Most evil corporation on earth
POSTED BY: canttakesky
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 02:29
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If there were such an award, who would you give it to?
Nominations need to include name, nationality, and 3 reasons why it is evil.
Go!
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A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
--Howard Scott
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What's the point? If I name a foreign company, somone will jump in and say it's no worse than a US company, and we'll be off down the same track again.
But anyway. Gazprom - Russia - It's state owned, it's a true monopoly, and it's used as a weapon by the Russian autocracy.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Interesting - wasn't aware of that, Geeze, I'll make a note and do some digging later.
I would say the Federal Reserve Bank, which is in fact a private corporation, with no clear determination of ownership, and if I started listing even the obvious reasons, we'd be here all day.
Runners up.
WWASPS
Monsanto
I very specifically do not cite Microsoft, although I consider them 'evil' it's a petty one in the grand scheme of things, without the wholesale economic, social, or ecological damage or even it's potential that the above three have.
The question one should ponder when thinking of something like this is the matter of scale, although Geeze doesn't provide a lot of information, a sole provider can really cause nationwide damage over time.
But even nationwide damage pales in comparison to planet-wide devastation, something only one of the companies named above even has the potential for - but innocent till proven guilty, and negligence is not intent, so imma hafta go with the FED, on this one.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Quote:Oh please do list the obvious reasons. Cause you know, I need "Money for Dummies"...
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I would say the Federal Reserve Bank, which is in fact a private corporation, with no clear determination of ownership, and if I started listing even the obvious reasons, we'd be here all day.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
--Bertrand Russell
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Quote:That's very vague. What kind of weapon? What do they make or do? What kind of evil has it *done*?
Originally posted by Geezer:
But anyway. Gazprom - Russia - It's state owned, it's a true monopoly, and it's used as a weapon by the Russian autocracy.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
--Mark Twain
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I'd like to nominate Monsanto (American).
1. Roundup. Marketed as pesticide, but actually kills plants. Farmers are forced to buy Roundup resistant seeds.
2. Contamination. Suing and breaking farmers for using seeds contaminated with Monsanto technology through no fault of their own. Terminator Seeds and the Doomsday Seed Vault (That is creepy, at best--rotten to the core evil at worst.)
3. Dumping toxic waste in UK and Anniston, AL. Making and selling products toxic to humans, such as Agent Orange.
I'd like to give Kellogg honorable mention. I have a personal beef with the Kellogg Foundation, who fluoridated most of the salt here in South America. Unfluoridated salt is extremely expensive and unaffordable to most local folk. I have to import my salt from the States. Bastards.
But here is a list of stuff I've never even heard of.
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/corporateHRviolators.html
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
---Ambrose Bierce
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http://www.cracked.com/article_15967_awful-truth-behind-5-items-probab
ly-on-your-grocery-list.html
This just came up today, thought I'd post it here.
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Yeah, United Fruit figured rather prominently in the mutterings of former Maj Gen Smedley Butler, so I was already familar with that mess.
-F
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Quote:
Oh please do list the obvious reasons.
1. Usury
2. Paper Money
3. Bills of Credit
http://www.rogershermansociety.org/caveat.htm
Original publication, 1752
Roger Sherman is the author of Article 1 Section 10 of the United States Constitution: “No State shall ... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts”
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