My Name is Paul H Cosentino. I started this Blog in 2011 because of what I believe to be wrongdoings in town government. This Blog is to keep the citizens of Templeton informed. It is also for the citizens of Templeton to post their comments and concerns.
Glyphosate in Cereal: Monsanto’s Weedkiller Detected at Alarming Levels, Report Says
Less than a week after a jury found Monsanto liable in a $289
million-dollar-cancer verdict, independent lab tests commissioned by the
Environmental Working Group (EWG) report large doses of glyphosate in
cereal for kids, oat bars and other oat-based products.
Previously, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calculations
suggest that 1- to 2-year-old children likely experience the highest
exposure to glyphosate, the potential cancer-causing chemical used in Monsanto’s Roundup. And according to the agency’s risk assessment, the exposure level is 230 times greater than EWG’s health benchmark.
What does this mean for our children? Without some serious changes
made to the food industry and EPA standards, they’ll continue to ingest
potentially toxic levels of glyphosate for breakfast. Maybe this will be
the last straw for consumers?
Glyphosate in Cereal: EWG Study Details
EWG turned to Eurofins, a nationally recognized lab with extensive
experience testing for chemicals. This testing involved measuring the
amount of glyphosate found in popular products containing oats. What is
this a big deal? I’m glad you ask …
Previous research suggests that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, is linked to the development of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
The bad news? The latest testing detected it in all but two of 45
non-organic product samples. The list of products tested includes
Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Nature Valley granola bars and Quaker oats.
I can say with certainty, my decision to journey back into journalism
was made after the FBI pointed guns at the heads of my wife and
children. I knew that first morning (the FBI actually raided my home
twice and pointed guns at my family twice) when federal agents raided
our home one definitive thing was going to unfold:
These
bastards — and their bosses — were going to pay for violating my family.
My kids. My home. One way or the other, I would have the last word. As I
have throughout my life and career. And I was going to have to go back
into journalism to even the score.
I always win. You’ll
learn that about me in the coming days and weeks, if you haven’t already
learned as a reader of True Pundit. In fact, I already have won. The
FBI learned it too. And I have much more to teach the Bureau if it
decides it hasn’t been taught enough. True Pundit has broken dozens of
key FBI scoops in two years and look at the Bureau. It is in
shambles. No one in the media even comes close to our work
My name is Michael Moore. No, not the Lib movie guy Michael Moore
(Now you understand why I use a pseudonym) I have won numerous awards in
journalism, including the Gerald Loeb Award in 1996. None of that much
matters in the scope of things — or life in general — but being
nominated for Pulitzer Prizes in your 20s is something I can tell my
grandkids about. And the Loeb speaks for itself. A Certified Fraud
Examiner too, I worked for Citi running its anti-money laundering Ops in
three states. Until the FBI ruined that career.
But it is time
for Thomas Paine to go public. The good guys don’t hide, as a
Congressman told me this weekend. Especially after being terrorized by
the FBI.
These are the times that try men’s souls, the real Thomas
Paine penned. Especially when a dozen FBI agents are pointing
high-powered rifles at my children during an early-morning search
warrant raid.
Authored by Derrick Broze via The Conscious Resistance, A new study has determined that spraying the skies with
chemicals to combat global warming will likely come with the unintended
side-effect of reducing crop yields.
Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley, have published a new
study which calls into question the scientific efforts to block
sunlight via climate engineering, also known as geoengineering.
Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale manipulation of the
weather and climate using a variety of technologies. One popular form of
geoengineering being explored by scientists is known as Solar Radiation
Management (SRM), a process which involves spraying aerosols from
planes equipped with particulates designed to reflect sunlight in an
effort to combat “anthropogenic global warming.”
However, the UC Berkeley team has found new evidence that sun-blocking material will likely also reduce the yields of certain crops. The
researchers came to this conclusion by studying previous volcanic
eruptions in Mexico and the Philippines. The 1991 eruption of Mount
Pinatubo in the Philippines and El Chichon in Mexico in 1982 caused a
decrease in wheat, soy, and rice production due to the volcanic ash
blocking sun light.
“Here we use the volcanic eruptions that inspired modern solar
radiation management proposals as natural experiments to provide the
first estimates, to our knowledge, of how the stratospheric sulfate
aerosols created by the eruptions of El Chichón and Mount Pinatubo
altered the quantity and quality of global sunlight, and how these
changes in sunlight affected global crop yields,” the researchers wrote.
The start of the school year brings new
beginnings for students and school staff across the region. But for
those watching public school budgets, it’s just the same old story after
a summer of disappointment.
After ending
last school year with optimism that the Legislature was on the brink of
finally passing a bill that would update the state’s school funding
formula, public education advocates watched that legislation collapse in
conference committee earlier this month.
