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  Is TikTok Censorship Bill Finally Getting Passed Tied to Israel? Head of the ADL: “we REALLY have a TikTok problem, a Gen-Z problem”....China recently stated Palestinians have an “inalienable right” to use force in resisting foreign occupation. SAM HUSSEINI Democracy Now  reports : “The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 352-65 to pass a bill threatening a U.S. ban on TikTok unless its Chinese owners sell the popular social media app. Lawmakers claim TikTok is a national security threat. The fight over TikTok comes amid rising anti-China rhetoric from both major U.S. parties.” Democracy Now — and most opponents of the legislation — are not noting the possible Israel connection to the legislation. While targeting of TikTok started during the Trump administration, legislation is only galvanized to pass by the bi-partisan establishment now. Some online argue it’s related to Israel: Revolutionary Blackout Network charges: “Insane censorship bill passes the US House in order to p

  AI Yai Yai Canta y no llores RADIO FAR SIDE From the earliest days of cinema and mass media, the subject of artificial intelligence has been cloaked in dark dystopian themes. Whether it’s the robotic Maria in Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece “ Metropolis ,” or the infamous HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 game-changer “ 2001: A Space Odyssey ,” or the dominating supercomputer in Joseph Sargent’s 1970 “ Colossus: The Forbin Project ,” or Spike Jonze’ eerily prescient 2013 film “ Her ,” intelligent and self-aware machines have been depicted as tyrannical, murderous and coldly diabolical. Given the long list of films, television shows, books, video games, and other media depicting AI as dominant, inevitable and almost god-like, could there be an agenda behind it? Have we been programmed to fear AI as part of a distinctly human plan to dominate our species? Here’s the scenario: a group of humans seek to dominate global civilization. However, they realize that a mere human would never be f

When Behavioural Scientists Misbehave A not so hidden secret BY   JOHN RIDGWAY “ Psychology is no longer just about diagnosing or fixing us, it is now about socially engineering and shaping us. If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.” Dr Patrick Fagan, behavioural psychologist, University of London The relationship between psychology and your average climate sceptic is a strange one indeed. On the one hand psychologists are  reputed  to have generated a “dramatically growing body of research” that demonstrates how our inability to think critically leads to conspiracy ideation. For example, our cognitive failings are presupposed to lead us to think that the public is being unwittingly manipulated as part of some government masterplan. But, on the other hand, it is open knowledge that psychologists have been responsible for developing techniques of behavioural science that have been extensively used by governments to surreptitiously manipulate public opinion. They even have a