It’s disheartening that europe’s reaction is as timid as it is (to me as a european, that is).
Israel needs at least to get boycotted like S.A. was. That should have happened years ago.
better yet, the U.N. needs to step in and separate the factions. If any conflict calls for a U.N. peace force (half baked as they are) it’s this one. But it’s never going to happen, because the U.N. would need to dismantle the illegal settlements and that’s never going to happen, that would be much too pro-active for a U.N. peace force.
Hamas attempted to negotiate a ceasefire on day two of the eleven day massacre. Their ceasefire was rejected and the attacks were intensified to spite their efforts. Israel’s zeal for sadism knew no bounds. According to them, every bombing target, every school, tower, and hovel contained a hidden Hamas asset and in a way they were right. In spite of how you or I may feel about them, Hamas is the rightful democratically elected leadership of Gaza. They enjoy the popular support of a broken populace desperate to strike back against their tormentors like Warsaw partisans even if it means dying in the process. Any death is better than life in internment. For this sometimes misguided sin of pride, Israel sees fit to punish an entire population. Gaza’s greatest sin has been resisting their Judaization, refusing to be liquidated for the greater good of the chosen people.
Under such devastating circumstances, how is any historical observer not supposed to make the connection between the actions and ambitions of Israel’s master race and Nazi Germany, especially when you consider the intimate connections between the two. I have long argued that the greatest tragedy of the Holocaust was that many of the children of it’s survivors were doomed by international forces to become the new Nazis. Like an abused child, Israel developed into the shape of its tormentors and the American empire exploited this sickness to wage war on the Arab world. Just like the Nazi’s Third Reich, this war is doomed by its own ambition to fail and this failure is doomed by its reaper’s cruelty to devolve into increasingly genocidal policies before the new Nazis can collapse beneath the weight of their horror.
Nah. If you have a problem with the Israeli military doing this, they’ll label you an anti-semite.
It’s going to be a while before AI can surpass propaganda as their greatest weapon in the quest to take Palestinian land, lives, and natural gas resources.
Project Maven is a Pentagon project involving using machine learning and engineering talent to distinguish people and objects in drone videos, […]
[…] Google to pull out of Project Maven: Google executives announced it would not be renewing its contract with the US Department of Defense for a controversial project that involves using AI to analyze drone footage.
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questions were raised over whether Google was going to use pictures and other information taken from its internet users to train its military-grade neural networks.
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I sometimes wonder, what if 90%1) of human brainpower wouldn’t be dedicated to finding new ways of ripping off or killing people - what could the world look like?
One might want to consider atrocities as having ‘happened long ago’ and believe that, or therefore, humanity could/would not permit them to happen again, in much more modern times. I, however, doubt that is the way large-scale societies — let alone border-segregated, independent nations — necessarily behave as wholes.
After 34 years of news consumption, I’ve noticed that a disturbingly large number of categorized people, however precious their souls, can be considered thus treated as though disposable, even to an otherwise democratic nation. When the young children of those people take notice of this, tragically, they’re vulnerable to begin perceiving themselves as beings without value. When I say this, I primarily have in mind Black and indigenous-nation Americans and Canadians. But, tragically, such horrendous occurrences still happen on Earth, often enough going unrealized to the rest of the world.
While their inhumane devaluation as people is basically based on race, it still somewhat reminds me of an external devaluation, albeit a subconscious one, of the daily civilian lives lost in protractedly devastating war zones and heavily armed sieges. They can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page in the First World’s daily news. (To the newspaper owners/editors, of course, it’s ‘just the news business and nothing personal’.)
