Led by communist members of the council, local authorities in Paris have voted to remove the “To the Happy Negro” sign on a former chocolate factory of the same name. It was felt that the sign was demeaning to minorities, and might cause offense by bringing up unhappy memories of the time of slavery.
In other news, in the Republican senatorial primary in Alabama, retired Judge Roy Moore defeated incumbent Senator Luther Strange. President Trump had campaigned for Sen. Strange, but to no avail.
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Bill Gates Disagrees With Elon Musk on AI
Microsoft founder Bill Gates disputed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s contention that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually become very dangerous in a WSJ. Magazine interview published Monday.
“The so-called control problem that Elon is worried about isn’t something that people should feel is imminent,” Gates said when asked if his fellow tech entrepreneur’s concerns were warranted. “This is a case where Elon and I disagree. We shouldn’t panic about it.”
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The Latest: A Bewildered Strange Wishes Moore Well
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on Alabama’s GOP primary (all times local):
8:50 p.m.
Incumbent Sen. Luther Strange wished jurist Roy Moore well after losing the Alabama Republican primary for Senate.
Strange told his supporters Tuesday night that “we wish (Moore) well going forward.”
But he quickly shifted to his own bewilderment at the race he just finished. “We’re dealing with a political environment that I’ve never had any experience with,” he said.
“I’m telling you, the political seas and winds in this country right now … are very hard to navigate, very hard to understand.”
Strange also thanked President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for backing him.
Strange said Trump, may “be criticized” for coming to Alabama on his behalf. “Sometimes it’s just about friendship … a common goal to make the country better,” he said.
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White House Aides Stopping Deal With Assange, Congressman Says
President Donald Trump is being blocked from knowing he can pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in exchange for information vindicating Russia of hacking allegations, according to Republican California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher.
Trump told reporters Sunday that he has “never heard” of a potential deal with Assange.
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After Disaster Election, Potential Merkel Coalition Partner Demands Migration Cap
Potential coalition partners in the new German government are expected to extract a high price from the leading Christian Democrats in return for their cooperation, and fears persist that the country may not be able to form a government at all.
Long-standing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who emerged with a much diminished yet the largest party Sunday was forced to deny there would be a second election following her largest coalition partner withdrawing and going into opposition.
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Catalan Independence: Spain Orders Catalan Police to Shut Down Polling Station
THE Spanish authorities have ordered Catalan police to shut the polling stations ahead of the independence referendum, which it deems to be illegal, in a desperate bid to tighten Madrid’s control on Catalonia.
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Danish Integration Minister Praises Infamous Mohammed Cartoon
Denmark’s integration minister, Inger Støjberg, took to Facebook on Tuesday to praise the Mohammed cartoons that a dozen years ago plunged her country into its most severe international crisis ever.
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France: Paris Votes to Remove Chocolate Factory’s ‘Happy Negro’ Sign
The Paris council voted on Monday to remove the sign “To the Happy Negro” (“Au Nègre Joyeux”) from the city’s former chocolate factory of the same name, after the Communists in the council branded the façade an “insulting and offensive presence”.
The local authority decided to move the sign from the former factory in the French capital’s 5th arrondissement — near the Sorbonne University and Luxembourg Gardens — to the Carnavalet Museum on the other side of the Seine, which is dedicated to the history of Paris.
A painting showing a black servant or slave alongside a white woman of high society — which has provoked numerous indignant polemics — will also be removed from the site to be put on display at the Carnavalet…
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Earnings up to 1.845 bn
(ANSA) — Milan, September 26 — Mediaset on Tuesday posted a six-month net profit of 74.8 million euros compared to a 28-million-euro loss in the same period of last year, Silvio Berlusconi’s media group said. Last year’s loss was largely die to Vivendi’s pulling out of a deal to buy pay-TV unit Premium, said the ex-premier’s group. Earnings were up to 1.845 billion in the firs half of the year, it said.
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Italy: Homeless Man Arrested for Raping Homeless Woman in Naples
Both foreign 48-year-olds
(ANSA) — Naples, September 26 — A homeless 48-year-old African man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping a homeless 48-year-old Latvian woman in Naples.
The woman told the Carabinieri that she had been attacked and raped by a foreigner of African origin behind bushes near Porta Capuana. The security forces investigated, verified the woman’s statements and arrested the man.
