Most evil corporation on earth
POSTED BY: canttakesky
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 02:29
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These are just a few of the companies I have learned about. I'm sure there are many many more worse corporations out there.
Comcast: Well, they bought TechTv and ruined it. Actively blocks and filters content so internet users do not receive the fastest/unfettered access internet connection. They paid people to attend their FCC Hearing and "support" them, effectively blocking opponents from fitting into the room. They are striving to change laws to work against net neutrality. Their customer service is notoriously lacking. They up rates without notifying consumers. You must pay to stop receiving mail...mail, they are saving money by not sending you mail and you have to pay for it to stop. Nice.
Monsanto: Sure, they help increase the world's supply of crops, but at a downside. They have dumped PCBs (US government considers it a carcinogen) in rivers and buried waste in our landfills. Several countries have various lawsuits and claims against them for untested hormones, pollution and false advertising. In principle I don't have a problem with engineered food, but I'd like it to be safe.
Wal-Mart: They destroy businesses and create low paying jobs. Workers do not have adequate health care. Wal-Mart encourages its employees to use public assistance. Their average full-time hourly employee makes less than $18,000 a year. They work without breaks or compensation. The EEOC has filed more suits against them than any other corp. They important more merchandise from China and other poor factory locations like Burma and Honduras than anyone else...even adding Made in the USA labels. They have been repeatedly fined by the EPA for contaminating water supplies. They got rid of their meat counters because 20 butchers signed union cards. Chain-wide only prepackaged meat is now sold. Local economies subsidize Wal-Mart. Yep, everyone pays to keep them in business.
Bank of America: They share this spot with many big box banks like Citibank. They charge crazy fees that are often undisclosed. In fact, they've been brought to court by consumers for such practices. They've bent the Fed's rules about lending capital: usually capped at 10%, bank of America has used 30%. Potentially leaving them open to all sorts of trouble. I tend to look closely at companies that 'lose' personal data. 1.2 million records lost. Good work.
News Corp/Fox News: See above semi-rant.
AT&T: They spy for the NSA, RIAA, and MPAA. Do they have the right to sift through your data and turn it over without so much as a warrant or tap? Nope, but they do. It's not new either; they have been helping the government spy before the 9/11 terrorism scare. They have a huge amount of control over the internet and phone networks. At some point most data touches an AT&T network. Verizon, and BellSouth have also been implicated in the NSA activities to spy on tens of millions Americans.
Blackwater: Destroys evidence of unprovoked attacks. Pull weapons on and disarms US soldiers in an attack zone. They use CS gas without military approval. Neither they or their employees have been brought to justice for several murders. Use of creative accounting had them not paying taxes, medicare, SS, or unemployment.
RIAA: Bringing suits against grandmas and universities is silly. Record labels around the world use file sharing as a benefit, but not the RIAA. They have kept the monies awarded from the suits. Artists have not been compensated with the money the RIAA was supposedly winning for them. Last year they worked to make a flat fee official, now they are lobbying not to have to use their own rates. RIAA want special consideration to pay a small percentage rate.
Halliburton: They gave contaminated water to troops. Yeah, that's hard to check, especially since they are supposed to be monitoring it anyway. They have to pay back millions of dollars for charging too much. Like Blackwater, they evade taxes. Numerous young women have reported being
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"But anyway. Gazprom - Russia - It's state owned, it's a true monopoly, and it's used as a weapon by the Russian autocracy."
Yep, I'll have to agree. I've worked with these bastards before. They make Exxon-Mobile, Royal Dutch Shell, EP, Wal-Mart, Haliburton, Mansanto, Kroger etc, etc, etc look like well behaved children.
There is NOTHING, NOTHING in the world uglier and more destructive than a Gazprom Pipeline. NOTHING. PERIOD.
I love Wal-Mart 'cuz of what I have seen in the real world.
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I must admit I am shocked, particularly in light of the fact that you obviously know some of the details on Verizon I have in fact chosen not to share...
How it is that you know all this, and don't wind up as grumpy and snarky as me ?
*squeezes TWG doll*
(don't laugh, yes, I DID buy one, shaddap)
That's not really a rhetorical question, mind you - I was discussing role models with the niece and she was a bit stunned to realize that I also considered Yuna (from FF-X/FF-X2) to be someone to look up to, cause even with all she's been through she doesn't hate anyone.
I just wanna know how - I don't think I could ever let go of my own, since there's been times it's all that kept me alive, but still, if there's a way to understand people who don't hate, and how and why, I'd give much to know it.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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I don't know. Things bother me, to be sure, and I do get angry, but what good is it? I do my share of gnashing and grumbling. In my mind, there is always the chance for change, a better tomorrow, or the redemption of evil doers...a little Polyanna.
My mom is better at letting go than anyone I know.
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown
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