Palestinian Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra Palestine Information Center – November 23, 2023 GAZA – The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza on Thursday held the Israeli occupation forces fully responsible for the lives and safety of the doctors, who were detained on Wednesday. It announced that it will stop coordinating with World Health […]
Health Ministry stops coordination with WHO until detainees released
Jurors in state court in Jefferson City awarded James Draeger, Valerie Gunther and Dan Anderson a total of $61.1 million in actual damages along with another $500 million each in punitive damages over claims that using Roundup on their lawns and gardens caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. https://www.newstarget.com/2023-11-22-mosanto-forced-pay-billions-roundup-verdict.html By Ethan Huff Nov 22, 2023 […]
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The solution to the UK’s growing flood risk is lots more wetlands
Elina Abou Sleiman Letter from the West Bank Israel continues to deliberately target residential buildings, hospitals, schools, bakeries, flour mills, water storage facilities and other public facilities. But they will get to pause occasionally over the next few days – like a rapist agreeing reluctantly to take a break occasionally. >6000 children were killed in […]
Munitions run out, US grant ‘pause’ to rearm Israeli genocide
by thefreeonline on 21 Nov 2023 about Louis Rosenberg at Venture Beat
Conversational Swarm Intelligence (CSI) or Wisdom of Crowds (Wise-Mass in The Free) provides validation for anarchist communist theory and lends support to the reasoning of Bakunin, Malatesta and especially Kropotkin.
I thought it was a joke.. Collective wisdom?? we get a rare choice and then all vote for obvious idiots..Trump.. Biden.. Bolsonaro.. Milei..
And now the MSM parasites are suddenly..”OMG !what if an AI bot undermines our Moral Values“
Really? Our Moral Values? Or is it that our Billionaire Rulers are suddenly panicking that AI could upset the 24/7 media promotion of our insidious dog eat dog Capitalist Mindset?
Maybe AI could even undermine the blanket approval of Infinite Growth as the ONLY WAY, even as we get poorer and more controlled… Or threaten the absolute right (of the very rich men, and some day you?) to US style rampant consumption and the current looting of the last bases of our fragile Biosphere…
More like ‘Fear of losing mindset control’ is what’s driving these significant concerns among policymakers and parasites. OpenAI is now dedicating 20% of their computing power to solving The Issue. While Anthropic advocates a set of rules or principles that Govern our Behaviour.
Well anyway. The reality is that from the 1st day Chat GPT came out it’s become an essential tool, relieving many of us from endless compulsory tedious repetitive work.
NO WAY can the Genie be put back in the BOTtle!
But maybe there are ways to use Swarm Intelligence and AI in liberating, collective and very clever ways, as the article below illustrates.
The article about Louis Rosenberg’s techniques first points out the limitations of the Artificial Swarm Intelligence(ASI) method of seeking group wisdom due to Societal Bias (mandated mindset) and how groups of over 7 misfunction, for various reasons.
” when groups grow beyond a handful of people, the
conversational dynamics fall apart, providing less “airtime”
per person, disrupting turn-taking dynamics, providing less
feedback per comment, and reducing engagement as
participants feel less social pressure to participate“
from thefreeonline on 22nd Nov 2023 by Al Jazeera / HomeWorld News
The breakthrough agreement will see dozens of hostages freed over a 4 day halt to the massacre and some entry of food, fuel and water
The Israeli government has agreed to a deal that will secure the release of 50 hostages abducted by Hamas during the group’s October 7 attack, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In exchange, Israeli forces will briefly pause operations to allow aid into the besieged Gaza enclave.
1,700,000 Palestinians are displaced, refugees in a giant refugee prison, by Israel’s blitz. Many have no shelter from current cold and rain storms
The agreement also includes desperately needed humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza following weeks of relentless Israeli attacks that have killed more than 14,100 people, including 5,600 children, and forced about 1.7 million from their homes.
