
Breaking: Interview with Vaxxed producer who was just banned from Australia
Polly Tommey, producer of the famous documentary, Vaxxed, has been banned from Australia. If that sounds quite insane—it is.

Breaking: Interview with Vaxxed producer who was just banned from Australia
Polly Tommey, producer of the famous documentary, Vaxxed, has been banned from Australia. If that sounds quite insane—it is.

Humans love to complain, especially the older generations about how their youth was superior to the current day. Alan Franzoni rants about how the Internet has gotten too noisy in “Stopping The Internet Noise-A Useful Internet Back Again.” Franzoni complains that the modern Internet is not as useful as the Internet of the 56K modem days. He lists the ways the old Internet was more productive. He starts with old Usenet discussion groups and mailing lists. What he liked about this old discussion boards were that he could subscribe to one application service instead of having to do it multiple times. He then turns to IRC chatting, citing its superiority because it was a single application with a consistent interface.
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Google Invests in Robot Reporters
People fear that robots will replace them in the workforce, but reporters did not have to deal with this worry. Machines lack the capability to write cohesive news pieces, except that robots are getting smarter. Google might become the bane of news reporters, because of Business Insider shares that, “Google Is Giving The Press Association £622,000 To Create An Army Of Robot Reporters.” Google granted the Press Association £622,000 ($810,000) to develop robots the can write 30,000 stories per day for news outlets.
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Social Media and Young People — Mental Health Issues
Some of us elders have been saying it for years, but now research seems to confirm it—social media can be bad for mental health. The Next Web reports, “Study: Snapchat and Instagram Are the Worst for Young People.” The study is from the UK’s Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), and the “young people” sampled are 1,479 Brits aged 14-24. An explanatory three-minute video from the RSPH accompanies the article. Writer Rachel Kaser reports: read full post.
Network Armies is a road map to the new direction in the rise of social networks. Enabled by technology and new social science models, Network Armies are made up of Americans who share common goals in privacy protection, politics, healthcare and other everyday concerns. Where large groups of Americans share a common goal, we find network activity occurring as if by itself – with astounding results. And as more Americans become frustrated by the control exerted by government and the marketplace, the network army becomes a vital force in change. This book reveals these armies, presents a look at their goals, shows who belongs to each army and how the network is causing change.

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The Association of Former Intelligence Officers has a profile of the book on its members-only Web site.
Why Palestine is Still the Issue
For more than 40 years, I have recorded the refusal of the people of Palestine to comply with their oppressors: Israel, the United States, Britain, the European Union.
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