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We'll live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and take upon's the mystery of things, as if we were God's spies. Click to read God's Spies by Thomas Neuburger, a Substack publication.

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2026 68

  1. More on the Adobe and Microsoft Cloned Apps
  2. The Bright Side of the Dark Side of AI
  3. The Dark Enlightenment: A Primer
  4. Ian Welsh: A Military Revolution
  5. Alan Grayson: The Idea of Idealism – What’s Going On?
  6. ⚡Security Watch: Hacking the Robot Spies
  7. If Our Government Makes Dollars, What Is the ‘National Debt’?
  8. ⚡Quick Hits: McDonald’s Using AI to Price by ‘Customer Willingness to Pay’
  9. From the Comments: On Government Spending, Bank Money Creation, Barter
  10. What Is the Federal Bond Market Really?
  11. Facts About Oil: A Reference Post
  12. What Is This ‘Deficit’ We Hear So Much About?
  13. Why Governments Tax: A List
  14. To Lighten the Load: Music, Beauty and the World
  15. Why ‘Entitlement’ Cuts May Succeed
  16. 2026: A Climate ‘You Are Here’
  17. More on the Next ‘Super El Niño’
  18. A Record El Niño Is Coming
  19. 'Watching My Country Essentially Commit Suicide'
  20. Have AI Movies Gotten Too Good?
  21. China and War
  22. 'Open the Gates of Hell'
  23. Controlling the 'World Island'
  24. The Graham Platner Affair
  25. 80% of VPNs Make False Claims About Anonymity, Tracking and Security
  26. What Is Fiction? Where Is AI Headed? And What Made Lindbergh the Nation's First Steve Jobs?
  27. The Licensing Revolution: Windows Edition
  28. Text-to-Speech: How to Listen to God's Spies Articles
  29. Removing AI From Your Google Account
  30. Iran's 14-Point Plan: The Actual List
  31. Does Iran Have a Nuclear Way to Stop the War?
  32. Destruction of Demand for Oil: Why's That So Bad?
  33. VPNs, AI and Poisoning the Data Well
  34. The Thomas Massie Affair
  35. Site News: Video Interview Sources
  36. Dissent and AI: The Future Before Us Is Clear
  37. Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt … and Trump?
  38. The Licensing Revolution: Is Resistance Futile?
  39. Controlling The Nuclear Football
  40. The War on Iran: Where We Are, Where We're Going, and Why
  41. Site News and a Word on the Word 'Reports'
  42. View from the Darkling Plain
  43. Moshe Dayan: ‘We Are the Generation of Colonizers’
  44. The End of the Game
  45. It's Getting Close to Clear How the War Will Turn Out
  46. The Building of Fortress Iran
  47. How Hubris Created an 'Invincible' Military
  48. Trump Is Back-Door Begging Iran to Talk Peace
  49. Ted Postol: U.S. Missile Defense Is 'A Giant Technical Fraud'
  50. How Close Is Israel to Maximum Escalation?
  51. War on Iran: The Information Gap
  52. Bahrain: Behind the News
  53. Does Netanyahu Have Spies in the White House?
  54. Note to Readers & a Twitter War News List
  55. Israel Has Its War
  56. Introducing the Drop Site Daily Briefing
  57. The Internet of Quietly Watching Things
  58. The Myth of the West: Democracy and the State
  59. Carole Cadwalladr: The Entire Business Model of Silicon Valley Is Surveillance
  60. Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled?
  61. Elite Resistance to Trump: What Does It Mean?
  62. How Different Are Trump State Killings from Other Police Deaths?
  63. Black Sites and Black Days
  64. Is ICE Running a Black Site in Minnesota?
  65. A Potential Solution to Climate Catastrophe
  66. America's Place in the World: What Do We See?
  67. Michael Wolff on Stephen Miller
  68. Is Trump Building a Massive Data Center Beneath the East Wing? If So, Why?

