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if not already in; is this today?
Better than winning the lottery. Same multi-millions, zero taxes.
Jeff Bezos Owns Blue Origin
Amazon wants to launch thousands of satellites so it can offer broadband internet from space
"Project Kuiper" is Amazon's plan to launch 3,236 satellites to build a network to provide global high-speed internet.
The move represents the latest space ambition from Jeff Bezos.
There's a race among several major players to build a next-generation broadband network in space, including Elon Musk's SpaceX and SoftBank-backed OneWeb.
Amazon is planning to build a network of more than 3,000 satellites federal filings reveal, in an ambitious attempt to provide global internet access.
Known as Project Kuiper, the move represents the latest space ambition from Jeff Bezos. Amazon has previously announced its cloud business will build a network of satellite facilities on Earth and Bezos' space venture Blue Origin continues to move closer to launching space tourists.
"Project Kuiper is a new initiative to launch a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world," an Amazon spokesperson told CNBC in an emailed statement.
"This is a long-term project that envisions serving tens of millions of people who lack basic access to broadband internet. We look forward to partnering on this initiative with companies that share this common vision."
Amazon's proposal is for a network of 3,236 satellites. Building, launching and operating the satellites will require intensive capital, likely billions of dollars. But Bezos has already been funding Blue Origin with upwards of $1 billion a year and Amazon itself remains one of the world's most valuable companies. GeekWire first reported the filings on Thursday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/amazon-project-kuiper-broadband-internet-small-satellite-network.html
This man is insane.
Herman Cain Pro-Fed
I had better luck with Drue Jennings, a Kansas City lawyer who served with Cain on the Federal Reserve Board and succeeded him as chairman. Jennings is quite fond of his old colleague. "Herman was a pleasure to work with," he told me. "His views were pretty consistent with those of the Fed at the time. Alan Greenspan was, of course, chairman and Herman was in lock stop with the policies of the Fed." Jennings added that this was not atypical; he could not recall a single dissent from anyone during this three-year term. Still, he said, Cain was no pushover. "He's a guy you'll never find in a gray area," Jennings said. "He's intelligent, well spoken, and very assertive to the point of almost being aggressive. He's anything but shy."
Jennings said Cain fit the profile of the Kansas City Fed. "Inflation was always the big bugaboo," he told me, "and when it comes to monetary policy, he was an inflation hawk. I'll tell you, that's the most conservative bunch of guys I've ever met."
Cain's fealty to Greenspan, although standard at the time, is potentially more problematic for him. That's because in the mid-1990s Greenspan was anything but hawkish. "In 1995-'96, Greenspan was to the left of the Democratic appointees on the Federal Reserve Board," noted Brad DeLong, an economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley. "Greenspan was the big inflation dove then. He was the left-most member of the Federal Reserve then and by simple force of character drove the policies that pushed through the dot-com boom."
An even bigger problem for Cain could be the tea party movement's antipathy to the Federal Reserve, since that's the same part of the conservative base from which Cain has thus far drawn his strongest support. A spokeswoman for Cain told me that his Facebook page is routinely defaced by supporters of Ron Paul, the leading Fed critic in Washington and author of the bestseller, "End the Fed". (They also object to Cain's support for TARP.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/herman-cain-federal-reserve-chairman-tea-party-champion/239519/
I did listen to what he said.
He said he is going to operate under Hussein's ED to go after the Mexican cartels.
Can't help the Mexican people, and drain the incentive to risk life and limb to sneak into the US, without eradicating the cartels.
So he's going to eradicate the cartels.
This tells me he's going to do it in the next year.
Like he could stop.