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Posted by: Spadecaller 2 years, 8 months agoGlobalization is a battering ram for Western corporations. And even when the consequences are literally life or death, companies are eager to utilize the World Trade Organization for their limitless hunger for profits. Greed knows no limit for some corporations. Even when it involves the lives of millions.
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Spadecaller
Feb. 17, 2007, 11:52 p.m."Greed knows no limit for some corporations. Even when it involves the lives of millions."
"Take a pending court case in India. It has the potential to adversely affect the health of not only the more than 1 billion Indian citizens but of patients throughout the developing world."
Globalization -- the enemy of the working class wages war against humanity.
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Beeboppin71
Feb. 18, 2007, 12:21 a.m.The valley between the haves and the have nots just became a little wider. Are the corporations going to adopt the millions of orphaned children in Africa because their parents died of AIDS? Who will feed these children as they die of the disease themselves? An image of a child digging through a garbage pile for his breakfast, fighting a vulture, keeps running through my mind. These corporations profit in the billions and can afford to make cheaper drugs to cure the poor. The odds are already tipped against them; do they really need to put the nail in the coffin? Dear Lord, if you are there watching and listening, please don't allow this to happen. And if you do, please allow the suffering a swift and painless death.
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Spadecaller
Feb. 18, 2007, 12:52 a.m.Exploiting terrorism is a profitable enterprise for the recent upsurge of globalization that has swept over our world. Maintaining "low-level" conflicts and the continued threat of war keeps a steady demand of business for the defense contractors -- the international corporations that exploit American and "coalition" troops. The bait was once "communism", but that has given way to "terrorism". Under the guise of fighting terrorism the real enemy of the civilized world has taken control over our government and others. The real enemy is corporate globalization. It tells governments how to operate.
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ind06
Feb. 18, 2007, 12:58 a.m.I understand the pharma companies need to recoup their investment and believe they have every right to do so. However, with markets that are literally world-sized you have to wonder if it's really necessary to charge upwards of $10 per pill. Especially when you adversely affect the health standards of entire countries. As always, it's the advantaged who make the rules and the disadvantaged who suffer.
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Spadecaller
Feb. 18, 2007, 1:14 a.m.What is corporate globalization doing to each country. It displaces workers from high-wage jobs and decreases the demand for less skilled workers? It is transforming the working class into a temporary work force by exporting labor to the cheapest available work force. It is decreasing quality manufacturing, increasing abuse of child labor, labor safety regulations, creating- more disabled workers, and it is eroding health insurance and pensions benefits.
The only winners are at the top; the corporate elitists. Meet your new king.
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Spadecaller
Feb. 18, 2007, 1:29 a.m.Does anyone here remember George Bush's original solution to the "undocumented workers" problem?
"Give them a work-pass identification card so that they can perform the work that Americans don't want."
George Bush has been working for the corporate elitists since he was "appointed" to the Presidency by the Supreme Court. Bush is as American as President Felipe Calderón of Mexico. A nation run by corporate elitists has no loyalties; there are only good and bad business partnerships. As for us, we are out of the loop.
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Spadecaller
Feb. 18, 2007, 1:49 a.m.In recent years Indian life span increased to 64 as a result of access to drugs. When Western Pharmacuetical prices come back into effect, it will be a death sentence for many.
And then we wonder why American Corporations create so much animosity in foreign countries. Why are they blowing up labs and picketing. Why are they burning flags? The real story seldom is told.
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IcCaRus
Feb. 18, 2007, 3:27 p.m.remember the movie rollerball? each indsutry was run (worldwide) by a single company. and these companies' boards of directors ran the world. we were wrong all this time; we feared 1984 and we got rollerball ... LOL
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ballbuster2
Feb. 18, 2007, 10:13 a.m.yup! it's time to say goodby to the good old usa as we know it. and we can thank greedy politicans and greedy,greedy corporations for it all.
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Amazing1
Feb. 18, 2007, 10:24 a.m.Just the other day I saw on television a wedding dress for $17 million. I was appalled at the time that anyone would spend that kind of money for a dress. The people who can afford that type of excess should have to spend a week or so in the shoes of the poor.
I would like to see a new Survivor show on TV. Take the bloated CEOs of twenty large corporations. Give them $20 and access to a thrift store. Once they have purchased their new ensemble, set them adrift in NYC with no phone, no credit card, no money and no apartment. Let them try to survive in that environment.
Our society has become which values money above all else. And the corporations have actively participated in the devaluation of honor, compassion, integrity and hard work. Shame on them all, for they have devalued the attributes which originally made this a nation of which to be proud. Now we are the most hated nation in the world. How sad. How disgusting.
