2023-10-11: News Headlines

Allen Forrest (2023-10-10). Deep State Puppet. dissidentvoice.org

Binoy Kampmark (2023-10-11). Blue Light, Green Blood: Edifice Politics for Israel. counterpunch.org It has been a few days of slaughter-filled accounts. Starting on October 7 on the Jewish day of Simchat Torah, the State of Israel has faced assaults from hundreds of Hamas militants. Directed from southwards in the country, the mayhem has rattled the security and intelligence establishment smugly convinced in their reading of Palestinian motivations

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-11). NYT: US Intelligence Shows Iranian Leaders Were Surprised by Hamas Attack. news.antiwar.com The New York Times reported on Wednesday that US intelligence shows Iranian leaders were surprised by the Hamas attack on southern Israel and that no evidence has been found indicating Iran helped plan the operation. The report reads: "These key Iranian officials did not know the attack was coming, according to the intelligence. The United …

infobrics (2023-10-11). Israel's defense, intelligence system weaker than Zionist militants think. infobrics.org Hamas' attack was not a "false flag", but a result of Israeli weakness and arrogance.

TASS (2023-10-11). Russia ready to boost supplies of petroleum products to Saudi Arabia — Novak. tass.com Moscow also expects Russian companies to cooperate with Saudi Aramco in the area of artificial intelligence, the deputy prime minister went on to say…

TASS (2023-10-11). Hamas attack signals failure of Israeli intelligence, senior Russian lawmaker says. tass.com According to Andrey Kartapolov, Israel was caught off guard as it had long relied complacently on its technological prowess, whereas the Palestinian militant group Hamas had clearly been closely analyzing recent military conflicts…


TASS (2023-10-11). West turning Ukraine into training ground for foreign terrorists, mercenaries — FSB chief. tass.com Alexander Bortnikov emphasized that, "the Western intelligence community and non-governmental organizations are engaged on behalf of Ukrainian armed units in recruiting members of international terrorist organizations"

Binoy Kampmark (2023-10-10). Blue Light, Green Blood: Edifice Politics for Israel. dissidentvoice.org It has been a few days of slaughter-filled accounts. Starting on October 7 on the Jewish day of Simchat Torah, the State of Israel has faced assaults from hundreds of Hamas militants. Directed from southwards in the country, the mayhem has rattled the security and intelligence establishment smugly convinced in their reading of Palestinian motivations …

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-10). Pentagon Offers Israel Support for Extracting Hostages from Gaza. news.antiwar.com The US military has offered Israel assistance in extracting hostages that Hamas has taken into Gaza, Pentagon officials told the media on Tuesday. According to Task & Purpose, the US offer includes help planning and intelligence support, not US troops on the ground involved in the operation. CNN first reported the offer and said the …

Editor (2023-10-10). Built on the Bodies of Native Californians. scheerpost.com Watch Bob Scheer's interview w/ Tony Platt on Scheer Intelligence By Dan Siegel / Original to ScheerPost The University of California brags that it brought "light to the darkness" — "Fiat Lux" — but fails to acknowledge its role in creating that darkness through the genocide of some 500,000 of California's first citizens. Or the …

Mark Niu (2023-10-10). Experts discuss AI's impact on law at Santa Clara University conference. america.cgtn.com Artificial Intelligence continues to grab headlines for its potential to transform and some say revolutionize industries. | One sector trying to stay on top of all the changes is the legal profession, which is charged with interpreting what AI is allowed to do. | Mark Niu reports.

sputnikglobe (2023-10-10). US to Quadruple Number of Spy Satellites Over Next Decade — NRO Deputy Director. sputnikglobe.com WASHINGTON, October 10 (Sputnik) — The US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is planning to quadruple the number of intelligence satellites operating in orbit and as a result increase the number of images by more than ten times, deputy director Maj. Gen. Christopher Povak said on Tuesday.


TASS (2023-10-11). US, UK intelligence fomenting instability near southern borders of CIS, says FSB chief. tass.com Toward this end, recruitment is underway of militants from international terrorist organizations operating in Iraq, Syria, and a number of other Asian and African countries, as well as their redeployment to Afghanistan's north, Alexander Bortnikov said…

Ari Paul, Fairness, Accuracy un Reporting. (2023-10-12). Israeli Media Examine Government Failure; US Pushes 'National Unity'. popularresistance.org As the world watches the ongoing horror in southern Israel and in the Gaza Strip, media grapple not only with the immediate violence, but to understand why this happened and how it can stop. This is truly no other Middle East skirmish anymore. Likely the deadliest offensive against Israel on its soil, and perhaps the most audacious operation by Palestinian militants, it's been compared both to 9/11 and to the bloody 1973 war between Israel and a coalition of Arab nations. | How could Israel—so famous for its military might and advanced intelligence capabilities—have missed the warnings of such an atta…

Ajeyo Basu (2023-10-11). Israel ignored Egypt's warning over Hamas attack: US official. firstpost.com Three days before Hamas ambushed Israeli forces in a significant attack, Egypt warned Israel of impending violence, according to the influential US House Foreign Affairs Committee's chairman. | "We know that Egypt has warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen," Republican Michael McCaul told reporters following a closed-door intelligence briefing for lawmakers on the crisis. | For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. | "I don't want to get too much into classified, but a warning was given," he said. "I think the question was at what level."

