Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) According to the latest reports, the U.S. and Iranian delegations did meet in Switzerland, and the negotiations are continuing rather than ending...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) The latest reports indicate that U.S.-Iran diplomacy is continuing, but in a highly fragile environment. Details of the video below, in italics:...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Today’s presentation is an interesting conversation between Ralph Schoelhammer and Benedict Beckeld, regarding Francis Fukuyama’s thesis on the “End of History”. ...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Concerns around Anthropic’s “Mythos” framing (or more broadly, its narrative/style of positioning AI systems like Claude) tend to fall into a...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) A sense of gratitude and appreciation for all that is good around us can profoundly change how we experience life. It does...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) On April 6, 2026, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that he had signed HB 1471 and described it as legislation to “ban Sharia...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most critical energy chokepoints in the world. Roughly 20–30% of global oil trade passes...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) In March 2026, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited the White House in Washington, D.C., where she met with U.S. President Donald...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) The video titled “How Japan finally made it impossible to make babies” appears to discuss Japan’s extremely low birth rate...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) At the request of some of our Taiwan-China-USA watching readers, here is our assessment of the clear, up-to-date snapshot (early 2026) of...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Here is the full speech video of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the 2026 Munich Security Conference (Feb 14, 2026),...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Here’s a clear, up-to-date summary of Trump’s statements and actions regarding Greenland and how this connects to NATO as of January 14,...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Minnesota, along with its two largest cities — Minneapolis and St. Paul — has sued the Trump administration to stop federal immigration...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Let’s update our previous post on Florida Governor DeSantis Still Wants To Eliminate Florida’s Property Tax. Below, you will find various video...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Is liberal democracy on its way out? What can be done about rising extremism? And will new technologies help us – or...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) There are several interlocking reasons why Singapore has been quietly pulling in a lot of billionaires and other ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs). It’s...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Here’s what’s known about the Trump–Putin summit in Alaska from August 2025: Summit Overview Date & VenueThe summit took place on August...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) In a historic and unprecedented shift, nearly all Arab League member states—including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, and others—joined a joint statement...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) Talisman Sabre is a large-scale, biennial military exercise primarily conducted by the United States and Australia in the Indo-Pacific region, particularly around...
Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) What Happened Incident Date & Parties InvolvedOn February 19, 2025, a traffic stop occurred in Jacksonville, Florida, involving *22-year-old William Anthony McNeil Jr....
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