May 16, 2026

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Americans less positive about civil liberties, AP-NORC poll says

From www.kbtx.com
2021-09-10 14:19:00

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(AP) – Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, after 20 years, not as much.

That’s according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that builds on work conducted in 2011, one decade after the pivotal moment in U.S. history. Some questions were also asked on polls conducted in 2013 and 2015.

Americans were relatively united around the idea that the government did a good job protecting many basic rights a decade after the terrorist attacks, which produced a massive overhaul of the country’s intelligence services and the creation of agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security. Along with those changes came a creeping concern about government overreach, although Americans as a whole remained fairly positive.

 

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Xi Comes Out Strong in Recent Call with Biden

Apparently, President Joe Biden had a long talk with Chairman Xi in a call that his team itself would characterize as being about setting the parameters for the new relationship between the US and China Post-Trump and assuring that there were no untintended conflicts because China misinterpreted an action from the US.

This is a call of weakness and begging and, for China, was propaganda gold that was used richly in its media, characterizing the call as a demonstration of the strength of Xi and China contrasted with the weakness of Biden.  In his fist talk to Xi in 7 months, he came to him with shield down and sword offered, begging China not to do anything harmful to the US because they might misinterpret American action.

What really happened on this call, well, perhaps we will never know, but by the White House’s own stated goal and ‘accomplishment’ of the call, you cannot help but interpret this as a significant PR win for Xi and a nothingburger for Biden here at home, as this call will get little coverage that reaches rank and file Americans.

From an analyst’s perspective, the signalling from the White House’s own version of this call is that they are prepared to negotiate new terms and they are going in already giving China the starting advantage, most likely, I would surmise, because the DNC corpostate alliance requires they at least TRY to loosen up China’s markets to give our American companies their long-anticipated goal of tapping in to a giant Chinese market.

This weakness on the US is a reflection of the party in power’s dependence on billionaires to enforce and fund their new moral supremacist program for America, one that promises to finally fell the roadblock to central control in America, the Bill of Rights as an assumption of enititled rights by Americans who are willing to use those constructs to justifty opting out of your programs altogether, by any means necessary.

This weakness is only contigent on these companies not finding a viable alternative to China’s market prize, which might very well turn out to be India, a nation-state far more aligned with American individual rights as a concept than China ever could be so long as they follow Socialism with Chinese characteristics.  After all, one of the founding principles of our nation, unity and diversity, is also one of the central tenets of India’s civilization since long before the time of Christ.

Biden, Xi discuss avoiding US-China ‘conflict’ in first call in seven months

From www.france24.com
2021-09-10 03:34:07
NEWS WIRES
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US President Joe Biden talked with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in seven months Thursday, urging they ensure that “competition” between the two powers does not become “conflict,” the White House said.

During the call, Biden‘s message was that the United States wants to ensure “the dynamic remains competitive and that we don’t have any situation in the future where we veer into unintended conflict,” a senior US administration official told reporters.

In Beijing, state broadcaster CCTV reported that the phone call was “candid, in-depth” and covered “extensive strategic communication and exchanges on China-US relations and issues of mutual concern,” and that US policy on China has caused “serious difficulties.”

This was the leaders’ first call since February, when they talked for two hours, shortly after Biden took over from Donald Trump. The Biden administration official said the latest call lasted 90 minutes.

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Silicon Valley Aims for the Financial District

Silicon Valley and the Big Tech that emerged from it are collectively though separately aiming to cut out the financial middle man and start doing banking in their own right to provide the payment gateways for themselves.  The move is fascinating to oberseve as the financial institutions have largely been working cooperatively to support the new moral supremacism of Silicon Valley by cutting off offenders of big tech from their bank accounts.  Now, Big Tech is thanking banks the only way they know how, by exploiting their weakness and taking over their territory.

Thanks Banks, but, we got this from here.

Big Tech’s entry into banking sounds death knell for traditional lenders

From thefederal.com
2021-09-12 01:00:54

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Big Tech firms could pose a far bigger challenge to brick-and-mortar lenders than fintech startups that lack the scale of platform businesses

The slow but surefooted strides made by Big Tech firms like Google, Amazon and Facebook into the banking industry might end up dislodging brick-and-mortar lenders in the country.

