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Bye-bye humanity: Futurologist predicts that by 2050 more humans will have sex with robots than with each other

Amando Flavio
AnonHq
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:05 UTC

Dr Ian Pearson

The human race has evolved from a long process. Today, some secular philosophers consider this current human race to be the most advanced. However, many mystic philosophers dispute this assertion.

Of course, we all agree that for what we can see from the natural world, this current human race has made a rapid progress in technology, at least since the start of the third millennia.

We have seen a significant surge in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Soon, humans will be able to sit in cars and other vehicles without even controlling them manually. This is a rapid technological progress. However, it comes with a cost.

Two police officers stabbed in suspected terror attack in Brussels

RT
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:52 UTC

Two Belgian police officers were attacked by a knife-wielding man in Brussels's Schaerbeek neighborhood in an incident reportedly classified as a suspected terrorist act, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor's office.

"We have reason to believe that it is terror-related," a prosecutor's spokesman, Eric Van Der Sypt said, though he failed to provide any further details, French media reported.

The suspect carried out the attack as the police officers were trying to check his ID in the Schaarbeek municipality located in the northern part of Brussels, local media reported.

One of the policemen was stabbed in the neck at around noon local time, while the other one was hit in the abdominal area. Their injures were described as non-life-threatening.

The assailant, identified as 43-year-old Hicham D., fled the scene and was later stopped by a second unit of police officers. He broke the nose of a third policeman, who shot the man in the leg. A judge specializing in terror cases will decide whether Hicham D., a Belgian citizen, is to remain in detention or be released, AP reported.

Bizarre Daesh fatwas that should shock the world

Sputnik
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:21 UTC

Daesh's Central Fatwa Committee issued a fatwa [Islamic legal decree] prohibiting the breeding of cats inside houses in Mosul, Iraq. This is a recent addition to the long list of bizarre fatwas issued by Daesh. Sputnik takes a look at some of the most shocking decrees issued earlier.

The terrorist organization has issued dozens of fatwas in Mosul based on its vision, ideology and twisted beliefs. The group relies on a central committee to issue fatwas which is comprised of influential clerics and figures from the terrorist group.

A few months back, Daesh released "fatwa on female sex slaves" telling militants how and when they can rape captured women and girls. The document was revealed to the media after it was found among a large trove of documents seized by US Special Forces in Syria.

More than 200 veterans die waiting for care at backlogged Phoenix VA

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:21 UTC

Comment: A psychopathic war monger like the U.S. has no use for its cannon fodder once they have returned from 'battle'. They are merely slave labor to be discarded when they are no longer useful.

The Phoenix Veterans Affairs office is still improperly canceling veterans' appointments, has built up a new backlog of cases — and at least one veteran is likely dead because of it, the department's inspector general said in a new report Tuesday.

Two years after they first sounded the alarm about secret waiting lists leaving veterans struggling for care at the Phoenix VA, investigators said some services have improved, and they cleared the clinic of allegations that top officials ordered staff to cancel appointments.

But confusion and bureaucratic bungling are still prevalent, some veterans are waiting a half-year or longer for treatment, and staff are still canceling appointments for questionable reasons.

More than 200 veterans died while waiting for appointments in 2015, and investigators said at least one veteran would likely have been saved if the clinic had gone ahead with his consultation. "This patient never received an appointment for a cardiology exam that could have prompted further definitive testing and interventions that could have forestalled his death," the inspector general said.

Tightening the noose on the global economy

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:25 UTC

The investment world has an embarrassingly short attention span. But frankly, it is a necessity. If daytraders, hedge funds and other horses in the carousel actually had to look beyond the next week of market activity or study back on market history in comparison to today, then they would not be able to retain their blind optimism, which is exactly what is necessary for them to continue functioning. If they were all to examine the global financial situation with any honesty, the entire facade would collapse tomorrow.

At bottom, it is not central bank stimulus and intervention alone that drives equities and bond markets; it is the naive faith and willful ignorance of average market participants. There is a problem with this kind of economic model, however. Reality is never kept in check indefinitely. Fiscal truths will be exposed, one way or another.

How does one know when this full spectrum shift in awareness will occur? Well, there's no science that can help us with that. While basic economics is subject to the forces of supply, demand and mathematical inevitability, it is also subject to human psychology, which is another matter entirely.

Has someone been hacking the Emergency Alert System?

Melissa Dykes
Activist Post
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:16 UTC

It seems like the Emergency Alert System has been hacked during September which happens to be FEMA's preparation awareness month. The authorities claim nothing fishy is going on. What do you really think is going on here?

