''Meet the Global Corporate “Supra-Government”

From Market Oracle
By Andrew Gavin Marshall

''In the year 2000, of the world’s 100 largest economies, 51 were corporations, while only 49 were countries, based upon national GDP (gross domestic product) and corporate sales. Of the top 200 corporations in 2000, the United States had the largest share with 82, followed by Japan at 41, Germany at 20, and France at 17.

Of the world’s 100 largest economic entities in 2010, 42% were corporations; when looking at the top 150 economic entities, 58% were corporations. The largest corporation in 2010 was Wal-Mart, the 25th largest economic entity on earth, surpassed only by the 24 largest countries in the world, but with greater revenues than the GDP of 171 countries, placing it higher on the list than Norway and Iran.''

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''A Single Intelligence Network for a New World Order''

From Strategic Culture
By Wayne Madsen

''Just as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is becoming a global military past without a distinct enemy, the Central Intelligence Agency, Britain’s MI-6, and other intelligence agencies are increasingly pooling their intelligence and networking their information-sharing networks. To what purpose would such citadels of secrecy wish to cooperate? The answer is simple. In a world of the tiny minority «haves» and the super-majority «have nots», the intelligence agencies, like national armed forces, believe there is safety in numbers. In a conflict between the minority super-wealthy and the rest of society, intelligence agencies are increasingly protecting the interests of corporations and not countries. Intelligence agencies, therefore, have decided to become a global «Panopticon» where no one can hide and no secrets are held.''

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'The Corporation'

''THE CORPORATION is a Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary examines the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behavior towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.''

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''Doctor Goes On An Epic Rant Against The Food Industry''

From Business Insider

''When Yoni Freedhoff, a doctor and professor at the University of Ottawa, was uninvited to a food industry breakfast three days before it was slated to happen, he got a little upset.

So, instead of presenting his talk to the food industry he made a video of it and posted it to his Weighty Matters blog, in which he writes about all things food and obesity. In the video he discusses "what the food industry can do to improve public health, why they're not going to do it and what we can do about it."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obesity-doctors-rant-against-the-food-industry-2012-12#ixzz2FauwStIX

''Dirty white gold: Monsanto's claim that it's a "sustainable agriculture company" doesn't hold water''

From Aljazeera

''The website of US-based biotech giant Monsanto boasts that the corporation qualifies as "a sustainable agriculture company".

Given Monsanto's legacy as a producer of the lethal defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, Southeast Asian agriculture would presumably beg to differ with this characterisation.

Sustainability is also not the first word that comes to mind when contemplating Monsanto's policy of sowing the earth with genetically modified seeds that destroy soil and are designed with nonrenewable traits so as to require constant repurchase as well as acquisition of a variety of other company products like fertilizers and pesticides.''

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''Too Big To Fail Defense Contractors''

From RT.com

Eisenhower: Beware the Military Industrial Complex. Lets add the Bankers, Energy and Health Care Complex

''Google sheltered almost $10bn in Bermuda last year''

From The Telegraph

''The accounts, seen by Bloomberg, show that Google shifted $9.8bn in revenues in 2011 into a Bermuda-based company.

The move, which is perfectly legal, meant the internet giant was able to slash its overall tax bill by almost 50pc, as the country doesn’t have a corporate income tax.

The increase in Google’s revenues routed to Bermuda, disclosed in the November 21 filing by a subsidiary in the Netherlands, could fuel the outrage spreading over corporate tax avoidance.''

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''Corporation Nation''

h/t to infocyde........a must read............From The Economic Populist

''Most Americans know corporations run the nation and long ago ceased to be good citizens. U.S. Corporations have endorsed a sociopathic stance of short term profits as their objective exclusive to all others. Profits above people is now the norm.''

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Keiser Report: 'Scum & Snooki' (E376)

From RT.com.......................''In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert peer into the British future and see a future of scum villages and royal baby Snookies as Bank of England executive, Andy Haldane, says the loss of income caused by banks is as bad as World War 2. The Artist Taxi Driver explains what austerity means to the UK. And, while admitting the nation's wealth has been lost to banker crimes, the cover up continues as Lord Stevenson, formerly of HBOS, claims it was mere incompetence that saw the bank nearly collapse. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Tim Street of UK Uncut about the protest group's successful campaigns against Starbucks and other multinationals. They also address how to stop every new tax dollar being sucked straight into the black hole of bank's fraudulent debt schemes.''

''Are corporations masquerading as governments in Australia & worldwide?''

From Hang the Bankers

''Would you be surprised to find a company with the same name as your country registered with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington DC? Well, guess what?! Among those listed as corporate entities by the United States SEC are:

Israel, Turkey, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Finland,Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, The Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Jamaica, South Africa, Canada,Australia… and my personal favourite (and I quote) “Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Alberta as represented by Alberta Investment Management Corp.”

Interesting! So what could all this mean? For the purpose of this article we will follow the example of Australia.''

