Trump tweets from other government accounts after being banned — Twitter deletes them and restricts the accounts

Can you believe this is happening in the United States of America? I don't! 

The tyranny of private corporations to arbitrarily silence or censor the voice of the President of the United States of America with whom they disagree!

You add to this the recent deranged calls for a second Impeachment of President Trump in his final days in office! Or the recent outrageous claims of mob rule incited by President Trump by the left and the right establishment!

These are dangerous and dark times in America! This sure is a low point of the Washington swamp and corporate America!

Is it 1776 again? Freedom from oppression?

Trump tweets from other gov't accounts after being banned — Twitter deletes them and restricts the accounts - TheBlaze

Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James: Amid Chaos, Our Resilient Republic Endures

I think, the famous Heritage Foundation needs a new president. I was never impressed with Kay C. James. Her latest public comments/remarks on what happened on January 6, 2021 in Washington DC reveal her as pathetic!

As a former employee of the Heritage Foundation, I would bet that the previous and long time president of this foundation Ed Feulner would have found better words to describe what has happened.

Ms. Kay did not waste one word in her opening statements about the unprecedented and massive election integrity violations that came before! By far most of the protesters in Washington DC on that day were peaceful!

"Like many Americans, I watched in disbelief Wednesday as an angry mob stormed our U.S. Capitol. As members of Congress gathered to certify the electoral votes of the presidential election, a band of criminals decided to take matters into their own hands. As this horrible act is investigated, it will be determined exactly who they were, and they must be held accountable.

The consequences were tragic. Four people dead, others injured. Unanswered questions of how it happened. The democratic process and the peaceful transition of power, which makes American democracy the model for the world, thrown into chaos.  ...
Our fight with the left is over the issues plaguing America, and fight we will. We will use all the tools at our disposal, but we will always respect the rule of law. ..."

Amid Chaos, Our Resilient Republic Endures

Marco Polo: The Age of Exploration

Recommendable! I can never get enough of Marco Polo's travels! On his death bed he is reported to have said he only told half of what he saw!

Teddy Pendergrass - Turn Off the Lights (Live in 1979)

Enjoy! Come get what you need ... Tonight is your night ... I am your man ... You got me burning up inside ... 

Teddy Pendergrass - Come Go with Me (Official Audio)

Enjoy! Seduction! You will be under any kind of pressure ... Let's go where it is nice and quiet ... We will be in each its others company ... It sounds so good to me ... Would you do that baby  ... But don't you do it ... Just think about it ... I had my eyes on you ... You need some company too ... Would it be alright with you ... nice and quiet ... I want to get to know you a little better ... 

Teddy Pendergrass - I Don't Love You Anymore (Official Audio)

Enjoy!

eigentümlich frei: The Great Reset: Wehren wir uns gegen diese „neue“ Welt des Autoritarism...

Sehr empfehlenswert!

Steve Turley: Republicans Want to SECEDE!!!

Recommendable! Indeed, the secession of states like Texas might be one of the consequences of the November 2020 elections and its attended massive election fraud!

Swamp Watch: Nancy Pelosi and Ted Cruz

Very recommendable! Ted Cruz, latest since he grew this beard, became weird!

He got away with it... | Greg Kelly

Very recommendable!

Steve Turley: Is It Time To Start a THIRD PARTY?

Very recommendable! Turley's example of the Brexit party in the UK is very convincing! He suggest a never GOP party! I just blogged about my own conception of a third party in the United States here

Veraltetes Betriebssystem: Windows 7 läuft auf Millionen Computern

Kein Wunder das Hacker cyber criminals so erfolgreich sind! Windows 7 ist ja symptomatisch für alle überalterten Software Installationen, die immer noch in Betrieb sind. Da sind z.B. auch die immer genutzten mainframe computers usw.

"Programmen, die auf Windows 10 nicht funktionieren" ist eine sehr lahme Ausrede!

"... obwohl die Software inzwischen große Sicherheitslücken aufweist. Weltweit kommt die Software auch ohne regelmäßige Updates noch auf rund 18 Prozent aller Windows-Computer zum Einsatz, die sich regelmäßig im Internet bewegen. ..."

Veraltetes Betriebssystem: Windows 7 läuft auf Millionen Computern Auch ein Jahr nach dem Auslaufen des Supports durch Microsoft haben viele Anwender sich noch nicht von dem Betriebssystem getrennt. Das liegt bisweilen auch an Programmen, die auf Windows 10 nicht funktionieren.

Supermodel Emily Ratajkowski: Facebook banning President Trump gives big tech the 'MOST POWER' — and now it 'can shut any of us up'

You rarely hear or read that supermodels make smart political remarks in public! Bravo Ms. Ratajkowski! She nailed it!

What the social media did to a U.S. President in office is incredible! That Mark Zuckerberg spent about $400 million of his money on influencing the November 2020 elections is very concerning (I blogged here about it) 

Supermodel Emily Ratajkowski: Facebook banning President Trump gives big tech the 'MOST POWER' — and now it 'can shut any of us up' - TheBlaze

High time for a third party in the United States!

The November 3rd general elections in the United States and its aftermath have made it abundantly clear that the traditional two party system in the U.S. has failed tremendously!

One party has been very determined at all cost to attain power and it has drifted further to the far radical left, while the other one is weak, almost defeatist, and unrecognizable for what it stands!

For decades the conservative movement and more recently the Tea Party movement have tried hard to shape the Republican Party. However, their success was rather very limited. They have been resisted by incumbents, vested interests, and lifelong career politicians in the GOP.

A new third party should start afresh and be focused on a few guiding principles:

1. Classical liberalism
2. More individual freedom and individual responsibility
3. More free market economy
4. More federalism and less centralism
5. SMALL and limited government

Perhaps this third party will never become a majority party in the U.S. Congress! However, if it gains enough votes it will be a potent power to prevent the other two parties from implementing stupid policies!

In Search of Beethoven - Documentary Beethoven Festival Online

Very recommendable, but very long! 2020 was his 250th anniversary of his birth. I am sure this documentary has some flaws, e.g. I do not remember it mentioned (or was it a fleeting mention) that the text for the 9th Symphony is based on Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy (quite an omission).

Polio: The Disease that Paralyzed the World

Very recommendable! 

Just a reminder how harmless the current Covid-19 pandemic is!

The Problem of Radical Islam in France

Recommendable!

The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love

Enjoy!

I will never vote again because of the November 3rd 2020 U.S. elections

Revised on 1/11/2021, 1/8/2021

That's it! I pledge not to vote again in any forthcoming U.S. elections. Unless something fundamentally changes in the political environment towards more individual freedom and small and limited government, I have no good reason to vote anymore. I am afraid, I will not be the only American citizen! 

Way too many elected Republican Party representatives at the federal and state level have proven beyond any doubt to be COWARDS in response to the unprecedented, massive irregularities during the November 2020 elections especially in tight races in a few battleground states.