Comment: See also:

California passes law banning police from robbing innocent people using civil forfeiture

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:49 UTC

In a refreshing and unfortunately rare instance of reasonableness in policy, California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a piece of legislation requiring police to secure an actual conviction before stealing people's stuff in drug-related offenses.

Civil asset forfeiture has been rightly likened to state-sanctioned armed robbery, as it allows police to commandeer cash, vehicles, homes, or any property of value — even if the person is never charged with a crime — and then use or sell the items for profit for their departments.

Police in Oklahoma, for example, recently honed their thievery by rolling out nefarious Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machines, known as ERAD, which can scan your bank account and prepaid cards, and — if an officer believes any balances are tied to a crime — can wipe those accounts dry.

California's new law, formerly Senate Bill 443, quashes this nightmarish policing-for-profit in the exact way advocates of civil asset forfeiture (CAF) reform have been demanding for years.

For police to keep cash stolen from people in amounts under $40,000 under the premise it has something to do with a drug-related crime, there must be an actual guilty verdict in court.

Husband and wife convicted of financing terrorism after sending funds to nephew fighting for ISIS in Syria

RT
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:31 UTC

A London couple are awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to financing terrorism by sending funds to their nephew to support him in fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria.

Mohammed Iqbal Golamaully, 48, and his wife, Nazimabee Golamaully, 45, have both admitted to sending money to Zafirr Golamaully, which could result in a prison sentence.

Nazimabee Golamaully entered her plea at a hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday afternoon, while her husband entered his plea at an earlier hearing.

Both have been granted bail while they await sentencing at Old Bailey on November 10.

A London couple are awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to financing terrorism by sending funds to their nephew to support him in fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria.

'Heart-breaking' plight of Yemen's starving children: UN urges end to conflict amid ongoing Saudi strikes

RT
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:32 UTC

UN humanitarian aid chief Stephen O'Brien, who travelled to Yemen and was shocked by what he saw, has called on all parties in the conflict to give access to aid, as Yemenis are becoming poorer - and hungrier - by the day.

"The best humanitarian relief that can be provided is an end to the conflict. I urged the authorities, as I urge other parties to the conflict, to return to political negotiations without delay to reach a negotiated solution," Stephen O'Brien, who is also the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital.

Four out of five Yemenis are in need of humanitarian assistance, the UN says. The UN World Food Programme says nearly half of Yemen's 22 provinces are on the verge of famine. However, the situation with children in Yemen is especially dire, it seems.

My visit to Al Hudaydah hospital was heart-breaking," he said. "Mothers bring their malnourished children for treatment but there is simply not enough medicines to treat them. The quantities of food, medicine and fuel entering the country are way below the needs and must be increased as a matter of urgency."

Comment: It's not only the gruesome destruction of young bodies, or the slow-motion death of malnutrition and starvation inflicted upon these children; it is also great emotional and psychological anguish and turmoil they they feel, as illustrated by the following story: This 10-year-old girl wants you to know what the US Government is doing to Yemen

Apple is the biggest US tax avoider - stashes $215bn in Irish offshore accounts

RT
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:53 UTC

A new study reveals Fortune 500 companies are holding nearly $2.5 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to pay less tax. Top is Apple which since 2009 funneled $214.9 billion to tax havens and would owe $65.4 billion if the profits returned to the US.

The report was published just weeks after a European investigation concluded Ireland provided Apple with a favorable tax rate which allowed the company to pay one percent on EU profits in 2003 down to 0.005 percent in 2014. Apple is now obliged to pay $14.5 billion in back taxes.

The $215 billion Apple booked offshore through three tax havens last year is bigger than the gross domestic product of Portugal, Greece or New Zealand. If the company returned the earnings to the US and paid the $65.4 billion in tax, it would have been more than economies of Belarus, Uruguay or Croatia.

Comment: Apple and other corporations are able to get away with this only if politicians collude with them. The lawmakers provide the loopholes.

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Society's Child

Bye-bye humanity: Futurologist predicts that by 2050 more humans will have sex with robots than with each other

Two police officers stabbed in suspected terror attack in Brussels

Bizarre Daesh fatwas that should shock the world

More than 200 veterans die waiting for care at backlogged Phoenix VA

Tightening the noose on the global economy

Has someone been hacking the Emergency Alert System?

California passes law banning police from robbing innocent people using civil forfeiture

Husband and wife convicted of financing terrorism after sending funds to nephew fighting for ISIS in Syria

'Heart-breaking' plight of Yemen's starving children: UN urges end to conflict amid ongoing Saudi strikes

Apple is the biggest US tax avoider - stashes $215bn in Irish offshore accounts

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