energy policy tried in Europe has thoroughly failed. It only achieved a relative collapse of the per capita GDP of Europe relative to peers, and new peers who are increasingly superior, such as China. A large body of evidence points to deliberate malfeasance, as Europe became mostly dependent upon plutocratic tyrannies for its energy procurement.  The same corrupt and extractive regimes then invested in Europe at premium prices, making European plutocrats wealther than ever. Please explain to me why Merkel closing German nuclear energy, which never had an accident, to build another twenty-four (24) coal plants, can make sense… Besides the obvious explanation that, just as she started her career in the service of a dictatorship monitored by Putin, she kept on going just the same, but more discreetly… In plain sight.

The error of European ways (except for the ever wealtheir European plutocrats) is so deep that France, which used to be the wealthiest significant European country per capita, has fallen below the EU average. Woke is dope. Putin knows all this, and that’s why he attacked. He just did not anticipate that Ukrainians believed in agency and progress, nor that the USA (Trump first, then Biden) would send them so many weapons to give Ukrainian agency a chance… . 

To be against AI is as intelligent as to be against health care (AI will dominate health care very soon). Anyway, what to expect from people who are against intelligence?

Patrice Ayme . 

USA Artificial Intelligence Energy Spending Compared To European Renewable Energy Wasting

AI Energy Spending And Renewable Energy Wasting 

To a friend: Glad, and unsurprised, that the AI potentially saved your life. Although I have long been aware of Deep Vein Thrombosis, DVT, I could imagine having symptoms without recognizing them and being called promptly to order by an AI. AI diagnosis is the future, now. Everybody ought to have a personal health AI Agent.

Actually my beloved dog has been gravely sick in his eyes for several months, one of which was coming out of his head initially. We went to see top specialists, spending much time and money. Part of the treatment worked, but also damaged his eyes (in a rare complication also occurring in humans for whom the same drug is prescribed in the same condition). His symptoms changed and  we were prescribed other drugs. Seeing further, but different, deterioration, even after the last expensive specialist visit, we are using AI in depth, and got interesting suggestions we immediately implemented.

I am extremely aware of DVT, and always take aspirin at significant doses before, during and after (intercontinental) flights. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that flying causes DVT (hey, I should ask Chat AI about the latest on DVT and flying; didn’t Jane Goodall die of it?). Although aware of DVT, having symptoms of it may well escape my attention, and an AI would help refocus me in a timely manner..

After reading several virulent anti-AI essays and comments, I did a bit more of the thinking which has been trotting in my head on that subject. My first reaction to acerbic critiques of AI is generally that they sound similar to the critiques directed at printing when it first appeared. Within a century, in a country as powerful and enlightened as France, thanks to the tyrant Francois Premier (et dernier!)printers were actually burned alive until reduced to a crisp. Consider the case of Etienne Dolet (although he was a friend of the influential doctor, philosopher and writer Rabelais). Some countries (like the Ottoman empire) outlawed printing for centuries (the result that Arabic and Persian fables such as the thousand and one nights were published in France first… So the “Orient” became literate in Occident…)

You see I am writing from Europe, and more exactly France, where the local oligarchic imbeciles known as legislators, professional wheeler-dealers who should not exist, are actually thinking of writing some anti-AI legislation. Next week. 

Already AI in Europe means slavery to US Artificial Intelligence. This is not happening because European researchers are less intelligent. Far from it, many have contributed in a major way to the development of AI, and have become legendary.

Here are the three founding fathers of AI: one from London, two from Paris:. One was born in London, and got the Nobel Prize for his foundational work on AI (AI uses extremely high dimensional multivariable calculus… So the mathematicians having developed this over centuries ought to be retrospectively thanked…). The other two were born in Paris, France.

Geoffrey Hinton: Born in London, UK, in 1947, Hinton is British-Canadian. He maintains strong ties to both countries through his education (Cambridge and Edinburgh) and long career at the University of Toronto.

