Comments - Wisconsin- Wow! - The Ark2024-03-29T15:12:27Zhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2426069%3ABlogPost%3A102635&xn_auth=noHmmm much less cheese present…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-03-05:2426069:Comment:1028592011-03-05T14:22:23.727Zspacemonkey1310http://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/spacemonkey
Hmmm much less cheese present than I would have expected for WI.
Hmmm much less cheese present than I would have expected for WI. You might enjoy watching 'The…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-03-02:2426069:Comment:1025122011-03-02T11:47:36.530ZMariehttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Marie
<p>You might enjoy watching 'The Corporation' a documentary film made in 2003. <em>Corporations,</em> as legal entities, are psychopaths!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.thecorporation.com/" target="_blank">http://www.thecorporation.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation</a></p>
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<p>The film makers, in cooperation with TVO (kinda like PBS), provided the film free with lesson plans to…</p>
<p>You might enjoy watching 'The Corporation' a documentary film made in 2003. <em>Corporations,</em> as legal entities, are psychopaths!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.thecorporation.com/" target="_blank">http://www.thecorporation.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation</a></p>
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<p>The film makers, in cooperation with TVO (kinda like PBS), provided the film free with lesson plans to high-school teachers upon request. </p>
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<p>Also, Naomi Kleins book 'The Shock Doctrine' is enough to make any decent person weep. Milton Friedman and the whole Chicago School of Economics... may they rot in hell!</p> Lima- "line of fire"...? lol…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-03-02:2426069:Comment:1025112011-03-02T04:15:55.746ZSydTheSkeptichttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/SydTheSkeptic
<p>Lima- "line of fire"...? lol </p>
<p>I don't see Americans as blameless, but they elect those who make empty promises, thinking they're electing someone who'll represent THEM when the reality is that they're representing the highest bidder. How are they greedy, though, more so than those on Wall St. who gambled and lost at the expense of the American public knowing full well what the risks were?</p>
<p>Lima- "line of fire"...? lol </p>
<p>I don't see Americans as blameless, but they elect those who make empty promises, thinking they're electing someone who'll represent THEM when the reality is that they're representing the highest bidder. How are they greedy, though, more so than those on Wall St. who gambled and lost at the expense of the American public knowing full well what the risks were?</p> Edit: and it has it's proble…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-03-01:2426069:Comment:1025102011-03-01T20:38:17.187Zlimahttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/lima
<div class="dic-divider" id="dic-divider_com.apple.OAWT.dict"><span>Edit: and it has it's problems & </span>asinine</div>
poop.
<div class="dic-divider" id="dic-divider_com.apple.OAWT.dict"><span>Edit: and it has it's problems & </span>asinine</div>
poop. not sure if I am walking into…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-03-01:2426069:Comment:1029192011-03-01T15:45:04.264Zlimahttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/lima
<p>not sure if I am walking into the line of fire, but are we not to blame for corporations being the way they are these days? i.e. our consumption/ greed? </p>
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<p>Now for the acquisitions aspect of big corporations small businesses, it's already a federal law to use the small business first over the corporation, however this is only mandate within federal government acquisitions (depending on the dollar amount)... and it has it problems as well, and I am sure we will see these…</p>
<p>not sure if I am walking into the line of fire, but are we not to blame for corporations being the way they are these days? i.e. our consumption/ greed? </p>
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<p>Now for the acquisitions aspect of big corporations small businesses, it's already a federal law to use the small business first over the corporation, however this is only mandate within federal government acquisitions (depending on the dollar amount)... and it has it problems as well, and I am sure we will see these problems if it becomes a requirement outside of federal spending. </p>
<p>Last year, H.Clinton gave a research program 1 million dollar grant to use, and she selected the small buisness to go with this grant. This small buisness had nothing to offer the research program... it was the most assine thing I had ever seen... So you know what they did? The small business sub contracted the work back out to corporations to get the research done.</p>
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<p>such a joke.</p>
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<p> </p> I've been a part of one union…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-02-27:2426069:Comment:1027292011-02-27T19:09:28.456ZSydTheSkeptichttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/SydTheSkeptic
<p>I've been a part of one union or another my whole working life and I've never seen them do stuff that anti-union folks say they do. I'm sure it happens (because they're administered by humans and we're fallible and easily-corrupted) but they seem to be isolated incidents that become a part of the anti-union meme. </p>
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<p>I'm enjoying my weekend, thanks to unions fighting for a 5-day work week. I feel, because of unions, there's a standard that's been set for what humane and…</p>
