Matthew Chapman , - Raw Story
Stephan: The question I ask, and that I think everyone should ask is this: Why aren't these pharmaceutical executives in prison for life for murder? They knew they were killing people by the tens of thousands, and making hundreds of millions of dollars doing it. Why isn't that murder for profit?
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On Friday, the Washington Post published excerpts from a damning series of emails released in a landmark case in Cleveland around the irresponsibility of drug manufacturers and suppliers in contributing to the opioid crisis.
In one email exchange, Victor Borelli, an account manager for pharmaceuticals corporation Mallinckrodt, told KeySource Medical vice president Steve Cochrane that 1,200 bottles of 30mg Oxycodone tablets had been shipped, to which Cochrane replied, “Keep ’em comin’! Flyin’ out of there. It’s like people are addicted to these things or something. Oh, wait, people are…” and Borelli responded, “Just like Doritos keep eating. We’ll make more.”
In another exchange, David Gustin, the regulatory director at pharmaceutical distributor McKesson, told colleagues he was upset about the “number of accounts we have that have large gaps between the amount of Oxy or Hydro they are allowed to buy (their threshold) and the amount they really need … This increases the ‘opportunity’ for diversion by exposing more product for introduction into the pipeline than may be being used for legitimate […]
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GILES PARKINSON, Founder and Editor - The Driven
Stephan: This is major news. If these tests work adaptation will be like the computer revolution spreading with extraordinary rapidity. The effect on the petroleum industry will be to make most of it irrelevant within a decade, at most 15 years. When was the last time you bought a roll of film to take pictures? Why would anyone buy gas if your car charged itself as it drove, or sat parked? Battery distance on a charge would become irrelevant?
The solar Prius
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Car manufacturing giant Toyota Motor Corp is to begin trialing later this month a new version of its Prius hybrid car, this time with up to 860 watts of thin-film solar that will be able to charge its “solar battery” as it drives, and add more than 50kms to its fossil fuel-free driving range.
The trials taking place in Japan use high efficiency (34 per cent) Sharp thin film solar cells situated on the bonnet (or hood), roof, rear hatch door and rear hatch door varnish.
The aim in the series of trial being co-ordinated by Toyota, Sharp and research organisation NEDO is try and reach 1kW output from solar panels on the car, which they see as a potential game changer – not just for hybrids, but also full battery electric vehicles.
“The goal is to contribute to the creation of a new solar battery panel […]
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HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH, - Politico
Stephan: I have to confess that I don't see how anyone but a wealthy person could possibly be a Republican, and even then the Republican positions make no long term sense; everything they espouse or do is simply a short-term greed play. And it is going to get worse as long as they are in power.
The Trump Party not only isn't doing anything about climate change it is actively attempting to block or sabotage knowledge available to the public about climate change. Could that level of duplicity be the American reality? Am I exaggerating? Read this report.
The USDA’s climate resilience plan was supposed to be an update to a 2010 plan on climate science — a document that was released publicly during the Obama administration.
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The Agriculture Department quashed the release of a sweeping plan on how to respond to climate change that was finalized in the early days of the Trump administration, according to a USDA employee with knowledge of the decision. (emphasis added)
Staff members across several USDA agencies drafted the multiyear plan that outlines how the department should help agriculture understand, adapt to and minimize the effects of climate change.
Top officials, however, decided not to release the plan and told staff members to keep it for internal use only, the employee told POLITICO. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.
The goal was to map out “the science that USDA needs to pursue over the next five to eight years for the department to meet the needs of the nation,” according to the plan,
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Stephan: Yet another close Trump associate is in court over child pornography and sexual molestation of a minor. It should be obvious by now that Trump surrounds himself with people like himself. Nothing unusual in that, we all do pretty much the same thing. The difference is not in the human process, but in the choices. Trump chooses to associate with men like himself, grifters, scam artists, and sexual predators. Men who are okay hanging out with Trump, working for him, because they, like Trump, are that kind of person.
George Nader, the latest Trumper to be arrested
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George Nader, a man who served as a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, was charged with transporting child pornography and arrested in New York on Monday.
Federal prosecutors allege Nader, 60, traveled with illegal material on his cell phone while flying from Dubai to Washington D.C. in early 2018. He allegedly had visual depictions of “minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct” at the time, and was arrested Monday upon arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
He faces between 15 to 40 years in prison if convicted. He previously pleaded guilty to the same charge in 1991, serving about six months in prison.
Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, served as an informal advisor to the United […]
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Saturday, July 20th, 2019
Derek Thompson, - The Atlantic
Stephan: This is a well-researched evidence-based article on a subject that I have been following for years because I think it is a major social issue. No developed nation has a sustainable birthrate, and I believe millions of people are going to die as a result of climate change. For some time now I have thought that the population issue of the future is not going to be overpopulation, rather it will be underpopulation.
Here is a view of that major trend that few have thought about.
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A few years ago, I lived in a walkup apartment in the East Village of New York. Every so often descending the stairway, I would catch a glimpse of a particular family with young children in its Sisyphean attempts to reach the fourth floor. The mom would fold the stroller to the size of a boogie board, then drag it behind her with her right hand, while cradling the younger and typically crying child in the crook of her left arm. Meanwhile, she would shout hygiene instructions in the direction of the older child, who would slap both hands against every other grimy step to use her little arms as leverage, like an adult negotiating the boulder steps of Machu Picchu. It looked like hell—or, as I once suggested to a roommate, a carefully staged public service announcement against family formation.
Apparently, the public got the message. Last year, for the first time in four decades, something strange happened in New York City. In a non-recession year,
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