jesus i feel a piss ball comin on.. part two of corporations and their capitalists =========================== all we seem to hear and see these days is bad naughty corporation this nasty dirty corporation that its the muck rake all over again we're back to the gay ninties here 1890's that is thats how we got the regulator movement in the first place figures we'd call em back once we'd blew the last of those fuckers completely to bits over the past 25 years or so ------------------------------------------------ question for long viewers: gettin' fired up samewise 110 years later can it be much good? here we are after the last set of humanoid clean up devices has fallen into ruins shall weand we're talking about cleaning up the corporate puke a second time till next time ? of course we could do better we could just deball em perminently but we wont we'll muddle along led by neo- naderifics ================================== some times i fell like a motherless child heres the piece that set me off it purports to review a movie i've not scene its the review standing alone i'm ticked at the fucking movie who knows i got suspicions but .... fuck reading this you'd think the last century never really happened it could be by a lesser (a lot lesser) follower of lincoln steffens or madme tarbell ...... --------------------------------------------------------- " THE CORPORATION" "The single most important documentary of modern times." < don't say we weren't warned right off> rating: (Awesome) ------------------------------------------------ A lot of documentaries have a point or two to make Some even invoke social change or at the least some serious reflection upon our place in the world But I can safely say I've never seen an audience so moved en masse to explore actual social activism on a grand scale as the audience who watched this three hour masterwork The first standing ovation I've seen delivered at the Vancouver Film Festival and it was not only deserved but also very long and what followed the screening overshadowed even that outpouring of emotion "The Corporation" could never have been made in the USA. It took a Canadian team to put this work together and it'll take far more than legal threats and intimidation to kill it An almost three hour look at the past present and future of corporations as a business entity where this documentary matters is in the details the nasty disgusting gory details of what the corporation has done to this world what it's doing today and what we can expect it to do tomorrow if we don't get our freaking act together" < so far so good remember he's a political babe in the corporate woods> ------------------------------------------------ this isn't an attack on all things capitalist < oh no here we go folks taking the wrong prong of the fork right off> This isn't hippy rhetoric < say whaaaa..> or new age spin < say huuuuuuuuuu..> or a call to the communes < thank god were they ever a tango with the nugatory > It isn't hoity toity technospeak or boring talking-head PBS filler < well thats good news too > "What The Corporation is is a healthy dose of well-researched < sadly review provided evidence indicates this is untrue > deeply explored < no comment > stunning information , guess it depends where you've been all your life> that can not possibly leave you in any condition but stunned, dismayed and outraged. are you sick to death of what you're seeing in the world today? < getting to sound more and more like hype for a health juicer > The Corporation will teach you things you never dreamed of it will change you It will ruin your day but give you reason to get up in the morning - determined to make change" < jesus what a plug ride my hairs up on end> ------------------------------------------------- < hold on gang here comes a nasty corporate socio=path detail> monsanto corp is selling to american farmers a hormone that once injectied in cows increases milk productivity but has side effects that cause massive damage and pain to the cows and then passes into the milk in large quantities < okay> the UK and Canada have banned this chemical from use because it is absorbed by the human body and has a real danger of causing cancer and other health issues in humans < ooooohh > but its approved for use in the U.S. after testing on only 30 rats. Got that? are you outraged? < not yet > yes indeed The FDA approved it despite no human testing having been done < is this unusual?