Brain-picking and brain-storming science on coping with the COVID-19 virus and pandemic

Brain-picking and brain-storming science on coping with the COVID-19 virus and pandemic. Routinely updated. Has click-on audio link to Nobel MD's interview on COVID-19.

In paraphrase of a Nobel laureate MD-epidemiologist, Devra Davis, of the Environmental Health Trust, lecturing on KPFA radio, during the second segment of the Flash Points program, on this subject on 03-18-2020, hyperlink at https://www.reddit.com/user/LordProphet/draft/fe636af4-6cae-11ea-8ad5-4296ea72963b: Zinc nutritional supplements [preferably capsules or lozenges (30 or 50 milligrams of zinc per unit, being a capsule, pill, etc., in my speculation)], reputed antivirals and immune-system boosters, ingested while reclined or at bedtime, might aid the body in preventing or fighting a COVID-19 infection, a rhino-respiratory system attack-virus -- an aid; not a cure. Dr. Devra Davis, MD, also cites an apparently verified anecdotal account of a near-death COVID-19-stricken hospital patient who made a full health recovery after medically being administered massive doses of medically controversial and therapeutically dubious vitamin C*, which the patient and her family implored be administered to her as a last-resort try to save her life. Health risk factors, such as preexisting heart, respiratory or lung, diabetic, smoking, unsanitary, unhygienic or toxic behavior or environments, or refractory psychological depression issues, make the affected persons most vulnerable to the ravages of COVID-19 regardless of age or the potential mitigating effects of intervention therapies.

(She made an error in fully naming COVID-19's loose, less potent respiratory-infection-virus-relative SARS, whose correct name is "Severe Acute Respiratory [System Sickness] Syndrome" and not South Asian Respiratory Syndrome. All humans make errors, even humanity's preeminent genius Albert Einstein, and so do the best of machines. I often make dyslexic-related and wrong-recall writing errors.)

Considerations of mine, a non-medical person: Wrapping/bundling cannabis leaf in facial tissue, that is secured as closed with Scotch tape. similar tape, or one or more rubber bands, and regularly nasally or orally deeply inhaling from it and then exhaling may be therapeutic for the respiratory system in preventing the COVID-19 virus from shutting down the lungs and respiratory system that thereby causes death for a so susceptible COVID-19 infected person. Vapo rub regularly rubbed into the throat area and chest areas over the lungs as well as so coating the nostrils of the nose with vapo-rub covered cotton balls, coinciding with the initial or early appearance of COVID-19, or cold or flu, symptoms, may be as beneficial or more beneficial. Ideally, if advisable by one's personal physician, one might do all three. Consult your personal physician on the wisdom and advisability on doing these three things or any one of them to contend with the COVID-19 pandemic or one's personal symptoms of it.

It is normally safe and helpful to do daily light physical and mental exercise, even if only to take a stroll or rhythmically move or dance to music or exercise while lying down or in bed or while sitting in a chair, to visit the garden, a park or other green space and deep breathing there in the midst of plants, to drink a hot or cold cup of organic green tea or pure organic juices with their pulp (not reconstituted juice and not with any additives of any kind, including vitamins, etc), to eat meals with lots of [cooked] fresh vegetables and a fresh, raw fruit with each meal, to adequately toilet and blow (cleanout) one's nose and get at least 7 hours of sleep daily, as well as practice good daily oral and general bodily hygiene and good home and public sanitation.

If one is seriously stricken by COVID-19 and has impaired breathing, in addition to doing all of the foregoing if approved by an appropriate medical doctor, MD, one might also nevertheless cough out and spit out vigorously as frequently and much as one feels necessary obstructive and discomforting mucous and/or blood, etc., build-up in one’s respiratory tract or system -- and at a minimum water-splash the sink clean with liquid hand soap after each cough-spitting bout.

*There have been medical efficacy studies done on vitamin C that discrepantly have found it to be medically beneficial and to have no medical effect, positive or negative, with the latter reportedly having been the consistent finding in most recent such studies. The indicated consensus of all of these studies is that medically acceptable significant doses of vitamin C could have at least a positive effect for treating some people stricken by a flu, cold or related respiratory sickness (a clinically commonly believed "placebo effect," which is a therapeutic effect based on a [positively motivated or determined] state of mind or emotions influencing bodily functionality) but not an adverse treatment effect, meaning it would not worsen such an ill-health condition. A placebo effect is the opposite of a psychosomatic ill-health condition. A placebo effect is a positive psychogenic effect improving the functionality of the body whereas a psychosomatic condition or effect is a negative psychogenic effect impairing the functionality of the body, in which each type of effect auto-hypnotically mobilizes the body's biological machinery respectively toward improved versus degraded psycho-physical functioning. However, the recent no-significant-effect findings of discrepant findings among the whole of these vitamin C studies could be by-chance streak-outcomes, or by-chance streak-findings, resulting from certain blood-types subjects in both the experimental and control groups test-compared having not been screened for or systematically pre-identified in any of the studies (thus not permitting them, the different blood type subgroups, to be examined as diagnostic-study subgroups within the main vitamin C study). This potential experimental study oversight or shortcoming, or both, may by chance have been associated with a particular blood subgroup of subjects having overwhelmingly dominated both comparison groups in the recent medical efficacy studies on vitamin C, in which case it could be that people of certain significantly underrepresented blood types in the studies may really scientifically, directly biologically, benefit from particular therapeutically optimal doses of vitamin C, apart from being amenable or susceptible to a psychogenic, auto-hypnotic placebo effect. By the way, it is questionable that the placebo effect can be a delusional effect or a delusion if it has a real and enduring or permanent ameliorative or curative effect on actual bodily sickness or ill-health.

Proposition[Proposing] that Energy-Event Action-Reaction Cause-and-Effect Dynamics Fueled, Initiated (Engendered) and Powered the Cosmogenic Big-Bang Event of Our Universe, Ostensibly an Actional Energy Event

Upon awaking from a long, deep sleep (18.5 hours), the morning of Monday, 01-13-2020, in which I had numerous ridiculous dreams, I had a cosmological insight approaching a solution, to my thinking, to the debate among physicists as to whether or not the big-bang origin of the universe -- a scientific fact, as opposed to a theory, affirmed by the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), also known as the fossil-light afterglow redshift of the big-bang (explosion, combustion, eruption, blast, inflation, burgeoning...) emergence of the (our) universe, as well as by the telescopically-observed ever-expanding space overall between the galaxies and size of the universe -- theoretically occurred spontaneously on its own from nothing, a theory supposedly supported by the mathematics of the singularity space-time-mass state of the big bang and black holes and the black-wall cosmological horizon of the big bang, ruling out the presence of action-reaction cause-and-effect dynamics. My insight was in the question: Was the big bang an action, was it actional? And my answer was yes, with certainty, the "big-bang origin (or 'inception')" of our universe, as a process [of nature], from its fundamental state of being a space-time-mass singularity had to be actional and action. It was an energy-driven actional, action event, in which action (any dynamism, such as motion, movement, activity, vibration, friction, force, thrust, tension, inward or outward pressure, etc.) is intrinsically a characteristic of and integral to energy (as well as to dynamical time, where time is the from-to ongoing state of existence, or state of being, of something or somethingness and its rate/speed and length of duration ((also subsuming change, progression, increase, decrease, entropy, transit and transpiration)), which may be finite, indefinite or infinite) and energy is intrinsically actional and an action event. (Dynamical time = distance or length divided by the rate/speed of transit or transpiration, or an equivalent of the latter, wherein the structures of time are its stasis-versus-dynamical state, its object or event rate or speed of transit or transpiration across distance, and ultimately its length or duration.)  So action necessarily had to be and deductively one can rationally conclude that it therefore was present from the very beginning for the emergence of our universe. Thus, there had to be a proportional action-reaction cause-and-effect fuel and trigger to power the big bang and its ultimate output and expression, and the singularity (a virtually infinitely dense and intense ((compressed and pressurized)) infinitesimal or extremely small, compact mass) had to be somewhere, in an environment, a context, a greater space-time.  In this state of affairs, the cosmogenic big-bang evolutionary event of the (our) universe was the apparent subsequent actional event (the reaction action) and the actional energy-fuel source for the production of the cosmogenic big-bang event was its apparent antecedent initiating actional event (the causal action for the reaction action).

