[Reuters] Demonstrators protest the extension of the emergency Safer at Home order by State Governor Tony Evers outside the State Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin,
[American Thinker] Last Friday, Bret Stephens, of the New York Times, had an epiphany: Locking down America just because New York City is having problems is a bad idea. He thinks the problem is that New York is so densely populated. What he misses is that Mayor de Blasio's and Gov. Cuomo's policies exacerbated the virus. They are the poster boys for why Democrats should never have power.
To his credit, Stephens finally realized that the Wuhan virus is not an American problem. It’s primarily a New York problem, followed by a handful of other Democrat-run cities:
As of Friday, there have been more Covid-19 fatalities on Long Island’s Nassau County (population 1.4 million) than in all of California (population 40 million). There have been more fatalities in Westchester County (989) than in Texas (611). The number of Covid deaths per 100,000 residents in New York City (132) is more than 16 times what it is in America’s next largest city, Los Angeles (8). If New York City proper were a state, it would have suffered more fatalities than 41 other states combined.
Having figured this out, Stephens reached the next logical point:
Americans are being told they must still play by New York rules — with all the hardships they entail — despite having neither New York’s living conditions nor New York’s health outcomes. This is bad medicine, misguided public policy, and horrible politics.
What Stephens missed, and what matters for the political choices voters make in November, is that New York’s problem isn’t just population density. New York suffers from appalling political decisions at both the state and the local level.
Probably the worst decision governor Cuomo made was to force New York’s nursing homes to accept people who tested positive for the Wuhan virus. The people most vulnerable to the Wuhan virus are the elderly and the sick, so this decision turned nursing homes into charnel houses:
The Post reports that a Brooklyn nursing home that’s seen New York’s greatest number of COVID-related deaths (55, on the latest list) wrote the state Health Department on April 8 to plead for help.
Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman e-mailed four officials to report that his facility had "over 50 symptomatic patients scattered through the building and almost no gowns" and warned, "There is no way for us to prevent the spread under these conditions."
His closing, in hindsight, is heartbreaking: "Is there anything more we can do to protect our patients and staff? Thank you for any help you could be."
Someone wrote back 20 minutes later — with a standard attachment offering advice on how to conserve personal protective equipment. (In reply, Tuchman repeated the fact that Cobble Hill didn’t have anything to conserve.)
The concerned CEO made another plea the next day, asking if he could send the home’s suspected coronavirus cases to the field hospital at the Javits Center or the USNS Comfort. No dice, came the answer.
We’re also familiar with the video of Mayor de Blasio and his team (with a cameo from Pelosi in San Francisco) assuring New Yorkers that they should crowd into Chinatown and have fun:
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Miami has greater density than NYC.
SF's density is similar to NYC's and had a far higher concentration of travelers from China in Dec-Feb. than NYC did.
[Red State] Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke to John Catsimatidis on his radio show "The Cats Roundtable" on Sunday morning.
Rudy Giuliani criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci, the long-time Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), for his involvement in the agency’s grant of $3.7 million to the "EcoHealth Alliance to study the risk of future coronavirus (CoV) emergence from wildlife using in-depth field investigations across the human-wildlife interface in China in wet markets."
About ten days ago, Fox News’ Bret Baier reported the stunning news that officials have "increasingly high confidence" the COVID-19 pandemic originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Level 4 biological testing lab located in Wuhan, China.
Baier told Sean Hannity that his sources believe the virus was accidentally transferred from a bat to an intern working at the lab (patient zero) who unknowingly began spreading the virus into the population of Wuhan.
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This story will likely not gain much altitude in the media or anywhere else. I hope and pray there is absolutely no basis of fact to this Gordon Duff story.