Israel’s cabinet voted in favor of the agreement early on Wednesday morning, with Netanyahu outlining the basic details of the “first stage” of the deal in a brief statement.
“At least 50 hostages – women and children – will be released over four days, during which a pause in the fighting will be held,” the PM said, adding that for every additional ten hostages freed, Israel would pause operations for one more day.
However, Netanyahu stressed that his country would “continue the war in order to return home all of the hostages, complete the elimination of Hamas and ensure that there will be no new threat to the State of Israel from Gaza
All of Israel’s security agencies – the IDF, Shin Bet and Mossad – reportedly voiced support for the arrangement.
400 Palestinian child hostages held in Israeli jails
Today, the number of Palestinian prisoners/captives currently behind Israeli bars is over 10,000, including 83 Palestinian women and 380 children under 18. If they are ever tried, Palestinians are prosecuted in military courts
The leadership of the Palestinian militant group issued a statement on its official Telegram channel announcing what it dubbed a “cease-fire from both parties.” It added that Israel had agreed to suspend military flights over southern Gaza for the duration of the pause, and limit air operations in the northern portion of the enclave.
The cessation of hostilities would allow humanitarian aid to reach all parts of Gaza, it said.
The group added that 150 Palestinian women and children currently held in Israeli custody would be freed as part of the deal, although the Israeli side did not confirm a specific number.
“The provisions of this agreement were formulated according to the vision of the resistance and its determinants that aim to serve our people and enhance their steadfastness in the face of aggression,” the Hamas statement said.
Washington, which was involved in the negotiations, was quick to issue a statement hailing the hostage deal, with US President Joe Biden saying he was “extraordinarily gratified” that captives would be reunited with their families.
In its own statement, Qatar confirmed that the deal would include freeing Palestinian women and children from Israeli prisons, adding that “the number of those released will be increased in later stages of implementing the agreement.” It said the pause to fighting “will be announced within the next 24 hours.”
Moscow hailed Qatar’s efforts in brokering the deal and welcomed the agreement itself. Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that the truce “is something that Russia was calling for since the start of the conflict.”
According to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, Israel will soon issue a list of Palestinian prisoners to be released. However Hamas previously announced the deaths of over 50 captives by ‘indiscriminate Israeli bombing and shelling’.
The Prime Minister’s Office has also reportedly developed a process for captives freed by Hamas, who will be received by the Red Cross before being transferred to the IDF. Freed hostages will undergo medical checks, and will be debriefed by Israeli authorities before their release, Israeli media reports said.
from thefreeonline on 22nd Nov 2023 by By Atia Darwish and Maram Humaid at Al Jazeera/ Gallery|Gaza
“These bodies were human beings, had dignity. To see them reduced to burned remains or chopped pieces is unbearable.”
Deir el-Balah – Dozens of bodies, wrapped in improvised white cloths that double as shrouds, lie together in a newly dug mass grave.
They are the unidentified Palestinians who were killed in Israeli attacks, their bodies are either charred beyond recognition or torn apart, to the point where the burial supervisors are sometimes not completely sure if they got the whole person.
But the team at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital does its best to offer the proper Islamic burial rituals to the remains, hoping that their efforts will allow the deceased victims to rest.
Yasser Abu Ammar, who supervises the ritual washing of the dead at the hospital, told Al Jazeera: “About 80 percent of the bodies we receive are torn apart. We’re burying torn-apart limbs, and some bodies have their organs lacerated and exposed.
Israel has killed more than 14,000 Palestinians since October 7, the vast majority of them women and children. [Atia Darwish/Al Jazeera]
“We’ve never seen anything like this, like these puzzling wounds inflicted on these mangled body parts.”
Abu Ammar added that he had supervised the burial of body parts belonging to a six-member family in one shroud.
“All of them barely made up one complete body,” he said.
Continue reading “Burying the Mangled Bodies of Unidentifiable Victims of Israel’s Genocide on Gaza”
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