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Larry Summers has certainly turned out to be someone always looking for the best for his country and for people in general around the world. As far as sanctions go, Simon Jenkins from The Guardian said, "History offers scant evidence that decisions in the heat of war are governed by economics." He goes on to say, "If the west wants to help Ukraine, it should do so by proxy, by sending weapons." His comments seem to be ringing true. The ruble has climbed back up because Putin has China, India and Brazil on the payroll so-to-speak. He's also got their economists feedback helping his own financial experts. What is clear from my perspective, which is 2,000 kilometers from Kiev, is that we are going to be have 10 million Ukrainians coming to our countries and others across the world. We should have people in the military in the caliber of Summers finding out how to save the keystone city in Ukraine from falling into Russian hands: Mariupol. America's General (ret.) Patreus said that Mariupol is Ukraine's Alamo. This sent alarm bells off in my head because if Mariupol falls, Kiev falls and whole regiments of Ukrainian top forces will be surrounded and decimated. We should be looking at winning the war in Ukraine step-by-step. Let's get Mariupol safe, this cuts off the land corridor from mainland Russia to the annexed Crimea and blows up Putin's number one objective. Then on the next important objective. We should help the Ukrainians win back Ukraine and Crimea and the other piece of land the Russians annexed in 2014. This should be what we focus on doing. Sanctions are symbolic, but let's be real: they only punish the people who are stuck in the middle. It's a comment, I'm an artist having trouble putting brush to canvas in these uncertain times, but I know Ukraine must be saved at all costs or we are all dust in the wind.
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First, I would like to wish Christiane Amanpour, Mr Sreenivasan and their co-workers a wonderful and pleasurable Holiday Season and excellent New Year 2022! Ms Amanpour has a beautiful show and has always delivered top-of-the-line excellence in journalism and I don’t think any of us can imagine the countless hours she and her colleagues put in to come up with tough questions and the amount of high-quality research and discussion and planning and headaches they go through every day they are at work. The Amanpour and Company interviews and interviewing style are always with a finger on the pulse of what needs to be asked of the vast quantity of exceptional people who are interviewed. Professor Christakis—who by the way needs to seriously think of changing hairdressers—is an prime example of why people in your country should be relieved to know that there are experts like him who have hands-on experience and who have a handle on what’s going on with the pandemic and can give such good advice. One only needs to listen to this Yale professor to realize how well Nicholas Christakis has researched the plagues of the past and how he has analyzed what has happened in America and what Americans and those of us around the world are going to have to live through in the coming years. I’m an artist and an inventor and have no expertise in the pandemic, but here is what I think is going to happen. We have to realize planet Earth has been invaded by an invisible and silent alien-like virus, expertly designed to infect humans more than any other species. The Omicron variant is 5 times more contagious than the Delta variant. Rich countries have something like 70% or more of people being vaccinated and/or boosted. In the under-developed countries, it’s around 5%. 5%- Boys and girls, I think—again not as a specialist in the field, but only my gut feeling—that we are far from through with this virus and that it will deviate from other plagues in a big way. A virus’ main job is to become more deadly and infect more people; the Coronavirus is the cockroach of them all. We will never kill this silent killer, but we have to realize that other variants are surely in the pipeline and with billions of people—which are mini-incubators—unvaccinated, I think we have to prepare ourselves for an ‘ironman’ variant which, like Omicron, can infect double-vaccinated and boosted people, but in all probability pierce through our immune systems with a new mutation. What's my solution? I believe the only thing we can do is to get in the best physical, mental and spiritual condition we can possibly do and try to get outdoors as much as possible to soak up the sun's rays--for natural vitamin D--and to double our usual amount of fruit we eat.
