Seattle University, with funding provided by Microsoft, has created a free, online course intended to train businesses on the “meaning of ethics in AI.” That’s a promising move because it’s not just the tools that create problems. The developers themselves often don’t know how to think about ethical issues. Michael Quinn, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Seattle University, notes,
Many people who work in tech aren’t required to complete a philosophy or ethics course in school’, said Quinn, which he believes contributes to blind spots in the development of technology. Those blind spots may have lead to breaches of public trust…”
Philosophy or Ethics course???????????
Jesus.
The point is simple, and has nothing to do with "ethics" or ethics. The point is that the PEOPLE IN CHARGE of big data are totally immune from legalities. They are above and beyond the law. Suing them or regulating them is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE because they are paid-up members of Epstein's Blackmail Web. Lawyers and regulators and judges want to remain alive and functional.
Nothing 'dark' about these dudes
UncommonDescent pointed to a set of brief conversations among the 'Intellectual Dark Web', a group of thinkers who are allegedly anti-Establishment.
After listening to a few of them, my earlier vague suspicion is solidly verified. There's nothing remotely countercultural about this group. They're standard neocons, proudly labeled as such. Their view of God is purely modern.
Bret Weinstein, famously fired for alleged heterodoxy, is perfectly orthodox.
"We need to take evolution out of the driver's seat and replace it with our own ethical framework."
"The deity is a hack, a hack that functions" for the benefit of society.
Sheer hippie nonsense. Good behavior, behavior that helps the entire hive function, is written into our genes. Call it evolution or call it design, it's IN THE GENES. The authorities have often channeled and distorted this set of standards for their own evil purposes (such as bombing every country that displeases Israel) but the standards themselves are NOT a myth.
Darwin said it clearly. Selection prefers behaviors that keep the WHOLE POPULATION alive and strong, not NYC behaviors that enrich ONE INDIVIDUAL while destroying the population. Keeping the WHOLE POPULATION alive requires altruism and empathy, which is why we HAVE those capacities. If only humans had those capacities, maybe you could hypothesize that we made them up, but they appear in every social animal and plant, and they're a lot stronger in most non-human social animals.
As I repeat tiresomely, we have the logbook of God's experiments in the form of old wisdom and old testaments. The people who survived wrote down their recipe for survival. They told us what to eat and how to behave.
Every attempt to create our own ethical framework has led to GENOCIDE AND DISASTER.
Weinstein is such a perfect snowflake that I wonder if the usual story is right. Did the college really fire him for disagreeing with their views? Back in the '60s unpopular or insubordinate profs were often fired for "communism", which was easier to define than unpopularity.
Delicate language
The journal bizarrely called 'Nature' has been publishing some oblique articles about trust and facts in science. The science racket doesn't want to be moral or trustworthy, but feels that it needs to make these noises for PR purposes.
Latest:
Second, the number of countries with a strong science base is growing, which inevitably leads to greater heterogeneity in cultural norms with respect to research ethics, and to more diversity in the approaches of regulatory authorities.
Third, science is being conducted by a shifting cast of commercial entities — either independently from, or in collaboration with, traditional research institutions. Such organizations might not have the same ethics culture and systems of regulation as traditional universities.
Heterogeneity in cultural norms = China doesn't give a fuck.
Might not have same ethics culture = Zuck doesn't give a fuck.
It's way too late to do anything about China since US universities have been welcoming and supporting Chinese spies for 40 years. We've outsourced our skills in science along with everything else. The science racket doesn't WANT to do anything about Zuck because he serves as a convenient cutout to bypass pesky ethics committees.
So we meekly and delicately complain about our colonial masters, knowing full well where the money is.
"I see Amazon as a technology company that just happened to do retail," begins Werner Vogels, Amazon's chief technology officer.
"When Jeff started Amazon, he wasn't thinking about starting a bookshop. He was really fascinated by the internet. Only mortal humans ever saw Amazon as merely a retailer."
Nice to have it verified. Satan believes he is God.
Mr Vogels doesn’t feel it's Amazon’s responsibility to make sure Rekognition is used accurately or ethically.
“That’s not my decision to make,” he tells me.
Missing the line
O'Keefe follows up the Gennai expose with some emails leaked by another Googler. The emails were proposing that "nazis" like Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager should be removed from the Suggested For You list.
