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Why is life expectancy faltering: The British Government has worked with Monsanto and Bayer since 1949.

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Student Journalist Uncovers High School’s Use of Prison Labor

Spencer Cliche, a high school senior in Massachusetts, conducted a monthlong investigation into his school’s use of prison labor to reupholster auditorium seats.

One day before the article was to be published, Mr. Cliche discovered the name of the other vendor that had vied to reupholster the auditorium: Wellspring Upholstery Cooperative.

Wellspring Upholstery, just south of Amherst, hires formerly incarcerated and low-income people and pays $13 to $25 an hour, according to Mr. Cliche’s article.

“We expected to do several school auditoriums a year, but over our five and a half years in operation, we have hardly done any,” Fred Rose, the co-director of Wellspring, said in an email. He attributed this lack of work to competition from prison labor options, which are cheaper because inmates are hardly paid.

In Massachusetts, prisoners can earn 14 cents to a dollar an hour, according to the Department of Correction. At least half of each paycheck goes into a savings account to pay for the inmates’ expenses after release.

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The students’ article, just in case anyone doesn’t have a nytimes subscription. This kids likely to do well.

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it makes sense they would use prisoners to re-upholster seats inside a prison :smile:

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Reefer From Outer Space???

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Cancer is a thing. Like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s or heart attacks imo. I’m pretty bloody sure that all the chems and crap that’s getting thrown around isn’t helping though. We’re old enough to remember before add, adhd and all those. Part of it might be attributable to expanding medical knowledge, but alot has be due to “technological advances”. Maybe all enslavement certificates should come with a warning label? :wink:

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https://www.foxnews.com/tech/estranged-wife-of-android-co-founder-former-google-exec-accuses-him-of-running-sex-ring-in-civil-complaint

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Yummy!

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Buzzfeed’s looking like a legitimate news organization in this article.

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that’s shocking - you can see how humanity can easily cut off our own food supply with enough toxic pollution. Spreading toxic sludge on farmland - that’s typical of a ruling class that arrests 800,000/yr for a plant.

the whole demonization & ban of medicinal plants was to distract people from the toxic chemicals of the 1900’s and the resulting cancer, autism, epidemics

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Yeah and they sell that shit to us hoping we don’t know Milorganite and Bio-solids are human feces, along with all the medications constantly dumped down the drain.

Yo did you see in one of the first paragraphs, they said the coating on pizza boxes contains PFAS right after saying it’s a known carcinogen.

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These guys say it better than I ever could! Rasta man has the wisdom…amazing tune!

oooooh…the plan of attack
to hide the deadly weapon
in a box of cracker jacks

For ages
the sages
have been aware of this phenomenon
cosmic information traveling through light
straight from the sun

through the process
of photosynthesis
enters the garden
when consumer by mortal man
grants him wisdom!

held to livity
unlock the mystery
of divine energy
natural food
it is the key

and this Babylon did pray
true dem not want we free
start modified genetically
to enslave I & I mentally!

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/smart-home-hub-flaws-unlock-doors/

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/02/midwestern-farmers-struggles-with-extreme-weather-are-visible-space/?utm_term=.d27b3133e328&fbclid=IwAR0f6lt-o_TjQVzy6mMqbPyXqPrcu4rqEB0kqCVSFfCrSUf5eyeSz9dC3Uk

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Now its ok to throw your trash in the ocean! Were going the wrong way on this. Just sayin.

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I hear all the nicotine in cigarette butts used as nesting material helps keep birds free of vermin. :upside_down: :thumbsup:

And yank those bra’s off for the turtles or something… :bikini: :turtle: :helmet_with_cross:

:evergreen_tree:

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