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How "Essential" is Bottled Water? Ep. 6.163
By: AGelbert Date: December 9, 2019, 11:02 am
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[center]How "Essential" is Bottled Water? Ep. 6.163[/center]
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Steve Lehto
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Michigan court of appeals shoots down the argument that bottled
water is "essential" in the same manner as electricity and
sewers.
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Walmart Store Holding Thanksgiving Charity Food Drive -- For Its
Own Employees!
By: Surly1 Date: December 10, 2019, 6:22 am
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Walmart Store Holding Thanksgiving Charity Food Drive -- For Its
Own Employees!
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Ungar</a></div> <p>Recently, <a
href="
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/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
data-ga-track="ExternalLink:
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/>24/7 Wall Street </a>column sought to identify the
nation’s 10 worst paying employers, based on the
methodology ultizied by the National Employment Law Project in
its 2012 report, <a
href="safari-reader://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/11/18/
walmart-store-holding-thanksgiving-charity-food-drive-for-its-ow
n-employees/nelp.3cdn.net/e555b2e361f8f734f4_sim6btdzo.pdf"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
data-ga-track="ExternalLink:nelp.3cdn.net/e555b2e361f8f734f4_sim
6btdzo.pdf">“Big
Business, Corporate Profits, and the Minimum
Wage.”</a></p> <p>To the surprise of nobody, Walmart
came out on top, achieving the distinction of being the worst
paying company in America.</p> <p>Still, when it comes to
Walmart, there are certain analysts and observers who
can’t seem to remove the blinders. They continue to insist
that Walmart pays its workers an average of over $18.00 per hour
when even the company acknowledges that the average full time,
hourly rate is $12.83—and that number includes the
salaries of some of the highest paid employees in the averaging
such as the CEO who earned $20.7 million last
year.</p> <p>Maybe, at long last, the blinders will come off
when these deniers are forced to come to grips with the fact
that Walmart associates are paid so poorly that a store in
Canton, Ohio, located in the northeastern part of the state, now
holds an annual, Thanksgiving drive to collect canned foods for
<em>fellow Walmart employees in need.</em></p> <p>Walmart
spokesperson, Kory Lundberg, thinks this is all just the most
wonderful thing—bragging that the drive to collect holiday
food for fellow employees shows just how much Walmart employees
care about one another.</p> <p>Do you imagine the
spokesperson has yet to realize just how remarkable her
statement is?</p> <p>Surely, those in need at the Canton,
Ohio store are benefitting from the good will of <i>some</i>
fellow workers who care enough to drop off a can of cranberry
sauce to help make their co-workers’ holiday meal a bit
nicer, even though they too suffer from earning too little to
take care of their own families.</p> <p>However, what about
the <i>other</i> employees at Walmart—say, for example,
CEO Mike Duke who could make this in-house charitable effort
unnecessary by simply paying his employees a livable wage so
that they might afford a decent Thanksgiving dinner on their
own?</p> <p>While spokesperson Lundberg seems to be feeling
all ‘Christmassy' as a result of the good works company
employees are performing when it comes to their own modern day
Tiny Tim story, other employees at the Walmart store in question
are not quite so cheery.</p> <p>One employee, <a
href="
HTML http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/18/wal-mart-asks-employees-to-donate-canned-goods-to-workers-who-dont-have-enough-to-eat/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
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/>did not wish to divulge her name for fear of being fired</a>,
found the food drive containers in her locker a few weeks ago
upon arriving at work. The employee, who found the campaign
“demoralizing” and “kind of depressing”,
snapped photos of the containers which are now making their way
around social media outlets as proof positive of just how bad
Walmart’s indifference to their employees' living
circumstances has become.</p> <p>If what is happening at the
Canton, Ohio store is insufficient proof that this
company’s wages are too low, then there is clearly no
measure or metric that could possibly serve to make the
point.</p> <p><a
href="
HTML http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/18/wal-mart-asks-employees-to-donate-canned-goods-to-workers-who-dont-have-enough-to-eat/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
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/>Kate Bronfenbrenner</a>, director of labor education research
at
Cornell Univeristy’s school of labor, “That captures
Wal-Mart right there. Wal-Mart is setting up bins because its
employees don’t make enough to feed themselves and their
families.”</p> <p>Of course, the start of the holiday
season will not be grim for everyone at Walmart as there will
likely be ample goodies of bonus checks and stock options in the
stockings of top employees at the company, as Walmart's net
income rose to $17 billion last year.</p> <p>If your idea of
American capitalism is of the "bah humbug" variety, then I'm
sure that this story will leave you saying, "They're damned
lucky they have a job at all!" But for those Americans who still
believe that free enterprise means that working hard at a job
should be compensated with a livable wage, I hope you will let
your feelings be known.</p> <p>And if you happen to live in
the Canton, Ohio area, drop by and make a contribution. The
folks at Walmart who are helping you to pick out that nice
turkey for your Thanksgiving family gathering will appreciate
your helping to give them some happiness on that day as their
own Ebenezer Scrooge of an employer won't be dropping by with a
Christmas goose.</p> <p><em>Contact Rick at
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Facebook🙈🙉🙊😈 biggest Child P O R
N platform and HIDES Corporate Slavery Supply Chains!!
