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Exclusive: White House to lure U.S. firms to Latam from Asia in nearshoring drive, senior adviser says
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SINO-AUS RELATIONS: The clue is in Australia’s
military build-up, its new and more robust defence policy, and its recent
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BEHOLD THIS FULLY FUNCTIONAL SHOCKED FACE! Millions Worth of PPP Loans Went to Chinese-Owned Companies, Report Finds.
How To Pretend That You Are SmartCurrent Affairs
L’Affaire Joffrey Epstein
Unsealed Epstein documents detail alleged abuse by Ghislaine MaxwellThe Hill. The “trove” nobody is talking about is Epstein’s video. All agree Epstein’s homes were wired and that recordings were taken during the festivities. Not to go all CT, and don’t you either, but given Epstein’s Rolodex and flight logs, these videos are almost certainly high-grade intelligence and unlikely not to have been convered into power. The press seems curiously silent on this point, preferring the focus on the foibles — granted quelle foibles — of the individual actors. Odd.
When Corporate Power Is Your Real Government, Corporate Media Is State Media Caitlin Johnstone
China Is the First Surveillance Superpowe - The Atlantic – Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe. “…Xi’s pronouncements on AI have a sinister edge. Artificial intelligence has applications in nearly every human domain, from the instant translation of spoken language to early viral-outbreak detection. But Xi also wants to use AI’s awesome analytical powers to push China to the cutting edge of surveillance. He wants to build an all-seeing digital system of social control, patrolled by precog algorithms that identify potential dissenters in real time…China already has hundreds of millions of surveillance cameras in place. Xi’s government hopes to soon achieve full video coverage of key public areas. Much of the footage collected by China’s cameras is parsed by algorithms for security threats of one kind or another. In the near future, every person who enters a public space could be identified, instantly, by AI matching them to an ocean of personal data, including their every text communication, and their body’s one-of-a-kind protein-construction schema. In time, algorithms will be able to string together data points from a broad range of sources—travel records, friends and associates, reading habits, purchases—to predict political resistance before it happens. China’s government could soon achieve an unprecedented political stranglehold on more than 1 billion people…”
