2024-03-06: News Headlines

Mary Kostakidis, Consortium News. (2024-03-06). Assange's Draconian Prosecution. popularresistance.org In the final moments of the hearing on Feb. 21, Ben Watson KC representing the U.K. home secretary, admitted additional charges could be laid against Julian Assange in the U.S. that carry the death penalty, such as aiding and abetting treason. | Asked by the judge whether there is anything that can be done to prevent a death penalty being imposed, he replied: "It would be very difficult to offer assurances to prevent the death penalty from being imposed." (Since Assange is charged with a federal and not a state crime he could get a death sentence no matter if the state he is tried in, in this case Virginia, has a…

ecns.cn (2024-03-06). AI industrial chain spurred on by Sora. ecns.cn China's artificial intelligence industrial chains, including computing power, cloud servers and data centers, are expected to usher in unprecedented development opportunities amid a worldwide frenzy around Sora.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-03-06). Spotlight on early detection of 3 heart diseases using ECG-AI. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Too often, the first sign of cardiovascular disease may be a major event like a heart attack, stroke or cardiac arrest. Now, researchers and clinicians at Mayo Clinic are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to flag heart problems earlier, boosting the abilities of a diagnostic test that has been around for over a century — the electrocardiogram (ECG). Early detection of heart disease can make a significant difference in a patient's…

Larry Johnson (2024-03-06). What Did the CIA Know and When Did it Know it? sonar21.com Proposed Decolonization of Russia | As Ukraine careens toward a political and military disaster it is time to ask why did the CIA fail to predict this. "Wait a minute," you might say, "how do you know the CIA did not?" Fair question. I no longer have access to classified information, but I can read the public statements of DOD and State Department officials as well as remarks by various members of Congress. At no time during the past two years — since the start of the Special Military Operation — have we heard a single discouraging word from anyone with access to CIA briefings on Ukraine's military…

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2024-03-06). The Great Election Fraud: Manufactured Choices Make a Mockery of Our Republic. dissidentvoice.org The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump's name on the ballot. The high court's decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution's "insurrectionist ban" rests with Congress, not the states, underscores the fact that in a representative democracy, the citizenry—not the courts, not the corporations, …

WSWS (2024-03-06). Liberal cowards join in the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in favor of Trump. wsws.org The unanimous ruling in favor of Trump, clearing the way for him to appear on the ballot in the 2024 US presidential election despite the fact that he led a violent coup attempt after he lost the 2020 election, is another milestone in the decay of American democracy and in the normalization of the far right.

ecns.cn (2024-03-06). Texas, Arizona migrant laws for border are dealt setbacks. ecns.cn U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order Monday to temporarily block a Texas law that would make illegal crossing of the U.S.-Mexico border a state crime starting this Saturday.

noreply (2024-03-06). Indian Home Minister; Trial Court Judges; Two Supreme Court Judges; Sanctioning Authority Stand Convicted in Public's Eyes! — Professor G. N. Saibaba's Acquittal. pilwatchgroup.blogspot.com by | P.S. Sahni & | Shobha Aggarwal | | Countercurrents.org had published our article — within | 9 days of Saibaba's arrest (euphemism for abduction) on 9 May 2014. The article | titled: | "Professor G.N. Saibaba — A Prisoner of Conscience" | was published on 18 May 2014. See Ten years of his life — as | also of others incarcerated with him — has gone waste. Their careers have been | ruined; family members devastated and underwent extreme economic hardships. The | acq…

SF Repro Justice (2024-03-06). Sunday 3/24: Rally: US Supreme Court Hands Off the Abortion Pill! indybay.org Federal Building | 90 7th Street (the corner of Mission and 7th streets)…

Staff (2024-03-06). Unanimous? Supreme Court Ruling Leaving Trump on Ballot Reveals Split Among Justices. democracynow.org We look at Monday's unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that states do not have the authority to remove Donald Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment with Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern, who calls the decision a "disaster" that appears tailor-made to let Trump avoid accountability for the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He says despite the superficial unanimity of the 9-0 ruling, it was closer to a 5-4 split, with the five conservative justices who wrote the majority opinion raising additional barriers to keeping insurrectionists from public office.

WSWS (2024-03-06). The US Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in favor of the January 6 insurrectionists. wsws.org The unanimous ruling in favor of Trump, clearing the way for him to appear on the ballot in the 2024 US presidential election despite the fact that he led a violent coup attempt after he lost the 2020 election, is another milestone in the decay of American democracy and in the normalization of the far right.

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2024-03-05: News Headlines

Editor (2024-03-05). Mar 5, 2024. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ DAN CHAPMAN PIANO — LITTLE BIRD The Five FUBARs, by James Howard Kunstler The "Long Train" — An Anatomy of Our Thinking, Part 2, by Ray Zwarich Craig Murray: US Case & Assange Rebuttal Covering Assange in Court, by Joe Lauria "Pay No Attention To That Genocide Right In Front Of Your Face," by Caitlin Johnstone SITREP 3/4/2024: Rifts in Bibi's Camp as Gaza War Drags, by Simplicius The Thinker Grayzone reports from Gaza (Videos) A firsthand encounter with 'Fortress Israel,' by Noushin Framke Peter Koenig on "Israel Is an Illegal State", Eric Walberg on "Islam and Jesus as Jewish Mess…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2024-03-05). Julian Assange's Final Appeal: US Withdraws Promises To Protect Him. popularresistance.org On February 20 and 21, the High Court in the United Kingdom heard Julian Assange's case for the right to appeal his extradition to the United States. Clearing the FOG speaks with Chip Gibbons, a lawyer and journalist with Defending Rights and Dissent, who attended the hearing. Gibbons describes the intentional efforts by the UK court to prevent media from covering the hearing, which is ironic as the hearing was fundamentally about the attack on press freedom, and what Julian Assange's options are depending on what the court decides. Gibbons makes the point that the United States has given up all pretense of prote…

