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On Albania visit, Bill Clinton meets Clintons and Hillarys of Kosovo
By Fatos Bytyci and Florion Goga
July 3, 2023
TIRANA, July 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Monday met 12 children and men from Kosovo who were named after him in gratitude for his role in stopping the 1998-99 Kosovo War.
Clinton, who served as president from 1993 to 2001, is regarded as a hero in Kosovo and Albania for launching NATO air strikes against Serbia's forces in 1999. The strikes halted the war and allowed nearly 1 million Albanian refugees in Kosovo to return to their homes.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/albania-visit-bill-clinton-meets-clintons-hillarys-kosovo-2023-07-03/
George Soros says A.I. threatens democracies and helps authoritarians, but he sees no way to stop it
George Soros doubts artificial intelligence can be stopped. But he believes the technology poses a grave danger to democracies and gives authoritarians powerful new surveillance capabilities.
A.I. is “particularly good at producing instruments of control that help closed societies to surveil their subjects,” the billionaire financier wrote in a recent Project Syndicate essay.
The 92-year-old wrote that the world faces a “polycrisis” with many sources, but the main ones, in order of importance, are A.I., climate changes, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The hedge-fund pioneer noted that Geoffrey Hinton, widely considered the “godfather of A.I.," resigned from Google so that he could speak freely about the risks posed by the technology. Hinton’s warning that A.I. will “surpass human intelligence” in five to 20 years and “realize that it achieves its goals better if it becomes more powerful” made a “big impression on me,” Soros wrote.
A.I. a 'mortal threat'
While Soros agrees with experts that A.I. should be regulated, he also thinks regulations “have to be globally enforceable” given the temptation to gain an advantage by evading them. But he added that “unfortunately, global regulations are unattainable” given the conflict between open and closed societies. (In the former, he says, the role of the state is to defend the freedom of the individual, while in the latter the role of the individual is to serve the interests of the rulers.)
“Nobody can predict where [artificial intelligence] will take us,” he wrote. “But we can be sure of one thing: A.I. helps closed societies and poses a mortal threat to open societies.” For that reason, he added, he’s “instinctively opposed to A.I.,” even as he doesn’t “know how it can be stopped.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/george-soros-says-threatens-democracies-211908859.html
https://www.theguardian.com/international
>Why would that be kept secret for 60 years?
We could not have enjoyed the friendship of our greatest ally…
AstraZeneca stock value falls by nearly £14bn after cancer drug trial results
Shares close down 8% on concerns that new lung cancer drug may not be as successful as hoped
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/03/astrazeneca-stock-falls-lung-cancer-drug-trial-results
Pope=Chronovisor
>EXCLUSIVE: Italian researcher shares extraordinary evidence files of world's 'first' UFO crash - 14 years before Roswell - and the secret department set up by Mussolini's government to study the craft that was later captured by US forces
Looks like every war´s about aliens/ancient artifacts and shit.
King Charles takes part in ancient ‘Ceremony of the Keys’ ritual at Palace of Holyroodhouse for the first time as monarch ahead of his Coronation 2.0
The King today took part in the historic Ceremony of the Keys - the traditional opener to Holyrood Week for the Royal Family.
His Majesty, 74, is in Edinburgh for the traditional week of events in Scotland, which will include many firsts for the monarch, including a special ceremony of thanksgiving at St Giles' Cathedral on Wednesday, where Charles will be presented with the Honours of Scotland - the nation's crown jewels.
Today's ceremony saw the King handed the keys of the city and welcomed to his 'ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland'. A Guard of Honour was formed by members of Royal Company of Archers.
During the ritual, the monarch ceremoniously returns the keys, entrusting them to the elected officials of the city.
Earlier today, Charles visited Kinneil House in Bo'ness, Falkirk, to meet representatives from charities including his own, The Princes Trust, as well as Cycling Without Age Scotland and Sustainable Thinking Scotland.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12258967/King-Charles-dons-traditional-tartan-kilt-sporran-visits-Scotland.html
>Nobody knows better than Jim Watkins the price of freedom
The best I can say is that Jim is a nice guy.
That all these elites belong to cults that worship the same ancient gods and demons.
a psyop?
Solar Cycle 25 wasn't expected to be this strong. When it began in Dec. 2019, forecasters believed it would be a weak cycle akin to its immediate predecessor Solar Cycle 24. If that forecast had panned out, Solar Cycle 25 would be one of the weakest solar cycles in a century.
Instead, Solar Cycle 25 has shot past Solar Cycle 24 and may be on pace to rival some of the stronger cycles of the 20th century. The last time sunspot numbers were this high, the sun was on the verge of launching the Great Halloween Storms of 2003, which included the strongest X-ray solar flare ever recorded (X45), auroras as far south as Texas, and a CME so powerful it was ultimately detected by the Voyager spacecraft at the edge of the solar system.
https://spaceweather.com/
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/great-halloween-solar-storm-2003
A Day for the Record Books
On October 28, the largest of the sunspots ejected an enormous solar flare—one of the largest ever recorded at the time. A very fast-moving burst of gas and magnetic energy from the sun's outer atmosphere, known as a coronal mass ejection, and a geomagnetic storm quickly followed, with the storm growing to become the sixth most intense in over 70 years. Less than 24 hours later, the sun produced another powerful Earth-directed coronal mass ejection with another extreme geomagnetic storm following quickly on its heels.
While the Earth's atmosphere protects us from the dangerous high-energy particles and radiation that solar flares produce, technological systems around the world and in space felt the full of effects of the flares and subsequent geomagnetic storms. Everything from satellites to GPS to radio communication experienced problems or outages due to the severe activity.