Democracy Lost: The Epstein Links

  ANALYSIS and OPINION To date, the Jeffrey Epstein Files (which as of this posting on February 13, 2026 have still not been fully turned over to Congress as required by law), clearly show that Epstein’s sphere of connections was wide and included not only Trump, but also Elon Musk, Secretary Lutnick, ex Prince Andrew Read More …

MUSK: Asset or Threat to US?

  ANALYSIS and OPINION: Through the merger of two of his companies Elon Musk’s estimated net worth is now around $800 billion.   Given the vasteness and strategic nature of entire business portfolio is Musk a vital asset necessary to defense of the United States, or is he a threat to it? There’s no question that Read More …

AI Godfather Alarms Us ChatGPT Response

  OPINION and ANAYSIS: Geoffrey Hinton is a Nobel Prize winner and he’s called the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence (AI). His interview with CNN scares us. You can decide for yourself if we’re over-reacting in our video below, but we put the fundamental questions the Godfather of AI’s interview raises to ChatGPT 5.  Below are Read More …

Huge AI Risks-Important But Ignored:

  OPINION and ANALYSIS: Here is an extremely important risk that no one has adequately addressed.  If we are right, the government is going to need an overwhelming amount of cash, at least in the near term, and it might well overwhelm our financial system.   At that point all bets may be off about the Read More …

Musk Trillionaires Robot Armies: Is Socialism Needed?

  [Opinion and Analysis.] Once again Elon Musk is in the news and Tesla shareholders are once again going to have to figure out how to keep their main man on board, but the ramification of the whole situation transcend what’s going on at Tesla.  Wealth inequality, robots, political power and the future of mankind Read More …

Real Scary Things About Trump

[ANALYSIS and OPINION] Below is the original blog post on this vitally important subject complete with several important videos.  On October 14, 2025 I asked the newest version of ChatGPT (ChatGPT 5) the following and got the following response: [We asked ChatGPT 5 whether President Trump was under the “undue influence” of Russia.  Unfortunately,  ChatGPT  Read More …

Can and/or Should Trump Be Impeached Again?

  [ANALYSIS and OPINION] As Lord Acton once famously said:  “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” [Despite the fact that the following videos are very substantive and make very rational and valid points on extremely relevant subjects, again they got no views on Youtube. (The author is a lawyer, has taught international Read More …

Can AI Destroy Democracy? Black Keys OMC funk & rock

[Preliminary Note:  For some reason when we posted this blog, we stopped getting any visitors.  Wonder why?  Not only did we stop getting visitors to this page, but we also stopped getting views on our Youtube videos having anything to do with oligarchs.  Is reasonandbalance.com being censored? As such, we changed the title to what Read More …

Bob Seger Psychobilly & Tunes- Musk & Trump

  [Editor’s Note:  This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played.  The transcript is in 3 parts. (1.)The first is the first half of a transcript of the radio broadcast with tune links; (2.) The Editorial: Read More …