I have always been of the mind that the big-bang origin of our universe required a context for the presence of its singularity, and a powering fuel (really physicist's Brian Greene's explication), trigger and proportional action-reaction cause-and-effect dynamics for its production. Maybe the mathematics of our species' ruling out cause-and-effect at work as the impetus for the big-bang origin of our universe are insufficient and maybe more advanced mathematics may affirm and explain cause-and-effect for singularities. (By the way, fundamentally what are black holes and their singularities? They are extreme, pure gravity-energy regions and wells of space-time that consume all energy and matter that fall into them or that they capture and they compress and convert that other energy and matter into the pure gravity that constitutes them.  Gravity and antigravity, or theoretical gravitons and antigravitons, may be bosonic, and the singularities of black holes, which may, as supermassive black holes, contain the energy mass of hundreds of billions of stars or star systems, as measured by the mass of our star the sun, and the singularity of the cosmogenic big-bang actional energy-event may have been of an extreme gravitational nature, like that of black holes, or a such gravitational inversion, or both.)  It may be that our universe is a bubble space-time-mass universe within a greater universe, according to this cosmogenic initiating-action insight and cosmological viewpoint.

Parallel universe and multiverse ideas and conceptualizations from which our universe may have been produced are widely held and tendered propositions among physicists but are critiqued as empirically untestable and unanswerable, unprovable, as either true or false.

The totality of my argument is encapsulated in the empirical logic (deduction) that the origin or nature of the origin of the cosmogenic big bang was, 1., without a doubt and unarguably an action and actional, a crucial element of cause-and-effect dynamics and, 2., that reaction in itself is action, but an opposite action ensuing from a precipitating or impactful action or an interaction, 3., thus both initiating action, or input/impactful action, and precipitated action, or output action (reaction) are basically and inescapably the same thing, action or actions, 4., meaning that [proportional] action-reaction cause-and-effect energy or fuel energy (at a minimum) powering dynamics had to be operative for and at the beginning and all stages of the singularity of and in the cosmogenic big-bang of our universe, despite any mathematics forbidding this. Furthermore, given this deductively actional necessary process and scenario of the cosmogenic big bang, the singularity, necessary fuel energy and trigger for that action and cause-in-effect dynamics had to have a context, an environment, a space-time host.

However, in deference to the mathematics said by celebrity theoretical string physicist Michio Kaku to reflect that cause and effect breakdown and are precluded at the singularities of black holes and the big bang, it may be that the concerned mathematics apply to and negate discrete individual actions within a sequence of multiple actions (such as action, reaction, interaction) rather than apply to and negate action or seeming pure action itself, which for the initiation of the cosmogenic big bang may have been in structure and behavior a bosonic action and reaction (or interaction), in which a boson is a quantum particle that can occupy simultaneously the same space-time as another boson: a physically, in space-time, maximally intimate form of quantum entanglement. The quantum-entanglement of the union and [interactive] synergy or disunion of these two actions, proactive action and reaction action, might deceptively be identified mistakenly by quantitative physicists and cosmologists, or theoretical cosmological physicists, as only, or solely, one action, either a cosmogenic proactive action or cosmogenic reactive action instead of structurally as a unitary simultaneity in space-time of both proactive action and reactive action.  (Incidentally, our astronomy and physics have established that the fundamental generic material of our universe that produces and constitutes all of its phenomena is dark energy ((circa 71.4% of the mass of our universe)), dark matter ((circa 24% of the mass of our universe)) and baryonic matter ((circa 4.6% of the mass of the universe, also called luminous matter)) but make no reference to the possible counterpart of dark energy, which would be luminous energy.  Could hypothetically missing luminous energy be bosonically entangled with dark energy?)  Pointedly, this means that mathematics and evidentiary cosmological theory indicating that the big-bang inception of our universe ensued from a single, autonomous causal action novel to and inconsistent with the otherwise energy-matter action-reaction cause-and-effect determinism universal to and within the state of our macro-universe may just as well as have been determined by (been a determinism of} an energy-event action-reaction unitary simultaneity of two bosonic actions, or multiples of these, occupying and entangled in the same space-time, action-reaction cause-and-effect dynamics that are consistent with natural and universal macro-universe-state cause-and-effect determinism and even the statistical probability dynamics and outcomes of quantum-particle mechanics.  Multiplex-state bosons may explain some weird quantum-particle behavior, such as superposition behavior in which a quantum particle can spin left and right, or up and down, or all, simultaneously.

What Bribery Is

WHAT BRIBERY IS:

A bribe is the offer of something of meaningful [or consequential] value by a requesting person or a consensus of persons in exchange for the performance of an illegal, immoral, unethical or otherwise undesirable or unwillful act or acts on the part of another person or group of people solicited to perform the concerned act or acts. A bribe may be implicit or explicit and it may be of a positive or negative nature (with the offer, the promise, being a reward or a punishment (or threat)). The elements of a bribe are, 1., an offer or promise of a reward (affirmative bribe) or punishment (extortion, or extortive bribe) by the bribe maker or bribing agent, 2., a request or solicitation by the bribe maker or bribing agent for the performance of an illegal, unsavory or otherwise unwillful act or acts by, 3., a bribery performance subject (targeted bribery-performance subject). Implied bribes can be made by situational, circumstantial and/or verbal hints, insinuations, body language or expression, events, or credible, intelligible, other connotations (e.g., a drawing, symbol or symbolism) or by such oblique written or vocal remarks.

Unlike a contract, the bribery performance subject does not have to exchange value with the bribe maker or agent or perform the bribe-contingent act or acts in order for there be a legally recognizable or criminal bribe or for there to have been such a bribe. A bribe arises or occurs upon the bribe maker or agent having offered or promised a reward or punishment in exchange or contingent connection with a request or solicitation of the performance of an illegal, unsavory or otherwise unwillful act or acts from the bribery-targeted subject (some would say bribe-targeted "object").

A bribe may also be an offer or promise to not do or say something the bribery subject does not want done or said, and the bribery performance requested by the bribe maker or agent of the bribery subject may be an inaction by the targeted bribery subject.

In addition, a bribe may concurrently entail each a positive incentive (If the bribery subject "does" versus "doesn't do" this, then there's a reward) and a negative incentive (If the bribery subject "does" versus "doesn't do" that, then there's a punishment) for the performance or nonperformance of an act or acts requested by the bribe maker or agent of the bribery subject. Basically, this means if the bribery subject performs a given behavior requested by the bribery maker or agent, then the subject gets a rewards, versus, if the bribery subject does not perform a given behavior performed by the bribe maker or agent, then the bribery subject gets punished -- or vice versa for these concurrent bribery conditions.

Also, a bribe may be made with a disclaimer or disclaimers that it is or was a bribe -- a duplicity (two-faced, figuratively oppositely speaking out of both sides of one's mouth simultaneously) tactic.

The elements of Trump's bribe were Trump's, 1., request of a favor from the newly elected president of Ukraine, in a telephone call between him and Ukraine's new president Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Ukraine's new president mentioned that his government was interested in and/or looking forward to his government's purchase of weapons (already authorized as military aid by both houses of the US Congress for delivery to Ukraine, already under military attack by Russia), with the public announcement by Ukraine's government of the opening of a criminal corruption investigation on US citizen Hunter Biden, an attorney who was formerly a member of the board of directors of the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma and the son of former US Vice President Joe Biden, his leading Democratic Party challenger for the US presidency, at the time, in the 2020 US presidential election, 2., the scheduled delivery of the US Congressional aid to Ukraine was delayed by the Trump administration well beyond the delivery date previously established by the Congress and the Trump presidential administration -- and was only delivered when a whistleblower outed the reason for the protracted delay -- to psychologically induce, by the hint of inaction in the delivery of the military aid, the Ukrainian president to comply with Trump's request for the said investigation and its public announcement. Trump was the bribe maker and the new president of Ukraine was the targeted bribery subject and the bribe, 3., was the implied conditional delivery, with the suggested loss of the otherwise expected, but inexplicably much overdue, delivery of the US Congressionally scheduled military aid for Ukraine, under military attack by Russia.

