Daily Show takes on gay 'Pride, Inc.'

Who is behind the rise of transgenderism (and chemicals in shots and our water), Jeff Rense?

Hold on there, gay guy. We never cared. We're Corporate America. We go woke, we go broke.

Jon Stewart smashes the MYTH of corporate morality in Pride, BLM, and beyond | The Daily Show

(The Daily Show) June 10, 2024: It’s Pride Month! While some corporations like Target are hiding their pride for the sake of loud conservatives, others are doing everything they can to virtue signal to consumers. Jon Stewart rips off the mask of corporate “values” and examines how corporations will perform caring about issues like DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion), BLM (Black Lives Matter), climate change, or American patriotism (for MAGAots), as long as it means bigger profits, and how quickly they backtrack on those moral stands when it no longer suits their bottom line. #DailyShow #Pride #Diversity #Target

Spooky: corporations spy on non-profits

Wisdom Quarterly; Gary Ruskin (CorporatePolicy.org, Nov. 20, 2013), "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits"

Giant corporations are employing highly unethical or illegal tools of espionage against nonprofit organizations with near impunity, according to a new report by Essential Information. 

The report, titled Spooky Business, documents how corporations hire shady investigative firms staffed with former employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), US military, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Secret Service, and local police departments to target nonprofit organizations.

 

“Corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations is an egregious abuse of corporate power that is subverting democracy,” said Gary Ruskin, author of Spooky Business. “Who will rein in the forces of corporate lawlessness as they bear down upon nonprofit defenders of justice?”

Many of the world’s largest corporations and their trade associations -- including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Walmart, Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonald’s, Shell, BP, BAE, Sasol, Brown & Williamson, and E.ON -- have been linked to espionage or planned espionage against nonprofit organizations, activists, and whistleblowers.

 

Many different types of nonprofit organizations have been targeted with corporate espionage, including environmental, anti-war, public interest, consumer, food safety, pesticide reform, nursing home reform, gun control, social justice, animal rights, and arms control groups. More

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How Corporations Became People (video)

(Bozasonic) "The Corporation," full movie. Corporations are people? Corporations are not people. "They have no 'soul' to save, no body to incarcerate." They do have a profit motive.

"The Corporation" is a classic Canadian documentary exploring how we ended up with business entities that are legally bound to place "profits before people." How are we to assess a corporation's "personality"?

The documentary concentrates on North American corporations, particularly those from the United States.

The film was written by Joel Bakan and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. It is critical look at the modern-day "limited liability" corporation, considering its legal status as a class of PERSON. And it evaluates its behavior towards our society and the world at large the way a psychiatrist examines a patient.

The exploration goes through specific examples. It has been shown worldwide -- on TV, DVD, file sharing, and free downloading. Bakan wrote a book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of this documentary.

Showing the development of the contemporary business corporation, the movie follows the definition in court. Corporations went from legal entities that originated as government-chartered institutions engaged in public functions to commercial institutions entitled to most of the legal rights of a human being, US citizen, and now multinational body with no allegiance to the US.

They gained personhood as a result of an 1886 case in the US Supreme Court. Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite referred to corporations as "persons" having the same rights as human beings based on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The film's assessment is effected via the diagnostic criteria in psychology's Bible (DSM-IV).

FBI consultant and professor of psychology Robert Hare, Univ. of British Columbia, compares the profile of the contemporary profitable business corporation to that of a clinically-diagnosed PSYCHOPATH.

The film is in vignettes examining and criticizing corporate business practices. It establishes parallels between the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave and the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, i.e. callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect for the law.

(otherwords.org)

The topics covered include:

• the Business Plot in 1933 where the popular Gen. Smedley Butler exposed a corporate plot against US Pres. Franklin Roosevelt
• the tragedy of the commons
• Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning people to beware of the rising "military-industrial complex"
• economic externalities
• suppression of an investigative news story about bovine growth hormone on a Fox News Channel affiliate TV station
• the invention of the soft drink Fanta by the Coca-Cola Company due to the trade embargo on Nazi Germany
• the alleged role of IBM in the Nazi holocaust (see IBM and the Holocaust)
• the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia's municipal water supply by the Bechtel Corporation
• general themes of corporate social responsibility
• the notion of "limited liability"
• the corporation as a psychopath
• and the corporation as a person.
  

(H5N1XD) "The Corporation," short form

Behind Facebook, Twitter (photos)

An inside look at social media outlets incorporated


Employees at work at the Palo Alto headquarters of Facebook, Inc. in March 2009. The number of minutes Americans spent on social networking sites nearly doubled in the past year with Facebook and Twitter enjoying explosive growth, according to a new study (AFP/Getty Images/File/Gilles Mingasson).

Americans spending more time on social networks

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The number of minutes Americans spent on social networking sites nearly doubled in the past year with Facebook and Twitter enjoying explosive growth, according to a new study.

Nielsen Online found that the number of minutes Americans spent on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Tagged, Twitter, and LinkedIn grew 83 percent from April 2008 to April of this year.

It said the total minutes spent on Facebook increased nearly 700 percent year-over-year, from 1.7 billion in April 2008 to 13.9 billion in April 2009.

Facebook was the top social networking site when ranked by total minutes for the month followed by MySpace, which saw its total minutes decline from 7.3 billion in April 2008 to 5.0 billion in April 2009. Blogger, Tagged, and Twitter were next.

The number of minutes spent on micro-blogging service Twitter skyrocketed from 7.9 million in April 2008 to 300 million in April 2009, Nielsen said. More>>

What are they?

Facebook is a free-access social networking Website operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. Users add online friends, send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify others about themselves.

The site's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and prep schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. The site was originally limited to students and thus gained an advantage over its main competitor Myspace.

Mark Zuckerberg took an existing idea (social networking) and founded Facebook with his roommates, fellow computer science majors Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, while he was a student at Harvard University. More>>

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