The New Evil Empire

In the 1980’s, Hollywood did not give a fuck when painting the Soviet Union as the the Evil Empire in every movie.  Think of the 1984 release of Red Dawn, where the Soviet Union with the help of Cuban comrades invade a small town Colorado.  Remember Rambo III, when John Rambo travels to pre-Taliban Afghanistan to rescue his war buddy captured by the Soviet army fighting the Mujahideen.

Of course, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 but the threat of communist nations still linger with an iron grip on power, think North Korea and China.  Except for a cartoony stop animation of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il in Team America: World Police released in 2004 there has been no film put out by the big Hollywood studios in the last 20 years that is critical of China’s policies.

It is well known that the Chinese government are actively committing what many consider human rights violations against the ethnic Uyghurs and Tibetans.  Additionally, in the last 20 years, China has taken a more belligerent stance in the world stage, including building a military base in the middle of the highly contested territory in the South China Sea, over 1,000 miles from mainland China.  It is widely suspected that China has hacked the federal government’s Office of Personal Management, the HR of the US government, and may have comprised personal information of government employees, federal contractors, and possibly even “state department contractors”, aka CIA agents.  It has been reported, but not investigated by the media that the CIA covert network in China went completely dark in 2012, most likely because the Chinese military hacked the communication methods and procedures followed by the CIA handlers and their local informants.

It feels like the large Hollywood studios, like most companies and even nations, are turning a blind eye at the injustices being committed by the Chinese government, the Communist Party of China, all for the short term illusion of gaining access into the Chinese market.

Ideal Jobs Throughout History

I remember when I was about to graduate from high school, friends and family would offer their recommendation as to what would be the perfect job for me.  Some recommended a trade job like electrician, others offered landing a government job like a mail carrier, and a few suggested getting a union job..  Throughout history, the ideal job has changed.  Here is a short list the best jobs throughout history.
  • 150000 BCE – 10000 BCE, Hunter, Gatherer
  • 10000 BCE – 1000 BCE, Farmer
  • 1000 BCE- 1000 CE, Trader
  • 100 BC – 500 CE, Roman Soldier
  • 1500 CE – 1700 CE, Conquistador, Explorer, Soldier
  • 1660  CE – 1730 CE, Privateer
  • 1700 CE – 1900 CE, Fur Trader, Frontiersman
  • 1900 CE – 1950 CE, Construction, Manufacturing
  • 1920 CE – 1970 CE, Automotive Industry
  • 1935 CE – 1943 CE, WPA 
  • 1980 CE – 2008 CE, Financial Industry
  • 1980 CE – 2019 CE, Software Engineer
  • 2010 CE – 2019 CE, Influencer

Ad Hoc Transportation Network

Traffic reporting apps like Waze are a new form of community-based networks. Each day, thousands of drivers use apps like Waze, Google Maps, Apple Maps, and other mobile phone applications to report on traffic conditions. Apps like these, I believe, can and will be interconnected to form a large ad hoc transportation network that can be enabled into smart cars and smart roads. Just imagine the applications that can be developed once the roads have more smart and self driving vehicles. Even now, there are a lot of cars on the road that have cameras for assist driving, once self driving vehicles hit the road in large numbers, those cameras can networked together and used to analyze license plates to look for stolen cars, automatically report pot holes, and even police/monitor other vehicles.


During the American pioneer days, an American citizen could be born and go about most of his or her life without ever meeting a federal government employee, unless it was a US Calvary soldier killing Native Americans. Today, from birth to death, a person has to live and interact and be subject of federal regulations and restrictions.

Kids are the Glue in Marriage

People do a lot of shit for their kids… Like staying married… If it wasn’t for kids, most people won’t stay together as long as they do… First argument over dirty socks… File for divorce over dirty sock irreconcilable difference… Fuck your dirty stinky feet, I’m out… Moving back home to my moms…

Everything That is Wrong With Wall Street

Banks give individuals home loans they can’t afford, the housing bubble spreads across the country, banks pools poor performing home loans into collateralize debt obligations to rate them as sound investments, local governments invest hundreds of millions into these collateralize debt obligations, the economy begins to slows down, hundreds of thousands are left unemployed, families can’t afford their mortgage, the housing bubble pops, banks repose homes, families are ruined, local governments lose millions from their pensions, some local governments go into bankruptcy, banks buy up homes for less than they worth, homeowners own mortgages for more than their homes are worth, banks begging renting homes back to families that lost their homes in foreclosures, banks push local governments to lower properties taxes since they now own a large number of homes, local communities lose out on income, funding to schools is cut, …

The Snowball Effect Times The Butterfly Effect



The Interwebs and The Surveillance Network


The Token President

By not closing Guantanamo Bay as he promised in the 2008 presidential campaign and by signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, by ordering the death by drone of American citizens, and many other acts President Obama has proved that he has not been the president of change Americans had hoped for. President Obama has not been a better president than President Bush, and in fact President Obama’s administration has followed to the letter many of Bush’s policies. It can safely be said that President Obama has been a disappointment as a president and that he is a token president.

Welcome To The Future

After a tragedy or attack, politicians are always quick to try to pass laws and pundits are quick to speculate as to a motive. What neither the public, politicians, and pundits understand is that this is the new world order. As a people we are programmed to try to split hairs between us versus then, but in reality there is no difference between any one of us just as there is no difference between a tornado rolling through Oklahoma City or Hurricane Sandy flooding New York City, just like there is no difference between the bombing in the Boston Marathon or a drone strike in Yemen, there is no difference between a Syrian rebel eating the heart of his enemy and the FBI killing a detained suspect during routine questioning, there is no difference between spontaneous protests and terrorist attacks, there is no difference between underwear bombs and laser guided bombs, there is no difference between conquering in the name of Allah or destroying in the name of shareholders, there is no difference between ethnic cleansing and foreign policy, there is no difference between the master race and the chosen people, there is no difference between crime and punishment, there is no difference between reality television and news programs, there is no difference between propaganda and an official press release, there is no difference between a government and gang, there is no difference between any of this and any of this doesn’t make a difference. Welcome of the new world order, welcome to the future.