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'Thread on how China kept WHO in the dark.' - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding - 4 years ago
'Thread on how China kept WHO in the dark. It’s starting to emerge what really happened in Jan, via AP investigation. Chinese officials failed to share the virus genome for >1week after decoding it and failed to reveal microbe had H2H for a further 2 weeks.' - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, (Source, June 2, 2020) Context The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a Moreby ProjectC - Project C
We're back (in black) - 4 years ago
Back In Black Context BBC, Nasa astronauts make history with SpaceX launch, May 30, 2020 (Earth Shield - Earth Defence) - '..planetary defense budget .. dealing with hazardous asteroids.' (Earth Shield - Earth Defence)(Starlink network) - 'The SpaceX company has begun the roll-out of its orbiting broadband system.' (2020 - 2050 - Becoming a spacefaring civby ProjectC - Project C
(China is 'threat to world') - India’s external affairs ministry blamed China for provoking the military escalation - 4 years ago
'The high-altitude border has been aggressively contested and heavily militarised since 1962 when China launched an offensive into Indian territory, sparking a short but bloody war. .. On Tuesday India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, held a meeting with his national security adviser, Ajit Doval, plus his chief of defence staff and three security chiefs to discuss “bolstering India’s mby ProjectC - Project C
'..prepare for economic and technological containment of Communist China.' - 4 years ago
'In order to win this competition with China there are three things that America must do: First, build the next ten trillion in US GDP. Second, build an Alliance-based trading system. Third, prepare for economic and technological containment of Communist China.' - Rewinding the Tape, May 23, 2020 Context 'Henry Kissinger warned several months ago that he sees the U.S.by ProjectC - Project C
(Banking Reform) - '..my basic definition: A Bubble is a self-reinforcing but inevitably unsustainable inflation.' - 4 years ago
' “Bubble” is commonly understood to describe a divergence between overvalued market prices and underlying asset values. And while price anomalies are a typical consequence, they are generally not among the critical aspects of Bubbles. I’ll start with my basic definition: A Bubble is a self-reinforcing but inevitably unsustainable inflation. Bubbles, at their core, are fueled by Credit –by ProjectC - Project C
(BBC) - 'In order to prevent an excessive use of private cars, with the consequent increase in air pollution, the city of Milan will encourage the use of bicycles.' - 4 years ago
'We have the opportunity to see what would our cities look like when we are designing for people, not cars.' – Samu Balogh 'It is with this in mind that Milan announced its plan to make changes in the wake of the pandemic that support alternatives to driving. “In order to prevent an excessive use of private cars, with the consequent increase in air pollution, the city of Miby ProjectC - Project C
'..Mises .. his analysis of the monetary system and the problems association with the manipulation of money and credit..' - 4 years ago
'Richard Ebeling has an essay on Mises the policy economist that is an invaluable resource to start with. It is not Mises the theorist and not Mises the philosopher, but Mises trying to take that theoretical perspective and apply in a way consistent ultimately with his liberal philosophy to address the pressing issues of a demented time. We must, I would argue, do a similar thing in our tiby ProjectC - Project C
(Banking Reform) - 'Deceived by ultralow interest rates, Americans borrow and lend in the kind of false economy..' - 4 years ago
'Negative nominal bond yields are a 4,000-year first, according to Sidney Homer’s “A History of Interest Rates,” republished for a fourth edition with co-author Richard Sylla in 2005. Topsy-turvy investment-grade bond markets aren’t without precedent, but the extent of the upheaval today is startling. If adversity is the test of the quality of a senior security, as old-time doctrine held, seby ProjectC - Project C
Obama says White House response to coronavirus has been 'absolute chaotic disaster' - 4 years ago
'(CNN) - Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering critique of the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus crisis, describing it as "an absolute chaotic disaster" during a private call Friday night with people who worked for him in the White House and across his administration. The searing comments, confirmed to CNN by three former Obama administrationby ProjectC - Project C
'Issing argues that, if countries had followed the EU fiscal rules and built up fiscal surpluses in good times, they would not be in the position to needed a bail-out now.' - 4 years ago
'..the ECB is going far beyond what Bagehot asked the central bank to do in times of panic..' - Otmar Issing (Context: '..present violation of law..' - Otmar Issing) 'Issing argues that, if countries had followed the EU fiscal rules and built up fiscal surpluses in good times, they would not be in the position to needed a bail-out now. It is not the role of theby ProjectC - Project C
