Global

Our gathering begins with former Google executive AHMED MUSTAFA and a deep dive into the politics of the world’s leading search engine.  

With power and clarity, Ahmed, among other things, issues a stark warning on the challenges being posed to our future by Artificial Intelligence.

JOHN STEINER asks for specifics on Ahmed’s campaign for Congress now navigating the primaries in Silicon Valley.

STEVE CARUSO, ERIC LAZARUS, LYNNE FEINERMAN and CAMILLA REES join the dialog.

TIM JUDSON of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service updates us on the horrendous Senate decision to remove Commissioner Jeff Baran from the Nuclear Regulator Commission, proving beyond any lingering doubt that any member of the NRC who values public safety over private profit will not remain.

MYLA RESON updates us on our YouTube presence and asks for your thumbs up!

MIKE HERSH then introduces us to “local hero” KEN BAWERS, who gives us a very impressive deep dive into the demanding world of Stormwater Control and his battles with the $25 billion Riverine Restoration industry.

Sometimes there’s a thin line between vile demagoguery and pure idiocy. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi straddled both during a Sunday appearance on CNN, when she smeared protesters who’ve been demanding a ceasefire to end Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian people in Gaza.

“The former House speaker said, without offering evidence, that she believed some protesters are connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin,” NPR reported.

Today 26 January 2024 (after 112 days of carnage), the International Court
of Justice issued a decision /injunction with six "provisional" measures
(available here
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf)
amd will continued deliberation. The six provisional measures requested are
an important win for human rights and could be a game changer even as
Israel tried to dismiss them..... more at
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2024/01/icj-rules.html

A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the Forum – I mean Geffen Playhouse: A motorcade of truly presidential proportions waylaid traffic, with siren-blaring, orders-giving motorcycle cops squealing via loudspeakers and SUV-type vehicles tying up traffic, so some self-important high-muck-a-muck could impose a mini-police state over Westwood in order to reach some destination. The thought crossed my mind: Either Trump has launched his pig putsch or is Kamala going to watch POTUS on the boards? Through some deft maneuvering I managed to make my way through the pig-created traffic jam (your tax dollars at work!) and reach the Geffen in time for the curtain, with, thankfully, no White House pompous bigwig in sight. (Ironically, a POTUS press release I received had this in the subject line: “POTUS is Now in L.A. (Without the traffic.)” Can I sue for false advertising?)

The reader is directed to this article at Popular Resistance to visualize the suffering of Palestinians.

What is the story with UNRWA? If Israel succeeds in liquidating the
Palestinian cause, will the whole globe be at risk of a global war that
ends humanity? And what does sex extortion and people movement have to do
with it? Read on for this serious subject.....
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2024/01/genocide-sex-extortion-and-people.html

Stay Human and keep Palestine alive

Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability
Bethlehem University
Occupied Palestine

The “Doomsday Clock” of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was kept at 90 seconds to midnight this week—the closest to midnight that the clock has been set since it was created in 1947. Midnight is defined by The Bulletin as “nuclear annihilation.”

The hands of the clock were initially moved forward to 90 seconds to midnight last year. In moving the clock forward in 2023, The Bulletin, founded by Albert Einstein and scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, issued a statement declaring it was: “A time of unprecedented danger.”       

A zionist on my list (I do have some since my list is large with over
55.000), who sent me threats before, sent me a message today with the
reminder of Deuteronomy 7 from the Bible/Torah: 1 When the Lord your God
brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before
you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites,
Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than
you— 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you
have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with
them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give
your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for
they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods,
and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 5
This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their
sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the
fire. 6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God