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[center]Is It Time To Reboot [emoji83] Facebook? (w/ Andrew
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👹 Amazon Warns Employees Who Spoke Out On Climate Change
By: AGelbert Date: January 8, 2020, 7:35 pm
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[center]BLACK BEAR NEWS: 👹 Amazon Warns Employees Who
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Boeing's fired CEO had $62 million payout on the day 2,800 laid
off
By: Surly1 Date: January 11, 2020, 6:04 am
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Boeing's fired CEO got his $62 million payout confirmed the same
day
2,800 people in the 737 Max supply chain were laid off
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[html]<h1></h1> <div><a data-e2e-name="byline-author-name"
href="
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/>Corcoran</a> <div data-timestamp="2020-01-11T02:36:52Z"
data-e2e-name="byline-timestamp">9 hours
ago</div> </div> <section data-track-content=""
data-post-type="post"> <div
data-piano-inline-content-wrapper=""> <ul> <li>Dennis
Muilenburg, the recently-ousted CEO of Boeing, is leaving with a
$62 million payout, the company said Friday.</li> <li>The
substantial award comes despite being fired for poor handling of
the fatal crashes, aftermath, and continued suspension from
service of the 737 Max.</li> <li>Also on Friday other
workers lost their jobs because of the 737 Max: 2,800 employees
of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems.</li> <li>Spirit said
the workers had to go because there was no work for them in
light of Boeing suspending production of the 737 Max while it is
grounded.</li> <li>Unlike Muilenburg, they did not get large
exit packages, and will instead receive 60 days'
pay.</li> <li><a
href="
HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit<br
/>Business Insider's home page for more
stories.</a></li> </ul> <p>The recently-fired CEO of
Boeing is leaving the company with a package worth $62 million,
the company said Friday — just hours after 2,800 workers
lost their jobs over the 737 Max disaster.</p> <p>Payout
details for Dennis Muilenburg, who was ousted from Boeing in
late December, were made public in <a
href="
HTML https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000001292720000003/a202001jan108k.htm">a<br
/>filing with the US Securities and Exchange
Commission</a>.</p> <p>Muilenburg lost his job over Boeing's
disastrous handling of two fatal crashes by the 737 Max in which
346 people died.</p> <p>The jet was grounded ten months ago,
in March 2019. It has no firm date to return to service and
Boeing has stopped building new ones.</p> <p>On his
departure, Boeing stripped him of his bonus, any severance pay,
and other incentives worth nearly $15
million.</p> <p>However, that still left him with <a
href="
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/>parting package of $62 million</a> made up of Boeing stock,
pension payments, and other deferred
contributions.</p> <p>Meanwhile, rank-and-file aviation
workers in Boeing's supply chain were cut lose without anything
like that kind of compensation.</p> <p>Earlier on Friday,
Spirit AeroSystems, a Kansas-based manufacturer, which gets more
than half its revenue from the 737 Max, <a
href="
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/>layoffs for 2,800 workers at its Wichita
facility</a>.</p> <p>When Boeing froze the 737 Max
production line, it promised not to lay off any of its own
staff.</p> <p>But the loss of work proved devastating for
suppliers like Spirit, which said <a
href="
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/>a statement</a> that the grounding and production freeze left
them little.</p> <p>"Spirit is taking this action because of
the 737 MAX production suspension and ongoing uncertainty
regarding the timing of when production will resume and the
level of production when it does resume," the statement
said.</p> <p>Spirit said it plans to lay off an unspecified
number of workers at two plants in Oklahoma, and may also have
to shed more workers at its Wichita base if 737 Max production
does not recommence.</p> <p>The laid off are due to receive
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Big Pharma Won’t Let Us Import Drugs From Canada, But...
