News Release Category: Science/Health/Tech
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Biden Should Halt Trump Privatization of Medicare Moves
“In the last quarter of 2020, the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services launched an experiment, euphemistically called, ‘direct contracting,’ that could fully turn Medicare over to private health insurers. The Biden administration needs to halt this experiment before millions of older and disabled Americans lose their right to choose traditional Medicare.”
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Mars Mission Had 1-in-960 Odds of a Plutonium Release
“One in 100 rockets undergo major malfunctions on launch, mostly by blowing up.”
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Actual Causes of the Texas Disaster
“The Texas energy system relies primarily on fracked gas — a source that greatly contributes to climate change, in addition to the litany of public health and environmental impacts linked to the fracking process.”
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Bill Gates, Super Emitter
“In 2015, he started a multibillion-dollar venture capital fund called Breakthrough Energy — recruiting a who’s who of the global super rich to join the fund: Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Michael Bloomberg, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani, and others.”
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WikiLeaks: While Upholding U.S. Government’s Core Arguments, British Judge Rejects Assange Extradition
Citing harsh federal prison conditions in the United States, a British district court judge rejected the United States government’s extradition request against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Desmond Tutu: Biden Should Stop Israeli Nuclear Cover-up
The Guardian just published a piece by Archbishop Desmond Tutu titled “Joe Biden Should End the U.S. Pretence over Israel’s ‘Secret’ Nuclear Weapons: The cover-up has to stop — and with it, the huge sums in aid for a country with oppressive policies towards Palestinians.”
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Vaccines: Paid for by Public, Made for Profit
“The vaccines developed by these companies were developed thanks wholly or partly to taxpayer money.
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CRISPR Comes with Serious Threats
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are slated to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Sweden on Thursday, Dec. 10 for developing the genome-editing technology CRISPR.
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How the Gates Foundation Is Killing Open License Pandemic Remedies
“In a pandemic, when there is a vacuum of leadership, people that move fast and seem to know what they’re doing, they just acquire a lot of power.”