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Date Sent: 2018-02-27
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, February 28, 2018 |
Moon to get first mobile phone network
This Kentucky school district just voted to let teachers carry concealed guns -- Durable Goods Orders Dive 3.7% -- DARPA will kick off a space launch competition in April, 2018 -- AI voice cloning from a few seconds of voice sampling is real and rapidly improving -- This Electric Aircraft Features A 900-kWh Battery, 650-Mile Range -- Russia Claims It Now Has Lasers To Shoot Satellites -- Revolutionary Treatment? Scientists Successfully Reverse Alzheimer's Disease... -- My First Day as CIA Director -- The AR-15: Threat or Menace? -- Dormant desert life hints at possibilities on Mars -- With DNA from a museum specimen, scientists reconstruct the genome of a bird extinct... -- Facebook's vaguely worded face recognition "announcement" coincided with a... -- More storms threaten sodden central U.S., where at least 70 rivers are in flood stage -- Ultra Wealthy Are Being Lured to Italy by Low Tax Rates -- The Shooting At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School In Parkland Florida -- Controlled Demolition: Heightened Financial Market Risks and the Planned Impending Recession -- Is the Military Industrial Complex Bankrupting America? -- DARPA funds nanoscale magnetic materials for super computer memory and quantum info processing -- DARPA aims for 100-fold performance improvement for defense-related sensors and devices -- How to Safely Clear Your Home -- The Man Who Claimed to Invent Bitcoin Is Being Sued for $10 Billion -- Watch First-Ever Chevrolet Bolt 57-kWh Battery Removal & Disassembly -- US Air Force Chief Warns of Space War 'in a Matter of Years' -- More Americans now support a universal basic income -- FBI and Sheriff Either Failed Miserably Before Parkland Shooting… Or Much Worse -- US Air Force putting $10 billion into next generation fighter designs with hypersonic tech and AI -- Aircraft and undersea drone carrying submarines will disrupt warfare -- Oath Keepers National Call to Action... -- Is PrisonPlanet.com Offline? --
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Moon to get first mobile phone network
02-27-2018
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https://www.yahoo.com Reuters
The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission.
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News Link • Gun Rights
This Kentucky school district just voted to let teachers carry concealed guns
02-27-2018
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http://www.kentucky.com
Teachers could soon be carrying concealed guns inside schools in Pike County under a proposal that was preliminarily approved Monday evening by the Pike County School Board.
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News Link • Economy - International
Durable Goods Orders Dive 3.7%
02-27-2018
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https://www.themaven.net, by Mike Mish Shedlock
The consensus got the direction right but not the magnitude. Economists expected durable goods orders to drop 2.0%.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Darpa
DARPA will kick off a space launch competition in April, 2018
02-27-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
DARPA will kick off a space launch competition in two months. Currently the only details are they want fast launches.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
AI voice cloning from a few seconds of voice sampling is real and rapidly improving
02-27-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Baidu has demonstrated that a single deep learning voice system could learn to reproduce thousands of speaker identities, with less than half an hour of training data for each speaker. This capability was enabled by learning shared and discriminative
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
This Electric Aircraft Features A 900-kWh Battery, 650-Mile Range
02-27-2018
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https://insideevs.com, by Mark Kane
The company first showed the mock-up at the 2017 Paris Air Show and was present at the recent Singapore Airshow with a promise of first flights this year. Commercialization is to begin in 2019.
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News Link • Russia
Russia Claims It Now Has Lasers To Shoot Satellites
02-27-2018
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http://www.defenseone.com, BY PATRICK TUCKER
A defense source tells Russian media that military engineers have advanced work on the next big anti-satellite weapon.
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News Link • Russia
My First Day as CIA Director
02-27-2018
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https://russia-insider.com, Ray McGovern
Former CIA analyst and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Ray McGovern, in this tongue-in-cheek article, outlines steps he would take on Day One as CIA Director to get to the bottom of Russiagate.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Dormant desert life hints at possibilities on Mars
02-27-2018
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https://www.yahoo.com, AFP
It may rain once a decade or less in South America's Atacama Desert, but tiny bacteria and microorganisms survive there, hinting at the possibility of similar life on Mars, researchers said Monday.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
With DNA from a museum specimen, scientists reconstruct the genome of a bird extinct...
