The new Business practice. Profit via public fear, aka TERRA.

[sarcasmo]

Create a fear, let's say bird flu. Sell boatloads of your flu drug tamiflu. Watch your profits and your stock price skyrocket, sound familiar?
Next write a book about how Canadian drugs will kill you thanks to the TERRA. Once people are afraid to buy drugs from Canada watch pharmaceutical companies profits skyrocket.
Corporations are destroying this country to the core.

[pauldp]

1. When the media is in your pocket anything is possible. n/t

[strategery blunder]

2. Why do we need terra?

The weather is doing just fine this year. Why, just this afternoon, Tropical Storm Beta formed!

[sarcasmo]

3. Bird Flu is a form of TERRA. Check out Tamiflus stock price

from the time before Bird Flu until now.

[Solomon]

4. This is the oldest business practice there is. Goes way back.

[sarcasmo]

5. With the media fully involved it takes the practice to a whole new level