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Consumer Reports: PLASTICS CHEMICALS are present in many popular foods

January 31, 2024 -

The organization examined 85 food items for plastic chemicals such as phthalates and bisphenols – with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) as one example of the latter. It found that 79 percent of foods tested – roughly four in five – contained bisphenols. Meanwhile, almost 99 percent of food items tested contained phthalates.

CR tested a variety of food items including "prepared meals; fruits and vegetables; milk and other dairy products; baby food; fast food; ...

Walmart stock plummets amid corporate warning that consumer spending is slipping

November 22, 2023 -

Walmart reported earnings that generally beat on revenue and earnings, but Wall Street was expecting more, which sent the company's stock tumbling. Discretionary purchases are down in general, which is also affecting rival Target as well as Home Depot.

While most of the numbers met or barely met expectations, it was Walmart's guidance that disappointed investors. Though Walmart slightly raised its guidance, it still failed to meet consensus estimates, especially due ...

Irish Social Justice hag invokes ‘safety’ to justify censorship

July 05, 2023 -

(Article by Ben Bartee republished from ArmageddonProse.Substack.com)

Consider her remarks in the context of an Orwellian anti-free speech bill before the Irish parliament, Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022.

https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com/status/1669360642845966338

If a person's views on other people's identities make their lives unsafe and insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live ...

EVs have 79% more reliability problems than gas vehicles, according to Consumer Reports

December 08, 2023 -

Plug-in hybrids fared even worse, registering 146 percent more problems than vehicles with traditional internal combustion engines.

According to Consumer Reports, the least reliable type of vehicle overall was electric pickup trucks.

They reached this conclusion based on a survey they conducted among members about issues they have had with their vehicles during the past year. Data from more than 330,000 vehicles with model years from 2000 onward was included ...

Consumer watchdog group in Canada determines COVID-19 vaccines “neither safe, nor effective”

September 21, 2023 -

NCI published a report on September 14 detailing the kangaroo process by which Fauci Flu shots received "approval" in Canada.

"It is important to understand that the COVID-19 vaccines were never approved under the traditional approval process for drugs in Canada," the report states, further explaining how Health Canada, the federal agency responsible for Canadian health policy, used an alternative authorization process called an interim order instead.

"Under ...

Core inflation still running HOT with consumer prices up 4% despite Fed manipulation

June 15, 2023 -

The Labor Department announced this week that the consumer price index (CPI), which measures what consumers pay for goods and services, rose four percent last month compared to the same month a year prior.

Compared with March, the CPI jumped 0.1 percent last month while core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, increased 5.3 percent on a 12-month basis. Compared to a month earlier, core prices increased by 0.4 percent.

These latest figures align with what ...

Germany falls into RECESSION amid high energy prices and drop in consumer spending

June 02, 2023 -

During the first quarter of the year, the company’s GDP dropped by 0.3 percent, following a contraction of 0.5 percent during the last quarter of 2022. This meant Germany met the definition of a recession, which is two successive quarters of economic contraction.

The economic downturn in Germany saw household final consumption expenditure drop 1.2 percent during the first quarter of the year, and higher energy prices are one of the main driving factors. Although energy ...

Automakers cut programs and reassess future plans for EV production as consumer demand plummets

November 27, 2023 -

Ford Motor Co. (Ford) paused its $3.5 billion electric car plant in Marshall, Michigan. Both General Motors (GM) and Honda have also canceled a program to sell EVs for around $30,000. Ford has also postponed $12 billion in EV investment, citing market conditions.

Despite $1.7 billion of promised taxpayer incentives for its Michigan plant and site readiness, Ford claimed that it is not confident it can run the plant competitively.

A final decision has yet to be ...

Musk allegedly created secret team to SUPPRESS consumer complaints about poor EV driving range

August 01, 2023 -

Back in March, a man named Alexandre Ponsin set out on a family road trip from Colorado to California in his newly purchased Tesla, a used 2021 Model 3, that supposedly lasts 353 miles on a single charge. In reality, Ponsin's Model 3 only traveled about half that distance before failing.

"We're looking at the range, and you literally see the number decrease in front of your eyes," Ponsin said, referring to what the dashboard range meter on the vehicle displayed versus ...

UK’s “Online Safety Act” OFFICIALLY grants MSM permission to publish LIES

February 05, 2024 - Welcome to the UK where it’s now official government policy that you CAN’T publish “misinformation”, but The Guardian, the BBC, Disney and Netflix CAN.