First, the proposal wasn't carried out. When I watch populists like Farage and LePen, Youtube tries to steer me toward Shapiro and Prager.
Second. Shapiro and Prager are standard neocons, not dissenters or populists. They follow Buckley, not Farage. When Google suggests Prager, Google is trying to steer me back toward globalism.
O'Keefe is dividing the world between Right and Left. This is no longer the important line. The vast majority of globalist leaders, from Soros to Zuckerberg to Bezos to Macron, are hard-line CAPITALISTS. They all agree on ZERO TAX and ZERO BORDERS and INFINITE WAR and INFINITE DEBT.
Localist and traditionalist leaders are more varied, but most would lean toward the 'socialist' side, favoring strict government control of monopoly capital, and more government assistance for poor people.
Needless to say, this pogrom is brought to you by Google's ETHICS team. As always, ETHICS means genocide.
Dozens of fake "answers", ignoring the answer.Via Eurekalert, public health authorities are worried about insufficient blood donations from "communities of colour". The article proposes a huge pile of possible reasons and possible solutions, but never gets CLOSE to the obvious answer.
PAY.
When you PAY people for hard labor, they're VASTLY more likely to do it.
This applies even more strongly to organ donation. For some ABSOLUTELY NONSENSICAL AND UTTERLY TURBOCRAZY DYSREASON, we have decided that paying people for a HUGE piece of pain and suffering is "unethical".
The other end of this nasty industry is flooded with LITERAL blood money. The Red Cross and the various "donor" industries get PAID monstrous amounts of money for storing and sorting and transporting the raw material. Why in the HOLY FUCK shouldn't they PAY for the raw material?
As always, NYC is the satanic black hole of economics. All money goes into NYC, nothing leaves. Paying Deplorables is UNACCEPTABLE INTOLERABLE ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE. "Ethics" means genocide.
Unusually objectiveFrance has a PVS situation parallel to the Terri Schiavo case here. The family involvement is identical. Lambert's wife wants to pull the plug, just as Terri's husband wanted to pull the plug. Lambert's parents want to keep him alive, just as Terri's parents did.
At this point a judge has ruled in favor of the parents, but we know the idiotic court fight isn't over.
The Sorosian media, both France24 and DW, are covering the case with unusual balance. DW is interviewing Terri's brother, asking appropriately hard questions but not squashing the answers as you'd expect.
I started this blog with the Schiavo case, so this is familiar ground. Since 2005, morality hasn't changed but the "scientific" "consensus" has changed. More medical "experts" are realizing that PVS isn't necessarily P or V. MRI scans are providing better insight, and more attention to similar cases shows that waking up is not uncommon.
Update 6/28: Needless to say, the French black-robed demons have ruled in favor of death. Easiest bet in the world. Demons will always favor ETHICS.
The real deniers
The REAL deniers of science are in charge of everything.
So far they haven't made truth a full-fledged crime in USA, but Canada and UK are already there.
A Christian activist has been fined $55k for calling a man a man.
What could break this nonsense? One possible scenario would at least provide a brief moment of difficulty for the tyrants.
A man who "identifies as womxn" gets prostate cancer. Womxns don't have prostate glands, so the doctor couldn't possibly diagnose or treat a nonexistent disorder in a nonexistent organ.
The doctor would have to choose between "deadmanning" the patient or "deading" the patient. A rational doctor would instantly pick the latter, because all of the "laws" and "ethics" boards would be on his side. If he chose to "deadman" the patient and treat the nonexistent disease in the nonexistent organ, he'd spend the rest of his life in jail.
All the right wordsVia DW:For years, scientists have raised concerns about the ethical applications of artificial intelligence. Facebook said it chose Germany because of its position "at the forefront of the conversation."
A perfect condensed explanation. All you need to know in a few words.
Ethics means EXTERMINATE DEPLORABLES.Conversation means SILENCE ALL HERETICS.
If you want to apply AI ethically, you can't possibly beat Krautists. Krautists have always been at the forefront of precision genocide and accurate slaughter and meticulous torture and exact evil. Especially when ethics and conversations are aimed at Russia.
The scary partVia "Nature":
The demons who design autonomous cars are pretending to seek "moral" values for the "moral" conundrums that a driver supposedly must resolve.
