Category Archives: Profiteering

GunTV shopping network for firearms to launch in US | News | DW.COM | 04.12.2015 Insanity and profit greed – make way to mass shooting as easy as channel surfing!

Television viewers in the US will soon be able to buy firearms and ammunition from the comfort of their sofas. A new shopping network called GunTV is set to launch on January 20 and will be available to 34 million satellite television subscribers.The channel, the first of its kind, promises “extraordinary access to purchasing the most diverse representation of firearms in the world.”GunTV’s promotional Web page says, “This 24-hour live shopping network brings to life a vast array of firearms and related consumer goods in a groundbreaking format that inextricably fuses the social responsibility message with the traditional shopping channel format.”

Source: GunTV shopping network for firearms to launch in US | News | DW.COM | 04.12.2015

MSNBC, CNN & CBS Major Fail | Invade Home of Dead San Bernardino Shooters | 3CHICSPOLITICO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r1jw1XiducMSNBC, CNN & CBS Major Fail | Invade Home of Dead San Bernardino ShootersPosted on December 4, 2015 by AmetiaWho the fuck let these SNAKES into that house? Who gave their stamp of approval for this shameful display of theatrics?! The landlord- GTFOH! Said the media forced their way in.Can we say CRIME SCENE? And Kerry Sanders showing pictures of an innocent child. What an utter disgrace. These folks in the media are Nothing but DRAMA WHORES.The owners gave them permission to come in and touch? This is some crazy shit right here.

Source: MSNBC, CNN & CBS Major Fail | Invade Home of Dead San Bernardino Shooters | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Islamic State Uses Satellite Internet To Spread Message – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The answer to this question is an extremely problematic one for Europe, for it is European companies that provide the terrorists with access to the platforms they use to spread their propaganda. It remains unclear whether the companies knowingly do so, but documents obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE show that they may very well know what’s going on. And the documents show that the companies could immediately cut off Islamic State’s Internet access without much effort.If you need to get online in Syria or Iraq, the technology needed to do so can be purchased in the Hatay province — a corner of Turkey located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian border. In the bazaar quarter of the regional capital of Antakya, peddlers hawk everything from brooms and spices to pomegranates, wedding dresses, ovens, beds and all kinds of electronics. Antakya has served as a crossroads for numerous trade routes for thousands of years. Wares continue to flow through the region’s relatively porous borders even today.Thousands of dishes have been installed in the region allowing users to access the Internet by satellite. There has been a huge surge in recent years in the satellite Internet business. Instead of the usual landline cable connection, all one needs is a satellite dish with a transmission and reception antenna and a modem. The result is top-speed Internet access, with downloads at a rate of 22 Megabits per second and uploads of 6 Megabits.

Source: Islamic State Uses Satellite Internet To Spread Message – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Paul Ryan Throws Down G.O.P. Gauntlet for 2016 – The New York Times No interest in serving public or governing just seeking advantage for GOP? Loser/Fail!

“Our No. 1 goal for the next year is to put together a complete alternative to the left’s agenda,” Mr. Ryan said, speaking in the Great Hall at the Library of Congress, a setting designed to highlight the importance he placed on the speech. “Only government that sends power back to the people can make America confident again.”

Source: Paul Ryan Throws Down G.O.P. Gauntlet for 2016 – The New York Times

Glyphosate – IARC got it right, EFSA got it from Monsanto | Jennifer Sass’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

The EFSA report is based on findings of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment – the BfR – which received a first draft of the science directly from the Glyphosate Task Force (GTF), whose members include Monsanto and Syngenta and other agrochemical corporations. EFSA describes its process as standard procedure to have the agrochemical company supply the scientific information to the Member state (Germany and Croatia in this case), whose report then goes to EFSA to make a final evaluation.The Guardian reported on how compromised the process was: “BfR officials explained that due to the quantity of evidence they did not have the time to report the original studies in detail, but instead based their evaluation on descriptions provided by the agrochemical industry. But those descriptions also contained the industry’s assessment of the reliability and interpretation of each study, which involves exactly the kinds of choice-laden decisions described earlier… this falls well short of what most people would understand as an independent review.”So, we know that Monsanto and other companies provided their own assessment of the scientific evidence, much of it industry-sponsored unpublished studies, and then handed that pig off to Germany for some lipstick.