<p>I've been a part of one union or another my whole working life and I've never seen them do stuff that anti-union folks say they do. I'm sure it happens (because they're administered by humans and we're fallible and easily-corrupted) but they seem to be isolated incidents that become a part of the anti-union meme. </p>
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<p>I'm enjoying my weekend, thanks to unions fighting for a 5-day work week. I feel, because of unions, there's a standard that's been set for what humane and dignified work conditions are. But our pro-corporate laws have made it such that it's harder for small businesses to be able to provide that standard, and so the standard itself becomes the focus as a "problem". </p>
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<p>Meanwhile, multi-national corporations get mookoo tax breaks making it even harder for smaller businesses to compete on other levels besides providing employee benefits. What winds up happening, it seems, is that small businesses take on the same destructive role at the state level as multi-nationals take at the federal level. The way campaign-financing is set up at both levels almost ensures that once a candidate wins office, they essentially become pimps for the monied interest groups. They have to make good on their promises and that takes precedence over what the needs of citizens are, no matter what the promises were that they had to make in order to get the public on their side.</p>
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<p>Look what happened in my own state. When the governor campaigned, she focused on "transparency" and kept riding on how corrupt the current admin was. The first thing she did after winning the office was she convened a round table of lobbyists for small businesses to find out what their needs were. Sure enough, she kept it under wraps. What happened to transparency? You can see it all laid out <strong> </strong><a href="http://www.clearlynewmexico.com/?p=5593" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
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The oil and gas lobby w Can't help but see comparison…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-02-27:2426069:Comment:1027272011-02-27T18:40:03.161Zphoto2010http://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Kevin
<p>Can't help but see comparisons between U.S. demonstrations and what's going on in Egypt, Libya, etc. Except they haven't been shooting at the American protestors in Wisconsin.</p>
<p>My Dad was in the Teamsters Union. Whatever anyone thinks of unions, they always got my Dad a job when companies were firing people. He had one very bad incident happen to him on a job, but I'll save that for another blog. Great illustration above Syd, lol ;)</p>
<p>Can't help but see comparisons between U.S. demonstrations and what's going on in Egypt, Libya, etc. Except they haven't been shooting at the American protestors in Wisconsin.</p>
<p>My Dad was in the Teamsters Union. Whatever anyone thinks of unions, they always got my Dad a job when companies were firing people. He had one very bad incident happen to him on a job, but I'll save that for another blog. Great illustration above Syd, lol ;)</p> Hehe, this is how I see corpo…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-02-27:2426069:Comment:1024932011-02-27T17:21:42.905ZSydTheSkeptichttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/SydTheSkeptic
<p>Hehe, this is how I see corporate personhood:</p>
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<p>Hehe, this is how I see corporate personhood:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/coverStoryPictures2/21037.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.globalresearch.ca/coverStoryPictures2/21037.jpg"/></a></p> THIS is a really good site fo…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-02-27:2426069:Comment:1026402011-02-27T17:19:09.453ZSydTheSkeptichttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/SydTheSkeptic
<a href="http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/" target="_blank">THIS</a> is a really good site for learning about Corporate Personhood, how it's effected our health and well-being, and what's being done to fight it.
<a href="http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/" target="_blank">THIS</a> is a really good site for learning about Corporate Personhood, how it's effected our health and well-being, and what's being done to fight it. ahhh that fiery passion to ch…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2011-02-27:2426069:Comment:1027252011-02-27T17:13:05.112ZBlancheNoEhttp://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/BlancheNoE
<p>ahhh that fiery passion to change things for the better. One of the MANY reasons I love you.</p>
<p>I did see your blog at VH and yes, I agree, but I'm still miffed at all those who sat on their keisters during the mid-terms. I dragged my ass in there between violent puking intervals to vote.</p>
<p> The tech age is a double edged sword. On one hand it encourages shortening of attention spans but on the other, it allows us to communicate quickly and makes it MUCH harder for the…</p>
<p>ahhh that fiery passion to change things for the better. One of the MANY reasons I love you.</p>
<p>I did see your blog at VH and yes, I agree, but I'm still miffed at all those who sat on their keisters during the mid-terms. I dragged my ass in there between violent puking intervals to vote.</p>
<p> The tech age is a double edged sword. On one hand it encourages shortening of attention spans but on the other, it allows us to communicate quickly and makes it MUCH harder for the greed-meisters to hide their naughty behaviors. We have the tools now to work smarter. LET'S USE THEM (as Syd does) !.</p>
<p>,..and yeah, corporations as people. I haven't even been able to wrap my head around that one yet. Seriously, I just can't accept it. There MUST be a way to rescind that one. If there is REAL evil, that is a prime example of it. YES. CIVIL SUITS ,.. and one corporation, ONE vote. Everyone in a corporation is not allowed to vote. They can pick ONE person to go cast a vote and the rest of the PARTS of the PERSON are DISQUALIFIED !!! .</p>