on to a new chapter folks, I am slow blogging here cos I have two other blogs and a life! Corporations and fascism are a good starting point....
IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler’s program of Jewish destruction a technological mission the company pursued with chilling success. IBM Germany, using its own staff and equipment, designed, executed, and supplied the indispensable technologic assistance Hitler’s Third Reich needed to accomplish what had never been done before - the automation of human destruction. More than 2,000 such multi-machine sets were dispatched throughout German-dominated Europe. Card sorting operations were established in every major concentration camp. People were moved from place to place, systematically worked to death, and their remains catalogued with icy automation. (Black 2001: 8-9)
To the anti-globalisers, the corporation is a devilish instrument of environmental destruction, class oppression and imperial conquest. But is it also pathologically insane?
That is the provocative conclusion of an award-winning documentary, called ‘The Corporation’, coming soon to a cinema near you. People on both sides of the globalisation debate should pay attention. Unlike much of the soggy thinking peddled by many anti-globalises, ‘The Corporation’ is a surprisingly rational and coherent attack on capitalism’s most important institution.
Like all psychopaths, the firm is singularly self-interested: its purpose is to create wealth for its shareholders. And, like all psychopaths, the firm is irresponsible, because it puts others at risk to satisfy its profit-maximising goal, harming employees and customers, and damaging the environment. The corporation manipulates everything. It is grandiose, always insisting that it is the best, or number one. It has no empathy, refuses to accept responsibility for its actions and feels no remorse. It relates to others only superficially, via make-believe versions of itself manufactured by public-relations consultants and marketing men. In short, if the metaphor of the firm is a valid one, then the corporation is clinically insane. (Economist, 6 May 2004)
An unseasonable day. I have cycled for hours through streets empty of everybody but the police and knots of rather timed protesters, its like a city under siege. May Day 2002, McDonalds, Kings Cross, London. Five thousand anti-capitalists are on the street, bringing traffic to a halt. Home made veggie burgers are handed out to those about to enter the fast food unit. McDonalds is targeted for promoting animal abuse, hostility to unions and a war on high quality food. In the late 1990s the Mclibel trial, the longest libel action in British legal history, took place when the corporation sued a tiny anti-capitalist group for distributing a leaflet entitled ‘What’s wrong with McDonalds’ (Vidal 1997). Jo Bove, in an episode of Roquefort rebellion, demolished a McDonalds in the south of France in protest at US protectionist measures against French cheese (Herman and Kuper 2002: 57). McDonalds, along with Coca Cola and Bill Gates’ Microsoft, has become a convenient hate symbol.
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My naïve idea is economic de-escalation; close down Wall Street, corporations, Bill Gates, Coca Cola, and all the other enemies of life. That includes factory farms, factory dairies, chemical and cosmetic companies, most drugs banned, mortgages forgiven, rents cease to exist, no taxes on property, and with these fun things, be challenged to create something that enhances health rather than destroys it, that reverses global warming rather than escalates it, and dump the 500 CEO’s making an average of 12.8 million per year into the street, none are special, none are especially intelligent, all are sociopaths. We don’t need other countries, and most of all we don’t need anymore ‘bushes’ in our lives, or Reagan’s or any other men or women who think the sun rises on money alone, we do need limits on economies or our species will fall into the abyss and all those time capsules will never be opened by human hands since our direction is leading us into oblivion.
And the upside is, if we join hands, if we face truths, if we use our creativity, energy and do the hard work of planning what works, and there’s an amazing array of talented people who can do wonders if we dump the morons who think they know something. Bill Gates and his nonsense, what did Noam Chomsky call Gates and Allen, parasites. They have to go, as do all the other plutocrats and be made to realize the example of greed, consumption, and stupidity is not sustainable, and if they think there won’t be a backlash when they are blamed for the terrible repercussions they are doing more than their share of causing, they’re in a la la world, but then they are anyway. They need to be woken up, and soon, time is running out, and no, I’m not an alarmist, I’m most assuredly a realist, and wish I were not. I’d love to put my head in the sand, but I have children, grandchildren, friends, and relatives, and I like most people, but there are some that I loathe. Okay, that’s my rant for the day, and I feel better, but I’m also gearing up to be pro-active, heck, we can’t just blot and complain, we have to take positive steps, with positive messages the middle class will accept and insist upon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/0061147893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231065090&sr=1-1
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Corrupción política y el"BBC Journalists Express." "Gerry Pederásta y Pedófilo Caso Maddie"
Corrupción política y el " BBC Journalists Express."
"Gerry Pederásta y Pedófilo Caso Maddie"
Date: 2009/12/19
Subject: Corrupción política y el"BBC Journalists Express." "Gerry Pederásta y Pedófilo Caso Maddie"
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MCcann pederasta y pedófilo
Esto es un negocio para los jornaleros sacando el jornalito filtrados y MCcannes Remenber...ladrones y mentirosos estamostodosaqui@gmail.com beneficios estan sacando con Reménber y compañia periodista independiente él angel de la muerte portavoz de los Mccann que ya a sacado millones de euros de esta hístoria y mucho beneficio para el periodico del BBC Expréss Xornal por ver esta realidad de violación y asesinato en primer grado y parecer una difamacion por que os parece el euro en primer plano.aqui hay mucho tomate con este Reménber Sacando fotos comicas para buscar de inocentes y desgraciados culpables. Nos a salido ranas Remenber y su tropa de periodistas corruptos diario y dirección que están comprados Por los MCcann tendrian que obserbar las cuentas del director y sus degenerados desde luego apoyos no les faltan que dejen la comedia y de engañar al mundo Euros es le dilema de la comedia...
"Poesia o verso de dicado a los MCcann y sus secuaces"
El Fraude, Moneda Nacional
En el pais de no me acueeeerdo ,
doy tres pasitos y me pieeeeerdo
se me cae, un billete y lo levanta el juez,
“uy perdon” le digo y contesta “No importa, pase Ud.”
Un campeonato ganado,
otro arbritro comprado,
Un cura que reclama ” Felices los niños”
.. que yo abuse
Y clarin siempre diciendo , La pura Verdad,
que el presidente de turno quiere escuchar
Compren, compren, se venden libertades,
se venden al por mayor , abogados corruptos y fiscales tambien
seis tiros en la cabeza que el dinero no pudo ocultar
hay silencios que son muy caros pero mas caro es el hablar,
algun medio pagara, esta excusiva de verdad
Habilitamos lo que sea por un cafe y algo mas,
digame lo que necesita, cualquier cosa se consigue
el diego, lo podemos conversar
Y hablando de Diego, pobre muchacho
que fraude le hicieron, se parece al electoral ,
por un punto mas de raiting una bebe queda sin hogar ,
es que la TV es tirana y del Monstruo mejor ni hablar
Ya para ir dejando el Verso que es moneda nacional,y los medios informatiiiiic.....voooooos...que no parán de tapár y
sí para nosotros ya tenemos a telefonica que nos mándaaa a reeecargáaáár,aqui todo el múndo a robár, con el mónstruo de góóógle que nos manipulaaaaaaaa
para que nos tápeeeen la voca con sus masters dirigiiiiiendonos sí débemos estár, para que luego llegue él més y a paaaaagar a todos el fraude la moneda nacional ....con el control de google tódos estámos yáááá y los tontos alimééééntar....?quiéééén nóóós quééééda yáááá¿...Todos los deréchos nós lós están violándo.........Y los Mccann ríéndos están...
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