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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Ingraham on Susan Rice: Obama's Super Swiffer
President Obama had surrounded himself with some dubious women like Susan Rice, Samantha Powers, and his personal confidante Valery Jarrett!
This is much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate! When can we finally expect the first indictments?
This is much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate! When can we finally expect the first indictments?
CDC updates guidance to say COVID-19 'does not spread easily' through touching contaminated surfaces
As if we did not already know that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are actively contributing to the confusion about a relatively harmless virus!
CDC updates guidance to say COVID-19 'does not spread easily' through touching contaminated surfaces - TheBlaze Not the main way it spreads
CDC updates guidance to say COVID-19 'does not spread easily' through touching contaminated surfaces - TheBlaze Not the main way it spreads
Jonathan Sumption „Die Politik schützt nicht uns, sondern sich vor uns“
Empfehlenswert! Ist Jonathan Sumption einer von den Great British Eccentrics?
Jonathan Sumption – Galionsfigur der Lockdown-Kritiker Ein Lord Auf Den Barrikaden
Jonathan Sumption – Galionsfigur der Lockdown-Kritiker Ein Lord Auf Den Barrikaden
Home Depot's Bernie Marcus blasts media's COVID-19 coverage
Recommendable! Indeed the mass media are guilty of stoking the mass panic and hysteria in the wake of Covid-19, a relatively harmless virus!
"... the media is at fault for creating panic and division amid the coronavirus pandemic. ... "My age bracket is really the problem," Marcus, who is 91 years old, said. "If we take care of my age bracket, that is 70 or above, I think that we can end a lot of the problems that are out there. People that are 70 or above have to be so careful because you are compromised in many different ways. But we're only a small portion of the population, and we're closing down everybody in addition to the schools.""
Home Depot's Bernie Marcus blasts media's COVID-19 coverage - TheBlaze
"... the media is at fault for creating panic and division amid the coronavirus pandemic. ... "My age bracket is really the problem," Marcus, who is 91 years old, said. "If we take care of my age bracket, that is 70 or above, I think that we can end a lot of the problems that are out there. People that are 70 or above have to be so careful because you are compromised in many different ways. But we're only a small portion of the population, and we're closing down everybody in addition to the schools.""
Home Depot's Bernie Marcus blasts media's COVID-19 coverage - TheBlaze
Senior White House Official Holds Up Taiwan’s Democracy as Model for China’s Political Evolution
Recommendable! David (Taiwan, Hong Kong) against Goliath (Communist Party of China)! Support the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong!
Vol. 5, Issue 10 – Global Taiwan Institute Senior White House Official Holds Up Taiwan’s Democracy as Model for China’s Political Evolution. A recent speech commemorating China’s May Fourth Movement by a senior White House official highlighted Taiwan’s democracy as compared to China’s political evolution. In turn, China’s response has shed light on Xi Jinping’s ongoing campaign to reshape historical narratives in the CCP’s favor.
Vol. 5, Issue 10 – Global Taiwan Institute Senior White House Official Holds Up Taiwan’s Democracy as Model for China’s Political Evolution. A recent speech commemorating China’s May Fourth Movement by a senior White House official highlighted Taiwan’s democracy as compared to China’s political evolution. In turn, China’s response has shed light on Xi Jinping’s ongoing campaign to reshape historical narratives in the CCP’s favor.
Mehrwertsteuer-Protest: Restaurant verkauft Erdnüsse für 26 Euro
Bravo! Sehr empfehlenswert! Hoechste Zeit das sich im extrem Hochsteuerland Deutschland der Protest aufbaut! Die AfD war die einzige Partei, die bei der letzten Bundestagswahl eine deutliche Senkung der Mehrwertsteuer im Wahlprogramm hatte!
19% MwSt ist staatlicher Raub und Plünderei!
"... eine kleine Tüte Chips stolze 8,50 Euro und bekommen dann „umsonst“ einen Aperol Spritz dazu. Oder sie legen 26,50 Euro für eine Packung Erdnüsse hin und erhalten eine Flasche Wein gratis. Nachmittags gibts den Butterkeks für 2,90 Euro und dazu einen Espresso oder für 3,50 Euro eine Scheibe Zitrone mit einer kleinen Cola extra. ..."
Mehrwertsteuer-Protest: Restaurant verkauft Erdnüsse für 26 Euro Ein bekanntes Restaurant in Timmendorfer Strand verlangt scheinbar astronomische Preise für Chips, Butterkekse und Erdnüsse. Die gesalzene Speisekarte ist Teil einer Protestaktion.
19% MwSt ist staatlicher Raub und Plünderei!
"... eine kleine Tüte Chips stolze 8,50 Euro und bekommen dann „umsonst“ einen Aperol Spritz dazu. Oder sie legen 26,50 Euro für eine Packung Erdnüsse hin und erhalten eine Flasche Wein gratis. Nachmittags gibts den Butterkeks für 2,90 Euro und dazu einen Espresso oder für 3,50 Euro eine Scheibe Zitrone mit einer kleinen Cola extra. ..."
Mehrwertsteuer-Protest: Restaurant verkauft Erdnüsse für 26 Euro Ein bekanntes Restaurant in Timmendorfer Strand verlangt scheinbar astronomische Preise für Chips, Butterkekse und Erdnüsse. Die gesalzene Speisekarte ist Teil einer Protestaktion.
Corona-Krise: Neuseeland denkt über Vier-Tage-Woche nach
Was für ein Unsinn von der linken Spinnerin Jacinda Ardern in Neu Seeland! Warum nicht gleich die ein Tage Woche? Sollte Ardern die ein oder zwei Tage Woche einführen, werde ich vielleicht nach Neuseeland auswandern! (Vorsicht: Ironie)
In einer freien Marktwirtschaft sollte es den freien Bürgern und den Unternehmen überlassen bleiben zu entscheiden, wie lange sie arbeiten wollen! Staatliche Gängelung ist, wie so oft, völlig überflüssig und unzulässig!
Corona-Krise: Neuseeland denkt über Vier-Tage-Woche nach Wie soll die neuseeländische Wirtschaft nach der Corona-Krise wieder auf die Beine kommen? Premierministerin Ardern ermuntert die Arbeitgeber, einen ungewöhnlichen Schritt zu gehen.
In einer freien Marktwirtschaft sollte es den freien Bürgern und den Unternehmen überlassen bleiben zu entscheiden, wie lange sie arbeiten wollen! Staatliche Gängelung ist, wie so oft, völlig überflüssig und unzulässig!
Corona-Krise: Neuseeland denkt über Vier-Tage-Woche nach Wie soll die neuseeländische Wirtschaft nach der Corona-Krise wieder auf die Beine kommen? Premierministerin Ardern ermuntert die Arbeitgeber, einen ungewöhnlichen Schritt zu gehen.
Savant in the Limelight 1988-2009
Recommendable! Don't you wish you had a memory like that! When will scientists equip humans with such memory capabilities be it via genetics or via human computer interface or both?
"The concept of savant syndrome dates back to 1887, when physician J. Langdon Down coined the term “idiot savant” for persons who showed low IQ but superlative artistic, musical, mathematical, or other skills. ... Nine months after Peek was born in 1951, a doctor told his family “that Kim was retarded, and they should put him in an institution and forget about him,” ... “Another doctor suggested a lobotomy [aka quackery], which fortunately they didn’t carry out.” Instead, his parents raised him at home in Utah where he raced through books, memorizing them. Despite his feats of memory and other abilities, such as performing impressive calculations in his head, Peek never learned to carry out many everyday tasks, such as dressing himself. MRIs would later reveal that Peek had abnormalities in the left hemisphere of his brain and was missing a corpus callosum, which controls communication between the two cerebral hemispheres. ..."
Savant in the Limelight, 1988-2009 | The Scientist Magazine® Kim Peek, the inspiration for the title character in Rain Man, brought public attention to savant syndrome.