As
a result, school officials around the state will resume what has now
become an annual campaign to get the state to fix the formula, with even
greater urgency than before. At the same time, some districts, fed up
with what they consider to be a lethargic response from the state
government on the issue, are also mounting a possible legal challenge
aimed at forcing the state to increase funding to schools.
Despite this summer’s failure, however, advocates for the issue believe their efforts to this point have not been in vain.
“Even
though the bill failed, we have made progress,” said Lisa Guisbond,
executive director of Citizens for Public Schools, a statewide
organization that’s been on the forefront of the push to change the
funding formula. “We’ve really moved the needle.”
Progress hasn’t come easy, though. For years now, districts have been pushing the state to update the now decades-old formula.
For
urban, rural and other nonwealthy districts, state funding is the
lifeblood of their operating budgets, as they can’t rely on their local
tax base to generate enough revenue to keep up with their rising costs.
But school officials in those communities say the formula the state uses
to calculate how much annual aid it provides no longer accurately
reflects the true cost of educating their current students, particularly
as poverty, language needs and special education tuitions increasingly
push up their expenses.
“We’re just
providing the basics,” said Worcester Public Schools Superintendent
Maureen Binienda, whose district struggles every year to put together
much more than a level-service budget. “Right now, we’re only scratching
at the surface of the opportunities we get.”
(Natural News)
Doesn’t it feel like a net is closing in around us from every direction
lately? Big Tech companies like Google and YouTube have the independent
media in a stranglehold of censorship and control, more and more states
are enforcing mandatory vaccines, and now a group consisting of Amazon,
Alphabet, Microsoft and other tech giants has issued a statement pushing for unfettered access to the medical records of every American citizen.
While mainstream media sources like CNBC have expressed
approval for this type of access, they also acknowledge that tech
companies might not have strictly altruistic reasons for wanting these
records to become accessible to all. As CNBC noted, “The lack of open standards around health data is a huge barrier for them to get into the $3 trillion health system.”
Interestingly, these companies are rivals in many ways, so the fact
that they would work together on this initiative speaks volumes about
how desperately they want to break down the barriers that are keeping
them locked out of this lucrative market.
Data sharing restrictions
Both Google and Microsoft have been open about their interest in the storage and sharing of health care information for at least the past decade.
Unfortunately for them, however, there are laws in place which protect
patient rights to the secrecy of such information. There are very
specific rules governing who may access such records, which medical
conditions have to be reported by health care practitioners, and the
specific circumstances under which a patient may choose to waive their
rights to such privacy. These laws differ from state to state, further
complicating the issue of medical record sharing. (Related: Your medical records aren’t safe – Ruling allows federal government to seize medical records without a warrant.)
Risks associated with making medical records accessible
The Conversation
warned back in 2015, that while there are benefits associated with easy
information transfer between doctors and other medical professionals,
there are also serious pitfalls to be considered. One of these risks
revolves around the issue of abuse or mistreatment by relatives and
others:
References to abuse or maltreatment in the medical record seen by
household members may lead to escalation of the abuse, restrictions on
access to healthcare for victims, or pressure or aggression directed at
health staff in demands to change the record.
There is also the case of abused and neglected children, whose
parents may have authorised access to their records. The 30% of women
and 16% of men who experience domestic abuse in their lifetime and
the 24% of children who experience abuse or neglect over childhood are
at risk of further harm. Without the assurance of confidentiality, how
can we expect patients to seek help from their GP for the full range of
physical, emotional, sexual, and social problems that may affect them?
The sharing of this type of information could also be prejudicial
should insurance companies and others gain access to it and deny
patients coverage for specific health conditions.
Then there is the issue of medical identity fraud,
in which desperate thieves falsely access medical care using the stolen
identities of other people. In one such example, a woman named Linda
Weaver was billed for the amputation of her right foot and had an
incredibly tough time when she refused to pay, even though she was fully
able to prove that her right foot was still in its rightful place on
her body!
Payments for marijuana licenses appear to skirt state law
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At their most recent meeting, the state’s top marijuana regulators
debated whether they need to crack down on
cities and towns that are seeking unlawfully large payments from
companies in exchange for permission to open recreational cannabis
businesses.
Several of the five commissioners of the Massachusetts Cannabis
Control Commission seemed unsure about the extent of the issue.
Commissioner Britte McBride told the meeting there was only “anecdotal
evidence that there may be some concerns about how a select group of
certain municipalities are acting.”
But a Globe review found all 19 provisional licenses issued by the
commission are tied to host community agreements that appear to violate
the agency’s own guidance on how such deals should be structured.
The same was true of several dozen additional host community
agreements that have not yet resulted in licenses from the commission.
The Globe obtained these agreements from town websites, public record
requests, and attorneys representing marijuana operators.
