Day: December 3, 2020

Old Obama hands on Korea policy could pose new problems for peace

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Old Obama hands on Korea policy could pose new problems for peace

First, Blinken and Haines developed their policies in close consultation with the conservative South Korean governments of Lee Myung Baek and Park Guen Hye, who are now disgraced and in prison for corruption. Lee, a former Hyundai executive, and Park, the daughter of the former dictator Park Chung Hee, had both opposed the pro-engagement “Sunshine Policies” followed by former Presidents Kim Dae Jung and Roh Tae Woo from 1997 to 2008.

Should the Biden administration cancel student debt? Read this before you decide

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Should the Biden administration cancel student debt? Read this before you decide

In addition, it’s possible to address other challenges plaguing the student-loan system — for example, the obstacles public servants and those scammed by their schools face accessing loan forgiveness that’s already on the books or the harsh consequences of student-loan default — while still providing some relief to borrowers now, Huelsman said.

Appeals court schedules Dec. 14 hearing on blocked U.S. TikTok new user ban

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Appeals court schedules Dec. 14 hearing on blocked U.S. TikTok new user ban

A federal appeals court said on Wednesday it will hear oral arguments on Dec. 14 on the government’s appeal of an order that blocked a ban on Apple Inc and Alphabet’s Google offering TikTok for download in U.S. app stores.

Reuters politicizing it by pointing out that three of the judges “were nominated by previous Democratic presidents.”

Air Force To Build Alternate Airbase On Tinian Island In Case Guam Gets Knocked Out

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Air Force To Build Alternate Airbase On Tinian Island In Case Guam Gets Knocked Out

We will keep an eye on the progress of this new highly important project on Tinian, but rest assured, the list of alternate operating locations in the Pacific that are capable of accepting U.S. military airpower will grow markedly in the years to come.

Hope it doesn’t tip over (it’s smaller than Guam)! 🤭

Donald Trump’s Mein Kampf & Lin Wood and Michael Flynn Call For Military Coup

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Donald Trump’s Mein Kampf

The Democrats fear not Trump’s threats of violence and dictatorship, but the mass popular revolt that would be touched off if Trump actually attempts to carry out his long-threatened election coup. The Democrats know very well that America is a social powder keg, deeply divided between the fabulously wealthy financial aristocracy, which both Democrats and Republicans serve, and the vast majority of the population, struggling to survive.

Related:

Lawyers Condemn Michael Flynn and Lin Wood’s ‘Breathtakingly Morally Treasonous’ Call for Trump to Declare Martial Law and Hold New Election

Cultured meat has been approved for consumers for the first time

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Cultured meat has been approved for consumers for the first time

Most cultured meat is made in a similar way. Cells are taken from an animal, often via a biopsy or from an established animal cell line. These cells are then fed a nutrient broth and placed in a bioreactor, where they multiply until there are enough to harvest for use in meatballs or nuggets. A slew of startups have been founded using variations on this approach, in the belief that cultured meat will appeal to flexitarians—people who want to reduce the amount of meat they eat for ethical or environmental reasons, but don’t want to give it up entirely.

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Memphis Meats, which counts Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and traditional meat manufacturer Tyson Foods among its many investors, has teamed up with a number of other firms, including Just and cultured-seafood makers BlueNalu and Finless Foods, to form a lobbying group that is working with US regulators to get their products approved.

MIT machine learning models find gaps in coverage by Moderna, Pfizer, other Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccines

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

MIT machine learning models find gaps in coverage by Moderna, Pfizer, other Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccines

Vaccines to block COVID-19 that are in development by Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and others, and that are currently in Phase III clinical trials, may not do as well covering people of Black or Asian genetic ancestry as they do for white people, a study released Wednesday by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology indicated.

Sidney Powell’s ‘Kraken’ Is Missing More Than a Few Tentacles

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Sidney Powell’s ‘Kraken’ Is Missing More Than a Few Tentacles

Powell, joined by Trump and Giuliani, claims Dominion Voting Systems played a key role in denying the president his rightful victory. At the heart of that allegation is a redacted affidavit from an unnamed source who calls himself “an adult of sound mine” and claims to have worked for “the national security guard detail of the President of Venezuela.” In that capacity, he says, he learned that President Hugo Chavez had commissioned Smartmatic (a different company) to “create and operate a voting system that could change the votes in elections from votes against persons running the Venezuelan government to votes in their favor in order to maintain control of the government.” Although Powell calls this document the “Dominion Whistleblower Report,” Wall Street Journal reporter Kevin Poulsen notes, “the voting software used in Venezuela has no connection to Dominion, and wasn’t used anywhere in Michigan.”

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GOP candidate says he was used without permission as a plaintiff in lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin election results

Jacob Sullum on Trump’s Flimsy Election Fraud Case (YouTube)