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PROBLEM: Republicans on the House Science Committee are accusing  Linda Birnbaum   director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences  of lobbying. In letters sent to the Inspector General and acting secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services  Reps. Lamar Smith and Andy Biggs wrote that they were “conducting oversight” of  Birnbaum ’s activity in response to a editorial she wrote in a scientific journal.
 Birnbaum ’s editorial  which the journal PLOS Biology published in December  addressed the gaps in the regulation of toxic chemicals. Though there are more than 85 000 chemicals approved for use in commerce  she noted in the piece  “U.S. policy has not accounted for evidence that chemicals in widespread use can cause cancer and other chronic diseases  damage reproductive systems  and harm developing brains at low levels of exposure once believed to be harmless.”
A toxicologist who has headed NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program since 2009   Birnbaum  received no funding for writing the editorial  as  she  notes in the piece  nor does  she  recommend any specific policy  piece of legislation  or action in it beyond being engaged citizens.
Smith and Bigg’s attack on  Birnbaum  seems less designed to exonerate a particular chemical. In the editorial that caused the most recent stir in the House committee   Birnbaum  introduced an issue of the journal that covered a broad range of environmental science problems from the challenges of setting drinking water limits for PFOA to the need clarify the relationship between the dose and response of certain chemicals.

SOLUTION: House Science Committee Wants to Investigate a Government Scientist for Doing Science

PROBLEM: Premier Silvio Berlusconi skipped a hearing Friday in a trial accusing him of bribing a British lawyer to lie on the stand.
 Berlusconi had not been expected at the technical hearing  his lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said  adding that the premier would attend when there were issues of substance at hand  beginning next month.
 Prosecutors accuse Berlusconi of ordering the 1997 payment of $600 000 to lawyer David Mills in exchange for his false testimony in two trials. Both Berlusconi and Mills have denied wrongdoing. Mills is in the second and final round of appeals against his conviction in the case.
 of ordering the 1997 payment of $600 000 to lawyer David Mills in exchange for his false testimony in two trials. Both Berlusconi and MillsBerlusconi and Mills have denied wrongdoing. Mills is in the second and final round of appeals against his conviction in the case.
 On Friday  the three-judge panel rejected a defense motion arguing that Berlusconi's portion of the trial should restart from scratch  without allowing any evidence heard by the previous court to carry over on the grounds it would be prejudicial.
 The case is one of two in Milan courts restarted against the premier after Italy's Constitutional Court overturned a law sparing Berlusconi from prosecution while in office.
 In the other case  Berlusconi and others are accused of overpaying for rights to show U.S. movies on Berlusconi's Mediaset television empire and pocketing the difference.
 Although defendants in Italian trials are not required to be present  Berlusconi has said he wants to defend himself in person against the charges.

SOLUTION: Berlusconi skips hearing in Milan corruption case

PROBLEM: And it would appear that some of those funds come from helping  disgraced provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos  make money.
Earlier this month  following ThinkProgress’s reporting   Yiannopoulos  parted ways with Shopify  a Canadian company that had prior provided Yiannopoulos with a means of monetizing the latest white nationalist memes — even though  Yiannopoulos  had collaborated with white supremacists and was fired from Breitbart for his seeming willingness to condone pedophilia.
On Monday  however   Yiannopoulos  launched “Dangerous ” which he claimed would be “the leading destination for media from the New Right.” The site was password-protected sometime Monday afternoon but the “Dangerous Boutique” store that went live alongside it remains online — as is  Yiannopoulos ’s apparent partnership with Stripe.
 Yiannopoulos ’s current slate of products range from “Feminism is Cancer” mugs to Batman-ripoff T-shirts. He is also selling a shirt that reads that “Milo did nothing wrong ” an apparent reference to his pedophilia-related comments that forced him out of Breitbart.
Stripe’s involvement with  Yiannopoulos ’s new store – which remains one of his sole sources of revenue  following his recent fallout with hedge fund manager Robert Mercer – becomes clear when users try to purchase any items from  Yiannopoulos ’s store.
ThinkProgress’s questions to Stripe went unanswered  and it remains unclear if Stripe is aware that  Yiannopoulos  is using their service to make money and build  his  brand. Nonetheless   Yiannopoulos  has not hidden  his  mutually beneficial relationship with Stripe.
As Collison told BBC  “As long as the internet economy continues to grow  Stripe will continue to grow.” And it appears that as long as  Yiannopoulos ’s new business grows  so  too  will Stripe.

SOLUTION:
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