In fact, few — if any — local contracts appear to comply with state
law, which caps payments from cannabis firms to municipalities at 3
percent of a company’s annual revenue and says they must be reasonably
related to the actual costs they impose. The provision, which also
limits the deals to a maximum term of five years, is meant to prevent
municipal shakedowns and make it more affordable for smaller pot
entrepreneurs to open.
HUBBARDSTON — Officials are looking to fill vacancies on the Economic
Development Committee and Finance Committee as they begin to plan for
future growth and economic development.
Todd Miller is the new
Quabbin Regional Economic Development coordinator and will be serving
Hubbardston as well as the rest of the towns in the region: Hardwick,
Barre, Hubbardston, New Braintree and Oakham.
His job will be to look at the needs and wants of residents in the area and work with local officials to secure those changes.
In
only a week, Miller has begun working on his analysis of what
Hubbardston needs to do to achieve the desired economic growth. Miller
was brought in and will be working for a full year after the five towns
wrote a grant for about $100,000 for the position.
(Natural News)
When I first saw this story, I thought for sure it was a satire piece.
But it isn’t. The Healthline.com website has literally announced that
the term “vagina” will no longer be used in their reporting because it
might offend people who were born as biological men but now “identify”
as women but don’t have a female vagina. Instead, Healthline.com will
resort to the term “front hole,” which they believe is somehow more
inclusive and respectful.
It doesn’t sound more respectful. “Hey, how’s your front hole?” But this is the new delusion of the Left’s language police: Now everything
that has a gender-specific meaning must be utterly destroyed and
replaced by crude-sounding gobbledygook in order to avoid offending
people who are confused about their own gender or sexuality.
Lest you think I’m making this up, check their statement for yourself. At this link, Healthline.com says:
…[W]e’ll refer to the vagina as the “front hole” instead of
solely using the medical term “vagina.” This is gender-inclusive
language that’s considerate of the fact that some trans people don’t
identify with the labels the medical community attaches to their
genitals.
Huh?
So wait. Referring to the vagina as a vagina is now offensive
to the same Leftists who claim to be pro-women? Sure, we already knew
they were terrified of the penis, and that they hate it when people use
their pie hole to say something that Leftists don’t like. But has the insanity of the Left now come to the point where all male and female reproductive biology will now be re-named to appease the LGBT speech police?
It appears so. Shut your pie hole, or they’ll kick you in your back hole.
Using accurate biological terms confuses people who demand the rest of society surrender to their destruction of language
Just to add more confusion and off-the-charts bizarre insanity to all
this, Healthline tries to explain why “front hole” is somehow a much
better term than “vagina.” Seriously, this is what they said:
…some trans and nonbinary-identified people assigned female at
birth may enjoy being the receptor of penetrative sex, but experience
gender dysphoria when that part of their body is referred to using a
word that society and professional communities often associate with
femaleness.
It’s almost like they wrote a computer program to randomly generate
inclusive-sounding terms and just strung them all together in a
meaningless sentence as some kind of bizarre virtue signaling plea.
The site then goes on to say that if you don’t use the term “front hole,” you are causing AIDS:
The lack of representation and anti-LGBTQIA bias that LGBTQIA and
nonbinary people often see in safe sex guides stigmatizes certain
sexual behaviors and identities. It’s also directly related to the
health disparities and higher rates of HIV and STIs reported within
these communities.
So wait. Let me get this straight. AIDS isn’t caused by people having
way too many sex partners and engaging in dirty “back hole” sex habits
that spread blood-borne disease such as anal cancer, which is being routinely covered up and denied by the LGBT community. Nope, AIDS is apparently caused by people using the term “vagina” instead of “front hole.”
Leftists will soon demand medical textbooks scrub all words that describe female anatomy
Healthline also explains that using the term “vagina” is now
“discrimination.” So in order to achieve the “front hole” designation,
they will no doubt try to memory hole biological reality.
It won’t be long before they demand that all medical textbooks be
rewritten to eliminate any gender-specific biological terms. Doctors
will be forced to study “genderless” med school curricula, graduating as
complete medical morons who know nothing about ovaries, testes, eggs,
sperm, reproductive hormones and especially menopause because it’s
spelled with “m-e-n” in the word prefix. All that knowledge must be
eliminated, you see, in the name of left-wing “inclusiveness” which once
pretended to support women, if you can even remember that.
Yes, the very political group that once claimed to be pro-women is
now destroying any reference to female biology. Technically, they are
“memory holing” biological reality, hoping that in a generation or two,
nobody remembers that the very sustainability of the species, as
expressed across Mother Nature, depends on the existence of males and
females. That’s why there is no mammalian species on the planet that’s
dominated by LGBT insanity.
There are no transgender buffalo roaming the plains of Wyoming, and
there aren’t packs of queer coyotes running around refusing to procreate
with the opposite sex. Heterosexual reproduction is a normal behavior that the insane Left is trying to pretend is now abnormal. They even label you with a derogatory term: You’re a cisgender because you’re sane and you actually accept the biology with which you were born.
