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President Biden unveiled sweeping plans for domestic and international regulation of artificial intelligence that will consign conservatives to virtual gulags.The executive order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence”, signed by President Biden last week, sets out in detail how federal agencies are to use and regulate artificial intelligence (AI), including promoting global standards to moderate online content.The new tools to silence and cancel conservatives are being created under the rubric of providing “safeguards” against discrimination, bias, and disinformation and promoting “rights-affirming” approaches in digital technologies.

Today, large numbers of Christians and seculars believe that modern secular science has proven the earth and cosmos to be billions of years old, and that every living thing, from fish to dogs, apes and humans, evolved from a single cell which itself is the result of chance combination of chemicals. Most believe that primordial matter resulted from the Big Bang. Certain high profile evolutionary theists and the influential Evangelical theologians and scholars who support them, teach that God is both the energizing force behind the Big Bang and the director of evolutionary process.Against this way of thinking, the Word...

Work is in progress on Bagster's new watch, standing guard over those who have gone before us. I hope to post the new content next thread. Click here to View Our Honored Veterans FREEPmail ransomnote To Add Your Service Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see. 3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDTQ !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free...

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va) has called for Israel "to pause its attacks on Hamas. Too many civilians are being killed. This violates the tenets of armed conflict. World opinion is turning against Israel. Here in America there are daily protests against Israel's actions. There is even a risk that Muslims may not vote Democrat unless we can get Israel to simmer down." Former President Trump disagreed with Warner's take. "The Hamas attack was fueled by Biden freeing up funds for Iran," he said. "With an injection of $6 billion they felt confident they could fund attacks...

Weather unpredictability and above normal rainfall has made it a difficult year for the agricultural sector. Most farmers were affected in some way or another and right now, potato growers are facing serious crop losses as waterlogged fields impede this year’s harvest. In a ten-hectare field just outside Enniscorthy, County Wexford, potato grower Sean Ryan is assessing conditions. As he walks between the drills, his boots squelch in three inches of water as this part of the potato field is waterlogged. […] Most of the potatoes he digs are rotten, soft like butter and giving off a foul smell. At...

The United States is importing record amounts of beef this year and exporting less after ranchers slashed the nation’s cattle herd to its lowest level in decades, tightening margins for meat companies like Tyson Foods (TSN.N). The decline in cattle numbers, after years of drought fried pasture lands used for grazing, led to soaring U.S. beef prices. Higher prices incentivize companies to import cheaper beef and discourage U.S. beef purchases by buyers like China, Japan and Egypt. …The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) expects the U.S. to drop to the ranking of world’s fourth-largest beef and veal exporter this year,...

Yes, there is still a pending lawsuit regarding the 2020 Presidential Election in Fulton County. Favorito et al v Wan et al was filed back in December 2020 in the Fulton County Superior Court but was abruptly dismissed in October 2021 for issues over standing. The plaintiffs appealed and eventually had the dismissal overturned after the Georgia Supreme Court ruled on a key case, Henry County Board of Commissioners v Sons of Confederate Veterans, that ensured voters do have standing to bring a case. In the early stages of the Favorito case, back in May 2021, The Gateway Pundit reported...

In a recent study, researchers investigated why some patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) can discontinue their daily medication safely. CML, one of the four main types of blood cancer, affects the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. Because the onset mechanism of the disease has been accurately identified, targeted drugs (tyrosine kinase inhibitors) now ensure that only a few patients die of disease. Researchers aim to develop the treatment of CML so that patients can discontinue their medication after a certain period. In such cases, the cancer may be considered cured. In their recent study, the researchers compared such...

Michigan Wolverines, SEC or ACC school? Sounds insane, right? Turns out it may not be as crazy as it sounds, if a report from Sports Illustrated’s Michael Rosenberg is to be believed. Rosenberg reported that the University of Michigan’s board of regents met last week to discuss the possibility of leaving the Big Ten conference entirely. The regents were, as of last week, concerned the conference commissioner Tony Petitti might suspend head coach Jim Harbaugh over the Connor Stalions scandal without due process. And then Petitti suspended Jim Harbaugh because of the sign stealing scandal without due process. OutKick’s Trey...

Stephanie Clifford - better known to the world as Stormy Daniels - was the headliner at Savannah’s club in Harrisburg Friday night. Until she wasn’t. The former adult film star, currently at the center of the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump over hush money payments designed to buy her silence about a one-night stand with the then-Republican candidate during the 2016 presidential race, never showed Friday. And all of a sudden a night of bawdy burlesque turned into a mystery. David Wendell, who books Clifford’s appearances at adult clubs like Savannah’s through his business, Centerfold Features, said...

