Can Blockchain Save Us from Fake News? These Researchers Say Yes

Paul Collier October 17, 2023

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo are building a blockchain system to publish news that is assured of being “truthful.” The researchers are developing the technology to combat “misinformation,” or “fake news,” which they say is threatening democratic institutions.

The technology has three elements, blockchain (which enables decentralized publication from transparent interests), human intelligence through a quorum of “validators,” and finally a check on validators through an “entropy-based incentive mechanism.” In essence, it boils down to “popular opinion,” though the researchers would be loath to describe it in that manner.

From techxplore:

Ultimately, the article would be validated as trustworthy on the platform only if most of the validators’ opinions align with the truth. As for the user who published the article in the first place, that person might then receive a reward using the entropy-based incentive mechanism. But if the article is exposed as fake news, the user who published it could be penalized. Meanwhile, this entropy measure would convey to the end-user the degree of uncertainty in the output.

At this point the researchers have built and are working with an early prototype. While initial test results are promising, their system is still in the development stage and needs a significant effort to make it usable in the real world. Even so, an industrial partner, Ripple Labs Inc.—a leading provider of crypto solutions for businesses—is part of the Waterloo research.

Chien-Chih Chen, one of the project’s lead researchers, said of the project “We are confident our system has the potential to be applied in practical situations within the next few years. We believe it can provide a robust solution to fake news. I hope my research can impact the world to make a positive difference.”

The use of the term “fake news,” the belief that “truth” is something popular opinion can calibrate shows the hubris behind this project, which some might categorize as fake news in and of itself. Promising a machine to assure truthfulness in news is fake news, right from the start. Whole philosophies have risen and fallen on such claims.

To emphasize my point, here is how the publication that perpetuated this fake news categorized examples of “fake news” that this project might debunk: The danger of disinformation—or fake news—to democracy is real. There is evidence fake news could have influenced how people voted in two important political events in 2016: Brexit, the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and the U.S. presidential election that put Donald Trump in power. More recently the Canadian government has warned Canadians to be aware of a Russian campaign of disinformation surrounding that country’s war against Ukraine. Although big tech companies—including Facebook and Google—have established policies to prevent the spread of fake news on their platforms, they’ve had limited success.

First of all, the definition of democracy and the practice of democracy are as varied as the political factions that claim to be bastions of that term. Second of all, the notion that “disinformation” is a threat to democracy is fake news, once again. What is dangerous to some form of democratic spirit is the blocking of information under the name of protecting people from “disinformation.”

Totalitarians the world over, since totalitarian states have existed, have long used claims of misinformation to justify preventing the free and open exchange of information.

This project seems more like the nascence of a new method of governments to assure only their narrative is perpetuated, using a “disinformation-safe” machine that might be “de-centralized” on the platform itself, but the platform will be licensed by the state that builds it.

Protecting the people from fake news is not real, not possible, and no government actually wants to do that (for they would be undermining their own justifications for power). What is real is your ability to discern efforts to approach truth in reporting (for pure truth is not accessible even in the very language that we use, which has ambiguity, subjectivity unavoidably built into it), not the ability of any machine or aggregate of human committees to discern truth.

You don’t need to protect the world from disinformation. You need to equip humans to protect themselves from disinformation, imperfectly though that would be. No government (and these researchers are all dependent on that “government”) has any incentive to equip their citizens to discern approaches to truth from actual disinformation, for no government can stand, including the United States, without, in part, disseminating “fake news.”

New York Wants to License 3D Printers

Paul Collier October 17, 2023

In a move that could set a precedent leading to government licensing for 3D printers, the far-left blue state of New York has a bill in its legislature called AB A8132 that would require its citizens to go through a criminal background check before they can purchase a 3D printer t0 ostensibly protect citizens from criminals being able to make “ghost guns,” which is just a far-left anti-American term for homemade guns, the heart of resistance to tyranny the world over.

The author of the bill, Jenifer Rakjumar, said of the bill “Three-dimensionally printed firearms, a type of untraceable ghost gun, can be built by anyone using a $150 three-dimensional printer. This bill will require a background check so that three-dimensional printed firearms do not get in the wrong hands.”

As the Supreme Court has recently decided to unconstitutionally allow the enforcement of a ban on homemade guns by the Biden regime, this bill is aligned with that un-American narrative perpetuated by the media organizations that find themselves mere vassals of the corpostate machine the DNC-CCP relies on to consolidate and preserve its anti-American power in these American lands.