Healthline claims your gender is “assigned” at birth, not that you’re born male or female
Obviously seeking an award of some kind for the most deranged,
anti-science health reporting imaginable, Healthline also claims that
your gender is “assigned” at birth.
Nope, you’re not born male or female, they claim. Instead, says Healthline, you are born gender-neutral and then somebody assigns a gender to you completely out of the blue, almost like flipping a coin.
Healthline apparently has no clue that female infants are already
born with all the reproductive eggs they will ever have in their
lifetime. That means they’ve been developing as a female during
gestation… and they’re born female. The entire realm of genetic science is utterly abandoned by Left-wing journalists these days. They now think that chromosomes are a conspiracy theory.
As a side note, Healthline also says fluoride is awesome for your
health, eating loads of salt is good for you, and that you really need
to know about “6 important vaccines.”
It’s a combination of the worst health advice ever published, alongside
the dumbest LGBT “word salad” insanity that modern medicine has yet
witnessed.
Seriously, listening to these biology-confused people try to explain the world of biology, reproduction, gender and identity is an exercise in madness.
They’ve all thrown reality right out the window and invented their own
alien vocabulary to try to normalize their bizarre, delusional beliefs
in biological subjectivism, where they claim nothing is real unless they wish it to be so.
Anyone who attempts to interject rationality or biological science
into such a discussion is immediately branded a “hate speech”
practitioner. You know, because biological reality is hate speech,
obviously. And doctors who study anatomy are obviously deeply invested
in hate, according to this irrational thinking. Should we also rename breast cancer
to something that would appease gender-confused Leftists? If “vagina”
is now “front hole,” what will be their new name for ovaries? Breasts?
Fallopian tubes? Do Leftists even know that women have Fallopian tubes?
(I doubt it.)
The situation has become so insane that merely pointing out how men and women have biological differences
now gets you labeled an intolerant bigot. To conform to the obedience
demands of the Left, you must simultaneously say that women and men are
no different, but that women should be given special preference in
everything from college applications to politics. The very same people
who claim women and men are exactly the same demanded, just two years
ago, that we vote for Hillary Clinton in order to put “the first woman
President” in the White House. Why does it matter if there’s no
difference between the two sexes?
Yes, the LGBT insanity has reached the point of self-imploding hilarity. No rational person in America believes the insanity of the LGBT thought police.
No intelligent doctor or scientist believes children are arbitrarily
“assigned” gender at birth. And yes, the vagina is a distinctly female
organ, no matter how much LGBTQQQWTF activists want to pretend it isn’t.
Surgically placing a “front hole” in the body of a biological man
doesn’t make him a woman. And everyone pretending that it does is just a
form of societal mental illness.
ROYALSTON - Fire destroyed Pete & Henry’s Restaurant at 18 Main St. Tuesday afternoon.
Fire
Chief Keith R. Newton said firefighters initially made good progress,
but were driven back by the flames and dense smoke coming from the
kitchen of the restaurant. Fire got into the ceiling and spread to the
rest of the building, he said, forcing firefighters to evacuate the
building to fight it defensively, using exterior aerial trucks to pour
water into the structure.
The fire destroyed most of the
building; a portion left standing when the last hotspots were
extinguished was demolished as a safety precaution, Chief Newton said.
“It’s a complete loss of the building,” the chief said late Tuesday night.
TEMPLETON — A letter was sent out to families of students Wednesday
notifying them that Narragansett Regional High School math teacher
Warren Anderson was arrested and arraigned in federal court on charges
of receiving and possession of child pornography.
The Department
of Homeland Security advised the Narragansett administration that
Anderson was taken into custody on two separate charges of receiving and
possessing child pornography in court this Tuesday. Homeland Security
has advised the school that there is no evidence of local victimization.
“We
are also advised by the Department of Homeland Security that the
investigation is focused on Mr. Anderson’s place of residence, located
in Lowell,” Casavant wrote in the letter. “Please be advised that Mr.
Anderson has been placed on leave until further notice, and will have no
access to, or interaction with, any student or staff member of the
Narragansett Regional School District.”
Anderson has been detained pending his Aug. 27 trial in Boston.
U.S.
Attorney Andrew E. Lelling and Peter Fitzhugh, special agent in charge
of Homeland Security investigations, made the announcement of the
detainment of Anderson on Wednesday.
The Department of Homeland Security received help from the Templeton and Harvard police departments.
Research confirms
radiotherapy drives invasiveness within cancer, as well as the power of
natural substances to strike to the heart of cancer malignancy.
An important study reveals both the abject failure of conventional
radiation treatment for cancer, and the very real possibility that
blueberries contain a curative compound far more effective than anything
modern cancer specialists have available to them to strike at the very
root of cancer malignancy.
