>>5344533

This year the world woke up to the problems with AI everywhere

For all the money AI has made for big companies like Google and Facebook, this year companies have woken up to some of the pitfalls of the technology: It can easily become biased, there’s no set code of ethics for the technology, and putting research into the real world too soon can cost lives.

While much of this catalyzed around Uber’s self-driving car fatality, when a research vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in March, research showing racial and gender disparities in facial recognition, as well as reports highlighting the potential misuses of artificial intelligence have also brought new attention to the issues.

Here are a few of the key events in 2018 highlighting the problems with modern AI:

https://qz.com/1499756/this-year-the-world-woke-up-to-the-problems-with-ai-everywhere-2/

Europe—not the US or China—publishes the most AI research papers

The popular narrative around artificial intelligence research is that it’s mainly a war between China and the United States. Not so fast, says Europe.

New data released today (Dec. 12) by the AI Index, a project to track the advancement of artificial intelligence, shows a trend of Europe releasing more papers than either the US or China. The data was assembled from Scopus, a citation database owned by scientific publishing company Elsevier.

If the current trend continues, China will soon overtake Europe in the number of papers published. The number of papers out of China grew 17% in 2017, compared to a 13% increase in the US, and 8% in Europe.

https://qz.com/1490424/europe-publishes-more-ai-papers-than-the-us-or-china/

Climate Change ‘Heat Records’ Are A Huge Data Manipulation

Global media continues its hysterical coverage of ‘catastrophic’ global warming predictions. The only solution ever offered is Sustainable Development, which is specifically designed to replace Capitalism and Free Enterprise. ⁃ TN Editor

The idea that climate change is producing heat records across the Earth is among the most egregious manipulations of data in the absurd global warming debate.

Americans receive a daily barrage from the fake news media and climate “experts” reporting that each and every day, week, month or year is the hottest on record due to global warming. On Feb. 7, several major newspapers carried stories of the declaration by NASA and NOAA that the past five years have been the warmest on record.

Sadly, these supposed experts use mathematical equations that do not jibe with reality over the past 140 years.

The same climate experts warn that record heat is just the tip of the iceberg. We are constantly told that global warming is the root cause behind any and all weather events that are extreme, destructive, unusual or uncomfortable.

Many of these fear mongers also say we should stop burning fossil fuels that are causing this mayhem.

Is the Earth truly experiencing the hottest weather on record?

Absolutely not.

Actual weather records over the past 100 years show no correlation between rising carbon dioxide levels and local temperatures.

However, climate change alarmists always find somewhere on Earth where temperatures are higher than ever. The focus is always on isolated temperatures that have reached all-time highs while the same reports ignore all-time record lows. These zealots would like you to believe that due to fossil fuel emissions, summers are now longer and hotter while winters are shorter and milder.

https://www.technocracy.news/climate-change-heat-records-are-a-huge-data-manipulation/

Democrats reject GOP effort to alert ICE when illegals fail gun background checks

Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee approved a universal background check bill, but rejected an amendment to alert authorities when certain buyers fail a background check — even if the buyer isn’t a legal citizen. Republican Rep. Greg Steube introduced the amendment to H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, that would require notification to specific law enforcement agencies when an individual fails a background check, and would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be notified upon the failed background check of an illegal immigrant, Fox News reported. Democrats rejected the amendment, instead passing the bill without it in a 23-15 committee vote and sending it to the House floor for a full vote.

If the Democrats really are for gun control, then why did they block an amendment that would notify @ICEgov when an illegal immigrant fails a federal background check in the process of purchasing a firearm?https://t.co/oRTQeBHsBk

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) February 19, 2019

Steube said, “Clearly, the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee don’t care about preventing gun violence, they simply are playing politics with Americans’ Second Amendment rights. The fact that Democrats do not want law enforcement notified if an individual attempting to purchase a firearm fails a background check is truly troubling.” He added, “In rejecting this amendment, the Democrats have shown their true colors. It is clear they are not interested in preventing gun violence or stopping the illegal purchase of firearms, but rather they are only interested in limiting the rights of law-abiding citizens to advance their own political agenda.” Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz said, “Democrats in the Judiciary Committee just voted against notifying ICE when an illegal alien fails a background check to buy a gun. They hate ICE so much that they’d keep ICE in the dark when illegals try to get guns!”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/02/democrats-reject-gop-effort-to-alert-ice-when-illegals-fail-gun-background-checks/

>>5344643

This is what they were taught in our colleges and universities and through the MSM propaganda machine . for at least the last 50 years.. then wonder why the country is so divided

Nebraska Lawmaker Ernie Chambers Compares the US Flag to Nazi Swastika (VIDEO)

Nebraska Lawmaker Ernie Chambers Compares the US Flag to Nazi Swastika (VIDEO)

Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft February 22, 2019 244 Comments

Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers compared the US flag to the Nazi Swastika on the louse floor.