The way (SBIR/STTR)'s work is the Primary Investigator (PI) proposes an idea and if it is selected the PI runs with it. Now if the PI is in a US University and does work on the University property the University GRABS %60 to %80 of the grant for use fees of their property. This means if the PI has someplace else to do it that can't GRAB is grant and charges a lot less money for USE fees (rent) it's in the PI's interest to do so. Wuhan wouldn't be able to grab the grant so a PI with a good connection to the Wuhan lab could make his money go much much further!
Now as to the grants/monies themselves. Government agencies are required to spend %2 to %4 (depending on agency) of their budget on these research grants. They really don't fit in their agency game plans and most agencies hate them. Seriously! So they really don't pay too much attention where they are done or what for.
This is why I think it's a stupid waste of money! Most of these (ALL) grants would never pass a corporate Return on Investment test and don't really generate useful research that is needed. They are merely a hidden subsidy to university administrations with the PI groups actual expenditure on R&D seen as the negative by the universities.
So if the STTR was done in Wuhan the university that PI was associated with would be upset they didn't get the hidden subsidy.
Now for DOD SBIR/STTR grants it's even crazier. A major needs to get promoted so he doesn't get cut. There are 3 main ways for a major to get promoted. 1) Excel in actual combat. 2) Take part in a UN (or like) peacekeeping effort 3) Develop a new weapon (even if it doesn't fit any military plan or need)
Reason #3 is behind most military SBIR/STTR grants.
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Again, due to the suspected origins of the financial piece, I doubt this story has legs. If anything comes of it, you'll undoubtedly begin hearing references or defaults to... 'research knowledge gaps.'
[The Hill] The U.S. must seize the opportunity presented by China’s strategic missteps. Beijing has given Washington the opportunity to unite the world against it in a way that even its suppression of human rights has not — with the mistreatment of China’s Muslim minority in Xinjiang, threats against Taiwan, and the crushing of Hong Kong protests. This virus will leave lasting scars on many countries, millions of people, and the world economic order.
For that reason, the U.S. must take four measures:
First, recognize that China is no longer just a rival. It is the most serious threat to our national security and the existing world order. The U.S. must call the world’s attention to what should be obvious — that China enabled this pandemic — despite the CCP’s efforts to deceive the world about the virus’s origin. As part of its propaganda campaign, Beijing has emphasized its efforts to place a Band-Aid on a gaping head wound by providing defective medical equipment to other countries. The U.S. and its allies must demand a reckoning for the CCP’s actions and draw attention to the regime’s true nature and misrule.
Second, reverse China’s penetration of international institutions. The performance of the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic, for example, augmented China’s deception. Reversing China’s infiltration means examining the behavior of the leadership of nongovernmental organizations, many of the world’s governments, financial markets, media organizations and industries that Beijing has worked to capture.
Third, Washington must declare where it stands. This means advancing the U.S. conception of world order — a free, egalitarian political system that protects the rights of individuals — and ending dependence on the CCP for medicines, medical equipment, 5G technologies and other sinews of modern economies. The present order was under tremendous strain even before the pandemic, and now it must evolve. The U.S. must make itself a leading producer of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment once again, so that the world has a safe, reliable and secure supply when another pandemic happens.
But that is only the start. The U.S. also must strengthen its defenses. It needs Project Bioshield and related shields involving information technology (IT) and space. The goal is to ensure that the People’s Liberation Army cannot take command of this new "strategic commanding heights" of biowarfare, as Guo Jiwei described in his 2010 book, "War for Biological Dominance." In short, we must prevent planned, accidental or natural biological destruction. Americans must employ the ingenuity, spirit and production capacity that our forebears displayed during World War II to keep the world free. It’s equally important to shield IT design and production so that the world will not be held hostage by IT viruses and malware from China, which has worked to gain supremacy in artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing.
At the same time, the U.S. must ensure that it provides investment and infrastructure for economic development in other countries. This means working with Wall Street to aid developing countries as readily as Wall Street did China’s development, and ensuring that Wall Street polices its capital so that the CCP cannot tap into it.
