Andymatic

Category: 9. Corporate Power is Protected

  • Papal Responsiveness on Celibacy Versus Sex Abuse

    Which is worse: Tying up two children and raping them or ordaining a married man? A lawyer for the Vatican claimed… that the two years it took the current pope to defrock a convicted pedophile was quick. But in 2006 he excommunicated an Archbishop who defied the celibacy doctrine ‘automatically’. On September 24th 2006 Archbishop […]

  • Peter Schiff on Alan Greenspan Attempt to Dodge Responsibility

    YouTube – Alan Greenspan & ABC Challenge.

  • Obama Appoints Pesticide Lobbyist to Trade Position

    So much for no lobbyists: And food justice advocates are criticizing President Obama’s recent appointment of a top pesticide industry executive to a key trade position. The executive, Islam Siddiqui, was named the US Trade Representative’s Chief Agricultural Negotiator in a spate of recent appointments. Siddiqui is a former vice president and lobbyist at CropLife […]

  • The Fed Comes Clean on Secret Bailouts

    I think this is the final outcome of the lawsuits that Bloomberg media had put forth to the Fed: The Fed has finally came clean. It now admits it bailed out Bear Stearns – taking on tens of billions of dollars of the bank’s bad loans – in order to smooth Bear Stearns’ takeover by […]

  • Everything Now

    From a Metafilter comment: The entire global system, at this point, is built around Americans taking stuff they can’t pay for, and will never be able to pay for, but are nevertheless promising to by sending dollars overseas. No matter how many dollars ship out, we just make more, so our economy isn’t impacted by […]

  • NY Judge Rules Human Gene Patents Invalid

    Companies will sue to be able to dump carcinogens into the watertable and then they’ll sue you if you don’t use their test for your cancer. Thnx ACLU: A New York City judge has invalidated a company’s patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The ruling Monday by federal […]

  • Bank of America, Wells Fargo Might Not Pay Federal Taxes for 2009

    How’s that de-regulated free market working out for you? This tax season will be kind to Bank of America and Wells Fargo: It appears that neither bank will have to pay federal income taxes for 2009. Bank of America probably won’t pay federal taxes because it lost money in the U.S. for the year. Wells Fargo […]

  • Newborn Denied Insurance Due to Pre-Existing Condition

    Even if you’ve only existed for a few seconds: “He wasn’t t turning pink fast enough,” Tracy said. “When they listened to his chest, they realized he had an issue.” That turned out to be d-transposition of the great arteries, a defect in which the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart are […]

  • Elizabeth Warren Featured in New York Times

    I’m a huge fanboy for Ms. Warren ever since I saw her in the Frontline about credit cards. This consumer protection agency is something she’s been advocating for three years: Ms. Warren does say that if she and the administration lose on the agency’s passage, she’d like them to lose big — to force lawmakers, […]

  • Tea Party Protests Devolve Into Hate-Mongering

    From Metafilter: “No government handouts!”, “kill the bill!”, “impeach Obama!”, “n*gger!” and “faggot!” all mean the same thing: “Our group is big, our group is strong, our group is dominant, your group must submit.” That is the only real content of what they're saying, which is why they’re pretty much unfazed by finding out that […]