Aspartame to be declared carcinogen

Aspartame is likely the most common artificial sweetener in the world but has been known by researchers for decades to cause cancer. Its carcinogenic properties have only been very rarely even remotely touched on by the media, and any findings on it are always swept under the rug instantly. Official regulators in most countries have rarely even acknowledged that aspartame causes cancer. They have not only failed to regulate it but often encouraged it to be used even more. The company that made it was connected to Donald Rumsfeld.

Now - for the first time - the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer is planning on listing aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic to humans." This follows studies spanning many years, including one just last year in France that found an elevated cancer risk (which the media completely ignored).

Sadly, I know what the official response by American media and regulators is going to be to the WHO ruling. They considered the WHO's COVID-19 recommendations too lax, as the WHO was less reliant on hard lockdowns and mask mandates than the CDC and most U.S. states were. Those bodies went rogue against the WHO by enacting tougher mandates on the public - especially children. You can bet your bottom dollar that American regulators are going to reject the WHO's stance against aspartame, because they reject the WHO every time the WHO is right about something. On every issue lately, American health officials and media are out of step with the science recognized by everyone else, and their immature contrarianism fuels their policy stances that are diametrically opposed to what science would justify.

Another gimme for developers

Everyone in Cincinnati knows that interests like developers and big sports teams always have their grimy hands out - and officials are always happy to oblige.

Now Ohio is planning on passing a budget provision allowing the city to charge users of services like Uber and Lyft to raise $482 million for the city to give to developers to renovate a hotel near the convention center. This plan is being driven by 3CDC, the economic terrorists who have destroyed amenities like Fountain Square and promoted bottomless gentrification and the COVID police state.

This isn't just a handout to developers. This is really like a tax that not only may hit lower economic groups harder but also others who must rely on rideshare services.

The fleecing continues.

Delaware town's effort to let corporations vote stalls

Is it fascism yet?

Recently, city council in Seaford, Delaware, decided to let corporations vote. Corporations would be permitted to vote in public elections in the same manner that people are supposed to be able to vote.

That's fascism. I don't even need to tell you that, because you're smart enough to read this blog. When corporations are declared to be equivalent to people, it's fascism. In fact, this policy would give corporations more power than people have, as voter suppression looms large all over the country.

Jacobin magazine called Seaford's effort "a radical right-wing experiment that cuts at the basic fabric of democracy."

But Seaford's plan seems to have hit a snag as state lawmakers have failed to approve a measure that would allow city council to go forward with its idiocy.

Here's the real bip-up. Seaford already allows property owners who do not even live in the town to vote. This violates the constitutional principle of one vote per person as well as the longstanding protection against property requirements for voting. And get this. A few cities and towns in Delaware already allow corporations to vote. In fact, the manager of numerous businesses in Newark, Delaware, was allowed to vote 31 times - once for each business. Rehoboth Beach allows trusts representing wealthy property owners who do not live in the town to vote - which is exactly the sort of thing I'd expect after hearing about some of the police state totalitarianism in that town.

One of the big problems with the policies discussed above is that they allow wealth to confer special privileges. It could be for rich individuals who own large businesses or fancy second homes, or for faceless corporations like national retail chains that have a store in that town.

This ranks right up there with "the model" that has turned over practically the entire city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, to corporations.

Where are the lawsuits?

More about local healthcare monopolies

Kentucky has a corrupt system in place that grants monopolies to healthcare facilities and allows only 7 hospitals to operate in northern Kentucky, an area with hundreds of thousands of people.

Four of the 7 certificates belong to one operator that has had some questionable practices of late and posted medical disinformation on social media accounts. I've had good luck with individual doctors there, but it's generally not doctors or other healthcare professionals who run hospitals these days.

But I've also found that one of the 7 certificates is held by a facility that abused me when I was in my late teens but now operates under a different name, as if to hide its soiled reputation. It now has a partnership with the local hospital system that has most of the rest of the region's healthcare business. The facility that abused me now gets terrible reviews on Google, including a brand new review that says it serves raw food. There are also other complaints about inedible food and about other things that were the exact same things that were going on over 30 years ago. This includes reports that staffers have been verbally abusing and beating patients and not giving them blankets.

Some folks these days say that facilities like this don't do the bad things they did 30 years ago and that everything is better now. But 30 years ago, they said these facilities did not do the things they did 30 years before that, yet they were still doing them. Everyone thinks everything is better than it was, but it never gets better in places like that.

It was the Republicans that put this monopoly system in place, but now there's a few Republican legislators trying to fix it, while the Democrats keep coming up with flimsy excuses to keep this system in place. So it's a bipartisan problem, and the only thing that's changed is which party is worse. The long and short of it is that the Democrats have become the party of abusive healthcare monopolies. They've become the party of child abuse in general: Since 2020, Democrats have done more to lock children out of school than the Republicans have. When a Democratic legislator in Virginia fought against school closures, party hacks recruited an opponent to run against him. So much for "Vote blue no matter who."

A person bubbled at Kroger

Today at the friendly neighborhood Krogie-Wogie, some woman was in such a Krogery mood that she bubbled.

Another funny dream

Last night, I had a dream where I was back in high school, and on the last day of the school year, a standardized test got peed on. This caused the school to notify police, and there was a big story on the news about it.

A person bubbled at Penn Station

Indeed they did.

144 photos from Columbus roadmeet!

In April, I goed to the Columbus roadmeet, and the event yielded 144 photos of a Scholaring interest!

I divided them into 6 parts, and you're gonna peep 'em until your face flies off in front of millions...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/col23a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/col23b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/col23c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/col23d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/col23e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/col23f.html

Illegal tough for all debts, public and private

We are headed harum-scarum down the road of fascist make-me-believe.

Yesterday, when I went to that public pool in Cincinnati, I made sure I brang a credit card. That's because I read on the website that the pool is now cashless - so I could not pay cash for the $4 admission.

All paper money in the U.S. is labeled as "legal tender for all debts, public and private." Period. Full stop. That means cash is supposed to be accepted for goods and services. The pool is perfectly equipped to accept cash. No excuses. It accepted it when I went there in 2019, so it can accept it now.

The fascist World Economic Forum is rubbing its hands together in excitement at the growing trend of places refusing to accept cash. It's like the days when workers were paid only in scrip.

Cash is freedom. Whenever possible, you should pay cash. Use it or lose it.

Have no fear, the June ish is here!

June wouldn't be June if it didn't sneeze up the June ish of The Last Word!

This ish talks about my Northeastern road trip, the humiliation of online Big Pharma apologists, new developments in a 7th grade schoolyard squabble, a ridiculous commercial for picture discs, and more!

So point thy pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/649640495/The-Last-Word-6-2023

If that doesn't work, glide on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2306.pdf

As it wasn't

Remember that Cincinnati city pool I visited a few times in 2019? Today I went back there to make use of this rare heat wave.

Celebrity look-alikes have been known to enjoy this public swimming pool. Just ask the Annie Lennox look-alike who I saw back in 2019. Today, I saw a Harry Styles look-alike there.

Also, some woman brang beer into the pool area, in stark violation of an Allowed Cloud. Funny also.