Fortune is running an article that ought to send a shiver down the spine of anyone who’s ever read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The fact that Rumsfeld is going to profit from the bird flu scare should be no surprise to anyone. This is how our own emerging kleptocracy works.

I actually find it far more creepy that what might be the most politically connected bio-tech firm in the country is called Gilead Sciences and is owned and run by a bunch of republicans.

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