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alright /pol/ lets name some legitimately evil or extremely Jewish corporations, libertarian loafer-lickers need not apply
let's start with an easy one
>artificially increased the mortality rate in a third world country by making the baby dependent on baby formula long enough for the mother to 'dry up', afterwards sold it to them, and then left them to die when the mothers didn't have access to water or couldn't afford it
>chair person said free access to water isn't a right, but backtracked because of controversy
>convinced the World Water Council to change its statement so as to reduce access to drinking water from a "right" to a "need."
>tried to get ethiopia to pay them back 6 million during a famine and only stopped because of complaints
>uses child labor then gets the Cali district Courts to not hold them liable for breaking international law
>only agreed to not use West african Child labor after they've been caught by the media
>fixed prices along with other companies
>used vast amounts of water from San Bernardino California during a drought
>tried to sell publicly available water from Oregon at over %1000 the price they acquired it
feel free to contribute if you want
>>70491605
germany is one
they treat their employees like shit
>>70491605
ill dump some from the last time we had this thread
>literally responsible for water shortages all around the world and the US
>sells marked up filtered tap water ie Dasani
>experimented on animals, but more specifically cut into a monkey's face to test the nerve's reaction to sweet taste
>funded the apartheid because it's profitable
>assisted and helped fund paramiltary groups to try to take out unions
>>70491727
>mistreating workers on its Central American plantations, polluting the environment, allowing cocaine to be brought to Borneo on its ships, bribing foreign officials, evading foreign nations' laws on land ownership, forcibly preventing its workers from unionizing, and a host of other misdeeds
>carelessly exposed laborers at the Coyol plantation in Costa Rica to highly toxic pesticides on multiple occasions and ignored complaints for years
>On March 14, 2007, Chiquita Brands was fined $25 million as part of a settlement with the United States Justice Department for having ties to Colombian paramilitary groups. According to court documents, between 1997 and 2004, officers of a Chiquita subsidiary paid approximately $1.7 million to the right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), in exchange for local employee protection in Colombia's volatile banana harvesting zone. Similar payments were also made to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), as well as the National Liberation Army (ELN) from 1989 to 1997, both left-wing organizations. All three of these groups are on the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Chiquita sued to prevent the United States government from releasing files about their illegal payments to Colombian left-wing guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups.
>caused a "golpe de estado" in some Latin American country that toppled into a dictatorship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
>>70491923
>In 1984 they sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money.
Bayer's CEO when they had created a cancer drug that was extremely expensive and refused to let India replicate it at a cheaper price, because it originally costs over 60K
> “Is this going to have a big effect on our business model? No, because we did not develop this product for the Indian market, let’s be honest. We developed this product for Western patients who can afford this product, quite honestly."
>>70492002
>created a monopoly in several developing worlds, controlling crops world wide by using artificial growth hormones which put a lot of small farmers out of business
did this in Brazil, argentina, China, India and others
>Michael R. Taylor, a former Monsanto Vice President for Public Policy is now the current Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration
this isn't actually evil but it's fucked up
as is this
>spent over 6 million on lobbying
>is in bed with countless senators and governors
>is part of the BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization which spent over 16 million on lobbying
>tried getting the Farmers assurance provision to include this: "authorizing the USDA to grant "temporary" permission for GMO crops to be planted, even if a judge has ruled that such crops were not properly approved, only while the necessary environmental reviews are completed. That's an authority that the USDA has, in fact, already exercised in the past" and only removed it out of controversy
>rose the glyphosate levels 200 times to 20 milligrams per 1 kilogram of soya in the UK, it was later found out that Stanley Greenburg was working with Monsanto even though he was an election advisor to Tony Blair
>Drew a number of Indian farmers to suicide because they were in debt to them because the seeds they sold to them were too high and then refused when the government told them to lower it
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>>70492107
>several US diplomats who worked directly for Monsanto approve Spain to grow MON810 which is a Monsanto grown GMO
>US monsanto lobbiers along with Spain got France not to ban any GMO, and they pursuaded the EU not to increase biotechnology laws
>In 1994 Monsanto began to produce a recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) branded Posilac. The administration of rBST increases the milk yield in lactating cows. From 2000 to 2005 the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) survey of dairy producers found that about 17% of producers used rBST. Milk from rBST-treated cows is not chemically identical to traditional milk; milk from rBST-treated cows contains slightly elevated levels of certain hormones. Cows treated with rBST have a substantially higher rate of mastitis, the inflammation of breast tissue, and more often require antibiotics.
