Martin Sonneborn: „Seit 2022 hat die Ukraine knapp 200 Mrd. aus der EU verschlungen – Kriegskredite, Kriegsgeschenke, Kriegskorruption. Nach Auszahlung der nächsten Tranche werden es dann 290 Mrd. sein – mehr als eine Viertelbillion.“
Und sie nennen es "Aufarbeitung"
#Drosten
Eine Folge der #Energiekrise: Währungen von Schwellenländern stürzen ab. Die Importkosten für Öl und Gas steigen, die Zentralbanken brauchen US-Dollar und verkaufen heimische Währung. Die Folge #Inflation und oft Unruhen.
The ongoing naval blockade:
🇮🇷 Iran's economy nears collapse
—> America wins
🇨🇳 China's economy suffers
—> America wins
🇪🇺 Europe's economy suffers
—> America punishes them for their betrayal —> America wins
🇺🇸 America becomes the largest oil exporter in the world
—> America wins
Der Biologe Wolfgang Epple erläuterte in 18/20: Das Abendjournal, was es mit der vermeintlichen „Maikäferplage“ auf sich hat:
Oh man.
This one hurts.
I raced Craig on the human genome project. It was Epic.
Although he was vilified by many of my peers.
I was young and bought into some of the vilification at the time.
I got to know him more personally after ABI purchased ApG.
Our team in Beverly even sequenced his genome, HuREF.
I came to learn my earlier perspectives on him were really flaws in my own world perspective at the time.
It was the Public vs Private science debate and I no longer look at tax funded science the way I did back then.
The C19 pandemic really emphasized this as I witnessed Craig’s arch rival turn personalized medicine into herd medicine.
After a reckless abuse of PCR-amplified pandemic fear, all the public sales pitches on precision medicine and personalized treatments went up in smoke.
The moment some of the virtuous public genome project leaders saw a window for immature genomic tools to save the world (and cover up their own lab leak), plans behind closed doors fell into place.
The transparency promised in the Bermuda accords turned into burner phones and FOIA evasion.
Suddenly the public sector displayed a whole level of unaccountability and subterfuge once garnished on Celera for the mere crime of being privately funded.
Craig was an entrepreneur who had no patience for red tape. He ruffled feathers but in the end he pushed everyone to run faster.
Some argue it came at the cost of quality but in reality, we now know we didn’t have the tools to 100% close the genome in 2000.
The last 8% took another 20 years as we had to wait for 2 generations of new sequencers to finally deliver 20-100kb reads.
We would have burned infinite money holding our breath for the last 8%.
But without that fast first 92%, 454, Solexa and SOLID would have matured later. These sequencers all relied on a human reference genome.
Sometimes we need the impatient private sector urgency spending their own money to create the price signal. What is the fastest path to a result the market will pay for?
For gov labs, this calculus departs from ROI decisions and it becomes easy to spend other people’s money in the pursuit of perfection. Public Scientists after-all are in a circular firing squad yelling perfection and , as long as someone else pays the bills, you can’t afford to compromise on perfection or the PubSmear mob will wreck you.
Pricing signals matter to get ROI decisions properly calibrated and avoiding asymtoptic costs for marginal gains.
Many will claim that Craig was out for shelf interest and was patenting 300 genes.
Public was giving it away for free.
That’s the story but it’s not true.
In the end the NIH ended up with more gene patents than Craig.
Not from their genome centers but from their funding streams. Jim Watson quit the genome project over it and some of the patents were from NIH funding Craigs EST projects.
I have a whole paper in Nature methods on Gene Patents and how to evade them with DREAM PCR.
If you were morally opposed to this, you didn’t have to buy Celera stock. Your tax dollars had no such veto right and in the end your tax dollars were used to patent genes, charge you again as those were licensed to CDX companies and raised pricing.
Suddenly the good guy vs villain story blurs into a story about human nature and poor incentive structures.
Morgen publiziert das szmagazin ein großes Interview mit Christian #Drosten. Sind bestimmt viele kritische Fragen dabei;)
"Noch gefährlicher als die Anhäufung. von immer mehr militärischen Gerät ist die aktuelle Sprache, die sie begleitet. In Nachrichten, Reportagen, Talkshows und Ministerauftritten wächst ein Ton, als sei „Kriegstüchtigkeit“ das ästhetisch eigentliche Anliegen der neuen Berliner Republik."
Die Bundespressekonferenz mit rund 900 Journalisten als Mitglieder sieht sich als Kontrollorgan der Regierung. Dass sie dieser manchmal eher zu nah ist, berichtet der Journalist @FWarweg in Kontrafunk aktuell:
Greta Thunberg und Co.: Die Zeit der Klima-Ikonen scheint vorbei. Die Bedeutung prominenter Aktivisten schwindet – auch prominente Unterstützung ändert daran wenig. Das Ende eines kollektiven Selbstbilds? Hier der Artikel aus «Der andere Blick»:
R to @txsalth2o: She did inadvertently give me a gift- one of the greatest songs ever is now stuck in my head. https://youtu.be/wtBc5ABgYEM?si=r9FnFo134MNq9ou4
Ever wonder why your health insurance bill feels like a second mortgage? It’s not the doctors. Look at this chart: since the ’70s, physicians grew modestly. Administrators? They exploded. This is the real story behind runaway healthcare costs.🧵🪡
I will be at the United States Supreme Court today to speak at "The People vs. Poison Rally." My remarks will begin at 9:30 AM. Tune in! https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1XxygmLpZoYGM
The day after my birthday is not my birthday, mom.
