The A.I. Threat to Religion

Computer-generated sermons may be only the start of the tech influence on religion.

Elon Musk offered a chilling prediction about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) during his recent interview with Tucker Carlson: “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction.”

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Too late Sweden, you cannot avoid disintegration

The size of the mirgrant population which Sweden is now trying to curtail, has passed the point of no return. Death knell for the EU?

“Rather than leading to meltdown, the migration crisis is leading to the fission of Europe,” wrote Stanford historian Niall Ferguson five years ago. “I am increasingly convinced that the migration crisis will be seen by future historians as the fatal ingredient that dissolved the EU”.

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Matt Walsh unmasks the vicious Left

Online activists are the new revolutionaries and, as with their historical counterparts, they are becoming radicalised and violent in pursuit of their political goals.

The press at large have been ignoring most of this thuggish behaviour because it doesn’t fit with their official narrative of weakness and victimhood. Even when public figures such as female author JK Rowling found themselves receiving rape and bomb threats, the press remained reluctant to openly criticise the trans movement.

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Pennsylvania Teachers, Activists Concocted Bogus LGBTQ Bullying Epidemic for Political Gain, Investigation Finds

The protests outside Lenape Middle School carried on for four straight days last May.

Young students, some drawn by the lure of free pizza, walked out of their Pennsylvania school to wave rainbow flags and chant, “Hey hey, ho ho, transphobia has got to go” into a bullhorn.

The protesters — not just middle schoolers, but also local adult activists and high-school students — held signs that read “Protect Trans Kids.” They called for “justice” for a Lenape teacher who had been suspended, seemingly for filing a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on behalf of a bullied transgender student.

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Chat Control: EU Presents Draft Report on Mandatory Surveillance Law

A draft report on the European Commission’s Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), also known as Chat Control, has been published Wednesday, April 19th, for the upcoming debate in the EP’s civil liberties parliamentary committee. The document proposes to add “voluntary detection orders” and automated metadata scanning to the already invasive proposal.

“Mandatory indiscriminate searching of private correspondence and data of unsuspected citizens is still in [the proposal],” MEP Patrick Breyer (Greens-EFA), a member of the anti-censorship European Pirate Party, wrote in his assessment of the first draft report.

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Will Canada’s ‘woeful’ military readiness alienate NATO allies?

Canada’s “woeful” military readiness underscores the urgent need to boost defence spending and meet its commitments to NATO as the alliance confronts the most dangerous global security environment since the end of World War Two, former Canadian defence officials say.

Without doing so, they say Ottawa could risk pushing away its security allies.

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Mark Smith: Public health authorities betrayed science during the pandemic, and their credibility suffered

Let’s travel back to simpler times, 2019 and earlier. In the years before COVID (BC), beliefs about respiratory viruses were not intertwined with people’s core identities. Preventions and treatments could be studied scientifically without people lining up ahead of time to either believe or disbelieve the evidence according to whether it aligned with their political allegiances. Grant-giving agencies were willing to finance high-quality research because they wanted to know the truth about whether or not, or the extent to which, a given intervention could promote health and ultimately save lives.

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Eye in the sky

A car crash in rural Hamilton. A search for a missing elderly woman. The 2021 CFL Grey Cup. A protest during a visit from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

While vastly different events and incidents, they have one thing in common: A drone operated by the Hamilton Police Service (HPS) was buzzing around in the sky above and watching.

The technology is increasingly being employed by police services across Canada, including in Charlottetown, Fredericton, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

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The endless wind drought crippling renewables

The spectre of power failure is haunting Europe as Britain and Germany demonstrate that modern societies can’t run on wind and solar power. Wind droughts are the fatal flaw in the system and one can envisage a future book titled How Wind Droughts Destroyed Western Civilisation. Think about the consequences of a system blackout if Net Zero policies are pursued to the bitter end in Western Europe and Australia…

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Invest in More Cops – A lesson from Europe

After the election of Brandon Johnson as mayor of Chicago, many are bracing for more of the same kinds of negligent public-safety policies preferred by his predecessor, Lori Lightfoot. Johnson has made it clear that he will not invest in more police resources or officers, claiming that neither will make Chicagoans safer. He’s wrong, of course. Johnson and other progressive leaders might take a lesson on better public-safety policies from an unlikely source: Europe.

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A recent gold heist in Canada may be the largest, but not the first

This week, in a brazen pilferage, a “high-value container” disappeared while it was being transported to a cargo holding facility near Canada’s busiest airport.

Authorities say the thieves gained access to the public side of a warehouse near Toronto Pearson International Airport that was unmanned by airport security.

The theft, which is still under investigation, was an isolated and “very rare” incident, police say. While a heist of that magnitude is indeed rare, a look at Canadian history shows it’s not the first.

Sophisticated or simple?

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Issues of Concern

Hamas is extreme in its ideology, which is radical Islamist. They have absolutely no desire to resolve their conflict with Israel in the ways that Western leaders hope and expect — which is settling the conflict by accepting what we have been calling a two‑part state for a very long time. That is not the objective of Hamas. The objective of Hamas is to destroy the State of Israel. Keeping the conflict going is, in a way, beneficial to them as a group even if it hurts normal people.

As long as Hamas holds onto that stance, stays with that extreme position and remains intransigent, the problem will never be resolved. I forget the count of the number of intifadas that we have seen or are going to see.

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