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Dear Ms Amanpour and Mr Krugman, Thank you Ms Amanpour for your excellent reporting and equally great team in delivering to your country and the world very interesting and timely analyses of current events. Thank you Mr Krugman for explaining the complexities of economics, the economy and all of its parts in language everyone can understand. As an independent observer from the other side of the world, my perspective is from another angle from yours, but what it looks like from where I am across the world from you. I won’t be long; but I have an idea on how to get your economy on its feet. Can I just give my thoughts on how to win on the Coronovirus pandemic in your country and around the world? Great. I'll be brief. I am an inventor. Here is my assessment of how to control the Covid-19 virus and all viruses that this way come. Up until now we have gone after the virus passively. We wear masks, gloves, face shields, eye protection, in other words we wait for it to get to us first. Next, we’re trying to come up with a vaccine which will hopefully protect us. What I believe we need to do now is to use reverse strategy and go after the Coronovirus actively where it lives: in the air. We can do this with air scrubbers, air processors i.e. air cleaners adjusted to bake or freeze or incapacitate the virus in its molecular form and take it immediately out of the air we breathe. We could do this in every place where people congregate; every classroom could have one working 24/7 for example. Still not convinced? Think of it as Dyson air conveyors i.e. portable devices that filter out or kill the virus with ultra-violet light or something that renders it inoffensive. The plain simple truth of the matter is that it’s infecting us by travelling through the air. We can’t be serious in using only masks to strike at an invisible foe. My logic goes this way: let's go to it instead of letting it come to us! Why not attack it in the air before it infects us? We can do this by scrubbing the air with portable air conveyors that take in the air, disinfect it, filter it, and send it back out, virus free, into the classroom, or train, or pub, or office etc. This is my idea. I don’t have the means to make a prototype, but from what I see, the virus is floating in the air, and if we can filter it out of the air in places where people congregate, it may very well lower the amount of people getting infecting. Let’s go after it in its territory, instead of sitting passively by, trying to block it from infecting us, because we can see it's a losing battle. Please Christine and Paul, could you give us your impression of this approach towards eliminating the virus? Can someone you know please make a prototype? The technology has been around since submarines scrubbing CO2 out of the air underwater. My gut feeling tells me this is one way we can save people at risk and be prepared for the next wave(s) of Coronovirus. Be safe-
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Dear Amanpour & Co., Mr Issacson, Ms Gordon-Reed, and Mr Meacham, Thank you Ms Amanpour and Mr Issacson for one of the most informative videocasts about American history that has filled our screens for many months – if not longer. Mr Meacham’s detailed explanation on why American Civil War heroes who were intent on destroying the American experiment should not be eulogized in public finally gives us the reason why the statues of rebel leaders who sought to bring down the republic must be removed from public places. These bronze statues perpetrating the glory of revered military leaders who wanted to create their own republic have no place in the public square. Thank you Mr Meachum for unveiling to us the reason why nothing that denigrates a nation should be in a public place, and why these kinds of monuments should be taken down. How unfortunate it is that President Trump is not saying these words of wisdom on national television! It would calm down your country. Lastly, perhaps Ms Gordon-Reed can shed some light on the fact that the subject of slavery of black people all those years ago is still fresh meat for the lions of freedom of expression seemingly never wanting to let this admittedly painful subject recover its true place in a long list of events in American and World history. Why is the fact that 3 or 4 or 5 generations ago when somebody’s ancestor was a slave a badge of shame so horrific that it has made one’s existence a living hell in present day 2020? I mean, it was bad news for one’s ancestor, but why let that alter one’s perception of oneself and one’s existence in today’s world to the extent that that person will go out and protest and burn down businesses and cars and openly and sometimes violently, disobey law enforcement officers at the risk of being incarcerated? An American Indian expression which I try to use myself to pull through the life I’ve put together is to take everything that comes at you as a lesson, learn fast, and move on. Why can’t African Americans do the same? Do you see what I mean? I mean, why not say to oneself, “Okay, this happened to my great, great… but I’m not going to let it define who I am.” Slavery has been in existence for so long, and apparently is still going on, but because one of our ancestor’s was in the wrong place at the wrong time, we have to realize there’s nothing more that can be done about it. We can’t use past wrongs to justify willful acts of violence. I know I write too much; it's an opinion. Be well -
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When are former Republican presidents and politicians going to demand the Republican election-deniers who win elections, once they are elected, to demand that these people show their proof? And if they cannot show proof, to go on record and tell the people who voted for them that there is no proof. Conoleezza Rice says she cried when the insurrection took place because it was a stain on American democracy, but to have election-deniers winning elections is more than a stain, it's a blemish on the American way of life. Lastly, what has to be done from now on when dealing with international leaders is not to call names or show emotions or do anything that makes it look like personalities and personal feelings are involved. Before President Biden met for the first time with President Putin in Geneva, Switzerland, he agreed to a reporter who said Putin was a killer. Those are atomic insults that only send diplomatic relations in the dog house. The Saudi Arabian leader must not be chastised on the world stage---even though one might believe so---because no world leader should show their cards when dealing with another world leader. Why do I say this? Because we can't call people who have other political and belief systems wrong, or denegrate them in any way even if they have committed egregious crimes because they can turn around and use it as propaganda with their own people and the political leader who does call out another leader might see his own country pay a heavy price for decades. In short, the man in the street pays the price of openly agressive reactions between world leaders. You can't show your cards in international politics. Speak facts today and tomorrow and the future will not come back to haunt you.