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Italy: Technical Committee on TIM Case — Gentiloni
Assessing if rules broken over failure to notify of control
(ANSA) — Paris, September 26 — Premier Paolo Gentiloni has said a special panel is evaluating whether France’s Vivendi broke Italian rules by failing to notify the authorities of its of its effective control of Telecom Italia (TIM). “A technical committee… is verifying whether Vivendi should have informed the Italian government in advance that it was taking control of TIM and whether this operation complies with the Italian law on Golden Powers,” Gentiloni said in an interview published in Tuesday’s Le Figaro. Vivendi has a 24% stake in TIM, making it the top investor in a company considered of strategic national asset. TIM has sent an opinion by legal experts to the Italian government that says Vivendi had not broken the rules as its role only regards management, not control over assets.
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MP Slams Sweden Democrat Leader’s Claim He Did Not Know Details of Sex Assault Allegation:
The leader of the Sweden Democrats (SD) insists he did not know about accusations of sex crimes within the party, but the MP who raised the alarm countered that he is lying.
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Revealed: The Best Place in Sweden for Businesses
A new ranking of the most business-friendly places in Sweden has revealed the best part of the country to run a company in — and according to the study, it isn’t the centre of Stockholm.
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Sweden: Train Collides With Tank South of Stockholm
A train has collided with a tank and derailed near Trosa, south of Stockholm.
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Terrorism Risk Highest in Europe: Report
Data from Pool Reinsurance Co. Ltd., the U.K.’s terrorism insurance backstop, shows that two-thirds of terrorism attacks last year occurred in Europe, including Turkey.
Nearly half of those attacks were directed at police, military and government targets, according to Pool Re’s Terrorism Threat & Mitigation Report released Tuesday.
The government-backed reinsurer said the data in the report, which has been expanded this year, will be used by its Terrorism Research and Analysis Centre to model and price terrorism reinsurance coverage. While the report did not contain detailed data on attacks in 2017, it noted that the United Kingdom saw a wave of attacks in the first half of the year.
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Terror Suspect Salah Abdeslam Wants to Attend His Trial in Belgium
The 90th Chamber of the Brussels Correctional Court on Tuesday set the 18th of December as the start date for the trial of terror suspects Salah Abdeslam and Sofiane Ayari. According to the Office of the Public Prosecutor, Abdeslam, detained in France, has said that he wishes to attend his trial in Brussels.
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The Myth of the “Pueblo”: Francis Reveals Who Told it to Him
That he went to a Jewish psychoanalyst for six months is not the only brand-new revelation made by Pope Francis to his interviewer, Dominique Wolton, in the book issued in France a few weeks ago.
Halfway through the first chapter, Jorge Mario Bergoglio also gives for the first time the name of the anthropologist who inspired his conception of “people”:
“There is a thinker that you should read: Rodolfo Kusch, a German who lived in northwestern Argentina, an excellent philosopher and anthropologist. He made one thing clear: that the word ‘people’ is not a logical word. It is a mythical word. It is not possible to speak of people logically, because that would mean making only a description. In order to understand a people, to understand what are the values of this people, one must enter into the spirit, into the heart, into the work, into the history, and into the myth of its tradition. This point is truly at the basis of the theology called ‘of the people.’ That is to say, to go with the people, see how it expresses itself. This distinction is important. The people is not a logical category, it is a mythical category.”…
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The World is Watching, Assange Tells Catalans Via Video Link
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke to hundreds of Catalans via video link in Barcelona on Tuesday, telling them other states were watching to see if attempts to stage an independence referendum would succeed.
Speaking on a large screen in front of a University of Barcelona building to a crowd of mainly young people gathered on the pavement and bus lane, he said: “Where Catalonia goes, other states will follow.”
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Trump Offers US Support to Spain After Attacks
WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s meetings with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (all times local):
2:10 p.m.
President Donald Trump is offering U.S. support and prayers for those affected by a deadly attack last month in Spain.
Trump says America stands with Spain in confronting the evil that threatens humanity. He says both countries will continue to deny terrorists funding, territory and support for their “wicked ideology.”
Spain was the victim of August attacks that killed 16 people in the tourist haven of Barcelona and a nearby town. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
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Vatican Hits Back After Auditor Says He Was Forced Out
Milone ‘exceeded powers’ launched ‘illegal investigations’
(ANSA) — Vatican City, September 25 — The Holy See has hit back at its former auditor general Libero Milone, who in interviews published at the weekend said he was forced to quit in June after being confronted by fabricated accusations.
“The Holy See acknowledges with surprise and regret the statements made by Dr. Libero Milone, former auditor general,” a Vatican statement said.
