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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: Surly1 Date: December 8, 2013, 11:44 am
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Just an inspired rant, AG.
BTW, just because of the post above, I spent the morning coming
up to speed on Operation Mockingbird. I saw no indication from
anything I have read that it was ever ended.
Murrow> Jack Anderson? Really?
Apparently there were cold war battlefields we didn't even know
about.
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: December 8, 2013, 3:10 pm
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Just an inspired rant, AG.
BTW, just because of the post above, I spent the morning coming
up to speed on Operation Mockingbird. I saw no indication from
anything I have read that it was ever ended.
Murrow> Jack Anderson? Really?
Apparently there were cold war battlefields we didn't even know
about.
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Glad you liked my rant. ;D
As to Operation Mockingbird, yeah, they've got that one down to
a fine art. I think they are so jaded by their success that they
are unaware of the nearly total laughing stock the MIC
mouthpieces are to the up and coming generation. Remember that
the GOAL of manufacturing consent is to manipulate the behavior
of the masses so they will be conditioned to BELIEVE anything
you say. That is why they are so assiduous about wanting to know
about our every activity (as a check on the behavior
modification success of the propaganda mill). They THINK it is
working but IT ISN'T WORKING.
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These goons are SO impressed by their sophisticated data mining
techniques that they forget that people just don't care much
about privacy like they used to. People are posting their life
histories out there with abandon and the goons probably think it
is a gold mine of data.
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Well, they don't understand the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
as applied to human relations. Here's the deal, Surly. If I KNOW
you are watching my every move and I ALSO KNOW that I cannot
avoid you watching my every move because you control the
technology I use to be more efficient about my daily activities,
as long as I am an average Joe, after a while I cease to care.
I am the OBSERVED object. As the Heisenberg uncertainty
principle states, once the object is OBSERVED, it's behavior
changes. Hence the OBSERVER will never truly understand what
makes the OBSERVED TICK (the goal of all observer goons is
therefore frustrated).
To the average Joe, it's like going to the bathroom or not. You
undress in the bathroom and you wear clothes outside. Well, the
internet is now a giant bathroom where a thousand cameras are on
us and we all get to bask in the joys of exhibitionist behavior
(this drives the goons batty! ;D).
The average Joe/Jane has also figured out that the MIC
mouthpieces are bullshit factories for the 1%. That too drives
the goons crazy because the whole "credible source" thing they
have always relied on to con the rubes has been flipped on its
head. What's more the average Joe/Jane, now living in the
functional equivalent of a red light district with 30 con
artists arrayed along his path continuously, is forced to adopt
improved critical thinking skills or lose his shirt and have his
identity stolen too! We are ALL becoming STREET SMART to the MIC
media's dismay.
The average Joe/Jane is now like the bacteria that have adapted
[I](NOT "EVOLVED"![/I] LOL!) to all those antibiotics and become
superbugs! We are a fricking VIRUS!
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Back to Mocking the Mocking Bird Mechanism. ;D
There's a dude that had about nine wives and died recently. This
guy was king of the intelligence agencies hill. He stayed out
of the news but was a key figure in Operation Mocking Bird from
the START. He sold his media outlets to Murdoch in 1985! Nice
HAND OFF to the next "king", eh? ;)
Check John W. Kluge out for a fun story.
Here's the boilerplate PUFF PIECE:
[quote]John Kluge ranked as one of the least known but most
powerful moguls in the modern television industry in the United
States as Chairman of the Board for Metromedia International
Group.
Born in Chemnitz, Germany, in 1914 John Kluge served in U.S.
Army intelligence, 1941-45 after Immigrating to U.S. in 1922.
Kluge proved a group of independent TV stations could make
millions of dollars. His Metromedia, Inc. pioneered independent
stations operations through the 1960s and 1970s. In the
mid-1980s Rupert Murdoch offered Kluge nearly $2 billion for the
Metromedia stations, which then served as the basis for
Murdoch's FOX television network. This deal made Kluge one the
richest persons in the United States.
