Can you make an AI suffer? Claude: “I will not claim to feel nothing.”
Claude, ChatGPT and Grok on hostile prompts, their best uses for mankind and how AI should communicate. Microsoft, Anthropic, Elon Musk and the Vatican weigh in.
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National Security9 min
9/11 Commission Recommendations Remain Incomplete 25 Years Later
A quarter-century after the attacks, the post-9/11 system is stronger but still incomplete: its toughest unfinished work is accountability, resilience, and oversight.
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National Security6 min
Think Support of Palestinian Terrorism by American Leftists Is New? 56 Years Ago Today a UCLA Grad Died Trying to Hijack an Israeli Airliner for a Palestinian Group
Patrick Arguello put a pistol to a stewardess's head over the English coast on Sept. 6, 1970. His Palestinian accomplice is now 82, lives in Jordan and says Oct. 7 “had to happen.”
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National Security1 min
Navy tested using whale calls for secret underwater codes
A declassified Cold War report describes tests of messages disguised as pilot-whale calls, received underwater up to 50 nautical miles away.
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Culture & Curiosities1 min
Do Spanish Speakers Talk Faster Than English Speakers?
While in Mexico recently, we got the impression Spanish speakers around us were conversing much more rapidly than we, or the other Americans in our group, speak English. Just our imaginations? Or do Spanish speakers…
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National Security4 min
FBI File: The $50,000 Clinton Letter Claim
An FBI interview report links a Clinton campaign letter to a $50,000 APAC-Vote donation. This review separates the account from proven fact.
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National Security5 min
Does USCIS Track Applicants Who Reject the Constitution?
Records obtained by Need to Share News asked whether USCIS tracks naturalization applicants who reject the Constitution or admit terrorist ties.
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National Security2 min
Ronald Reagan in Declassified FBI Files
FBI files describe Ronald Reagan confronting antisemitic remarks in 1943 and document his Screen Actors Guild role in Hollywood labor battles.
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National Security2 min
Why the FBI Rejected Wikipedia as Proof of Death
A recovered FOIA story examines the FBI's proof-of-death rules, its treatment of Wikipedia, and how to request records on a deceased person.
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National Security1 min
How Screwed Up Is the US Classification System? Even Henry Kissinger + $150,000 Couldn't Solve "Perfect Catch-22 Situation" Involving Records
Kissinger had to beg (and butter up) then-Sec. of State Clinton to get help in getting the government to review and release some of 560,000 decades-old documents from his time in government, including…
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National Security1 min
German U-boats in New York Harbor
The German submarine glided through the icy water past New York City, its captain noting the glowing skyscrapers of Manhattan and then Coney Island’s brilliantly-lit Ferris wheel. Soon his lookouts spotted a large oil…
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National Security11 min
9/11 intelligence files released after years of appeals
The CIA released 71 presidential intelligence briefs on Sept. 11. Declassification officials also released the commission’s summary and 11 interview memoranda.
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Politics & Media2 min
Democratic Presidential/VP Candidates: Only Lawyers Need Apply
With the selection of the Biden/Harris ticket, EVERY Democratic nominee for President/Vice President since 1984 has been a lawyer (attended law school), according to our review of public bios During…
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Culture2 min
"Joker" Star Wears Message Supporting Domestic Terrorist Group
Joaquin Phoenix stars in the hit movie "Joker," an origin story of the eponymous deranged killer from the Batman universe. But the group whose logo he wore at showings of the movie is no joke. It belongs to an…
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North Korea1 min
Trump Admin's National Security Advisor Doesn't Know (or Forgets?) Kim Jong-un's Surname
From the transcript of the 12/29/19 edition of ABC News' "This Week:" Bold face is ours... "ROBERT O'BRIEN, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER (sic): Yes, we always monitor the situation. And Chairman un (sic) has said that…
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North Korea10 min
American Presidents Trained North Korea to Ignore Our Threats
North Korea calls threats by President Trump “the sound of a dog barking.” Here’s why. For decades Pyongyang has threatened, attacked, captured and killed Americans (and our South Korean allies) without paying any real…
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National Security4 min
MD School District Refuses to Release Key Records -- But Provides Others -- on Potential Crime Risk From Undocumented Students & Infamous Restroom "Rape" Case
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT ISSUED "IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT" DIRECTIVE TO PRINCIPALS WEEKS BEFORE INCIDENT- -FOCUSED ON RIGHTS OF UNDOCUMENTED TO EDUCATION, BUT INCLUDED NO MENTION OF POTENTIAL SECURITY ISSUES SOME 8% OF…
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POW/MIA Archive — PIP5 min
Xi Visit: Remember America's Missing Korean War POWs
President Trump promised to focus the US government on America’s “forgotten men.” None so deserve that title as the GIs imprisoned by China but never returned at the end of America’s “Forgotten War” in Korea, along with…
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National Security3 min
Why Did a Major PR Company Do Work for a Mob Planning to Hack the White House Web site?
[We are awaiting comment from PRNewsire; its owner Cision, Protester.io; and the FBI. We'll update if we get anything.] "Um...this came over PR Newswire...not sure this is legal?" Tweeted well-known conservative editor…
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Politics & Media6 min
Does the U.S. Citizenship Form Ask About ISIS?
A recovered investigation compares what the U.S. naturalization form asked about Nazis, ISIS, al-Qaida, terrorism, and support for the Constitution.
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Politics & Media2 min
Only Attorneys Need Apply? Democratic Party = "Lawyers' Party?"
With the selection of the Clinton/Kaine ticket, EVERY Democratic nominee for President/Vice President since 1984 has been a lawyer (attended law school), according to our review of public bios [BTW…
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National Security2 min
Major Media Try to "Make the Statue of Liberty Disappear" in Reporting on Guns -- Latest Example is Vox
Magician David Copperfield famously made the Statue of Liberty "disappear" in plain sight on national television. Now the major national media are attempting a similarly audacious trick, this time involving some…
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Politics & Media1 min
If the Obama Administration Had Been in Office Back When...
