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Cuba said that it had attracted $1.9bn worth of foreign investment over the past year despite tighter United States sanctions.
Cuba continues to reduce internal obstacles to investors.
The country aims to attract $2bn to $2.5bn annually to update its state-run economy.
Cuba attracts $1.9bn in foreign investment despite US sanctions | Latin America News | Al Jazeera
UK government has been urged to launch a one-off wealth tax on millionaire households to raise up to £260bn in response to the coronavirus pandemic, as the crisis damages Britain’s public finances and exacerbates inequality.
The Wealth Tax Commission – a group of leading tax experts and economists brought together by the London School of Economics and Warwick University to examine the case for a levy on assets – said targeting the richest in society would be the fairest and most efficient way to raise taxes in response to the pandemic.
Economic cost of Covid crisis prompts call for one-off UK wealth tax | Business | The Guardian
This bandh is not exceptional although it has record number of participants. Cross-union solidarity strikes particularly against the national government has been a favoured strategy for many years.
India has always been very state-capitalist since independence but has increasingly relaxed the government control under pressure from the reality of international capital.
Will it reduce hindutva? We should mention the new law aimed at discouraging mixed marriages between hindu women and muslim men, called “love jihadism”
Yes once again the media emphasis is that he is the first African American Defense Secretary. But do they think we forget that Colin Powell was non-white and he engineered the case for the Iraq Invasion.
Well. some do wish to trust in capitalism and dismiss the possibility of climate crises threatening civilisation, yet some reputable experts consider it a credible scenario
A warning on climate and the risk of societal collapse | Paris climate agreement | The Guardian
An interesting explanation of the Trump fraud claims and why they resonate with so many
<p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Why so many people want to believe Biden stole the election – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)</p>‘Has Germany yet accepted the Pfizer vaccine, or France?’
It is an EU-wide approval process via the European Medicines Agency (EMA), not individual nations and the application for approval is in the pipeline.
Germany’s health minister Jens Spahn explained that the EU law in question had a built-in exception clause allowing member states to issue their own approvals. Germany, too, could have taken that approach, said Spahn. Instead, it chose to stick with EU partners and wait for bloc-wide approval.
Opinion: Europe can only beat coronavirus together | Opinion | DW | 06.12.2020
Coincidentally, this article appeared today, James
True, for ruling classes, football is often intended to be the “opium of the people”. But it would be naive to assume that the people, in their own ‘intellectual’ capacity, are unable to take ownership of that medium, as they have done in many other contested spaces.
I believe he previously boasted of cutting the troops in Germany, many were re-posted to Poland.
Same with Kurd-occupied Syria, the troops were sent to the oil producing region.
LBird will have the answer to “capitalist medicine”…it will be different from Marx’s idealist materialism type medicine because the ideology of the science behind it is capitalist. 😈
Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla was asked “Even though I’ve had the protection, am I still able to transmit it to other people?”
His answer, “I think this is something that needs to be examined. We are not certain about that right now with what we know.”
Tsk tsk, are we about to go down the rabbit holes of pay differentials and if they are justified. Is his pay really relevant to the topic?
I just had posted on Scottish blog the Marx quote
“In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the labourer, BE HIS PAYMENT HIGH OR LOW, must grow worse.”
The exemption from liability is a long-standing standard procedure, Robin.
Most countries have a government administered no-fault compensation scheme for adverse effects of immunisation.
UK to cover COVID-19 vaccine side-effects under damages scheme, World News | wionews.com
That is, however, not immunity from illegal acts such as criminal negligence and that would still apply if any Big Pharma corporation was proved faking or making fraudulent safety claims that resulted in injury or death.
My real concern is that the roll-out of vaccination programmes will favour the wealthy nations and many of the world’s poor will be excluded from its benefits for quite some time in the future.
I foresee that there will be stringent travel restrictions imposed upon those not vaccinated, and indeed we will see a situation that we will have to have proof of vaccination.
In my travels in my youth, i was required to have a NHS-issued international card declaring i was innoculated against yellow fever so it isn’t something new.
400,000 people a year die of malaria, and in Africa a child under five dies every two minutes.
A vaccine has been developed yet the final trials are just beginning and it will be 2024 before it will be authorised.
No fast tracking for the poor such as with the Covid-19 vaccine.
Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials | World news | The Guardian