“In this way he has failed to maintain the agreement to keep confidential the reasons for his resignation from the Office. “It is recalled that, according to the Statutes, the task of the auditor general is to analyse the budgets and accounts of the Holy See and related administrations. “Unfortunately, it emerged that the Office directed by Dr.
Milone, exceeding its powers, illegally engaged an external company to conduct investigative activities on the private life of Holy See personnel”.
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Worry for Iconic French Trains Under German Merger
PARIS (AFP) — The maker of France’s iconic TGV trains is set to announce a merger with German industrial leader Siemens as early as Tuesday in a giant and politically tricky deal that will create a new European champion.
The board of partly state-controlled Alstom, the manufacturer of French high-speed trains which are a source of national pride, is set to meet on Tuesday to discuss the tie-up with its German competitor.
Takeovers of major industrial companies are extremely sensitive in France, where successive governments have sought to protect the country’s manufacturing capacity and avoid major job losses….
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Yanis Varoufakis Predicts Four Years of EU Collapse After German Vote
FORMER Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has predicted the disintegration of the European Union in the wake of he German election results.
The celebrated economist, who quit the Greek government in 2015, said the rise of Germany’s right-wing FDP and Alternative for Germany (AfD) parties killed off hopes of a more united Europe promoted by leaders such as France’s Emmanuel Macron.
Mr Varoufakis tweeted: “The 20% plus rise of the FDP & AfD means one thing: Macron’s strategy for a federation lite is dead.
“Four more years of EU disintegration ahead.”
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Iraqi Kurdish Leader Says ‘Yes’ Vote Won Independence Referendum
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) — Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said on Tuesday that Kurds had voted “yes” to independence in a referendum held in defiance of the government in Baghdad and which had angered their neighbors and their U.S. allies.
The Kurds, who have ruled over an autonomous region within Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, consider Monday’s referendum to be an historic step in a generations-old quest for a state of their own.
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Malaysian Muslim-Only Laundrette Stirs Anger
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — A Malaysian laundrette that banned non-Muslim customers sparked anger Tuesday as fears grow of creeping religious conservatism in the multi-ethnic country.
The self-service shop in the town of Muar, in the southern state of Johor, put up a sign saying that it would only allow Muslim customers.
Malay Muslims make up the majority of Malaysia’s approximately 30 million inhabitants but the country is also home to sizeable ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities, and restricting shops or services to a certain religion is rare….
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Italy ‘Asks Brazil to Review Battisti Refugee Status’
Request already OK’d by 2 Temer ministers — O Globo
(ANSA) — Rio de Janeiro, September 25 — The Italian government has asked Brazil to review the status of political refugee granted Italian former leftist militant Cesare Battisti under the Lula government in 2010, Brazilian daily O Globo said Monday, saying the request had been sent “in a confidential manner”. The daily said the request has been subjected to a preliminary technical analysis and has been endorsed by two ministers in President Michel Temer’s government.
From a legal standpoint, O Globo said, the Brazilian government has found a precedent in a 1969 supreme court ruling.
On the basis of that ruling, the paper said, “the administration can quash its acts” over a technicality or revoke them “for reasons of convenience and opportunity”.
Therefore, the daily said, Lula’s no to extradition could be reversed by Temer.
But the president is currently disinclined to take up the Battisti case, O Globo said. Justice Minister Andrea Orlando has said Italy wants the former terrorist back to serve two life terms for four murders in the 1970s ‘Years of Lead’.
Italy has the “clear political will” to bring Battisti back, Orlando has said.
Battisti, 63, was arrested in Brazil in April 2007, some five years after he had fled to that country with the help of false documents to avoid extradition to Italy from France after the end of the Mitterrand doctrine which gave sanctuary to fugitive leftist guerrillas.
He had lived in France for 15 years and become a successful writer of crime novels.
In January 2009 the Brazilian justice ministry granted Battisti political asylum on the grounds that he would face “political persecution” in Italy.
Then in one of his last acts in office, former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva declined Rome’s request to extradite Battisti in December 2010, sparking outrage in Italy.
The families of Battisti’s four victims have been lobbying hard for Italy to try to overturn Lula’s ruling.
Alberto Torregiani, son of a Milanese jeweler, Pierluigi Torregiani, gunned down by Battisti’s leftist militant group in 1979, said: “those politicians and judges should be hauled onto a plane and brought to Italy to understand the nonsense they have said”.
Torregiani, left wheelchair-bound by the attack at the age of 13, said he was “angry and upset” at the news and reiterated he would try to organise street protests with the other relatives — something he has since done.
