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Youth activists are marching from New Orleans to Houston this week to demand a Green New Deal.
The group danced as The Young Pinstripes brass band played outside the Superdome in the rain Monday, holding signs that said “a better world is possible” and waving at beeping cars.
Members of the local chapter of the Sunrise Movement, a national youth group, said the people of the Gulf South are disportionately impacted by the threats of climate change like flooding, hurricanes and extreme heat and that Black and brown communities bear the brunt of the suffering.
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President Joe Biden is expected to nominate former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, according to a person familiar with the president s decision.
The person, who was not authorized to comment publicly about the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday, said the White House plans to announce Emanuel s nomination later this month.
Emanuel is a former three-term congressman who served as Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff and was a senior adviser in Bill Clinton’s administration. Biden had considered naming Emanuel to serve as his transportation secretary but ultimately passed him over in the face of fierce opposition from some in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party and liberal activists.
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Stealing Vaccine Patents Would Be a Big Mistake
Commentary
The Chinese Communist Party is not the only national administration that believes in stealing intellectual property. The Biden administration, supported by much of the Democrat Party and their allied progressive minions in the globalist “international community,” now also support patent theft, an act that until now has always been grounds for civil liability and potential criminal culpability.
Thieves always claim to have a good excuse for their pilfering. The Chinese Communists determined long ago that patent-stealing was the fast-track to modernizing China’s economy. That’s not surprising: China is, after all, a tyranny.
Let’s start with the Biden decision, which has made front-page news globally. The administration announced via its trade representative Katherine Tai that it backed a waiver proposal being discussed at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Many commentators and armchair IP experts have since weighed in, often conflating the distinct issues of supply chains and production capabilities on one hand with IP and patents on the other.
By doing so, they conveniently support the anti-IP narrative and fail to recognise why IP exists in the first place – to incentivise the kinds of life-saving research that vaccine makers and other drugs companies undertake.