Chambers made the comments during discussion on updating civic requirements for Nebraska schools.

Chambers, an Independent, represents North Omaha.

The Examiner reported:

Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers on Tuesday compared the American flag with the Nazi swastika on the floor of the legislature.

“I don’t come here for this rag every day, and it’s a rag. That’s all it is to me,” said Chambers about respecting the flag. “When you show a way to persuade Jews to sanctify and worship the swastika, when you show me that I’ll come up here and stand while you all hypocritically pretend that rag is something that it definitely is not.“

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/nebraska-lawmaker-ernie-chambers-compares-to-us-flag-to-nazi-swastika-video/

You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.

Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including when they want to work on their belly fat or the price of the house they checked out last weekend. Other apps know users’ body weight, blood pressure, menstrual cycles or pregnancy status.

Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook Inc.

The social-media giant collects intensely personal information from many popular smartphone apps just seconds after users enter it, even if the user has no connection to Facebook, according to testing done by The Wall Street Journal. The apps often send the data without any prominent or specific disclosure, the testing showed.

https://outline.com/ZUGZzz

North Korea’s Kim begins long train trip to Vietnam for summit with Trump: report

HANOI (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un set off by train for Vietnam on Saturday, for his second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump next week, media reported, and hours later, two witnesses saw a train crossing into China from North Korea.

The reports of Kim's departure from North Korea came after Vietnam announced that Kim would make an official visit in "coming days", as the Southeast Asian country prepares to host the summit with Trump on Wednesday and Thursday.

No details of the leaders' travel arrangements, or for the summit, have been officially released.

Trump and Kim will meet in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, eight months after their historic summit in Singapore in June - the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader - at which they pledged to work towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

http://www.foreigndesknews.com/world/us/north-koreas-kim-begins/

>>5344729

You don't get something for nothing

You can't have freedom for free

You won't get wise

With the sleep still in your eyes

No matter what your dreams might be

>>5344804

Rush-Something For Nothing (Lyrics)

Check out the name of this website

Academy cadet charged with sexual assault, making child pornography

An Air Force Academy cadet in his second year will face an Article 32 hearing Monday on charges including sexual assault, the academy said in a Friday release.

Cadet 3rd Class John-Paul Thompson has been charged with one specification of a violation of Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or alleged sexual assault, and one specification of an alleged violation of Article 134, or knowingly and wrongfully producing child pornography of a 17-year-old.

Thompson has also been charged with one specification of an alleged violation of Article 92 of the UCMJ, for failing to obey a no-contact order, the release said.

The charge sheet provided by the academy said that Thompson allegedly raped a woman at or near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on or about March 30, 2018. It also said he allegedly created videos of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct on multiple occasions in the continental United States between April and June 2017. It is unclear whether the charges involve the same alleged victim or different people.

https://www.militaryq.com/2019/02/22/academy-cadet-charged-with-sexual-assault-making-child-pornography/

Uriah Heep - Sweet freedom

Notice the date on this article

The Babies From Yemen: An Enduring Mystery

SEPT. 2, 1997

Those who believe the theory contend that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Yemenite babies who were reported to have died or to have disappeared after their parents came to Israel were actually kidnapped and given or sold for adoption to European-born Israelis and American Jews.

The controversy over the Israeli establishment's treatment of the 50,000 Yemenite Jewish immigrants, most of whom were airlifted to Israel in 1949 and 1950, has festered for years. It has stoked deep-seated feelings of resentment among the country's Sephardic Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin.

A generation of young Israelis of Yemenite descent has demanded explanations for the disappearance of their lost brothers and sisters from crowded tent camps where the Yemenite Jews were housed when they arrived. Babies were often taken from their parents to be put in nurseries and hospitals, and their parents were often told that the babies had died or were simply no longer there.

