Bread price fixing, Twinkie bonuses and toxic places + this day in history w/the Great Baltimore Fire and our song of the day by Lord Huron on your Morning Monarchy for February 7, 2018.
Notes/Links:
Did a Pennsylvania Teacher Assign Math Homework That Referred to Sexual Assault?
https://www.snopes.com/math-homework-sexual-assault/
Fake North Korea nuclear missile threat announced at Michigan grocery store
https://twitter.com/swaggerprance/status/959794425231654912
At least seven companies, including Loblaws, Giant Tiger, Sobeys, Walmart Canada, and Metro were part of the bread price fixing scandal and committed indictable offences, the Competition Bureau says
https://twitter.com/TimWherry/status/959133682555596800
#BreadPriceFixing scandal expands (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961137096403677184
Nursing mom finds lizard in bagged salad; worried about baby
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/960816614844219392
A lizard in my salad (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961137294001496065
Faces of Food Safety: Meet Kathleen McAnally of FSIS
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/960090578259070976
Chemical in McDonald’s Fries Could Cure Baldness, Study Says
https://twitter.com/XEyezWideOpenX/status/960750253887680512
Study: McDonald’s French Fry Oil Could Help Cure Baldness (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961137878121279489
Doritos Announces It’s Making A ‘Female-Friendly’ Chip That Doesn’t Crunch
https://twitter.com/g3rd3r/status/960972844602556416
#LadyDoritos trends after CEO’s remarks on women (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961138169327611905
Hostess acquires Big Texas and Cloverhill brands
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/959650403850899457
Hostess to pay bonuses in Twinkies as well as cash
https://twitter.com/swaggerprance/status/960147601835245570
KC-based @Hostess_Snacks to pay bonuses in #Twinkies and cash (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961139961608200194
Amazon wants to disrupt health care in America. In China, tech giants already have
https://twitter.com/FuturesCalling/status/959496151996055553
Alabama sues OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over opioid epidemic
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/960949635866071040
28 Russians have 2014 #Olympics doping bans lifted
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/959302384181682176
28 Russian athletes have #Olympics doping bans lifted, results reinstated (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961140855158525952
Munchy madness: Girl Scout sells 300 boxes of cookies outside San Diego marijuana dispensary
https://twitter.com/RT_America/status/960609221975904258
#PeakPortland: Judge allows $1.2B class-action suit against Portland glass maker, @BullseyeGlassCo
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/960638248287531008
Environmentalists argue Oregon wolf delisting unlawful
https://twitter.com/nolatarian/status/959256426551001088
Shocking Revelations from Science Section of the Newspaper: “Swatting May Keep A Mosquito At Bay”
https://twitter.com/headisajar/status/960500997197107201
Bayer offers new concessions to win EU approval for Monsanto deal
https://twitter.com/TheDealeyLama/status/960509475886190593
Lawsuits over herbicide dicamba to be heard in St. Louis
https://twitter.com/TheDealeyLama/status/960149713239662593
Merck’s consumer health sale at risk as Nestle bows out
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/959580278128873472
Director of the Centers for Disease Control Resigns: Who Was Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald?
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/959410090313789441
Director Of @CDCgov, #BrendaFitzgerald, Quits After Revealed She Is Invested In Tobacco, Healthcare Stocks (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961141446383472640
CDC director resigns after reports of conflicts of interest
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/959001953119301633
The Most (And Least) Toxic Places in America
https://twitter.com/CrimsonMistUT/status/959517630901071872
Prominent ivory trade investigator killed in Nairobi home
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/960750149520764929
Top Ivory Trafficking Investigator, #EsmondBradleyMartin, Murdered (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961142074157551618
#ThisDayInHistory: #February7 w/the #GreatBaltimoreFire destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours in 1904 (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961302198377304064
+ #CrippleCreek strike, #EmileZola trial, ‘#Pinocchio’ premieres, #Cuban imports/exports banned, #TheBeatles land in USA, #JosefMengele dies, #RamziYusef arrested, Bush pushes #FaithBased initiatives
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961303256424005632
Flashback: Air Force Hosted Evangelicals Posing As Ex-Terrorists (Feb. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/air-force-hosted-evangelicals-posing-as/
Flashback: Bill Would End Separation of Church & Super Bowl (Feb. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/bill-would-end-separation-of-churc/
Flashback: The New Gold Rush (Feb. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/new-gold-rus/
Flashback: Small West Virginia Town Installs Spy Cameras (Feb. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/small-west-virginia-town-installs-spy/
Flashback: WV’s Rockefeller Let’s Slip the Spying Truth (Feb. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/wvs-rockefeller-lets-slip-spying-tru/
Flashback: Romney Bows Out (Feb. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/romney-bows-ou/
Flashback: John McWethy, 9/11 Pentagon Reporter, Dies in Accident (Feb. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/john-mcwethy-911-pentagon-reporter-dies/
Flashback: Oregon Panhandlers Raking in the Green (Feb. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2008/02/oregon-panhandlers-raking-in-green/
+ #JohnDeere, #CharlesDickens, #LauraIngallsWilder, #SinclairLewis, #BusterCrabbe, #MiguelFerrer, #JamesSpader, #GarthBrooks, #JDilla, #WesBorland, #AshtonKutcher birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961304151035539456
#PumpUpThaVolume: Lord Huron – “Ancient Names (Part II)” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/961124659109429248