In another signal that AI technology is threatening to break past human understanding and efforts to contain it, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith is now sounding the alarm. In an interview with the BBC, Smith said a dystopian scenario of thought control predicted by George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 might be powered by AI within the...
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APPLE BETRAYS CHINESE USERS FOR PROFIT
Apple, that bastion of user privacy, just sold out its users in China to the communist government. The U.S. tech giant handed over user iCloud access to Chinese authorities, to cement its opening of a mainland data center in a partnership deal with the Chinese state-owned firm Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD). The joint venture housing...
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THE “PROGRESS” OF LEAVING HUMANS BEHIND
The idea that cutting-edge technologies are providing widespread benefits to humankind is failing the test of observation. The prime current example is new mRNA and DNA COVID “vaccine” technology. They have been lauded for saving the world from a deadly virus. But the world wouldn’t have needed saving, if the virus were never created in...
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2019 PROTESTS TOPPLE CHILE’S RULING PARTY
As we reported last week, “CHILE VOTERS: OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW,” voters in Chile – especially the young – came out en masse earlier this month to deal a blow to the country’s entrenched political parties. They voted for a hard-left special assembly to draft a Constitution that is expected to...
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BELARUS STUNT = U.S. ABUSE
How many Americans know where Belarus is? Or, more appropriately, if considering the general public’s level of knowledge of international goings-on, most would ask, “What’s a Belarus?” In the true spirit of Washington – to hate all things Russian – Belarus, a Russian ally, was “breaking news” in America over the past several weeks. On...
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NO JAIL FOR PRECIOUS METAL MARKET FRAUDSTERS
Federal probation officers advise federal judges on sentencing decisions, and they can disagree with prosecutors on such matters. Such disagreement is on display in the case of two former Deutsche Bank traders convicted of wire fraud for a “spoofing” scheme that manipulated prices on a precious metals futures exchange. Trading is Brisk The rise in...
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DEMS STILL WANT JAN. 6 COMMISSION AFTER SENATE REJECTION
A narrow Senate defeat for a so-called “January 6 Commission” to politically target Trump protesters hasn’t stopped Democrats. According to reports, a House Select Committee hearing may serve as an avenue for continuing to peddle a narrative of “insurrection”. Democrats have already used the January 6 event to illegally spy on U.S. citizens, and jail...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERING RESEARCH AT TOP U.S. LAB
It’s being hailed — at least by some — “the next generation of the way we do science.” The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is leading projects to use Artificial Intelligence to speed “transformative discoveries” in science. The lab recently received a $37 million grant from the DOE to further its projects....
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CHINA WANTS A BULLET TRAIN INTO THE U.S.
The Chinese government has looked at plans that would construct an underground high-speed rail from the mainland, underground through Siberia, into Alaska, and possibly even to the U.S. West Coast. That’s according to the Chinese news outlet Sina. It may sound farfetched. But a pan-Asia railway built and funded by China is set to begin...
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COVID BAD, ROUNDUP WEED KILLER GOOD
When the COVID War broke out in January 2020, we noted that hundreds of millions of people, animals, and living species have been, and continue to be killed by the trillions of tons of pesticides, insecticides, and chemicals pumped into the earth, water, and air. And, of course, the artificial ingredients and preservatives added to...