I still think this company's the worst one
>made people in chinese sweatshops make necklaces out of cadmium and then when it came out that long-term exposure to cadmium can lead to bone softening and kidney failure. It is also a known carcinogen, and research suggests that it can affect brain development in the very young. they took it off the shelves 3 months later
>forced out small businesses using predatory pricing
that's been obvious for years though, but not this
>the retailer pressured suppliers to sell goods below cost or at prices significantly less than those available to other stores in Mexico
>forced Kraft foods and other companies into closing a lot of their production to meet their low costs and high demands
>The activist group Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) said "in 2006 Walmart reports that full-time hourly associates received, on average, $10.11 an hour." LAANE further calculated that working 34 hours per week a Walmart employee earns $17,874 per year which is roughly twenty percent less than the average retail worker, this pay is "over $10,000 less than what the average two-person family needs" Walmart insists its wages are generally in line with the current local market in retail labor.
Walmart Founder, Sam Walton said
>"I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/secrets/inside.html
>In August 2006, Walmart announced that it would pay out an average pay increase of 6% for all new hires at 1,200 U.S. Walmart and Sam's Club locations, but at the same time would institute pay caps on veteran workers
>Walmart agreed to pay at least $352 million to settle lawsuits claiming that it forced employees to work off the clock
>artificially increases the amount of welfare recipiants by only allowing people to work part time
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>>70492280
>a 2005 class action lawsuit in Missouri asserted approximately 160,000 to 200,000 people who were forced to work off-the-clock, were denied overtime pay, or were not allowed to take rest and lunch breaks
>In 2000, Walmart paid $50 million to settle a class-action suit that asserted that 69,000 current and former Walmart employees in Colorado had been forced to work off-the-clock
>A 2004 report by Democratic U.S. Representative George Miller alleged that in ten percent of Walmart's stores, nighttime employees were locked inside, holding them prisoner. There has been some concern that Walmart's policy of locking its nighttime employees in the building has been implicated in a longer response time to dealing with various employee emergencies, or weather conditions such as hurricanes in Florida. Walmart said this policy was to protect the workers and the store's contents in high-crime areas and acknowledges that some employees were inconvenienced in some instances for up to an hour as they had trouble locating a manager with the key. However, fire officials confirm that at no time were fire exits locked or employees blocked from escape
>In January 2004, The New York Times reported on an internal Walmart audit, conducted in July 2000, which examined one week's time-clock records for roughly 25,000 employees. According to the Times, the audit, "pointed to extensive violations of child-labor laws and state regulations requiring time for breaks and meals," including 1,371 instances of minors working too late, during school hours, or for too many hours in a day. There were 60,767 missed breaks and 15,705 lost meal times
still going
>>70492341
On Oct 2003, feds raided 61 Walmart stores in 21 U.S. states in a crackdown, aka "Operation Rollback", resulting in the arrests of 250 undocumented nightshift janitors. After the arrests, a grand jury convened to consider charging Walmart executives with labor racketeering crimes for knowingly allowing undocumented workers to work at their stores The workers themselves were employed by agencies Walmart contracted with for cleaning services. Walmart blamed the contractors, but federal investigators point to wiretapped conversations showing that executives knew some workers did not have the correct documentation
>As of October 2005, Walmart's health insurance covered 44% or approximately 572,000 of its 1.3 million U.S. workers
>In 2003 Walmart spent an average of $3,500 per employee for health care, 27% less than the retailer average of $4,800
>On October 26, 2005, an internal memo sent to the firm's Board of Directors advised trimming over $1 billion in health care by 2011 through measures such as attracting a younger, implicitly healthier work force by offering education benefits
>In April 2012, The New York Times published a story that uncovered hundreds of suspect payments to Mexican officials, totaling more than $24 million
>Wal-Mart received hundreds of internal reports of bribery and fraud every year. In Asia alone, there had been 90 reports of bribery in the previous 18 months.