Trump also offered an invitation (conditional) to the president of Ukraine for a visit by him to the White House in the same telephone call, the initial context of the bribe. Other incentives were offered by his administration for the public announcement, including a visit to Ukraine by US Vice President Pence circa to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Volodymyr Zelensky as the newly-elected president of Ukraine. Neither did the new Ukrainian president nor any member of his government perform the favor requested of the new Ukrainian president in their telephone call of concern. Nor did the Trump administration make good on his offers. Nor did Trump in the concerned telephone call request a criminal corruption investigation on or the public announcement of such an investigation on any other US citizen doing business in or involved in a business relationship within Ukraine, although he has remarked publicly circa that he knows of all kinds of US citizens doing business in Ukraine.

Furthermore, it is against federal law for a US citizen to solicit or engage with a foreign government or an agent of a foreign government to interfere in or influence a US government election.

“The GOP questioners in the impeachment inquiry hearings on Trump concerning this bribe-extortion scenario complain that most of the testimony given at the hearings is from hearsay or secondhand sources, yet most of the direct witnesses and relevant documentation have been respectively prohibited and denied by President Trump and his personal attorney, with them invoking presidential executive privilege, from testifying at and being released to the hearings, which they all know, all of the news media know and all of the political news consuming public of the US and most of the nations of the world know. President Trump and some GOP members in both houses of the US Congress also complain that the impeachment inquiry process led by House of Representatives' Democrats has been unfair toward Trump in denying him due process rights in his and his legal representation not being able to confront and challenge the testimony of witnesses testifying against Trump, though they all must know that in any legal or administrative investigation the object of the investigation has no right to confront and challenge witness in the information and evidence gathering phase of a litigation or potential litigation, as any cop or prosecutor will tell you."

Grassroots Republicans are increasingly adjusting to the understanding that President Donald Trump is a klepto, grifter, con artist, scammer, cheat-stiffer, pathological, hyperbolic liar, hoaxter, trash talker, bigot, demagogue, bully, thug, lecher and morally-bankrupt, totally-corrupt, scum-gutter derelict.

Impeachment or the 2020 national US elections will bring about a cleaning out of the unhumanly trash heap in the White House, and the latter of the GOP likewise trash trio in the US Senate, as well, at a minimum.

The Dire Economic Implications of the Trump-Presidency Tariff Trade War & Economic Policy

On the subject of trade and the Trump-US versus-the-world tariff trade war, behaviorally, trade, primarily wholesale item trade, is the exchange of supplies between and among nations, a bilateral and multilateral process, in which tariffs culminate in the rise of and raise the price of supplies, and, consequently, producer-finished and consumer goods, inflationarilly bad, generally, for both producers and consumers.

Price inflation begets a higher ratio of money, or international equivalent of currency units, to a [bundled] average unit of supplies (goods, or products, and services); decreased purchasing power and increased cost of doing business; decreased production and consumption; contraction of business and spending; contraction in investment (including financing credit or collateralized loans) and employment: Recession, loss in export market share of, if not entire, foreign markets, heightened domestic competition in local markets and ongoing price and earnings volatility, pruning and trimming, downsizing, of least profitable business operations and sites, relocation or offshoring of production to low or lowest cost geographies (the latter also resorted to for US businesses, like Harley-Davidson Inc. and Tesla Inc. recently, to escape foreign retaliatory tariffs and loss of sales market share in foreign nations, by their setting up shop on foreign nation territory and selling to those foreign nations from their own territory, national or regional trade bloc), https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harley-davidson-moving-some-operations-overseas-blaming-tariffs/, https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-announces-first-foreign-factory-china-trump-trade-war-escalates-1016622. In instances of foreign retaliatory tariffs against US goods, not vital to the foreign economies or that can be obtained from lower-cost, friendly free-trade nations, should foreign nations forgo or down-scale purchase of such US goods, especially in significant massed or collective action, such action could precipitate substantial declines in the price of those US goods, to the profitability harm of their producer companies, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-31/trump-s-new-tariffs-anger-u-s-manufacturers-and-business-groups, https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/04/news/economy/us-companies-respond-to-tariffs/index.html, https://www.ft.com/content/8f825846-2dfb-11e8-a34a-7e7563b0b0f4. If tariffs are as well imposed on the products of foreign manufacturers or other kinds of producer companies with production and sales chapters and facilities in the US, some of these would exit the US and some would still stay but compensatorily highly or maximally automate their production and, to the extent possible, sales and shed local employees, US employees.

(The prime beneficiaries of an international tariff trade war are domestic industries independent of or minimally in need of and invested in or engaged with foreign or international trade, being products ((including raw materials and component materials and parts)) and services, and, in the short term, securities-exchange investor short sellers, the latter also being, together with vulture capitalists, via private and public information channels, information-media reports, news, and informercial and publicity campaigns, major beneficiaries of securities or stock-market downturns and crashes and economic recessions and depressions, which can be manipulated or engineered. Tariff-free business competition, in domestic and international trade, means pressure and impetus toward greater and faster product improvements and evolution in quality, performance and price, at a minimum, to the benefit of consumers. Cartel, monopoly, quasi-monopoly, bribery, extortion, intellectual-property-theft and other unfair-and-corrupt business-practices free business competition comprehensively is democratic, a good thing and welcome. During the 2015 and 2016 campaign season for the 2016 US presidential election, opposition campaign ads were broadcast of businessman Donald Trump being audio-video interviewed as to his reaction to the 2008 US economic collapse and onset of the US great recession, in which he commented to the effect that for people like him it was bargain time for buying up real estate and/or assets [[on the cheap] lost by others in the economic destruction of the collapse and recession], https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-on-profitting-from-great-recession-thats-called-business-by-the-way/, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-hillary-clinton-economy-speech-donald-trump-20160621-story.html. Since becoming US president, President Trump has delivered a long series of verbal attacks on US companies of his dislike, in some cases, especially initially, in the early period of these attacks, having depressed the sales and stock values of such companies, quite possibly knowingly on his part meant to set up the short-seller status and opportunity depressed value of such companies and their stock, something that could be exploited by lurking stock-trader short sellers and gains takers in the background hip to the effects of the president's news-media and tweet attacks on those companies, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/61-businesses-trump-has-attacked-on-twitter-181623705.html. Indirectly, by his own public admission to the news media, as a businessman, President Trump is a vulture capitalist and financial shark and by his verbal assaults on targeted US companies he has been short-value and stock short-sale positioning companies disfavored by him, an abuse and unscrupulous use of his position and influence as US president. Vulture capitalists financially capitalize on, feed from and grow financially fat from the financial misfortune, loss, ruin and destruction of others in acquiring their "lost" assets and financial worth. He apparently likewise attempts to short status the political aspirations, careers and personal lives of persons he dislikes, as evidenced in the reports, not up to date, of the following news links: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/26/upshot/president-trumps-newest-focus-discrediting-the-news-media-obamacare.html.
Short selling primer: Short selling of stock consists of a stock trader with a stock trading (buying and selling) account with a stock brokerage borrowing a chosen quantity of stock on a particular corporation from the brokerage, for a fee and collateralized by adequate funds on deposit in the borrower's account with the brokerage, or pledged assets, to cover the value of the borrowed stock, where the stock borrower sells the stock for its current market, or trading, value with the intention of using the money in part to purchase the same quantity of the particular corporation's stock at a substantially lower price, in the borrower's expectation and anticipation that the particular corporation's value and stock value will markedly decline by a particular date; if the latter occurs within the stock-decline expectation time frame, the short seller purchases the replacement quantity of the particular corporation's stock at a substantially lower price than its price when it was borrowed, resupplies the brokerage with that quantity of stock on the particular corporation and keeps the cash-value difference between the borrowing and replacement values of the stock, which can be highly lucrative when ten-of-thousands, hundreds-of-thousands or millions of dollars in stock value are borrowed and the replacement value of a corporation's stock declines dramatically or extremely. Repetitive short-sale positioning of a corporation's worth and stock value can make it a stock fright and flight disinvestment company and render it worthless or virtually worthless and stock-exchange delisted and/or out of business. Short sellers -- short-term, fast in-and-out, fast turnover stock profiteers -- borrow stock on the front end of their gambling game because there is no strategic point to buying up-front the stock they eye for a price decline, in that were they to buy that stock up-front, especially in mass action, the price of the stock would increase in value to their profiteering strategic disadvantage and harm, and were it to decline in price they would incur loss in stock-investment equity and they would have to hope for and wait for a sufficient price rise in the stock to secure a capital gain or trading profit on the stock.)

