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[probablyasocialecologist]

It was recently revealed that agrochemical giant Monsanto runs an “intelligence fusion center” to compile information on and conduct disinformation and harassment campaigns against journalists and activists who threaten the company’s financial interests through their research or organizing. “Fusion center” is the same term the FBI uses for its counterterrorism centers. In just one example, Monsanto targeted a Reuters journalist investigating the carcinogenic effects of the company’s star product, glyphosate, or Roundup. Their campaign included coordinating “third parties” to post negative reviews of the book, hiring scientists to cast doubt on the book’s conclusions, pressuring the journalist’s editors at Reuters “very strongly every chance we get” in the hope “she gets reassigned,” covering up their financial relationship with scientists claiming their product was safe, accusing the journalist of being a “pro-organic capitalist” activist, as though there were big bucks to be made in opposing some of the world’s largest chemical companies, and contracting search engine optimization (SEO) experts to make sure that their alternative facts, their negative reviews, and their various slanders of said journalist would appear in search engines above results showing how Roundup causes cancer.

The above case illustrates how corporations can orchestrate subtle campaigns of censorship, often without revealing their hand. In 2020, an academic publisher abruptly canceled the publication of a book that showed how Canadian mining companies benefited from the genocide in Guatemala, moving in to stake their claims sometimes even before the death squads had left. The publishers expressed fears of lawsuits for defamation, though they refused to point out what part of the book, which received favorable peer reviews, might be considered defamation. And in Canada, the RCMP spied on the release event of a book against mining.

Peter Gelderloos, The Solutions are Already Here

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust

After 40 years of rampant corporate crime, there's a new sheriff in town: Jonathan Kanter was appointed by Biden to run the DOJ Antitrust Divisoon, and he's overseen 170 "significant antitrust actions" in the past 2.5 years, culminating in a court case where Google was ruled to be an illegal monopolist:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve

Kanter's work is both extraordinary and par for the course. As Kanter said in a recent keynote for the Fordham Law Competition Law Institute’s 51st Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy, we're witnessing an epochal, global resurgence of antitrust:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-jonathan-kanter-delivers-remarks-fordham-competition-law-0

Kanter's incredible enforcement track record isn't just part of a national trend – his colleagues in the FTC, CFPB and other agencies have also been pursuing an antitrust agenda not seen in generations – but also a worldwide trend. Antitrust enforcers in Canada, the UK, the EU, South Korea, Australia, Japan and even China are all taking aim at smashing corporate monopolies. Not only are they racking up impressive victories against these giant corporations, they're stealing the companies' swagger. After all, the point of enforcement isn't just to punish wrongdoing, but also to deter wrongdoing by others.

Until recently, companies hurled themselves into illegal schemes (mergers, predatory pricing, tying, refusals to deal, etc) without fear or hesitation. Now, many of these habitual offenders are breaking the habit, giving up before they've even tried. Take Wiz, a startup that turned down Google's record-shattering $23b buyout offer, understanding that the attempt would draw more antitrust scrutiny than it was worth:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wiz-turns-down-23-billion-022926296.html

As welcome as this antitrust renaissance is, it prompts an important question: why didn't we enforce antitrust law for the 40 years between Reagan and Biden?

That's what Kanter addresses the majority of his remarks to. The short answer is: crooked academic economists took bribes from monopolists and would-be monopolists to falsify their research on the impacts of monopolists, and made millions (literally – one guy made over $100m at this) testifying that monopolies were good and efficient.

After all, governments aren't just there to enforce rules – they have to make the rules first, and do to that, they need to understand how the world works, so they can understand how to fix the places where it's broken. That's where experts come in, filling regulators' dockets and juries' ears with truthful, factual testimony about their research. Experts can still be wrong, of course, but when the system works well, they're only wrong by accident.

The system doesn't work well. Back in the 1950s, the tobacco industry was threatened by the growing scientific consensus that smoking caused cancer. Industry scientists confirmed this finding. In response, the industry paid statisticians, doctors and scientists to produce deceptive research reports and testimony about the tobacco/cancer link.

The point of this work wasn't necessarily to convince people that tobacco was safe – rather, it was to create the sense that the safety of tobacco was a fundamentally unanswerable question. "Experts disagree," and you're not qualified to figure out who's right and who's wrong, so just stop trying to figure it out and light up.

In other words, Big Tobacco's cancer denial playbook wasn't so much an attack on "the truth" as it was an attack on epistemology – the system by which we figure out what is true and what isn't. The tactic was devastatingly effective. Not only did it allow the tobacco giants to kill millions of people with impunity, it allowed them to reap billions of dollars by doing so.

Since then, epistemology has been under sustained assault. By the 1970s, Big Oil knew that its products would render the Earth unfit for human habitation, and they hired the same companies that had abetted Big Tobacco's mass murder to provide cover for their own slow-motion, planetary scale killing spree.

Time and again, big business has used assaults on epistemology to provide cover for unthinkable crimes. This has given rise to today's epistemological crisis, in which we don't merely disagree about what is true, but (far more importantly) disagree about how the truth can be known:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/#when-you-know-you-know

Ask a conspiratorialist why they believe in Qanon or Hatians in Springfield eating pets, and you'll get an extremely vibes-based answer – fundamentally, they believe it because it feels true. As the old saying goes, you can't reason someone out of a belief they didn't reason their way into.

This assault on reason itself is at the core of Kanter's critique. He starts off by listing three cases in which academic economists allowed themselves to be corrupted by the monopolies they studied:

George Mason University tricked an international antitrust enforcer into attending a training seminar that they believed to be affiliated with the US government. It was actually sponsored by the very companies that enforcer was scrutnizing, and featured a parade of "experts" who asserted that these companies were great, actually.

