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(Ethics) - '..fighting corruption, defending against authoritarianism, and advancing human rights .. strengthening .. our middle class. .. It is past time to end the forever wars .. zero emissions by 2050 .. liberty.' - Biden - 3 years ago
'..The lack of transparency in our campaign finance system, combined with extensive foreign money laundering, creates a significant vulnerability. We need to close the loopholes that corrupt our democracy.' '..the United States is prepared to lead .. with the power of our example. .. ..a comprehensive four-year, $4 billion regional strategy that requires countries to conby ProjectC - Project C
(Electric Universe) - '..powerful electric currents flow in extra-galactic jets and that the jets themselves are “fundamentally electromagnetic structures.”..' - 4 years ago
'As Space News has reported recently, new papers in peer-reviewed astrophysical journals propose that powerful electric currents flow in extra-galactic jets and that the jets themselves are “fundamentally electromagnetic structures.” However, if you follow science news and media, it’s likely that you’ve not noticed any attempt to contextualize the development as significant for astrophysics.by ProjectC - Project C
(Electric Universe) - '..the legislation on Fusion Energy Research and Development passed..' - 4 years ago
'Energy from fusion will provide clean power for everyone that's safe, affordable, and limitless. Fusion will be a new source of clean energy that will meet our growing energy demands and combat climate change. The U.S. could be in position to lead this new industry if it can combine its resources, both public and private, to demonstrate and commercialize fusion energy. This amendment wby ProjectC - Project C
For Freedom, Justice, and Love - '..Chinese people learned about freedom, rule of law, human rights, and civil society. In some places, they found ways to practice democracy and freedom..' - 4 years ago
'More than a century ago, China missed an opportunity to turn into a constitutional democracy through peaceful transition, sending the Chinese nation into a protracted struggle marked by revolution, turmoil, and suffering. The Republic of China, with its hopes for a market economy and democratic system, didn’t last long before totalitarian politics were revived and reached extremes during thby ProjectC - Project C
U.N. experts decry Hong Kong security law in open letter to China - 4 years ago
'Critics say the legislation further erodes the wide-ranging freedoms promised to Hong Kong on its return to Chinese rule in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” agreement. At that time, China agreed to uphold the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Hong Kong - a landmark treaty that it has signed but has not ratified for the mainland. “There is an explicit set oby ProjectC - Project C
Dear Chairman Xi, It’s Time for You to Go - By Xu Zhiyong, '..What China needs above all other things is Freedom!' - 4 years ago
'..Mariana insists on another very important idea: he says that natural law is vastly superior to the power of each king or ruler. This is an essential idea that is still perfectly applicable today..' - Jesús Huerta de Soto, (Spanish, English, Chinese) - The Values: 'You only have to read one book, "The History of Spain" by Father Juan de Mariana.' - Thomas Jefferby ProjectC - Project C
(War)(The threat to world order is China) - '..rigorous analysis of Chinese political warfare and a warning of its effects on democracy.' - ..‘Insidious Power: How China Undermines Global Democracy’ - 4 years ago
'..Chinese political warfare and a warning of its effects on democracy .. the courage to defend democracy against the predations of a ruthless authoritarian regime..' 'A new book released on July 30 takes a close look at the agencies and mechanisms of CCP ‘sharp power’ in eight democracies around the world. For many of the authors, the study of Chinese influence operations hasby ProjectC - Project C
(Russia, Belarus) - 'Regimes that rule by fear, live in fear. They fear that one day the people will no longer tolerate their lies, thieving and brutality..' - 4 years ago
'What can other countries do about all this? The answer begins with defending the principle of human rights. Germany has correctly offered asylum to Mr Navalny. Its doctors can explain what was done to him—and be believed by ordinary Russians. The European Union and America have properly declined to recognise the results of Mr Lukashenko’s stolen election. Their refusal may be spun by propagby ProjectC - Project C
The 'real Lord of the Flies': a survivor's story of shipwreck and salvation - 4 years ago
'The past few days have been something of a whirlwind for Sione Filipe Totau. The 73-year-old Tongan, who is commonly known as Mano, was living quietly in the Australian city of Brisbane, when this week he was catapulted into the global spotlight, after the story of how he and five of his friends survived for more than a year on a deserted Pacific island became a runaway hit. The articby ProjectC - Project C
'..widespread price-fixing [of] .. interest rates..' - '..the September 2019 “insurance” rate cut and QE in the face of record stock prices and generally overheated securities markets.' - 4 years ago
