#Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses

#Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses

“#Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses” PARIS — No one disputes that the world is unfair. But no one expected a vaccine gap between the global rich and poor that was this bad, this far into the pandemic. Inequity is everywhere: Inoculations go begging in the United States while Haiti, a short plane ride…

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#Bernie Sanders clashes with Elon Musk over massive fortune

#Bernie Sanders clashes with Elon Musk over massive fortune

“#Bernie Sanders clashes with Elon Musk over massive fortune” Elon Musk says he’s hoarding wealth for a good cause — but it’s not good enough for Sen. Bernie Sanders. The left-wing lawmaker targeted the billionaire Tesla CEO after Musk claimed he would use his giant fortune to support life on other planets. Sanders — a Vermont independent…

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#Japan’s ruling party wants more women at meetings

#Japan’s ruling party wants more women at meetings

“#Japan’s ruling party wants more women at meetings” TOKYO – Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, long seen as a homogeneous redoubt of elderly men, now wants more women at its key meetings – provided they don’t do the talking. The party, in power for most of the time since 1955, has proposed allowing five female…

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#Google antes up .6M to settle pay, job discrimination case

#Google antes up $2.6M to settle pay, job discrimination case

“#Google antes up $2.6M to settle pay, job discrimination case” SAN RAMON, Calif. — Google will pay $2.6 million to more than 5,500 employees and past job applicants to resolve allegations that the internet giant discriminated against female engineers and Asians in California and Washington state. The settlement announced Monday closes a 4-year-old case that the Labor…

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#In push for woke ‘equity,’ Biden abandons equality

#In push for woke ‘equity,’ Biden abandons equality

“#In push for woke ‘equity,’ Biden abandons equality” President Biden’s embrace of utter nonsense pushed by the “woke” continued with last week’s executive orders to “advance racial equity” and “root out systemic racism in housing and criminal justice.” The “equity” approach assumes that any outcome that doesn’t meet inane racial quotas is the result of…

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#COVID-19 lockdowns seriously deepen the economic divide

#COVID-19 lockdowns seriously deepen the economic divide

“#COVID-19 lockdowns seriously deepen the economic divide” Vaclav Smil, 76, native of communist Czechoslovakia and former University of Manitoba professor for four decades, has written 39 books on energy, technology and demography. “Nobody,” says Bill Gates, who has read every book, “sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil.” What Smil…

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