Higher ratio of money to average unit of supplies here means a higher ratio of money, than before the tariffs and tariff war, required to purchase a/an [bundled] average unit of supplies.

Announcements by US manufacturing companies Harley-Davidson Inc. and Tesla Inc., since June of this year 2018, among similarly intentioned, less news-media visible US product maker, supplier and provider (such as arts, sports, performance arts and fashion live entertainment) companies with foreign sales markets, including distress expressed in the news media by US crop and seafood exporters, are unforeseen and unintended consequences, among others percolating, of blindsided, nationalistic, America-first economic policies in an interconnected, interacting, interdependent global macro-economy of sovereign nations and heretofore, in decades-long recent times, open-trade and free-trade economic power blocs spanning the globe. These policies go against the universal principle of business survival and competition to protect one's market share and profitability where one's markets are worldwide by domestic companies and foreign companies, now to the impending net economic short-term and possibly long-term self sabotage and harm, wreaked by the Trump Presidency, of a great many US companies with foreign markets, business partners and relations. US companies and those of most nations of the world, for the most part, mutually export to, import from, buy stock shares, bank and invest in, own property in and have operations based in one anothers' nations.

International trade for the most part is wholesale trade that supplies domestic or resident-domestic producers and retailers, whose workforces, for the latter, are societally structurally, permanently and compulsorily (by virtue of being located on native territory governed by layers of local, state, or provincial, and national law representing largely democratic native citizenry and voter interests) constituted of the native domestic population, aside from a relatively few foreign executives and financial, managerial and training staff of domestically resident foreign companies, all of which themselves already function as a domestic institutional protective infrastructure and tariff system, in an employment regard, against foreign populace penetration and competition on the pre-retail and retail business strata of US society, the communitarian monopoly of the domestic population and commons. Not only do domestically resident companies of foreign origin employ a US workforce, but they also contract with, patronize and are general customers of US vendors and local businesses for meeting their local, ordinary day-to-day needs, they and their foreign personnel purchase and/or lease, as applicable, business facilities and residences, etc., often partner with US companies and have sizable US investment stakeholders, including retirement-funds plans, and they pay local, state and federal taxes in support US physical infrastructure, public services and safety and institutions.

President Trump and his economic philosophers and engineers are politically and economically myopic and tunnel visioned, but he is also a savvy egocentric self marketer, self promoter. His superficial political highlight with North Korea via theft of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's engagement approach with N. Korea's head-of-state Kim Jong Un -- that he criticized and called a waste of time, then fired Tillerson and appropriated the policy directly for himself -- was staged political high drama to burnish his leadership and diplomacy image and boost public confidence in himself as a credible and competent head of state himself, and up-spike his ratings and standing in the political polls, which worked for him with the Republican Party.

President Trump, a serial bankruptcy business CEO and narcissistic, pompous, crank, mendacious, chronically self-contradictory (apparently he can't remember his lies because he tells so, so many, many and so can't be consistent in telling them), hypocritical, obnoxious, insolent, bigoted, demagogic and rhetorically caustic and pugilistic showman of shady and poor business judgment, now commandeering the US economy, in his tariffs trade war with the other economies of the world, is piloting and hurtling the US economy, largely, to familiar disaster. Cum grano salis, grande, take into mind and critically fact check his claims and accusations, as he and they tend bigly to be, on objective investigation of them, "unbelievable," literally, and quixotic, as well as political and PR gimmickry and poop news. He is a true-life Don Quixote, in his own perverse way, this mixed in with his peculiar self and imitation of Archie Bunker.

Until now, since his inauguration as US president, President Trump has been attributing and claiming the credit for the healthy and robust US economy to himself, whereas he inherited that trending economy operating on autopilot from the Obama Presidency's TARP, the congressional Dodd-Frank Act, noblesse-oblige indexed tax, free-and-friendly international-trade and Federal Reserve Bank monetary quantitative-easing policies.
The recent major growth spurt in the US economy of 4.1% for the second quarter of 2018, the months April through June, announced by President Trump on Friday, 07-27-2018, probably had as its source the spending and investment effects of the huge Trump tax cuts legislated by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in late December of 2017. Typically these tax cuts, primarily favoring the wealth class but also modestly extended to the middle and under classes, have an economic-stimulus effect on the economy, as in the preceding Kennedy, Reagan and G.W. Bush presidencies, but effects that did not last and that resulted in record federal government budget deficits in the Reagan and G.W. Bush presidencies because the main financial fuel of the economy came from middle and under classes' wages, salaries, disposable income and spending that were outpaced by increases in the cost of living for these classes. That indicated pattern of federal budget deficits is already operative in connection with the Trump tax cuts favoring the wealthy, which for corporations are permanent but which expire for individuals in 2025, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-analysis-tax-cut-deficit-20180409-story.html, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/congress-and-the-1-trillion-deficit-time-to-be-straight-with-the-american-people.html, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/federal-deficit-tax-cuts-spending-trump.html, https://money.cnn.com/2017/12/20/pf/taxes/tax-cuts-temporary/index.html.
Whereas federal economic statisticians base price inflation on a federal Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket of goods, which excludes increases or changes in the cost of housing, food and fuel (residential and nonresidential-facilities utilities and transportation fuel and fuel use), in reality costs of the latter three, survival essential spending in civilized society, which have their own subset food and fuel and shelter price indexes, most affect the middle and under classes' disposable income and ability to spend as well as their experience of price inflation and household solvency. Republican economics theorists, whose theory is trickle-down economic, in the main steadily argue that the growth spurts from these tax cuts favoring the high wealth class result from investment and consumer spending of the small class of the wealthy, when instead it is the vast consumer spending of the middle and under classes that instigates and drives investment in industrial-production and retail expansion and that generally supports and sustains the national economy, https://www.fool.com/slideshow/these-12-companies-have-laid-workers-2018/, https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/retail/2018/04/27/retailers-closing-most-stores-2018-so-far/557275002/.
So far for the major corporations, the indication is that they are using the tax cut money most for buying back their stock from the public, outside investors, which raises the value of their corporate stock whereby principals of the corporation, the high echelon, can at peak value of the corporate stock sell their own shares off at maximal appreciation and return on investment, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/business/tax-cuts-share-buybacks-corporate.html.

Bankruptcy President Trump and his administration have virtually reversed these, the Obama-Presidency era, national economic solvency and prosperity policies. They should heed the complaints of the already economically clobbered US farm industry, and other so affected and complaining corporations, harshly injured by foreign retaliatory tariffs in Trump's initiated tariff trade war against the major economies and economic blocs of the world, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/02/trump-trade-war-impact-farming-agriculture-industry, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/12/tariffs-senators-say-trade-policies-hurting-farmers-businesses/776771002/, https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/08/03/trump-farmers-complaints-tariffs-bailout-china-trade-war-soybeans-agriculture-usda/878410002/, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/25/trump-trade-war-with-china-puts-300000-soybean-farmers-14-billion-export-industry-in-limbo.html. View a news clip and read a news article on another, plus, non-farm, early corporate casualty of the Trump tariff trade war ca, https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-apos-china-tariffs-claim-223207045.html. They should end the tariff trade war, immediately, before we incur a worse disaster sooner than will befall our national economy with the reversal of the other Obama-Presidency-related economic policies.

