Thursday, May 09, 2019

Decades after Dupont and 3M first discovered that the perfluorinated chemicals making them fortunes could be transmitted from mothers to babies, millions of women around the world are passing dangerous amounts of these toxic compounds to their children.

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High Levels of Toxic PFAS Chemicals Pollute Breast Milk Around the World

Studies are showing high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in breast milk that far exceed U.S. drinking water health advisory limits.

Glenview Capital CEO Larry Robbins is shorting Chemours and 3M on legal risks

CNBC VideosMay 6, 2019

Glenview Capital's Larry Robbins speaks at the Sohn Conference on his insurance picks and the stocks he's shorting.

DuPont, Chemours, 3M sued by New Jersey for costs related to PFAS cleanup

'Easy grandstanding': Congress backs trial lawyers' effort to condemn chemicals, win lawsuits while science debated

Legal News LineMar. 11

The forgotten history behind Cinco de Mayo is fascinating and remains extremely relevant today. It shows international politics is always and everywhere about money, writes Jon Schwarz.

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The Forgotten History of Cinco de Mayo: It’s Not About Beer, It’s About Rich Countries Strangling Poor Ones

Cinco de Mayo shows international politics is always and everywhere about money.

Documents show that the Virginia-based firm LookingGlass Cyber gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country, information that was then shared with the Department of Homeland Security and state-level law enforcement agencies.

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Homeland Security Used a Private Intelligence Firm to Monitor Family Separation Protests

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, a Virginia-based firm, gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country.

ALL THOSE FORENSIC SHOWS ARE BS

A 2009 National Academy of Sciences study questioned the scientific basis for virtually every forensic discipline used to convict people and send them to prison. Some in the forensic science community simply resist the report and what it stands for.

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Ten Years After a Landmark Study Blew the Whistle on Junk Science, the Fight Over Forensics Rages On

Forensic practices used to convict people and send them to prison still lack meaningful scientific underpinning.

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There’s an important subtext running through “The Virtue of Nationalism,” by the conservative Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony: Hazony’s anger over international criticism of Israeli human rights abuses.

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Right-Wing Israeli Author Writes “The Virtue of Nationalism” — and Accidentally Exposes Its Pitfalls

Hint: Racism.

Some dairy companies have begun to include a list of suicide prevention hotlines in the envelope with farmers’ checks.

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Obama’s Agriculture Secretary, Now Working for the Dairy Industry, Urges 2020 Democrats to Be Nice to the Dairy Industry

Some dairy companies have begun to include a list of suicide prevention hotlines in the envelope with farmers’ checks.

We remember Salvadoran and Latin American revolutionary Farabundo Marti on the 126th anniversary of his birth.

Martí remains a martyr figure for El Salvador’s Left. His legacy is invoked in the name of the Salvadoran political party Frente Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, or FMLN, which fought, during the 1980s, against the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military government.

The US 'can't afford' universal healthcare, but Bolivia is vaccinating it's citizens for free.

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Bolivia Vaccinates 80,000 People in One Week

CAPITALIST CRISIS IS CLIMATE CRISIS

“They take care of the white communities,” said Diana Burdette, a first generation Guatemalan American who developed health problems after moving into a home one mile from a Medline plant emitting ethylene oxide. “But what about our black and brown communities? What about us?”

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Air Pollution Crisis Exposes More Environmental Racism in Illinois

Wendy Abrams is known for her environmental philanthropy, but her family’s company Medline is polluting the air with a known carcinogen, ethylene oxide.

By continuing to significantly underreport civilian casualties, the Trump administration abdicates responsibility for human rights violations and potential war crimes in Raqqa and other theaters, writes Laila Ujayli.

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The Pentagon Is Reporting Low Civilian Death Tolls in Syria and Iraq. Without Accountability, People Will Keep Dying.

The Pentagon says the U.S. killed 120 civilians in all its wars last year. But Amnesty International and Airwars said at least 821 died in Syria and Iraq alone.