08 World News Podcast | Atheist China & DARPA Brains
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More than 3000 Google Employees are circulating a letter (widely available online) demanding the end in Googles participation in AI surveillance tech, now being deployed by the Pentagon in Project Maven. “Don’t Be Evil” was the notorious founding motto used by google to set them apart. Now the employees write "By entering into this contract, Google will join the ranks of companies like Palantir, Raytheon, and General Dynamics," wrote the employees, who include senior engineers. "The argument that other firms, like Microsoft and Amazon, are also participating doesn't make this any less risky for Google.”
A Russian NGO reports on secret prisons in Chechnya which round up and abuse the LGBT community. The group say “The victims were subjected to tortures, humiliations, and other measures that harm their physical and psychological well-being.” the humans rights council of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, responded “I haven’t had a single request on this issue, but if I did, I wouldn’t even consider it… In our Chechen society, any person who respects our traditions and culture will hunt down this kind of person without any help from authorities.” President Kadyrov’s press secretary said ”This publication is a complete lie… It is impossible to detain and oppress those who simply don’t exist in the Republic… If there were such people in Chechnya, the law-enforcement agencies wouldn’t need to have anything to do with them, because their relatives would send them to a place of no return.”
Portugal situated on the Atlantic is primed for a renewable revolution. The Portuguese are able to harness fierce winds, strong hydro-power and days of blaring sun to reap the triple threat in renewables. March just gone saw 103% of all electricity needs being met with a green solution. Back in February 99% of Portugal's electricity was renewable. This trend has almost removed this European country from the reliance on fossil fuels. The Portuguese Renewable Energy Association said “However, it will eventually be necessary, here and then, the use of natural gas power plants, aggregated to interconnections and storage.”
The Schengen database is a collection of European persons deemed worthy of monitoring. This system is the most widely used identification retrieval tech for law enforcement across the continent. It’s purpose is to flag up suspicious people when they come into contact with the law from minor traffic violations to crossing international borders. France have added more people to this database than any other European country. A German parliamentarian, Andrej Hunko said “The increase in alerts cannot be explained by the threat of Islamist terrorism alone. Europol reports a four-digit number of confirmed foreign fighters, yet the increase of SIS alerts in 2017 is several times that… This could mean that families and contacts of these individuals are also being secretly monitored. It is also possible that the measure is being used on a large scale for combatting other criminal activity.” Interior Ministry data shows 60% of the requests made to the Schengen database are by France alone, considering 32 countries make up the Schengen area this is bananas.
An underwater pipeline moving crude oil just off Borneo Island has ruptured releasing devastation across 16 miles of coastline. This thick black sludge has caused Indonesia to declare a state of emergency. The pipeline has shifted off course about 120 metres from its original location, attempts are currently underway to deploy oil booms to try and contain the spill. Environment Minister Nurbaya Bakar said “We have asked the team as well as Pertamina to prioritise the cleaning of oil spills in residential areas due to the stench and other potential risks”. Pertamina is the name of the state owned company responsible.
China as a communist country is officially Atheist, however, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Islam and Taoism are currently recognized and allowed to practise their faith. However sects of these mainstream religions are viewed as Western impositions and not inline with socialist ideas. Now Beijing is under fire from the local flocks for talking to the Vatican and corrupting the governance of their religious structures. The Bible has now been discontinued across major book sellers in China. The Global Times in China said regulators "held talks" with large booksellers "about selling illegal products, publications and other printed materials online… The booksellers "had failed to regulate products and so caused a negative social impact", the regulators have said. The east have some beautiful schools teaching the balance of thought, but are apparently equalled by contradiction in outlawing opposing views.
The worlds new longest bridge at sea is to open in China. China’s new mega cities need to encourage mass migration. Constructing easy transport routes for people to move from one city to another is a key development for fluidity of movement across large areas with new infrastructure. The new bridge is 34 miles in length and connects Hong Kong, Macau, and the mainland's southern city, Zhuhai.
From next year the US will give Israel $10.41m every day. Israel recieves more money from the US than any other country. The military aid Israel receives is more than half of all that the US military provides worldwide. Israel’s AIPAC is the only foreign lobby in the US gov. that is not required to register as a foreign lobby. Israel is not a poor nation, the average Israelite enjoys a better living standard than most Americans.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) have developed a prosthetic memory system for our inadequate human brain. Electrical signal codes reinforce memory pathways in patients. This device learns a patients specific memory pattern and uses this data to communicate with the brains hippocampus via an electrode. The paper is published in Journal of Neural Engineering. This evidence provides support for a previous experiment which restored the memory in rats. The paper’s lead author Robert Hampson says ““This is the first time scientists have been able to identify a patient’s own brain-cell code or pattern for memory and, in essence, ‘write in’ that code to make existing memory work better — an important first step in potentially restoring memory loss.” Common types of memory loss usually occur in people with Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and head injury.
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