DL Open Thread: Fri., Aug. 23, 2019
Proud Boys Admit: It’s All About Wasting Public $$’s And Inciting Violence. I’m no attorney, but that sounds like ‘shouting fire in a crowded theatre’ to me.
Monsanto & Rethugs Sought To Defund Cancer Research In the Name Of…’Roundup’. Hey, when you’re spewing poison, get rid of the scientists who call you out.
Even Rethugs Challenge West Virginia’s Version Of Trump. Reporting leads to calls for stopping Governor from lining his pockets with $$’s from the Greenbrier, which he owns.
Christana Care To Review Prison Health Care. I guess admitting that you have no clue as to what you’re doing is the first step toward improvement.
How One Paradee Passed Tax Bill To Benefit Another Paradee. Of course the legislator claimed he had no idea that his brother would benefit. If you’re gonna be unethical, can’t you at least build in some credible plausible deniability?
What do you want to talk about?
BREAKING: David Koch has died. Yes, one of THAT set of brothers:
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/08/23/source-billionaire-david-koch-has-died-age-79/2094046001/
Roundup was an ok product when people where just killing a few pop up dandelions on their driveways. But the geniuses at Monsanto and also companies like Dupont figured it was a good idea to create whole crops that are resistant to Roundup in order to spray entire fields with the stuff, and they’ve created a system where farmers now have to use these products just to be competitive. As a result we now have traces of glyphosate in much of our food.
I find it ironic that organizations created to save the land and environment, organizations and nonprofits like The Nature Conservancy, take large “donations” an even form partnerships with these companies, in the name of “sustainable” agriculture. More like hush money if you ask me. https://uyuhan-sports.xyz/water-sports.php?live=Vans%20Pro%20Virginia%20Beach%202019
Sorry, wrong link-
https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/science-and-sustainability/collaboration
You’re with the true environmentalists on this. Alan Muller of Green Delaware has railed about this for decades.
Yep, it’s one down and one to go in Koch World as yet another hyper rich man fails to live forever. As good a reason as any to celebrate.
From that right wing rag Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/monsanto-roundup-glyphosate-cancer-who/