I am anti-corporate. If you need to ask why, or consider me a radical for that, let me point you to the top-10 corporations in the U.S. as ranked by Forbes:
1. Wal-Mart Stores: Murder, Sexism, illegal labor practices, environmental crimes ...
2. Exxon Mobil: Murder, gay discrimination, environmental crimes, funding of false science, human rights violations ...
3. Chevron: Murder, sexism, environmental crimes, human rights violations, illegal business practices ...
4. General Motors: Murder, Environmental crimes, sexism, scientific fraud, environmental crimes ...
5. ConocoPhillips: Murder, environmental crimes, human rights violations, illegal business practices ...
6. General Electric: Murder, human rights violations, sexism, environmental crimes ...
7. Ford Motor: Murder, sexism, racism, human rights violations ...
8. Citigroup: Murder, fraud, illegal business practices, money laundering sexism ...
9. Bank of America Corp.: Murder, illegal business practices, sexism, racism ...
10. AT&T: Murder, illegal spying on the public, sexism,censorship ...
Keep in mind, those are but a few of the horrific crimes committed by the most respected corporations. In the corporate-owned media, these corporations are applauded for their ability to profit, in the real world, they have taken a scorched-earth policy to the planet and are as close to slave owners as they are legally allowed. If they could pay a worker in China or Indonesia less, they'd do it. If they could pollute more, they would. If they could kill more people to open markets for themselves, they would. These are not ravings - the atrocities committed by the biggest corporations in America and the world are well-documented. Or you could always just ask a South American. Or an Iraqi. Or a Saudi. Or a Russian. Or an African. Or the Chinese. Etc.
And again, keep in mind, these are but the Top-10 of the Fortune 500 list, keep working your way down the list and you can easily investigate how these corporations have literally become the modern-day mafia, but on a scale that would make Tony Soprano seethe with jealousy.
And these are the people that those in charge of the U.S. want to have run the nation. They already do, to a great degree, but in the ideological madness that guides the nation's oligarchs, the biggest corporations in the U.S. are looking at a future where they will be outright owners of the United States.
In keeping with simplicity, here is a quick, two-prong step to fix a great majority of the problems corporations have caused:
1. Pay all workers, regardless of nationality, a living wage.
2. Be accountable for all crimes.
That's really it. Because right now, corporations are busily scanning the globe for the newest place to enslave workers. Yet they are protected because of their wealth and political donations.
We are living in the most dangerous time in world's history. Millions are radicalizing, and by no means just Muslims. Nuclear weapons continue to be available at the push of a button. Or can be acquired from trading with a corporation.
We are living in a time of all-or-nothing capitalism. There will be few winners, but they will continue to win big. And there willcontinue to be billions and billions of losers. After World War II, the governments of the world realized that punishing a nation's citizens can lead to leaders like Hitler. Today, the world's governments can't abuse their own citizens and citizens of other nations enough. And they do it for corporations to make wild profits.
And that can't last. In the end, it will not be about winners and losers, only losers, if the corporate world and its political bedfellows continue to follow the belief that humanity is a resource of which they need not be concerned aside from the profits they can squeeze from each human.
That is why I am proud to say I am anti-corporate.
--WKW
1. Wal-Mart Stores: Murder, Sexism, illegal labor practices, environmental crimes ...
2. Exxon Mobil: Murder, gay discrimination, environmental crimes, funding of false science, human rights violations ...
3. Chevron: Murder, sexism, environmental crimes, human rights violations, illegal business practices ...
4. General Motors: Murder, Environmental crimes, sexism, scientific fraud, environmental crimes ...
5. ConocoPhillips: Murder, environmental crimes, human rights violations, illegal business practices ...
6. General Electric: Murder, human rights violations, sexism, environmental crimes ...
7. Ford Motor: Murder, sexism, racism, human rights violations ...
8. Citigroup: Murder, fraud, illegal business practices, money laundering sexism ...
9. Bank of America Corp.: Murder, illegal business practices, sexism, racism ...
10. AT&T: Murder, illegal spying on the public, sexism,censorship ...
Keep in mind, those are but a few of the horrific crimes committed by the most respected corporations. In the corporate-owned media, these corporations are applauded for their ability to profit, in the real world, they have taken a scorched-earth policy to the planet and are as close to slave owners as they are legally allowed. If they could pay a worker in China or Indonesia less, they'd do it. If they could pollute more, they would. If they could kill more people to open markets for themselves, they would. These are not ravings - the atrocities committed by the biggest corporations in America and the world are well-documented. Or you could always just ask a South American. Or an Iraqi. Or a Saudi. Or a Russian. Or an African. Or the Chinese. Etc.
And again, keep in mind, these are but the Top-10 of the Fortune 500 list, keep working your way down the list and you can easily investigate how these corporations have literally become the modern-day mafia, but on a scale that would make Tony Soprano seethe with jealousy.
And these are the people that those in charge of the U.S. want to have run the nation. They already do, to a great degree, but in the ideological madness that guides the nation's oligarchs, the biggest corporations in the U.S. are looking at a future where they will be outright owners of the United States.
In keeping with simplicity, here is a quick, two-prong step to fix a great majority of the problems corporations have caused:
1. Pay all workers, regardless of nationality, a living wage.
2. Be accountable for all crimes.
That's really it. Because right now, corporations are busily scanning the globe for the newest place to enslave workers. Yet they are protected because of their wealth and political donations.
We are living in the most dangerous time in world's history. Millions are radicalizing, and by no means just Muslims. Nuclear weapons continue to be available at the push of a button. Or can be acquired from trading with a corporation.
We are living in a time of all-or-nothing capitalism. There will be few winners, but they will continue to win big. And there willcontinue to be billions and billions of losers. After World War II, the governments of the world realized that punishing a nation's citizens can lead to leaders like Hitler. Today, the world's governments can't abuse their own citizens and citizens of other nations enough. And they do it for corporations to make wild profits.
And that can't last. In the end, it will not be about winners and losers, only losers, if the corporate world and its political bedfellows continue to follow the belief that humanity is a resource of which they need not be concerned aside from the profits they can squeeze from each human.
That is why I am proud to say I am anti-corporate.
--WKW
