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PEOPLE ENJOY CHEAP GOODS AND SERVICES IN TOUGH TIMES, SO WHY ARE SOME CITIES BLOCKING LARGE CHAIN STORES THAT OFFER BIG DEALS?

Think of it this way —

Some communities don’t have local grocery stores, owned by local families that sell local produce, goods and services….and some children are growing up on a steady diet of food bought at local gas station convenience stores and packages of junk food from other states and countries — sold at a discount or extortionist prices that benefit owners in far off places— not local communities.

And the jobs at these stores pay minimum wage salaries — with no real benefits.

More Cities Pass Laws to Block Dollar Store Chains Fueled by easy cash from Wall Street, two dominant chains are opening thousands of dollar stores across urban and rural communities, and causing economic distress nationwide. Inspired by ILSR’s research, a growing number of cities, including Birmingham, Cleveland, and New Orleans, are now taking l...

REGULAR PEOPLE, WITHOUT A SAY ON OTHER EXISTENTIAL THREATS TO THEIR LIVES — ARE LOOKING FOR TANGIBLE WAYS TO PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES’ AND COMMUNITIES’ HAPPINESS, HEALTH AND LIVES

Understanding that old fashioned pollution is making life miserable and dangerous for people who need a little more oxygen— is a start.

Knowing that “environmental issues” aren’t the dirtiest concepts we have — is critical.

Electing people who understand is essential.

Making clear and conscious choices about the types of substitutions we can make for dirty fuels in our daily lives — is at the individual and community levels….even though some people, technologies, businesses and politicians aren’t ready yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/03/delhi-india-air-quality-pollution-spike-world-health-organization-limit?

Delhi air pollution spikes to 100 times WHO health limit Season of smog begins with air quality index near worst possible level of 500 and little apparent progress in controlling annual poisonous blight on life

Sometimes the little guys win— when they ask, en masse-through legal channels - without weapons…

These folks said “were valuable,” and their employers agreed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/business/economy/uaw-labor.html?

U.A.W. Strike Gains Could Reverberate Far Beyond Autos Experts said the union’s new contracts could set precedents that give labor advantages when bargaining contracts and organizing workers.

GAETZ’ INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PROBLEM

His lax views on war crimes against allied civilians in Afghanistan — are not widely held beliefs.

He’s playing a very dangerous game by hiring a war criminal in national politics.

GAETZ DOES NOT REPRESENT MAINSTREAM AMERICA OR THE MILITARY AS A WHOLE

America prosecuted, convicted and punished some of the people who fought dirty, exploited the innocent, hurt America’s reputation in communities of trust in Afghanistan and broke military law.

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/29/matt-gaetz-aide-war-criminal/

THE CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER CASE OF A MAN NAMED GAETZ WHO WON SOME ARDENT POT SMOKERS’ HEARTS AND IS FAR FROM LIBERAL…

He can’t be defined as a fiscal conservative either.

He doesn’t support what some young people think he does — including peace and diplomacy but he wanted to award Trump the Nobel prize for peace with North Korea.

HE SUPPORTED THE NATIONAL DEFENSE RE-AUTHORIZATION BILL

Perhaps this protest he’s waging in congress — to stop the U.S. government from functioning as it was intended, with negotiations between all sides, votes on issues and cooperation— especially after all the country has been through the past few years — isn’t in the best interests of any of its people.

HE VOTED AGAINST THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT

So who benefits? Take a look.

HE VOTES AGAINST

- GUN SAFETY
- INFLATION REDUCTION
- WOMEN’S HEALTH
- BIPARTISAN BACKGROUND CHECKS
- FREEDOM TO VOTE
- CHIPS AND SCIENCE
- SUPPORT FOR GAY/TRANSGENDER TEENS
- THE DOD CHIEF

HE DENIES THE CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST HIM — FOR S*X TRAFFICKING…

AND HE HOLDS DANGEROUS VIEWS TOWARD PEOPLE WHO DONT SHARE HIS RELIGION— — FROM AN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PERSPECTIVE. THE US MILITARY IS NOT AT WAR WITH A SPECIFIC RELIGION AND IS NOT COMMITTED TO ELIMINATING NON-JUDEO-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS

DEMOCRACY IS A PRACTICE THAT NEEDS PROTECTION AND CARE AND A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW WE TAKE GOOD CARE FOR OUR FREE CHOICE IS WHEN WE SPEND THE MONEY WE EARN —

EITHER ON THINGS…

WE JUST LIKE, “BECAUSE WE JUST DO,” OR ON THINGS WE LIKE, “BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY WERE TESTED.”