17 yr old: Mom you’ve given me so many issues!
Me: Welcome to the human race! We ALL have issues from our parents. I got issues from my mom, she got issues from hers. The key is to buck up and overcome whatever they are instead of living life in aperpetual victimhood.
We were there front and center.
That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government.
After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.
R to @txsalth2o: That and creepy “kids movies” that did not have happy endings.
80s video games are why 80s kids are far more resilient.
You got to level 9 of Super Mario and died? You’re dead- back at level one.
None of this soft starting where you left off or saving your game garbage.
You want to win? You have to start over.
Fourteen of the criminals Roy Cooper released in 2021 have since been convicted of murder (plus one attempted murder)
That's the number of convictions, not even including offenders like DeCarlos Brown Jr. who are awaiting trial or have been ruled insane
Follow @CooperReleased
Democrats are mad that racism wasn’t real.
Reminds me of when they were disappointed that no kids died of Covid when Florida opened schools.
R to @txsalth2o: The number of people simping for Somalian fraudsters and Congressmen in the comments is really quite something.
R to @txsalth2o: In "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins," Dinkins loses his football career & is disgraced after betting on himself to win.
Tracy Morgan makes a great case for WHY football players SHOULD be permitted to bet on themselves to win, and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than letting Congress trade stocks based on their intel.
Der grüne Baudirektor und Regierungspräsident sollte mit einem Bild in der Ahnengalerie des Kantons verewigt werden. Jetzt stellt sich die Frage, was mit den unerwünschten Entwürfen geschehen soll. https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/portraet-debakel-in-zuerich-regierungsrat-martin-neukom-bestellt-fuer-20-000-franken-aus-der-staatskasse-ein-gemaelde-von-sich-lehnt-dann-aber-gleich-drei-versionen-ab-ld.1934423?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026042269e07cdb2405ed36deda44f1
Adam Back, der mutmassliche Vater des Bitcoins, ist in Lugano aktiv. Die mutige Wette der Stadt auf die Krypto-Ökonomie hat bekannte Köpfe der Branche ins Tessin gelockt. Das zahlt sich aus. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/die-spuren-von-satoshi-nakamoto-fuehren-ins-tessin-warum-lugano-das-heil-im-bitcoin-sucht-ld.1934048?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026042269e07cdb2405ed36deda44f0
Eine vergangene Woche eingereichte Volksinitiative will dafür sorgen, dass der Schweizer Finanzplatz «Klima und Natur nicht länger belastet». Sie dürfte sich bei einer Annahme als kontraproduktiv erweisen. https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/finanzplatzinitiative-schweiz-kritik-an-buerokratie-und-verboten-ld.1934425?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026042269e07cdb2405ed36deda44ef
Early-onset colon cancer. Rising breast cancers in younger women.
Different tissues. Same signal.
Environmental exposures leave epigenetic fingerprints— seen in both breast and colorectal cancers.
An invisible imprint…that may shape disease decades later.
https://charlottekupewasserphd.substack.com/p/the-invisible-imprint-of-everyday
Meistfotografiert, aber nie für einen Pass: Queen Elizabeth II. und eine seltene Ausnahme https://www.nzz.ch/fotografie/queen-elizabeth-ii-war-die-meistfotografierte-frau-der-welt-ein-passfoto-gab-es-jedoch-nie-von-ihr-ld.1934363?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026042269e07cdb2405ed36deda44ee
So wie gerade jetzt im Aargau, wo sie als Regierungsrätin die Bildungspolitik neu justiert. Wie macht sie das? Die Geschichte ihres Lebens. https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/martina-bircher-wurde-immer-unterschaetzt-und-als-svp-hardlinerin-verschrien-aber-welches-amt-sie-auch-innehat-sie-setzt-sich-durch-ld.1934054?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026042269e07cdb2405ed36deda44ed
BREAKING: Lufthansa just canceled 20,000 flights. The IEA says Europe has six weeks of jet fuel left. Nobody has noticed these two clocks are the same clock, running from the same blockade, landing in the same week, aimed at two continents at once.