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, The known carcinogen and infamous weed killing chemical
glyphosate has just been found in breakfast foods marketed for children.
A new study has discovered trace amounts of the most widely used
herbicide in the country in oats, granolas, and snack bars.
Concern over glyphosate has continued to grow in the United States in recent years. Although
the chemical may be safe in some amounts to spray on weeds if certain
safety precautions are taken, it is probably a lot more dangerous if
it’s ingested by a child. Most disturbing, however, is the fact that thirty-one
out of 45 tested products had levels of glyphosate that were higher
than what many scientists consider safe for children.
The study, which was conducted by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG)
found that many of the breakfast foods marketed to children contain
glyphosate. “I was shocked,” said Dr. Jennifer Lowry, who heads the
Council on Environmental Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Although not much is known about the effects of the chemical on
children, parents and doctors are concerned. “We don’t know a
lot about the effects of glyphosate on children,” Lowry said. “And
essentially we’re just throwing it at them.”
The Wall Street Journal continues to counter the liberal mainstream media's Trump Derangement Syndrome,
dropping uncomfortable truth-bombs and refusing to back off its intense
pressure to get to the truth and hold those responsible, accountable (in
a forum that is hard for the establishment to shrug off as 'Alt-Right'
or 'Nazi' or be 'punished' by search- and social-media-giants).
And once again Kimberley Strassel -
who by now has become the focus of social media attacks for her
truth-seeking reporting - does it again this morning, as she points out -
hours after former CIA Director Brennan threw a tantrum over having his
security clearance removed - that while Justice has released
some damning documents - particularly on what Bruce Ohr was doing - much
of the truth is still classified.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department have
continued to insist they did nothing wrong in their Trump-Russia
investigation. This week should finally bring an end to that claim, given the clear evidence of malfeasance via the use of Bruce Ohr.
Mr. Ohr was until last year associate deputy attorney general.
He began feeding information to the FBI from dossier author
Christopher Steele in late 2016 - after the FBI had terminated Mr.
Steele as a confidential informant for violating the bureau’s rules. He
also collected dirt from Glenn Simpson, cofounder of Fusion GPS, the
opposition-research firm that worked for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and
employed Mr. Steele. Altogether, the FBI pumped Mr. Ohr for information at least a dozen times, debriefs that remain in classified 302 forms.
All the while, Mr. Ohr failed to disclose on financial forms that his
wife, Nellie, worked alongside Mr. Steele in 2016, getting paid by Mr.
Simpson for anti-Trump research. The Justice Department has now turned over Ohr documents to Congress that show how deeply tied up he was with the Clinton crew - with dozens of emails, calls, meetings and notes that describe his interactions and what he collected.
Westminster Pharmaceuticals, LLC. Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall
of Levothyroxine and Liothyronine (Thyroid Tablets, USP) Due to Risk of
Adulteration
Westminster Pharmaceuticals, LLC is voluntarily recalling all
lots, within expiry, of Levothyroxine and Liothyronine (Thyroid Tablets,
USP) 15 mg, 30 mg, 60 mg, 90 mg, & 120 mg to the wholesale level.
These products are being recalled as a precaution because they were
manufactured using active pharmaceutical ingredients that were sourced
prior to the FDA’s Import Alert of Sichuan Friendly Pharmaceutical Co.,
Ltd., which as a result of a 2017 inspection were found to have
deficiencies with Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP).
Substandard cGMP practices could represent the possibility of risk being
introduced into the manufacturing process.
To date, Westminster Pharmaceuticals has not received any reports of adverse events related to this product.
Levothyroxine
and Liothyronine (thyroid tablets, USP) for oral use is a natural
preparation derived from porcine thyroid glands. Thyroid tablets contain
both tetraiodothyronine sodium (T4 levothyroxine) and liothyronine
sodium (T3 liothyronine). Levothyroxine and Liothyronine tablets
(thyroid tablets, USP) are indicated as replacement or supplemental
therapy in patients with hypothyroidism. Appropriate adjustments of the
various therapeutic measures directed at these concomitant endocrine
diseases are required. Thyroid is not associated with serious adverse
reactions and does not have a known tumorigenic potential.
(Natural News)
With so much scientific evidence supporting the fact that glyphosate
causes cancer, how can anyone still believe that weed killers that
contain it, like Monsanto’s Roundup – now part of Bayer – are somehow
safe? The answer is simple: The company has the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its pocket, and they’re all too willing to help them cover up damning evidence that their products are toxic.
The EPA is a government agency, and Monsanto knows that lots of
people trust authoritative groups supposedly tasked with “protecting”
us. It’s been a mutually beneficial relationship over the years, with a
recent piece in Bloomberg Businessweek — hardly part of the “alternative media” — breaking down the dirty details of their dealings over the years.
