British American Tobacco (BTI), the second largest cigarette maker in the world, has been extending their spindly claws of death towards the art world, scraping up $18.5 million for some paintings at Sotheby’s auction the other day. Not as scary as smokey poison peddlers sponsoring elementary schools in China, but still creepy.
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Taking a play out of the Haliburton handbook, retail monolith Walmart is also overcharging troops for services, in this case shipping. |Consumerist|
Each week, ANIMAL will rank the world’s most despicable, deplorable, and undesirable human beings walking the earth, making the news. Behold: Evil Empirical. This week, your Media Deathlord Edition. Read more »
After an animal rights group released undercover video showing workers mercilessly tossing live male chicks like beanbags at a major egg hatchery in Iowa, the owner did his own investigation and came to the same conclusion as them: the birds are mostly tortured. But the company says it’s all good now and released a statement promising to be less cruel moving forward. |AP|
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