Daily Archives: February 13, 2022

2022-02-13: News Headlines

NAT (2022-02-13). Barrett Brown on Greenwald and the Intelligence Oligarchy. indybay.org Barrett's live Twitter statements about Glenn Greenwald and his connections to his work exposing the capture of the public media environment by state and private intelligence and defence industries, as well as fascist social movements.

One of the Letters (2022-02-13). Concord Promoting Controversial Hillsong and Bethel Concert. indybay.org One of the the events in the Concord Pavillion 2022 Concert Series is a collaboration between Hillsong and Bethel Churches. Both organizations are wrought with controversy. The Pavilion is city property, and the city of Concord's official Twitter and Facebook accounts are being used to promote the event.

Staff (2022-02-12). WATCH Canadian truckers defy court injunction, maintain border blockade. rt.com Anti-vaccine mandate truckers refused to back down despite the threat of impending arrests and fines | Canadian protesters opposing Covid-19 curbs and vaccine mandates have defied a court injunction and government warnings to maintain their days-long blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, which has paralyzed trade and traffic at the busiest land border crossing into the US. | According to videos circulating on social media, demonstrators overwhelmingly voted to continue occupying access roads to the bridge minutes before Friday's order by the Ontario Superior Court took effect at 7pm local time. The protesters can…

Staff (2022-02-12). Explosion in eastern Ukraine — reports. rt.com The news comes amid heightened tensions between NATO and Russia | Several unverified reports on social media and in local media have claimed that a large bang could be heard in the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. Some alleged eyewitnesses said they felt a "shockwave." | Denis Pushilin, the top official in the region, told RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan that the blast occurred in the area controlled by Kiev and that, in his opinion, the situation is "under control" so far. He added that the explosion appeared to come from what he described as a "

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-12). Covid-19 and Democracy — Nicaragua v Canada. libya360.wordpress.com Stephen Sefton Nicaragua 2018 — police officer Gabriel de Jesús Vado Ruiz, tortured, murdered and set on fire by opposition thugs in Masaya in 2018 (Photo from opposition social media video) From 2018 onwards, Canada's government has denounced Nicaragua in international forums as a repressive dictatorship and followed the US authorities in imposing illegal unilateral…

Staff (2022-02-12). AI could already be 'slightly conscious', expert claims. rt.com Other experts are skeptical, accusing the OpenAI researcher of "trolling" | The co-founder of a San Francisco-based AI research laboratory claimed in a Twitter post this week that "today's largest neural networks" could already be "slightly conscious." | Ilya Sutskever from OpenAI did not clarify what system or systems he was referring to, or how exactly he defines "slightly conscious." | It is possible he was referring to OpenAI's GPT-3 — an advanced language processing system developed for translation, question answering, and filling in missing words. | Sutskever's cryptic tweet quickly engendered a deb…

Staff (2022-02-12). Llega Heberprot-P al primer mundo: Registran fármaco cubano en Corea del Sur. cubadebate.cu Hace pocas horas el Centro de Ingeniería Genética y Biotecnología (CIGB) informó en su cuenta de Twitter que el medicamento cubano Heberprot-P fue registrado en Corea del Sur. Este medicamento demuestra la posibilidad de cura para la cicatrización de las heridas complejas, las úlceras isquémicas y las resultantes del pie diabético, lo cual reduce los riesgos de amputación.

Allen Forrest (2022-02-12). The Story of Cathy Complier. dissidentvoice.org Once upon a time, there was a delightful little girl called Cathy. People would frequently praise her to Cathy's parents: "She is such a good girl, so obedient." Then came a viral cloud. The government's scientists called it Covid and said the cloud was life threatening. But the scientists said, "Don't worry, we have the cure, and you must take it."

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