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Costco reportedly pulls Roundup from shelves after $80million awarded in second cancer case

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 21:22 UTC

Costco has reportedly decided to stop selling Roundup weedkiller after a federal jury in San Francisco awarded more than $80 million to 70-year-old California man, Edwin Hardeman, who was diagnosed with cancer after spraying the herbicide on his property for decades.

According to the founder of Moms Across America, Zen Honeycutt, Costco will no longer carry Roundup or other glyphosate-based herbicides in their spring shipments.

Moms Across America founder Zen Honeycutt, whose petition calling for Costco to stop selling Roundup has more than 150,000 signatures on Change.org, wrote on her website:

"I called the headquarters, and after two days of messages and calls, I did finally confirm with three people that Costco was not ordering Roundup or any glyphosate-based herbicides for the incoming spring shipments."

Costco has yet to issue an official statement on the petition. However, in conversations with the administrative staff at various stores, Big Think has learned that the product was pulled off the floor this week per corporate orders - meaning, Costco's removal of Roundup applies to "all locations." -Big Think

Honeycutt's group is now petitioning Home Depot and Lowe's to pull Roundup from their shelves as well.

Technical glitch causes thousands of flights to be delayed across multiple US airlines

Jay Blackman
NBC News
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 13:56 UTC

© Leah Millis / Reuters
Passengers wait to board a delayed Southwest flight at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia on April, 1, 2019.

A technical glitch caused flight delays across multiple U.S. airlines Monday morning.

A program called Aerodata, which monitors the weight and balance of planes, was down between 5:25 a.m. and 6:12 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration

Southwest, United Airlines, JetBlue, Alaska and Delta were all experiencing residual delays due to the outage, the FAA said.

Airports in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Dallas experienced the heaviest delays.

Both Delta and Southwest responded to customers on Twitter who were expressing their dismay with the travel disruption.

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Professor at Catholic university docks essay grades for not using 'inclusive language' on gender

Jeremiah Poff
The College Fix
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:14 UTC

'Wording excludes a group that makes up half the population'

Students in a theology course at a Catholic university were forced to redo an assignment after the professor took off points for "exclusive language," one of the students told The College Fix.

He said he "got points taken off an essay assignment" because the professor told him he used "exclusive language," the student wrote in a series of text messages Wednesday.

"World of Grace" is taught by a part-time professor at John Carroll University, David Buhrow. It explores "the Christian vision of the entire world as grace-filled, resonant with the Holy," according to the course description in the syllabus provided by the student. (The Fix is not naming him because the class is still going.)

Comment: David Buhrow's excessive political correctness has not earned him much gratitude among his students.

The historical amnesia Milan Kundera warned us about is happening again

Ewan Morrison
Quillette
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:01 UTC

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
-Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is 90-years old on April 1, 2019 and his central subject - The Power of Forgetting, or historical amnesia - could not be more relevant. Kundera's great theme emerged from his experience of the annexation of his former homeland Czechoslovakia by the Soviets in 1948 and the process of deliberate historical erasure imposed by the communist regime on the Czechs.

As Kundera said:

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

I first read Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) back in 1987, when I was a member of the British Communist Party. The book shook my beliefs and Kundera's writing became a part of a process of truth-speaking that shook the USSR to the ground in 1989.

In the 90s we believed we were living in a "post-mortem" era in which all the hidden graves of the 20th century would be exposed, the atrocities analyzed, the lessons learned. Lest we forget. We also thought we'd entered a time in which the Silicon Valley dream of digitizing all knowledge from the entire history of the printed and spoken word would lead us towards the infinite free library, the glass house of truth and the global village of free information flow. The future would be a time of endless remembrance and of great learning.

How wrong we were. The metaphor of the glass house has turned into that of the mirrored cube. The global village has collapsed into tribal info-warfare and the infinite library is now a war zone of battling conspiracy theories. The internet has become a tool of forgetting, not remembrance and the greatest area of amnesia is the subject that Milan Kundera spent his entire life trying to preserve, namely the horrors of communism.

Comment: Morrison has a point, even if his delivery leaves something to be desired. We all 'remember' the Nazi atrocities, but forget, write-off, or ignore the Communist ones. But atrocities are only the secondary effect of a root cause that Morrison himself seems unaware of: ponerogenesis, as described by Andrew Lobaczewski. Communism as an ideology is ripe for abuse by individuals characterized by dangerous personality disorders, and the more normal people they can spellbind into following their agenda. But behind the communist nightmare of the 20th century lies something more concrete. For more info, see:

'This is a system-wide collapse!" Surge of Central American migrants overwhelm Texas border city

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 18:00 UTC

Democrats like to deride President Trump's warnings about a crisis at the southern border as a "fake emergency" reliant on "nonsensical" numbers about the flow of migrants. They even tried, and failed, to terminate his emergency declaration, which has also triggered a flurry of lawsuits, but that won't change the fact that the first tranche of money from Trump's expanded border wall has already been approved by the DoJ.

And the timing couldn't have been better, because over the past month, as reports about the number of migrant families declaring asylum between border checkpoints climbing to an all-time high were picked up by the mainstream press, the true weight of the ongoing disaster at the border has suddenly become difficult to ignore. Even the peso, which had mostly shrugged off his prior threats, tumbled when Trump warned that he would close the border next week if Mexico doesn't try to stop illegals from entering the US.

