Sherwin-Williams, Conagra and NL Industries ----Paint companies poisoned people with lead additives. Now they want a billion-dollar bailout

The not so future news is that the paint companies need to clean up the environment. Save the planet.

Global warming continues with severe storms as Maryland flash floods leave National Guard member missing, governor declares state of emergency

'No words to describe the devastation' after Ellicott City flooding in Maryland

Even Shellfish test positive for oxycodone as the epidemic continues.

Shellfish in the Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean along the northwest coast of Washington, tested positive for the prescription opioid oxycodone.

But that wasn't all, The mussels also contained four kinds of synthetic surfactants -- the chemicals found in detergents and cleaning products -- seven kinds of antibiotics, five types of antidepressants, more than one antidiabetic drug and one chemotherapy agent.

Oxycodone is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from thebaine, an opioid alkaloid found in the Persian poppy, and one of the many alkaloids found in the opium poppy. It is a moderately potent opioid pain medication (orally roughly 1.5 times more potent than morphine), generally indicated for the relief of moderate to severe pain. Oxycodone was developed in 1917 in Germany as one of several semi-synthetic opioids in an attempt to improve on the existing opioids.

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plastic bags have been blamed for the deaths of sperm whales in the Mediterranean. The Athens-based Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute found that more than a third of the sperm whales found dead in Greek waters had stomachs blocked by plastic waste. But this comes as no surprise to whale watchers.

Summertime: 5 best ways to save your life in the water.

Ascent and descent into the water.
Reorient oneself to a land marker.
Tread water for one minute.
Swim forward with head up.
Make it to the shoreline and get out of the water.

In the not so future...Of all the mammals on Earth, 96% are livestock and humans, only 4% are wild mammals...60% of all mammals on Earth are livestock

The human race is just 0.01% of all life but has eradicated most other living things.

Yet since the dawn of civilization, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of the plants, while livestock kept by humans abounds.

Only 10 percent of all large fish—both open ocean species including tuna, swordfish, marlin and the large groundfish such as cod, halibut, skates, and flounder—are left in the sea, according to research published in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature.

According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, more than 5,000 of the county's 58,000 homeless people are children and more than 4,000 are elderly.

The last time a global survey was attempted – by the United Nations in 2005 – an estimated 100 million people were homeless worldwide. As many as 1.6 billion people lacked adequate housing (Habitat, 2015).

The American Economy dives as homeless numbers soar to 553,742 people in the United States experiencing homelessness on a given night,

In the not so future, historic decisions to save Americans

Solar power to be mandatory in new house construction in the not so future.

The age of solar.

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