>Since the spring of 2011, Wal-Mart spent over $35 million and hired more than 300 outside lawyers, accountants, and investigators to deal with bribery issues
>multinational corporations, including walmart have put pressure on the Bangladeshi government not to increase wages or impose safety conditions—because that would raise the prices for foreign buyers
>walmart plant in bangledash was caught on fire back in november 2012, and it turns out there weren't any fire exits or any safety precautions made whatsoever, and the company denied involvement and ended it shortly after
now on drugs
>In the area of product safety, A Pfizer’s scandal involved defective heart valves sold by its Shiley subsidiary that led to the deaths of more than 100 people. During the investigation of the matter, information came to light suggesting that the company had deliberately misled regulators about the hazards. Pfizer also inherited safety and other legal controversies through its big acquisitions, including a class action suit over Warner-Lambert’s Rezulin diabetes medication, a big settlement over PCB dumping by Pharmacia, and thousands of lawsuits brought by users of Wyeth’s diet drugs.
>In 1986, as the death toll reached 125, Pfizer ended production of all models of the valves.
>In 2004 Pfizer announced that it had reached a $60 million settlement of a class-action suit brought by users of Rezulin, a diabetes medication developed by Warner-Lambert, which had withdrawn it from the market shortly before the company was acquired by Pfizer in 2000. The withdrawal came after scores of patients died from acute liver failure said to be caused by the drug.
>In 1958 it was one of six drug companies accused by the Federal Trade Commission of fixing prices on antibiotics. The company was also charged with making false statements to the U.S. Patent Office to obtain a patent on tetracycline.
>In 1961 the Justice Department filed criminal antitrust charges against Pfizer, American Cyanamid, Bristol-Myers and top executives of the three companies. Two years later, the FTC ruled that the six companies named in its 1958 complaint had indeed conspired to fix prices on tetracycline
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>>70492493
>During one week in June Pfizer
1) agreed to pull its 10-year-old leukemia drug Mylotarg from the market because it caused more, not less patient deaths
2) Suspended pediatric trials of Geodon two months after the FDA said children were being overdosed
3) Suspended trials of tanezumab, an osteoarthritis pain drug, because patients got worse not better, some needing joint replacements
4) Was investigated by the House for off-label marketing of kidney transplant drug Rapamune and targeting African-Americans
5) Saw a researcher who helped established its Bextra, Celebrex and Lyrica as effective pain meds, Scott S Reuben, MD, trotted off to prison for research fraud
6) was sued by Blue Cross Blue Shield to recoup money it overpaid for Bextra and other drugs
7) received a letter from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) requesting its whistleblower policy and
8) had its appeal to end lawsuits by Nigerian families who accuse it of illegal trials of the antibiotic Trovan in which 11 children died, rejected by the Supreme Court
>According to the Center for Public Integrity, Altria(previously named phillip morris international) spent around $101 million on lobbying the United States government between 1998 and 2004, making it the second most active organization in the nation
>Hellish Work released by Human Rights Watch has revealed 72 cases of children as young as 10 working 12-hour days in Kazakhstan tobacco fields for Philip Morris International. Those handling tobacco leaves can absorb as much nicotine daily as they would get by smoking 36 cigarettes a staggering dose for children.
>Its 115-page report Hellish Work documents how some employers confiscated migrant tobacco workers’ passports, failed to provide them with written contracts, did not pay regular wages, cheated them of earnings, and required them to work excessively long hours. Some employers also failed to provide migrant workers with potable water, adequate hand-washing and other sanitary facilities, or adequate living conditions.
>employers confiscated migrant workers’ passports and in some cases required them to perform other work without pay or compensation in addition to tobacco farming.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2010/07/14/hellish-work/exploitation-migrant-tobacco-workers-kazakhstan
Now onto mining
>in the 1970s, when Rio Tinto was discovered to have been running illegal uranium mines in Nambia, and using the profits to support the apartheid government in South Africa—in return, the government allowed Rio Tinto to keep operating in the area.
