As Profiteering, Unscrupulous Corporations Lick CCP Boots, One NBA Player Takes a Stand
There IS an NBA Player Who Stands Against What is Truly Grotesque! Enes Kanter – Center for the NBA’s Boston Celtics Enes Kanter is from Turkey and one of the few NBA players to use his “platform” for something truly courageous. On Nov. 16, he slammed the CCP for its systematic killing of prisoners of conscience to […]
Austria Lockdowns the Unvaccinated – Performing Street Checks for Papers
From: EPOCH TIMES Over 1/3 of the population of the Central European nation is now permitted to leave their home only for limited reasons. Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg admitted that the government essentially “told one-third of the population: you will not leave your apartment any more apart from for certain reasons. That is a massive reduction […]
Israel Drone Swarm: Human Rights Watch is Running a Campaign Called Stop Killer Robots
Elon Musk has made the call. He has probably been the most vocal in declaring the threat of AI to humanity. Musk’s statements now seem to be more than just attention seeking. In October of 2020, JP VERITAS recently linked to a Guardian article about the real threat of AI – “Machines Set Loose to […]
The US Eats Itself and China Vultures Circle
A Tale of Two Super Powers While The US Does This…. 1. President Biden signed an executive order creating a commission to consider changes to the Supreme Court. On April 8th, President Biden signed an executive order to create a commission whose task is to explore fundamentally changing the structure of the Supreme Court of […]
US Falls Into 4 Traps Set by the CCP in US-China Talks
Source: Epoch Times – Wang He Commentary Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, recorded a temperature as low as -18 degrees Celsius (nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit) in the early morning. A two-day high-level talk between the United States and China has just ended in this frigid place. The high pitch of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) […]
Remembering the biggest mass murder in the history of the world
SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world? Most people probably assume that the answer is Adolf Hitler, architect of the Holocaust. Others might guess Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who may indeed have managed to kill even more innocent people than Hitler did, many of them as part of […]
Safeguarding Africa’s Food Security in the Age of COVID-19
SOURCE: IMF Food security in sub-Saharan Africa is under threat. The ability of many Africans to access sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs has been disrupted by successive natural disasters and epidemics. Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, locust outbreaks in eastern Africa, and droughts in southern and eastern Africa are some examples. The […]
‘Machines Set Loose to Slaughter’: the Dangerous Rise of Military AI
SOURCE: GUARDIAN Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots? The video is stark. Two menacing men stand next to a white van in a field, holding remote controls. They open the van’s […]
Brazil’s Amazon rainforest suffers worst fires in a decade
SOURCE: GUARDIAN Satellites record 61% rise in hotspots over September 2019 Scientist warns: ‘It could get worse if the drought continues’ Fires in Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago, as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of blazes in a decade, data from space […]
Thomas Sowell on the second edition of Intellectuals and Society
In the Second Edition of Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell expands upon his critique of intellectuals and their influence on society, examining how those in academia and related professions shape public opinion and policy despite often lacking accountability. Sowell defines intellectuals as people whose primary work involves ideas rather than tangible products or direct services. […]