'Just two generations ago governments in Britain, the US, and elsewhere engaged in widespread price-fixing, including of fuel, wages, and consumer goods. The abject failure of those policies was a painful lesson to learn, but the most important lesson of all will soon be delivered—interest rates, like other prices in a capitalist economy, should be set by the market rather than by central plby ProjectC - Project C
(Belarus) - 'German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz warned against Russia becoming involved.' - 4 years ago
'Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on August 17 said that Russian military help in Belarus would constitute "an invasion.” .. German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz warned against Russia becoming involved. "Military interference in other states is not acceptable at all and breaks all the rules we have set ourselves under international law,” he said in an interviewby ProjectC - Project C
President-elect Tsikhanouskaya - '..Lukashenka .. crimes against humanity..' - 4 years ago
'..Lukashenka could be prosecuted for international crimes, for instance including torture, enforced disappearances, crimes against humanity, murder, sexual and gender-based violence, and others, in German courts, or in Norwegian or Swedish ones.' - To help Belarus, recognize Tsikhanouskaya as the legitimate president-elect, August 15, 2020 Context Thousands In Russia'by ProjectC - Project C
Thousands In Russia's Far East Continue Anti-Putin Protests, Chant 'Long Live Belarus!' - 4 years ago
'Thousands of protesters have marched in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, where rallies against President Vladimir Putin's role in a regional political crisis have been held for over a month. Some of the protesters chanted "Long live Belarus!" as they marched through Khabarovsk on August 15, voicing support for demonstrations against the disputed presidential vby ProjectC - Project C
(Belarus) - '..the authorities have declared war on their people..' - 4 years ago
'The Belarusian Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich has condemned brutal police violence against demonstrators across Belarus, saying "the authorities have declared war on their people" and the President Alyaksandr Lukashenka should step down from power to prevent a bloody civil war.' - Nobel Laureate Alexievich Says Lukashenka 'Declared War' On Belarusby ProjectC - Project C
(The threat to world order is China) - 'China .. since the fall of the Third Reich .. concentration camps .. By 2030, AI supremacy might be within range for China..' - 4 years ago
'China is an ideal setting for an experiment in total surveillance. Its population is extremely online.. .. Until recently, it was difficult to imagine how China could integrate all of these data into a single surveillance system, but no longer. In 2018, a cybersecurity activist hacked into a facial-recognition system that appeared to be connected to the government and was synthesizingby ProjectC - Project C
(Africa) - 'The Great Green Wall .. Degraded land is being restored at an unprecedented rate, which means increased food security for nearby communities.' - 4 years ago
'By combating desertification in the area, the regions have begun to see increased rainfall as well as more resilient and fertile agricultural spaces. .. After decades of international aid programmes struggling to result in any meaningful change across the Sahel region, perhaps the success of the Great Green Wall can be used as a blueprint for future eco-development projects around theby ProjectC - Project C
Kissinger's folly: The threat to world order is China - 4 years ago
'The expectation was that China would cooperate with the West to preserve the present liberal order of global politics. This approach was a profound mistake: In a historically unprecedented act, the West actively contributed to the creation of its most formidable peer competitor. China hid behind a false promise to abide by Western rules and norms to forestall balancing against it, while itby ProjectC - Project C
(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)) - Avoiding a Second Wave - 4 years ago
'The discussion that follows is not intended to be alarming, but I do want it to wake you up, because it’s a real risk. The only thing that prevents the worst outcomes below is that humans are capable of changing their behavior, and I would expect that we would do so in response to an emerging second wave. Given the needless politicization of even basic containment measures like masks, I’m nby ProjectC - Project C
Paul van Dyk - Duality, 2020 '..creativity and imagination is necessary in the lab to think..' - 4 years ago
Paul van Dyk - Duality 'They believe that creativity and imagination is necessary in the lab to think of new ways to solve a problem and an analytic mind helps so much in the studio when perfecting a move.' 'Light is both wave and particle until it is observed and then it is detected as one or the either. As a physicist, who recently graduated with a PhD in Quantum Optics froby ProjectC - Project C
'The first trial worldwide on state torture in Syria started in Koblenz, Germany, in April 2020.' - 4 years ago
