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Artificial Intelligence Could Spell Disaster  #375 By Hank Silverberg  Commentary What I am about to write could anger some people. And others will think it's an exaggeration, but there's a big chance that Artificial Intelligence could change the world so much that 2046 will bear little resemblance to 2026.   AI is a mass fake. Everything it touches becomes artificial. It has placed doubt on everything from a  7th grade English class essay to pictures of Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.  Promoters say AI is just a tool to help humans do things better, more efficiently and with less stress, when it actually is damaging individual creativity, our ability to communicate one-on-one, and our ability to find truth in mass communication.  Let's be clear. I am not talking about robots designed to build cars or vacuum the floor. We have dealt with automation and mechanical changes for the last 100 years often awkwardly, but without disasters. I am focusin...
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 Why I Didn't Watch The Super Bowl          #374 By Hank Silverberg  Commentary  No, I did not watch the game, nor any of the hype leading up to it. First, I'm not a football fan, so I have no attachment to the sport, and I have not watched it in the past either.  But this year, with all the nastiness about Bad Bunny and the halftime show, I was particularly turned off. In the past I have turned on just the half- time show, like when Sir Paul McCartney was the performer. Or Bono. But who wins, who loses the game, or the halftime show nonsense is irrelevant to me, and frankly, I think much of the country. Sure, fans in New England and Seattle cared. But for the rest of the country the game is just a reason to  invite friends over, drink beer, eat chicken wings and have some fun. Great. No problem. So why bring politics into it?  Because this is the era of Trump, where everything becomes political. I have heard from people who will ro...
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The Decline of the United States                                        #373 By Hank Silverberg  Commentary  We have   now entered the second year of Donald Trump's second term as President of the United States. It feels like he has been hammering away at the American way of life ever since he strolled down that elevator in 2015, almost eleven years ago.  This is not a comprehensive or scholarly analysis of the damage this one man and his close associates have done, but it is a simple look at this weapon of mass destruction know as Trumpism.  Let's start with our  treasured institutions created by the U.S. Constitution, the three branches of government. Trump has damaged the presidency, possibly beyond repair. His use of executive orders has been extensive, 225 in his first year of this term, and 220 in the four years of his first term.  Barak Obama...
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Damage Done                                                 #372 By Hank Silverberg Commentary  In just the last year, the prestige and power of the United States of America has been seriously damaged, and it could take decades to get back our place in the world community -- if that can ever happen again.   And the downfall can be traced to one person's ego.  Here is what has happened since Donald Trump came on the political scene way back in 2015:  Americans, egged on by a con man and a liar, no longer believe anyone in public office, nor the traditional legacy media. They were conned into giving him authority and now they are trapped in a tangled web of his scam.   In his first term Trump hammered away at sound institutions like the CDC and NIH, or the FDA and EPA, spreading doubt about their science and their mission.  T...
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The  Politics   of Fear                                        #371 By Hank Silverberg Commentary Imagine for a minute you are walking down the street on your way to the grocery store or to visit a friend in your own neighborhood.  All of a sudden two non-descript vans pull up beside you. Several men wearing masks and carrying guns, jump out and confront you, asking you to provide I-D to prove you are an American. If you are a White person who speaks without an accent, you are probably not worried about this. If you are a member of a minority or an immigrant, you are probably scared, and that is what they want.  This is how ICE is operating in Minneapolis and other cities across the United States. If you ask them for their I-D or don't produce one of your own, you could be arrested. So could your neighbor across the street who has the audacity to ask what is going on,...
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Venezuelan Chaos                                  #370 By Hank Silverberg  Commentary Venezuela has 28.4 million people. It has the largest untapped oil reserves in the world, which has not been exploited in recent years.     Now, the United States has deposed that country's authoritarian President, Nicolas Maduro, and carried him off to New York City to face a plethora of criminal charges for his role in the international drug smuggling trade. Nobody is really feeling sorry for Maduro. Like Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein and Juan Hernandez, they deserved what they got for sending all that poison or terror to the USA.  (Oh wait, Trump recently pardoned Hernandez. What was that all about?) But it is clear that President Trump once again violated the law when he did not inform Congressional leadership of military action in a foreign country--a move that is  REQUIRED  by ...
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