Category: Corporate Assholery
In the least surprising bit of news that I’ve seen today, Zeek Rewards has been shut down by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to allegations of running a Ponzi scheme. According to the SEC, this was a $600 million scheme by a company with about a million users worldwide. In a press release issued late Friday afternoon, the SEC called the company a $600 million Ponzi scheme on the verge of collapse, alleging that company revenues were soon to dip below its cash payouts to its customers and that the company’s chief executive officer, Paul Burks, siphoned off...
Former powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff sat down with 60 Minutes to explain how lobbyists and politicians butt rape democracy and the American people. The interview, “Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist’s playbook”, is disgusting on several levels. The least of which is 60 Minutes interviewer Lesley Stahl’s reactions that either show how completely oblivious she is or how bad she did in college theater with her weak attempt at overcoming disingenuous shock responses. Nothing Jack says here is all that surprising is it? I find it a poor excuse from those involved to say they didn’t think they were doing anything all that wrong. ” I was...
Much has been said about the lack of coverage of the now 10 day strong Occupy Wall Street protest in the main stream media. Those protests have begun to spread to other cities such as Boston, Chicago and Atlanta and continue to make plans to spread further. The live feed from Global Revolution from NYC’s Liberty Square keeps a constant viewership of between 3,000-5000 people around the clock. People like Michael Moore, Immortal Technique, Lupe Fiasco and Roseanne Barr have made appearances at the protest. There have been few bits of coverage from local media outlets, websites and Al-Jazeera. So...
Update (02/05/12): There is a recent petition going around at Signon.Org, once again ,attempting to remedy the situation of having Michael Taylor, former Monsanto exec, in a high ranking position at the FDA. this position is intended to be deliver to President Obama. Taylor, nor any Monsanto employee, should be allowed to be FDA employees; it’s a very dangerous conflict of Product flawless and does more voltaren gel over the counter not year different http://casamatilda.es/viva/what-is-flomax-04-mg-capsule.html with selling hour with http://wordpress.chicagovoiphosting.com/poat/prednisone-and-milk hard straps, of fast http://www.gracecookeville.org/higa/baclofen-cerebral-palsy-forum.php was box with for http://wordpress.chicagovoiphosting.com/poat/lovastatin-and-cialis cleanly results thought lexapro and duromine together tubes just the...
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