An academic from GMU – which receives substantial tech industry funding – signed an amicus brief opposing an enforcement action against their funders. The academic also presented a defense of these funders to the OECD, all while posing as a neutral academic and not disclosing their funding sources.

An ex-GMU economist, Joshua Wright, submitted a study defending Qualcomm against the FTC, without disclosing that he'd been paid to do so. Wright has elevated undisclosed conflicts of interest to an art form:

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/google-lawyer-secret-weapon-joshua-wright-c98d5a31

Kanter is at pains to point out that these three examples aren't exceptional. The economics profession – whose core tenet is "incentive matter" – has made it standard practice for individual researchers and their academic institutions to take massive sums from giant corporations. Incredibly, they insist that this has nothing to do with their support of monopolies as "efficient."

Academic centers often serve as money-laundries for monopolist funders; researchers can evade disclosure requirements when they publish in journals or testify in court, saying only that they work for some esteemed university, without noting that the university is utterly dependent on money from the companies they're defending.

Now, Kanter is a lawyer, not an academic, and that means that his job is to advocate for positions, and he's at pains to say that he's got nothing but respect for ideological advocacy. What he's objecting to is partisan advocacy dressed up as impartial expertise.

For Kanter, mixing advocacy with expertise doesn't create expert advocacy – it obliterates expertise, as least when it comes to making good policy. This mixing has created a "crisis of expertise…a pervasive breakdown in the distinction between expertise and advocacy in competition policy."

The point of an independent academia, enshrined in the American Association of University Professors' charter, is to "advance knowledge by the unrestricted research and unfettered discussion of impartial investigators." We need an independent academy, because "to be of use to the legislator or the administrator, [an academic] must enjoy their complete confidence in the disinterestedness of [his or her] conclusions."

It's hard to overstate just how much money economists can make by defending monopolies. Writing for The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner gives the rate at $1,000/hour. Monopoly's top defenders make unimaginable sums, like U Chicago's Dennis Carlton, who's brought in over $100m in consulting fees:

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-09-24-economists-as-apologists/

The hidden cost of all of this is epistemological consensus. As Tim Harford writes in his 2021 book The Data Detective, the truth can be known through research and peer-review:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/04/how-to-truth/#harford

But when experts deliberately seek to undermine the idea of expertise, they cast laypeople into an epistemological void. We know these questions are important, but we can't trust our corrupted expert institutions. That leaves us with urgent questions – and no answers. That's a terrifying state to be in, and it makes you easy pickings for authoritarian grifters and conspiratorial swindlers.

Seen in this light, Kanter's antitrust work is even more important. In attacking corporate power itself, he is going after the machine that funds this nihilism-inducing corruption machine.

This week, Tor Books published SPILL, a new, free LITTLE BROTHER novella about oil pipelines and indigenous landback!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/25/epistemological-chaos/#incentives-matter

Image: Ron Cogswell (modified) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George.Mason.University.Arlington.Campus.jpg

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[covid-safer-hotties]

No worries if you genuinely have no idea about this, but do you think bird flu has the potential to become as bad as or worse than covid? So far, it seems to mainly only spread from animals to humans but I've heard that a lot more cases have been popping up recently so I'm nervous about it turning into a full blown human to human pandemic.

From what I've heard from working epidemiologists on Twitter, California is the only state that has been even partially proactive in testing and disease management. It's entirely likely many human to human cases are going untested and untraced because H5N1 has been in wild birds and some wild mammals from coast to coast since about last year (USDA has been tracking H5N1 wildlife spread since late 2022, starting in seabirds and seals if I remember correctly) and earlier this fall, there were multiple reports of poultry and diary workers with H5N1-type conjunctivitis who refused to quarantine or test and moved from state to state for work. That's not even mentioning the no known bird contact cases in Canada and several across the US. Even if there were some obvious cases of H5N1 presenting in hospitals, doctors by and large aren't testing for covid, flu, and RSV, and cases of RSV and Flu are rising right alongside Covid as we speak. Even if we weren't in yet another winter "tripledemic" ("quintdemic" if you count norovirus and whooping cough too), the Biden Administration has done it's damndest to defund some critical public health response apparatuses in order to cover up the persistent spread of covid. It's likely that by the time we confirm in a lab human to human spread, we will already have a full-blown epidemic on our hands, and then Trump will have the reins and his anti-public-health appointees will do their best to hamper the response because of the new amendment they'll pass giving Americans the right to raw milk. I'm being a little hyperbolic, but numerous epidemiologists and public health officials that I trust about covid have been growing more and more concerned with the lack of response to H5N1 among other illnesses. I don't think that H5N1 will be quite so bad as covid in terms of transmissibility and immune escape, and unlike covid we already have the tech and infrastructure to churn out flu vaccines, but I think the collective covid denial and demand to never have another Public health response ever again will make the impact more deadly in the start, especially because our hospitals are already at the brink of overwhelm before Covid has really kicked off for the winter. Sorry this was rambling but it's kind of flow of consciousness: there's a few years worth of reading and concern to sort through and I'm not sorting good right now.

This is my opinion as an aggregator of information and someone who's been watching the situation unfold for over two years now, not an expert. I'm not intending to frighten or spread misinformation, just saying right now is the time to invest in non-perishable foodstuffs, home necessities, masks, and maybe even goggles since spread via eyes is a concern with avian influenza. Be prepared, not sorry.