2025 97

  1. The Jon Swift List: Best Blog Posts of the Year
  2. A Christmas Wish: White Wine in the Sun
  3. Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales
  4. What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?
  5. The Joker: 'I'm Just Ahead of the Game'
  6. Discussing the Epstein Big Picture On 'The Attitude With Arnie Arnesen'
  7. The Point of No Return for the Warm Water Atlantic Current Is Coming Up Fast
  8. A Thanksgiving Gift
  9. Flock Camera Vulnerability: It's Worse Than You Think
  10. The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney
  11. Writing vs Journalism: Which Tells the Better Truth?
  12. Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
  13. Michael Wolff: How Trump Digests the News
  14. Eskow: Mamdani's Plan Is 'Surprisingly Affordable'
  15. Can Malicious Hardware Be Hidden Inside a USB-C Cable?
  16. China's Solution to Corruption
  17. The American Augean Stables — How Corruption Has Amended the Constitution
  18. Chomsky and Robinson: 'National Interest' Is a Euphemism
  19. Fire: Remaking the World, Remaking Ourselves
  20. Miller Speaks Truth, AI Tells Lies, and Music
  21. The Dilemma: Do or Do Not
  22. China News, Tales of the Masters, and Fun
  23. Digital ID: Gift or Key to Control?
  24. Masters and Minions and Muppets, Oh My!
  25. Appeals Court Nominee Won't Say the President Can't Murder Opponents
  26. We've Just Crowned a King. What Next?
  27. We Can't Oppose Violence Without Opposing State Violence
  28. What Is a State? Why Do We Live in Them?
  29. When Is Food Not Food?
  30. AI is Unmasking ICE
  31. Sachs on Gaza, Israel, Epstein, Europe and Russia
  32. Quick Hits: No Help in Sight
  33. Under-Examined Aspects of the Epstein Story
  34. Preamble to the Fourth American Constitution
  35. Israeli Intelligence 'Veterans' in US High Tech
  36. Our Lawless Elites
  37. Alfred McCoy: Controlling the 'World Island'
  38. How Would You Like This Wrapped?
  39. A Clear Epstein Backgrounder and Where We Are Today
  40. Was 'Preserving the Union' an Error?
  41. Rethinking Collapse
  42. Western Life Is Only One Way to Live
  43. Project Nectar: Another Palantir Special
  44. Someone Is Closely Front-Running Trump's Trade Announcements
  45. Looking for Climate Perps
  46. Book Club: New Focus and New Works
  47. America's Great Game: The View from Inside Iran
  48. Iran, China and America's Great Game
  49. Gen. Michael Kurilla and the Pivot to Asia
  50. A Look at Spying by Israel in the U.S.
  51. Iran and Israel: What Will America Do?
  52. Israel and Iran: Where Are We Now?
  53. Do AI Models Think?
  54. The Monster AI, Security, and Wars That Come Home
  55. My Back Pages: Stranded Assets and Our Climate Future
  56. Israel, the NSA, Plastic Brains and the Pathologically Rich
  57. What Is a Constitution?
  58. Scheduling Note
  59. Updating the Constitution
  60. Civilian Control, 1.5 Degrees, and Your Friendly Neighborhood National Security State
  61. Global Warming Reached +1.53°C in 2024
  62. Alfred McCoy: The British Empire and Scientific Racism
  63. Who's the 'Us' in 'Keeping Us Safe'?
  64. Chinese Innovation, the Fully Dead Fourth Amendment, Dodgy News from DOGE
  65. China Leapfrogging the U.S. in Tech Innovation
  66. Muscular Arrests, Feds Killing Wifi, and a Chinese Trump
  67. A Palantir Primer: Tools for the Muscular State
  68. Palantir Founder: 'They need to wake up scared and go to bed scared'
  69. 'You Don't Need a Tariff, You Need a Revolution'
  70. Schedule Note
  71. Booker, Trump, Le Pen: Three Takes on Three People
  72. We May Be Directly at War with Russia Already
  73. What the New JFK Documents Reveal
  74. The Next American Constitution
  75. Our Billionaire Paradise
  76. Klippenstein: 'Trump is Now at War With Iran'
  77. IDF Use of Palestinians as Human Shields
  78. Alfred McCoy: A World in Transition and the Rise of Capital Rule
  79. Report: Schumer Is Whipping Dem Senators to Pass Trump's Budget Bill
  80. Ukrainian Endgame, 2025 Edition
  81. Coming to Jesus Without a Single Clue
  82. Capitalism in Decay
  83. Alfred McCoy: The Quest for Global Control
  84. The Frog or the Scorpion: Who Caused the Mess We're In?
  85. Why Global Warming Has Accelerated: Hansen's Lay Explanation
  86. The Beast That Can't Be Killed
  87. Like Reagan With a Shotgun
  88. Hottest January in the History of Januaries
  89. Monopoly Eggs, Supporting Corruption, and the Actual Use of AI
  90. Kings of AI: Money Before Country, Again
  91. Where Have the Good Oligarchs Gone?
  92. Introduction: 'To Govern The Globe'
  93. One day, when it's safe...
  94. Whatever the Spook State Wants...
  95. 'Who Is a Democrat?' Revisited
  96. What Is a Democrat?
  97. Best Posts of 2024