A proper definition of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Properly defined, it is the pattern of psychopathic behavioral derangement disorders President Donald J. Trump exemplifies and that is imitated, emulated, or endorsed and justified as socially legitimate, good or acceptable, by his admirers and supporters.
Sample of internet links documenting President Trump's Machiavellian financial, foreign-investment, duplicity (He has tweet-disparaged a pair of other famous but individually astronomically wealthier-than-him Republican, market-libertarian billionaires, who have criticized in tariff trade war, as being overrated and globalists):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2015/08/17/trump-the-hypocrite-investing-overseas-fine-for-him/#5a6ffa011dc8

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/28/politics/trump-foreisgn-businesses/index.html
https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-companies/
https://qz.com/461688/a-list-of-everything-donald-trump-runs-that-has-his-name-on-it/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Trump_Organization (See reporting under headings "International")

Sample of documented accounting of blatant and egregious lies publicly told by President Trump:

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/president-trump-lie-list
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/donald-trump-3000/index.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/calling-out-a-presidential-lie/514568/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/22/president-trumps-list-of-false-and-misleading-claims-tops-1000/?utm_term=.c8e702694ccf

Anomalous Galaxy Discovered, Its immediate practical scientific implications, plus

Anomalous Galaxy Discovered,
Its immediate practical scientific implications, plus

The big news is in astronomy, as reported in most scientific and the major news media throughout the week of March 25, 2018 through April 1, 2018, in the astronomical discovery of a galaxy, galaxy NGC1052-DF2, observed to be devoid of the effects of dark matter, or dark energy-matter, indicating the absence of this phenomenon there so far observed to be present in the other observed galaxies.  This is big news for the science of astrophysics because, if the observation of this indicated zero dark-matter galaxy is confirmed to be enduring fact, then galaxy NGC1052-DF2 would be a celestially insitu, or in-the-field, scientific control condition for comparison with normal galaxies, which are surrounded by an inferential halo of dark matter extending for as many as hundreds of thousands of miles or kilometers, or likewise light years, beyond them and exceeding in mass by a ratio of 5 or 6 to 1 the mass of normal, or baryonic-luminous, matter, or such energy-matter mass, of galaxies and the universe (of which the celestial objects, from quanta to solar systems and organisms, as we know them, are made). The effects of inferential dark matter on the baryonic matter of the universe, with baryonic matter being the mass (made of atoms and molecules and their substructural baryon constituents of protons, neutrons and electrons) of the directly or instrumentally observable universe, include: 1)., gravitationally cohering or binding together galaxies, as well as accounting for the greater speed of rotation of galaxies and galaxy clusters with maintenance of their corporeal integrity than would be the case or possible as a matter of gravitational physics in the absence of the necessary considerable mass of dark matter, according to empirically based computational physics, astrophysics and astronomy; 2)., influencing the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, the standard for galaxies on the whole, to human telescopic observation, perhaps until this discovery; 3)., influencing the density distribution of stars, or solar systems, and gas-dust nebulae, etc., within galaxies and of galaxy clusters as well as of galaxies within galaxy clusters; 4)., and observed gravitational lensing, being the bending of background light or such radiowave radiation from a large-mass light source, such as a star or distant galaxy by, normally a baryonic-matter large-mass foreground celestial object, relative to an observer or photo-telescope, but, in the case of dark matter, an invisible such large mass in the foreground (gravitationally lensing or bending the visible light or instrumentally detectable radiowave radiation), being indicative or inferential dark matter, or such exotic invisible matter.  Galaxy NGC1052-DF2 has been observed be nearly as large as our galaxy The Milky Way but larger, with, according to one science news article, 1% of the number of stars as has The Milky Way, and, according another science news article, with 200 times fewer stars, or a half of a percent (.5%) of the number of stars, as has The Milky Way. 

All of the numerous science news articles I have read on this odd galaxy report that its sparse stars are highly dispersed, or highly diffuse in distance, that it is orbited by star clusters of old stars, whose orbits were not specified to be external or internal to the perimeter of galaxy NGC1052-DF2, that its stars, presumably subsuming star/solar-planetary systems and black holes, account for all of its [computational-physics-determined] assessed mass [as correlated with its rotational speed], and that it, unusually so, is a see-through galaxy.  Science news articles on two observational reports of telescopic searches for other low-star-population, low-star-density galaxies most similar to galaxy NGC1052-DF2 said the searches found a small number of such galaxies but none closely resembling the stated features, and more, of galaxy NGC1052-DF2, among which galaxy NGC1052-DF2 was said to stand out as a distinctly different, unique galaxy.   

Why the existence of a galaxy devoid of dark matter, or dark energy-matter, is most especially scientifically noteworthy and astonishing, is because the prevailing empirical, inferential model of dark energy, or dark energy-matter, based on observation, infers that dark energy, or dark energy-matter, permeates all of space-time of the observable or knowable extent of the universe, so a patch or sector, or galaxy, of it devoid of either or both of these phenomena would be inconsistent with apparent cosmological nature as well as anomalous to the heretofore historical telescopic observations of the universe of our astrophysics and astronomy sciences.  The discovery of this potentially zero dark-matter, or zero energy-matter, galaxy and a comparison study of it, if it is confirmed to be such an anomalous galaxy, with apparent normal galaxies, as hereinabove identified, will allow a resolution and conclusion to the lively debate in astrophysics and astronomy as to whether or not dark energy and matter are illusory, mistaken phenomena, that have an alternative, less mysterious explanation, or are actual.  Even more scientifically astonishing would be a scientific finding of fact that both dark energy and matter, as the elusive phenomena of their observed effects and ubiquity, and a galaxy devoid of, or with little, dark matter, or dark energy-matter, coexist.

(Dark energy and matter are invisible to the human senses and humanity’s perceptual and observational technology and whose [fundamental particle and derivative more complex and complex] structures of makeup are undetermined and so are unknown, but they are inferentially known by their definitely or definitively observable effects on especially very large celestial objects and structures of the telescopically observed universe.  I have taken the liberty in using the term dark energy-matter herein as a substitute term for dark matter or dark energy because, in view of the energy-and-matter equivalency equation of physicist Albert Einstein of E=MC2, I venture to treat dark matter as an invisible to our species analog of baryonic matter and the latter’s also states of alternately existing in a matter state as a liquid, solid, gas or plasma or converting to chemically undifferentiated pure energy, such as is the familiar case -- to common knowledge among literate humans -- with molecular water, H20, having its liquid, its ice or snow or frost, its steam or fog or mist or vapor, etc., states.  Dark energy is the name given to the scientifically undeciphered energy force driving the telescopically observed expansion of space between, and increasingly separating and isolating, galaxies and galaxy clusters from one another as well as the expansion or size of space ((cosmological spatiality)) and our universe itself at increasingly greater speeds, keeping the universe from collapsing in on itself by the force of gravity that aggregates and compresses mass into hierarchies of cosmological structures from baryons to galaxy clusters and everything in-between, even as neighboring galaxies and galaxy clusters combine and consolidate by the force of gravity and their gravitational attraction.  Dark energy in behavior largely approximates physicist Albert Einstein's postulate of the cosmological constant, a repulsive counter or opposing force to gravity preserving and propagating our universe, whereof Einstein mistakenly regarded the cosmological constant concept as the greatest blunder of his scientific thought work.  Einstein arrived at this construct during a time, before the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered and was the first person to observe telescopically that our universe and the distance between, for the most part, its galaxies and galaxy clusters was expanding, that the conventional conception in astronomy and physics was that the universe had become [permanently] fixed, existing in a steady state.  After confirmation of Hubble's discovery contradicting this erroneous conventional conception, Einstein declared his cosmological constant postulation to be the biggest blunder of his scientific work without knowing, as well as was the case for the astronomers and physicists at the time, for the remainder of his life that the cosmological constant nevertheless applied to the expanding universe, as a dark-matter and dark-energy based cosmological constant, whatever the quantum or cosmological nature of dark matter and dark energy may be.  Inevitably, in extrapolating from the telescopically observed actions of dark matter and energy on our universe and its galaxies and galaxy clusters, the galaxies and galaxy clusters are becoming steady-state cosmologically vast enclaves of dynamic, churning, recycling and recyclically transformative galactic mass seemingly forever increasingly separated from one another in a seemingly forever increasingly expanding space-time universe.)  

