House Passes Resolution to Scrap Biden ESG Rule

The House on Tuesday passed a resolution to scrap President Joe Biden’s rule that would advance Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing.

James Comer Introduces Bills to Stop Government Collusion on Tech Censorship

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This Won't End Well: Scientists Hope to Create AI from Human Brain Cells

Scientists at John Hopkins University are working on research to enable AI to be constructed using human brain cells, arguing that the use of organic materials is more efficient than traditional computing systems. The technology has come to be known as OI, or “organoid intelligence,” and scientists have already achieved

Can the G20 Agree on Human Rights?

Foreign ministers of Group of Twenty (G20) countries are meeting in New Delhi on March 1-3.

Lawmakers Question Teenage Access to Facebook's Metaverse

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Don’t Rush to Normalize Relations with Assad’s Syria

Since earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria on February 6, claiming the lives of more than 5,900 people across Syria and exacerbating the country’s humanitarian crisis, several Arab countries have rushed to further normalize ties with the government of President Bashar al-Assad. And they are doing so without pressing

Re: Threats to Terminate the Mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia

To: Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council Excellencies, We, the undersigned civil society and human rights organizations, are alarmed by the 15 February announcement by the Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia to the Executive Council of the African Union that the Ethiopian

Bahrain: 3 On Trial for Religious Dialogue

(Beirut) – Three members of a cultural society in Bahrain are scheduled to go to trial on February 28, 2023, for merely exercising their right to free expression and belief, Human Rights Watch said today. Bahraini authorities should immediately drop all charges against the men and halt inflammatory public comments condemning

Internal Transportation Watchdog Will Audit Use of Private Government Jets

An internal Department of Transportation (DOT) watchdog said on Monday that it would conduct an audit of Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s use of Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) taxpayer-funded jets for official trips, in addition to his predecessor’s travel, Elaine Chao. The department’s inspector general announced it would

Feds: Georgia Farm Discriminated Against Qualified Americans in Favor of Foreign H-2A Visa Workers

A nursery based in Miami, Florida, is accused of discriminating against qualified Americans for blue-collar, agricultural jobs in Georgia, importing foreign H-2A visa workers instead.

House to Vote on Resolution to Scrap Biden ESG Rule

The House will take up legislation this week that would scrap President Joe Biden’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rule.

CNN Spreads Deadly Lies About Vitamin D for COVID-19

STORY AT-A-GLANCE May 31, 2020, I posted an interview with three vitamin D experts in which we discuss the importance of vitamin D for preventing COVID-19 infection.

Would Vitamin D Have Saved Half of COVID Deaths?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE I launched an information campaign to raise awareness about the use of vitamin D for COVID-19 back in June 2020.

Report: Roald Dahl eBooks Automatically Updated to Woke Censored Versions

The ongoing controversy over the decision by Puffin, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, to censor new editions of Roald Dahl books has taken another dystopian twist, with owners of Roald Dahl ebooks reporting that their copies have been automatically updated to the new, woke versions. The publisher’s decision

Satire in Congo is No Laughing Matter

On February 10, government security agents arrested the satirical comedian Junior Nkole in central Kinshasa in the latest attack on freedom of expression in the Democratic Republic of Congo.