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Museum of London demolition challenge dismissed
A legal challenge contesting plans to demolish the former Museum of London and nearby buildings to create office…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #BastionHouse #BQO #Britain #centralLondon #CityofLondonCorporation #GreatBritain #london #MuseumofLondon #Officebuildings #thecorporation
https://www.europesays.com/uk/854047/ -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/854047/ Museum of London demolition challenge dismissed #BastionHouse #BQO #Britain #CentralLondon #CityOfLondonCorporation #England #GreatBritain #london #MuseumOfLondon #OfficeBuildings #TheCorporation #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Photos of Ocean Grove’s electrifying performance in Sheffield
Author Alina Salihbekova – 16.3.2026 On the 7th of March, the young Australian band Ocean Grove stopped in…
#Sheffield #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #GreatBritain #OceanGrove #sheffield #thecorporation
https://www.europesays.com/uk/830762/ -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/830762/ Photos of Ocean Grove’s electrifying performance in Sheffield #Britain #England #GreatBritain #OceanGrove #sheffield #TheCorporation #UK #UnitedKingdom
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"Give Love on Christmas Day" is a #Christmas song first recorded in 1970 by #Motown's #Jackson5. Written by the label's songwriting-producing team, #TheCorporation (#BerryGordy, #AlphonzoMizell, Christine Perren, #FreddiePerren and #DekeRichards), the song was recorded for the Jackson 5 Christmas Album. The song was well received critically upon release of the album. The festive track went on to be covered by groups such as #TheTemptations, #NewEdition, and #BlackGirl.
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Why look at corporations to understand inequality? 💰
In our latest Just Access Podcast, host Dr. Miranda Melcher speaks with Professor Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation and The New Corporation, about how “good” corporations deepen inequality and threaten democracy.
🎧 Listen on Acast, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts
👉 https://shows.acast.com/just-access/episodes/why-look-at-corporations-to-understand-inequality#HumanRights #Democracy #Inequality #CorporatePower #TheCorporation #JoelBakan #JustAccessPodcast
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If you haven't seen the 2003 original, made in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals and only 5 years before the corpogenic Global Financial Crisis, get thee to the archives;
https://archive.org/details/The_Corporation_/
#film #documentary #TheCorporation #corporations #capitalism #GFC
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Keeping with the documentary theme, I'm watching the 2020 sequel to the excellent 2003 film The Corporation. Entitled The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, it explores the "corporation social responsibility" gambit and the normalisation of disaster capitalism.
If you can afford to pay to see it, please help the filmmakers fund future work. If you can't, magnet links for downloading it with BitTorrent can be found here;
https://yts.mx/movies/the-new-corporation-the-unfortunately-necessary-sequel-2020
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Yeah things are bad... And lol @ this idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ#Genius #Clippy #ClippyGate #Clippy4ever #Clippygeddon #Activism #TheCorporation #privacy #security
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> ... as individuals they may be anything. In their institutional role they're monsters because the institution is monstrous. The same is true here. So an individual CEO, let's say, may really care about the environment and, in fact, since they have such extraordinary resources, they can even devote some of their resources to that without violating their responsibility to be totally inhuman.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/characters/nm0159008
#NoamChomsky in #TheCorporation #CEOsDontCry #TalkLikeA #CEO #InstitutionalRoles -
> #MaryZepernick : There were very few chartered corporations in early United States history. And the ones that existed had clear stipulations in their state issued charters, how long they could operate, the amount of capitalisation, what they made or did or maintained, a turnpike or whatever was in their charter and they didn't do anything else. They didn't own or couldn't own another corporation. Their shareholders were liable. And so on.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/quotes/
#TheCorporation #POCLAD -
There are a lot of other important quotes from the movie:
> is it ethical? I don't know. But our role at Initiative is to move products, and if we know you move products with a certain creative execution, placed in a certain type of media vehicle, then we've done our job. They are tomorrow's consumer - tomorrow's adult consumer - so start talking with them now, build that relationship when they're younger, and you've got them as an adult. -
I can't find a quote by Susan E. Linn from _The Corporation_ DVD. It used to be on the imdb site, I'm pretty sure.. She said "you can't win" and protect children from corporate advertisers while they watch TV, or get exposed to ads through other media (I guess).
