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The Roundup manufacturer faces billions of dollars in potential legal payments

The Missouri House gave its support to a bill that could shield Roundup manufacturer Bayer from lawsuits alleging that it failed to warn consumers about the product’s links to cancer. The bill will now proceed to the state Senate.

The new legislation states that no further labelling on pesticide products, beyond the labelling required by the federal government, will be necessary to “satisfy any requirement for a warning label regarding cancer.” This is likely to make it impossible to claim that Bayer did not warn consumers of potential links to cancer.

The vote last Wednesday was a significant win for the company, whose North American crop-science division is based in the St Louis area.

The chemical giant was part of a coalition of pressure groups that ran ads on the radio, in newspapers and on billboards in favor of the new legislation.

Bayer has given its support to bills in Idaho and Iowa which would provide similar protections against lawsuits related to cancers from exposure to Roundup. Roundup is important to Idaho because glyphosate is made using phosphate, which is mined in the state. The company has significant manufacturing facilities in Iowa, which it has suggested may have to close if it does not receive legal protection from lawsuits.

Like Monsanto, which Bayer bought in 2016, Bayer disputes any and all claims that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, causes or is associated with cancer, despite a slew of lawsuits and scientific studies that suggest otherwise.

Nearly 170,000 legal cases against Bayer claim that Roundup causes a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Although the company has won some cases, huge initial judgments have been made in a number of cases, including that of a Philadelphia man who was awarded $2.25 billion by a jury. Bayer has already paid $10 billion for Roundup claims.

The US EPA continues to maintain that glyphosate is not carcinogenic when used properly as directed.

After the passing of the bill, Bayer issued a statement of thanks, saying: “We are grateful that members of the Missouri House have supported farmers and science over the litigation industry.”

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EMERGENCY WARNING: Deep State Officially Planning To Launch American Civil War

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The Dutch health-device manufacturer was facing thousands of lawsuits for injury and death

Dutch medical-device manufacturer Philips announced on Monday that it has reached an $1.1 billion deal in the US to settle a number of class-action lawsuits brought over its DreamStation sleep-apnea machines.

The lawsuits were brought after Philips announced a nationwide recall of certain machines because of concerns about a polyurethane foam used in the machines to dampen the noise they make when running. It was discovered that the foam could degrade into small particles or off-gas into chemicals that would be inhaled by users as they slept. Some of these chemicals are known carcinogens.

By April 2022, there were nearly 300 active lawsuits against Philips in the US alone. Lawsuits link the devices to various respiratory conditions including asthma, pneumonitis, and pulmonary fibrosis and cancers of the mouth, airways, lungs, blood and thyroid. Over 500 deaths have been alleged.

In January of this year, Philips agreed with regulators that it would cease to sell sleep-apnea machines in the US, as part of an agreement with regulators. The cost of that agreement is estimated to be $400 million.

As part of the new settlement reached on Monday, Philips will not “admit any fault or liability, or that any injuries were caused by Respironics’ devices.”

Philips posted losses of over $500 million in 2023. The company has cut thousand of jobs.

After the announcement of the settlement, the company’s shares rallied by 43%.

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EMERGENCY WARNING: Deep State Officially Planning To Launch American Civil War

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Globalist minion ousted as populism explodes worldwide.

Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf announced his resignation on Monday just one month after his anti-free speech censorship law went into place.

The far-left politician chose to step down just before he was likely to be forcibly removed via a vote of no-confidence by his fellow elected officials.

“While a route through this week’s motion of no confidence was absolutely possible, I am not willing to trade my values and principles or do deals with whoever simply for retaining power… I have concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm,” he said in a resignation speech.

Perhaps complaining the European nation is too white wasn’t the best political strategy!

The failed globalist pawn’s legacy will be that of authoritarian censorship, a surge in illegal immigration, anti-white rhetoric and unpopular “green” climate policies.

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Chemicals used to prevent fires end up in the body, likely setting a proverbial fire to the health of several biological systems.

A recent study has indicated that flame retardant chemicals, some of which are classified as a possible human carcinogen and are commonly found in microplastics, enter the skin through perspiration.

Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDEs) are a type of organobromine compounds which are used as flame retardants that can be found in a vast array of products such as building materials, electronics, home furnishings, cars, planes, polyurethane foams, clothes and plastics.

That last one is especially notable, as microplastic pollution has been found in nearly every corner of the globe, while the pervasiveness of the other categories in daily life ensures likely contact with the compound.

