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Memphis is bracing for the release of police bodycam footage showing the arrest and killing of Tyre Nichols

Five former police officers in Memphis, TN, have been charged with murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression.

Ahead of the footage's release, Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis warned:

"You're going to see a disregard for human life."

The video will be uploaded to YouTube in four separate clips sometime after 6 p.m. CT Friday. Surveillance video from the neighborhood will accompany the body camera footage.

How do you feel about the video?

The U.S. and Germany have decided to send battle tanks to Ukraine after months of hesitation

Ukraine has been lobbying the Western allies for months to send military equipment and finally reached a successful deal with Germany and the U.S. NATO allies are applauding the announcements.

Do you think the U.S. should be doing more or less to aid Ukraine? Tell your Reps.

Scientists urge the FDA to classify aging as a disease 

The FDA recognizes aging as a natural process of life. Some scientists are trying to change that.

There is a growing consensus among the scientific community that aging should be considered a disease, which would allow the medical community to directly fight the symptoms of aging to prevent another medical condition from developing. 

Should aging be considered a disease? Let the FDA know what you think

Should fast food companies pay higher wages or hire younger ages?

California’s move to raise the minimum wage is only one approach to the fast food labor shortage and the demands of movements like Fight for $15. Employers in other states are recruiting 14- and 15-year-olds to help address the labor shortage.

How would you solve the fast food labor shortage?

All the Memes Fit to Print

And, in the End...

Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day, a time to remember and reflect. Consider revisiting the historical testimony of writers and survivors like Elie Wiesel, Victor Frankl, Ruth KlĂĽger, and Primo Levi.

"Action Is the Only Remedy to Indifference"

- Elie Wiesel

   

—Emma Kansiz

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    PattiZ
    01/31/2023

    Is the FDA that BORED?! I am sure there are more important matters to address or else they are simply over staffed

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    LeslieG
    01/27/2023

    FDA is not able to classify aging as a disease as the ICD classification system is managed by WHO and they released ICD-11(Feb 2022) without replacing senility with old age.

    What FDA can do is allow research into treatments for age related diseases which if approved could then be billed using ICD-11-CM (Clinical Modification under the ICD-11 extension code “aging-related” diseases that was updated from “caused by pathological process,” to "caused by biological process".

     FDA only controls approved country specific treatments for WHO defined disease conditions used globally in order to support development of new treatment therapies like using Metformin to slow aging, prescribing and billing.

     https://www.who.int/news/item/11-02-2022-icd-11-2022-release


     https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/19/1061070/is-old-age-a-disease/amp/

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    Brian
    01/27/2023

    I remember what I've learned and seen about the horrors of the Holocaust. I've visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and visited a concentration camp in Germany and an internment area in Poland. I know the Holocaust happened.

    And I know that millions of Jews were slaughtered. But also thousands of Poles, Roma, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities, all because they did not present the ideal perfect human envisioned by Hitler. 

    I remember them all, and I will continue to speak out against racism, white supremacy, intolerance, homophobia/transphobia, xenophobia, and fascism.

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