Yann LeCun: Born in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, greater Paris, France, in 1960, LeCun is  now Franco-American. His early education was in Paris, and he later naturalized in the US while working at NYU and Meta.

Yoshua Bengio: Born in Paris, France, in 1964, Bengio is also Canadian. He moved to Canada and studied at McGill University in Montreal, He built his career there as a professor. One more exiled French.

Now, of course, if one is French and a genius, one will move away precipitously from the Woke Capital (Paris), where the only legal foreigners are illegals (getting free everything), or celebrities and plutocrats make luxury goods for snobbish Chinese (that will work until the Chinese start to despise the Europeans!)

*** . 

Why is AI developing mostly in the USA?

It’s happening because the US GDP dwarfs that, of, say, France. By a factor of eight or something like that. But not just that. The USA priorities are more oriented towards technological-economical performance, while France, and most of Europe, following, has focused on the woke-social-conservative-environmental development. France has done this in ALL domains in recent years, except for military technology, where France builds systems which are often world’s best, but in ridiculously small quantities.

This development of underdevelopment is EXTREMELY ANTI-FRENCH, when looked at on the scale of the last 25 centuries. Way back, Rome was getting weapons and armor from the Celts, and Gaul developed MECHANICAL HARVESTERS to the point that small Gallic farmers used the mechanical harvesters rather than slaves, and the Gallic economy resisted the establishment of slave driven giant agrobusinesses… After Gaul came under Franco-Roman management, Queen Bathilde promptly outlawed slavery (657 CE) and the Imperium Francorum-“Renovated Roman Empire” developed massive husbandry, systematic automation and mechanical leverage, to replace slavery… However France started to change attitude in the Sixteenth Century, when she refused to colonize North America, and, instead, traded with the Natives while teaching them civilization (so that the newly civilized “Indians” could be genocidized by the savage Iroquois…) The French development of this woke attitude culminated with the ejection of France from North America 250 years later… And various subsequent military defeats, including versus the Nazis (when it turned out that France’s own creation, the USA would not help in a timely manner…).

The result of the European policies has been an ever increasing dependency upon the USA and China, in ever more crucial domains. Part of this dependency is simply the mechanical effect that the USA and China make up 50% of the world’s GDP (and are economically entangled).

If one is European and really excellent in tech or science, the probability is high, should one be ambitious, to end up in the USA, with immensely larger budgets, salaries and opportunities. Meanwhile the French Federal Budget to “associations” exceeds high education AND research… Combined. “Associations” are just a woke trick for the Socialists in power (de facto) for 46 years to keep getting votes while, and in spite of the fact that, they ruin the country. (Anti-democratic) Associations get about $50 billion per year, nearly as much as defense.

***

All of Europe has been doing “renewable” energy, and it’s partly a scam:

How does one “renew” in a typical foggy European winter night with extreme cold and no wind? Well, one does not. In parts of Europe, electricity prices have peaked ten times above the average of just a few years ago. In particular, Europe does not have enough energy for AI (except for places with lots of hydro power, and small populations, like Norway).

Carbon-free energy could have been developed, but the development and even maintenance of nuclear energy was discontinued in the 1990s… So now the US and China can use old European nuclear research and forge ahead.

***

AI provides humanity with AGENCY. Just like printing or bronze metallurgy. AGENCY is more important than even Liberty. No agency, no liberty. Reciprocally, liberty does not necessarily provide agency: prehistoric people were free, but couldn’t do much, because they had little agency.

The environmental problems caused by AI are real, but they call to develop more carbon free energy. Some have suggested putting AI in space, where solar energy is abundant.

***

Renewable Waste:

Speaking of renewables, studies related by the BBC in April 2026 show that, to make 45 GW of renewable electricity in Great Britain (the present electric power necessary to satisfy peak electric consumption of the UK), one needs to install 135 GW of mostly conventional (that is, carbon) energy. This ridiculous ratio, 135 to 45, shows that, instead of worrying about AI which they can’t power up, Europeans should rather worry about the renewable folly they engaged in without thinking it through. 

