Politics
“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Biden Administration
“Vaccine Waiver Pledge Tests Biden-World’s Pharma Ties” [David Sirota, Walker Bragman, and Andrew Perez, Daily Poster]. “The granular details of the waiver will be negotiated by a Biden administration populated by individuals with significant pharmaceutical investments and whose previous employers worked for a panoply of pharmaceutical giants. That includes drugmakers currently lobbying the White House on intellectual property.” • Antony Blinken, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, Anita Dunn, and Steve Ricchetti all have cozy relationships with Big Pharma, as does Biden himself.