A recent EPA paper put forth as part of a panel in charge of
reviewing the agency’s stance that glyphosate doesn’t cause cancer —
which caused a lot of controversy among experts. In fact, eight of the
15 experts there displayed serious concerns about the agency’s stance,
and three others voiced concerns about the data.
They also called into question the impartiality of the Office of
Pesticide Programs. The group is given the final word on whether
pesticides are permitted, yet they make their decisions based on the
data provided by the pesticide manufacturers themselves! They also
happen to get nearly 30 percent of their operating budget from the
pesticide industry. Surely there’s no conflict of interest there, right?
The EPA’s paper used a lot of shady tactics. For example, when it
came to epidemiological studies that showed glyphosate might cause
cancer, they downplayed them by claiming that farmers’ recollection of
their exposure to the chemical was unreliable and biased. In a
meta-analysis that found trends in data from multiple human studies,
they shaved off decimal points from results to make the data showing a
higher risk of cancer in exposed farmers less swaying.
In scolding EPA officials at the meeting, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Epidemiologist Eric Johnson said: “Every time there’s something
positive there, you said there’s something wrong with the study.”
Experts who were present also complained that the evidence didn’t match
the paper’s conclusion in favor of glyphosate.
When the EPA later reported on this peer review, they didn’t mention
the number of reviewers who voiced concerns. They used wording like
“some panel members suggested…” to obscure the fact the majority of
those present were doubtful.
EPA has long known about the dangers of glyphosate
As so eliquently put by one of the participants last night Laaurel View meeting was a fine example of P.Y.O.A.
I wonder what Carter asked the lawyer because when the lawyer was hired his speech was "how can we get this done" because I didn't see a "how can we fix this" type mentality. I saw a "we are not responsible" response.
Don’t like laws BOB M ? Change them - petition to change/add ... that’s your right isn’t it ? ... How come when Jeff Bennett n Mrs Farrell were on the BOS for years they didn’t “ discover “ and “ fix this “ ? Hmmmmmm as you say ...
Maybe instead of putting 4 or so citizens petitions together to remove FLUORIDE.... you all could do something constructive. #BOBMhateslaws * when they don’t do what he wants
Jeff Bennett never put flouride petition before town meeting. We are not talking four years ago, we are talking now, as in today with current selectmen.
How come you didn’t address this ? .. You who seem to now be all distressed for the citizens ...
Never implied directly Mr Bennett you put the FLUoride in the citizens petition... however your comrade did and you are a personal friend and she does comment and visit here.
Justsmartnuff, as a selectmen, you should realize the people are looking for a solution in the present. I don't think the residents care who was a selectmen 4 years ago, rather they want the current selectmen to help them, so go help them.
Great presentation on the issue- well researched by the citizens and town. There is legal recourse if the citizens decide and the town has offered alternatives. There are a lot of private roads in Templeton Ma as in every town. Seems to this citizen that the people should be more disturbed with past BOS / Town officials and of course the Developer . But as always Jeff B , BOOB M all have to stir the pot to keep themselves “ relevant “ .
The only option they were given by the town was to pay 50-90% more and pay it down as a betterment.
They say the developer never signed the land under the road over. The individual homeowners deeds show them owning to the street.
Has the town collected taxes on the land the street covers for the past umteen years? The lawyer referenced not taking land based on tax takings i.e. hazardous waste.
Maybe Justsmartenuff should have showed up to the meeting and iniformed the citizens how fortunate they are.........
As always —- watch the video - questions were asked —- time given — thoughtful debate —- alternative(s ) ** legal recourse is available to them as well as CITIZENS Petition to accept the private way as town property ... Tax questions and all others BOOBM as you know were asked and answered.
I personally feel the town would be liable if the citizens sued. The town stepped in it by its actions from 2005 forward. Listen to the Lawyer........What did he state about Public/Private land. Then ask how the town repaired the road without repairing "citizens property" if you go by the "center of the street".............problems any way we turn.....
By the way, we did do what was asked, do some repairs so the road could be plowed by the town so the town ambulance could travel safely on Laurel View. We as a board did not tell taxpayers to basically screw off cause we are not plowing that road any more. We actually tried to help them out
Well now ... there road is so bad sir, that the plows can’t go .... that’s why we are where we are - Maybe you should have done better repairs “ we did some repairs “ .
Jeff and Julie and Bev and who ever else ... tell the people in black and white if you think the town should accept liability for this road —- perhaps .. more than likely a COMPLETE road rebuild .
Then will you accept all the others since you now accepted this ? ........
Why are these projects not handled more professionally from the start? Were is the bond from the developer?
I bet they have every single sign off. So are the towns inspections of any value? Why do we have inspectors?
