According to this, the EU is the biggest manufacturer, followed by India and the US, with the latter almost entirely supplying the domestic market. Among low income countries, i.e. the ones most likely to follow US guidelines rather than investing in developing their own, India dominates massively as the supplier.
Note that these are pre-pandemic numbers, I suspect it has changed a lot. Then again, flu vaccines aren’t mRNA vaccines (yet) so the expansion of production facilities for those might not impact them.
Framed as a modernization effort, the plan could saddle enlisted soldiers, many of whom already struggle with low pay, with even greater costs for meals they are effectively required to buy.
Exactly! and every-time i read in the media that he’s a “vaccine skeptic” i want to tear up whatever i’m reading; he’s not a “skeptic”! he’s a paid-for anti vaccine lobbyist (link):
Kennedy has pulled in roughly $10 million in income from his work over the past year, which includes speaking fees, leading an anti-vaccine nonprofit
and it can’t be shouted enough, his direct efforts in his paid-for anti-vaccine drive killed ~80 Samoan children. everywhere he goes one should hear the cries of parents burying their children. he’s a bloody venal monster.
Or one can look at another “superpower” that treats its soldiers like shit: Russia.
In addition to low morale, the ability to fight is hampered by poor nutrition and low calorie intake. While nearly impossible to quantify, it is surely affecting Russia’s performance in Ukraine.
(I remember walking by military barracks in Russia and having solders there beg for bread through holes in the cement walls. It was… dispiriting, and I wasn’t even a citizen.)
Because he couldn’t take the record highs today as a win. He had to screw it up.
We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country. They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Abandoned by Trump, a farmer and a migrant search for a better future
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JJ had joined 81 percent of Yuma County’s voters in supporting Trump, whom he considered the better of two bad options. He wanted to believe that the president would honor his many pledges to do right by people like him.
“The USA will PROTECT OUR FARMERS!!!” Trump had posted to Truth Social that very day.
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“I’ve employed Americans, and they quit after a few days,” said Tracy Vinz, assured $400,000 for her organic farm in Wisconsin. “They quit after a few hours.”
“I’ve had a couple who didn’t even last a whole day,” said Mitch Lawson, a Georgia produce farmer who lost nearly two dozen American employees before he qualified for $200,000.