the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

Part 1 More and more jobs are at risk of being outsourced to a cheaper and more efficient robot. Is your job one of them – and if so, will a universal basic income (UBI) prove to be the panacea for increased automation? Many or most of us wish we could work shorter hours and have more time for family, friends and fun. The struggle to reduce the working day spans several generations. In the 19th century our ancestors, fighting tooth-and-nail with banner in hand, won several victories. Following the February 1848 Revolution in France, the nation’s working day was capped at 12 hours. Four years earlier in the UK, the British Factory Act had reduced the maximum working day to 12 hours for adults and 6.5 hours for children. In 1868 the US congress approved an “Eight Hour Work Day for Employees of the Government of the United States” and following the two revolutions of 1917, Russia’s new authorities reduced the working day to eight hours and introduced both pensions and

Part 2 The 2014 war between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip was perhaps the first war in which social media was successfully employed as a radical levelling force by the weaker party. In previous wars between Israel and the Palestinians, the Israeli government’s ability to manage access to the battlefield allowed it to help shape the narrative of the war, portraying it the way that it preferred — as a fight against terrorism. But with the proliferation of smartphones and social media accounts in Gaza over the past several years, this conflict wound up being viewed very differently by a variety of observers. As bombs rained down on Gaza neighborhoods, following a pattern that included the killing and maiming of many ordinary people, Palestinians rushed to social media to share their own narrative of the war. Young men and women living in the Strip shared photos of apparent atrocities committed against civilians, alongside often emotional updates about t

Let us not forget that Standard & Poor, Moody and Fitch rating services are financed by the banks and therefore have no real independence. Part 3 - Are there non-payments or not? The economist Luis Enrique Gavazut, Member of the Economic Observatory of the Presidency, told RT that the Standard & Poor's rating is a "premature declaration," based on the fact that Venezuela did not pay US$200 million. " It is nothing but a payment of interest. It is pretty mundane and of low magnitude, " says Gavazut, if compared with the cancellation of the external debt announced Tuesday by Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez. In his opinion, both amounts should be compared: US$200 million, with the interests of the "magnitude" of an external debt that amounts – according to the figures of the high government – to about US$150 billion at this time. This announcement is part of the other two payments for PDVSA bonds m

globinfo freexchange As info-war reported, Vladimir Putin referred to the need of the Russian industry, irrespective of ownership status, to modify its production for the needs of the armed forces, speaking from the city of Sochi on the Black Sea, according to the British media. Putin's appeal comes as a response to the change of the German strategic doctrine, which has been open to the militarization of Berlin's foreign policy since 2014, but also to the plans of several European countries to reintroduce compulsory military service. Putin's statements were made on the context of the Zapad 2017 military exercise to deal with a potential attack with nuclear weapons. Among other things, the exercise included the seizure by the armed forces of small and larger local businesses for the needs of transferring soldiers, the facilitation of telecommunications and the logistical support of the participating units. Recall that recently ,

Στην ανάγκη η ρωσική βιομηχανία, ανεξαρτήτως ιδιοκτησιακού καθεστώτος, να είναι έτοιμη να τροποποιήσει την παραγωγή της για τις ανάγκες των ενόπλων δυνάμεων αναφέρθηκε ο Βλαντιμίρ Πούτιν μιλώντας από την πόλη Σότσι της Μαύρης Θάλασσας, σύμφωνα με βρετανικά μέσα ενημέρωσης. Η έκκληση του Πούτιν έρχεται σαν απάντηση στην αλλαγή του γερμανικού στρατηγικού δόγματος, που από το 2014 στέφεται ανοιχτά προς την στρατιωτικοποίηση της εξωτερικής πολιτικής του Βερολίνου, αλλά και στα σχέδια αρκετών ευρωπαϊκών χωρών να επαναφέρουν την υποχρεωτική στράτευση. Οι δηλώσεις του Πούτιν έγιναν στο πλαίσιο της στρατιωτικής άσκησης Ζαπαντ 2017 για την αντιμετώπιση επίθεσης με πυρηνικά όπλα. Μεταξύ άλλων, η άσκηση προέβλεπε την κατάσχεση από τις ένοπλες δυνάμεις μικρών και μεγαλύτερων τοπικών επιχειρήσεων για τις ανάγκες μεταφοράς στρατιωτών, τη διευκόλυνση των τηλεπικοινωνιών και την επιμελητειακή υποστήριξη των μονάδων που συμμετείχαν. Πηγή: https://info-war.gr/pou