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Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say
Reporting Highlights
- Unsanitary Conditions: Workers at one of the nationâs largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Laboratories facility is engaging in unsanitary practices.
- Cardboard Funnel: In one case, workers said an employee used a piece of cardboard from a trash bin to funnel coconut oil, a formula ingredient, into a tank during production.
- Federal Response: One worker complained to the FDA, but itâs unclear how the agency will respond. The Trump administration recently cut 3,500 jobs at the FDA in a mass layoff.
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Pesky regulations suppressing profits
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The first days of Boss Politics Antitrust"Boss politics" are a feature of corrupt societies. When a society is dominated by self-dealing, corrupt institutions, strongman leaders can seize control by appealing to the public's fury and desperation. Then, the boss can selectively punish corrupt entities that oppose him, and since everyone is corrupt, these will be valid prosecutions.
In other words, it's possible to corruptly enforce the law against the guilty. This is just a matter of enforcement priorities: in a legitimate state, enforcers prioritize the wrongdoers who are harming the public the most. Under boss politics, priority is given to the corrupt entities that challenge the boss's power, without regard to whether these lawbreakers are the worst offenders. Meanwhile, worse wrongdoers walk free, provided that they line up behind the boss. (...)
Trump is a classic boss politician â that's what people mean when they call him "transactional": he doesn't act out of principle, he acts out of self interest. The people who give him the most get the most back from him. This means that Biden's brightest legacy â militant antitrust enforcement of a type not seen in generations â is now going to become "boss antitrust," where genuine monopolists are attacked under antitrust law, but only if they oppose Trump: (...)
The Federal Trade Commission has lost its Biden-era chair, the extraordinary Lina Khan, who did more in four years than all her predecessors did in the preceding forty years, combined. The new chair is Republican Andrew Ferguson, whose first day on the job was a bloodbath, in which he killed off multiple, significant actions aimed at producing real, material benefits from Americans who are being absolutely screwed by corporations: (...)
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RTX (ex-Raytheon) busted for âextraordinaryâ corruption
How bad do you have to be to get slapped with nearly $1 billion in fines?Indictments of arms contractors for corruption and malfeasance are not uncommon, but recently revealed cases of illegal conduct by RTX (formerly Raytheon) are extraordinary even by the relatively lax standards of the defense industry.
The company has agreed to pay nearly $1 billion in fines, which is one of the highest figures ever for corruption in the arms sector. To incur these fines, RTX participated in price gouging on Pentagon contracts, bribing officials in Qatar, and sharing sensitive information with China.
Engaging in illegal conduct on this scale suggests that, far from being an aberration, this behavior may be business as usual for the company. Given the scale of RTXâs malfeasance, the Justice Department should take a close look at the practices of other arms contractors to determine whether these infractions are industry standard.
The companyâs approach is reminiscent of the way arms companies did business in the 1960s, when, for example, massive cost overruns on Lockheed Martinâs C-5 transport plane drew fire from internal critics like Ernest Fitzgerald and congressional gadflies, like the-Democratic Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin.
Resorting to bribery has been less prevalent since Sen. Proxmire pushed through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which was a response to a massive scandal involving the bribery of officials in Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia. The exposure brought about by the scandal â which covered events going back to the 1950s that were not known to the general public until a set of 1975 Senate hearings on the activities of multinational corporations showed the world how bribery was used to sway the decisions of foreign policy makers. This resulted in major consequences, including the conviction of former Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, along with 10 other business people and government officials.
These days, with the exception of egregious cases like the recent conviction of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) for taking bribes from the Egyptian government, most arms companies are more subtle in their efforts to influence foreign government officials, as far as can be determined. Bribery as blatant as passing along bags of cash, as happened in a number of cases in the 1960s and 1970s, is no longer prevalent. Now bribes are hidden amongst business deals. For example, a precondition of most major U.S. arms sales is the creation of an âoffsetâ or kickback agreement. Basically, if a country spends billions of dollars on a U.S.-supplied weapon system, the company making the sale is expected to give something back to the purchasing country. (...)
