These Small Time Corporate Conspiracies

Posted on May 21, 2013 by admin

Well, we’ve talked about the moon landing conspiracy and other grand designs that might have come from some sort of gigantic organization running the world. However, even in your workplace, even prior to your employment, conspiracies already exist with the company that you’re working with. Here are a few of them that I’ve found from emails of friends and other concerned people

1. Trap
Some corporations do it like this; first they invite you to get into their company. You get in through a few tests and interviews. The workplace is great and the activities are not too hectic for the next three months with good pay. They do this to you and to a few hundred employees. Then suddenly, once you sign a one-year contract with them after three months, the policies suddenly change. The work becomes more difficult and you’re left with a year to work with them.

2. No Commitment
A company I once worked with promised that the contract will not contain a one-year working contract once I become regular. However, they will provide you with a gadget that you could personally use and use for work instances. The gadget is your sole responsibility and these items are quite costly. However, it’s 2 years to pay and it’s automatically deducted from your salary and when you leave, you have to pay its entire sum.

3. No Tax
While many of us hate paying taxes, taxes are there because the company pays them. This is particularly easy to spot; if you’re offered a job that involves no tax, don’t take it even if it provides you a sumptuous consequence. These jobs are unregistered and probably a scam or a ploy for other more-physical organized crime.

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The Moon Landing Conspiracy: If It Was True What Did It Achieve?

Posted on March 28, 2013 by admin

Yesterday, I bought a new DVD of Argo, Ben Affleck’s film, which won best picture and was based on a true story about the CIA getting some US people out of Iran because of a nationwide militant assault against the United States. The US sent Tony Mendez to make the ultimate plan to exfiltrate their people from Iran without drawing much attention from the militants, especially those at the airport. Making the Canadian and UK embassy refugees appear as movie directors of a new sci-fi film they exited stage, bringing one of the biggest deceits in the world.

The amazing skills of Tony Mendez and the CIA at the now-declassified Argo case in Iran during the early 80s’s show great positive and negative shock about the organization and the people behind it. If the United States was so capable of great deceit, it would also be capable of deceiving their own people.

One of the most talked-about US conspiracies was the moon-landing conspiracy, wherein many theorists say the moon landing was faked in a desert somewhere in Nevada. If it was true, it would have achieved many things for the country, including

-the US Citizen’s natural distrust

-a more open forum about the US Government’s activities

-probable national contempt or acceptance

-massive space pursuits by other countries.

Because the United States weakened its position as a pioneer to go down the history books, many other countries would pursue the cause of space travel. However, realistically speaking, the moon conspiracy, if it were true, achieved many things for scientists and engineers during that time. They have used actual data that they studied for use with future space exploration missions in the Apollo series; ones that actually happened.

Regardless of whether or not the moon landing was true, it may spell bad for the United States, but honestly, they had the technological race going quite smoothly. However, US citizens will be more active about the governmental openness to research and development and will question every move the US makes.

However, it would all come positive in the future. So, in hindsight, what has the US government have to lose in admitting the truth behind the first lunar mission?

-Brian

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Compensation Claims: When Do You Deserve to Get Compensation

Posted on February 27, 2013 by admin

UK citizens have the right to make a compensation claim for any injuries they receive due to the actions of an offending party. For any injury a person receives, he or she is due compensation for the damages. This particular right to compensation gave rise to plenty of claims companies, who work with individuals in claiming their compensation nationwide.



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Any person deserves to get compensation as long as he or she can prove that they are the victim and that a lapse of responsibility on part of the offending party contributed to the entire mess. An accident that happened in the road, during work or in any circumstance can earn a victim their compensation.

One example of a victim deserving to get compensation is when a vehicle throws a victim off the sidewalk and injures them in the different parts of their body. They are entitled to compensation for all the damages in the different parts of their body, which have different amounts.

Compensation claims are not limited to personal injuries and accidents; they also involve financial misgivings by financial companies and improper business etiquette with companies and corporations. As authorities have these companies fined for their faults, they also give the consumers their right to earn compensation in the form of refunding the excess expenses.

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PPI Claims Deadline: Banks Facing Further Consumer Mistrust According to Experts

Posted on January 28, 2013 by admin

The British Banking Authority (BBA) had called for a deadline in PPI claims, which the Financial Services Authority (FSA) considered setting on April 2014. The FSA’s consideration contributed to its unpopularity with consumers due to its failure to fail to preserve consumer rights if the deadline pushes through. However, analysts say that the entire deadline issue will contribute greatly to how consumers perceive banks, especially with the harsh criticism consumer groups and financial experts have dealt them.

Martin Lewis of moneysaving expert.com voraciously attacked the BBA’s move, calling it “immoral” and unfair. He points out that banks had a decade to mis sell PPI on at least 3.2 million loan, mortgage and credit card customers and that customers have a right to at least the same length of time to claim.

