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Here is a transcript of the intriguing and insightful Mo Gawdat video... Your life and mine will witness times where there will be 20, 30, 50 percent unemployment in certain sectors, maybe even more. Most of us are going to witness something we've never seen before. The interesting thing is that this is not unlike humanity's origin. Jobs are an invention that serve a capitalist system that has served humanity for a while and pained humanity for a while. And the question is, is the capitalist system going to survive artificial intelligence? Funny enough, the capitalists that are celebrating the...

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Ever since he resigned his speakership and House seat in disgrace nearly 12 years ago, Newt Gingrich has prowled the margins of electoral politics like a wolf, hungry and opportunistic. Gingrich writes. "The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did." He argues: "In the 20th century, hundreds of millions of people were killed by the totalitarian ideologies of Marxism, Nazism and fascism" for whom "religion was enemy No. 1 and the first to go.... There are many parallels between the anti-religious governments of the 20th century and the anti-religious...

Beware of adventurers, Hassan Nafaa* argues as he reviews the exploits of the 'great men' of 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2000 was the year of George W Bush, a man of little intelligence and less knowledge, brought to power on the shoulders of the ultra-right in one of the most open democracies in the world following the strangest presidential election ever. 2001 was the year of the enigmatic Osama Bin Laden, leader of an underground organisation of limited means and capacities who successfully masterminded the most stinging slap in the face to the most powerful nation in the world through an attack...