Due To AI We Need A Birth Certificate & Human Copyright©️

 

Artificial Intelligence is here and we are behind and exposed as humans. AI is not magic, but it is a combination of software and hardware with a vast array of applications that could replace millions of us in the workforce on a daily basis. We could just be reduced to feeding the machine. Most of us have heard about workers training their replacements as their jobs were shipped offshore and then automation pushed workers out of the door and took over many manual labor tasks. Now Artificial Intelligence is coming for those so called knowledge and creative workers. Analysts, actors and musicians are all at risk and governments are behind the curve on how to protect individuals from an exploding technology space. 

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Actors, musicians and analysts in countless industries are at risk of displacement from work as AI software systems capable of generating new music, movies and deciding what business moves to make displace a huge swath of people and their compensation. The former compensation derived by formerly highly paid employees will be converted into profit that flows upward to corporate executives and investors, but AI is a parasite that feeds off human effort, information and even likenesses. People input the data, provide the images, ideas and even voices, that is why in addition to a birth certificate we also need a human copyright that protects each individual from digital theft of their person for commercial purposes. A human copyright would prevent without negotiated compensation the use of an individual’s likeness, voice, intellectual effort or work product without contracted ongoing compensation from the user. Without something like a perpetual Human copyright we could all become digital human trafficking victims forced into unwilling and uncompensated AI servitude.

No Affirmative Action - Become Water

 

On June 11, 1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the doors of the University of Alabama to keep Black students from registering and said ”segregation forever!” I was four years old and two years later attended an all Black, separate and unequal, Jim Crow elementary school in East Texas because I could not, by law, attend the all White elementary school closer to my home because I was Black. I did not understand the situation at the time because I was six years old. I studied from hand me down books, but the information was the same. Two years later The laws changed and my original school was shut down and I attended the formerly all White school closer to my home. My prior teacher prepared me well with those second hand books and I was like water. You see, water will find a way in, around or over any obstacles place in front of it. I knew what I knew. I knew what I was taught. I was not going to pretend to be less than anyone else regardless of their race, background or socioeconomic standing. 

I progressed through elementary, junior high and high school and did my best, even when I was one put in, what I called a warehouse class and my friends asked me, “What are you doing in here?” They knew me and I was moved to another group. Later I realized some students were set aside and given up on by their schools, many of them minorities, but like water I went around that. After finishing high school I was recruited by an HBCU for their business school and graduated Summa Cum Laude. I didn’t have a legacy of higher education in my family, I was the last of nine children and the first to go straight to college and earn a Bachelor of Science degree, but other siblings earned even higher degrees later on in their lives because they were like water also and would not be denied. 

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I came back to East Texas with my shiny new degree and went into business to business sales, but when I walked into establishments with my suit on, the question I got most often was not, what do you have of offer, but where are you from. The implication was that I must not have been from around there or I would have known I was out of my place walking into their business like that. I was you and newly married and thought, these people aren’t going to stop me, so I relocated, not far, but different. I was like water again and was able to utilized everything I knew and was taught to grow, provide for my family and prosper, then I came back on my terms.

Sixty years after George Wallace blocked the doors to the University of Alabama the Supreme Court of the United States of America essentially overturned Affirmative Action in the ability of colleges to use race as a factor in deciding who is admitted to their schools. You see, I’m the same person who could not attend a nearby elementary school because I was Black and in my same lifetime the SCOTUS said it is all even now. On June 29, 2023, 60 years after George Wallace blocked a university’s doors to keep Black students out, the Supreme Court determined everything was even. Slavery began 400 years ago and in 1966 I was legally barred from attending elementary school with White children, so now the SCOTUS has determined the weight of that oppression has been lifted. Native Americans were forced from the lands onto reservations and it is like a mulligan in a golf game and all even. Hispanic Americans relegated to the underclass for years laboring in fields, domestic work and exploited and it’s all equal now. 

