The U.S. Military Budget as a Mushroom Cloud
Where are you going to get the money? That question haunts congressional proposals to help the poor, the unhoused, and those struggling to pay the mortgage or rent or medical bills, among so many other critical domestic matters. And yet — big surprise! — there’s always plenty of money for the Pentagon.
Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
Abortion, birth control used by the elite to rid the planet of black people.
The eugenics movement’s heart of darkness—its aim, to rid the whole world of indigenous peoples, many of them black, impeding the elite’s access to the wealth of natural resources buried and/or growing throughout (above all) Africa, and elsewhere the world over.
The Time is Now: Differentiating “Force” from “Choice”
We all have to take responsibility for our own “choices” and recognize the pieces of this dystopian agenda that are either coming together or falling apart, based on each move WE make.
Rich People Things
The rich are different. The cocoon of wealth and privilege permits the rich to turn those around them into compliant workers, hangers-on, servants, flatterers, and sycophants.
I am the virus. What is my name?
I am the virus. A Dadaist mashup with Joseph Goebbels, Lothar Wieler, Bill Gates, Thomas Paine, Emma Goldman, Frank Zappa, Frederick Douglass, Phillip Dick, David Graeber, George Orwell, George R.R. Martin, Lenny Bruce, Chris Hedges, Albert Einstein, Vandana Shiva and Thomas Jefferson.
Oroville declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’
Oroville declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’ in protest against ‘barrage’ of ‘increasingly intrusive’ government Covid mandates.
This Program Can Give AI a Sense of Ethics—Sometimes
Researchers at OpenAI, a company working on cutting-edge AI tools, demonstrated a program that can predict, summarize, and auto-generate text with what often seems like remarkable skill, although it will also spit out biased and hateful language learned from text it has read.