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The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will lead implementation of responsible AI across the Defense Department, according to a new directive. In a departmentwide memo signed last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks enumerated foundational tenets for responsible AI, reaffirmed the ethical AI principles the department adopted last year, and mandated the JAIC director start work on four activities for developing a responsible AI ecosystem. “As the DoD embraces artificial intelligence (AI), it is imperative that we adopt responsible behavior, processes, and outcomes in a manner that reflects the Department's commitment to its ethical principles, including the protection of privacy and...

A Lebanese Christian leader who was a keynote speaker at a Washington, D.C. conference during which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was booed for his public support of Israel said President Obama told him during a later meeting that he would work to protect Lebanon from regional turmoil.

President Obama held an Oval Office meeting with Middle Eastern-based Arab Christians on 9/11, one member of whom is a loud and proud supporter of the terrorist group Hezbollah. The day before, members of the same group, holding a conference under the name In Defense of Christians, booed and shouted down keynote speaker Senator Ted Cruz ”It’s surprising White House staffers allowed Maronite Patriarch Bashara Rai to meet with the President in the first place. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah supporting cleric isn’t shy about his views. “Everyone says why is Hezbollah carrying arms?” said Rai...

Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai left for Iraq Monday where he led a mass at the Our Lady of Salvation church on the first anniversary of an attack that left 58 people dead. Rai was accompanied by Bishop Camille Zaidan and Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan. “It is necessary that we go together [with Younan] to Baghdad to express solidarity with the Iraqi people, the entire Iraqi people who definitely reject violence and war,” Rai told reporters at Rafik Hariri International Airport prior to his departure. “And also to express our solidarity and brotherhood with our Christian brothers and...

Re: Italian TV - RAI Arabist/Bias review of the film: "To Die in Jerusalem" Nov - 2007 Re: http://www.educational.rai.it/ educational@rai.it, tvtalk@rai.it RAI’s total Arabist bias “review” on thew film http://www.todieinjerusalem.com/ First of all there was no one explaining the Israeli victims’s side, there was only the Arab Al Jazeera representative (Barbara from London), that infamous hateful venomous Arab media that portrays every Israeli good cool police man defending Israeli babies from dangerous “palestinian” attackers as “bad guys” and even as “nazis”. Of course she had to go back and stress what the “palestinian” mother has said that they are...

Finally Euro media sees "pro palestinian" marches as racist - they are Italian TV - Rai's "Porta a Porta" had (on Nov, 20,2006) an interview about the protests by pro "palestinian" Muslims in Milano and in Rome. Interesting and encouraging and even suprisingly enough the media representatives interviewd - raised the issue of the ridicuous titles of these despicable protests that claim to be "peace marches" or for "peace in the middle east", they noted the 2 very important facts: 1) There were ONLY "palestinian" flags, not ONE Israeli flag. 2) There was not one word against "palestinian" terrorism but...

Italy's Rai state TV is to become the latest broadcaster to show excerpts from murdered director Theo van Gogh's controversial film Submission. The Raidue channel will screen four to five minutes of the 11-minute film in its Thursday night news magazine. The film is critical of the treatment of women under Islam. Its screening on Dutch TV last year is thought to have led to Van Gogh's murder in November. Clips have since been shown by two Danish stations, sparking Muslim anger. Earlier this year, Submission was withdrawn from the Rotterdam Film Festival because of security fears. Last week, politicians...

Global TV coverage is increasingly turning against the US, with attitudes towards the US administration falling to an all-time low in December, according to research. According to analysis of TV news around the world, the British broadcast media is taking a hard line on the US, with 33% of all stories being classed as negative. The researchers behind the statistics have warned the coverage is likely become even more negative following the widespread coverage of the weekend's peace marches and an avalanche of opinion-based programmes such as the BBC's Iraq: Britain Decides have prompted. The figures have been released as...