Do not allow that Supreme Court ruling on Affirmative Action stop you from achieving your dreams. Behave like water and go around, through and over obstacles place in your path. Those before you did it and you can too!

Trump Enablers - "No Deathbed Coversions!"

 

On Wednesday January 6, 2020 U S President Donald J Trump sent a mob of his supporters marching to the Capitol building of the United States of America and they created havoc. Fueled by 4 years of lies and living in a world of alternative facts those goons broke windows, scaled walls and took over the Capitol building of the United States sending elected lawmakers running for cover while they were in the middle of conducting the people's business of accepting the results of the recent Presidential election.

 
In a scene resembling those from numerous coups and government overthrows around the world over hundred of years the American public watched as security forces were overrun by onrushing civilians, many of them wearing symbols of a  defeated President. One woman was shot and killed inside the Capitol building and 3 others died of health related causes.  Calls came from many to Trump to tell his supporters to end the siege and go home and that is where this goes off the rails.

These rampaging Trump supporters were filled with fuel from years of lies and misinformation. The match that sent them exploding into a rage was the often repeated and baseless claim that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Trump lost in the electoral college and popular vote by wide margins. The same people that helped create the Trump Matrix his supporters live in were then calling on him to call the dogs off that they helped to create. Individuals like Kellyanne Conway tweeted for the mob to stop. The first lady's chief of staff and former White House communications director Stephanie Grisham resigned. Former acting acting chief of staff and special envoy to Northern Ireland, Mick Mulvaney resigned. Sorry, with two weeks before Trump leaves office, it's too late to return to reality, sanity and the real world. Trump era deathbed conversions not allowed for those who were major architects of Trumpworld. Those who could stare straight into a television camera and lie to the American people and talk about alternate facts don't get a reprieve. The Trumptanic is sinking and those who helped steer it into an iceberg want to be first into a lifeboat, no dice wear that MAGA brand for life.

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Social media companies suddenly got religion and locked Trump's accounts after death and destruction struck, where were you before? Multiple years of being Trump's unfiltered megaphone makes it too late to act like you give a damn about what he tweets or posts now, it's too late and no deathbed conversions for you. Weak in the knees news media, it's too late. After years of being too corporate and ratings hungry to call treasonous behavior for what it was, treasonous behavior, or traitors for what they were, traitors, now you are outraged, bullshit, no deathbed conversions for you.

 
Now for the largest group, complicit Republicans in and out of office. Many of you profited, won elections and advanced your personal interests while you knew Trumpworld was a load of crap, but now it blew up in your face and some of you want to back away slowly. No! Stay right where you were, no deathbed conversions, you are a Trumper for life.

 
The last group deserve a metal. Maybe your dear leader Trump will give you a metal of honor. Some in Trumpworld, including elected politicians, suggested the next day that the rioters that stormed the US Capital were not Trump loyalists, but were Antifa members posing as Trumpers so they would get the blame. No deathbed conversions needed for this group because they will go straight to Trumps hot Heaven.

Wartime President Trump Signals Surrender to COVID-19

The third world war is in progress with all nations aligned against a common enemy, COVID-19, also known the novel coronavirus. The attack from this viral enemy from another world was swift and started in China and quickly spread around the globe. It appears COVID-19 may have come for the animal kingdom and made the jump to humans who had no immunity, vaccination or therapeutic treatments to battle the respiratory disease. With an infection and mortality rate higher than influenza it appeared the best way to battle the spread of the novel coronavirus was to keep people separated from each other, so nation after nation reluctantly instituted policies that effectively shut down their economies to slow the infection rated of COVID-19. Individuals were ordered to stay at home and most business closed down to fight the march of COVID-19.