'The first trial worldwide on state torture in Syria started in Koblenz, Germany, in April 2020. The Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, has charged Anwar R and Eyad A, two former officials of President Bashar al-Assad’s security apparatus, for crimes against humanity. ECCHR supports Syrian torture survivors who are joint plaintiffs in the proceedings. In the course of the German Federal Prby ProjectC - Project C
(Focus Fusion)(Hydrogen-boron fuel economy)(Clean Hydrogen Alliance) - A new energy order, a great reset - 4 years ago
'..The World Economic Forum has advocated for the development of a “new energy order” and a “great reset”. Furthermore, according to NPR, “around the world leaders see opportunity in the global pandemic to address the other big problem humanity faces: climate change.” These leaders include such big-name international agencies as the United Nations, the International Energy Agency, and the Euby ProjectC - Project C
'Clean Hydrogen Alliance of companies, industry experts, national governments' - '..decarbonise industrial processes and economic sectors.' - 4 years ago
'The current installation of clean energy electrolyser capacity will be increased six-fold to 6 GW by 2024, allowing the production of 1 million metric tons of hydrogen. This will allow the decarbonization of existing hydrogen production for industry and supply new uses such as heavy transport. Looking to 2030, there is a leap to 40 GW of renewable energy hydrogen electrolysers producing tenby ProjectC - Project C
(Focus Fusion) - A cheaper, faster way to nuclear fusion - 4 years ago
'Lerner and his group are pursuing a clearly defined roadmap. The key task is to increase the density of the plasmoid, above all by improving the symmetry of the array of filaments at the point they merge together and doubling the current through the device. The expectation is to achieve the required 100-times increase in plasmoid density by the end of this year, and afterward go over toby ProjectC - Project C
'Tesla is open to licensing software and supplying powertrains & batteries..' - Musk - 4 years ago
'Tesla is open to licensing software and supplying powertrains & batteries. We’re just trying to accelerate sustainable energy, not crush competitors!' - Elon Musk (Source, July 29, 2020) Context (Earth Shield - Earth Defence)(Spacefaring Civilization) - 'Volkswagen scraps ICE production..' (Fly Electric - Emission-free aviation) - EASA certifies electric aby ProjectC - Project C
Australia says China's South China Sea claims are unlawful - 4 years ago
'MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia has joined the United States in stating that China’s claims in the South China Sea do not comply with international law in a declaration likely to anger China and put more strain on their deteriorating relations. The United States this month rejected China’s claims to offshore resources in most of the South China Sea, drawing criticism from China which saiby ProjectC - Project C
(The New Alliance)(China is 'threat to world') - '..the only way to truly change communist China is to act not on the basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave..' - 4 years ago
'..We have to keep in mind that the CCP regime is a Marxist-Leninist regime. General Secretary Xi Jinping is a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology. It’s this ideology, it’s this ideology that informs his decades-long desire for global hegemony of Chinese communism. America can no longer ignore the fundamental political and ideological differences between our countries, just asby ProjectC - Project C
(Olivine)(greensand) - '1 kg greenSand certified olivine stores 1 kg of CO2' - 4 years ago
'greenSand is the mineral Olivine (Mg, Fe) 2SiO4 in stone of sand. (faq) 'Sequestering CO2 with olivine CO2 is sequestering by enhanced weathering with olivine. Olivine is a common mineral avaliable anywhere in earth's subsurface. It reacts simply with the CO2 (acid) from the atmosphere. The chemical reaction is Mg2SiO4 + 4CO2 + 2H2O => 2Mg2+ + 4HCO3- + SiO2. Herewith olby ProjectC - Project C
(Focus Fusion) - Nuclear fusion the easy way - 4 years ago
'The goal is to reach a steady-state with continuous energy generation. Plasma instabilities are not merely unwelcome; they can also cause serious damage to a device. And now for the big difference. The DPF, in contrast, exploits instabilities as the main mechanism for reaching fusion conditions. This opposite philosophy is one reason why the plasma focus has tended to be overlooked in tby ProjectC - Project C
Thousands In Khabarovsk Protest Arrest Of Russian Governor - 4 years ago
'Among the signs seen during the July 18 rally were ones reading "Free Furgal" and “Moscow. Go away from our river, our minerals, our resources.” ' 'Tens of thousands of people in the Far Eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk marched in an unsanctioned rally on July 18 to protest the arrest of a local governor. Videos of the event showed a massive crowd filing down a mby ProjectC - Project C
(Focus Fusion) - A low cost fusion future - 4 years ago
'Finally a firm is pursuing commercial power production using dense plasma focus technology with the needed commitment. .. A low cost fusion future DPF-based hydrogen-boron fusion power plants would combine simplicity of construction and operation with small unit size, low investment cost, low fuel cost and intrinsic safety. For commercial power production, the DPF device is to bby ProjectC - Project C