In an October 2013 report, public health lawyer and activist Michele Simon documents how the transnational burger colossus McDonald’s benefits from the Ronald McDonald House Charities brand, yet only disburses roughly 20 percent of the funding globally and ten percent locally.
Continue reading McDonald’s Exploits Charity to Build Its Brand
Original Report from The Independent
Three prominent bankers go on trial this week in one of the biggest prosecutions ever mounted in an Irish court, arising from the country’s disastrous financial crash. The hearings in Dublin will be the first of a number of legal sequels to the 2008 crisis which brought the economy and political system to the brink of catastrophic collapse…
…The three executives who will go on trial at the Criminal Courts of Justice were at the head of the now defunct Anglo Irish Bank, which was at the heart of the financial crisis. They are its former chairman and chief executive Sean FitzPatrick, the former finance director Willie McAteer and Pat Whelan, the former chief financial officer.
Both before and after the crash Mr FitzPatrick has been one of Dublin’s most high-profile bankers. He was declared bankrupt in 2012…
Read more from The Independent
Today, more than 110 million people will tune in to watch Super Bowl XLVIII, as the Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey. The big game will be broadcast on Fox. One question comes to mind as I write this post…who gives a fuck about the Super Bowl?
ZombieChicken.org 