>Additionally, Rio Tinto maintained its own private mercenary army to keep blacks from rising up against them and the government. Oh and also, the uranium mines used “brutal slave labor,” in the words of the United Nations Council that dealt with the matter.
>In 1981, one of their Canadian uranium mines had been exposing workers for years to radiation levels more than seven times the legal limit
>In Indonesia, they have tortured and killed opponents of their gold mines
>in 2000, an ex-security guard at their gold mine in Brazil revealed that security workers were urged to use violence to keep the miners complacent.
>open-cast mining, operations in Spain befouled the air by heating ore on site to burn off the sulfur. The heavy smoke damaged vegetation, crops, and the health of local residents. The company's contended that these effects were unavoidable side effects of progress.
>In 2012 Rio Tinto locked out aluminum workers at its operations in the southern Quebec town of Alma for six months before backing down in a dispute over outsourcing.
>Rio Tinto was also accused of cooperating with the military in nearby Indonesia to suppress opposition to its PT Kelian operation in Kalimantan (now closed) and its Grasberg joint venture operation in the area now known as West Papua
Now cement companies
>in 1987 you have James Hardie, an Australian manufacturing company, continuing to operate asbestos factories across Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia even though he was aware of the risks of mesothelioma
>James Hardie would work with companies who dealt with asbestos, and when controversy or any corporate pressure started, he would cut ties with the subsidiary and deny involvement
Now let's onto PORK
>Smithfield pigs are raised in barns that hold thousands of tightly packed hogs. The floors of these barns have slits that allow waste to fall through into a series of pipes that takes it to massive open-air holding ponds.
>The pigs are injected with a cocktail of antibiotics, sprayed with insecticides, and dozens of chemicals that all end up in the holding ponds that are so toxic that if somebody falls in, they’ll be dead instantly
>they then spray the pigs waste in the air, making it someone else's problem. A problem filled with hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, methane, and over a hundred other toxic gases that gave people in the surrounding areas conditions like bronchitis, asthma, and neurological damage.
>female pigs endure constant cycles of forced pregnancy. Newborn piglets are taken from their mothers after just a few weeks. They have their teeth clipped in half, their tails cut off, and their ears mutilated, and the males have their testicles ripped out—all without any painkillers.
>Smithfield manipulates pigs’ genetics to make them grow more flesh than they naturally would, which causes many pigs to suffer painful joint problems. Smithfield also feeds animals large amounts of antibiotics to keep them alive in the filthy factory-farm conditions. Yet many animals die before they are fully grown (Smithfield sees it as just a cost of doing business).
>The survivors are often too sick to stand when they are forced onto the backs of trucks (often by being beaten and shocked with electric prods) and shipped to slaughterhouses through all weather extremes without food or water.
>these terrified pigs—weakened from their long, frightening journey—are hung upside down and have their throats cut, sometimes while they are still conscious.
>In 2006, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Smithfield was illegally firing, threatening, and even beating workers who asked for better working conditions and a small wage increase
sources coming
This thread's interesting, keep it up.
>>70492925
>the river of pigs waste and blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayGJ1YSfDXs
>the rest
http://www.peta.org/features/smithfield/
http://www.upworthy.com/a-drone-flew-over-a-pig-farm-to-discover-its-not-really-a-farm-its-something-much-more-disturbing
http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2010/12/smithfield_pigs_121510.html
>>70492940
i was just dumping from the last thread i'll find some more
>>70492674
More mining
http://www.treatyrepublic.net/content/malcolm-fraser-joins-fight-save-ancient-pilbara-rock-art
No Newscorp?
on FURNITURE
>has demolished historic buildings, in one instance for more parking space
>During the 1980s, Ikea kept its costs down by using production facilities in East Germany. A portion of the workforce at those factories consisted of political prisoners. This fact resulted from intermingling of criminals and political dissidents in the state-owned production facilities Ikea contracted with, a practice which was generally known in West Germany.
>>70493567
you are free to contribute
ONTO MASS MEDIA KIKES
>Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians and members of the British Royal Family.
>Private investigators who were illegally providing information to the News of the World were also engaged in a variety of other illegal activities. Between 1999 and 2003, several were convicted for crimes including drug distribution, the theft of drugs, child pornography, planting evidence, corruption, and perverting the course of justice.