YOU KNOW—BY EXPERTS IN THE FIELD — AND WE ALL HAVE ACCESS TO THE INTEL THAT BACKS THIS UP.

Consumer Reports Consumer Reports Advocacy
Democracy in action — that impacts our individual choices, safety and our families’ bottom line.

Does your community have access to good information, produced by experts— to save you time, money, heartache and confusion when you go to cast your paycheck at the store?

DIANNE FEINSTEIN LED US INTO A NEW ERA

Women have different experiences than men.
We need their perspective in decision making…

Up until very recently, America hasn’t always grasped this.

“When Dianne Feinstein was elected in 1992, only two women were in the U.S. Senate. There were 25 on the day she died.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/trailblazer-role-model-mentor-feinsteins-impact-on-women-in-office.html?

Trailblazer, Role Model, Mentor: Feinstein’s Impact on Women in Office When Dianne Feinstein was elected in 1992, only two women were in the U.S. Senate. There were 25 on the day she died.

EVEN WHEN OPPOSITIES AGREE TO DISAGREE — CALMLY, WITH HUMOR PLUS A DECENT AMOUNT OF SPECIFICS (GIVEN THE FORUM) — WE LEARN THAT “WHAT” THEY DISAGREE ON — IS ALSO DEBATABLE — TYPICALLY, THE “EITHER / OR” CHOICES DO NOT WORK IN REAL CASE SCENARIOS

California’s Democratic governor sat down with Sean Hannity in June to discuss borders , immigration, oil, Joe Biden’s presidency…and other topics of interest — to show how polar opposites, who want to find a way to try and communicate in American politics, can— without making the audience want to commit an act of violence...

Political discourse without a battle cry built in can be entertaining….even with facts…and it seems that this is what these two men are attempting here, if nothing else.

[Please listen for the exact quotes — we are paraphrasing— to give you an idea about how people who don’t yell and insult one another — disagree, using non-parallel logic, in American politics.]

“So— you don’t believe in building walls and won’t protect American borders?”

- Sean Hannity, Host, Fox Entertainment

“You don’t have to lecture me on borders— in California we have the longest coastline in the western hemisphere….We do a good job of patrolling it.”

- Gavin Newsom, Governor of California

“Do you realise how much you are paying for healthcare for insured, illegal immigrants?”

- Sean Hannity

“Do you realise how much we are paying in emergency room visits for people without insurance?”

- Gavin Newsom

“You do realise the oil companies are never going to forgive you.”

- Sean Hannity

WE HAVE DIFFERENCES—EXPLAINING WHAT THESE DIFFERENCES ACTUALLY ARE, IS ALMOST MORE DIFFICULT THAN SHOWCASING WHAT WE CAN AGREE ON, AGREED?

Newsom defends Biden’s presidency: ‘Man of decency and character’ Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., defends President Biden's cognitive ability, addresses his state's immigration policy and the massive exodus of residents in an ...

WHAT IS AN AGENT OF CHAOS? THEY ARE A REPRESENTATIVE OF A FOREIGN COUNTRY OR THEY ARE KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY PARTNERING WITH OR INFLUENCED BY THEM

THEY ARE NOT WEDDED TO A PARTICULAR POLITICAL PARTY OR BELIEF SYSTEM — EXCEPT DEFEATISM AND CONFUSION — IN THE END

Agents of Chaos (2020): Official Trailer | HBO For some politicians chaos isn't something to fear, it's just part of the game.Directed by Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney, Agents of Chaos, a two-part docu...

SOMETIMES IT’S HARD TO KNOW_______
What we can or do control and where we lost some of the control — we thought we had. We struggle with this concept — all over the political spectrum.

