DeSantis signs law clamping down on demonstrators Depending on your point of view, either demonstration-suppression or anti-riot legislation was signed into law on Monday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. He chose the blood-red district of Polk County as the place to do it. Officially titled “Combating Public Disorder,” the bill passed in the Florida Senate Read More…
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Johnson & Johnson Settles Bribery Complaint for $70 Million
Big Pharma giant Johnson & Johnson admitted bribing European doctors and agreed to pay $70 million in civil and criminal court, according to a recent article in The New York Times. The bribes were so egregious that one copy of an internal company 3-mail stated that providing cash incentives to surgeons is common knowledge in Read More…
Botany: Plants Form Memories
Botany: Plants form Memories – Monica Gagliano began to study plant behavior because she was tired of killing animals. Now an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Western Australia in Perth, when she was a student and postdoc, she had been offing her research subjects at the end of experiments, the standard protocol for many Read More…
Tanzania Makes History Samia Suluhu Hassan, First Woman President
Tanzania — Tanzania’s vice president, 61-year old Samia Suluhu Hassan, was recently sworn in as the country’s president following the sudden death of John Magufuli, making her the first female president in the history of the East African country. “It’s not a good day for me to talk to you because I have a wound Read More…
Derek Chauvin: Half Of The Jury In The Chauvin Trial Is Nonwhite
Half Of The Jury In The Chauvin Trial Is Nonwhite. That’s Only Part Of The Story The jury chosen for the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, is notable because it is significantly less white than Minneapolis itself. Among the 12 jurors and three Read More…
Dominion Voting Systems Defamation Lawsuit VS Fox News
Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election. It’s the first defamation suit filed against a media outlet by the voting company, which was a target Read More…