The following video is a documentary on how a chemical – sodium nitrite (E250) – which was identified as a cancer causing agent, was almost banned in the 1970’s from being added to meat. The video describes how lobbying from the meat industry discredited the scientists’ report on the deadly chemical, which gives raw meat its pink complexion, so that it is still injected in meat to this day.
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Los Angeles Is Squandering $1.2 Billion While Homeless Face a ‘Spiral of Death’
Five years after Los Angeles voters approved a $1.2 billion bond measure and a countywide sales tax hike to raise another estimated $355 million annually to solve its homelessness problem, there are more people living and dying on the streets than ever before. Many of these men and women are both frequent targets and perpetrators of violence.
Mayor Eric Garcetti (D), who did not respond to our interview request, has partially blamed this failure on the pandemic, which slowed new housing construction and limited shelter capacity. It’s true that COVID caused a surge in homelessness, but the city’s plan was already failing.
ReasonTV
Typhoon In-Fa Ravaging, Chinese Premier Lying Flat | Henan Flooding Update
A year after Beirut’s deadly blast | DW Documentary
At 6:08pm on 4th August 2020, 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut. The huge shock wave destroyed large parts of the city. 200 people died, over 6,500 were injured and hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless…One year after the explosion, its exact cause has still not been explained. It’s also unclear who bears responsibility for the catastrophe. The whole government under Lebanese prime minister Hassan Diab had to step down – but is still in office in a caretaker role. No one has yet been held accountable. The film is an attempt to reconstruct the events.
DW Documentary
Food Globalization: The Truth Behind Cheap Food | ENDEVR Documentary
Who’s paying the real price for the cheap food in our supermarkets? We investigate the conditions under which three staples – bananas, vegetables and fish – are produced. In Italy, illegal workers from sub-Saharan Africa live in appalling conditions, working long hours under the control of omnipotent ‘caporalatos’. In Cameroon, the banana industry stands accused of appropriating land, polluting the environment and bribing local politicians. Meanwhile in Guinea, fish stocks are plundered by foreign fleets. The African workers on these ships are often exploited and abused.
ENDEVR Documentary
Europe after the rain | DW Documentary
TV crews were quick to visit the areas in western Europe devastated by flooding in July. As they talked to victims and helpers, the shocking scale of the tragedy became clear to viewers. At least 170 people lost their lives.
DW Documentary
How China was trapped by 5G| Huawei 5G | China’s 5G Leaves Operators In A Dilemma – by China Observer
Recently, the three major communications network operators in China all released their subscriber figures as of April. These figures have raised questions about China’s actual 5G development.
China Observer
Floodwater Backflow, Mushroom Cloud in Dengfeng City, Henan – by China Observer
At about 6:00 a.m. on July 20th, a large explosion occurred in Dengfeng City, Henan Province, at the Dengdian Group Aluminum Alloy plant. Large amounts of fire and smoke can be seen on site, like the mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb, and strong tremors can be felt in a 50 kilometer radius .Local netizens said that the glass of some houses several kilometers away were shattered. Officials said the explosions happened at the same time, however, according to the videos on the web, there were multiple explosions on site.
China Observer
“Crime of the Century”: How Big Pharma Fueled the Opioid Crisis That Killed 500,000 and Counting – by Democracy Now
As the U.S. continues to deal with the fallout from devastating the opioid epidemic that has killed over 500,000 people in the country since 1999, we speak with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, whose latest documentary, “The Crime of the Century,” looks at the pharmaceutical industry’s methods in promoting and selling these powerful drugs. “I realized that the big problem here was that we had been seeing it as a crisis, like a natural disaster like a flood or a hurricane, rather than as a series of crimes,” says Gibney. “You had these terrible incentives, where the incentive is not to cure the patient. The incentive is to just make as much money as possible.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says U.S. drug overdose deaths skyrocketed to a record 93,000 last year — a nearly 30% increase. It is the largest one-year increase ever recorded, with overdoses rising in 48 of 50 states.
Democracy Now
Black Managers Snub Walmart, Say People Of Color Should NEVER Join The Retailer – by Roland S. Martin
An internal survey by Walmart found many high-ranking Black employees would not recommend working there. While the country’s largest employer has been vocal about recruiting a diverse workforce and spending millions of dollars toward advancing racial equity, its Black employees say they face barriers when trying to advance their careers, such as favoritism and internal politics. Black employees make up nearly 21% of the retailer’s workforce, but only 12% of Black employees are on the managerial level and just 8% at the officer level.
Roland S. Martin
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