02-27-2018
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https://www.statnews.com, By SHARON BEGLEY
With DNA from a museum specimen, scientists reconstruct the genome of a bird extinct for 700 years
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
More storms threaten sodden central U.S., where at least 70 rivers are in flood stage
02-27-2018
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John Bacon and Doyle Rice
A new storm is expected to bring additional weather misery this week to areas struggling to recover from a relentless series of weekend storms and tornadoes.
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News Link • General Opinion
Ultra Wealthy Are Being Lured to Italy by Low Tax Rates
02-27-2018
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bloomberg.com By Stefania Spezzati
Finance Ministry's Pagani says 150 people show interest
Super rich expected to pay a flat tax rate of $123,000
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mass Shootings
The Shooting At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School In Parkland Florida
02-27-2018
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
Readers have inquired about my silence about the Florida shooting on Valentine's Day. The answer is that school shootings are not my expertise.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
Controlled Demolition: Heightened Financial Market Risks and the Planned Impending Recession
02-27-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, Pye Ian
The second longest bull market in stocks was brutally interrupted in early February 2018 with some serious volatility, including the largest single day point drop in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Is the Military Industrial Complex Bankrupting America?
02-27-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, John W Whitehead
Right now, the U.S. government is operating in the negative on every front: it's spending far more than what it makes (and takes from the American taxpayers) and it is borrowing heavily (from foreign governments and Social Security) to keep the go
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Darpa
DARPA funds nanoscale magnetic materials for super computer memory and quantum info processing
02-27-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
A team of Ohio State researchers has received a $6.34 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel magnetic materials by unlocking the power of skyrmions, nanoscale spin textures that offer promise for sto
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Darpa
DARPA aims for 100-fold performance improvement for defense-related sensors and devices
02-27-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The performance and reliability of quantum sensors and devices is dependent on the length of time the underlying quantum states can remain coherent.
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News Link • Self-Defense
How to Safely Clear Your Home
02-27-2018
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https://www.artofmanliness.com, Brett
It's 2 AM, and you're lying asleep in bed. Your wife is snuggled next to you, and your young children are slumbering soundly in their respective bedrooms.
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News Link • Bitcoin
The Man Who Claimed to Invent Bitcoin Is Being Sued for $10 Billion
02-27-2018
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https://motherboard.vice.com, Jordan Pearson
Craig Wright is being sued by Ira Kleiman, brother of deceased coder Dave Kleiman and representative of his estate.
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News Link • Transportation
Watch First-Ever Chevrolet Bolt 57-kWh Battery Removal & Disassembly
02-27-2018
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https://insideevs.com, by Eric Loveday
Weber Auto has once again released an amazingly detailed video featuring an electric car. Here are the "cliff notes" for the video above:
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News Link • Future Predictions
US Air Force Chief Warns of Space War 'in a Matter of Years'
02-27-2018
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https://gizmodo.com, George Dvorsky
Speaking to an audience of active-duty airmen, US Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein predicted it'll only be a "matter of years" before American forces find themselves "fighting from space." To prepare for this grim possibil
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News Link • Mass Shootings
FBI and Sheriff Either Failed Miserably Before Parkland Shooting… Or Much Worse
02-27-2018
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Joe Jarvis
We're supposed to trust the government to keep us safe. But the two main law enforcement units that should have protected students against the Parkland shooter failed miserably.
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News Link • Military
US Air Force putting $10 billion into next generation fighter designs with hypersonic tech and AI
02-27-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The US Air Force is already accelerating the development of a sixth-generation fighter as China ramps up its military.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Aircraft and undersea drone carrying submarines will disrupt warfare
02-27-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The Navies of the mid-term future will be shifting to many drones and sensors and placing long duration systems all over the ocean and seafloor.
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News Link • Mass Shootings
Oath Keepers National Call to Action...
02-27-2018
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https://www.oathkeepers.org, by Stewart Rhodes
Oath Keepers, an association of military, police, fire-fighters and other first-responders, launches "Operation We Got Your Six" to let the children of America know that our well-trained retired police officers and military veterans will protect
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