The bill would lay the groundwork to create a registry of Americans living in this fallen state who possessed 3D printers capable of manufacturing homemade firearms, the symbol of American liberty itself for those of us paying attention to “current year” politicking.

The bill is allegedly targeting only 3D printers that can make homemade guns, derisively referred to as “ghost guns,” intending to illogically stigmatize the mind against this act of self-stewardship, liberty, that the powers that be, including the reporters who write about such bills, are violently against. But the bill fails to specify 3D printer models, as if it could since new 3D printers can be created after the bill becomes law, and even more, 3D printers themselves can be “Ghost 3D Printers,” that is, 3D printers created by individuals in their own homes.

The bill is also designed, this writer theorizes, to lay the groundwork for the ultimate prohibition against 3D printers in general, as they represent as much of a threat to the controlling of the means of human production as the printing press was (and still is) to the authoritarians that seek to control outcomes to make them the de facto gods of humanity, making humans in their own anti-Christ, anti-liberty image, which is the entire story of history throughout all humanity as readily observed in God’s scriptures.

The printing press in most kingdoms required a license to be owned and a license to publish. The state sought to control the flow of information. Now, the state needs to control more than information, it needs to control the means of production to assure that the large-scale systems it depends on for power, such as our near-monopolistic institutions, for they produce most all of our product needs, making them a concentrated, easy-to-access, predictably reliable sources of tax revenue and political campaign financing, as well as funding cultural production through the newspapers and movie studios they also control.

In 14th Century England, the Miller, the person who ground your grains to flour, was such an institution. When portable mills become more reliable, the state had to lock that down to protect its monopolistic control, through the Miller, of essential production the citizens relied on. This is why 14th Century England required its citizens to have a license to even own a portable mill, and strict laws regarding how that mill could be used (for limited family needs alone).

The 3D printer is the greatest threat to the state’s hold on information and production in all of human history up to this point, so the state has just recently figured this out and now the far-left blue state of New York is beginning the process of nudging Americans towards an acceptance of having that small-scale empowering technology locked behind government guns and missiles aimed at the rebel who would dare print what they want in defiance of a state that seeks to make humans in its own corrupt image rather than facilitating the self-stewardship potential of humans that live in the lands it controls.

For a better understanding of our standards of news reporting, read our report “The Prophetic Voice in News?”

“Child” Sues North Carolina for “Right” to Trans “Treatment”

Paul Collier October 16, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against the state of North Carolina allegedly by a nine-year old child who allegedly wants to “transition” from being a girl to being a boy, and her parents want to give the child physical and chemical “gender therapy” treatment that will leave the child infertile, mutilated, and dependent on expensive drugs for the rest of her life, drugs that have not been tested for long-term side effects. The lawsuit is in response to a law that prohibits the mangling of children for the rainbow cult of trans.

The name of the child allegedly suing is given as Victor Voe, which is not her real or made-up boy name, but a pseudonym given to protect her privacy. The names of the parents are not given, but the names of the child-grooming organizations supporting this lawsuit, especially economically are given.

The lawsuit alleges “Victor is transgender. He knew from a very young age that his gender identity did not match his sex assigned at birth, and he generally lives as athe boy he is in every aspect of life. However, with his puberty approaching, Victor will soon need medical care that is prohibited by the Health Care Ban.”

This lawsuit is really about sacrificing another child in rebellion against God by child-grooming rainbow cultists who show the lack of logic, reason, and morality that we Americans have grown accustomed to see from the progmericans that live among us (who are no Americans at all).

The lawsuit seems to want to set a precedent that children can consent to such bodily mutilation, a precedent that would lay open the door to grant them consent to have sexual relations as well. Some arguing for the lawsuit have also called conservatives hypocrites for asserting parental rights to protect them from state-sanctioned trans grooming in schools while not recognizing the parents’ rights to mutilate their children and make them dependent on dangerous expensive drugs for the rest of their lives.

Their arguments reflect their depravity and only make those of us that oppose the sacrificing of children to leftist causes all the more determined to resist them.

What the left in America do not understand is that there is no compromise with this depravity, that all of their arguments in favor of mangling children’s bodies to carry forth the lie that gender is a social construct, that humans are not sexually binary, make them seem all the more depraved and unsafe as neighbors for anyone who has children.