"The concept of savant syndrome dates back to 1887, when physician J. Langdon Down coined the term “idiot savant” for persons who showed low IQ but superlative artistic, musical, mathematical, or other skills. ... Nine months after Peek was born in 1951, a doctor told his family “that Kim was retarded, and they should put him in an institution and forget about him,” ... “Another doctor suggested a lobotomy [aka quackery], which fortunately they didn’t carry out.” Instead, his parents raised him at home in Utah where he raced through books, memorizing them. Despite his feats of memory and other abilities, such as performing impressive calculations in his head, Peek never learned to carry out many everyday tasks, such as dressing himself. MRIs would later reveal that Peek had abnormalities in the left hemisphere of his brain and was missing a corpus callosum, which controls communication between the two cerebral hemispheres. ..."
Savant in the Limelight, 1988-2009 | The Scientist Magazine® Kim Peek, the inspiration for the title character in Rain Man, brought public attention to savant syndrome.
Extreme UV imaging visualizes mouse neurons at ultrahigh resolution
Amazing stuff! The revolution in microscopy continues!
"An international research team ... has now developed a laboratory-scale coherent EUV source from a femtosecond laser ... In lensless imaging, the object is illuminated with coherent radiation and the scattered radiation is collected onto a detector without requiring imaging optics."
Extreme UV imaging visualizes mouse neurons at ultrahigh resolution – Physics World
"An international research team ... has now developed a laboratory-scale coherent EUV source from a femtosecond laser ... In lensless imaging, the object is illuminated with coherent radiation and the scattered radiation is collected onto a detector without requiring imaging optics."
Extreme UV imaging visualizes mouse neurons at ultrahigh resolution – Physics World
Researchers Invent Technology To Remedy 3D Printing's 'Weak Spot'
Good news!
"Finding a way to remedy the inadequate bonding between printed layers has been an ongoing quest in the 3D printing field ... printed parts are weaker than identical parts made by injection molding ... To promote inter-layer bonding, the team turned to carbon nanotubes. Since these carbon particles heat in response to electrical currents, the researchers coated the surface of each printed layer with these nanomaterials. Similar to the heating effect of microwaves on food, the team found that these carbon nanotube coatings can be heated using electric currents, allowing the printed layers to bond together. ... With the plasma technology and the carbon nanotube-coated thermoplastic material in place, ... researchers added both these components to conventional 3D printers."
Researchers Invent Technology To Remedy 3D Printing's 'Weak Spot' - Texas A&M Today Texas A&M and Essentium, Inc. researchers have developed a way to more effectively weld adjacent printed layers together.
"Finding a way to remedy the inadequate bonding between printed layers has been an ongoing quest in the 3D printing field ... printed parts are weaker than identical parts made by injection molding ... To promote inter-layer bonding, the team turned to carbon nanotubes. Since these carbon particles heat in response to electrical currents, the researchers coated the surface of each printed layer with these nanomaterials. Similar to the heating effect of microwaves on food, the team found that these carbon nanotube coatings can be heated using electric currents, allowing the printed layers to bond together. ... With the plasma technology and the carbon nanotube-coated thermoplastic material in place, ... researchers added both these components to conventional 3D printers."
Researchers Invent Technology To Remedy 3D Printing's 'Weak Spot' - Texas A&M Today Texas A&M and Essentium, Inc. researchers have developed a way to more effectively weld adjacent printed layers together.
Software developed by SMU stops ransomware attacks
Good news! Sounds very promising and will hopefully defeat many criminals!
"The FBI estimates that ransomware victims have paid hackers more than $140 million in the last six-and-a-half years."
And this estimate is only for the U.S. I presume.
"Unlike existing methods, such as antivirus software or other intrusion detection systems, SMU’s new software works even if the ransomware is new and has not been used before.
SMU’s detection method is known as sensor-based ransomware detection ... The new software also can scan a computer for ransomware much faster than existing software ... SMU’s software functions by searching for small, yet distinguishable changes in certain sensors that are found inside computers to detect when unauthorized encryptions are taking place. ... When attackers encrypt files, certain circuits inside the computer have specific types of power surges as files are scrambled. Computer sensors that measure temperature, power consumption, voltage levels, and other characteristics can detect these specific types of surges ... Southern Methodist University (SMU) has filed a patent application for this technique"
Software developed by SMU stops ransomware attacks – SMU Research Engineers from SMU’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity have developed software that detects ransomware attacks before attackers can inflict catastrophic damage.
"The FBI estimates that ransomware victims have paid hackers more than $140 million in the last six-and-a-half years."
And this estimate is only for the U.S. I presume.
"Unlike existing methods, such as antivirus software or other intrusion detection systems, SMU’s new software works even if the ransomware is new and has not been used before.
SMU’s detection method is known as sensor-based ransomware detection ... The new software also can scan a computer for ransomware much faster than existing software ... SMU’s software functions by searching for small, yet distinguishable changes in certain sensors that are found inside computers to detect when unauthorized encryptions are taking place. ... When attackers encrypt files, certain circuits inside the computer have specific types of power surges as files are scrambled. Computer sensors that measure temperature, power consumption, voltage levels, and other characteristics can detect these specific types of surges ... Southern Methodist University (SMU) has filed a patent application for this technique"
Software developed by SMU stops ransomware attacks – SMU Research Engineers from SMU’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity have developed software that detects ransomware attacks before attackers can inflict catastrophic damage.
Cyber-spinach turns CO2 into sugar
Great news! This is the second blog post (see here) in less than two weeks about synthetic chloroplasts converting CO2 into useful chemical compounds!
Global Warming (aka climate change) is a hoax!
Cyber-spinach turns sunlight into sugar Combination of biological membrane and artificial chemistry could power future synthetic organisms.
Global Warming (aka climate change) is a hoax!
Cyber-spinach turns sunlight into sugar Combination of biological membrane and artificial chemistry could power future synthetic organisms.
In May 2019, two men in China were first to receive pioneering stem-cell treatment for heart disease
Good news! Looks like our grandchildren will not have to worry about heart muscle diseases anymore!
"In May last year, the men were injected with heart muscle cells derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, the surgeon told Nature — the first known clinical application of iPS-cell technology for treating damaged hearts. ... In January, a cardiac surgeon in Japan, Yoshiki Sawa, introduced iPS-derived cardiomyocytes designed to treat heart disease into a patient — which media reported at the time was a world first. His team is using an alternative approach in which sheets of cells are grafted onto the heart rather than injected into the organ."
Revealed: two men in China were first to receive pioneering stem-cell treatment for heart disease The men are reportedly doing well one year on, but there is no way to confirm that the unpublished treatment using ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells works.
"In May last year, the men were injected with heart muscle cells derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, the surgeon told Nature — the first known clinical application of iPS-cell technology for treating damaged hearts. ... In January, a cardiac surgeon in Japan, Yoshiki Sawa, introduced iPS-derived cardiomyocytes designed to treat heart disease into a patient — which media reported at the time was a world first. His team is using an alternative approach in which sheets of cells are grafted onto the heart rather than injected into the organ."
Revealed: two men in China were first to receive pioneering stem-cell treatment for heart disease The men are reportedly doing well one year on, but there is no way to confirm that the unpublished treatment using ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells works.
SARS-CoV-2-Fighting T Cells Found in Recovered Patients
Good news! Why should it be different from influenza or common cold?
"The authors also tested blood samples collected between 2015 and 2018 to see whether people who were never exposed to SARS-CoV-2 might nevertheless have some immunity to it. They detected CD4+ T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 in about half of those samples, which they suggest could be due to exposure to other coronaviruses that cause a cold. "
SARS-CoV-2-Fighting T Cells Found in Recovered Patients | The Scientist Magazine®
"The authors also tested blood samples collected between 2015 and 2018 to see whether people who were never exposed to SARS-CoV-2 might nevertheless have some immunity to it. They detected CD4+ T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 in about half of those samples, which they suggest could be due to exposure to other coronaviruses that cause a cold. "
SARS-CoV-2-Fighting T Cells Found in Recovered Patients | The Scientist Magazine®
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Viktor Orbán und die westlichen Medien
Empfehlenswert! Immer wieder inkompetente, lebenslange Berufspolitiker! Der Ausbau der EU als eine zentral geleitete Gegensupermacht gerät mehr und mehr ins Wanken! Zu Recht!
Mitch McConnell Announces Dems' Worst Fears: GOP Will Subpoena Top Obama...
