PROJET AUTOBLOG


Richard Stallman's Political Notes

Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes

⇐ retour index

Description matched

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

(satire) *… police shot an unarmed black civilian who reportedly matched the description for Covid-19.*

"In the heat of the moment, it was completely impossible to differentiate between the 6-foot-1inch, 175-pound male and the 0.125-micron pathogen."

Gouging on insulin

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

Eli Lily has stopped gouging on insulin.

That practice endangered the lives of people with type I diabetes, often forcing them to skimp on it and risk their lives

The US could get rid of this problem in general by changing its patent laws and adopting a national medical system, also known as Medicare for All.

The company could have done this before, but thought it could get away with gouging. Perhaps Eli Lily made this change hoping to preserve its power to gouge by eliminating one of the arguments used to push for eliminating that power.

Protecting big businesses

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

Plutocratist US politicians are managing the response to Covid-19 to protect big businesses and let everyone else suffer for their sake.

How FDR would include the rich in making the sacrifices to fight the "war" against Covid-19.

Also, right-wing voter-suppression in the 1940s.

Hedge funds

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

Some hedge funds have made billions of dollars betting on a stock market crash.

Others say they are going bankrupt. Let's hope so!

Banks driving countries to unending debt

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

The euro zone banks are once again driving the poor EU countries into unending debt. They will be forever reduced to working for the banks, like Greece.