The quote came to mind while thinking about my refusal to use slack or gmail at work and a song from _The Wiz_ came to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StvT2BmXR9U
#SusanLinn #MichaelJackson #YouCantWin #Advertising #TheCorporation #TheWiz
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“Not merely machines, but mechanical order and regimentation spread through the entire environment... With the mechanization and prospective automation of farming, the aim is not to improve the life of the farmer but to augment the profits of the megatechnic corporations that supply the machinery and the power needed for large-scale monoculture, with the smallest possible use of human labor..."
#IrrationalMethods #MegaTechnic #TheCorporation -
Like the #Chisso corporation and #MinamataDisease pattern:
> The new company that emerges from the ashes of Purdue Pharma will be allowed to continue making and selling opioid products, including OxyContin.
> But architects of this deal say future opioid profits will go to help fund drug treatment programs.
> #PurduePharma itself will re-emerge from bankruptcy as a new company operated as a form of public trust corporation.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1031053251/sackler-family-immunity-purdue-pharma-oxcyontin-opioid-epidemic
#ChissoCorporation #TheCorporation -
> .. the.. #SacklerBrothers who bought Purdue and.. developed oxycontin were physicians.. Purdue hired 3,000 doctors to serve on their speakers bureau—a fact which certainly does not reflect well on the #Medicalprofession. #RichardSackler, the current chairman of the board of Purdue and who closely directed the firm in recent years, went to #HarvardBusinessSchool—a fact which also does not reflect well on America’s premier business school. At Purdue, profits trumped ethics. #TheCorporation
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> Purdue Pharma's story isn't unique. Many of the largest corporations in the U.S. got involved in the opioid business and have paid large sums to settle a wave of lawsuits linked to the crisis.
> Late last month, four #Fortune50 companies — #AmerisourceBergen, #CardinalHealth, Johnson & #JohnsonAndMcKesson — agreed to a deal worth roughly $26 billion.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/10/1085174528/sackler-opioid-victims
#TheCorporation #BigPharma #PurduePharma -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
The parallels are too glaring...
I'm wondering how corporate talking points worm their way into the grass roots organic movement.
- https://thecorporation.com/resources/
- https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles
#FredSinger #TaishiSugiyama #MerchantsOfDoubt #CorporatePR #TheCorporation #杉山大志 #SugiyamaTaishi -
@AlaskaWx @RunRichRun
The recent talk of Global Cooling that got me to the CIGS (Canon Global Strategy...) Suit (Taishi Sugiyama) now has me reading grist and trughout articles for _Merchants of Doubt_. #FredSinger writing an appendix for the Acid Rain report sound just like Sugiyama writing a chapter for the IPCC. We must need basic #TheCorporation #RegulatoryCapture education or something.
https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
@MichaelEMann @andrewdessler @rahmstorf @ZLabe @andrewfreedman -
> #電力会社 が得てもよい #電力料金 は、計画に基づいた原価に報酬率（2000年は4.4％）を上乗せした「#総括原価」と定められている。
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> 原価を恣意的に膨らませれば、電力料金も吊り上げることができるため、電力会社の利益を増やすことが可能となる。実施されている原価を膨らます方法として、過大な #電力需要見積・巨額を必要とする。
> 硬直型発電の推進政策・赤字事業の#原価繰り入れ・建設仮勘定の原価への繰り入れといったものがある。
> （ほんとに悪い奴らだ！悪知恵しか使う頭ないのか）
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tobira2002/e/88829466477ee7b1fe14a750573467f4
#田中正造 #原発 #水 #揚水ダム
#田中優 さんの
#日本の電気料金はなぜ高い
#電気料金はなぜ高い #原子力発電 #TheCorporation -
I went to learn from Minamata again today and still need to digest the more important experiences. It would have been great if we had the time and energy to visit OtomeTsuka (Maid Hill) but we didn't so we took a look at this art memorial while walking to a view of the sea and back. Brass balls might serve to represent corporate attitudes toward externalities like poisoning an ecology and killing poor people.