They ran a survey and found that people in different countries want their cars to make different decisions, depending on who the pedestrian is and what he's doing.
The details of these decisions are trivial.
The scary part, as usual, is the FLAT IMPLICIT ASSUMPTION that doesn't need explaining.
Rahwan gathered an international team of psychologists, anthropologists and economists to create the Moral Machine. Within 18 months, the online quiz had recorded 40 million decisions made by people from 233 countries and territories. ... Nations could be divided into three groups. One contains North America and several European nations where Christianity has historically been the dominant religion; another includes countries such as Japan, Indonesia and Pakistan, with strong Confucian or Islamic traditions. A third group consists of Central and South America, as well as France and former French colonies.
Unsurprising except for the French grouping with South America.
The choices were rich vs poor, male vs female, legal pedestrian vs illegal, human vs animal, old vs young.
The scary unstated assumption is that the car knows how to categorize people.
In other words, autonomous cars are REALLY roaming Inquisitors, automatically sorting out the Keepers from the Tossers. When the order is given from Tesla Central Dreadnaught Command, the car will give up its normal compulsion to crash into long walls, and will joyously take out the nearest Tosser.
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Astrological sidenote: I've been pointlessly hammering on this topic for a long time. The two links I href'd above were the closest fit to this aspect of the problem. They were ALSO remarkably close to today's date. 10/31/14 and 10/27/15. Do I think the same way in the same week every year? Seems likely.
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Doublethink sidenote: We know that the pogrommers who design this code are constantly dealing with those binary categories. Male vs female, old vs young, rich vs poor, globalist vs Deplorable. We ALSO know that the same pogrommers firmly believe the standard leftist delusion that categories do not exist. Anyone can be anything. It's just a matter of momentary decision, not a matter of genes or even epigenes. Pogrommers who do not share this orthodox belief are kicked out.
Sneaky inquisitors
Two purges in similar fields. In both cases the headlines are dangerously deceptive.
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First example:
Wansink, the 'food behaviorist', has been purged for misusing statistics. From the headlines I thought he was just another "social" "scientist" who probably deserved to be retracted. The headlines were deceptive. A deeper article by Inquisitor Hamblin shows the reality.
Wansink describes himself as a “pracademic,” an academic aimed at practical problems and workable solutions, and “a professor whose mission is to help transform people’s lives by finding the small changes that make the big difference.”
Exactly right. That's what science SHOULD be doing.
The Inquisitor demanded recantation:
I asked Wansink about his insight from the ordeal, and how the system and future aspiring and young scientists could learn from his mistakes. He wrote that he still believes being “a scholar and an academic is an unbelievably great calling. It is totally enriching, and don’t let these events dissuade you from a great career.” He is insistent that existing policies based on his work are sound since, he argues, his fundamental conclusions were correct and will be proven so: “We made a number of mistakes, but they didn’t change the basic conclusions (even if they might have been retracted).”
Wansink refused to recant.
While Wansink is generally contrite and apologetic, it’s still not clear if he has internalized that ethos. “You can do research for other academics, or you can do research to solve problems,” he wrote to me. “Doing it for academics is more prestigious, but doing it to solve real problems in the real world is more gratifying—enriching, as I said. Having people say, ‘I do something differently because of your research, and it works’ takes away the sting of someone pointing out the degrees of freedom in an F-test were wrong.”
He has not "internalized the ethos" of consuming billions of dollars to torture and kill people more effectively. Good.
What should we do differently?
The question is how to disconnect scientific work from the buzz cycle—to let people conduct experiments to answer questions in an environment as free as possible of any incentive that would bias that process. Please tell me if you have the answer. What I know is that it involves more public funding of science, not less, as President Trump has called for.
EXACTLY WRONG. LETHALLY WRONG. More funding means more murder. Scientists who work in industry have to justify REAL PROBLEM SOLVING RESULTS if they want more money. Some parts of academia, like agriculture and medicine, are still closely tied to real solutions. Inquisitor Hamblin wants to purify those realms by removing all connection to HELPING PEOPLE. In his "mind" the sole purpose of science is to RUIN MINDS AND EXTERMINATE PEOPLE.
