The state of Kentucky has taken the Republican war on science to a new level with a recent
law regarding black lung patients in the state.
What this case is about is there are, they have a handful of doctors in the state of
Kentucky that the industry wants to have exclusive right on determining whether or not a worker
has black lung disease.
Clearly if you look at a differential diagnosis, what happens is doctors have these checklists
that they use for what they call differential diagnosis.
The most important, the number one important issue is what does the radiograph look like?
What does the x-ray look like?
It's call pneumoconioses.
It's a broad type of disease, but there are people who are specialized in that.
They're certified specialists in reading radiographs; they're called B Readers.
And they have a system, in fact, that they've had for decades.
I mean, this didn't just happen yesterday.
It's been going on for seven decades where you have a system of ILO readers that put
an x-ray up and diagnose is it asbestosis, is it some other kind of pneumoconiosis, is
it black lung disease.
They can tell by the scarring, they can tell by the way that the x-ray looks as far as
the structure of the lung and where's the scarring in the lung.
So the Kentucky legislature that gets a ton of money from the coal industry there has
been pushed into the idea that we don't want real experts; we don't really want specialists
looking at this.
We want these troll doctors that we're pulling in because they work for us.
I read the story time and time again.
I read it three times, trying to say did this really just happen in Kentucky?
It's unconstitutional.
It'll be reversed.
It's an equal protection problem that the idiots in Kentucky legislature didn't have
enough sense to understand it's a clear equal protection problem.
Absolutely, but you know, it can get struck down by the courts, but these people will
never face any kind of comeuppance for voting in favor of this.
This was a thing that was supported by both the Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Coal
Association.
They were the ones pushing this because they're the ones who stand to gain the most from it.
Yes, if you limit the number of doctors and the kinds of doctors -- because now you can't
have those B Readers coming in and giving a diagnosis; it has to be a state-picked physician
that meets whatever requirements the coal industry wants them to meet -- you're only
going to have a few.
So if you're on this side of Kentucky and there's no doctors over there, well you're
going to have to drive to the other side of the state to go one of these state-approved
doctors.
You're going to have to wait a long time because there's so few of them and so many black lung
cases now.
It's doubled since the '90s-
I just started to say-
-it's doubled.
-it's on a huge rise right now.
It is.
And so limiting the doctors while increasing the number of instances is going to make backlogs.
People could die waiting to getting it diagnosed.
What's the end result of that?
The end result is the taxpayers end up taking care of these people.
You see, the industry gets away with saying, well, it's not black lung disease.
It's COPD, it's some other type of pneumoconiosis, idiopathic pneumoconiosis, we don't really
know.
So in the end, the company gets away with having to pay for that individual's care,
and taxpayers usually have to pick that up.
They have to pick it up through Medicaid, all types of welfare mechanisms that have
to end up taking care of that.
So what it is, it's externalizing, the company has externalized their risk.
They've moved it away from their company into the seat of taxpayers again.
One in 14 -- this is a staggering number -- one in 14 coal miners that worked in a coal mine
for more than 25 years are going to have black lung disease.
It's very distinctive.
I've actually seen it on a radiograph, and when you look at the x-ray a ILO reader can
show you exactly where the scars are, they can show you the nodules, they can show you
the dark areas on the lung.
It's just right there.
It doesn't even take ... It's not anything subjective.
You understand what I'm saying?
You put the x-ray up, it doesn't take a subjective understanding of what's happening there.
Then you move into a CT scan if you have to.
It's even clearer.
But here want their hand-picked doctors, who there aren't even enough of them, to say well,
no, this really isn't black lung disease.
It's really interesting, too, that we're seeing this disease come back, make this massive
comeback because we've got alternatives.
It's just you've got people like Kentucky Coal Association and Exxon and Chevron out
there preventing us from being able to move on.
I don't think we're going to see too many people in the wind industry develop some kind
of wind disease.
The same thing with solar.
But here we are, we're doubling down on coal and these fossil fuels, and people are dying
because of it.
During a meeting on contaminants this week, EPA Director Scott Pruitt's security team
actually shoved a female from the AP out of the meeting even though ... And then a group
of reporters were barred from coming in.
Interesting thing is, they asked the administrator are reporters barred?
"No, they're not barred.
We don't have any room for them and we're shoving them out of the room, but they're
really not barred."
We know a lot about this issue, don't we?
This has to do with a case, this is a type of chemical that Scott Pruitt is trying to
hide the dangers about because it's basically in all of our bodies right now; it's in our
drinking water, it's a C-8 variant.
It's a polycarbon kind of product that we don't really have any way to get out of our
system once it's in our system.