Perhaps the greatest disappointment and COWARD of all turned out to be Republican Vice President Mike Pence when he presided over the certification of the electoral votes on January 6-7, 2021. Sometimes in the course of history, the most important responsibility comes down to one man or woman to do the right thing. Mike Pence shirked his constitutional and moral obligations! He should have refused the certification of the electoral votes in favor of further investigations into the election irregularities!

That basically no significant elected Democratic Party representative came forward to support election recounts and audits is incredible! Such strict party discipline is typically common among authoritarian political parties! How many coup attempts did the Dimocrats try on President Trump during his four years in office?

 The Founding Fathers and Mothers (Federalists & Anti- Federalists) were very disappointed again! This republic will not survive with politicians like this!

If there is one amendment missing in the U.S. Constitution then it is term limits amendment for all members of the U.S. Congress not only for the U.S. President. E.g. 12 years for the entire lifetime would be enough! I am so tired of lifelong career politicians!

In the meantime, I have come to the conclusion that it is high time for a third party in the United States (see my blog post here).

Then there is the Convention of States under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Hopefully, this Convention of States might one day introduce important and missing amendments to the Constitution. It has been making slowly progress and perhaps given the November Election of 2020, its progess will accelerate now!

Elemente anders ordnen: Konkurrenz für das Periodensystem

Amazing stuff!

"... ein eindimensionales Ordnungsschema. In der Liste werden die chemischen Elemente gemäß ihrer „Ähnlichkeit“ in Bezug auf den Atomradius und der Elektronegativität nacheinander aufgereiht. Die Position eines Elements in der Liste wird als Mendelejew-Zahl (kurz MN für Mendeleev Number) bezeichnet. ...
Zu diesem Zweck überführten sie ihre eindimensionale Liste in ein Diagramm, in dem die Mendelejew-Zahl auf jeder Achse aufgetragen ist. Damit schufen sie einen zweidimensionalen Raum für Verbindungen aus zwei verschiedenen Elementen. ..."

"... This work clarifies the physical meaning of Mendeleev numbers (MNs): the idea of MN was empirically proposed by Pettifor, but we show that MNs are a result of collapsing the most important atomic properties (size, electronegativity, etc.) into one number. This gives us a recipe to compute nonempirical MNs. We compare our proposed sequence of elements with alternative Mendeleev numbers using the data for hardness, magnetization, enthalpy of formation, and atomization energy. For an unbiased evaluation of the MNs, we compare clustering rates, and find that our nonempirical MNs achieve overall the best clustering of compounds with similar properties."

Elemente anders ordnen: Konkurrenz für das Periodensystem ELEMENTE ANDERS ORDNEN. Zwei russische Chemiker haben das Periodensystem der chemischen Elemente völlig umgekrempelt: Mit ihrem ungewöhnlichen Ordnungsschema ließen sich neue Materialien womöglich leichter aufspüren.

Hier ist der Link zum dies bezüglichen wissenschaftlichen Artikel:

Nonempirical Definition of the Mendeleev Numbers: Organizing the Chemical Space

The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained

Very recommendable! Well done!

UPDATE: Shots fired at US Capitol; House and Senate chambers taken over by protesters; VP Pence evacuated

This is not good news at all! This is very counterproductive! Did the organizers of these protests not take precautions to prevent any of that?

It also begs the question whether those who entered the U.S. Congress building were really protesters or impostors/agent provocateurs?

UPDATE: Shots fired at US Capitol; House and Senate chambers taken over by protesters; VP Pence evacuated - TheBlaze

OpenAI debuts DALL-E for generating images from text

Recommendable! Text to image synthesis! Multimodal machine learning is imminent!

"... Tests OpenAI shared today appear to demonstrate that DALL-E has the ability to manipulate and rearrange objects in generated imagery and also create things that don’t exist, like a cube with the texture of a porcupine or a cube of clouds. Based on text prompts, images generated by DALL-E can appear as if they were taken from the real world or can depict works of art. ..."

"... We’ve found that it has a diverse set of capabilities, including creating anthropomorphized versions of animals and objects, combining unrelated concepts in plausible ways, rendering text, and applying transformations to existing images. ..."

OpenAI debuts DALL-E for generating images from text | VentureBeat

Here is the link to the respective OpenAI blog post:

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language

What is in a name: SARS?

I would argue that the virus behind the current pandemic, i.e. SARS-CoV-2, is a very consequential misnomer! Unfortunately, by choosing this name, this virus was automatically associated with the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) pandemic of 2003, which was much more deadlier than the current one (case fatality rate about 11%, see e.g. here, here).

This poor name choice has contributed significantly to the irrational hysteria and alarmism that we witness every day for the past 10 months or so! Or was this name intentionally chosen? Follow the money trail!

""A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular reference to William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague, that is, that he is named "Montague". The reference is often used to imply that the names of things do not affect what they really are." (Source)

Here is another relevant historical reference to the importance of naming:
"Confucius was asked what he would do if he was a governor. He said he would "rectify the names" to make words correspond to reality. The phrase has now become known as a doctrine of feudal Confucian designations and relationships, behaving accordingly to ensure social harmony. Without such accordance society would essentially crumble and "undertakings would not be completed."" This is known as the Rectification of names from the Analects of Confucius.

Viral mutations may cause another ‘very, very bad’ COVID-19 wave, scientists warn

Here is a beautiful example how the main stream science media try to constantly scare the hell out of us citizens! They have done it so many times since the Covid-19 pandemic started! It's almost pure alarmism and demagoguery! It is incredible! This pandemic is more hysteria than anything else and the science community helped to fuel it!

Just the name of the new SARS-CoV-2 strain: B.1.1.7 conjures up that dangerous aliens are invading planet earth! Why not call it just B117!

The simple fact is that this pandemic is overall fairly harmless! That some of the daily statistics about the pandemic are inflated (e.g. death total)! That politicians resorted to shotgun measures for the past 10 months instead of focusing on the vulnerable and so on!

"For COVID-19 researchers, the new year brings a strong sense of déjà vu. As in early 2020, the world is anxiously watching a virus spread in one country and trying to parse the risk for everyone else. This time it is not a completely new threat, but a rapidly spreading variant of SARS-CoV-2. In southeastern England, where the B.1.1.7 variant first caught scientists’ attention last month, it has quickly replaced other variants, and it may be the harbinger of a new, particularly perilous phase of the pandemic. ..."

Viral mutations may cause another ‘very, very bad’ COVID-19 wave, scientists warn | Science | AAAS

Georgia. Secretary of State Raffensperger should be recalled or dismissed

Very recommendable! Raffensperger is incredible! Why is the governor of Georgia holding on to this man?

We live in times of the Inquisition again

This time the Inquisition is not perpetrated by the Catholic Church, but by elites in academia and intellectuals! 

You will be denunciated and persecuted if you dissent from their ideological propaganda (political correctness, genderism, diversity, white supremacy and so on), the modern inquisition tries to impose on you and indoctrinate you with!

Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron

Good news, but a bit aged! :-) Amazing stuff!