Leftists support murdering unborn children while rejecting capital punishment. To them, the life of the murderer is more precious than the life of the unborn. This depraved value system is at the heart of a people that would allow children to “choose” to have their bodies destroyed by chemicals and surgeons’ knives all so adults can feel they can conquer God and deny his sacred truth, that we are born men and women, nothing else. May God have mercy on this depraved land and deliver us from Babylon, the Democratic Party and all who support it.

CRT ACT Fail, Hiding Your Jewishness, Hamas’ Day of Rage, Scalise Drops, NASA’s Metal Printer

Paul Collier October 13, 2023

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FIA WEEKDAY

FRIDAY OCTOBER 13, 2023

editor Paul Collier

A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
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(News recap from 6a October 12 to 6a October 13)

“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “ – 1 Corinthians 13:6

CRT ACT FAIL, HIDING YOUR JEWISHNESS, HAMAS’ DAY OF RAGE, SCALISE DROPS, NASA’S METAL PRINTER

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HEADLINES

TRENDING (M-F)

ONE-MONTH OLD VIDEO BY HAMAS SHOWS THEM PREPARING TO SLAUGHTER CIVILIANS IN ISRAELI TOWNS – A Hamas video made less than one month before the brutal assault targeting civilians, including women and children, for slaughter, was produced that shows the terrorists drilling in a mock-up of an Israeli Kibbutz. The video documented their live-fire exercise called “Strong Pillar.” AP has identified the location of the mock-up town. It was near Al-Mawasi, a Palestinian town on the southern coast of Gaza.

WOKE ACTIVIST KILLED BY MAN HE RAPED WHEN HE WAS 15, ALLEGEDLY – LGBTQ Activist Josh Kruger, 39, was allegedly murdered by 19-year old Robert Edmond Davis in his apartment September 2. Now, the family of accused killer is saying Davis murdered the activist for allegedly grooming him and having sexual relations with him since he was 15. The activist was allegedly threatening to release sex videos of the two of them together, according to the family.

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WORLD (M-F)

AS DEATH TOLL CLIMBS ON BOTH SIDES, ISRAEL GIVES PALESTINIANS 24 HOURS TO CLEAR GAZA – The death toll has reached 2,500 in the Israel-Hamas war, with 27 Americans counted among the dead. Now, the Israelis are dropping leaflets telling 1 million residents of Northern Gaza to leave the area until the war is over, if they want to live. The UN called the warning inadequate, to which Israel’s UN Ambassador, Gilad Erdan, said, “The UN’s response to Israel’s early warning to the residents of Gaza is a disgrace! For many years, the UN turned a blind eye to the arming of Hamas and its use of civilian populations and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip for murder and for stockpiling its weapons.”

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CALLS OUT GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT FOR DENYING ELECTION RESULTS – The Organization of American States (OAS) held an emergency meeting after the Guatemalan government raided the country’s Public Ministry in what appears to be an attempt to deny the President-elect’s transition to power. The OAS condemned the actions, calling them “a shameful example for the hemisphere.”

Cesar Bernardo Arevalo de Leon won the election and is set to take power in 2024, but so far the party in power seems to be doing everything it can to invalidate the president-elect before he can take power.

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U.S. POLITICS (M-F)

BOB MENENDEZ NOW CHARGED WITH BECOMING A FOREIGN AGENT – Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who is still running for re-election in 2024, now faces charges from Manhattan prosecutors accusing him of failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. They’ve asked a judge for permission to seize the Senator’s property in Englewood, NJ, including a Mercedes-Benz convertible they allege was a bribe from a foreign government. His wife, Nadine Menendez, is also charged. His actions appear to be treasonous in nature and are similar to what our current President, Joe Biden, along with much of his family, appears to also have done.

TRUMP TROUNCING BIDEN IN BATTLEGROUND STATES? – Donald Trump has taken a commanding lead over Joe Biden in the 2024 Presidential race in two key battleground states, Pennsylvania and Michigan, going up 9 points over Biden in PA and 7 points over Biden in Michigan. The poll was conducted by Emerson College at the beginning of this month, October.

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EDITOR’S CHOICE (T-F)

SHOULD STUDENTS BE CANCELLED FOR SUPPORTING PALESTINE, HAMAS? – A law firm has cancelled a job offer to a law school candidate for posting content on social media in support of Hamas, claiming “Israel bears full responsibility” for the Hamas assault that led to the deaths of over 1,000 unarmed civilians, including women and children. CEO’s of other firms are cancelling job offers, current and future, for students who signed a petition in support of Hamas. The question is this, is it appropriate to perpetuate “cancel culture” even when the people being cancelled are wrong for their beliefs?

