The Biden administration last week took its latest actions to stymie the growth of China by issuing an executive order that bans new investment into vital technology industries in the Asian giant.
Category: 15 August 2023
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KNOWLEDGE WORKERS LOSING OUT TO AI
Is Generative AI complementing knowledge workers, or more often, displacing them?
That’s the subject of a newly published study by researchers at the University of Washington at St. Louis.
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PAKISTAN HIT WITH POLITICAL INSTABILITY AFTER PM DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT
Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s departing prime minister, announced last week that he dissolved Parliament—which means the country’s election will not occur until 2024 instead of November.
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MIDDLE EAST MELTDOWN: BIDEN ESCALATES TENSIONS WITH IRAN IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ
The Biden administration deployed sailors and Marines to the Middle East last week as part of its “pre-announced deployment to support deterrence efforts in the Strait of Hormuz,” the Pentagon said.
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INDOCTRINATION, INTIMIDATION & INTOLERANCE: WHAT PASSES FOR EDUCATION TODAY
This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today.
Instead of being taught the three R’s of education (reading, writing and arithmetic), young people are being drilled in the three I’s of life in the American police state: indoctrination, intimidation and intolerance.
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WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE? ECUADORIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ASSASSINATED
Politicians in Washington and the presstitutes in the media shrug off political assassinations unless, of course, they occur in countries that are continually portrayed as evil, like Russia and China.
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SUDAN’S BRUTAL WAR DISPLACES OVER 4 MILLION, BUT WHO CARES? THEY AREN’T UKRAINIAN
The United Nations warned last week that the armed clashes between Sudan’s army and its paramilitary Rapid Response Forces have displaced more than four million people—including over 884,000 who have fled the country.
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U.S.: NIGER’S JUNTA MUST FOLLOW OUR DEMANDS OR WE’LL STARVE YOUR COUNTRY
Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, called the coup in Niger “extremely troubling” and said he supports the efforts by some West African countries to “restore constitutional order” in the country, while his second-in-command vowed to starve the country of funding.
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AMERICA: “WE’RE #1” IN CORRUPTION
A newly released Gallup poll found that 74 percent of those polled said the U.S. government is corrupt, which ties with Mexico for most corrupt countries.
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JOE ROGAN AGREES WITH CELENTE, WARNS OF GOV’T PUSH TO DIGITAL CURRENCY
Joe Rogan, the popular podcast host, warned last week that a shift to digital currency in the U.S. would mean the disappearance of freedom and privacy in the country and enable the government to control nearly every facet of life.