All of these measures entail a sharp break with decades-old ideas and behavior — a break that is long overdue. Any attempts to secure a restoration should fail as long as the CCP holds its power.
Fourth, the U.S. must contrast its vision with China’s. Beijing seeks to exploit the world’s resources and populations for its benefit. Certainly with the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCP’s behavior and unwillingness to acknowledge its mistakes have cost the world dearly. It acted out of fear that the coronavirus outbreak would further Xi Jinping’s loss of legitimacy and destabilize the CCP. A major implication of the pandemic for Chinese politics is more suppression within the party and of the larger population. If the U.S. demonstrates the contrast between its ideology and China’s, people all over the world might see which vision is better for the global population.
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seizing all Chinese assets in the US would be a good start on the road to make us whole
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And make all china stooges in the US allocute about what they have facilitated.
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Put Gates, Fauci and Feinstein up first. As the half time show at the 2020 SuperBowl.
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Birth rates are a fraught indicator. Here in the US we have high quality births that are anathema to the elites and no quality births that the elites celebrate.
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If the world turned its back on China, (unlikely, but let's continue the thought experiment), what would China do? Roll over and die? Or attack Taiwan? Can somebody come up with a good outcome?
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#6 Well, in the past they've had long periods of pretending that the World outside China doesn't exist. So, they may decide that "The Mandate of Heaven" was withdrawn not just from Xi personally - but from the entire idea of trading with the outside. On the other hand, a lot of their people have an interest in continuation of the current policy.
How about they compromise and release Sars-Cov-3?
It's Kurt
[TownHall] America’s China problem is a two-part problem — one part is dealing with those pangolin-kebabing commie bastards and the other is dealing with their fellow travelers among our garbage globalist elite here at home. But the Chinese coronavirus — aptly named the "Chinese coronavirus" because this pandemic is the result of either Chinese incompetence and/or bizarre bat soup gulping, plus a lot of standard ChiCom deception — has at least made clear that we better deal with them before they deal with us. It’s a wake-up call we better heed by getting woke.
Red China must be dealt with as what it is — an enemy. If the country’s Maoist mullahs had decided that they wanted China to spin-up into a first world power and responsibly assume a place at the world’s head-table by trading fairly, respecting human rights, not stealing our inventions, and not sending weird bugs across the globe, cool. But Red China wants to dominate the world. Red has nothing to do with it
...But the Chinese main effort is not military. It is economic, supported with information operations and diplomatic initiatives. The massive, pervasive theft of our intellectual property has saved China trillions. The unfair trade deals we still accept have destroyed our manufacturing capability. And the ChiComs are aided and abetted by the globalist Fifth Columnists here at home who have been bought off by the opportunity to get rich selling us out to the Reds. Far too many people at the heights of power in our country, including but not limited to Grandpa Badfinger’s stoner son Hoover, are getting rich doing China’s bidding. If you point out that we are educating a generation of Chinese students and inviting in "scholars" and "workers" who are active agents of Chinese intelligence and who are stealing us blind, our garbage elite will provide cover against the necessary steps to stop this looting by labeling it as "racist." China is using our idiotic political correctness fixation as a propaganda weapon, and diplomatically it is going to the rest of the world and inviting them to sign up with the winning team.
...We need a massive build-up of conventional military power at sea, in the air, in space, both outer and cyber. And we need to return to having a serious military that focuses on killing our enemies and not on pronoun policing and stress card sissification. Without both, our first day of war with China — which our fecklessness makes certain to come — will make Pearl Harbor look like a group hug.
We need to take this moment to understand that Red China is a hostile power seeking to defeat us economically. We need to aggressively repatriate critical industries home from China. We need our own drug industry back, our own rare-earth mining capacity, our own steel sector. We need to waive the frivolous regulatory nonsense that made China attractive to businesses in the first place. If the EPA keeps us from mining rare earth elements, it’s the EPA that needs to go, not our capacity to obtain these critical resources.