For science fiction writers, if this truly is a one-of-a-kind, one-off, wholly unique galaxy, or one example among a very rare category of galaxy made newly known to our astronomy by its recently highly advanced telescopes, it is grist for a book and movie of an artificial or artificialized galaxy created or purposefully modified by an intellectually super sci-tech species, probably ancient in cosmological terms, but which perhaps is short of being godly in sci-tech intelligence in not having mastered an understanding and the manipulation of dark energy-matter (a tenuous type 3 galactic-scale civilization species, on the Kardashev scale of celestial civilization types, consisting of 5 types, in which successor acolytes of astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev have increased by two additional types of celestial civilization Kardashev’s original conception of three such types.), or, alternatively, which does have such intelligence in having created an artificial galaxy or artificialized a galaxy in which all of its stellar-planetary systems, or solar systems, are inhabited with its species occupying sci-tech engineered heavenly, utopian worlds, environmentally, socially and technologically so, in having indeed mastered a knowledge and the manipulation of dark energy-matter and tweaked or dialed (that is, calibrated) its presence in its artificial or artificialized galaxy perfectly to serve its existential purposes as a species (a firm type 3 or 4 galactic or multigalactic-scale civilization species, on the Kardashev scale of celestial civilization types, consisting of 5 types).

Hubble finds first galaxy in the local Universe without dark ...

www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1806 

Researchers find a galaxy without dark matter | EarthSky.org

earthsky.org/space/ngc-1052-df2-galaxy-without-dark-matter

Dark Matter News – Science Daily

www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/dark_matter

Mysterious 'ghost' galaxy with no dark matter puzzles ...

www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-03-29/galaxy-with-no...

Galaxy without any dark matter baffles astronomers | Science ...

www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/28/galaxy...

Astronomers discover 'impossible' galaxy without dark matter ...

www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/astronomers...

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/03/28/Scientists-stunned-by-discovery-of-galaxy-without-dark-matter/7821522257291/

The Evidence Mounts for The Presence of ETs, Technologically Advanced Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

The telling indicator of an artificial construction and source for the interstellar radio pulse signals (streaming fast radio-signal bursts, FRBs, or pulsing) or radio-signal emissions reported by astrophysical scientists in the Huffington Post on 04-02-2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/02/radio-bursts-alien-signals_n_6984870.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063, is that each pulse is spaced by a multiple of the number 187.5, presumably a linearly progressive multiple of the number 187.5 in seconds in mathematically translated human time measurement, as the article is not clear as to what the 187.5 specifically refers. Even if the "length" of each pulse is such a multiple of 187.5 seconds in translated human measurement, that linearly progressive increase in pulse length would most probably be produced by a technological source of ultimately advanced engineering intelligence. Astro-scientists referred to in this article and others whose comments I have read in other articles on this same subject of astronomic FRBs (mathematically structured fast radio bursts from outer space) are of the consensus probability judgment that the odds are very low that these FRBs are astrophysically natural (odds of 5 in 10,000 that the FRBs are natural) -- they propose that if the FRBs are not of natural astrophysical origin that either ETs or humans, despite the apparent indicated extremely far-off distance of the FRBs, may be their source, perhaps deceptively so with regard to the distance of the FRBs' apparent origin.  SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute) reports that these FRBs are not a one-time occurrence but have occurred, to the detection of human radio astronomy, on  10 or 11 occasions dating from 2001, including to the recent present time, so they are no fluke or detection error. Since this number of 187.5 resembles an abbreviation of the number representing the speed of light (the speed at which light travels) counted in human miles per second, being 186,282 miles per second (with the abbreviation 186.25) by mathematically educated humans using the mile unit for measuring geographical distance or length in travel, it plausibly may imply that its technically intelligent source's basic whole unit of time corresponding to a human second is larger than a human second in which light travels 187, 500 miles (or ET miles computed in its analog of a human mile) per its second, wherein 187.5 means one ET second (or one ET light-year-component travel second), 2 x 187.5 means two ET seconds, 3 x 187.5 means three ET seconds, ad infinitum, giving the recipient a running (ongoing) accounting in time as to the time of initiation of the transmission or ongoing, current transmission. The transmission in this context may also refer to the changing and increasing travel distance of the ET signal source since the initiation of the transmission, per FRB transmission occurrence.  Moreover, this manner of astro-radio signal transmissions might also provision sufficiently capable newly contacted astro-technology and technologically intelligent radio-signal recipients to calculate rather accurately the distance, in lights years away, of the transmitting source of the radio-burst/wave signal stream, and maybe its approximate location, especially if the signal recipient's astro-communications technology (like a radio-signal telescope) were computerized, or equipped with a computational computer.  Vice versa, a reply by the recipient of the astro-radio signal to its sender might allow the replied-to initial sender, quite possibly powerful quantum-computer artificial intelligence able to deliver to and receive from recipients instantaneous astro-communications of any kind, to calculate rather accurately the distance, and maybe even so the location, of the replying respondent.  If the signal transmission source is machinery tracking the distance and location of spacecraft or space-flight technology traveling at the speed of light , the civilization that produced it and them would be a technologically super smart civilization, technologically tremendously smarter (on a much higher level of comprehension, thought, reasoning, learning, knowledge, creativity, ingenuity, technical education, science, intellectual-mental power) than the best in raw ability and best educated and trained brain power of our human species. However, in a mathematically educated human's literal astro-mathematical application of the rounded-down number 186.25 either the number 186 (maximally rounded off) or 186.25 (minimally rounded off) or 186.282 (unrounded off but if legitimately in math rounded to the nearest .5 place would round to 186,5 rather than 186.00, where the latter is used only because it is easiest to remember and recall), when not used as an abbreviation for the speed of light computed in miles it travels per second but when used in reference to and as a constituent of the speed of light within a human second, being 186,282 miles per second, any of one of these numbers would refer to and represent either the approximate or the actual number of miles light travels in a millisecond (light travel in one-thousandth of a second), or the speed of light in a millisecond; thus, perhaps the ET number 187.5 may or may not have a corresponding literal astro-mathematical application, which in the affirmative case would permit highly accurate calculations of the distances, and maybe particular locations, of each the initial sender of the astro-radio signal and its recipient-respondent replying to it (caveat emptor:  the 187.5, if a deliberated number, cautionarily, on the part of the source of the FRBs, may contain a deliberate fudge-factor margin, to conceal its precisely knowable distance from the recipient of, potential respondent to, the FRB signal).  It may be a matter of good-luck coincidence that its basic whole unit of time (analog to the human second) and measure of geographical distance or length (analog to the USA human mile, educationally inherited by colonial New England, the founding territory of the USA, from the British Royal-Imperial standards of weights and measures during the era when Great Britain, which initiated and ushered in the industrial revolution in the mid-1700s, was a global military, political and economic colonial-power, but a unit of measure and set of weights and measures standards replaced in recent decades by Britain, for itself, with the European metric standards of weights and measures) resemble or approximate those used in the USA or it may observe that the USA is the Earth's world-dominant political and military national human power. But on second, cautious, thought the apparent coincidence may as a matter of reality be an informed and strategically intended or simply intentionally astute maneuver for establishing intergalactic-interstellar astro-radio-signal communications.  Alternatively, these transmissions may have nothing to do with signaling or messaging exospecies alien to the ET disseminators of the transmissions, such as us Earthlings, but may be spacecraft-related or interplanetary or interstellar transponder-like or radio-wave telecommunications transmissions exchanged between or among members of a same technologically advanced ET species or communal colonies of affiliated but variously different technologically advanced ET species that may be inadvertently eavesdrop intercepted by or available to other adequately and technically intelligent and advanced exospecies, such as the human species in significant part has become as of the just passed 20th century. If the signals are meant for neophyte advanced technological exospecies civilizations relative to the technologically super advanced civilization/s of the super-smart ET species disseminators of the radio pulse signals (FRBs), it may be that only a technologically super advanced civilization may be capable of effectively interstellarly, and beyond, contacting neophyte technologically advanced civilizations, with neophyte astro-communications technology (radio waves or radio signal bursts), using super powerful, condescending, radio signaling far more advanced and powerful than the radio astro-communications technology of which neophyte-phase advanced technology civilizations are capable, not being the conventional super-smart, super-advanced state-of-the-arts astro-communications technology attainment of that technologically super advanced ET civilization and peer, other ET civilizations. Their signals may be able to defeat and override jamming technology of interstellar or interplanetary astro-communications employed by nearby or local mystery ET or terrestrial human powers, blacking out such astro-communications of different, technologically weaker or less-achieved others for whatever or unknown reasons, among which may be surreptitious intelligent species or political-military competition and the motive for them to endeavor to monopolize contact with super advanced ETs for the scientific and technological knowledge, and thereby consequential advantaged or supreme local political-military power, benefits obtainable from such contacts for them -- perhaps in a sense exercising their local technological superiority to quarantine future potential rival or threat technologically intelligent and developing alien species or populations from knowledge of and radio-signal contact and such astro-communications with far-off, advancement-enabling technologically super-smart and achieved ETs, possibly, basically benign and friendly, yet invincible. The latter possibility may explain the heretofore prevailing Fermi Paradox experience for our astrophysical community (being the absence of celestial radio-signal evidence of technologically intelligent and achieved ETs in contradiction to the stupendously overwhelming odds of the probability for pervasive such ETs in our galaxy, The Milky Way, alone), which may dissipate with our arrival as a technologically and astronomically neophyte advanced civilization.  We may be witnessing artificial radio signals produced by a Freeman Dyson-defined type-III ET-civilization-species, as the FRBs have the identifying markers of originating in and coming from another galaxy, identifying them as of apparent far-off extragalactic origin (however, the low level of gunk, or contamination, on the FRBs suggests that they come from within our galaxy or comparatively nearby).  If technologically intelligent ETs and/or their computer artificial intelligence are the source of the FRBs it is mandatorially incumbent upon our species to determine rigorously the risks posed to our planet and species in our establishing or maintaining astro-communications with the ETs as well as perhaps the necessity and benefits of such communications.  It appears that they, a far more advanced species and civilization than our species and our most advanced societies, are making a strenuous and persistent effort in attempting to make confirmed contact with us over an urgent concern they have for us.  However, a mistaken assessment, judgment and contact strategy with such ETs on our part could result in merciless, insufferable, inescapable egalitarian slavery of our species on our own planet to the time of extinction of our species or the demise of our planet, worse than all of the terrible deeds and horrors perpetrated by segments of our species on one another and many other species and the environment in all of rapacious, exploitative and savage and barbarous human history.