"... On its own, using a simple DC voltage as the input, the device outputs not just simple spikes, as some other devices can manage, but the whole array of neural activity—bursts of spikes, self-sustained oscillations, and other stuff that goes on in your brain. ... It combines resistance, capacitance, and what’s called a Mott memristor all in the same device. ..."

"... Generating neuromorphic action potentials in a circuit element theoretically requires a minimum of third-order complexity (for example, three dynamical electrophysical processes), but there have been few examples of second-order neuromorphic elements, and no previous demonstration of any isolated third-order element ..."

Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron - IEEE Spectrum (10/1/2020) Analog computing with neuron-like devices could efficiently solve problems traditional computers struggle with

Here is the respective research article:

Third-order nanocircuit elements for neuromorphic engineering (here is the PDF)

Sen. Josh Hawley Says Antifa ‘Threatened’ Wife, Newborn Daughter

When potentially violent protesters come to the residential home of an elected representative! This is clearly an intimidation attempt! This is very serious stuff and very concerning!

"Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said that a group of Antifa members threatened his family in their Washington home on Monday night. He said that he “will not be intimidated.”

“Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence,” he wrote on Twitter late Monday. ..."

Sen. Josh Hawley Says Antifa ‘Threatened’ Wife, Newborn Daughter 

200 Business Leaders Call on Congress to Accept the Electoral College Results

Here is the who is who in business who oppose President Trump, the U.S. Constitution/Declaration of Independence. These so called business leaders have the audacity to defend a severely compromised election! These are nearly 200 feckless business misleaders! It is incredible! This election was anything but business as usual you morons!

Even the CEO of Pfizer, Inc signed this letter!

Will the U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives remain brave and courageous to resist this onslaught? We the people hope so!

A quick reminder to these 200 business misleaders:

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ..." Thomas Paine, The Crisis

CEOs Urge Congress to Certify Biden’s Electoral College Win Nearly 200 chief executives call on legislators to uphold ‘essential tenets of our democracy’ by enabling transition of power to president-elect

"This presidential election has been decided and it is time for the country to move forward. ...
There should be no further delay in the orderly transfer of power."

Business Leaders Call on Congress to Accept the Electoral College Results - Partnership for New York City

Sincerely,

William D. Abramson, Director of Brokerage, Buchbinder & Warren Realty Group LLC

Lee S. Ainslie, III, Managing Partner, Maverick Capital

Ellen Alemany, Chairman & CEO, CIT Group Inc.

Simon Allen, Chief Executive Officer, McGraw-Hill Education, Inc.

Leo Argiris, Principal & Chief Operating Officer, Americas Region, Arup

Jeffrey H. Aronson, Managing Principal, Centerbridge Partners

Ajay Banga, Executive Chairman, Mastercard

Neil Barr, Managing Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Erin Barringer, Director, Dalberg Americas

Candace K. Beinecke, Senior Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Charles R. Bendit, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Taconic Investment Partners LLC

Stephen Berger, Chairman, Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC

William H. Berkman, Co-Chairman & CEO, Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc.

Seth Bernstein, President & CEO, AB

David Beveridge, Senior Partner, Shearman & Sterling, LLP

Michael W. Blair, Presiding Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Jeff T. Blau, Chief Executive Officer, The Related Companies, L.P.

Henry Blodget, CEO and co-founder, Insider Inc.

Kathy Bloomgarden, Chief Executive Officer, Ruder Finn, Inc.

Adam M. Blumenthal, Managing Partner, Blue Wolf Capital Partners

Neil Blumenthal, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Warby Parker

John Borthwick, Founder & CEO, Betaworks

Albert Bourla, Chairman & CEO, Pfizer Inc.

John Bruckner, President, NY, National Grid

Ari Buchalter, President & CEO, Intersection

Martin S. Burger, Chief Executive Officer, Silverstein Properties, Inc.

Donald A. Capoccia, Principal, BFC Partners

Richard M. Cashin, Managing Partner, One Equity Partners

Timothy Cawley, President & CEO, Con Edison, Inc.

Rodgin Cohen, Senior Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

David Coleman, Chief Executive Officer, The College Board

Anthony R. Coscia, Partner and Executive Committee Member, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP

Cromwell Coulson, President & CEO, OTC Markets Group

Todd C. DeGarmo, Chief Executive Officer, STUDIOS Architecture

Toby Dodd, President, New York Tri-State, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.

William R. Dougherty, Chairman, Executive Committee, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Brian Duperreault, Chief Executive Officer, American International Group, Inc.

Douglas Durst, Chairman, Durst Organization Inc.

Richard Edelman, President & CEO, Edelman

Scott A. Edelman, Chairman, Milbank LLP

Blair W. Effron, Co-Founder, Centerview Partners

Joel S. Ehrenkranz, Partner and Co-Founder, Ehrenkranz Partners L.P.

Douglas F. Eisenberg, Founder and CEO, A&E Real Estate, LLC

Catherine Engelbert, Commissioner, WNBA

Alexander Farman-Farmaian, Vice Chairman, Portfolio Manager, Edgewood Management LLC

Rob Fauber, President & Chief Executive Officer, Moody’s Corporation

Laurence D. Fink, Chairman & CEO, BlackRock

Peter Finn, Founding Partner, Finn Partners

John Fish, Chairman & CEO, Suffolk

Winston C. Fisher, Partner, Fisher Brothers

Alan H. Fishman, Founder, Willow Holdings, Inc.

William E. Ford, Chief Executive Officer, General Atlantic LLC

Paul Fribourg, Chairman & CEO, Continental Grain Company

Eric J. Friedman, Executive Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Jeff Gennette, Chairman & CEO, Macy’s, Inc.

Dave Gilboa, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Warby Parker

MaryAnne Gilmartin, Founder & CEO, MAG Partners LP

Dan Glaser, President & CEO, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

Dexter Goei, Chief Executive Officer, Altice USA

Timothy Gokey, Chief Executive Officer, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Perry Golkin, Chief Executive Officer, PPC Enterprises LLC

Barry M. Gosin, Chief Executive Officer, Newmark Knight Frank

Jonathan D. Gray, President & COO, Blackstone

Jonathan N. Grayer, Chairman & CEO, Weld North LLC

Logan Green, Co-Founder & CEO, Lyft

David J. Greenwald, Chairman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Kelly Grier, US Chair & Managing Partner and Americas Managing Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

Stewart KP Gross, Managing Director, Lightyear Capital

Robin Hayes, Chief Executive Officer, JetBlue Airways Corporation

Dale Hemmerdinger, Chairman, Atco Properties & Management, Inc.

Donna Imperato, Chief Executive Officer, BCW

Frederick J. Iseman, Chairman & CEO, CI Capital Partners LLC

Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman & CEO, Lazard Ltd

John Josephson, Chairman & CEO, Sesac

Roberta Kaplan, Founding Partner, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP

Harry Kargman, Founder & CEO, Kargo

Alex Karp, CEO & Co-Founder, Palantir Technologies

Brad S. Karp, Chair, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Charles R. Kaye, Chief Executive Officer, Warburg Pincus LLC

Anthony S. Kendall, Chairman & CEO, Mitchell & Titus, LLP

Richard A. Kennedy, President & CEO, Skanska USA Inc.