One of the causes for the ridiculous ratio is the necessity to build millions of kilometers of extremely high tension wires all over Europe, criss crossing… which is NOT feasible, so it’s not done, and local conventional backups are needed, all over…China had no problems installing such lines (those who too deeply disagree get shot), and, moreover, China has a simpler geography (hydro, wind and solar to the west, cities to the east). So China installed 250 GW of solar… And is not finished: the Hormuz blockade has blocked 30% of Chinese fuel imports… So China needs to develop more renewable energy…

***

When I confronted Chat GPT with my sophisticated Tired Light hypothesis based on SQPR, it violently disagreed, calling me incompetent, obsolete, uneducated and from another age (to put it in only a few words)… Until the AI realized it had misunderstood, and started to run codes to check if my alternative to QFT actually predicted the correct Tired Light phenomenon. It did. That, no doubt, used electricity (the argument ran over weeks).   

However, most answers will require in the future less and less genuine research. Google just announced it found a way to make AI six times more efficient. In general, all AI are going to develop standard answers to FAQs…

***

Humanity’s progress toward our quasi-divine present status, has been measured in spending ever more ABSOLUTE WORTH ENERGY. Basically doing ever more amazing things by manipulating energy. The Maltusian energy policy tried in Europe has thoroughly failed. It only achieved a relative collapse of the per capita GDP of Europe relative to peers, and new peers who are increasingly superior, such as China. A large body of evidence points to deliberate malfeasance, as Europe became mostly dependent upon plutocratic tyrannies for its energy procurement.  The same corrupt and extractive regimes then invested in Europe at premium prices, making European plutocrats wealther than ever. Please explain to me why Merkel closing German nuclear energy, which never had an accident, to build another twenty-four (24) coal plants, can make sense… Besides the obvious explanation that, just as she started her career in the service of a dictatorship monitored by Putin, she kept on going just the same, but more discreetly… In plain sight.

The error of European ways (except for the ever wealtheir European plutocrats) is so deep that France, which used to be the wealthiest significant European country per capita, has fallen below the EU average. Woke is dope. Putin knows all this, and that’s why he attacked. He just did not anticipate that Ukrainians believed in agency and progress, nor that the USA (Trump first, then Biden) would send them so many weapons to give Ukrainian agency a chance… . 

To be against AI is as intelligent as to be against health care (AI will dominate health care very soon). Anyway, what to expect from people who are against intelligence?

Patrice Ayme . 

Concerns about what the interim rule from #RFKJr could look like:

A person with debilitating #ChronicPain, or a serious #AutoimmuneDisease, may appear “able-bodied” by the standards RFK Jr appears poised to implement—even as they face hurdles in qualifying for #SocialSecurity #disability due to not being considered #disabled “enough”.

#Trump #law #Medicaid #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

#Medicaid #WorkRequirements do not increase employment. Instead, the administrative burden of work requirements only serves to kick people off this governmental #HealthInsurance. Additionally, a majority of people on Medicaid, who are not on Supplemental Security Income, work full or part-time jobs. This underlines how rhetoric around work requirements is just false.

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy

Not forgetting Amazon Web Services (AWS)

By Mstdn @indivisibleteam

#Trump #NoKings #NoMandate #AntiTrump #oligarchy #plutocracy #broligarchy #kakistocracy #corruption #patrimonialism #HalfHeartedFanatic

@DjityDjity I'm not too shocked since heckling is an expression of unhappiness and today's #world seems to create & not solve things.

I'm not agreeing with the heckler but it could be any remembrance / independence / army full of #history + #politics underneath, and surely someone is unhappy some parts of it.

They probably also protest today's continuation of it (#colonialism #plutocracy #banks #war #killing...)

I remember heckling at the #Queen's death #UK 🇬🇧 (not 100% same - maybe similar).

