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The Trump Regime Is Bullying a Tiny Country Over Breastfeeding
And it's all to serve the corporate masters.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUL 9, 2018
What is wrong with these idiots?
I promised myself Id stop asking that question about midway through the dreary 2016 presidential campaign because there is no real answer to it beyond everything, which is both general and inadequate. However, sometimes, the casual cruelty and reflexive stupidity of our current government is such that it is the only question worth asking.
From The New York Times:
Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mothers milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.
Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to protect, promote and support breast-feeding and another passage that called on policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have deleterious effects on young children.
When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and government officials who took part in the discussions. Ecuador, which had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in the cross hairs.
Bullying a tiny country over the issue of breast-feeding. So much damned winning!...
Of course, its simply another giveaway by this administration*, and by the political party it represents, to the corporate powers from which they subcontract the job of running the government.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22091279/breastfeeding-ecuador-donald-trump-administration/
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Pierce: The Trump Regime Is Bullying a Tiny Country Over Breastfeeding (Original Post)
mcar
Jul 2018
OP
And then his pimp showed up and told him which way to go with this. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Jul 2018
#2
Blue1963
(77 posts)1. What the actual
*&^%.
Everyday I think I can't hate these guys anymore and unfortunately everyday they prove me wrong.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)2. And then his pimp showed up and told him which way to go with this. nt
eppur_se_muova
(36,266 posts)3. I'm sure there's absolutely no conceivable connection to this ...
mcar
(42,334 posts)4. Couldn't possibly be