Tag: corporatism
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Kraft Attempts Buyout of Cadbury for $16.7B
Kraft played down speculation on Tuesday that it would be prepared to raise its offer for Cadbury PLC, after the British chocolate company rejected its 10.2 billion pound ($16.7 billion) offer.
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8/27 binge & purge: suing bayer, UN plans & boycotting big beer
farmers suing german-based bayer cropscience over gm ricefrom ap: Nearly 1,500 rice farmers are suing the German conglomerate Bayer Cropscience and affiliated companies over a genetically engineered strain of rice. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Little Rock claims the farmers’ crops were corrupted by the rice that was produced by Bayer. The…
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geopolitiks: borderwars, organ theft & corporate coups
mexican army takes over customs on US border*drug-related violence claims 33 in mexico*chinese villagers storm factory blamed for lead poisoning of 600 children*israelis furious over swedish paper’s claim of organ theft*israeli officials condemn swedish news report as ‘blood libel’*john perkins: honduras military coup engineered by 2 US companies?*amid bombs & bullets, afghanistan votes*
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fiji water: spin the bottle, the politics of water
from ethiopian review: If you drink bottled water, you’ve probably drunk Fiji. Or wanted to. Even though it’s shipped from the opposite end of the globe, even though it retails for nearly three times as much as your basic supermarket water, Fiji is now America’s leading imported water, beating out Evian. It has spent millions…
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corporate dietician on corporate tv says to eat corporate food
from huffpo: On The Today Show, Matt Lauer hosted dietitian Elizabeth Ward to discuss how to make “healthy” food choices on a road trip. Virtually the only measure Ward used to evaluate what was healthy was how many calories is in it… She goes onto recommend Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC Grilled Chicken (HuffPost bloggers…
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ceo barry diller says free internet content is a myth
from bloomberg: Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, said Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, joining the refrain of media moguls who say an era of free Internet content is ending. The media and technology executive, whose company runs the Ask.com search engine and the Match.com…
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corbett report: episode092 – environmentalism is corporate controlled
from corbett report: Congress has passed the Clean Energy and Security Act and the banksters are already set to start the next big bubble: the cap-and-trade scam. Their corporate media stooges have the public whipped into a frenzy over man-made global warming… even as the earth cools. Join us this week as we explore the…
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clyde lewis & the ground zero lounge – may 2009
here are the latest episodes from the ground zero lounge… download may2009 archive [119mb ZIP] being green: it’s not so easy [may4]In “Being Green: It’s Not so Easy” Clyde Lewis points out that some of the more outrageous theories about Swine Flu are no more insane than the arguments for Global Warming. In this episode…
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study reveals true extent of ‘old boys network’ between govt & banks
from scotsman: Links between Government and the banking sector have been condemned in a new report that has uncovered the extent of the “old boys network” at the top of British public life. Britain has a greater culture of cronyism than Europe or the US, according to the study, which identified key individuals who have…
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econocrash: crisitunity!
will US financial woes lead to new world order? convicted inside trader & elite finance oligarch george soros says: i’m having a very good crisisfrom daily mail: A hedge fund manager who predicted the global credit crunch has said the financial crisis has been ‘stimulating’ and the culmination of his life’s work. George Soros, who…
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police may be privatized by foreign company in chicago
…like that crazy movie where the detroit police are run by a private corporation which values profit over people. but that’s just sci-fi, it could never happen in real life… from cbs: They’re private security guards, already on patrol, but they may soon have the powers of Chicago Police officers. As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent…
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banksters team up to buy weather channel
from dealbook: An investor group led by NBC Universal and two private equity firms clinched a deal for the Weather Channel on Sunday, after three weeks of negotiations over the sale of the weather news giant. Though the parties did not disclose the price, the buyers – NBC and the private equity firms Bain Capital…
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the internet is dead! long live internet2!
charging by the byte to curb internet trafficfrom nytimes: Some people use the Internet simply to check e-mail and look up phone numbers. Others are online all day, downloading big video and music files. For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access. But now three of the country’s largest…
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hillary, hollowed-out book, nau, fraudsters & al-CIAda
dallas cop killed while escorting hillary from cbs2: A Dallas police motorcycle officer who crashed and died Friday while escorting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s motorcade to a campaign rally has been identified, CBS station KTVT-TV, in Dallas reported. Senior Cpl. Victor Lozada, a 20-year veteran of the department, was killed in the accident.…
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fcc ok’s clear channel buyout
mitt romney & bain capital’s deal will make largest US radio broadcaster privatefrom ap: The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on the $19.5 billion deal that will take the nation’s largest radio broadcaster private, an agency official said Thursday. San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications Inc. grew into a media giant and punching bag for…