Wansink served REAL SCIENCE by persuading people to eat less, and by showing that INTUITIVELY REASONABLE methods help us to eat less. The lethal theorists INTENTIONALLY DESTROY our intuition so they can yank us back and forth with "correct" "information" that changes daily, makes no sense, and can't be processed by a RATIONAL MIND. See Github. See Comrade O'Brien.
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Second example, less dramatic and much less famous but equally deadly.
The headlines said that an "evidence-based medicine" group had kicked out one of its leaders for failing to be "evidence-based". Okay, sounds like a good move.
Again the details are opposite.
The expulsion of Peter Gøtzsche sparked accusations that the Collaboration is too friendly toward the drug industry. Four other members of the organization’s governing board resigned in response, citing concerns that the action “goes against Cochrane ethos.”
The vote appears to have been 6 of 13 in favor of the move, according to statements from the board members who resigned and Gøtzsche — short of a majority but enough to pass because only 11 voted.
What was Gøtzsche's crime against the "ethos" of science?
Gøtzsche, the director of the Nordic Cochrane Center, in Copenhagen, Denmark, has cast doubts about the safety of a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), a cause of cervical cancer, and says psychiatry has “gone astray” by coercing patients into taking medication, such as antidepressants, they don’t want to use and that cause “brain damage” over the long run. “The way these drugs are used today cause[s] more harm than good. So it would be better for us if the drugs didn’t exist.”
On the vaccine, he wasn't anti-vax, he was simply questioning whether one particular vaccine had been tested properly.
His critique of psychiatry is PRECISELY CORRECT and INFINITELY NECESSARY.
In other words, he was kicked out of the "evidence-based" group for BASING HIS VIEWS ON EVIDENCE. The "evidence-based" ethos is now exposed as nothing more than a kickback-based ethos. Evidence is a synonym for bribes.
The purge accelerates
Watch the dominos.
The Bureau of Inquisition is METHODICAL and INFINITELY PERSISTENT. Now that two men who worked briefly for Trump have been jailed and flipped on the usual nonsensical "charges" unrelated to anything, new dominos are being pushed.
Rep Duncan Hunter of California, who had no particular connection to Trump but has been a steady voice against war and globalism, has been indicted for the usual nonsensical unrelated "charges" about campaign "ethics".
Watch Dana Rohrabacher and Justin Amash. They're next** in line.
This is not about Trump, because Trump is part of Deepstate. This is about anti-globalist and anti-war heretics. All heretics will be jailed or discredited, starting from the top and running down to the bottom.
Trump isn't the target. He's the bird-dog flushing the quail out of the weeds so they can be shot.
REMEMBER. TRUMP IS ROY COHN'S PROTEGE. THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.
** Counternote: I don't expect Rand Paul to be knocked over. He's firmly antiwar but seems to have some kind of Kevlar shield against the Inquisition. Maybe it's his solid support for murderous monopolists like Zuckerberg and Bezos?
Well, that didn't take long 2Pruitt is gone. The idiot article describes him as "embroiled in scandal". NO, you grotesque filthy twats. He was embroiled in trying, weakly and lamely, to do one or two THINGS WORTH DOING.
Because he was actually trying to do THINGS WORTH DOING, the media superdemons "caught" him in horrible scandalous crimes like miscalculating an expense voucher or traveling in government planes, which is what a Cabinet Secretary is SUPPOSED TO DO unless he belongs to the wrong party.
Classic ethicution. Whenever you see "ethics" charges, you know Deepstate is removing a weak heretic. (Strong and effective heretics never get anywhere near DC in the first place.)
That's the last heretic. Hillary in an orange wig now has a PERFECTLY PURE administration from top to bottom.
Infinitely incalculably wicked monsters.
Dr. Geoff Stiller, a board certified surgeon who has staff privileges at Pullman Regional Hospital, is advancing his surgical training to include gender reassignment surgeries and the hospital is accepting public comment from June 12 to July 3, 2017.
As part of the process, the hospital says Dr. Stiller will be performing the procedures at Pullman Regional Hospital under the personal instruction and supervision of a preceptor. Other steps will also be completed before a decision on adding gender reassignment surgery to the services offered by Pullman Regional Hospital.
"Two key steps are completing the medical staff privileging process and receiving public comment regarding performing gender reassignment surgery," the hospital said in a statement.