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haresfur wrote: kurtster wrote: Understood. However, he Trump did little to defend the country either. He let the world Putin walk all over us. Do pardon the oversimplification.
Fixed And what again were all the new things Putin started while Trump was in office ?
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kurtster wrote:
Understood. However, he Trump did little to defend the country either. He let the world Putin walk all over us. Do pardon the oversimplification.
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Proclivities wrote: kurtster wrote:...This is where I remind everyone here that Trump was the most antiwar POTUS in my lifetime. Jimmy Carter, president from 1977 to 1981, never formally declared war or sought authorization to use force from Congress during his presidency. Understood. However, he did little to defend the country either. He let the world walk all over us. Do pardon the oversimplification.
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kurtster wrote:...This is where I remind everyone here that Trump was the most antiwar POTUS in my lifetime.
Jimmy Carter, president from 1977 to 1981, never formally declared war or sought authorization to use force from Congress during his presidency.
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kurtster wrote:
I strongly disagree with your first link and its overt bias.
The second one from the CFR. You've got to be kidding. Neocon central and you are citing them ?
I'm sticking to my story.
Shooting the messengers, ignoring the facts.
Stuck on (Fox) stupid alright.
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R_P wrote: kurtster wrote:This makes the case for Trump's foreign policy. Coexist with our enemies, not disrupt them and try to democratize them. And the case for borders and national sovereignty. Live and let live. It is not up to the US to overthrow evil dictators. It is up to the people who are ruled by them to do that themselves. Contain the "evil" to within the borders or country where it exists. Invest in ourselves, defend ourselves and way of life and lead by example, not by the point of a spear. This is where I remind everyone here that Trump was the most antiwar POTUS in my lifetime. Only one month ago. And not only "kinetic" wars: The Cost of Trump’s Trade War with China Is Still Adding Up I strongly disagree with your first link and its overt bias. The second one from the CFR. You've got to be kidding. Neocon central and you are citing them ? I'm sticking to my story.
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kurtster wrote:
This makes the case for Trump's foreign policy. Coexist with our enemies, not disrupt them and try to democratize them. And the case for borders and national sovereignty.
Live and let live. It is not up to the US to overthrow evil dictators. It is up to the people who are ruled by them to do that themselves. Contain the "evil" to within the borders or country where it exists. Invest in ourselves, defend ourselves and way of life and lead by example, not by the point of a spear.
This is where I remind everyone here that Trump was the most antiwar POTUS in my lifetime.
Only one month ago.
And not only "kinetic" wars: The Cost of Trumpâs Trade War with China Is Still Adding Up
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thisbody wrote: Check this out: American Messianism by Paul R. Grenier, at Landmarks. - The deck: “Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity or even a duty.” This makes the case for Trump's foreign policy. Coexist with our enemies, not disrupt them and try to democratize them. And the case for borders and national sovereignty. Live and let live. It is not up to the US to overthrow evil dictators. It is up to the people who are ruled by them to do that themselves. Contain the "evil" to within the borders or country where it exists. Invest in ourselves, defend ourselves and way of life and lead by example, not by the point of a spear. This is where I remind everyone here that Trump was the most antiwar POTUS in my lifetime.
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NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
oh, I'm not defending Coca Cola in the least. But you were attacking America per se. Given that you are German, I'd first check your nation's own grubby record before smearing others.
And anyway, this nation-bashing approach is long obsolete. We live in a global village. Maybe we should start acting accordingly.
I just guess, you can't have it both ways, Bruce. One time (most often) it's world democracy at stake for you and the usual suspects need to be bombed, regardless of how many light-years away from American soil they live - and then, all of-a-sudden it's the global village that needs us to obey with some world-brotherhood ideas pulled somewhere from space, Swiss Davos, or not, you name it...
Check this out:
American Messianism by Paul R. Grenier, at Landmarks. - The deck: âEvil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity or even a duty.â
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