The World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) released a joint paper urging religious leaders to consider attempting to combat myths that undermine trust in the coronavirus vaccine and to raise moral questions in policy discussions on the distribution of the vaccine. The paper calls on religious leaders to contemplate “confronting […]
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WJC, WCC call for religious, ethical discussion on vaccine distribution
Yerba Mate: The Ethical and Healthier Alternative to Coffee
December 15th, 2020 By Paul Lenda Staff Writer for Wake Up World For a quick and easy pick-me-up, many in the West turn to coffee. Yes, that brown liquid that comes from roasted coffee beans. With around 100 mg of caffeine per cup, it delivers a powerful energy boost when you need it. However, drinking […]
Google Promises Ethical Principles to Guide Development of Military AI
Update: Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Lucrative Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially Via: The Intercept: FOLLOWING THE REVELATION in March that Google had secretly signed an agreement with the Pentagon to provide cutting edge artificial intelligence technology for drone warfare, the company faced an internal revolt. About a dozen Google […]
Going Underground – Ep. 545: ‘I Can’t Breathe’, Police Brutality in the USA & Ethical Technology
Going Underground – Ep. 545: ‘I Can’t Breathe’, Police Brutality in the USA & Ethical Technology Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com In this episode, we speak to Matt Taibbi about the starting of Black Lives Matter movement. Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder of Opera and Vivaldi web browsers, on ethical technologies. Plus, we review this weeks […]
The 9 Principles of Ethical Policing as Written in 1829
Isaac Davis, Staff WriterWaking Times Policing in America today is a far cry from what policing was like just even a couple of generations ago. While it needs to be said that there are indeed many good-minded police in our society, there is also a startling rise in a new kind of insidious police […]
If the occupation is permanent, is an ethical Jewish future possible?
The following lecture was given on October 24, 2017 at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Marc Ellis’s book Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation. To read Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss visit the archive page. For the last week, I have been teaching and touring in […]
Artificial Intelligence: Socioeconomic, Political and Ethical Dimensions
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Cyprian parliament adopts resolution on lifting anti-Russian sanctions
The resolution drafted by the members of the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) was supported by 33 MPs out of 60 with 17 lawmakers abstaining, the AKEL secretary Maria Pelekanou told RIA Novosti, adding that no one voted against the resolution. Tuscany becomes 4th Italian region to urge lifting of anti-Russian sanctions The document […]
Are You Awake? Or Just Informed?
1st April 2016 By Zen Gardner Contributing Writer for Wake Up World This is a very interesting question, and perhaps a provocative one. With the information explosion drastically influencing so many lives there appear to be many strata of awakening levels arising. Once people start connecting the dots of now available facts and formerly unavailable research, […]
Operation Barbarossa 2: American Occupation of Europe Intensifies
Christopher Black (NEO) : On February 1 the New York Times ran a front page story by two of their journalists confirming the intentions of the United States to increase its occupation of and military presence in Europe particularly the east. Under the title “U.S. Fortifying Europe’s East to Deter Putin” the story sets out […]
New Moon In Capricorn: Cultivating Excellence
A New Moon in Capricorn is occurring on the heels of Mercury retrograding in the same sign. It will occur at 1:30am Universal Time on January 10th, which works out to be January 9th everywhere west of Europe (click here for your time zone). This is the beginning of the 29.5 day Lunar cycle that […]
5 Tons of Drugs Seized at Beirut Airport
nsnbc : Lebanese customs officials at Beirut Airport seized 5 tons of Captagon pills and hashish that was to be smuggled to Egypt, report Lebanese security sources. The drugs were seized on Tuesday when customs officials had a closer look at a shipment of desks for primary schools. The destination of the shipment was Egypt. […]
Lost Greek Island Home To Ancient City Of Kane Found In Modern Day Turkey
A team of international geo-archeologists claim to have found a lost island in the eastern Aegean that once contained the ancient city of Kane, site of the famous Greek Battle between Athens and Sparta. The lost island of Kane lies just off Asia Minor, in modern day Turkey. Protothema reports: The lost island mentioned in ancient […]
Out of the limelight, state-sponsored child kidnap and abuse continue in Israel
Marianne Azizi writes: While the world’s attention is focused on the violence sweeping across the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel itself, another war is being fought, out of the media limelight. It is the war being waged by the Israeli state, in the form of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Services, against Israel’s own […]