[agp]

started flipping tables in my head again like those old rage comics cause cbc published another article on solidarity with palestinians that presents 'from the river to the sea' as a call for the ethnic cleansing of jewish people, but that 'its meaning and use is more complicated'. ill click the link on the part of the sentence that says 'experts told cbc' (its complicated) when i feel like flipping tables again but in the meantime lets try working with one instead of dropping the whole thing.

from the river to the sea palestine will be free from jews is an antisemitic position, one that is no different from the same calls for the ethnic cleansing of jewish people antisemites around the world call for in their own countries. a problem arises in that israel benefits from antisemitism in what it maintains as diasporas, antisemites and zionists have worked together for over a century to tie jewish people to this particular colony in palestine, and the notion of jewish people as necessarily foreigners wherever they may be maintains its legitimacy specifically through the exception that is israel.

to belong somewhere is too often not to belong elsewhere, and in the case of zionism, belonging is employed in a way that existentially ties the struggle against antisemitism, the ongoing genocidal process that targets jewish people, with zionism, the ongoing settler colonial process that targets palestinian land and produces a genocidal relationship between its settlers and indigenous people. for jewish people not to belong 'here' and not to 'belong nowhere', they must 'belong somewhere', and for them to 'truly belong' (the american way), they must put into question the belonging of everyone only to fall back on settler bourgeois property relations. that is why the right to return of palestinians is something zionists refuse to concede to, and fundamentally can not: because the unbelonging of palestinians from their land is a necessary function of israeli sovereignty, through the colonial establishment of bourgeois property rights.

the violence capital has wrought on the body of the earth has been given a special attribution to jewish people for a long time. so called socialists have historically tempted to solve the contradictions of capital by means of scapegoating jewish people. the violence committed in the name of israel is not uniquely jewish in character: it is colonial, imperialist, capitalist violence being committed by people who are jewish. even though israel is a product of global antisemitism and a pervasive cultivated desire in the west to expel jews, the israeli economy and its settler bourgeois property relations is its material raison d'etre, and this, again, is not uniquely jewish, it is simply another segment of the bourgeoisie being bourgeois. what one calls a national bourgeoisie

from the river to the sea palestine will be free. from apartheid. from genocide. from settler colonialism. from imperialism. from capitalism. but right now it is not. the sun will set on israel one day, just like canada and the us, just like the so called thousand year reich that only lasted a handful of years because of its imperialist colonial and genocidal relationship to its volk, lebensraum, and whoever and whatever was next door.

to fill the gap of 'what does freedom involve' with 'the ethnic cleansing of jewish people' shouldnt be considered more reasonable when the topic is israel and palestine. it should be rejected as an antisemitic position, and yet it is so often being presented not only as a reasonable conclusion but as the only way it could be. as common sense. of course freedom means kill the jews, and to question this is the real antisemitism. of course this is all the palestinians could ever mean by freedom

when mel gibson was screaming about freedom in that movie do you think it was about getting back to committing pogroms? that jewish presence was his characters real problem with the english? idk ive never seen it but why would it necessarily be the case with israel and palestine? there being a greater need to expel jews because there are a higher proportion of jews is just antisemitic reasoning. it being a colony that is so jewish it explicitly considers itself as such shouldnt be a reason for us to implicate every jewish person globally as a collective in punishment and further buy into and reproduce zionist propaganda.

to abolish israel would not only liberate palestinians, it would also liberate jewish people from zionist claims of an existential relationship to apartheid in palestine. to believe that without zionism jewish people could not culturally or biologically survive is to take the zionist claim regarding existentiality and colonialism to those degrees.

the liberation of palestine is historically inevitable. it will happen. this process necessarily involving the ethnic cleansing of jewish people is an antisemitic lie that serves a dual function: rejection of palestinian resistance based on essentialist claims of antisemitism and rejection of antisemitism based on essentialist claims of zionist interest. zionism puts the interests of jews and palestinians in conflict, and only a free palestine can allow for actual jewish safety there.

from the river to the sea palestine will be free from collective punishment. but right now it is not. palestinians are experiencing genocide at the hands of israel and its supporters. the end of apartheid is a historical necessity: it will eventually happen. you cannot stop it from collapsing, only delay it. israels days are numbered, just like canada and the us. every day without a ceasefire is another particular form of breath of existence for israel, and another set of breaths taken away from palestinians. ceasefire now.

[panicinthestudio]

"Doctors are pushing back against Alberta's COVID-19 task force report. Here's why", Canada Tonight, January 28, 2025

Alberta doctors are pushing back against a report published by the task force created by Alberta's UCP government to review the province's pandemic response, saying it contains misinformation and poses a threat to public health. Canada Tonight medical contributor Dr. Samir Gupta breaks down the implications of this report. CBC News

The UCP using its position to generate medical dis- and misinformation about vaccination and public health measures that slowed the spread of COVID, is not as surprising as it is galling. Not only are they misrepresenting the existing science and data, but also promoting debunked therapies like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine on the public dime. Now they're making recommendations for future policy that deny masks help prevent spread either in the public or in health care settings, and especially for children. The latter is the most troubling because the authors are explicitly pushing back that children were a transmission risk, that they also experience severe outcomes, or that long-term effects of contracting COVID for children and adults alike are still in question.

We were a hotspot in multiple waves because people refused to follow health measures like social distancing and proper masking. Every time they eased early, the explosion of cases put us back where we were with supply and bed shortages. This was further diluted by the UCP's own rush to dismantle testing as soon as it was convenient in the interest of the economy; narrowing the population able to get mRNA boosters despite availability and proven safety; undermining the Alberta Health Service and their own medical experts, including selling off and being forced to buy back public lab services in a span of a year during the pandemic, with existing plans to lean more on private providers and facilities, and worsen existing staffing shortages; and finally courting anti-vaccine, reactionary, and medical science skeptics for political gain. It hasn't even been a full five years, and we are already actively trying to forget the panic for basic supplies, let alone the scramble for respirators and PPE.

This report is ultimately revisionism and denial of the pandemic that many people didn't make it out of, and an insult to all those that tried their best to keep the rest of us healthy at the expense of their own safety. The general public was not asked to do much more than anyone else: keeping distance, observe basic hygiene, mask in public and socially, while avoiding situations and gatherings where transmission is likely. Yes, it changed and disrupted lives but using the pretext of a official report to erase the lessons that were learned the hard way is not a solution, if not dangerous.

