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The Talk Shows Mar 19th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.); John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council. Panel: Michael Allen, former special assistant for national security to President George W. Bush; former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah); USSA Today White House correspondent Francesca Chambers; and FOX News senior political analcyst Whiney Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) (she’s running); Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). Panel:...

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China is set to supercharge its naval shipbuilding program with AI, accelerating production rates and potentially cementing its quantitative lead over the US. This month, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that a research team from the China Ship Design and Research Center used AI operating on a small computer system to design a warship’s electrical systems in one day. This task would reportedly take human designers 300 days using the most advanced computer tools, the source says. SCMP notes that the research team published their findings in the Chinese-language journal Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems last month. According to Luo...

apan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) began operating out of a newly established base on the country's southwestern island of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 16. The new base is the fourth in the Nansei Islands to be established off the main island of Okinawa. The other three are on Kagoshima Prefecture's Amami-Oshima Island and the islands of Miyako and Yonaguni in Okinawa Prefecture. For Japan, increasingly wary of China, the base is a likely future host for long-range surface-to-ship missiles. Around 570 troops are stationed on the base. Its missile unit possesses surface-to-air missiles and truck-mounted Type-12 surface-to-ship missiles to...

Paris (AFP) – Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. Yet. But many commentators believe journalism is on the cusp of a revolution where mastery of algorithms and AI tools that generate content will be a key battleground. The technology news site CNET perhaps heralded the way forward when it quietly deployed an AI program last year to write some of its listicles. It was later forced to issue several corrections after another news site noticed that the...

Here are some of the most heartwarming transformation pictures of adopted cats, just like these heartwarming before and after adoption photos of dogs, to remind you why you should adopt, not shop. Here are some amazing very sad kitties who now live a blessed, wonderful, healthy, and happy life. ⁣

Moscow (AFP) – Every Sunday, Chinese tutor Kirill Burobin begins work in the early morning and is kept busy until midnight. As Russia seeks to tighten ties with China amid Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine, the number of Burobin's students has tripled over the past year. "Sunday is the busiest," 20-year-old Burobin, who makes a good living with his online lessons, told AFP. "I have 16 hours of classes virtually without a break." The boom in demand for Chinese lessons in Russia illustrates the country's pivot towards Asia as tensions build between Moscow and the West. Chinese President Xi Jinping's...

@POTUS Look, I think you should be able to be a billionaire if you can earn it, but just pay your fair share. I think you ought to pay a minimum tax of 25%. It’s about basic fairness. @ElonMusk Replying to @POTUS I paid 53% taxes on my Tesla stock options (40% Federal & 13% state), so I must be lifting the average! I also paid more income tax than anyone ever in the history of Earth for 2021 and will do that again in 2022.

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Last week, the Georgian parliament, led by the Georgian Dream (GD) party, advanced new legislation that would label civil society and media organizations that receive at least 20 percent of their funding from foreign entities as foreign agents. In addition to the stigma of such a label, the government would be able to conduct investigations, access personal data, demand detailed reporting, and levy restrictions, fines, and prison sentences on media and civic groups deemed to be non-compliant. The legislation closely resembles the Russian Foreign Agents Act, which the European Court of Human Rights found violated freedom of association and assembly...

Ukrainian forces outside the battered eastern city of Bakhmut are managing to keep Russian units at bay so ammunition, food, equipment and medicines can be delivered to defenders, the army said on Saturday. And in the latest claim to have inflicted heavy casualties, Kyiv said its troops had killed 193 Russians and injured 199 others during the course of fighting on Friday. Russia has made the capture of Bakhmut a priority in its strategy to take control of Ukraine's eastern Donbas industrial region. The city has been largely destroyed in months of fighting, with Russia launching repeated assaults.

"Thy kingdom come" (Matt. 6:10). Relinquish your will to Christ’s sovereign rule. Attempting to explain all that is involved in the phrase "Thy kingdom come" is like a child standing on a beach attempting to scoop the entire ocean into a little pail. Only in eternity will we grasp all that it encompasses, but the poem "His Coming to Glory" by the nineteenth-century hymnwriter Frances Havergal captures its essence: Oh the joy to see Thee reigning, Thee, my own beloved Lord! Every tongue Thy name confessing, Worship, honor, glory, blessing Brought to Thee with glad accord; Thee, my Master and...

On her MSNBC show this morning, Katie Phang and two lawyer guests all suggested that Trump's Truth Social post calling on people, in response to his apparently imminent arrest, to "Protest, Take Our Nation Back," could be the basis for additional criminal charges against him.Are the MSNBC folks aware that not long ago, another prominent politician repeatedly used a virtually identical phrase? Indeed, that politician actually gave a speech entitled, "Taking Our Country Back," employing that phrase no fewer than six times in the course of remarks. The speech repeatedly called on people to "fight!" Even more shocking, the speaker...

“Three decades of globalization — defined as integrated, free-market based and deflationary — has been replaced by what will be a multidecade period of globalization defined as fragmented, not-free-market-based but industrial-policy based and structurally inflationary. This year, 2023, is Year One of this new global order.”This reflects Brzezinski’s early strategy to transform the world as he wrote in Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era:“The nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance...

The maximum penalty for criticizing the military forces has also been increased from five years to seven years...Public dissemination of ‘deliberately false information’ can result in prison sentencing of up to 15 years. Additionally, the law issues criminal liability for illegally entering a state facility...The current draft age is from 18-27 years old and will likely be changed to 21-30 years old,...

The two tourists managed to escape the crowd and were eventually escorted back to Israel by security forces. German tourists visiting Israel were lightly injured on Saturday when they were attacked by Nablus residents for entering the Palestinian city with an Israeli vehicle registration plate. The two tourists managed to escape the crowd and were eventually escorted back to Israel by security forces, where they will be given medical treatment for their injuries. German Ambassador to Israel Steffan Seibert condemned the attack on the two German tourists, stating that "a mob attacking tourists because they don‘t like their license plate...

Some musical highlights from the music I discovered during my lifetime. Hi, welcome to another attempt at media excellence your host with his formerly stained fingers back at the keyboard. Rush Limbaugh offered affirmation to his listeners every day and in this crazy world finding affirmation it's like humanity nowadays is literally: "Left To Its Own Devices"... I am in the spirit of Fundamentalists Anonymous but not the letter. I have no hostility to Christian beliefs or the Bible which remains true there is a "Top Ten" list in it not a political manifesto. When the politics gets into it...

Southern border agents arrested sixteen people on the FBI's terror watchlist last month as border arrests are set to outpace record numbers encountered in the last year. It brings the total number of encounters for the 2023 fiscal year to 69, which is on the trajectory to exceeding the 98 encounters made in the year prior. It comes as Republicans demand answers for why the Biden administration is spending millions to store unused border wall panels as the country is inundated with illegal migrants risking their lives to cross onto American soil, and enough drugs to kill five times the...

After Trump announced he believed he would be arrested by Alvin Bragg's office on Tuesday, his representative called the district attorney a 'George Soros-funded Radical Left Democrat prosecutor,' but just who is Manhattan's controversial DA? The Harvard educated lawyer, 49, joined the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in 2021, becoming the first African-American to hold the title. Setting himself part from his predecessors, he quickly instituted a 'soft on crime' policy that saw New York City become a blood-soaked hellhole.