It was the food business that led Kluge to television. In 1951
he invested in a Baltimore, Maryland food brokerage enterprise,
increased sales dramatically, sold his majority stake in the
mid-1950s, and began to look for another industry that was
growing. He found television. In 1956 Kluge was too late to
enter network television, but saw possibilities with independent
TV stations. He assembled an investment group and purchased the
former DuMont stations. He ran Metromedia on a tight budget,
saving rent, for example, by headquartering the company across
the Hudson River from New York City, in Secaucus, New Jersey. He
seized upon the programming strategy of simply re-running old
network situation comedies and low budget movies. And Metromedia
made millions with relatively small audiences, because costs of
operation were so low.
Under his stewardship, Metromedia grew into the largest
independent television business in the United States. Thereafter
Kluge purchased assorted businesses to add to his Metromedia
empire. Over the years he acquired the Ice Capades, the Harlem
Globetrotters, music publishing companies holding such titles as
Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba the Greek, and Cabaret, television
production and syndication units, Playbill magazine, and a
highly profitable direct mail advertising division. But he did
make mistakes. One disastrous misstep was Kluge's 1960s purchase
of the niche magazine Diplomat; another came with his proposal
for a fourth TV network. Neither project succeeded, nor the
failures cost Metromedia millions of dollars.
Kluge reached his greatest successes in television by buying the
syndication rights to M*A*S*H. With this asset he finally gave
rival network affiliates a contest for ratings in the early
fringe time period. Not one to sit still, during the early 1980s
Kluge cooked up a deal to take Metromedia private. In 1984, by
structuring a $1.3 billion leveraged buyout on unusually
favorable terms, Kluge ended owning three-quarters of the new
company and pocketing $115 million in cash in the process. Now
private and in full control, Kluge did not hesitate when Rupert
Murdoch approached him with $2 billion to buy Metromedia's
television stations.
Out of TV, Kluge attended to his other businesses. Under the
Metromedia name, he began to manufacture paging devices and
mobile telephones. In managing these telecommunication ventures,
Kluge retraced the steps he took in his television career: buy a
license in a major market at an affordable price, then wait as
the market evolves, and finally cash in.
In 1995 the Actava Group Inc., Orion Pictures Corp., MCEG
Sterling Inc. and Metromedia International Telecommunications
Inc. signed an agreement to form a global communications entity
to be named Metromedia International Group Inc. Kluge already
owned a major stake in Hollywood's Orion Pictures. The new
four-part alliance merged wireless cable and Hollywood
production skills to sell all forms of mass communication to
citizens in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics.
Kluge attended Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and
earned a B.A. in economics, Columbia University, 1937
John W. Kluge passed away on September 7, 2010, and is deeply
missed by all at EWI.
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I don't have the time. I wish you would do an expose on Kluge.
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Don't worry. the CIA won't go after you. Kluge is dead and they
can deny everything you say. The new method used today is to
just get some bribed bullshit artist to write a book
counteracting every factual and solid piece of history about
some intelligence goon and make it an instant "New York Times
Best Seller". ::)
I would enjoy reading it and I'm certain you could come up with
some fascinating anecdotes about Kluge. I mean, NINE WIVES?!!!
This guy has some juicy stuff in his sordid past.
Just tracking down the "HEALTH PROBLEMS" of his ex-wives would
be most illuminating and informative...
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Billionaire Patricia Kluge to sell the contents of her home,
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: December 12, 2013, 3:12 pm
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Excellent Infographics laying out their profits over planet
piggery!
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[move]The INVESTMENT in ExxonMobil IS GIGANTIC compared with
just about everything else! THAT SAYS IT ALL!
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[b][size=18pt]May God DAMN every Lying A__HOLE that uses the
phrase, "I'm a BUSINESSMAN" to abandon all ethical conduct!
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: December 20, 2013, 7:26 pm
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Published on Monday, December 16, 2013 by Common Dreams
Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep out of the
Media >:(
by Paul Buchheit
What capitalism likes to keep quiet about itself would fill a
book... or an evening news hour. (File)
Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are
largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it
happen. Corporate heads and members of Congress seem incapable
of relating to the people that are being victimized, and the
mainstream media seems to have lost the ability to express the
views of lower-income Americans.
1. Corporations Profit from Food Stamps
It's odd to think about billion-dollar financial institutions
objecting to cuts in the SNAP program, but some of them are
administrators of the program, collecting fees from a benefit
meant for children and other needy Americans, and enjoying
subsidies of state tax money for services that could be
performed by the states themselves. They want more people on
food stamps, not less. Three corporations have cornered the
market: JP Morgan, Xerox, and eFunds Corp.