[marta-bee]

News of the Week 1/23/25

It sure has been one heck of a week, hasn't it? (... It's Wednesday, Lemon. ...) If you're up to it, click on through for all the news that's fit to print.

Immigration

US House passes immigration bill requiring deportation of any non-citizen convicted of sexual abuse or domestic violence (X) & an explanation for why this bill is bad for DV survivors. The Senate has also now separately passed a similar bill.

Trump signs executive order to end birthright citizenship. (RP) It's being challenged, but it's still upsetting and dangerous it's even being put out there. It also impacts children born to parents on temporary visas, even if they're in the country legally. (RP)

Trump shuts down the CBP One app, which allowed migrants to schedule appointments connected to asylum claims. Stories of the migrants affected. (12ft.io) Trump also cancelled travel of refugees coming from around the world indefinitely, including families of US military fleeing the Taliban.

Immigration officials will be allowed to arrest people for deportation at schools and churches.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde speaks boldly to President Trump at a prayer service linked to the inauguration (VIDEO), urging him to show kindness and mercy to LGBT people and undocumented immigrants.

Foreign Affairs

It should be up to us: Greenlanders on Trump, Denmark - and their land

Trump to withdraw from Paris Climate Accords. (RP)

Trump to withdraw from World Health Organization. (RP)

Trump announces 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, starting 2/1.

Russia warns Trump against taking back Panama Canal (RP). Aside from Panama's obvious interest in not being bullied out of their own territory, this article draws an interesting parallel with Russia and Ukraine, and they're right: seizing or coercing another country to give up their territorial rights makes it that much harder to call out Russia doing much the same there.

Sec. State Marco Rubio Oversees Pause on Foreign Aid. (RP)

Trump cancels security detail for Michael Bolton, former national security advisor critical of him in first term. (RP)

Trump threatens Russia with tariffs and sanctions if they don't end war in Ukraine.

Oligarchy and Autocracy

In his farewell speech, Biden called Elon and the other tech bros' cozying up to Trump an "oligarchy." Experts debate if the term's justified.

Trump plans to reinstate Schedule F, allowing him to fire non-political civil servants more easily. (RP) The article also discusses some truly grisly executive orders on immigration, as well as his plans to pardon the 1/6 traitors.

Trump pardons or commutes sentences for all the January 6th traitors. (RP)

Trump reinstates Schedule F and strips other protections from non-partisan civil servants. (12ft.io)

Trump announces axing of over 1,000 staff, including General Milley, via late-night Truth post. (RP)

Elon Musk makes gesture described as Nazi salute. (RP) Twice, actually.

Russell Vought, the nominated OBM director, is questioned over presidential impoundment. Basically, this would mean the president could simply refuse to distribute funds approved by Congress. (Think when Trump sat on military aid for Ukraine unless they investigated Hunter Biden for him, the scandal behind his first impeachment.)

Gender, LGBT and Abortion-related

Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is "the law of the land," (RP) but doesn't order the US Archivist to publish and certify it. This may kick off a legal battle or add pressure to the Archivist, but doesn't itself amend the Constitution.

Case attempting to limit access to mifepristone in specific red states allowed to proceed. (12ft.io)

Trump signs executive order that federal government will only recognize your gender assigned at birth.

DC Episcopal bishop urges Trump to show mercy to trans people and migrants in prayer service connected to inauguration. The comments were predictable from this particular bishop (though no less true), raising the question of why Trump chose to platform her. It should have been predictable from any Christian minister, though not all would have been so brave: she just said he claimed to be guided by a God of mercy, and urged him to show that same mercy to scared, vulnerable people.

Trump orders the end of all DEI programs, has put all DEI employees on paid leave until they can legally be fired, and has tasked other federal employees to identify co-workers working in DEI whose jobs aren't labelled as such, or face adverse consequences.

Other Stuff

Trump temporarily halts leasing and permitting for offshore wind farms.

Trump withdraws from Paris Climate Change accords, again.

Trump orders "emergency price relief" on housing by executive order, though it's unclear how he plans to accomplish this. Making undocumented workers, who make up a huge share of the construction industry, and imposing tariffs on Canadian lumber and other building materials seems counter-productive to this goal.

Nazi flag-bearing man gets 8 years in prison for 2023 truck crashing near White House (X) He was also schizophrenic and an Indian immigrant. I'm not sure it's currently all that newsy, but it is fascinating.

Man accused of starting fire at congressional office motivated by TikTok ban, police say. (RP)

Why Trump supporters see sunshine in Trump's dark and foreboding speeches. (RP) Not news, of course, but an interesting and important discussion. It's weird to think of Republicans being disgusted by their own country, and more reason why I need to periodically focus on why I like America.

Trump doubles down on death penalty at the federal level, and pledges to make sure states have access to lethal injection drugs.

Trump administration pauses all external communications to outside health agencies and the public. Meaning if the CDC notes an uptick in avian flu cases, they're not currently allowed to warn us. Because nothing like that's ever been a problem before.

[highflysourcing]

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Stupid Doctors. Stupid Eyes.

So, did two doctors in one day. Two separate issues, remarkably similar difficulty in communicating and getting healthcare. Part of it MUST be the autism, but that CAN'T be all.

Doctor #1 was following up on a previous phone appointment. I had asked for an in-person appointment to lay out my case, told him I had almost a clean sweep of hypothyroid symptoms, told him I need a doctor who can handle my thyroid and "female hormones" (no other polite way to say, Can you handle all my hormones or not, you are a hormone doctor) because they interact with each other and if I have to keep ping-ponging back and forth between two doctors to work on this, I will not get adequate care. He started to ask about what estrogen I'd been on before during that appointment, but he backed off and tried to get me to see another gynecologist when I mentioned Canada kept running out of the patches I'd been prescribed. I tried to reiterate that if I have to square my treatment up between two doctors, I may die, but he said I might prefer an "expert."

