By Jonathan Larsen Additional reporting and research by Gina Kim In its push to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA), one of the world’s top medical-technology companies is making claims about Obamacare that are contradicted by the company’s own financial filings, according to documents reviewed by TYT Politics. Stryker Corporation CEO Kevin Lobo has made multiple statements on national television …
Reported DHS Pick David Clarke Rejects Critiques of Racial Profiling
By Naomi LaChance Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, who reportedly is joining the Department of Homeland Security, said in a 2009 post on his personal blog that concerns about racial profiling were “junk science.” Clarke, who has compared Beyonce to the KKK and called Ferguson demonstrators “vultures on a roadside carcass,” has said he’s been nominated to lead the DHS Office of Partnership and Engagement, which coordinates …
Flooded Chemical Plant Got Slap On the Wrist for Prior Release of Toxins
By Michael Tracey On June 20, 2006, a fire broke out in the same Crosby facility which is currently flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. After the 2006 fire, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality determined that “a pallet of organic peroxide was stored inappropriately,” causing the fire and an aerial emission of “unpermitted” toxins. For its complicity in …