“Microplastics (MPs), defined as plastic particles of less than 5 mm in size, are ubiquitous in the environment and consumer products which inevitably leads to human exposure to these particles confirmed by the recent detection of MPs in human stool (Schwabl et al., 2019), lungs (Jenner et al., 2022) and blood (Leslie et al., 2022). This has raised concern due to the high concentrations of MPs detected in several environmental compartments relevant to human exposure (e.g., air, dust, food, and water), as well as the expected substantial annual increase in environmental MPs concentrations, if no action is taken (Hale et al., 2020),” the study said.

The study, conducted at the University of Birmingham shows that sweaty skin absorbs up to 8 percent of the flame retardant chemicals while dry skin does not.

“More sweaty skin resulted in higher bioavailability of PBDEs from dermal contact with MPs than dry skin,” the study said.

The experimentation was conducted by exposing models of human skin to two commonly occurring types of microplastics which contain PBDEs.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) state that while the effects of low level PBDEs exposure in humans is not well understood, animal studies do indicate harm.

“In animal studies, these chemicals have shown some effects on the thyroid and liver, as well as on brain development,” the CDC said.

The Washington Department of Health indicates that PBDEs are indeed harmful to animals but downplayed any effects on humans.

“Animal studies have shown that PBDE exposure during pregnancy and after birth caused problems with brain development in offspring. These studies observed problems with learning, memory, and behavior in mice and rats. Animal studies also found that PBDEs can alter thyroid and other hormone levels. There is limited evidence of adverse effects in humans,” the WA DOH said.

The state health department has went on to discuss the carcinogenicity of the flame retardant chemical based on animal studies.

“We don’t know if PBDEs can cause cancer in people. Rats and mice that ate food with decabromodiphenyl ether (Deca-BDE, which is one type of PBDE) throughout their lives, developed liver tumors. Based on this information, the EPA classified decabromodiphenyl ether as a possible human carcinogen,” the WA DOH said.

Another study shows that while these chemicals have low acute toxic effects, long term negative health effects from them is likely, and that the chemicals are extremely pervasive in society and ecosystems.

“They have low acute toxicity, but the effects of interfering with the thyroid hormone metabolism in the endocrine system are long term. Many congeners of PBDEs are considered to pose a danger to humans and the aquatic environment,” the study said. “They have shown the possibility of causing many undesirable effects, together with neurologic, immunological, and reproductive disruptions and possible carcinogenicity in humans. PBDEs have been detected in small amounts in biological samples, including hair, human semen, blood, urine, and breastmilk, and environmental samples such as sediment, soil, sewage sludge, air, biota, fish, mussels, surface water, and wastewater.”

Yet another study notes concerns regarding various biological systems in humans being negatively impacted by PBDEs due to the fact the chemicals bioaccumulate.

“The continued accumulation of PBDEs has raised concerns about their potential toxicity, including hepatotoxicity, kidney toxicity, gut toxicity, thyroid toxicity, embryotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, neurotoxicity, and immunotoxicity,” the study said.

And in yet another study, neurological effects on animals is documented.

“Based on studies on experimental animals, the toxicological endpoints of exposure to PBDEs are likely to be thyroid homeostasis disruption, neurodevelopmental deficits, reproductive changes, and even cancer. Experimental studies in animals and epidemiological observations in humans suggest that PBDEs may be developmental neurotoxicants. Pre- and/or postnatal exposure to PBDEs may cause long-lasting behavioral abnormalities, particularly on motor activity and cognition,” the study said.

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BREAKING: Alex Jones Responds To Eva Vlaardingerbroek’s Powerful Replacement Migration Speech

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It used to be you would come home at the end of the day, most people would go, Oh Cheers is on. Oh, M.A.S.H. is on.’

A segment from a recent interview with comedy legend Jerry Seinfeld is going viral online after the comic slammed the “extreme left” for destroying humor with political correctness.

Speaking with The New Yorker‘s “Radio Hour” podcast, Seinfeld noted when he was younger most Americans had a selection of funny shows to watch on television at the end of the day.

“It used to be you would come home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh Cheers is on. Oh, M.A.S.H. is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All In The Family is on.’ You just expected there’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what? Where is it?” he asked.

Seinfeld added, “This is the result of the extreme left, and P.C. crap and people worrying so much about offending other people.”

He went on to explain how modern shows are examined by so many groups in order to gauge public response and avoid triggering any sects of people, that the end result is the death of the show’s comedy.

The brief comment is being widely spread online as millions of Americans on both sides of the political aisle resonate with the oversensitivity of newer generations.

X owner Elon Musk wrote, “Make comedy legal again!” in response to the video.

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The Arizona GOP Party has become the second state Republican Party to pass a ‘Ban the Jab’ resolution. They have also declared the COVID-19 injections to be biological and technological weapons. Dan Schultz, of PrecinctStrategy.com […]

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