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Artificial intelligence can have positive impacts for humanity if harnessed sensibly, writes Keith Presnell.  read now...

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Today’s event in London calling for the release of wrongly-jailed Wikileaks journalist Julian Assange was a well-attended success, featuring journalists Jonathan Cook, Stefania Maurizi and Craig Murray, as well as contributions from others. If you missed it, don’t worry – it can be viewed in full below, from the live-stream to Facebook: The event’s YouTube […]

Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan struck a Dr. Strangelove pose in urging the troops under his command to be ready to fight China in two years.

The post War With China Could Come as Soon as 2025, Predicts ‘Untethered’ US General appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Trump has gotten away with criminal and corrupt behavior his whole life, largely because the authorities just couldn’t ever be bothered with taking the risk of doing anything about it. That remains true today: Days before then-President Donald Trump left the White House, federal prosecutors in New York discussed whether to potentially charge Trump with campaign finance crimes once he was out of office, according to a new book from CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig. Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York developed significant evidence against Trump when they charged his former attorney Michael Cohen in 2018 over a hush money scheme paying two women claiming affairs with Trump, including adult film star Stormy Daniels, Honig writes. But prosecutors did not consider charging Trump at the time because of longstanding Justice Department guidance that a sitting president cannot be indicted. With Trump about to leave office in January 2021, however, Audrey Strauss, the acting US attorney, held multiple discussions with a small group of prosecutors to discuss its evidence against Trump.

Phil Armstrong   ‘It’s the same each time with progress, First, they ignore you, Then they say you’re mad, Then Dangerous, And then there’s a pause, And then you can’t …

The post ‘Tombstone for a Tombstone’: Dealing with the ‘bad science’ behind mainstream criticism of MMT appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.

State and territory governments will be reliant on the boom in student, visitor, working holiday maker and skilled temporary entry arrivals in 2022 to meet their 2022-23 skilled visa allocations. read now...

Jonathan Chait’s observation here is right on: There is an enduring pattern in American conservatism in which the right first develops a paranoid interpretation of the liberal Establishment, and then reverse engineers its own version of the monster it has imagined. Conservatives convinced themselves that the mainstream media and universities were mere propaganda organs, then created institutions like the Heritage Foundation and Fox News, warped reflections of their own overheated critique. The January 6 insurrection was, of course, in the mind of its participants, a “response” to the imagined vote-fraud conspiracy and its antifa/BLM shock troops. John Durham’s investigation is a classic episode in this tradition. The American right first convinced itself that Robert Mueller and the deep state, using the cover of dispassionate professionalism, had launched a partisan witch hunt to smear Donald Trump. In response, it created a right-wing mirror image, as fervently partisan and unhinged as they believed their enemies to be. I would say the “weaponization committee” is the Bizarro Worldversion of the January 6th Committee too.

I’m fairly sure most of you don’t watch Fox News or other right wing media. I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t have to . But I think it’s important to pass on at least some of what they’re doing so we know where Republican voters are getting some of this stuff. Here’s Tucker Carlson this week proposing that the US invade Canada: Tucker Carlson on Thursday called for the U.S. to invade Canada and remove Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Fox News host claimed he meant it before saying he was talking himself “into a frenzy.”  During Fox Nation’s “Tucker Carlson Today,” Carlson referenced the arrests last year of anti-vax truckers in Canada. The demonstrators paralyzed commerce and won over extremists with their traffic-tying protests of COVID-19 safety measures. At the time, Carlson said the country had become a dictatorship because the government took action. And now he suggested he’d like to do something about it. “I’m completely in favor of a Bay of Pigs operation to liberate that country,” Carlson said.

