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&feature=youtu.beGov Christie played key role in preventing regulation of DuPont's toxic C8 chemical drinkining water
Another notch on this guy's belt, and boy does it have a lot of notches!!! (sorry)
In September 2010, the Drinking Water Quality Institute began to move forward with the .04 water standard, nine months after Chris Christie became of governor of New Jersey. Christie had made it clear, with his “red tape commission” and pro-business executive orders, that he was unlikely to pass new regulations. But the Christie administration went even further; not only did it apparently block the proposed standard, it also effectively disbanded the water quality group. Although the institute and its committees had met nearly 50 times in the five years prior, after the September 2010 meeting the group did not convene again for almost four years.
Meanwhile, the New Jersey DEP had created a new body called the Science Advisory Board, to advise on a number of environmental issues, including water quality. In 2011, three DuPont scientists, each of whom have worked on C8, were appointed to the board.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/20/teflon-toxin-dupont-slipped-past-epa/
DuPont's toxic Teflon chemical is in humans, our environment, and it will *never* go away
A man-made compound that didn’t exist a century ago, C8 is in the blood of 99.7 percent of Americans, according to a 2007 analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control, as well as in newborn human babies, breast milk, and umbilical cord blood. A growing group of scientists have been tracking the chemical’s spread through the environment, documenting its presence in a wide range of wildlife, including Loggerhead sea turtles, bottlenose dolphins, harbor seals, polar bears, caribou, walruses, bald eagles, lions, tigers, and arctic birds. Although DuPont no longer uses C8, fully removing the chemical from all the bodies of water and bloodstreams it pollutes is now impossible. And, because it is so chemically stable — in fact, as far as scientists can determine, it never breaks down — C8 is expected to remain on the planet well after humans are gone from it.
Speechless really!! https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/
AG-GAG law repealed, judge rules it is unconstitutional
Filed under "came to our senses": Idaho's law, which made it illegal to film industrial animal abuse undercover, will finally be repealed. The law was pushed through by the multi-billion dollar dairy industry after it was burned by leaks:
The law was an industry response to an undercover operation in Bettencourt Dairy, which led to the recording animals abused and sexually molested. Dairy employees were charged and convicted of animal abuse.
http://shadowproof.com/2015/08/03/federal-judge-strikes-down-idaho-ag-gag-law-defends-undercover-investigations-of-food-industry/
Unprecedented interference by Israel of U.S. politics
AIPAC will be flying out all but three freshmen Congresspeople to Israel in effort to sabotage Iran deal:
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/freshmen-congresspeople-sabotage
Two separate trips are being organized along partisan lines for meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Netenyahu—one for Democrats, and another for Republicans.
The Democrat trip begins on August 3, and will be led by House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland).
The Republican trip begins on August 8, and will be led by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California).
Unbelievable.
"Outrage" That "Exploited" AT&T CEO Got Only $75 Million on retirement - Former GOP Senator
Can't make this stuff up, folks:
Phil Gramm, a former three-term Republican senator from Texas who once ran the Senate Banking Committee, told the House Financial Services Committee yesterday that “it was an outrage” that his friend Edward Whitacre, the CEO of AT&T, only got “$75 million” when he retired in 2007.
“If there’s ever been an exploited worker” it was Whitacre, said Gramm.
Homeland Security has been surveilling the Black Lives Matter movement??
What a lot of people already suspected, now confirmed:
The documents, released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Operations Coordination, indicate that the department frequently collects information, including location data, on Black Lives Matter activities from public social media accounts, including on Facebook, Twitter, and Vine, even for events expected to be peaceful. The reports confirm social media surveillance of the protest movement and ostensibly related events in the cities of Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and New York.
Link: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/24/documents-show-department-homeland-security-monitoring-black-lives-matter-since-ferguson/
LOCKED: Inside Look at an Israeli Arms Expo & How Gaza Attack Was Very Profitable
I had to migrate this thread over because my original, under "General Discussion," was locked out by mod Sissyk.
For the record, I would like to express what an outrageous policy this is -- to purposely segregate what is clearly a topic of great interest into a thread that is unlikely to receive a fraction of the attention as it would on the broader forum.
It cannot be interpreted as anything other than an appalling exercise of active censorship on what is alleged to be an open forum, dedicated to meaningful discussion. US Foreign Military Funding to Israel constitutes up to 25% of its operating budget, or $3.1 billion in FY 2015, representing over half of its total global contributions to all countries.
If an op can rationally explain how such a massive topic has been wiped out of general discussion, by all means, explain it here.
My original post below:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/05/war-israel-booming-business/
The U.S. subsidy is helping to fuel the business of war in Israel. It’s a booming industry due in no small part to the ever-increasing frequency of the country’s battles with militant groups in neighboring Lebanon and Gaza, the coastal strip that Israel holds under a crippling air, land and sea blockade. In 2006, Israel went to war in Lebanon, killing at least 900 civilians. Two years later, Israel invaded Gaza in what a U.N. Human Rights report called “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.” Operation Cast Lead, as the 2008 – 2009 attack was called, killed 1,400 people, more than half of them civilians. In 2012, Israel bombed Gaza for about a week before a U.S. and Egyptian-brokered ceasefire went into effect. But the most devastating Israeli attack on the strip occurred last summer, when Israel waged a 50-day battle against Hamas that killed 2,200 people, the majority of them civilians.
Inside Look at an Israeli Arms Expo & How Gaza Attack Was Very Profitable
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/05/war-israel-booming-business/The U.S. subsidy is helping to fuel the business of war in Israel. It’s a booming industry due in no small part to the ever-increasing frequency of the country’s battles with militant groups in neighboring Lebanon and Gaza, the coastal strip that Israel holds under a crippling air, land and sea blockade. In 2006, Israel went to war in Lebanon, killing at least 900 civilians. Two years later, Israel invaded Gaza in what a U.N. Human Rights report called “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.” Operation Cast Lead, as the 2008 – 2009 attack was called, killed 1,400 people, more than half of them civilians. In 2012, Israel bombed Gaza for about a week before a U.S. and Egyptian-brokered ceasefire went into effect. But the most devastating Israeli attack on the strip occurred last summer, when Israel waged a 50-day battle against Hamas that killed 2,200 people, the majority of them civilians.
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