If you really want peace — ask important questions that lead us all to better leaders who control how things are done with the money we do and don’t have.

Where did the $5tn spent on Afghanistan and Iraq go? Here’s where | Linda J Bilmes Private military contractors outnumbered US troops on the ground during most of both conflicts. And defense industry stocks soared

A NEW “LATINO MUSEUM” PLANNED FOR THE MALL IN WASHINGTON DC CHOOSES A SALSA THEMED EXHIBIT OVER CIVIL RIGHTS…

“The director, Jorge Zamanillo, said that decision was not driven by politics.”

NOT CONFUSED ENOUGH YET? READ ON!

“Time magazine reported that the museum’s director had quietly halted work on a planned second exhibition, about the Latino civil rights movement of the 1960s.

It is being replaced with a show about salsa music, a swap some involved with the museum say smacks of politics.

“I realized I wanted to go in a different direction,” he said, noting that work on the civil rights show began before he arrived at the museum in May 2022.

He prefers shows, he said, with “a bigger reach.”

WOULD A STARTUP SHOW ABOUT THE ELUSIVE “LATINO IDENTITY” IN THE UNITED STATES STEER CLEAR OF POLITICAL CONTROVERSY AND GIVE THE PUBLIC A BIGGER REACH?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/arts/latino-museum-american-smithsonian.html?

Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Faces Political Winds Before a Brick Is Laid Partisan battles over America’s past, and divisions among Latinos, are affecting this new institution set to be built on the National Mall.

WE ASKED A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE FARMING COMMUNITY WHY TOO MANY PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER DENY THE OIL SPILL PROBLEM IN CALIFORNIA AND HE BASICALLY SAID — AFTER A LOT OF DENIAL — “WHO PAYS?”

He should be paying attention right about now — because these spills affect his and his “friends of the earth’s” health, happiness, output and quality of production.

CALIFORNIA IS SUING THE OIL COMPANIES FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE — BUT THE MONEY AND IMPROVEMENTS TO COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE PUBLIC ARE PART OF BIGGER AND MORE CRITICAL PLANNING SOLUTIONS

This isn’t just about one thing or the other. It’s about — “Who pays?”…..when the public relations companies hide the truth from the public…

Our schools have dangerously high lead levels in their drinking water and are forced to buy bottled water instead…when they can. When they can’t, impaired brain development and diminished kidney functioning are steep prices to pay for negligence on the waterfront.

The beaches and rivers have become so dangerously toxic that it’s sometimes too dangerous to eat the fish or gulp water while swimming…

The farms don’t reap what they sow or are forced to filter their own water before they feed it to their plants — and that is costing us all — at the supermarket.

AND

The children / sports enthusiasts cannot play outside because the air is too thick to breathe.

How does this impact our health and our hospitality and tourism industries??!

DOCTORS WARN THE ELDERLY TO STAY INSIDE ON BAD AIR DAYS BECAUSE AIR POLLUTION CONTRIBUTES TO STROKES AND HEART ATTACKS

AND YES…. GLOBAL WARMING IS CHANGING EVERYTHING AROUND US

WHO PAYS, INDEED!
NASA can’t afford to foot the bill for everything and neither can the taxpayers.

https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/disasters/oil-spills

FIXING OR RE-IMAGINING AGING INFRASTRUCTURE, IN THE FACE OF POLLUTION, CHANGING WEATHER PATERNS, DROUGHT AND RISING TIDES — CAN SAVE LIVES

WHAY WILL IT TAKE? GREATER WILLPOWER, PLANNING, TRAINING, MANUFACTURING, BUILDING AND CREATIVE LEGISLATION CAN PREVENT CATASTROPHES, WORLDWIDE —

SOME EXAMPLES IN TODAY’S NEWS:

I. UN-LEADING SCHOOL WATER FOR BETTER CHILD BRAIN GROWTH, POWER AND DEVELOPMENT

Assembly Bill 249 would require community water systems that serve schools built before 2010 to test all potable water outlets for lead, and to report results to the school, educational agency and state water regulators. Outlets exceeding lead levels of 5 parts per billion would have to be shut down immediately. Testing would be required before 2027, and would also apply to preschools and child day care facilities on public school property.