Peter Vicary-Smith, CEO of Which? says that PPI claims have a set deadline of six years after consumers are contacted by their banks. However, because banks did not do this obligation properly, many consumers are uncertain of their deadlines. He also said that banks are not fair in handling claims by rejecting even the most valid of claims.

The banks’ move for a deadline is to ensure they can rebuild capital to lend to the country’s real economy and ensure growth from UK’s recent bouts with recession. However, analysts see that banks may have trouble lending to the consumer economy, their number one source for rebuilding capital, because of the BBA’s move and the FSA’s consideration.

One consumer complained that she filed a claim against her bank only for the bank to reject her by having “sudden amnesia”. The bank told her that she did not make a claim, even if she already has an official form indicating she had made a claim.

The Financial Ombudsman confirms that banks reject even the most valid of claims. Currently, the FOS handles 1,500 PPI claims a day with 7 out of 10 bank-rejected claims as valid PPI claims.

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A Thorough Explanation of the No Win No Fee Claims System

Posted on January 15, 2013 by admin

In the English legal system, a legal representative is to charge a client only upon the success of the case itself. This means that no up-front fees can be charged to a customer and often, the legal representative takes their legal fees from the offending side. Today, this is known as the no win no fee legal service and most claims management companies and legal representatives adopt this system in helping injury claimants get the compensation they deserve.

When working with a no win no fee claims expert and the company they belong with, you first fill out an enquiry form. After a few hours or even minutes, a claims expert would get in touch with you to discuss the detail of your injury claim. Claims experts handle cases from finance to personal injuries and anything else that they can provide legal representation for. It is best that you look for a claims company that lives in your town or city the following reasons.

A claims expert will need to meet up and update you on your claim’s status, and living or working in the same area helps for quick updates and fixes on your claim. As all your legal documents would be in the respective area, your claims expert or the claims company can have access to it quickly at any time of the day.

Most claim companies offer you a cash advance as soon as your claim is a true case and they have estimated the amount of compensation you could possibly receive.

Claims companies usually charge 25% of the total compensation you win from the case if it is won, but some may adjust this to a lesser or higher amount. Inquire with your claims expert about the total percentage they will charge upon your injury claim’s success.  To begin your no win no fee claim, click here.

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Crowd Sourcing or Crowd Control?: You Get To Choose, Or So You Might Think

Posted on January 15, 2013 by admin

Crowd sourcing is one major way that people get together to make a project and create many possible things with effort from people who support them. In the Internet, these projects are funded through the donations and reservations of people interested by the pitch and the final product. Governments and companies are slowly adopting this particular system in making new laws and regulations for their own countries. But are you really deciding or is your government just giving you an illusion that you or the public decided?

This scenario can play out in many different ways. The first scenario is that two split parties, the pro and anti, would surface to play out their roles on the regulation being examined. The two sides would propose why and why it is not feasible to have such law approved in the government. You might think these two representatives are representing public interest, until you see their possible backers, namely the leaders of industries and businesses who may potentially be out of business once the law takes into effect.

The second scenario is that the “invisible control” of the government can stretch from the parliament to the public. With the many surveillance capabilities of modern technology and the Internet potentially every existent person’s information, including private ones, the government can have their own people assume these identities to fight for a new law or regulation that will benefit the elite and the government itself. These may appear as identity theft cases, scapegoats may be imprisoned and yet, the new law is approved thanks to their clandestine efforts.

The last possible one is that crowd sourcing becomes an illusion. You see the illusion of you getting to choose, but that’s only what you think. Your choice was clouded by the bombardment of information and propaganda both the government manufactured for both the pro and anti sides. With a slight inclination to one side, which shows justification, the government just manipulated your opinion.

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That Cliché About War and Money And The Possible Truth Behind It

Posted on January 15, 2013 by admin

World conflict is something that most people in power do not frown up on because they often see the silver lining in every International or even civil conflict that happens in select parts of the world. That silver lining is that arms deals will go up and economies in their own countries will continue to grow. The scariest part is that it is happening right now in this decade.

The Syrian civil war still continues with both sides falling and recovering consecutively. It is rumored that the rebels are being armed by the Arabs as the United Nations cannot arm the rebels following the veto of China and Russia. Russia and Syria have a strong partnership in terms of arms deals. Most of its weaponry were made and developed by Russia. As more than 60,000 people have died, Russia earns much money from Syria.

The Arabs earn much money caused by the conflict as well. It is possible that as they send in relief goods, Saudi Arabia and other countries against the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad are supplying arms in secret. The price list is then sent to the neighboring countries who wants to lay a stake on Syria the moment the rebels win.

The cycle of war never changes as it holds national interest above everything else. If we follow the logic that nothing remains free in the world except when there’s interest, then there we have it. More countries become richer and economies continues to expand because of war itself. This particular scenario was made famous by George Orwell’s 1984, where Oceania was at a perpetual war with Eurasia as it is seen as an “economic need”.

The sad part is that, it only benefits the elite. Those in the lower recesses of society are the ones who are “collateral” damage as the market continues to grow and raise economies.

