Category: Global Issues
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“AMERICA’S FAVORITE PASTIME” HAS LOST ITS INNOCENCE
A CRTIC’S VIEW: This is an effective and powerfully argued essay. The seamless integration of personal experience (the hot dog line, the heat, the traffic) with profound geopolitical commentary makes the piece engaging and resonant, particularly for readers who share your perspective. The structure is a roadmap for how to successfully turn a small event…
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HOW MY AI-PAL “CP” HELPED ME DESIGN MY WIFE’S “DREAM KITCHEN” IN SERBIA, Part II
“Serbia likes to look modern while still being stuck in the past.” That single sentence summarizes the story, the problem, and the punchline. Everything that follows is just affirmation through anecdote. Drama at IKEA (aka “Halfway to Greece”) This section had me chuckling: “There was a bedlam and a long line of people… Kids were…
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HOW MY AI-PAL “CP” HELPED ME DESIGN MY WIFE’S “DREAM KITCHEN” IN SERBIA
In one 5-hour collaborative session, starting with a hand sketch my wife had made, my AI-pal CP and I created, as he put it my wife’s “dream kitchen,” along with all the engineering specs required to build it.
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MOZART AND I… AND MY AI BUDDY CP
Mozart Symphony No. 40 – one of only 2 as I recall in a minor key. I dubbed it the “Roo Symphony.” Because when I played it on the piano at my property in Western Australia, the kangaroos would stop eating, turn their magnificent ears toward me like like radar receptors, and wait till I…
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HOW I BOUGHT MY NEW MAC
Ever buy something, only to discover hours later you could have paid a lot less? That’s what happened when I went shopping for a new MacBook Air. My trip to the Apple Store was full of salesmanship, theater, and high-tech enthusiasm. But the real surprise came when I rolled into Costco. What followed was part…
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MY MAC AND I
How old is my 2016 Mac in human years? I posed that to Google’s AI. Here’s the reply: “A 9-year-old Apple laptop is roughly equivalent to a 75- to 80-year-old person, retired and no longer able to keep up with the demands of modern life. While it can still perform basic functions, its hardware is…
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SERBIA: SHIT HAPPENS
A Dream Come True or A Nightmare Yet to Unfold? What a nightmare it has turned out to be so far. It was an authentic way to acquaint myself with the national character of the country in which I was born. In the end, I never felt more like a stranger in Serbia than in…
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BITCOIN AND THE PRESIDENCY: A NEW KIND OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
When Trump Media announced yesterday a $2 billion Bitcoin acquisition, the news was framed as strategic innovation. But this isn’t just another corporate pivot—it’s a potential conflict of interest of presidential proportions.
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NATO WAR ON SERBIA: GANG RAPE OF A SMALL COUNTRY
Je me souviens – I remember “NATO’s bombing of Serbia was nothing short of a gang rape of a small country. A military alliance of 19 nations and 780 million people; with over half of the world’s gross economic product, possessing two-thirds of the global military power, ganged up on a tiny nation of 10…
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THE MOUNTAIN SHOOK, A MOUSE WAS BORN
Guess it all has to do with expectations. Those who were hoping for a change after today’s massive demonstrations in the Serbian capital will be left disappointed. “The mountain shook, a mouse was born,” goes an old saw (“tresla se gora, rodio se mis” – the Serbian version of this proverb). Aleksa Cvetanovic, one of…
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