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ICE is nothing more than terrorist who carries out the whims and notions of that little minion Stephen Miller whose goal is to make America as white as possible.

  But there is a frightening difference. In Russian roulette, the reckless player chooses to gamble with one’s life. With unregulated AI, a handful of corporate developers, technology titans, military planners, or government officials could effectively spin the cylinder for everybody else. The pistol  aim is not merely at one human skull but at the nation’s entire infrastructure.

    On September 24, standing in for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, told General Assembly delegates that “the promise of democracy and international cooperation wanes when we cannot demonstrate that they can address inequality and insecurity.” Thus, “together with Brazil, Norway, and Spain, South Africa calls on this Assembly to throw its weight behind the establishment” of an International Panel on Inequality (IPI). Based on the model of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPI would research inequality within and between countries and develop policies to close the widening gap between the rich and the poor.

       At the zenith stands the President—America’s Wizard of Oz. Like L. Frank Baum’s Wizard, he projects enormous power. Executive orders thunder from the White House; certainty, instinct, and strength dominate the performance. Yet behind the curtain stands a mortal man—President Donald Trump, a man always in search of the “Ultimate Deal.”

   Imagine Washington beneath a gigantic political Big Top. At its center stands President Donald Trump, the metaphorical Ringmaster. Around him are Cabinet officials, a Republican-controlled Congress, and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority—occupying rings in a spectacle critics say resembles performance rather than public service.