Recommendable! Much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate!
Macron LOSES Parliament Majority as RIOTS Plague France!!!
Recommendable! Looks like the French president is in trouble!
The Book Club: The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and James Mad...
Recommendable! Good tutorial! A Republic, if you can keep it!
The Dark Ages With Waldemar Januszczak
Very recommendable!
Waldemar presents a number of very interesting points in his first part:
Waldemar presents a number of very interesting points in his first part:
- Very early depictions of Jesus Christ showed him as young, attractive man without a beard, sometimes even feminine. Only several hundred years later was he painted like Zeus with a full beard and towering like a god on a throne
- There is a lot about the secret language of early Christians
- Early christian churches were home churches not basilicas or cathedrals
The Dark Ages: An Age Of Light - Part Two
About Huns, Goths, and Vandals
The Dark Ages: An Age Of Light - Part Three
About Islamic art. Very recommendable!
The Dark Ages: An Age Of Light - Part Four
About Carolingians, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, and Irish monks
Monday, May 18, 2020
Jürgen Braun zur Einschränkung von Menschenrechten und Meinungsmanipulation
Sehr empfehlenswert! Der Mann hat vieles genau auf den Punkt gebracht! Köstlich! Humorvoll! Direkt!
Nebenbei bemerkt, der Mann ist im selben Jahr geboren wie ich! :-)
Nebenbei bemerkt, der Mann ist im selben Jahr geboren wie ich! :-)
Some lessons of SARS CoV-2/Covid-19
The lessons are:
- Many so called experts are rather idiot savants from the ivory tower and they are extremely risk averse. Plus, they produced a cacophony of ambiguous or contradictory advice
- The new religion of science failed us spectacularly. As Socrates reminded us and scientists over 2000 years ago "I neither know nor think that I know". Scientists are famous for frequently ignoring or grossly underestimating human adaptability and ingenuity
- Computer models are terribly unreliable (this phenomenon also contributes to the Global Warming Hoax (a.k.a. climate change). Sometimes obviously sensational model results were not sufficiently questioned!
- Too many politicians have become uncritical servants to these so called experts as if demigods instead of relying more on their common sense and sound skepsis
- Individual liberty suffered severely and was harshly restricted by many governments measures facing a rather harmless virus. Most citizens accepted this without protest. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Do we need more evidence?
- There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. This time was no different!
- Western media largely failed to investigate and report the issues as they unfolded
Coast and Conquest - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 12]
Very recommendable! Lot's about the Arab slave trade across the Indian ocean along the east African coast. And African collaborators in the slave trade!
'Doodlebug' is a Misleading Name for an Accomplished Assassin
A short horror movie presented by mother nature!
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Trump's Press Sec SLAMS the Media for Ignoring Obamagate
Much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate!
When do you know that you are old?
Today, I received unsolicited snail mail from the "largest and most trusted cremation provider in the United States" Neptune Society Cremation Services.
"... We are simply updating our files ... so we can deliver to you the latest version of our cremation answer book ..." the card said!
I am too young to die, I have no such questions!
What is next? May I have to select a memorial urn?
On the Taiping Rebellion or Civil War
If you want to understand the heavy suppression of Uyghurs and Falun Gong under the Communist Party of China, the you may want to study e.g. the the 14 year long Taiping Rebellion or Taiping Civil War. However, this is no justification for what the CPC is doing!
This was also a total war. "it ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the 19th century. Estimates of the war dead range from 10–30 million. 30 million people fled the conquered regions to foreign settlements or other parts of China. ... and it involved every province of China proper except Gansu." Until recently, I was not aware of the substantial influence of Christianity on this Rebellion that was led by the self proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.
Taiping Rebellion - Wikipedia
Taiping Rebellion - Wikipedia
Holger Schmieding: Irrtum der Richter beim EZB-Urteil
Der Chefvolkswirt irrt sich gewaltig! Seine rein wirtschaftliche Betrachtung hinkt deutlich! "Deutschlands ältester Privatbank, der Berenberg Bank" (Quelle) hat anscheinend seit 2010 einen mittelmäßigen Chefvolkswirt beschäftigt! "Berenberg-Chefvolkswirt Dr. Holger Schmieding ist einer der profiliertesten Banken-Volkswirte in Europa." (Quelle)
Die jahrzehntelang anhaltende, massive Manipulation der kurzfristigen Zinsen durch die westlichen Zentralbanken (allen voran der Fed) ist mit einer Marktwirtschaft überhaupt nicht vereinbar!
Die Realzinsen sind seit etwa zwei Jahrzehnten extrem niedrig oder sogar negativ! Das ist eine schleichende Enteignung der Sparer und Entwertung des Geldes! Negative Nominalzinsen sind volkswirtschaftlich ein Unding! Künstliche Niedgrigstzinsen (Geld kostet nichts) führen auch bekanntlich zu Fehlallokationen von Ressourcen und Wirtschaftsentscheidungen in einer Volkswirtschaft!
Abgesehen von der wirtschaftlichen Analyse, geht bei dem Urteil die rechtliche Analyse vor! Die extreme Verlängerung der Bilanz der EZB durch Anleihenkäufe seit der Finanzkrise von 2008 wurde nicht durch politische Beteiligung der Bürger legitimiert! Z.B. die no bailout clause wurde mehrfach eklatant verletzt usw.
"Um Bilanzrisiken gering zu halten, greift sie dabei in erster Linie auf Staatsanleihen zurück. Diese Papiere weisen meist höhere Bonität auf als Unternehmensanleihen."
Seit wann, Herr Chefvolkswirt, sind Staatsanleihen (etwa Italien, Griechenland) sicher, insbesondere wenn sie in riesigen Mengen gekauft werden?
Holger Schmieding: Irrtum der Richter beim EZB-Urteil Das Bundesverfassungsgericht beanstandet das Kaufprogramm der EZB. Das Urteil zeigt, wie wenig fundiert die Argumente der Richter sind. Ein Gastbeitrag. Holger Schmieding ist Chefvolkswirt bei Berenberg.
Die jahrzehntelang anhaltende, massive Manipulation der kurzfristigen Zinsen durch die westlichen Zentralbanken (allen voran der Fed) ist mit einer Marktwirtschaft überhaupt nicht vereinbar!
Die Realzinsen sind seit etwa zwei Jahrzehnten extrem niedrig oder sogar negativ! Das ist eine schleichende Enteignung der Sparer und Entwertung des Geldes! Negative Nominalzinsen sind volkswirtschaftlich ein Unding! Künstliche Niedgrigstzinsen (Geld kostet nichts) führen auch bekanntlich zu Fehlallokationen von Ressourcen und Wirtschaftsentscheidungen in einer Volkswirtschaft!
Abgesehen von der wirtschaftlichen Analyse, geht bei dem Urteil die rechtliche Analyse vor! Die extreme Verlängerung der Bilanz der EZB durch Anleihenkäufe seit der Finanzkrise von 2008 wurde nicht durch politische Beteiligung der Bürger legitimiert! Z.B. die no bailout clause wurde mehrfach eklatant verletzt usw.
"Um Bilanzrisiken gering zu halten, greift sie dabei in erster Linie auf Staatsanleihen zurück. Diese Papiere weisen meist höhere Bonität auf als Unternehmensanleihen."
Seit wann, Herr Chefvolkswirt, sind Staatsanleihen (etwa Italien, Griechenland) sicher, insbesondere wenn sie in riesigen Mengen gekauft werden?
Holger Schmieding: Irrtum der Richter beim EZB-Urteil Das Bundesverfassungsgericht beanstandet das Kaufprogramm der EZB. Das Urteil zeigt, wie wenig fundiert die Argumente der Richter sind. Ein Gastbeitrag. Holger Schmieding ist Chefvolkswirt bei Berenberg.
Politiker warnen vor Rechtsextremen auf Corona-Demos
Wie sich die Lügenpresse hier entlarvt! Der Artikel ist übelste Propaganda! Das Begleitphoto des Artikels ist eindeutig nicht rechtsextrem!
