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260516 Monitoring AI and hyper-automation
Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. From BBC :
One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post. Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow suit."
China is investing heavily in a robot workforce. In a statement to the BBC, Foxconn Technology Group confirmed that it was automating "many of the manufacturing tasks associated with our operations" but denied that it meant long-term job losses.
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Since September 2014, 505 factories across Dongguan, in the Guangdong province, have invested 4.2bn yuan (£430m) in robots, aiming to replace thousands of workers.
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Economists have issued dire warnings about how automation will affect the job market, with one report, …

Today, Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 11:30am CEST, WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of global GDP.
This release includes a previously unknown annex to the TiSA core chapter on "State Owned Enterprises" (SOEs), which imposes unprecedented restrictions on SOEs and will force majority owned SOEs to operate like private sector businesses. This corporatisation of public services - to nearly the same extent as demanded by the recently signed TPP - is a next step to privatisation of SOEs on the neoliberal agenda behind the "Big Three" (TTIP,TiSA,TPP).
Other documents in todays release cover updated versions of annexes to TiSA core chapters that were published by WikiLeaks in previous releases; these updates show the advances in the confidential negotiations between the TiSA parties on the issues of Domestic Regulation, New Provisions, Tran…

Ο πρόεδρος Μαδούρο παρέτεινε την κατάσταση έκτακτης οικονομικής ανάγκης και υπέγραψε διατάγματα που παρέχουν έκτακτες εξουσίες στις κοινότητες, στα Συμβούλια Παραγωγής και Διανομής και στις Μπολιβαριανές Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις, διατάσσοντας μια κοινή άσκηση του Στρατού και των Πολιτοφυλακών με προσανατολισμό την κατάληψη των εργοστασίων που κλείνει η αστική τάξη.
Το σενάριο της στρατιωτικής επέμβασης στη Βενεζουέλα έχει καταστρωθεί από τη Διοίκηση Νότου (CS) των Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων των ΗΠΑ και εφαρμόζεται κατά γράμμα από τους συμμάχους τους, την αντιπολίτευση (MUD) μέσα στη Βενεζουέλα. Το σχέδιο προέβλεπε αρχικά οι δυνάμεις της αντεπανάστασης μέσα στη χώρα, να χρησιμοποιηθούν για να εντείνουν τις ελλείψεις βασικών ειδών που προκαλούν οι μεγάλες εταιρείες, καθώς επίσης και οι δράσεις στο δρόμο και η ένοπλη βία, που ευνοούν την δημιουργία των κατάλληλων συνθηκών για την άμεση στρατιωτική επέμβαση στη χώρα με τα μεγαλύτερα αποθέματα πετρελαίου στον κόσμο.
Η δήλωση του αρχηγού της CS, ναύαρχου Kurt …

Por Angel Guerra Cabrera
El guion de la intervención militar de Estados Unidos en Venezuela ha sido escrito en el Comando Sur (CS) de sus fuerzas armadas y se aplica al detalle por sus aliados de la Mesa de la Unidad Democrática(MUD). Sigla que cobija a la contrarrevolución, o sea, el instrumento imperial para estimular el desabastecimiento creado por las grandes empresas, y las acciones de calle y violencia armada dosificada que favorezcan las condiciones idóneas para justificar la intervención militar directa en el país con las mayores reservas de petróleo en el mundo. Lo dice todo la afirmación del almirante Kurt W. Tidd, jefe del CS: “nuestra intervención oportuna ha permitido delinear un camino para una salida rápida del régimen”.
Algún amigo facilitó a Caracas los 12 puntos de la fase 2 del plan del CS. El documento sentencia “la derrota en las elecciones y la descomposición interna del régimen populista y antinorteamericano, recoge el impacto exitoso de nuestras políticas impuls…

The alliance between Podemos and United Left makes them the chief left-wing force in Spanish electoral politics. Spain’s anti-austerity party Podemos and older left-wing party Izquierda Unida, or United Left, announced Monday that they have reached a preliminary agreement to run on a joint platform before a general election on June 26.
In a statement read to the press, party representatives said the alliance aimed to “recover the country” in favor of the “working classes and social majorities.” Both parties said they would consult their members on May 10 and 11 to formalize the arrangement.
Spain’s last election, in December, failed to give any party enough seats to form a government, and five months of talks among the parties have not led to a governing coalition.
A survey released Friday showed voters are still not inclined to revert to the two-party system that has dominated Spanish politics for the past 40 years and are likely instead to spread their votes among 10 different parties.…

by Dan Arel
The wave of revolutionary politics that Bernie Sanders and his supporters are riding can be traced back to George W. Bush. When Bush decided to Invade Iraq in 2003 he ignited a counter protest movement of young activists that the country had not seen since the Vietnam War. The activism continued through the second Bush election when many felt inspired by Senator John Kerry’s run for president as a well-known anti-war advocate. A presidential run that failed for many reasons, one of which being Kerry positioned himself as anti-war, yet voted in favor of the Iraq invasion.
The movement continued to grow as then Senator Barak Obama gained momentum and his “Yes We Can” campaign slogan brought in young, energized voters that the country desperately needed. However, it was Obama’s failure to be the revolutionary politician he campaigned as they led to the biggest revolutionary shift in the country as he decided not to give the boot the oligarchy and instead bailed out the banks o…

globinfo freexchange
Inside the stormy revelations concerning the coup against Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff, the neoliberal "Taliban" rush to complete their mission, abolishing any pretexts.
From teleSUR :
Unelected Senate-imposed President Michel Temer has started to push ahead with neoliberal economic reforms as scandal rocks his government, announcing on Tuesday a neoliberal program aimed at reducing the country’s debt and sparking economic growth.
Temer announced that he plans to seek approval for a constitutional amendment that would allow for the government to slash public spending and cap expenditure increases before paying debts. The Congress is set to vote on the proposed revision of fiscal targets Tuesday, O Globo reported.
Without delving into details, Temer gestured toward increased privatization, a move that the right-wing opposition has long pushed for while the progressive governments of suspended Presiden…