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  1. Jul 2017
    1. the fact that she didn’t (and is not directly challenging the results) is reasonable cause to suspect she may have been forced to stand down. The fact that earlier today Trump announced he would not be investigating Clinton gives further credence to the notion she was offered a “deal” (or ultimatum) by higher-ups
    1. The problem is that n-hexane is a potent neurotoxin, and all these people have been exposed. Their hands shake uncontrollably. Most of them can't even pick up a glass

      To think that the workers are so young; they will have to live the rest of their lives with this disability that their government will not acknowledge

    2. security went out, scooped him up, and beat him before releasing him.

      Sounds like what North Korea did to that student, only he unfortunately died as a result of the crime they convicted him of.

    3. Deng Xiaoping carved this area off from the rest of China with a big red pen, he said, this will be the special economic zone. And he made a deal with corporations. He said, listen. Use our people. Do whatever you want to our people. Just give us a modern China. And the corporations took that deal, and they squeezed, and they squeezed.

      I never can understand why people think they have the right to sell or make deals with the lives of other people...

    4. What I thought is they were made by robots. Like I had an image in my mind that I now realize I just stole

      I think most people have a false thought process of where the products we purchase come from.

    1. No electricity or running water, no paving on the roads, and good luck if you needed a doctor, but incredibly I had a signal. “This is why I am here,” I thought, “I can’t live without my phone, and people here are dying because of it.”

      That is a strong dose of reality to help prioritize what is important in life.

    2. Taken to the extreme it means slavery and catastrophic environmental destruction. But all this normally happens far from any prying eyes. It’s a hidden world that keeps its secrets

      I guess when we as consumers have blinders on it's easier to digest.

    3. Cellphones have become electronic umbilical cords connecting us with our children, our partners, and our parents with an immediacy and reliability hardly known before

      Can hardly imagine my personal or professional life without the use of cellphones.

    4. tombstones will first be handled by children

      an important fact the funeral industry forgets to tell their customers when they are selecting a headstone

    5. In the United States, the average cost of installing those countertops runs from $2,000 to $8,000, but the price charged by Indian exporters for polished red granite is just $5 to $15 per square meter—that comes to about $100 for all the granite your kitchen needs.

      this is so unsettling...my husband and I are currently in the process of putting in a new kitchen island because the one we have is so small that it is unfunctional and we are spending about $2000 just for the island countertop.

    6. Everyone who dies must be embalmed before burial

      Actually, this is not true. You only have to be embalmed if you elect to have a viewing with an open casket, but it is not a requirement.

    7. When death comes, it’s the loss that transcends everything else and most tombstones are purchased in a fog of grie

      this was a popular discussion in a Sociology class I took last semester. Regarding how when people lose a loved one unexpectedly, they are often taken advantage of by the funeral industry and end up spending a lot more on funeral expenses than they can afford.