The legislation comes on the heels of alarming data revealing that one in four of the state’s child-care centers has dangerously high levels of lead in their drinking water, suggesting that thousands of infants, toddlers and children are being exposed to the potent neurotoxin.

II. TACKLING DAMS BEFORE THEY TUMBLE

“In the United States, the second most prolific dam-builder after China, the average age of dams is 65 years old and an estimated 2,200 structures are at high risk of collapse. The recent infrastructure law directs $3 billion into maintaining some of them, but there are still thousands of dams the federal government is not responsible for, and it will cost an estimated $76 billion to fix them.

The risks from aging dams are of particular concern in the face of climate change.

Dams are designed to withstand worst-case conditions as they can be imagined at the time of construction. But what were once considered once-in-a-century weather events have begun occurring with increasing regularity, putting dams at great risk of either failure or a significant weakening of their integrity.”

“The collapse of two dams in Libya, unleashing torrential floodwaters that the United Nations has said left at least 11,300 people dead and over 10,000 still missing, was both predicted and preventable. And they won’t be the last big dams to collapse unless we remove and repair some of the aging and obsolete structures that are long past their expiration date.”

Like many dams around the world, the Wadi Derna dams in Libya were built in the 1970s during the era of peak global dam construction, when 1,000 large dams were installed each year. Now most of these dams are reaching the end of their life spans.

Similar disasters are waiting to happen around the world. The biggest danger is in India and China, where the 28,000 large dams built in the mid-20th century are now nearing obsolescence.

Mullaperiyar Dam in Kerala, India is over 100 years old, visibly damaged and located in a region prone to earthquakes. Its collapse would harm 3.5 million people downstream.

III. BUILDING PIPELINES BEFORE OR AFTER WELLS RUN DRY IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY

Despite record rainfall and laws to curb over drilling …some communities in California still rely on water that has to be trucked in to San Joaquin Valley homes.

Tombstone resident Carolina Ledesma García, 48, recalls the day in 2019 when Newsom came to her neighborhood to announce legislation that was intended to help the approximately 1 million Californians who live with unsafe drinking water.
The governor met with residents to hear their concerns about wells going dry, and about nitrate contamination from fertilizers.

Newsom told them the new legislation would accelerate progress toward solutions in their community and others.

They are still waiting for the state and the nearby city of Sanger to run a water pipe to their homes.
“The solution is for Sanger to help us,” Ledesma said.

IV. EXPERIMENTING WITH NEW TYPES OF DESALINIZATION SOLUTIONS

OceanWell says its technology can use up to 40% less energy by harvesting the water in pods placed at depths of about 1,400 feet, where naturally immense water pressure can help power the filtration process.

“Basically the weight of the ocean helps drive the reverse-osmosis process,” said Kalyn Simon, OceanWell’s director of engagement. “By taking the [reverse-osmosis] process to a place in nature where that pressure naturally exists, we don’t have to create an artificial pressure gauge on land, as we traditionally do in desalination.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-16/california-lawmakers-pass-lead-testing-bill-for-schools

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/opinion/libya-floods-dams.html?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/magazine/california-dams.html?

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-04-18/many-californians-with-dry-wells-face-long-wait-for-fixes

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-09-19/are-seafloor-desalination-pods-the-answer-to-drought

A SUMMIT ON “CLIMATE AMBITION” GIVES US THE WORLD — EITHER AT OR JUST BEYOND OUR FINGERTIPS — WE CAN ALL CHOOSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHETHER OR NOT OUR NATURAL RESOURCES AND CLIMATE ARE A SECURITY AND SAFETY CHALLENGE WORTH DEFENDING

CALIFORNIA IS SAYING “YES THEY ARE”

“The United Nations’ secretary general, António Guterres, convened a special summit on Wednesday in New York City designed to highlight the efforts of the most ambitious global leaders on climate policy — and to implicitly shame those who are dragging their feet….

