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[Lordo]

Things do not get any easier.

Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988,

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

[Lordo]

How the fuck can anybody say a bad word about capitalism and the democrcy with it. FFS

Unethical human experimentation in the United States

Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States are considered unethical, because they were illegally performed or they were performed without the knowledge, consent, or informed consent of the test subjects. Such tests were performed throughout American history, but most of them were performed during the 20th century.

The experiments included the exposure of humans to many chemical and biological weapons (including infections with deadly or debilitating diseases), human radiation experiments, injections of toxic and radioactive chemicals, surgical experiments, interrogation and torture experiments, tests which involved mind-altering substances, and a wide variety of other experiments.

Many of these tests were performed on children, the sick, and mentally disabled individuals, often under the guise of "medical treatment". In many of the studies, a large portion of the subjects were poor, racial minorities, or prisoners.

[repulsewarrior]

...pity i can't read the article, i can't even link to the Guardian; a security issue, says the screen.

curious, exactly who are these 100?

https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6c ... 1499691240

[Lordo]

Now what is the world coming to if a company cannot issie a few shares to expand to do what they do best. I mean they don't get any bigger do they?
I wonder how much they pay their cleaners.

[Lordo]

...pity i can't read the article, i can't even link to the Guardian; a security issue, says the screen.

curious, exactly who are these 100?

https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6c ... 1499691240

Count Company Percentage of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions
1 China (Coal) 14.32%
2 Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) 4.50%
3 Gazprom OAO 3.91%
4 National Iranian Oil Co 2.28%
5 ExxonMobil Corp 1.98%
6 Coal India 1.87%
7 Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) 1.87%
8 Russia (Coal) 1.86%
9 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 1.67%
10 China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) 1.56%
11 BP PLC 1.53%
12 Chevron Corp 1.31%
13 Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) 1.23%
14 Abu Dhabi National Oil Co 1.20%
15 Poland Coal 1.16%
16 Peabody Energy Corp 1.15%
17 Sonatrach SPA 1.00%
18 Kuwait Petroleum Corp 1.00%
19 Total SA 0.95%
20 BHP Billiton Ltd 0.91%
21 ConocoPhillips 0.91%
22 Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) 0.77%
23 Lukoil OAO 0.75%
24 Rio Tinto 0.75%
25 Nigerian National Petroleum Corp 0.72%
26 Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) 0.69%
27 Rosneft OAO 0.65%
28 Arch Coal Inc 0.63%
29 Iraq National Oil Co 0.60%
30 Eni SPA 0.59%
31 Anglo American 0.59%
32 Surgutneftegas OAO 0.57%
33 Alpha Natural Resources Inc 0.54%
34 Qatar Petroleum Corp 0.54%
35 PT Pertamina 0.54%
36 Kazakhstan Coal 0.53%
37 Statoil ASA 0.52%
38 National Oil Corporation of Libya 0.50%
39 Consol Energy Inc 0.50%
40 Ukraine Coal 0.49%
41 RWE AG 0.47%
42 Oil & Natural Gas Corp Ltd 0.40%
43 Glencore PLC 0.38%
44 TurkmenGaz 0.36%
45 Sasol Ltd 0.35%
46 Repsol SA 0.33%
47 Anadarko Petroleum Corp 0.33%
48 Egyptian General Petroleum Corp 0.31%
49 Petroleum Development Oman LLC 0.31%
50 Czech Republic Coal 0.30%
51 China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) 0.29%
52 China National Offshore Oil Corp Ltd (CNOOC) 0.28%
53 Ecopetrol SA 0.27%
54 Singareni Collieries Company 0.27%
55 Occidental Petroleum Corp 0.26%
56 Sonangol EP 0.26%
57 Tatneft OAO 0.23%
58 North Korea Coal 0.23%
59 Bumi Resources 0.23%
60 Suncor Energy Inc 0.22%
61 Petoro AS 0.21%
62 Devon Energy Corp 0.20%
63 Natural Resource Partners LP 0.19%
64 Marathon Oil Corp 0.19%
65 Vistra Energy 0.19%
66 Encana Corp 0.18%
67 Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 0.17%
68 Hess Corp 0.16%
69 Exxaro Resources Ltd 0.16%
70 YPF SA 0.15%
71 Apache Corp 0.15%
72 Murray Coal 0.15%
73 Alliance Resource Partners LP 0.15%
74 Syrian Petroleum Co 0.15%
75 Novatek OAO 0.14%
76 NACCO Industries Inc 0.13%
77 KazMunayGas 0.13%
78 Adaro Energy PT 0.13%
79 Petroleos del Ecuador 0.12%
80 Inpex Corp 0.12%
81 Kiewit Mining Group 0.12%
82 AP Moller (Maersk) 0.11%
83 Banpu Public Co Ltd 0.11%
84 EOG Resources Inc 0.11%
85 Husky Energy Inc 0.11%
86 Kideco Jaya Agung PT 0.10%
87 Bahrain Petroleum Co (BAPCO) 0.10%
88 Westmoreland Coal Co 0.10%
89 Cloud Peak Energy Inc 0.10%
90 Chesapeake Energy Corp 0.10%
91 Drummond Co 0.09%
92 Teck Resources Ltd 0.09%
93 Turkmennebit 0.07%
94 OMV AG 0.06%
95 Noble Energy Inc 0.06%
96 Murphy Oil Corp 0.06%
97 Berau Coal Energy Tbk PT 0.06%
98 Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk PT 0.05%
99 Indika Energy Tbk PT 0.04%
100 Southwestern Energy Co 0.04%

