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### Do Headlines Predict the Future?

Written by Dennis Zine on April 15 2021.

 ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21566:do-headlines-predict-the-future&catid=312)

  [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/c7/030q-c7bf1509.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21565:big-pharma-drive-for-vaccine-profits-means-thousands-more-will-die&catid=312)Written by Mark Friedman on April 15 2021. Posted in [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=312).

## [Big Pharma Drive for Vaccine Profits Means Thousands More Will Die](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21565:big-pharma-drive-for-vaccine-profits-means-thousands-more-will-die&catid=312)

It also guarantees that tens of thousands more will die -- just as in Brazil where 5,000 are dying per day for lack of vaccines. But there is anoth…

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Written by Carol Newman on April 12 2021.

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Written by CityWatch on April 12 2021.

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Written by Eric Preven on April 12 2021.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on April 12 2021.

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Written by David Coman-Hidy on April 12 2021.

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Written by Cynthia Kaufman & Miriam Eide on April 12 2021.

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Written by Daniel Guss on April 12 2021.

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Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on April 12 2021.

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Written by Phyllis Bennis on April 12 2021.

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Written by Leslie D. Gregory and Tom H. Hastings on April 12 2021.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on April 12 2021.

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Written by Sara Corcoran on April 12 2021.

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Written by Joel Bleifuss on April 12 2021.

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Written by Eric Preven on April 08 2021.

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Written by Diedra M. Greenaway on April 08 2021.

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Written by Dick Platkin on April 08 2021.

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Written by Mark Friedman on April 08 2021.

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