Etwa in der Mitte des Artikels lesen wir dann: "Das Bundeskriminalamt sieht Hinweise darauf, dass Rechtsradikale versuchen, die Proteste für sich zu nutzen. Eine Sprecherin teilte gegenüber dieser Zeitung mit: „Das rechte Lager fühlt sich zunehmend von den generellen ,Corona-Protesten‘ angesprochen.“ Bislang lägen zwar noch keine Erkenntnisse über eine „koordinierte Unterwanderung durch Rechtsextreme“ vor. Doch sei zu erkennen, dass diese versuchten, die „aktuelle Situation für ihre Propagandazwecke zu instrumentalisieren“."
Politiker warnen vor Rechtsextremen auf Corona-Demos Laut Bundeskriminalamt versuchen Rechtsradikale, die Demos gegen Corona-Maßnahmen für ihre Zwecke zu missbrauchen. Horst Seehofer will verhindern, dass sie dort „den Ton setzen“. Tausende Menschen gingen am Samstag wieder auf die Straße.
Etwa in der Mitte des Artikels lesen wir dann: "Das Bundeskriminalamt sieht Hinweise darauf, dass Rechtsradikale versuchen, die Proteste für sich zu nutzen. Eine Sprecherin teilte gegenüber dieser Zeitung mit: „Das rechte Lager fühlt sich zunehmend von den generellen ,Corona-Protesten‘ angesprochen.“ Bislang lägen zwar noch keine Erkenntnisse über eine „koordinierte Unterwanderung durch Rechtsextreme“ vor. Doch sei zu erkennen, dass diese versuchten, die „aktuelle Situation für ihre Propagandazwecke zu instrumentalisieren“."
Politiker warnen vor Rechtsextremen auf Corona-Demos Laut Bundeskriminalamt versuchen Rechtsradikale, die Demos gegen Corona-Maßnahmen für ihre Zwecke zu missbrauchen. Horst Seehofer will verhindern, dass sie dort „den Ton setzen“. Tausende Menschen gingen am Samstag wieder auf die Straße.
Interview mit Göring-Eckardt: „Wir brauchen einen feministischen Impuls“
Nein wir brauchen keinen Fundamentalismus a la Feminismus! Männer wacht endlich auf! Das Machtstreben der Frauen ist nicht von eurem Vorteil!
Interview mit Göring-Eckardt: „Wir brauchen einen feministischen Impuls“
Interview mit Göring-Eckardt: „Wir brauchen einen feministischen Impuls“
Discovery of Malaria Parasite’s Clock Could Pave Way to New Treatments
Good news and amazing stuff! Certain parasites have circadian rhythms too! This applies also to the parasite that causes sleeping sickness.
Just a reminder a Covid-19 pandemic reminder: Malaria kills over 400,000 people each year, among them many young children. Why have we still not eradicated this scourge of humanity?
Discovery of Malaria Parasite’s Clock Could Pave Way to New Treatments | HHMI.org The parasite that causes malaria has its own internal clock, explaining the disease’s rhythmic fevers and opening new pathways for therapeutics.
Discovery of Malaria Parasite’s Clock Could Pave Way to New Treatments | HHMI.org The parasite that causes malaria has its own internal clock, explaining the disease’s rhythmic fevers and opening new pathways for therapeutics.
Two studies show that Plasmodium—the genus of protozoans that cause malaria—have an internal sense of time that synchronizes with their host’s circadian rhythms and allows the parasites to collectively attack blood cells.
Is China in breach of its nuclear-testing commitments?
Recommendable! Cause for concern! Russian is also reported to have violated agreements. Will we see more real (as opposed to simulation) nuclear testing in the future? Will the U.S. resume more real testing?
Is China in breach of its nuclear-testing commitments? | The Strategist
Is China in breach of its nuclear-testing commitments? | The Strategist
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Corruption@FBI: The Draining of the Swamp Begins
Very recommendable! Much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate!
Introduction to The Frick Collection
Recommendable! The Frick Collection, one of the great museums of New York City!
The infamous Homestead Strike and the narrator uses the expression of "Pinkerton mercenaries" in this context. They were not mercenaries! 1) This is quite incorrect 2) Henry Clay Frick would most likely have been seriously incensed about this categorization!
The infamous Homestead Strike and the narrator uses the expression of "Pinkerton mercenaries" in this context. They were not mercenaries! 1) This is quite incorrect 2) Henry Clay Frick would most likely have been seriously incensed about this categorization!
Security forces gives a major jolt to Pakistan; Five Lashkar Operatives arrested in Budgam
Good news! Wanted dead or alive!
TAKE IT TO THE LIMITS: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism
Very recommendable! Yes, get rid of most of the federal government agencies and departments!
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla Autopilot and Multi-Task Learning for Perception and Prediction
Very recommendable! This is cutting edge machine learning and computer vision researched and experimented at Tesla Motors. This goes significantly beyond what is done at academia!
Facebook's voice synthesis AI generates speech in 500 milliseconds
Recommendable! I don't think it is the speed that is interesting here. It is actually quite slow needing 0.5 seconds to generate 1 second of sound?
However, "... a highly efficient, AI text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be hosted in real time using regular processors.", while "Most modern AI TTS systems require graphics cards, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), or custom-designed AI chips like Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) to run, train, or both. For instance, a recently detailed Google AI system was trained across 32 TPUs in parallel."
What else: "With the help of a tool called PyTorch JIT, Facebook engineers migrated from a training-oriented setup in PyTorch, Facebook’s machine learning framework, to a heavily inference-optimized environment. Compiled operators and tensor-level optimizations, including operator fusion and custom operators with approximations for the activation function (mathematical equations that determine the output of a model), led to additional performance gains."
And they used a bunch of other optimization tricks to speed up performance.
Facebook's voice synthesis AI generates speech in 500 milliseconds | VentureBeat
However, "... a highly efficient, AI text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be hosted in real time using regular processors.", while "Most modern AI TTS systems require graphics cards, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), or custom-designed AI chips like Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) to run, train, or both. For instance, a recently detailed Google AI system was trained across 32 TPUs in parallel."
What else: "With the help of a tool called PyTorch JIT, Facebook engineers migrated from a training-oriented setup in PyTorch, Facebook’s machine learning framework, to a heavily inference-optimized environment. Compiled operators and tensor-level optimizations, including operator fusion and custom operators with approximations for the activation function (mathematical equations that determine the output of a model), led to additional performance gains."
And they used a bunch of other optimization tricks to speed up performance.
Facebook's voice synthesis AI generates speech in 500 milliseconds | VentureBeat
Coronavirus Lockdowns Have Not Made Air Cleaner
Again, as so many times before environmentalists and the media try to fool us into believing their narrative! What sounds superficially as convincing or plausible often it is not by far when you care about the facts and data!
Coronavirus Lockdowns Have Not Made Air Cleaner | National Review
Coronavirus Lockdowns Have Not Made Air Cleaner | National Review
If American Healthcare Kills, European Healthcare Kills More - Foundation for Economic Education
Recommendable!
"Yet, what if there were evidence to suggest that more people would die under a universal healthcare scheme than under the current US system? ... However, the US has significantly lower rates of 30-day stroke-induced mortality than every other OECD country, aside from Japan and Korea. ... This is further reflected in overall stroke-mortality statistics: for every 1,000 strokes that occur annually in the US, approximately 170 stroke-related deaths occur. The latter number is 250 and 280 for the UK and Canada respectively. ... Similarly, cancer-survival rates are considerably higher in the US than in other countries."
If American Healthcare Kills, European Healthcare Kills More - Foundation for Economic Education
"Yet, what if there were evidence to suggest that more people would die under a universal healthcare scheme than under the current US system? ... However, the US has significantly lower rates of 30-day stroke-induced mortality than every other OECD country, aside from Japan and Korea. ... This is further reflected in overall stroke-mortality statistics: for every 1,000 strokes that occur annually in the US, approximately 170 stroke-related deaths occur. The latter number is 250 and 280 for the UK and Canada respectively. ... Similarly, cancer-survival rates are considerably higher in the US than in other countries."
If American Healthcare Kills, European Healthcare Kills More - Foundation for Economic Education
What Michael Moore’s new film gets wrong about renewable energy
Of course, it would not take long before critics come out against Michael Moore's latest film Planet of the Humans. Although, my impression is the environmentalism industry and its believers rather treat this film damnatio memoriae or blissful ignorance!