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Why Do You Think Washington Legalized Marijuana?

Posted on January 15, 2013 by admin

Anything illegal is usually not bad for you; instead, it’s just something that your government cannot benefit from, which is why it is illegal. After US President Barack Obama was re-elected into office, he immediately approved that marijuana use in Washington and Colorado is now legal. The centuries-old plant sold in the black market and imprisoned accused sellers is now a legal recreational pastime, like cigarettes. But come to think of it, cigarettes are more dangerous than marijuana. So why is it legal?

Clearly, people in the past establishments did not have the technology required to evaluate the “high” that marijuana gives the user. Observing only through naked eyes and without anything concrete to point out how long the users will remain on a “high”, medical practitioners as early as the 17th century already dismissed that marijuana is safe. However, cigarettes only displayed temporal light-headedness (observing again through naked eyes), which made tobacco more marketable at such a time and has put the marijuana in the shadows for centuries.

The build-up of the tobacco market bolstered the world market and soon, every country had its own tobacco plantation and processing plant. Many ways to preserve the tobacco came in the form of chemicals, which were not deemed harmful at the time, and upon verification are still used as it added the signature flavor that smokers have come to love.

Today, as the world tries to cut down on the smoking population by raising cigarette and liquor taxes and legalizing marijuana, it’s really not just for such a purpose. Another purpose is that marijuana, if it can be profited from and today it is discovered to be much healthier than the cigarette, will raise great profit for many governments and world markets.

So you’ll be paying as much for 1 pack of cigarettes as for 1 pack of marijuana cigarettes, but you are saving your health. But now that it is “institutionalized”, the money paid for marijuana goes directly to your government and its manufacturers. Such is the cycle of legal vices.

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Why You’re Not Allowed To Have Offensive Posts in Social Media Anymore

Posted on January 9, 2013 by admin

Reports of Facebook and Twitter accounts being banned because of their their offensive content continue to surface on a daily basis with many page administrators saying that their respective social media website is now monitoring and blocking their posts. Social media websites are often split between those who are fine with people who post offensive material and those who condemn it. However, if the people give their government the possibility of controlling the news feed that comes up from each social media website, there could be trouble.

The subject of Internet freedom of expression has been on hot debate because many individuals and institutions continue to abuse its power to penetrate the privacy of many Internet users. The use of computer viruses to erase a competitor’s business data, place surveillance on it or even manipulate it can only be done through the Internet.

The Internet aside, the Leveson inquiry might be one reason why one may not post offensive content in social media anymore. The Leveson inquiry was made to investigate the offenses of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in hacking a dead girl’s cellular phone to trace its calls, giving the girl’s family false hope that she is still alive. The penetration of privacy through unethical means and journalism implicates laws on freedom of expression and exposition, therefore, if new laws were abound, it would threaten this basic human need and information will be screened.

Will we soon be going through a 1984 Orwellian society phase? Possibly, but still, there is no cigar. However, be careful of the things you post; some users may report your content and your account can be blocked for quite some time, which can be a hassle to retrieve or fix.

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Convenience Of Making Your Compensation Claims Online

Posted on December 21, 2012 by admin

Accidents have become a common occurrence these days. They can occur anywhere. Despite the best safety measures they do occur. If you have been involved in an accident due to the fault of somebody else, you can always seek a claim for it. You need not suffer due to the fault of somebody else’s negligence. Seek a claim for it now as there are many ways to mobilize your claim and pursuing your compensation claims online can be very convenient on your part. It is among the fundamental rights of each and every human being those who have been face with accident and have been injured. It is very sad to say that almost every personal who have been victims of accident are unsure whether to make compensation claims.

The basic rule to check if you can file a claim is very simple: You can make accident compensation claims online within 3 years from the date of the occurrence of the accident. However, it is important to know that only if you have been a victim of physical injury or even if you have been affected psychologically, then only you are eligible for it.

Before steeping your foot towards making the accident compensation claims online, it is advisable to meet and consult some experienced solicitors for advice and understanding of proper procedure involved to claim the compensation. These expert lawyers can and will definitely guide you through all the procedures and technicalities that are involved in claiming the compensation in regard to injury caused from the accident and also make your claiming procedure less stressful and smooth, most also operate on a no win no fee basis.

It is only with the help of these experienced lawyers that proper negotiation in regard to the accident compensation claims can be place and made and most importantly without facing the harassment of court proceedings. You can approach a solicitor who does not charge you anything irrespective of whether you win or lose the case. The wrong doer will bear the accident claim solicitor’s fees and any other legal charges. Quickly get suitable compensation by reaching out for the right solicitor for your compensation claims online. Personal injury solicitors are there to give guidance in the process of your accident compensation claims and can be your endorser in particular on the legitimate matters which often lots of folks have got little idea about. They are able to do work using optimum objectivity preparedness along with professionalism. Along with their knowledge and discipline connected with accident compensation claims you’re pretty sure to obtain the compensation that is rightfully yours.

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