By: Surly1 Date: January 11, 2020, 6:09 am
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Big Pharma Won’t Let Us Import Drugs From Canada, But Insists on
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/>title="Big Pharma Won’t Let Us Import Drugs From Canada,
But Insists on Sending Carcinogen-Contaminated Pills to the
Public" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date date updated"
datetime="%3$s" pubdate="">January 11, 2020</time></a> <span
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fn n" href="
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/>title="Yves Smith" rel="author">Yves
Smith</a></span></div> </header> <div
class="entry-content"> <div class="pf-content"> <p>Yves
here. I understand the desire of Americans to be able to
re-import drugs from Canada. But this is at best an interim
strategy, since meaningful orders from Canada could easily cause
problems with supplies for Canadians and could thus lead the
Canadian government to restrict or bar shipments to the
US.</p> <p>The point would be to pressure the US government
to do what every other advanced economy government does:
negotiate drug prices. The fact that we don’t when the US
provides so much R&D support to Big Pharma is, as Lambert would
say, wonderfully clarifying.</p> <p><em><strong>By Thom
Hartmann, a <a href="
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/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">talk-show host</a> and the auth
or
of <a
href="
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/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Hidden History of the War o
n
Voting</a> and more than <a
href="
HTML https://www.amazon.com/Thom-Hartmann/e/B000AQ449C"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">25 other books in print</a>. Hi
s
most recent project is a science podcast called <a
href="
HTML https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-science-revolution-with-thom-hartmann/id1488059541"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><i>The Science
Revolution</i></a>. He is a writing fellow at the <a
href="
HTML https://independentmediainstitute.org/"
target="_blank"
rel="nofollow">Independent Media Institute</a> Produced by <a
href="
HTML https://independentmediainstitute.org/economy-for-all/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Economy for All</a>, a project
of
the Independent Media Institute.</strong></em></p> <p>Big
Pharma <a
href="
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/19/big-pharma-money-lobbying-us-opioid-crisis"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">spends a small fortune</a> ever
y
year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import
prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re more than
happy to sell us contaminated medications from countries with
weak manufacturing controls and exploitable labor that ensure
high profit margins.</p> <p>A toxic compound that
doesn’t belong anywhere near medicine known as NDMA was
first <a
href="
HTML https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-12/how-carcinogen-tainted-generic-drug-valsartan-got-past-the-fda"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">discovered</a> in some blood
pressure medications in 2018, and the <a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/zhejiang-huahai-pharmaceutical-566685-11292018"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">FDA</a> issued an alert and wro
te
a complaint letter to the raw materials supplier to Big Pharma
companies. It turns out the meds follow the very common pattern
of being <a
href="
HTML https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/cheap-india-made-contaminated-drugs-spark-lawsuit-in-america-against-walmart-3-others/237414"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">made in India</a> with raw
ingredients coming from <a
href="
HTML https://www.export.gov/article?id=China-Pharmaceuticals"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">China</a>. And they are sold by
big companies for obscenely high prices to U.S.
