Category Archives: Profiteering

Business Ties Made by Bush as Florida Governor Turned Lucrative When He Left Office

The former Florida governor is finding a steady source of income in speeches for corporations, industry trade groups and other organizations.

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Syngenta Preparing For Another Monsanto Takeover Bid

Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta AG believes rival Monsanto could make another bid to acquire the company within a matter of days.

via Syngenta Preparing For Another Monsanto Takeover Bid.

Monsanto wants to control all agriculture – not happening – an obese Monsanto will fall to a fed up public!

Australia PM adviser says climate change is ‘UN-led ruse to establish new world order’ – Telegraph

 Climate change is a hoax developed as part of a secret plot by the United Nations to undermine democracies and takeover the world, a top adviser to Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister, has warned.

Maurice Newman, the chief business adviser to the prime minister, said the science showing links between human activity and the warming climate was wrong but was being used as a “hook” by the UN to expand its global control.

“This is not about facts or logic. It’s about a new world order under the control of the UN,” he wrote in The Australian.

“It is opposed to capitalism and freedom and has made environmental catastrophism a household topic to achieve its objective.” Born in Ilford, England, and educated in Australia, Mr Newman, a staunch conservative and former chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange, has long been an outspoken critic of climate change science.

via Australia PM adviser says climate change is ‘UN-led ruse to establish new world order’ – Telegraph.

EU approves import of 19 genetically modified organisms | News | DW.DE | 24.04.2015

No place to run or hide – corruption and self-delusion win out! The European Union’s executive body granted 10 new authorizations for genetically modified organisms (GMO) food or animal feed on Friday, including varieties of maize, soybean, cotton, and oilseed rape. The Commission also renewed licenses for seven GMO products and allowed the import of two types of carnation.

“All the GMO products approved today have been proved to be safe before their placing on the EU market,” the Commission said in a statement, explaining the products were tested by the European Food Safety Authority and that the authorizations are valid for 10 years.

The newly approved products are made by companies including US giants Monsanto and DuPont, and German firms Bayer and BASF.

via EU approves import of 19 genetically modified organisms | News | DW.DE | 24.04.2015.

Oklahoma Recognizes Role of Drilling in Earthquakes – NYTimes.com

Abandoning years of official skepticism, Oklahoma’s government on Tuesday embraced a scientific consensus that earthquakes rocking the state are largely caused by the underground disposal of billions of barrels of wastewater from oil and gas wells.

The state’s energy and environment cabinet introduced a website detailing the evidence behind that conclusion Tuesday, including links to expert studies of Oklahoma’s quakes. The site includes an interactive map that plots not only earthquake locations, but also the sites of more than 3,000 active wastewater-injection wells.

The website coincided with a statement by the state-run Oklahoma Geological Survey that it “considers it very likely” that wastewater wells are causing the majority of the state’s earthquakes.

via Oklahoma Recognizes Role of Drilling in Earthquakes – NYTimes.com.

H5N2 strikes again in Iowa, Minnesota | CIDRAP

Who ships both turkey and chicken brooding eggs and chicks to Canada and US?

The H5N2 avian influenza virus has again widened its footprint, invading a large chicken farm in Iowa—the second outbreak in that state—and affecting two more turkey farms in Minnesota, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported today.

In addition, a highly pathogenic H5 virus has hit a chicken farm in Ontario near where H5N2 struck a turkey farm earlier this month, Canadian authorities reported over the weekend. They have not yet specified the virus subtype, but H5N2 seems likely.

via H5N2 strikes again in Iowa, Minnesota | CIDRAP.