According to a JP Morgan spokesman, the food stamp program "is a
very important business to JP Morgan. It's an important business
in terms of its size and scale...The good news from JP Morgan's
perspective is the infrastructure that we built has been able to
cope with that increase in volume.."
2. Crash the Economy, Get Your Money Back. Die with a Student
Loan, Stay in Debt.
The financial industry has manipulated the bankruptcy laws to
ensure that high-risk derivatives, which devastated the market
in 2008, have FIRST CLAIM over savings deposit insurance,
pension funds, and everything else.
But the same banker-friendly "bankruptcy reform" has ensured
that college graduates keep their student loans till they die.
And sometimes even after that, as the debt is transfered to
their parents.
3. Almost 70% of Corporations Are Not Required to Pay ANY
Federal Taxes
And that's even before tax avoidance kicks in. The 'nontaxable'
designation exempts 69% of U.S. corporations from taxes, thus
sparing them the expense of hiring tax lawyers to contrive tax
avoidance strategies.
The Wall Street Journal states, "The percentage of U.S.
corporations organized as nontaxable businesses has grown from
about 24% in 1986 to about 69% as of 2008, according to the
latest-available Internal Revenue Service data. The percentage
of all firms is far higher when partnerships and sole
proprietors are included."
In recent years the businesses taking advantage of the exemption
include law firms, hedge funds, real estate partnerships,
venture capital firms, and investment banks.
4. Lotteries Pay for Corporate Tax Avoidance
This means revenue comes from the poorest residents of a
community rather than from billion-dollar corporations. Many of
the lottery players don't realize how bad the odds are. Fill out
$2 tickets for 12 hours a day for 50 years and you'll have half
a chance of winning.
Some astonishing facts reveal the extent of the problem.
Low-income households spend anywhere from five to nine percent
of their earnings on lotteries. A Pennsylvania survey found that
nearly half of low-income residents planned to **** at a
newly-opened ****. America's gambling losses in 2007 were nine
times greater than just 25 years before.
5. The National Football League Pays No Federal Taxes
One of the most profitable organizations in America, with
billions in tickets, TV rights, and merchandise sales, and with
an NFL Commissioner who earned more money than the CEOs of
Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, and AT&T, is considered a non-profit. It
has a tax-exempt status.
It gets even worse. While the individual teams themselves are
not exempt from federal taxes, they enjoy multi-million-dollar
subsidies from their states for new and refurbished stadiums.
Fans - and non-fans - of the Washington Redskins, the Cincinnati
Bengals, the Minnesota Vikings, the Seattle Seahawks, the San
Francisco 49ers, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are among those who
pay taxes for their hometown football fields. New Orleans
taxpayers paid for leather stadium seats. For the Dallas
Cowboys, a $6 million property tax bill was waived.
A Harvard University urban planning study determined that 70
percent of the capital cost of NFL stadiums has been provided by
taxpayers, rather than by NFL owners.
6. Live on Park Avenue, Get a Farm Subsidy
A disturbing but fascinating report called "Farm Subsidies and
the Big Dogs" lists Washington, DC, Chicago, and New York City,
in that order, as the worst offenders.
•In New York, "Many entities receive the federal subsidies at
their downtown office buildings, such as 30 Rockefeller Plaza,
or at their million dollar residential condos."
•In Chicago, "Nearly every neighborhood in the city receives
federal farm subsidy payments - including the Gold Coast,
Downtown-Loop, Lincoln Park, and even the President's neighbors
in Hyde Park."
•In Washington, "Even U.S. Senators are receiving farm subsidy
checks."
Perhaps more of us should become farmers. In Florida, according
to Forbes, "anyone could legally qualify their land as farmland
by stocking it with a few cows." Wealthy heir Mark Rockefeller
received $342,000 to NOT farm, to allow his Idaho land to return
to its natural state.
7. Profit Margin Magic: Turning a dollar into $100,000
Which costs the consumer more, printer ink or bottled water?
Calculations by DataGenetics reveal that the ink in a $16.99
cartridge comes to almost $3,400 per gallon. The cost of a
gallon of cartridge ink would buy enough gasoline to run the
average car for over two years.
Water seems to cost less, until the details are factored in:
we're paying for our own public water, which we've given away
almost for free, and which comes back to us in no better
condition than when it started.
