1. Starbucks
2. Microsoft
3. WalMart
4. The Gap Corporation (including The Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic– I suppose they think the last name is supposed to be funny)
5. AT&T
6. Whole Foods (abominable labor practices under the pretext of being "cool")
7. Nike
8. GATT (General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs), which effectively negates the sovereignty of Nations (with their annoying labor, quality & environmental regulations) and allows nations to be sued for enforcing those regulations on other nations which choose to ignore socially/environmentally/etc. conscious manufacturing practices
9. Wells Fargo (who however, because of their entirely ruthless banking practices, will undoubtedly turn out to be the "Last Bank Standing")
10. Oil companies in general: Exxon, Chevron,
11. De Beers (blood diamond trade)
12. Halliburton – a.) After Democrats take control of Congress in January, 2007 (after sweeping into office in the November, 2006 elections on the failure of (primarily) ex-Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney's disasterous policy decision to invade Iraq, and handing nearly trillions of dollars of no-bid contrats to his old company, those patriotic souls at Halliburton turn tail and move their base of operations out of the US, to their welcoming tax haven (heaven) of United Arab Emirates in Dubai.
b.) selling nukes to Iran;
this list to grow as I add (probably perpetually) to the list
Nice selection. :up: I think I hate AT&T nearly the most, though all are worthy.
i agree completely. there’s no conscience to a corporation. it’s possible though, if the owner or ceo or director or whatever they call barons these days, would exercise some humanity. a company can still make money without making more and more every year as they do.the recent bonuses to the high mucky mucks of companies the american people saved from disaster is the last straw. i don’t see why, we the people can’t have a national plebicite or referendum and slap their collective wrists and knuckles with a ruler and confiscate all the money we gave them. it is obviously a national conspiracy of congress to make the rich (themselves mostly), richer and the devil take the poor. remind you of anything? hint… “the poor have no bread””then,let them eat cake!”
Where’s PITA in that list?
Do you mean PETA, Sarah? Pita is a pocket bread…or Pain.In.The.Ass. :pExcellent list, Robert. I freakin’ hate the stench of Whole Foods. My God, that place reeks. If that’s what eating healthy smells like, I’d rather be a junk food junkie! 😀
Of course I think WalMart should be moved to the top of the list.But Halliburton? Come on, Richard. They were tied to the scandal, Congress said we couldn’t do business with them any more.Now we turned over all the no bid contracts to KBR… I think that is the new name that Halliburton took. I mean, after all, A name change can wash away a lot of sin.
Originally posted by I_ArtMan:there’s no conscience to a corporation…see The Corporation:An epic in length and breadth, this documentary aims at nothing less than a full-scale portrait of the most dominant institution on the planet Earth in our lifetime–a phenomenon all the more remarkable, if not downright frightening, when you consider that the corporation as we know it has been around for only about 150 years. It used to be that corporations were, by definition, short-lived and finite in agenda. If a town needed a bridge built, a corporation was set up to finance and complete the project; when the bridge was an accomplished fact, the corporation ceased to be. Then came the 19th-century robber barons, and the courts were prevailed upon to define corporations not as get-the-job-done mechanisms but as persons under the 14th Amendment with full civil rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (i.e., power and profit)–ad infinitum.The Corporation defines this endlessly mutating life-form in exhaustive detail, measuring the many ways it has not only come to dominate but to deform our reality. The movie performs a running psychoanalysis of this entity with the characteristics of a prototypical psychopath: a callous unconcern for the feelings and safety of others, an incapacity to experience guilt, an ingrained habit of lying for profit, etc. We are swept away on a demented odyssey through an altered cosmos, in which artificial chemicals are created for profit and incidentally contribute to a cancer epidemic; in which the folks who brought us Agent Orange devise a milk-increasing drug for a world in which there is already a glut of milk; in which an American computer company leased its systems to the Nazis–and serviced them on a monthly basis–so that the Holocaust could go forward as an orderly process.
Add Blackwater to that list. There are tens of thousands of mercenaries in Iraq, making out like bandits, using Iraqi kids for target practice, accountable to no one. Now I learn that there are about 100,000 mercenaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan, many of them from Blackwater. The more things “change”, the more they stay the same. Apparently the U.S. is now once again a subsidiary of War Corp.. The New World Order:* Death and Destruction is our most important product. * Might makes right. * Kill and be killed. * We bring good things to death. * Show no mercy.* 3,000 dead Americans is a small price to pay for a trillion-dollar war.
Originally posted by NonZionist:3,000 dead Americans is a small price to pay for a trillion-dollar war.Read 1984 by George Orwell. He explains how war is used to burn off “excess” capital, so that private interests have absolute control over every aspect of life.
Originally posted by rfhurley:Read 1984 by George Orwell. He explains how war is used to burn off “excess” capital, so that private interests have absolute control over every aspect of life.Hey, how about giving ME some of that “excess capital”. I need it to buy a new washing machine.
But in 1984 the equivalent of the New World Order was in effect. Three seats of power. Much like the FED today.
Originally posted by cwbywz:But in 1984 the equivalent of the New World Order was in effect. Three seats of power. Much like the FED today.Except that there were no Corporations in Orwell’s vision. http://www.amazon.com/Corporation-Jane-Akre/dp/B0007DBJM8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1259945733&sr=8-3 — The CorporationOriginally posted by rfhurley:Then came the 19th-century robber barons, and the courts were prevailed upon to define corporations not as get-the-job-done mechanisms but as persons under the 14th Amendment with full civil rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (i.e., power and profit)–ad infinitum.We have been outflanked. “Conservatives” rail against “Big Government”, but have nothing to say about “Big Corporations”. It’s very easy for government to march around this “conservative” Maginot Line: It simply privatizes its totalitarianism.