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Bushwacked2X2many
Feb. 18, 2007, 11:31 a.m.Greed and more Greed. If corporations can do it with medications, then think about the destruction of our planet by their unchecked activities when it comes to pollution and the emmission of greenhouse gases. This will not change as long as those in control can defend their own personal lives and lifestyles. Think of our decendants- there aren't going to be any. 'Children of Men' a reality? In a couple hundred thousand years if some other intelligence finds its way to our planet they will not be able to distinquish it from Mars nor find any trace that we ever existed. That's the power of greed.
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Scoopapa
Feb. 18, 2007, 11:33 a.m.Medicine prices are the biggest bastardization of American citizenry, with gas prices at a close second. Apparently, its going to happen to everyone else in the world too. Corporations try to make money, period. There are no holds barred. This is where the ideal of a "hands off" economy reaches its limit. Big business calls the blows in the world, and morals are not on the agenda. Not even a little bit. There is an infinite capacity to rationalize these actions "well, the role of a business is to make money", and that is what they do.
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UBCONFUSE
Feb. 18, 2007, 11:49 a.m.The group think is fully in high gear. I have only run across one or two of the anti-corporate libs in person. One of them was in Portland as we drove around downtown in a Ford Explorer, compliments of Hertz, with California plates. All of a sudden we had a 20 something year old in front of us in stopped traffic yelling things like "you are killing the plantet" and take your slimey corporate money back to California". Being a good old Southern boy, I leaped out of the car to shake hands with him, but he obviously thought my silence and my rush towards him was a threat to his life. As I returned to the car, I had about 20 or so drivers clapping their approval. These are the same Eco-Terrorist that burn cars, big houses and equipment to make a statement. They are clueless and misguided. It is ironic that Corporations have made it possible for these misfits to be seen and heard. Netscape my friends, is in business to make a profit. Evil are they? NO!
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slate
Feb. 18, 2007, 12:11 p.m.I'm sure most here are connected to some corporation,,,, that would make you evil as well,,, Unless you are from a wealthy family thus evil as well in your own minds.
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JNP8907
Feb. 18, 2007, 12:21 p.m.Yes. . . every single one of you that preach about the corporations are using the internet which is provided by the corporations. . . ironic eh?
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evelyna
Feb. 18, 2007, 12:28 p.m.The corporations supply the internet and monopolize so all of the small players have difficulty.
I know someone who started their own internet company. Lo and behold the FBI, CIA and countless other organizations tried to bring him down for bogus charges.
This was an honest person who sleeps in his office and works 22 hour days.
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nanheyangrouchuan
Feb. 18, 2007, 12:34 p.m.Even the Financial Times jumped in and referred to corporations as the new totalitarians about a month ago. Look at their structure and how the top executives and boards of directors get along...just like Myanmar's military junta, or NK, or the Chinese Communist Party. But employment, investment and technology are their Aegis shields against tougher action from national governments, regional trade organizations and NGOs. Basically, corporations enter with smiles, promises and gifts and leave behind nothing but broken dreams, ruined nature and depression. Corporations must be beaten into compliance for the good of humanity.
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EmperorJeffrey1
Feb. 18, 2007, 12:43 p.m.and so the march towards the Empire continues.
now if we could just rid ourselves of this pesky congress which keeps trying to louse things up with its silly "democratic process" and "check and balance system", maybe we could get some real domination and mayhem accomplished.
GOD SAVE THE EMPIRE!
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slate
Feb. 18, 2007, 1:34 p.m.LOL
Sometimes when I read comments made on this site a vision of the big Worm getting high on the mushroom in Alice in Wonderland comes to mind,,,,
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simonsez
Feb. 18, 2007, 1:54 p.m.Couldn't agree with you more, slate.
Spade needs to get some some sleep instead of searching for doomsday stories every night.
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GoldStandard
Feb. 18, 2007, 2:51 p.m."The advantage of a global economy based on free trade and capitalism is so obvious and so enormous that it is difficult to conceive of anyone opposing it. The benefit is based on the law of comparative advantage: every country becomes more prosperous the more it invests in producing and exporting what it does best (in terms of quality, cost, uniqueness, etc.), and importing goods and services that other countries can produce more efficiently.
How, then, do we reconcile the incredible benefits of global capitalism with the anti-globalization movement? The protestors make three claims repeatedly. First, they argue that multinational corporations are becoming too powerful and threaten the sovereignty of smaller nations. This is absurd on the face of it. Governments have the power of physical coercion (the gun); corporations do not; they have only the dollar--they function through voluntary trade..."
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