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The novel coronavirus came to the United States on a flight with a United States citizen who had visited relatives in China. Despite alerts that COVID-19 was coming; President Trump seemed to blow it off and called it a Democratic hoax, said it would go away or not be that bad. While the President was the denier in chief other nations like Italy and Spain were crippled by COVID-19 with infections and deaths mounting while their healthcare systems were overwhelmed. As the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, Trump reluctantly imposed social distancing restrictions that largely shut down many businesses across the nation, but he did not impose a national stay at home order to keep people apart so governors and local official across the country did so on their own. The United States ended up with a patchwork of regulations in some areas and no regulations in other areas to keep people away from each other. The stock market crashed. Medical professionals indicted the worst was yet to come and due to the late start the United States got in fighting the virus the peak of infections was not known. Trump stated he saw himself as a wartime President, but this enemy has no soul, no political agenda and can’t be spun with political rhetoric or deceived with lies.  

After what seemed like less than two weeks of war against COVID-13 with pleas for medial masks, ventilators and more hospital beds than could be mustered, Trump appeared to be weary of the battle. The novel coronavirus had an ally in the failing economy that worked on Trump’s psyche and possibly generated visions of his reelection slipping away. Against the advice of almost every scientist and medical professional around, President Trump began talking about reopening the United States for business within a few weeks by saying the cure could be worse than the disease, in short, Trump was signaling surrender. POTUS Donald J Trump alarmed many by stating he may be willing to sacrifice and untold number of soldiers on the battlefield to get the economy running again. Let us not forget that we, all American residents, are the solders that will be put in the line of fire. We don’t fight COVID-19 with a shiny new gun, but by staying away from it and starving it of a fresh host to spread it to someone else. If Trump reopens business prematurely it will be a tragic trade-off of lives for commerce and one of the most tragic chapters in the history of the United States.

GUILTY! You're Free To Go!

Guilty! You're Free To Go!

Retiring Republican Senator Lamar Alexander released a statement stating the Democrat House Managers proved the Donald Trump froze aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, but he would vote no on hearing from witnesses because Trump's actions were improper and did not merit removal from office. In effect Alexander said to Trump, you're guilty and free to go. 

 

How a President getting caught withholding Congressionally approved defense assistance funds to a foreign ally to strong-arm them into announcing a false investigation into a political rival who was beating him in election polls is not impeachable is beyond me. What would Trump have to do to get impeached and removed from office by a Republican controlled Senate, give Alaska to Russia? The real problem with what Republicans are doing with Trump is that he is getting treatment the average citizen, including rabid Trump supporters, would never get in court, which is no consequence after being deemed guilty. Let that sink in, Trump won't get probation community service or have to pay restitution after being deemed guilty. Tell that to those rotting in prison for minor drug possession and other offenses far less than coercing a foreign power to interfere in United States elections.

 

 Living In The Age Of White Reparations

The complete statement from Senator Lamar Alexander is below:

 

Alexander Statement on Impeachment Witness Vote

Posted on January 30, 2020

“I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the United States Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense. …The Constitution does not give the Senate the power to remove the president from office and ban him from this year’s ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate. 

“The question then is not whether the president did it, but whether the United States Senate or the American people should decide what to do about what he did. I believe that the Constitution provides that the people should make that decision in the presidential election that begins in Iowa on Monday. …Our founding documents provide for duly elected presidents who serve with ‘the consent of the governed,’ not at the pleasure of the United States Congress. Let the people decide.” – Senator Lamar Alexander

  

Washington, D.C., January 30, 2020 -- United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on his vote regarding additional evidence in the impeachment proceedings:

“I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the United States Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense.
“There is no need for more evidence to prove that the president asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter; he said this on television on October 3, 2019, and during his July 25, 2019, telephone call with the president of Ukraine. There is no need for more evidence to conclude that the president withheld United States aid, at least in part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens; the House managers have proved this with what they call a ‘mountain of overwhelming evidence.’ There is no need to consider further the frivolous second article of impeachment that would remove the president for asserting his constitutional prerogative to protect confidential conversations with his close advisers.

“It was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to encourage that investigation. When elected officials inappropriately interfere with such investigations, it undermines the principle of equal justice under the law. But the Constitution does not give the Senate the power to remove the president from office and ban him from this year’s ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate.