In a different article on the same subject the scientist most skeptical and dismissive of an unnatural or ET source for the FRBs insisted that eventually science would determine that they were/are produced by a superdense pulsar star, although her peers considered this but stated that no pulsar star has ever been observed to emit FRBs with a mathematically regular pattern (also these FRBs have occurred periodically since 2001 with the most recent having occurred in 2014, with their source remaining inexplicable to date), or are/were produced by an orbiting satellite, maybe orbiting spy satellite, although all the scientists agreed that the energy needed to produce the detected FRBs would require all of the energy that our sun emits in a month. She argued further that since the FRBs were broadband and would require three stars of our sun type to produce the observed bandwidth of the FRBs in the short-burst time frame for which they last, no ETs could muster the energy of three stars or that much energy.  On the contrary, a type-III ET civilization is one that hypothetically can harness or control the energy of multiple stars or numerous stars or those of an entire galaxy (hundreds of billions of stars -- to my mind this latter postulation is a gigantic, preposterous leap of sci-fi imagination), from which its super-genius-IQ artificial-intelligence population of permanently self upgrading, improving, adapting and evolving autonomous mission-dedicated robo-computer workers could easily harness and purposefully deploy the energy, where and to the extent needed or wanted, from not just several stars but from potentially tens of thousands of stars in their galaxy, simultaneously and continuously.  A type-III ET civilization is one that has galactic-level star-energy and technological-industrial power.  A type-III civilization with such power might cast a broadband astro-communications signal and contact "net" across multiple galaxies for its AI (artificial intelligence) systems and networks to interactively contact, and/or observe and study, as well as inventory, map and fully profile all possible solar systems and their associated planets and moons with technologically intelligent exospecies within its intergalactic signaling reach -- to develop for itself an omniscient GOOGLE galactic or multigalactic infinite-data-capacity computer-cloud map and GPS and big-data reference database, where its IA would have no attention, comprehension, memory, learning, reading, mathematical, behavioral or work problems nor need to sleep, eat, excrete, etc., that could preclude or encumber such an undertaking.  It may even detect very many of the latter existing caste of species from analyzing the insitu atmospheric chemistry and electronic or radio-wave broadcast signals of their planets and moons, perhaps actually observing and recording, as well as via IA-systems intellectualize their electronic media broadcasts, and attempt to astro-signal contact them specifically and directly, repetitively, or intermittently (allowing for sufficient technological progress to comprehend and respond), if necessary, with automatic-automated or robo-call transmissions.  Hypothetically, there may be multiple type-III civilizations in a given galaxy and any given type-III civilization may have branches, outposts and/or partners in its own home galaxy, or in another or other galaxies, with most of the stars and the stars' planetary systems uncolonized by a or multiple type-III civilizations.  Even if type-III civilizations are not in reality possible because of the forbidding, prohibitively vast interstellar space separating star-planetary systems, or celestial solar system, the constraints of quite limited biological and mechanical lifespans and cosmic nature's barrier on travel in excess of the speed of-light speed limit of the universe (fractional or absolute on the part of any flight vehicle), still there are indeed binary and multiple-star celestial solar systems within galaxies whose combined energy could be harnessed and controlled by a quasi-type-III technologically intelligent, advanced species civilization native to this special type of celestial solar system.

While type-I and type-II celestial societies are probable, the hypothetical type-III such societies are, as a practical matter, most improbable if not impossible inasmuch as survivable interstellar space travel -- given that the lifespans of the terrestrial animal species of our planet, apart from tortoises and some few species of birds, is less than 150 years, for the most part, at the extreme for any individual animal, including humans; given the multiple light years and thus that vast light-year-based miles separating star-planetary systems (interstellar space) are entailed in such travel (requiring a lifespan for an individual of perhaps of circa 100,000 years or many more traveling at the fastest speed of our or perhaps most any other technological-intelligent spacefaring species' spacecraft-spaceflight know-how [e.g., to get to the star-planetary system closes to our solar system, Alpha Centauri, 4.22 light years (in which light travels a rounded-off down 670,000,000 mph) away would involve this formula 186, 282 mps x 60 sec. x 60 mi. x 24 hr. x 365/6 x 4.22 light years = X total mi./spacecraft mph = total human hours/24 hr = total human days/365-6 human year = total human years in travel time], that at most would be a significant but relatively small fraction of the speed of light, the speed limit of the fastest moving things in the universe, being quantum-particle light-spectrum phenomena (including radio waves); given the technical and logistical limitations on equipping a spacecraft or fleet of spacecraft with millennia-lasting creature life-support supplies and systems and hygiene, sanitation, medical, environmental, social and psychological supports, aids and  controls required for travelers in cloistered spacecraft to accomplish this; and given the limitations on fueling, maintaining and repairing the spacecraft over this time scale of the interstellar flight, interstellar space travel and colonization -- is not feasible for any creatures except microbes and possibly GMO-population-controlled communal species of industrial ants, on board and able to operate aircraft-carrier x-1000 sized spacecraft traveling at 50,000,000 mph, made by a technologically intelligent species such as ours or more achieved, in which they would perpetuate themselves as species by successive generational reproduction over guessed millennia.  Very large creatures able to hibernate, like bears, especially polar bears, and able to accumulate huge stores of nutrient fat on their bodies and able to hibernate and feed from that fat during that hibernation, for six months to a year, with hibernating conditions engineered into spacecraft, would likely be able to survive a trip to Mars and back (but would suffer serious health and mobility problems), and maybe to other celestial body destinations in our solar-planetary system, with major increases achieved in the speed of our spacecraft, but they would have zero chance, or less if there is such a mathematical thing, of surviving the crossing of the interstellar space separating our solar-planetary system from that of our neighbor Alpha Centauri, if their spacecraft could and did travel at the speed of light, 670,000,000 mph.  So far the greatest cruising speed of a human spacecraft has been 38,000 mph, where if our species could boost that speed to 1,000,000 mph indeed it would likely take millennia if not an epoch or more for a human spacecraft to cross the interstellar space separating our solar-planetary system from the Alpha Centauri solar-planetary system, our closest star-system neighbor. There are additional obstacles to biological interstellar space travel, among them tissue damage from cosmic rays and bone loss from weightlessness in space, as well as, at extreme speeds, speed-related critical threshold harm to organisms and inorganic spacecraft materials as well as unavoidable mechanical wear and tear and time-related deterioration and varied malfunctions of any object, especially biological or mechanical, including robots.  The only other ways survivable interstellar travel is possible is by the distance-nullifying instantaneous dynamics of subatomic quantum-mechanics' quantum entanglement phenomena or by manipulating space itself, which can travel faster than the speed of light and has no speed limitations.  Also, in the unlikely circumstance that an ETI species were to have a day for its planet measuring hundreds of thousands of years in Earth time, and a year measuring tens of millions of years in Earth time, and a lifespan for its individuals commonly measuring hundreds of millions of years in our time, and it could healthily travel at the speed of light and were located perhaps 50 or less light years away from out solar-planetary system, it might easily be able to travel round trip from its solar-planetary system to our solar-planetary system and many others relatively nearby to its solar-planetary system and colonize or confederate with them, including our solar-planetary system, forming a star-cluster ETI community.  Astro-communications between technologically intelligent and advanced species of different star-planetary systems may be primarily driven by curiosity, fascination, intellectual adventure and exploration (including interest in alien thought products, like vocal and written languages, philosophies, ideologies, religion and religious doctrine, writing and oral video lectures on Earth's human and natural history and world literature, etc.), science (including medicine) and technology exchange and cyber insight and trade in videos, audio-videos, TV and radio broadcasts, and images and holograms of virtual other-world life (wholly), landscapes, types of water bodies and water-scapes, major marine and geological events (tides, tidal waves and tsunamis, earthquakes, volcano  eruptions, etc.), weather scenes and events (sunshine, rain, snow, hail, thunder and lightning storms, cyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.), caves, topography and climatic terrains, sunrises and sunsets, day-evening-and-night sunny-overcast-inclement-starry-moon states of the sky, city and town scapes, buildings and vehicles, animals and plants, all variety of humans, culture and experience (like food images, exterior and interior, chemical composition of natural foods, recipes of prepared food, cooking and dining, music and dance, concerts and stage/screen shows, artwork of every kind (prehistoric, ancient and contemporary and in between), jewelry, fashion, cosmetics, sports, etc.) without physical contact between their species possible, unless any of such species is able to manipulate space itself or the dynamics of quantum entanglement, for instantaneously teleporting organisms.  They may even seek to establish an interactive cosmic 
(interplanetary, interstellar and intergalactic approximation of internet, cell-phone, instant-text-messaging, skype, etc.) cyber and telecommunications system with other physically inaccessible technologically intelligent, advanced species civilizations.

