’Twas Year End and the CEOs Did gamble with their bonus, All bankrupt were the borrowers In th’ encampment of the homeless. They were so poor, they warmed their hands O’er barrel fires. In threadbare caps They shivered in the winter cold; ’Twere repossessed their wraps. The onc[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Corporatism’
December 10th, 2016 - 12:03 pm § in Misc.
Trump Chooses Putin’s Oil Buddy as Secretary of State and John Bolton as #2
Rex Wayne Tillerson (born March 23, 1952) is an American businessman and is the chairman, president, and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation, the fifth largest company by market capitalization.[3][4] He is expected to be named Secretary of State by President-elect Donald Trump tomorrow. Tillerson is a tr[...]
December 9th, 2016 - 10:59 am § in Donald Trump, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: WA’s McMorris Rodgers to head Department of the Interior
WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) to serve as his secretary of interior, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday morning. “In Congress, Rep. McMorris Rodgers has consistently voted to prioritize drilling on our public [...]
December 1st, 2016 - 9:49 am § in America
Amazon Uber Alles
BEZOS GROWING MONOPOLY... AMAZON captured 31% online spending over Cyber Weekend…[...]
November 18th, 2016 - 11:19 am § in The Ave Scene
Paul Allen: Flipping Seattle Trump Style
Vulcan Flips Amazon building in S. Lake Union for $244 million I guess the next step will be for Vulcan to work with Trump to develop his proposed Trump Club. Amazon office building at 400 Ninth Ave N. (Vulcan Real Estate) Paul Allen’s Vulcan Real Estate has unloaded another part of its[...]
October 19th, 2016 - 12:52 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Post Brexit British Firm Moves to Takeover Reynolds Tobacco
British American Tobacco Offers To Buy Reynolds American For $47 Billion The move would bring together Newport, Kent and Pall Mall cigarettes in the world’s biggest listed tobacco company. R.J. Reynolds Denies Rumors Of Marijuana Growing [...]
May 23rd, 2016 - 3:26 pm § in Uncategorized
Idaho must pay activists’ legal bills in “ag-gag” case
A federal judge has ordered Idaho to pay $250,000 to animal-rights activists for their legal bills incurred in challenging an unconstitutional “ag-gag” law that made it a crime to video abuse of farm animals. Read story here. Several Republican-dominated farm states have passed such laws[...]
May 22nd, 2016 - 11:49 am § in Uncategorized
Tesla exploits cheap imported labor
“Overseas contractors are shipping workers from impoverished countries to American factories, where they work long hours for low wages, in apparent violation of visa and labor laws.” That’s the conclusion of the San Jose Mercury News after months of investigative journalism. The ne[...]
May 12th, 2016 - 8:27 am § in Uncategorized
Why there’s e.coli on your chicken
You’ve heard the advice: Always wash food well, then cook it thoroughly, so you don’t get sick or maybe die. But have you wondered why raw food is dangerous? Where the germs come from? “Beyond the low wages and high injury rates, the nation’s roughly 250,000 poultry workers a[...]