News and Views: November 30, 2024
Report: 87% of Terror Suspects Stopped by U.S. Border Agents in 2024 Came from Canada The consistent high percentage of TSDS-listed individuals stopped at the Canadian border nonetheless brings attention to national security concerns in the north that are often eclipsed by calls to secure the more crowded and chaotic southern border with Mexico. The Canadian newspaper highlighted the data in the context of President-elect Donald Trump announcing on Monday that he is considering imposing a 25-percent tariff on Canadian goods, and Mexican goods, until both countries help contain what he described as out-of-control mass migration, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and other transnational crime. Image
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UK votes to legalize assisted suicide; final approval of bill pending A recent survey of over 5,000 British adults carried out by Focaldata on behalf of the Care Not Killing coalition found that a majority (59%) believe it is "impossible to create safeguards that would always prevent people from being coerced into assisted dying." About 24% disagreed with that assessment. The survey also found general confusion among the public about what "assisted dying" means, with around half (52%) believing it involved "life-prolonging treatment."
“I believe the moral case for the Bill fails if a single human were to be killed through spurious arguments about ‘burden of care'”
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What had left the tech billionaire so spooked? Andreessen explained:
The AI thing was very alarming. We had meetings this spring that were the most alarming meetings I’ve ever been in. Where they were taking us through their plans, and it was – basically just full government – full government control – like this sort of thing, there will be a small number of large companies that will be completely regulated and controlled by the government, they told us. They said don’t even start startups – there’s just no way that they can succeed – there’s no way that we’re going to permit that to happen.
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Colleges in crisis thanks to high costs and intolerant extremism Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support.
A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36% of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education — once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility.
The new law received cross-party support—and the endorsement of a majority of parents—but its critics sense danger. https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/world-first-as-australia-bans-social-media-for-under-16s/
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World First as Australia Bans Social Media For Under 16 How the ban will be enforced, is still a big question, and a trial run will start in January of next year, with the ban to take effect in a year’s time.
There were concerns about whether social media giants would have to collect personal data from its users to prove they are over the age of 16, but a last-minute change to the bill specifies that platforms must offer an alternative to making users upload identification documents.
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