AS DHS CONFESSES OPEN BORDERS ALLOWING TERRORISTS IN, NEW DATA SUGGESTS IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN THEY SAY – The Department of Homeland Security released a report on September Illegal Immigration that admitted the open border policy is making it easy for terrorists to enter our country. It said, “terrorists and criminal actors may exploit the elevated flow and increasingly complex security environment to enter the United States.” Meanwhile a recent Customs and Border Protection Report shows 160 suspected terrorists have been caught entering the country and thousands from Islamist countries have also entered.

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SCI-TECH (T-F)

AN APP CAN HELP DEMENTIA PATIENTS RECOVER SOME LOST COGNITION – Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology have developed a prototype app they allege will help patients of early-onset dementia restore some lost cognition and delay the loss of cognition from the illness. It can also be used to help healthy seniors as well. The App uses “multilingual training” to achieve these results.

NEW 3D PRINTER USED BY NASA COULD REVOLUTIONIZE METAL-3D PRINTING – NASA is using a 3D printer created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to print its lunar rover wheel prototype. The advanced 3D printer could reduce the cost and production time, as well as increase the durability, and accuracy of metal 3D printers by orders of magnitude compared to what can be done by metal 3D printers today.

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ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values.

Source of dubious ‘beheaded babies’ claim is Israeli settler leader who incited riots to ‘wipe out’ Palestinian village – thegrayzone.com

Republicans Are Using Anti-China Rhetoric to Undercut Striking UAW Workers’ Demands – inthesetimes.com

Exclusive: Hamas attack would fall under jurisdiction of war crimes court -prosecutor – www.reuters.com

Trump, Christian nationalism, QAnon mix on ReAwaken America Tour – www.latimes.com

Kentucky Family Foundation wants to ‘promote a biblical world view.’ Many in the GOP are on board | Ap – www.thederrick.com

Higher U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports would cost consumers $31 … – American Journal of Transportation – www.ajot.com

Israel’s ‘Invincible’ Army Falls Short – www.mintpressnews.com

Abortion ban likely in Virginia if GOP sweeps Nov. 2023 elections – www.13newsnow.com

Cognitive decline or conspiracy theory? Trump says Obama is Biden’s boss – www.dailykos.com

Trans customer reports discrimination at KC Costco pharmacy – Kansas City Star – www.kansascity.com

court should stop WNC Republicans ‘voter suppression’ law – www.citizen-times.com

Abortion opponents try to keep people from traveling out of state for care – 19thnews.org

As Red States Curb Social Media, Did Montana’s TikTok Ban Go Too Far? – www.nytimes.com

Human rights experts warn against European crackdown on climate protesters | Environmental activism – amp.theguardian.com

On This Day in Histoy: Cyrus Conquers Babylon; Comparisons With Donald Trump – thenewamerican.com

Creative Approaches to Promoting Social Justice: Effective, Fun, or Both? – www.artshub.com.au

Attacks on ESG Investing are also attacks on company support for Sustainability – corpgov.law.harvard.edu

EU regulators call out TikTok for spreading violent Israel-Hamas content – www.washingtontimes.com

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Most Americans Support Israel Against Hamas, Poll Finds – www.dailysignal.com

Maui County sues Hawaii power company for negligence leading to fires | Climate News – www.aljazeera.com

Kaleo Manuel reinstated as water deputy | Devastation in Lahaina … – KITV Honolulu – www.kitv.com

Police Order 10,000 Residents To Evacuate After Gas Line Explodes In Idaho – dailycaller.com

Teen faces adult murder charge in slaying of Michigan election canvasser -abcnews.com

Across Israel, Jews and Arabs Join Forces to Help War Victims and Prevent Riots – Israel News – www.haaretz.com

X/Twitter Removed Thousands of Israel-Hamas War Posts: Linda Yaccarino – variety.com

Federal judge rips into Montana’s statewide TikTok ban – www.cbs58.com

As search in Maui nears end, it’s unclear how many lost their lives – www.politico.com

Auto Workers Union Just Shut Down Ford’s Biggest And Most Profitable Plant – dailycaller.com

BLM Group Expresses Solidarity With Palestinian Terror Attacks, Mocks Rave Victims – legalinsurrection.com

Your Black Lives Matter Donation May Have Helped Hamas – thefederalist.com

Israel Hamas unrest: NYPD preparing for pro-Palestinian rallies Friday – abc7ny.com

