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<h2 class="m_-9019587778871787479mc-toc-title" style="margin:0;padding:0;display:block;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:-.75px;text-align:left;color:#ff6600!important"><a href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=fd7f33be42&e=faefe20166" title="Read SR online" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Advocates probe White House plans to house immigrants at toxic waste sites</a></h2>
<em>on Aug 10, 2018 02:35 am</em><br>
<u></u><u></u><p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="text-transform:uppercase">E.A. CRUNDEN - </span>Think Progress</p><div style="font-style:italic;color:#002384">I don't see much difference between the Republicans in Congress, and the Executive Branch and Nazis. Read this and see what you think.</div><div id="m_-9019587778871787479attachment_40717" class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-caption m_-9019587778871787479alignleft" style="width:300px"><img class="m_-9019587778871787479size-medium m_-9019587778871787479wp-image-40717 m_-9019587778871787479mcRssImage" src="https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/EPA-Superfund-Site.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" border="0" style="max-width:100%;width:100%;padding-bottom:0;display:inline;vertical-align:bottom;border:0;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none"><p class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-caption-text" style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><em>SUMMITVILLE, CO – JUNE 11: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment runs a water treatment plant at the Superfund site at Summitville Mine on June 11, </em>2018<em> in Summitville, Colorado. The state of Colorado pays millions to clean water from the mine before it is pumped back into the Wightman Fork of the Alamosa River.</em><br><em>Credit: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post</em></p></div>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">Environmental and health advocates want more information about the Trump administration’s plans to house detained immigrants, including children, at two Texas military posts with a history of toxic contamination.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed Wednesday morning by the nonprofit legal group Earthjustice is asking the government for details about plans to keep immigrants at Fort Bliss in El Paso and Goodfellow Air Force Bases in San Angelo.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=1667bfbe3b&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Fort Bliss</a> is a source of particular concern for advocates — the area is listed as a Superfund, meaning that areas have been designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a priority for cleanup due to the dangers they pose to human health and the environment. At Goodfellow, tents meant to house people will be constructed directly over a former firing range, not far from an uncapped landfill.…</p><br>
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<em>on Aug 10, 2018 02:34 am</em><br>
<u></u><u></u><p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="text-transform:uppercase">Owen Jones - </span>The Guardian (U.K.)</p><div style="font-style:italic;color:#002384">This is a story about the U.K. but it would apply to any country. The small government austerity policies so beloved by conservatives worldwide never work, and always create distress and a degraded quality of life for the people who must live under such policies. Why, then, do conservative governments continue to implement such policies. The answer I think is that conservatives never put facts above ideology. Here's what happens. A variation is happening here.</div><div id="m_-9019587778871787479attachment_40720" class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-caption m_-9019587778871787479alignleft" style="width:483px"><img class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-image-40720 m_-9019587778871787479mcRssImage" src="https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/George-Osbornne-and-David-Cameron.jpg?resize=483%2C290&ssl=1" alt="" width="483" border="0" style="max-width:100%;width:100%;padding-bottom:0;display:inline;vertical-align:bottom;border:0;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none"><p class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-caption-text" style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><em>Architects of austerity: George Osborne and David Cameron in 2015.</em><br><em>Credit: Ben Birchall/PA</em></p></div>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">“<a class="m_-9019587778871787479u-underline" href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=8f58aa69cc&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">We got there in the end</a> – a remarkable national effort”: that’s how former chancellor George Osborne celebrated the government meeting his deficit target on the day-to-day budget two years late. “<a class="m_-9019587778871787479u-underline" href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=e3e6188de1&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">It was the right thing to do</a>,” was David Cameron’s smug echo.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">It’s easy for the architects of the Tories’ ideologically driven austerity to be triumphalist, given they did not suffer the consequences: the <a class="m_-9019587778871787479u-underline" href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=72b1b929a3&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">worst squeeze in wages of the major industrialised countries</a> except depression-ravaged Greece; the slashing of social security for low-paid workers and disabled people; the <a class="m_-9019587778871787479u-underline" href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=73c0506c87&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">surging child poverty</a>. New research suggests that <a class="m_-9019587778871787479u-underline" href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=6b0ef147dd&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">austerity played a key role in the Brexit vote,</a> which plunged Britain into national crisis, too, and which turfed both men out of office, although both continue to prosper, Cameron with his “trotters up”, as Danny Dyer so memorably put it. But there is another devastating consequence of their austerity that is too little discussed: that it kills.</p>
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<em>on Aug 10, 2018 02:33 am</em><br>
<u></u><u></u><p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="text-transform:uppercase">MICHAEL BIESECKER - </span>Associated Press</p><div style="font-style:italic;color:#002384">More and more as American democracy is dismantled by the Trump administration while the Republican quislings in Congress sit on their hands, protecting the country has fallen to a small cadre of judges. Honorable men and women who stand up for the country when no one else will. Here is some good news as an example of how this is happening.
