Why Wall Street Loves Oracle Again

Very recommendable!

US Judge Rules Google Illegally Monopolised Online Advertising with Palki Sharma

Recommendable!

Asylunterkünfte als Goldgrube: Britischer Unternehmer auf dem Weg zum Milliardär

Es gibt mehrere Wege reich zu werden!

"... Der 57 Jahre alte Unternehmer, dessen Familie von der Insel in Essex stammt, begann dort mit einem Campingwagen-Ferienpark und einem Taxiunternehmen, bevor er mit Diskotheken Geld verdiente und 1999 groß ins Immobilienbusiness einstieg. Dort hat er sich eine goldene Nase verdient. Die „Sunday Times“ schätzte sein Vermögen zuletzt auf 750 Millionen Pfund (900 Millionen Euro). Er befindet sich nun auf bestem Wege, Milliardär zu werden. Zu einem guten Teil verdankt er den sensationellen Aufstieg den Verträgen mit dem Innenministerium, das für die Unterbringung von Migranten zahlt, während die Asylanträge geprüft werden. 2019 gewann King einen ersten Milliardenauftrag für Asylunterkünfte in England und Wales. ..."

Asylunterkünfte als Goldgrube: Britischer Unternehmer auf dem Weg zum Milliardär "Der britische Unternehmer Graham King verdient sich eine goldene Nase mit der Unterbringung von Asylbewerbern. Er ist auf dem besten Wege, ein Milliardär zu werden."

The famous company Boeing seems to be in serious financial trouple

Bad news!

"Boeing is moving to raise at least $10 billion by selling new shares in a bid to stop its cash drain, people familiar with the matter said.

In addition, the jet maker is laying groundwork to raise more cash in coming years, according to regulatory filings. A roughly monthlong strike by Boeing’s largest union is making things worse; its operations were burning through about $1 billion a month ... before that. Boeing, which last turned a profit in 2018, ended September with close to the minimum amount of cash and securities that the company has said it needs to operate. Credit-rating firms have warned that Boeing needed to raise capital and that its debt could be downgraded to junk status."

The Wall Street Journal What's news

Elon Musk now controls two-thirds of all active satellites

Very impressive! If you subtract all government run active satellites ...

South Korea’s family-run business empires or Chaebols

Not recommendable! This is just a typical socialist bashing orgy! E.g. quite a few Western countries too have opted for government favorite champion companies. E.g. how to introduce more competition in South Korea was not even mentioned. That e.g. some Chaebol family members are favorably treated by the criminal justice system is probably also due to the voters and citizens of South Korea.

Japan's Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion winning over three major rivals

This is big news!

"Japan's Nippon Steel clinched a deal on Monday to buy U.S. Steel (X.N) for $14.9 billion in cash, prevailing in an auction for the 122-year-old iconic steelmaker over rivals including Cleveland-Cliffs, ArcelorMittal and Nucor.

The deal price of $55 per share represents a whopping 142% premium to Aug. 11, the last trading day before Cleveland-Cliffs unveiled a $35-per-share, cash-and-stock bid for U.S. Steel. ..."

Japan's Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion | Reuters

The chips are falling everywhere around the globe

Have you lately counted how many new chip factories have been announced, are already being built, or being planned? A lot! It has become hard to keep track of it. 

Arizona, India, Canada, Germany ... (I am sure I forgot something) 😊

Apparently, we need a lot more chips than previously! AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones you name it.

Chip ahoy! Sail on!

Gautam Adani: the Indian billionaire vs the short seller

Recommendable!

Adani Group crisis puts India's winner-take-all economy on trial

India, a rising superpower, may face unprecedented business crimes as well!

"India's Adani Group has had a rough few months since an explosive report by U.S.-based short-seller Hindenburg Research in January accused the conglomerate of stock manipulation and accounting fraud.

The scandal has prompted broader scrutiny of the tight links between government and business in India and raised questions about the so-called India Inc. model, in which a handful of large companies dominate domestic industry."

Adani crisis puts India's winner-take-all economy on trial - Nikkei Asia Under new scrutiny as election nears, India Inc. pulls back on new investments

The Big Business of human health and its consequences

There is some sort of an unholy alliance or even abusive relationship between the business of human health and the major concern of most humans for their health and well being!

