Quick notes: Traffic congestion | Gates foundation...

• Worst traffic in the world:  It's official. Bengaluru is the world's most traffic congested city. Mumbai, Pune and New Delhi were the other Indian cities that also featured in top 10.

Cities across the world are banning cars from city centers and major streets.

Why don't Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi, which are in the world's 10 most congested cities, try this remedy?https://t.co/tQjzD40e6K via @wired

— Subhash Kak (@subhashkak1) January 30, 2020





• India to raise solar capacity: “A scheme to enable farmers to set up solar power generation on their barren/fallow lands and to sell it to the grid would be operationalized”.



• "Gates-Monsanto Foundation": Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto, pushing GMOs on small farmers around the world




• Fraudulent robocalls from India: DoJ sues US telecom providers for connecting Indian robocall scammers



• The truth is, China really won the trade war deal: “The Chinese can wait it out. They think in long, long terms, long visions.”


Putting forex reserves to good use.

How Geely's Li Shufu spent months stealthily building a $9 billion stake in Daimler.

With more than $ 3 trillion reserve more such cases will happen ? https://t.co/HaxCzhatqE

— Nilesh Shah (@NileshShah68) February 1, 2020



"Much of the intellectual property that underlies Huawei’s current 5G offering came along with the top Nortel scientists in Ottawa."

Maybe the U.S. should have bailed out Nortel back in 09?

"much of the intellectual property that underlies Huawei’s current 5G offering came along with the top Nortel scientists in Ottawa."

— Brad Setser (@Brad_Setser) January 31, 2020




• Han espionage: Raytheon engineer arrested for taking US missile defense data to China



• Talking Drones: Officials in China have started using drones equipped with speakers to warn citizens to wear masks as coronavirus continues to spread in the country.



• #DeleteFacebook: Chinese censorship goes global: Facebook agrees to delete Coronavirus posts flagged by China. . . . . Banned in China but FB ever willing to please the CCP.

I'm quitting Facebook. Not comfortable with the flood of false information that's allowed in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users' privacy. Follow me (and Molly, aka The Thing of Evil) on Twitter, if you like.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 1, 2020




• Only Muslims can be victims: “Christians in Pakistan live with this sword of Damocles over their head.”  'To death!' cried one woman prisoner. The other women join in. 'Hanged!' Hanged!'.”