Stichwort 'Englisch'

The President’s Choice

Mittwoch, 29. August 2018 - 08:45

http://mikegrost.com/still.htm#Baum says about this heartwarming still life:

Carl Baum 1812 – 1877

American Still Life (c1848-1852) (AAR Volume 6, Number 2, page 24)

Baum is another American artist whose work resembles Roesen’s. American Still Life has a marble table piled high with an extravagance of fruit. There is also a bird’s nest. The picture is especially full of round fruit – hardly anything is elongated. Even the bunches of grapes make the grapes look fairly rounded, although still oblong. Most of the fruits in the picture are small, on the order of cherries. An orange looks positively huge. Baum also likes reddish fruits.

Posterized version (4000 x 5000) of Baum’s still life for your music chamber too: https://wahlspezial.snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BaumStillLifePosterized.jpg

As for the president’s choice, see: Douglas Wilson: About the Chick on the Piano … (2016-02-29).

Putin & Trump, Helsinki, 2018-07-16

Donnerstag, 9. August 2018 - 06:35

== VOX ==
PUTIN: […] We have solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers, guided these transactions. So we have an interest of questioning them. That could be a first step. We can extend also it. Options abound. They all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
REPORTER (Jeff Mason from Reuters): President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.
(Source: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/17576956/transcript-putin-trump-russia-helsinki-press-conference)

== White House (as of 2018-07-09, “Issued on: July 16, 2018 [...] 5:56 P.M. EEST”) ==
PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted) […] We have solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers, guided these transactions. So we have an interest of questioning them. That could be a first step. We can extend also it. Options abound. They all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
Q[uestion:] And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted.) Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.
(Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-putin-russian-federation-joint-press-conference/)

== White House (as of 2018-08-09, but still “Issued on: July 16, 2018 [...] 5:56 P.M. EEST”) ==
PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted) […] So we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. So we have an interest of questioning them. That could be a first step, and we can also extend it. Options abound, and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
Q[uestion:] President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election? And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted.) Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.
(Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-putin-russian-federation-joint-press-conference/)

 
The White House was forced to correct the official transcript from the event 10 days after it happened in order to reflect the question.
(Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/400193-trump-claims-russia-was-unhappy-he-won-even-though-putin-said)
 


https://twitter.com/Bonnetmaker/status/1027417219393880069: @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @Bonnetmaker @DonaldDonates — https://wahlspezial.snrk.de/white-house-edits-transkript/ shows how the White House tried to manipulate a protocol of Putin’s and Trump’s press conference in Helsinki, 2018-07-16

Linux Lite

Samstag, 21. Juli 2018 - 13:12

https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20180709

Social Credit System (社会信用系统)

Sonntag, 13. Mai 2018 - 10:41

2017-11-05

Social Credit System, Shèhuì xìnyòng xìtǒng, 社会信用系统

Keywords: Sozialkredit, Sozialkredit, system, Social Credit System, Shèhuì xìnyòng xìtǒng, 社会信用系统

Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-2020)

State Council Notice concerning Issuance of the Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-2020)

GF No. (2014)21

All provincial, autonomous region and municipal People’s Governments, all State Council ministries and commissions, all directly subordinate departments:

The “Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-2020)” is hereby issued to you, please implement it earnestly.

State Council, 14 June 2014

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2018-05-13


Chinas Sozialkreditsystem : Die totale Kontrolle
Von Mark Siemons, 2018-05-11

Diskussion: https://www.facebook.com/faz/posts/10155474327995976
 

Social Progress Index

Donnerstag, 12. April 2018 - 21:33

https://www.socialprogressindex.com/

Thinking it Through

Samstag, 7. April 2018 - 22:09

Leseempfehlung zur Vorbereitung auf Wertedebatten:

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Thinking it Through, 2003

eBook

Rhombus Tech

Dienstag, 2. Januar 2018 - 16:32

http://rhombus-tech.net/

Why has Rhombus Tech been created?

If you have heard of Phonebloks you will know that there are at least hundreds of thousands of people who are deeply concerned about the environmental impact of our throw-away culture in electronics. And whilst Phoneblocks is starting with mobile phones, Rhombus Tech is starting with everything else. [...]

Supporters of the rightist party “AfD” in Germany

Montag, 25. September 2017 - 05:45

In the federal elections in Germany (2017-09-24) more than 1 million voters switched from the moderate conservative to the rightists. 300,000 of the voters who previously voted for the social democrates moved to the rightists. 1,300,000 voters supported the rightists who previously didn’t vote at all.

Voters of the AfD (right populists, “Alternative für Deutschland”): 13%

  • 35% of these voters didn’t vote in 2013 or voted for other (little) parties in in 2013
  • 24% of these voters voted for the AfD (right-wing to far-right) in 2013.
  • 21% of these voters voted for the CDU/CSU (conservatives, centre to centre right, supports Angela Merkel, “Christlich Demokratische Partei”, Bavarian “Christlich Soziale Partei”) in 2013.
  • 21% of these voters voted for the SPD (social democrats, centre left, “Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands”) in 2013.
  • 10% of these voters voted for the FDP (slightly ortholiberal and different from the US liberals, centre to centre right), “Freie Demokratische Partei”) in 2013.
  • 6% of these voters voted for the “Die Linke” (leftist to far left) in 2013.
  • 1% of these voters voted for the “Die Grünen” (greens, centre to centre left) in 2013.

Source: Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (quoted by the weekly DIE ZEIT)

More about the parties: Wikipedia

My personal opinion:
        The rightists always have been there, but only recently they were able to develop structures which allowed them to be visible in the federal parliament. A driving force behind that could be an increasing economical inequality (explanation in German how to measure economic inequality) with a growing group of people who feel left behind by the established parties. This feeling probably had been significantly intensified by refugees who are perceived by AfD voters as cultural and economical competitors. The refugees, the internet and the effects of (not only economic) globalization seem to have served as major catalysts for the emergence and growth of the AfD.
        I think that many AfD supporters would support a leader like Donald Trump. He surely doesn’t recieve any sympathies from the members of any other party in the German parliament. Germany still is a mature democracy.

What can we learn from Aldous Huxley about Internet propaganda?

Samstag, 6. Mai 2017 - 09:35

Mr. Fred McFeely Rogers

Montag, 27. März 2017 - 20:50

Es geht um Bildung.