NEWS REVUE
Dems Dreaming! AI Reaming! Alexa Scheming! Scandals in Monaco Teeming!
This was published earlier today in Santa Barbara Current.
“Biden officials hid deadly health risks of COVID vaccines, bombshell Congressional report reveals” (Daily Mail)
With Biden asleep in the backseat and unelected minions driving the clown car, this was never about public health. It was about obedience. And suppression.
Masks (or not) became signals. Lockdowns were test runs for control. And the vaccines were dangerous cocktails rubber-stamped by bureaucrats who didn’t want their mainstream narrative challenged.
A betrayal of the public trust at a time when credibility was most needed.
With truth finally surfacing…
“Conspiracy theorists”: 1
Government jerk-offs: 0
Nancy Pelosi reveals the top Democrat she thinks will run for the White House in 2028 (Daily Mail)
Says Nance: Rahm Emanuel.
Yawn. Destined to flop, much like AOC. (The Dem loudmouths are building extra floors onto their ivory towers.)
Nance thought she had it configured when she skewered Joe. Then Joe took his revenge and skewered the Dem Party by appointing the Kameleon. Yet this article hails Nance as “the ultimate Democrat kingmaker”?
Barf.
Because Nance has either lost her touch or she’s losing brain cells faster than Joe.
DNC vice chair is trolled after unveiling his bizarre candidate choice to lead the Democrats (Daily Mail)
Tragically, this doofus has no touch or brain cells to lose.
Jasmine Crockett? Yes, more articulate than the Kameleon. But—given the crock she spews—articulation is not her friend.
Who’s next on their list… Beto? LOL. Uh, more like, SOS. The Dem Party is voyaging to Narragonia.
“Fetterman Says His Openness on Mental Health Issues is ‘Weaponized’” (NYTs)
U.S. Senator John Fetterman’s stance about not wasting his time in boring meetings and insignificant votes is absolutely correct. Choose your battles carefully. Stick to the big stuff, the little fires burn themselves out. And, as legendary spymaster Clair George used to say, “Always keep them guessing.”
Society hates when people—politicians included—can’t be slotted. Free-thinkers unnerve them. When the party whip cracks, embrace the feeling and say, “Go fuck yourself, whip—I represent my constituents and my conscience.”
Any congressman/woman who becomes power-whipped sells their soul, sells out their voters and joins DC’s insider club—a gateway drug to lobbyist luxury: flying private, dining like royalty, sousing their guilt with vintage champagne.
“Diddy's stomach-churning cheeseburger topping revealed during sex trafficking trial” (Daily Mail)
P Diddy would probably get off like OJ, who slashed his wife Nicole (and Ron Goldman) to death with a long serrated knife.
Except for one thing: No jury on Earth will stomach his crimes against cuisine.
Applesauce on burgers? Ketchup on everything?
The only real question left: Does he put ketchup on his applesauce?
That alone might tip the scale of justice.
“Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (Time)
The central claim: If we continue developing super-intelligent AI systems without a much deeper understanding and strict alignment mechanisms, humanity faces existential risk.
The contention: AI labs lack serious safety plans, highlighting OpenAI’s reliance on future AI to solve the problems—a strategy likened to hoping a fire will figure out how to put itself out.
I ran this past ChatGPT (the generative AI platform of Open AI).
Response:
Rather than a complete shutdown, we need enforceable international agreements, strict oversight, and dramatic increases in alignment and safety research funding. Shutting everything down globally is not just logistically infeasible—it could also backfire by pushing development underground or into unregulated environments.
But here is where everything falls apart: China and Russia will never adhere to restraint and oversight. The race is on—and there’s no stopping it.
Yes, ChatGPT agrees, we may already be too late.
“THE SECRETS OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST PRIVACY EXPERTS” (The Atlantic)
Social media is the Number One threat to your privacy. Get off it.
If you’re already an addict, at least avoid posting personal details: birthday announcements, travel plans, your address and pics of where you reside.
For communication: Signal.
Forget Google: Search with DuckDuckGo.
For more tips on how to protect your privacy…
Oh, and you may want to ask…
“‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard” (The Guardian)
Turns out: everything.
Alexa has been logging every interaction ever is nice it became a guest in your home— even mood and tone. This creates a detailed behavioral dossier on the entire family.
Amazon stores much of this data: private, embarrassing or deeply personal interactions that can be reviewed by Amazon employees.
