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Mapping Agency Wants to ID Locations by Sound

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Oct

geolocate, Geospatial-Intelligence, Location, Mapping, Soundscapes Competition, Technology

Mapping Agency Wants to ID Locations by Sound

BY: Brandi Vincent PEJOURNAL - If your technology can tell Location just by listening, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency may have a prize for you. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency—the government’s key intel force for pinpointing planetary happenings—announced it will dish out cash prizes for projects that can identify locations from audio and video data in an open innovation challenge. Through the newly unveiled Soundscapes Competition, the agency will distribute up to eight awards, including a $27,000 top prize, for innovative, novel means to identify, analyze and model “sound and acoustic scene indicators” used to decipher the origination of recordings in one of eight…

What’s going on with climate policy in the U.S. ?

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Oct

climate, policy, U.S.

What’s going on with climate policy in the U.S. ?

BY: Michael Robbins So far in the presidential race the focus has been on mostly issues surrounding social justice, inequality, and revamping the middle class. Much less has been uttered in terms of climate change policy. There was a hint of this topic in the first presidential debate, but not nearly enough, where Biden stuttered and mentioned that skyscrapers should be more energy efficient. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actually having a mitigation strategy. Policies are long and detailed. Rhetoric is short and appeals to emotion. It would be a good time though,…

25

Oct

5G, Apple, iPhones

Apple 5G iPhones

Now that people have their hands on the first Apple Inc. 5G iPhones, they will see service indicators showing either 5G, 5G E, 5G UW or 5G+, a battling iconography that says fifth-generation wireless has finally arrived. Mobile-service providers, like any consumer company, can’t resist the opportunity to slap on a logo or coin a buzzy new abbreviation. The five bars that measure signal strength weren’t enough -- the carriers have now each crafted their own unique symbols to help brand the 5G experience. Can you blame them? Verizon Communications Inc., T-Mobile US Inc. and AT&T Inc. each have invested…

Cold War model of international relations began to change,Multilateralism should be understood as the need to involve the parties

24

Oct

Cold War, Lessons of the Pandemic, Multilateralism, New Agenda, Valdai International Discussion Club, Vladimir Putin

Cold War model of international relations began to change,Multilateralism should be understood as the need to involve the parties

PEJOURNAL - "Cold War model of international relations began to change,Multilateralism should be understood as the need to involve the parties" Vladimir Putin said, via videoconference, in the final plenary session of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. This year’s theme is The Lessons of the Pandemic and the New Agenda: How to Turn the World Crisis Into an Opportunity for the World. The meeting was traditionally attended by politicians, experts, journalists and public figures from Russia and other countries. The plenary session’s moderator was Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club: Fyodor Lukyanov: Friends, Guests of the Valdai Club, I am delighted to welcome you to the final session of the 17th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. It is my special honour and pleasure…

Natural Gas Resources and the Effect of Democracy on Resource Sharing

20

Oct

Canada, Energy, Energy Security, Natural Gas, Resource, Russia, the United States, Turkey

Natural Gas Resources and the Effect of Democracy on Resource Sharing

BY: Sibel İleana Okumuş PEJOURNAL - Turkey's recent finding natural gas reserve in Black Sea did not make a big impact because of the course of the economy and the existence of other problems. In contrast, the economic and social problems such as depreciation of Turkish lira and backwardness in terms of human rights are the subjects that being argued. This leads us to search how these resources are distributed in countries with valuable underground resources and how transparently this is done. In this context, we are going to examine the gas reserves of countries and its connection with governence,…

20

Oct

Election, Kremlin, Kyrgyzstan, pejournal, Political Economy Journal, Protests, Russia, Sorenbay Zhinbekov

Kremlin’s Chess in Kyrgyzstan

BY: Danieal Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - Protests in Kyrgyzstan began on October 5, 2020, in response to rigged parliamentary elections. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets since then. Kyrgyz President Sorenbay Zhinbekov said that some political forces had tried to seize power illegally overnight and called on political party leaders to calm down their supporters. “I urge my compatriots to remain calm and not give in to enemy provocations,” he said of the widespread protests in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. Jinbekov added that he had instructed security forces not to shoot at protesters. The statement came after Jinbekov's…

20

Oct

Bolivia, Bolivia elected president, Carlos Mesa Gisbert, de facto government, Evo Morales, Luis Arce, Luis Fernando Camacho, pejournal, Political Economy Journal, Valeria Rodriguez, Yanine Añez

Bolivia elected president

BY: Valeria Rodriguez PEJOURNAL - The presidential elections in Bolivia were held on October 18 after a de facto government at the hands of Yanine Añez , after the last elections that had given Evo Morales the winner. After a series of demonstrations organized among others by the leader of right Fernando Camacho, The de facto government had presented a new vote counting system that generated much controversy since it is the Preliminary Results Dissemination System (Dipre) that allowed access to the results almost instantaneously but as there were complaints of possible manipulation of the votes the Supreme Electoral Tribunal,…

Confrontation with Iran in the gray zone

17

Oct

AIPAC, Alexander Hague, General Soleimani, George Schultz, gray zone, Iran, Martin Sean Indyk, Michael Eisenstadt, Robert McFarlane, Warren Christopher, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, West Asia, Zionist Lobby

Confrontation with Iran in the gray zone

PEJOURNAL - Operating in the Gray Zone, a report, written by military analyst Michael Eisenstadt shortly after the assassination of General Soleimani, seeks to provide a solution to Iran in West Asia, published by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Strategic think tank of explanation - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy was founded in 1985 by Martin Sean Indyk, research assistant at the AIPAC, Zionist Lobby, to advise US decision-making institutions on West Asia and North Africa policy. Warren Christopher, Alexander Hague and George Schultz former secretaries of state, as well as Robert McFarlane, a former national…

14

Oct

China, defence, Defense, Geoeconomics, geopolitics, Geostrategy, Hedgemony, Hegemony, Iran, National Defense Strategy, NATO, network-centric warfare, RAND corporation, Russia, Security, the United States, wargame

From Hegemony To Hedgemony

BY: Leonid Savin PEJOURNAL - The RAND corporation has unveiled a unique defence planning and response project called “Hedgemony”. As is clear from the name, it is a play on the words “hegemony” and “hedging”, i.e. managing and insuring against risk. “Hedgemony. A Game of Strategic Choices” is a practical tool that RAND researchers have created to teach US specialists in defence and related areas. Its mission is to provide a better understanding of how different strategies could influence key planning factors in the sphere of trade at the intersection of force development, force management, force posture, and force employment.…

The United States strategy to replicate Middle East events’ in Southeast Asia

14

Oct

Asia-centric policy, code name, Hillary Clinton, Hong Kong, International Republican Institute, Middle East, National Endowment for Democracy, Parit Penguin Chiwarak, South East Asia, Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, US strategy, Young Southeast Asia Leaders Initiative

The United States strategy to replicate Middle East events’ in Southeast Asia

PEJOURNAL - The United States reiterates its "soft power" strategy, similar to when it sought to ride the wave of North African youth revolution in the midst of the 2011 Arab revolutions, targeting China's allies in East Asia. This strategy has been pursued by the United States directly for years in the internal affairs of other nations around the world. The "youth" groups, which now take part in protests across East Asia from Hong Kong to Thailand and are funded by the United States government funding, are the result of years of the United States efforts to influence, recruit, deceive…