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Let’s Remember Exxon’s Extremely Fucked Up Response to Its Catastrophic Oil Spill
After the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Exxon launched a ruthless crusade to intimidate and discredit government scientists. By Sarah Emerson.
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The NY Times promised to fact check their new climate denier columnist — they lied
Times’ news staff trashes column on Twitter, while top scientist says paper is “willingly abetting climate change denialism.” By Joe Romm.
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Monsanto accused in court of conducting an army of shills to crackdown on negative online comments
In a San Francisco federal court case, the plaintiff accused GMO giants Monsanto of hiring third-parties who hide their association with the company to respond to negative online comments, also known as ‘shills’.
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Grenfell Tower: Corporate manslaughter considered by police
Police investigating the Grenfell Tower fire say they have "reasonable grounds" to suspect that corporate manslaughter offences may have been committed. It means senior executives from the council and the tenant management organisation that ran the block are likely to be interviewed under caution. A letter from the Met Police to residents said officers had "seized a huge amount of material".
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Utilities Knew About Climate Change Back In 1968 And Still Battled The Science
Oil giants like Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell aren’t the only corporations that understood what was happening to the climate decades ago and covered that knowledge up. Utility companies recognized that emissions from burning fossil fuels warmed the planet as far back as 1968, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Big pharma's Alzheimer's gold rush: 35 new drugs to hit the market in the next few years as the drug cartels cash in on cognitive decline.
Multinational corporations are literally racing against one another to be the first to release these “blockbuster” drugs, which stand to generate billions of dollars in new profits for the legal drug cartels. Alzheimer’s, it turns out, is the next big market for the pharmaceutical kingpins, which up until now have had a difficult time producing drugs that actually work and are safe. There currently 23 drugs in phase II and III trials that aim to target amyloid protein buildup in the brain, which is one believed-to-be cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Another 28 drugs are being rushed through the approval process to treat neurotransmitter activity
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Switzerland follows Iceland in declaring war against the bankers.
Inspired by Iceland’s progress, activists in Switzerland are now making an important stand against the banking cartels and have successfully petitioned to bring an initiative to public referendum that would attack the private banks where it matters most: their power to lend money they don’t actually have, and to create money out of thin air. (May 22, 2017)
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Damning investigation shows big pharma bribed 68,000 doctors to push deadly opioids.
One in 12 doctors received payments, totaling a whopping $46 million from pharmaceutical companies to push opioid painkillers, in just over two years.
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4 popular companies who own the medical treatments for the diseases their products cause.
There would appear to be just a slight conflict of interest among these 4 companies who can profit from the treatments of diseases their products cause.
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FDA slams EpiPen maker for doing nothing while hundreds failed, people died
The manufacturer of EpiPen devices failed to address known malfunctions in its epinephrine auto-injectors even as hundreds of customer complaints rolled in and failures were linked to deaths, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The damning allegations came to light today when the FDA posted a warning letter it sent September 5 to the manufacturer, Meridian Medical Technologies, Inc.
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Monsanto’s dirty dozen.
When you take a moment to reflect on the history of product development at Monsanto, what do you find? Here are twelve products that Monsanto has brought to market. (2011)
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It's not ok for billion-dollar companies to crowdfund
Crowdfunding has traditionally been a platform where the little guys go to get a leg up. Creators get the chance to share their ideas, and we’re able to do something positive if we like what we see. We chip in, take a little leap of faith, and maybe see something realised that wouldn’t have otherwise been possible. But, what about when a large corporation steps in to get a slice?
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Why Are Bitcoiners Going to Jail for Money Laundering While Big Banks Walk?
BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem, along with alleged co-conspirator Robert Faiella, was arrested by federal authorities last week for allegedly laundering more than $1 million worth of Bitcoins. This is a tiny amount compared to the largest drug-and-terrorism money laundering case ever. Yet when British bank HSBC was found guilty in 2012 of laundering billions, the firm paid a fine of $1.9 billion. Authorities made no arrests, and HSBC still turned a $13.5 billion profit that year.
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Fight for your right to fix your own iPhone
Planned obsolescence has long been a consumer expense and irritation. Now brand-name profiteers are pushing a new abuse: Repair prevention. This treacherous corporate scheme does more than gouge buyers on the original purchase. Using both legal ruses and digital lockdowns, major manufacturers are quietly attempting to outlaw the natural instinct of us humanoids to fiddle with and improve the material things we own in order to charge us to fix it. Indeed, the absurdity and arrogance of their overreach is even more basic: They're out to corporatize the very idea of "owning."
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Connecticut AG on generic drug price-fixing suit: 'This is just the tip of the iceberg'
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, who is leading a coalition of states suing generic drugmakers, told CNBC on Tuesday that the industry is rife with collusion. "We've uncovered through emails, text messages and telephone patterns, plus cooperating witnesses, a very compelling case of systematic and pervasive price fixing within the industry," Jepson said in a "Power Lunch" interview.
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Report: Wells Fargo Bankers Inflated Fees, Got Bonuses
Wells Fargo bankers overcharged hundreds of corporate clients in order to meet their sales goals, the Wall Street Journal reports. Those bankers, most of whom performed international transactions for corporations, allegedly inflated clients' fees, tacking on millions of dollars in extra charges. The bankers were allegedly driven by Wells Fargo's employee rewards system, which gave sizable bonuses to bankers who exceeded their sales goals.
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Kellogg's claims Frosties is an 'adult cereal' to get around children's sugar tax
ellogg's has been accused of a "weasly" attempt to get around child obesity sugar rules after re-branding Frosties as an adult cereal. From 2020 food brands targeting children with sugary products face being named and shamed by the Government if they fail to reduce the sugar content by 20 per cent. But after a trial of "reduced sugar" Frosties that contain 30 per cent less sugar flopped, Kellogg's confirmed that it will not reduce the sugar content.
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An experienced butcher admits: “When we see cancer in the pork, we just cut it and still sell it to customers”
Most people end up believing exactly what they want to believe, and that includes the truth about the food that they are shoving into their faces. This guy said he’s been a butcher for 30 years and when he sees cancer in the pork he just cut it out then they still sell the meat to customers. Smh. Unfortunately, in the United States today we can’t even rely on the big food corporations to label their products accurately. Just check out what a different new study recently discovered. Some hotdogs were labeled as pork meat only, but were found to contain traces of horse meat after all.
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Vital cancer drug price increased 15-fold by new owners
The cost of a vital cancer drug has gone up 15-fold in four years after its new owner hiked prices on nine separate occasions. Lomustine has been used to treat brain tumours, lung cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma for more than 40 years but is now seen by some patients as too expensive. In 2013, production of the drug, which was previously called CeeNU, passed from pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb to a Miami-based startup called NextSource Biotechnology.
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Comcast Accused Of Charging Thousands Of Customers For Services Without Consent
The attorney general of Washington is leveling new allegations against Comcast, claiming the telecommunications giant enrolled thousands of customers in unnecessary plans without their permission. Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed an amendment to an ongoing lawsuit against the cable and internet provider, saying Comcast engaged in, “even more deceptive conduct than previously alleged.”
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