Of the world’s four biggest emitters, only the European Union was invited to speak at the summit. China, India and the United States did not officially attend the climate discussions — because they were seen as “distracted” and unable to make serious commitments at this time.

The Climate Ambition Summit, as the event was called, was held on the sidelines of the annual General Assembly meeting and included leaders of countries, states, cities and companies, and coincided with a UN Security Council meeting on the war in Ukraine, which for a second year has dominated the assembly’s agenda.”

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CALIFORNIA’S RISING ENVIRONMENTAL STAR

The United States did have a speaker…

“The only official from the United States invited to speak was Gov. Gavin Newsom of State of California, who has passed a slew of measures and recently announced that California would sue Big Oil, accusing the industry of years of disinformation campaigns.

Mr. Newsom’s speech drew the loudest applause, presumably because it did what many others studiously did not: It confronted fossil fuel producers.

“This climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis. It’s not complicated,” he said. “It’s the burning of oil, the burning of gas, the burning of coal. We need to call that out. For decades, the oil industry has been playing each and everyone in this room for fools. Their deceit and denial going back decades has created the conditions that persist here today.”

The summit is a precursor to the annual United Nations climate talks known as COP, which start a little more than two months from now in the United Arab Emirates.

The Emirates’ status as one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers has deepened a credibility crisis for the COP meetings, which have in recent years repeatedly failed to drive consensus around some of the world’s most pressing climate issues.

This year’s COP will have to contend with a report, created at its own instigation, that says that current climate pledges would put the world on track for a hazardous rise of global average temperatures of 2.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, assuming nations followed through on their current pledges.

The window for keeping warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, generally considered to be the goal of the climate talks, is “rapidly narrowing,” the report said.”

At a Summit on Climate Ambition, the U.S. and China End Up on the B List The world’s two biggest polluters were not invited to speak at a United Nations meeting designed to highlight effective action against warming.

THE Smithsonian Magazine ARTICLE ON MK ULTRA EXPERIMENTS, THAT HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY DISCUSSED AND WERE DESIGNED BY N**I AND OTHER SCIENTISTS, FROM AROUND THE WORLD — DATING BACK TO THE WWI-WWII ERA, EXTENDS TO UNETHICAL HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION IN DARK PRISONS TODAY

“Despite MK-ULTRA violating ethical norms for human experiments, the legacy of brainwashing experiments continued to live on in U.S. policy. The same methods that had once been used to train American soldiers ended up being used to extract information from terrorists in Abu Ghraib, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.”

STILL NOT CLICKBAIT INFORMATION THAT WE NEED TO DISCUSS AND ADDRESS AS A GLOBAL SOCIETY THAT IS FULL OF PEOPLE IN ALL RELIGIONS WHO WANT FAIR, ETHICAL AND HUMANE TREATMENT FOR ALL

The True Story of Brainwashing and How It Shaped America Fears of Communism during the Cold War spurred psychological research, pop culture hits, and unethical experiments in the CIA

EVEN AS MUCH OF THE WORLD MOVES TOWARD GREENER AND CLEANER ECONOMIES — TO SAVE US ALL MONEY ON ENERGY AND PROTECT OUR NATURAL RESOURCES, HEALTH AND WEATHER —THE LARGEST MODERN COUNTRIES STILL DEPEND ON OIL TO SURVIVE

Some countries and their leaders, like Canada and Justin Trudeau worked hard to protect their countries’ critical supplies of oil and domestic pipelines from foreign interference on Canadian soil — for security purposes.

One article, published by The Guardian — points out that one Canadian pipeline, that was under Chinese control, could have been used to create a national crisis — if relations between China and Canada became strained.

In the name of “National Security” Trudeau nationalised a major domestic pipeline and seeks to build it out— in tandem with his more sustainable and environmentally-friendly energy infrastructure projects.

The country still needs oil— even as Canada goes greener.

