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Trade treaties

mercredi 7 août 2019 à 02:00

Senator Warren's progressive approach to trade treaties includes allowing democratic participation in negotiating them, require joint crackdown on business tax-dodging and greenhouse emissions, and reject the secret aim of dooH niboR.

Future genetic enhancements

mercredi 7 août 2019 à 02:00

We should make sure that future genetic enhancements are not limited to the rich or their children. One part is preventing them from being patented.

In addition, we need not and should not rely on private investment for development of these enhancements. The government funds a lot of medical research and it can fund this.

We won't have such treatments soon. You wouldn't want to give an embryo that will develop into a your child a treatment intended as an enhancement until its safety and efficacy have been verified. But we don't know how to verify that except by trying it. With gigantic advances in simulation of fetal development we might someday have another way.

Private equity companies

mercredi 7 août 2019 à 02:00

Private equity companies own "doctor groups" that gouge patients with enormous bills.

Hospitals send patients to those doctors without informing them — sometimes even when they are unconscious.

What this shows is that two of the big sicknesses of the US economy are linked.

Public domain books published in the US

mercredi 7 août 2019 à 02:00

A list now exists of which books published in the US before 1964 are in the public domain because the copyright was not renewed.

Who will pay the costs of global heating

mercredi 7 août 2019 à 02:00

The question about paying the costs of global heating is not "Can we pay" but "Who will pay".

The article does not mention all the ways global heating is killing people. For instance, it doesn't include the people killed, directly or indirectly, by the Syrian civil war and PISSI even though global heating was a major cause of that war.

It also doesn't mention the tropical diseases that are spreading north, or the people that lose their income and then die because they can't afford medical care.