Saudi Arabia Jails and Flogs Workers for Unpaid Wage Protest

Saudi Arabia Jails and Flogs Workers for Unpaid Wage Protest

Saudi Arabian media is reporting that 49 foreign construction workers protesting unpaid wages have been sentenced to prison and corporal punishment in the form of lashes. Some of the unnamed workers were reportedly sentenced in a Mecca court to four months imprisonment and 300 lashes each, on charges of destroying public property and inciting unrest….

Recep Erdogan And The Geopolitical Box Of Pandora

Recep Erdogan And The Geopolitical Box Of Pandora

Famous French experts on Turkey, in analysis compared Recep Erdogan with Charles de Gaulle some 4-5 years ago. Incredible! Yes, that is how it was then! But certain events that took place led not only the French analysts but most of their Western colleagues to begin calling the Turkish President “Islamist”, a “Sultan” and a “dictator”. The Western press…

IBM Watson Replaces Insurance Claim Workers at Japanese Insurance Company

IBM Watson Replaces Insurance Claim Workers at Japanese Insurance Company

Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce, potentially eliminating millions of jobs. But AI that can handle knowledge-based, white-collar work are also becoming increasingly competent. One Japanese insurance company, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, is reportedly replacing 34 human insurance claim workers with “IBM…

Internet of Sh*t has an Early 2017 Winner – a ‘Smart’ Wi-Fi Hairbrush

Internet of Sh*t has an Early 2017 Winner – a ‘Smart’ Wi-Fi Hairbrush

CES 2017 The annual godforsaken hypegasm that is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has given an “innovation award” … to a Wi-Fi-connected microphone-fitted allegedly “smart” hairbrush. A comb through the technical specs of the Kérastase Hair Coach, a snip at around $200, reveals the high-tech hairbrush has sensors that monitor your hand movements…

U.S./UK Paid “White Helmets” Help Al Qaeda Blocking Water to 5 Million Thirsty Syrians

U.S./UK Paid “White Helmets” Help Al Qaeda Blocking Water to 5 Million Thirsty Syrians

The blockade of water from Wadi Barada to 5 million people in Damascus is taking an interesting turn. The U.S. and UK financed White Helmet organization seems to be directly involved in it. This increases the suspicion that the illegal blockade of water to civilians in Damascus is part of a organized campaign under U.S….