FP Staff (2023-10-11). AMD set to acquire a major AI software company to challenge NVIDIA's dominance in GPUs. firstpost.com On Tuesday, AMD announced its intention to acquire the artificial intelligence startup known as Nod.ai. This strategic move is a pivotal step in augmenting AMD's software capabilities. | As AMD strives to keep pace with its competitor, NVIDIA, in the semiconductor industry, the company has earmarked substantial investments in essential software components required for its advanced AI chips. Over the course of more than a decade, NVIDIA has successfully established a dominant position in the AI chip market, thanks to its robust software offerings and the thriving ecosystem of software developers that support it.

FP Staff (2023-10-11). Power-hungry: AI bots like ChatGPT will have higher energy demands than many countries by 2027. firstpost.com According to recent research published in the journal Joule, the energy consumption associated with artificial intelligence (AI) applications is projected to surpass the annual electricity requirements of entire nations like the Netherlands, Argentina, and Sweden by the year 2027. | This energy-intensive trend is attributed to the widespread adoption of AI, with particular emphasis on generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, which generate content by drawing upon the data they were trained on. The surge in the use of such AI systems has been notably prominent since 2022. | Training these tools is an energy-intens…

FP Staff (2023-10-11). WATCH: IDF strikes Islamic University in Gaza, says it was being used as a Hamas training camp. firstpost.com The Islamic University in Gaza has allegedly been reduced to dust by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), who claim it was being "used as a Hamas training camp for military intelligence operatives." | "A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck an important operational and military centre for the Hamas terrorist organisation in the Gaza Strip — the Islamic University," according to an update issued by the IDF. | Hamas transformed an institute of knowledge into an institute of destruction. | A short while ago, the IDF struck an important Hamas operational, political and military center in Gaza—the Islamic…

TASS (2023-10-11). US, UK intelligence fomenting instability near southern borders of CIS, says FSB chief. tass.com Toward this end, recruitment is underway of militants from international terrorist organizations operating in Iraq, Syria, and a number of other Asian and African countries, as well as their redeployment to Afghanistan's north, Alexander Bortnikov said…

Ari Paul, Fairness, Accuracy un Reporting. (2023-10-12). Israeli Media Examine Government Failure; US Pushes 'National Unity'. popularresistance.org As the world watches the ongoing horror in southern Israel and in the Gaza Strip, media grapple not only with the immediate violence, but to understand why this happened and how it can stop. This is truly no other Middle East skirmish anymore. Likely the deadliest offensive against Israel on its soil, and perhaps the most audacious operation by Palestinian militants, it's been compared both to 9/11 and to the bloody 1973 war between Israel and a coalition of Arab nations. | How could Israel—so famous for its military might and advanced intelligence capabilities—have missed the warnings of such an atta…

Ajeyo Basu (2023-10-11). Israel ignored Egypt's warning over Hamas attack: US official. firstpost.com Three days before Hamas ambushed Israeli forces in a significant attack, Egypt warned Israel of impending violence, according to the influential US House Foreign Affairs Committee's chairman. | "We know that Egypt has warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen," Republican Michael McCaul told reporters following a closed-door intelligence briefing for lawmakers on the crisis. | For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. | "I don't want to get too much into classified, but a warning was given," he said. "I think the question was at what level."

FP Staff (2023-10-11). AMD set to acquire a major AI software company to challenge NVIDIA's dominance in GPUs. firstpost.com On Tuesday, AMD announced its intention to acquire the artificial intelligence startup known as Nod.ai. This strategic move is a pivotal step in augmenting AMD's software capabilities. | As AMD strives to keep pace with its competitor, NVIDIA, in the semiconductor industry, the company has earmarked substantial investments in essential software components required for its advanced AI chips. Over the course of more than a decade, NVIDIA has successfully established a dominant position in the AI chip market, thanks to its robust software offerings and the thriving ecosystem of software developers that support it.

