|
| "The
manufacturer, in turn, would monetize that data by selling it. And we were
supposed to pay for the privilege. I wondered what the point was of my getting
so worked up over government surveiilance if my friends, neighbors, and fellow
citizens were more than happy to invite corporate surveillance into their
homes, allowing themselves to be tracked while browsing in their pantries as
efficiently as if they were browsing the web. It would still be another half
decade before the robotics revolution, before "virtual assistants" like Amazon
Echo and Google Home were welcomed into the bedroom and placed proudly on
nightstands to record and transmit all activity within range, to log all habits
and preferences (not to mention fetishes and kinks), which would then be
developed into advertising algorithms and converted into cash. The data we
generate just by living - or just by letting ourselves be surveilled while
living - would enrich private enterprise and impoverish our private existence
in equal measure. If government surveillance was having the effect of turning
the citizen into a subject, at the mercy of state power, then corporate
surveillance was turning the consumer into a product, which corporations sold
to other corporations, data brokers, and advertisers." - Edward
Snowden |
"An organization is neither conscious nor alive.
To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to
means.
When ends are subordinated to means was clearly demonstrated by
Hitler and Stalin." - Aldous Huxley
Supreme
Court decisions absolving corporations of
responsibility for their
wrongful or negligent conduct is
bad for consumers.
Its impossible for people
injured by corporations to be compensated.
Corporations need not consider the public
interest or the niceties of the
law in the relentless pursuit of
profit and everyone is a potential victim.
The entire society is plunged
into conditions leading to tragedy.
Corporations were created to
convert resources and
labor into
profit.
Corporate
law was invented to limit liability and maximize profit.
Corporate
managers often arrange to give
themselves enormous salaries.
1896
General Electric is one of the
original 12 companies listed on the newly formed Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
1927
Federal Reserve bails out the
Bank of England by
increasing the money supply through cheap loans.
1928 John Merrill, founder of
Merrill Lynch, exits
the stock market, as do insiders at
Lehman Brothers.
1929
John Foster Dulles
presides over the Goldman Sachs trusts.
1950
US corporations foot 26% of the total US tax bill.
1964 Gardiner Coit Means shows in The Corporate Revolution
in America that the means
of production in the US economy is highly concentrated in the hands of the
largest 200 corporations.
Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. theorized that the
fact of economic concentration meant that the effects of competitive-price
theory is largely
mythical.
Adolf
Augustus Berle, Jr., an original member of FDR "Brain Trust", advocates
corporate leadership accept full responsibility toward society in addition to
their traditional responsibilities toward shareholders.
This is in direct
contradiction to nearly all statues governing corporations which require
corporations to maximize return to shareholders.
1982 Dow Jones
Industrial Average contains not a single financial
corporation.
1990 US corporations now contribute
9%.
2008
AIG, the 18th-largest
publically traded corporation on Earth, is delisted from the Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
2009
Bank of America,
General Electric and
ExxonMobil pay no
tax.
The most important
challenge to political invention is assuring the one who produces wealth
believes that he is being fairly compensated by
the association of
shareholders, creditors and directors of centralized wealth.
Political
officeholders drawn to high profile positions in society exhibit traits
such as superficial charm
similar to that of serial
killers and politicians.
With self-interest
paramount a corporation acts exactly like a
psychopath.
A
corporation is like a human psychopath in
that:
Corporations are irresponsible
- everything is 'at risk' to
satisfy goals.
Corporations are
manipulative -
they manipulate public
opinion.
Corporations have
delusions of grandeur - "we're number one".
Corporations lack
empathy and exhibit
antisocial tendencies.
Corporations
relate superficially -
all that matters are
appearances.
Corporations
are unable to
accept responsibility as they cannot feel remorse.
Corporations are designed to exploit nature for profit.
The cost of negotiated settlements, adjudicated civil suits and
fines for illegal activities is just
another cost of doing business.
Purposely breaking the law or failing
to warn of a potential danger is likely to cost less than complying or warning
potential users of known defects.
Whether it is breaking the law or
failing to warn of:
1,2-dichloroethane in toys;
pharmaceutical side
effects;
endocrine
disruption by polymer solvents;
thyroid disruption by fire
retardants.
In most cases fines, civil penalties and settlements
paid by the corporation are trivial compared to the
dangerously
self-obsessed profits generated.
For corporations social
responsibile acts are simply public relations ploys.
"I have been saying for the some time now that America has only
one party - the property party.
It's
the party of big
corporation, the party of money.
It has two right wings; one is
Democrat, the other Republican." -
Gore
Vidal
"Business enterprise is a creature of a society, and
society can put any business out of existence overnight.
Enterprise
exists on sufferance and exists only as long as society believes that it does a
necessary, useful, and productive job." - Peter F. Drucker
"Until
the Supreme Court overturns
corporate personhood,
elected representatives will be voting
for the good of
corporations, not for the good of
people." - Gordon Vanderslice
early 1990s
"¾ of the federal
government research money is consumed by the DoD.
½ of
American scientists and engineers are employed as military contractors.
The needs of the Pentagon skew entire industries.