(Article republished from Off-Guardian.org)

Yes, it’s true – the recently signed “Online Safety Act” brands the publication of “false information” a criminal offense punishable by up to a year in prison…

…unless you’re an MSM outlet, when it’s totally fine.

Think even the corrupt & bloated criminal class that ...

COVID vaccine mRNA in breast milk shows CDC lied about safety

September 22, 2023 -

(Article by Alex Gutentag republished from Public.Substack.com)

The CDC wasn’t alone. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology repeatedly urged pregnant and breastfeeding women to get vaccinated.

There was no reason to worry, experts said, because injected mRNA stays in the arm and does not travel around the body. “It is unlikely that the vaccine lipid would enter the bloodstream and reach breast tissue,” the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine assured ...

EV COLLAPSE: Automakers are scaling back and delaying their EV plans as consumer demand wanes

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For years, automakers had been riding high on optimistic sales projections and ambitious targets for EV growth. From legacy giants like Ford Motor Company and General Motors to luxury marques such as Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover and even tech-forward newcomers like Tesla, the focus has been squarely on electrification as the future of mobility.

Initially, auto companies that make EVs like Tesla, Ford, GM and Volkswagen had ambitious plans to revolutionize transportation ...

American economy running on FUMES as consumer debt binge reaches ominous and historic fever pitch

January 25, 2024 -

This historic debt binge seemingly has no end, especially because of the increasingly harsh economic environment that is making it next to impossible for many people to continue making ends meet.

Housing costs are through the roof. Employers are laying off workers in record numbers. Poverty and homelessness are becoming the norm rather than the exception. America's southern border is wide open to limitless "asylum seekers" who are displacing and replacing American citizens....

Mexico “still hasn’t seen science” from U.S. proving safety of GMO corn

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In an official reply to the United States concerning the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Mexico argued that the presence of glyphosate on U.S. corn renders it unsafe and thus unfit for human consumption, citing actual science showing the dangers of glyphosate and GMOs.

The U.S. is trying to strong-arm Mexico into taking its toxic GMO corn, but our neighbors to the south are insistent that they will not poison their people with glyphosate-laden corn grown in the U.S....

TYRANNY: Online Safety ACT explicitly allows media to publish LIES as facts

February 13, 2024 -

The spreading of "false information," as the legislation calls it, is now punishable by up to a year in prison unless it is done by Disney or Netflix, which the new law exempts from all of its provisions.

Section 179 of the Online Safety Act states that a person is guilty of an offense if he or she "conveys information that the person knows to be false," and if the message is intended "to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience." Then, ...

CDC issues food safety alert over recalled fruits linked to LISTERIA outbreak

November 25, 2023 -

According to the Nov. 23 CDC alert, three fruits sold by HMC Farms – peaches, nectarines and plums – may be contaminated with the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in late October that samples of the fruits it obtained from HMC Farms tested positive for the pathogen.

The aforementioned fruits were sold in stores nationwide between May 1 and Nov. 15 in 2022 and 2023. One person has died so far, and nearly a dozen people ...

California DMV SUSPENDS Cruise’s driverless car permits for misrepresenting information on safety

November 01, 2023 -

According to the California DMV, the company's vehicles aren’t safe for public operation and Cruise has "misrepresented information related to the safety of the technology of the vehicles."

Cruise is majority-controlled by General Motors (GM), which has invested significantly in the division. GM also had plans to launch the Origin, a fully autonomous shuttle that doesn’t have a steering wheel or manual controls.

The suspension also presents another obstacle for ...

FDA warns 3 baby formula makers over violations of food safety standards

September 07, 2023 -

On Aug. 30, the FDA issued its warnings to ByHeart Inc., Mead Johnson Nutrition under the Reckitt Benckiser Group and Perrigo Wisconsin LLC. The letters reflected findings from inspections over the last several months, which found that the three failed to ensure their infant formulas were not contaminated throughout the manufacturing process.

The letters read that these manufacturers "did not establish a system of process controls covering all stages of processing ...

Kenyan government SUSPENDS rollout of Worldcoin over potential risks to public safety

August 10, 2023 -

Worldcoin is founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The project is unique in that it requires potential users to register their irises to create a unique digital identity which can then be linked to digital currencies managed through Worldcoin's smartphone app, the World App.

The launch of this project has led to people in major cities all over the world – including the Kenyan capital of Nairobi – lining up to get their irises scanned by shiny, spherical eyeball scanning devices known ...