Monsanto CEO gets well-deserved $600 million bonus for last year The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Monsanto, Hugh Grant, received a performance bonus of more than $600 millions for the 2015 fiscal year,…[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corporatism’
August 28th, 2016 - 1:48 am § in America
Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized
THIS IS SCARY!!!!! Nestle CEO claims water should be privatized![...]
July 27th, 2016 - 10:18 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.
TRUMPISMS: TAXES
Trump Won’t Release His Taxes, Says Top Aide “It has nothing to do with Russia,” campaign chairman Paul Manafort said. Share HUFFINGTONPOST.COM[...]
July 17th, 2016 - 4:01 am § in The Ave Scene
July 17: The Potlach Riots in Seattle
As Seattle Yacht Club celebrates its annual Potlach, perhaps our good citizens may want to remember the events of a century ago .. The Great Potlach Riots. One hundred years ago this week in downtown Seattle, a riot broke out that would dramatically alter the way the city saw itself politically. Com[...]
May 10th, 2016 - 9:50 am § in Misc.
How American Politics Works
Budweiser rebrands as ‘America’ in lead-up to US election Beer cans and bottles will be renamed ‘America’ until November, with lyrics to Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land also appearing THEGUARDIAN.COM|BY SAM THIELMAN[...]
Why Obamacare IS working
Whatever our future may be, big government healthcare or big corporate healthcare seem to be the only viable choices. United Health Group, the largest health insurer in the U.S. announced lat April that it is pulling out of most states’ Obamacare exchanges. The company said it has lost [...]
David Brewster: The Corporate Industrial Foundation Axi
David Brewster NYTimes does an expose of the Brookings Institution, showing how corporate donations result in brand-building favors. Disturbing (and long) article. Seattle has connections with some of the programs mentioned in the story, with mentions of Boeing, Microsoft, Vulcan, and Hitachi. The M[...]