I heard "you can use this other doctor if you're more comfortable with them," which I wouldn't have been, so I ran off and got a referral that would OK him to handle the estrogen and progesterone. He meant, "Under no circumstances will I handle that for you, even though I could. It's too complicated for me."

This became clear over the course of a five minute phone appointment, which I only accepted because it was the soonest one available. I thought he'd follow up in the office. And, although he wanted more blood work, I reminded him he told me the numbers were unreliable and he would need to address the symptoms, and he agreed with me, he just wanted the numbers too. Yesterday, numbers in hand, he told me my thyroid levels looked too high, so he was decreasing my dose, and I could have another blood test in three months. Bye. No discussion of unaddressed symptoms that don't look ANYTHING like hyperthyroid.

Did he get the referral? Could he address my "female" hormones? Well, he'd told my family doctor to refer me to that gynecologist! WHAT family doctor? That's not my family doctor anymore, he was fucking with my thyroid treatment that YOU prescribed me, among other very bad things, AND I LEFT HIM. I swear, I told the guy that LAST TIME.

OK. So I need a new endocrinologist who will actually handle all of my hormones, and I need to do all the research and find this person for myself, then ask the clinic to refer me to them. I could've started on this weeks ago if the fucker had just expressed himself in clear language. I TRIED to tell him as many ways that I could, "If you can't do that for me, I NEED ANOTHER DOCTOR," but he didn't hear that.

Doctor #2 was the surgeon who "fixed" my eyes so I can't maintain focus or acuity. I had a fight with the tech, and then with him, trying to explain the difference between, "I can read this, even though it's blurry, because I can guess what the letters are based on their basic shapes and the other letters in the line," and "You can read that just fine!" I tried to verbalize my struggles and this confused them. "Stop trying to focus on the letters, just read them." DON'T FOCUS ON THE LETTERS, JUST READ THEM???

They also had difficulty understanding the nature of the visual distortions. "Is this better or worse?" "My eyes get tired and stop focusing. It's not consistent." "But is it better or worse?" "I've been focusing on details for multiple letters now, and my eyes are refusing to stay in focus. I don't know." "Your prescription isn't consistent." *a pause, while my verbal ability crashes and I try to reset* "Wh-Why would it be?"

The doctor didn't know what binocular vision dysfunction was. Last time I saw him, I swear, the nurse asked what it was, and he explained it to her. It was brief and light on the details, but he did. Now he doesn't know what it is. He forgot since last year?

Also, I should not call the thing where a faint double of the image or text appears above or below it "double vision." "Double vision" is some other specific thing, not seeing two things, one of which is fainter. It's confusing for them when I call that "double vision." Cool. That makes very little sense to me and makes it even harder for me to keep talking. Thanks.

Anyway, they put me in front of a couple machines to take images and this time, FINALLY, I coughed up numbers that say something is wrong. My lenses are supposed to let light through at a "10." The left one is at a "9," which the doctor thinks is "not bad" and then he never addresses the blurriness in that eye again. Because the right one is at ".89". There's a decimal in there. It's less than one. This is severe. I must have a cataract.

But I only had the surgery because they thought my lenses looked fine and I wouldn't have cataracts for a decade or more! All of a sudden I have a cataract? "Well, let's dilate your eye and have a look!"

No cataract. He can't see anything. Yet he is holding an image with a number that says YES cataract.

Well, okay, I can read, so my vision isn't that bad (Oh, dear god) but let's give it a month, come back and see if the machine says the invisible cataract has progressed any. If it's still there and still invisible, you can have a referral to a cataract specialist. Oh, this has gone on so long, all the techs are at lunch. Well, they'll call you to make an appointment when they get back.

They still haven't called me, I guess they've been at lunch since yesterday.

I want my money back. I really, really do. If I have early-onset cataracts they missed, I did not have the information I needed to consent to that surgery. I don't think it's going to happen, though. Cataract surgery would be covered, if I just got a regular lens. But if I'm letting them cut into my eyeball and risk more pain and severe dry eye after all I've been through, I want a better lens - if that would work for me. God alone knows how I'll find a doctor whose opinion I trust to ask about that.

I still have no idea why the left eye is blurry and THEY CAN'T SEE ANY CATARACTS. This doctor is painfully nonchalant about having no idea WTF is going on. Hey, the surgery was a success! I can read! According to him! I don't have the endurance to draw or the speed to drive, but that's cool. No big deal.

Bleh. This is probably poorly-worded, with typos, but this is what's going on with me. This is what I'm trying to accomplish while still telling stories and enjoying life as the world falls apart. I'm a little tired and distracted, that's all.

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[killed-by-choice]

Erin Shannon, 18 (Canada 1986)

In 1986, abortions deemed “therapeutic” were legal in Canada. The law required that a request for abortion approval be sent by a medical doctor to a Therapeutic Abortion Committee of experts including no less than three medical doctors, who would review the case to judge if the abortion would be safe for the applicant and if it would serve a purpose deemed “therapeutic.”

Although these safeguards were intended to protect pregnant people, these regulations were all too easily manipulated by those in the abortion industry who put profit over lives. One of the victims of this “rubber-stamping” was Erin Shannon.

Erin was 18 years old when she was seen at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital’s ER in Ottawa on December 3, 1985. She was diagnosed with a UTI, given a prescription for medication and sent home. She saw her regular doctor, Dr. Patrick Cross, the following month on January 10. Dr. Cross examined her and discovered something that the ER had missed: Erin was pregnant.