Tuesday April 21, 2026, Lufthansa Group announced the cancellation of 20,000 short-haul flights from May through October 2026, saving 40,000 metric tons of jet fuel, with 120 daily cancellations already implemented from April 20. Per Lufthansa’s release verified by FT, Reuters, WSJ, and Politico, the cut is directly attributed to jet fuel prices doubling since the February 28 outbreak of the Iran war. Europe NW spot jet fuel peaked above 1,900 dollars per tonne in early April from a pre-conflict 750 to 830 range. IATA puts the global average at 184.63 dollars per barrel. Per Transport & Environment analysis, long-haul European passengers now pay an 88 euro fuel surcharge, 129 euro on Paris to New York. KLM canceled 160 May flights. SAS canceled 1,000 in April. Delta cut 3.5 percent of capacity and raised bag fees. Air Canada suspended JFK service June through October. Qantas flagged a near one billion dollar fuel hit.
Now the second clock. On April 16, IEA Director Fatih Birol told AP Europe has “maybe six weeks or so of jet fuel left” if Middle East supplies are not restored. Six weeks from April 16 is May 28. That window overlaps precisely with the physical deadline facing Iran. Per FDD’s Miad Maleki April 12 math, Iran has 20 million barrels of Kharg onshore storage against 1.5 million barrels per day surplus, placing forced well shut-in 13 days from April 13 blockade start, at April 26. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Tuesday on X: “In a matter of days, Kharg Island storage will be full and the fragile Iranian oil wells will be shut in.” Iran’s reservoirs tip into permanent damage by April 26. Europe’s jet fuel runs out by late May. Both clocks end inside the window Trump’s indefinite extension protects.
The sequencing is the alpha. Trump did not extend the ceasefire to de-escalate. He extended it to let both clocks run. For Tehran, it means permeability loss, water coning, and formation compaction at Kharg destroying 300,000 to 500,000 barrels per day of capacity forever, a 9 to 15 billion dollar annual revenue hole per FDD. For Brussels, Paris, Berlin, it means summer cancellations severe enough to convert European diplomatic posture from bystander to stakeholder. Lufthansa is not optimizing. It is rationing. 40,000 metric tons of fuel saved equals roughly six days of group short-haul consumption. CityLine is permanently grounded. Defensive positioning, not route pruning.
Watch who moves next. Merz. Macron. Starmer. They face two options, both painful. Pressure Washington to lift the blockade, which rescues Vahidi’s IRGC and collapses Trump’s leverage architecture. Or pressure Tehran to accept the unified proposal, which makes Europe Trump’s enforcement arm against the hardliners ISW confirmed overruled Araghchi on April 17. They will choose the second. There is no summer tourism season at 1,900 euro per tonne kerosene and empty reserves.
Trump did not just activate a reservoir clock against Vahidi. He activated a kerosene clock against Europe and handed Europe the bill for collecting Iran’s proposal. The “indefinite” extension is an invoice, denominated in barrels of Brent and tonnes of jet fuel, payable by May 28.
https://open.substack.com/pub/shanakaanslemperera/p/the-protocol-sovereignty-trap?r=6p7b5o&utm_medium=ios
Stefan Walter erklärt, wie er weitere Problemfälle auf dem Schweizer Finanzplatz verhindern will und warum die Aufsicht künftig mehr Personal brauche. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/der-finma-chef-verteidigt-eingriffe-in-die-banken-wir-muessen-sicherstellen-dass-in-der-fuehrung-nur-personen-sitzen-die-ihr-geschaeft-beherrschender-finma-chef-verteidigt-vorgehen-im-geldwaescherei-skandal-um-mbaer-es-braucht-zeit-um-bei-einer-bank-verdaechtige-muster-nachzuweisen-ld.10003441?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026042269e07cdb2405ed36deda44ec
.@JMilei singing in Israel's 78th Independence Day ceremony 🇮🇱🇦🇷
Es ist Londons beliebtestes Museum und hat etwas von einem Kinderparadies oder einem Freizeitpark: Das Natural History Museum verdankt seinen Erfolg vor allem der ewigen Zugkraft der Urzeitechsen. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/kunst_architektur/sie-heissen-dippy-und-sophie-mit-den-sauriern-ist-man-im-natural-history-museum-auf-du-und-du-ld.1931822?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026042269e07cdb2405ed36deda44eb
The white supremacist Charlottesville rally was an SPLC operation?!?
Totally unfair attack on WSJ's @ElliotKaufman6. Read the full article and judge for yourself. Not a single inaccurate sentence:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-iranians-take-trump-for-a-sucker-8a211f94?st=WtHe8G&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Kaufman doesn't say that Trump is a sucker (of course he's not), but that the regime in Iran is behaving as if they think so.
Bundesrat und Parlament wollen den Wechsel von der Armee zum Zivildienst erschweren. Gegen die Gesetzesänderung wurde das Referendum ergriffen. Am 14. Juni entscheidet das Volk. https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/die-volksabstimmung-ja-zur-aenderung-des-zivildienstgesetzes-auf-einen-blick-ld.1933797?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026042269e07cdb2405ed36deda44ea
There is just no way this is true, right ?
Completely asinine!
If you even raise an eyebrow in realtime about the obvious stupidity of the system, you get assigned anger management classes.
A pox on the slimy physician enablers of the system.