consumers.</p> <p>More recently, NDMA contamination provoked
a nationwide recall of the popular anti-heartburn medication <a
href="
HTML https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zantac-ndma-levels-potentially-dangerous-chemical-zantac-ranitidine-heartburn-pills-2019-10-08/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Zantac</a>and all its generic
versions.</p> <p>And now the world’s most widely
prescribed drug of all, which is used to treat and prevent Type
2 diabetes called <a
href="
HTML https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-diabetes-fda-idUSKBN1Y92UN"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">metformin</a>, is contaminated
with NDMA.</p> <p>NDMA (N-Nitrosodimethylamine) is,
according to the World Health Organization, <a
href="
HTML https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/ndmasummary_2ndadd.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">produced by</a> “the
degradation of dimethylhydrazine (a component of rocket fuel) as
well as from several other industrial processes. It is also a
contaminant of certain pesticides.”</p> <p>And
it’s one of the world’s most potent carcinogens, at
least for humans and other mammals. Our livers produce an enzyme
that converts it to methyldiazonium that then leads to <a
href="
HTML https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/ndmasummary_2ndadd.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">O6-methylguanine</a>, both of
which alter a process at the cellular level called methylation
that is a <a
href="
HTML https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/59/4/793"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">cancer
turbocharger</a>.</p> <p>Because it’s such a potent
biological agent, NDMA is also <a
href="
HTML https://www.pharmaceuticalintegritycoalition.org/blog/148/derelict-fda-allows-huahais-carcinogen-contaminated-valsartan-into-the-us/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">extremely poisonous</a>; a
Chinese medical student put a few drops in his roommate’s
water and killed him. Ditto for a Canadian grad student, who
injected it into a colleague’s apple
pie.</p> <p>It’s so poisonous that the FDA has set the
“acceptable” amount for human daily intake at <a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/statement-janet-woodcock-md-director-fdas-center-drug-evaluation-and-research-impurities-found"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">96 nanograms</a>, or 0.000096 o
f
1 milligram (a single grain of salt is about a milligram). In
some of the generic brands of the blood pressure medication,
just one tablet was found to have NDMA levels <a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/laboratory-analysis-valsartan-products"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">almost 20 times higher</a> than
the “acceptable” 96 nanograms, and nearly all were
drugs that are taken daily.</p> <p>Once it gets into
groundwater, NDMA is wicked hard to get out, as citizens of
numerous <a
href="
HTML https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-01-me-36356-story.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">California</a> cities <a
href="
HTML https://www.resources.trojanuv.com/treatment-ndma-california/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">found out</a> in the <a
href="
HTML https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-30-me-46411-story.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">late 1990s</a>. Its “<a
href="
HTML https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-03/documents/ffrrofactsheet_contaminant_ndma_january2014_final.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">miscibility</a>” (rapid <
a
href="
HTML https://www.wisegeek.com/in-chemistry-what-is-miscibility.htm#didyouknowout"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">solubility</a>) with water is
extreme, meaning that a few drops of it rapidly spreads through
miles of underground aquifers or other water supplies in a
matter of hours or days at most. Because of this, it’s
nearly impossible to isolate the contamination once it happens,
the only solution then being radical and expensive water
treatment everywhere in the aquafer, principally using <a
href="
HTML https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/docs/ndma.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ultraviolet
light</a>.</p> <p>Ever since 1987 when Congress and the
Reagan administration cut a corrupt deal with Big Pharma to ban
the retail import of pharmaceuticals into the U.S., Democrats
have pushed to allow Americans to get their prescription drugs
from other countries when they’re too expensive here
(which is nearly always the case; we <a
href="
HTML https://www.mic.com/articles/125688/here-s-how-much-more-the-us-spends-on-medicine-than-everyone-else-in-6-charts"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pay about twice as much</a>for
drugs as any other country in the world).</p> <p>In 2000,
Congress passed a law to allow imported retail drugs, but the
Clinton administration, heavily funded by the health care
industry, <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/27/us/in-a-turnaround-white-house-kills-drug-import-plan.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">killed it
administratively</a>.</p> <p>Nonetheless, progressive
Democrats have pushed for years for the elimination of the ban.