[Lordo]

BBC is a publicly owned broadcasting corporation and this is one of the reasons i cacelled my subscription to them. They are not fit for purpose.

The corporation was widely criticised for turning to Dershowitz for reaction, despite his own links to the case.

Dershowitz, 83, has been accused of sexual abuse by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has made similar charges against Prince Andrew. Both men deny the charges.

However, when he appeared on the BBC News channel just minutes after a guilty verdict was reached in Maxwell’s trial, the Harvard professor was introduced as a “constitutional lawyer” and no reference was made to his involvement in the case or his links to Epstein.

Dershowitz then tried to discredit Ms Giuffre without being challenged by the presenter.

[repulsewarrior]

...nike, you say?

[Lordo]

Trying to get all the countries to charge tax is something that will never happen and they know it. But it looks good because it makes them look like they are doing something.

There is only one way to make these bastards to pay tax and that is to tax the turnover they get from the country. Just like personal tax for workers where tax is deducted from source before any deduction or transaction so should corporate tax be too. Otherwise what ever the government does they will find a way to avoid it. The same accountats that help government work out the laws also work for corporations to help them avoid them.

[Lordo]

Is there a corporation that actually pay their corporate taxes as they are supposed to do rather than avoid or evade them.

Market. What is it? There is two types and here is a description of them.

Free Market and Capitalism Market.
A capitalist economy and a free market economy are two types of economic systems. Often the terms are used interchangeably. But, while they have overlapping qualities, the two are not quite the same thing.

Capitalist and free-market systems do spring from the same economic soil, so to speak: the law of supply and demand, which becomes the basis to determine the price and production of goods and services.

But they refer to different things. Capitalism is focused on the creation of wealth and ownership of capital and factors of production, whereas a free market system is focused on the exchange of wealth or goods and services.

And of course another aspect is does it apply in the same way in all countries or is power concentrated on the wealthy nations. And when we talk about market in a wealthy nation, who exactly controls in the country?

[Lordo]

This goes to show that even when they have control they can be beaten at their own game but it takes a bit of effort to get ordinary people to take them on.

More interestingly why does the SEC and White House monitor the billionaires when they do the exact thing?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9196923/Reddit-group-planning-drive-American-Airlines-stock-sending-GameStop-shares-up.html