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  • Your Misery is OUR Gain! - Over inflated Gas Prices mystery solved!!
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Exxon, Shell net record profits
    Largest publicly traded oil company earns nearly $10 billion in third quarter, with rival posting $9 billion.
    By Steve quinn, Donna McWilliam
    Lee Raymond is chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp., which earned nearly $10 billion in the third quarter. DALLAS — Exxon Mobil Corp. rewrote the corporate record books Thursday as the oil company’s third-quarter earnings soared to almost $10 billion and it became the first public company ever with quarterly (…)

  • Neo-colonialism ratified at Pacific Islands Forum
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Omar Hamed
    Today Pacific Island nations at the Pacific Island Forums have welcomed and endorsed the Pacific Plan, a blueprint for neo-colonialism in the south Pacific. wto-1.jpg
    The Governments of Australia, the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, and representatives of Palau and Tonga. New Caledonia, French Polynesia Timor-Leste and (…)

  • Bird Flu Scam: Donald H. Rumsfeld - Former Chairman of Gilead Sciences
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Do you get it yet?
    Foster City, CA, January 3, 1997 - Gilead Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that board member Donald H. Rumsfeld will assume the position of Chairman, effective immediately. Mr. Rumsfeld succeeds Michael L. Riordan, M.D., who founded Gilead in 1987 and has served as Chairman since 1993. Dr. Riordan will continue to serve as a director on the board.
    "Gilead is fortunate to have had Don Rumsfeld as a stalwart board member since the company’s earliest days, and (…)

  • Paypal police
    23 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ray Boyd (28 Sept, 2005) The premier online money manager is a big bad corporation with big bad law enforcement complex... and they’re going after marijuana drug-related businesses and you.
    There it is, on the e-commerce websites of people selling bongs, cannabis seeds, weighing scales, hydroponics equipment, and cannabis cultivation books. It’s on the websites of marijuana advocates, left-wing activist groups, environmental organizations, gun dealers, and Bible wholesalers.
    What is (…)

  • Venezuela joins Mercosur trade bloc
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez, a fierce critic of US-backed free trade policies in the region, has called for closer regional integration, including seeking support for his own proposal - the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas trade pact, or ALBA for its Spanish initials, named after Latin American independence hero Simon Bolivar.
    Venezuela will become a permanent member of the Mercosur trade bloc, helping to strengthen cooperation between the oil-rich country and its regional neighbors, the Venezuelan (…)

  • We Are All Chemically Contaminated
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By André Cicolella
    July 22, 1719, the ship Grand-Saint-Antoine left Marseille for the calls of the Levant (as they were described at the time). In Syria, the ship took on a Turkish passenger who died two days later, a victim of the plague that afflicted the region at that time. Eight sailors and the surgeon on board had died when the ship reached Livorno. Nonetheless, the Italian authorities allowed it to return to Marseille, where it arrived May 25, 1720.
    Capitan Jean-Baptiste (…)

  • Wal-Mart Can Hide, But It Can’t Run
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Robert Greenwald’s upcoming documentary about Wal-Mart’s predatory practices is part of an unprecedented progressive media campaign.
    By Don Hazen
    Wal-Mart has taken advantage of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina to try to distract the public from the myriad controversies that have plagued it recently. The extent of Wal-Mart’s sins includes lawsuits about discrimination, union busting, worker anger over backlogs of unpaid overtime, and health care and compensation policies that send many (…)

  • Immokalee Workers Take Down Taco Bell
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Elly Leary
    On March 8, 2005, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Immokalee, Florida won a significant victory. In a precedent-setting move, fast-food giant Yum! Brands Inc., the world’s largest restaurant corporation, agreed to all the farm workers’ demands (and more!) if the CIW would end the four-year-old boycott of its subsidiary Taco Bell. (Yum!, a spin off from Pepsi, includes Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, A&W, Long John Silver’s, and Pizza Hut franchises.) As (…)

  • Cheney’s Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator finds
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the last year, RAW STORY can reveal.
    Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asserts that Cheney’s options — worth $241,498 a year ago — are now valued at more than $8 million. The former CEO of the oil and gas services juggernaut, Cheney has pledged to give proceeds to charity.
    The above graph released by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) charts the value of the (…)

  • Is the Dollar Still Falling?
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 6, 2005
    The Latest Twists in Global Neoliberalism Is the Dollar Still Falling? By ROBERT POLLIN
    In his classic work, The General Theory, published in the depths of the 1930s Depression, John Maynard Keynes famously observed that "Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a (…)