Continue reading the main story

I am living proof that things like that happened, said Mrs. Levine, 49, as she sat with Mrs. Umaysi in her simple stucco home in Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv. It's an inexcusable act, and it's time to apologize and make restitution by uncovering it. Mrs. Levine was brought up by her adoptive parents on an Israeli kibbutz and now lives in Sacramento, Calif.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/02/world/the-babies-from-yemen-an-enduring-mystery.html?module=inline

Meet Under Armour CEO’s Unusual Adviser: an MSNBC Anchor

Kevin Plank has cultivated a wide circle of celebrities since founding Under Armour Inc. more than two decades ago. As the company has grown from a small startup to a global force in athletic apparel, some have even accompanied the chief executive on the private jet he leases to Under Armour .

Often in recent years, said a number of current and former executives, he has turned to one in particular for business advice: MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle.

The billionaire and the television journalist have developed close ties in recent years, according to these executives and others familiar with the matter. Ms. Ruhle has traveled with Mr. Plank and Under Armour staff on his private jet, they said, and given the CEO her input on a range of business matters.

https://outline.com/B7xV7D

Venezuela was my home, and socialism destroyed it. Slowly, it will destroy America, too.

The first time I couldn’t buy food at the grocery store, I was 15 years old. It was 2014 in Caracas, Venezuela, and I had spent more than an hour in line waiting. When I got to the register, I noticed I had forgotten my ID that day. Without the ID, the government rationing system would not let the supermarket sell my family the full quota of food we needed. It was four days until the government allowed me to buy more.

This was fairly normal for me. All my life, I lived under socialism in Venezuela until I left and came to the United States as a student in 2016. Because the regime in charge imposed price controls and nationalized the most important private industries, production plummeted. No wonder I had to wait hours in lines to buy simple products such as toothpaste or flour.

And the shortages went far beyond the supermarket.

My family and I suffered from blackouts and lack of water. The regime nationalized electricity in 2007 in an effort to make electricity “free.” Unsurprisingly, this resulted in underinvestment in the electrical grid. By 2016, my home lost power roughly once a week.

https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2019/02/venezuela-was-my-home-and-socialism.html

Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly

Facebook makes money by charging advertisers to reach just the right audience for their message — even when that audience is made up of people interested in the perpetrators of the Holocaust or explicitly neo-Nazi music.

Despite promises of greater oversight following past advertising scandals, a Times review shows that Facebook has continued to allow advertisers to target hundreds of thousands of users the social media firm believes are curious about topics such as “Joseph Goebbels,” “Josef Mengele,” “Heinrich Himmler,” the neo-nazi punk band Skrewdriver and Benito Mussolini’s long-defunct National Fascist Party.

Experts say that this practice runs counter to the company’s stated principles and can help fuel radicalization online.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-nazi-metal-ads-20190221-story.html

>>5345071

Try and figure this out..wouldn't doubt it being true.. even Mad Maxine claimed the C_A was pushing drugs in her neighborhood at one time

Government Dropped Crates Of Guns In Chicago Says Ex-Gang Member

https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/6mv6z4/government_dropped_crates_of_guns_in_chicago_says/

>>5345129

Maurice Strong Interview (BBC, 1972)

US military to leave 400 troops inside Syria, will maintain control of Al-Tanf

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:20 P.M.) – The U.S. military will leave approximately 400 troops inside Syria, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.

Previously, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the complete withdrawal of all troops in December after he declared that the Islamic State had been defeated in Syria.

He was later persuaded by advisers on Thursday to leave approximately 200 troops inside Syria to maintain a peacekeeping force.

With their European European allies agreeing to leave between 800-1,500 troops in Syria, the U.S. is planning to set up a safe zone in the SDF-held areas.

Of the 400 troops in Syria, the U.S. will leave approximately 200 at the military base in the Al-Tanf region.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-military-to-leave-400-troops-inside-syria-will-maintain-control-of-al-tanf/

>>5345146

Don't think that this is a new idea they have been planing it for years

Internet 'kill switch' bill will return

Controversial bill handing president power over privately owned computer systems during "national cyberemergency" will return this year.

A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a "national cyberemergency," and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year.

Internet companies should not be alarmed by the legislation, first introduced last summer by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), a Senate aide said last week. Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-kill-switch-bill-will-return/

>>5345265

Depends on which view you hold.and there are a number of reasons for it and the tech behind it…basically the Government and the elites wanted it to gain access into everybody's homes and keep track of everybody every where and everything people are doing