Dave DeCamp (2024-03-05). Rep. Massie to Bring Julian Assange's Brother to Biden's State of the Union. news.antiwar.com Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) will bring Gabriel Shipton, the brother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to President Biden's State of the Union address this Thursday night. "President Biden will be looking at Julian Assange's brother, Gabriel Shipton, in the House gallery Thursday night as Biden delivers the State of the Union," Massie wrote on X. …

krish-rad_ind (2024-03-05). Craig Murray: US Case & Assange Rebuttal. consortiumnews.com

Angela (2024-03-05). Wednesday 3/20: Webinar: Robotic Warfare: The Dangerous New Artificial Intelligence Race. indybay.org

newarab (2024-03-05). Turkey detains 7 for allegedly selling information to Mossad. newarab.com Turkish police on Tuesday detained seven more people suspected of selling information to Israeli spy agency Mossad , authorities said, the latest in a wave of such arrests in Turkey. | The suspects were taken into custody during simultaneous raids in Istanbul, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The raids were a joint operation with Turkey's National Intelligence Organization. | The detained are suspected of collecting data on individuals and companies in Turkey and selling it to the Israeli intelligence agency, Yerlikaya said. "We will never allow espionage activ…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-03-05). Australian PM First Western Leader Referred to ICC as 'Accessory to Genocide in Gaza'. libya360.wordpress.com Julia Conley More than 100 lawyers endorsed the referral, which points to the military, intelligence, and rhetorical support Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has provided to the Israeli government. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is one of several Western leaders who have provided political and material support of the Israeli government and military over the past…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-03-05). Spotlight on early detection of 3 heart diseases using ECG-AI. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Too often, the first sign of cardiovascular disease may be a major event like a heart attack, stroke or cardiac arrest. Now, researchers and clinicians at Mayo Clinic are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to flag heart problems earlier, boosting the abilities of a diagnostic test that has been around for over a century — the electrocardiogram (ECG). Early detection of heart disease can make a significant difference in a patient's…

ecns.cn (2024-03-05). Adviser urges focus on AI security. ecns.cn While focusing on catching up with the development of artificial intelligence, China needs to attach greater importance to security issues brought about by the wide use of AI.

Larry Johnson (2024-03-05). Warning Indicators in Ukraine and Palestine MAY Signal Escalation. sonar21.com Two intriguing bits of news today that I have been unable to confirm. First, Alastair Crooke told Judge Napolitano this morning that Israeli forces have made three cross-border recon patrols with tanks on the Lebanon border and were driven off. I trust Alastair and his sources. He is a professional and this info tracks with other video evidence showing a tank column moving north in Israel. It looks increasingly likely that Israel will attack Hezbollah during Ramadan, which begins on March 10. We'll see. | Then there is a report from Ukraine that Russian forces hit a CIA base in Sumy and killed a large nu…

Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. (2024-03-05). The CIA In Ukraine; The NY Times Gets A Guided Tour. popularresistance.org If you have paid attention to what various polls and officials in the U.S. and elsewhere in the West have been doing and saying about Ukraine lately, you know the look and sound of desperation. You would be desperate, too, if you were making a case for a war Ukrainians are on the brink of losing and will never, brink or back-from-the-brink, have any chance of winning. Atop this, you want people who know better, including 70 percent of Americans according to a recent poll, to keep investing extravagant sums in this ruinous folly.

ecns.cn (2024-03-05). Top court: Trump will stay on ballot in Colorado. ecns.cn The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that former President Donald Trump can't be excluded from Colorado's primary election ballot because of his actions surrounding the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

WSWS (2024-03-05). US Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of Trump, restoring him to Colorado primary ballot. wsws.org The Supreme Court's decision Monday is a milestone in the decay of democratic norms in the United States, as well as in the legitimization of the fascistic far right.

albawaba (2024-03-05). After court ruling, Trump earns a state. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Overturning a prior decision by the Colorado Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed former President Donald Trump to participate in the upcoming Republican Party primary in Colorado, marking a significant legal step.Following Trump's appeal, the decision was made, and it represents a significant win for the former president. He had been disqualified from the primaries because of claims that he had participated in the Capitol riot on January 6.The U.S. Supreme Court underscored the significance of Congress, not state authorities, in interpreting and enforcing constitutional laws by reversing…

David Schultz (2024-03-05). How the Corporate University Created and Destroyed Diversity. counterpunch.org The Supreme Court did not kill diversity. Higher education did it to itself. It has done it slowly and methodically over the last few years, as the corporate university created and then destroyed diversity as part of its business plan to attract students and make itself more relevant to American capitalism.

Staff (2024-03-05). Headlines for March 5, 2024. democracynow.org Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Trump Can't Be Barred from Ballot over Jan. 6, Super Tuesday: Millions Head to Polls in 15 States, from California to Alabama, Minnesota Activists Urge Voters to Select "Uncommitted" to Protest Biden's Backing of Israel, "Look at Yazan": Palestinian Diplomat Decries Death of Palestinian Boy Who Starved to Death, U.N. Experts Weigh In on Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 & Inside Israeli Jails, Ukraine Sinks Russian Warship in the Black Sea, 20,000 Soldiers Take Part in NATO War Exercise in Finland, Norway and Sweden, Chad: Head of Military Junta Announce…

Reuters (2024-03-05). Donald Trump turns attention to immunity fight after Supreme Court win in ballot case. scmp.com Donald Trump lauded the US Supreme Court's reversal of his disqualification from Colorado's ballot, but quickly turned his attention to another big case before the justices.

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