The US Supreme Court stayed the execution of Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez Tuesday. The order came only an hour before the execution was scheduled to take place and was granted in response to Gutierrez’s argument that his First Amendment rights were violated by the state’s refusal to grant his request to have a Christian chaplain [...]
Trump’s presidency has always been one straight out of a cult leaders’ playbook. When late SF journalist Phil Tracy exposed the notoriously narcissistic Jonestown cult-leader, Jim Jones, Jones urged his followers to flee from California to Guyana, South America. When last month, Twitter exposed Donald Trump’s false claims about mail-in ballots, Trump threatened to revoke [...]
Technology has always been a necessary evil but the advent of Deepfake has tilted the balance more towards the evil side. Deepfakes are an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology used to morph a person’s face onto another and manipulate voice recordings. Deepfakes have been increasingly used to create doctored videos and sound recordings which on [...]
When COVID-19 is crippling countries and the world is in an arduous condition, China is paving its way to be the next superpower. The country has revived from the coronavirus pandemic and has restarted to build itself economically and politically. To this effect, the country can be seen consolidating its control over the most controversial [...]
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, expressed his “grave concern” Wednesday over the US’s decision to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC). US President Donald Trump’s June 11 executive order authorized the imposition of economic sanctions and visa restrictions on those associated with the ICC, including those in the US who might be willing to [...]
The US Attorney’s Office in Nebraska on Tuesday announced the federal indictment of six Nigerian citizens for their roles in an online defrauding scheme. The individuals were involved in Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes, which are cyber crimes that involve electronic transfer payments or automated clearinghouse transfers. They posed as business executives and love interests [...]
Roses are Red Violets are Blue With so many people Why are there so few?? The step to fight racism’s under our noses It’s easier done than one might supposes-es! Support our black colleagues by hiring blacks. (It’s no wonder that ADR’s under attack!) When one’s hiring roster is mostly all male, Or all white, [...]
Roses are Red Violets are Blue These numbers confess That there’s something askew The arena of international commercial arbitration may seem a rarefied arena on which to discuss matters in this time of the murder of George Floyd. International Commercial Arbitration may seem so remote from protests in the street. However, in an article I [...]
The Trump administration filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday to stop former National Security Advisor John Bolton from publishing his memoir on his time in the White House. Bolton was the National Security Advisor from April 9, 2018, until September 10, 2019. In November 2019 Bolton entered [...]
The French government has halted its plans to ban the use of chokeholds by police officers on detainees following protests by French police unions. Frédéric Veaux, the country’s national police director, sent a letter to police on Monday which stated that, though the chokehold would no longer be taught during police training, the use of [...]
