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Synthetic biology

dimanche 24 juin 2018 à 02:00

Synthetic biology could make it easy to create deadly artificial disease bacteria and viruses. Public health systems are not ready to cope with them.

Pharma companies and sale of antibiotics

dimanche 24 juin 2018 à 02:00

Pharma companies make around 5 billion dollars a year from antibiotics for farm animals. This is the size of the lobby we will need to defeat in order to protect our lives from resistant bacteria.

We must eliminate the supposed "duty" of corporation executives to subordinate everything more important to maximizing their profit. This "duty" was not accepted until around 1980.

Audi CEO arrested

dimanche 24 juin 2018 à 02:00

The CEO of Audi, a division of Volkswagen, has been arrested over his involvement with the emissions test fraud software.

FBI threatens democracy and dissent

dimanche 24 juin 2018 à 02:00

The FBI poses a threat to democracy and dissent, and its history is hardly one of acting professionally and honestly.

I think we need an organization to investigate organized crime, which we should understand as including crimes of companies such as stealing wages and cheating customers. But perhaps we should make a new one which would stay away from dissident groups.

Shape of the US economy

samedi 23 juin 2018 à 02:00

Plutocrats say the US economy is in "great shape". That's true — for plutocrats only.

The US now has "jobs for everyone", but the pay is so bad you need to work two full-time jobs to support yourself.