The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers

This is pretty cool. There is nothing cool about child labor and bad buisness practices, except it keeps a bottle of water from costing $7. That, and they hate Catepillar for selling its products.

In Nigeria, Chevron has hired private military personnel to open fire on peaceful protestors who oppose oil extraction in the Niger Delta.

LOL

Anti-Corporate 'Corporations are easy targets. They're big, sometimes impersonal and often unbelievably irritating in their efforts to get us to buy their products. But our youth culture tells us that corporations have the power to control our lives. They don't.'

Trade Buster 'International trade will kill the third world? It is exploitation of the poor? It means an end to American labor rights? It is economic imperialism? No. Lies.'

Eco-Warrior 'The dominant thinking of current environmental policy can be characterized as 'command and control.' A network of bureaucrats, politicians and leaders of the environmental establishment dictate the management of the environment from above. Land is seized, orders worthy of a fascist policy outlook are thrown down to small business and individuals alike, and the creative interplay of science and industry are frozen for the slightest of reasons. Contrary to the claims of the environmental establishment, the deepest cut victims are usually the poorest members of society.' Are Your Politics Hurting Someone?

'But our youth culture tells us that corporations have the power to control our lives. They don't.''

Corporations, as vast interconnected market forces, probably effect us as much as the federal government does. They receive the pork in spending bills and they set the general agenda for congressional spending. If they determine what products get into your store, they affect you, if they put carcinogens into your food without telling you, they affect you, if their lobbyists strip environmental protections that poison your water and give you cancer, they affect you. There are, of course, ways around these problems but pretending that global corporations don't have any power over your life and your state and your government is ignorant.

And also implies that advertising has no effect on consumers.

Examples of such schema effects can be found in the work of Allison and Uhl (1964), who concluded that a positive brand schema made beer taste better...

'In Plachimada, Kerala, Coca-Cola extracted 1.5 million liters of deep well water, which they bottled and sold under the names Dasani and BonAqua.'

Dasani tastes like meep.

AcheronDCS: 'WERDZ culimating with: There are, of course, ways around these problems but pretending that global corporations don't have any power over your life and your state and your government is ignorant.'

Pretending that bullmeep voting and insensate purchasing habits don't have absolute power over corporations is ignorant.