How much immunity do we need against COVID-19? New international research has identified a "threshold of immunity" to SARS-CoV-2. The study has identified strong relationships between Receptor-binding domain (RBD) COVID19 antibodies, and how well humans can neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A RBD is a key part of a virus that allows it to dock to body receptors to gain entry into cells, leading to infection. These are also the primary targets in the prevention and treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—the virus that causes COVID-19. This new research, coordinated by Dr. Grace M. Kenny and Sophie O'Reilly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdumwliscIc Youtube, about battery range, for new battery cars. (Range keeps increasing, cost keeps dropping, they keep getting lighter, and now you start to see COMPETITION in the market to fix batteries, rather than replacing the whole battery rig.) Cheaper, and cheaper.

China’s leader Xi Jinping will meet President Biden Nov. 15 in San Francisco with four high cards in his hand. Policy advisers close to Xi express an unprecedented kind of confidence in China’s strategic position. First, the collapse of Ukraine’s offensive against Russian forces and its commander’s admission that the war is a “stalemate” is a setback for America’s strategic position and a gain for China, which has doubled its exports to Russia since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Second, the US tech war on China has flopped, as Chinese AI firms buy fast Huawei processers in place of...

A Florida man is accused of recklessly mowing down two sheriff's deputies, leaving them in critical condition - before being arrested on attempted murder charges. Ralph Bouzy, 28, was in his vehicle near his home in Hillsborough, Florida, at around 8am on Thursday when he suddenly accelerated his car and rammed into Corporal Carlos Brito, 39, and Deputy Manuel Santos, 31, cops said. Bodycam footage released by Hillsborough County Sheriff Office shows the two officers standing in front of their marked patrol SUV and then attempting to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. The 'ambush' occurred minutes...

There is a growing consensus that the West (meaning the United States with the help of the UK) wants to replace Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. My friend and colleague Larry Johnson thinks the CIA and MI6 in the UK are already setting the stage. Either Zelensky will be forced to call a Presidential election, scheduled for next March, and then be replaced, or, if he resists, he will be replaced anyway in a Maidan-style upheaval. The US has pushed changes in Ukraine’s leadership before, and the current State Department undersecretary, Victoria Nuland, was behind the earlier operation. A 2014 phone...

Many Ukrainian men are running from the prospect of death and injury on the battlefield... The credit rating outlook of the US now called "Negative" by Moody's... "De facto-today, civilians are bombed-de facto...there is no reason for that and no legitimacy. So we urge Israel to stop" Those words from French President... "Hamas-ISIS is doing everything to prevent them from leaving for safe areas and using them as human shields" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responding... Israel revising the death toll in the brutal Hamas attack of October 7th... Sports the Big Ten Football Conference banning Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh......

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Thousands of Palestinians sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war at Gaza City’s main hospital fled south Friday after several reported strikes in and around the compound overnight. They joined a growing exodus of people escaping intense urban fighting in the north — including near other hospitals — as Gaza officials said the territory’s death toll surpassed 11,000. The search for safety across the besieged Gaza Strip has grown desperate as Israel intensified its assault on the territory’s largest city. The Israeli army says Hamas’ military infrastructure is based amid Gaza City’s hospitals and neighborhoods, and...

Some hospitals in Gaza say they are under attack as heavy fighting and explosions over the last 24 hours have continued amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. Targeting civilians is against the laws of war, but Israel maintains that Hamas uses civilians as shields. International organizations have decried the shellings in retaliation for Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attack, which killed more than 1,400 in Israel. The death toll continues to mount in Gaza with 11,078 dead as of Friday, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest medical center located in Gaza City -- where thousands of wounded...

Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/3L5EoQm | #NativeAmericaPBS May the Fourth is a special night at the West Winds Drive-In in Glendale Arizona where Manny Wheeler is screening Star Wars, dubbed into Navajo. It's one of many innovative ways of preserving Native languages. Stream Native America Season 2 on pbs.org and the PBS App: https://to.pbs.org/3L5EoQm

The Justice Department will no longer seek the death penalty for two alleged MS-13 gang members accused of brutally killing several teenagers in Long Island, New York. In a letter to a federal judge, Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said Attorney General Merrick Garland directed prosecutors to withdraw notices of intention to seek the death penalty against brothers, Alexi Saenz and Jairo Saenz. "We write on behalf of the Government in the above-captioned matter, to provide an update to the Court with respect to the status of the death penalty deauthorization requests of...