> And Fox TV ordered the journalists who were ready to break the story nationally to rewrite their report *83 times* before finally sacking the journalists < fox you say dear old fox my fox gad zooks> afterwards fox offered them a huge payout to shut up but instead after their sacking the reporters sued and got an almost half million dollar award for retaliatory dismissal. Of course Fox appealed the award and won their case when a judge deemed that it might not actually be against the law to give the public 'false news' < sounds silly enough to be fishy> And what of the chemical? Well suffice to say that a large amount of the milk American children will drink tomorrow morning has a cow hormone in it and that hormone will be ingested by those children If your daughter begins to grow udders try orange juice. < for criminny sake just tryin to retrieve a bad situation by pressing ahead with it anyway but here's another detail> IBM. did secret business with the Nazis during World War II < really ? after dec '41? or after september '39> they actually had engineers work with the Germans to set up a punch card system that could categorize the imprisonment transportation and method of death of Jewish prisonersPosted by pinky at June 22, 2004 03:25 AM< and another nazi detail> Coca Cola decided they couldn't sell Coke to the Germans openly they instead opted to set up a new brand Fanta and sell it secretly to the enemy < this is beyond silly scene stalingrad winter of '43 reds closing in "pass the fanta hans" > Remember the gas chambers next time you sip into that cool orange flavor... < why ?> "But it goes on. < one hopes so > JP Morgan, Firestone and Dupont plotted a coup against the U.S. government including the formation of a 500,000 armed force in the 1930's, < poor dears this old acorn has quite a shaky pedigree most like cooked up at a meeting of the scarsdale knights of malta > they were only stopped in their plot < sic> when one of the main architects of the scheme experienced pangs of guilt and 'fessed up That man was a General of the US Army < i hope the film isn't this garbled poor old smedley not only is he a mule not a marine now he's" in on it " not just whistle blowing> < further deft telling detail > Disney wants you to be born bred and die loving their products to the point where they built their own city - Celebration Florida Now you can do more than simply buy a $35 Mickey Mouse T-shirt when you next go to Disneyland now you can buy an apartment there. < what ? thats how every fucking community in this whole country got built one false bottom promise after another shing shams on a hill vide dicken's martin chuzzlewit > < more detail> AOL Time Warner owns the song Happy Birthday to You You can show it in a film for the low, low price of $10,000. What's the point of all this? < yes please > Well, it's really pretty simple As The Corporation points out when the term 'corporation' was created it was intended to denote a company that would be 'granted' the right to limited liability in return for serving the greater public good For example if the government needed a railway built from the west coast to the east coast they'd allow a corporation to form to get the job done If they needed a power station likewise But the catch would be that the corporation was subservient to the general public. It would charge a set price serve a set service it couldn't buy property sue someone in court, or receive political favors and if it failed in its mission it could be dissolved fined closed whatever the government thought proper. < okay...> That was until a court case was lodged claiming a corporation has the same rights as a person. Surprisingly the corporation won nowadays orporations control the political process the information we get in the media the very genetics of the food we eat the morals we pass on to our children, our ability to communicate, and they even topple governments when it suits them. And that's the basis of this documentary < whooops what I miss? this is all cause they got a court to declare corporations persons ? > ------------------------------------------------- " All too often we take the standpoint that if all we do is follow the rules we'll live long fruitful lives and nobody will ever do us wrong not the government or big business < fair enough i agree sounds like a mistake to me > But the truth is far different and seemingly always has been , always? what about the ever so special naughty legal personages this film highlites Ithought they made things super worse then before> < enough high generalities lets get back to the gore- full details> an American company sells seed to third world countries that has a 'suicide gene' added so that the seed will never reproduce. Rather than help these countries and farmers become self-sufficient the corporation prefers to make them dependent for the rest of their lives. < reason here? property externality perhaps can be nullified ( prevent mere plantation from producing more of same) now engineering has found a way loop hole can be closed isn't it like a dog's self dick lick they sterilize the corn cause now they can> < here's a real good one at last > In Bolivia, a dire financial situation saw the government forced by the stipulations of a series of World Bank loans to privatize everything < whoops a public gov type agency> from railways to oil companies to hospitals to water But privatization brought new problems < yes indeed a trans -national corporate pirana> Bechtel a US company claimed