Columbia University Closes Campus Ahead of Israel-Hamas War Protests – www.nytimes.com

Here Comes the Pivot: Nets Begin to Turn on Israel Due to ‘Apocalyptic Scenes in Gaza’ – www.newsbusters.org

TikTok Users Spread Misinformation About Gynecologic Cancers – www.curetoday.com

Google and Microsoft Chatbots Falsely Claim There’s a Ceasefire in … – Bloomberg – www.bloomberg.com

A “Killer Clown” Is Stalking The Scotland Streets, And Here’s His Video Warning To The Villagers – www.louderwithcrowder.com

Woman spends £4k marrying herself with no guests invited after Valentine’s Day proposal – www.mirror.co.uk

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MORE WORLD

Security chiefs got wind of something amiss in Gaza, thought it was a drill – reports – www.timesofisrael.com

Israel releases images of slain children to rally support after Hamas attack – www.reuters.com

Israel-Hamas live: Iran says new fronts may open if Gaza bombing continues – Al Jazeera English – www.aljazeera.com

2 senior generals purged from Myanmar’s military government are sentenced to life for corruption – abcnews.go.com

As desperation in Gaza grows, Israel says it won’t allow aid to flow until Hamas releases hostages – www.pbs.org

Indian and Canadian officials in diplomatic dialogue amid Sikh leader assassination controversy – www.foxnews.com

Israel-Hamas war live: no power, water or fuel to Gaza until hostages are freed, Israeli minister says | Israel – www.theguardian.com

The US is moving quickly to boost Israel’s military. A look at what assistance it’s providing – apnews.com

Israel-Hamas war live: Gaza supplies will run out ‘very soon,’ UN warns; UK to send Royal Navy ships and aircraft to support Israel | Israel – amp.theguardian.com

Canadian military evacuation flights begin from Israel – National – globalnews.ca

‘I Come Here Also as a Jew’: With Netanyahu, Blinken Pledges That ‘U.S. Has Israel’s Back’ – Israel News – www.haaretz.com

Israel-Gaza latest: Israel ‘strikes Syrian airports’; 447 children among dead in Gaza | World News – news.sky.com

Israel sends soldiers to north fearing attack from Hezbollah in Lebanon – www.bbc.co.uk

H M affirms Oman’s solidarity with Palestinian people – www.muscatdaily.com

Wife of deposed President Ali Bongo detained – news.yahoo.com

Israeli forces dropping leaflets in Gaza warning of bombings as power is out – www.msnbc.com

Biden’s Defense Secretary Snubs Invitation To Beijing Forum – dailycaller.com

Kenya warns of risk of ‘solidarity’ attacks over Israel-Hamas war – www.monitor.co.ug

Vietnam tried hacking US politicians, journalists: Report – americanmilitarynews.com

Labour cuts back £28bn green investment pledge again – www.carbonbrief.org

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MORE U.S. POLITICS

Russ Vought: Scalise Is “Not A America First Speaker”, Backed All Of McCarthy’s DC Cartel Deals – warroom.org

Trump re-ups request to delay classified docs trial until after 2024 … – Axios – www.axios.com

While Terrorists Seek to Destroy, FBI Dubs MAGA the “Greatest Threat” – thenewamerican.com

Over $400 Million in Taxpayer Funds Have been Sent to Gaza Since Hamas Takeover › American Greatness – amgreatness.com

Legal Experts Fret That DA Willis Walking Into ‘Trap’ Regarding Federal Appeal – conservativebrief.com

Jack Smith Seeks Protections For Potential Jurors In Trump Election Case – conservativebrief.com

Hillary’s deprogramming scheme – www.americanthinker.com

Early Pennsylvania polling show Sen. Bob Casey has edge over challenger, Trump with slight lead over Biden – www.cbsnews.com

Ramaswamy Says GOP ‘Selective Moral Outrage” on Israel Driven By Money, Lobbying Groups – freebeacon.com

Florida Law Targeting Drag Shows Can’t Be Enforced for Now … – U.S. News & World Report – www.usnews.com

Chicago Mayor Johnson Plans Cost Cuts to Close Half-a-Billion Dollar Gap – www.bloomberg.com

D.C.’s violent crime victims rail against lax prosecutions at Capitol Hill hearing – www.washingtontimes.com

California Governor vetoes safety net for grocery workers affected by merger layoffs – www.freshplaza.com

When Did California Democrats Turn Into ‘Democrat Socialists’? – californiaglobe.com

