Malachi is an old friend, comrade, beer-drinking and slam-dancing buddy from Back in the Day. Some of what he offers is actual predictions of things he actually thinks will happen. Other times he's just blowing off steam. It's hard to tell, sometimes, if he is serious or if he's putting me on. I get visits now and again. Here are some highlights.
Beorn

"Look for Columbia to be the next Viet Nam. They'll sell it to the public as a war to stop cocaine, but actually it's a war to control the business. Till now, pretty much all the cocaine has been handled by right-wing thugs, but in Columbia, there's starting to be some left-wing thugs handling it. That's very unsettling to the various Mafias, and to the CIA and Military Intelligence. (I mean look: the Army and the government are nothing but another mafia: the Rich White Man Mafia...) So anyway... There's a government in Columbia that isn't good at much except convincing the gringos that they are fighting the coke cartels, and convincing the coke cartels (which own the entire country except the part owned by the US military-industrial complex) that they are keeping the gringos at bay. Meanwhile, in the actual country, nothing is being done for ordinary people. Sooner or later, you get groups like Shining Path in Peru, and whoever these guys are in Columbia, who can do a few nice things for the peasants who support them, say the right things about freedom, dignity, and Indian rights, finance themselves with a little coke, and start a Maoist style agrarian revolt!
Now, Watch. Watch what happens with Columbia. The rebels are gaining ground. A hysterical edge is creeping into the voices of reporters and "experts" talking about Columbia. The current US Gummint Policy seems to be that since these rebels are "cocaine terrorists" or some such, they "Must Be Stopped At Any Cost blah blah blah.
Just Watch.

I told him I'd type in whatever he said. Silly me! Well, think of it as a form of entertainment. I do.
Beorn