Usually I'm content to quote the headlines. This one deserves a fuller reading.
More government officials across the country are calling for common-sense religion control.All analogies always break, but this one is fairly robust. As you would defend your faith, keep ahold of your rifle. If you have no rifle, by God go get one -- if you can still find one for sale.
The officials insist they don't want to ban religion entirely -- they just want some basic, common-sense laws to regulate it. From background checks to licensing requirements and forced church closures, state officials everywhere are leading the charge to implement much-needed regulations on the practice of religion.
"It's past time that we begin implementing basic, common-sense laws against potentially problematic religions," said Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. "Nobody's coming for your religion -- we just want some safe and sane restrictions on it."
Not so fake news.
ReplyDelete*Ah Good old Charles Lieber and Harvard* Treason is only treason when it fails.
The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China.
Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement. Lieber will appear this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts.
Yanqing Ye, 29, a Chinese national, was charged in an indictment today with one count each of visa fraud, making false statements, acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy. Ye is currently in China.
Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China. On Jan. 21, 2020, Zheng was indicted on one count of smuggling goods from the United States and one count of making false, fictitious or fraudulent statements. He has been detained since Dec. 30, 2019.
Dr. Charles Lieber
According to court documents, since 2008, Dr. Lieber who has served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research Group at Harvard University, which specialized in the area of nanoscience, has received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD). These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities. Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information. Under the terms of Lieber’s three-year Thousand Talents contract, WUT paid Lieber $50,000 USD per month, living expenses of up to 1,000,000 Chinese Yuan (approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT. In return, Lieber was obligated to work for WUT “not less than nine months a year” by “declaring international cooperation projects, cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing international conference[s], applying for patents and publishing articles in the name of” WUT.
This is not a small problem, and Lieber is really small cheese. Something like one-fourth to one-third of the graduate students enrolled in our STEM programs are Chinese nationals. They produce ¼ to ⅓ of our refereed, published research in engineering, the hard (real) sciences, and mathematics. People complain about China stealing our technology, but in reality Chinese citizens created much of that technology.
ReplyDeleteAmerica has long had the severe problem that Americans will not go to graduate school. Our best faculties have always been crowded with foreigners, raised and educated in their home countries. This is a profound weakness in our culture, which is intensely anti-intellectual.
America has succeeded in large part by recruiting the talent it needs from other countries. We don't develop our own.
"Sykes.1" forgot to run his 'bug': "THIS IS A PAID PROPAGANDA ANNOUNCEMENT"
ReplyDeleteJanuary announcement from DOJ.......
ReplyDeleteAnyhow.
Friend tells me that there is ZERO 9mm ammo to be obtained in SE Wisconsin as of yesterday. She checked 8 different places within 50 miles of Slinger.
Huh.
I was trying to find 12ga for a friend in New Orleans the other day. All gone, nationwide. Or it was at that time.
ReplyDeleteThere have always been a lot of immigrants among American inventors and engineers...in electrical engineering, for example, Nicola Tesla (from Serbia) and Charles Steinmetz (from Germany.) But there wasn't a big problem with IP being stolen and shipped back to their mother countries, plus, these people immigrated for good, didn't just come over temporarily to get degrees.
ReplyDeleteWe have plenty of native born Americans who go get advanced degrees- we also have a lot more people than used to who get advanced degrees, so that's a lot of the foreign growth (for monetary reasons by the universities). One reason foreign imports might tend to math and science is that if you're not great with the new language (which is a difficult one), Math is the universal language, and they might come in more than fully prepared in that arena, so it's a natural choice to go into hard sciences, especially math intensive ones.
ReplyDelete21 vials of biological research to China.
ReplyDeleteThe Corona patents and bio weapon versions, in those 21 vials, to Wuhan, China.
Hehe.
As for ammo... why do you guys even need to buy more ammo? It's recently, by more than maybe 8 years, been feasible to use 3d printers to cast brass (use a private forge even) into casings and to "load" primer and what not into the brass.
ReplyDeleteI mean, certainly it won't be matched ammo nor will the bullet points be FHJ (maybe JHP), but at least it is sustainable ammo.
Counter A: Only secretive paranoid survival freaks bought production lines like that.
Y: I'm not saying they need that much ammo, but given the economics involved of preppers, they can easily barter it for stuff they do need.
https://sandiegocountygunowners.com/joys-reloading-one-response-ridiculous-ammunition-laws/
ReplyDeleteGood thing it's not illegal... yet.
I am not a big firearms person. Although to others, it might look different. I dislike "loud noises" and other things that attract zombies.
I prefer "ammo" that is derived from stamina, as there are many internal circulation methods to increase energy from the body.