Communities to arise out of nowhere, and as
suddenly to collapse.
Economists argue endlessly about the
impact of military spending.
The effect of military spending on
government budgets is plain enough: investments of one kind diminish
investments of another." - Cullen Murphy
2008 The Center for Responsive Politics found lawmakers
had as much as $196 million invested in corporations doing business with the
DoD.
Many corporations are not recognized as defense contractors and
yet a substantial amount of their business comes from supplying the military.
Pepsico is paid $286 million; IBM is paid $291 million; Tyson is
paid $335 million; Goodrich is paid
$344 million; Procter &
Gamble is paid $362 million; Kraft is paid $500 million;
Dell is paid $636 million;
FedEx is paid $1.3 billion and
Exxon is paid $1.2
billion.
Also on the payroll is
Disney, Apple, Oakley, Nestle,
Heinz and Hershey.
"When we buy Crest toothpaste, Oscar Mayer hotdogs or
a Playstation we are supporting an
increasingly militarized civilian economy." - Nick Turse
The logic of
externalization applies to any and all acting parties.
Profits accrue to those
who most successfully externalize their costs.
A corporation looking
to extract resources must con-vince land guardians the corporation aims to
provide vital resource management which will create
an enhanced cost-benefit
ratio not possible without corporate intervention.
Corporate owners
know that the eternal formula for business success is to make someone else pay
as much of the costs as possible to maximize profits.
Do the printers of
unwanted junk mail have to pay the costs of disposing it?
Do makers of
chemicals pay clean up costs contaminated groundwater?
Do frackers have
to pay the costs of cleaning the aquifers they contaminate?
Do the makers and users of nitrogen
fertilizer pay for eutrophication?
Would plastic be cheap if medical
costs of toxic
byproducts was added?
"A corporation tends to be more profitable to
the extent it can make other people pay the bills for its impact on society.
The corporation is an externalizing machine, in the same way
that a shark is a killing machine.
There isn't any question of
malevolence or of will; the corporation has within it, and the shark has within
it, those characteristics that enable it to do that for which it was designed.
As a result the corporation is potentially very, very damaging to
society." - Robert Monks
|
|
 |
This web site is not a commercial web site and
is presented for educational
purposes only.
This website defines a
new perspective with which to engage reality to which its author adheres. The
author feels that the falsification of reality outside personal experience has
forged a populace unable to discern propaganda from
reality and that this has been done purposefully by an international
corporate cartel through their agents who wish to foist a corrupt version of
reality on the human race. Religious intolerance occurs
when any group refuses to tolerate religious practices, religious beliefs or
persons due to their religious ideology. This web site marks the founding of a
system of philosophy named The Truth of the Way of the Lumière Infinie -
a rational gnostic mystery religion based on reason which requires no leap of
faith, accepts no tithes, has no supreme leader, no church buildings and in
which each and every individual is encouraged to develop a personal relation
with the Creator and Sustainer through the pursuit of the knowledge of reality
in the hope of curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the human
spirit. The tenets of The Truth of the Way of the Lumière Infinie are
spelled out in detail on this web site by the author. Violent acts against
individuals due to their religious beliefs in America is considered a "hate
crime."
This web site in no way condones violence. To the contrary the
intent here is to reduce the violence that is already occurring due to the
international corporate cartels desire to control the human race. The
international corporate cartel already controls the world economic system,
corporate media worldwide, the global industrial military entertainment complex
and is responsible for the collapse of morals, the elevation of
self-centered behavior and the destruction
of global ecosystems. Civilization is based on coöperation.
Coöperation does not occur at the
point of a gun.
American social mores and values have declined
precipitously over the last century as the corrupt international cartel has
garnered more and more power. This power rests in the ability to deceive the
populace in general through corporate media by pressing emotional buttons which
have been preprogrammed into the population through prior mass media
psychological operations. The results have been the destruction of the family
and the destruction of social structures that do not adhere to the corrupt
international elites vision of a perfect world. Through distraction and
coercion the direction of thought of the bulk of the population has been
directed toward solutions proposed by the corrupt international elite that
further consolidates their power and which further their purposes.
All
views and opinions presented on this web site are the views and opinions of
individual human men and women that, through their writings, showed the
capacity for intelligent, reasonable, rational, insightful and unpopular
thought. All factual information presented on this web site is believed to be
true and accurate and is presented as originally presented in print media which
may or may not have originally presented the facts truthfully. Opinion and
thoughts have been adapted, edited, corrected, redacted, combined, added to,
re-edited and re-corrected as nearly all opinion and thought has been
throughout time but has been done so in the spirit of the original writer with
the intent of making his or her thoughts and opinions clearer and relevant to
the reader in the present time.
Fair Use Notice
This site may contain
copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically
authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our
efforts to advance understanding of criminal justice,
human rights, political,
economic, democratic, scientific, and
social justice
issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted
material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance
with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed
without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the
included information for research and educational purposes. For more
information see: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use
copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond
'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. |
 Copyright
© Lawrence Turner
All Rights Reserved
|