Month: September 2020

On September 9 — just last week — President Trump unveiled his shortlist of candidates to tap for the Supreme Court should a vacancy open up under his presidency. With Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday night, he now has that opportunity. The next Trump Supreme Court pick may well come from a list of 20 names he revealed last week, plus a longer list he had already released. The Trump White House and his allies in the Senate have spent years preparing for the next Supreme Court vacancy. Indeed, the…

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NEVER-before-seen photographs capture Jeffrey Epstein’s life on his private Caribbean island with scantily dressed young women he allegedly demanded sex from several times a day. Epstein is pictured driving a jet ski with a woman wearing a bikini hugging him to hold on. Locals referred to Little St James as “pedophile” and “orgy” island because of Epstein’s perverted interactions with women there. An anonymous source who went to the island claimed Epstein watched topless college girls on Girls Gone Wild while he exercised on a bike because they served as…

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Until recently the biggest source of global conflict had to do with energy, oil, and gas resources, but today data is more valuable, and much more disruptive.  The bits and bytes of the information revolution are, it turns out, are disruptive economically and geopolitically.  In The Economist’s words highlighting this tectonic shift: “Data are to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change.”  That change is coming swiftly, and — in the coming years — violently. Governments are slow to recognize this fact. It is…

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North Korea may soon conduct its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test in about a year, a top South Korean military official said Wednesday, amid long-stalled nuclear talks between the North and the United States. In written remarks to lawmakers ahead of a confirmation hearing, Won In-choul, the nominee for chairman of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said North Korea has been repairing recent typhoon damage at its northeastern Sinpo shipyard, a place where it builds submarines. Shortly after the repairs are complete, there is a chance it will carry…

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Filmmaker Judd Apatow gave a recent interview in which he criticized the film industry for essentially censoring content that’s critical of places like China where human rights abuses are happening. The director of hits like “Knocked Up” and “Anchorman” sat down for an interview for MSNBC’s “Mavericks with Ari Melber” in which he briefly touched upon the “chilling” idea that corporations linked to the filmmaking industry are so reliant on capital from markets like China that they’re unwilling to allow anything critical of the country to make their way onto the…

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The so-called revolutionaries who were busted for rioting at a New Afrikan Black Panther Party rally took a break from their yacht club lives and modeling careers to be a part of the mayhem. The seven “comrades” — including wealthy Upper East Sider Clara Kraebber — had their mugshots tweeted out by the NYPD early Wednesday, days after their arrests for smashing storefront windows in the Flatiron District. They were cuffed during a protest organized by the Panthers and the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement groups condemning the death of Daniel Prude,…

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Joaquín ‘El Chapo‘ Guzmán admitted the only addiction he ever suffered from was ‘women’ and that he was the father of 23 children. The revelations were made during a tell all interview with renown criminologist Mónica Ramírez Cano after Mexican security forces had captured the fugitive co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel. Ramírez Cano, who in the past profiled some of Mexico most infamous drug lords, shared a five-second clip of the interview session that was recorded in 2016. She sat across from El Chapo and asked ‘what have you liked the…

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Iran said it had warned U.S. aircraft to keep away from military drills its holding over three days in a large maritime region reaching from the Persian Gulf to the northern Indian Ocean. Military spokesman Commodore Shahram Irani said foreign manned and unmanned aircraft had been cautioned on Wednesday to avoid the exercises taking place over 2 million square kilometers of ocean, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The area lies to the east of the Strait of Hormuz, a major choke point for oil shipments. Iran and the U.S.…

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The Pentagon is planning a 2024 showdown between an F-16 piloted by a human and one controlled by artificial intelligence, a man versus machine matchup that military officials believe could represent a key turning point in technological development. Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced the 2024 contest during a speech on AI development Wednesday at the Pentagon. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, already has held numerous combat simulations between human pilots and machines. In the most recent round, officials said the AI-controlled system easily defeated the human. “The…

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R. Kelly’s appeal to be released on bail ahead of his trial was denied by an appeals court Tuesday. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision said prosecutors presented “clear and convincing evidence” that Kelly presents a potential danger to the community and he is a flight risk. R. Kelly’s attorneys asked for his release from federal custody before the panel of three judges Friday morning, arguing that the singer has been unable to prepare for his upcoming trial for nearly six months. The singer has not seen his attorneys…

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