Economy

In Novartis we trust! – or should we??

January 13, 2012
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From vaccines to painkillers, the multi-national corporation Novartis had enjoyed making a fortune on our ills. In 2010 this Switzerland based drug company reported $50.6 billion profit, up 30% from last year. Most popular products? Flu vaccines and Excedrin. This week, the company issued a voluntary recall of many of their products as pills...

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Frost kissed priceless

January 12, 2012
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Frost kissed priceless

This sign was posted 2 days ago at Lucky’s supermarket in Pacifica, California. I have seen it in other stores as well. “Frost kissed”, not “frost bitten” – the ingenuity of supermarket marketing doesn’t cease to amaze me. This is a perfect example. Read on the sign: Only 60 cents each.

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Real Estate prices are still too high, taxes – where do they go?

December 19, 2011
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Real Estate prices are still too high, taxes – where do they go?

Thinking about winning a lottery and buying that million dollar house you always wanted?? Think again. Many people don’t realize that real estate prices are still too high and don’t calculate how much real estate taxes they will have to pay every year, a percentage of the buying price. There is a house in...

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Apartment scam on Craigslist

November 8, 2011
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Bay Area’s popular web listing service www.craigslist.org has, once again, become a place for scammers. This time it is through “apartments for rent” section. The scheme is simple. The person posts low-priced listing for a 1 bedroom apartment, include the address of the property and only the email as a contact info. The person...

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Oakland becomes War Zone on Oct. 26, 2011

November 1, 2011
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Oakland becomes War Zone on Oct. 26, 2011

Demonstrators wear masks from “V for Vendetta” movie and hold signs “Your rubber bullets only make us angrier” referring to police shooting rubber bullets, grenades and tear gas at them. Rubber bullets? Grenades? Tear Gas?? Are we in the Middle East?? Is this a War Zone?

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Police use brutal force to break up Occupy Demonstrators in Oakland

October 27, 2011
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This is the video you probably haven’t seen. KTVU reports confirm that the force used for Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Oakland was brutal, but it doesn’t give a clue about what that entailed. Take a look at this video. When I watched this, I said “no way this happened, not here, in California,...

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Power goes Out in busy Shopping Mall

October 19, 2011
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Yesterday night power went out in the middle of a busy shopping mall in Daly City. The lights turned off shortly after 8 pm in the crowded Serramonte shopping mall in Daly City, California. People were ordering food at the busy food court section of the mall…Suddenly there was darkness and the sound of...

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Watchdogs: Gas Prices, evidence of Scam [video]

April 24, 2011
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Historical data provides some evidence of gas prices manipulation. On April 21, 2011 U.S. president Obama creates Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group to investigate potential criminal activity on oil and energy market. See more on: justice.gov

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The Video BP & Big Oil Don't Want You to See [video]

June 25, 2010
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My online friend Jeremy, who's been known for researching and producing videos as Alien Scientist, just added a new video on the most disturbing subject of the enormous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In his video titled "The Video BP & Big Oil Don't Want You to See" he explored the spider...

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America LOST the WAR ON DRUGS

June 14, 2010
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Billions of dollars spent, thousands of people put in prison for some 30 years all in the name of fighting drugs only to find that in the year 2010 the drugs have won and now drive the U.S. economy. According to the book, “The Truth about the Drug Companies”, one in every third American...

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