I first met Bernie Sanders when I lived in Montpelier, Vermont,
around the turn of the century and he was <a
href="
HTML https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-04-mn-60970-story.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">organizing busloads of
Vermont</a>seniors to travel the two hours to Montreal to fill
their prescriptions.</p> <p>And now, in another popular
policy position “borrowed” from progressive
Democrats (who have also <a
href="
HTML https://www.ontheissues.org/International/Sherrod_Brown_Free_Trade.htm"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">opposed neoliberal trade
deals</a> for decades), the Trump administration is talking
about letting American consumers buy drugs from Canada or
overseas.</p> <p>The downside of this is that generic drugs
sold in Canada are just as likely to be made in India and China,
and thus just as contaminated, as drugs sold here. The upside is
that because Canadian drugs will be cheaper, some of us can
afford to buy the name-brand versions made in Germany,
Switzerland or Ireland and sold in Canada, and not worry about
getting cancer from NDMA in our generic drugs. (Yes, I mean this
sarcastically.)</p> <p>There was a time when virtually all
drugs sold in the U.S. were manufactured here, including
generics, or in Switzerland and Germany. Congress passed a
special tax break for American drug manufacturers who’d
move their factories to Puerto Rico, and for decades that was
the hub of U.S. drug manufacturing. But in past decades
neoliberalism has won out, and <a
href="
HTML https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/29/news/companies/puerto-rico-drug-makers/index.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">only a fraction of</a> the phar
ma
facilities in and around San Juan remain in
operation.</p> <p>Trump ran on the traditionally Democratic
and progressive position of bringing manufacturing back to the
U.S., a project that progressive senators including Sherrod
Brown and Bernie Sanders have worked on their entire modern
political careers.</p> <p>It’s time to apply it to
manufacturing pharmaceuticals or at least insist on global
regulations that can protect
everyone.</p> </div> </div>[/html]
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We don't need no silly Precautionary Principle 😇, say th
e rocket (☠️ fuel) Scientists
By: AGelbert Date: January 11, 2020, 1:12 pm
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[center]Big Pharma Won’t Let Us Import Drugs From Canada, But
Insists on Sending Carcinogen-Contaminated Pills to the Public
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[html]<header class="entry-header"> <div
class="single-title-meta"><span class="sep">Posted on</span> <a
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/>title="Big Pharma Won’t Let Us Import Drugs From Canada,
But Insists on Sending Carcinogen-Contaminated Pills to the
Public" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date date updated"
datetime="%3$s" pubdate="">January 11, 2020</time></a> <span
class="sep">by </span><span class="author vcard"><a class="url
fn n" href="
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/>title="Yves Smith" rel="author">Yves
Smith</a></span></div> </header> <div
class="entry-content"> <div class="pf-content"> <p>Yves
here. I understand the desire of Americans to be able to
re-import drugs from Canada. But this is at best an interim
strategy, since meaningful orders from Canada could easily cause
problems with supplies for Canadians and could thus lead the
Canadian government to restrict or bar shipments to the
US.</p> <p>The point would be to pressure the US government
to do what every other advanced economy government does:
negotiate drug prices. The fact that we don’t when the US
provides so much R&D support to Big Pharma is, as Lambert would
say, wonderfully clarifying.</p> <p><em><strong>By Thom
Hartmann, a <a href="
HTML https://www.thomhartmann.com/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">talk-show host</a> and the auth
or
of <a
href="
HTML https://smile.amazon.com/Hidden-History-War-Voting-Stole/dp/1523087781/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Hidden History of the War o
n
Voting</a> and more than <a
href="
HTML https://www.amazon.com/Thom-Hartmann/e/B000AQ449C"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">25 other books in print</a>. Hi
s
most recent project is a science podcast called <a
href="
HTML https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-science-revolution-with-thom-hartmann/id1488059541"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><i>The Science
Revolution</i></a>. He is a writing fellow at the <a
href="
HTML https://independentmediainstitute.org/"
target="_blank"
rel="nofollow">Independent Media Institute</a> Produced by <a
href="
HTML https://independentmediainstitute.org/economy-for-all/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Economy for All</a>, a project
of
the Independent Media Institute.</strong></em></p> <p>Big
Pharma <a
href="
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/19/big-pharma-money-lobbying-us-opioid-crisis"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">spends a small fortune</a> ever
y
year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import
prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re more than
happy to sell us contaminated medications from countries with
weak manufacturing controls and exploitable labor that ensure
high profit margins.</p> <p>A toxic compound that
doesn’t belong anywhere near medicine known as NDMA was
first <a
href="
HTML https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-12/how-carcinogen-tainted-generic-drug-valsartan-got-past-the-fda"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">discovered</a> in some blood
pressure medications in 2018, and the <a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/zhejiang-huahai-pharmaceutical-566685-11292018"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">FDA</a> issued an alert and wro
te
a complaint letter to the raw materials supplier to Big Pharma
companies. It turns out the meds follow the very common pattern
of being <a
href="
HTML https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/cheap-india-made-contaminated-drugs-spark-lawsuit-in-america-against-walmart-3-others/237414"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">made in India</a> with raw
ingredients coming from <a
href="
HTML https://www.export.gov/article?id=China-Pharmaceuticals"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">China</a>. And they are sold by
big companies for obscenely high prices to U.S.
