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Gilead's coronavirus treatment remdesivir to cost $3,120 per U.S. patient with private insurance

William Feuer
CNBC
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:25 UTC

Gilead Sciences announced Monday the much-anticipated pricing for its coronavirus treatment remdesivir, saying it will cost hospitals $3,120 for a typical U.S. patient with commercial insurance.

The company announced its pricing plans in preparation for it to begin charging for the antiviral drug in July. The company has been donating doses to the U.S. government for distribution since it received emergency use authorization in May.

The drugmaker said it will sell remdesivir for $390 per vial to governments "of developed countries" around the world, and the price for U.S. private insurance companies will stand at $520 per vial. In the U.S., that means Gilead will charge a lower price for government programs and a higher price for private insurers.

"Whether you're covered by a private insurer, whether you're covered by a government insurer, whether you're uninsured with Covid-19, there will not be an issue for access with remdesivir," Gilead CEO Daniel O'Day said in an interview Monday with CNBC's Meg Tirrell on "Squawk Box" after the announcement.

TIME skewered online after denouncing superheroes as 'cops in capes': 'Stop ruining everything'

RT
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:05 UTC

TIME magazine has urged the world to stop glorifying superheroes, arguing that they're basically straight white cops with capes - making them extremely problematic. This seems very reasonable, tweeted basically nobody in response.

Hollywood is finally being held accountable for romanticizing the police, TIME gleefully noted in its trailblazing takedown, but the campaign to reexamine the insidious 'good cop' narrative in entertainment should be extended to fictional vigilantes who often possess unfair super-privileges.

"What are superheroes except cops with capes who enact justice with their powers?" the magazine bravely (and rhetorically) asked.

Suspect Steven Lopez arrested in fatal Louisville BLM protest shooting

Lucas Aulbach
Louisville Courier Journal
Sun, 28 Jun 2020 17:34 UTC

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The LMPD blocked off the scene of a shooting at Jefferson Square Park in Louisville, Ky. on June 27, 2020.

A frequent participant in Louisville's month of protests has been accused of fatally shooting a photographer in Jefferson Square Park after a dispute with another person.

Steven Nelson Lopez, 23, is facing charges of murder and first-degree wanton endangerment, Louisville Metro Police officials said Sunday after releasing his arrest citation. Lopez is accused of killing Tyler Gerth, a 27-year-old Louisville photographer who had become a vocal supporter of the protests.

At 8:59 p.m. Saturday, MetroSafe Communications reported multiple gunshots being fired in Jefferson Square Park. Arriving officers found one person shot in the face in the middle of the park near a short concrete wall, according to Lopez's arrest citation.

Mikhaila Peterson interviews her father, Jordan Peterson, about his reaction to benzodiazepines and their struggle to find proper treatment in the West

Mikhaila Peterson
YouTube
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:33 UTC

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Jordan Peterson photographed with his daughter and granddaughter in Moscow, 16 February 2020

Welcome to the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast, episode 9. This is a brief podcast with my dad Jordan Peterson about what happened to him and my family in the last year.

'Dilbert' creator enrages Twitterati saying he lost jobs and 'my TV show for being white'

Marisa Dellatto
New York Post
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:56 UTC

Dilbert creator Scott Adams

"Dilbert" creator Scott Adams is under fire for claiming that his show was canceled because of his race.

The cartoon, which ran on UPN from 1999 to 2000, was based on a comic strip by the same name and featured a pessimistic office worker as the title character.

"I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience," Adams wrote on Twitter. "That was the third job I lost for being white. The other two in corporate America. (They told me directly.)"

He's not the only TV figure injecting race into the social-media conversation.

Comment: Adams has tapped into a largely untold story about the distortion of employment in the last 40 years. The thread is telling:

A few examples from the 1.6k replies:

What is the real goal of the 'Stop Hate for Profit' campaign against Facebook? Hint: it has nothing to do with 'hate speech'

Helen Buyniski
RT
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:19 UTC

A deep-pocketed astroturf campaign has created the impression that Facebook users are up in arms about racism on the platform, but the 'Stop Hate for Profit' campaign is a naked political power-grab by the usual suspects.

The campaign emerged earlier this month and has gathered a huge amount of support from corporations eager to check the Black Lives Matter box and burnish their image. But it's not clear if these companies have looked into who's behind the initiative, or what their intentions are. Stop Hate for Profit's organizers appear less concerned with stopping "hate" than they are with muscling their way into Facebook's boardroom and seizing the power to permanently silence political opponents.

Stop Hate for Profit's website is operated by the Anti-Defamation League, an advocacy group notorious for its heavy-handed censorship tactics that has bragged about its involvement in YouTube content purges and regularly smears critics of Israeli policy as froth-mouthed anti-Semites. Listed co-sponsors of the campaign include activist organizations Color of Change, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and a "media freedom" group called Free Press, which according to its mission statement seeks to "change the media to transform democracy to realize a just society." In practice, that apparently translates to lending "free press" cover to ideologically-motivated censorship campaigns.

