Abby Martin's YouTube channel contains a lot of information on the CIA's dirty tricks. ;)
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Abby Martin's YouTube channel contains a lot of information on the CIA's dirty tricks. ;)
Our President doesn't listen to his intelligence sources. Has he conflated them all with the CIA?
His gut certainly doesn't know better.
Speaking of feelings ...
What ever is occurring between the facade of the U.S. two party system ...
My gut is telling me it is all an affront to what is best for the country ...
And sadly it far from the first time ever in its history.
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=h...jpg&f=1&nofb=1
And speaking of conflicting history ...
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e2/ba/ff/e...dba86c9c70.jpg
Before we slip fully into unconsciousness ...
Artificial Intelligence & Algorithms: pros & cons | (AI-Documentary) DW Documentary
"Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to fundamental changes in the way we live. Algorithms can already detect Parkinson's disease and cancer, and control both cars and aircraft. How will AI change our society in the future?
This documentary journeys to the hot spots of AI research in Europe, the USA and China, and looks at the revolutionary developments which are currently taking place. The rapid growth of AI offers many opportunities, but also many dangers. AI can be used to create sound and video recordings which will make it more and more difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. It will make the world of work more efficient and many professions superfluous. Algorithms can decide whether to grant loans, who is an insurance risk, and how good employees are. But there is a huge problem: humans can no longer comprehend how algorithms arrive at their decisions. And another big problem is AI’s capacity for widespread surveillance. The Chinese city of Rongcheng is already using an AI-supported 'social credit system' to monitor and assess its citizens. Does AI pose a danger to our personal freedoms or democracy? Which decisions can we leave to the algorithms - and which do we want to? And what are AI’s social implications?"
Sep 26, 2019
42:25 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0dMTAQM4cw
A sh!t where you eat kinda girl ...
True Facts: The Ogre Faced Spider
"Deinopis is a throw back to an older, cooler kind of cribellate spider.
Lots of spigots...LOTS. OF. SPIGOTS."
Sep 26, 2019
6:45 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNrF0JbDVc8&feature=em-uploademail
That was funny and educational. Spiders are creepy and amazing.
One of the saddest articles I've ever read, about the children sex tourists leave behind in the Philippines. Coincidentally or not, the centre of sex tourism in that country is actually called Los Angeles and used to be a major US military base. I won't post the article, just the link, you really need to see the photos to get the full story.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ed-philippines
It's all in the belief system ...
How Derren Brown Remade
Mind Reading for Skeptics
The mentalist’s manipulation techniques give people too sophisticated to
believe in the paranormal something quasi-scientific to hang on to.
By Adam Green September 30, 2019
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5...007_r35060.jpg
"Brown maintains that he neither has nor believes in any kind of psychic power" ...
Listen to/Read here
An amazing quickie ...
Eagle flight footage to show Europe glacier reduction
Oct 3, 2019Quote:
Filmed with a camera mounted between his majestic wings,
they'll show glaciers now crumbling because of global warming. …
50 moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71EIS-qGDXk
Far from but a possible glimpse of Hong Kong's protester(s) prospects ...
China calls it re-education, but Uyghur Muslims say it's 'unbearable brutality'
Quote:
Uyghurs are Muslims who trace their roots back thousands of years in Central Asia, most currently living in the Chinese province Xinjiang. The group represents less than 1 percent of China's population, but they have endured what the U.S. calls one of the worst human rights crises of modern times. Nick Schifrin reports on how Communist China has persecuted this religious and cultural minority.
PBS NewsHour
15:36 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNxIUSCvpPQ
Heartbreaking. I recall when I first heard of the uyghur people. So sad.
Not a lot of people agree with me, but I see Communist China as the biggest evil on earth currently. It is as bad as the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany were in their time.
Millions of people in concentration camps. Entire nations exterminated or exiled. Monks and priests slaughtered en masse. If you look at what they're doing to Falun Gong practitioners, that's probably the worst of it. Apart from the torture and kidnappings, they now execute Falun Gong practitioners without trial and sell their organs to the highest bidder, often medical tourists from rich countries, who don't care where their life-saving organs come from.
We are all complicit.
I just ordered a phone, that is made in China. I didn't really have a choice, because all phones are now made there, so if I want to buy one, I am pretty much limited to a Chinese-made one. What isn't made in China these days, or doesn't use Chinese-made components?
Meanwhile, Huawei devices spy on us on a daily basis and us, and our governments, just go along with it. Kudos to the current US administration for actually trying to do something about it, though I fear it is far too late. Nixon and Kissinger made a deal with the Devil back in the day and now he is collecting on his side of the deal.
Still, something could have been done, if our leaders (business and political) weren't so spineless. I am still mad at the the US for abandoning the Republic of China to make some money on the backs of those oppressed by the Communists. Ditto for the UK for abandoning the people of Hong Kong to the most repressive and brutal regime (a hundred million dead and counting) in the history of the world. You don't negotiate with communists.
I met a man in London who fought against communist China in the late 40s. His Royal Navy ship was stuck in the river Yangtze as they were trying to help the Nationalists on one side of the river against the Communists on the other side. The communists shot at them for two weeks, making a cheese grater out of their ship. Yet, they persisted and were eventually rescued by a smaller Royal Navy vessel. This was back when Britain had principles and didn't just surrender to tyrants to make a few bucks.