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''Swiss Study Shows 147 Technocratic “Super Entities” Rule the World''

From RedIce Creations

''The Swiss Federal Institute (SFI) in Zurich released a study entitled “The Network of Global Corporate Control” that proves a small consortiums of corporations – mainly banks – run the world. A mere 147 corporations which form a “super entity” have control 40% of the world’s wealth; which is the real economy. These mega-corporations are at the center of the global economy. The banks found to be most influential include''..............read more

''How the Globalists Write The Script, And What Can Be Done to Change the Story''

From RedIce Creations

''In the movie the Matrix, Morpheus and Trinity knew that something in reality had suddenly changed when Neo experienced a deja-vu. The deja-vu resulted as a bit of the virtual world reformatted changing reality enough so a new ’reality’ presented with an advantage to the controllers.

It is interesting to pay attention to the Matrix of ‘real’ life because there are many similarities to the inspired ideas communicated in the movie of the same name. If you pay attention long enough you’ll notice some deja-vu. This ‘real’ life appears to have scripted components that when noticed change reality right before our eyes.''

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''Don’t forget the organ grinders behind these monkeys''

From NewLeft Project

''Tax theft is endemic all over the world. It is organised through an intricate system of tax havens; the PR around it is astonishingly good, as evidenced by the fact that most people have no idea of its scale and can get distracted by the misdeeds of a few bad apples rather than seeing the barrel they came in; and one of the most vibrant and important hubs – the City of London - is sitting right under the noses of the British politicians who are today decrying the corporations who use it.''

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''U.S. Share Of World GDP Has Fallen 32% Since 2001''

sucks having the reserve currency, dont it?....................From ECOMINOES

''In the best blog post I've read in months, Mark McHugh of Across the Street outlines America's economic decline--in both real terms and relative to the rest of the world--since we entered this depression over a decade ago when Greenspan's tech bubble burst. The moral of the story? Printing money doesn't lead to prosperity. On the contrary, it prolongs and exacerbates economic malaise.''

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''Robin Smith Just Economy, False Tax Havens, Wealth Distribution, Energy and Environment''

From Robin Smith

''The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What "Free Trade" Actually Means''

From Truth-Out

''To discuss “free trade agreements” or the “free market,” we must first identify the theoretical versus the functional definitions of these terms – because theoretical definitions look at what those terms should mean, whereas functional definitions look at what the terms mean actually.''

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Keiser Report: ''Insect-Like Humans'' (E374)

From RT.com......................''In this episode, Max Keiser urges "Sami don't pay," challenges the anti-anti-fragile Nassim Taleb to a black swan event and coins a new phrase, 'insectual,' to describe the increasing insect like behavior of humans online and in markets. Keiser and Stacy Herbert also discuss GATA getting attention in Austria where the central bank is haplessly looking for its alleged gold. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men about their new film, The Yes Men are Revolting and about Action Switchboard and the war against anti-corporate activism.''

''Disney, Sears and other global retailers implicated in Bangladesh factory tragedy''

From RT.com

''Major US and international retailers, including Disney and Sears, are implicated in the Bangladesh factory fire that claimed the lives of 121 people. Evidence of clothing clearly labeled with various big name brands has been found among the debris.

On Wednesday an Associated Press reporter found garments with logos of a host of brands, including Disney, Sears’ Faded Glory and French company Teddy Smith, as well as account books depicting many retailer names.

The garment factory was apparently making clothes for a range of international retailers, some of which claim they had already stopped doing business with the manufacturer.''

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Keiser Report: ''Hermaphrodite Banking'' (E373)

From RT.com....................''In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert welcome Mark Carney to the City of London freak show at which Max predicts that Carney will play the bearded hermaphrodite who devalues the pound by 25 percent and yet only manages to introduce an ice age of economic growth. Max and Stacy also compare the rebels robbing the central bank in Goma to the Goldman Sachs takeover of central banks in Europe. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to professor and author, Andrew Ross, about the 'angel capitalists' striking debt across America and about the historic Black Friday strike at Walmart.''

''CEOs Use Smokescreen of Federal Debt to Promote Corporate Tax Breaks''

From ALLGOV

''What was promoted as a plan by corporate CEOs to help pay down the federal deficit could really turn into a revenue windfall for some of the largest companies in the U.S.

The Campaign to Fix the Debt, a business group led former Bill Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyoming), recently proposed a deficit reduction plan that they contended would require CEOs to pay a higher tax rate.

After examining this proposal, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a liberal think tank, concluded that because corporations would score big if their plan was adopted by lawmakers and President Barack Obama, the CEOs would receive greater compensation despite the higher rate.

Among the provisions advocated by the Campaign to Fix the Debt is a territorial tax system, which would allow corporations to bring home overseas profits and pay little or no tax on them. In all, the savings could amount to $134 billion for the 63 publicly-held companies that have joined the Bowles-Simpson group.

The biggest winners would be General Electric ($35.7 billion), Microsoft ($19.4 billion), Merck ($15.5 billion) and Cisco Systems ($14.5 billion).''

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