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How America is building a new chip manufacturing industry at home
07/22/2021
After years of neglect of manufacturing Intel Corp and other companies are building a new chip industry, as America reverses years of decline in manufacturing at home. The importance of manufacturing technologies and years of cumulative expertise in developing new technologies, are now seen as critical for American leadership. US president Biden pushed for these changes, leading to a new CEO and a U turn by Intel Corp.
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Intel CEO’s Chip-Building Plan Has a $50 Billion-Plus Price Tag
WSJ 07/16/2021
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone VulnerableWSJ 06/19/2021
US 100 day review of strategic vulnerabilities in 2021
03/10/2021
Linked Articles
China’s Rise Drives a U.S. Experiment in Industrial Policy
WSJ 03/10/2021
America’s Battery-Powered Car Hopes Ride on Lithium. One Producer Paves the Way.WSJ 03/09/2021
How Silicon Valley failed America
12/09/2020
Linked Articles
Is Silicon Valley Funding the Wrong Stuff?
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2014
Whatever Happened to Silicon Valley Innovation?BusinessWeek 12/31/2008
How to work from home and do it well- "Feierabend" and other ideas
12/01/2020
Linked Articles
How 'Feierabend' helps Germans disconnect from the workday
BBC News 07/12/2022
I’ve Worked From Home for 22 Years. Here’s What I’ve Learned.WSJ 03/30/2020
How the Coronavirus test in the U.S. got delayed for 3 crucial weeks in February letting the pandemic spread quickly
08/21/2020
Three lost weeks in February starting February 9 when the FDA realized its third component of the test to test mutated virus had failed in use by labs but continued to persist in doing this on its own. Private labs of well known medical companies and university teaching hospitals were ready to develop and use their own tests with lightning speed and yet the FDA required its approval stalling that effort. FDA and HHS failure in the crisis led to the quick spread of the virus in Feb- March making any use of test and contact trace for containment ineffective. a crucial window of time was lost!
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FDA’s Authority to Regulate Lab Tests Is Curtailed
WSJ 08/21/2020
What Derailed America’s Covid Testing: Three Lost WeeksWSJ 08/18/2020
Twitter's short form of 140 characters, the iphone, and the tech platforms building on the declining cultural and other literacy in America, Europe, other countries
05/28/2020
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's regrets on what he sees as the lack of any depth in the short form that works well on mobile phones. The first smartphones came in 2007 and 2008 iphone and android versions, Twitter started in 2006, both growing at the same time, the story of a tech boom that is paralleled by declining cultural and other literacy in America. It also parallels the decline in sense of what is in the national interest among communities in America and Europe and in other countries, leaving them with fewer defences against the coronavirus pandemic by 2020.
Linked Articles
Opinion | A Presidential Smear
WSJ 05/26/2020
A Founder of Twitter Goes LongNYTimes.com 11/09/2013
How Germany made "total" contact tracing the mission in early March, and how it limited spread of coronavirus
05/26/2020
Linked Articles
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/2020
While U.S. struggles to roll out coronavirus contact tracing, Germany has been doing it from the startWashington Post 05/25/2020
How Britain made preparations for H1N1 (2015) following the SARS pandemic (2009), then lost interest ditching the effort with Brexit consuming the nation
05/16/2020
How could this happen? Read more to know why. In 2016 Britain even conducted a rehearsal called Cygnus to fight H2N2.
Linked Articles
What was Exercise Cygnus and what did it find?
The Guardian 05/17/2020
Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disasterThe Times 05/16/2020
How underreporting of coronavirus in China and in U.S. led to a false sense of security and unpreparedness
05/09/2020
The databases failed to be anywhere near the true estimates of infected people, researchers and experts say, and western nations lack of experience with such a virus led to complacency, unpreparedness, till it was too late.
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How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus
WSJ 05/09/2020
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. OutbreaksNYTimes.com 05/07/2020
Report on Russian disinformation effort 2014-2017 by two cybersecurity companies for the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee
12/18/2018
Linked Articles
Opinion | What We Now Know About Russian Disinformation
New York Times 12/17/2018
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube Withheld Russia Data, Reports SayNew York Times 12/18/2018
Trump and the skeptics about the direction of the country- contrasting views of Brooks and Krugman about how the message is conveyed
01/09/2018
Linked Articles
Opinion | The Decline of Anti-Trumpism
The New York Times 01/09/2018
Opinion | The Worst and the DumbestThe New York Times 01/08/2018
The New York Times Interview with president Donald Trump in July 2017 and reporter Maggie Haberman
07/20/2017
Exceptional reporting by Baker and Haberman of the NYT and the reporting relationship established with Trump by Maggie Haberman.
Linked Articles
Analysis | Why Trump gave the Jeff Sessions scoop to the ‘failing’ New York Times
Washington Post 07/20/2017
Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With TrumpThe New York Times 07/20/2017
The moderating influence of business executives Gary Cohn, Wilbur Ross and Muilenburg on president Trump- change in policy on NAFTA, Mexico, China and Export Import Bank
04/14/2017
Business executives help moderate the campaign positions taken by Donald Trump during the first 100 days of his presidency, putting him closer to the traditional view on China, Mexico, NATO and Russia.
