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Saturday Report 11/27/21

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Saturday Report 11/27/21

The Best of the Rest of the News: Find out if your cat is a psychopath like Trump, and explore a modern-day Jules Verne-like expedition to the "Center of the Earth"...

Thom Hartmann
Nov 27, 2021
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Saturday Report 11/27/21

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At his invitation for the “Synthesis Dialogues,” I spent a week with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala and Mcleod Gang two decades ago. This picture is from the day I took refuge at his home; Harrison Ford narrated the documentary movie “Dalai Lama Renaissance” about that week.

— It was fully 14 months ago when India and South Africa asked the World Trade Organization to give them a “TRIPS Waiver” setting aside international patent rules on vaccines and Covid medications so they could quickly ramp up vaccinations in their parts of the world. They wanted to protect their own people, but also wanted to prevent new variants emerge that might be even more contagious and deadly than the Alpha, Beta or Delta variants. While letting poorer countries manufacture their own versions of Pfizer, J&J, Moderna and AstraZenica vaccines (rather than forcing them to buy from those companies) would not have decreased those companies’ vaccine profits

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