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Report: Taxing the world’s richest would raise US $2.52 trillion a year

An annual tax on the world’s richest would be enough to lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty, make enough vaccines for the whole world, and deliver universal health care and social protection for all the citizens of low and lower m…[Read more]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

John Kuczwanski killed in Tallahassee road rage incident

The sources said the incident began after Kuczwanski’s BMW drifted out of its lane while heading north on Thomasville Road. That’s when the BMW hit a white Prius.

Both cars pulled into a parking lot. The driver of the Pri…[Read more]

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-95-Of-Adult-Citizens-Are-Immunized-Against-COVID-19-20220119-0010.html

The high vaccination rates allowed the Bolivarian government to start eliminating health restrictions from November without prompting many disease contagions or related deaths.

“Venezuela reported a record decrease in cases in the…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/horrific-saudi-airstrike-on-a-yemen-prison-kills-injures-more-than-100-red-cross-says.html

Further south in Hodeidah, video footage showed bodies in the rubble and dazed survivors after an air attack from the Saudi-led pro-government coalition took out a telecommunications hub. Yemen suffered a nationwide internet…[Read more]

The Tools to Defeat Facial Recognition Are Free Online

The Huawei paper shows how two stickers, each with a specific pattern that looks like a deformed QR code, can fool a face detection algorithm with 95% accuracy once they are placed on a subject’s cheeks. If you’re savvy, you can fork the code and play with yourself on…[Read more]

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-end-of-work

Donald Sull, Charles Sull, and Ben Zweig recently conducted a massive study of workplace data for the MIT Sloan Management Review, including more than a million Glassdoor reviews. What are employees complaining about at companies losing the most workers in this tsunami of resignations?…[Read more]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/silicon-based-qubits-take-a-big-leap-forward/

Two papers take a similar approach to improving the performance of qubits based on quantum dots. One is from a group of researchers based at the Delft University of Technology, and the other is primarily from Japan’s RIKEN, with some collaborators at Delft. Both…[Read more]

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/01/13/unusual-team-finds-gigantic-planet-hidden-plain-sight-0

The planet, TOI-2180 b, has the same diameter as Jupiter, but is nearly three times more massive. Researchers also believe it contains 105 times the mass of Earth in elements heavier than helium and hydrogen. Nothing quite like it exists in our solar…[Read more]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2788097

RESULTS … Health systems that were primarily investor owned had an Overuse Index (OI) that was 0.56 standard deviations [SD] higher than those that were not investor owned. … Health systems in the upper third of primary care physicians, upper third of teaching intensity, and…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/19/bank-blocks-donations-supporting-cuban-effort-vaccinate-world

Anti-war activists at CodePink responded to the news by saying that “some of the most powerful people in the world would rather prolong a global pandemic than allow the Cuban people some relief from U.S. imperialism. What awful, deadly…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxb8m/crypto-protocol-publicly-announces-flaw-users-relentlessly-owned-by-hackers

Multichain did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Marcel said he passed the message to the company’s “response team” in China, who would respond when they wake up.

Meanwhile, more hackers have joined the heist, with…[Read more]

https://www.vox.com/22876661/universal-covid-19-vaccine-variants-omicron

This work is urgent because scientists are finding that protection from Covid-19 vaccines fades over time. And the virus itself is changing, mutating in ways that make it harder for the immune system to counter. The omicron variant has already caused breakthrough infections…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/sanders-says-he-may-back-manchin-sinema-primary-challengers.html

Sanders told reporters that he thinks “there is a very good chance” that Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, and Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, could face challenges in their states’ Democratic primaries. He said home-state voters would be disappointed that…[Read more]

Solar Panels and Power Outages: What You Need To Know

When you add a solar battery backup to your solar PV system, your lights stay on even when your neighbors are down. There are many benefits of a solar battery like the Tesla Powerwall or Enphase Encharge but one major benefit is that it can power your home during power outages.

Once you…[Read more]

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https://www.rsn.org/001/do-the-omicron-numbers-mean-what-we-think-they-mean.html

Should we be focussed on case counts at all? Some experts, including Anthony Fauci, argue that hospitalizations are now the more relevant marker of viral damage. More than a hundred and fifty thousand Americans are currently hospitalized with the coronavirus—a h…[Read more]

https://hbr.org/2022/01/can-new-players-revive-u-s-primary-care

CVS-Aetna, Walgreens, Walmart, Amazon, Optum-United Health Group — they’re all buying primary care practices or hiring primary care practitioners (PCPs) directly. Never before have the titans of capitalism shown such interest in the humble family physician. And therein lies a sto…[Read more]

There reality is that with first-past-the-post voting, there can never be a succesful third party in the US, except at the local level (see Socialist Alternative and Kshama Sawant). What about the Republicans? Were’t they once a third party? Yes, but they just replaced the Whigs, who hadn’t even nominated a presidential candidate in…[Read more]