For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in […]
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Alicia Lee and Melissa Alonso, - CNN
Stephan: Once again, as this article describes, we have proof that Trumplicans cannot govern, if by govern one means creating a society that fosters wellbeing over profit. This report is yet another example of the reality that the Trumplican Party always sides with the corporate interests to the degradation of the lives of ordinary people. Yet in South Dakota, time after time, those ordinary people vote for the Trumplican candidates in an act of blatant self-sabotage, and then they whine when their lives are impacted negatively.
On Tuesday, the South Dakota Senate Commerce and Energy Committee approved a bill that would prohibit any ban on plastic straws, beverage containers, packaging or bags in the state.
The bill, which now advances to the full Senate, was sponsored by Republican Senator John Wiik. He believes cities in South Dakota shouldn’t ban plastic “auxiliary containers” because the state is basically one large, “spread-out small town.”
“We have to realize that as small towns are struggling to keep retail thriving, we’re seeing people driving farther and farther to do basic shopping for groceries,” Wiik said on his legislative blog. “I don’t expect hockey parents from Pierre to know if Watertown or Mitchell has a ban on ‘auxiliary containers,’ and I don’t believe that people who live in areas near big towns should have those decisions made for them.”
He […]
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Thursday, February 6th, 2020
THOMAS GREMILLION AND DEBORAH BERKOWITZ, Director of Food Policy at Consumer Federation of America | Safety and Health Program Director at the National Employment Law Project - The Hill
Stephan: Criminal Trump has decided to let slaughterhouses self-police. They will be allowed to measure profit against healthy meat and fowl and operate as they choose. How do you think they will decide? What could possibly go wrong?
Let's be honest, your wellbeing doesn't matter to criminal Trump and his familiars. How many ways does he have to make that clear to you before you believe him?
In the 1932 election Hitler in the first round of voting, gained 30.1% of the vote. As of today, After the faux impeachment trial, Trump is more popular than ever. The problem America faces is Americans.
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More than a century ago, Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” exposed unsafe and unsanitary conditions in our nation’s slaughterhouses. Sinclair singled out breakneck line speeds as a key source of misery, noting, “The main thing the men wanted was to put a stop to the habit of speeding up, they were trying their best to force a lessening of the pace, for there were some, they said, who could not keep up with it, whom it was killing.”
Sinclair’s stomach-churning account led Congress to create a new agency in charge of food safety in slaughterhouses. Among the reforms implemented were rules to slow down line speeds so that government inspectors could ensure that diseased or feces-covered meat and poultry did not end up on consumers’ plates. Now, if the Trump administration gets its way, pork slaughterhouses will be allowed to drastically increase their line speeds, with potentially disastrous results for workers and consumers.
A new rule, finalized today, would reduce the number of government food safety inspectors in pork plants by 40 percent and remove most of the remaining inspectors from […]
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