This is so obvious it’s painful. But Kashkari has received much media coverage the past 2 weeks admitting truth.
In the 2008 crisis, Neel Kashkari worked to save big banks. Now the president of the Fed Bank of Minneapolis says it is time to think about breaking them up. Here is a direct video link.
Old, leaky, inadequate treatment plants are part of this story (infrastructure under-investment has been epic during the past decade of ‘financialization’ obsession), but the epidemic use of pharmaceuticals for every ‘dis-ease’ rather a focus on nurturing health is the main piece. We are poisoning ourselves and everything around us in the process. Time to shift tactics? See Drugs found in Puget Sound salmon:
Puget Sound salmon are on drugs — Prozac, Advil, Benadryl, Lipitor, even cocaine.
Those drugs and dozens of others are showing up in the tissues of juvenile chinook, researchers have found, thanks to tainted wastewater discharge.
The estuary waters near the outfalls of sewage-treatment plants, and effluent sampled at the plants, were cocktails of 81 drugs and personal-care products, with levels detected among the highest in the nation.
The medicine chest of common drugs also included Flonase, Aleve and Tylenol. Paxil, Valium and Zoloft. Tagamet, OxyContin and Darvon. Nicotine and caffeine. Fungicides, antiseptics and anticoagulants. And Cipro and other antibiotics galore.
Ride along with Rebecca Hough, Evatran CEO in a Plugless Chevy Volt. Learn about the benefits wireless EV charging and watch a Chevy Volt charge hands-free in this Plugless video test drive. Here is a direct video link.