Seems to this citizen that when the “ town “ proposes a project ... ( let’s say stone bridge repair ) —- requires engineers—- novel idea —- you al poo poo it ..”. or TOO much money ! Who needs that “ it’s broke we know that fix it , we don’t need those professionals to tell us “ I paraphrase of course ...
I don’t have a voice recording of such a conversation per se .
How do you know I’m not there at some of these meetings?
I’m asking because they comment here and have many suggestions and “ thoughts “ about our little Town.
I find it sad that you have to defend them. They seem like strong women capaple of responses.
BTW, a legal opinion is just, it is an opinion, not law. That is a basic statement made by a member of Gardner city council who also happens to be an attorney
From were I sit I still have many questions I'd need answered before I could say any definitive answer on whether or not the town should accept the road as is.
I do think the approach and how it was presented last night was confrontational by design. The process as controlled by Carter was to avoid responsibility by the town, not assist the citizens.
Why is it that only after last night is the town putting together a list of required fixes to get the road available for plowing. Wouldn't that have been part of a process prior to the "red letter" being sent out?
If I was living on that road I would try and direct them to get legal advice. Bring everything they have, spend a few dollars as a group and know, once and for all if you have a leg to stand on before submitting to the Towns conditions.
In 2005 the town "looked like a duck, acted like a duck, probably was a duck" as it appears that they sure acted like it was a town road after that point.
They have that option. no one said BOOBM they didn’t.
They like anyone else needs to prove their case to the court - actual court not the court of public opinion.
Actually you are wrong in part. If the Laurel View folks went to town meeting and in the court of public opinion won over the citizens then it would be resolved, period.
A court of law is always an option and when the town claims no fault, liability or intent to repair it will cost taxpayers either way.
Right BOOBM - citizens petition the BOS to put in on the warrant - put it in with a citizens and vote - or court . So again there are options and there are resolutions possible but of course not
all parties will be made whole perhaps .
So again ... what answers to these questions and what are the questions BOB M before you will say if you would as a citizen take on this private debt ( as it currently stands ) ?
Why should I pay for this as a taxpayer ? What benefit do I get ? ya see the problems here BOB M .. unlike a EMS I get no benefit here from taking on private debt and potential legal liabilities. Buyer Beware and BOOTSTRAPS
First off I'd like see the paper trail that follows the process as described and uncontested at the meeting. The Developer in 2005-06 comes to town hall with deed in hand for the road. It was stated and I heard no disagreement that He came in to sign over the land (road) to the town. If The Developer owned it then, How does logic get me to the homeowners own it now?
Developer bring proposal to town
Town collects fees
Town Inspects/Engineers sign off/etc
Developer brings deed to town
Town doesn't accept offering
Town changes Drive-Road/maintains and repairs road
Developer dissolves company ( lawyers assumption)
Dangerous conditions develope
Town denies ownership/liability
Homeowners stuck paying
Many things went wrong here apparently and why are the homeowners the only ones liable?
What about the realtors, especially local realtors who sold any of those properties without disclosing as many individuals stated.
Legal Opinion:
In law, a legal opinion is in certain jurisdictions a written explanation by a judge or group of judges that accompanies an order or ruling in a case, laying out the rationale and legal principles for the ruling. WIKI
Mr Bennett the difference between someone that is qualified to give advice ( in this case council for our town ) of their experience or background versus the person that has limited or no experience ( that’s you ) and is unqualified to give advice, hence it's just your opinion Mr Bennett - with anecdotal hearsay of “ basic statement made by .. “ someone somewhere ....
Still no answers from Mr Bennett or BOOBM if they want to accept this road. sad !
* also ones anonymity... does not Mr Bennett negate ones ideas ... you of all people should know that one.
Submit an unsigned letter, document or idea to a newspaper or the selectmen and see what happens with it. Since you do not opine with a name, I choose not to answer to you.
No what is sad is you ! Playing games, hiding behind a fake name. Easy to criticise, but not enough backbone to stand up for what you really believe in. There is no winning for anyone. How can anyone win when we live in a town that has been so poorly run for so long, we have town accepted roads you can barely drive down, nevermind the roads that are not accepted. Blame, sure is enough to go around ! In
fy. sixteen, our TA said the budget was not sustainable for the next year . So what changed ! Did we live within our means ? Absolutely not ! Did any of our elected officials take action to make the changes needed to eliminate costs that were not necessary ? No ! We were told not to build that school, without a bond rating ! A
bond rating we still do not have ! So, now a problem that should have been dealt with, long ago has reared it's ugly head. Sure, everyone should have a town accepted road . The question is, where is the money coming from ? After the "schools" go for their million $ override next year, it may be when chickens have teeth !
Mr Bennett - created this blog in part - I believe - Bev Bart because others in another blog where harassed for that very reason. Now why are others allowed and not critiqued like myself .. Perhaps TABMAN is an actual legal name ? Idk but if you have a descending voice how quickly the wagons are circled.
