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Posts Tagged ‘corporations’
April 29th, 2014 - 7:40 am § in America
Drug Companies Eat the Small Fish
Pfizer Chases AstraZeneca In Effort To Launch Biggest Ever Foreign Takeover Of British Company The most obvious danger in these mergers is the ability of giant pharma t0 control prices. This is especially true in the US where prices are controlled by corporations lobbying Congress. Less obvious is[...]
April 10th, 2014 - 7:27 pm § in The Ave Scene
Boeing : Seattle gets the wings, with ranch dressing!
Despite $9,000,000,000 tax break, Boeing is moving the crown jewels, the 1,000 engineering jobs that support the world wide fleet, to California (where TAXES are higher). Management: Chicago Bodies: North Carolina After market support: California Wings: Seattle Boeing’s view of what will [...]
April 8th, 2014 - 8:20 am § in Science
$9,000,000,000 Finding Against Lilly and Takeda
Jury finds that diabetes drug, Actos, causes bladder cancer. Assuming that the data are correct, Actos increased the risk of bladder cancer by three fold. The other issue here, as in all such cases, is the question of why we use the vastly expensive and over burdened court system, with lawyers gone[...]
April 1st, 2014 - 6:38 am § in Misc.
Darcy’s Dream Comes True!
NOT A JOKE! App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers Remember Darcy Burner? She was Goldy’s (and other liberals’) favorite candidate first to run against Reichert and then to run against Delbene. Darcy is a good person, and idealist, but more than a bit doctrinaire for the middle-of-the-road[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 3:02 am § in The Ave Scene
Can Hillary’s 08 Campaign Manager Screw Up Microsoft?
A source close to Microsoft reports that “Mark Penn is NOT departing Microsoft.” Who is Mark Penn? He was the ultimate political operative during the Clinton years before he managed to bungle Hillary’s campaign for President. David Korn reports at Mother Jones that Hillary’s su[...]
Cell Charges Taxpayers $31.50 for Their Own Property
Tax payers here and elsewhere are being gipped by publishers who claim copyrights to the scientific literature. As an example, this article in Cell was supported by several grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01 AG034504, R01 AG030146, P30 AG10161, R01 AG17917, R01 AG15819, K08 AG034290,[...]
February 4th, 2014 - 8:25 am § in The Ave Scene
What is a VECTON?
WHAT IS A VECTON? The creativity of companies naming things is awesome. Now, an Israeli company. seems to have sold a super radar oven as something new. Is this hype? The company calls itself “Goji” as in the goji berries. I first heard about this from my brother Hugh who had an ex[...]
February 3rd, 2014 - 3:12 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Stocks unravel after factory report; Dow sinks 300-plus points
Put another way, without government creating money via the Federal Reserve and creating opportunities via investments in our infrastructure and long term research, the equity in the stock market will poof GOVERNMENT DOES MAKE MONEY Since the American Revolution, the HUGE success of America and the u[...]
DAVEY JONES: Shipboard culture
Bitchy Captains Sorry its taken me a while to get back to you, a lack of sleep both due to time changes, some major, and a few minor, repairs and a ship trying to get back on schedule, have taken my time. Back to The Maersk Alabama, and its former captain. You asked me to […][...]