In my opinion, Scott Pruitt should be charged with mass murder and put on trial.</div><div id="m_-9019587778871787479attachment_40723" class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-caption m_-9019587778871787479alignleft" style="width:491px"><img class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-image-40723 m_-9019587778871787479mcRssImage" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pruitt-5.jpeg?resize=491%2C327&ssl=1" alt="" width="491" border="0" style="max-width:100%;width:100%;padding-bottom:0;display:inline;vertical-align:bottom;border:0;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none"><p class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-caption-text" style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><em>Scott Pruitt</em></p></div>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">WASHINGTON, D.C. — <strong>A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies’ brains. (emphasis added)</strong></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to remove chlorpyrifos from sale in the United States within 60 days.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">A coalition of farmworkers and environmental groups sued last year after then-EPA chief Scott Pruitt reversed an Obama-era effort to ban chlorpyrifos, which is widely sprayed on citrus fruit, apples and other crops. The attorneys general for several states joined the case against EPA, including California, New York and Massachusetts.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">In a split decision, the court said Thursday that Pruitt, a Republican forced to resign earlier this summer amid ethics scandals, violated federal law by ignoring the conclusions of agency scientists that chlorpyrifos is harmful.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">“The panel held that there was no justification for the EPA’s decision in its 2017 order to maintain a tolerance for chlorpyrifos in the face of scientific evidence that its residue on food causes neurodevelopmental damage to children,” Judge Jed S. Rakoff wrote in the …</p><br>
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<em>on Aug 10, 2018 02:32 am</em><br>
<u></u><u></u><p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="text-transform:uppercase">P.R. Lockhart - </span>Vox</p><div style="font-style:italic;color:#002384">Today I saw three stories reporting police thuggery; this is one of them. No one who would think it was acceptable to use a taser on an 11 year old girl should be a sworn police officer. Yet American law enforcement is filled with thousands of such low IQ bullies. On my own island the police chief was just fired for such bullying activity. What's it like where you live? Are you even paying attention to this issue?</div><div id="m_-9019587778871787479attachment_40729" class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-caption m_-9019587778871787479alignleft" style="width:300px"><img class="m_-9019587778871787479size-medium m_-9019587778871787479wp-image-40729 m_-9019587778871787479mcRssImage" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-9.17.20-PM.png?resize=300%2C198&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" border="0" style="max-width:100%;width:100%;padding-bottom:0;display:inline;vertical-align:bottom;border:0;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none"><p class="m_-9019587778871787479wp-caption-text" style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><em>The Cincinnati Police Department is under scrutiny for using a Taser on an 11-year-old girl.</em><br><em>Credit: Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post</em></p></div>
<p id="m_-9019587778871787479LsC20m" style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">The Cincinnati Police Department is under intense scrutiny after an off-duty police officer <a href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=dc37fb3684&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">used a Taser on an 11-year old black girl</a>, prompting allegations of excessive force and raising new concerns about how the department uses Tasers.</p>
<p id="m_-9019587778871787479nbLwZd" style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">The incident happened at a local grocery store on Monday. <a href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=c31ed8aa3f&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">According to local reports</a>, off-duty<strong> </strong>police officer Kevin Brown was working as a security guard at the store and suspected 11 year-old Donesha Gowdy of shoplifting. The police department noted that she was seen placing food into a backpack and did not stop when Brown approached her as she left the store. Brown then fired his Taser, striking the girl in the back.</p>
<p id="m_-9019587778871787479Pb53w1" style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">The girl was arrested for “theft and obstructing official business” and was taken to a local hospital for evaluation. On Wednesday evening, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranely <a href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=f90c3e0f6f&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">announced</a> that charges against the girl had been dropped.</p>
<p id="m_-901958777887178747908whvz" style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">In interviews with news outlets on Wednesday, Gowdy and her mother acknowledged that the girl had taken items from the store, but explained that using a Taser was an inappropriate response to …</p><br>
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<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">Dozens of people have written me asking: How do I respond to what I see happening to my country after this election? What can I do?</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">My answer can be found in my book <em><a href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=e01dfa027a&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">The 8 Laws of Change. </a></em> Since 1991 I have been following trends that are shaping the future, and have seen the rise of fascist and identitarian politics. I wrote 8 Laws based on years of research to show how nonviolent compassionate life-affirming change can be achieved.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#222222;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">If you are despondent about what you see happening to your country I recommend you read <em><a href="https://schwartzreport.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50db294056098aa2e77fd21c&id=173f6a71e8&e=faefe20166" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#ff6600;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">The 8 Laws of Change.</a></em> It will give you detailed actions you can take, actions that have proven they work based on scientific outcome data.</p>
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