Michel A. Khalaf, President & CEO, MetLife, Inc.

Brian Kingston, CEO of Real Estate, Brookfield Asset Management

Paul Knopp, U.S. Chair & CEO, KPMG LLP

Henry R. Kravis, Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Philip Krim, Co-Founder & CEO, Casper

Barbara Armand Kushner, President, Armand Corporation

Christopher Larsen, Chief Executive Officer, Halmar International, LLC

William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.

Rochelle B. Lazarus, Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Kewsong Lee, Chief Executive Officer, The Carlyle Group

Rich Lesser, President & CEO, Boston Consulting Group

Joey Levin, Chief Executive Officer, IAC

Allan Levine, Chairman & CEO, Global Atlantic Financial Company

Jeffrey E. Levine, Chairman, Douglaston Development

Robert A. Levine, Chief Executive Officer, RAL Companies & Affiliates, LLC

Martin Lipton, Senior Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Alex Liu, Managing Partner & Chairman, Kearney

Robert P. LoCascio, Founder & CEO, LivePerson, Inc.

Roger Lynch, Chief Executive Officer, Condé Nast

Mehdi Mahmud, CEO & President, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC

Anthony Malkin, Chairman, President & CEO, Empire State Realty Trust

Anthony E. Mann, President & CEO, E-J Electric Installation Co.

Theodore Mathas, Chairman & CEO, New York Life Insurance Company

Sandeep Mathrani, Chief Executive Officer, WeWork

Peter W. May, President & Founding Partner, Trian Partners

Charles R. McCall, Chief Executive Officer, Astoria Energy II LLC &, Astoria Energy LLC

Kevin J. McCarty, Chairman & CEO, West Monroe Partners

Andrew McMahon, President & CEO, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Avner Mendelson, President & CEO, Bank Leumi USA

Heidi Messer, Co-Founder & Chairperson, Collective[i]

Keith Mestrich, President & CEO, Amalgamated Bank

Marc Metrick, President & CEO, Saks Fifth Avenue

Edward J. Minskoff, Chairman & CEO, Edward J. Minskoff Equities, Inc.

Greg Mondre, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Silver Lake

Tyler Morse, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner, MCR Development LLC

Deanna M. Mulligan, Chief Executive Officer, DM Mulligan, LLC

Oscar Munoz, Executive Chairman, United Airlines, Inc.

Daniel Nardello, Chief Executive Officer, Nardello & Co. LLC

Liz Neumark, Chair & Founder, Great Performances

Mark Pearson, President & CEO, Equitable

Michael A. Peterson, Chairman & CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Michael Phillips, President, Jamestown Properties LLC

Charles E. Phillips, Jr., Chairman, Infor

Deirdre Quinn, Co-Founder & CEO, Lafayette 148 New York

Daniel Ramot, Co-Founder & CEO, Via

Steven L. Rattner, Chairman & CEO, Willett Advisors LLC

Scott H. Rechler, Chairman & CEO, RXR Realty LLC

Christiana Riley, Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank Americas

John Romeo, Managing Partner, Oliver Wyman

James A. Rosenthal, Chief Executive Officer, BlueVoyant

Evan Roth, Co-Chief Executive Officer, BBR Partners, LLC

Michael I. Roth, Chairman & CEO, Interpublic Group

Steven Rubenstein, President, Rubenstein Communications, Inc.

Mitchell E. Rudin, Chairman & CEO, Savills Inc.

William C. Rudin, Co-Chairman & CEO, Rudin Management Company, Inc.

Kevin P. Ryan, Founder & CEO, AlleyCorp

Philip K. Ryan, Chairman, Swiss Re Americas

Timothy Ryan, U.S. Chair & Senior Partner, PwC

Faiza Saeed, Presiding Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Scott Salmirs, President & CEO, ABM Industries Inc.

Ralph Schlosstein, Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Evercore Partners Inc.

Michael Schmidtberger, Partner & Chair of the Executive Committee, Sidley Austin LLP

Alan D. Schnitzer, Chairman & CEO, The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Alan D. Schwartz, Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC

Kathleen Shanahan, Chief Executive Officer, Turtle & Hughes, Inc.

Suzanne Shank, President & CEO, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC

Joseph C. Shenker, Chair, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Tarek Sherif, Co-Founder & CEO, Medidata Solutions, Inc.

Jonathan Silvan, Chief Executive Officer, Global Strategy Group, LLC

Adam Silver, Commissioner, National Basketball Association

Joshua Silverman, Chief Executive Officer, Etsy, Inc.

Brad Smith, President, Microsoft

David M. Solomon, Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs

Jeffrey Solomon, Chair & CEO, Cowen

Rob Speyer, President & CEO, Tishman Speyer

Stephen J. Squeri, Chairman & CEO, American Express Company

Robert K. Steel, Chairman, Perella Weinberg Partners

Douglas C. Steiner, Chairman, Steiner Studios

Alan Suna, Chief Executive Officer, Silvercup Studios

Rajat Suri, Founder & CEO, Presto

Sanjay Swani, Managing Partner, Tailwind Capital

Steven R. Swartz, President & CEO, Hearst

Michael J. Sweeney, Executive Vice President; Eastern U.S. President, HNTB Corporation

Julie Sweet, Chief Executive Officer, Accenture

Paul J. Taubman, Chairman & CEO, PJT Partners Inc.

Owen D. Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, Boston Properties

Wayne Ting, Chief Executive Officer, Lime

Gary M. Tischler, Founder & Managing Partner, Vanbarton Group LLC

Daniel R. Tishman, Vice Chairman, AECOM & Principal, Tishman Realty

Paul Todd, Chief Executive Officer, GLG

Jean-Marie Tritant, Chief Executive Officer, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield

William B. Tyree, Managing Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Joseph Ucuzoglu, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte

Robert Vecchio, Chief Executive Officer, LPI, Inc.

Ellis Verdi, President, DeVito/Verdi

James R. Wacht, President, Lee & Associates NYC

George H. Walker, Chairman & CEO, Neuberger Berman Group LLC

Robert E. Wankel, Chairman & CEO, The Shubert Organization, Inc.

Pamela S. Wasserstein, President, Vox Media

Charles Weinstein, Chief Executive Officer, EisnerAmper LLP

David Winter, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Standard Industries Inc.

Robert Wolf, Chief Executive Officer, 32 Advisors LLC

Kathryn S. Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for New York City

Nina Zagat, Co-Founder, Zagat

Tim Zagat, Co-Founder, Zagat

Strauss Zelnick, Partner, ZMC

James Zelter, Co-President, Apollo Global Management, Inc.

John Zimmer, Co-Founder & President, Lyft

The UK was the second largest funder of EU scientific research before Brexit

The EU will soon find out what Brexit means when it comes to its scientific research funding! The UK was not only the overall second largest net contributor to the EU budget, but also the second largest funder of scientific research in the EU.

