The Rise and Fall of the Boy Scouts | WSJ

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The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy in February, amid a decline in membership at the century-old organization. 
Here’s how the largest youth organization in the country found itself filing for bankruptcy. 
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The Secret Soviet Hover Plane - Russia's Missile-Launching Caspian Sea M...

...about 12 minutes, but it sure makes me curious . . . and almost another 63,000 more people

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Subscribe to Dark Docs: https://bitly.com/DarkDocs In 1967, CIA spies detected a monstrously huge Soviet aircraft parked on the Caspian Coast. Mysteriously labeled “KM”, the top-secret Soviet development appeared to be the largest plane ever built, and U.S. intelligence at first didn’t know what to make of it. Its unusual design suggested it would have the unprecedented ability to fly close to the surface of the sea, helping it go undetected by most Western radar systems... - As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images and footage for dramatic effect. 

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CHINESE NAVY FIRES LASER AT AMERICAN P-8A POSEIDON AIRCRAFT !

This was a week ago if that tells you anything about this channel's "updates"
Just one of those unplanned encounters

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•Mar 4, 2020

A new escalation point has appeared between the U.S and China. Reports have emerged that a Chinese Navy destroyer hit a U.S. Navy's P-8A maritime patrol aircraft with a laser beam, an incident the Navy characterized as “unsafe and unprofessional.” U.S. Navy revealed this on Feb 28 and stated that the incident happened one week before this disclosure. The US Navy divulged that the P-8A was flying over the Philippine Sea west of Guam. The P-8A is based out of Jacksonville, Fla., and is forward-deployed to Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan. The US Navy's public affairs office said in a statement that the incident took place approximately 380 miles west of Guam and occurred without provocation. In this video Defense Updates analyzes the Chinese Navy firing a laser at American P-8A #DefenseUpdates #USvsCHINA #LaserWeapon Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DefenseUpdates

The era of fake writing is upon us

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•Mar 4, 2020

Computers just got a lot better at mimicking our language. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Join the Open Sourced Reporting Network: http://www.vox.com/opensourcednetwork
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Something big happened in the past year: 
Researchers created computer programs that can write long passages of coherent, original text. Language models like GPT-2, Grover, and CTRL create text passages that seem written by someone fluent in the language, but not in the truth. T
hat AI field, Natural Language Processing (NLP), didn’t exactly set out to create a fake news machine. Rather, it’s the byproduct of a line of research into massive pretrained language models: Machine learning programs that store vast statistical maps of how we use our language. So far, the technology’s creative uses seem to outnumber its malicious ones. But it’s not difficult to imagine how these text-fakes could cause harm, especially as these models become widely shared and deployable by anyone with basic know-how. Read more here: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/4/2... Open Sourced is a year-long reporting project from Recode by Vox that goes deep into the closed ecosystems of data, privacy, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. 
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Evercore ISI's Hyman Predicts Zero U.S. Growth, China GDP 'Armageddon'

Q2 and Q3 down...and a complete free-fall from February. Basically bullish?

Who's Yanking Hizzoner John Giles Strings When It Comes to Homelessness & Crisis In Affordable Housing?

Plenty of reasons from a closely-connected network of cohorts promoting "luxury living" here in Downtown Mesa
YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
Where is the leadership here in Mesa?
Giles has stated he's afraid of the recent findings in the annual Point-In-Time Count of The Homeless.
District 4 Councilmember Jennifer Duff?
Mebbe she can learn a lot from Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego

Political Bias In Media Holdings Groups > Times Media Group East Valley Tribune + Arizona Republic

< Nothing more clear than this just-in-time front-page flash image
for an election here in Mesa featuring incumbent Hizzoner John Giles who's in-the-running to get elected to a 2nd term in-office.
TMG CEO Steve Strickbine needs to pump up the hard-copy distribution figures to add 40,000 copies enclosing paid advertising.The target: northeast Mesa, a stronghold of supporters that delivered 74% of the votes cast the last time around 
Strickbine's new gambit is a one-day a week dump of pulp fictipon in the driveways - It's the Sunday Edition, renamed the namesake Mesa Tribune that used to headline THE TRUTH.
That's a different story from Phil Boas . . .
Opinion:
‘The Arizona Republic’ will no longer make candidate endorsements. Here’s why.
Readers have made it clear:
You want to be informed about elections but not told how to vote.
We hear you.

By Phil Boas | The Republic AZ Central 02.26.2020

Our highest calling as a news organization is to bring you important facts quickly and accurately so you can make informed decisions. You need information to understand your community, to seize its opportunities and help solve its problems.

In a democracy, newspapers are your eyes and ears on government, courts, police departments, public schools, anywhere the people’s business is conducted.

The information we bring you is essential to holding your government accountable.

So, today we announce a consequential change; The Arizona Republic will no longer endorse candidates for public office. 

. . . more and more of today’s readers see candidate endorsements as an intrusion on the electoral process.

They tell us our endorsements alienate them and blur the way they read our news stories. They don’t see the sharp line we draw between our news and opinion content. . .

Our pages will continue to weigh in on large policy issues, including ballot initiatives, but will step back from recommending candidates in the more partisan arena of electoral politics. Choosing candidates has sometimes inhibited our ability to further the dialogue, because many readers think our endorsements compromise our analysis.  

We won’t disappear at election time. Our editors and writers are redefining our role as we frame the issues in state and regional elections. We will inform with perspective and opinion about the major races as they unfold and will raise red flags when we see candidates violating traditional norms."