by Didi Rankovic, Reclaim The Net:
Particularly as it relates to travel.
The European Parliament (EP) has passed the AI Act, a piece of legislation that started to be drafted back in 2021 as a way to prevent mass surveillance based on biometrics – but has now in fact promoted this practice into law.
And it’s a law that will enter into force this May after receiving a “blessing” from the Council of the EU, to then be implemented starting 2025.
by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News:
A long-promised revolution in banking is headed to Canada, but you might not notice when it arrives, was the sinister headline to a recent The Canadian Press article.
The change that is in the works is something called “open banking” and the Canadian federal government has promised framework legislation in next month’s budget to bring the system to Canada.
Under open banking, banks allow access and control of customers’ personal and financial data to third-party service providers.
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
After a series of lawsuits alleging Roundup caused cancer led to high-dollar judgments against Bayer, the company is lobbying state legislatures to shield it from future lawsuits and to annul at least some of the 50,000 claims that are currently active, according to a New Republic report.
In 2018, German pharmaceutical giant Bayer acquired Monsanto, producer of the controversial pesticide Roundup, in a $63 billion all-cash deal described at the time as an “important milestone toward the vision of creating a leading agricultural company.”
by Michael Haynes, LifeSite News:
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has issued fresh condemnation of critics of the abortion-tainted COVID-19 injections, saying that opposition to the shots “distressed” him since “being against the antidote is an almost suicidal act of denial.”
Speaking as part of his newly released memoirs, in a series of interviews conducted by journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, Pope Francis highlighted his thoughts and responses to the COVID-19 era, including the abortion-tainted COVID jabs and his warm welcome of them.
by Dr. James Alexander, Daily Sceptic:
The estimable David McGrogan has done much for bringing an understanding of law to the pages of the Daily Sceptic. In an era in which everyone talks about science, it is very important that there will be some of us who keep talking about law — and literature — and politics.
McGrogan’s latest essay argued — it was a complicated piece and worth summarising — that Lord Diplock, a renowned old horse-rider of a lawyer, told the House of Lords in 1985 that he could see no reason why the lawyers shouldn’t be able to subject prerogative powers to judicial review. (McGrogan is very funny on the trickiness of the bland phrase, “I see no reason”.) This was part of the thing Jonathan Sumption has written about in his recent non-historical books: the tendency of lawyers to turn political convention into legal regulation: that is, more simply, the tendency of law lords to go after power. But the broader point is about the civil service.
from Moonbattery:
Under anarchotyranny, 13-year-olds face criminal charges for displaying disapproved attitudes on social media. Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens are at the mercy of criminals. From New York:
[Adele] Andaloro inherited her family’s home in Flushing, Queens after her parents passed away. She was in the process of selling it when she noticed a problem. Someone changed the entire front door and lock of her home.
She managed to get in the house, brandishing her deed to it. Her belongings were gone. Strange men were living there. They called the police on her.
by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
The spectacular but amusing and possibly dangerous failure of Google AI directly resulted from one simple fact: Left-wing if not communist ideologues control the company.
In the latest not-so-shocking report about the Big Tech behemoth, former employees explained to the Free Press that Google’s AI is doing exactly what it was programmed to do. So providing pictures of women popes or black WWII German soldiers is not surprising. The employees also described a work environment that sounds like a never-ending Maoist Struggle Session.
The report confirms what everyone knows. Google’s mission is twofold: to brainwash every kid on the planet and toss ideological mud in the face of every normal human being.
by Matt Kane, American Thinker:
Joe Biden, or whoever the Democrat nominee may be, cannot win the 2024 election fairly. While all mainstream networks focus on Trump’s alleged negatives, these pale in comparison to those of Biden and his party. The neocon faction of the Republican Party has claimed this election will be a referendum on Trump. However, the real referendum will be on Joe Biden and the Democrat party as a whole.
by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
Over the past several years, the cost of living has been rising significantly faster than paychecks have. As a result, U.S. consumers have reached a breaking point. Delinquency rates are spiking and bankruptcies have risen to a very dangerous level. I have been hearing from so many people that are struggling to survive in this suffocating economic environment. It has become increasingly difficult just to pay for the basics, and so many Americans have very little or no discretionary income to spend these days. If you want evidence that this is having a major economic impact, just consider the fact that 1,000 dollar stores are going to be shut down. If U.S. consumers were in good shape, that wouldn’t be happening.
by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has declared that America needs to abolish the First Amendment in order to allow the government to use its power more effectively.
Jackson addressed Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga, whose state joined Missouri in suing the Biden regime over its attempts to unconstitutionally censor speech on social media platforms during the coronavirus pandemic.