Alessandro Santoro, the son of a prison guard, Antonio Santoro, shot dead in Udine in 1978, said he was “very bitter for us and all the other families who have suffered for so long only to see ourselves humiliated yet again”.
The relatives of the other two victims in 1978 and 1979, Milan security police officer Andrea Campagna and Mestre butcher Lino Sabbadin, also expressed their unhappiness with Lula’s decision.
Sabbadin’s son Adriano branded Lula “an accomplice” of Battisti’s.
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7 Out of 10 Italians Say Too Many Migrants in Italy
‘Stealing jobs’ say 43%
(ANSA) — Rome, September 26 — Seven out of 10 Italians think there are too many migrants in Italy, according to a new poll.
Some 43% of those interviewed think migrants are stealing jobs from Italians, said the poll from Milan’s Jewish Contemporary Documentation Centre CDEC in collaboration with polling agency IPSOS. IPSOS chief Nando Pagnoncelli said immigration is seen as an attack by most of those interviewed and 67% of them think “a strong leader is needed to defend the (Italian) people”.
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Hundreds of Young Asylum Seekers Disappear in Switzerland
Over 500 unaccompanied minors dropped off the radars of official Swiss agencies last year — a major increase on the previous year, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has revealed, confirming a Swiss public radio (RTS) report.
The RTS report on Tuesday showed that 539 unaccompanied asylum seekers aged under 18 disappeared from official view last year — up from 94 in 2015. This represents a six-fold increase.
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Italy: AP Reiterates No to Ius Soli Law
Lupi warns govt not to ‘stretch’ the case
(ANSA) — Rome, September 26 — Junior government partner the centre-right Popular Area (AP) on Tuesday reiterated its opposition to a ‘ius soli’ law that would give Italian citizenship to the children of long-term immigrants who have completed at least five years in the Italian school system. “The issue is closed and we don’t expected the government to stretch the case any longer,” said AP national coordinator Maurizio Lupi. Ius soli is Latin for “law of the soil”. Currently immigrants’ children can apply for citizenship at the age of 18.
The proposed law, which has bogged down in the Senate after being passed by the House, would lower that to 10-12 years of age. The government, led by centre-left Democratic Party (PD) Premier Paolo Gentiloni, has vowed to pass the bill before the legislative term ends next spring.
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Watch: Italian TV Broadcasts Alleged Footage of ‘Save the Children’ Working With People Smugglers
Italian television programme Matrix has shown footage of what they claim is of members of the pro-migrant rescue NGO Save the Children cooperating with people traffickers.
The television programme, which is hosted on Italian network Canale 5, released the footage which shows what they claim are people smugglers helping a large wooden boat of migrants get to the ship chartered by Save the Children, the Vos Hestia, off the coast of Libya.
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A gay marriage supporter has been caught on camera abusing and aggressively swearing at ‘No’ case campaigners on a busy street in Chatswood on Sydney’s North Shore.
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University ‘Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research’
uk: Bath Spa University is conducting an internal inquiry into claims that it turned down an application for research on gender reassignment reversal because it was “potentially politically incorrect” and would attract criticism on social media.
James Caspian, a psychotherapist who specialises in working with transgender people, proposed the research about “detransitioning” to the university in south-west England, which, he said, initially approved the application.
When he went back with his preliminary findings that suggested growing numbers of young people, particularly women, were regretting gender reassignment, Bath Spa said his proposal would have to be resubmitted to the ethics committee, which rejected it.
Caspian, who enrolled on an MA course at the university, said he was “astonished” by the decision and had sought legal advice.
“The fundamental reason given was that it might cause criticism of the research on social media, and criticism of the research would be criticism of the university. They also added it’s better not to offend people,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday.
“A university exists to encourage discussion, research, dissent even, challenging ideas that are out of date or not particularly useful.”
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Just dropping in to mention that discussion of the NFL situation is relevant because Kaepernick’s girlfriend is an Egyptian Muslima (Nessa Diab).
It is rumored that she is the one who gave Kaepernick the idea to start kneeling. It would not be surprising if she is controlling what is in his mind with what is between her legs.
The gf is also an excellent example of an entryist designed for the US to market Islam to American youth as cool and exciting.
Does this make it okay for a Muslima to have a non-Muslim boyfriend, though?
Does it make it okay for him to have a Muslim girlfriend?
Yes to both questions if the relationship can be used to advance the spread of Islam.
Huma Abedin and Anthony Wiener are another example of this type of relationship.