consumers.</p> <p>More recently, NDMA contamination provoked
a nationwide recall of the popular anti-heartburn medication <a
href="
HTML https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zantac-ndma-levels-potentially-dangerous-chemical-zantac-ranitidine-heartburn-pills-2019-10-08/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Zantac</a>and all its generic
versions.</p> <p>And now the world’s most widely
prescribed drug of all, which is used to treat and prevent Type
2 diabetes called <a
href="
HTML https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-diabetes-fda-idUSKBN1Y92UN"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">metformin</a>, is contaminated
with NDMA.</p> <p>NDMA (N-Nitrosodimethylamine) is,
according to the World Health Organization, <a
href="
HTML https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/ndmasummary_2ndadd.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">produced by</a> “the
degradation of dimethylhydrazine (a component of rocket fuel) as
well as from several other industrial processes. It is also a
contaminant of certain pesticides.”</p> <p>And
it’s one of the world’s most potent carcinogens, at
least for humans and other mammals. Our livers produce an enzyme
that converts it to methyldiazonium that then leads to <a
href="
HTML https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/ndmasummary_2ndadd.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">O6-methylguanine</a>, both of
which alter a process at the cellular level called methylation
that is a <a
href="
HTML https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/59/4/793"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">cancer
turbocharger</a>.</p> <p>Because it’s such a potent
biological agent, NDMA is also <a
href="
HTML https://www.pharmaceuticalintegritycoalition.org/blog/148/derelict-fda-allows-huahais-carcinogen-contaminated-valsartan-into-the-us/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">extremely poisonous</a>; a
Chinese medical student put a few drops in his roommate’s
water and killed him. Ditto for a Canadian grad student, who
injected it into a colleague’s apple
pie.</p> <p>It’s so poisonous that the FDA has set the
“acceptable” amount for human daily intake at <a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/statement-janet-woodcock-md-director-fdas-center-drug-evaluation-and-research-impurities-found"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">96 nanograms</a>, or 0.000096 o
f
1 milligram (a single grain of salt is about a milligram). In
some of the generic brands of the blood pressure medication,
just one tablet was found to have NDMA levels <a
href="
HTML https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/laboratory-analysis-valsartan-products"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">almost 20 times higher</a> than
the “acceptable” 96 nanograms, and nearly all were
drugs that are taken daily.</p> <p>Once it gets into
groundwater, NDMA is wicked hard to get out, as citizens of
numerous <a
href="
HTML https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-01-me-36356-story.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">California</a> cities <a
href="
HTML https://www.resources.trojanuv.com/treatment-ndma-california/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">found out</a> in the <a
href="
HTML https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-30-me-46411-story.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">late 1990s</a>. Its “<a
href="
HTML https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-03/documents/ffrrofactsheet_contaminant_ndma_january2014_final.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">miscibility</a>” (rapid <
a
href="
HTML https://www.wisegeek.com/in-chemistry-what-is-miscibility.htm#didyouknowout"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">solubility</a>) with water is
extreme, meaning that a few drops of it rapidly spreads through
miles of underground aquifers or other water supplies in a
matter of hours or days at most. Because of this, it’s
nearly impossible to isolate the contamination once it happens,
the only solution then being radical and expensive water
treatment everywhere in the aquafer, principally using <a
href="
HTML https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/docs/ndma.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ultraviolet
light</a>.</p> <p>Ever since 1987 when Congress and the
Reagan administration cut a corrupt deal with Big Pharma to ban
the retail import of pharmaceuticals into the U.S., Democrats
have pushed to allow Americans to get their prescription drugs
from other countries when they’re too expensive here
(which is nearly always the case; we <a
href="
HTML https://www.mic.com/articles/125688/here-s-how-much-more-the-us-spends-on-medicine-than-everyone-else-in-6-charts"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pay about twice as much</a>for
drugs as any other country in the world).</p> <p>In 2000,
Congress passed a law to allow imported retail drugs, but the
Clinton administration, heavily funded by the health care
industry, <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/27/us/in-a-turnaround-white-house-kills-drug-import-plan.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">killed it
administratively</a>.</p> <p>Nonetheless, progressive
Democrats have pushed for years for the elimination of the ban.