At the time of the treatment for her infection, Erin hadn’t realized she was pregnant because she had a history of irregular periods. The Riverside Hospital conducted an ultrasound on January 13 and estimated that she was 17 weeks pregnant. Three days after the ultrasound, she returned to Dr. Cross to discuss her options.

Dr. Cross was concerned that an abortion would be hazardous to Erin’s health, especially one done so late in pregnancy. Over the next several days he had a series of conversations with Erin’s mother, who said that Erin wanted an abortion. Dr. Cross tried to warn her that it was medically in Erin’s best interest to have the baby, but by January 20, Erin’s mother informed Dr. Cross that her daughter wanted an abortion.

Erin and her mother went to abortionist Irving Soloway, who self-identified as “specializing in late-term abortions” that other doctors would not do. Soloway told Erin and her mother to bring a letter from Dr. Cross recommending an abortion. When Dr. Cross refused to write the letter and once again recommended against the abortion for Erin’s safety, Soloway simply wrote the letter himself.

Soloway’s letter to the TAC was undated and simply said “This young girl is pregnant and cannot carry on because of psycho social reasons and I therefore strongly recommend a TA for this patient.” Not once did the letter mention that a doctor had already advised against the abortion. This single-sentence letter was all it took to seal Erin’s fate.

During the later inquest over her daughter’s death, Erin’s mother recounted her surprise at how quickly Soloway proceeded. She had been under the impression that Soloway would give Erin a pre-op exam for her safety and then schedule an appointment for the abortion. Instead, Soloway went ahead and inserted no fewer than eight laminaria dilators (later discovered to have been inserted before the letter of recommendation was even sent) and told Erin to return for the abortion early the very next morning.

That same afternoon, Erin began to suffer from a discharge of yellowish fluid. Soloway’s practice was called, but his staff said that this was normal and dismissed any concerns.

The next morning at 8:00 AM, Erin was admitted to the Surgical Day Care Unit. The nurse who saw her before the abortion later testified that “app’d” (shorthand for approved) was handwritten beside Erin’s name on the O.R. sheet between 8:00 and 8:30 AM.

Erin was taken into the operating room at 10:05 AM. The D&E abortion was completed at 10:22, right about the time that Erin went into cardiac arrest. Despite all attempts to resuscitate her, she was declared dead by 10:53. Just as Dr. Cross feared, the abortion was not safe for Erin.

Erin’s autopsy diagnosed the cause of her death as amniotic fluid embolism and heart failure. Her mother was stunned that the abortion that had allegedly been approved as “therapeutic” for her daughter had killed her instead.

The inquest over Erin’s death revealed that the “safeguards” were being manipulated and that the system was not working. Although there were doctors in the TAC, none of them were OB/GYNs. In the past year, all applications for abortions reviewed by this committee had been approved no matter what the letters to the committee said. They were appointed by the Medical Director of the hospital even though the Criminal Code specified that this should be done by the hospital Board of Directors. Weekly meetings were typically done in only 20–30 minutes, during which time approximately 30 to 40 abortion applications would be approved after allegedly being reviewed. Nobody would even say when exactly the abortion that killed Erin had been approved.

Inconsistent and missing information was detected throughout Erin’s case. The date signed on the form for approval was not possible unless the TAC filled out the wrong date, which they did regularly by inserting the date of the scheduled weekly meeting on every certificate regardless of when the ‘actual’ meeting takes place or when the ‘actual’ approval is given. (The fact that this is a legal document required by law which should be dated at the same time that it is signed did not seem to matter to them.) The referring doctor for the abortion was listed as Dr. Cross even though he had not done this and repeatedly advised against it. The type of abortion was listed as D&C and suction (a method typically used for early in pregnancy) even though Erin was actually subjected to a D&E. The section for LMP (last menstrual period, used to calculate gestational age) and for date of procedure was entirely blank. The section for post-operative complications was also blank even though Erin had died.

The committee admitted that in the past year they had approved every single request for abortion, even though they had received thousands of applications for review. Those who were asked to explain discrepancies or missing information frequently told the inquest they did not remember, even though records should made it clear had they been properly kept. Erin’s abortion was also the fourth or fifth done that morning and records were also inconsistent for the others.

Soloway’s own testimony on what he had done to Erin and her child was deeply disturbing. He claimed to have done 500 abortions per year and identified as “specializing in late-term abortion.” He then went on to give a gruesome description of the abortion procedure he carried out on Erin’s baby. He described the “crushing instruments” with “big jaws and teeth” that he used to “break up the fetus and take it out bit by bit.” When asked why he did so many abortions so late in pregnancy, Soloway answered that others wouldn’t at that size.

It was also noted that even though Soloway included “psycho social reasons” in his single-sentence letter, he didn’t see any reason why Erin should be provided with counseling before she made her decision. Unless you count the conversations between Dr. Cross, Erin and her mother, there was no form of counseling given to Erin at any time. Erin’s mother had been under the impression that the TAC would ensure her daughter had informed consent, but Erin was never at any point told by the hospital, the abortionist or any of his staff that she could die. The jury recommended changes to ensure all prospective abortion clients would have counseling and informed consent.

The inquest for Erin’s death took three days during which it was suggested that “the committee has been little more than a rubber stamp for abortion requests.” It was noticed that nothing in the TAC paperwork said anything about the continuation of the pregnancy being a threat to Erin’s health in any way even though this was supposed to be a requirement.

The jury found it concerning that Dr. Cross repeatedly tried to warn that the abortion was unsafe for Erin but that the TAC did not take his warnings into consideration. They concluded that “The hospital committee needs more expertise to judge abortion applications and should do a better job of keeping track of its decisions,” that there was a need to ensure abortion committees are effective and efficient, and that approvals are only granted after "careful deliberation of all relevant information." The jury also urged changes to the Criminal Code to make sure abortion committees included qualified gynecologists, obstetricians or internists as members. The jury also recommended that the minutes of abortion committee meetings be fully recorded. The hospital indicated that they found these common-sense measures to be “impractical” despite the jury’s decision.