FP Staff (2023-10-11). Power-hungry: AI bots like ChatGPT will have higher energy demands than many countries by 2027. firstpost.com According to recent research published in the journal Joule, the energy consumption associated with artificial intelligence (AI) applications is projected to surpass the annual electricity requirements of entire nations like the Netherlands, Argentina, and Sweden by the year 2027. | This energy-intensive trend is attributed to the widespread adoption of AI, with particular emphasis on generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, which generate content by drawing upon the data they were trained on. The surge in the use of such AI systems has been notably prominent since 2022. | Training these tools is an energy-intens…

FP Staff (2023-10-11). WATCH: IDF strikes Islamic University in Gaza, says it was being used as a Hamas training camp. firstpost.com The Islamic University in Gaza has allegedly been reduced to dust by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), who claim it was being "used as a Hamas training camp for military intelligence operatives." | "A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck an important operational and military centre for the Hamas terrorist organisation in the Gaza Strip — the Islamic University," according to an update issued by the IDF. | Hamas transformed an institute of knowledge into an institute of destruction. | A short while ago, the IDF struck an important Hamas operational, political and military center in Gaza—the Islamic…

Larry Johnson (2023-10-11). Understanding Israel's Intelligence Failure — Chats with Stephen Gardner and Michael Savage. sonar21.com There is a meme circulating accusing Bibi Netanyahu of having advance knowledge of the Hamas attack. According to this narrative, Bibi let it happen, believing it would be Israel's 9-11…

Mehul Reuben Das (2023-10-11). Rogue AI will 'manipulate people', stop them from switching it off, says father of modern AI. firstpost.com Renowned as both the "Godfather of AI" and a prominent critic of the field, Geoffrey Hinton, a former AI engineer at Google, envisions a future where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and gains self-awareness. | During an interview with 60 Minutes, Hinton expressed his belief that AI's cognitive capabilities will eventually elevate it to the status of the second most intelligent entity on our planet. | Hinton drew a stark comparison between the neural connections in the human brain, numbering around 100 trillion, and the neural connections found in even the most advanced AI chatbots, which curr…

channelnewsasia (2023-10-10). Iran's Khamenei says Tehran was not behind Hamas attack on Israel. channelnewsasia.com In his first televised speech since the Hamas attack, Iran's top authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed Israel's "irreparable" military and intelligence defeat.

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-10). Pentagon Offers Israel Support for Extracting Hostages from Gaza. news.antiwar.com The US military has offered Israeli assistance in extracting hostages that Hamas has taken into Gaza, Pentagon officials told the media on Tuesday. According to Task & Purpose, the US offer includes help planning and intelligence support, not US troops on the ground involved in the operation. CNN first reported the offer and said the …

Jorge Majfud (2023-10-11). Fraudes electorales 2.0. globalizacion.ca En el Sur Global las democracias independientes se corregían con un golpe de Estado. Aun así, los medios jugaban un rol fundamental, al extremo de que la CIA o sus sucursales criollas solían "preparar el terreno" con editoriales plantados, advirtiendo…

jamanetwork (2023-10-10). Abortions in States Without Bans Surge Post- Roe. jamanetwork.com After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in June 2022, the number of abortions provided within the US health care system increased in areas bordering the 14 states where abortions were banned or unavailable as of June this year, according to a new analysis from the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that has tracked national abortion trends since 1974.

Ming Cheung (2023-10-10). The Supreme Court Must Find South Carolina's Voting Map Unconstitutional. aclu.org Racial discrimination exists in many forms. It can be as violent and overt as police brutality or as subtle as lines drawn on a voting map. In the latter case, the act may seem innocuous or technical, but the impact is significant. | Just look at what happened in January 2022. Ahead of the midterm elections, South Carolina's majority-white and majority-Republican Legislature redrew Congressional District 1 (CD 1) to maintain political power. But it purposefully targeted Black communities to do so. Mapmakers unnecessarily moved thousands of Black voters out of the district in textbook racial sorting. | But the…

The Lever (2023-10-10). Live Event Tomorrow: Ro Khanna On His Anti-Corruption Plan To Save Congress. levernews.com In September, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced an anti-corruption reform plan that would create term limits for lawmakers, ban them from trading stocks, bar political donations from lobbyists or political action committees, create an ethics code for Supreme Court justices, and more. Recently, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) gave his support to these measures as part of his negotiations with Republican House leadership, bringing renewed attention to Khanna's proposal.Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, October 11th, at 5pm ET (2pm PT) for a live event with Khanna, where he will discuss congressional corruption and his plan…

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-11). Green Left Show #33: Punish war criminals, not whistleblowers. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-10-10). Green Left Show #33: Punish war criminals, not whistleblowers. greenleft.org.au

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