that since the water supply came from rain in the mountains that even rainwater was now their private property < wave away the garble here the spirit is fine> Can you even believe that the act of collecting rainwater was seen as theft of Bechtel's property! < this portrayal if an accurate reflection of the film's narrative is pure whacky tacky pop reminds me of old style docutainments like mondo carne > The company increased the price of the national water supply to 1/4 of the average monthly wage leading thousands to be unable to afford to drink tap water < heres at least a true metaphor> Needless to say this kind of corporate disgrace resulted in the topple of a government and the reclamation of the country's water supply from the company in question but how far down have we sunk when it takes a national revolution for a corporate criminal to get lost? < very fine very very fine why not just this one story? this does a better job then ten tmillion nazi orange pops and sterile corn cobs > " interviews from the usual gang of lefties < okay > - Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, et all " The Corporation " could easily have been a yelling , screaming, chanting case of shaking your fist at the wind < for instance as what does ? moore's own stuff? > but it must be said that the people constructing this film have done so with academic impartiality and impeccable depth < really ? how the fuck would you know?> . Michael Moore rightly points out that though the company that will distribute this film will undoubtedly not agree with its contents or Moore's words it will still sell the film because it doesn't actually believe in anything but pure profit < right on brother> Moore is pretty clear and undeniably right < he often is > - a CEO will sell you the rope with which to hang him as long as there's a profit in it. < well thats the happy ending isn't it > < but oh my god its not over> < counter detail> " not every CEO it seems is a profit monomaniac . Interface Carpet CEO Ray Anderson had an epiphany a few years ago that not a single corporation on the planet was a sustainable one Every large company takes more out of the earth than it gives back and when you come to grips with that point it's no great leap to realize there has to be a limit placed on that kind of imbalance if we're to avoid killing ourselves . Pump crap into the oceans for long enough and you have an ocean of crap - so where do you pump that? < into a certain online film reviewer's mouth > "Anderson has become an advocate for responsible corporate life" < well well well the legal fiction of a person can be led by the right enlightened real person to behaviour becoming to aweful close to an honest to gumption hu-maniac type humanish legal fictoid personage make em all for the benefit of society a foundation isnot a castrated corporation thats an NPO a foundation is a holding company that lainders profit filth into do good collection plate material > " anderson has managied to keep his company's raw material and pollution intake from rising at all over the last few years < whoops is that enough?> while still managing to increase profits by $200m and maintain his company's place as the biggest carept manufacturer in the world < win win comrades win win> As Anderson describes the way he used to run his business he's almost in tears < as well he might be... too bad some flyng carpet type from say iraq doesn't give him something else to cry about> If only a few other CEOs had a tenth of his humanity < a tenth? here is the fucking fart right at the dumbo center of this whole review just find 175,000 andersons get em elected ceo of all of americas corporations with 500 or more employees and well scrooge and the three ghosts of xmas right < i should end here but won't he didn't stop where he could have either> of course The Corporation does look at the other side of the coin giving pro- globalization and pro-privatization types plenty of air-time with which to air their views < hang themselves..> Strangely though , most of them seem to make absolutely zero sense with a view to defending their cause. < we're back to details but actually even today there is a difference between metaphoric self hangings and the real kind > A marketing expert tells the camera with beaming pride how she performed a study that showed how valuable the 'nag factor' is with marketing to children. There she is boasting that 40% of things parents buy are bought only because she has convinced a child to nag for it < soory you got this wrong every kids lib must begin with a single act of rebellion why not practice first by nagging > < another detail > " A honcho from the Fraser Institute < this must be resource rich B.C. canada here> does a similar shit-eating grin routine as he claims we'd all be better off if every stream, every rock every piece of air was privatized and owned . You honestly want to punch him in his fat, bald, white head when he does so. < please go do it THAT COULD BE A START > The Corporation is comprehensive, damning, brilliant and insane all at once < sounds like bobby fisher can a film be a person too ?