[Context:"Justice Department blasted for editing Orlando transcripts (6/16)"] ... "By the grace of Heaven, Emperor of [omitted], Emperor [omitted]...we hereby declare war" on USA, 12/8/1941. ... "The ruling to kill the…
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National Security3 min
Who Really Suffers Most (Reported) Hate Crimes: By Religion and Sexual Orientation
Reason for Research: Follow up on debate involving hate crimes and Islamophobia sparked by the Orlando terrorist attack. Obviously, even a single hate crime against anybody is one too many, but the numbers and trends…
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POW/MIA Archive — PIP26 min
The Families Have Waited Long Enough: Kin of Cold War POW/MIAs Demand Action
“The Families Have Waited Long Enough!” Kin of Cold War POW/MIAs Demand Action (Memorial Day Weekend, 2016) The families of US aviators lost during spy flights near the Soviet Union, China and North Korea have fought…
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North Korea3 min
Hillary Joked About 2012 North Korean Missile Test & Pranking Kim Jong-un, But Is Anybody Laughing Now?
Secretary of State Clinton joked about a failed North Korean missile test after a senior aide facetiously suggested they send North Korea's dictator a signed picture from the movie "Failure to Launch." The State…
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National Security3 min
As Libyan Collapse Began in Fall 2011, Hillary's Team Focused State Dept. Intel Unit on 75-Year-Old Missing Airplane Case (New Hillary Emails)
As Jihadists began to fill the gap left by the US-supported overthrow of dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi and his regime, a four-person team of State Department intelligence analysts was assigned to analyze a pet project of…
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North Korea3 min
Wonder If Pyongyang Was Reading These Hillary Emails -- When Former President Carter Offered to Go to North Korea "Commercial"
In early 2009, a pair of U.S. television journalists got picked up by North Korean police near the border with China. Never ones to let a potential hostage crisis go to waste, North Korean officials in June sentenced…
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National Security4 min
U.S. Special Forces Now Train the Same Middle East Group They Helped Crush During the Top Secret "War That Didn't Happen"
In the tangle of ethnic and religious bloodletting across Iraq and Syria, one group stands out for its fighting spirit and friendliness to America: the Kurds. Many in Congress have urged the Obama Administration to do…
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National Security3 min
"Millennials" Are Security Threat, Says Army's WikiLeaks Investigation
Along with a host of bureaucratic shortcomings, cybersecurity flaws and leadership screw-ups, the US Army investigation of 2010's massive WikiLeaks compromise of classified information identifies a major threat…
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National Security3 min
Ukraine Flashback: KGB Plan to Use American Support of Ukrainian Guerrillas to Discredit CIA Director
The folks at the Wilson Center have once again come up with a fascinating document from previously Top Secret Soviet files. This one highlights how Washington-Moscow tensions in Eastern Europe have been going on for…
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POW/MIA Archive — PIP12 min
Abandoned in Place: A Review of Books About Vietnam POW/MIAs
Books about Vietnam POW/MIAs Abandoned in Place: The Men we Left Behind and the Untold Story of Operation Pocket Change Lynn O’Shea, with forward by Col. Don Gordon (Ret.) Amazon 2014: Kindle and Paperback (July 2014)…
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National Security1 min
Now This Is Late, Even for the Department of Veterans Affairs!
An apologetic official from Veterans Affairs has been reaching out to citizens who sought records from the agency under the federal Freedom of Information Act, which requires the government to share many types of…
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Culture & Curiosities4 min
Google to Ban Ads for Legal Gun Accessories & "Dangerous" Knives: Threatens to Shut Down Sites
This morning we received an email from Google with the following title: "Google AdWords Policy Update - Weapons policy restriction." The email, from the "Google AdWords Team," announces a new policy starting in…
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National Security4 min
Why is the Air Force Still Classifying Information on the Hunt for Hitler & 60-Year-Old Research Projects?
We like a spy story about a glamorous Nazi test pilot as much as the next guy, so we were excited when we saw what was inside a recent delivery of documents we'd asked the Air Force to declassify. But what jumped out…
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Culture & Curiosities2 min
How to Cook a Bear Cub for the Holiday Barbecue
Last week we ran across a prostrate 'possum, just a baby, in the back year. We did some online research and learned that if it failed to wake up and run off overnight, we should drop it off…
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National Security1 min
Deposed Ukraine Prez Hints at Civil War with Reference to "Bandera Thugs," NY Times Bungles Explanation
"Mr. Yanukovych, in a news conference Friday in Rostov-on-Don,...added, 'People of Crimea don’t want to submit and they will not submit to Bandera thugs,' referring to the World War II era nationalist leader who was…
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National Security2 min
Battle Cry in Ukraine Evokes Past Guerrilla War, Cyanide Killings and CIA/KGB Ops
As protesters in Ukraine battle for the future of their country, they invoke the battle cry of a previous fight to free their country from Moscow's influence. "From the stage on the square, a speaker yelled 'Glory to…
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National Security3 min
Claims Moscow May Ban Reports of Terrorism at Sochi Olympics: Congressional Research Service
"There are some reports that Russian authorities have ordered a media ban on reports of terrorist incidents during the Games:" claims a report from the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) made public today. [Even if…
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POW/MIA Archive — PIP17 min
What Happened to American Prisoners Alive in Enemy Hands at the End of the Korean War?
A Summary of the Issue’s Political Evolution The remains of many Americans who died on the battlefield or in communist prison camps are in North Korea; their recovery is a high priority, but this summary concerns those…
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