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I was thinking today about China giving up on Zero Covid. They were responding to significant public protests. The CCP isn’t democratic by our standards, but they actually care a great deal about public opinion, especially “expressed” public opinion.
What’s embarrassing, however, is the failure to spend the two years Zero-Covid bought fixing infrastructure. We know, at this point, that ventilation, HEPA filtering and UV radiation work. (This is what the rich gave themselves at Davos, so don’t waste anyone’s time arguing.)
There was a time, basically in the Victorian era, where we rebuilt all of the water infrastructure because we had finally got it thru our thick skulls that disease spread thru water. We did it, and it made a huge difference.
One of the central promises of Brexit is being violated by the Government, a new report has suggested
As the price of everything, including debt, continues to soar, life is getting harder and harder for the UK's heavily indebted businesses.
“The United States has detected what it says is a Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northwestern United States.” — New York Times, 2/3/23
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For more than sixty years after I floated away over the grey Paris cityscape, dangling from a cluster of balloons, I have been biding time at high altitudes. My singular mission: to exact revenge on the boy who shot down my red balloon with a slingshot.
The good thing about commandeering a squadron of floating balloons for decades is you learn to keep tabs on people. After the red balloon incident, slingshot boy left France and spent many years in California—tech, I think—and recently relocated to Montana (cost of living). He bought a Toyota Tacoma, took up skate skiing, and now runs a kombucha shop in Missoula.
You might think kombucha wouldn’t do well in Montana, but au contraire.
*Not even three billion, but, well, three billion is something
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The U.S. prison system has put Marty Gottesfeld in one of their modern-day dungeons and cut off his email. But this whistleblower is a fierce fighter for his rights and one day he’ll be doing the same for others.
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By Suneal Kolluri, University of California, Riverside / The Conversation On February 1, 2023– the first day of Black History Month – the College Board released the framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has criticized the pilot version of the African American studies course as lacking educational […]
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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
The post ‘We’re Still Gonna Say No’: Inside UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient appeared first on scheerpost.com.
The Justice Department is calling graffiti on anti-abortion centers a threat to “reproductive health services facilities.”
The post Reproductive Rights Activists Charged Under Law Intended to Protect Abortion Clinics appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Jolyon Baraka Thomas
While 2023 is bringing a lot of bad news for a lot of people around the world, it’s possible to imagine some potential upsides. We should, for example, begin to see house prices plateau as interest rates rise and bank lending contracts. In fact, most observers agree that house prices are going to fall throughout […]
A script read out at the start of every Proud Boys gathering reveals the paradoxes of being a woman in the far-right, and the misogyny inherent in nationalism. Sian Norris reports
Campanha nas redes sociais contra vacinas genéricas de covid-19 foi só uma parte do ataque das farmacêuticas para segurar as patentes – e atingir recorde de lucros.
The post Farmacêuticas pressionaram Twitter a censurar defensores das vacinas genéricas contra covid appeared first on The Intercept.
Qun Harris, Ieva Sakalauskaite and Misa Tanaka After the 2007–08 Global Financial Crisis (GFC), several jurisdictions introduced remuneration regulations for banks with the aim of discouraging excessive risk-taking and short-termism. One such regulation is the bonus cap rule which was first introduced in the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014. This … Continue reading Does the bonus cap work?
Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William J. Astore who served in the nuclear missile command fears the end of human life through nuclear war is more likely than in the Cold War era.
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The U.S. empire has been surrounding China with military bases and war machinery for many years, in ways Washington would never tolerate China doing in the nations and waters surrounding the United States.
The post Caitlin Johnstone: US Surrounds China With War Machinery While Freaking Out About Balloons appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Felony-free versions of children's books for Floridian libraries.
Joe Biden faces pressure on policing.
A suit by Glacier Northwest, seeking to recover costs it incurred during a strike, is now before the Supreme Court.
The Fed is playing killer of the current inflation even though it isn't set up to do so. That's hurting a lot of innocent bystanders.
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a family of three is held hostage by four strangers who demand they sacrifice one of their own to avert the apocalypse. read now...