Linked Articles
Donald Trump’s Recent Policy Reversals Reflect Business Influence
WSJ 04/14/2017
Within Trump’s inner circle, a moderate voice captures the president’s earWashington Post 04/14/2017
The origins of the coronavirus and the 2018 NIH lifting of a US ban on virus research that increases transmissibility
06/04/2021
Dr. Fauci, NIH, HHS, lifted the ban on research and manipulation of virus in lab settings in 2018 The role played by the Cambridge Group of scientists who opposed lifting the ban on gain of function research for surveillance purposes. The US public and the public in the world in India, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America unaware of what was going on. The devastating effects of the coronavirus in 202 and 2021 and the lack of a vaccine in 2020, lack of a vaccine in sufficient quantities in 2021. The paltry benefits of surveillance compared to the great risks of something going wrong, as pointed out by the Cambridge Group. Why was it ignored in 2018. Who makes decisions for public health in the world. Can the US make decisions for India, the people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Does even the US public know about it, much less the public in the world at large. What power is given by the US Constitution to US government agencies on matters of public health. How are a few individuals at HHS and NIH accountable to the public in the US and the world at large.
Linked Articles
Opinion | Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab
WSJ 06/03/2021
Ban on gain-of-function studies endsThe Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/2021
A new dawn for American manufacturing
12/15/2020
After three decades of decline American manufacturing reached a low point in 2020. Yet negative trends of low capital investment, lack of supply chain onshore, lack of investment in new technologies, are now being reversed. The warnings of the Trump administration are having an effect. There is now hope for a bright future with new investment and new technologies to regain U.S. leadership in manufacturing that it held for most of the twentieth century.
Linked Articles
U.S. Manufacturing: Why 2020 Was the Bottom of a Long Decline
WSJ 12/15/2020
The Covid Crisis Taught David Farr the Power and Limits of LeadershipWSJ 12/04/2020
Pfizer BioNTech Vaccine - the history of two Turkish born immigrant scientists in Germany and how it happened
12/02/2020
Linked Articles
How a Couple’s Quest to Cure Cancer Led to the West’s First Covid-19 Vaccine
WSJ 12/02/2020
Pfizer Gets $1.95 Billion to Produce Coronavirus Vaccine by Year’s EndNYTimes.com 07/22/2020
How global travel seeded the first and second wave of the pandemic- ski resorts in March and beach resorts in September
09/30/2020
Linked Articles
Ski, Party, Seed a Pandemic: The Travel Rules That Let Covid-19 Take Flight
NYTimes.com 09/30/2020
Tourists in Croatia Help Feed Covid-19 Surge Across EuropeWSJ 09/21/2020
Irresponsible behaviour of young people during the pandemic that led to the surge in July 2020
07/31/2020
Linked Articles
Coronavirus cluster in western France pits youth against authorities preaching caution
France 24 07/30/2020
A Generational War Is Brewing Over CoronavirusWSJ 03/17/2020
Get low tech contact tracing going to reopen economy- the message from Germany to Europe and America
05/28/2020
Linked Articles
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/2020
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdownThe Times 05/26/2020
How the WHO failed as early warning system in the coronavirus after being a model during the leadership of Dr. Brundtland in 2003 SARS
05/21/2020
The contrast could not be greater between the World Health Organization today and the WHO under Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a three time prime minister of Norway between 1981 and 1996 with great experience and a record of handling difficult issues of climate change and sustainable development.
Linked Articles
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chiefHindustan Times 05/19/2020
How underreporting of coronavirus in China and the U.S. led to a false sense of security in U.S., unpreparedness, till it was too late
05/09/2020
Linked Articles
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/2020
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. OutbreaksNYTimes.com 05/07/2020
Broken promises to Ireland- Boris Johnson's version of Brexit
10/05/2019
Even dire hard loyalists in Northern Ireland are now shifting their position to favor a united Ireland, says a report in The Times. Polls now show a majority in Ireland may now be in favor of a reunited Ireland for the first time in history. The Unionist DUP party may no longer reflect the views of the people of Ireland. The Guardian points out that Boris Johnson's version of Brexit means broken promises to Ireland made by Britain. People in Ireland are beginning to realize that they may be better off in a united Ireland than in the Britain visualized by Boris Johnson which puts Ireland's interests last.
Linked Articles
How Brexit is pushing even loyalists towards a united Ireland
The Times 10/05/2019
The Guardian view on the backstop proposals: Britain’s broken promise | EditorialThe Guardian 10/03/2019
How the Democratic Party lost its blue collar working class identity to the Republican Party by 2018
07/20/2018
Linked Articles
Donald Trump is causing change in the Democratic Party too
The Economist 07/20/2018
America’s Factory Towns, Once Solidly Blue, Are Now a GOP HavenWSJ 07/19/2018
The U.S. plan to reverse the withdrawal from Afghanistan to prevent a repeat of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq after 2011 leading to terrorism and a chaotic situation
08/22/2017
Linked Articles
Angry Trump Grilled His Generals About Troop Increase, Then Gave In
The New York Times 08/22/2017
Trump announces new strategy for Afghanistan that calls for a troop increaseWashington Post 08/22/2017
Road trips across Cuba in 2015 and Iran in 2017 showing how sanctions hit smaller countries
05/19/2017
Linked Articles
On the Open Road, Signs of a Changing Cuba
New York Times 01/06/2015
My Strange Trip Through Iran’s Heartland05/19/2017
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