Sentences with phrase «profiteers on»

The Koch Brothers are of course also profiteers on the destruction of the climate as are major stockholders and share owners of large and medium - size fossil fuel companies.

America must choose either a patchwork of online schools and charters with profiteers on the prowl, or a transparent community public school system run by citizens elected by their neighbors.

Frankly, I see this «self - reliance» mantra as a cover for hoarding and a person like you as someone who would happily profiteer on food and water in an emergency.

Squadron and Hoylman are also pushing legislation that would prevent profiteering on tickets for nonprofit events, especially after free tickets to see Pope Francis during his visit to New York last year were offered online for hundreds of dollars each.

Overnight, many of the cultural taboos associated with overt commercial profiteering on campus began to evaporate.

Buyer beware, The Hangover: Extreme Edition is a prime example of shameless studio profiteering on worthless repackaging.

Every penny that leaves the hands of consumers does so by design, the final step in elaborate and often brilliant orchestrations of public policy, all the more brilliant because the public, for the most part, does not know who is profiteering on climate change, or who is aiding and abetting the profiteers.

At the same hearing, the Office for Government Policy Coordination also disclosed a probe into two officials for alleged profiteering on government information after the events of Red Tuesday.

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We employ investigative research and journalism to provide critical information on corporate malfeasance and profiteering around the world to foster a more informed public and an effective democracy.

The rigging of gold persists without regulatory or legal interference because it is based on a straightforward deal between the profiteering Deep State financial elite, and the western governments they control: the criminals are allowed to manipulate the gold market however brazenly they wish and keep whatever sums they steal, as long as they keep the gold price under control.

His faith gave him the guidance to execute the innocent, deprive children of health insurance, pal around with intolerant evangelicals, spend time at his N ***** HEAD retreat, profiteering, secede from the Union, so on and so forth.

«We don't look to profiteer from increasing prices and we only pass on fair increases at an appropriate time.»

So the government has made permanent the former temporary ban on profiteering «vulture funds», persecuting the most indebted countries, and backed the «Publish What You Pay» campaign to bring transparency to multinational oil and mining companies» payments to developing world governments.

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

There have been no tests whatsoever on the much more important issues of long - term soil pollution, transgene flow (carrying contamination to neighbouring fields), the very difficult problem of superweeds, or on the environmental impacts if crop yield profiteering were maximised.

Does he mean the profiteers and insiders that have been running a tab on city property over the past unfettered and no bid deal making?

Or opening up the NHS to be feasted on by profiteers.

ANYONE voting for these greedy profiteers, based on their wealth and NOT their credentials, deserve to have their vote lost.

«Neighborhood in the Nineties is emboldened by the comptroller's decision today and will now turn up the pressure on these homelessness profiteers.»

On January 15, 1966, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu said, «Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 per cent.»

The Guardian's columnist Simon Jenkins pulled out all the stops on Tuesday, charging a «global coalition of scientists, doom - merchants and drugs profiteers» with scare - mongering.

Paul Offit, the vaccine advocate and profiteer, who helped invent a Rotavirus vaccine is said to have paved the way for his own multi-million dollar windfall while serving on the very council that eventually voted his Rotavirus vaccine onto our children's schedule.

Soon, the scheming and manipulative Schindler prominently insinuates himself and becomes the center of the party - he rubs shoulders with everyone in the room to make a name for himself - the first step in his pragmatic business scheme to become a war profiteer and capitalize on the changing political environment.

Sure, there was some commentary about war profiteering early on in the Iron Man films, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier glanced upon the idea of selling out privacy and freedom in the name of security.

Tony Stark has been through a lot over nearly a decade, from becoming a superhero and walking away from war profiteering to working with the government on registering enhanced individuals.

As World War I begins, the film focuses on stock - market manipulation and war profiteering.

There's a token confrontational moment with their reality, but Efraim is such a sociopath he doesn't blink and David is too invested in still seeming like a good guy despite the war profiteering to pontificate on the cost of war.

The very much alive masked Myers continues slicing up vics, as the pompous profiteering shrink who treated Myers, the hammy Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), swears he's dead and the celebrity author comes out with another bestselling trashy book on the maniac that reveals that Laurie, living under an assumed name, is Myer's damaged - goods younger sister.

