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Hot Air Climate News Roundup

Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 5:04am

Something to keep in mind…


It becomes profitable to set new and unrealistic standards,
to generate a culture of comparison and inferiority.
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Because people who constantly feel inferior make
the best customers.
Marketing in our economy pushes insecurity onto us that is not helpful.
...
It intentionally triggers inadequacies
or addictions within ourselves
to make more profit.
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How Your Insecurity Is Bought and Sold

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Mainstream Daily News Still on the Job

Submitted by hungeski on Fri, 07/14/2017 - 12:46am

Mainstream Daily News Reports ((CC-BY SA) The Paragraph / The Chronicle-Telegram)

Despite cutbacks and financial stress in the industry, the mainstream daily newspaper is still on the job, reporting corruption in public office. For example, here are a few boiled-down summaries of reports that I found over the past month in the local daily I subscribe to.

Involuntary manslaughter among charges filed in Flint water crisis

(The Detroit Free Press, June 14.) The wheels of justice slowly, surely turning ...

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced the fourth round of criminal charges in the Flint water crisis. The state charged five persons with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Robert Skidmore by Legionnaire's disease. An outbreak of the waterborne disease, which killed 12 and struck dozens more, followed the switch of the city's water from the Detroit system to the Flint River.

Among those charged are Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and former Flint emergency manager Darnell Early. Lyons is accused of failing to alert the public to the outbreak of the disease for a year after he became aware of it. He is also charged with misconduct in office for instructing an official to stop study that would help find the cause of the disease outbreak.

The state also charged Michigan Chief Medical Executive Dr. Eden Wells with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer. The obstruction of justice charge alleges that Wells threatened to withhold funding for the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership if it did not stop its investigation into the source of the disease outbreak.