That’s right, very important, right here.
Nice-Pak Products, Inc., a leading manufacturer of wet wipes, will cease advertising its moist toilet tissue as flushable unless it can prove that it is safe to flush.
This is part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.
Trenton Norris of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., represented Nice-Pak.
Nice-Pak will stop claiming that its moist toilet tissue is safe for sewer and septic systems unless it can show proof to back those claims.
Additionally, Nice-Pak will halt providing trade customers, including retailers, with information that could lead to unverified claims.
Oh wait, no. That’s not the main point. This is.
h/t quico
UPDATE. But seriously. Can you all please take your triumphalist “ooh la la here comes the collapse of el rrregimen” and actually think for a second?
This isn’t especially good news. Can anyone point me to a country where the US has removed top government members and things got significantly better in less than a decade? If this is truly the direction we’re heading, then that’s where we’re heading. But please don’t act like this is a victory. It’s dismal news. If the US targets Cabello and/or other high-ranking Venezuelan officials, we are likely to face long periods of extreme instability. Not great.
And let’s not get started on Diosdado and his associates. What about all these lowlifes who are turning state’s witness? You think they are charming? Why do you think the US has never charged many individuals whose criminal activities have been well documented on this site, as well as on Alek Boyd’s or Caracas Gringo’s? These are not good people. These are individuals who have stolen, quite frequently, hundreds of millions of dollars from the Venezuelan people. And because they can share a bit of gossip on Diosdado Cabello, they get to live in nice suburban homes, send their kids to top universities, and live happily ever after, while Venezuela sinks further into despair.
It’s a disaster, it’s a mess, and the responsibility to act lies with the people of Venezuela, especially the relatively well-off, literate, and connected expatriates. But their level of activism seems to be retweeting Nelson Bocaranda once a day and then heading back to the pool.
ANOTHER UPDATE: What the Devil says.