- https://minamata195651.jp/guide_en.html
#MinamataDisease #Chisso #TheCorporation #MethylMercury -
> ... these are not particularly hard or unusual legal questions; it's just that a lot of AI companies aren't used to any kind of legal compliance.
https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-very-short-primer-on-ai-ip-including.html?m=1
\HT @festal
#AI #AISalami #SalamiCopyright #AIandCopyright #AIandIP #TheCorporation? -
20 yrs ago
If the Corporation has the same rights as a person, is that person a psychopath? (according to DSM-IV checklist)
✔️the callous disregard for the feelings of other people
✔️the incapacity to maintain human relationships
✔️the reckless disregard for the safety of others
✔️the deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit)
✔️the incapacity to experience guilt
✔️the failure to conform to social norms and respect the law
#TheCorporation
10 Sep 2003
#movies
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@pluralistic nailed it. I'm sure he's seen the 2003 film The Corporation. IMHO this remains the most accessible piece of media exploring the corporate takeover of our economic lives (and thereby much of our political lives too), following the neoliberal coups of the 1980s.
Official filmmakers' edition can be watched or downloaded here:
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"The SVB depositors just had to whine on Twitter and make a few calls."
--- Dylan Gyauch-Lewis.> "As soon as corporations and the wealthy run into trouble, elites trip over themselves, discarding both law and precedent, to rescue them," Gyauch-Lewis wrote, noting that federal regulators had to classify SVB's collapse as a "systemic risk" to the financial system—a disputed characterization—in order to legally guarantee deposits over $250,000.
- https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaire-bailout-fdic-svb
.> For contrast, Gyauch-Lewis added, "consider student loan forgiveness. The legal justification is clear as day, and the authority itself is used regularly. According to the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, the Education Department can forgive student loans as it sees fit in a national emergency."
.> "At bottom, the core reason SVB's depositors got bailed out had little to do with morals or even financial risk," Gyauch-Lewis argued. "It happened because they had rich and powerful friends with the ear of the president's chief of staff. Broke students don't. The students have to organize and campaign for decades to get something far worse than what they wanted, and for that to hang in the balance at the Supreme Court. The SVB depositors just had to whine on Twitter and make a few calls."
#JakeJohnson on #SVB #BankBailouts #ClassBias #StudentLoans #GyauchLewis #DylanGyauchLewis on #TheCorporation #RichGuy #WhiningOnTwitter vs. #CommonDreams #PeterThiel -
> We can’t live in a world with what he calls “counterfeit people.”.. Artificial people will always have less at stake than real ones, and that makes them amoral actors, he added. “Not for metaphysical reasons but for simple, physical reasons: They are sort of immortal.”
.. We need strict liability for the technology’s creators,https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
In the profile of #EmilyMBender, #DanielDennet makes me think of #TheCorporation, #LegalPersons and then Lewis Mumford's #MegaMachine -
> .. the corporations.. have a goal for.. the population. They have to be turned into completely mindless consumers of goods that they do not want. You have to develop what are called "#CreatedWants". So you have to create wants. You have to impose on people what's called a #PhilosophyOfFutility. You have to focus them on the insignificant things of life, like fashionable consumption. I'm just basically quoting #BusinessLiterature.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/quotes/?ref_=tt_trv_qu
#NoamChomsky in #TheCorporation -
The metaphor of the golem is also a great way to explain the special class of problems caused by corporations. Unlike the psychopath, the analogy of used in the doco The Corporation, the golem is not a person, just vaguely person-shaped. It's not capable of being malicious because it's not capable of being self-aware. Humans with psychopathy can be taught to simulate empathy using their intellect, even if they can't feel it.
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#documentary #film 2005
THE CORPORATION is a #Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary examines the modern-da...