Why bother with public comment? You won't listen. You're going to do it anyway. Just do it. Remember the Boaty McBoatface thing, and previous similar cases. Faking public input is MUCH WORSE than just doing what you're going to do.
If "ethics" actually meant ethics, the proper ethical decision would be simple. Treat trans nonsense EXACTLY THE SAME as any other form of elective surgery.
An adult making the decision without duress should be permitted unless there's a medical reason to avoid surgery. No different from a facelift or a tummy-tuck.
A parent who wants to have this form of surgery done on her child should be charged with child abuse. If a parent wanted to remove the child's (medically normal) legs for esthetic or emotional reasons, you'd haul the parent into court instantly. This is EXACTLY THE SAME.
Of course "ethics" no longer means ethics. "Ethics" means eugenics. Kill Deplorables, obey Soros.
During his presidential campaign, Trump had promised Catholics relief from the HHS mandate, which requires employers to offer health insurance plans covering contraception, sterilization and some early abortion drugs. In a letter to the Catholic Leadership Conference last October, he pointed to his opponent Hillary Clinton’s support for the mandate, and said “that is a hostility to religious liberty you will never see in a Trump administration.”
After Trump’s election, the plaintiffs challenging the mandate widely expected that the new administration would drop the government’s appeal of the lawsuits, which federal circuit courts may re-examine in the coming months.
Instead of dropping the cases, however, the administration indicated that it intends to take the next step in the litigation process. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that the Justice Department had asked a federal appeals court for 60 extra days to negotiate an agreement with East Texas Baptist University and several other plaintiffs challenging the mandate. The Supreme Court last year had instructed the Obama administration to negotiate with the plaintiffs as the next step in the litigation process.
One soul. Going, going, gone. Cheap.
You chose power over God, Sessions. Bastard.
Bravo for Arkansas!!
They wasted too much time and effort following the rules of Satan, but in the end they DIDN'T SURRENDER, and have managed THREE acts of justice this year.
Let's compare stats for the last 12 months for the entire "country".
In this graph the left bar is the number of EVIL MURDERERS killed by opiates in an act of JUSTICE. The right bar is the number of INNOCENT PEOPLE killed by opiates in an act of hopeless desperation.
Needless to say, all "religious" and "ethical" authorities are worried sick about the 28 acts of justice. Nobody is worried about the 40000 acts of desperation. This totally fucked totally Satan-soaked former "country" has its priorities right, by fucking God. All criminals must go free, all Deplorables must be slaughtered. Onward and upward!
Why not crowdfund?
Soros is busy in Europe trying to discredit and destroy anti-Soros politicians, using the same trick that Democrats use here. "Ethics" complaints, also known as blackmail.
Fillon had hired some relatives, which is OK for leftists but not for non-leftists.
Now LePen is being accused of "misusing" EU money because she disagreed with Soros. LePen has been a member of the EU parliament for 12 years. During those years her clerical staff was paid by EU, as is normal for parliamentary staff. As long as LePen was not actively fighting EU, the payment was OK. Since she started speaking the truth, the payment is no longer OK.
MEPs are NOT allowed to represent their people. They are required to represent Soros. Soros is the universe and the universe is Soros. All non-Soros substance must be EXTERMINATED so that the universe can be pure Soros.
LePen says that she doesn't have the $300k extortion demand, and is trying to fight by "legal" means. Won't work, because the "legal" system is also owned by Soros.
Why doesn't LePen simply crowdfund the $300k? It's not hard to raise that sum in one day for a popular cause. A British lawyer who is fighting in the other direction (against Brexit) raised $70k in one day.
Who's got law?
Turkey is negotiating with EU about the two million refugees from Soros wars that Turkey has been housing and feeding and educating for several years. Turkey wants more money and help, and threatens to let EU have more of the refugees if no help.
Needless to say, EU doesn't want to pay Turkey anything because Turkey is anti-Soros. Only Tribe or Tribe supporters can be paid. Deplorables cannot be paid. Deplorables can only be slaughtered.
Johannes Hahn, the EU enlargement commissioner, said Brussels was gravely concerned by the “degradation in the rule of law and democracy” since the attempted putsch.Rule of law and democracy.
Democracy was Orwelled a long time ago. Now it's law's turn to get Orwelled.
