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Sick of human politicians? 25% of Europeans would prefer AI government

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:30 UTC

More than a quarter of Europeans would rather have their countries' important political decisions made by artificial intelligence than their elected and unelected human officials, according to a surprising new survey.

Fully one in four Europeans said they were "somewhat or totally in favor of letting an artificial intelligence make important decisions about the running of their country," a number that climbed to one in three for the Netherlands, UK, and Germany, according to a survey by the Center for the Governance of Change, a tech-focused research group from IE University in Spain. The figures remained constant across education levels, gender, and political affiliation, indicating either Europeans are abnormally welcoming of their new robot overlords - or they're sick of their human ones.

Spoiler alert: it's likely the latter. While the survey uncovered high levels of technological anxiety across all demographics, even the fear of having one's job stolen by robots doesn't hold a candle to Europeans' antipathy for their political masters, who've shown themselves all too willing to throw their constituents under the (self-driving) bus in pursuit of power - whether it's France's Emmanuel Macron attempting to outlaw protest and bar critical media from his press conferences or Theresa May repeatedly serving up unappetizing Brexit deals in a reverse-psychology effort to transmute "Leave" into "Stay."

Youth Strike Movement For Climate Change is an Immensely Deceptive Globalist Propaganda Campaign

Ian
In This Together
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

Recently we have all been asked to celebrate the youthful commitment to 'save the planet' personified by the 'Youth Strike 4 Climate .' Hundreds of thousands of children, across the world, have been involved in various forms of strike action in protest against humankind's heating of the planet through our CO2 emissions. Many were given leave from their lessons to 'demonstrate.' This has been widely welcomed by the political class. Jeremy Corbyn, Caroline Lucas and Nicola Sturgeon were but a few of the leading politicians supporting this 'coordinated day of action.

Particularly delighted was the President of the EU Commission Jean Claude Juncker. He tweeted his support and a committed a quarter of the EU's annual budget for programs to 'mitigate' against man made climate change. That's an annual expenditure of more than €36bn, based upon the EU's 2015 figures. As ever with the EU, it is difficult to know precisely how much of your tax money they spend or where they spend it. They haven't independently audited their budget accounts for more than 20 years, preferring their own 'in house' auditors. Wouldn't we all?

While mass absenteeism presented a bit of a problem for schools, who should record a child's absence for any reason other than illness as 'unauthorised,' the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) union were also supportive. Despite some 'official concerns,' clearly there was tacit acceptance of the strike from government education departments around the world.

All of which begs some interesting questions. Whose idea was it that schoolchildren as young as 5 yrs old should get involved in political protest? Who coordinated the 'day of action?' What were they protesting for (or against) and, most importantly, who funded it and why?

Comment: James Corbett also does an excellent job deconstructing these recent developments:

The madness has spread everywhere.

Kids were about to embark on one of these 'protests against nature' (which is what they really are) in Christchurch when the terror attacks there occurred.

In France, kids' 'protests' have been getting way more coverage in the media than the Yellow Vest protests, and there are daily updates even in regional, local newspapers about how one or two teens skipping school are doing in their 'protests to save the planet'...

Methamphetamine is flooding into the US, DEA official says

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:58 UTC

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that opioid-related deaths are starting to plateau, officials fret a surge in methamphetamine-related deaths could contribute to the next leg up in the American drug overdose crisis.

There were 1,854 meth-related deaths reported in 2010. By 2017, more than 10,300 deaths were linked to meth and or chemically-similar psychostimulants, which is a 550% jump from 2010.

The DEA told the Journal that their drug-tracking system recorded 347,807 law-enforcement meth seizures submitted to labs in 2017, a 118% increase from 2010. The recent inflow of meth into the U.S. has made it more affordable and easily accessible, the agency warns.

Senegalese man sets Italian school bus on fire with children on board

Sarah Rossi
Reuters
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:10 UTC

A bus full of school children was set on fire by its driver in the outskirts of Milan on Wednesday in an apparent protest against migrant drownings in the Mediterranean, Italian authorities said.