A key test for the Elections Transparency Acty – www.politico.com

Michigan Democrat leaves DSA, blasts Tlaib for characterizing Hamas as “Resistance” – HotAir – hotair.com

Democrats wrestle with the Biden conundrum – www.nbcnews.com

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MORE EDITOR’S CHOICE

Social media giants should scrub hate speech “before it’s too late,” Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams say | Don’t Miss This – www.register-herald.com

Texas Senate passes bill that allows state police to arrest migrants – www.texastribune.org

Report: NLRB tried to swing mail-ballot election to union – www.uschamber.com

Holding Protest Leaders Liable for Others’ Violence Chills Free Speech – reason.com

‘Ebony Alert’ For Missing Black Kids & Women Becomes CA Law – theshaderoom.com

U.S. Supreme Court rejects another bid to temporarily block New York state gun law – www.newsday.com

Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark libel ruling, though Clarence Thomas wants to reconsider the decision – ktvz.com

U.S. judge upholds suspension of right to carry guns in some New Mexico parks – www.reuters.com

New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Bolstering a Rental Black Market – news.slashdot.org

Bill Would Ban Unofficial AI-Generated Likenesses; SAG-AFTRA Cheers – Deadline – deadline.com

Stanford scholars can testify on lockdown learning loss after California drops gag order – www.thecollegefix.com

Gruden v. NFL, Goodell heads to Nevada Supreme Court on November 7 – www.nbcsports.com

California’s ban on high-capacity gun magazines can remain in effect, court rules – www.reuters.com

The FDA’s Laboratory Land Grab – www.wsj.com

SCOTUS Order Leaves Biden “Ghost Gun” Ban in Effect – thenewamerican.com

Far-left Philly DA actually says suspected looters who are ‘fundamentally law-abiding people’ will be prosecuted differently than ‘criminals’ – www.theblaze.com

Net neutrality’s court fate depends on whether broadband is “telecommunications” – www.benton.org

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MORE SCI-TECH

X and Meta Face Scrutiny Over AI Deepfakes – www.spiceworks.com

Fighting corrosion – the end to rust? Quantum computing could provide a solution – wraltechwire.com

New guidance issued on the determination of brain death – www.sciencedaily.com

New easy-to-use optical chip can self-configure to perform various functions – phys.org

Fintech brings banking to the unbanked in developing countries – eandt.theiet.org

A Record-Setting Solar Storm Hit the Earth 14,300 Years Ago, According to Ancient Trees – www.discovermagazine.com

Meta’s Clegg Says Working to Prevent ‘Inappropriate’ Replies From New AI Chatbots – www.bloomberg.com

New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table – www.nytimes.com

Cyber algorithm neutralises malicious robot attack – www.openaccessgovernment.org

Metal Nanoclusters Boost Stability in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries – www.miragenews.com

Elevating neuromorphic computing using laser-controlled filaments in vanadium dioxide – phys.org

Insects evolved ‘instantly’ due to climate havoc – www.futurity.org

NASA Postponed Spacewalk Due to Leak on Space Station – futurism.com

Wind Power Will Expand with Larger Turbines but Could Face Pushback – www.scientificamerican.com

Lockheed Martin will develop two 300kW laser weapon prototypes for US Army – www.army-technology.com

Ancient Skulls Reveal Shifts in Human Violence across Millennia – www.scientificamerican.com

Teledyne launches latest Black Hornet nano-drone with upgraded sensors – www.c4isrnet.com

New information physics theory is evidence ‘we’re living in a simulation,’ says author • The Register – www.theregister.com

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Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command. – 1 Chronicles 12:32

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ACT Test Scores Show “Woke” Public Schools Failing Students

Paul Collier October 13, 2023

With the conversion of American public schools from preparatory training for living as free Americans to being trained to be anti-American revolutionaries, it should be no surprise that the public school system is producing children failing to cut the grade. The latest evidence comes from this year’s ACT college admission test scores, which have plummeted to a 30-year low.

For the last six years, ACT scores have been falling, now it’s reached a 30-year low of 19.5 out of 36, a 54% score. The numbers will continue to go down as the students who have experienced the political anti-American activist version of education for more grade years make their way to the stage of taking an ACT test. The spreading of what this writer calls Woketarian indoctrination by the state has really only exploded nationally within the last 6 years, therefore many students experienced some years of more preparatory training for living as free American adults.

