Fantasy-based
ideologies have real-world consequences.
Marketing
Skills:
GlaxoSmithKline fined $3bn after bribing doctors to increase the
unauthorized prescription of antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin to
children and to conceal safety problems with the asthma treatment
Advair. It is not research that drives the high price of drugs, but
the need to build reserves against being caught.
Quoted:
“Domestic police have devolved into criminal gangs of liars, thugs
and assassins. Hostile to the public they serve and the laws they are
supposed to uphold.”
Confidential
Informant:
UBS, which ratted out its co-conspirators in the LIBOR fraud
investigation, is reported to be cooperating with Swiss authorities
in an anti-trust investigation into manipulation of the prices for
precious metals. UBS has entered a plea agreement that will let it
off with a much lighter fine and no criminal convictions.
Seems
Like Old Times:
A Saudi air strike in Yemen “apparently by mistake” hit a
wedding party, killing at least 130 non-combatants.
Blow
Some My Way: A
national multicenter study by McGill University Health Center
concluded that there is “no evidence of harmful effects on
cognitive function, or blood tests among cannabis consumers and we
observed a significant improvement in their levels of pain, symptom
distress, mood and quality of life"
Datapoint:
The average American earns less today than in 1975.
Seems
Like Old Times, Part II:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now are allowing borrowers to count the
income of their live-with children or parents to get mortgages that
they cannot afford.
Professionals:
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (Orphan-UT)
opened the Republican witch hunt of Planned Parenthood by blaming its
funding for his parents death from
cancer. Then Jim
Jordan (Grand Inquisitor-OH) interrupted Planned Parenthood's
president 19 times in 5 minutes, mostly by repeating the same
question.
Never-Neverland:
If all the promises made by all the nations of the world to cut
carbon emissions are kept, the Earth will only heat up another 6°
Fahrenheit – which will be enough to produce catastrophic famine
and widespread extinction of plants and animals. Whatever feel-good
agreement is made in Paris this December will not do the job, because
businesses and the rich think that it will cost them money.
Porn
O'Graph:
Half-off sale.