Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Some of Blackwater/Xe’s Corporate Clients: Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Deutsche Bank and Barclays
September 17th, 2010Via: The Nation: Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to […]
U.S. Drug Firm Penalized $300 Million for Criminal Actions
September 16th, 2010Via: CBC: A major U.S. drug company, Forest Pharmaceuticals, has agreed to plead guilty to three charges related to selling an unapproved drug, promoting an antidepressant to children and obstructing federal agents. The company is facing fines and criminal penalties of over $300 million. The charges date back more than 10 years when Forest was […]
Big Pharma’s Quackademic ‘Thought Leaders’
September 16th, 2010Via: The Chronicle of Higher Education: Perhaps the most remarkable recent exchange with a KOL emerged in an investigation of Joseph Biederman, a child psychiatrist at Harvard University. In a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, Biederman was accused of promising positive research results to the company in exchange for funding. A hint of Biederman’s self-opinion […]
Banner Image: Not Photoshop
September 16th, 2010Some questions have been coming in with regard to the current banner image. No, I didn’t make that in Photoshop. Yes, that’s marijuana. Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture – Reuters: Cpl Ryan Belgrave with the Canadian Army’s 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group, walks through a field of marijuana plants during a […]
New Name for High Fructose Corn Syrup: Corn Sugar
September 15th, 2010Via: Food Consumer: On September 14, the Corn Refiner’s Association said in a press release posted on its website that it has asked the Food and Drug Administration to allow manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS, to use the name “corn sugar” instead of high fructose corn syrup.
Britain: Under New Plan, Government Would Deduct Taxes Directly from Workers’ Gross Pay and Issue Pay Checks
September 15th, 2010Wow! Do you think it will stop at just the income tax? Just wait. Property taxes. Unpaid speeding tickets. Fart taxes. Oh, baby. The sky’s the limit on this terrifying nonsense. That’s the beauty of a “centralised deductions system.” Her Majesty can authoritatively and effortlessly lift your wallet and send you on your way. Via: […]
Real IRA Says it Will Target UK Bankers
September 15th, 2010As I’ve stated before, a way to assess if a terrorist organization is real, or a false flag, state sponsored scam, is to look at the targets of the attacks. If the attacks target civilians, make work for janitors or provide a lot of footage of chaos for the state’s media to play in an […]
“Productive agricultural land with water on site, will be very valuable in the future.”
September 15th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The neo-colonial rush for global farmland has gone exponential since the food scare of 2007-2008. Last week’s long-delayed report by the World Bank suggests that purchases in developing countries rose to 45m hectares in 2009, a ten-fold jump from levels of the last decade. Two thirds have been in Africa, where institutions offer […]
Putin, Berlusconi ‘Joke’ About Ruling Until They Are 120 Years Old
September 13th, 2010Mmm hmm. Via: AFP: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi cracked jokes about hanging on to power to well past 100, during a relaxed meeting in Russia, TV pictures showed Saturday. Berlusconi, 73, was visiting Putin at his residence at Novo Ogarevo, near Moscow. The NTV station reported that during a forum […]
‘There’s a joke among executives whose livelihoods depend on Foxconn: In 20 years, there will be only two companies. Everything will be made by Foxconn and sold by Wal-Mart.’
September 13th, 2010As I read this breathtaking account of Foxconn and its founder, Terry Gou, it kept reminding me of Hunter S. Thompson’s drug addled evening at the Circus-Circus casino in Las Vegas. Here’s an excerpt from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to help put you into the right frame of mind to read about Gou’s […]
