61 Texas Panhandle • Fellow Texans Come to the Rescue after Fire Devastates Panhandle • The Day the Fire Came: A Tale of Love and Loss on the Panhandle Plains Montana • Montana Wildfires • US Heatwave: Deserts Burn in Triple-digit Temperatures as California and Montana Hit by Wildfires Greece • Greece Seeks EU Help as Wildfires Rage Portugal • Portuguese Protest over Deadly Forest Fires, Government Pledges Aid Spain • Spain: More than 2,000 People Flee Forest Fire For 2018, please rethink your disaster-recov- ery plans, given the possibility of fires at much higher temperatures than most fireproof safes are currently prepared to handle. The AI Op Ops are sometimes fielded as excuses designed to shield decision makers and assets. One response to the missing money was a UFO story in a manner I call, “Mommy, mommy the aliens made me do it!” The idea is that the establishment and the military spent the money protecting us from the aliens. Consequently, we should not ask questions including who has what assets and net worth as a result. It is time we start to ask the question, “If the economy is rigged with government money and credit, why should anyone in the private sector be paid more than the civil service?” Another example is the series of excuses that deci- sions made autonomously by algorithms or artifi- cial intelligence relieve humans of responsibility. The risks of AI are very real. But so is the risk that human evildoing will hide behind “The AI did it” or “The Algorithm did it.” If we are going to unleash powerful algorithms and AI on the world, then we need to attach personal liability to those who introduce and profit from them. • Toward a Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Surmounting the Obstacles • Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neill • Elon Musk Issues a Stark Warning about A.I., Calls it a Bigger Threat than North Korea • Facebook Halts Experiment after Chatbots Create Secret Language The Weather Warfare Op Weather manipulation is happening. It makes it difficult to separate disasters from warfare by an- other name, as well as disaster capitalism. It also makes it difficult to have a rational conversation about climate change. Houston • Distressed Investors Are Already Buying Houston Homes for 40 Cents on the Dollar Florida, Puerto Rico & the Caribbean • Rosalind Peterson of California Skywatch on Global Spraying & Weather Modification • Extensive List of Patents: Geoengineering Watch False Flags One of the highlights of 2017 was Richard Dolan’s publication of his TV series on False Flags. Winner of the Solari Report Documenta- ry of the Year for 2017, this series can help you understand false flags and the extent to which they have become a regularly used tool in justify- ing government policy, legislation, and national security spending, as well as scripting fake news. • Richard Dolan on False Flags • https://solari.com/blog/richard-dolan-on- false-flags/ False flags were ongoing throughout 2017.