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www.fourwinds10.com. Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com >> Business >> Corporate Fraud http://www.fourwinds10.com. 2009-11-21T05:36:04+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Sharks off the British coast: Oil tankers refuse to unload until prices rise... keeping YOUR fuel costs soaring http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1258742378 Nov. 19, 2009 These tankers have been parked off our shores for months, refusing to unload their oil until prices have risen even higher. The delay makes millions for speculators... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com 73,000 fake N95 masks seized in city raids http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1258733927 Nov. 20, 2009 (Sept. 24, 2009) PUNE: Over 73,000 fake N95 masks were seized by the crime branch, Pune, from two different places in the city and two people were arrested on Wednesday. Acting on a complaint by American firm 3M, two teams led by assistant commissioners of police Sangramsinh Nishandar and Shyam Mohite conducted raids on a godown in the Parvati area and on a distributorâ€™s shop in Sadashiv Peth and confiscated two vans containing the masks. "3M is the largest manufacturer of swine flu masks in the world. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Facebook crowdsourced investigation exposes vaccine denials of SIGA Technologies http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1258482840 Nov. 13, 2009 (NaturalNews) When you publish a hard-hitting story containing links to lots of little-known documents, you never know what kind of bizarre blow-back you'll receive. The latest episode of reactive strangeness occurred following our publication of the story about SIGA Technologies and the conflicts of interest found in Dr. Mehmet Oz's holding of 150,000 option shares in that company (http://www.naturalnews. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Guess Who Owns BioPort - The Only US Anthrax Vaccine Producer? http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1258395272 10-17-1 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" H.L. Mencken THE GREAT ANTHRAX STOCK SWINDLE! Where, oh where to begin! Well, let's begin with Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1258395081 Nov. 16, 2009 (August 5, 2009) (NaturalNews) To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. "They're good for you!" say the doctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what's in those vaccines. There's a good reason for that: If people knew what was really in those vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them. Aside from the dangerous ingredients many people already know about (like squalene or thimerosal), one of the key ingredients used in flu vaccines (including the vaccines being prepared for the swine flu pandemic) is the diseased flesh of African Green Monkeys. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1258148898 Nov. 11, 2009 VeriChip (CHIP), the company that markets a microchip implant that links to your online health records, has acquired Steel Vault (SVUL), a credit monitoring and anti-identity theft company. The combined company will operate under a new name: PositiveID. The all-stock transaction will leave PositiveID in charge of a burgeoning empire of identity, health and microchip implant businesses that will only encourage its critics. BNET previously noted that some regard the company as part of a prophecy in the Book of Revelation (because the HealthLink chip carries an RFID number that can be used as both money and proof of ID) or as part of President Obama’s secret Nazi plan to enslave America. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com AGE OF DECEPTION Dark secrets of AARP finally exposed to light (with video) http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1258053044 Executives, employees backed Obama, Dems by 14-to-1 ratio Nov. 10, 2009 © 2009 WorldNetDaily   When the AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons – one of the wealthiest advocacy groups in the U.S. – began backing the $1.2 trillion House health bill despite concerns about Medicare cuts, death panels and assisted suicide, many members shredded their membership cards, saying the organization no longer represents their interests – but AARP's history of left-leaning activism on a host of issues may surprise its constituents. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Conflicts of interest? Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 option shares in vaccine technology company http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1257971050 Nov. 10, 2009 (NaturalNews) Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He's been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn't tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Your request is being processed... Sam Stein Sam Stein stein@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting Become a Fan Get Email Alerts from this Reporter RSS Top Bailout Recipients Spent $71 Million On Lobbying In Year Since Bailout http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1257892976 Nov. 5, 2009 Twenty-five top recipients of government bailout funds spent more than $71 million on lobbying in the year since they were rescued, an extensive review of federal lobbying records by the Huffington Post reveals. A year after taxpayers forked over $700 billion to help rescue the biggest names in banking, insurance and the automotive industry, those same institutions are using portions of the cash to influence legislation with a direct impact on taxpayers. In all, during the last quarter of 2008 and the first three quarters of 2009, those 25 institutions spent $71,199,000 on lobbying. The list includes General Motors ($11. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Beware - New Scam - Always check your receipts fo unsolicited cash back. http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1257891147 ----- Original Message ----- From: F To: Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:45 AM Subject: Beware - New Scam - Always check your receipts fo unsolicited cash back.   It happened at Wal-Mart (Supercenter Store #1279, 10411 N Freeway 45, Houston , TX 77037    A  month ago. I bought a bunch of stuff, over $150, & I glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the  bags.. I saw a cash-back of $40. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com CIT Bankruptcy: Taxpayers Stiffed on Company's Bailout Billions While Execs Reap Bonuses http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1257453759 Nov. 2, 2009     If people were pissed off about AIG's temporary decline and permanent bonuses, CIT's bankruptcy ought to enrage them. The giant lender to businesses is heading for a quick in-and-out in bankruptcy court, and when it emerges, taxpayers will be the ones who have gotten the ol' in-out: CIT won't have to repay its $2.33 billion TARP bailout. CIT's been in deep trouble for way more than a year. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Watchdog: Unlikely That Taxpayers Will Recover $81 Billion Given to GM & Chrysler http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1257449020 Nov. 2, 2009 On the same day that Ford -- the one member of Detroit’s Big Three that did not receive a taxpayer bailout -- reported a quarterly profit of nearly $1 billion, a government watchdog warned that taxpayers are unlikely to recoup all of the $81 billion the Treasury Department has invested in General Motors and Chrysler. In a new report released Monday afternoon, the Government Accountability Office stated, “Treasury is unlikely to recover the entirety of its investment in Chrysler or GM, given that the companies’ values would have to grow substantially above what they have been in the past.” Since December 2008, Treasury has invested $81.1 billion in the two automakers, more than 12 percent of the total funds available from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com IBM Knew About Pandemic in 2006 (with video) http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1257349411 Nov. 2, 2009 A document has surfaced revealing IBM was aware of the current H1N1 “pandemic” in 2006. Excerpts from “Services & Global Procurement pan IOT Europe, Pandemic Plan Overview,” an official inter-departmental document distributed to upper-level management of IBM in France during 2006 are posted on the Prevent Disease website. The document predicts a 100% chance of a “planned” pandemic occurring within five years. The document provides more evidence IBM and other large corporations are on the inside track in relation to the manufactured and orchestrated pandemic now unfolding. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com China taps huge copper reserves in Afghanistan http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1257272831 Oct. 31, 2009 WASHINGTON – At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world's largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war. The promise of a bright future at Aynak, however, cannot conceal the troubling reality of how business is often done in Afghanistan, according to critics of the Kabul government's decision to reject bids from competitors in the U.S., Canada and other countries. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1257199254 Nov. 2, 2009 WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting. Goldman's sales and its clandestine wagers, completed at the brink of the housing market meltdown, enabled the nation's premier investment bank to pass most of its potential losses to others before a flood of mortgage defaults staggered the U. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Confirmed: Skin cream contains fetal proteins http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1256848077 Oct. 28, 2009 Company's anti-aging products built on cells harvested from aborted baby   One of Neocutis' skin products containing PSP A pro-life organization is blasting a Switzerland-based cosmetics manufacturer whose website openly admits some of its products were developed from the tissues of an aborted baby. Children of God for Life is a non-profit organization focused on the bioethics of embryonic tissue use in medicine and manufacturing. One of its current campaigns includes petitioning pharmaceutical companies to produce safe, effective alternatives to vaccines derived or cultivated from aborted fetal tissue. Deliver the pro-life message with a "Former embryo on board" magnetized bumper sticker But the organization's attention has now turned Neocutis, a company with offices in San Francisco which has developed a line of anti-aging products that include an ingredient the company has trademarked as Processed Skin Cell Protein, or PSP, developed from skin cells harvested from an abortion. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Devastating "Free Market" Reforms Imposed on Serbia http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1256765853 Oct. 28, 2009 A dozen years ago, neoliberal political forces took power in Serbia, promising a radical transformation of the economy. Today, deep into that transformation, Serbia is foundering from its effects exacerbated by the worldwide economic downturn. Industrial production has fallen 15 percent compared to the average of last year, (1) while unemployment remains high. A delegation from the IMF is in Belgrade, negotiating over Serbia's 2010 national budget and how best to deal with the economic crisis. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Iceland says goodbye to the Big Mac http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1256670391 Oct. 26, 2009 REYKJAVIK, Iceland – The Big Mac, long a symbol of globalization, has become the latest victim of this tiny island nation's overexposure to the world financial crisis. Iceland's three McDonald's restaurants — all in the capital Reykjavik — will close next weekend, as the franchise owner gives in to falling profits caused by the collapse in the Icelandic krona. Mon Oct 19, 11:27 AM ET Previous 10 of 18 Next A sign stands outside of a McDonald's restaurant, in February 2009, in San Francisco, California. Von Worley, 39, put his talents to work and drew up a map pinpointing the locations of all of the over 13,000 McDonald's restaurants in the continental United States -- the "Lower 48" states excluding Alaska and Hawaii. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com WAL MART CASH-BACK SCAM ! http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1256590568 .hmmessage P { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } BODY.hmmessage { FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 10pt } ----- Original Message ----- From: St To: *Patrick Bellringer Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:56 PM Subject: FW: Cashback Scam   Cashback Scam   Freeway 45, Houston, TX 77037 a month ago. I bought a bunch of stuff, over $150, & I glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the bags. I saw a cash-back of $40. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Nissan To Be Held Accountable For Committing Securities Fraud http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1256404889 Oct. 24, 2009 Nissan To Be Held Accountable For Committing Securities Fraud   What If?  The Issue of Securities Fraud, Retitling Cars, and Rico Charges Were Exposed upon Commission of the Crime? The question asked in the title of the paper can be answered very simply.  Thank God this was not fully exposed at the time. At the time of the commission of retitling the cars and committing the other infractions of American law, the automaker in question was riding relatively high with good car sales and a system of importing easily into the country.  It was not too long after the Governor of Tennessee had hosted the Jetro and other Japanese associates of the car industry at a reception at the Governor's mansion. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com The exploitation of Africa’s land and people http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1256242441 Oct. 22, 2009 (2/24/09) FinalCall.com) - While images of Africa’s poverty and disease are regularly shown in western media, the corporations responsible for the continuous exploitation of the land’s mineral and human resources resulting in Africa’s dreadful condition see the world’s largest continent as the land of opportunity. Emira Woods, director of Foreign Policy in Focus for the Washington D.C. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Public must learn to 'tolerate the inequality' of bonuses, says Goldman Sachs vice-chairman http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1256237298 Bankers' soaring pay is an investment in the economy, Lord Griffiths tells public meeting on City morality Oct. 21, 2009 One of the City's leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers' huge salaries is a price worth paying for greater prosperity. In remarks that will fuel the row around excessive pay, Lord Griffiths, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, said banks should not be ashamed of rewarding their staff. Conservative peer Lord Griffiths said banks should not be ashamed of rewarding staff. Photograph: Rex Features Speaking to an audience at St Paul's Cathedral in London about morality in the marketplace last night, Griffiths said the British public should "tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity for all". text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Golf Courses Now Grow in Vietnam’s Rice Fields http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1256080807 Oct. 19, 2009 PHAN THIET, Vietnam — It may be the most capitalist enterprise in Communist Vietnam — by the rich and for the rich: a proliferation of golf courses that is displacing thousands of farmers and devouring the rice fields the country depends on. Until last year, according to experts who have done the calculations, licenses for new courses were being issued at an average of one a week, for a total of more than 140 projects around the country. Promoters created the idea of a “Ho Chi Minh Golf Trail,” a series of eight courses whose label is as good a sign as any of where Vietnam seems to be headed — its heroic wartime past redefined as a sales pitch. If all those projects were completed, the number of courses would approach that of golf-mad South Korea, where there are close to 200. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Sweatshop Conditions in US Cities http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1255365305 Oct. 9, 2009 A new low-wage industry study [Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers. Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities] by the Center for Urban Economic Development, the National Employment Law Project, and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment exposes the dark side of workforce exploitation in America's three largest cities - New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. From January through August 2008, researchers conducted 90-minute interviews with 4,387 "front-line" workers, aged 18 or older, using "innovative, rigorous methodology" to reach vulnerable people "often missed in standard surveys, such as (undocumented) immigrants and those paid in cash." The goal was to be as statistically representative of workplace violations as possible for a population of about 1. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Re-thinking Foreign Car Makers In The U.S. - How They are Subsidized VS How U.S. - Auto Companies Create Wealth For The U.S. http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1255204685 ----- Original Message ----- From: <mbiras64862@mypacks.net> To: "Fourwinds" <bellringer@fourwinds10.com> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 6:51 PM Subject: Policy Statement concerning Nissan STATEMENT:  Foreign car makers selling cars in the U.S., particularly if they are Japanese, is not a matter of competition with American car makers. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails (with video) http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1255026941 Oct. 4, 2009 function floatContent(){var paraNum = "4" paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating-target');if(tb.getElementsByTagName("div"). text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Foreign Car Makers Concerned U.S. Government supports American Carmakers http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1255025316 Oct. 8, 2009 The United States has been in an economic downturn which has affected all Americans. We have all held our breath watching the ups and downs in this negative economic climate while the American car makers and the U.S. government have gone through a difficult "economic tussle" for several months to make our domestic automobile industry economically viable for the country. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com BofA CEO: $53 million retirement score http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1254767039 Ken Lewis is on track to collect big on a pension plan the bank froze years ago in a push to link pay and performance October 2, 2009 NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Ken Lewis doesn't have a golden parachute, but he's all set for a comfortable landing -- unlike his long-suffering shareholders. Ken Lewis is set for a cushy retirement despite the plunge in the bank's stock. BofA shares have recovered from their winter swoon but remain below 2001 levels. The Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) chief executive officer said Wednesday he'll step aside at year-end after eight years at the helm. Based on the company's most recent proxy statement, he will have $53 million in pension benefits waiting for him when he leaves. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com The Manitoban Lies behind Darfur http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1254766760 Once again, a manipulated truth for lucrative gains Oct. 5, 2009 (Sept. 21. 2009) Darfur is a region of Eastern Sudan, an African country that has been plagued by wars and civil unrest since its independence from the United Kingdom in 1956. Sudan is a country with a diverse ethnic and religious population. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Supermarkets’ Bloody Vaccination Campaign Advances Health Care Reform by Lethal Injections http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1254164087 Sept. 27, 2009 Wondering why food stores and pharmacies have replaced doctors offices and clinics as vaccination stations? Ask Steve Burd, the wizard behind Obama's Health Care Reform plan. Burd, the Chairman of Safeway Supermarkets (VONS, Pavilions, and more) is also the founder of the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform (CAHR) in the US., and Burd has his fingers in more pies than healthcare. His partners genocidal operations are evidenced in shocking documents delivered by these authors to the FBI last week proving Safeway's vaccinations and health care promotions are dangerously impure and unsafe. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com N.Y.Congresswoman's Husband Dies on Mountain Climb http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1254147145 Sept. 26, 2009 NEW YORK – The husband of U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney has died on a mountain climbing expedition in the Himalayas, aides to the congresswoman said Saturday. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Democratic Math: Cash for Clunkers Style http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1253893191 ----- Original Message ---- From: Rod Remelin To: Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:09 PM Subject: Democratic Math: Cash for Clunkers style Democratic Math: Cash for Clunkers style Guess only the gullible and naive got suckered in (I mean US Citizens) Here’s what my friend had to say about “Democratic Math”: Ignore all the gas crap and just look at how the stupid car buyer got taken to the cleaners in Cash for Clunkers: If you traded in a clunker worth $3500, you get $4500 off for an apparent "savings" of $1000. However, you have to pay taxes on the $4500 come April 15th (something that no auto dealer will tell you).  If you are in the 30% tax bracket, you will pay $1350 on that $4500.  So, rather than save $1000, you actually pay an extra $ 350 to the feds.  In addition, you traded in a car that was most likely paid for. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com A Factory Like a City http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1253205631 Wednesday 16 September 2009 close the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, after General Motors announced it was withdrawing from the partnership under which the plant has operated for over two decades. The plant employs 4,500 workers directly, and the jobs of another 30,000 throughout Northern California are dependent on its continued operation. Taking families into account, the threatened closure will eliminate the income of over 100,000 people.   (Photo: David Bacon / Truthout)   People have spent their lives in the NUMMI plant in Fremont, probably more time with the compressed-air tools at their workstations than with their families at home. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com The Bubba Test Drive http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1253126083 Sept. 16, 2009 VIEW VIDEO http://www.toughboats.com/ video.cfm?fullscreen=1&file name=Toughboats_BubbaCRevLegal text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Congress Playing with Toymakers' Livelihoods http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1253124469 Small businesses struggle to comply with testing while big companies get a pass Sept. 9, 2009 © 2009 WorldNetDaily   After a government regulation had thousands of retailers, thrift stores and small businesses worried they would be forced to permanently close their doors and destroy their merchandise due to strict lead and phthalate testing requirements, toymakers and children's product manufacturers are urging Congress to consider the legislation's "unintended consequences" on small businesses. As WND reported in January, Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, or HR 4040, a retroactive rule mandating that all items sold for use by children under 12 must be tested by an independent party for lead and phthalates, which are chemicals used to make plastics more pliable. President George Bush signed it into law on Aug. 14, 2008. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Avoid This if You Want to Keep Your Thyroid Healthy http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1252516288 Sept. 5, 2009   Bromides are a common endocrine disruptor. Because bromide is also a halide, it competes for the same receptors that are used in the thyroid gland (among other places) to capture iodine. This will inhibit thyroid hormone production resulting in a low thyroid state. Iodine is essential for your body, and is detected in every organ and tissue. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Swine Flu: Bringing Home the Bacon http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1251921275 Sept. 2, 2009 (April 2009) As the world gears up once again for a flu pandemic that may or may not arrive (it actually seems possible this time), we might want to remember some of the lessons of the last flu scare. One of these is that there are winners as well as losers in every high-profile outbreak of infectious disease. First and foremost among them, of course, is Big Pharma, which can always be counted on to have its hand out wherever human misery presents an opportunity to rake in some cash. In 2005, I reported on the bird flu scare for the Village Voice in a piece called “Capitalizing on the Flu. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Flushing Blackwater http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1251823608 Monday 14 September Blackwater, the private mercenary company owned by Erik Prince, has been thrust back into the spotlight by a series of stunning revelations about its role in covert US programs. Since at least 2002, Blackwater has worked for the CIA in Afghanistan and Pakistan on "black" contracts. On August 19, the New York Times revealed that the company was, in fact, a central part of a secret CIA assassination program that Dick Cheney allegedly ordered concealed from Congress. The paper then reported that Blackwater remains a key player in the widening air war in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where it arms drone aircraft. These disclosures follow allegations - made under oath by former Blackwater employees - that Prince murdered or facilitated the murder of potential government informants and that he "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Blackwater Tapped Foreigners on Secret CIA Program http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1251743240 Sunday 30 August 2009 Washington - When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.     With Blackwater's lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of foreigners supposedly skilled at tracking terrorists in lawless regions and countries where the CIA had no working relationships with the government. Blackwater offered the CIA the services of foreigners to track and kill terrorists in countries that the CIA had no contacts in. (Photo: DNA Thomas)     Blackwater told the CIA that it "could put people on the ground to provide the surveillance and support - all of the things you need to conduct an operation," a former senior CIA official familiar with the secret program told The Associated Press.     But the CIA's use of the private contractor as part of its now-abandoned plan to dispatch death squads skirted concerns now re-emerging with recent disclosures about Blackwater's role. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Next step in H1N1 scare: Microchip implants http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1251666381 August 22, 2009   VeriChip's microchip implant, about the size of a grain of rice A Florida-based company that boasts selling the world's first and only federally approved radio microchip for implanting in humans is now turning its development branch toward "emergency preparedness," hoping to produce an implant that can automatically detect in its host's bloodstream the presence of swine flu or other viruses deemed a "bio-threat." VeriChip Corporation currently sells a small, under-the-skin Radio Frequency Identification capsule, or RFID, that patients can opt to have implanted, containing a number computer-linked to their medical records, enabling doctors with a special reader to access the information even if the patient is unconscious or unidentified. The company boasts its microchip, roughly the size of a grain of rice, is the only such implant approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Health Freedom Alert http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1251650970 ----- Original Message ----- From: F To: Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:55 PM Subject: This email alert MUST be read. Please - it may save your life.   Banking and securities, Big Pharma, the federal government and even the AMA, the mafia owns it all.  Please read below.  It could save your health and even your life. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com The Me-First, Forget-Everyone-Else Crowd http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1251223984 August 7, 2009 I know I should be mortified by the lobbyist-organized mobs of angry Brooks Brothers mannequins who are now making headlines by shutting down congressional town hall meetings. I know I should be despondent during this, the Khaki Pants Offensive in the Great American Health Care and Tax War. And yet, I'm euphorically repeating one word over and over again with a big grin on my face. Finally. Finally, there's no pretense. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Information on BAR CODES - http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1250970302 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com C.I.A. Said to Use Outsiders to Put Bombs on Drones http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1250890262 August 21, 2009 WASHINGTON — From a secret division at its North Carolina headquarters, the company formerly known as Blackwater has assumed a role in Washington’s most important counterterrorism program: the use of remotely piloted drones to kill Al Qaeda’s leaders, according to government officials and current and former employees. The division’s operations are carried out at hidden bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the company’s contractors assemble and load Hellfire missiles and 500-pound laser-guided bombs on remotely piloted Predator aircraft, work previously performed by employees of the Central Intelligence Agency. They also provide security at the covert bases, the officials said. The role of the company in the Predator program highlights the degree to which the C.I. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com BAYER EXPOSED HIV CONTAMINATED VACCINE http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1249918559 August 7, 2009  VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=DEcDfEnM6X8 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Rumsfeld Denied Sex Slavery http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1249917677 ----- Original Message ----- From: Rod Remelin To: Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 2:02 PM Subject: Rumsfeld ruined sex slavery Rumsfeld Denied Sex Slavery   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1TJ4Yx0bd8     Old movie but still the same issue persist.   Here is congress woman Cynthia McKenny grilling the DoD about sex slavery and contracts. This is the same woman who was arrested in Israel for bringing crayons to Palestine. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com A Rancid Deal with Big Pharma http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1249851500 August 6, 2009 So now we know why the president wants everyone to make nice in the healthcare debate. His White House has cut a deal with Big Pharma that smells like the same old rotten politics that candidate Obama regularly denounced and promised to end. The drug industry agrees to deliver $80 billion in future savings and the president promises the government will not use its awesome purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices. Wow. This is roughly the same deal that George W. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com The Nightmare At Pfizer (with video) http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1249838318 Posted August 9, 2009 The "Nightmare at Pfizer "- Injured Bio-Tech Worker Becky McClain Speaks at 2009 April 28, 2009 SF Workers Memorial Day Pfizer Biotech Stem Cell Researcher Becky McClain Reports On Health And Safety Dangers In The Biotech Industry Injured Pfizer Molecular Biologist Becky McClain was a health and safety officer at the drug company Pfizer. She was concerned about the dangers of stem cell research and lack of proper oversight and health and safety protection. She brought these concerns to OSHA and was told that they could not defend her and other biotech workers. She was also infected as a result of these unsafe health and safety practices and is fighting to make the public aware of the dangers of this new unregulated industry. The current developing pandemic in Mexico in Mexico of a swine flu is a clear example of the potential public and human cost of unregulated and uncontrolled development of genetic engineering without proper health and safety. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Johann Hari: The Hidden Truth BEhind Drug Company Profits http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1249663014 Ring-fencing medical knowledge is one of the great grotesqueries of our age August 5, 2009 This is the story of one of the great unspoken scandals of our times. Today, the people across the world who most need life-saving medicine are being prevented from producing it. Here's the latest example: factories across the poor world are desperate to start producing their own cheaper Tamiflu to protect their populations – but they are being sternly told not to. Why? So rich drug companies can protect their patents – and profits. There is an alternative to this sick system, but we are choosing to ignore it. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.com Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1249562284 August 5, 2009 (NaturalNews) To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. "They're good for you!" say the doctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what's in those vaccines. There's a good reason for that: If people knew what was really in those vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them. Aside from the dangerous ingredients many people already know about (like squalene or thimerosal), one of the key ingredients used in flu vaccines (including the vaccines being prepared for the swine flu pandemic) is the diseased flesh of African Green Monkeys. This is revealed in U.