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It is more than probable that 2024 will create a confluence of major strategic trends, which could increase the likelihood of formal, kinetic conflict and continued global economic decline...Each year of the past three decades has seemed like a pivotal year in the evolution of the post-Cold War global strategic architecture, and, indeed, that has been the case. But 2024 promises to provide a number of highly significant watersheds in the progress of that new global framework.We should review the major concerns in priority order, in terms of the known probable events and their consequences, bearing in mind that some...

Not all migrants are alike. You have legal immigrants, who are usually industrious strivers, paying every cost, and living by rule of law. You have a very small number of valid asylum seekers and refugees. You have illegal immigrants, who also are strivers, and other than breaking U.S. immigration law, could be desireable contributors, too. You have criminals, who can't get into the U.S. any way except illegally and who ply their trade once in. And then you have illegals like these, who break in to demand free stuff. The Venezuelan migrants in NYC are now protesting to get rid...

The crime wave sweeping across the country is the direct result of a years-long campaign by George Soros to bankroll the election of far-left district attorneys committed to undermining law and order. Over the past six years or so, Soros has poured tens of millions of dollars into the campaigns of DA candidates... ... Soros can circumvent individual contribution limits by funneling money through the PACs he has set up for this purpose, which generally go by the ironic name of “Safety and Justice.” ... Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner received $1,700,000 from Soros. Chicago DA Kim Foxx, who treated Jussie...

There are crimes that mark a society. I started wondering whether I should write this entry in Spanish. But there is enough local outrage on the web, and tomorrow on print, that English must be the vehicle. The affair started early when we learned that Monica Spear was murdered with her (ex?) husband inside her car, in front of her 5 year old daughter whose cries eventually alerted other passerby. In a way the casual observer could wonder why the murder of two people should matter in a country which had this past year around 24,000 murders, more than twice...