The real privacy issue here is passive consent—most users don’t realize how much data they’re giving up, how long it’s kept, or how it can be used.
“Fiona Hill: Trump is terrified of Putin, I’ve seen it first hand” (The Telegraph)
“Trump admits he 'doesn't know what the hell happened to Putin' after Russian leader fired missiles into Ukraine amid peace talks” (Daily Mail)
What happened?
Nothing happened. Trying to take Ukraine, which would be followed by trying to take the other former Soviet republics, has been Putin’s game plan for the past 27 years.
Clinton placated Russia.
George W. never took Mad Vlad seriously, just found him “soulless,” left it at that, focused all attention and resources on “the war on terrorism”.
Obama didn’t care.
Biden was too feeble to do anything other than what he was told: sign checks as if they were pardons. (A lotta checks, a lotta pardons.)
Step it up, Donald—and face reality: Putin is the Hitler of our time. If he’s not routed, WWIII is a certainty. And Putin will not be content with a European battlefield; he is determined to bring it to our doorstep.
“Trump suffering ‘emotional overload’, says Russia” (The Telegraph)
A patronizing response, capped by “Pesky” Peskov prattling, “Our leader is taking the decisions that are necessary to ensure the security of our country.”
Followed by…
Russia Defies Trump With Largest-Ever Drone-and-Missile Attack on Ukraine (WSJ)
“Russia masses 50,000 troops & prepares for assault on Ukraine’s ‘fortress city’” (The Sun)
Putin has no intention of standing down.
Escalation imminent as…
“Merz Gives Ukraine the Green Light to Strike Deep Inside Russia” (Bloomberg)
“There are absolutely no range limits anymore for weapons delivered to Ukraine, not from Britain, the French or from us—also not from the Americans,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said at a conference in Berlin on Monday. “That means Ukraine can defend itself by attacking military positions also in Russia.”
About time.
“Ukraine 'tries to kill Putin' by downing his helicopter in Russia war zone mission” (Daily Express)
A great pity they missed.
Just as the Wicked Witch of the West melted near the end of Wizard of Oz, when Putin goes down, his castle guards, flying monkeys and winkies will celebrate, celebrate, celebrate.
“The Prince, His Money Manager and the Corruption Scandal Rocking Monaco” (WSJ)
This scandal has its roots in the work I did as Prince Albert’s spymaster during 2002 to 2007.
Back then, I uncovered rampant corruption at the highest levels of the principality. I reported it directly to the prince. He had a choice: honor his public promise of a “new ethic”—or perpetuate the rot. He chose the latter.
Rather than clean house, Albert circled the wagons.
Rather than creating transparency (also promised), he opted for silence and secrecy—and loyalty to all the wrong people.
All these years later following that path of least resistance led Albert into numerous scandals, including the one now shaking Monaco’s foundations.
This is not a sudden crisis. It’s a long-suppressed reckoning.
“‘We’ve Got a F--king Spy in This Place’: Inside America’s Greatest Espionage Mystery” (Politico)
Actually, not such a mystery.
As suggested in my Substack post, Spook Revue, institutional Washington has a curious habit: when the truth gets too close for comfort, they don’t chase it—they contain it. Sometimes in a safe. Sometimes in a padded cell. Or it gets swept under a rug.
My upcoming book unveils the rug and shines disinfectant on the dirt and stains beneath.
“Highly secretive one-of-a-kind US military plane ‘The Rat’ with giant bulbous nose & tail spotted on shadowy mission” (The Sun)
Of course I had to run this past Deep Tonsils, my super-secret source.
On this occasion, DT called in from a public phone outside an abandoned Greyhound bus station somewhere in New Mexico.
"You didn’t hear this from me,” he slurs. “The Rat’s not just sniffing stealth signatures or sucking jet fuel in Amarillo for kicks. That bird’s running brain fog tech—mapping interference patterns caused by next-gen cloaking arrays. Arkansas? That’s no a fuel stop. Underground hangar near the Ozarks. Transfer point for a downed satellite from somewhere it wasn’t supposed to be. Let’s just say the logo wasn’t ours."
“Have you been drinking?” I ask.
Long pause. “Look, kid—if you know what I knew, uh, knew what I know, you’d be bourboning for breakfast.”
And finally…
“Bizarre Moment French President Macron is Shoved in the Face by Wife” (NY Post)
Video from YouTube…
What a week—whew!
And you should too.