[vid Alcoa, Africa] How the Rich Keep us Poor
[2015 Nov] Doctors Earn
$3.5 Billion in Kickbacks from Pharmaceutical Companies
[2013 Feb] 50 Signs That The U.S.
Health Care System Is A Gigantic Money Making Scam
Steve Jobs: Bold, Brilliant, Brutal. . . Fake Apple Computers should never have been able to keep their name, since Apple Records had already trademarked both the word and the image years earlier. Apple Records should have won the lawsuit in a slamdunk, with Apple Computers forced to change their name and logo. Why didn't they? Because both were founded, owned, and run by US/British Intelligence. Apple isn't a trademark of either company, it is a trademark of Intelligence, and both companies are simply subsidiaries of Intelligence.
[2016 Feb] Six out of Britain's 10 biggest firms pay ZERO corporation tax despite ringing up global profits of £30billion Shell paid no corporation tax in 2014 despite global profits of almost £20 billion....Lloyds Banking Group said it paid no corporation tax in 2014 after offsetting losses in previous years against a profit of £1.76billion. Vodafone said it paid no corporation tax in 2014/15, despite making profits of £1.97bn in the year to the end of March 2015. Also on the zero corporation tax list was British American Tobacco (BAT) - the firm paid corporation taxes in other countries after profiting by £4.55billion in 2014 but none of it was paid in Britain. ....Pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca said it paid no corporation tax in 2014, telling the Sunday Times it made no taxable profits.
HowTheRichKeepUsPoor.com "What’s Going On” With a GDP ranking of 182
out of 195 international countries and 55.2% of the population living below the
poverty line, Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the world. This is
shocking considering Guinea is the world’s largest producer of bauxite with half
of the world’s reserves in its land.
Over the past 50 years, one lone mining conglomerate in Guinea, CBG, has
produced and exported approximately $400 billion USD worth of bauxite.
Shockingly, Guinea’s share of that wealth has been limited to a mere $5 billion
USD.
Through its joint-venture mining deal with the country, CBG
established itself as the largest bauxite mine in West Africa, and is now 49%
owned by the Guinean state and 51% by a consortium composed of ALCOA (American),
RIO TINTO (Anglo-Australian) and DADCO (SWISS).
One of the provisions put in place in order to benefit
economically from the venture, gave the Guinean government the right to choose
its own company to transport 50% of all bauxite cargos mined by CBG.
On August 12, 2011, the government of Guinea authorized NANKO
Shipping (owned and operated by a Guinean national who has over 30 years of
experience shipping cargo for public and private sector companies all over the
world) to execute the government’s shipping rights. To date, NANKO has yet to
ship a single cargo load because CBG has refused to honor the terms of the
agreement. Their resistance is surprising given that this would cost them less
than 0.05% of the value of the aluminum produced from its bauxite mines.
Resource rich countries continue to be deprived of a share in
the wealth that they create, which takes away from the country’s ability to
assign resources to its people. This is why the life expectancy in Guinea is
54.1 years old, the literacy rate is 41% and only 1 out of 5 households have
access to electricity. This is also part of the reason why Guinea lacks the
resources to handle the current Ebola crisis, which originated in its forest
regions and has spreads across West Africa.
The overall issue is not unique to Guinea alone, but a common
theme across the African continent as a whole. Over the last 30 years, the
continent has lost out on more than $1 trillion as a result of similar
situations.
Today, NANKO Shipping is suing Alcoa, which manages the
day-to-day operations of the CBG, for refusing to honor its terms of the mining
deal. According to Reuters, if NANKO’s lawsuit were successful, it would mark
the beginning of African nations taking control of their natural resources from
international companies.