>Jonathan Rees and his partner Sid Fillery, a former police officer, were also under suspicion for the murder of a private investigator named Daniel Morgan. The Met undertook an investigation of Rees, entitled Operation Nigeria, and tapped his telephone. Substantial evidence was accumulated that Rees was purchasing information from improper sources and that, amongst others, Alex Marunchak of the News of the World was paying him up to £150,000 a year for doing so. Jonathan Rees reportedly bought information from former and serving police officers, Customs officers, a VAT inspector, bank employees, burglars, and from blaggers who would telephone the Inland Revenue, the DVLA, banks and phone companies, and deceive them into releasing confidential information
The Operation Nigeria bugging ended in September 1999 and Rees was arrested when he was heard planning to plant drugs on a woman so that her husband could win custody of their child
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Samsung australia.
knowingly sold washingmachines that combust, leading to secondd highest rate of product house fires. Pulled product after multiple callers voiced same situation to Aussie radio talk show.
why this it is not widely known.
Samsung use a messging system called
Mysingle, which autodeletes all conversations.
Emails are done in system and auto delete after 30 days.
Isp is an american isp for the australia subsidiary!
what is proven. Samsung executives pay bribe money for oil related deals.
what is proven. Samsung does not play in the spirit of fair taxation by structuring itself with a singapore head office in Australia.
what is proven. Reports of inkury or damage to Samsung result in customers being made offers to be quiet/'happy' on agreement of signing an NDA.
Too drunk to contribute, but sober enough to bump.
Keep on friend.
>>70494249
>one of its subsidiaries is caught using checkbook journalism, or attempting to buy stories, typically concerning private affairs and relationships, of people closely involved with figures of public interest such as politicians, celebrities and high-profile criminals
>With this intention, the paper on occasion paid key witnesses in criminal trials such as the 1966 Moors murders case, and the 1999 trial of Gary Glitter on charges of assaulting an underage teenage fan.
>began a name and shame campaign against pedos where people were falsely targeted which included several cases of mistaken identity, including one instance where a paediatrician had her house vandalized and another where a man was confronted because he had a neck brace similar to one a paedophile was wearing when pictured
>In 2002, Mazher Mahmood, undercover reporter working for the News of the World, aka the Fake Sheikh, allegedly exposed a plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham. Five men were arrested but the trial later collapsed when it emerged News of the World had paid its main witness Florim Gashi £10,000 to work with Mazher Mahmood. Florim Gashi later admitted working with Mahmood to set up the kidnap plot. This led to an investigation by Scotland Yard on News of the World called Operation Canopus
>has tons of libel indictments made against itself
>>70491605
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17615143/ns/business-us_business/t/chiquita-admits-paying-colombia-terrorists/
Chiquita funded terrorism to make sure they can give Americans cheap, tasteless bananas. Innocent people died for this reason.
Anyone got anything on Amazon? I do most of my shopping from there, and most groceries come from Kroger.
>>70491605
Is your house completely empty, ya fucking edgelord? Isn't it sad to come home after a Bernie rally to a dwelling devoid of food and furniture?
>>70495056
I got you famalam
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/amazon-devastating-expose-accuses-internet-retailer-of-oppressive-and-callous-attitude-to-staff-10458159.html
>>70491605
>>used vast amounts of water from San Bernardino California during a drought
Objectively false.
>bought coffee beans for 26 dollars a pound
>only 1 dollar goes to the farmers themselves
>the ethiopian government tried to trademark the beans
>starbucks along with the National Coffee Association denied them the right to.
>drives out small businesses by buying premium real estate within small vincinities of each other, or "saturating the market". For example, Starbucks fueled its initial expansion into the UK market with a buyout of Seattle Coffee Company, but then used its capital and influence to obtain prime locations, some of which operated at a financial loss
Bumpety bumpety bump bump bump.
