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Welfare to Wal-Mart
by Niman
May.12.2005
Americans are junkies. We're addicted to consumerism. We're addicted to things--and China is our main supplier. China is the man. In 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, we imported a whopping $197 billion worth of goods from China, and exported $35 billion worth of goods to them, chalking up an I.O.U. for $161 billion in the process. China is the main supplier feeding our consumer habit, but Wal-Mart, according to the Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce, is China's biggest street pusher, responsible for slinging up to one eighth of the Chinese goods sold in the United States. If Wal-Mart were a country, it would be China's seventh largest trade partner.
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Kodak's Toxic Moments
by Niman
Sep.15.2003
Maureen Reynolds, a former neighbor of Eastman Kodak's sprawling Kodak Parkfacility in Rochester, New York, suffers from more than her share of Kodakmoments – believing that Kodak poisoned her and her neighbors. She wasn'tsuspicious when her three-year-old son developed asthma. Rushing him to thehospital for adrenaline shots was traumatic, but these things happen. Shealso wasn't suspicious about the thin layer of ash on her car's windshield.She even noticed ash sometimes on her young son's glasses. Cities have dirtyair, however, and a little ash isn't uncommon.
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RFID Chips
by Feyler
May.10.2003
Pepsi, Gillette, Walmart, Michelin, Johnson & Johnson, Home Depot, Target, Proctor & Gamble along with other companies, may start using RFID. http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2003/200304/20030429.html The British grocery chain, Tasco, is also interested in the RFID.
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Defense Contractors Suck (Your Money)
by GreenEarthAl
Mar.22.2003
How many billions of dollars will we spend on killing people before we finally assert that we have had enough? The new war in Iraq will cost us anywhere from 100 billion to 2 trillion dollars and what are we supposed to be getting out of it? Those of us in the United States have all been the targets of a multi-year propaganda campaign that has preyed on our fears and assured us that a war on Iraq will make our children safe. Now that Baghdad is burning and Iraqi citizens are dying I do not feel any safer. In fact, I feel like someone has just forcefully taken my fist and used it to punch the little guy in the face, and now I don't know if the little guy has run off to get his big brother or to try to buy a gun or what's going to happen next.
One has to sit back and ask themselves why. Actually one doesn't have to, and way to many people are opting out of asking themselves why. But I ask myself why on a daily basis and one of the answers I keep coming back to is Defense Contractors. Here it is in black n white what we paid the top 10 defense contractors last year:
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Rand Corporation Doesn't Suck
by Feyler
Mar.17.2003
The Rand Corporation is the Research and Development center that analyzes everything from child policy to terrorism and national security. Rand Corporation also works with all branches of the US military.
In 1969 the United States was waging war in Vietnam. It was Daniel Ellsberg, the Washington Analyst of Rand Corporation who leaked the government cover-up to the media. He worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of the US Decision-making in Vietnam in the preceding years that dated back to 1945. He was also on the front lines of Vietnam, seeing what it was like first-hand. He read over what is now called The Pentagon Papers, and learned that every president from Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson had attempted to wage a never-ending war, sacrificing both the lives of the Americans and of the Vietnamise.
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Nestlé
by GreenEarthAl
Mar.08.2003
Corporations Suck! Why do corporations suck? They suck because they have to. And every year they suck more and more. There used to be laws. Some of the laws may still exist somewhere but laws that aren't enforced may as well not exist. These laws used to keep monopolies from forming in order to keep a balance of power between the manufacturers and the consumers. There used to be still more laws and these laws used to maintain a balance between workers and employers. All of these laws have been quietly dismantled or arrangements have been made to make sure that they are never enforced. Unions, where there are any left, have become toothless, powerless, impotent and afraid.
Nestlé saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. They've been willing to step on the backs of the little people for more than a decade and as their reward they have become "the largest food and beverage company" according to their website.
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Monsanto
by GreenEarthAl
Oct.05.2002
Monsanto. Just another one of the huge agri-businesses that is trying to soften it's image of late. Now that the huge agri-business interests have consolidated so much American farm land, priced farming out of reach for family farmers and brought enormous tracts of America's heartland under corporate control, there is a concerted agribusiness effort afoot to make these companies look like the most benificent companies ever to serve mankind. ADM (supermarket to the world) leads the charge with huge advertizing campaigns to make ADM look like Santa Claus, and I'm sure Monsanto would be right in there with them if they had the advertising budget. Most people haven't a clue what any of these agribusinesses do but they do get bombarded with commercial clips letting them know that these companies improve their health and love the environment.
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Malfeasance
by GreenEarthAl
Aug.01.2002
Malfeasance - n. misconduct or wrongdoing committed esp. by a public official
"What just happened?" That's the collective agonized query of millions of investors, pensioners and retirement account holders. Even people who had the utmost faith in corporations and assured us all that corporations could be trusted completely are going back and wagging the finger of shame at those they used to champion. They used to brag daily on the financial channels about how the American corporation was the most stable and worthwhile investment in the world and then they used the word "transparent" a lot.
Well, it looks like the quarterly reports and the 10Qs and all that stuff that they told us would be impossible to falsify were a little more opaque and a little less transparent than they thought. Let's take a trip down recent memory lane shall we:
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Enron For Dummies
by Niman
Feb.07.2002
During the last year Enron played a pivotal role in writing the Bush administration’s new energy policy – a policy that deregulated energy industries while removing government oversight. They were also the largest corporate player responsible for California’s recent “energy crisis.” Ostensibly in the business of buying and selling energy on the new open market, they also regularly purchased political clout on the electoral auction block by bankrolling political campaigns on both the local and national levels, buying the affection of politicians like drunken sailors at a bordello. All the while, however, they enjoyed relative obscurity flying below the radar of the national consciousness and its media sculptors.
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