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If you ever wondered what Corporate Organisations really think (their ideological raison d'être) then wonder no more. The graph below is yet another example of the REALITY -- as opposed to the LIES, spin and advertising – of the Corporate influence/effect on ALL our lives.
It should not be forgotten (brand it into all y/our minds) that INSENTIENT Corporations kill millions of innocent people in their proxy wars – from the German Industrialists and International Bankers that backed Hitler to Oil/Energy Corporations and Wall St Finance that dictate war policy in Central Asia and other regions of the globe today!
It is clear today that ALL western ‘democratic’ governments have been completely overwhelmed by Corporate forces – THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING by ‘virtue’ of overt and covert economic warfare (blackmail) or brazen financial lobbying/CORRUPTION.
Now here’s the GROTESQUE, inhuman, major import – Corporatists kill, maim, pollute, destabilise, destroy entire nations for ONE objective only; PROFIT -- now there’s a ‘lofty, inspired, humanist’ reason for destroying the planet and our lives!
It should also be noted -- branded into conscious -- that the OBSCENE PROFITS generated by rapacious, murdering, insentient Corporations are not evenly distributed through society; over 90 percent of profits remains in the hands of less than 1 percent of the population – that’s ‘fair,’ isn’t it?
An example of Corporate warfare on democracy has made international headlines today; in opposition to a 40 percent tax to be imposed on Transnational Mining Companies raping Australia; Transnational Corporate Cartels and Financial Giants have begun a concerted campaign via the stock market to pressure the lame Aussie Prime Minister to review his new tax policy – OUTRAGEOUS!
In the past decade mining companies alone have extracted $80 BILLION of OUR nation’s WEALTH and returned only $9 BILLION to the people – personally, I would have it the other way around.
Corporate CEOs and directors should count themselves very fortunate indeed that people have not yet taken matters into their own hands – we could only imagine the fate of these greedy, heartless, polluting, mass murdering pigs, if they did!
Today, at least, we do not have to look too far to identify the once shadowy figures that have determined the course of nations for the past 50 years. The vile, avaricious, selfish, homicidal, psychopathic, individuals that inhabit the boardrooms of ‘steel and glass towers’ are known to us all – they are the arrogant Corporate CEOs and directors of all the Transnational and mega Financial/Banking Institutions of the world. If we would save ourselves and the planet, then the following rule must apply, “the only good executive is a dead executive!” [I would add that RULE applies to all puppet politicians and those that serve Corporate interests.]
Corporatists may have trouble comprehending that the overwhelming MAJORITY of PEOPLE on this PLANET have an agenda too; PEACE and a HABITABLE PLANET on which to live!
FREEDOM is a matter of choice followed by ACTION; how could less than 1 percent of the population withstand the WILL of 99 percent of the population? WAKE UP and take your lives and nations back from the filth that has hijacked them.
If the pissweak Oz leader decides to make his fight against the Transnationals a national issue, support from the people would be a given; parasitic Corporatists may have a VERY RUDE AWAKENING. AUSTRALIA may be the first nation in the world to REGAIN ITS SOVEREIGNTY.
The chart [in the above article] was put together by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, but its figures still, alas, look quite relevant. Thanks to lobbying, Congress chooses to subsidize foods that we’re supposed to eat less of.
Of course, there are surely other reasons why burgers are cheaper than salads. These might include production costs, since harvesting apples is probably more naturally seasonal than slaughtering cows (even though both are in demand year-round). Transportation and storage costs might also play a role, as it’s probably easier to keep ground beef fresh and edible for extended periods of time, by freezing it, than cucumbers.
Whatever the cause of the pricing change, there is little doubt that many healthful foods have gotten much more expensive relative to unhealthful ones. David Leonhardt showed this in another remarkable chart, published here last year, that displays how the prices of different food groups have changed relative to their pricing 30 years ago:
You can find his commentary on this chart here. For more on the relationship between food pricing and obesity, go here.
WHEN Kevin Rudd journeyed to Perth to meet half a dozen West Australian businessmen, he had no idea it would turn into a confrontation with 30 of the nation's most powerful executives, starting with boxing gloves and ending with a bare-knuckle brawl.
As the Prime Minister prepared to attend a pre-arranged dinner at the Perth headquarters of law firm Lavan Legal, mining industry executives scrambled for a chance to discuss the new 40 per cent resources super-profits tax. They included Fortescue Metals Group's Andrew Forrest, Rio Tinto Iron Ore's Sam Walsh, BHP Billiton Iron Ore's Ian Ashby, Atlas Iron's David Flanagan and Woodside Petroleum's Don Voelte.
To start the evening, Mr Forrest, a friend of the Prime Minister, presented him with a pair of boxing gloves labelled "Fair suck of the sauce bottle mate" but that's where the humour ended.
Mining executive after mining executive lined up to tell Mr Rudd they believed he had done "irretrievable harm" to Australia and would force them to invest overseas.
After the Prime Minister cited Norway's example of higher taxes on resources, mining chiefs were left sputtering about "a virtually socialist system" and challenging Mr Rudd as to whether this was the system he wanted.
Rio Tinto's Sam Walsh said that, as an Australian, it "irked" him to have to advise his company to look for investment overseas and at projects in Canada where it wouldn't face such high tax.
Given Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty yesterday was urging his colleagues in parliament in Ottawa to promote Canada in the face of Australia's new tax, Mr Walsh was prescient.
Mr Walsh even warned Mr Rudd that Rio couldn't guarantee current production levels under the new tax, let alone expansion to new projects.
In response to Mr Rudd's arguments about the pressures of a high dollar and the impact it was having on attracting foreign students to Australia, Atlas iron chief David Flanagan said 25,000 Australian shareholders - "mum and dad punters" - had had their investment in the iron ore industry halved and "could no longer afford to retire".
When Mr Rudd pointed out that the Australian goldmining industry had "survived" the introduction of a gold tax, executives responded by saying they would survive but not expand.
"We will survive but Brazil and our other sovereign competitors will be cheering because they will expand and we will not," one executive said.
An impassioned Mr Forrest told the Prime Minister that if this proposed tax had been in place in 2006, what is now a $15 billion Australian icon, Fortescue Metals Group, "would not exist".
Mr Rudd's use of the term "super tax" was also attacked. It was described as a fib since it was just another tax on profits and not one on super profits.
After what Mr Rudd described as a "robust" meeting, the next round was adjourned to Canberra next week where Queensland resources executives hope to get their chance to be heard.
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