Wow! A whopping $11,000 fine for poisoning 300,000 people!

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34. Failure in terms of ensuring that the US public is able to remain healthy and safe is

Viewed as success in protecting the interests of the One Percent.

And we all know by now just who it is that those various governmental agencies are really working for.

As far as what to do so that the People can have hope - I nominate the Community Rights Organization. Simply voting in one party rather than another - it sounds good in principle, but usually the elected officials soon find their hands are tied in terms of taking over important situations. This is on on account of two relevant facts:

One: almost all the important decisions come down to money available (And believe me, there is little or no money available for things here in Calif. at the county or state level. Our wars and our propping up of billionaires has made funds very scarce.)

And,

Two: the important decisions also come down to what the various Fed and state agencies are doing (For instance, here in Calif,. the goddamn sheriff himself of Mendocino or Humboldt county really liked the fact that med marijuana clinics were up and running. He had begun to realize that as dispensaries opened and growers were employed, the dispensaries kept people employed and off county welfare, and the taxes paid by the dispensaries was buying the Sheriff's office new equipment and allowing the department to make new hires. But our precious little DOJ under Eric Holder did not like med marijuana dispensaries. So about one third to two thirds of all of them have been shut down (Depending on which County in Calif. you are talking about.)

Anyway, about 150 communities across the US are going the route of Community Rights orgs. You can Google Paul Cienfuegos and Community rights. Quite a few excellent videos are up on Youtube that explain what Community Rights does. (In Pittsburgh, PA, the three fracking wells that would have been operating by now were banned once the CR folks got their ordinance on the ballot and voted into law. Also in PA, another county got a 14,000 super pig farm banned from their county, before it could come in and destroy the air, the soil and the water.)