#vote #duopoly #democracy #republicans #democrats #usa #plutocracy

GENERALSTRIKE - May 1, 2026!!
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GENERALSTRIKE - May 1, 2026!!
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GENERALSTRIKE - May 1, 2026!!
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GENERALSTRIKE - May 1, 2026!!
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GENERALSTRIKE - May 1, 2026!!
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Did someone say "Waste, fraud, and abuse"?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/trump-alcatraz-prison
#trump #trumpcrimefamily #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #epsteinclass #alcatrazz #waste #fraud #abuse #abuseofpower #overreach #idiocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #sanfrancisco #kqed #bureauofprisons

Did someone say "Waste, fraud, and abuse"?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/trump-alcatraz-prison
#trump #trumpcrimefamily #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #epsteinclass #alcatrazz #waste #fraud #abuse #abuseofpower #overreach #idiocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #sanfrancisco #kqed #bureauofprisons

#politics #criticalthinking #philosophy #usa #reublicans #democrats #duopoly #plutocracy

#factCheck
Claim by Senator Duckworth: “9% of American citizens don’t have the identification that the SAVE act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10.”

PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
A 2023 national survey found about 9% of U.S. adult citizens either lack or cannot readily access documentary proof of citizenship, and a similar share lack a nonexpired driver’s license. However, the figure includes people who may have documents but cannot easily access them, and the survey was not limited specifically to registered voters.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/mar/20/tammy-duckworth/SAVE-America-Act-voter-ID-drivers-licenses-REAL-ID/

> Democrats opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require certain documents to register to vote and cast a ballot, point to a study showing 9% of adult U.S. citizens would have difficulty with those requirements.

#disenfranchisement #VRA #votingRights #voterID #constitutionalDemocracyWithoutEither
#tyranny #plutocracy #feudalism

#factCheck
Claim by Senator Duckworth: “9% of American citizens don’t have the identification that the SAVE act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10.”

PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
A 2023 national survey found about 9% of U.S. adult citizens either lack or cannot readily access documentary proof of citizenship, and a similar share lack a nonexpired driver’s license. However, the figure includes people who may have documents but cannot easily access them, and the survey was not limited specifically to registered voters.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/mar/20/tammy-duckworth/SAVE-America-Act-voter-ID-drivers-licenses-REAL-ID/

> Democrats opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require certain documents to register to vote and cast a ballot, point to a study showing 9% of adult U.S. citizens would have difficulty with those requirements.

#disenfranchisement #VRA #votingRights #voterID #constitutionalDemocracyWithoutEither
#tyranny #plutocracy #feudalism

#factCheck
Claim by Senator Duckworth: “9% of American citizens don’t have the identification that the SAVE act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10.”

PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
A 2023 national survey found about 9% of U.S. adult citizens either lack or cannot readily access documentary proof of citizenship, and a similar share lack a nonexpired driver’s license. However, the figure includes people who may have documents but cannot easily access them, and the survey was not limited specifically to registered voters.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/mar/20/tammy-duckworth/SAVE-America-Act-voter-ID-drivers-licenses-REAL-ID/

> Democrats opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require certain documents to register to vote and cast a ballot, point to a study showing 9% of adult U.S. citizens would have difficulty with those requirements.

#disenfranchisement #VRA #votingRights #voterID #constitutionalDemocracyWithoutEither
#tyranny #plutocracy #feudalism

#factCheck
Claim by Senator Duckworth: “9% of American citizens don’t have the identification that the SAVE act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10.”

PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
A 2023 national survey found about 9% of U.S. adult citizens either lack or cannot readily access documentary proof of citizenship, and a similar share lack a nonexpired driver’s license. However, the figure includes people who may have documents but cannot easily access them, and the survey was not limited specifically to registered voters.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/mar/20/tammy-duckworth/SAVE-America-Act-voter-ID-drivers-licenses-REAL-ID/

> Democrats opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require certain documents to register to vote and cast a ballot, point to a study showing 9% of adult U.S. citizens would have difficulty with those requirements.