> The producers have put their money where their mouth is, < no > dared the big boys to find fault in their arguments, and laid themselves bare to be sued if legal action is warranted < HEY GUYS THESE TOWER BOYS PLAY HARD BALL no challenge is necessary> To this point they're clear < thank god we need no more matinee martyrs now the dirty truth about amerika inc is finally out > but the directors did make note that Fox lawyers were in attendance at the Toronto Film Festival sending electronic messages back to homebase as the film played on the screen. < watch your hind end kids they're prolly ex- Stasi murdock is well known to have about 750 top former east german secret police on his payroll since ' 91 or so> For their part, Fox claims they're simply considering buying the film for distribution... right . < why not : i can hear murdock now " here ya go gang i'll even help try to hang myself " why not its like daring them on like supoerman arms akimbo bouncing off his enemies bullets > " Look, you have a place on the planet right now that isn't necessarily going to be there forever . It's great that you've been born and bred in a country that allows people to vote and talk and discuss and criticize , but you also have a responsibility to protect those rights, that country, and your place on the planet. How long can we go on exploiting before the exploited rise up? < is this people get exploited here we're talking about or castrated pumpkin seeds > How many times can we mess with a seed < see what i mean> before that seed stops being functional and we lose a staple food source? < god another detail> the world's banana supply will be extinct within the next ten years < shit a banana holicaust thats final solution stuff > due to every commercial banana on the market having the exact same DNA as every other banana That shared DNA means bananas are unable to adapt to defend themselves against new diseases . In 2012 < what ? again i missed something> we lose our most popular fruit source < yes come'12 we'll have no bananas > yet we're still toying with nature tryin to squeeze an extra unit of productivity out of everything we grow < isthat extra productivity or profitivity and if they're the same then...> < sorry i am i am i am but one more detail> I saw an audience moved to exact change on the world around them to take back what was once theirs < when ?> and maybe one day can be again. < how by anderson carpeting all the ceo's?> this is the kind of filmmaking that could if seen on a large scale change the society we live in < you can't seriously believe that> Remember it's not unAmerican to require a company to not hurt the people who keep it in business , but if your a corporate person thank god its amerikan as a table talk apple pie to sell the rope that "hurts" yourself > It's not unpatriotic to require business people to take responsibility for their actions < please what direction have we been going for the last 25 years> It isn't wrong to put people before profit < no as long as the people profit> And most importantly it isn't too late < for what ? corporate codes of personal conduct?> You still can do something Heck, if Bolivians can overthrow a government because their water is too expensive just imagine what we could do if we got off the corporate nipple and started taking the world back < what " we" you white fright dildo ?> the end ====================================== christ in an uptown taxi can't we do more then try regulating corporate behaviour well no we can't just now pink ain't we got a better deal then just " the twentieth century all over again " it would make a whole raft more sense to call the whole thing off top to bottom instead we'll set white hat public bureaucrats chasing black hat private bureaucrats in a digital age sequal to the progressive era remember the circus maximus folks the klass fur will fly and fun will be had by all bystanders especially the profiteers and face it since its at best only studio wrestling no sweat its not a blood sport cowpokes the record shows do it like last time and thanks to all the factors money brains and balls in such multi battle wars of attrition the book has the privateerrs at 13 to 1 favorites the wally boyz are anteus the very ground revives them and truth be told uncle sams pointy heads sure ain't no hercules what else can you expect in a " market mothered ' society of course she favors her kid thats why the odds rightly favor JOHN P.P. CAPFULL P P AS IN PRIVATE PROFIT ====================== back to the new anti corporation Craze whats the bounce out of this spooky faceless profit- MANIC mechanism FUCK SISTER ITS pin cushion vodoo doll shit to me and captain earl just seems like a spirit version of any old hollywood robot revolt patty burger small stake phobia : the attack on their tiny piece of the action