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Saturday, February 16th, 2019

Life, Death, and Financial Inequality

Stephan A. Schwartz  -  Explore

I am increasingly concerned about the wealth inequality we are seeing in the U.S. and much of non-Nordic Europe. Anyone who can get two neurons firing should be able to see that the Neoliberalism economics that dominates the West, and America particularly, is producing a neo-feudalist culture that is becoming increasingly unstable.

Just as we are facing climate change and should be pulling together wealth inequality and the neo-feudalism it is producing socially is tearing us apart. If the 2020 election does not elect a Democrat and flip the Senate, I think America is finished as a world leader and headed into violent social disruption.

Personally, I think impeachment of both Trump and Pence should begin immediately and should be sustained by the Senate.

Mexico Beach, Florida after hurricane Michael
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When I sat down to write this essay, Hurricane Michael had just devastated the West coast and pan handle of Florida, and for the media it was the A-block story. Within that great noise, like a drowning man’s head bobbing up and down in the water, I began to see a secondary story line, one that I had first become aware of less than a month earlier when I was reading, and viewing on cable news, accounts of how people behaved during the catastrophic flooding that accompanied Hurricane Florence. In the Guardian newspaper I came across an interview with a 57-year-old man in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina who was asked by a reporter why he had stayed in his home when he could have gotten out. His answer, “It’s too expensive to move out to a hotel, I could be out for days and I can’t afford to leave my home behind.”1

With Hurricane Michael I was looking for these stories, and sure enough a number of them appeared. That made me look for research on this subject, and I found Dr. Stacy Willett, professor in the Department of Disaster Science

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Saturday, February 16th, 2019

More Americans are behind on their car loans than ever before

Chris Isidore  -  CNN

All those happy comments you hear from Trump and his minions about how well the economy is doing are about rich people. A significant percentage — 40% — of ordinary Americans, couldn’t write a $400 check if pressed by an emergency to do so. Here is more evidence. Facts are a bitch aren’t they?

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Americans are falling behind on car loan payments in record numbers.

More than 7 million car loans were past due by at least 90 days in the fourth quarter, according to data released this week from the New York Federal Reserve.

That’s 1.3 million more past-due loans than during the previous peak in 2011, which followed the Great Recession. The unemployment rate in 2011 was more than twice its current level.
The growing problem of people falling behind on car loans runs counter to the picture of a generally strong US economy. It is especially disturbing because the delinquency rate for car loans is lower than for other types of borrowing, such as credit cards and student loans.
“The substantial and growing number of distressed borrowers suggests that not all Americans have benefited from the strong labor market and warrants continued monitoring and analysis of this sector,” said the Fed’s report.
About 4.5% of all car loans are delinquent today. That’s lower than the end of the recession, when the rate rose to 5.3% at the end of 2010.
But it is rising steadily again. The rate increased in all but two quarters since early 2015.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2019

Since Trump tariffs, solar jobs have atrophied

MEGAN GEUSS   -  ars Technica

This is where we stand under Trump and the Republicans when it comes to solar. It is despicable.

Solar workers
Credit: Getty

This week, an advocacy group called The Solar Foundation released its ninth annual solar jobs report. In 2018 the industry contracted, shedding 8,000 solar jobs, or a loss of about 3.2 percent from 2017. The solar industry employed 242,343 people in 2018, the report said.

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Energy jobs reports say solar dominates coal, but wind is the real winner

The solar industry is the largest renewable energy employer in the US and the second largest energy employer behind the oil and gas industry. Wind and coal trail far behind solar in terms of the number of people employed. (For comparison, coal mining lost 2,000 jobs between 2016 and 2017, although that industry employs only slightly more than 50,000 people.)

2018 marks the second year in a row that the solar industry has posted job losses. In 2017, The Solar Foundation’s report showed that employment contracted by 3.8 percent. The foundation only counts solar jobs where at least 50 percent of a person’s time is dedicated to solar energy.