And know, based on the cases that we tried, the C-8 cases that we tried up in Ohio, that
it causes birth defects, it causes cancer, it causes blood diseases, it causes gastrointestinal
diseases, probably causes neurological diseases.
So this is what Scott Pruitt is trying to hide from the American public.
He doesn't want this to get out.
He said if this gets out, it's going to cause pandemonium.
And bad PR for the agency.
We had discussed that last week because this issue's only been on people's radars for about
a week now because they buried the initial report.
So they're like, "Okay, we're going to have this meeting.
Press, you can't come in.
Uh oh, here comes somebody."
Security guard grabs her by the shoulders and forces her out of the room, and she had
said all she wanted to do at that point when she was going through security was just ask
the EPA spokesperson why we can't even come in.
Here's the real deal.
EPA is responsible for this.
I saw the documents.
We tried five of these cases.
We actually saw the documents where the EPA has known about this for decades and actually
helped cover it up.
And you see this movement from, say, DuPont or 3M, you see the movement from those companies
where ... One day they're working for DuPont; the next day they're working for the EPA.
And those people that moved into those management situations have kept this a big secret.
If Pruitt gets away with this, our democracy is lost, completely lost.
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Roseanne Crushes Obama In A Truly Hilarious Way After He Makes Deal With Netflix - Duration: 5:21.
Roseanne Crushes Obama In A Truly Hilarious Way After He Makes Deal With Netflix.
It's not hard to notice how since former President Barack Hussein Obama is no longer
on TV 24/7 he just can't manage his narcissistic personality disorder.
So he decided to fix that by signing a $50 million dollar deal with Netflix to start
producing his own propaganda agenda driven content for the media giant.
But while this might be worrying some people and made other, like myself, cancel their
Netflix subscription the queen of comedy Roseanne Barr has taken to Twitter to find ideas as
to what kind of shows Obama may do for Netflix.
Conservative 101 reported that the first thing Roseanne Bar did was to tweet the hashtag
#ObamasNetflixShows, and from there it just took off in hilarious ways.
People replied with parodies of existing movie and TV titles, but with a twist.
Some of them were, I know what the FBI did last summer, The Lying King, Spy Games, Leading
From Behind, Nope and Strange, Vicente Fox & Friends, Alinsky Diaries, Hawaii Five O
for Obama, Maxine Water's world, Me Myself and I Spy, Yes We Can the game show where
we come up with more ways to steal from U.S. taxpayers, Move On: Our Move to Kenya, The
Chicago Forgotten Show, Season 8, Breakfast of Iran, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb, Two Half Men!, and How to Say One Thing and Do Another.
And these were only a few of the hilarious suggestions.
Roseanne eviscerated Obama back in 2016 for abstaining from the UN Security Council vote
demanding a halt in Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem which
referred to those lands as "Palestinian territories."
Isn't it about time Barack Obama and his self-professed "Eternal First Lady" Michelle
take a long sabbatical from the public eye and stop trying to push their Alinsky agenda?
Obama took the presidency of a nation where race wasn't an issue anymore, hadn't been
for decades, and caused a spark in order to divide and conquer so he could forward their
own agenda, and it's high time he crawls back under the community organizing rock he
came from.
Here is more on this Obama Netflix deal via The New York Post:
"Barack and Michelle Obama are raking in the cash, thanks to the influence of a former
campaign supporter.
The couple last week signed a creative production deal with Netflix that one entertainment-industry
source said could be valued at more than $50 million.
Ted Sarandos, a major campaign contributor for Obama and the streaming giant's creative-content
chief who oversees an $8 billion budget, helped to broker the deal, the source told The Post.
Sarandos and his wife, Nicole Avant, bundled nearly $600,000 in contributions to Obama
from their friends and associates during the 2012 presidential campaign.
The couple is friends with the Obamas, and Avant served as the US ambassador to the Bahamas
from 2009 to 2011, during the former president's first term.
Her father, Clarence, a music exec, bundled a total of nearly $450,000 for Obama's presidential
campaigns.
The multiyear Netflix agreement, in the works since at least March, calls on the Obamas
"to produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted
series, docuseries, documentaries and features," which will be broadcast in 190 countries,
according to a statement from the streaming service, which has 125 million subscribers
around the globe.
The Obamas plan to work on stories that "promote greater empathy and understanding between
peoples and help them share their stories with the entire world."
Netflix received hundreds of résumés and story ideas after announcing the partnership,
the source said.
Netflix says the couple formed Higher Ground Productions LLC to broker the deal.
A firm with that name was incorporated in Delaware in April, public records show.
