Top Left Link Buttons
  • English
  • German

February 18, 2021

Daily Archives

Russia: Maglev Rail Moves Ahead

February 18, 2021by Mary Jane Freeman in Economic development updates, General updates, World Land-Bridge updates

Russia Designing Its Own Maglev

Feb. 17 (EIRNS)– Chief Designer Yuri Solomonov of the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, a Russian engineering and scientific research institute which is part of the Roscosmos space corporation, told TASS this week that his institute is developing an experimental prototype of a magnetic levitated train that can operate in an unmanned mode.. “The aim of the project,” he said, “is to create…a full-scale demonstration model of a train to check and confirm the main technical characteristics of new technological solutions related to implementation of the maglev (magnetic levitation) technology.” The project involves a significant modernization of the current monorail transport system, created in the early 2000s. It will move along a single steel beam and operate in an unmanned mode or with minimal human control. “The tentative time frame to begin running tests is the third quarter of this year,” Solomonov added. Following trials, a decision will be made on whether to begin full-scale work to launch the serial production of the new transportation system. This same institute has developed Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missiles, including Topol, Topol-M, Yars and Bulava.

Interview — BlackRock, Inc.: How ‘Green Finance’ Forbids Modern Fuels

February 18, 2021by David Dobrodt in General

Mike Billington, Asia Intelligence Desk for Executive Intelligence Review, presents how BlackRock uses its power to threaten and intimidate nations— both advanced and developing— to accept “green” technology and abandon energy dense fuel sources, according to the genocidal diktat issued from the British Monarchy. Mike’s recent article on BlackRock, “BlackRock INC. How ‘Green Finance’ forbids modern fuels” appears in the EIR Special Report.

Harley Schlanger Morning Update: Davos Math — Neoliberalism + Green New Deal = Increased Death Rate

February 18, 2021by David Dobrodt in Harley Schlanger Daily Update

It is a lie for the media to report that frozen windmills have little effect in producing rolling blackouts in Texas, which are putting four million people in danger from the current deep freeze. But the failure of Green New Deal “renewable energy” sources is only part of the story. The other part is the destruction that neo-liberal economic policy, particularly deregulation, has done to the physical economy of the western nations. And the Davos “Great Reset” combines neoliberalism with the Green New Deal, creating conditions for mass murder. What’s happening in Texas today is a “foretaste” of what to expect if the plans of the Davos corporatist fascists are not rejected, and replaced by the American System.

Beethoven: Sparks of Joy

February 18, 2021by Mary Jane Freeman in Daily Beethoven — Sparks of Joy, Music updates

Beethoven’s “Shakespeare” sonata, “I scorn to change my state with kings;” the great Appassionata.

Opus 57 – the “Appassionata” – one of the greatest works of Beethoven’s so-called “heroic” period, provides the backdrop for the following account: 
In the late autumn of 1806, as Beethoven was putting the finishing touches to this sonata, his patron Prince Lichnowski ordered him to perform for officers of the occupying French Army. Beethoven refused, departed in the middle of a furious storm, and later wrote to Lichnowski, “Prince! What you are, you are by circumstance and birth. What I am, I am through myself. Of princes there have and will be thousands. Of Beethovens there is only one!” The manuscript for the Appassionata bears the stains from that rainstorm.
This performance by Murray Perahia is the best I’ve heard. [Notes by Margaret Scialdone.]