>>70495443
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nestle-water-lawsuit-20151013-story.html
my bad they were stealing it technically
>these are the demons it breeds
>people still defend capitalism
>in 1989 Disney forced three daycare centers to remove a mural of mickey goofy and donald as a copyright claim
>In March-November 2000, the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (CIC) investigated working conditions in 12 Disney contract factories in Guangdong province in southern China. Six were toy factories, two garment, three accessory, and one watch factory. Some are regular suppliers to Disney, and some are seasonal suppliers. All were producing for Disney during the investigation period. Most of the products manufactured in the factories were for export to North America and Europe. The CIC interviewed five to 15 workers from each factory.
>The vast majority of workers in the 12 factories are young, single, female, migrant workers from rural areas in inland provinces. Most are between the ages of 18 and 30, though some are as young as 16.
>violations include: excessively long hours of work, poverty wages, unreasonable fines, workplace hazards, poor food, and dangerously overcrowded dormitories.
>workers who had been exposed to the code and/or interviewed by monitors were often subjected to threats and intimidation to falsify work records or answer monitors' questions "properly" according to management-prepared scripts.
>>70495292
I read that article in full, and found nothing wrong with what they were doing.
Thanks, buddy. I'll continue ordering from them.
>>70492107
MONSANTO FUCKING SHITS
>Allegations of poor working conditions have been made on several occasions. News reports highlight the long working hours, discrimination against mainland Chinese workers by their Taiwanese co-workers, and lack of working relationships at the company. Although Foxconn was found to be compliant in the majority of areas when Apple Inc. audited the maker of its iPods and iPhones in 2007 the audit did substantiate a few of the allegations. Despite the suicide crisis which took place from January to May 2010, Steve Jobs defended Foxconn in June 2010 as being "pretty nice" and "not a sweatshop"
>In October 2012, the company admitted that 14-year-old children had worked for a short time at a facility in Yantai, Shandong Province
>Suicides among Foxconn workers have attracted media attention. One was the high-profile death of a worker after the loss of a prototype and the other, a series of suicides linked to low pay in 2010. Suicides of Foxconn workers continued into 2012, with one in June 2012.
>Sun Danyong, a 25-year-old man, committed suicide in July 2009 after reporting the loss of an iPhone 4[86] prototype in his possession.
In reaction to a spate of worker suicides in which 14 people died in 2010, a report from 20 Chinese universities described Foxconn factories as labor camps and detailed widespread worker abuse and illegal overtime. In response, Foxconn installed suicide-prevention netting at the base of buildings in some facilities, and it promised to offer substantially higher wages at its Shenzhen production bases. Workers were also forced to sign a legally binding document guaranteeing they and their descendants would not sue the company as a result of unexpected death, self-injury or suicide.
>netting outside buildings to prevent suicides
i dont care to know if Steve Jobs is jewish, he's a fucking kike
>Workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor under harsh conditions, according to employees inside the Foxconn plants. According to company reports and advocacy, Apple's suppliers in China have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records
>Forty-nine young men and women were poisoned at the Lianjian Technology factory in Suzhou Industrial Park by the toxic chemical hexane, used to wipe clean the iPad display screens and speed up efficiency.
>To save money, the factory did not provide proper ventilation during the cleaning process, and workers developed neurological problems, the loss of motor function, numb limbs, and complained of constantly fainting and being overcome by a debilitating fatigue. Some of these sick workers were eventually bought off with a lump payment of 8,000 or 9,000 yuan (US$1,200–$1,400), but only after signing an agreement stating they would not bring claims against Apple or its supplier companies in the future
>An explosion in May 2011 at a Foxconn iPad factory in Chengdu, China, killed four people and injured 18. Employees worked excessive overtime—in some cases, seven days a week—and lived in crowded dorms. Some said they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk
>both Apple and Foxconn rely on Chinese workers to perform 12-hour working days to meet demand, the costs of Chinese labor in processing and assembly are insignificant in the overall commercial success of Apple
>pioneer of the taxing tactic in the late 80's "Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich", which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean
>in 2013 Tim Cook defended these techniques at a Senate hearing
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What can you do, OP?
Its what the people want.
Where's the bad stuff, you retarded nigger? Nestle institutionalizing indirect birth control in failed third world states is doing God's work
>waah corporayshuns experiment on muh innocent animals
They wouldn't have to do this if they could test products on subhumans like OP, but no, we have faggy ethics laws preventing them to do so.
