VULT CULT

2019-07-19

Mmm ... chlorpyrifos on fruits is tasty.

Yeah, you think that was the mindset behind this?

https://www.globalresearch.ca/epas-wheeler-keeps-brain-damaging-pesticide-legal-use-foods-kids-eat/5684093

The EPA was poised to ban the pesticide in 2017. But after the 2016 election Dow Chemical, which manufactures chlorpyrifos, set forth on an aggressive campaign to pressure the incoming Trump administration to block that decision. Dow donated $1 million to President Trump’s inauguration festivities and its CEO met privately with then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Soon after, Pruitt ignored his agency’s own scientists and aborted the scheduled ban.

Besides produce, there are other dietary routes that make exposure to chlorpyrifos particularly worrisome for parents. Recent tests commissioned by the Organic Center found the insecticide in nearly 60 percent of conventional milk samples tested.

2019-07-17

The false narrative the establishment media drops.

https://fair.org/home/to-media-no-democrat-can-possibly-be-right-wing/

Corporate media are funded by the same sources that fund both parties and broadly share the same ideology, hence the reluctance to critique them. By refusing to position them on the political scale, or falsely identifying them as left of center, they are attempting to close the Overton window and prevent a leftward shift in US politics. But that does not mean that we as news consumers have to accept these framings.

2019-07-16

Wait, what drought?

Taken as a whole, Washington’s lingering dehydration – the 13th driest July-June period ever recorded in the state – stands in stark contrast to the rest of the country. According to NOAA, the continental U.S. had its wettest 12 months on record, even as the Pacific Northwest became more parched. And with much of the summer yet to come, resolving this drought will require more than scattered showers.

http://ecologywa.blogspot.com/2019/07/wait-how-can-there-be-drought-when-its.html