This «marketization» was, in their view, producing a «commodified» education that relied on expensive tuition and high student debt, profiteering, and concentration of enrollments in the private sector.

You want to maximize the impact on local students and minimize any profiteering by outside interests.»

It puts meaningful control on charter profiteering.

The DeVos record in her home base of Michigan should be on great concern to those who see public education as a public good that should not be turned over to profiteers.

These and many more instances of fraud and profiteering have sparked new cries for stronger regulations on charter schools to protect taxpayer dollars.

As well as exploring Rizzoli's doubts about her mothering ability and her concern with her lack of maternal instinct (topical for many first - time mothers), Gerritsen touches on subjects as diverse as sex slave trafficking, war profiteering and sieges and negotiators.

Sissy Spacek narrates this beautifully shot, expansive four - part series that explores the history, ecology, and culture of the diverse Appalachian region, including information on early settlers, explorers, and profiteers.

A crucial sign that Warden is «all in» is his decision to put his business into a blind trust, instead of hanging on and facing claims of conflicted interests or, worse, profiteering.

Rockstar Games has released its latest free expansion for GTA Online, entitled «Import / Export»; check out the launch trailer below and head on over to the official site for a full breakdown of the expansion's content... Expand your criminal empire with a new frontier of illicit profiteering to explore: dominating the city's trade in stolen luxury -LSB-...]

Lorne's original vision was to create a series of five videogames, the Oddworld Quintology, with each game introducing a new hero who would join the existing band of revolutionaries on their journey to put an end to the exploitation of cultures, people and the natural world by profiteering capitalists.

While the organizers of Bushwick Open Studios argue that their mission never swayed, they acknowledged that some decisive changes on their end were necessary to make the event more welcoming to the community and less - than - appealing to would - be profiteers.

Then we could be on a course toward a sensible national energy policy, with profits not going to the profiteers who have brought us to the brink of disaster, but to research and implementation of alternative, renewable fuels and energy efficiency.

-- As the author, philosopher and social critic Jostein Gaarder said, live on television, in July 2007: «Norway is a nation of CO2 profiteers.»

That EPA letter certainly played a part — as did sustained grassroots advocacy efforts, exposes on conflicts of interest between State and the pipeline's profiteers, and relentless debunking of false jobs and energy security promises — in the State Department's move to punt the decision for a year, take a fresh look at the proposals, and go back to the drawing board to create a new supplemental environmental impact statement.

Off topic, but can anyone point me to any independent study on just how much energy bills have increased due to: A green taxes for alternatives B profiteering from energy cartels.

Denmark is the home of the original eco-fascist profiteers — Vestas — the struggling fan maker — run by by a band of crooks — that exhorted the world to «Act on (its parallel universe version of the) Facts» a while back: paying $ millions to the Australian Greens and Trotskyite fronts like Getup!

Now that we know what an 83 % CO2 cut means, what would this Democratic, Al Gore - type profiteering, environmental jihadists» war on CO2 cost Americans?

However the unthinking advocates of the UN-IPCC and their profiteers will bleat on endlessly about their non-validated, non-verified models proving the unprovable.

Denmark is the home of the original eco-fascist profiteers — Vestas — the struggling turbine maker — run by by a band of crooks — once exhorted the world to «Act on (its parallel universe version of the) Facts»: paying $ millions to the Australian Greens and Trotskyite fronts like Getup!

If you care about our ability to maintain self - regulation after we make ourselves beholden to profiteering paymasters whose returns on investment we would then be responsible for, you oppose ABS.

«The profiteering by the Defendants, through child pornography and exploitation, as shown in the movies, has brought great hardship, embarrassment and shame on the Toelk family.»

Any «reforms» to the Illinois workers» compensation system must instead focus on insurers» unfair profiteering Statement from Illinois Trial Lawyers Association President John P. Scanlon February 14, 2018 Under the guise of «reform,» Gov. Bruce Rauner is seeking changes to our workers» compensation laws that will shift the responsibility of caring for injured workers away...