All the children managed to escape unhurt before the bus was engulfed in flames. Police said the driver was an Italian of Senegalese origin.

"He shouted 'Stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre'," spokesman Marco Palmieri quoted the driver as telling police after his arrest.

China clones 'Sherlock Holmes of police dogs' to cut time and cost of K9 training

RT
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:06 UTC

Beijing used the skin of a veteran police dog, credited with helping to solve many murders, to create its younger clone. Officials hope that the K9 cloning program will drive down cost and time required for dogs' training.

A three-month-old pup named Kunxun, China's first ever cloned police dog, arrived at a canine-training base in the nation's southwestern Yunnan Province, local media reported. She is a Kunming wolfdog, a breed similar to a German shepherd. Kunming dogs are widely used in China by the military, police, border guards and firefighters.

Kunxun's DNA is 99.9 percent identical to veteran police dog named Huahuangma, whose skin was used as genetic material for the clone, police officials stated. Huahuangma is said to have earned the name 'Sherlock Holmes of police dogs' after helping to crack "dozens" of murder cases. The embryo, created from her DNA, was later implanted into a beagle, which gave birth to Kunxun via cesarean section.

Why Finlandians seem to be so much happier than Americans

Tess Riley
Huff Post
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 01:01 UTC

© Getty Images
A waterfront view of Finland’s capital, Helsinki. The country’s strong social safety net is just one of the reasons citizens experience a high quality of life.

To be the happiest country, having the top economic growth isn't necessarily the answer. Are you listening, U.S.?

For the second year in a row, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world by the World Happiness Report. What's more, the Nordic nation has pulled "significantly ahead" of the other top 10 countries in the report, which ranks the happiness levels of 156 countries using data from Gallup World Poll surveys.

The U.S., by contrast, has continued its downward trend. This year it's in 19th place for overall happiness. Last year it was 18, down from 14 the year before.

It's not hard to understand why Finland is doing so well. The northern European country has a strong social safety net, including a progressive, successful approach to ending homelessness. It also has a high-quality education system, and its commitment to closing the gender gap is paying off. With a population of just over 5.5 million people, it's the only country in the developed world where fathers spend more time with school-aged children than mothers.

Comment: The article linked to above suggests that it is not actually "closing the gender pay gap" that makes for better quality of life per se. But rather, that Finland also gives new fathers paid paternity leave!

Why Tom Friedman's belief in a Jewish 'ancestral homeland' is a toxic myth

Yossi Gurvitz
Mondoweiss
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:48 UTC

Tom Freidman

Reading a recent post, I made the critical error of clicking on the link to a Thomas Friedman column. I will not engage Friedman's screed against Ilhan Omar - for the record, I'm on Team Ilhan - because I believe Friedman has too much blood on his keyboard to be seriously engaged. I will, however, take exception to an aside of his. Friedman writes:

I am not dual loyal. I always put America first, but I want to see Israel thrive - just like many Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, and Indian-Americans and others feel about their ancestral homelands.

Don't know how to break it to you, Tom, but Israel isn't your ancestral homeland. You were born in Minnesota in 1953. Your parents also lived in the US. Wherever your grandparents came from, it wasn't Israel, since it didn't exist at the time.

What you're referring to, Tom, without even noticing it, is the myth that Jews today are all the descendants of Jews who once lived in Palestine, and as such have an eternal right to the land. This is the founding myth of Zionism, and it often masquerades as history. Let's blow it up, shall we?

JPMorgan Managing Director dies: Sudden tragedy has connections to other JPM deaths

Pam Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

Douglas Arthur Carucci

When you are the largest bank in the United States and you've been compared to the Gambino crime family in a book by two trial lawyers; when you've pleaded guilty to three criminal felony counts brought by the United States Justice Department in the past five years; when you've paid over $30 billion in fines over charges of crimes against the public and investors since 2008; and when you've had an unprecedented string of employees leaping to their death from buildings, dropping dead at home or on the street, and two alleged murder-suicides by employees - all in just the past five years - one might think that law enforcement might show some interest - especially since this employer - JPMorgan Chase - holds tens of billions of dollars of Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) on its workers. (This death benefit, by the way, pays tax-free to the corporation, not the employee's family.)

