2022-02-12: News Headlines

Matthew J.L. Ehret (2022-02-12). A Memorial for Dr. Luc Montagnier and the Coming Revolutions in Optical Biophysics. dissidentvoice.org On February 8, 2022, Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr Luc Montagnier passed away. Since the earliest moments of COVID-19's appearance, Montagnier was slandered and ridiculed for his challenges to the underlying assumptions of the disease's causes and remedies despite the constant slings and arrows of the deep state which sought to shut the door on …

Angela Aristidou, Rajesh Jena, Eric J Topol (2022-02-12). [Perspectives] Bridging the chasm between AI and clinical implementation. thelancet.com Many advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for health care using deep neural networks have been commercialised. But few AI tools have been implemented in health systems. Why has this chasm occurred? Transparency, suitability, and adaptability are key reasons. The deployment of any new technology is usually managed centrally in hospitals and health systems. For the information technology (IT) teams, there is the concern that input data are drawn from outside the health setting and the algorithm performance, source code, and input data are unavailable to review.

WSWS (2022-02-12). CIA has been secretly collecting information on US citizens for decades. wsws.org Under the authority of an executive order signed by President Reagan in 1981, the CIA has been gathering, storing and analyzing data on US citizens for decades without any oversight.

_____ (2022-02-11). UK Official Secrets Act Proposals Take Cues From US Espionage Act Cases. popularresistance.org The United Kingdom's right-wing dominated government is on course to greatly expand its ability to prosecute and jail whistleblowers and journalists through amendments to the country's Official Secrets Acts. | These potential amendments would be the first major changes to the law since 1989. They come as the U.K. and U.S. governments continue to seek the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for his role in receiving and publishing the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, Guantanamo Bay detainee files, and U.S. diplomatic cables. | Proposals would expand possible imprisonment for leakers, recipients of leaks…

NAT (2022-02-11). Barret Brown on Greenwald and the Intelligence Oligarchy. indybay.org Barret's live Twitter statements about Glenn Greenwald and his conenctions to his work exposing the capture of the public media environment by state and private intelligence and defence industries, as well as fascist social movements.

deweylaura (2022-02-11). Organize our way out of this crisis! cpusa.org Never in my entire life have I seen and heard so many good solid people, unionists, progressives of various stripes, activists, and fighters verbalizing feelings of extreme frustration, inadequacy, and complete powerlessness. Between COVID, complete legislative gridlock, a Supreme Court packed with conservatives, and Trump's continuing influence over large sections of white people influenced …

Revolution Books (2022-02-11). Wednesday 2/16: Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement— We REFUSE to Let the Supreme Court Decimate Abort. indybay.org Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…

Lowkey (2022-02-11). How the US Uses the NED to Export Obedience, with Matt Kennard. mintpressnews.com Today, Watchdog host Lowkey is joined by investigative journalist In the late twentieth century, the CIA developed an infamous reputation, both inside and outside the United States, as scandal after scandal hit the agency. COINTELPRO quietly infiltrated and subverted all manner of domestic democratic movements, including the student movement, the…

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