Monthly Archives: August 2016

Democracy Now! — Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016

Posted by Planet Waves

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Trigger Warning: domestic violence
A young girl who shot dead her abusive father now may face life in prison, sparking national outcry over the treatment of domestic violence survivors. On July 28, 14-year-old Bresha Meadows allegedly killed her father, Jonathan Meadows, with a bullet to his head as he slept.

Breathless

Posted by Len Wallick

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The Virgo New Moon and solar eclipse coming up on Thursday has the potential to find you breathless. Following a mini-lesson on the decades-spanning Neptune-Pluto sextile, Len Wallick suggests that if you let that breathlessness be a good thing, you could very well find yourself to have become timeless as well.

Democracy Now! — Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016

Posted by Planet Waves

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The pharmaceutical giant Mylan has announced it will launch a cheaper generic version of its life-saving allergy shot EpiPen amid public outcry over its alleged price gouging. However, consumer advocates say the cost of the generic drug is still prohibitively expensive and triple the price of what EpiPen cost in 2007 when Mylan acquired the product. The company increased the price of its allergy injector by some 400 percent in less than a decade.