Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser is author of CONVENIENT MYTHS, the green revolution – perceptions, politics, and facts Convenient Myths
With the U.S. announcing substantial duties on imports of steel and aluminum products from Canada, Europe, and Mexico, some nerves are getting a bit frayed.
Counter-duties on similar and other goods imported from the U.S. are being bandied about.
Have you noticed yet?
Sand is In!
Apart from the fact that my friends and I are going on annual trips to the environs of “Sandy Lake” in Ontario, or that all the natural gas/oil “fracking” (causing and keeping open miniscule underground fissures) consumes a lot of fine sand to keep the underground rock fissures open, or its use in producing cement mix than can be troweled into smooth surfaces, or in the playground of your children or grandchildren, sand is one of those natural things that are truly plentiful and -- amazing.
Everyone knows (or ought to): Everything is getting better all the time. That’s certainly true in spring or early summer, when nature re-awakens after a long and cold winter but, just perhaps, not all the time.
And that’s why cunning politicians like to make big promises and have elections at those times. That’s just one example of the placebo effect, the proclamation that “your vote counts.”
Are you ready to get your new (electric) flying machine? Perhaps you already know, it's supposed to be coming to a store near you, soon:
Airbus is already working on several electric aircraft programs, including an autonomous electric VTOL aircraft, but now they are partnering with Audi and Italdesign to combine that with electric cars.
Between my Dearest and me, we ought to have it covered. Nearly any website that we go to for some vital information (from knitting patterns to expansion modules of uncommon materials and all the other great snippets of important needs) appears to have some problems, at least with some parts of it.
From astronomers to futuristic dreamers, the inter-stellar space is the real frontier--for many centuries already.
Anyone who's looking at the firmament on a clear summer night is likely to agree. There is a "world" of stars, planets, moons, galaxies, and a host of other -- mostly unfathomable -- objects out there. One can't deny that.
Tim, as in Tim Hortons (TH) has had some problems as of late. So do, or did, some of its franchisees and they have turned into "rebels" of a sort. As you may recall, Tim Horton (1930-1974) used to be a professional Canadian ice hockey giant, one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history .
Tim and his buddy built a great chain of donut shops. That was decades ago and a long-time favorite for anyone thirsting for a cup of coffee with a little sugar fix on the side.
I hope that I will never need to be exonerated...
... and for one simple reason only: I'd like to live to the end of my natural life--without any undue acceleration of my demise.
That title ought to get your attention in a hurry, don't you agree?
In my perception, it certainly should!
So, what happened?
Canada exports a variety of goods to the world market. A good chunk of that is semi-processed materials like metal ores, zinc ingots, coils of rolled steel, sheets of aluminum, lumber and plywood, crude oil and "syncrude" (a liquefied form of bitumen), natural gas, agricultural livestock and its products, grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables, processed products from the seafood industry, and so forth.
The German Bosch co. is no longer planning to "re-invent" batteries for the propulsion of cars, according to an article published in the Munich, Germany, daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
The renowned Smithsonian Institute recently published an article "Scientists Create a New Form of Light by Linking Photons." Yeah, a "New Form of Light"--really?
Sorry to have to disappoint you (again). As the main-stream media reported everywhere, the top Roadster model, modified, and complete with a mannequin behind the wheel together with its miniature relative, was just sent into a circum-solar trajectory – never to be seen again by potential eager buyers on this planet. But it is really fast, travelling at a speed of 6,864 miles/hour!
Dear Cousin Punxsutawney Phil,
Cordial thanks for your response to my letter of last year to our Aunt Climate. I think you were right on target and our great aunt has listened to our gripes. Of course, she’s not alone; as you know the U.S. President, in his speech on the State of the Union, a couple of nights ago, did not even mention “climate change” once. Presumably, he had read the letter too and him and aunty agreed to finally boost the production of that formerly claimed “evil-extraordinaire,” the trace gas carbon dioxide, also known as CO2 in the atmosphere.
The latest meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), an invitation-only event held annually at Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, has just concluded. Official cost of attendance $85,000, of course, ex accommodation costs, etc.
Nagoya, Japan, is the place where the international "Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity" was negotiated (in 2010) and signed onto by many countries. It became a binding international treaty (to the countries which ratified it) in 2015. Let's just call the arrangement the Nagoya Protocol, or NP for short.
As more, higher, bigger, etc. must be is the envisaged goal of every sane soul on the planet (my understanding of "economics"); just having one craze suffices no longer. By now, the world needs a minimum of two concurring manias and, as I surmise, even that will soon be "bettered."