Following is also a rather disingenuous pamphlet. Just to give on example:
"Meanwhile, solar cell technology is advancing rapidly. Thin-film solar cells involve layers of light-absorbing semiconductors such as cadmium telluride or copper indium gallium selenide that are deposited on glass, metal or plastic. This technology uses only a fraction of the silicon needed to make the thick silicon wafers of a standard photovoltaic cell. Thin-film cells also eliminate the use of dangerous hydrofluoric acid to clean the wafers."
As if cadmium telluride or indium gallium selenide are more environmentally friendly to mine and produce than silicon. What about the well known toxicity of e.g. cadmium?
What Michael Moore’s new film gets wrong about renewable energy | Science News
Following is also a rather disingenuous pamphlet. Just to give on example:
"Meanwhile, solar cell technology is advancing rapidly. Thin-film solar cells involve layers of light-absorbing semiconductors such as cadmium telluride or copper indium gallium selenide that are deposited on glass, metal or plastic. This technology uses only a fraction of the silicon needed to make the thick silicon wafers of a standard photovoltaic cell. Thin-film cells also eliminate the use of dangerous hydrofluoric acid to clean the wafers."
As if cadmium telluride or indium gallium selenide are more environmentally friendly to mine and produce than silicon. What about the well known toxicity of e.g. cadmium?
What Michael Moore’s new film gets wrong about renewable energy | Science News
Mosquitoes inspired collision-avoidance sensory system for drones
Very recommendable! What can we learn from mosquitos?
"Their research, published in Science, demonstrates how the mosquito avoids obstacles in the dark by sensing changes in the airflows generated by its flapping wings."
University of Leeds | News > Science > Can mosquitoes stop us going bump in the night? Scientists have used the principles that guide a mosquito’s nocturnal flight to develop a quadcopter equipped with an elegant collision-avoidance sensory system.
"Their research, published in Science, demonstrates how the mosquito avoids obstacles in the dark by sensing changes in the airflows generated by its flapping wings."
University of Leeds | News > Science > Can mosquitoes stop us going bump in the night? Scientists have used the principles that guide a mosquito’s nocturnal flight to develop a quadcopter equipped with an elegant collision-avoidance sensory system.
The School Closures Are a Big Threat to the Power of Public Schools
Very recommendable! The headline is spot on! Privatize public education! Get the government out of the way!
"Like their lower-income counterparts, middle class parents have long been happy to take advantage of the schools as a child-care service. But the non-educational amenities didn't stop there. Middle-class parents especially have long embraced the idea that billions of dollars spent on school music programs, school sports, and other extracurriculars were all absolutely essential to student success. Sports provided an important social function for both the students and the larger community."
Thus citizens got very complacent about trusting their children with government run, labor union dominated schools!
The School Closures Are a Big Threat to the Power of Public Schools | Mises Wire
"Like their lower-income counterparts, middle class parents have long been happy to take advantage of the schools as a child-care service. But the non-educational amenities didn't stop there. Middle-class parents especially have long embraced the idea that billions of dollars spent on school music programs, school sports, and other extracurriculars were all absolutely essential to student success. Sports provided an important social function for both the students and the larger community."
Thus citizens got very complacent about trusting their children with government run, labor union dominated schools!
The School Closures Are a Big Threat to the Power of Public Schools | Mises Wire
Dihya Warrior Queen
Have you ever heard of this north African Queen?
"Dihya or Kahina was a Berber warrior queen and a religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria."
Dihya - Wikipedia
"Dihya or Kahina was a Berber warrior queen and a religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria."
Dihya - Wikipedia
Friday, May 15, 2020
Desert Empires - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi
Very recommendable! However, Zeinab Badawi did not mention once the very active slave trade under Muslim rule! That is a disturbing omission!
Ingraham: The masks are off
Recommendable! Yes indeed the Coronavirus has revealed too many petty dictator politicians! One can only hope they will not be reelected!
Corinna Miazga zu den "Grundwerten" der EU
Von der Frau wird man hoffentlich noch mehr hoeren und sehen!
Aircraft spies gravity waves being sucked into Antarctica’s polar vortex
More evidence that the Global Warming Hoax (aka climate change) is real!
"The Southern Ocean is famously stormy, home to waves taller than telephone poles. Yet 50 kilometers overhead, the weather is just as tempestuous, if less obviously so. Powerful waves in the air break and crash, dumping energy into the stratosphere and disrupting winds that help control the climate.
For about 2 decades, researchers have known that a region near 60° South, along the Drake Passage between the tip of South America and Antarctica, is the planet’s hot spot for these so-called gravity waves. They have long suspected that the waves (not to be confused with the gravitational waves rippling through space) are launched by the mountains of the southern Andes and the Antarctic Peninsula, which jut thousands of meters into westerly winds. But puzzlingly, the hot spot lies hundreds of kilometers away from the mountains. Now, a high-altitude aircraft has traced newborn gravity waves rising from the mountains and bending, or refracting, toward that hot spot.
The phenomenon helps explain why climate models predict unrealistically cold temperatures over the South Pole."
There are many other natural phenomena that climate models do not reflect or model incorrectly! Perhaps, the above provided explanation or, shall we say, conjecture is incorrect or not the whole story!
Aircraft spies gravity waves being sucked into Antarctica’s polar vortex | Science | AAAS
"The Southern Ocean is famously stormy, home to waves taller than telephone poles. Yet 50 kilometers overhead, the weather is just as tempestuous, if less obviously so. Powerful waves in the air break and crash, dumping energy into the stratosphere and disrupting winds that help control the climate.
For about 2 decades, researchers have known that a region near 60° South, along the Drake Passage between the tip of South America and Antarctica, is the planet’s hot spot for these so-called gravity waves. They have long suspected that the waves (not to be confused with the gravitational waves rippling through space) are launched by the mountains of the southern Andes and the Antarctic Peninsula, which jut thousands of meters into westerly winds. But puzzlingly, the hot spot lies hundreds of kilometers away from the mountains. Now, a high-altitude aircraft has traced newborn gravity waves rising from the mountains and bending, or refracting, toward that hot spot.
The phenomenon helps explain why climate models predict unrealistically cold temperatures over the South Pole."
There are many other natural phenomena that climate models do not reflect or model incorrectly! Perhaps, the above provided explanation or, shall we say, conjecture is incorrect or not the whole story!
Aircraft spies gravity waves being sucked into Antarctica’s polar vortex | Science | AAAS
NIST Scientists Create New Recipe for Single-Atom Transistors
Amazing stuff!
"Using these instructions, the NIST-led team has become only the second in the world to construct a single-atom transistor and the first to fabricate a series of single electron transistors with atom-scale control over the devices’ geometry."
NIST Scientists Create New Recipe for Single-Atom Transistors | NIST Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing.
"Using these instructions, the NIST-led team has become only the second in the world to construct a single-atom transistor and the first to fabricate a series of single electron transistors with atom-scale control over the devices’ geometry."
NIST Scientists Create New Recipe for Single-Atom Transistors | NIST Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing.
Global firms push US to research 5G tech that would minimise Chinese influence and allow multiple vendors
Recommendable! Not sure, I understand this move completely, but it seems to be important. E.g. how much can software replace specialized (proprietary, expensive) hardware?
"Thirty-one companies announced on Tuesday that they had formed the group, called the Open RAN Policy Coalition, to change the way the cell tower radio access network (RAN) works in an effort to support virtual, software-based 5G networks. RAN is part of a telecommunications system that connects devices to other parts of a network through cableless radio connections. Opening up RAN means the 5G infrastructure can be moved away from the need for expensive proprietary hardware."
Global firms push US to research 5G tech that would minimise Chinese influence
and allow multiple vendors | South China Morning Post
Companies including Google, Samsung, Cisco, AT&T and Vodafone urge US lawmakers to fund next-generation tech development
Firms urge research into radio access networks that would move 5G infrastructure away from expensive proprietary hardware dominated by China
"Thirty-one companies announced on Tuesday that they had formed the group, called the Open RAN Policy Coalition, to change the way the cell tower radio access network (RAN) works in an effort to support virtual, software-based 5G networks. RAN is part of a telecommunications system that connects devices to other parts of a network through cableless radio connections. Opening up RAN means the 5G infrastructure can be moved away from the need for expensive proprietary hardware."
