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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has warned that the world must prepare for the next pandemic as it would for war, including the investment of tens of billions of dollars each year, in a letter released Wednesday.
"We can't afford to be caught flat-footed again," wrote the Microsoft co-founder and his wife Melinda in an annual missive.
<p>"The threat of the next pandemic will always be hanging over our heads -- unless the world takes steps to prevent it."</p><p>To avoid future destruction on the scale of that caused by Covid-19, "pandemic preparedness must be taken as seriously as we take the threat of war," Gates said.</p><p>"Stopping the next pandemic will require spending tens of billions of dollars per year -- a big investment, but remember that the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to cost the world $28 trillion," he added.</p><p>"The world needs to spend billions to save trillions (and prevent millions of deaths)."</p><p>The American, ranked the third-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes, urged rich countries to provide the bulk of the investment, pointing out that their governments stand to benefit most.</p><p>Investments in future diagnostic and vaccination technologies should be supplemented by "a global alert system, which we don't have at large scale today," allowing epidemics to be detected and responded to early, the letter said.</p><p>Gates famously sounded the alarm about the risk of global pandemics at a 2015 TED conference.</p><p>He now advocates the creation of a team of around 3,000 fully trained, professional pandemic "firefighters" available on permanent alert.</p><p>The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has already invested $1.75 billion to fight the coronavirus pandemic, as well as promoting and funding inoculation projects in developing countries.</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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Nicolle Wallace unleashes on Republicans for supporting domestic terrorism and refusing to protect America
January 27, 2021
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace was furious during her Wednesday show while addressing the way the Republican Party has been taken over by terrorists.
She first addressed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who threatened to execute Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Barack Obama and former Secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. GOP Congressional Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that he would give Greene a talking-to. In reality, he put her on the Education Committee after it was reported she called school shootings false flags.
<p>Wallace mentioned Joe Scarborough's Wednesday morning rant demanding that Republicans be held accountable. </p><p>"But I have a totally different view on this," Wallace said. "Republicans want to stand with Donald Trump on inciting an insurrection? Knock yourself out. You'll make the job of burning the party to the ground faster and easier." </p><p>She read an excerpt from <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/us-issues-terror-alert-over-anti-government-extremists/" target="_blank">the Homeland Security bulletin posted Wednesday</a> warning of anti-government domestic terror threats all over the United States. </p><p>"It's Donald Trump's freaking mission statement for the last three months of his presidency! He is the clear and present danger. He is the symbol of everything we're being warned about today!" Wallace said. "I mean, this really is a case where the lies uttered by Donald Trump and amplified by his allies on Fox News and OAN and everywhere else that his media sycophants project their messages now put all of our lives at risk. It's a stunning culmination of the role of disinformation from Russia in his election in 2016 to the role of disinformation after his defeat in bringing us to the brink of a practically unprecedented threat of domestic terrorism based on political violence."</p><p>In a discussion with Bulwark's Tim Miller and Dr. Jason Johnson, Wallace came back to the issues facing McCarthy and the members of his party who are threatening political violence. Fox News host Tucker Carlson has come to the aide of QAnon supporters like Greene, claiming that she is being persecuted for what she thinks. </p><p>"She's not in trouble for what she thinks," Wallace explained. "She's in trouble as a public official for what she posts and conveys on social media."</p><p>She went on to say that what was revealed this week was that 45 Republicans voted not to even hold a trial for a president who incited an insurrection. </p><p>It "had all of them hiding in their own offices with furniture pushed up again the doors," she recalled. "What were they hiding for? If Donald Trump hadn't incited a violent insurrection that they were scared about. Why weren't they roaming the halls? If they weren't afraid, why were they in offices with furniture pushed up against a door? And my only point about the opportunity that Democrats have is that they have today, this bulletin describes the threat, they describe the world view of the people who right now and through the end of April, in the views of the people at the Department of Homeland Security -- the world view is the same word view as the views publicly espoused by the QAnon member of Congress."</p><p>Wallace went on to echo questions from Scarborough about why Republicans are so afraid to stand up to Trump and terrorists who attacked them. </p><p>"The magnitude of the threat for those who want to dismantle our government -- a threat addressed today by the Department of Homeland Security when it issued a federal bulletin of the increased threat of ideologically motivated violent extremists, possibly motivated to incite violence in the wake of Joe Biden's inauguration," she continued. "It's a warning that makes republican inaction even more frightening."</p><p>See the discussions below:</p><p>Part 1: </p><p><br/></p>
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'Radioactive' Trump properties plummet in price as New Yorkers reject his brand: report
January 27, 2021
On Wednesday, Business Insider reported that Donald Trump's properties in New York City are plummeting in value, as locals reject any association with the former president.
"UrbanDigs — which looked at the seven luxury buildings in Manhattan that still bear the Trump moniker, and three that used to — found that even properties that formerly had Trump in their names lost 17% of their value since 2016. By comparison, the overall price per square foot decline in Manhattan over the same period was just 9%," reported Juliana Kaplan. "In 2016, the average price per square foot in seven NYC properties run by his real-estate behemoth, the Trump Organization, was $3,346, according to the report. In 2017, following Trump's election and inauguration, that figure sunk to $1,903; by 2020, it was at $1,619. That's a drop of 51% from its 2016 price."
<p>According to the report, the decline accelerated in earnest after the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, which Trump stands accused of inciting in the upcoming <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-impeachment-2650158434/" target="_blank">Senate impeachment trial</a>.</p><p>"Groups began to cut ties with the Trump Organization, including the Girl Scouts and the city of New York," noted the report. One real estate broker with ties to Trump Tower, Mark Cohen, "said that, in the weeks before the insurrection, he had fielded some phone inquiries from prospective buyers about the Trump apartments he was representing — but it felt like they were searching for deals."</p><p>Trump himself no longer lives in the penthouse of Trump Tower, having taken up residence at his country club in Palm Beach, Florida, over the <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/12/16/palm-beach-residents-are-trying-to-bar-trump-from-returning-to-mar-a-lago_partner/" target="_blank">objections of locals</a> — though his family still owns the Manhattan property.</p>
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