This may be the pinprick that pops the AI data center boom. Oracle buried itself in a massive AI data center boondoggle that went south because they couldn't get the energy permits needed to run it. Then the financing disappeared. Oracle is using "force majeure" as an excuse to avoid losses and liability. If a court doesn't strike this down, the entire industry will follow Oracle. This is the proverbial crack in the dam.

24 September 2026

Technocrats drove climate doom, then the COVID doom, and now the AI doom machine: in each case, we are all gonna die. In each case, the object was to move humanity toward Technocracy. This has nothing to do with being "left" or "right". Technocrats are low-ball destroyers of political systems and will stoop to any level to get their way.

23 September 2026

Crucible of Tokens is the capstone of my trilogy, started 10 months ago with The Final Betrayal with Courtenay Turner. Then came The New Economics of Technocracy, which explained the mechanics of "You will own nothing." Now comes the "gloves off" accusation that tokenization, driven by AI, is going to strip the world bare of real property, in terms of deeds, titles, and ownership in general. Keep your hand on your wallet. Take courage and take cover,  because it's coming for you.

22 September 2026

Last Sunday morning, the Treasury Secretary Bessent and the Vice Premier of China sat down to negotiate the commercial future of the two largest economies on earth. They did not meet at the Treasury or at a consulate, but rather at the Manhattan headquarters of JPMorgan Chase. This seems a little fishy to me. 

21 September 2026

Stripe has assembled, under one private roof, a wallet bound to identity, a reputation score that precedes the purchase, a meter on machine intelligence, a stablecoin, and a blockchain to settle it. Each piece has a reasonable business justification. Together they amount to the ledger, the meter, and the gate for machine commerce. Technocracy was defined in 1938 as the science of social engineering, with the measurement and accounting of all production and consumption at its core. The original Technocrats had no instrument that could do it. Stripe's stack, built for ordinary commercial reasons, can.

17 September 2026

Bill Gates has used existential threats to further his kingdom, time after time. First, he said global warming was going to kill us all, polar ice caps would melt, and the seas would rise. Then he pointed to the food crisis and said we are going to starve. Then came COVID, and he said the virus is going to kill us all. Now, now AI will go rogue and literally wipe humanity off the planet. Why does anybody take him seriously? At 70, Gates should be thinking about his own existential threat.

17 September 2026

Failure of the CLARITY Act does not stop the tokenization train, but it will slow it down. The SEC and CFTC will now write the rules by exemption, no-action letter, and enforcement discretion. The GENIUS Act provided the settlement layer in 2025, and the banks have already caved to tokenization. The stock markets are already being tokenized. Get ready for my new book, CRUCIBLE OF TOKENS, to figure out what this means to you, so you can take evasive action.

16 September 2026

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on the ropes in the Middle East with a collection of wreckage from bombed-out data centers in the UAE and Bahrain. AWS reported, “The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand.” Phrases like "damaged beyond hope of recovery," "the region went dark," and "exhausted every option for recovering whatever was left behind" highlight the angst felt by AWS.

16 September 2026

"War is hell" when all of a sudden it dawns on you that your AI data center might be bombed into oblivion. UAE is perilously close to Iran, so its data centers are getting hit. The UAE is a leader in AI and FinTech (Financial Technology) in the Middle East, and wants to be the hinge pin of the global trade routes passing through the region. No AI data centers = no global trade.

16 September 2026

A micro-state Utopia for crypto billionaires who eschew taxes, government, and regulations of any kind. These so-called "network states" are popping up all around the world. Peter Thiel has backed Praxis and Prospera, which is in Honduras. Reportedly, Thiel now calls Prospera home. Praxis doesn't have a home yet, but they are hoping for Greenland.

15 September 2026