Massive protests? Crowded chain stores? No, it's SMALL BUSINESSES to blame for post-lockdown Covid-19 spike, says MSM

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:11 UTC

Looking for someone to blame for the post-lockdown case spike that has some states reimposing coronavirus lockdown measures? Go no further than your local small businesses, say media outlets urging a return to lockdown.

Many states have reported unsettling rises in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks, so much so that states like Texas and Florida have put the brakes on allowing bars, restaurants, and other places people gather to resume operations in the last week, insisting it's too dangerous to continue. Local and national media have been quick to point the finger at those small businesses that gave lockdown-crazed Americans a tiny taste of their pre-pandemic lives, insisting it was these nods to the "old normal" - getting a drink with friends at the bar, or grabbing lunch with a relative at the corner restaurant - that are to blame for the recent case spikes.

But this rush to pin the case increases on small businesses reopening ignores several other potential causes of the uptick - the most obvious being the massive protests against police brutality that have thronged the streets of American cities large and small for the past month, rarely taking note of anything like social distancing and sometimes degenerating into rioting and violence. The focus on small businesses also ignores the continued role of big-box stores and chain restaurants - which have also seen heavy traffic as restrictions are lifted, yet somehow seem immune (no pun intended) to the media scoldfest.

Veteran Russian liberals Pozner & Pamfilova reject claims that constitutional changes are solely about a Putin 2036 power grab

RT
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:08 UTC

The Western media has made Wednesday's vote on Russia's Constitution about one issue: Giving President Vladimir Putin the option to 'rule' until 2036. However, those who understand Russia better take a more nuanced view.

Veteran TV presenter Vladimir Pozner is known to older English-speaking audiences for his 1980s and 90s collaborations with Ted Koppel and Phil Donahue. A liberal, he has always made it clear that he does not support Putin. This week, he interviewed the head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (CEC), Ella Pamfilova, who was closely associated with the West-leaning, liberal Moscow opposition before taking up her current role.

Neither believes that the main goal of adopting amendments to the Constitution is to reset Putin's presidential clock to zero. This proposal, the most often cited in the West, would potentially allow the incumbent another 16 years in the Kremlin, by effectively canceling the clock on his previous stints.

Kneeling in the Church of Social Justice

John McWhorter
Reason
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:30 UTC

Over the past several years, a social justice philosophy has arisen that is less a political program than a religion in all but name. Where Christianity calls for people to display their moral worth through faith in Jesus, modern Third-Wave Antiracism (henceforth TWA) calls for people to display their moral worth through opposition to racism. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, this vision has increasingly been expressed through procedures, routines, and phraseology directly patterned on Abrahamic religion.

America certainly has work to do on race. For one, while cops do not kill black people more than white people, they harass and abuse black people more than white people, and the real-life impact of this is in its way just as pernicious as the disparity in killings would be. If the tension between black people and the cops were resolved, America's race problem would quickly begin dissolving faster than it ever has. But making this happen will require work, as will ending the war on drugs, improving educational opportunities for all disadvantaged black children, and other efforts such as steering more black teenagers to vocational programs training them for solid careers without four years of college.

Physicist could be fired over 'All Lives Matter' tweet

David Scullion
The Critic
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC

A PhD Physics lecturer, who has a contract with the US Department of Defence, is being investigated by his University over his Twitter feed.

Mike McCulloch, who has worked at the University of Plymouth for over ten years, has been summoned to a hearing next Wednesday after an anonymous colleague sent his boss a number of tweets he had 'liked'.

The physicist currently works at the School of Biology and Marine Sciences but previously was employed by the Met Office.

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Society's Child

Gilead's coronavirus treatment remdesivir to cost $3,120 per U.S. patient with private insurance

TIME skewered online after denouncing superheroes as 'cops in capes': 'Stop ruining everything'

Suspect Steven Lopez arrested in fatal Louisville BLM protest shooting

Mikhaila Peterson interviews her father, Jordan Peterson, about his reaction to benzodiazepines and their struggle to find proper treatment in the West

'Dilbert' creator enrages Twitterati saying he lost jobs and 'my TV show for being white'

What is the real goal of the 'Stop Hate for Profit' campaign against Facebook? Hint: it has nothing to do with 'hate speech'

Massive protests? Crowded chain stores? No, it's SMALL BUSINESSES to blame for post-lockdown Covid-19 spike, says MSM

Veteran Russian liberals Pozner & Pamfilova reject claims that constitutional changes are solely about a Putin 2036 power grab

Kneeling in the Church of Social Justice

Physicist could be fired over 'All Lives Matter' tweet

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