The tech industry which has been slowly creeping up on licensed deposit taking institutions in India, is all set to disrupt the business of traditional lenders in India, said media reports. Prompting the question whether the traditional brick and mortar Indian banking industry, which is already crippled by rising NPAs and bad loans due to the pandemic, would then meet the fate of dying newspapers in the future?

 

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Massachusetts VA hospital broke federal law in failed hunt for missing veteran found decomposing in stairwell

From www.foxnews.com
2021-09-13 16:31:38

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The Bedford VA hospital in Massachusetts violated federal law by failing to properly search for a missing 62-year-old Army veteran, whose decomposing body wasn’t found until a month after his disappearance in an emergency stairwell just 60 feet from the door of his residential room at the facility.

A new 45-page report released last week by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General states that the body of Tim White was found on June 12, 2020, by another resident in an emergency exit stairwell at Bedford Veterans Quarters (BVQ), an independent-living facility privately operated by Caritas Communities Inc., an organization that provides services for homeless people.

 

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Translating the Past with the Help of Artificial Intelligence

There are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of ancient documents from major civilizations from around the world that sit on shelves for wont of a translator.  The number of people that can translate ancient text to modern languages is not that many, so the process of translating all these texts could take a century or more.

Not so fast, or maybe let’s go faster, say researchers from Macquaire University in Australia, who are working with artificial intelligence to train it to translate as much as possible with minimal human dependence.  So far, the early results have produced promising results, though the ai still needs significant human aid to get it right.

How Do Archaeologists Crack the Code of Dead Languages?

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-09-10 19:00:00
Benjamin Plackett
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There are efforts to make translating ancient languages a more modern pursuit. Researchers at Macquarie University in Australia teamed up with experts from Google to use artificial intelligence with the aim of speeding up the process of translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs into English and Arabic.

“What the machine does well is to recognize where there are hieroglyphs and where there aren’t any. That’s not trivial because it means that the machine doesn’t just see gobbledygook,” says Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, a lecturer in Egyptology at Macquarie University who was involved in the project. “The problem is that it isn’t based on a great deal of training data. In order to snap a photo of an Egyptian tomb wall and translate it quickly, the machine will need a lot more data.”

For now, it still requires a lot of human input to make sure the end result is a reliable translation, but if the software is exposed to enough sample data, it’s possible that it may not need human help in the future.

 

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Iran and UN watchdog reach deal over nuclear site monitoring

From www.bbc.co.uk
2021-09-12 17:42:14

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Iran has agreed to allow the global nuclear watchdog to service cameras used to monitor Iranian nuclear sites.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors will also be allowed to replace the cameras’ memory cards, and they will be kept in Iran.

Iran had previously said it would only hand over camera footage from key nuclear sites after an agreement is reached to lift US sanctions.

The IAEA had complained that Iran was blocking its monitoring work.

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Epic Games Pays Millions to Free Developers on Apple App Store

Epic Games may have ultimately won what it wanted and proven its ethical point, but they lost milions in a judgment that compels them to pay Apple for the time they were collecting sales through a third party payment gateway while they were still  in the Apple App Store, in violation of the contract and terms of service.

But the judge ruled also that Apple, while they could collect from Epic for violating the contract as it was, can no longer, going forward, restrict developers from selling their apps through third-party payment gateways.  One doubts Apple will let Epic back on its platform anytime soon, so Epic will not benefit from a ruling that now enables all other developers to do what Epic paid a hundreds-millions price for doing.

Epic Games v. Apple: Judge reaches decision

From www.cnbc.com
2021-09-10 16:26:58

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Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed down a decision in a closely-watched trial between Apple and Epic Games on Friday.

Rogers issued an injunction that said that Apple will no longer be allowed to prohibit developers from providing links or other communications that direct users away from Apple in-app purchasing, of which it takes 15% to 30% of gross sales.