We need to do what China does without hesitation: bar Chinese companies or Chinese-controlled companies from participating in critical infrastructure like 5G.
We also need to stop pretending China is a developing nation and demand it fund all international organizations at America’s level. That it owns the WHO, yet pays a fraction of what we do is ridiculous. In too many ways — including in the idiotic climate hoax arena — China gets an edge by pretending it is not a First World nation and getting breaks we do not.
We need to clamp down on espionage, both strategic and economic. We need to openly tell the truth: China targets the Chinese diaspora to use as spies. That’s not racist. That’s a fact. But let’s not let the traitors who are not of Chinese descent off the hook. There are too many people who will sell out their country for a few renminbi. We need to get the FBI out of domestic politics and massively focused on uprooting these foreign agents. All spies should be subject to lengthy prison sentences. This nonsense about just a year or two in jail needs to end. And we need to clear out academia of Chinese nationals, both students and faculty. Why are we training our enemy? Plus, we must ruthlessly expose just who China has bought in our universities, the corporations, and the media.
China is largely to blame for the Wuhan Flu pandemic, but the idea of suing it for compensation is as useless as it is politically attractive. Here’s the way to kill two bats with one stone: impose a penalty tariff on all Chinese goods to create a huge pot of money to compensate the victims of ChiCom lies as well as give our industries a chance to recover.
The Lid via Instapundit
...First, to reiterate: The public knows very little about what’s going on in North Korea. Under the traditional circumstances up until the last 18 months or so, the U.S. government didn’t know a whole lot more than the public. Even with the Trump-Kim rapprochement, we can’t congratulate ourselves that our direct visibility into the machinations of the North Korean leadership has expanded that much.
That said, we aren’t without signals to interpret. South Korea, moreover, a U.S. ally and the nation most closely attuned to the North, watches as vigilantly as possible and shares a great deal with us. South Korea is also as closed-mouthed as necessary for security and strategic latitude. The South Koreans will not be tipping their hand publicly on anything.
...Kim hasn’t been seen since 11 April. He was missing for a six-week period in 2014 when he reportedly had surgery to remove a cyst on his ankle, and there is still a chance that something similar is going on this time. The speculation in 2014 was not attended by the same categorical reports of his death as in 2020, however.
North Korea isn’t going to announce that he’s dead and then have a succession scuffle. Even if he’s dead at this minute, we won’t be told he’s dead until there’s a plan. For what it’s worth, a Japanese media source is reporting that Kim is said to be in a "vegetative state" at this point. Taking that to mean "not yet declared dead" would be the right interpretation, if the report is tethered to an irrefutable fact.
China has a delegation in North Korea, as we would expect. All the reporting has emphasized that it includes medical experts. That is probably a distractor. The Chinese delegation is there to work the political angles, with Kim either weakened or no longer functioning.
Working the political succession, in the event of Kim’s demise, would typically include deciding who no longer needs to remain above ground in the North Korean leadership. That’s especially the case given Xi Jinping’s character as a classic Communist dictator.
The Western media are focused on Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-Jong. They even have a somewhat hilariously prevalent talking point going, about North Korea getting a female leader before the U.S. does.’
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Newsweek columnist Seth Abraham, he’s written two books. The first explained how Trump was guilty of Russia collusion. The second was how Trump was guilty in the Ukraine hoax.
...China is not the only interested party with the potential to weigh in on North Korea’s course going forward. Trump has established, by making a handful of initial agreements with Kim Jong-Un, that the U.S. has such an interest as well.
This condition has not previously existed in the Korea equation. Granting that we (the public) don’t actually know what’s up with Kim, we shouldn’t discount the possibility that the Trump administration is working the problem on that basis.
We would work it alongside South Korea — and the objective would be to move the Korea problem forward, toward a path of reunification, rather than leaving it stagnant and tethered to the terms of the 67-year-old armistice. (Much would depend on the readiness and courage of the Moon Jae-In government for such an enterprise.)
