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Call it what you will, but staged, premeditated or planned fighting in the National Hockey League (NHL), where two big “enforcers” slug each other’s heads with their bare fists, has no place in the game of hockey. Such fighting is boxing and as such requires a boxing license under many state laws. The NHL does…
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Calls for SEC Investigation of Pete Peterson, Blackstone and BlackRock
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On behalf of Ralph Nader, the Mayer Law Group today asked the SEC to open an investigation and/or enforcement action regarding actions by Peter Peterson, BlackRock and Blackstone. The Mayer Law Group submitted evidence that Peterson, Blackstone and BlackRock sold to investors, including Mr. Nader, the Blackstone North America Income and Opportunity…
By Ralph Nader I often ask Congressional Democrats these days is: “If you agree that your Republican counterparts in Congress are the most craven, corporatist, fact-denying, falsifying, anti-99 percent, militaristic Republicans in the party’s history, then why are you not landsliding them?” Their responses are largely in the form of knowing smiles and furrowed brows.…
January 26, 2012 Nestle Waters 11700 E 47th Ave, Denver, CO 80239 Dear Mr. Franceschetti, The bottles of water you call Nestle Pure Life discloses on its label that the source is 1. What is the source for the Public Water Supply in Denver that you tap into for your bottled drinking water business there?…
Looking at millions of individual bills that makeup the 2.7 trillion dollars of annual health care costs opens a gigantic window on the massive waste, redundancy, profiteering, fraud and sometimes criminal over-billing. Here is a partial example of what I mean, in the words of Philip M. Boffey, the estimable science writer for the New…
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is testing so much futuristic detect and destroy weaponry that it can be called the most advanced all-seeing invasion in military history. From blanket satellite surveillance to soldiers’ infra-red vision to the remotely guided photographing, killer drones to the latest fused ground-based imagery and electronic signal intercepts, the age of…
January 20, 2012 Dear President Obama: As you prepare your State of the Union address, please be advised that those who support you are very cognizant of what you do not mention in such annual presentations to the Nation. For example, last year, environmentalists were shocked that global warming-climate change received no attention. Nor did…
The editor of The Hill, a newspaper exclusively covering Congress, said that Congress was not going to do very much in 2012, except for “the big bill” which is extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment compensation, which expire in late February. That two month extension will likely reignite the fight between Democrats and Republicans…
The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, “lie their way into invading Iraq” in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these days to attack Iran. It is remarkable how many of these war-mongers are former draft dodgers who wanted other Americans to fight…
Open Letter to the Wall Street Journal By Ralph Nader How unbecoming it is for the self-styled freedom-loving Wall Street Journal (“Ron Paul Nader?” Dec. 21) to use the politically bigoted word “spoiler” to describe a hypothetical Ron Paul-Libertarian party presidential run. Why is a third-party candidate called a “spoiler” when the nominees of the…