The Solar Foundation’s report attributes this slack in the market to the solar tariffs ordered by the Trump administration in January 2018. Those tariffs …

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Saturday, February 16th, 2019

Fox & Friends host says he hasn’t washed hands in 10 years: ‘Germs are not a real thing — I can’t see them’

10 FEB 2019 AT 14:23 ET   -  Raw Story

Millions of Americans, mostly older non-college educated Whites, watch Fox and vote as it directs. If you are not one of them, and you don’t watch Fox, you really don’t have any idea how moronic that channel is. Consider this as exhibit A.

Ed Henry, Jedediah Bila and Pete Hegseth
Credit: Fox News/screen grab

Fox  host Pete Hegseth explained on Sunday that he doesn’t wash his hands because “germs are not a real thing.”

Following a commercial break, Fox & Friends co-host Jedediah Bila revealed that Hegseth had been munching on day-old pizza that was left on the set.

“Pizza Hut lasts for a long time,” Hegseth replied, defending himself. “My 2019 resolution is to say things on air that I say off air. I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for 10 years. Really, I don’t really wash my hands ever.”

“I inoculate myself,” he continued. “Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them. Therefore, they’re not real.”

Hegseth argued that his unsanitary habit leaves him immune to sickness.

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Friday, February 15th, 2019

Study Shows Toxic Pesticide Levels in Families Dropped by 60% After One-Week Organic Diet

Jon Queally  -  Common Dreams

I have been urging my readers for years to eat organic foods, and eliminate the toxins in their house, i.e., cleaners, soaps, sprays, air-scent sprays, insect sprays, and on and on. But even I was surprised at how dramatic the effect could be. Here, finally, we have some real data. It’s amazing. I encourage you to download and read the entire report: http://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OrganicForAll_report_Final.pdf

A new peer-reviewed study shows that eating a completely organic diet—even for just one week—can dramatically reduce the presence of pesticide levels in people, a finding that was characterized as “groundbreaking” by critics of an industrial food system that relies heavily on synthetic toxins and chemicals to grow crops and raise livestock.

Published in the Environmental Research, the study—titled Organic Diet Intervention Significantly Reduces Urinary Pesticide Levels in U.S. Children and Adults (pdf)—found that switching to an organic diet significantly reduced the levels of synthetic pesticides found in all participants.

“We all have the right to food that is free of toxic pesticides. Farmers and farmworkers growing our nation’s food and the rural communities they live in have a right not to be exposed to chemicals linked to cancer, autism and infertility.”
— Kendra Klein, PhD, Friends of the Earth

“This study shows that organic works,” said study co-author Kendra Klein, PhD, senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth. “We all have the right to food that is free of toxic pesticides. Farmers and farmworkers growing our nation’s food and the rural communities they live in have a right not to be exposed to chemicals linked to cancer, …

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Friday, February 15th, 2019

Weedkiller ‘raises risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by 41%’

Carey Gillam  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

The fact that Roundup is still sold in the United States is a measure of the corruption of the regulatory agencies whose job is supposed to be to protect us from poisons like Roundup. That it is for sale is proof that, particularly under Trump, corporations own the agencies that are supposed to regulate them.

Bottles of Roundup herbicide, a product of Monsanto. Findings come as regulators in several countries consider limiting the use of glyphosate-based products in farming.
Credit: Jeff Roberson/AP

A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the popular pesticides have a 41% increased risk of developing a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The evidence “supports a compelling link” between exposures to glyphosate-based herbicides and increased risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), the authors concluded, though they said the specific numerical risk estimates should be interpreted with caution.

The findings by five US scientists contradict the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) assurances of safety over the weed killer and come as regulators in several countries consider limiting the use of glyphosate-based products in farming.

Monsanto and its German owner Bayer AG face more than 9,000 lawsuits in the US brought by people suffering from NHL who blame Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides for their diseases. The first plaintiff to go to trial won a unanimous jury verdict against Monsanto in August, a verdict the company is appealing. The next trial, involving a separate …

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