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Contaminated Meat From Brazil Hits The EU, As Mercosur Opponents Are Proven Right Via Remix News, Opponents of Brussels’ deal with Latin American countries to import agricultural products are being proven right, unfortunately. Meat containing a banned growth hormone has shown up in the EU, a Dutch authority has reported, leading Polish authorities to order urgent inspections by the relevant inspectorates. EU farmers and multiple groups warned that the lack of safety regulations in use across the Mercosur countries would lead to such outcomes. The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority announced...

Anti-Trump GOP Governors Plot To Undermine President's Immigration Crackdown With Work-Visa Scheme Two Republican governors with a long history of clashing with Donald Trump are working with Democrats on a plan to hand migrant workers state-issued work permits instead of deportation notices, a direct challenge to the president's immigration crackdown that the four laid out on camera. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt joined Democratic Govs. Wes Moore of Maryland and Matt Meyer of Delaware for a joint interview with Bloomberg, describing a shared position that has...

Good Faith Vs Bad Faith Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, "In conditions of mass democracy, the soft and the infantilising will be preferred over the hard and the necessary again and again." - Eugyppius on X Clusterfuck Nation never sleeps, even while everybody else lays aside their labors. Later today we'll light up the ceremonial grill, but for now it's onto the tribulations of this dolorous moment in history. It was just such a sparkling September morning twenty-five years ago when those hijacked airliners knifed into the World Trade Center towers...