There are a couple of reasons of overriding importance to push in that direction. One is that reunification has to be the ultimate goal, and the timing has never offered such opportunity, with the spell of China over North Korea’s foreign relations broken, and so much in flux around the globe. We should not miss this opportunity. It could be one of the most transformative moves of the young century.
A vital feature of the opportunity is that China’s economic and military circumstances are in no better shape than anyone else’s. China isn’t able to counter U.S.-backed geopolitical momentum for a new direction in Korea with a decisive military move. Nothing China might start would be conclusive quickly, and that’s a significant decision factor for Beijing.
...We’ll see. Observers are wise to hold their peace for the time being. But two mental touchstones are essential. One, we don’t know what is happening, but we know what should be happening. The U.S. should be taking advantage of a singular moment to push for a new direction on the Korean peninsula.
America has handed China hundreds of billions of dollars every year to buy cheap goods, watched American firms ship their jobs and factories to China, and provided the Chinese with the means to create technology that threatens to eclipse our future. In the meantime, the money we sent there is allowing the Chinese to grow their nuclear arsenal and strengthen their military. In return, China has shipped us Covid-19.
But the people of the United States are beginning to catch on to the Chinese ploy of using our money to buy their global dominance.
We need to suspend imports from Civilization Abusers and all enemies of democracy. We need to become and remain self- sufficient — from technology to medical supplies -- so that we are never again dependent on nations that would seek to destroy us.
The United States needs to stop playing the chump.
For generations America has fattened up the very nations that would seek to destroy us.
Prior to Tokyo's attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans bought Japanese goods, helping pay for the bombs and torpedoes that would sink the American fleet at anchor on December 7th, 1941. Japan's sneak attack would be paid back with two nuclear strikes on Japanese cities four years later.
Our addiction to Middle East oil helped fund the terrorists who would hijack airliners, turning them into flying missiles on the morning of September 11th. Our nation's smart use of fracking to access enormous reserves of oil hidden under our own feet finally broke that stranglehold.
Despite these hard won lessons, over the last twenty years America has handed China hundreds of billions of dollars every year to buy cheap goods, watched American firms ship their jobs and factories to China, and provided the Chinese with the means to create technology that threatens to eclipse our future. In the meantime, the money we sent there is allowing the Chinese to grow their nuclear arsenal and strengthen their military. In return, China has shipped us Covid-19.
But the people of the United States are beginning to catch on to the Chinese ploy of using our money to buy their global dominance. A national poll finds the vast majority of Americans no longer trust Beijing. Seventy percent (70%) think the Chinese kept their Coronavirus data a secret from international healthcare professionals. In addition, 6 of 10 voters, or 59%, agree "As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, America should withdraw its manufacturing presence from China". One-third of all voters, 31%, "strongly agree" with this statement. Only 10% "strongly disagree
What this means is that Covid-19 has alerted Americans to the threat that faces our nation and our economic recovery. We need to suspend imports from Civilization Abusers and all enemies of democracy. We need to become and remain self- sufficient — from technology to medical supplies -- so that we are never again dependent on nations that would seek to destroy us.
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The old divide - this time last year - was unlimited immigration and unlimited welfare vs jobs for Americans first and sane limits on gummint spending. The new divide - as of February 2020 - is march to every gummint diktat right down to dog catcher level vs don't. Interesting times.
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"Prior to Tokyo's attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans bought Japanese goods, helping pay for the bombs and torpedoes that would sink the American fleet at anchor on December 7th, 1941"
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"Prior to Tokyo's attack on Pearl Harbor..."
It was not long before Pearl Harbor that the US stopped shipping and selling scrap iron to Japan, which was supposedly one of the drivers behind their attack.
