Guy Hatchard THE official figures for births and deaths in New Zealand between July 1 2022 and June 30 2023 have been released. The short summary accompanying the release of the horrifying figures compares these with the previous 12 months, and reports increases in deaths and reductions in live births. The 2022/23 figures would have better been […]
New Zealand: Deaths up 14%. Births down 28%. Disability up 37%.
Israeli forces attacked, on Monday morning, the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank, shot and injured six Palestinians, and abducted three, two of whom were injured, according to local sources. An Israeli undercover unit infiltrated, the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, driving a civilian vehicle with Palestinian licence plates, snuck […]
Israeli Army Attacks the Jenin Refugee Camp, Shoots Six Palestinians, Abducts Three
Historical analysis and context of the Kit Carson obelisk that was once again toppled in so-called Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Kit Carson obelisk located in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Santa Fe was knocked down again (after first being toppled in 2020) on August 31st, 2023, according to local news reports. This…
The Kit Carson Obelisk: Santa Fe’s Cult like Worship of a Genocidal Human Trafficker and Murderer
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The Pentagon wants to hire 3,000 more hackers
US Special Operations Command can now analyze social media data to capture “emerging narratives” and quickly generate the information a military force would need to stamp out unfriendly trends, even as they are still in the process of going viral.
These Are the Pentagon’s New Ethics “Principles” for AI in Warfare
That’s according to AI software developer, Accrete, which announced in a press release last week it will provide its “open-source threat detection” software, ‘Arugus,’ to the Pentagon to target “synthetic media” and so-called disinformation on social media in real time.
Ay Caramba.. In other words – a propaganda exercise. Whenever western governments talk about misinformation and disinformation they are talking about using propaganda to disseminate THEIR version of misinformation and disinformation!
The Pentagon is investing $2,ooo,ooo,ooo into artificial intelligence
The tool would be used by intelligence analysts and other specialists to “predict real time disinformation threats from social media,” the company explained.
These might include “AI-generated viral narratives, deep fakes, and other harmful social media-based applications of AI,” Accrete CEO Prashant Bhuyan said in the company’s statement, claiming these “pose a serious threat to US national security and civil society” and that social media itself is an “unregulated environment where adversaries routinely exploit reasoning vulnerabilities and manipulate behavior through the intentional spread of disinformation.”
Pentagon’s High-Level Corruption Exposed.. Abolish the evil corrupt Pentagon
The Pentagon isn’t the only customer that will have access to Argus’ capabilities – a version called Nebula Social is set to be marketed to private corporations in order to manage their online reputations and customers’ conversation about their brand.
“Companies are already experiencing significant economic damage caused by the spread of AI-generated viral disinformation and deep fakes manufactured by competitors, disgruntled employees, and other types of adversaries,” Bhuyan said, arguing the market was looking for military-grade information warfare tools to be shared with the private sector.
Google working with Pentagon on using AI for drone …
“We believe that the market for AI that can predict and neutralize malign AI-generated synthetic media is about to explode,” he predicted. The private-sector version of the software is supposed to protect against “customer pain points” by learning what a company values and responding to the most relevant issues first – before they have a chance to negatively impact client behavior – with autonomously-generated content, i.e. synthetic media.
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, co-founded by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, initially worked with Accrete to develop Argus in November, paying millions of dollars for a five-year license to the program designed to – among other things – uncover “behavioral anomalies indicative of potentially illicit activity that are too complex for humans to identify.”