NATIONALISATION OF OIL PIPELINES IS ABOUT SECURITY — PROTESTS AGAINST STATE CONTROL MAY BE PARTIALLY FUNDED BY FOREIGN ENTITIES

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/31/justin-trudeau-kinder-morgan-pipeline-china-did-he-fear-being-sued

IF YOU ARE IN CALIFORNIA OR ANOTHER BIG STATE AND UNDERSTAND SOME ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS, BUT YOU DO NOT LIVE AMONGST LEADERS IN LOCAL OFFICE OR INDUSTRY WHO BELIEVE THAT CLEAN WATER, SOIL AND AIR IS HUMAN RIGHT WORTH PROTECTING ….

OR THAT POLLUTION IS INDEED A GENUINE SECURITY CONCERN, WORTH ACKNOWLEDGING — THEN YOU ARE LIKELY CONSIDERED “AN ENEMY,” BY THOSE WHO ARE PAID TO ACT LIKE DOMESTIC WARRIORS.

GOT LOCAL BOEBERTS WHERE YOU LIVE?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/california-sues-five-major-oil-companies-for-decades-long-campaign-of-deception-about-climate-change/ar-AA1gOFm5

NO POLITICIAN IN THEIR RIGHT MIND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WOULD EVER SEEK TO BAN ALL GUNS.

HERE IS ONE HINT WHY: The United States of America currently has an economy that is built around many products — one of the biggest industries in the USA is weapons manufacturing.

Joe Biden may not approve of YOUR banned gun or ammo… but he’s not proposing banning all guns, as a recent NRA sponsored ad on Fox would suggest — in mid September of 2023.

In fact — we take issue with the proposition that safe gun owners and veterans should feel further threatened this week, based on a misleading ad — posing as news — on FOX — AT A GYM.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/22/national-house-republicans/no-joe-biden-doesnt-want-ban-handguns/

ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS THINGS TO HAPPEN IN RECENT YEARS — IS THAT AMERICANS, ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF POLITICAL DEBATES, ARE HEARING DIFFERENT NEWS THAT SETS PEOPLES’ EMOTIONS ON EDGE — ABOUT WIDELY DIFFERENT TOPICS, SOMETIMES CALLED “SKITTLES”

TAKE THE IMMIGRANTS THAT TRUMP VICIOUSLY CALLED NAMES, LIKE “SKITTLES,” FOR STARTERS

In 2016, Donald Trump, dogmatically referred to IMMIGRANTS as Skittles — then he banned them, based solely on their religions— By doing so—he hurt and sometimes destroyed a lot of decent families that were forced to live apart….

Trump’s threatening —religious and country specific immigrant bans threatened good peoples’ lives, destroyed trust between neighbors and made people from specific religions and regions of the world suddenly feel unsafe in a world of prejudice.— In America.

WORD TRAP: THE CURRENT 2023 SKITTLES DEBATE IN CALIFORNIA IS ABOUT ABOUT REPLACING DANGEROUS CHEMICALS, IN LEGALLY REGULATED FOOD PRODUCTS —

TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM CANCER

In 2023, the Governor of California and other state legislators have spoken about regulating Skittles’ candy ingredients so the manufacturer will replace dangerous CHEMICALS, associated with cancer— with safer ones.

Chemicals in legally and illegally distributed “ingestible” substances can and do threaten our health.

In a safe country with great scientists, we have the capacity to test and ban life threatening chemicals in food that is legally sold on store shelves with the approval of the FDA.

When the governor of California was sent a bill about SKITTLES — this was a matter of public safety— NOT IMMIGRANTS. Not everyone who read the news in 2023 understood this.

Did the governor understand the public relations trap he walked into?

QUOTE ABOUT HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY IN CALIFORNIA:

“CHEMICALS IN FOOD
Lawmakers on Tuesday voted to become the first state to ban four chemicals from processed food and drinks sold in California by 2027.

The chemicals - red dye no. 3, potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil and propyl paraben - are still used in popular products like Peeps, the popular marshmallow chicks most associated with Easter.

Democratic Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, the author of the bill, said those chemicals have already been banned by the European Union and other countries because of scientific research linking them to health problems, including cancer.

"It is unacceptable that the U.S. is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to food safety," Gabriel said. "This bill will not ban any foods or products - it simply will require food companies to make minor modifications to their recipes."