[Strategic-Culture] The Coronavirus Pandemic much like any crisis, in a political sense, opens the doors for new opportunities. It seems as though governments cannot make major changes without a strong boot in the rear from some set of rough circumstances. Like it or not, political action requires a catalyst. Trump, the man who dreamt of Making America Great Again now has the big overarching excuse he needs to push his agenda onto the nation, but the question is just how can the President of the United States use this pandemic to his advantage?
Firstly, it is important to note that there is nothing inherently morally evil in exploiting a crisis for political gains, unless you were the one who created the crisis in the first place. Again it cannot be understated, crisis is the catalyst for sweeping political action, and we shouldn’t blame anyone for striking while the iron is hot. Most people who do all the loud virtue signaling about tragedies being exploited by politicians seem to always go silent when the exploitation serves their interest. Let’s all put on our big boy pants and accept that politicians, can, will and probably should use opportunities from dark days so long as they were not the ones who darkened them in the first place.
The same people who yesterday argued for an open world with no borders are the same ones who will beg for totalitarian levels of protection to "save" their lives from even the most minor of threats. This is probably why the heavy restrictions on international travel that are being put into place have so far met little to no resistance. 2020 feels like a trip back in time to a far less globalized and more local world that seems to have arisen at least semi-willingly. In this context, now is the perfect time for Trump to attack illegal immigration and migrant workers.
Migrant labor is often very damaging to the host country, and is more often than not, also bad for the migrants themselves. It undercuts the cost of labor making locals lose their jobs only to have them given to an exploitable/expendable group of people to do them like slaves. This also allows the governments of the nations they came from to continue their sloth and ineptitude as their young/active populace has a means of finding work elsewhere and not fighting for change at home. This a lose/lose situation and Trump knows it....
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Sorry but that statement is correct. The key is "inherently". All depends on the change made. Is it a change that is good for most everybody? Then why is it "evil"?
As with most everything, the devil's in the details.
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Was it "evil" for someone to give Stalin rat poison?
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So to the point of the article, Trump does have some opportunities to exercise when he isn't battling reporters aimlessly.
Like reorganizing charters of the cabinet.
Health and Human Services has a lot of overlap with Housing and Urban Development. I would propose Housing and Human Services, then all things medical under The Department of Health to include anti-health issues like bad/poor food, smoking, diet management, air pollution, etc. The EPA should spread across Dept of Energy and Dept of Transportation.
Scream if you like but one of the problems is caused by the mixed messaging.
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He should get together with other western democracies and create a replacement for the WHO. Consider other tasks currently done by the UN and look into creating replacements so that we can starve the UN of funds without missing a beat on anything truly useful they *might* actually do.
With all of that he should find any holdovers from the last administration and purge them.
The Wuhan grant funding level sounds like an STTR grant.
Like these STTR/SBIR ones
Small Business Innovation Research = SBIR
Small Business Technology Transfer = STTR
The way (SBIR/STTR)'s work is the Primary Investigator (PI) proposes an idea and if it is selected the PI runs with it. Now if the PI is in a US University and does work on the University property then the University GRABS %60 to %80 of the grant for use fees(rent) of their property. This means if the PI has someplace else to do it that can't GRAB the grant and charges a lot less money for USE fees (rent) it's in the PI's interest to do so. Wuhan wouldn't be able to grab the grant so a PI with a good connection to the Wuhan lab could make his money go much much further or pay himself a lot more.
Now as to the grants/monies themselves. Government agencies are required to spend %2 to %4 (depending on agency) of their budget on these research grants. They really don't fit in their agency game plans and most agencies hate them. Seriously! So they really don't pay too much attention where they are done or what for.
This is why I think it's a stupid waste of money! Most of these (ALL) grants would never pass a corporate Return on Investment (ROI) test and don't really generate useful research that is needed. They are merely a hidden subsidy to university administrations with the PI groups actual expenditure on R&D seen as the negative by the universities.
