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Thursday, September 2,2010
The Highroad
The key to this scam is the fee that bankers assess when your account is overdrawn. Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and others are raking in billions from these fees, and lately they’ve been dealing a joker called “high-to-low” check clearing that takes even more from unsuspecting customers.
Thursday, August 26,2010
The expletives of Wall Street
Recently, the biggest casino player of them all, Goldman Sachs, made a bizarre effort to strike a sober public pose by imposing a new ethical standard on its bankers/gamblers.
Thursday, August 19,2010
Hiding worker injuries
Last November, for example, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found widespread underreporting of the problem by company doctors and other health professionals. In a survey of 504 medical practitioners, more than half told investigators that they were pressured by bosses to downplay illnesses and injuries.
Thursday, August 12,2010
Shut up and eat your sugar!
Let’s see if we can handle this little lesson in logic: One, America has a rather huge child obesity problem; two, major food corporations constantly pitch ads to children for such stuff as sugar-saturated breakfast cereals and fat-laden “Happy Meals.
Thursday, August 5,2010
Kissing bankers’ butts
Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s special investigator of banker pay, that top executives of 17 financial giants shoveled $1.6 billion in excess compensation to themselves in 2008 — at the very moment their failing banks began to draw billions of bailout dollars from us taxpayers.
Thursday, July 29,2010
Wall Street’s ‘Mom & Pop’ bankers
Republican lawmakers, however, are crying that the Democrats’ reform bill puts a crushing burden on the poor financial giants. While these Wall Street apologists wail and keen, though, slick operators like Dimon are wasting no time on tears. Instead, they’re devising ways to slip out of the new regulatory reins.
Thursday, July 22,2010
Fighting the superbugs of agribusiness
Why? Overuse of antibiotics led to the rapid evolution of savvy bacteria resistant to the miracle drugs. These superbugs cannot be killed, so they swarm infected patients and kill them.
Thursday, July 15,2010
Return of the Katrina trailers
These creatures are the infamous contaminated trailers that federal emergency officials bought and set up in 2005 for tens of thousands of families who had lost their homes in the devastating storm.
Thursday, July 8,2010
Paying the price of the Afghanistan war
Not to say we shouldn’t help the oppressed, impoverished, widely illiterate, war-ravaged people of that tribal nation, but this huge expenditure is not about humanitarianism. To the contrary, it’s about war.
Thursday, July 1,2010
Look out, BP’s doing it again!
Ok, people, nature needs us to focus. All of us who love polar bears, whales, seabirds and other wildlife should put our minds together to send an urgent telepathic message to the animals in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. Our message is blunt: Flee! Flee as fast as you can! Flee, because BP is coming!.