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Dear Ms Amanpour, Mr Avanashi (SP?) and Mr Wilson, As an overseas viewer the thing that breaks our hearts the most about the staged insurrection and alleged sedition from President Trump, Rudolf Giuliani, and also from the leader of the rebel senators, Ted Cruz, and his cohorts is the fact that someone actually died in your nation’s capital. Unbelievably, four other people---one a policeman---lost their lives for a sham political stunt. The insurrection is a black mark on American democracy, but people died because a disgruntled President Trump could not admit he lost an election. The would be Che Guevara of the movement to overthrow the election results, Ted Cruz, should be ashamed of himself for acting like he lost his mind by shouting through bullhorns to Trumpers about how they’re not going to take it anymore or other nonsense. I am writing to say that I believe I can deliver the root cause of what you are experiencing. As a lay person, I don’t want you to think I have a professional authority on what I am about to say, but I believe the reason you are seeing the chaos erupting across your nation is that the economic system is not working any more to a satisfying degree for most of the people. People are mad because of a problem with their standard of living; Trump was just a big, flashy bullhorn guy who the people at the end of their tether could use as a spokesperson for the grief they feel, but have no idea that why they are so angry is not because of Democrats or Republicans or Independents; it’s because their money gets them nowhere. We all secretly love capitalism, because it has done so much for people like ourselves, but what we don’t realize is that Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard, and Thatcher and Reagan deregulating the banks and other legislation resulted in what we are now experiencing everywhere: a wealth chasm that is wider than The Grand Canyon. You can find everything you want in analyzing what is happening in your country, and you’ll be right, but in my humble opinion, we have to change the economic system we have all grown up with for something that takes care of everyone. What we don’t see is that we want to go in one direction and have a great society and save the environment, but the economic system we are using is going in the opposite direction. It’s a no-win situation, and until we see that you cannot have a chassis that does not support the weight of the vehicle, we are going to continue deluding ourselves into thinking that it’s because of that guy or gal over there who believes in the next faux guru of change that desperate people cling to. Remember, you cannot fact-check a person in an emotional state. Trump’s follows are living proof that when people condemn Trump, they only believe in him more. It's an opinion.
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It is appalling to hear this kind of vocast (videocast) in 2022. The plain simple truth of the matter is that all plumbers don't wear blue socks. What do I mean by this? Every plumber is unique and no one likes to be blamed for being part of group that other people may find offensive. Every human being is unique on our wonderful world and I will go one step further to say that everyone is welcome. We are all from the same family. When we see one side attacking the other side and vice versa for no rational reason, we know once again, that rumor and the human need for a scapegoat are rampant in their neighborhood. Social media has got us by the throat, because now charismatic individuals who have a presence on our screens that is bigger-than-life, can woe the undecided to believe things a five-year-old might very well question. What's the solution to people being nasty and saying terrible things or worse (doing bodily harm) to others? We've got to up our game, and expend all the energy and mind power and resources until we win over social media's grip on our minds. After every attack we must step back and re-assess how to counter any offensive gesture or remark or violence in every form. Someone making a very obvious inhumane gesture to a member of the human community is unacceptable. If fact, this is the answer, we've got to hammer home that this planet is home to the human family and that everyone is welcome here. Whatever one's beliefs, if they are peaceful, let's hear what you've got to say. But there will be no tolerance for saying terrible things about others i.e. saying without proof that all plumbers wear blue socks, because it's not true. Let's ring in a new era of understanding and acceptance between all the members of the world community! It's time to change our mindset.
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Thank you Mr Isaacson for your very interesting interview with NASA Administrator Mr Nelson, this is about the Earth and not space, but it would be great if Mr Nelson had something to say about it. I am an inventor and artist and here is an idea I have for the drought conditions in California and the American west and other parts of the world. It is an idea about getting water to drought-stricken regions. Here is my idea. What about having water pipes installed under the major highways and/or train tracks from the water-rich regions to the drought-stricken regions in your state and other parts of your country and the world? It would make roads and train tracks get two things done at the expense of one thing; roads and train tracks would have a dual purpose and save money tearing up more land to make room for yet another ugly eye sore of endless piping that would mar the landscape and cost a fortune to install and maintain. These would be the new equivalent of the ancient Roman aqueducts that could be concealed under roads and rail lines. Hydraulically pumps could vacuum in water---like in the recent NYC flood and send it out west, or simply pumping water from, say, the Great Lakes. Concealed pumps could be set up all along the underground aqueduct system at specific intervals to be able to keep the water moving on uneven terrain, over hills and overpasses etc. There are already train tunnels and car tunnels so they wouldn't have to build more tunnels, in fact, the infrastructure in your country is going to get a make-over soon it seems, so they could add the water pipes under the already existing highways and rail lines and bridges they are going to be renovating. They could outfit the new bridges they're going to be building with the water piping encased and concealed under the tracks and road. The underground aqueducts could be activated at a moment's notice and it would be a win/win situation because money would be saved from regions that had extreme flooding avoided and drought-stricken regions would be saved by getting the water to parched farmlands and dangerously low reservoirs that is badly needed. Environmentalists might be convinced it won't harm the natural world and if they get on board, it could help at least in a small way to get needed water to regions that are experiencing drought conditions. It's an idea to solve the fresh water problem and maybe even prevent future water-wars
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