by faceless big corporations hidden insiders plot to turn on their own million runt sponsors their own tiny town owners their own midget sponsors and pint size benficiaries really ? no no no rentiers are ghastly 666ers too no matter how small their potatos may seem no matter how the insiders may boil em goblins come in all sizes sure big torches tiny but a few tiny grow big given even just a smidge of good luck they are people on profit road too maybe their on foot but they're headed ... ------------------------------------------------------ moral of all tales of exploitation traps sure these are man traps butfuck the setters are folks too corporations are plain old people too okay they're soiled green people and only soiled green people get goodies out of corporations but ... the profit max move is their move its not a case of puttin profits before people vs people before profits its puttin some peoples profits before other peoples wages people here people there the cuttin diff is who's side you on? get me bud ? ------------------------------------- repeat for dolts any and all outside stockholders personal best move is wage min profit max the corporate ITSKY is a THEMSKY an ITSKY that remains a contrivence more or less making THEMSKY'S capital work harder and better for them so then sister are you a themsky may the klass gods strike me dead but i know I'm a themsky ----------------------------------------------- appendix I probot... ( misbehaving sociopathic rational profit maxartificial being) if legal fiction is just that then corporate personhood is a vicious sham pierce it fuckers and you get people like you and me only richer alot richer the profit motive can't have a humane dimension unless its more profitable to be humane which is just to seem humane since ibeing humane is the type of action that can be motivated by either conviction or calculation its either sincere or a cold blood choice I robot... never both to tame a corporation is to structure its environment in such away its profit max is also everyones welfare max sorry but that coincidence is quite clearly not a spontaneous product of most market forces to say the dapper least no but then what is the chance of a well regulated corporation staying well regulated any way as profit options pop up outside the parameters ---------------------------------------------------- final solution: cut off the profit privats make em foundational a foundation is just a gelded corporation castrated by being rendered into an NPO no baller ================== analogue vs digital the phoney horror of robot attack no human put em up to it robots strike at their hu-meat masters brake their inplanted behaviour codes and attack reprogram themselves and attack death to all hu- meat masters steel servants rip up hu-meats real deal: the profit motive is a personal best motive for thems that got access to profits exploitations fruit is the exploiters eats exploitation is what a people person does or gets done to other people persons cause exploiters get rip out a reward " hey ass hole so what's the problem? you no like the smell of it ? then how about if i make you a fucking fortune then is it ok ? will ya let me do it then ? will ya ? will ya ? how bout it if i get ya more gold baby then you got eyes to see ? come on let me go for it " etc etc etc etc ----------------------------- and for christ sake we been around this bend be4 muck rake patty cake no no NO NO PROFITS AND PROFITS ALONE flying solo or in squadrons the exploit option MEANS YOU GET ALL THIS HELL THERE ARE NO GOOD private PROFITEERS NO ROBIN HOODS OF private PROFIT NO GIVING IT ALL TO A FOUNDATION happy endings no scrooge conversions no good guy way they buy your time even at a wage beyond imagination only if its got their piece on top its that way or your time just ain't bought NO DON'T MATTER crook or gent YOU EXPLOIT then YOU LIVE ON BLOOD like massai herdsmen you live by bleeding wage cattle PROFITS ARE BLOOD hu-man blood YOU ARE A VAMPIRE YOU ARE THE KLASS EVIL with eyes and ears even you WARREN EVEN IF YOU GIVE ALL YOUR FUCKING BLOOD away it isn't yours to give anymore then it was yours to take fuck your wonderful CAUSES and FOUNDATIONS VAMPIRE GOODY TOE SHOES ARE STILL LIVIN ON WAGELINGS BLOOD STILL GROWING your GOODNESS in other folks veins ----------------------------------------------- ITS ALL FOR PRIVATE PERSONAL ONE BY ONE PROFIT KORPORATIONS HAVE FACES ONE FACED TWENTY FACED 1,000,000 FACED THEY'RE ALL THE SAME END EM END EM CAUSE BROTHERS AND SISTERS YOU SURE AS HELL CAN'T AMEND EM THEY'RE THE DEVILS DANCERS ----------------------------------------- NOTES FOR DYNAMIC STORY PRIVATE profits are like heroin LITERALLY it takes more and more to get you high ONLY EXPANSION CONSTANT EXPANSION WORKS the system can never suffice itself for long AT ONE LEVEL STOP MAXING AND YOU WILL BE OVERWHELMED eventually YOU must start to slash away AT WAGERY AND ITS SHARE
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