The medical profession and the medical business can never have enough patients whether real or imagined! The more patients the better the business for both of them! The more diseases, the better! A disease can never be too serious enough!

Natural, but effective remedies or simple changes in behavior are easily and frequently dismissed! The power of the human immune system to deal with many diseases etc. is often almost deliberately discounted in favor of new medications and treatments!

The global SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 pandemic has mightily exposed these negative consequences on a tremendous scale! A fairly harmless disease (as was known by latest mid-2020) was exploited in reckless and irresponsible ways with the help of hapless governments!

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem Pledges To Never Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine For Schoolchildren

Bravo Kristi Noem! The Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake made a similar promise! Children are the least affected by Covid-19, which has been known since early 2020! 

Vaccinations for children is big business for pharmaceutical companies and conflicted medical establishment and politicians! It's a huge scandal!

Thomas Sowell: The Scamming Business of Autism - How Autism is faked to make money

Recommendable!

World Wildlife Fund. The number of vertebrate animals on the planet fell by 69% the past 50 years. Really!

Apparently, alarmism & hysteria never runs out of topics! These propagandists are always trying to play on human fears! So quickly open your wallet and donate to WWF! It's good business! (Caution: satire, irony)

There are a total of over 60,000 vertebrate species and the WWF focuses only on over 5,000???

"The report covers only vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish) ... It tracks selected populations of 5,320 species, looking at all relevant published research that exists and adding more as data permits. It includes, for example, a population of birds counted by the number of nests on cliffs. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty much the best thing we’ve got for the purpose. But the results are dire. ..."

WWF:

"The evidence is unequivocal—we are living through the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. Scientists are clear: unless we stop treating these emergencies as two separate issues neither problem will be addressed effectively. ..."

Animals are in trouble. The number of vertebrate animals on the planet fell by nearly 70% the past 50 years

WWF: LIVING PLANET REPORT 2022 The Living Planet Report 2022 is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. This flagship WWF publication reveals an average decline of 69% in species populations since 1970. While conservation efforts are helping, urgent action is required if we are to reverse nature loss.

When a scientist questions gender dysphoria, the scientist may be treated like a heretic

The hypothesis in question: rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). This is about how the pro LGBTQ community hounds heretics! 

None other than the MIT Technology Review is targeting a skeptical scientist!

In my personal opinion, there is indeed a rapid onset of gender dysphoria going on in mostly Western countries. The term gender dysphoria did not exist or was barely known until the medical term "gender identity disorder (GID)" was relabeled to gender dysphoria in 2013 with the diagnostic manual DSM-5 (Source). Once relabeled/destigmatized, a fairly rare disorder became suddenly widespread among teenagers in only almost exclusively Western countries. What a coincidence!

I have also little doubt that peer pressure, social media, activist medical professionals, and other influences drive the increase of such cases.

Gender dysphoria is reminiscent of human fads that come and go!

Let's not forget either that the new gender dysphoria and euphemistically called gender affirming treatment is big business!

The scientist: Lisa Littman. According to Google Scholar, an researcher on "gender dysphoria, detransition, public health, reproductive health". Her lifetime citation count is just 588, which is low and her number of publications 44.

She is also the President of the Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research.

The study in question: Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria (published 2018 in Plos One). Citation count 144 (which is very low). Why does this study with such a low citation count trigger so much opposition from the pro LGBTQ community? Why is the citation count so low? Is it a low quality and irrelevant study or was the study ostracized and other scientists do not dare cite it?

The Plos One Editors also published a correction in 2019 to the above study: Correction: Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria

It is very rare that this happens! So why did it happen in this case?

The criticism of this study also affects and questions the parents of children, who experienced this in their parents opinion rapid onset of gender dysphoria.

"... Widely introduced four years ago in a PLOS One paper by Lisa Littman, a physician and researcher, the concept of ROGD hypothesizes a “potential new subcategory” of gender dysphoria—the feeling of distress that one’s gender and assigned sex do not match. Young people with ROGD, the theory claims, feel symptoms of gender dysphoria and identify as trans as a result of peer influence, especially online. They hide behind a false diagnosis of gender dysphoria, the thinking goes, instead of confronting whatever issues are truly challenging them.

