The infamous Phoenix district in south Hamburg is grappling with a multitude of issues, including drug trafficking, illegal gambling, and frequent violence, with mass immigration transforming the neighborhood in recent decades. It is not a right-wing conspiracy theory that the district is crime-ridden. German state media outlet…
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has demonstrated her opposition to continuing foreign aid spending in the pending Defense Appropriations Bill by introducing amendments to the bill that would strip billions in foreign aid. Speaking before the House of Representatives, Greene reminded the Speaker that the mission statement…
A lot of people may be surprised that the biggest market mover for the past few months is not Nvidia, the darling of the race for AI supremacy. The honor goes to a once obscure Nevada-based mining company called MP Materials. While Nvidia stock rose from $136…
Sometimes I think it’s astonishing how aggressively Israel’s supporters work to stomp out criticism of Israel. Then I remember that these people also support mass murdering children; trying to take away my speech rights is one of their less evil goals. It shouldn’t shock me. I saw…
A new MintPress News study has found dozens of former agents of the Israeli spy agency, Unit 8200, working at tech giant Apple. Apple has made headlines in recent weeks for touting its commitment to privacy and human rights, rolling out tools to limit surveillance and spyware.
Based on search results, I appear to have coined the aphorism “If You Seek the Truth, Look for What’s Taboo.”This is a variation on a precept I coined in December: “Tell me what’s taboo and I’ll tell you the truths that threaten the status quo.”Two essays in the tsunami…
New disclosures from a Tulsi Gabbard-led working group point directly to the top, as the legacy of “Hope and Change” begins a plunge to the ocean floor… As Matt Taibbi writes for Racket News, Barack Obama entered national politics with a smile that looked like Hope and Change.
I began studying AI in the mid-1980s. Unusually for a computer scientist of that era, my interest was entirely in information, not in machines. I became obsessed with understanding what it meant to live during the transition from the late Industrial Age to the early Information Age. …
“Here we speak Spanish!” “Gringos, go back to your country!” “Mexico for Mexicans!” read the signs of angry demonstrators on the streets of Mexico City earlier this month. Discontent with rising housing costs in the city and the ever-increasing presence of American expatriates led to an outbreak of…
Last December was a mask-off moment for failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. At the height of the debate over H-1B visas, Ramaswamy took the side of known H-1B booster Elon Musk and proceeded to criticize American culture for glorifying the prom queen instead of the math olympiad winner, or the…
