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Bill Pulte’s attacks on Fed board member Lisa Cook are motivated in part by personal gain.  PulteGroup, which builds Pulte homes, is the third-largest homebuilder in America.  As part of the Pulte family, Bill Pulte stands to benefit from more home sales, which would increase if the Fed reduced interest…

If Israel is really serious about eliminating Hamas rather than killing all Palestinians, it should attack the Hamas tunnels under Gaza.  This is clearly much more dangerous for Israeli troops than bombing from above, but the US went into spider holes and tunnels in Vietnam and fought close-quarters, urban warfare…

According to the Washington Post: Earlier this month, Sean P. Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA and the U.S. transportation secretary, asked NASA to accelerate efforts to place a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030. The reactor technology will “support a future lunar economy, high power energy generation on…

The Wall Street Journal reports on Jensen Huang’s politicking for US government approval to sell his Nvidia H20 AI chip to China. Huang and his lobbyists were successful in reversing the ban on sales of the H20, but it required promising to pay 15% of his sales to the US…

The BBC reports that citizens of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher face starvation. Analyses by Grok and ChatGPT say that the Sudanese crisis is worse than the Gaza crisis, and may soon be worse than the 1985 Ethiopian famine that prompted the Live Aid concert. See: The Sudan crisis is…

I asked Grok the following question: Which crisis is worse Ethiopian famine in 1985 or Sudan war now? Its bottom line was: Verdict: The Ethiopian famine of 1983–1985 was likely worse in terms of confirmed mortality and immediate human suffering, given its scale and the deliberate use of famine as…

I asked Grok and ChatGPT which Roman emperor President Trump was most similar to. They both said Nero and Caligula. Grok said: Comparing a modern figure like Donald Trump to Roman emperors requires looking at leadership style, personality, and political context. Based on available analyses, particularly from posts found on…

I asked three AI programs whether AI has compassion. All said no, but ChatGPT had the most fulsome reply: No, ChatGPT does not have compassion—at least not in the human or spiritual sense. Here’s the distinction: What compassion is (for humans): Compassion involves: It’s rooted in emotions, empathy, conscious awareness,…

Bloomberg reported on the damage done to US-EU relations by the recent trade agreement. It said: Trump’s EU-US Trade Deal Could Cost Europe for Years to Come The EU-US tariff agreement ends short-term uncertainty in Europe, but it has also humiliated the bloc and undermines its future There is no…

I asked ChatGPT how Trump’s new tariffs impacted the construction of new AI data centers. It estimated that the tariffs would increase the cost by 15 to 20 percent. Here is what it said: Many types of data center equipment and materials—ranging from core infrastructures like steel and electrical hardware…