Littman polled parents and reported that they “describe a process of immersion in social media … immediately preceding their child becoming gender dysphoric.” Once a teen identifies as trans, Littman argued, they can unduly—and perhaps unwittingly—influence peers to do the same. This can partially explain the rising numbers of trans youth, she said, adding that the dynamic particularly affects those assigned female at birth.
The paper, which was based on parent surveys recruited from explicitly anti-trans or trans-skeptical websites and forums, almost immediately drew criticism. Shortly after its publication in August 2018, PLOS One, a peer-reviewed open-­access journal covering science and medicine, issued a comment that questioned Littman’s methodology. Brown University, her then-employer, retracted its press release about the study. In early September, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health put out a statement saying ROGD “constitutes nothing more than an acronym” and urged restraint in using the term.
Six months after that, PLOS One reissued the study with a large correction emphasizing that Littman’s paper was simply a “descriptive, exploratory” one and had not been clinically validated. In 2021, the Journal of Pediatrics published a comprehensive study that found no evidence for ROGD’s existence. More than 60 psychology organizations, including the American Psychological Association, called for elimination of the term."

From the abstract of the Littman study:
"Purpose
In on-line forums, parents have reported that their children seemed to experience a sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria, appearing for the first time during puberty or even after its completion. Parents describe that the onset of gender dysphoria seemed to occur in the context of belonging to a peer group where one, multiple, or even all of the friends have become gender dysphoric and transgender-identified during the same timeframe. Parents also report that their children exhibited an increase in social media/internet use prior to disclosure of a transgender identity. Recently, clinicians have reported that post-puberty presentations of gender dysphoria in natal females that appear to be rapid in onset is a phenomenon that they are seeing more and more in their clinic. Academics have raised questions about the role of social media in the development of gender dysphoria. The purpose of this study was to collect data about parents’ observations, experiences, and perspectives about their adolescent and young adult (AYA) children showing signs of an apparent sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria that began during or after puberty, and develop hypotheses about factors that may contribute to the onset and/or expression of gender dysphoria among this demographic group.
Methods
For this descriptive, exploratory study, recruitment information with a link to a 90-question survey, consisting of multiple-choice, Likert-type and open-ended questions was placed on three websites where parents had reported sudden or rapid onsets of gender dysphoria occurring in their teen or young adult children. The study’s eligibility criteria included parental response that their child had a sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria and parental indication that their child’s gender dysphoria began during or after puberty. To maximize the chances of finding cases meeting eligibility criteria, the three websites (4thwavenow, transgender trend, and youthtranscriticalprofessionals) were selected for targeted recruitment. Website moderators and potential participants were encouraged to share the recruitment information and link to the survey with any individuals or communities that they thought might include eligible participants to expand the reach of the project through snowball sampling techniques. Data were collected anonymously via SurveyMonkey. Quantitative findings are presented as frequencies, percentages, ranges, means and/or medians. Open-ended responses from two questions were targeted for qualitative analysis of themes.
Results
There were 256 parent-completed surveys that met study criteria. The AYA children described were predominantly natal female (82.8%) with a mean age of 16.4 years at the time of survey completion and a mean age of 15.2 when they announced a transgender-identification. Per parent report, 41% of the AYAs had expressed a non-heterosexual sexual orientation before identifying as transgender. Many (62.5%) of the AYAs had reportedly been diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder or neurodevelopmental disability prior to the onset of their gender dysphoria (range of the number of pre-existing diagnoses 0–7). In 36.8% of the friendship groups described, parent participants indicated that the majority of the members became transgender-identified. Parents reported subjective declines in their AYAs’ mental health (47.2%) and in parent-child relationships (57.3%) since the AYA “came out” and that AYAs expressed a range of behaviors that included: expressing distrust of non-transgender people (22.7%); stopping spending time with non-transgender friends (25.0%); trying to isolate themselves from their families (49.4%), and only trusting information about gender dysphoria from transgender sources (46.6%). Most (86.7%) of the parents reported that, along with the sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria, their child either had an increase in their social media/internet use, belonged to a friend group in which one or multiple friends became transgender-identified during a similar timeframe, or both Conclusion This descriptive, exploratory study of parent reports provides valuable detailed information that allows for the generation of hypotheses about factors that may contribute to the onset and/or expression of gender dysphoria among AYAs. Emerging hypotheses include the possibility of a potential new subcategory of gender dysphoria (referred to as rapid-onset gender dysphoria) that has not yet been clinically validated and the possibility of social influences and maladaptive coping mechanisms. Parent-child conflict may also explain some of the findings. More research that includes data collection from AYAs, parents, clinicians and third party informants is needed to further explore the roles of social influence, maladaptive coping mechanisms, parental approaches, and family dynamics in the development and duration of gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults."