2024 97

  1. The Truth About H-1B Visas
  2. Channeling Gore Vidal in a James Bond Book
  3. White Wine in the Sun
  4. Israel Is Field-Testing Autonomous Weapons, Cops and Pre-Crime News, Congressional Trading Fun
  5. Why CEOs and the Very Rich Should Receive Enhanced Protection
  6. The Media's Bizarre Treatment of the Mangione Case
  7. Two Ways of Looking at Regime Change in Syria
  8. The Future Is Plastics, Benjamin
  9. Report: Israeli drones lure Palestinians with crying children recordings, then shoot them
  10. Lebanon Ceasefire Gives Israel Victory in Gaza
  11. Naming the Perp: Very Few People Cause All of the World's Worst Problems
  12. Violence and Responsibility in 'Ministry for the Future'
  13. Tulsi Gabbard's DNI Nomination
  14. Lots of Screaming, Not Much Listening
  15. The Shape of Things To Come
  16. About This Week...
  17. After the Ball Is Over...
  18. Oxfam names perp, Olympic-level surveillance, Boots on the ground...where?
  19. It's Harris's Race to Lose...
  20. Is the Gulf Stream in Danger of Collapse?
  21. 'Hate and lust for vengeance are passed like poison from one generation to the next'
  22. What Elites Do To Others...
  23. Carbon Sinks Are Failing
  24. Our Past, Israel's Nukes, and Tales of Winners Who Lost
  25. Name the Damn Perp
  26. The Ukrainian Endgame
  27. Interview with Richard Eskow: 'Putin, Ukraine and War'
  28. Links for Friday, September 27
  29. Is it Climate Change or a Genocide?
  30. An American Coup?
  31. Links for Friday, September 20
  32. War or Slaughter? What's Happening in Israel
  33. Links for Friday, September 13
  34. Putin, Ukraine and War
  35. Jeffrey Sachs: Eyewitness to What Really Happened in Russia in the 1990s
  36. John Brennan in 2007: The CIA Is 'Engaged on U.S. Soil'
  37. Links for Friday, August 30
  38. It's Harris's Race to Lose
  39. Links for Friday, August 23
  40. Who Invented Syntax?
  41. Department of Pre-Crime, TSA Edition
  42. What's Wrong and Right with Project 2025
  43. Dem Billionaire Wants Harris to Fire Lina Khan
  44. The Real Revolution
  45. Breaking: Looks Like Biden May Be Out
  46. The Nation Considers the Failed Assassination
  47. Links for Friday, July 12
  48. The Donor Convention
  49. How Many People Knew? Turns Out, A Lot
  50. About Last Weekend: The State of the Post-Debate State
  51. Links for Friday, June 28
  52. From Assange to 9/11 to Supply Chain Failures: When Can You Believe Government Explanations?
  53. Links for Friday, June 21
  54. The Three-Body Problem: An Excerpt
  55. Courage or Hope? Facing the Climate Future
  56. Links for Friday, June 14
  57. Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty
  58. What's Going On in the Atlantic is Off the Charts
  59. The Failure of 'Mimesis' and a Housekeeping Note
  60. Will Israel Kill Public Support for America's Bipartisan Consensus?
  61. Links for Friday, May 24
  62. Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated
  63. Renting Your Life
  64. What 'The Wire' Teaches About Institutions
  65. Links for Friday, May 10
  66. The TikTok Law Was Always About Control
  67. Links for Friday, May 3
  68. The Culture of the CIA, a First Look
  69. Links for Friday, April 26
  70. 'Does the CIA Still Do That?'
  71. Scheduling Note and Changes
  72. Links for Friday, April 12
  73. Nate Silver: Sotomayor Should Retire Before the Election
  74. Links for Friday, April 5
  75. A World Without Insurance
  76. Links for Friday, March 29
  77. Google AI Threatens Website with Demonetization. What's Next?
  78. Links for Friday, March 22
  79. A Note About That Pier
  80. What's the Solution to Humanity's Growing Ills?
  81. Links for Friday, March 15
  82. Global Warming Is Still Accelerating, in Three Graphs
  83. Links for Friday, March 8
  84. The Reach of 'the President's Private Army'
  85. Links for Friday, March 1
  86. Enemy of the State
  87. Links for Friday, Feb 16
  88. What Would Happen If Biden Stepped Aside?
  89. Links for Friday, February 2: Climate Sensitivity and a Scheduling Note
  90. 'Rooftop solar is the future, but it's also a scam'
  91. Links for Friday, January 26
  92. Apple's Next Big Thing
  93. Predators and Prey: Subverting Liberal and Populist Institutions
  94. Links for Friday, January 12
  95. Fixing the Panama Canal
  96. Links for Friday, January 5
  97. Permafrost, Methane and Climate Change