“The question then is not whether the president did it, but whether the United States Senate or the American people should decide what to do about what he did. I believe that the Constitution provides that the people should make that decision in the presidential election that begins in Iowa on Monday.

“The Senate has spent nine long days considering this ‘mountain’ of evidence, the arguments of the House managers and the president’s lawyers, their answers to senators’ questions and the House record. Even if the House charges were true, they do not meet the Constitution’s ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors’ standard for an impeachable offense.

“The framers believed that there should never, ever be a partisan impeachment. That is why the Constitution requires a 2/3 vote of the Senate for conviction. Yet not one House Republican voted for these articles. If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist. It would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the House of Representatives is of a different political party.

“Our founding documents provide for duly elected presidents who serve with ‘the consent of the governed,’ not at the pleasure of the United States Congress. Let the people decide.” 

We would all hope to be so privileged to have a deciding juror like Senator Lamar Alexander if we are proved guilty but odds are that we will not get Trump justice.

Republicans Are Trump's Three Wise Monkeys

Three Wise Moneys - Republicans On Trump Impeachment

As Trump's impeachment trial, or lack there of, looms in the Senate, Republican Senators who will take an oath to be impartial jurors play their roles as one of Donald Trump's Three Wise Monkeys. The Three Wise Monkeys saw no evil, heard no evil and spoke no evil because they had their hands covering their ears, mouth and eyes. The principles behind the Three Wise Monkeys may date back to hundreds of years BC before taking its final form in Japan. The framers of the U.S Constitution never thought a co-equal branch of government created to be a check on an out of control Executive Branch would be controlled by Three Wise Monkeys and become subservient to the Executive Branch to the point of being jointly complicit in covering up and enabling constitutional breaches including inviting foreign interference in our elections to advantage a sitting President. 

 

 

Living in The Age of White Reparations 

As the fourth estate of the press revealed that Trump rolled over his top advisors after they advised him not to withhold congressionally approved aid to Ukraine the truth is sitting in front of their faces to see, read and hear. Trump asked the President of Ukraine to, "do him a favor though" in order to get aid and that favor was to announce an investigation into his rival Joe Biden and his son. If this impeachment trial is like the Brett Kavanaugh FBI investigation for his confirmation to the Supreme Court when people called and went to the FBI with information that was ignored because it was outside the very narrow scope defined by the White House, then we no longer have three co-equal branches of government. If the Senate conducts a rigged sham impeachment trial and clears Donald Trump summarily then we no longer have a President, but an unchecked and untouchable head of state who could wreak havoc for the rest of his current term and do untold damage if reelected with no risk of constitutional restraint or reelection.

 

 

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Impeachment: If Soldiers Face Death, Senators Can Face Witnesses To Preserve America

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In the Constitution Congress has the sole power to declare war. In recent years, Presidents have entered the United States in multiple wars without Congressional declarations of war. When the United States enters a war the expectation is for those in military service to fight in those conflicts and if required, to give their lives in combat. Military members, members of Congress and the President take an oath that all contain these words, "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."  

Trump: Nixon on Steroids

 

Congress and Presidents have sent Americans to face deaths in wars foreign and domestic to maintain our republic! The least they can do is face the truth, witnesses and voters to make sure we protect our republic from foreign powers being invited to interfere in our elections going forward! Impeachment is not a political party exercise, but an emergency button to be pushed if a President, of any political party, is violating his oath of office and placing our republic in peril. We expect military men and women to sacrifice their lives in order to protect our freedoms, among those, to have free and fair elections free from foreign influence. The United States was born because it broke away from foreign rule through a bloody war and it should be obvious why an invitation by a sitting U.S. President, elected under a cloud of election interference by Russia, to the President of another country to assist him in an upcoming election by smearing his political opponent.

 

If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to hear key fact witnesses before acquitting President Donald Trump of the articles of impeachment drawn against him, then the Senate has lost its moral authority to send brave Americans to their deaths in defense of their right to display such moral cowardice in a free country.