#disenfranchisement #VRA #votingRights #voterID #constitutionalDemocracyWithoutEither
#tyranny #plutocracy #feudalism

#factCheck
Claim by Senator Duckworth: “9% of American citizens don’t have the identification that the SAVE act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10.”

PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
A 2023 national survey found about 9% of U.S. adult citizens either lack or cannot readily access documentary proof of citizenship, and a similar share lack a nonexpired driver’s license. However, the figure includes people who may have documents but cannot easily access them, and the survey was not limited specifically to registered voters.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/mar/20/tammy-duckworth/SAVE-America-Act-voter-ID-drivers-licenses-REAL-ID/

> Democrats opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require certain documents to register to vote and cast a ballot, point to a study showing 9% of adult U.S. citizens would have difficulty with those requirements.

#disenfranchisement #VRA #votingRights #voterID #constitutionalDemocracyWithoutEither
#tyranny #plutocracy #feudalism

#duopoly #plutocracy #democrats

@revndm

the sane world is pivoting to #solar, #wind, etc

while the #USA mass murders over yesteryear's #energy #capitalism

we should be spending these #war billions installing solar and wind instead

but no. #ExxonMobil has to artificially maintain relevancy in a dead decaying system, and we are beholden to their money in this prison that #plutocracy has made

we will be behind the times while the rest of the world looks on us with disgust

we will deserve it

the prelude to a vast humbling

the big #war of 1914-1918 was not my war. It was plainly not a war for democracy but for #plutocracy; not for peace but for #plunder, and to make our country #military-minded. It was #capitalism's war-not mine.

Art Young, Art Young: His Life and Times

#quote #quotes #oppression #repression #fascism

Democrats rotating villain tactics.
Left wing or right wing, same shady bird.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18GKnYSghA/

#duopoly #plutocracy #usa #iran #EpstineWar #war

Everything is fine.

"Most Americans say that they can afford basic necessities like their current housing costs, groceries, utilities and gasoline. But large numbers across income levels also say larger expenses and the cost of things associated with an enjoyable life — including taking a weeklong vacation — are out of reach"
#economics #housing #costofliving #rental #capitalism #cronyism #rigged #plutocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/27/affordability-homeownership-poll/

Everything is fine.

"Most Americans say that they can afford basic necessities like their current housing costs, groceries, utilities and gasoline. But large numbers across income levels also say larger expenses and the cost of things associated with an enjoyable life — including taking a weeklong vacation — are out of reach"
#economics #housing #costofliving #rental #capitalism #cronyism #rigged #plutocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/27/affordability-homeownership-poll/

Everything is fine.

"Most Americans say that they can afford basic necessities like their current housing costs, groceries, utilities and gasoline. But large numbers across income levels also say larger expenses and the cost of things associated with an enjoyable life — including taking a weeklong vacation — are out of reach"
#economics #housing #costofliving #rental #capitalism #cronyism #rigged #plutocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/27/affordability-homeownership-poll/

Everything is fine.

"Most Americans say that they can afford basic necessities like their current housing costs, groceries, utilities and gasoline. But large numbers across income levels also say larger expenses and the cost of things associated with an enjoyable life — including taking a weeklong vacation — are out of reach"
#economics #housing #costofliving #rental #capitalism #cronyism #rigged #plutocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/27/affordability-homeownership-poll/

Everything is fine.