Horizon 2020 by the numbers: how €60 billion was divided up among Europe’s scientists

Junk Journalism: Trump handelt irrational: Im Weissen Haus tun sich Abgründe auf

Wenn westeuropäische Journalisten keine Ahnung haben wovon sie schwätzen!

Hier ist die curriculum vitae des Andreas Rüesch. "... als Mitglied der Auslandredaktion zuständig für die Dossiers USA, Internationale Sicherheitspolitik, Russland und Zentralasien." Was für ein Spinner und er hat sogar einen Doktortitel!

Trump handelt irrational: Im Weissen Haus tun sich Abgründe auf Der amerikanische Präsident Trump scheint weiter an die Möglichkeit einer Wiederwahl zu glauben. Sein Verhalten ist nicht nur grotesk und staatspolitisch schädlich, sondern zeigt auch, dass es im Weissen Haus niemanden mehr gibt, der den Präsidenten zur Vernunft bringen kann.

Walter E Williams - Tyranny of the Elites

Very recommendable!

What happens on January 6th 2021 in Washington DC

A Rendezvous with Destiny! A Day of Epiphany! The U.S. Congress will count the electoral votes! Stay tuned!

Winston Churchill: "The Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted" (Source)

Stop the Steal!

The Biden-China Cobalt Connection and China's dominance over world cobalt production

Very recommendable and concerning! China already controls significant cobalt production worldwide! If Joseph Biden becomes next president (that is a big if), then U.S. mining operations will be sacrificed on the altar of environmentalism!

World Economic Forum: Pandemic is unique opportunity to implement ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism

The socialist, globalist forum! The unelected plutocracy of our time!

President Trump: Hillary's is saying now why did the Dimocratic Party not do this for me in 2016

President Trump takes a swipe at Hillary Clinton suggesting she was fuming that the Dimocratic Party did not do enough election fraud for Hillary in 2016! 

Because I am black retort

Sometimes in a situation, a black American person would say to you something like you are doing or saying this to me because I am black. 

Retort: Are you saying that my skin color is white? Is something wrong with my skin color? When was the last time you read or watched the full speech of Martin Luther King Jr. I have a Dream of 1963😊

It is high time for someone to give a speech on black supremacy and black victimhood! I am afraid nobody has the courage to do that for fear of assassination!

Perhaps one of President Trump's greatest achievements

President Trump has exposed so many so called members of elite or or so called experts (journalists, scientists, academia, and intellectuals) as what they are utter fools, many of them repeatedly! 

Their many ridiculous and absurd statements, in front of a camera or microphone or in writing, during his first term have been properly recognized as and fully deserved the term Trump Derangement Syndrome!

It was a tremendous joy to be a witness of that! The world is a stage and an audience, President Trump has not disappointed. His performance in this respect was world class! Politicians with such gifts and talents are very rare!

Object-based attention for spatio-temporal reasoning: Outperforming neuro-symbolic models with flexible distributed architectures

Recommendable! Another, very interesting paper by Alphabet/Google/Deepmind researchers.

"... These flexible biases allow our model to surpass the previous neuro-symbolic state-of-the-art using less than 60% of available labelled data. Together, these results refute the neuro-symbolic thesis laid out by previous work involving these datasets, and they provide evidence that neural networks can indeed learn to reason effectively about the causal, dynamic structure of physical events. ..."

[2012.08508] Object-based attention for spatio-temporal reasoning: Outperforming neuro-symbolic models with flexible distributed architectures

China: Unternehmer Jack Ma nach Kritik an Regierung verschwunden

Wäre nicht das erste Mal das eine in Ungnade gefallene Person in einer Kommunistischen Diktatur spurlos verschwindet!

China: Unternehmer Jack Ma nach Kritik an Regierung verschwunden

Sprit wird deutlich teurer in Deutschland seit Jahresanfang 2021

Die von Gartenzwergen regierte Bananenrepublik Deutschland mit SED Kanzlerin Merkel an der Spitze! Im Hochsteuerland geht es noch höher! Wahnsinn mit Methode!

"Seit dem 1. Januar 2021 gilt bundesweit ein CO2-Preis auf fossile Brennstoffe, also auf Benzin, Diesel, Heizöl und Erdgas. Das lässt die Spritpreise direkt und indirekt steigen – schließlich erhöht sich auch die Mehrwertsteuer, die auf den gesamten Kraftstoffpreis fällig wird. Ein Liter Benzin wird dadurch im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um sieben Cent teurer, wie IW-Berechnungen zeigen. Für einen Liter Diesel zahlen Autofahrer etwa acht Cent mehr. Ebenfalls um knapp acht Cent pro Liter verteuert sich der Liter Heizöl, während der Preis für Erdgas – aufgrund der geringeren CO2-Emissionen – nur um 0,6 Cent pro Kilowattstunde steigt. ...
Steuern machen nun zwei Drittel des Benzinpreises und etwa 60 Prozent des Dieselpreises aus, Schwankungen des Ölpreises sind an der Tankstelle dagegen kaum bemerkbar."

Sprit wird deutlich teurer | Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Zum Jahreswechsel wurden viele Autofahrer unangenehm überrascht: Benzin und Diesel sind spürbar teurer geworden. Grund dafür ist die neue CO2–Steuer, aufgrund der auch in den kommenden Jahren die Kraftstoffpreise deutlich steigen werden

China rollt Deutschland mit der Einheitsfront auf

Die Bananenrepublik Deutschland ist nicht immun gegen die verborgene Einflussnahme der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas! Mit den vielen tonangebenden Gartenzwergen in Deutschland hat der Diktator auf Lebenszeit Xi Jinping einfaches Spiel.

China rollt Deutschland mit der Einheitsfront auf (behind paywall) Ein von der Kommunistischen Partei und dem Ministerium für Staatssicherheit in Peking gesteuertes Netzwerk nimmt in Deutschland im Verborgenen Einfluss. Die chinesische Diaspora, Austauschstudenten und Wirtschaftsverbände spielen dabei genauso eine Rolle wie die chinesischen Geheimdienste.

Angela Merkel: Kanzlerin ohne Leistungen

Empfehlenswert! Urteile über die 16 Jahre lange Kanzlerschaft von Merkel können eigentlich nur vernichtend sein! Warum sich Kanzler Kohl so verguckt hat in Angela Merkel ist immer noch ein Rätsel oder? Wenn Gartenzwerge in der Bananenrepublik Deutschland regieren ...