 

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Chairman Xi Puts Brakes on Capitalism to Detriment of American Companies

The dream of American Corporate Empires has long been the golden opening of China’s massive market.  Now, the dream looks like a trainwreck as China’s new regulatory moves within its country threaten the ability of US markets to ever gain anything approaching open, level access in that vast market.

China’s crackdown spells trouble for U.S. businesses

From searchcio.techtarget.com
2021-09-10 19:12:25

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As China ramps up regulatory crackdowns and targets major companies, C-suite executives face a tough choice when it comes to doing business in the country: stay and fortify security, or leave.

R “Ray” Wang, founder and principal analyst at Constellation Research, said China is a top concern for the C-suite as strategic planning for 2022 begins. Companies with operations in China will have to decide whether to remain, he said. If companies continue doing business in China, Wang said the focus should be on protecting data and IP, hardening privacy controls, establishing an exit plan for employees working in the country and preparing for risks like more regulatory action.

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I often see true idiots build big audiences representing a faction and becoming the face of the faction to the degredation of that faction.
The republicans do this all the time, and, given the DNC advantage in signalling a narrative in ‘established’ channels (media, newspapers, movies, etc), when they do it, the world knows about it so that it becomes significantly branded to it.
I see the same kind of thing happening for the DNC this time with the whole Met Gala, only this time, their own media unwittingly did the work of making this moment of complete idiocracy become a significant part of the brand for a significant portion of casuals in the American lands.
The timing of the event itself, during a “pandemic,” one the DNC hypes and derives political capital from and the RNC downplays and derives political capital from downplaying it. So the party that helped make the pandemic an acutely felt emergency in the lives of many helped also to contribute to the terrible idiocracy moment that is the Met Gala.
I think even the Left are shaking their heads and thinking……wait a second, it’s almost as if you WANT to sabotage your chances to pass ‘progressive’ legislation. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
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May be an image of 4 people, people standing and text that says 'Leonydus Johnson 7h This really is art. The entire gala is like a Renaissance painting that exhibits the grotesque indulgence of self- worship and multiple layers of blatant hypocrisy of those who deem themselves to be the anointed ones. am particularly fond of the piece where all of the servants are in masks but the "royalty" who is wearing a dress that says "Equal Rights" ..isn't. It is art. PEG THE PATRIARCHY AX THE ICH GAYWETRUS TRUST QUAL RIGH QUATANT'
China Markets US Covid Story Worldwide on Social Media

Pro-China social media campaign expands to new countries, blames U.S. for COVID

From www.reuters.com
2021-09-08 16:12:00

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China’s President Xi Jinping is shown on a screen through digitally decorated glass during the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, November 23, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – A misinformation campaign on social media in support of Chinese government interests has expanded to new languages and platforms, and it even tried to get people to show up to protests in the United States, researchers said on Wednesday.

Experts at security company FireEye (FEYE.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google said the operation was identified in 2019 as running hundreds of accounts in English and Chinese aimed at discrediting the Hong Kong democracy movement. The effort has broadened its mission and spread from Twitter (TWTR.N), Facebook(FB.O) and Google to thousands of handles on dozens of sites around the world.

This expansion suggests Chinese interests have made a deeper commitment to the sort of international propaganda techniques Russia has used for several years, experts said.

Some of the new accounts are on networks used predominantly in countries that have not previously been significant Chinese propaganda targets, such as Argentina. Other networks have users around the world but with a large proportion in Russia or Germany.

False information about COVID-19 has been a major focus. For example, accounts on social networking sites vKontakte, LiveJournal and elsewhere in Russian, German, Spanish and other languages have asserted that the novel coronavirus emerged in the United States before China and that it was developed by the U.S. military.

Multiple Russian-language LiveJournal accounts used identical wording: “U.S. Ft. Detrick was the source of COVID-19,” referring to the U.S. Army’s Fort Detrick installation in Maryland.

In addition to promoting false information on the virus, researchers said priorities for the group include criticizing fugitive Chinese propagandist Guo Wengui and his ally, former Donald Trump strategist…

 

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