I first met Bernie Sanders when I lived in Montpelier, Vermont,
around the turn of the century and he was <a
href="
HTML https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-04-mn-60970-story.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">organizing busloads of
Vermont</a>seniors to travel the two hours to Montreal to fill
their prescriptions.</p> <p>And now, in another popular
policy position “borrowed” from progressive
Democrats (who have also <a
href="
HTML https://www.ontheissues.org/International/Sherrod_Brown_Free_Trade.htm"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">opposed neoliberal trade
deals</a> for decades), the Trump administration is talking
about letting American consumers buy drugs from Canada or
overseas.</p> <p>The downside of this is that generic drugs
sold in Canada are just as likely to be made in India and China,
and thus just as contaminated, as drugs sold here. The upside is
that because Canadian drugs will be cheaper, some of us can
afford to buy the name-brand versions made in Germany,
Switzerland or Ireland and sold in Canada, and not worry about
getting cancer from NDMA in our generic drugs. (Yes, I mean this
sarcastically.)</p> <p>There was a time when virtually all
drugs sold in the U.S. were manufactured here, including
generics, or in Switzerland and Germany. Congress passed a
special tax break for American drug manufacturers who’d
move their factories to Puerto Rico, and for decades that was
the hub of U.S. drug manufacturing. But in past decades
neoliberalism has won out, and <a
href="
HTML https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/29/news/companies/puerto-rico-drug-makers/index.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="nofollow">only a fraction of</a> the phar
ma
facilities in and around San Juan remain in
operation.</p> <p>Trump ran on the traditionally Democratic
and progressive position of bringing manufacturing back to the
U.S., a project that progressive senators including Sherrod
Brown and Bernie Sanders have worked on their entire modern
political careers.</p> <p>It’s time to apply it to
manufacturing pharmaceuticals or at least insist on global
regulations that can protect
everyone.</p> </div> </div>[/html]
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Yep, it turns out that a component of rocket fuel (i.e. NDMA)
can rocket cancer in humans. Who coulda knowed, say our
venerable pinnacle of human intelligence evolution, superior,
smart, sapient, genius (and so on) rocket scientists [img
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s,
for the last 150 years or so (SEE: Industrial [s]pollution
suicide[/s] Revolution), that the Precautionary Principle has
been 1000% ignored on behalf of profit over people and planet.
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Debt will kill the global economy. But it seems no one cares
By: Surly1 Date: January 15, 2020, 1:23 pm
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Debt will kill the global economy. But it seems no one cares
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Phillip Inman Sat 4 Jan 2020 12.00 EST
Warnings from the IMF and World Bank have been dismissed. But
even if they are wrong, a demographic crisis looms
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signs are clear. Debt is rising on every continent and
especially in the business sector, which has spent the past
decade ramping up its borrowing to previously unheard-of
levels.</p> <p><a
href="
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/16/global-economy-faces-19tn-corporate-debt-timebomb-warns-imf"<br
/>title="" data-link-name="in body link">Last October, the
International Monetary Fund</a> said that almost 40% of the
corporate debt in eight leading countries – the US, China,
Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain – would
become so expensive during a recession that it would be
impossible to service. In other words, tens of thousands of
businesses, employing millions of people, would have gambled
with high levels of borrowing and lost, making themselves
insolvent.</p> <p>Worse, the IMF said the risks were
“elevated” in eight out of 10 countries that boasted
systemically important financial sectors, adding that this
situation was a repeat of the years running up to the last
financial crisis.</p> <p><a
href="
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/19/debt-in-developing-economies-rises-to-record-55tn"<br
/>title="" data-link-name="in body link">Last month, the World
Bank joined in</a>. It said emerging-market and developing
economies (EMDEs) had pushed their borrowing to a record $55
trillion (£42tn) in 2018.</p> <p>Unlike the richer
nations already mentioned, the 100 EMDEs across Africa, Asia and
South America covered by the report were affected by rising
private-sector debt coupled with higher government borrowing.