"... Diese Pandemie wirkt wie ein Brennglas und bestätigt, dass Angela Merkel mit derart gravierenden Herausforderungen überfordert ist. ...
Es besteht mittlerweile nahezu gesellschaftlicher Konsens, dass es nicht nur aus klimatechnischen Gesichtspunkten vernünftiger gewesen wäre, die Kohlekraftwerke vor den Kernkraftwerken still zu legen. ...
Angela Merkel hat dieses gesellschaftliche Auseinandertriften mit ihrer Politik, die in fünfzehn Jahren Kanzlerschaft keine klare Linie und Struktur erkennbar hat werden lassen, begünstigt. ...
Viele Historiker überlegen seit Monaten, welch große politische Leistungen sie der Bundeskanzlerin zuschreiben könnten und sitzen immer noch vor einem leeren Blatt Papier. Wäre ich der Arbeitgeber der Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel, würde ich das von ihr bereits vorformulierte Arbeitszeugnis unterschreiben: „Sie hat sich stets bemüht“. ..."

Angela Merkel: Kanzlerin ohne Leistungen

To take off, flying vehicles first need places to land

Recommendable! Driving in 3 dimensions! 

"... With more than 250 businesses [in the U.S. as of August 2020] planning to build, operate, or manufacture urban-air-mobility (UAM) vehicles, all at different stages of development, a growing assortment of industry players is working across the value chain to make this dream a reality. Enabled by vertical-takeoff and -landing (VTOL) systems, electric propulsion, and advanced flight-control capabilities, these vehicles could eventually reach price points rivaling today’s taxi services. The resulting flying vehicles will be energy efficient, quiet, environmentally friendly, and eventually pilotless. ...
Adding new transportation capacity in most cities is extremely expensive, especially if it involves tunneling for subways or bypasses. The cost of building a subway in a city can exceed $500 million per mile, for instance. ...
The physical infrastructure will be an important determinant for the size of the addressable market, since the only trips possible are between VTOL ports. If only a few ports are available, flying-vehicle transport could follow a pattern similar to that seen in today’s helicopter market, where the number of potential destinations is limited. For instance, helicopter trips in cities such as London and New York can only occur between major airports and select locations in city centers—the only locations with available ports. If leaders want to scale the UAM market and not face the limits seen with today’s helicopter transport, they must establish many more ports, as well as more routes among them. ..."

To take off, flying vehicles first need places to land The buzz about vehicles flying above hides the infrastructure challenge below. Our discussion focuses on intracity and metropolitan UAM travel with a distance of under 50 miles.

Ottoman-Portuguese War for the Indian Ocean

Recommendable! I had no idea that the Ottoman Empire was so active in the Indian Ocean!

POLAND: from COMMUNISM to CAPITALISM in just a few WEEKS

Recommendable! Learn about the famous Balcerowicz Plan named after one of the best known post communist era heroes of Poland, Leszek Balcerowicz!

March for Trump

Very exciting! Hope at least a million protesters will come to Washington DC on January 6, 2021. Stop the Steal!

"Dimocrats are scheming to disenfranchise and nullify Republican votes. It’s up to the American people to stop it. Along with President Trump, we will do whatever it takes to ensure the integrity of this election for the good of the nation."

TRUMP MARCH | D.C. (the official website)

Decertify Protest at RINO Bryan Cutler's home, the Pennsylvania Speaker of House

Recommendable! If this is a foretaste of the protest on Wednesday, January 6 2021  in Washington DC, then this protest will be a day to be remembered!

Pennsylvania legislators decertify the electors!

Ted Cruz leads GOP effort to refuse Electoral College certification, demands 'emergency audit' of results - TheBlaze

What took these hesitant and hiding 11 U.S. Senators (among them four newly elected ones) so freaking long! What have these other sitting GOP Senators are been waiting for the last 60 plus days since the November election!!! 

Had GOP Senators stepped up to their constitutional and moral duties earlier, e.g. state legislators in battleground states would have already decertified their electors, more investigations/audits in battleground states would be going on and so on! This hesitation and cowardice by GOP U.S. Senators until now was stunning!

There are quite a few well known GOP Senators missing from the list!

The November 2020 election will be go down in history like no other election in living memory! The Dimocratic Party and possibly in conjunction with foreign powers have gone way too far with vote manipulations this time! It could not be concealed or plausibly denied anymore!

"... The Republican lawmakers said Congress should establish an "Electoral Commission" to investigate alleged election fraud and conduct an "emergency audit" of the election results. ..."

Ted Cruz leads GOP effort to refuse Electoral College certification, demands 'emergency audit' of results - TheBlaze 'By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes'

6-Person Trump Team Briefed Hundreds of State Senators on Election Irregularities

Will these spineless, hesitant state lawmakers in the battleground states finally rise up to their constitutional and moral duties to e.g. decertify their electors! Why don't we still see no special sessions of state legislatures etc.

The November 2020 election will be go down in history like no other election in living memory! The Dimocratic Party and possibly in conjunction with foreign powers have gone way too far with vote manipulations this time! It could not be concealed or plausibly denied anymore!

"A six-person team that included Rudy Giuliani and Peter Navarro on Saturday briefed hundreds of state lawmakers on evidence of election irregularities.

The Zoom meeting included hundreds of legislators across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Navarro, the White House director of trade and manufacturing policy, said during an appearance on Fox News.

“These legislators, they’re hot, they’re angry, they want action,” Navarro said. “We gave them the receipts. We explained exactly how the Democrat Party, as a matter of strategy, stole this election from Donald J. Trump.” ..."

6-Person Team Briefed Hundreds of State Senators on Election Irregularities (behind paywall)

Klimamodelle des IPCC schießen über das Ziel hinaus

Wer an die 100 jährigen Prognosen von Klimamodellen glaubt, glaubt auch an den Weihnachtsmann! Wir können noch nicht mal das Wetter  für 48 Stunden genau prognostizieren (Die Komplexität von Wetter- und Klimamodellen ist vergleichbar und sie sind eng verwandt)!

Die Propaganda und Demagogie, die mit dem Global Warming hoax und der Climate Change religion einhergeht ist unglaublich. Debunked and destined for the dustbin of history!

"... Der Weltklimarat IPCC plant für das kommende Jahr die Veröffentlichung des 6. Klimazustandsberichts. Im Vorfeld erstellten Wissenschaftlergruppen 27 Klimasimulationen, auf deren Basis die zu erwartende Erwärmung bis zum Ende des Jahrhunderts prognostiziert wird. Bei einer Qualitäts-Überprüfung dieser Klimamodelle zeigte sich nun jedoch, dass die Ergebnisse viele dieser Simulationen offenbar nicht zuverlässig sind. Forscher der University of Michigan und des Nationalen Zentrums für Atmosphärenwissenschaft in Boulder entdeckten bei einer Kalibrierungsuntersuchung, dass etliche der Modelle unrealistisch hohe Erwärmungsbeträge errechnen. Sie reagieren also zu empfindlich auf CO2. ..."

4. Ausgabe der Klimaschau: Klimamodelle des IPCC schießen über das Ziel hinaus - Kalte Sonne

LHCb finds more matter-antimatter weirdness in B mesons

Recommendable! Amazing stuff!

