The Resolution of the Flynt Water Crisis

FLINT, MI – Flint Michigan property owners, businesses, and adults, reached a $25 million settlement with Veolia North America (VNA), the last private engineering firm Flint residents were seeking to hold accountable for its role in the devastating Flint water crisis. (No one died or got even sick). 

This settlement brings the total amount of the settlements reached on behalf of plaintiffs in the Flint Water Crisis cases to over $655 million. The case, a certified environmental water contamination class action, went to jury trial on February 13, 2024. The plaintiffs are represented by Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, Susman Godfrey, and Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers.

 

The class action case was filed in 2016 against VNA and other defendants on behalf of more than 90,000 residents. The class action, which resulted in a landmark $626.25 million settlement against the State of Michigan in 2021, was officially certified against VNA and a second private water engineering company, Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam (LAN), in August 2021. LAN settled with residents last October.

 

The certified class action maintained that VNA failed to identify corroding pipes, exacerbating the Flint water crisis, and allowed the water contamination to last much longer than it should have, had Veolia recommended the correct remediation, including adding a corrosive chemical to the water supply.

Comment: This is crazy. The Flynt Water Treatment plant operators failed to add the chemicals provided to them to neutralize the acidity of the water supplied. The companies repairing the mains had nothing to do with the lead content of the water at the kitchen level - they were not even in the town. Yet Veolia "caused the contamination to last longer than it should have because it did not recommend"... to its client to implement what it was believed to be doing. (Had Veolia intervened, it would have been sacked for patronizing and overreaching its mandate). The State of Michigan paid the most while the city government and the operators were not even charged. They were 100% Afroamericans, that's why. They are supposed to have no agency at all. The conclusion is to get as far as possible and to have no deals with Flynt. 

El Hazmerreir de Gaza

Sinwarita

Some British papers wrote that Sinwar, the head of Hamas, is circulating in Gaza under female robes. I am expecting an avalanche of satirical media content. Already some Israelis are writing him that it is OK to be gay, it is normative and he may continue feeling "achla gever" (a Real Man)!

Hazmerreir translates as Laughing Stock. It sounds better in Spanish. 

Celebrating Freedom!

 

Noa Argamani was kidnapped in the Re'em Festival on October 7 2023 and held hostage in the home of an Arab journalist for six or more months. She was rescued by an Israeli commando. Yesterday she and her father (pic) were celebrating her rescue. 

American politics

Tim Walz, the governor of the powerful state of Minnesota enters dancing at the party convention. Foreigners cannot believe that Americans are serious people, but they are. Very. 

Walz and Harris belong to the extreme left of the Democratic Party. The good thing is that they will promote social peace and harmony if they seize power. California as a State is ruled by leftists and crazy "green" legislation, like protecting the Sacramento River estuary sardines, yet that has not handicapped its economic growth. 

Gold

 

300 000 shekel/kg cheap. Production is limited and reserves are almost exhausted. People and nations hoard gold as protection in these uncertain times and global inflation. 

I never bought gold, silver, or crypto. They produce nothing, their worth is the hope that somebody will be willing to buy them. My grandparents in Hungary had some and more, but it was all lost in the Holocaust. Their lives too.  

 BTW, the brick on the left is fake.

Our enemies are trembling

 
According to an Egyptian official, the Hamas leader demands that Israel promise not to harm him as part of a hostage deal.

I have heard that true Muslims desire martyrdom:

There are six things with Allah for the martyr. He is forgiven with the first flow of blood (he suffers), he is shown his place in Paradise, he is protected from punishment in the grave, secured from the greatest terror, the crown of dignity is placed upon his head – and its gems are better than the world and what is in it – he is married to seventy two wives along Al-Huril-‘Ayn of Paradise, and he may intercede for seventy of his close relatives. (At-Tirmidhi – Hasan)

Why the interest rate is so high

 No idea. Israel has one of the highest interest rates in the world, with light inflation. Generally, this fiscal measure controls inflation and curbs economic activity to produce a recession. People are not taking out mortgages or buying apartments because of the interest rate. Yet real estate prices are high. Israel is prospering and there is much money in the country - that is my gut feeling. An alternative take is that Smotrich is printing money to finance the war.