Bugs, Wars, and redefining Democracy. It’s a crazy world we live in. MMO #120 focuses on wild swath of new happenings around the globe this week. The West help democracy by defeating it, Ukraine needs more stuff including warm bodies. Germany is seeing a rise in Authoritarianism. Georgia continues to heat up. Lindsay Graham blows his top on the news and israel. ART BY: Clip Custodian. Don’t just surrender to him, see if you can beat him. Send your art to dan@mmo.show & john@mmo.show Fiat Fun Coupon Donators: TrashmanHempress Emily M.Wiirdo This weeks Boosters: flibbertygibbet | 10,000 | BAG DADDY BOOSTER!Cousin Vito | 8,888trailchicken | 3,333boolysteed | 3,333Salty Crayon | 404jasper89 | 119namillennial | 105namillennial | 100 Shownotes Ep 120 Birdbrain Flu Celine Gounder on CBS Bird Flu Gazatho NBC Report ABC Report Ukraine Russian Offensive – DW >Kharkiv region is a major O&G pipeline hub – feeds 3 lines into Ukraine >Russian Def. Minister promoted, replaced by Economic advisor Anduril Founder on Bloomberg Trade Katherine Tai on Tariffs Inflation Speech Election Interference Taskforce Portal Information Indian YouTuber on Elections, Information Enviornment Politics Kamala Stupid Stay Hard MO Sec of State Misc Roastie Teachers Blinken Puts on Rock Show in Kiev EMAIL FROM FLIBBERTYGIBBIT Here's my personal story: My husband and I bought a piece of property in the middle of nowhere Missouri about 1.5 years ago with plans of building a little homestead and becoming as self-sufficient as possible. After living here a few months we began to notice the smell. This was not the smell of the nearby chicken farms, this was an overwhelming smell of decaying flesh and rot. It was so bad we couldn't go outside and at times strong enough that even inside the house would smell utterly foul. It stuck to our hair and clothes, resulted in millions of flies and mosquitos swarming constantly, and was just inescapable. I started introducing myself to my new neighbors and asking the origin of this rancid odor and learned that it came from a lagoon nearby that was filled with this sludge as well as several surrounding farms that land applied it as fertilizer. I had learned about this stuff years prior due to my interest in sustainable agriculture and was horrified to learn that it was being used on the beautiful farmland in this place that I love. After getting to know some of my neighbors myself and 3 others decided to try to get something done. We formed S.L.U.D.G.E., a committee dedicated to ending the use of this crap. We set out to educate people in our area about what this stuff actually is and started contacting environmental lawyers and lawmakers to see what we could do. We filed a lawsuit against the department of natural resources for failure to enforce their own regulations and began working on a senate bill. The bill was manipulated through the political process but did pass the senate 30-1 this past week and now has to go back to the house. There was a lot left out of the bill but it's a step in the right direction. Our lawsuit is still ongoing. Most Recent article on the bill: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/05/07/missouri-bill-protecting-rural-neighbors-from-meatpacking-sludge-nears-passage/ Article talking about our lawsuit, not much new recently. Government entities are good at drawing out the legal process. https://www.cassville-democrat.com/2023/11/14/good-question-no-answer/?fbclid=IwAR0lp6nnsFakgXtq-qIjK8FzwZNlnNdLuktfv7ZTdP7eWCRGi8V0ajCubGc So what is this shit? Well, It can be literally shit in some cases, but really there is so much more. Sludge is a byproduct of the industrial wastewater treatment process. It contains the worst of the contaminants from industrial plants (mostly food manufacturers) that cannot be sent to a standard wastewater processing facility and in some cases can contain the waste removed from municipal wastewater treatment. The industrial waste includes animal guts, grease trap waste, and the industrial cleaning agents used to clean the facilities among other things. These contaminants are removed from the water with the help of chemical coagulants and flocculants (often containing heavy metals such as aluminum) that bind to the contaminates and allow them to float to the surface or sink to the bottom where they can be skimmed off leaving behind cleaner water that can go through the standard wastewater treatment stream. Manufactures pay companies to bring in tank trucks to pick...