Global firms push US to research 5G tech that would minimise Chinese influence
and allow multiple vendors | South China Morning Post
Companies including Google, Samsung, Cisco, AT&T and Vodafone urge US lawmakers to fund next-generation tech development
Firms urge research into radio access networks that would move 5G infrastructure away from expensive proprietary hardware dominated by China
UCLA scientists create first roadmap of human skeletal muscle development
Good news!
"An interdisciplinary team of researchers ... has developed a first-of-its-kind roadmap of how human skeletal muscle develops, including the formation of muscle stem cells. ... identified various cell types present in skeletal muscle tissues, from early embryonic development all the way to adulthood. Focusing on muscle progenitor cells, which contribute to muscle formation before birth, and muscle stem cells, which contribute to muscle formation after birth and to regeneration from injury throughout life, the group mapped out how the cells’ gene networks — which genes are active and inactive — change as the cells mature."
UCLA scientists create first roadmap of human skeletal muscle development | UCLA Findings could lead to better methods for creating muscle cells from stem cells
"An interdisciplinary team of researchers ... has developed a first-of-its-kind roadmap of how human skeletal muscle develops, including the formation of muscle stem cells. ... identified various cell types present in skeletal muscle tissues, from early embryonic development all the way to adulthood. Focusing on muscle progenitor cells, which contribute to muscle formation before birth, and muscle stem cells, which contribute to muscle formation after birth and to regeneration from injury throughout life, the group mapped out how the cells’ gene networks — which genes are active and inactive — change as the cells mature."
UCLA scientists create first roadmap of human skeletal muscle development | UCLA Findings could lead to better methods for creating muscle cells from stem cells
New hybrid embryos are the most thorough mixing of humans and mice yet
Cause for great concern? Probably not! However, fear of Frankenstein will most likely haunt or slow down progress.
"... With a little help, human stem cells can knit themselves into growing mouse embryos, populating the developing liver, heart, retina and blood, researchers report ... But in one of the new mouse embryos, 4 percent of its cells were human — the most thorough mixing between human and mouse yet. ... “it potentially represents a major advance,” ... More humanized animals could also prove valuable in studying diseases such as malaria that affect people more than other animals. And with more advances, chimeras could ultimately turn out to be a source of human organs ..."
New hybrid embryos are the most thorough mixing of humans and mice yet | Science News Chimeras could usher in a deeper understanding of how cells build bodies
"... With a little help, human stem cells can knit themselves into growing mouse embryos, populating the developing liver, heart, retina and blood, researchers report ... But in one of the new mouse embryos, 4 percent of its cells were human — the most thorough mixing between human and mouse yet. ... “it potentially represents a major advance,” ... More humanized animals could also prove valuable in studying diseases such as malaria that affect people more than other animals. And with more advances, chimeras could ultimately turn out to be a source of human organs ..."
New hybrid embryos are the most thorough mixing of humans and mice yet | Science News Chimeras could usher in a deeper understanding of how cells build bodies
Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August
Bravo Google! It did not read the details, but in general it is good news! This was long overdue! It is e.g. outrageous that videos in ads run automatically without my consent!!!
The so called ad blocker do not work to well either, because more than a few websites refuse to show their content when they detect an ad blocker.
Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August | VentureBeat
Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August | VentureBeat
Forty Centuries of Government Wage and Price Controls
The learning curve of humans is sometimes very slow! E.g. usury laws, rent control laws, interventions to prevent so called price gouging or speculation and many others like it are still very common ...
Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls
Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Leif-Erik Holm zur Wirtschaftspolitik der Bundesregierung
Empfehlenswert! Merkel muss weg! Steuersenkungen endlich im globalen Hochsteuerland Deutschland!
What is a coronavirus?
Recommendable! Short and to the point!
So coronaviruses also cause common cold! It mutates slowly so we have a chance to develop vaccines! Let's finally defeat common cold and influenza!
So coronaviruses also cause common cold! It mutates slowly so we have a chance to develop vaccines! Let's finally defeat common cold and influenza!
Rand Paul Exposes Joe Biden's Dark Ties To Obamagate
Recommendable! Much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate!
AFRICAN UNION OPENS BORDERS: Game-changer or a step too soon?
Very recommendable! The African free trade zone (African Continental Free Trade Area)! The pan African dream coming true? The video is unfortunately way too pessimistic and mired in typical stereotypes like corruption or vested interests in Africa etc.
I have blogged here previously about the ACFTRA e.g. here.
I have blogged here previously about the ACFTRA e.g. here.
OmniTact: A Multi-Directional High-Resolution Touch Sensor
Recommendable! How about touch sensitive robots?
"We believe that compact, high resolution and multi-directional touch sensing has the potential to transform the capabilities of current robotic manipulation systems."
OmniTact: A Multi-Directional High-Resolution Touch Sensor – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
"We believe that compact, high resolution and multi-directional touch sensing has the potential to transform the capabilities of current robotic manipulation systems."
OmniTact: A Multi-Directional High-Resolution Touch Sensor – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
Google Apps Script Annoyances
Posted: 5/14/2020
The annoyances are:
- Extremely primitive IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
- Extremely primitive autocomplete assistance
- You need to install an Chrome Browser add-on to increase the puny default font size of the editor! This bloody add-on then shows up in every browser instance!! Grrrr!
- The automatic indentation support is extremely primitive!
Excuse me! What! My script was not running longer than 5 minutes, probably much less! It appears if a loop has more than about 1000 iterations this error kicks in. The error message does not even bother to indicate whether the maximum execution time is configurable or not! This is lousy!
More annoyances will be added as I encounter them!
Famous Italians In China
Marco Polo is probably known to many! How about Matteo Ricci - Wikipedia, the famous Jesuit?
If you like to learn more about him, I recommend to watch Michael Wood's The Story of China episode 4 - The Ming.
Trumps Sicherheitsberater Flynn: Armutszeugnis für die US-Justiz
Was fuer ein Pseudo-Kommentar von einem Wichtigtuer mit wenig Ahnung Journalisten! Geschichte und Volkswirtschaftslehre will er studiert haben!
Wenn ein Journalist heute immer noch nicht begriffen hat das wir es mit einem much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate" Skandal zu tun haben, dann hat der Journalist (Frau/Mann) seinen Beruf verfehlt! Oder dieser Journalist lässt seinem Trump Derangement Syndrome freien Lauf!
"Das Weisse Haus hat den Spiess umgedreht und präsentiert Flynn nun als Justizopfer. Trump spricht gar von einem Verbrechen, das die Regierung seines Vorgängers Barack Obama verübt habe, und propagiert in Anlehnung an den Watergate-Skandal auch gleich das passende Schlagwort dazu: «Obamagate.»
Staatspolitisch bedenklich
Was ist davon zu halten? Sicher ist, dass die Affäre Flynn dem amerikanischen Rechtsstaat ein Armutszeugnis ausstellt. Denn entweder gibt es in den USA tatsächlich eine Bundespolizei, die aus parteipolitischen Motiven einen unschuldigen Spitzenfunktionär ins Unglück stürzte, zu einem unbegründeten Geständnis trieb und jahrelang am Pranger leiden liess. Oder Flynns Reinwaschung ist das Resultat einer kruden politischen Einmischung – die Folge davon, dass Trump die Spitze des Justizministeriums seit vergangenem Jahr gründlich umgekrempelt und mit loyalen Gefolgsleuten besetzt hat. Beide Sichtweisen haben in den USA vehemente Anhänger, aber keine zeigt Washington in vorteilhaftem Licht."
Trumps Sicherheitsberater Flynn: Armutszeugnis für die US-Justiz
Wenn ein Journalist heute immer noch nicht begriffen hat das wir es mit einem much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate" Skandal zu tun haben, dann hat der Journalist (Frau/Mann) seinen Beruf verfehlt! Oder dieser Journalist lässt seinem Trump Derangement Syndrome freien Lauf!