>waah evil corporayshuns sell products poo in loos can't afford
>waah some poo in loo farmers died becuz of corporayshuns
>waah muh poor nigger miners forced to die because of evil corporayshuns and apartheid
>waah dey come for our workers union
Top kek. Kill yourself pinko retard.
>>70497310
> in 2008, Apple repair centers began to refuse to honor warranties of its products which had been used in an environment it deemed hazardous, i.e., that had been used around someone who smokes
in 2009, Apple refused to honor its warranty and replace a defective battery on a machine that had a small amount of unrelated cosmetic damage that did not affect the machine's functionality, nor that of its battery
>Apple fails to update its products with security updates in a timely fashion. An example of this was a security flaw in Sun Microsystems's Java, which Sun fixed promptly, while Apple took more than five months to distribute the fix. That is much longer than other companies, and drew sharp criticism from experts and journalists.A recent example is a malware product called MacDefender, MacProtector, MacSecurity, or MacGuard, which is an application that can be installed in OS X by the user; ZDNet's Microsoft Blogger Ed Bott estimates that it has been installed by 60,000 to 120,000 Mac customers who thought it was legitimate anti-virus software
>>70497395
are you jewish?
>>70497326
let people be redpilled about corporations and see that they're not people and shouldn't ever be treated as such
>>70497831
I'm not.
>>70497890
thats a left wing position, not a right one.
>>70497395
>shilling for the devil
>>70497998
redpill=/=right wing. Companies pull shady shit all the time
Who cares if these companies do this to some fucking third world shit skins? Non whites exist for the sole purpose of furthering the goals of the white man. They're animals to be used to our advantage.
>>70498288
of course it does.
red pill = republican
blue pill = democrat
can't you in2 color theory?
leftist started the whole "evil corporations" meme, its long been thought of as being part of the "radical left".
The democrats are really just republicans in disguise.
Hah, thats kind of catchy, like the transformers theme.
>>70498687
the left: um, jeez, maybe we shouldn't be raping babies buttholes!
the right: quiet you commie!
the left: not in the face!
the right: you'll do what yer told!
PRISONS
>In 2013, CCA confirmed that an internal review showed the corporation had falsified records involving about 4,800 employee hours over a period of seven months in the Idaho state prison it operated.[45] In 2014 a subsequent KPMG audit showed the actual overbilling was for over 26,000 hours. Governor Butch Otter ordered Idaho State Police to investigate to see if criminal charges should be brought. Otter had received a total of $20,000 in campaign contributions from employees of the company since 2003
>Responding to an inmate's death in 2006 at CCA's immigration jail in Eloy, Arizona, government investigators found the medical care provided meant that "detainee welfare is in jeopardy".
>CCA has been criticized for hiring "revolving door" executives from agencies with which it has contracted. Harley Lappin and J. Michael Quinlan, former directors of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, were hired soon after resignations from BOP following a scandal
>CCA's Eloy jail had nine known fatalities – more than any other immigration jail under contract to the federal government
>CCA spent $17.4 million lobbying the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Office of Management and Budget, the Bureau of Prisons, both houses of Congress, and others between 2002 and 2012. This sum included $1.9 million in campaign contributions
>spent more than $2.7 million from 2006 through September 2008 on lobbying for stricter laws, in order to generate prisoners
>At the federal level, the corporation's lobbying focuses largely on immigrant detention. In 2012, CCA spent $1,790,000 lobbying Congress and federal bureaucracies on issues relating to homeland security, law enforcement, immigrant detention, and information disclosure legislation
>>70498687
>leftist started the whole "evil corporations" meme
just because you dont like leftists doesn't mean it's not true to an extent
>>70498457
thank you for shitposting here is a comic
>>70498997
I'm not shitposting seriously why do you guys care about some dirty yellow chinaman and niggers?
You could kill 'em all, and they would all be back and up and running again within a week.
Let's not forget that they are pumping millions of gallons of water out of the great lakes for free while Flint, MI is still without clean drinking water.
http://usuncut.com/class-war/nestle-pumping-from-great-lakes-while-flint-pays-for-poison/
>>70499046
because im not a cunt and if they'd do it to some foreigner who's to say they wont do it to us
What exactly do you want to do, OP?