And in the latest report that, like the others, will be difficult for the public to chalk up to more conservative fear mongering, USA Today published a story on Saturday about a border city that has seen public resources overwhelmed as asylum seekers are released into the city at a rate of more than 800 per day.

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Son of the head of MI6 dies in accident in Scotland

Auslan Cramb
The Telegraph
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:50 UTC

The son of Alex Younger, the head of MI6, has died in an accident on a private estate in Scotland.

Police said Sam Younger, 22, described as a "fun loving" former pupil of Dulwich College, died following "an accident involving a motor vehicle".

The Edinburgh University student is the son of Mr Younger, who has served as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service since 2014, and his wife Sarah Hopkins.

His family issued a photograph of the student, apparently taken in 2017 on an overseas motorcycle trip.

Twitter reinstates anti-abortion movie account after sparking outrage with unexplained suspension

RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:29 UTC

An anti-abortion box office movie has had its Twitter account restored after a temporary and unexplained suspension, which sparked outrage and fresh cries of 'censorship' online.

The movie titled 'Unplanned' follows the true story of a Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life activist, and was produced by Christian production company Pure Flix. It bills itself as "exposing the truth" about the family-planning organization, which it claims is only interested in money.

Twitter suspended the movie's account seemingly without explanation last week, one day after its official premiere, but the backlash on the social media platform was swift, with pro-life and conservative commentators publicizing the suspension and demanding answers on the blackout. After the outcry, Twitter lifted the suspension, having decided that "after further review," the account did not actually violate any rules.

It appears the suspension could have been the result of pro-choice users repeatedly "maliciously and falsely" reporting Unplanned's account to Twitter - but the entire thing seems to have backfired, as the movie's follower count shot up dramatically to over 100,000 soon after its account was restored.

Dear America, you cannot be pro-freedom and pro-forced vaccinations at the same time

Bretigne Shaffer
thefreethoughtproject.com
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:17 UTC

No, you don't have a "right" to demand that others are vaccinated.

It's hard to think of a more fundamental right than the right to determine what happens to one's own body. Forcing someone to undergo medical treatment against their will violates this most basic of rights-the right to be free from physical assault. Yet even some libertarians have jumped on the mandatory vaccination bandwagon, arguing that one person not taking every possible precaution against contracting a disease constitutes an assault against another. But this line of thinking requires some very tortured logic.

There are still delusional Democrats hoping and praying that Mueller will save the day: Stop it

Caitlin Johnston
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:24 UTC

Well it certainly hasn't taken long for the establishment narrative control machine to pace Russiagaters into a new arsenal of talking points. Now if you try to speak online about how Attorney General William Barr's letter says that the Mueller report contains the explicit phrase "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," or mainstream media reports that there are no sealed indictments and that no new indictments have been recommended, you'll be inundated with comments telling you "We don't know what's in the report! You don't know! No one knows!"

"Mueller reported Trump did not collude with Russia to influence our elections," Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard stated on Twitter yesterday. "Now we must put aside partisan interests, move forward, and work to unite our country to deal with the serious challenges we face."

Peruse the comments on Gabbard's post and you'll see some 20 thousand furious responses all more or less saying the same thing: we don't know what Mueller reported. It's a complete and total mystery. There could be anything in there. For all we know Barr lied about the whole thing.

World's top oil producer, Saudi Aramco, was 2018's most profitable company

RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:09 UTC

The world's top oil producer, Saudi Aramco, became world's top company in terms of profits in 2018, comfortably eclipsing the earnings of Apple and other US firms, according to newly published figures by Moody's and Fitch.

The Saudi state-run oil giant has been keeping its revenues quiet for many years, but their financial secrets were revealed on Monday as the rating agencies published reports on the company's performance ahead of its debut on the international bond market.

According to Fitch Ratings, Aramco generated a whopping $224 billion last year, before interest, tax, and depreciation. Meanwhile Moody's said the company's net income totals $111.1 billion, while its revenue stood at $355.9 billion. Both agencies rated Aramco quite high, giving A+ and A1 respectively.

Has everyone seen the documentary Century of the Self? It's about Bernays, PR BS, etc. and is REALLY well done. (I found it at an AA article.)...

Rowan Cocoan

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Buffalo_Ken

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Biden the child-killer. Think of the children, vaxxers, think of the children.

hobnyeba

Thanks, all, for great comments and links. Lots to think about.

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Society's Child

Costco reportedly pulls Roundup from shelves after $80million awarded in second cancer case

Technical glitch causes thousands of flights to be delayed across multiple US airlines

Professor at Catholic university docks essay grades for not using 'inclusive language' on gender

The historical amnesia Milan Kundera warned us about is happening again

'This is a system-wide collapse!" Surge of Central American migrants overwhelm Texas border city

Son of the head of MI6 dies in accident in Scotland

Twitter reinstates anti-abortion movie account after sparking outrage with unexplained suspension

Dear America, you cannot be pro-freedom and pro-forced vaccinations at the same time

There are still delusional Democrats hoping and praying that Mueller will save the day: Stop it

World's top oil producer, Saudi Aramco, was 2018's most profitable company

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