So if the STTR was done in Wuhan the university that PI was associated with would be upset they didn't get the hidden subsidy.
Now for DOD SBIR/STTR grants it's even crazier. A major needs to get promoted so he doesn't get cut. There are 3 main ways for a major to get promoted.
1) Excel in actual combat.
2) Take part in a UN (or like) peacekeeping effort
3) Develop a new weapon (even if it doesn't fit any military plan or need)
Reason #3 is behind most military SBIR/STTR grants.
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Now as to the grants/monies themselves. Government agencies are required to spend %2 to %4 (depending on agency) of their budget on these research grants.
Many years ago I was involved in a Defense Intelligence Agency contract involving novel approaches to the systems manipulation of massive data. As I leaned into the actual software development, I discovered that the technology already existed and was in very wide use. I did myself no favors by updating managers and decision makers on the already existing technology. I was unaware of 'grant wagons' at the time. The entire exercise and academic connections soon become rather obvious.
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Eisenhower's warning, the one they skip after trashing the "military industrial complex" -
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
[i24 News] A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924
Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924 the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to two percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.
The years in question, the most violent in the recent history of the region, began during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks, and ended during the first years of the Turkish Republic founded by Ataturk. Yet despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post-World War I period, the nation's annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, mass rape, and brutal abduction. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.
Revelatory and impeccably researched, Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's account is certain to transform how we see one of modern history's most horrific events.
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If you actually read the Bible it's stated explicitly that being a Christian is not a party. Lots of Christian martyrs long before muzzizm came about.
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Georgie was big into dropping bombs on them, but he sucked up at the same time.
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Christian martyrs long before muzzizm came about.
WTH? After he was rejected as an obvious fraud Moohamhead specifically targeted "people of the Book" for murder or enslavement. How could you possibly downplay that Murc?!
h/t Instapundit
[Real Clear Energy] - Like the rest of the country, although far less than New York, California is suffering through the Covid-19 crisis. But in California, the pandemic seems likely to give the state’s political and corporate elites a new license to increase their dominion while continuing to keep the middle and working classes down.
Perhaps nothing spells the triumph of California’s progressive oligarchy more than Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to off-load the state’s recovery strategy to a task force co-chaired by hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer. A recently failed presidential candidate, Steyer stands as a progressive funder. He is as zealous as he is rich. Steyer sometimes even found the policies adopted by climate-obsessed former governor Jerry Brown not extreme enough for his tastes.
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Yes, of course. The Bay Area and California as Ground Zero have been absolutely hammered, destroyed I tell ya, by the Greatest Pandemic in Modern History.
= 1:20,000 if you're scoring at home (or even if you're self-isolating)
And this result has next to zero to do with the sweeping lockdown that occurred MONTHS AFTER 50,000 or so traveler's brought the virus back to these counties from China
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If California had kept the nascent computer industry local they'd have the world by the ass now. Instead they have crapple and gurgle's HQs and give them pretty much whatever they want. And those HQs can go anywhere the moment a better offer surfaces.
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Don't worry Lex. With Steyer driving your death rates will bounce.
[Right Scoop] SO here’s what happened. There’s a lot of rumors that Kim Jong Un is dead. It’s not confirmed, it may be true, it may not be true. But some think that IF he’s dead, the next in line might be his sister. Who, by most accounts, is just as sadistic and evil as he is, and may be even worse! But that doesn’t matter to the vaginal supremacists who think a human being’s X-Y chromosomal count is the only thing that matters:
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[i24 News] A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924
[Right Scoop] SO here’s what happened. There’s a lot of rumors that Kim Jong Un is dead. It’s not confirmed, it may be true, it may not be true. But some think that IF he’s dead, the next in line might be his sister. Who, by most accounts, is just as sadistic and evil as he is, and may be even worse! But that doesn’t matter to the vaginal supremacists who think a human being’s X-Y chromosomal count is the only thing that matters:
