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Huge Victory for Kids: Court Orders EPA to Ban Use of Toxic Pesticide on Foods

In a “huge victory” for children and farmworkers, a U.S. court ordered the EPA to revoke all food uses of chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxin linked to developmental harms, especially in children.

The environmental law organization Earthjustice celebrated a “huge victory” for farmworkers and children on Thursday after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban all food uses of a toxic pesticide linked to memory loss and developmental harms.

The EPA was given 60 days to revoke all food uses of chlorpyrifos and retain only those that are found to have no effects on people’s health.

“This ruling is a huge victory for children and communities across the country who will finally be spared by needless poisonings and lifelong learning disabilities,” said Earthjustice in a statement.

Representing labor groups including United Farm Workers and public health organizations including the Learning Disability Association of America, Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the EPA after the agency refused to ban chlorpyrifos in 2019 and in 2016 under the Trump administration.

The Obama administration had been working to ban the pesticide before former president Donald Trump took office in 2016, and environmental groups have been calling for an end to all food uses for the chemical for decades.

“We have been working for years to make this happen,” Earthjustice tweeted Thursday.

Facebook ‘Supreme Court’ Will Announce Decision on Trump Blacklisting Wednesday

The Facebook “Supreme Court” will announce its final decision on former President Trump’s Facebook account on Wednesday morning, according to a recent announcement.

CNN reports that the Facebook Oversight Board, an independent body packed with anti-Trump leftists that have the power to reverse Mark Zuckerberg’s content decisions, will make a public ruling on the fate of former President Trump’s Facebook account on Wednesday morning.

The Board stated last month that it had received over 9,000 public responses in relation to the suspension of former President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. The Masters of the Universe suspended Trump’s account following the January 6 Capitol riots and then referred the decision to the Oversight Board for review.

‘Cops Off Campus Coalition’ kicks off ‘Abolition May’ as professors across the country vow to cancel classes in support of movement

Professors across the country have vowed to cancel class and enable students, teachers, and other school personnel to strike in protest against campus police presence, according to Campus Reform.

The outlet on Friday reported that a grassroots organization dubbed the Cops Off Campus Coalition organized the “National Day of Refusal” and has asked “students, professors, and faculty members to pledge to be absent; from work, class, teaching, and more’ on that day.”

The organization, which states that it is “committed to abolishing police on campus” planned the strike for Monday.

Several hundred students, professors, and supporters have pledged to participate and signed a petition calling for area campuses across the country to remove any and all police presence.

Someone Needs to Tell Texas to Wake Up After This in Austin

Giuliani Says FBI Is Trying to ‘Frame’ Him After Apartment Search

Days after federal investigators searched his apartment and confiscated several devices, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed that the FBI is “trying to frame him.”

“At about 6 a.m., there was a banging on my door—a very loud banging, and outside there was a group of an endless number of FBI agents,” Giuliani told Fox News on Monday. “Usually a person who has been a former assistant U.S. attorney, a U.S. attorney, a mayor, the associate attorney general, usually they receive a subpoena—not have their home raided,” he added.

Federal prosecutors executed a search warrant at the former mayor’s Manhattan apartment reportedly as part of an investigation into whether he violated Foreign Agents Registration Act related to his work in Ukraine.

The FBI agents “showed me a warrant that sought the electronics in my apartment and purported to be about an alleged violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA, for failure to file as a foreign agent on behalf of an unnamed Ukrainian official,” Giuliani added, saying he “never did this” and claimed he was offering to discuss the allegations with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

“My contracts have clauses that I will not act as a foreign agent, and I wanted to show these things to the government so that they would stop their consistent illegal leaking of an investigation,” Giuliani added.

‘Dark Moment in History’ as GMO Mosquitoes Released in Florida

Environmentalists said the release of up to a billion GMO mosquitoes over a two-year period is about maximizing profits for biotech giant Oxitec, not about the pressing need to address mosquito-borne diseases.

Environmentalists and Florida residents voiced concern and outrage last week as state government officials and the biotechnology giant Oxitec moved ahead with a pilot project that involves releasing up to a billion genetically engineered mosquitoes in Monroe County over a two-year period.

Presented by local authorities as an effort to control the population of Aedes aegypti — a mosquito species that can carry both the dengue and yellow fever virus — critics warn that the effort’s supposed benefits and its potential negative consequences have not been sufficiently studied.

Responding to news that the first boxes of genetically modified mosquitoes were placed in six locations in Monroe County last week, Friends of the Earth noted in a press release that “scientists have raised concerns that GE mosquitoes could create hybrid wild mosquitoes which could worsen the spread of mosquito-borne diseases and could be more resistant to insecticides than the original wild mosquitoes.”

Dana Perls, food and technology program manager at Friends of the Earth, called on the Environmental Protection Agency — which approved the project last May — to “halt this live experiment immediately.”

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Spy Plane Identified Circling the Election Audit Building

A spy plane was identified flying over the Maricopa County audit.

What information are they after?

Sunday morning we were alerted to the fact that a plane was circling around the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum last week.  We received only the picture above.  We followed up and found more information on this plane and additional information on other events where a plane circled the sky in a similar fashion.  One such incident was in San Bernadino after the shooting spree by Islamic terrorists Farook and Malik.

But we looked further into this flight above in Arizona and found the plane used was owned by the City of Phoenix:

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