Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill on Tuesday that aims to revoke Disney’s copyrights, as Republicans are seeking to outdo each other in attacking the “woke” corporation.
Hawley’s bill would dramatically rewrite U.S. copyright law, shortening the total term available to all copyright holders going forward by several decades. It would also seek to retroactively limit Disney’s copyrights, effectively stripping the company of much of its intellectual property, in a move that would face several legal obstacles.
“That is a blatantly unconstitutional taking of property without compensation,” said Prof. Paul Goldstein, an intellectual property expert at Stanford Law School.
— Read on variety.com/2022/politics/news/hawley-copyright-disney-1235263563/
Month: May 2022
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Sen. Josh Hawley Seeks to Strip Disney’s Copyrights!! Most Call it unconstitutional
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Baby formula shortage nightmare: “This is a crisis. We can’t flip a switch and make a lot more formula”
Modi is CEO and cofounder of Bobbie, a San Francisco-based direct-to-consumer seller and subscription service for organic milk-based baby formula that is produced in a Vermont facility and backed by $72 million in venture capital funding.
She’s acutely aware of the desperation in those outreaches, which have intensified in recent weeks amid an ongoing nationwide shortage of infant formula. A message at the top of the company’s website says, “We’re temporarily at capacity for new customers.” Other manufacturers say they’re producing at full capacity and making as much formula as they can. But demand is heavily outstripping supply.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/business/baby-formula-production-bobbie/index.html
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Congress to Hold First Open Hearing About UFOs in 50 Years!
The hearing will be held Tuesday, May 17 in front of a subcommittee of the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by California Rep. Adam Schiff.
Schiff told the New York Times that the committee is holding the series to explore “one of the great mysteries of our time and to break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency.” Two current Pentagon officials will testify at the hearing.
— Read on www.vice.com/en/article/g5qany/congress-to-hold-first-open-hearing-about-ufos-in-50-years
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‘Long COVID’ is a growing public health crisis that could affect a billion in just a few years!
Long COVID may already affect between 7 million and 23 million Americans who previously had the virus, or up to 7% of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Different estimates of how many people are affected with long COVID vary widely—from 10% to 80% of COVID survivors. More than half of COVID survivors report symptoms that persist after six months, Penn State College of Medicine researchers reported last year.
It’s a poorly understood condition that could disable over a billion worldwide in just a few years, says Arijit Chakravarty, a COVID researcher and CEO of Fractal Therapeutics, a drug development firm. Experts say that it’s quickly growing into a major public health concern already overwhelming primary-care physicians.
— Read on fortune.com/2022/05/08/surviving-pandemic-half-the-battle-long-covid-growing-public-health-crisis-could-affect-a-billion-in-just-a-few-years/This will have awful repercussions for society, the workplace, and life enjoyment in itself.
Sure deaths are decreasing.. and yea we got ‘back to normal’.. but we still don’t understand exactly what long Covid means
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The re-pandemic
It’s not over.
Cruelly Covid is surging.
Now how many hospitalizations and deaths will occur in comparison to the previous two years of surges..
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An update on the mystery deaths in the Bahamas
Samples taken from three tourists from Tennessee and Florida who died at a resort in the Bahamas under mysterious circumstances have been sent to a lab in Philadelphia to expedite results and help authorities understand what happened, officials said Monday.
The police commissioner of the Bahamas, Paul Rolle, said officials also collected samples from the rooms where the tourists were staying and the surrounding property to determine whether any contaminants were present.
The associated press further reports that the samples taken from the victims were sent to a lab in Philadelphia, with results of the toxicology study expected in about a week..
All four tourists went to a doctor the night before their bodies were discovered and they had complained of feeling ill.. It is reported that they went at different times and had eaten different things.
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Stocks continue tanking.. Netflix down 71% since beginning of 2022
From CNBC:
Stocks fell sharply Monday, pushing the S&P 500 to breach the 4,000 level for the first time in more than a year as the market sell-off continued.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 653.67 points to 32,245.70, or 1.99%. The S&P 500 fell 3.2% to settle at 3,991.24, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 4.29% to 11,623.25.
The S&P 500 traded as low as 3,975.48 on the day, dipping below the 4,000 mark to its lowest level since March 2021 and pulling back 17% from a 52-week high as traders struggled to bounce back from last week’s big market swings. All sectors except for consumer staples dipped into the red.
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Covid cases continue climbing.. death numbers exact to one year ago
These are the latest Covid stats from the United States:
COVID CASES USA 7-DAY AVG
71,742 MAY 08 2022
42,015 MAY 08 2021
DEATHS 7-DAY AVG
607 MAY 08 2022
607 MAY 08 2021Developing in the coming weeks.
South Africa cases are nearing records .. time will now tell if the new ‘normal’ means equal deaths and cases than previous years—or even more..
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Preliminary 3.3 magnitude quake jolts South Carolina
There were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries.
The pre-dawn temblor lasted only seconds but a number of people took to social media to describe being shaken from sleep when the quake hit shortly after 1:30 a.m.
A seismic analyst monitoring the quake for the USGS Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado, called it the latest in a series of shakes in recent months but stronger than usual.
— Read on apnews.com/article/environment-south-carolina-columbia-earthquakes-a6a965a4ec71638f778bf4dc3856b94cThese are getting more common.. beyond a time we can call South Carolina earthquakes ‘rare’