Get this straight, I started this blog after Dave Smart stated there would be one less blog administrator if they did not toe the line (paraphrasing) One of my posts was the fact I do not give to threats or intimidation so I started my own blog where some people choose to comment - by my good graces - which I can end at anytime, and I have a few times.
I wonder what Carter asked the lawyer because when the lawyer was hired his speech was "how can we get this done" because I didn't see a "how can we fix this" type mentality. I saw a "we are not responsible" response.
Maybe instead of putting 4 or so citizens petitions together to remove FLUORIDE.... you all could do something constructive. #BOBMhateslaws * when they don’t do what he wants
Never implied directly Mr Bennett you put the FLUoride in the citizens petition... however your comrade did and you are a personal friend and she does comment and visit here.
They say the developer never signed the land under the road over. The individual homeowners deeds show them owning to the street.
Has the town collected taxes on the land the street covers for the past umteen years? The lawyer referenced not taking land based on tax takings i.e. hazardous waste.
Maybe Justsmartenuff should have showed up to the meeting and iniformed the citizens how fortunate they are.........
Let see what these guys do when given the chance. Will they Help citizens or play their favorite game ..................Pass the Buck!
Then will you accept all the others since you now accepted this ? ........
I bet they have every single sign off. So are the towns inspections of any value? Why do we have inspectors?
How about Diane, John, Julie , Doug and Cam? Thats who this landed on. They have to deal with it. So maybe show up.
I don’t have a voice recording of such a conversation per se .
I will say this town has a HORRIBLE record of project management.
I’m asking because they comment here and have many suggestions and “ thoughts “ about our little Town.
I find it sad that you have to defend them. They seem like strong women capaple of responses.
Mahatma Gandhi
I bet whichever side you're on nobody will ever know as you dont show up.
I do think the approach and how it was presented last night was confrontational by design. The process as controlled by Carter was to avoid responsibility by the town, not assist the citizens.
Why is it that only after last night is the town putting together a list of required fixes to get the road available for plowing. Wouldn't that have been part of a process prior to the "red letter" being sent out?
If I was living on that road I would try and direct them to get legal advice. Bring everything they have, spend a few dollars as a group and know, once and for all if you have a leg to stand on before submitting to the Towns conditions.
In 2005 the town "looked like a duck, acted like a duck, probably was a duck" as it appears that they sure acted like it was a town road after that point.
They like anyone else needs to prove their case to the court - actual court not the court of public opinion.
A court of law is always an option and when the town claims no fault, liability or intent to repair it will cost taxpayers either way.
all parties will be made whole perhaps .
So again ... what answers to these questions and what are the questions BOB M before you will say if you would as a citizen take on this private debt ( as it currently stands ) ?
Why should I pay for this as a taxpayer ? What benefit do I get ? ya see the problems here BOB M .. unlike a EMS I get no benefit here from taking on private debt and potential legal liabilities. Buyer Beware and BOOTSTRAPS
First off I'd like see the paper trail that follows the process as described and uncontested at the meeting. The Developer in 2005-06 comes to town hall with deed in hand for the road. It was stated and I heard no disagreement that He came in to sign over the land (road) to the town. If The Developer owned it then, How does logic get me to the homeowners own it now?
Developer bring proposal to town
Town collects fees
Town Inspects/Engineers sign off/etc
Developer brings deed to town
Town doesn't accept offering
Town changes Drive-Road/maintains and repairs road
Developer dissolves company ( lawyers assumption)
Dangerous conditions develope
Town denies ownership/liability
Homeowners stuck paying
Many things went wrong here apparently and why are the homeowners the only ones liable?
What about the realtors, especially local realtors who sold any of those properties without disclosing as many individuals stated.
Bootstraps
In law, a legal opinion is in certain jurisdictions a written explanation by a judge or group of judges that accompanies an order or ruling in a case, laying out the rationale and legal principles for the ruling. WIKI
Mr Bennett the difference between someone that is qualified to give advice ( in this case council for our town ) of their experience or background versus the person that has limited or no experience ( that’s you ) and is unqualified to give advice, hence it's just your opinion Mr Bennett - with anecdotal hearsay of “ basic statement made by .. “ someone somewhere ....
* also ones anonymity... does not Mr Bennett negate ones ideas ... you of all people should know that one.
fy. sixteen, our TA said the budget was not sustainable for the next year . So what changed ! Did we live within our means ? Absolutely not ! Did any of our elected officials take action to make the changes needed to eliminate costs that were not necessary ? No ! We were told not to build that school, without a bond rating ! A
bond rating we still do not have ! So, now a problem that should have been dealt with, long ago has reared it's ugly head. Sure, everyone should have a town accepted road . The question is, where is the money coming from ? After the "schools" go for their million $ override next year, it may be when chickens have teeth !
#hippocrites