As the years go on, less and less students would have had school years free from the burden of being taught to hate themselves, their parents, and their country. Less and less students will know anything other than racial, sexual, and gender divisions created by their own teachers, who themselves are becoming increasingly fully indoctrinated anti-American revolutionaries willing to toss the Bill of Rights in the name of “protecting” gay people from people who disagree with their lifestyle choices.

This writer said to anyone who cared to listen more than 6 years ago that an ideology based in the underlying assumption that white people invented evil and therefore we must eliminate white people and everything they (allegedly) invented (like Christianity and the American republic) will produce trauma, division, hate, wars in our classrooms if it’s brought into our public schools.

This is exactly what is happening as this writer has experienced anecdotal evidence of the trauma being produced even in my local schools, as testified to me through children connected to me through my daughter (who was homeschooled just as this woketarian garbage started to be introduced to our local schools), relatives, and friends who have children.

In our local high school, kids have told me that everyone is constantly either trying to prove they’re not one of the ists or phobes or trying to accuse others of ists and phobes. The passive-aggressive among them are the most aggressive in using accusations of ist and phobe to destroy children they don’t like or are competing against.

All of this was predictable from the start and could be predicted by anyone who has ever heard of the Wave Experiment.

From knowledgenuts.com:

In 1967, a high school history class in California became the lab rats of an experiment to study the rise of Nazism. Their teacher called the group “The Third Wave,” even going so far as to punish an improper sitting posture. Within days, they had a motto, flag, salute, and began to view themselves as an exclusive, elite group. The experiment was killed by the fifth day, as the students were beginning to spiral out of control and becoming aggressive…

In 1967, Ron Jones was teaching his class about what life was like in Germany leading up to World War II. When one student asked how so many people could blindly obey such a regime, he decided that a demonstration would be the best answer. He implemented a mandatory pose for students at their desk: sitting up straight, hands flat on the desk, feet flat on the ground, parallel to one another, knees at right angles, and more. The class would do drills and have to be sitting correctly within five seconds. He then wanted to see how far he could take the experiment. Students were required to stand to the side of their desk and begin with “Mr. Jones” each time they addressed him. Answers to questions were to be a maximum of three words. At first the class improved, but then things went too far.

On Day Two, they gave themselves a motto: “Strength Through Discipline. Strength Through Community.” The class was brought up to the front in pairs to chant the phrase until everyone was involved. Then Jones developed their salute: The right hand was cupped and brought up to almost touch the right shoulder. This was the titular “Third Wave,” meant to represent how the final wave in a trio is the strongest, although its similarity to “The Third Reich” can’t be ignored. Students were ordered to, and did, give the salute anytime they saw one another, even outside of class. The next day, membership was made optional, and everyone opted to stay. In fact, 13 students cut class to join the original 30, and membership cards were then issued. Three students were selected to police the rest, and everyone was encouraged to ensure that all members of the Third Wave were complying with the growing number of rules at all times. They were also instructed to prevent outsiders from entering the room. For an outsider to join, they had to be recommended by a member and swear allegiance to the Third Wave. This led to bullying. Members used threats to recruit some students, and exclude others. They also began ratting each other out for not following the rules. One well-built student became the teacher’s personal bodyguard. Other teachers began to get frustrated, as an additional 50 members of the Third Wave meant that students were skipping their assigned classes. Parents were also starting to get worried, and one father (who had been a prisoner of war in Germany) broke in and destroyed the room.

Perhaps it is time for parents to follow the example of the father at the end of this story. Perhaps they already would have if they fully understood the danger of teaching children that classes of people are evil for merely being born while others are preferred.

More than just grades are going down, well-being is going down as well as more and more children find themselves psychologically traumatized by the terror inflicted on them by teachers who draw their salaries from coerced taxes on the parents these teachers hate as much as they hate our country and “heteronormativity.”

This is flat-out child abuse, and it will produce violent, bitter adults not prepared to become free American adults. As a matter of fact, they won’t even know what freedom is, it will be, to them, a dog whistle for white supremacism to even say such a “dirty” word, which is the whole point of terrorizing our children in the first place, to kill the American spirit and replace it with angry, manipulable adults willing to kill their neighbors for simply being born as the wrong “class” of people.

