Question? I see no question here. Someone was paid to advertise--plain and simple. The smoking is clearly an advertisement. I'll be that tens, if not hundreds of thousands of impressionable teen females were "pushed" in the direction of smoking is sexy if you want to be tough, powerful, buff, smart...and so on. Pushed as in drug pusher.
Thousands or tens of thousands of young woman will "try tobacco" for the "image" conveyed by Weaver, most will become addicted smoking for the next 40 years on average. Simply do the math. 40 x 364 x $4.50--assuming a 25% net profit that equates to $16,000 per person addicted! If 100,000 are "pushed in the direction of smoking" that equals 1.6 BILLION in profits. I'd bet $100 to a doughnut someone was paid a million or two for what appears to be a blatant an inexcusable AD.
re: "Since consumer campaigning got GMOs labeled and crop restricting implemented in the United Kingdom, ..."
Let's remember the role played by the government's own Field Scale Trials in putting the brakes on GM crops in the UK: those results showed harm to the environment, including to already hard-pressed farmland bird populations. Campaigners now remind the government that they need to follow their own scientific advice (and stick to their promises).
The obscence salaries of Blue Shield CEOs show that Blue Shield earns much more than its actual costs. BS is an greedy company.... creatively finding clever ways to deny paying legitimate claims.. writing this shit into their policies. Millions go uninsured. Shame on this bastard company.
Bundy had to have a certain number of cattle in order to keep his water rights. The land he owned didn't support that number of cattle so he grazed them on Federal lands managed by BLM next to his ranch. The Bureau of Land Management is headed by former longtime Senator Harry Reid aide Neil Kornze, who was confirmed by the Senate as BLM director just as federal authorities descended on the cattle ranch outside Mesquite, Nev. Signaling the first day of construction of the Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project, which is about 35 miles from the Bundy homestead in Bunkerville, Nevada, Sen. Reid joined representatives from the Moapa Band of Paiutes, executives from First Solar, Inc. and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for the groundbreaking ceremony on March 21.
“First Solar is thrilled to celebrate this important milestone with Sen. Reid and distinguished guests, and honored to work with the Moapa Band of Paiutes on this landmark project,” Jim Hughes, the CEO of First Solar, said at the time. Harry Reid, the highest ranking Democratic Senator, is said to have been busy brokering a $5 Billion dollar deal to secure a solar farm site in Laughlin, Nevada – through his son Rory Reid, a shareholder and attorney at Lionel Sawyer & Collins, heading the law firm’s Gaming and Regulatory Law Department.
Former Nevada Gaming Comissioner, now Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, appears to have made a lucrative career out of ‘gaming’ the political system, seemingly for his own personal gain. His role in the siege at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, has only started to unfold, revealing highly questionable connections to the Chinese energy corporation ENN, through its Nevada counterpart ENN Mojave Energy. The land deal was reportedly a steal for Chinese business investors, who were set to receive a sweetheart deal of 87 percent discount for the shadowy land purchase.
The desert tortoise is only a justification against development of those who are not politically connected to Reid. Whittemore gave Reid and Reid’s Political Action Committee $45,000. If Cliven Bundy were a Reid financial backer, his fate might well be different, but he is not. Bundy opposes Reid
The development of solar farms just like this one is exactly why Sen. Reid was using the BLM, whose director is Reid’s former senior advisor, to push Bundy out of the Gold Butte area his family has worked for over 140 years.
Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project.”
Chinese magnate Wang Yusuo, with an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, owns ENN Group. In 2011 Reid ventured to ENN’s headquarters in Langfang, China, to tour the company and then worked to get this enormous company favored by the Chinese Communist government to take on development of a massive solar energy project in southern Nevada that would endeavor to supply California with 30% of its energy needs. Wang spoke at Reid’s Fourth Annual National Clean Energy Summit last year.
This cozy little set-up violates all fundamental ethics regarding an elected official’s conflict of interest code, but these days in Washington DC, guilt-free corruption has become the norm, as Senators spend most their quality time lining theirs and their family’s pockets while in office – with the US taxpayer covering all of their ‘business overheads’
As we revealed last Friday in an article that became the #1 news story in the world for 24 hours, the BLM specifically stated that it wanted Bundy and his cattle out of the area as part of the agency’s “regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone.
The BLM attempted a cover-up by deleting documents exposing the plan from its web site, but fortunately contributors were able to save them for posterity. ( http://www.infowars.com/breaking-sen-harry-reid-behind.../ )
Other news outlets have attempted to whitewash the situation by suggesting that the solar farm development was only limited to the shelved 2012 deal between Sen. Reid and Chinese-owned ENN Energy Group in Laughlin, Nev., but by reading the BLM’s own documents it is quite obvious that this is not the case.
"The BLM’s current action builds on the Western Solar Energy Plan, a two-year planning effort conducted on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Energy to expand domestic energy production and spur development of solar energy on public lands in six western states,” the BLM announced in a March 14 press release. “The Western Solar Energy Plan provides a blueprint for utility-scale solar energy permitting in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah by establishing Solar Energy Zones with access to existing or planned transmission, incentives for development within those Solar Energy Zones, and a process through which to consider additional Solar Energy Zones and solar projects.”
In 1998, a defense contractor named Aerojet-General Corp got $15 million for the title of the privately owned land for the Coyote Springs site from the law firm Sen Reid's sons worked at. He also managed to negotiated for the same “rent-free government lease of the tortoise habitat” for his new friends. They were said to have pushed for an “unrestricted use” of the tortoise habitat within the project area.
“The law clearly wouldn’t allow a ‘boundary adjustment’ of 10,000 acres,” said Janine Blaeloch of the Western Lands Project, a group that advocates for public lands. “Congress drew the map of the leased lands. Congress would have to change it.” – (LA Times)
The suit against BLM and Coyote Springs was upheld by Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, who was a District Judge in 2007 prior to defeating Rory Reid in the race for Governor in 2010. Sandoval has seemingly been engineered for a future Vice Presidential slot. Interestingly, he’s also said to be one of the few GOP Governor’s in the United States that is actively implementing Obamacare much to the chagrin of those on the right and those for individual sovereignty on that issue.
“The Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone is the first of several pilot plans to be developed by the BLM,” the press release added.
In summary, the BLM, acting under Sen. Reid’s corrupt interests, wants Cliven Bundy out of the 600,000 acre Gold Butte area so the agency can use the land for future solar projects and de facto buffer zones surrounding the solar farms and develop the land about an hour east of Las Vegas.
This is crony capitalism at its finest!
Question? I see no question here. Someone was paid to advertise--plain and simple. The smoking is clearly an advertisement. I'll be that tens, if not hundreds of thousands of impressionable teen females were "pushed" in the direction of smoking is sexy if you want to be tough, powerful, buff, smart...and so on. Pushed as in drug pusher.
Thousands or tens of thousands of young woman will "try tobacco" for the "image" conveyed by Weaver, most will become addicted smoking for the next 40 years on average. Simply do the math. 40 x 364 x $4.50--assuming a 25% net profit that equates to $16,000 per person addicted! If 100,000 are "pushed in the direction of smoking" that equals 1.6 BILLION in profits. I'd bet $100 to a doughnut someone was paid a million or two for what appears to be a blatant an inexcusable AD.
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