2023 76

  1. 'White Wine in the Sun'
  2. Links for Friday, December 22
  3. This Generation's Problem
  4. Links for Friday, December 15
  5. Replacing Kamala Harris
  6. Links for Friday, December 8
  7. 'A Sick Joke': Six Ways of Looking at a COP
  8. Whither The Squad?
  9. Scheduling Note
  10. Benjamin Netanyahu: 'We're fighting America's war'
  11. Links for Friday, November 17
  12. Moshe Dayan: 'What cause have we to complain about their hatred of us?'
  13. Links for Friday, November 10
  14. Biden, the Polls and Democratic Party Options
  15. Links for Friday, November 3
  16. Extending the Fossil Fuel Era, One Trick at a Time
  17. Iyad el-Baghdadi: Analysis of Middle East Options in Wake of Hamas Attack
  18. Global Warming Is Accelerating
  19. Links for Friday, Oct 6
  20. Bad News for Oil, Good News for Water
  21. A Scheduling Note
  22. Links for Friday, September 29
  23. Too Late to Not Nominate Biden
  24. Links for Friday, September 22
  25. When Authorities Believe Their Citizens Will Become Dangerous...
  26. Links for Friday, September 15
  27. Davos Man Says 'Total Transparency' For You
  28. Links for Friday, September 8
  29. The 'Lab Leak' Debate and Why It Matters
  30. Links for Friday, September 1
  31. Joe Biden's Climate Emergency Powers
  32. Links for Friday, August 25
  33. Jonesing on Carbon
  34. Links for Friday, August 18
  35. A New Climate Frontier
  36. Links for Friday, August 11
  37. Links for Friday, August 4
  38. The Later We Stop, The Worse the Result
  39. Links for Friday, July 28
  40. What Caused Democrats' Support for Cluster Bombs?
  41. Links for Friday, July 21
  42. Stranded Assets & Our Climate Future
  43. A Note to Subscribers
  44. Links for Friday, July 14
  45. When The Culture Changes Too Much
  46. Links for Friday, July 7
  47. Links for a Fourth of July
  48. Additions to God's Spies
  49. Invite your friends to read God's Spies by Thomas Neuburger
  50. Thus We Fall
  51. Why Student Debt Is So High
  52. Biden Signs Off on Restarting Student Debt. Why?
  53. Our Disappearing Shoreline
  54. Ice Melt In the Pipeline
  55. 'Adversarial Actors, Home and Abroad'
  56. More on a Jon Stewart Candidacy, or How to Open the Democratic Party Primary
  57. TikTok and Critical Mass
  58. Do Dem Party Leaders Want to Increase Support from Independents?
  59. About That Bipartisanship...
  60. Now on Notes
  61. Democrats vs. Democrats — One of Them Will Lose
  62. Kshama Sawant: Workers Strike Back
  63. SV Bank and the Only Choice We Have
  64. Identifying the Real Resistance
  65. New Notes on an Old Problem
  66. Why Jon Stewart Should Run for President
  67. The Obama Presidential 'Library'
  68. Quick Hits: Alex Wagner on How the Game Is Played
  69. How the Left Should Exercise Power Once They Have It
  70. Quick Hits: Krystal and Saagar Discuss the 'Biden's Been Sabotaged' Theory
  71. Biden's Documents Dilemma
  72. A Note to Subscribers
  73. 'Industry' and the State (Twitter Files 11 & 12)
  74. 'It's Not Either/Or' — Population and Consumption in the Climate Solutions Debate
  75. All Twitter File Links, Aggregated
  76. Coming to God's Spies In 2023