The results of a data analysis of NASA's WISE telescope's (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) scan study of the starlight of 1,000 galaxies by  Penn State University reported in the news on 04-16-2015 (http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/search-of-100000-galaxies-finds-no-sign-of-advanced-civilizations/) found no evidence of extraordinary levels of overall energy in any of those 1,000 galaxies telescopically surveyed by WISE that would indicate a galaxy-wide colonization by an ETI supercivilization, although it did find that 50 of those galaxies showed overall energy levels that were significantly high compared to the others, warranting further study of them for the cause/s of their overall significantly higher energy levels.  A subsequent article on the same data analysis reported that a star cluster at an edge of our own galaxy the Milky Way showed the exact or approximate summary energy and starlight characteristics expected for a type-III ETI civilization (on a star cluster scale, not on a larger scale of stars, such as for a galaxy, for the relatively minuscule sample of galaxies so far studied), perhaps suggesting that there may be enclaves of interstellar space that can be traversed by mortals, as perhaps between star-planetary systems of especially close dwarf-star/planetary systems within a star cluster or between a large star/planetary system or systems and atypically especially close dwarf-star/planetary systems or a cluster of such systems. Overall starlight on the scale of a galaxy is much easier to observe and study, given its size or volume, than the starlight of a star cluster or a given star-planetary system within a galaxy, which were not intentionally studied nor are currently subject to efficient or as reliable study, given the state of the art of our best planetary long-distance astronomy.  Emphatically speaking, the data analysis did not fail to find evidence of either ETI life itself or star-planetary-system colonization by ETIs, would-be fine-tuned data for inclusion in the data analysis that the WISE telescope was not able to capture on the scale of a solar-planetary system or mere clusters of them.  In addition, an article released by the Daily Galaxy on 04-26-2015 reports that starlight from non-galactic stars -- thought to be displaced from galaxies in the routine collisions and mergers of galaxies -- has been telescopically observed in the vast dark and cold space between (intergalactic) and far outside of galaxies suggesting that life and ETIs may reside within the star(-planetary) systems of these telescopically previously little noticed, largely overlooked and unstudied special celestial abodes and frontiers of stars and star clusters, non-galactic star-system population abodes that are highly likely celestially numerous and commonplace, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/04/nasa-there-might-be-civilizations-existing-in-dark-space-outside-galaxies.html.

Based on all of what I have read of what the scientists and mathematicians handling this FRB issue have revealed about the FRBs and said about them in their commentaries, it is my surmise that the FRBs are of technological origin and  that advanced biological intelligence, be it human or nonhuman, and possibly artificial intelligence the biological intelligence also created, was/were the creator/s of the technology that produced the FRBs.  It is also my deduction from the available general information from these scientists and mathematicians and from my personal scrutiny and analysis of their factual information that the biological intelligence, or autonomous IA surrogate for the the biological intelligence, is/was operating on multiple levels of cleverness and is highly tactical, but that its savvy and tactics are not inscrutable,  I suppose a Mensa-like science and technology institute in Russia or China with a virtually unlimited endowment of funds and access to unrestricted science-related material resources could perpetrate a ruse that could look like an aberrant, puzzling scientific grand mystery.   

Upon reflection, I smile broadly with bright, widely opened eyes as I belatedly realize that the described high physics and engineering facility, elite IQ and scientifically educated community and team, abundant funding and scientific resources do exist on Earth, at CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), Switzerland where this elite science community operates and conducts nuclear and quantum particle physics experiments and research, famously having detected and confirmed the reality of the Higgs boson god particle with the Large Hadron Collider -- the FRBs may be an unintended and unsuspected product of this facility or byproduct of this community's work, in which releases of thermonuclear energy, in micro-mass micro-blasts, lasting for punctuated milliseconds, or a discrete millisecond at a time in a series of discrete milliseconds, are ostensibly harmlessly amplified to energy levels comparable to or exceeding several times the energy output of our sun.

In final comment on the number 187.5, in uninformed speculation, maybe it represents the velocity of the neutrino quantum particle in a millisecond, whose explicit speed I have not been able to find on any search engine on the internet but whose speed in recent years has been tracked by CERN to be close to or the closest to the speed of light of anything else in the universe, and maybe it is associated with experiments involving neutrinos at CERN that result in the production of FRBs.  

If no activity associated with humans is found  to be responsible for the FRBs and top political leaders and science organizations are comfortable with making a careful and well crafted test or experimental exploratory response to the FRBs, the response should simultaneously be both light-spectrum radio waves as well as neutrino beams computer timed and disseminated around the clock in milliseconds, as the FRBs may be a simple tip or symbolic message advising with the number 187.5 that the matching quantum signal source in nature identified with 187.5, such as the speed of light or the speed of neutrino particles per millisecond, from the sender's time-quantifying frame of reference, be used to effectively acknowledge-reply to the sender's FRBs. Radio-telescope reception of a reply should be computer programmed  to automatically record the space and time astronomical coordinates of every incoming signal reply.  A running global positioning mapping record of the rotating Earth and star constellations relative to the computer radio telescopes should be date-time recorded and continuously saved on cloud computer over the signal send period as well. Were I a billionaire, I would set up such a computer radio telescope at each Earth's north and south poles and in Kenya in Africa, roughly mid-way on one side of Earth, and in Tuvalu in Polynesia, roughly mid-way on the opposite side of Earth, as well as have one to two such radio-telescope satellites in orbit longitudinally around the Earth and one to two such radio-telescope satellites in orbit latitudinally around the Earth, from which I would have them consecutively emit for a whole fortnight in any order strictly signaling light-spectrum radio-wave beams, strictly signaling neutrino beams and strictly signaling x-ray beams in the manner described in the foregoing.

Are Radio-Telescope-Detected FRBs from equivocally Indicated Extragalactic Extraterrestrials or from ETs at CERN, Switzerland?