"... Scientists on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider study much more subtle differences between matter particles and their antimatter equivalents. A recent analysis allowed them to revisit an old mystery—an asymmetry between asymmetries. ...
Asymmetries are the reason we exist. CP violation—when mirror-image particles with equal and opposite charges do not have equal-and-opposite behavior—is the reason the universe was able to grow into more than the fizzing soup of particles that defined it after its birth 13 billion years ago. ...
studies particle collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider. Parker and his colleagues are using these collisions to examine CP violation in B mesons, a phenomenon first observed ... in the early 2000s. Like kaons, B mesons contain a matter quark and an antimatter quark that oscillate between the two identities. LHCb scientists use their detector to capture the decay products of these flippant B mesons and reconstruct their final internal configurations. ...
While LHCb scientists saw a clear favoritism for one configuration in neutral B mesons, they also confirmed that the same favoritism does not exist for charged B mesons, an effect first seen at BaBar and Belle. LHCb’s result significantly strengthens this mysterious asymmetry of the asymmetries. ..."

LHCb finds more matter-antimatter weirdness in B mesons | symmetry magazine

Cheese Preservative Slows Oral Cancer Spread in Mice: Study

Good news! Cancer is history! Cheers to preservatives in Cheese! Were we not warned for decades about the dangers of preservatives in food?

Remember all the euthanized mice for this experiment RIP (I blogged here about that)! These animals pay the ultimate price for us!

"The last few decades, scientists have identified more than a dozen pathogens—from human papillomavirus to Helicobacter pylori—that contribute to the progression of cancers. In a study published today (October 1 [2020]) in PLOS Pathogens, researchers demonstrate the mechanism by which three oral bacteria found in cells of the gums promote oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) tumor development and progression in mice. And they show that a bacteriocin, an antimicrobial peptide that bacteria produce, counters the effects of the oral bacteria and slows tumor growth. ..."

"Epidemiological studies reveal significant associations between periodontitis and oral cancer.  ... Previously, we showed that nisin, a bacteriocin and commonly used food preservative, reduced oral cancer tumorigenesis and extended the life expectancy in tumor-bearing mice. In addition, nisin has antimicrobial effects on key periodontal pathogens. Thus, the purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that key periodontal pathogens (Porphyromonas gingivalis, Treponema denticola, and Fusobacterium nucleatum) promote oral cancer via specific host-bacterial interactions, and that bacteriocin/nisin therapy may modulate these responses. ... Nisin inhibited these pathogen-mediated processes. ... Together, these data demonstrate that periodontal pathogens contribute to a highly aggressive cancer phenotype via crosstalk between TLR/MyD88 and integrin/FAK signaling. Nisin can modulate these pathogen-mediated effects, and thus has therapeutic potential as an antimicrobial and anti-tumorigenic agent."

"... As of 2016, nisin was the only bacteriocin generally recognized as safe by the FDA and was used as a food preservative in several countries." (Source)

Cheese Preservative Slows Oral Cancer Spread in Mice: Study | The Scientist Magazine® The results add to mounting evidence of microbes’ roles in tumor growth and point to the possibility of impeding malignancies by inhibiting bacteria.

Here is the link to the respective research paper:

Periodontal pathogens promote cancer aggressivity via TLR/MyD88 triggered activation of Integrin/FAK signaling that is therapeutically reversible by a probiotic bacteriocin

China, the dominant coal fired power plant operator of the world, recolonizes Africa

Very recommendable! I quoted lots of passages from this great article! Why Joseph Biden picked this idiot John Kerry as his climate czar is remarkable! President Obama (the first African American president) also played a very unfortunate role when it comes to Africa!

"... As to China employing more Green technology and abiding by (much less strengthening) the Paris agreement, the evidence is at best spotty, at worst completely the opposite. President Trump pulled the United States out of Paris, but between January 2017 and May 2019 the US had shuttered 50 coal-fired power plants, with 51 more shutdowns announced, bringing the total shutdowns to 289 (330 once announced shutdowns also take place) since 2010, soon leaving under 200 still operating.

Meanwhile, as of 2019, China had 2,363 active coal-fired power plants and was building another 1,171 in the Middle Kingdom – plus hundreds more in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. ... that China now has modern pollutant-scrubbing technology on over 80% of its coal-fired power plants, but no scrubbers at any Chinese-built coal-fired power plants in Africa (or likely anywhere else) – and none anywhere that remove carbon dioxide. ... 
China is building, planning or financing more than 300 coal plants, in places as widespread as Turkey, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines. India, South Korea, Japan, South Africa and even Germany are also building hundreds of coal-fired power plants. ...
China has invested over $50 billion in building new coal plants overseas in recent years, and over a quarter of new coal plants outside the Middle Kingdom have some commitment or offer of funds from Chinese financial institutions ...
Communist Party leaders seek global military and economic power – and global control of electricity generation, raw materials extraction, and manufacturing of wind turbines, solar panels and battery modules they will sell to address the West’s obsession with the “manmade climate crisis” and “renewable, sustainable” energy. ...
A recent Global Warming Policy Foundation report lambasts environmentalists (like John Kerry) as “useful idiots” who “praise the scale of Chinese ambition on climate change, while paying lip service in criticizing China’s massive coal expansion.” It notes that China rarely honors its international agreements and has no intention of reducing fossil fuel consumption. ...

With 1.1 billion people, Sub-Saharan Africa remains the world’s poorest region, despite massive mineral resources and a young, energetic population with an affinity for entrepreneurship. ... Africa must industrialize, which means it must have affordable, reliable electricity, if it is to overcome poverty and disease, create jobs and discourage terrorism.

Unfortunately, outrageously, US, EU, UN and World Bank policies have stymied African energy resource development. ... US policies since the Obama era oppose Africans using the continent’s abundant coal and gas to fuel power plants, on the ground that carbon dioxide from fossil fuels might exacerbate climate change. ..."

News - China Recolonizes Africa | Heartland Institute China knows the world will need oil, natural gas and coal for decades to come. It sees “green” as the color of money and is happy to extend credit under terms very favorable to China.

Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children

Good news! The positive effects of a pandemic! Please teachers unions keep the public schools shut for longer! 😄 Long overdue to reduce government power and control over the schooling of our children!

Current technology makes it even easier to home school!

"... An estimated 3.3 percent of children were home schooled in 2016, up from 1.7 percent in 1999, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That share roughly tripled this year to nine percent, in an Education Week survey. Gallup agrees, finding that 10 percent of children are now being home schooled. ...
Many private schools, too, are seeing growth in enrollment. That comes after years of declines because of the Great Recession and the proliferation of charter schools which offer options without charging tuition. ..."

Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children – Reason.com Pandemic chaos is driving families to flee government institutions in search of education that better suits their needs.

Arizona Update - Liz Harris gives updates on her Investigation- Whole interview

Recommendable! Shocking! 100,000 to 400,000 illegal votes in Arizona alone? Voter rolls grew by 200% in recent years? And much more ....

The November 2020 election is far from over! Votes from vacant lots, votes by felons ...

Problems started as early 2012! Outside influence possible!

House Republicans planning to challenge Biden’s Electoral College victory with Madison Cawthorn

Recommendable! Congressman-elect Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C! Hope this young man will succeed to introduce term limits on all members of the U.S. Congress!

