Parents on High Alert as Amazon’s Alexa shows children how to electrocute themselves
Imagine, teaching a child to partly insert an electric plug into a wall socket and to then press a coin to the exposed prongs of the electric plug.
Imagine, teaching a child to partly insert an electric plug into a wall socket and to then press a coin to the exposed prongs of the electric plug.
Increasingly common in big cities’ ‘papers please’ society. When it comes to controversies surrounding Covid mandates, particularly vaccine passes, the rift these are causing in societies around the world will obviously have to get worse before it gets better.
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has corrected its Covid-19 reporting, saying its previous estimate for the percentage of new cases caused by the Omicron variant was more than triple the actual figure.
Two Amazon employees died within hours of each other at the company’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama last month after being denied sick leave, according to workers’ rights group More Perfect Union. The two workers collapsed and died on November 28 and 29, within hours of each other, with one passing away at the facility and another after receiving medical attention.
ALEXANDER ZHANG December 28, 2021. COVID-19 will become just another cause of the common cold and people who test positive will have to be allowed to go about their normal lives as they would do with any other cold, a British medical professor has said.
Moscow has expressed concerns about the concentration of Western alliance missile systems, troops, warships, and aircraft near Russia’s borders, and NATO’s decades’ long eastward expansion. This month, the Russian Foreign Ministry formally signalled that it considers Ukraine to be a red line for Moscow that NATO is strongly advised not to cross.
When in 2016 the liberal news portal Politico reported on the first major salvos in George Soros’ takeover of the U.S. justice system, they politely called it an ‘overhaul.’
The silly season was once the name given to holiday August when incoming news baskets were empty. Then, there was a desperate urge to fill the pages and TV screens with anything to keep the proles distracted.
When an author historian suffers years of ambushes set by Amazon it makes publishing books a challenge. When Amazon’s coup de grâce is to close the author’s account one imagines smugness on the spotty faces of cancel-culture vultures lurking in Silicon Valley as they remove his life support apparatus.
Update 25 Dec: Added Alexandre Joao Kisonga, Ahmed Amin, Nemanja Mirosavljević, UPDATE: Marin Čačić died after 2 days in a coma. Andres Felipe Roman moved from “may or may not be” to “not” to preserve the false positive record. Santo Giuliana moved from September to July, added vaccine status.
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