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Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition software to police

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“The employees call out two specific businesses that Amazon should end: the sale of facial recognition software to law enforcement (marketed as Amazon Web Services Rekognition), and the sale of AWS cloud services to Palantir (a data analytics firm that provides ‘mission critical’ software to ICE).”

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/22/17492106/amazon-ice-facial-recognition-internal-letter-protest

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China plans to turn itself into a country of 19 super-regions

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“As China’s economy has modernised, the tendency towards concentration has been irresistible, especially in coastal areas. Some towns have specialised in electronics, others in the clothing industry and so on. There has also been much more migration to the coast than to other regions. It is the clusters that have coalesced naturally, especially the deltas of the Pearl and Yangzi rivers, that have the brightest prospects.”

Read more: https://www.economist.com/china/2018/06/23/china-is-trying-to-turn-itself-into-a-country-of-19-super-regions

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Trump urges Congress to restrict Chinese investment in U.S. tech companies

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“New legislation ‘will enhance our ability to protect the United States from new and evolving threats posed by foreign investment.'”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/27/donald-trump-back-off-investment-limits-china-use-existing-laws/737332002/

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Liberty Dollar relaunches as silver-backed cryptocurrency

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“The original Liberty Dollars were promoted by the issuer to be used in commercial transactions as an alternative to federal currency, including Federal Reserve notes. Liberty Dollars eventually drew the attention of federal authorities, who filed criminal counterfeiting charges against Bernard von NotHaus.”

Read more: https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/2018/06/liberty-dollar-becomes-silver-backed-cryptocurrency.all.html

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Psychedelic Drugs May Help the Brain Repair Itself, Study Finds

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“Most of the psychedelics tested, the researchers found, promoted the growth of new dendrites from a neuron cell, which help transmit information from other neurons to the cell, as well as increased the density of small protrusions on these dendrites, known as dendritic spines. They also jumpstarted the growth of new connections, or synapses, between individual neurons.”

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/psychedelic-drugs-may-help-the-brain-repair-itself-stu-1826765205

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Marijuana drug wins FDA approval, humiliating DEA as a side effect

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“In April, an expert advisory panel for the FDA voted unanimously to recommend Epidiolex’s approval and determined that ‘CBD has a negligible abuse potential.’ The DEA did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment. But GW said it expects that the DEA will reschedule CBD within 90 days.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/fda-approves-first-marijuana-derived-drug-and-it-may-spark-dea-rescheduling/

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Oil Spikes Higher After Trump Threatens Allies With Sanctions For Buying Iranian Oil

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“The U.S. government is calling on its allies to zero out imports of oil from Iran by November 4, or else face sanctions, and Washington is leaning towards granting no waivers at all. An official from the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that it had plans to follow up on the matter with Turkey, India and China, even as the U.S. is trying not to ‘adversely impact’ these countries, Bloomberg reports.”

Read more: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Oil-Jumps-As-Trump-Asks-Allies-To-Cut-Off-Iranian-Oil.html

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Retaliatory Tariffs Push Harley Offshore; Enraged Trump Threatens Punitive Taxes

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“A day earlier, Harley-Davidson announced that it would shift some of its production overseas in response to the European Union’s new 31 percent tariff on its imported bikes, which was imposed in retaliation for Mr. Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/business/trump-harley-davidson-tariffs.html

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The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions

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“Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/brexit-big-short-how-pollsters-helped-hedge-funds-beat-the-crash

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The World Transformed and No One in America Noticed

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“The accession of both India and Pakistan to the SCO is also a stunning repudiation of the United States.”

Read more: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/22/world-transformed-and-no-one-america-noticed.html

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