(satire) *Parents Ask If Son Wouldn't Mind Stopping By To Fix Gaping Void In Their Lives.*

(satire) *Financial Advisor Recommends Fraud.*

Crown Prince Bone Saw invested 2 billion dollars in a corporation, Affinity Partners, recently started by Jared Kushner.

Speculation says that this is a payoff for helping protecting the prince from any punishment for organizing the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The text of the proposed vaccine patent waiver has been leaked. It gives only a small part of the permissions needed to vaccinate the world. Activists call on South Africa to reject this deal and denounce it.

Four kinds of legal obstacles block the making of generic mRMS vaccines: patents, secrecy, propagating culture contracts, and special restrictions on generic medicines. The first two are covered in the treaty I call TRIPES (*); the last two are not. Perhaps countries can simply legislate themselves exceptions for the last two,

* Trade-Restricting Impediments to Production, Education and Science: a treaty that gives powerful corporations global power. The world should abolish the TRIPES accord; waiving parts of it could be a first step.

British teachers are fed up with the cruelty that thugs stationed in schools display towards students, and voted to call for the thugs' removal.

In my view, the race of the students who are treated cruelly is an insignificant detail, because it would be wrong regardless of who is the victim. But it doesn't surprise me that bigotry and cruelty tend to go together. That pattern is widespread: bigotry brings out a person's tendency towards cruelty.