How a theory about transgender contagion went viral | MIT Technology Review

Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid. Really!

Long Covid is the latest obsession, alarmism, and hysteria of the medical profession! 

Let's not forget for one moment that Covid-19 is big business! Plus, Covid-19 is overall a fairly harmless disease compared to plagues of the  past!

It is so easy to explain all kinds of medical conditions by pointing to a previous Covid-19 infection! Like any weather condition is now automatically blamed on Climate Change.

What they don't tell you e.g. is what was the status or health condition of the patients before they contracted Covid-19? These studies rely on so called control groups, but not on the actual history of the affected patients itself.

They also mention some anecdotal evidence, like a patient's self reported "that their once-normal gym workouts were too exhausting to resume.". This is not hard evidence!

From the abstract:

"SARS-CoV-2 infection can result in the development of a constellation of persistent sequelae following acute disease called post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) or Long COVID1–3. Individuals diagnosed with Long COVID frequently report unremitting fatigue, post-exertional malaise, and a variety of cognitive and autonomic dysfunctions; however, the basic biological mechanisms responsible for these debilitating symptoms are unclear. Here, 215 individuals were included in an exploratory, cross-sectional study to perform multi-dimensional immune phenotyping in conjunction with machine learning methods to identify key immunological features distinguishing Long COVID. Marked differences were noted in specific circulating myeloid and lymphocyte populations relative to matched control groups, as well as evidence of elevated humoral responses directed against SARS-CoV-2 among participants with Long COVID. Further, unexpected increases were observed in antibody responses directed against non-SARS-CoV-2 viral pathogens, particularly Epstein-Barr virus. Analysis of circulating immune mediators and various hormones also revealed pronounced differences, with levels of cortisol being uniformly lower among participants with Long COVID relative to matched control groups. Integration of immune phenotyping data into unbiased machine learning models identified significant distinguishing features critical in accurate classification of Long COVID, with decreased levels of cortisol being the most significant individual predictor. These findings will help guide additional studies into the pathobiology of Long COVID and may aid in the future development of objective biomarkers for Long COVID."

Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid | Science | AAAS Study implicates lack of key hormone, battle-weary immune cells, and reawakened viruses

Distinguishing features of Long COVID identified through immune profiling (open access)

After facial feminization surgery, transgender people report better psychosocial health. Really!

Gender affirming treatments is fast becoming big business! It will be expensive for taxpayers and health insurance companies and premium payers!

What about the majority of heterosexuals? Would the psychological health of heterosexual persons not also improve after some facial refinement surgery? I bet it would! 😄

Yea, why not declare cosmetic surgery to be a necessity for better psychological health! (Caution: irony) 😄

"... Key takeaways:

A positive step. Gender-affirming surgery is one of the most important procedures for patients with gender dysphoria, researchers say.

Quality of life. People who had the surgery reported higher scores in 7 of 11 measures of psychosocial health than those awaiting the procedure.

Expanding health coverage. Researchers hope the findings will encourage more U.S. health insurance plans to cover the surgery. ..."

After facial feminization surgery, transgender people report better psychosocial health | UCLA

Philips: Health care has a carbon problem

The Global Warming Hoax and Climate Change Religion is good business!

Hysteria and panic sells well!

"... The world’s health care systems account for more than 4% of global CO2 emissions — more than the aviation or shipping sectors. Hospitals have the highest energy intensity of all publicly funded buildings, and emit 2.5 times more greenhouse gases than commercial buildings. In the United States, alone, hospitals also produce nearly 6 million tons of waste each year. The responsible and sustainable use of energy and materials is key to reducing health care’s carbon emissions. ..."

Health tech can help solve health care's carbon emissions problem - STAT

What Climate Change Is Really About

Recommendable! Learn e.g. who gets rich off global emissions trading schemes! The biggest wealth redistribution scheme ever devised! Socialist economic central planning on a global scale!