And this extra state borrowing is not only larger, it has also
changed in character. First, it has gone from being largely
directed to investment spending to, more recently, being used
simply to cope with the costs of health, education and welfare.
Second, it is being more commonly borrowed from international
investors hungry to lend developing countries cash at,
relatively speaking, sky-high rates of
interest.</p> <p>There is little evidence that anyone is
paying any attention to the dire misgivings expressed by either
organisation. This year, the US S&P 500 stock market resumed its
long-term (100-year) upward trend following a near 200% increase
since 2010. Likewise, the German Dax has soared over the past 10
years from 5,500 to over 13,000 while the Paris CAC 40 has
almost doubled to 6,000.</p> <p>Britain’s main market
in shares has struggled to make any headway over the past three
years while Brexit uncertainty dominated. Yet the FTSE 100 shows
a gain from less than 4,000 in 2009 to 7,600
today.</p> <p>Some analysts have argued that the IMF and <a
href="
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/business/worldbank"<br
/>data-link-name="auto-linked-tag"
data-component="auto-linked-tag">World Bank</a> are over-cooking
their analysis after missing the last financial crash –
seeing danger around every corner. Others dismiss them as
archaic remnants of the postwar consensus that fail to
understand how the global economy has entered a new phase, one
that keeps stock markets humming along and bad recessions at
bay.</p> <aside class="auxiliary float left
pullquote"><span></span> <blockquote> <p>Without higher
interest rates, everyone can keep merrily
borrowing</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>In the short
term at least, the optimists could be right. And that is largely
down to the actions of the US central bank, which was on course
to repeat the mistake of 2005-07, when it matched rising debt
levels (especially in sub-prime mortgage loans) with rising
interest rates, triggering the kind of financial crash that the
IMF and World Bank now fear is around the corner. This time, the
Federal Reserve retreated after pushing base rates to almost
2.5% – still well short of the pre-crash normality of
4%-5%, but higher than almost everywhere else. After three rate
cuts last year, the US economy starts 2020 with the base rate
back in a range between 1.5% and 1.75%.</p> <p>Without
higher interest rates, everyone can keep merrily borrowing. And
when, for most businesses, borrowing rates remain below their
potential income growth rate – even when that is
lacklustre – there is not the usual imperative to boost
growth through investment in order to afford higher debt
repayments.</p> <p>But really, this is a back-to-front way
of discussing the issue. Most of the problems afflicting the
global economy relate to a lack of demand for goods and
services, at least on average, compared with the years prior to
the 2008 crash. And much of the weak demand relates to our
ageing populations, which, in the main, focus more on storing up
savings for retirement than on spending.</p> <p>They are
also in the habit of voting for governments that promise to keep
taxes low and property prices high, allowing them to accumulate
even more wealth. Donald Trump and Boris Johnson fit that
bill.</p> <p>Through their pensions and private investments
they treat companies like cash machines, demanding a higher
dividend every six months. Much of the borrowing by companies
has been to pay these dividends, not to invest.</p> <p>Baby
boomers will pretty much all have retired by the end of this new
decade, so most will have stopped investing and just be
withdrawing investment funds. And it is this turn of the wheel
of fortune that will wreck the global economy – if the
accumulation of debt and the climate crisis haven’t got
there first.</p>[/html]
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The Internet is Controlling YOU! (w/ Ramesh Srinivasan)
By: AGelbert Date: January 15, 2020, 3:21 pm
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