2:00PM Water Cooler 7/14/2020
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Read more...Category Archives: Guest Post
COVID-19 Mistakes to Avoid: Don’t Conflate Contact Tracing with Contact Tracing By App
Big Tech and Big Pharma each has a dog in the COVID-19 fight and wish to replace what has worked before and is working now with technofixes.
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Save the Tiger, Shift to other Big Cats: Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and the Rise in Zoonotic Diseases
Second UN Office on Drugs and Crime World Wildife Crime Report connects illegal wildlife trade to increase in zoonotic diseases.
Read more...Next Showdown in Congress: Protecting Workers vs. Protecting Employers in the Pandemic
Next showdown in Congress over CoVID-19 relief legislation: protecting workers or shielding employers from lawsuits.
Read more...Financialization: Tackling the Other Virus
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to tackle another virus that has spread throughout the world since the 1970s: financialization.
Read more...Food Security in the Age of COVID-19: The First Harvest of the Season’s Bounty
Improving the food security of family members who live in North Carolina. They’re starting to reap the harvest as the vegetables ripen.
Read more...Links 7/13/2020
Wolf Richter: The Great American Shale Oil & Gas Massacre: Bankruptcies, Defaulted Debts, Worthless Shares, Collapsed Prices of Oil & Gas
The day of reckoning has arrived in oil and gas. A record number of companies have filed for bankruptcy. with the epicenter in Texas.
Read more...What to Do if COVID-19 Is Here to Stay
If Covid-19 can’t be beaten soon, how do we cope?
Read more...Federal Judge Nixes Part of Glyphosate Settlement That Would Allow a Panel of Scientific “Experts”, Rather Than Juries, to Decide Whether the Chemical is Carcinogenic for Future Claims
Judge skeptical over Bayer’s proposal to replace a jury decision on whether glyphosate causes cancer with that of a scientific panel.
Read more...Links 7/12/2020
With Covid-19 Deaths on the Rise, Hardest-Hit States Report Hospitals are Near Capacity Following Early Reopenings
COVID-19 deaths spike and hospitals run out of beds as many states reap the consequences of poor pandemic management and reopening too early.
Read more...Links 7/11/2020
Another Town Is Possible: Community Wealth Building in the Basque Country
Yves here. Readers sometimes ask for success stories to show that there are possible paths out our present economic and social morass. The Basque has long operated a collective ownership model centered around Mondragon. And it has been successful in protecting the community from economic crises. I was in Portugal and Spain, by happenstance doing […]
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