[CitizensTruth] Hidden agendas and the new gas "shortage"

[Mike Kirk]

Hi Hal,

To clarify, the 10,000+ Moto layoffs are not year to date (2008), but starting from Jan 2007.  Anyhow, still bad news all around.  http://tinyurl.com/4ldguc 

Jan 2007  - 3500 layoffs
May 2007 - 4000 layoffs
Apr 2008  - 2600 layoffs
Total:      10,100

My manager (18 years @ Moto) just left (not laid off) to work elsewhere.  I have moved into a position with system engineering for now, but am starting to look elsewhere.

-Mike

Hal Snyder <hal at drxyzzy.org> wrote: The article cited in Geri's posting is from the April 1 issue of Business Week:

There Is No Gas Shortage
But Washington, Wall Street, and ethanol and oil and gas companies want you to think there is, says automotive expert Ed Wallace
by Ed Wallace
I guess the main idea of the article is that gasoline reserves are up while prices continue to rise, in seeming contradiction to the Law of Supply and Demand. Fair enough, we can check that. Meanwhile, pardon me for missing the point, but I couldn't help noticing that the author mentions one corporate victim of oil price manipulation by name, and mentions them twice: Pilgrim's Pride.


I thought I would ask Google: pilgrim's pride factory farming


And here are the first hits:


[PDF] FACTORY FARM OFFENDER
    File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
future waste discharges, Pilgrim's Pride requested a 25 percent increase in its discharge limit. FACTORY FARM OFFENDER. PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORP. ...
www.farmsanctuary.org/mediacenter/ assets/reports/pilgrims.pdf - Similar pages
    Over 34000 Call for Pilgrim’s Pride to End Misuse of Antibiotics
    May 8, 2006 ... More than 34000 consumers today called on Pilgrim’s Pride to stop ... at all factory farms around the country for nontherapeutic purposes. ...
www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/over-34000-call.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages
    GoVeg.com // Cruelty to Animals: Mechanized Madness
    Animals on today's factory farms have no legal protection from cruelty that would be ... Pilgrim's Pride Slaughterhouse · AgriProcessors: Is Cruelty Kosher? ...
www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp - 34k - Cached - Similar pages
    Tell Pilgrim's Pride to Get Antibiotics Out of Chicken Feed!
    Now we need your help to urge Pilgrim’s Pride, the nation’s #2 chicken producer, ... for the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on animal factory farms. ...
actionnetwork.org/stopsuperbugsnow/ alert-description.tcl?alert_id=3738621 - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
    Help Secure Basic Protection for Billions of Birds: Sign the ...



I know it's not the issue at hand, but I have to wonder, why is writer Ed Wallace so concerned about Pilgrim's Pride? He writes that they were even forced to lay off 1,100 employees on March 13. Maybe he hasn't noticed the rest of the economy. For example, Motorola announced another layoff of 2,600 just today, putting their year-to-date total over 10,000.


On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Geri Perry wrote:

Read carefully and note the connection between food prices and availability: *http://tinyurl.com/2ot5ap*


. . .the Bush administration is protecting those responsible for creating yet another speculative bubble in oil futures, and is protecting investors in the ethanol industry—much to the detriment of food-processing companies such as Pilgrim's Pride. And the net result of all this is that the prices of crude and gasoline rise ever higher thanks to a "shortage" that does not exist, while food costs are soaring thanks in part to the ethanol mandate.



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