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- People Bank Blood. Why Not Faeces? https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/06/29/people-bank-blood-why-not-faeces 5 comments
- Antibodies from COVID-19 survivors could be used to treat patients, protect those at risk (Using equipment normally found in hospitals. It could be deployed within a couple of weeks since it relies on standard blood-banking practices.) https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/13/covid-19-antibody-sera-arturo-casadevall/ 4 comments europe
- Azealia Banks Cleans Blood-Stained Room She's Used to Practice Witchcraft for 3 Years: 'Real Witches Do Real Things' http://people.com/music/azealia-banks-witchcraft-brujeria-peta-statement/ 84 comments nottheonion
- 4 Simple Steps for Taking Your Money Out of the Vampire Banks: Bank Transfer Day (Nov. 5) is just around the corner. Time to assert your economic citizenship and end the dysfunctional relationship with your blood-sucking bank. http://www.alternet.org/story/152893/4_simple_steps_for_taking_your_money_out_of_the_vampire_banks/?page=entire 23 comments politics
- Israel opens world’s most protected blood bank, rocket-proof and underground https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-opens-worlds-most-protected-blood-bank-rocket-proof-and-underground/ 14 comments worldnews
- SWIFT to ban some Russia banks after Ukraine's "blood of innocents" warning https://www.newsweek.com/swift-ban-some-russia-banks-after-ukraines-blood-innocents-warning-1683017 14 comments worldnews
- Ashneer Grover, Founder BharatPe and one of the panelists on Shark Tank India abusing Kotak bank employee for not getting allotment in IPO. Threatening to kill the guy in cold blood. https://twitter.com/BabuBongo/status/1478568545617252358?amp%3Bs=19&t=JFUv3Jsqhcjw0rsOV043_Q 122 comments india
- Banks of solar panels would be able to replace every electricity-producing dam in the US using just 13% of the space. Many environmentalists have come to see dams as “blood clots in our watersheds” owing to the “tremendous harm” they have done to ecosystems. https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-power-could-replace-all-us-hydro-dams-using-just-13-of-the-space 3 comments science
- People queuing up in Kozhikode Medical College Blood Bank to donate blood for the victims of the plane crash at midnight despite the heavy rain. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/i5m6s4 111 comments india
- Cross-posting from r/airforce: Local banks need blood in the wake of NAS Pensacola shooting https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/12/06/nas-pensacola-shooting-oneblood-asking-donations/4353356002/ 5 comments navy
- Saudi-led coalition: Yemen blood bank bombed by mistake https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191003-saudi-led-coalition-yemen-blood-bank-bombed-by-mistake/ 16 comments worldnews
- Banks of solar panels would be able to replace every electricity-producing dam in the US using just 13% of the space. Many environmentalists have come to see dams as “blood clots in our watersheds” owing to the “tremendous harm” they have done to ecosystems. https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-power-could-replace-all-us-hydro-dams-using-just-13-of-the-space 1824 comments science
- In a First, Drone Used to Transport Blood from Remote Health Centre in Uttarakhand to Tehri Hospital. The blood unit was transported from a primary health centre in Nandgaon to the district hospital’s blood bank 32 km away. The drone made the journey in 18 minutes compared to 50-60 minutes via road. https://www.news18.com/news/india/in-a-first-drone-used-to-transport-blood-from-remote-health-centre-in-uttarakhand-to-tehri-district-hospital-2176669.html 11 comments india
- US shut down has this IRS worker selling blood and visiting a food bank https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/u-s-shutdown-has-this-irs-worker-selling-blood-and-visiting-a-food-bank-1.4980449 20 comments politics
- Venice without water: low tides caused by Wednesday’s ‘blue blood moon’ dried up the canals, leaving Venetian gondolas stranded on dried-up canal banks. http://strangesounds.org/2018/02/venice-water-levels-are-the-lowest-since-records-began-with-some-canals-almost-completely-dried-up-and-it-has-not-stopped-sinking.html 14 comments europe
- Following UN vote, Hamas leader calls for 'Day of Blood' in West Bank http://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/following-un-vote-hamas-leader-calls-for-day-of-blood-in-west-bank-519722 6 comments worldnews
- Need coinbase alternative... have W-2, ID, Bank Statement, Utility Bill, and blood sample ready... https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/761jq4/need_coinbase_alternative_have_w2_id_bank/ 12 comments btc
- 'It's like my war against the terrorists': Blood banks in Barcelona flooded with donations in wake of attack http://www.cbc.ca/1.4254119 5 comments worldnews
- Why do blood banks not accept donations from those with hemochromatosis? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6qfgmh/why_do_blood_banks_not_accept_donations_from/ 9 comments askscience
- No coordination between blood banks and hospitals, 6 lakh litres of blood wasted in five years http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/no-coordination-between-blood-banks-and-hospitals-6-lakh-litres-of-blood-wasted-in-five-years/articleshow/58333338.cms 78 comments india