RE: Italy: AP Reiterates No to Ius Soli Law
I have always seen this written in English as Jus Soli. The Wikipedia article on it is titled that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
I know just enough Latin to be dangerous, so maybe it’s just a conjugation or maybe it’s an error in the original article.
America has both Jus Soli and Jus Sanguine (“by soil” and “by birth”) . According to the Wikipedia article ” only 30 of the world’s 194 countries grant citizenship at birth to the children of undocumented foreign residents.”
Jus Soli was, according to the majority of legal opinions, created by the 14th Amendment, one of the Amendments designed to end Slavery. Prior to that merely being born on American soil did not make one a citizen. Slaves were not citizens, neither were Indians.
The 14th Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Some dissident right-wingers point out the grant of citizenship to those born in the United States (the “jus soli”) is not unconditional. It is explicitly limited to those who are”subject to the jurisdiction thereof”.
Are the children of illegal immigrants “subject to the jurisdiction” of the USA? Are tourists on simple tourist visas?
The matter has never had a full hearing in a court, as far as I know. It has been interpreted as “born on US soil = US Citizen” forever.
It is currently seen to exclude diplomats, being not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
A compliant court could presumably extend that a bit, at least to the point of illegally present mothers.
Interestingly, jus soli is quite prevalent in the Americas generally, and pretty much nowhere else (oddly, Pakistan being an exception).
I believe that “subject to the jurisdiction” is more than being subject to arrest for breach of local law or being subject to contract law or sales tax. Nations consider their nationals under their jurisdiction even when present in other countries. Thus, an Englishman in 19th-c. America could not have been conscripted here. Mexico now is quite clear on the point that Mexicans in the U.S. are Mexican citizens.
Naturalization breaks the bond to the country of origin.
Too, I believe the 14th Amendment must be interpreted as applying only to the circumstances then prevailing. I believe nothing in the debates about the Civil War amendments contemplated that the 14th would apply to a circumstance where millions of fenale foreigners would enter the country illegally or as pregnant tourists on a mission. This “birthright citizenship” notion is absurd, unless you understand that the majority of Americans wet their pants at the opportunity to give away their country to foreigners.
“ This “birthright citizenship” notion is absurd, unless you understand that the majority of Americans wet their pants at the opportunity to give away their country to foreigners.
Don’t get me started.
In classical times, Latin only recognized the letter ‘i’. The letter ‘j’ was invented by the Venetian printer and humanist Aldo Manuzio in the late 15th/early 16th century. It was invented to substitute for ‘i’ in the case where ‘i’ came before a vowel, and therefore became a semiconsonant sounding like ‘y’.
Aldo (Latin name: Aldus Manutius) also invented quotation marks, italics, the letter ‘w’, and established the standard size of hardcover books that is used today. Previously, hardbound books were intentionally made very large, to reduce the likelihood that they would be stolen.
Aldus Corporation, the software manufacturer responsible for the famous desktop publishing software application PageMaker, was named in his honor.
Mark Levin has researched the immigration and citizenship thoroughly, so you might want to look at his work on the subject.
The current ‘anchor baby’ protocol for issuing citizenship to anyone who is born here was started in the 20th century by the US Department of State, acting unilaterally.
No, foreigners who are here illegally, or on short-term visas, are not ‘subject to their jurisdiction’ for purposes of assigning US citizenship to their children.
The 14th Amendment was created so that American Blacks would be treated as fully American, not so that foreigners would be treated as fully American. (Also, so that corporations would be treated equally with natural persons, but that is another story.)
The one exception to that was American Indians. American Indians, by virtue of their tribal treaties being between nations were not considered to be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the USA, and were still not considered citizens in law, even after the 14th Amendment was ratified into law in 1868
American Indians were granted US Citizenship in 1924, by an act of Congress.
So clearly merely being born on US Soil was not enough for EVERYONE to gain citizenship because of it, even after the 14th Amendment.
A great dream of anti-immigrationist is to cherry-pick a case and judge to establish that it is insufficient to make many of the current jus soli “citizens” merely visitors again.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_citizens_1.html
“Microsoft founder Bill Gates disputed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s contention that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually become very dangerous in a WSJ.”
Why am I not surprised that the world’s premier and wealthiest übergeek finds nothing objectionable about Artificial Intelligence? After all, nothing says “artificial” like “Microsoft”.
The combination of robotics and AI poses a potential ~50% erosion of low-level human employment that could drive metropolitan homicide rates off the charts.
Oh joy!