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- Ask Reddit: Given that the 2008 elections are obviously rigged and it's almost certain that a corporate shill will be elected - What do you plan to do when ____ is "elected"? http://politics.reddit.com/info/65tls/comments/ 11 comments politics
- Scifi author Charlie Stross has a hypothesis on "why the world is so obviously going to hell in a handbasket" -- soulless corporations -- and I agree. Big business is taking over the world. For the bad. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html 4 comments politics
- Study Shines Light on Why Companies Use a Variety of Dark Money Strategies. When corporations conceal their political activities, they may use a wide variety of strategies, including lobbying people who are not obvious political players https://news.utexas.edu/2023/07/05/study-shines-light-on-why-companies-use-a-variety-of-dark-money-strategies/ 5 comments science
- Could the $742 billion in PPP loans that were forgiven be responsible for a decent part of inflation? Obviously corporate profit margins hold some responsibility https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128207464/ppp-loans-loan-forgiveness-small-business 8 comments economics
- When corporations spend millions lobbying against the Traffic Light marking system on European food, it's obviously for the benefit of the consumer. Riiiiight! http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/laid-bare-the-lobbying-campaign-that-won-the-food-labelling-battle-2003686.html 3 comments politics
- Joseph Stack accused corporate leaders of being "thugs and plunderers" guilty of "gluttony and overwhelming stupidity" and politicians were "thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags." -- yeah, obviously an absolute crackpot http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7266840/texas-plane-crash-joseph-stacks-rambling-note-against-america.html 45 comments reddit.com
- Final TPP: agreement poses a grave threat to the Internet and freedom of expression - “Now that we can read the final TPP text, it’s obvious why it was kept in total secrecy for so long: this agreement is a wishlist for powerful special interests and multinational corporations http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/132605875893/final-tpp-text-confirms-worst-fears-shadowy 48 comments worldnews
- Why Companies Fail --- The American taxpayer has fixed all the obvious problems at General Motors. Cost base transformed. Brands repositioned. But finally we bump up against corporate culture. Can that be changed, or does GM carry failure in its DNA? http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/why-companies-fail/8887/ 80 comments business
- What You Didn't see on TV this Weekend - Massive Saturday Pro-Labor Protests all over the Country. If it's 200 Tea-drinkers, Full-blown Coverage on Every Network. Obvious Evidence of Corporate Information Control. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/28/readers-photos-from-saturdays-labor-protests/ 3 comments politics
- Corporate America has created 1.4 million jobs abroad - enough to reduce American unemployment nearly 1% if created here. Can't get much more obvious (!) http://www.americablog.com/2010/12/corporate-america-lowers-unemployment.html 78 comments politics
- Senate bill S 510 would give control over all food production to the Homeland Security Department. This is obviously a corporate funded act that would devastate small and medium sized farms with ridiculous requirements, driving many of them out of business. http://prof77.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/senate-bill-510-the-food-safety-modernization-act-restricting-small-farmers-to-protect-profits-of-giant-food-companies/ 43 comments politics
- It is becoming obvious that the major players responsible for the economic debacle, the health insurance scam, the looming environmental disaster, and all the rest of the corporate agenda of past years have no intention of doing anything different and no apparent belief that anyone can make them. http://open.salon.com/blog/mick_arran/2009/06/29/corporate_greed_and_denial_of_reality_threaten_us_all 11 comments politics