For every 100,000 bottles sold, Nestle pays the proceeds from
ONE bottle to those of us (the taxpayers) who own the water.
So This Is Capitalism..
Consumer-exploiting, tax-avoiding, profit-maximizing,
responsibility-shirking, winner-take-all capitalism. An economic
system which, as Milton Friedman once believed, "distributes the
fruits of economic progress among all people."
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Alike 3.0 License.
Paul Buchheit
Paul Buchheit is a college teacher, an active member of US Uncut
Chicago, founder and developer of social justice and educational
websites (UsAgainstGreed.org, PayUpNow.org, RappingHistory.org),
and the editor and main author of "American Wars: Illusions and
Realities" (Clarity Press). He can be reached at
paul@UsAgainstGreed.org.
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Fascist Modus Operandi in Puerto Rico (it's pretty much like Fac
ism HERE!)
By: AGelbert Date: May 1, 2014, 2:10 pm
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The ONE TIME LBJ had it RIGHT!
By: AGelbert Date: May 22, 2014, 7:37 pm
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[quote][font=times new roman]In our pursuit of growth and greed
we have allowed poverty levels in America to creep back toward
where they were before his War on Poverty reduced them
appreciably. We have allowed inequality to soar to its highest
levels ever.
We have allowed the destruction of beauty and nature. We have
built an ugly America enslaved to the demands of commerce, where
strip malls and billboards line our highways and blight our
vistas, and everything we see is flooded with commercial
appeals.
We have sacrificed the leisure Aristotle thought essential to
the good life to pointless busyness, impatience, time stress,
and boredom, perpetually seeking the newest gadget or virtual
connection that might drive lack of meaning from our minds.
Moreover, the competition that greed entails has brought back
with a vengeance the scourge of racism, hidden by code words
until a redneck rancher like Cliven Bundy attempts to
rehabilitate slavery, exposing still festering wounds.
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By John de Graaf
That time Lyndon Johnson made a killer case against unbridled
growth
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity: Climate Change in Your Ce
real?
By: AGelbert Date: June 5, 2014, 7:59 pm
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Tony the Tiger: “We need to talk”
June 5, 2014 Posted by Chris Hufstader
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Walmart: Pay Up to Families of Workers Killed at Rana Plaza !
By: AGelbert Date: June 6, 2014, 8:09 pm
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Kalpona is a tireless advocate for workers in Walmart’s supply
chain.
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In 2011
and again in 2013, she traveled to Arkansas for the shareholder
meeting to lift up the concerns of workers who sew for Walmart.
Today she's at home in Dhaka, but is making sure to keep the
pressure on Walmart!
Show your solidarity with Walmart workers everywhere during our
Twitter storm today!
Here are some sample tweets:
Families of ppl killed sewing for Walmart are waiting for their
fair share walmartdeathtraps.com #EndDeathtraps #walmarteconomy
#WMTShares
#RanaPlaza victims are still waiting for Walmart to #PayUp! Sign
at walmartdeathtraps.com #walmartstrikers #walmarteconomy
#WMTShares
From the US to Bangladesh, worker solidarity!
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#EndDeathtraps
#walmartstrikers #walmarteconomy #WMTShares
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To learn more about the Pay Up campaign, watch this video in
which three Rana Plaza survivors speak out.
In solidarity,
Liana Foxvog
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: July 31, 2014, 5:45 pm
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Re: Corporate Mendacity and Duplicity
By: AGelbert Date: August 21, 2014, 9:00 pm
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Citizens United, The Movie, is NOW in full production, taking on
the issues of corporate personhood, money as speech , and more!
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We just posted another video update above, showing off Scene 2
of the CEO of Vanguard Aerospace (fictitious 2nd largest
military defense contractor) yucking it up with his PR
consultant about their two faced new ad coming on like their
corporation is "the People."
For the purpose of this clip we pick up the end of our founding
fathers scene, and their concerns about corporations acquiring
too much unchecked political power, and juxtapose that with the
latest footage shot, to make a powerful point about how
corporations have commandeered the concept of the People as
their exclusive domain.
And by leading into the faux TV spot with the contempt these
executives have for their own advertising, we are hoping that
people will do more questioning of ads of this kind when they
see them in the regular media. Indeed, our faux ad is so
faithful to the form of these kinds of things, one person
actually asked us why we were showing an ad for a real defense
contractor.
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