KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG

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I think it is too early to decide who got my votes. The internet is going to be such an important part of this election, making people get the facts without digging through the dirt and listening to crap from the mainstream media, this coming election is going to be so much polarized, e.g. go to CONGRESSPEDIA and find out what congressional bills the popular senator sponsored, or who has donated money to his campaign.

I don’t like Hillary Clinton because she votes yes for war in Iraq and refuse to denounce it, votes yes for USA Patriot Act, Pro-Israel occupation of Palestine (she praises the Apartheid Wall), plus her centrist position and stone-cold-bitch calculation.

I like Giuliani because he’s a social liberal who is pro-immigrant, pro-choice but dislike him as a republican.

McCain is just too old and he is anti-abortion, anti-birth control and anti-gay, plus he hook up with Jerry Falwell trying to scoop the votes from right-wing evangelical Christians. Plus he supports Israel invading Lebanon in 2006.
I love Kucinich cause he is crazy liberal, vote against the USA PATRIOT Act, criticzing Diebold e-voting machine, against war in Iraq and vote no for Iran Freedom and Support Act, but he got no chance because he is not the puppet the big-corporation want to install in our Capitalist-Democracy, which means very limited media coverage.

The only person I don’t know much is Obama. His political career is just too short. Here is an 2002 interview of Obama criticizing the pre-emptive strike invasion and predicting Iraq’s splitting into Sunni, Shia and Kurds. Maybe it will change your mind a bit?

China is going to pass a law to protect private property rights. Analysts say it is a important leap towards Market Economy. The primary reason why National People’s Congress doing this is to ease the farmers unrest.

I guess they read Hernando de Soto’s “The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else“, in which the economist argues that lack of private property rights protection makes capitalism fails in Third World and the former Communist countries.

source: BBC original article

If you are not familiar with Howard Zinn, read his excellent book A People’s History Of United States 1492-present.

from the publisher:
“Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools — with its emphasis on great men in high places — to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace.

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People’s History is the only volume to tell America’s story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America’s women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country’s greatest battles — the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women’s rights, racial equality — were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus’s arrival through President Clinton’s first term, A People’s History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history.”

This book will kick your ass.

New class of nanomaterials could lead to more efficient solar cells, brighter LEDs

Troy, N.Y. — A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world’s first material that reflects virtually no light. Reporting in the March issue of Nature Photonics, they describe an optical coating made from the material that enables vastly improved control over the basic properties of light. The research could open the door to much brighter LEDs, more efficient solar cells, and a new class of “smart� light sources that adjust to specific environments, among many other potential applications.

Most surfaces reflect some light — from a puddle of water all the way to a mirror. The new material has almost the same refractive index as air, making it an ideal building block for anti-reflection coatings. It sets a world record by decreasing the reflectivity compared to conventional anti-reflection coatings by an order of magnitude.

A fundamental property called the refractive index governs the amount of light a material reflects, as well as other optical properties such as diffraction, refraction, and the speed of light inside the material. “The refractive index is the most fundamental quantity in optics and photonics. It goes all the way back to Isaac Newton, who called it the ‘optical density,’� said E. Fred Schubert, the Wellfleet Senior Constellation Professor of the Future Chips Constellation at Rensselaer and senior author of the paper.

Schubert and his coworkers have created a material with a refractive index of 1.05, which is extremely close to the refractive index of air and the lowest ever reported. Window glass, for comparison, has a refractive index of about 1.45.

Original Article:http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=1956

Interview with E. Fred Schubert:http://www.rpi.edu/news/events/schubert/index.html