Kids in Britain Told to Hide Their Jewish Identity as Anti-Semitism Rises in the Left

Paul Collier October 13, 2023

A letter to the editor in the London Times outlines the concerns of a British woman of Jewish descent telling the world that British public schools ask Jewish children to hide their identities for their safety. She wrote, “ On advice from her school our teenage daughter has gone off without her blazer this morning. Her male classmates have been advised to cover their skullcaps with baseball caps. On her pre-school dawn run yesterday she ran past the broken glass of a kosher cafe’s windows and a fresh anti-Israel slogan painted on a bridge.”

The rise in antisemitism in Britain comes from two factors, the first is the allowance of a flood of “immigrants” from Islamo-fascist lands, including Gaza, where children are taught that Jews are devils and the greatest rewards in the life to come are for people who murder them, especially if they die while they do it. The second factor is the rise of antisemitism of the far left, which is now the mainstream left, something we in America are also seeing.

J.K. Rowling tweeted out the article and said, “We said ‘never again.’ The UK was a safe haven. Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary.”

It was her tweet that brought attention to the woman’s letter to the editor, which was written by Dr. Sarah Nachshen of London.

Even today here in America, October 13, 2023, the far left is planning numerous rallies in support of a bloodthirsty cult (not unsimilar to their own) that teaches their children to hate the Jews and to work to annihilate the Jewish state and the Jewish people, even if it means sacrificing your life to do it.

The far left that calls itself “antifa” and accuses everyone else of being Nazis anytime they oppose any of their murderous policies (like abortion) is showing its true fascist nature more and more each day. What’s going in the U.K. is going on in America as well, and the DNC-CCP is the main driver of this hatred that is constantly being spread by far left “activists” and Democratic politicans supported by billionaires like Soros, Bezos and more who give millions of dollars to organizations built to preach, teach and execute hate against all who oppose their dystopian plans to remake man in their perverted, anti-Christ image.

Woman with Gun Leads Team to Defend Kibbutz Against Hamas

Paul Collier October 12, 2023

One of the reasons the terror group Hamas was able to slaughter so many Israelis and foreigners in its invasion of Israel was due to Israel’s antigun policies, which stripped citizens of the God-given right to defend themselves against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Of all the Kibbutz’s in the region Hamas initially took over, only one was able to protect itself, and that was thanks to the foresight of one woman, Inbal Rabin-Lieberman, the head of security for Kibbutz Nir Am. She heard the Hamas rockets and thought they didn’t sound the same as usual, so she fetched weapons from the armory and gathered a team of 12 people to successfully defend her kibbutz from the slaughtering and marauding Hamas terrorists that attempted to destroy them.

From the American Thinker:

(Lieberman) placed her squad of kibbutzniks in strategic positions across the settlement and set up ambushes that caught the gunmen off guard and turned the tables on them during their mission to inflict mass casualties.

There are conflicting reports on how many jihadists Inbal and her team killed and wounded (some say 25 terrorists were neutralized; some say only one or two), but Inbal’s decision “not to wait” meant that Nir Am became the sole kibbutz in the “entire surrounding area” that emerged from the violence largely unscathed. Another report highlighted Inbal’s decision ordering that power not be restored, so no one could open the gates to the kibbutz.

There are reports that it took 6-8 hours for Israeli police and military to even arrive at the scene of the carnage to affect ANY defense of the civilians from the murdering hordes. We in America who support guns often cite the fact that the police will arrive at the scene of a crime just in time to count the bodies and document a crime they were unable to prevent, and that’s with the police arriving within 20 minutes.

What must it have been like for those Israelis, unarmed as they were, to wait helplessly in their shelters (when they got to them in time) or wherever else they could cower in fear in the face of armed killers who had no real deterrence to murder them and their children?

In the case of Lieberman’s kibbutz, the people of that community were fortunate to have a leader who acted intelligently and decisively AND had access to arms she could use to stage a successful defense of her community. In the case of all the other communities, slaughter was inevitable once Hamas crossed their borders and entered these communities, largely due to the decisions by the Israeli government to strip its citizens of their rights to defend themselves.

They made this unconscionable decision while their citizens lived in the midst of daily existential threat from their neighbors, who teach their children that Jews are sub-human and that one day Palestine will triumph and the Jew will be driven into the sea.

Lieberman should be celebrated as the hero that she is, along with the team she led, and surely one day we will see a movie about her triumph in the face of Hell, but the politicians that lead that country should come to a reckoning with the fact that it was THEIR decision to unarm their own people that empowered a terror state to behead babies, to slaughter women, for they knew they were entering gun-free zones, the same kind of zones our American cities and some states have created, making anyone who lives in those zones as vulnerable to the terror brewing within our country as the Israelis were.

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