MEDIA SKITTLED PUBLIC

TRUMP WAS WRONG TO ATTACK INNOCENT IMMIGRANTS AND REFER TO THEM AS CANDY —

THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA IS CONCERNED ABOUT TAINTED CANDY THAT ADVERSELY IMPACTS OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY — HE HAS DONE A LOT TO HELP IMMIGRANTS …

https://abc7.com/ca-food-bill-peeps-ban-titanium-dioxide-skittles/13774793/

ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, POETS, FICTION AUTHORS, DESIGNERS, MUSICIANS, DANCERS AND OTHER CREATIVES WILL RARELY ASK US TO INTELLECTUALIZE THEIR WORK, AS EXPERTS

They create for us to respond as individuals, with emotions, hearts and free associations.

You can’t get it wrong. So let yourself go.

The intellectuals may argue otherwise — and that’s their job, but that’s not why these collections of inspiration were created.

Your opinion and feelings, thoughts and action — are all valid. Perhaps, this will include further exploration on a theme? A smile or daydreaming will do too.

A boy with a t-shirt that read — “school kills artistic inspiration,” has a point to make about schools that don’t leave time for creative exploration and training…

Make sure your school or school of thought doesn’t act that way.

TWELVE YEARS AGO, COUNTER-TERRORISM EXPERT RICHARD CLARKE (CLINTON AND BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS) SPOKE AT THE University of Denver.

Before that, he testified on the . He upset some politicians - with his analysis. We like this quote:

“We’re fighting, hate, fear and mistrust.”

In fact, some of the politicos and their colleagues are… and some either can’t or don’t know how and some refuse to do so.

Like it or not — the ones who reject “the other” are, by default, active participants in creating a dangerous situation that psychologically engages locals and international people alike — in stoking a fire.

A lack of respect for other people’s dignity and self-determination, including their family religion — is akin to telling some people they they have no home— unless they abandon their heart and family.

That’s unsafe.

RICHARD CLARKE IS NOT A POLITICIAN AND HE WANTS TO APOLOGISE FOR NOT PREVENTING 9-11.

HE REMINDS US THAT WE ARE NOT, IF WE HAVE OUR HEADS ON STRAIGHT, FIGHTING A WAR ON RELIGION— ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THE WHOLE NOTION BUYS INTO TERRORIST RHETORIC.

In some middle eastern countries, religious leaders are asked, by law, to refrain from talking politics.

The leaders believe that they can slow the pace of spreading zealot ideology this way. They aren’t asking people to abandon their entire way of life.

https://youtu.be/bmwlA05qpoQ?si=7aFOmNptaGDE2Pwb

ARE YOU A CHILD, GRANDCHILD OR GREAT GRANDCHILD OF WAR AND DID YOUR FAMILY INTER-MARRY BETWEEN WORLD CONFLICTS?

You must be an American. Family and community strife, based, not on what we do or say — but on what we inherited, is a bummer, if we don’t understand it and work to get along in our current communities….that need to survive all this.

How Hitler's Alliances Came Back To Haunt Him | How The Nazi's Lost The War | War Stories Germany had very few geopolitical allies leading into World War II. For various reasons, these alliances were doomed to fail from the outset, and Germany wou...

LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED. ROGER THAT.
THIS ONE HAS A GRIMACING RAGE PROBLEM

Too many Skittles perhaps? Do RED DYE #9 and titanium dioxide cause that kind of rage?

https://youtu.be/k1G2hi6ODac?feature=shared

THE RHETORIC AGAINST HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES IS PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC WARS MATTER MOST AND AMERICAN STUDENTS AND WORKERS SHOULD JUST STEP ASIDE…

SOME COUNTRIES’ LEADERS AND MEDIA FIRMS ARE PERSUADING THEIR STUDENTS TO WORK HARD, SUCCEED AND GO BEYOND THEIR WILDEST DREAMS…

IN SCHOOL

But preferably in their native universities — not in the USA —so their best and brightest students will multiply, succeed in the workforce and keep their SKILLS AND TALENT inside their NATIVE countries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/magazine/college-worth-price.html?

Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That? For most people, the new economics of higher ed make going to college a risky bet.