By Selwyn Duke

More than a century ago, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote about the coming Übermensch, or superior man, and the “death” of God. Now Silicon Valley a-theologians predict the Singularity, the point at which artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intellect. Not only is this development less than a decade away, they say, but what they outline sounds like a science-fiction movie plot:

By 2029, artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intellect. Twenty years later, ultra-intelligent machines become a billion-fold smarter than even the cleverest among us, making the man-AI intellectual chasm like that between a fly and Einstein. That this will happen there is no doubt (barring the end of the world or the onset of some profoundly dark age), but, well, this is where it gets sticky. Does AI become an almost omnipotent, practically omniscient servant in the hands of oh-so flawed man?

Or does it somehow achieve self-awareness and, perhaps, become master?

In point of fact, one ex-Google executive “likens this digital creature to an ‘alien being, endowed with superpowers,’ which has already arrived on Earth in larval form"….

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By Selwyn Duke

“Whoever leads in artificial intelligence in 2030 will rule the world until 2100.” So wrote the Brookings Institute in January 2020, echoing the warnings of so many. Thus should we be more than alarmed that the Pentagon's former software chief — who just resigned in protest over our military’s stunted technological development — has said that cyber defenses in parts of our government are at “kindergarten level.”

Nicolas Chaillan, who left the Department of Defense earlier this month, said he departed “because he could not stand to watch China overtake America,” writes the Financial Times (FT).

“In his first interview since leaving…Chaillan told the Financial Times that the failure of the US to respond to Chinese cyber and other threats was putting his children’s future at risk,” the paper continues.

 “‘We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion,’ he said, adding there was ‘good reason to be angry,’” the FT also related.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s clear that, like a medical mafia, the government wants to make the offer of COVID-19 “vaccines” an offer you can’t refuse. We’ve already seen thousands of Americans lose their jobs over “vaccine” mandates, an FDA employee caught on video recommending COVID-19 shots be administered involuntarily via blow darts, and Joe Biden et al. trying to turn the unvaccinated into today’s lepers.

Of course, you likely will want to avoid this overt coercion. But not in a way some fear could become reality: self-disseminating vaccines released into nature.

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By Selwyn Duke

If we saw a lynch mob coming for some hapless soul, wild-eyed and bloodthirsty and demanding his scalp, we’d say that whatever his alleged crimes, he deserves due process. Yet this has not been afforded to Christopher Columbus. The once revered Italian explorer has been under withering attack in recent years, with his statues often toppled and his reputation tarnished with nary any defense in mainstream media. But there’s good reason why we honor Columbus, as it could be said that this man, whom we’re now so divided over, divided history.

Before addressing the charges against him, Columbus’s achievements should be put in perspective. This can be done simply and uniquely: Imagine that someone today discovered and visited another planet, more magnificent than Earth herself, on the far side of the sun. Imagine it was home to new civilizations and fascinating creatures; was teeming with resources; and that trade between it and our planet led to an exchange of foods, animals, ideas, innumerable items of value and, yes, diseases. Would this new world’s discovery not be a seminal point in history? Would it not be, in a sense, the dawning of a new age?

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By Selwyn Duke

It must be tough being Kamala Harris. We might never have heard of her if Willie Brown, the ex-San Francisco mayor who once wielded great clout in California politics, hadn’t given her a start in government in what was, well, let’s just say a carnal quid pro quo. Brown would much later say that Harris wasn’t presidential material, and the voters seemed to agree: Then a California senator, she dropped out of the 2020 presidential race in December 2019 — just as she was poised to lose her home state.

Harris hasn’t been any more alluring as vice president, with many describing her persona as “cringey.” Now, however, she has apparently gotten a personality makeover. Yet it’s not a hit, either. In fact, even the White House now might have dumped her.

Talk of the makeover arose because Harris just appeared in series of videos, created by a PR firm, featuring her talking to kids about space travel. 

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By Selwyn Duke

It has long been known that certain entities are getting rich off COVID. For example, major Democrat donors Amazon and Walmart made billions more during the pandemic after the Democrats locked down their small-business competition while allowing them to remain open. Now we hear an allegation from the other side of the world, Australia, that not only have Pfizer and AstraZeneca been paying lobbyists millions to pressure politicians to impose “vaccine” mandates, but that a recently ousted state premier was told that she wouldn’t be charged in a corruption probe if she forced “vaccines” on citizens.

And that politician, New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian, did in fact tell Sydney residents shortly before she resigned “that if they don’t take the Covid jab, they face total social isolation indefinitely after the stay-at-home order ends in December"….

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By Selwyn Duke

Andrew Yang, the erstwhile presidential and NYC mayoral candidate, made big news this week. First, he announced Monday that he was leaving the Democratic Party.

Second, he stated that he was starting his own: the Forward Party.

He even has what sounds like his slogan, telling Tucker Carlson Today on Thursday that his party’s philosophy can be epitomized thus: “not left or right, but forward.”

This terminology is interesting, especially since Yang is billed as a “moderate” and a breath of fresh air. Note that Forward! was the name of the Italian Socialist Party’s newspaper — of which fascist leader Benito Mussolini was once chief editor. It also quite prominently became one of Barack Obama’s slogans.

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By Selwyn Duke

I was on the second hour of the show. My appearance begins at 52:20.

Note: To fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab."

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By Selwyn Duke

What does mandating experimental “vaccines” for 12-year-olds, telling children they can become the opposite sex, exposing them to lewd material, forcing health-damaging masks on them, exposing them to racial propaganda, and killing unborn babies and then using their body parts for experimentation have in common? All these things are happening, for one.

They’re also all part of a very real but heretofore unlabeled phenomenon: systemic child abuse.

We hear much about “systemic racism.” Social-sphere robber barons (e.g., Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law) make millions peddling Critical Race Theory to schools, and demagogues use it to leverage political power. Yet the only actual institutionalized “racism” is against whites — in particular, white men — and to a lesser extent against Asian-descent Americans (i.e., college-admissions quotas).

Systemic child abuse, however, is rampant. In fact, while leftists are fond of selling proposals with the appeal, “Do it for the children,” the only thing they’re doing for the children is destroying them.

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By Selwyn Duke

The “Justice for J6” rally on September 18 was a bust largely because, having seen what happened to the January 6 trespassers themselves, patriots were reluctant to put themselves in the government’s crosshairs. State intimidation works.

Now the feds want to do the same with parents, often mothers, who complain at school board meetings about COVID-19 restrictions and their children’s racial and sexual indoctrination. Meanwhile, when Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs riot, they should be given “space” to “destroy,” as Baltimore’s mayor put it some years ago.  

School board meetings have become a focal point of anti-establishment, pro-virtue pushback this year, with parents taking left-wing board members to task for the outrageous curricula and regulations visited upon their kids. The board members are generally unsympathetic and at times have even tried to silence the parents (e.g., cutting someone’s mic). Now the National Association of School Boards has gone even further, sending the federal government a letter complaining about the dissent and likening the parental pushback to “domestic terrorism.” Apparently, the school board oligarchy shall not be questioned — and Attorney General Merrick Garland appears to agree.

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