(Bloomberg) - 'EU judges ‘overstepped’ their powers when backing ECB in 2018' - 4 years ago
'The German court said the EU judges’ December 2018 ruling that QE was in line with EU rules was “objectively arbitrary” and is “methodologically no longer justifiable.” It gave the ECB a three-month ultimatum to fix flaws in the measure.' 'Germany’s highest court rebukes ECJ in ruling on QE program In a long-awaited ruling on the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing pby ProjectC - Project C
(Bloomberg)(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)) - ‘False Dawn’ Recovery Haunts Virus Survivors Who Fall Sick Again - 4 years ago
'This so-called false-dawn phenomenon is puzzling health experts as they try to come to grips with the mysterious pathogen that emerged only five months ago.' 'It had been over a month since Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar was infected with the coronavirus, and the 35-year-old filmmaker thought she was on her way to recovery. Then the shortness of breath came back, followed by chestby ProjectC - Project C
(DOD)(Pentagon) - Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos - '..air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.' - 4 years ago
'The Department of Defense has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017. The U.S. Navy previously acknowledged that these videos circulating in the public domain were indeed Navy videos. After a thorough review, the deby ProjectC - Project C
The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System - '..a severe restriction of lobbying..' - 4 years ago
'We should discourage the concentration of power in big corporations, “including a severe restriction of lobbying,” Taleb told me. “When one per cent of the people have fifty per cent of the income, that is a fat tail.” Companies shouldn’t be able to make money from monopoly power, “from rent-seeking”—using that power not to build something but to extract an ever-larger part of the surplus.by ProjectC - Project C
(Global Healing 2020 - 2050)(BBC) - Oceans can be successfully restored by 2050, say scientists - 4 years ago
'"We now have the skills and expertise to be able to restore vital marine habitats such as oyster reefs, mangrove swamps and salt marshes - which keep our seas clean, our coasts protected and provide food to support entire ecosystems," said co-author Prof Callum Roberts from the University of York, UK. "Science gives us reason to be optimistic about the future of our oceansby ProjectC - Project C
'..EVs had lower CO2 emissions than gasoline and diesel cars in most of the world..' - 4 years ago
'Amid a global transport industry crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, a study from clean energy nonprofit Transport and Environment has added strength to the argument that EVs emit far less CO2 than internal combustion engine vehicles do over their lifetimes. The UK nonprofit said in its report that it had taken into account all relevant factors, including the carbon dioxideby ProjectC - Project C
(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)) - 'Missouri is suing the Chinese government and other top institutions for the role they played in the coronavirus pandemic..' - 4 years ago
'Chinese authorities deceived the public, suppressed crucial information, arrested whistleblowers, denied human-to-human transmission in the face of mounting evidence, destroyed critical medical research, permitted millions of people to be exposed to the virus, and even hoarded personal protective equipment—thus causing a global pandemic that was unnecessary and preventable.' (CNN) -by ProjectC - Project C
Why worry about China’s leadership at the U.N.? - 4 years ago
'..This ‘centralisation’ ethos of the Chinese Communist Party, was encapsulated in Xi’s recent statement that: “Government, military, civilian, and academic, east, west, south, north, and centre, the Party leads everything.” ' - Simon Watkins (Source, April 20, 2020) 'Wu Hongbo, former undersecretary general for the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said thby ProjectC - Project C
(BBC) - '..a possible link between high levels of air pollution and Covid-19 deaths in northern Italy.' - 4 years ago
'A US study suggests Covid-19 death rates rise by about 15% in areas with even a small increase in fine-particle pollution levels in the years before the pandemic. "Patterns in Covid-19 death rates generally mimic patterns in both high population density and high PM2.5 exposure areas," the Harvard University report says. These particles, one-30th the diameter of a human hairby ProjectC - Project C
(Bloomberg) - Virus Shows Signs of Easing as Germany Opens, Spain Deaths Slow - 4 years ago
'..Germany is allowing smaller stores, car dealerships, bike shops and book stores to reopen on Monday, and schools will begin readmitting some students in early May in the first few steps to normalcy. In Spain by contrast, a lockdown that’s been in place since mid-March could be extended well into May, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said, and Italy won’t do any significant easing before May 4by ProjectC - Project C
