They are strangling democracy; using their enormous wealth and power of influence to disseminate confusion about climate change, and prevent our leaders from taking action.
In a world that has no morals, a 60-year-old man cutting his head off onstage every night and strangling his daughter, who is dressed as a nurse, is the closest we've got to family entertainment.
Detectives think there is little hope that the boys are still alive, and last week they visited Full Sutton prison in York to talk to Brian Lunn Field, who is serving life for raping and strangling 14-year-old Roy Tutill in Surrey in 1968.
Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the 17 February 1864, mission in which the Hunley sank the Union ship Housatonic as the Confederates desperately tried to break the civil war blockade that was strangling Charleston.
He admitting sexually assaulting and strangling Roy before hiding his body in the boot of his car and driving home to his wife and newborn baby.
Organics are in retreat, supermarkets are still strangling farmers and businessmen are becoming billionaires by betting on wheat and rice prices.
On March 28 , 1995 Hawes told police that Griggs told him that he and his ex-girlfriend went looking for a white woman to rob that Halloween – "for drug money," a prosecutor would say at trial – and ultimately ended up strangling her.
People started to attack Marroushi and her colleague, "and one woman was basically strangling me with her scarf".
"Washington's inefficient, heavy-handed regulations are wreaking havoc on working families across the nation, from stifling small business growth to strangling the agriculture industry".
I know, too, that Owais Shah has masses of ability but, not chosen when he should have been in Sri Lanka, he was a bag of nerves when, finally, he was given a brief run, strangling his bat handle and his hands and forearms into cramped submission.
To an increasing number of citizens in southern European countries, the EU looks like the IMF did in Latin America: a golden straitjacket that is strangling the space for national politics and emptying their national democracies of content.