2022 41

  1. Twitter and the CIA (Twitter Files 8–10)
  2. Twitter and the State, Part 2 (Twitter Files 6–7)
  3. Twitter and the State (Twitter Files 1–5)
  4. Do Democratic Leaders Really Think Republicans Are Dangerous?
  5. Pharmaceutical Drugs at Cost + 15%? It's Here Now
  6. ‘People Think of Pelosi as a California Liberal; No, She’s Like a Baltimore Boss’
  7. Government Surveillance at 2022 U.N. Climate Conference
  8. Climate Minister: Until People in Developed Nations Start Dying, Nothing Will Change
  9. The Oil Industry's Message to You
  10. U.S. Companies Now Charge Ex-Employees for Their Training
  11. More About the 'Dawn of Everything' Series
  12. Reflections on Graeber and Wengrow’s ‘Dawn of Everything’
  13. Is 'Seize Now, Sort It Later' Itself an Assault on Liberty?
  14. Liberalism Is Not the Opposite of Conservatism
  15. Chokepoint Capitalism Strangles Us All
  16. Schedule News and a Coming Feature
  17. The IRA Drug Price 'Victory'
  18. The Dying American Southwest
  19. Biden's Climate Emergency: Will He Declare It?
  20. If the Democratic Party Tried to Change, Would its Ecosystem Prevent It?
  21. Biden Expands Oil Exploration in Bid to Slow Climate Change
  22. Can a National Mass Movement Be Organized?
  23. Democratic Voters Have Some Stepping Up to Do
  24. How Effective Are Police?
  25. Police in America: An Awkward Truth
  26. How Will American Oligarchs Keep Control?
  27. One Reason Republican Lies About the Climate Crisis Work
  28. Why Is America Polarized? The Answer May Surprise You
  29. The Washington Quid Pro Quo and a Comment on Roe v. Wade
  30. Today's Inflation & Our World's Common Thread
  31. Climate Collapse & Adaptation
  32. IPCC Adaptation Report: It's Later Than You Think
  33. How Fossil Fuel Governments Control the IPCC
  34. Is Joe Manchin Lucy or the Football?
  35. This Ironic World: Does Climate Hope Encourage Climate Inaction?
  36. A Brief Note...
  37. In the Climate World, Everything New Is Old Again
  38. Could the U.S. Defend Ukraine?
  39. Supreme Court to Rule Again on Executive Branch Regulation in February
  40. Dismantling the American Regulatory State
  41. Our Rolling Civil War

2021 39

  1. Saying Farewell to 2021
  2. 'If We Want to Tackle Climate Change, We Want Them to Go Bankrupt ... Right?’
  3. How Would the Left Treat an Illegitimate Election?
  4. At This Place, In This Time, All Mankind Is Us
  5. On the Duty to Obstruct
  6. The Afghan War Comes Home to Minneapolis
  7. 'This Is a Battle Between What People Need & What Money Wants.' How's That Going to End?
  8. Our Two Covid Problems
  9. ‘Net-Zero Emissions’ and the Carbon Offsetting Scam
  10. Notes on the 'Loss' of Afghanistan
  11. Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism
  12. 'The Economist' Notices the Climate
  13. Andreas Malm: 'Because Nothing Else Has Worked'
  14. Bruno Latour and our Shared Common Future
  15. Industry Calls the Climate Shots in the Biden Administration
  16. An Independence Day Reflection: How the Rich Plan to Rule a Burning World
  17. U.S. Government's Witness Against Assange Admits He Lied
  18. Biden Classifies Opposition to 'Capitalism and Corporate Globalization' As Extreme
  19. The Politics of 'Follow the Science'
  20. A Short Note...
  21. Why Joe Biden Is Not a Transformational President
  22. Can We Have Both Industrial Civilization and a Habitable Planet?
  23. Goodbye, Carbon Deniers. Hello, Carbon Bullshitters.
  24. When Big Green Meets Big Money: The Nature Conservancy Caught Greenwashing Corporate Pollution
  25. The Blackmail Dilemma
  26. Will Our Hundreds of Police Departments All Stand Down? What Will We Do If They Don't?
  27. The Democratic Party Pay-to-Play Scheme That Keeps Corporations in Charge of Public Policy
  28. Whither AOC?
  29. Personal Digital Resistance
  30. Deathbed Confession Reveals FBI and NYPD Responsible for Malcolm X Assassination
  31. Energy Rationing, Conscription and the Coming Climate Crisis
  32. Department of Pre-Crime: Left-Wing Protester Arrested by FBI for Being on a "Path to Radicalization"
  33. Guantánamo Prisoner to Joe Biden: 'The last two decades of my life have been a nightmare without end'
  34. The GameStop Game
  35. Oxford Pledged to Donate Covid Vaccine Rights, Then Sold Them, Thanks to Bill Gates
  36. The Next Neoliberal President...
  37. Good News and Bad News on the Covid Virus Front
  38. About Last Night
  39. Thoughts on the Coming New Year and the Next New Age

2020 8

  1. 'Drinking White Wine in the Sun'
  2. Someone Should Ask Ursula Burns If She Supports Child Labor in Africa
  3. '95% Effective' May Not Mean What You Think It Means
  4. There's No Neoliberal Fix for the Covid Economy
  5. Our Uninhabitable Country
  6. To Save the Economy, Biden Must First Save Lives
  7. Was 'Preserving the Union' Our Other Original Sin?
  8. Coming soon