"Das Weisse Haus hat den Spiess umgedreht und präsentiert Flynn nun als Justizopfer. Trump spricht gar von einem Verbrechen, das die Regierung seines Vorgängers Barack Obama verübt habe, und propagiert in Anlehnung an den Watergate-Skandal auch gleich das passende Schlagwort dazu: «Obamagate.»
Staatspolitisch bedenklich
Was ist davon zu halten? Sicher ist, dass die Affäre Flynn dem amerikanischen Rechtsstaat ein Armutszeugnis ausstellt. Denn entweder gibt es in den USA tatsächlich eine Bundespolizei, die aus parteipolitischen Motiven einen unschuldigen Spitzenfunktionär ins Unglück stürzte, zu einem unbegründeten Geständnis trieb und jahrelang am Pranger leiden liess. Oder Flynns Reinwaschung ist das Resultat einer kruden politischen Einmischung – die Folge davon, dass Trump die Spitze des Justizministeriums seit vergangenem Jahr gründlich umgekrempelt und mit loyalen Gefolgsleuten besetzt hat. Beide Sichtweisen haben in den USA vehemente Anhänger, aber keine zeigt Washington in vorteilhaftem Licht."
Trumps Sicherheitsberater Flynn: Armutszeugnis für die US-Justiz
Trump to End Federal Retirement Investments in Chinese Equities
Will the Chinese retaliate by e.g. not buying U.S. government bonds anymore? Are such threats to be taken seriously or will others see an opportunity when China retaliates in such ways?
Just take the Thrift Savings Plan! It has over $500 billion assets under management.
"President Donald Trump will cut the federal government’s retirement fund investments in Chinese equities, according to a Monday letter obtained by Fox Business.
The White House does not want federal employee retirement funds to have money invested in Chinese equities, national security adviser Robert O’Brien and National Economic Council Chair Larry Kudlow said in a letter to U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia Monday."
Trump to End Federal Retirement Investments in Chinese Equities
Just take the Thrift Savings Plan! It has over $500 billion assets under management.
"President Donald Trump will cut the federal government’s retirement fund investments in Chinese equities, according to a Monday letter obtained by Fox Business.
The White House does not want federal employee retirement funds to have money invested in Chinese equities, national security adviser Robert O’Brien and National Economic Council Chair Larry Kudlow said in a letter to U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia Monday."
Trump to End Federal Retirement Investments in Chinese Equities
Facebook verlegt Afrika-Kabel: Ein Unterseekabel für die nächste Milliarde Nutzer
Good news! Vernetzte Welt! Shrinking distances!
"Das Kabel, das mit 37.000 Kilometern fast so lang wie der Äquator sein werde, soll insgesamt 23 Länder in Afrika, dem Nahen Osten und Europa miteinander verbinden. ... Facebook ist an Internet-Infrastruktur-Projekten auf der ganzen Welt beteiligt. Zudem verfolgt der Konzern Pläne, mit Drohnen und Satelliten auch entlegene Orte an das Internet anzubinden. ...
Neben Facebook arbeitet auch Google an ähnlichen Vorhaben. So soll ein Unterseekabel im Atlantik namens Equiano ... Portugal und Südafrika verbinden. Der Suchmaschinen-Betreiber verfügt über ein ganzes Netzwerk an Unterseekabeln."
Facebook verlegt Afrika-Kabel: Ein Unterseekabel für die nächste Milliarde Die Nächste Milliarde Nutzer. Fast so lang wie der Äquator, eine dreimal höhere Kapazität als alle bisherigen Kabel: Facebook plant eine neue Internet-Verbindung für Afrika und zwischen Afrika und Europa. Es geht um viele neue Nutzer.
"Das Kabel, das mit 37.000 Kilometern fast so lang wie der Äquator sein werde, soll insgesamt 23 Länder in Afrika, dem Nahen Osten und Europa miteinander verbinden. ... Facebook ist an Internet-Infrastruktur-Projekten auf der ganzen Welt beteiligt. Zudem verfolgt der Konzern Pläne, mit Drohnen und Satelliten auch entlegene Orte an das Internet anzubinden. ...
Neben Facebook arbeitet auch Google an ähnlichen Vorhaben. So soll ein Unterseekabel im Atlantik namens Equiano ... Portugal und Südafrika verbinden. Der Suchmaschinen-Betreiber verfügt über ein ganzes Netzwerk an Unterseekabeln."
Facebook verlegt Afrika-Kabel: Ein Unterseekabel für die nächste Milliarde Die Nächste Milliarde Nutzer. Fast so lang wie der Äquator, eine dreimal höhere Kapazität als alle bisherigen Kabel: Facebook plant eine neue Internet-Verbindung für Afrika und zwischen Afrika und Europa. Es geht um viele neue Nutzer.
Here is an english language article about this topic:
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Obama officials identified: ex-NSA advisor tells all on Flynn case
Recommendable! Much bigger and much more sophisticated than Watergate! When will we finally see indictments!
Why Dr Fauci is Wrong About Lockdowns
Why President Trump has not fired this clown Fauci a long time ago is a mystery!
How Youth Driven Climate Litigation Sustains Democracy: Perspectives from the US and Europe
The Harvard University promotes and advocates politically instrumentalized, indoctrinated, and brainwashed children! Despicable!
How our children are abused for the Global Warming Hoax (aka climate change)!
"The Ash Center invites you to meet the inspiring generation organizing and advocating for the right to a healthy climate -- and reinventing democratic values and practices to be effective in times of climate change."
Brought to you via the "The Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation advances excellence and innovation in governance and public policy through research, education, and public discussion."
How Youth Driven Climate Litigation Sustains Democracy: Perspectives from the US and Europe | Ash Center
How our children are abused for the Global Warming Hoax (aka climate change)!
"The Ash Center invites you to meet the inspiring generation organizing and advocating for the right to a healthy climate -- and reinventing democratic values and practices to be effective in times of climate change."
Brought to you via the "The Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation advances excellence and innovation in governance and public policy through research, education, and public discussion."
How Youth Driven Climate Litigation Sustains Democracy: Perspectives from the US and Europe | Ash Center
The rapidly unfolding future of smart fabrics
This is all very nice to have clothing monitoring my vital signs! However, what about 21st century clothing that does not wrinkle; prevents drowning; dries instantly; is self cleaning; provides automatically sufficient warmth and cooling when needed etc.
3 Questions: The rapidly unfolding future of smart fabrics | MIT News Soon, your clothes may be able to monitor your vital signs, analyze the results, and warn you of health risks.
3 Questions: The rapidly unfolding future of smart fabrics | MIT News Soon, your clothes may be able to monitor your vital signs, analyze the results, and warn you of health risks.
This AI Poet Mastered Rhythm, Rhyme, and Natural Language to Write Like Shakespearem
Recommendable! Deep-Speare to be or not to be! Computational creativity is beginning to compete with human creativity!
This AI Poet Mastered Rhythm, Rhyme, and Natural Language to Write Like Shakespeare - IEEE Spectrum “Deep-speare” crafted Shakespearean verse that most readers couldn’t distinguish from human-written poems
Here is the underlying research paper:
Deep-speare: A joint neural model of poetic language, meter and rhyme
This AI Poet Mastered Rhythm, Rhyme, and Natural Language to Write Like Shakespeare - IEEE Spectrum “Deep-speare” crafted Shakespearean verse that most readers couldn’t distinguish from human-written poems
Here is the underlying research paper:
Deep-speare: A joint neural model of poetic language, meter and rhyme
However the paper was published already in ACL 2018 and is thus a bit dated. The paper has garnered only 8 citations so far.
Pions form a new kind of helium called Pionic Helium
Amazing stuff! The exotic excites physicists! Building novel, artificial atoms seems to be the new frontier!
"The ability to make artificial atoms containing exotic particles in place of electrons is giving physicists a new way of probing fundamental interactions. Now researchers have created and interrogated a novel kind of helium atom in which one of the electrons is replaced by a sub-atomic particle known as a pion."
"Among the particles previously used to make these unusual atoms is the muon, which is about 200 times as massive as the electron but otherwise has identical properties. In 2010, [researchers] ... carried out spectroscopic measurements on muonic hydrogen."