(Reduce the public (global) debt) - 'Germany .. Its finance ministers, backed by voters, insisted that balanced budgets and low debt were prudent policies storing up ammunition for a crisis.' - 4 years ago
'Such sentiments strike a chord across northern Europe, and not only with fellow euro members Austria and the Netherlands. In Switzerland, the visibly upbeat finance minister last month unveiled a 20 billion-franc ($20.4 billion) stimulus package with the preamble that, because the country had paid down debt for years, it could now afford to spend. .. For German officials however, anby ProjectC - Project C
(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19))(Why Does the WHO Exclude Taiwan?) - 'Taiwan’s experience has been a rare positive example of how governments can contain the spread of the new coronavirus disease..' - 4 years ago
'Particularly important in Taiwan’s approach are transparency and open information. Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center, established after SARS, releases information in daily briefings. This starkly contrasts with China’s initial cover-ups of the outbreak and its continued suppression of independent reporting. Taiwan’s experience rebuts the misleading narrative that only countries withby ProjectC - Project C
(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)) - Why air pollution is linked to a faster spread of coronavirus - 4 years ago
'As part of this short review, it can be safely argued that regions of the world that have a significant problem with air pollution in the form of particulate matter, and in particular PM2.5, have very strong correlation to areas gravely affected by the virus crown pandemic. This pollution, acting systematically, has significantly deteriorated the properties of our respiratory and circulatorby ProjectC - Project C
'..the Chinese economy suffers from epic maladjustment..' - 4 years ago
'For Fisher, fractional reserve banking is “a very risky affair,” and “It is obvious that such a top-heavy system is dangerous.” .. the 100% plan is “incomparably the best proposal ever offered for speedily and permanently solving the problem of depressions.” ' - (Banking Reform) - '..For Saravia de la Calle, those who engage in fractional reserve banking commit a mortal sin..&#by ProjectC - Project C
(Bloomberg) - China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says - 4 years ago
'China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials. The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they declined to detail its contents. But thby ProjectC - Project C
Coronavirus: Greatest test since World War Two, says UN chief - 4 years ago
'The current coronavirus outbreak is the biggest challenge for the world since World War Two, UN Secretary General António Guterres has warned. He said it could bring a recession "that probably has no parallel in the recent past". His warning comes amid dire predictions about the possible economic impact of measures imposed to fight the virus. The number of confirmed casesby ProjectC - Project C
(The Guardian) - The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life - 4 years ago
'Amid the confusion, day-to-day management of the crisis has frequently come directly from Trump himself via his Twitter feed. The president, with more than half an eye on the New York stock exchange, has consistently talked down the scale of the crisis.' <h3>The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life</h3> By Tom McCarthy March 28, 2020 Sourby ProjectC - Project C
Dr. Fauci: "You Don't Make The Timeline, The Virus Makes The Timeline" - 4 years ago
'..you've got to be realistic, and you've got to understand that you don't make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline. So, you've got to respond in what you see happen.' - Dr. Fauci (Source, March 26, 2020) Context (SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19))(Second wave: in the fall of 2020?)(Will the virus have mutated?) - 'Be prepared for another cycle' - Dby ProjectC - Project C
(Banking Reform) - '..a developing Solvency Problem.' - 4 years ago
'I’ve always viewed Bernanke as a decent man. But as a central banker – as the mastermind for the terminal phase of a runaway global monetary experiment – he’s been a disaster. His analytical framework is so flawed it’s difficult to comprehend the amount of power and discretion placed in his hands. It was Bernanke that invoked the government printing press to resolve whatever might ail the mby ProjectC - Project C
(SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19))(Second wave: in the fall of 2020?)(Will the virus have mutated?) - 'Be prepared for another cycle' - Dr Fauci - Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Spanish Flu Was So Deadly - 4 years ago
'As the southern hemisphere prepares for its winter season, Dr Anthony Fauci says "it will be inevitable" for the US to prepare for a second outbreak: "Be prepared for another cycle." ' - 'Be prepared for another cycle': Tense Dr Fauci warns coronavirus will come back as Trump says 'it's time' to restart economy, March 26, 2020by ProjectC - Project C