Walmart Admits: ‘Our Profits’ Depend on ‘Their Poverty’ Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams Although a notorious recipient of “corporate welfare,” Walmart has now admitted that their massive profits also depend on the funding of food stamps and other public assistan[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corporatism’
April 27th, 2015 - 4:26 am § in Misc.
How WE Subsidize Walmart
April 26th, 2015 - 1:34 am § in Uncategorized
Paradise lost: Chinese Maoists in North Korea Mourn Mao
In North Korea, Chinese Maoists find the land of their dreams AFTER a long drive up a narrow dirt track through hills east of Pyongyang, a North Korean tour bus dropped the Chinese tourists near a wooded graveyard. In front of it, on a concrete pedestal, stood a bronze bust of Mao Anying, the [&h[...]
April 16th, 2015 - 11:32 am § in Misc.
TPP is on its way
Reuters reports that U.S. senators have agreed to a bipartisan bill to move trade deals quickly through Congress . The key element was agreement on aid for workers hurt by trade. Fast track authority restricts Congress to a yes-or-no vote in exchange for setting negotiating objectives, laying out h[...]
March 31st, 2015 - 2:45 pm § in America
Nigeria!
Muhammadu Buhari wins Nigeria may have held its first true, fair election 55 years after Great Britain granted the Federation of Nigeria full independence as a constitutional democracy including three the country’s three quite distinct regions. What a great event! As one of my friends 50[...]
Corporate Humor
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Lawyers as Thugs: One Man’s Approach
If you’re willing to look a monster in the eyes, you just might find that he has no teeth. There are all kinds of lawyers …. civil right attorneys, lawyers hired by corporations to limit rights of employees, corporate lawyers who protect corporate rights at the expense of others who can not [...]
September 15th, 2013 - 3:48 pm § in Misc.
PRESIDENT ROMNEY: “Governments can not choose winners”
The President expressed frustration today with the commitment of China to buy the US biotech industry and move it to China. His frustration arose after the Chinese government announced that it aims to double the share of GDP that the sector’s value-added output accounts for by 2015 from th[...]
China: End of the Monroe Doctrine
In ten years we will celebrate the bicentennial of the Monroe Doctrine. When Monroe signed the Doctrine on this day in 1823, the imperial world was a lot like today’s imperium. The major European powers were dividing up the world using trading companies backed up by their military. Monroe [...]
Nigeria and CNN
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF CNN Last night my wife Barbara wanted to watch Obama’s comedy routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The schedule said the president was to speak about 9 PM. So we tuned in around 8:30. Of course all of this was Pacific Coast time, so somewhere in the m[...]