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Yoda: Direct Democracy in America?

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yoda with light saberDirect Democracy May Be Key to a Happier American Democracy

Ballot initiatives may better serve the interests of ordinary Americans than laws passed by elected officials.

Is American democracy still “by the people, for the people?” According to recent research, it may not be. Martin Gilens at Princeton University confirms that the wishes of the American working and middle class play essentially no role in our nation's policy making. A BBC story rightly summarized this with the headline: US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy.

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Mongoose: House of Saud, House of Terror — a Pawn in Bankers’ Deliberate Take-Down of Europe and Russia

03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime
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Below the fold are four headlines, all but one from Pepe Escobar, that tie together three facts:

  1. Saudi Arabia is the single greatest source of global terror.
  2. Saudi Arabia may be about to crash and have a coup.
  3. The banking families are out to destroy Russia while shorting Europe.

Continue reading “Mongoose: House of Saud, House of Terror — a Pawn in Bankers' Deliberate Take-Down of Europe and Russia”

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Yoda: Microsoft Open Sources Artificial Intelligence Toolkit

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yoda with light saberMicrosoft Open Sources Artificial Intelligence Toolkit

Microsoft says its toolkit is “more efficient” than other solutions used to create deep learning models.

The software giant has open sourced its Computational Network Toolkit, or CNTK, which the company says is “more efficient” than four other popular solutions used to create deep learning models for things like speech and image recognitionĀ ā€” including Google's recently open-sourced TensorFlow. Now, the toolkit is available via GitHub for anyone who wants to use it, from deep learning start-ups to more established companies processing huge amounts of data in real time.

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Ty Simpson: Colorado Town Saves Itself with Cannabis

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Tiny Colorado town turns to cannabis

Developers are poised to break ground on a project that could make a tiny southern Colorado town one of the nation's largest producers of legal marijuana. The town of Walsenburg this month formally closed a $1.33 million deal with a developer to build a 332-acre campus for cannabis growing, processing and distribution, with the marijuana to be trucked 160 miles north to consumers in metro Denver.