"Most Americans say that they can afford basic necessities like their current housing costs, groceries, utilities and gasoline. But large numbers across income levels also say larger expenses and the cost of things associated with an enjoyable life — including taking a weeklong vacation — are out of reach"
#economics #housing #costofliving #rental #capitalism #cronyism #rigged #plutocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/27/affordability-homeownership-poll/

Nevertheless, this has been the priority for the #wealthy & #powerful, who have managed to convince a critical mass of Americans that they will be able to enjoy the same privileges. They won’t.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

…The answer to why powerful people in some other parts of the world face consequences, while in the #US they rarely do, is that #elite #impunity is now an American national project. We might need to reframe “American exceptionalism.” Instead of a New Deal, we have a Great Society for #WhiteCollar #crime, a New Frontier of executive lawbreaking, a No Rich Crook Left Behind. Most of us probably don’t even realize it.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

#MAGA also offered an implicit bargain∶ Not only can you be a #bigot toward whatever group makes you mad by existing, but everyone will have to love & respect you anyway. This was an impossible promise to keep—not even #Trump has managed to bully comedians mocking him into silence—but politicians make impossible promises all the time. Many Americans are simply content to live vicariously through Trump’s #impunity, even if they cannot share it.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

Unfortunately, many Americans who might have been outraged at this edifice of #impunity have instead directed their resentment toward the #poor & #weak, supporting a cruel & unforgiving system of #criminal “justice” that harshly punishes those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder while exempting many at the top from any #accountability at all.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

After that, #Congress decided in bipartisan fashion that it had had enough of special counsels sniffing around the #ExecutiveBranch. Barack #Obama pledged to look forward & not backwards, not only closing the door on prosecutions for executive lawbreaking but also failing to hold accountable those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis & the ensuing #GreatRecession.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

The #Reagan admin engaged in blatant violations of federal #law during the #IranContra scandal, in which it sold weapons to the #Iran regime & used the finances to support anti-communist death squads in #Nicaragua. George H. W. #Bush, the former head of the #CIA, pardoned nearly all of the officials implicated in Iran-Contra—a move that many Americans supported, because they believed that fighting communism justified extreme measures.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

This is not just about #Trump; his #impunity is the product of a society that has worked hard to help the #rich & #powerful elude punishment for #criminal behavior.

Gerald #Ford pardoned his predecessor [#Nixon] in the name of “healing,” but inadvertently set a precedent that executive lawbreaking was no #crime.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

#Trump has evaded punishment for #crimes both low (campaign-finance violations, for which he was #convicted, though he will serve no time thanks to his 2024 victory) & high (his attempted overthrow of the federal government in the aftermath of his #2020election loss, for which he was spared by #SCOTUS’ decision to grant him a kingly #immunity).

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

Reminder: the world has #Trump (--> #tariffs, breakdown in #InternationalLaw, emboldened reactionary autocrats, mask-off #BigTech #oligarchs, collapsing #ForeignAid programs, gutted scientific research programs, metastasising #disinformation, #plutocracy entrenched) because #Biden, #Harris and the #DNC remained (and remain) fully committed to #genocide in #Gaza.

Internally, privately, Dem number-crunchers and campaign strategists admit as much. And they are *still* committed to this choice, hence their decision to sit on their election autopsy.

Yes, other factors are also crucial parts of the mix, each individually sufficient to have swung the 2024 election and perhaps thwart/delay/mitigate #fascism 2.0. But the US Democratic Party, knowing that it might well cost them not just the election, but the (vestiges of/precursors to) #democracy itself, *still* chose to prioritise enabling the slaughter of Gaza's children over saying 'no' to #Netayahu.

(Further reminder: obviously, primary responsibility for genocide lies with the Netanyahu regime and Israel's military, while primary responsibility for fascism lies with Trump and his fascists. But they could only do what they've done with the help of the stances taken by 'reasonable centrists'.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9-RUnSxars

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

   We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
   They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
   Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Speech (1936-10-31), Madison Square Garden, New York City

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #fdr #banking #bigbusiness #businessinterests #classwarfare #corporations #defenseindustry #militaryindustrialcomplex #monopoly #oligarchy #plutocracy #profiteering #regulation #stockmarket

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

   We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
   They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
   Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Speech (1936-10-31), Madison Square Garden, New York City

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