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$100m (£73m) to $200m over five years to dim the sun to stop global warming
As expected, the poor persons vaccine scheme, Covax, as run into delays. Serum Institute of India, the largest supplier to Covax, were has had a “setback in securing export licences” as India exercises the right to veto the Serum Institute’s exports.
Start of the lies being exposed
“a total of 20 officers were assaulted or injured and two of them were taken to hospital after suffering broken bones. One of them also suffered a punctured lung,”
No broken bones. No punctured lung.
“…There were a lot of protesters that were hurt as well, people were pepper-sprayed, people were battered by the police. No one was talking about that.”
Meanwhile schools being policed
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/25/uk-police-forces-deploy-683-officers-in-schools
Craig Murray faces jail for contempt of court
Biden has so far deported more Haitians in a few weeks than the Trump administration did in a whole year, with the use of Title 42, part of the 1944 Public Health Service Act invoked a year ago by the Trump administration as grounds for summary expulsion of migrants because of the supposed health risk they posed during the Covid pandemic.
Science adds a complication to the debate
Artificial wombs could also undermine the basis of women’s reproductive rights and freedoms. In England, Scotland and Wales, the abortion limit is pegged to the viability of foetuses outside the human body; it’s currently set at 24 weeks’ gestation because foetuses at an earlier stage of development aren’t expected to be able to survive outside the womb. What if all foetuses, and even embryos, are potentially viable because they could be gestated inside an artificial womb? Any unborn child could be considered to have a right to life.
In countries where abortion is legal, access to it derives from a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body. But if unwanted babies could be “rescued” by technology – gestated inside an artificial womb and then given up for adoption – then abortion could be simultaneously pro-choice and “pro-life”. Why should a mother be able to decide to terminate an unwanted baby if an artificial womb can save its life?
The advances and wonders of scientific progress making gender irrelevant
An artificial womb would mean complete reproductive parity between the sexes
LBird, have you the satisfaction of convincing anybody on this forum?
You joined the forum almost 8 years ago and regardless of whether you are right or wrong in your views, all that time you have been banging your head against a brick-wall.
Isn’t it time you gave us all up as a lost cause and moved on, at least to another topic that isn’t viewed through what could be labeled your idiosyncratic perspective.
So we are an undemocratic party of Engelsite-Leninist elitists, lacking any understanding of the depths of Marx’s position. Well, so be it, then. That may well explain our inability to connect with our fellow-workers, although i very much doubt it is the reason.
I was always tolerant of your presence but now i believe you have over-stayed your welcome here and are diverting members from concentrating and contributing to other debates and discussions with the promise of more constructive conclusions.
ta-ta, bye-bye
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56516332
My personal take on it
Is Biden’s migrant policy so different from Trumps?
It seems from what is being said that Biden remains attached to the belief that the solution is better management methods to slow down and reverse the flow of peoples wishing to make the USA their new home.
He is not treating it as a genuine humanitarian crisis where the purpose of a border policy would facilitate and expedite the many aspiring newcomers in a national coordinate manner.
The EU for all its flaws and faults tries to initiate a quota system for every nation to end the bottle-necks at the receiving countries such as Greece and Italy and disperse the numbers through out the EU. Many xenophobic governments did sabotage that attempt. However Biden has federal powers and federal funds to ensure a more equitable distribution of migrants.
America has dealt with mass migrations in the past such as the Dustbowl era and the Black exodus from the Southern states, not to mention the influx of European migrants arriving at Ellis Island. They are far better placed to systematic allocate resources. However that is no way part of the policy which is one of deterrence through the “soft” approach rather than Trumps draconian one. But the object remains the same. The US doesn’t regard the migration of people as legitimate
Bad news for the optimists
The storage potential of one of the Earth’s biggest carbon sinks – soils – may have been overestimated, research shows. This could mean ecosystems on land soaking up less of humanity’s emissions than expected, and more rapid global heating.
Germans buy a million more pets during pandemic.
https://www.dw.com/en/germans-spend-a-fortune-on-coronavirus-pandemic-lockdown-pets/g-56953689
https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-releases-hundreds-of-post-coup-prisoners/a-56967963
First step in backdown?
Not sure if it should be here or on the UBI topic
Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Pramila Jayapal on Tuesday introduced legislation that would provide everyone in the U.S. with a one-time payment of $2,000 and monthly recurring payments of $1,000 thereafter.
The Automatic BOOST to Communities (ABC) Act proposes financing the payments with an unconventional plan that would direct the Treasury Department to use its legal authority to mint as many $1 trillion platinum coins as necessary to fund the legislation, which would continue until a year after the public health emergency ends or the unemployment rate stabilizes at a low level.
“a silent strike.”
businesses close, people stay home,
A useful tactic for the future?
The world’s biggest 60 banks have provided $3.8tn of financing for fossil fuel companies since the Paris climate deal in 2015. Financing for new reserves is therefore the “exact opposite” of what is required to tackle the climate crisis, the report’s authors said.