- I-T Dept overseeing note ban: 'It's like making Dracula in charge of blood bank' http://www.financialexpress.com/economy/it-department-overseeing-note-ban-its-like-making-dracula-in-charge-of-blood-bank/499297/ 53 comments india
- Four hospitals and a local blood bank hit by air raids in Syria's Aleppo https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-hospitals-hit-air-raids-syrias-aleppo-doctors-082017646.html 3 comments worldnews
- Poop is in High Demand for Transplants to Treat Anti-biotic Resistant Infections, almost like a blood bank for transfusions. "Kind of like a brown cross" https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/introducing-first-bank-feces?utm_source=fecalbank&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nofooling 9 comments science
- HSBC files: Swiss bank hid money for people involved criminals cases, including: blood diamond trading, bribery at Malta’s state oil company, cocaine smuggling from the Dominican Republic and the doping of professional cyclists in Spain http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2015/feb/12/hsbc-files-swiss-bank-hid-money-for-suspected-criminals 15 comments worldnews
- Swiss Leaks: HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) continued to offer services to clients who had been unfavorably named by the United Nations, in court documents and in the media as connected to arms trafficking, blood diamonds and bribery. http://www.icij.org/project/swiss-leaks/banking-giant-hsbc-sheltered-murky-cash-linked-dictators-and-arms-dealers 6 comments worldnews
- Banked blood grows stiffer with age, study finds: It may look like fresh blood and flow like fresh blood, but the longer blood is stored, the less it can carry oxygen into the tiny microcapillaries of the body, says a new study http://www.labmanager.com/news/2014/09/banked-blood-grows-stiffer-with-age-study-finds?fw1pk=2#.va1j0mv5fh8 4 comments science
- [Karanataka]Shocking number of HIV cases detected at blood banks go without follow-up http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/shocking-number-of-hiv-cases-detected-at-blood-banks-go-without-followup/article4811367.ece 7 comments india
- Limbaugh: “Obama did not grow up in poverty, His grandmother, the typical white woman, worked in a bank. Don’t give me this ‘down with the struggle’ business. He wasn’t down. He wasn’t down with the struggle. He doesn’t have slave blood.” http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/06/limbaugh-obama-doesnt-have-slave-blood-and-isnt-authentically-black/?go=1 11 comments politics
- Bank Forecloses and Evicts 101-Year Old Detroit Woman in wheel chair, in street with her furniture. city officials throw her high blood pressure medication in dumpster http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2011/09/15/bank-forecloses-and-evicts-101-year-old-detroit-woman/ 24 comments reddit.com
- Man says he was rejected by blood bank for seeming gay. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/man-says-rejected-blood-bank-seeming-gay-151627659.html 6 comments reddit.com
- 60 minutes reports on how major banks are resorting to forgery and phony paperwork to throw people out of their homes. This report should really make your blood boil. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/01/60minutes/main20049646.shtml?tag=contentmain;cbscarousel 67 comments reddit.com
- Menstrual blood bank opens in India : LifeCell Femme http://www.lifecellfemme.com/ 3 comments india
- “Financiers – like bank robbers – do not create wealth. They merely distribute it. While the mob may idolize holdup men in good times, in the bad times it lynches them. What they will do to the new money men when their blood is up, we wait eagerly to find out.” http://theburningplatform.com/blog/2010/08/29/the-age-of-mammon-featured-article/ 12 comments economy
- The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/12697/64796 5 comments reddit.com
- The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. http://sites.google.com/site/disclosuredelta/ 101 comments business
- Asking the supreme Court whether it's OK to strip-search 13-year-old girls for drugs is like asking vampires if they wouldn't mind watching the blood bank for awhile. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/us/24savana.html?_r=1&hp 3 comments reddit.com
- Throwing more public money at essentially insolvent banks is like giving blood transfusions to a corpse and hoping for Lazarus. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090330/greider?rel=hp_picks 3 comments politics
- ISRAELI soldiers attack innocent West Bank family in their OWN HOME; kill old man, fire indiscriminately at women and children. Survivors covered in blood. This is the HORROR of Israeli occupation. http://www.mystudydate.com/pg/blog/martini/read/1087/the-violence-of-occupation 5 comments reddit.com
- Lev Leviev, Israel’s richest man, buying blood diamonds, funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, undermining the prospects for Middle East peace http://www.wrmea.com/archives/jan_feb_2008/0801061.html 164 comments worldnews
- Fiji Gov't Official: "No one wants the USA to be the guardian of human rights for the rest of the world - it’s like asking Dracula to guard the blood bank" http://www.theseminal.com/2008/03/13/what-theyre-saying-the-international-community-on-the-us/ 80 comments worldnews