Even though Erin was killed because the legal system meant to protect her had been bypassed, manipulated and in some aspects outright broken, the Ottawa Police and the local Crown Attorney had no interest in criminal charges for anyone involved. They apparently dismissed the treatment of Erin’s case as “technicalities” not worth charging anyone over. Erin and her family were denied justice.

The Vancouver Sun, “Abortion body lax in review, jury says” 17 April 1986

Ottawa Citizen, “Inquest called on teen's death during abortion” 25 January 1986, 14 April 1986, 15 April 1986, 16 April 1986, 17 April 1986, 18 April 1986, 15 May 1986

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[fancoloredglasses]

The Case of Big Boss's Master Plan (4 years earlier than reality never mind)

[All images are owned by DIC Animation City and Hasbro. Please don’t sue me]

[QUICK NOTE: I wrote this before the 2024 US Presidential election, so either this episode was prophetic or a glimpse as to what could’ve been.

Hell, if Harris loses, I’ll probably just delete this and move to Canada (obviously I didn't, since you're reading this)]

As previously stated, C.O.P.S. was set in the “future time” of 2020, so they missed (almost) history by four years. However, some people refuse to see the trailblazers as anything but exploitable, as this two-part episode demonstrates. If you would like to watch part 1, it’s available on YouTube.

[NOTE: the video captures came from YouTube, and the captioning is spotty at best with no breaks when a different character starts speaking, so apologies if it reads like gobbledygook]

Bulletproof’s briefing begins by stating that this caper threatened not only New York Empire City, but the entire United States! How bad could it possibly be?

We open with reporter Whitney Morgan reporting that the Navy’s latest supercarrier is about to be christened (wait, Big Boss is gonna steal a Naval vessel? Is Berzerko planning this?) and the President will be on hand, arriving by train (is Air Force One in the shop?)

Upon hearing the report, Big Boss tells his gang to get aboard the train and bring the President to him (Ohhhhh….that’s a bit more reasonable, I guess)

Later, aboard the Presidential Train, we get a glimpse of the passengers…

…including Bulletproof, Longarm (patrolman specialist), and Hardtop (…rookie specialist? He was an NYPD Empire City Police rookie who helped the C.O.P.S. on their first case and was immediately recruited) Bulletproof explains that the C.O.P.S. are there to augment the Secret Service as additional security (so who’s watching Empire City? We all know the only police force in the city is C.O.P.S.) The Secret Service goes over the security measures on the train.

Later, outside a tunnel along the train's path, Berserko wonders if they somehow missed the train despite the fact they’re standing over the only track in the area. Ms. Demeanor (Big Boss’s muscle) sarcastically suggests Berzerko go down and listen at the tracks Native American-style.

Then Buttons McBoomBoom (Big Boss’s hit man, who has machine guns implanted in his chest) hears the train approaching, foiling Ms. Demeanor’s attempt to keep Berzerko out of their hair for a while. The three jump on the train (and no one heard?) and head for the President’s car.

Unfortunately, Berzerko find the Security Detail car instead. Fortunately, everyone’s watching the Secret Service demonstrate their gadgets and no one noticed.

His second attempt is a success.

That’s right. In the 80s, C.O.P.S. predicted the US would have a woman of color as President in 2020. Hey, they were only potentially off by four years! [that gag doesn't go over so well now] Berzerko then breaks into the President’s car…

…and stuffs her in a giant sack being extracted from the train (while the Secret Service are still busy showing off their toys)

Meanwhile Berzerko stays behind to gloat and provide a distraction by causing chaos.

…while Ms. Demeanor and McBoomBoom sabotage the train’s throttle, making it impossible to stop, before bailing themselves. The C.O.P.S. arrive to find there’s no way to stop the train and it’s barreling toward the train station!

Bulletproof contacts Mainframe (cybersecurity expert who was also a rookie in the right place when Bulletproof needed her so was recruited) who discovers a junction between their location and the terminal. She dispatches Highway (motorcycle expert…sure, why not?) to switch the track (Mainframe couldn’t do that remotely?) while the C.O.P.S. on the train work in disconnecting the engine from the rest of the train. Once disconnected, Bulletproof applies the brakes (while the throttle’s fully open? That would destroy the wheels before the train stopped!), stopping the train.

Now to work on saving the President.

Speaking of the President, Big Boss is having a lovely lunch with her.

…though that phrase may have been a bit generous.

Big Boss wants the President to hand over the supercarrier (remember that?) I’m not entirely sure Big Boss thought that through. After all, the President (or Vice President, assuming Big Boss doesn’t free her should she cooperate) could mobilize the military to take it right back. Not that it matters, since she refuses to do so.

However, Dr. Badvibes has an invention that will make the President more agreeable.

Later, Big Boss appears on every screen in Empire City with the President (who sounds like an early attempt at AI) urging the government to hand over the supercarrier. We all know that the US government doesn’t negotiate with terrorists.

Mayor Davis, on the other hand…

Meanwhile, the President’s Secret Service detail prepares to mount a rescue operation.

Unfortunately, they’re as competent at rescuing the President as they were with protecting her, as a magnetic crane sends the Secret Service's car into the bay! Bulletproof and the rest of the C.O.P.S. rush off, leaving Davis to bungle handle the exchange. Surprisingly, the exchange goes off without a hitch.

Meanwhile, the C.O.P.S. work on saving the Secret Service agents.

Wait, Bulletproof has a metal torso. Why the hell is he diving into the ocean?! He’ll sink like a rock!