New framework can train a robotic arm on 6 grasping tasks in less than an hour

Good news! I have not had time yet to read this new research paper by Pieter Abbeel and his collaborators, but Pieter Abbeel is a well known and highly cited researcher in the field.

"... Building on these advances, we present a Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation (FERM) that utilizes data augmentation and unsupervised learning to achieve extremely sample-efficient training of robotic manipulation policies with sparse rewards. We show that, given only 10 demonstrations, a single robotic arm can learn sparse-reward manipulation policies from pixels, such as reaching, picking, moving, pulling a large object, flipping a switch, and opening a drawer in just 15-50 minutes of real-world training time. ..."

New framework can train a robotic arm on 6 grasping tasks in less than an hour | VentureBeat

Here is the link to the respective research paper:

A Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

Astronomers have found the edge of the Milky Way at last

Amazing stuff!

"... Astronomers have long known that the brightest part of the Milky Way, the pancake-shaped disk of stars that houses the sun, is some 120,000 light-years across. Beyond this stellar disk is a disk of gas. A vast halo of dark matter, presumably full of invisible particles, engulfs both disks and stretches far beyond them. But because the dark halo emits no light, its diameter is hard to measure. ...
To find the Milky Way’s edge, [researchers] conducted computer simulations of how giant galaxies like the Milky Way form. In particular, the scientists sought cases where two giant galaxies arose side by side, like the Milky Way and Andromeda, our nearest giant neighbor, because each galaxy’s gravity tugs on the other. The simulations showed that just beyond the edge of a giant galaxy’s dark halo, the velocities of small nearby galaxies drop sharply. ..."

"... Using the current dwarf galaxy population, we predict the edge of the Milky Way halo to be 292 +/- 61 kpc."

Astronomers have found the edge of the Milky Way at last | Science News Our galaxy spans 1.9 million light-years, a new study finds

Here is the link to the respective research paper (in preprint; open access):

The Edge of the Galaxy

Why Is There a Shortage in Public Restrooms?

Recommendable! When Big Government intervenes ...

We are often told by ideologues, politicians and economists about market failures and why we need government to intervene. However, most so called market failures are at closer inspection actually government failures!

"... This shortage wasn’t always the case. City restrooms used to be safe, clean and widely-available in America, and still are across the world. But now they’re rare here, and expensive and difficult to run where they exist. The difference has been the altered incentive structure towards restroom provision – which caused scarcity. ...

publicly-available restrooms used to be common in the U.S. because they were for-pay. In the early 1900s, they popped up along railroads and then spread to the nation’s airports, bus stations, and highway rest stops. They were also common in busy urban commercial districts, often provided by the company Nik-O-Lok. By 1970, America had over 50,000 for-pay toilets. ...

Several separate interests began dismantling this business model in the 1970s. One was the feminist movement, ...

Another was the American Restroom Association, a group that still exists to call for legislation that supposedly improves restroom design and availability. Third, was the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (CEPTIA), a group of teenagers who got tired of paying to use restrooms. In 1970, they launched a grassroots crusade against for-pay toilets, under the rubric of human rights ...
This pressure was surprisingly effective, and states began passing legislation to ban for-pay restrooms. By 1980, almost none existed. ..."

Why Is There a Shortage in Public Restrooms? - Foundation for Economic Education How for-profit restrooms have been and can solve the problem.

Technische Grenzen der nationalen Wasserstoffstrategie

Empfehlenswert! Reibt euch nur die Augen! Wenn Gartenzwerge Energiepolitik machen! Mehr aus der Bananenrepublik Deutschland!

"Der größte Nachteil von Wind- und Sonnenstrom ist allerdings die Volatilität, die wetterbedingten Schwankungen. Die Deutsche Energie-Agentur DENA stellte hierzu 2018 fest: “Nicht regelbare Wind offshore Anlagen können mit 5 % sowie Wind onshore Anlagen mit 1 % der installierten Kapazität zur gesicherten Leistung beitragen, während Photovoltaik keinen Beitrag leistet“ ...
Nachdem die Acatech 2017 den Traum von der Batteriespeicherung von schwankenden Stromangebote mit Hinweis, dass dies unbezahlbar wäre, platzen ließ, gewann die Idee der Speicherung von schwankenden Strommengen in Form von Wasserstoff immer breiteren Zuspruch. ... indem nicht nur der Strom sondern auch die Wärme und der Verkehr durch Wind und Solar erzeugt werden solle, war schnell klar, dass diese Utopie allein am Platzbedarf der Produktionskapazitäten in Deutschland scheitern würde. Eine Versechsfachung der Windstromerzeugung und der Photovoltaik würde nahezu die gesamte Fläche Deutschlands im Abstand von 1 km mit Windkraftanlagen zupflastern. ...
Die Dimensionen der Pipelines bemessen sich nach dem Energiegehalt je Volumeneinheit. Gemäß Tabelle A verhalten sich die Energiedichten von Methangas und Wasserstoffgas wie 10,9 zu 3,9. Mithin erfordert eine Wasserstoffpipeline ungefähr die dreifache (genauer: 2,8-fache) Volumen- Übertragungskapazität. Eine Pipeline von der Wüste Algeriens nach München hätte eine Länge von 2900km. Für den Transport von 600 TWh Wasserstoffgas unter ähnlichen Bedingungen wie in der Nordstream-Pipeline reichen zwei Pipelinerohre mit entsprechenden Abmessungen aus, wenn man die Strömungsgeschwindigkeit gegenüber Erdgas verdreifacht. ...

Der Flüssigtransport eines Energiebetrags von 600 TWh jährlich erfordert den Transport von 260 Mio. Kubikmeter flüssigem Wasserstoff. Legt man die Ladekapazität des größten in Planung befindlichen Tankers für flüssiges Erdgas (LNG) von 270.000 Kubikmetern zugrunde entspricht das knapp 1000 Tankschiff-Ladungen pro Jahr [9].

An jedem Endpunkt des Flüssigtransports müssen täglich rund 3 Tankschiffe be- bzw. entladen werden. Stündlich müssen größenordnungsmäßig 30.000 Kubikmeter flüssiger Wasserstoff auf oder aus den Schiffen gepumpt werden. Zur Orientierung: Den größten Flüssigwasserstoff-Tank betreibt die NASA in Cape Canaveral- er hat ein Volumen von gerade mal 5000 Kubikmetern. ..."

Technische Grenzen der nationalen Wasserstoffstrategie - Kalte Sonne Die deutsche Energiewende hat bislang mehrere hundert Milliarden € gekostet. Die damit verbundene Hoffnung auf eine deutliche CO2 Senkung hat das Erneuerbaren-Energie-Gesetz nicht zu erfüllen vermocht. Als Zwischenergebnis ist festzustellen, dass Deutschland mittlerweile die höchsten Strompreise in Europa und wohl auch weltweit hat. Allein die Bermuda-Inseln haben einen noch höheren Strompreis.