(Cockles & Mussels in Garlic Cream Dip) 1 jar (2½-oz size) cockles1 jar (2¼-oz size) mussels2 cups heavy cream¼ cup (½ stick) butter4 cloves garlic1 dash hot sauce½ teaspoon salt¼ teaspoon pepper¼ cup finely chopped chives Drain cockles and mussels and set aside; reserving juices. Pour heavy cream into a heavy skillet and bring to […]

Here’s what’s happening and it isn’t just in Florida. Other red states are following DeSantis’s lead. Judd Legum’s Popular Information newsletter had the story: Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being told to make their classroom libraries — and any other “unvetted” book — inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution. The new policy is part of an effort to comply with new laws and regulations championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R). It is based on the premise, promoted by right-wing advocacy groups, that teachers and librarians are using books to “groom” students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.  Kevin Chapman, the Chief of Staff for the Manatee County School District, told Popular Information that the policy was communicated to principals in a meeting last Wednesday. Individual schools are now in the process of informing teachers and other staff. Teachers in Manatee County lamented the news on social media.

It is not just pride which motivates the US elite’s fear of China and of multipolarity. Their ‘exorbitant privilege’ rests on power conferred by hegemony. The struggle of Australia, and countries around the world, to reclaim sovereignty in resistance to that power will be difficult because so much hinges on it. Mike Gilligan incisively and Continue reading »

… as Louis Armstrong famously croaked. Well, perhaps: The temperature’s going up. The rich are getting richer. Wetlands are disappearing. Gas is officially green. 2022 sixth hottest on record It’s hard not to keep telling the same old stories but keeping an eye on the global temperature is rather like keeping an eye on your Continue reading »

As is now usual around Australia Day, commentators from all sides of the argument weigh in to suggest new dates on which we might celebrate the founding of the nation. Henry Reynolds, for instance, has made a case for not celebrating on 26 January and in response in these pages David Havyatt has wondered whether Continue reading »

Opinion polls suggest Peter Dutton and his media accomplices – both Murdoch and the Nine Newspapers – are having some initial success in confusing The Voice issue. It’s not surprising as the tactic has worked very well in many countries in many situations for a long time as the author recently described. It also suits Continue reading »

Can the Trump Organization recover from the loss of one of their top executives?Actually, does the Trump Organization still exist? He is one of the “stars” of Trump affiliated Rumble, the right wing YouTube alternative. I ask once again. How many right wing media entities are there anyway? How many do they need?

. People say time heals all wounds. I wish that was true. But some wounds never heal. Even after thirty years you just have to learn to live with the scars. In memory of Kristina Syll — beloved wife and mother of my son David and daughter Tora. But in dreams, I can hear your […]

Attorney General Gentner Drummond upended the execution calendar and gave Glossip a new chance to prove his innocence.

The post Oklahoma Slows Down Frenzied Execution Spree and Launches Probe Into Richard Glossip Case appeared first on The Intercept.

Life as a fictional character Noah Lanard and David Corn find that fact-chaecking the freshman congressman from New York is more like editing a work of fiction: In September 2020, George Santos’ congressional campaign reported that Victoria and Jonathan Regor had each contributed $2,800—the maximum amount—to his first bid for a House seat. Their listed address was 45 New Mexico Street in Jackson Township, New Jersey. A search of various databases reveals no one in the United States named Victoria or Jonathan Regor. Moreover, there is nobody by any name living at 45 New Mexico Street in Jackson. That address doesn’t exist. There is a New Mexico Street in Jackson, but the numbers end in the 20s, according to Google Maps and a resident of the street. Santos’ 2020 campaign finance reports also list a donor named Stephen Berger as a $2,500 donor and said he was a retiree who lived on Brandt Road in Brawley, California.

We look at the Doctors' first moments on Doctor Who and how their grand entrances define their characters. Well... most of the time, anyway.

It’s not just mass shooters Videos of police beating Tyre Nichols in Memphis. I just can’t watch them this morning. But a New York Times special report on mass shootings clicked with the reported violence of the policemen who beat the Black motorist (ultimately to death) during a traffic stop. “Jillian Peterson is a professor of criminology at Hamline University. James Densley is a professor of criminal justice at Metro State University. Together they run the Violence Project and are the authors of ‘The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic‘,” reads their bio in The Times. They intersperse their conclusions about 50 years of mass shootings with terse summaries of what motivated shooters they studied (emphasis mine): These are abridged details from profiles of the suspected or convicted perpetrators of more than 150 mass shootings in the United States. The profiles are based on news reports, public documents and our conversations with the shooters’ friends, colleagues, social workers and teachers. These events have become more frequent and more deadly over time.

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