But when it comes to JPMorgan Chase and law enforcement, there does not seem to be a morsel of curiosity over the continuing sudden deaths of its computer technology workers - no matter how high up the corporate ladder they rank or how many floors they are alleged to fall to their death.

Take the case of Douglas (Doug) Arthur Carucci, age 53, who died on Saturday, March 9 under what Sarah Butcher at eFinancial Careers calls "tragic" and unexpected circumstances. Carucci is believed to have been a resident of Manhattan with his wife, Cindy.

Comment: What do these banking execs know? And why are so many of them ending up dead under such tragic circumstances (assuming there's a connection between them)??

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Mother accused of child molestation and child abuse of her 7 adopted children

FOX10
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:51 UTC

Court documents from Pinal County are providing graphic details into allegations of child abuse leveled against a woman who lives in Maricopa.

While court documents only referred to the woman by her first name and middle initial, Machelle L., and redacted her last name, FOX 10 has learned that the woman's full name is Machelle Lea Hackney. Hackney, along with Logan D. Hackney and Ryan D. Hacnkey, were arrested on March 15 at their home in Maricopa. Logan and Ryan are noted as Machelle's adult sons, and they were arrested on multiple counts of failing to report the abuse of a minor.

According to the documents, officers responded to the Maricopa Police Department regarding a child abuse case, and spoke with a female, who said her adoptive sister claimed she was being abused at her Maricopa home by her mother. The adoptive sister's identity and age were redacted in court documents, and the abuse was described by the adoptive sister as her being pepper sprayed, left in a locked closet for days at a time with no food, water or restroom. The adoptive sister also stated that her six other siblings, all children, were being punished in the same manner.

A welfare check, according to court documents, was then conducted at the home. During the welfare check, one child, wearing only a pull-up, was found in an unlocked closet that has a locking mechanism. Officers also came in contact with six other children who appeared to be malnourished. One of the children found said he consumed three 16 oz bottles of water within a 20-minute timeframe, and said he was pepper-sprayed numerous times as punishment by Machelle.

A professor spoke the truth, he still pays the price

David French
National Review
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:08 UTC

Dissenters from campus orthodoxy often need a rare kind of personal fortitude.

Last October, Sarah Lawrence College professor Samuel Abrams wrote an important and insightful essay in the New York Times. While critics of higher education have often focused on faculty bias - in part because a small subset of professors is prone to say ridiculous things - a larger problem has gone mostly unnoticed. Abrams's research revealed that college administrators are more uniformly progressive even than college faculties. "Liberal staff members," he wrote, "outnumber their conservative counterparts by the astonishing ratio of 12-to-one," making them the "most left-leaning group on campus."

At the conclusion of his piece, Abrams made an argument that rang true to my more than 20 years of litigation experience - "ideological imbalance, coupled with [administrators'] agenda-setting power, threatens the free and open exchange of ideas."

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Society's Child

Sick of human politicians? 25% of Europeans would prefer AI government

Youth Strike Movement For Climate Change is an Immensely Deceptive Globalist Propaganda Campaign

Methamphetamine is flooding into the US, DEA official says

Senegalese man sets Italian school bus on fire with children on board

China clones 'Sherlock Holmes of police dogs' to cut time and cost of K9 training

Why Finlandians seem to be so much happier than Americans

Why Tom Friedman's belief in a Jewish 'ancestral homeland' is a toxic myth

JPMorgan Managing Director dies: Sudden tragedy has connections to other JPM deaths

Mother accused of child molestation and child abuse of her 7 adopted children

A professor spoke the truth, he still pays the price

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