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FUTURISM: That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop

Bombs Away That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop “The people cry for their freedom, thanks to the United States for freeing us.” By Joe Wilkins Published Jan 5, 2026 5:02 PM EST In the wake of … Continue reading

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight

Join us for the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement Schematics of the “Fat Man” bomb dropped over Nagasaki. Photo courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight By Alexandra Bell | December 10, 2025Share … Continue reading

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China just declared war. Not with missiles. With lawyers. “Chinese interest in Venezuela will be protected by law.”

Shanaka Anslem Perera  @shanaka86 · 4h China just declared war. Not with missiles. With lawyers. “Chinese interest in Venezuela will be protected by law.” Read that again. Beijing didn’t threaten military action. They announced something far more dangerous to American … Continue reading

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Futurism: Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change

Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change That’s enough of that. By Joe Wilkins Published Mar 14, 2025 8:54 AM EDT In decades past, as the effects of climate change slowly became undeniable, some looked to the super-rich — the billionaires with … Continue reading

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Homelessness rising, mental illness ignored, let’s look to KFF the trends in the U.S. Note how homelessness, mental health and substance abuse are categorised together, this does not bode well for mental illness

A Look at the New Executive Order and the Intersection of Homelessness and Mental Illness Authors: Heather Saunders and Robin Rudowitz Published: Aug 15, 2025 Print Email Copy Link President Trump recently signed an executive order on homelessness, mental health, and substance use that leverages federal … Continue reading

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

Search Form Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq By Al Mauroni | December 18, 2025 The US Navy’s Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group has been sent to the Caribbean near Venezuela. Credit: US … Continue reading

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Futurism: Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments

Future SocietyThe Industrialists Pot Meet Kettle Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments Who would know better? By Joe Wilkins Published Dec 17, 2025 7:00 AM EST When it comes to toppling governments from behind the … Continue reading

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Invisible people: Machine(s) behind Anti-Homeless Rhetoric. Comment: Ireland. Sunday Mail concerning McVerry Trust needs major scrutiny moving beyond the PAC and possibly criminalising some of the people who were in key positions. The people who suffer are those who are homeless while greed is exercising its right to power.

It’s Not Just One Anchor: The Machine Behind Anti-Homeless Rhetoric By Erin Wisneski Cynthia Griffith Jocelyn Figueroa | December 1, 2025 | Awareness | Narrative Change Credit Image: © Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts via ZUMA Press This piece exposes the well-funded media and policy ecosystem that reframes … Continue reading

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The Conversation: Two centuries ago, US President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to European powers in what would became known in history books as the “Monroe Doctrine”.

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Grok4 AI: Background reading re Michael Comyn KC. It makes it so much easier to read when you get a synopsis like below

The book The Secret Court-Martial Records of the Easter Rising (also published under the title From Behind a Closed Door: Secret Court Martial Records of the 1916 Easter Rising), authored by historian Brian Barton and first released in 2002, compiles … Continue reading

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