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Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 29 April 2020 NOAA

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 29 April 2020

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 29 April 2020 Status Report From: Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA) Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast SDF Number 120 Issued at 2200Z on 29 Apr 2020 IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity…
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April 30, 2020
Cash, Yachts, and Cognac: Kim Yo-Jong’s Links to the Secretive Office Keeping North Korea’s Elites in Luxury Kim Jong Un

Cash, Yachts, and Cognac: Kim Yo-Jong’s Links to the Secretive Office Keeping North Korea’s Elites in Luxury

For years, intelligence officials around the world have been watching a secretive office on the third floor of the Korean Worker’s Party headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea. There, in Office 39, the country’s ruler Kim Jong-Un has continued his father and predecessor Kim Jong-Il’s practice of rewarding himself and loyalists…
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April 30, 2020
Qualcomm expects phone shipments to drop by 30 percent next quarter due to COVID-19 Pandemic

Qualcomm expects phone shipments to drop by 30 percent next quarter due to COVID-19

Qualcomm expects smartphone shipments to fall 30 percent in the comings months due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company said today, cutting its previous projections for the next quarter. That’s in addition to the 21 percent reduction in demand for phones that the company noted in the past quarter, which…
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April 30, 2020
New Jersey ships ventilators out of state as coronavirus hospitalizations fall Korean War

New Jersey ships ventilators out of state as coronavirus hospitalizations fall

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy | Michael Mancuso-Pool/Getty Images With reports of new coronavirus cases flattening and the number of hospitalizations falling, New Jersey is now shipping ventilators it received from the federal stockpile to hospitals in other states, Gov. Phil Murphy said during his daily briefing on Wednesday. New…
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April 30, 2020
Looking at “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for COVID-19” with a Critical Eye Palantir

Looking at “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for COVID-19” with a Critical Eye

By Lambert Strether of Corrente The Wall Street produced an intriguing piece the other day, “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for Covid-19,” which while picked up and signal-boosted by other venues — Business Insider, Daily Mail, Newsweek, Beckers Hospital Review (the best) — doesn’t…
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April 29, 2020
We’re not living in a dystopia — yet Feudalism

We’re not living in a dystopia — yet

Shauna Shames, Rutgers University and Amy Atchison, Valparaiso University Dystopian fiction is hot. Sales of George Orwell’s “1984” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” have skyrocketed since 2016. Young adult dystopias – for example, Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” Veronica Roth’s “Divergent,” Lois Lowry’s classic, “The Giver” – were best-sellers…
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April 29, 2020