While the concept of "self aware" computers is definitely a concern, artificial intelligence already is a threat to humanity:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
If you think this will be limited to Gaza or is in any way justifiable, you are sadly mistaken. This is sick people treating their neighbors like animals.
And you and I are paying for it.
What goes around comes around - this will be used against the rest of us someday.
A few weeks ago, in one of the largest-ever expansions of veteran health care, "Joe Biden" directed the US Department of Veterans Affairs to extend eligibility to MILLIONS of sick military vets:
https://news.va.gov/press-room/veteran-toxins-hazards-serving-eligible-va/
Good for you, Joe. Right?
Yet, three weeks later the VA announced it has to CUT 10.000 full-time positions from its medical staff:
This does not compute !!!
I believe the President's action represents a cynical election year ploy. After all, if Congress or the VA itself were to object that there is no money or staff to treat the newly eligible vets, wouldn't that aggravate millions of vets and their families who might otherwise have voted for Donald Trump and GOP candidates?
Face it, my fellow vets, we're just pawns in the Great Game being played by TPTB. And if we complain too loudly, there are millions of new arrivals ready, willing, and able to take our place.
According to several sources, the global human fertility rate is dropping ... fast:
https://modernity.news/2024/03/21/global-population-set-to-fall-for-first-time-in-700-years/
I believe THIS is the primary reason the US and the EU have opened their borders to mass migration. Of course, there's also the bonus of using the millions of new arrivals to mold a loyal electorate, or to send them off as cannon fodder for the coming wars against Russia, China, and Iran.
Note the involvement of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the obvious complicity of the "Joe Biden" administration. I always thought our Congress has the responsibility to determine how and when to admit new persons into the US:
US Constitution Article I, Section 8
4. [The Congress shall have Power] To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization ...
But apparently the President thinks he has the power to open the borders WITHOUT the approval of our Congress. And he does, as long as no one complains. And if anyone DOES complain, by the time SCOTUS gets off their duffs and does something about it millions more will have arrived and joined the body politic.
What a fine kettle of fish !!!
James Howard Kunstler presents a cogent appraisal of today's USA:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/wake-up-call-2/
And Scott Adams seconds the motion thusly:
The gears of the machine have become visible. We can all see the FBI is rotten and the DOJ is weaponized. We know the border is open intentionally. We know the cartels are working with our government. We know our elections are DESIGNED to not be auditable and there's only one reason for it. We can see Biden is not in charge. We know the Ukraine war was always about its energy resources and who gets to own them. We know our rising debt is ruinous. We know our experts are liars. We know our pharma and food industries are poisoning us. We know our government is racist. We know the corporate media is essentially owned by Democrats who are controlled by intelligence entities and they are actively brainwashing the population. We know the 1st and 2nd amendments, and X, are under sustained government attack because they are the public's last defense against the government.
But we are not quitters.
And the odds do not apply to us.
Source - https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1771256365597741224?s=20
Yes, knowledge is power ... but only if it moves us to action. How much longer are we going to put up with this crap?
So, SCOTUS rules that Texas can arrest and deport "illegals", but is overridden by an appeals court which says they can't.
And now Mexico says they wouldn't accept them back anyway:
Do you get the feeling that someone is working very hard to keep our borders open?
Here's a timely quote to consider as you ponder just what the hell is going on:
For the first time in my 94 years on earth, I fear for the future of our democracy. I see the federal government using its enormous powers with contempt for the governed instead of with the consent of the governed as our founders envisioned.
Fundamental change in America is occurring by executive order or the force of the government’s police powers instead of through the legislative process required by the Constitution. From this, I fear that free market capitalism may be replaced by big government socialism. I also fear the erosion of our rights and freedoms, including parental rights, freedom of speech and religion, and due process.
In the past, I always had the confidence that a president who was a threat to democracy could be voted out of office in the next election. I am no longer that confident today. My lack of confidence is because the media today is not the watchdog over government that our Founders intended it to be. It is instead the lapdog of government, shielding the public from the entire truth about the policies and actions of the current administration.
Source - https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/03/19/its_time_for_gop_to_unite_behind_trump_150665.html
By the way, I'm not certain Trump is the answer ... but I'm DAMN sure Biden definitely isn't.
I came across this Chinese water diversion project on the Internet today:
https://www.water-technology.net/projects/south_north/
Considering how desperate our Southwest and West are for water, wouldn't it be nice if "our" government could do something like this to bring water from the Great Lakes to our rapidly drying regions?
It looks like we'll get a "smart grid" instead ... for all those EVs we're gonna be forced to buy.
Hey, what generates more CO2 - a gas powered car or an EV which catches on fire?
You may have heard the US Military Academy at West Point has changed its mission statement from a focus on "Duty, Honor, County" to what are now called "Army Values". If not, you can read about it here:
https://www.westpoint.edu/news/press-releases/west-point-mission-statement-update-0
Two things immediately come to mind:
(1) If you've never heard General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance address which emphasized those three foundational words, you should listen to it now. It's quite inspirational:
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/douglasmacarthurthayeraward.html
(2) The new direction being taken by our military academy appears to be the one suggested in John Lennon's song "Imagine" (see lyrics below):
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
[Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: John Winston Lennon
Imagine lyrics © Budde Music France, CONSALAD CO., Ltd, Downtown Music Publishing, Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TuneCore Inc.]