The contract comes a year after the Obamas inked a joint book deal with Penguin Random
House valued in excess of $65 million.
The first of the deal's planned books, Michelle Obama's memoir, "Becoming," is due out
in November.
Since leaving office, Barack Obama has addressed groups across the country, speaking about
grassroots organizing and the problems of the poor.
Ironically, the talks come at a steep price.
After a speech at a health-care conference sponsored by Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald
in September, Obama reportedly took home $400,000.
In addition to raking in millions, the former first couple has been involved in fund-raising
for the Obama Foundation, which is developing a $500 million presidential center and library
in Chicago.
The foundation took in more than $13 million in 2016, an exponential increase from just
under $2 million the previous year, federal filings show."
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For The Week Of 5/28/18 | Community Question Episode 21 | Backlog Battle - Duration: 4:44.
What's up everyone?
Alex here and welcome to another episode of Community Question!
I have an important announcement about the series today, and trust that I didn't come
to this conclusion easily.
I've decided that next week's Community Question will be the last one in series history.
I enjoy asking our community these questions every single week, in addition to reading
the many replies that each question gets.
But making Community Question to release every week at the same time and day takes up a considerable
amount of time away from other videos that I want to make.
It's mostly an issue of hardware, as it generally takes me 8 hours to create one of
these videos.
It saddens me to come to this decision, but with limited time and resources, Community
Question has to go.
On next week's episode however, I will be reading every single person's replies and
replying to each to celebrate the series going offline.
Through this series, I got to know the community a bit better, and I will miss this series
just as much as you.
As of this video's release, we're 15 days away until E3 2018!
This week's question will revolve around this, so stick around!
Before checking out this week's Community Question, let's check out my favorite answer
from last week's question.
In case you missed it, last week's question was:
What game have you've played that made time fly quickly?
This week's answer is from Biophoenix.
They write:
Mount and Blade is a great example of that for me.
Everytime I play it, I just don't want to stop playing, and end up spending more time
then I realize!
When going from town to town, hunting down bandits, and try to make money at tournaments,
is by far the more exciting parts of the game, where you have hundreds of armies fighting
each other and taking over castles, or possibly defending your own.
Gotta thank Terry309 for getting me interested in it to begin with!
It's crazy to think that Mount and Blade has been around for almost a decade.
Originally released in September 8, 2008, Mount and Blade is still going strong thanks
to a passionate community (shoutouts to Terry309 for being part of that community) and the
various mods that people have made for the game.
It's no wonder that it's still able to pull new players in, as other companies have
tried to take on the concept, but haven't achieved the same success.
Now if we only can get a release date for Mount and Blade II…
Thanks to Biophoenix and everyone who's replied!
Please take the time to check out his and everyone else's channels!
There's some really awesome videos there that you can watch.
Believe me - I've seen them!
As mentioned earlier, E3 is a little over 2 weeks away, and with the show's grand
finale arriving at 8 days from the big show, I think it's appropriate that the question
before the last episode would be this:
What is the game you're most looking forward to seeing at E3 2018?
I'd love to read answers that could realistically happen, but if you want to go totally left
field, that's fine too!
I always love reading your explanations to these, so make these really awesome.
Remember that I'll be reading these next week, so make it great!
Oh, and I should point out that you should make sure your answers are in by June 1st,
Midnight Pacific Time so I can include it on the final episode!
While you ruminate on your answer, mine's pretty easy:
Cyberpunk 2077.
It's no surprise that I've been a CD Projekt RED fan ever since the Witcher 1 days, but
Witcher 3 really put them over for me completely.
If they apply the same amount of care that they spent with The Witcher 3 with Cyberpunk,
you can bet that that game will be an incredible experience from beginning to end.
The fact that we'd hardly heard or read a peep about it - though we did get a "beep"
about it - just heightens the hype, and it's easily my most anticipated title for this
year's show!
Other than Death Stranding, Ghosts of Tsushima… the list just goes on and on!
And that's my pick for this week's Community Question.
What's yours?
Post your answer on the comments below and I'll read it on next week's episode!
Make sure you don't just give me your answer and tell us why you chose it!
The final episode of Community Question will release this Monday at 8am Pacific Time.
Thanks for playing and have a great gaming week!
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hi guys do newspaper companies newspaper companies past present and future
collect personal information and private information and sell it to advertising
agencies do we have regulation to keep our information private because they're
always hollered about keeping our information private so do newspapers
collect personal information and private information and sell it to advertising
agencies is there regulations to keep that information private so they can't
actually sell our information so that ends this quickfire round for newspapers
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