When normal people talk about the "rule of law" they mean two things:
1. The legal system SHOULD protect normal people from criminals. Police should be allowed to identify and arrest criminals, and criminals should be kept in captivity or killed so they won't be able to return to their incurable habit of crime.
2. The legal system SHOULD NOT prosecute normal people for behaving normally and decently.
Erdogan is following those principles. He is protecting Europe from invasion by criminal migrants, and he is protecting his own people from sabotage by Sorosian moles who had occupied the court system.
EU has reversed both. EU no longer protects normal people. Migrants are free to rape and rob. The police are NOT allowed to identify and arrest migrants. Instead, normal people are arrested when they criticize the authorities for failing to protect them. EU also guarantees that the fancier type of criminal, ie Soros and his Tribe, can rob normal people by destroying jobs and savings.
Perfect reversal.
No, not paradox
Forgot to retune radio, ended up listening to Dennis Prager for a while. I try to avoid both the standard Repoofs and the standard Commies; both are globalist. Prager is discussing culture vs politics with Ben Shapiro. Nice calm discussion with some good points.
Prager made a point that seems paradoxical: The hippieshit generation grew up with "clean" and "moral" television like Father Knows Best as our main cultural influence, yet we turned radical. Where did the radical come from? Prager said it came from school.
Hell no. It came from TV. Father Knows Best was NOT typical of 1950s TV. There was an inflection point in 1956, trailing behind the Roy Cohn Coup in 1954. After Cohn and his fag boyfriend Welch conspired to ruin secret fag McCarthy, everything changed in TV. The globalist commie writers who had been unemployed or cautious came roaring back with a PURE VENGEANCE. After 1956 TV looked the same, but all plotlines were explicitly designed to rip apart Natural Law culture. COMPLEX MORAL CONUNDRUMS formed the core of every story, intended to create cognitive dissonance. All permanent certainties were pulverized.
Plain numerical fact: TV was rare before 1954. Most TV stations went on the air between '54 and '56, and most households got a TV in those years. The pre-Cohn version of TV reached only about 20% of America. So when you say "1950's TV" you're practically speaking about post-56 TV, in other words post-Cohn TV.
The visual aspect of TV changed several years after the plotlines. Before 1959 the people in movies and TV looked like actual Americans. Yeah, they were prettier than real people because nobody wants to look at uglies; but their clothing and hair and behavior were close to reality. After 1959, American and Western Euro TV and movies departed from reality. In real life females are about half the population. In post-59 US/UK/EU movies, females disappeared except for a few "boy-like" mixed-gender entities. Movies and TV were chiefly about males relating intimately with males, which agreed precisely with Roy Cohn's reality. Foreign movies outside US/UK/EU (Egypt, Turkey, Greece, India) continued to reflect normal life. Women were an equal part of life, and women in movies looked like real-life women.
Ecuador has acknowledged it partly restricted internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is taking refuge at its London embassy. It said Mr Assange had in recent weeks released material that could have an impact on the US presidential election.
Ecuador also said its move was not the result of pressure from Washington.
The US denied WikiLeaks accusations that it had asked Ecuador to stop the site publishing documents about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
MATERIAL THAT COULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE ELECTION used to be called "news". In the standard delusional myth of the West, "democracy" requires "informed citizens" who acquire information before "voting" in an "election".
It's nice to see BBC abandoning this myth entirely. They are now officially admitting that "news" is illegal and "elections" do not exist.
Deutsche Welle, which normally matches BBC's satanism, comes up slightly short this time, allowing something resembling a fact to leak through:
The whistleblower site accuses Ecuador of cutting off Assange's internet at the behest of US officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry. The United States denied the allegation. ...
President Rafael Correa has expressed a preference for Clinton. "For the United States, I'd like the winner to be Hillary, whom I also know personally and appreciate very much," Correa told the Russian propaganda broadcaster RT in an interview in September.
The Obama administration has embarked on an anti-whistleblower campaign. In summer, Chelsea[sic] Manning attempted suicide in the prison where she[sic] is serving a 35-year sentence for revealing a US helicopter attack on civilians in Iraq. Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden fled to Russia after he exposed the extent of US spying on the electronic communications of people around the world.
DW is making oblique reference to the potential conceivable theoretical possibility that Obama may not be God. I'm sure they will be punished.