Pions form a new kind of helium – Physics World
"The ability to make artificial atoms containing exotic particles in place of electrons is giving physicists a new way of probing fundamental interactions. Now researchers have created and interrogated a novel kind of helium atom in which one of the electrons is replaced by a sub-atomic particle known as a pion."
"Among the particles previously used to make these unusual atoms is the muon, which is about 200 times as massive as the electron but otherwise has identical properties. In 2010, [researchers] ... carried out spectroscopic measurements on muonic hydrogen."
Pions form a new kind of helium – Physics World
Lebanon on the Brink
Recommendable! More for Israel to worry about! Lebanon could easily be a flourishing and prosperous country were it not e.g. for Islamists and Iran operating in Lebanon!
The West has failed Lebanon for decades! Many very qualified and skilled Lebanese are refugees in Western countries. The rushed withdrawal of U.S. troops ordered by President Reagan (not his finest hour) after the Multinational Force in Lebanon bombing in 1983.
Lebanon on the Brink - The Dispatch While we fight a pandemic, a financial crisis could make the nation a field for great power rivals.
The West has failed Lebanon for decades! Many very qualified and skilled Lebanese are refugees in Western countries. The rushed withdrawal of U.S. troops ordered by President Reagan (not his finest hour) after the Multinational Force in Lebanon bombing in 1983.
Lebanon on the Brink - The Dispatch While we fight a pandemic, a financial crisis could make the nation a field for great power rivals.
Photosynthesis rewired to generate hydrogen
Let the age of hydrogen power finally begin! Photovoltaic cells and wind turbines belong into the dustbin of obsolete human follies!
"Scientists have successfully directed photosynthetic electron flow away from fixing carbon dioxide and towards proton reduction by fusing together photosystem I (PSI) and algal hydrogenase in vivo. Modified algae cells expressing the PSI–hydrogenase chimera produce hydrogen in a light dependent fashion at high rates."
Photosynthesis rewired to generate hydrogen | Research | Chemistry World Gene transplant repositions algal hydrogenase so that it directly captures electrons from photosystem I
"Scientists have successfully directed photosynthetic electron flow away from fixing carbon dioxide and towards proton reduction by fusing together photosystem I (PSI) and algal hydrogenase in vivo. Modified algae cells expressing the PSI–hydrogenase chimera produce hydrogen in a light dependent fashion at high rates."
Photosynthesis rewired to generate hydrogen | Research | Chemistry World Gene transplant repositions algal hydrogenase so that it directly captures electrons from photosystem I
New antimicrobial coating disinfects surfaces from virus
Surface coatings that automatically disinfect would be a way to go in the 21st century! How about specially coated door knobs, light switches, faucet handles or other often touched surfaces etc.
I am not so sure the approach described in the article below is really good and widely applicable. These coatings might be appropriate for food processing facilities.
New antimicrobial coating disinfects surfaces from virus - ISRAEL21c Bio-Fence product from Israel could be painted or sprayed on walls and floors in hotels, offices, factories, train stations, airports and more
I am not so sure the approach described in the article below is really good and widely applicable. These coatings might be appropriate for food processing facilities.
New antimicrobial coating disinfects surfaces from virus - ISRAEL21c Bio-Fence product from Israel could be painted or sprayed on walls and floors in hotels, offices, factories, train stations, airports and more
Coronavirus shuts down U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Since my wife and I have yet to receive any stimulus check, we began to investigate!
IRS provides services only online. The 800-829-1040 phone no. for individual filers is useless thanks to the pandemic. Reduced staffing would not allow the IRS to answer taxpayer questions! Ludicrous!
IRS urges you to to use following website: Get My Payment/Check on the status of your Economic Impact Payment
Very nice if it worked! My wife and I tried separately multiple times using different ways to enter the requested information. Nada! Your entered information does not match our records! What exactly did not match IRS records, the IRS would not tell? We are annual tax return filers!
So much for federal incompetence!
Today (5/13/2020), I called two local IRS offices in Arizona. Guess, what! The automated message lets you know that the office is closed until further notice due to the pandemic!
What a farce! What an embarrassment!
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
India emphasises economic self reliance policies triggered by Covid-19
Is the Indian prime minister Modi going to promote more economic self reliance and autarky of the Indian economy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic? This would not be good for free trade! I believe, since becoming independent, India has tried more than enough to be economic self reliant!
Trump administration proposes a Medicare pay bump for CAR-T therapies
Good news! Give CAR-T therapies a chance!
However, caveat! Medicare should be phased out as it is a massive socialist, government run healthcare program! Medicare is unconstitutional!
Trump administration proposes a Medicare pay bump for CAR-T therapies (article behind paywall)
However, caveat! Medicare should be phased out as it is a massive socialist, government run healthcare program! Medicare is unconstitutional!
Trump administration proposes a Medicare pay bump for CAR-T therapies (article behind paywall)
Corona: EU-Vertretung in China ließ sich zensieren
Und wieder hat die EU vor China den kowtow gemacht!
"Brüssel macht einmal mehr einen Kotau vor Pekings Mandarinen. Anlässlich des 45. Jahrestages der Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen vom 6. Mai 1975 hatten die Vertreter der EU und der 27 Mitgliedstaaten einen Gastbeitrag vorbereitet, der eigentlich die guten Beziehungen betonen sollte. Doch Hinweise darin, dass das Coronavirus in China ausgebrochen sei und sich in den vergangenen drei Monaten im Rest der Welt verbreitet habe, wollte Peking nicht akzeptieren. In den chinesischen Medien erschien nur die gekürzte Version.
Corona: EU-Vertretung in China ließ sich zensieren - Politik - SZ.de
"Brüssel macht einmal mehr einen Kotau vor Pekings Mandarinen. Anlässlich des 45. Jahrestages der Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen vom 6. Mai 1975 hatten die Vertreter der EU und der 27 Mitgliedstaaten einen Gastbeitrag vorbereitet, der eigentlich die guten Beziehungen betonen sollte. Doch Hinweise darin, dass das Coronavirus in China ausgebrochen sei und sich in den vergangenen drei Monaten im Rest der Welt verbreitet habe, wollte Peking nicht akzeptieren. In den chinesischen Medien erschien nur die gekürzte Version.
Darum ist es wichtig: Das Jahr 2020 sollte eigentlich ein besonderes werden in den Beziehungen zwischen Brüssel und Peking. Im kommenden September soll in Deutschland, in Leipzig, der EU-China-Gipfel stattfinden. Im Halbjahr der deutschen Ratspräsidentschaft strebt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel den Abschluss eines umfassenden Investitionsabkommens mit China an. China ist als grösster Handelspartner der EU und hinter den USA zweitgrösster Abnehmer europäischer Güter und Dienstleistungen und damit wirtschaftlich für die Union ein zentraler Partner. Die Verhandlungen jedoch stocken.
Offenbar um die Beziehungen nicht zu gefährden, gab die EU-Vertretung in Peking «nach erheblichem Zögern» klein bei. Die Regierungen in Europa waren dazu nicht konsultiert worden. Im Nachgang publizierten einige Botschaften den Originaltext auf ihren Websites." (Source)Corona: EU-Vertretung in China ließ sich zensieren - Politik - SZ.de
Hyundai and Aptiv redeploy autonomous vehicles to deliver meals to vulnerable people in Las Vegas
What an ingenious way to continue testing of autonomous vehicles! Bravo!
Viva Las Vegas!
"The Hyundai-Aptiv Driving Joint Venture, a collaboration between Hyundai and Aptiv (formerly Delphi) to develop autonomous vehicle technologies, is using driverless vehicles in Las Vegas to deliver food to families in partnership with a nonprofit."
Hyundai and Aptiv redeploy autonomous vehicles to deliver meals to vulnerable people in Las Vegas | VentureBeat
"The Hyundai-Aptiv Driving Joint Venture, a collaboration between Hyundai and Aptiv (formerly Delphi) to develop autonomous vehicle technologies, is using driverless vehicles in Las Vegas to deliver food to families in partnership with a nonprofit."
Hyundai and Aptiv redeploy autonomous vehicles to deliver meals to vulnerable people in Las Vegas | VentureBeat
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