Source: Glyphosate – IARC got it right, EFSA got it from Monsanto | Jennifer Sass’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Donald Trump Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Repeating Debunked NJ 9/11 Claim: “I’m Not Going To Take It Back”: Gothamist

Donald Trump’s hateful, dangerous rhetoric is finally catching up with him: according to Reuters, Trump’s support among Republicans has dropped 12 points in the last week, his biggest decline since July. They credit that drop to Trump’s much-debunked NJ 9/11 cheering story and his disgusting impression of a NY Times reporter with a disability. But if you think being called out by every credible news source in the country is enough to make Trump change his tune, you don’t know Trump. AP Trump repeated his story that “thousands and thousands of people [in NJ] were cheering as that building was coming down” on 9/11 on Meet The Press this morning. “I saw it on television,” Trump said. “And so did many other people and many people saw it in person. I have hundreds of phone calls to the Trump organization saying we saw it. It was dancing in the streets. Why would I take it back, I’m not going to take it back.” Host Chuck Todd pushed back hard though, rightfully calling him out on his bullshitting: “There were three of four different reports that month in New Jersey that said it was a myth. That it was a false rumor. FBI. You name it,” Todd said. Check out the rest of the exchange, via Raw Story. “Just because somebody repeats something doesn’t make it true,” Todd argued. “I don’t mean I had two calls, Chuck,” Trump interrupted. “People were saying they lived in Jersey.” “People were saying!” Todd shot back. “If I said, ‘Well, people have said Mr. Trump’s not worth $10 billion, and people were saying,’ you would say that’s crazy. You wouldn’t make a business deal based on retweets and based on hearsay.” “You’re running for president of the United States,” he continued. “Your words matter. Truthfulness matters. Fact-based stuff matters.” “Take it easy, Chuck, just play cool,” Trump quipped. “This is people in this country that love our country that saw this by the hundreds they’re calling and they’re tweeting.” “I have a very good memory. I saw it somewhere on television many years ago and I never forgot it. And it was on television too.” Trump continued to push the point, arguing that if it happened somewhere…then it could have happened here? Uh, why not? Seriously, I think that’s his argument: “You have a huge Muslim population, between Patterson and different places and Jersey City, an unbelievable large population. If they’re going to be doing it at soccer games, if they’re going to be doing it all around the world, it was being done,” Trump said. “When the Trade Center came down, it was done all around the world. And you know that because that has been reported very strongly. Why wouldn’t it have taken place?” MTV dug up what is believed to be the television footage Trump was referring to, taken from a documentary called Fight For Your Rights: Aftermath of Terror, which first aired on MTV on Nov. 17, 2001. It all seems to rest on the eyewitness account of then-high school senior Emily Acevedo, who went on to say, “Everyone that was out there, they were only 13 or 14 at most. They were kids. They didn’t know what they were doing.” There’s a pretty huge difference between a handful of dumb kids and “thousands and thousands” of Muslims. Trump knows what he’s saying, he knows why he’s saying it, and he will never apologize. He’s not even a real sociopath, just a professional used car salesman with a bad tan and a preternatural ability to say anything that will keep him in the spotlight. Thankfully, those latest poll numbers show that even his so-called base of supporters are starting to tire of someone who openly mocks people with disabilities and then blatantly, obviously, unmistakably lies about it.

Source: Donald Trump Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Repeating Debunked NJ 9/11 Claim: “I’m Not Going To Take It Back”: Gothamist

Eco-protesters delay German environment minister Hendrick′s train to Paris | News | DW.COM | 28.11.2015

As Hendrick’s train pulled into Frankfurt station on Saturday en route to the French capital, protesters chained themselves to the railway tracks, police said.Others descended by ropes onto the train, which stopped in Europe’s financial capital en route from Berlin where Germany’s environment minister and her 30-strong entourage had boarded.Hendricks and her team were traveling to Paris for the global climate change conference which gets underway on Monday.German journalist Harriett Wolf tweeted that as the demonstrators had refused to come down, officers had no choice but to climb onto the train’s roof.

Source: Eco-protesters delay German environment minister Hendrick′s train to Paris | News | DW.COM | 28.11.2015

We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From – Little Green Footballs

So there you have it. Donald Trump is posting racist imagery that comes directly from neo-Nazis.I hope you’re not surprised that a guy like Donald Trump, who continually spouts fascist rhetoric, is attracted to fascist memes posted by neo-Nazis. This is where the right wing has ended up in 2015.

Source: We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From – Little Green Footballs

Experts Say the WHO’s Response to the Ebola Crisis Has Been a ‘Failure’ | TIME {Profit and Non-profits try to score points from tragedy}

{WHO answers to nations that budget it – Ebola stricken states pressured WHO to not push panic buttons to save their industries – Mistakes by many – not just WHO. Obscene how many institutions trying to profit from tragedy and errors.}

A panel of 19 experts brought together by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on Sunday condemned the World Health Organization’s (WHO) response to the Ebola crisis, calling it an “egregious failure.”

Source: Experts Say the WHO’s Response to the Ebola Crisis Has Been a ‘Failure’ | TIME