Beyaz
The Americans are really going to be properly controlled by their government, I guess a lot of them will join the expat communities in Chile, Panama and other countries where they can live their lives freely without harassment. Even Americans in Russia say they are happy and will not go back. I guess there is life beyond the borders of the great west after all. 4 hr
wwwolf
The Ministry of Truth. It is so pathetic and so predictable. It is the resort of any government, organisation, body, group or DESPOT that cannot withstand open scrutiny, transparency, or challenge. When those who would be ‘dictators’ are unable to justify or argue their cause in an open forum because they are simply wrong. 6 hr
Hunter Biden
Military in charge of the news cycle, what could go wrong…… 8 hr
getitdone
It can’t as any website can simply turn off the comments section. Even DOS attacks can be thwarted using DevOps principles and cloud servers these days. AI can check code for exploits and block attacks that way as well. Russia has its own cloud servers. Google has set back technology at least 40 years by the way. It has innovated nothing. DevOps was promoted by Amazon and then Microsoft. DevOps is based on open-source OS called Linux which is free. For $50 a month I can use real-time AI that blocks Accrete’s malicious bots. Imagine what Russia can do to block USA government bots. 8 hr
BLZBub613
So in order to deal with what they claim to be AI generated false narratives, they are creating software to produce AI generated false narratives. What happens when everyone starts using this software? 10 hr…………. + many more…
In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There’s a lot happening, so let’s dive right in! Political Prisoner News September sees a big date in the political prisoner support calendar, as Running…
In Contempt #32: Running Down the Walls, Epona Rose Released, Prisoner Uprising in Milwaukee
/from thefreeonline on 3rd Aug 2023 by elcomunista / Bloomberg
Argentina wants to escape the IMF trap
Argentina’s Ministry of Economy announced measures to improve the salaries of public workers and divert money to retirees and the poorest families, defying the demand of its International Monetary Fund (IMF) masters for the country to spend less.
The national economy is dedicated to paying the interest on its debt, making it a mere ‘cash cow’ for the western holders of shares in the debt and always being forced to seek more.
The IMF claims to be ‘helping’ Argentina, but its financial interest is to make it poorer and more dependant on new loans.
Argentina’s admission to BRICS gives it a glimmer of hope. By trading in currencies outside the dollar and joining any new BRICS currency it could finally free itself from the debt ‘vultures’.
Sergio Massa, economy minister and presidential candidate, outlined measures including tax cuts, higher pension payments, additional money for feeding programs for families with children and low-interest lines of credit, Bloomberg reported.
The new plan, which also includes financing for export products, comes after President Alberto Fernández’s Union for the Homeland coalition, of which Massa is a candidate, was surprised by the victory of the far right libertarian capitalist Javier Milei in the primaries of this August before the October elections.
Argentina has long been reduced to penury despite natural and social riches, having been caught, like dozens of poor countries, in a classic neo Liberal debt trap by the US controlled financial system.
The fraud of IMF-World Bank “debt relief”
In the opinion of Bloomberg analyst Maya Averbuch, these measures “could put the government in conflict with the IMF”, which on August 23 approved a disbursement of 7.5 billion dollars to the South American country after extensive negotiations over its multimillion-dollar loans, after of Argentina failing to meet program targets in the midst of a drought.
In his speech, the minister cited the devaluation of the currency and the unprecedented climate crisis as reasons to offer financial support to Argentine families.
“The main objective is that all sectors of the economy have help, in some way, from the State,” Massa was quoted as saying by the US media.
One of the conditions of the IMF loan to the Fernández government was that Argentina intensify control of spending by even further limiting public salaries and pensions.
In its statement, the credit agency demanded that Buenos Aires apply a ‘temporary’ increase in taxes on certain goods and services to compensate for drought-related export losses.
Argentina is by now the largest debtor of the IMF, an entity that in 2018 delivered to the Macri Executive the largest credit granted in its history to a single country
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Argentina en la trampa del FMI –
Sergio Massa, ministro de Economía y candidato a la presidencia, esbozó medidas que incluyen rebajas fiscales, mayores pagos de pensiones, dinero adicional para programas de alimentación para familias con niños y líneas de crédito a bajo interés, informa Bloomberg.
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SEP 1, 2023 Source (Photo Credit: The Cradle) Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs. Pepe Escobar By adding two new African member-states to its […]
No respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ rises
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