3/18/18: We learned this week that U.S. food and soft-drink companies are working hand-in-cookie-jar with the Trump administration to limit the ability of Mexico and Canada, under NAFTA rules, to warn consumers about the dangers of junk food. Of course, they want no part of warning labels on American products. Meanwhile obesity has doubled in at least 73 countries, since 1980.
There had been talk of using easy-to-understand symbols like colors or shapes to warn consumers. Chile, for instance, began in 2012 requiring black stop-signs on certain packaging.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative, leading talks, is trying to head off any move to put warnings on sugary drinks and fatty foods.
In fact, if Trump and his business cronies have it their way, a Milky Way will end up with a label that reads: “Come on, buy me! You’re not obese! You just happen to have a 56-inch waist!”
In 1980, the Center for Disease Prevention and Control estimated that 5.53 million Americans had type-2 diabetes. By 2014 that number had jumped to 21.95 million. This led to 14 million emergency room visits and 79,535 early deaths just that year.
In other words, have another super-sized Coke at McDonalds
and we’ll see you in the emergency room.
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Your big bottom means a good bottom line for corporations. |
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REMEMBER WHEN Trump said he was ready to testify under oath in the Russia probe? Realizing how much trouble the president has telling the truth or even remembering what lies he told ten minutes ago, Ty Cobb, one of his lawyers, quickly intervened. “Mr. Trump was speaking hurriedly and intended only to say that he was willing to meet. He’s ready to meet with them, but he’ll be guided by the advice of his personal counsel,” Cobb said.
That was in January.
Today we hear rumors Cobb is on the way out and John Dowd, a second Trump lawyer may resign. Dowd has told others he feels he has no way to control his client.
At any rate, with globs of malodorous feces hitting the presidential fan, a fresh legal strategy has emerged. First, throw bigger globs at investigators. Second, hire a new set of lawyers and get rid of any who might have scruples.
Did we mention that media sources have revealed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed documents from the Trump Organization, even though we all know there is absolutely nothing fishy going on, involving:
1. Any member of the Trump clan, at least not Barron.
2. Russians.
3. Money-laundering.
4. Russians.
5. Porn star payoffs.
6. Playboy Bunnies.
7.
Even more Russians.
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AT ANY RATE, signs of trouble for the president multiplied all week. Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain, Republicans who still have scruples, warned Trump, who has none, not to fire Mueller. “If he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency [emphasis added], because we’re a rule of law nation,” Graham explained.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, famous for leading the Benghazi investigation and by no means a “hardened Democrat,” said if Trump was innocent, he “should act like it.”
He isn’t and he isn’t.
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