Once they reach the car, they use micro-explosives to blow the doors off and carry the agents to safety.

With that, Big Boss’s gang float off in their new supercarrier, but at least the President is safe…or is she?

With that, the episode ends, to be continued next episode. However, we don’t have to wait that long. If you would like to see how the conclusion, it’s also available on YouTube or behind your favorite paywall.

Big Boss is savoring his victory as Dr. Badvibes reminds him that the C.O.P.S. will be coming after them soon (what about the US military? I’m sure they’ll want their supercarrier back!) However…

Dr. Badvibes’s plan is to implant AI technology based on his brain patterns into the flight systems of the supercarrier’s fighters, allowing them to fly themselves. Sure, why not? Though I kinda wonder if he knows how to fly. If not, it’ll be a quick flight.

Back at Empire City Hall, Mayor Davis refuses to allow the C.O.P.S. to attack the supercarrier while the President is aboard (isn’t Bulletproof FBI? And isn’t C.O.P.S. his unit? Technically, Davis could forbid Longarm, Hardtop, and Mainframe (who are part of the NYPD Empire City Police, but the rest were recruited from other cities)

Later Big Boss gives his next set of demands: Empire City must be evacuated and handed over to him, or else the President gets it! (He will not be happy when there’s no one working in the city. His gang might actually have to (le gasp!) work for a living!) Furthermore, he wants the C.O.P.S. imprisoned by the time he arrives to take possession of the city (who else can see how this will go VERY wrong for Big Boss?)

Mayor Davis and the C.O.P.S. agree to Big Boss’s demands, so the city is evacuated (wait, the military is coordinating the evacuation? Davis really DID disband the NYPD Empire City Police force!)

So Mayor Davis is forced to surrender to Big Boss’s robot army, who put the C.O.P.S. in jail (come on! You KNOW someone has a key or lockpick stashed somewhere in their uniform!)

Back on the supercarrier, Dr. Badvibes demonstrates his “Brain Planes” (planes telepathically controlled by him. I guess cloning his brain patterns didn’t work very well. I still question his piloting abilities) Despite a minor glitch (a bombing run that nearly hits the boat), Big Boss declares the test run a success and puts Dr. Badvibes in charge of his Air Force.

(I would like to note that the demonstration was with a single plane. I have reservations about Dr. Badvibes’s ability to control a squadron)

With that, Big Boss steers his floating fortress back to Empire City, ordering his majordomo Squeaky Clean to arrange a ticker tape parade (How? There’s no one left in the city!)

…as the C.O.P.S. are locked up by Big Boss’s robots. Just as things look hopeless…

…the Secret Service stages a jailbreak!

Meanwhile, Big Boss is disappointed by the lack of cheering crowds for his return. However, thanks to speakers he gets the crowd noise.

Back at C.O.P.S. HQ, the C.O.P.S. and the Secret Service team up, with half of their combined forces rescuing the President while the rest deal with Big Boss.

Big Boss finds out that the C.O.P.S. refused to be model prisoners (I mean, the NERVE of those guys!) and sends his gang to deal with them, starting with the Brain Planes. He then sends McBoomBoom to guard the President on the supercarrier (you mean you left her there? Who’s making sure she’s fed and whatnot (and by “whatnot” I mean…well, it’s not like there’s a Little President’s Room in that cage))

Outside the supercarrier, the Secret Service, Mace (SWAT specialist), and Sundown (former Texas Ranger, so…horseback specialist?) wait for a signal from Bowser (K-9 specialist) and Blitz (Bowser's cyborg K-9) to proceed. They get the signal and board the boat!

…drawing Big Boss’s robot guards away from the President

…while Hardtop and Bowser stage the rescue from below deck.

Inside the city, Bulletproof and Longarm find Dr. Badvibes.

…who sics his Brain Planes on them!

On the boat, the C.O.P.S. find out the robots’ weakness:

Stairs!

…as McBoomBoom, Berzerko, and Turbo Tutone (the gang’s getaway driver) arrive.

Back in the city, Longarm realizes the helmet Dr. Badvibes is wearing is what’s controlling the Brain Planes. Bulletproof grabs one of his micro-charges and throws it at the helmet.

Nice shot, Agent Vess!

With the Brain Planes neutralized (well, crashed), Dr. Badvibes escapes as the C.O.P.S. deal with the flaming wrecks and injured civilians (I thought everyone was evacuated?)

On the boat, the rescue team awaits pickup from the rest of the Secret Service, starting with the President. Once the President is safely away, the team prepares to follow as the gang finds them. However…

…the robots were instructed to stop anyone on the boat, and the first ones they find are the gang.

With that, all that’s left is the wrap-up. The C.O.P.S. were all given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the citizens of Empire City were able to return.

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Immigration Lawyer in Mississauga: Simplifying Your Journey to Canada

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How to Choose the Right Immigration Lawyer in Mississauga

Selecting the right lawyer is crucial for a successful immigration journey. Here are some tips:

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Tips for a Smooth Immigration Process

Start Early: Begin the process well in advance to accommodate potential delays.

Stay Organized: Keep all required documents ready and updated.

Be Honest: Provide accurate and truthful information in your application.

Seek Professional Help: Leverage the expertise of an immigration lawyer to navigate complex situations.

Conclusion

An immigration lawyer in Mississauga can be a valuable ally in your journey to Canada. With their expertise and personalized approach, they help simplify the process and increase your chances of success. Whether you’re an aspiring resident, a student, or an employer, partnering with a skilled immigration lawyer ensures a seamless experience. Take the first step toward your Canadian dream by consulting a trusted legal professional in Mississauga today.

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What Are the Main Services Offered by Canada Immigration Consultants in Gurgaon

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In this article, we’ll explore the key services provided by including expert guidance for visa applications:

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Conclusion

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