The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (IFPMA) criticized the IP plan in a statement on Wednesday, not long after the Joe Biden administration voiced support for the idea, first floated by the World Trade Organization last October. “The decision of the US administration to support a patent waiver for Covid-19 …
Read More »Woke Democrats are out to prove ‘Uncle Tim’ Scott is wrong by being racist as hell
If my last article was anything to go by, I was quite impressed by Republican Senator Tim Scott’s rebuttal to Joe Biden. Scott came across as a man with a plan, and the knowledge to execute it. One element of his speech that he emphasized was the idea that America …
Read More »‘Something went wrong’: Twitter suffers unexplained outage
The tracking website DownDetector showed more than 50,000 reports of the outage in just 15 minutes, shortly after 5 pm Pacific time, the timezone at Twitter’s San Francisco, California headquarters. Attempts to access Twitter’s blog returned a text error message about “upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers” due to …
Read More »Are journalists betraying their values? No, it’s the public who are wrong, says Washington Post writer
According to Sullivan, there is a “troubling disconnect” between “core journalistic values” – oversight, transparency, factuality, spotlighting wrongdoing, and giving a “voice to the voiceless” – and the American public. Citing a new study by the American Press Institute, Sullivan on Wednesday lamented the fact that these values just don’t …
Read More »Basing hospital admissions on race is wrong – unless you’re a Harvard doctor and you put whites last
Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse teach at Harvard Medical School, and practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They’re educated, they’re accomplished, and they’re flaming racists. Last month they published an article in the Boston Review calling on the hospital to give “cash transfers and discounted or free care” to “black …
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Read More »Safety first! Russian traditional spring festival goes wrong as scarecrow EXPLODES & engulfs fire-show performer in flames (VIDEO)
Burning a scarecrow effigy is a part of the annual Maslenitsa festival, an orthodox Christian festival celebration to Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras, celebrated in the final week before Lent. Throughout Russia, towns and villages build a scarecrow figure in the central square, which is ceremoniously set on fire in …
Read More »‘Wrong on every level’: Charlie Hebdo condemned for ‘disgusting’ cartoon making fun of royals, Meghan Markle and George Floyd
“Why Meghan Markle left Buckingham Palace,” read the cover of this week’s Charlie Hebdo, followed by the punchline, uttered by Markle: “Because I couldn’t breathe.” The illustration depicts Markle pinned under the hairy knee of a smiling Queen Elizabeth II, with the pose and punchline a reference to George Floyd, …
Read More »Donald Trump is wrong on trans athletes… it’s the ‘supermen’ with ovaries we should really be worried about
Sporting integrity lit up the recent Conservative Political Action Conference. Following Joe Biden’s issuing of an executive order in January, Trump waded into the trans athlete debate in bombastic style, saying, “I hate to say it, ladies, but you’ve got a lot of new records that are being shattered. Young …
Read More »‘We might be doing something wrong,’ Carnegie think tank VP says about Rolls-Royce sales hitting all-time high in Russia
The UK-based automaker celebrated its best-ever year on the Russian market, reporting last month that in 2020 it managed to beat the previous year’s record and delivered over 200 cars to Russian clients. Russia “has cemented its status of being the largest market for the brand on continental Europe,” it …
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