Category: Corporate Assholery
It’s true, eating healthy costs more. At least it does upfront, the personal and national (not to mention genetic) health costs down the line are far cheaper. The problem is with limited funds to feed yourself or your family it’s a difficult choice to make for many. It all boils down to corporate lobbying efforts, the perpetual profit chase and a general f*ck you, pay me attitude. The government subsidizes certain industries which result in those crops becoming dominate and it’s products cheaper. Corporations lobby and buy off agencies and politicians in order to do what’s best for...
Rupert Murdoch’s multinational media behemoth News Corp. is under intense scrutiny for a hacking scandal perpetrated by one of its newspaper properties. The weekly tabloid, News of the World hacked into the cellphone voicemail of a 13-year-old missing girl. The incident is almost ten years old as the girl went missing in 2002 and her body found about 6 months later. Why is this all coming back now? The case was finally resolved as the girl’s murderer was found guilty and convicted two weeks ago. With the ending of the case more details came to light regarding the hacking. But...
According to statistics, Kentucky was ranked number seven in the U.S. in terms of obesity rates, with over 30 percent of adults being obese. Childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes are also on the rise in the state. Yum Brands, the parent company of fast food favorites KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, is lobbying the state of Kentucky to allow food stamp recipients to buy their products. Currently only Michigan, Arizona and California allow this. One side argues it should be allowed because some people who are on assistance and may not be able to prepare food for themselves...
Republican lawmakers say that if they raise the limit they need a commitment from the White House for more spending cuts. The Obama administration has resisted the idea of including spending caps or other budget-process reforms in legislation to raise the debit ceiling, arguing that ensuring the government’s solvency is too important to be held hostage to other issues. Once again political personal interests are threatening to blow up in the face of the United States with the American people in danger of taking the brunt of the fallout. President Obama is trying to get both sides to come to...
You are all probably aware already of the incident, of cops overstepping their legal limits, that occured recently at a Hip-Hop event in New York. Well, just to show you that it is not an isolated incident, here is a video of a recent townhall meeting in Quartzsite, AZ. When the commotion begins you can clearly hear the Mayor of the city telling the police to stand down but…… The Mayor is challenged under a recall election beginning next month. Accusations have been made. The city council is persecuting the Mayor for giving the people a voice. The Chief of...
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