I know how to make dynamite.
I own a gun.
But I'm also fat and lazy and have a hard time caring about people who won't fight for themselves.
>>70499124
Because we're not fucking Cucks who take it up the ass we're the conquerors. Our culture is replacing the culture of every country in the world
Hill and Knowlton Strategies.
1.LITERALLY started the first Gulf War
2.Worked for the Church of Scientology
3.Worked for the Tobacco Lobby
4.Currently work for ANGA on whitewashing fracking
5.Work for shitty governments trying not to look shitty
6.Work for pretty much anyone with lots of money and zero morals
You hear it all the time.
Waaahhh, people are dying from fracking, infants are dying from gas inhalation. Yet those same people go to the wall to defend it cause, "Muh Jerb!"
Those fracking wells are just sitting there, ungaurded, with nobody around for miles. Any idiot with a pick up truck and a few road flares could light one up, but they just sit around like a bunch of mushroom people.
>>70499279
>we're the conquerors. Our culture is replacing the culture of every country in the world
america's culture, not yours. and if it wasn't for putting businesses in check we wouldn't have the seatbelt mandatory put in every car
>>70499521
What's your culture? Broke back mountain, fucking niggers and getting your dick cut? That's only spread to Germany and Sweden.
They place all this faith in the legal system and the government to fix all their problems, when they are the ones who are doing it to them in the first place.
How am I supposed to give a shit about these people if they don't give a shit about themselves?
>>70499585
whats canadian culture besides snownigger version of american things and hockey.
>>70499124
>if they'd do it to some foreigner who's to say they wont do it to us
>comparing yourself to a sewer dwelling low life shitskin who have magical thinking and is happy he gets those two bucks a day to buy "food" that looks worse than you could found in your own trash bin
>>70499780
*find
>>70491605
Chic Fil A
>>70499279
really? i don't remember canada having such imperialistic attitudes.
You want to fight, then fight, nigga!
Tell me your plan, get in the van. We'll rock this joint.
>>70491727
>funded the apartheid
>as if it is bad
Have I accidentally walked to reddit instead of /pol/?
Cerberus is a big one... They have their hand in a bunch of different industries including healthcare.
Here in Boston they own several Hospitals that are evil and about nothing but profit
Bankrupted GM too
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=11015
>>70496743
Holy fucking shit these were the net jumpers... i thought it was just common practice?
basically all of them
>They’ve been known to accept bribes.
>FIFA’s top officials were arrested at a hotel in Switzerland on suspicion of receiving bribes totalling $100m
>The US Department of Justice stated that nine Fifa officials and four executives of sports management companies were arrested and accused of over $150m in bribes
>In another 2015 case, Singapore also imposed a 6-year "harshest sentence ever received for match-fixing” on match-fixer Eric Ding who had bribed three Lebanese FIFA football officials with prostitutes as an inducement to fix future matches that they would officiate, as well as perverting the course of justice
>They have billions of dollars in reserve even though they’re supposed to be a non-profit organization.
>cash reserves of over 1.4 billion U.S. dollars to be exact
>They’ve managed to lobby governments to change laws to benefit their cause (the lifting of the alcohol ban in stadiums in Brazil for example.
>>70499727
Basketball, football, hockey, baseball all sports we invented that you stole from us because you were desperate for a culture of your own.
>>70500078
How many girls around the world want a strapping canadian lumberjack? When they imagine an American guy they imagine some 200 pound regular at mcdonalds. Every woman wants to be filled with the Canadian seed
on the subject of newscorp, add election rigging.
newscorp rigged the australian election to force tony abbott in with constant fearmongering about the boats coming in.
tony then increased legal immigration.
we also got a nbn that was 75% slower but is now proving to cost even more than the original plan.
we also have to pay telstra to maintain the copper instead of having fibre optic which would have been expensive in the short term but came without the bullshit maintinance costs.
it was obvious fucking collusion between rupert murdoch and telstra, but aussies have done nothing.
newscorp is fucking evil and shill to the general public non stop with a bunch of things.
ontop of this, they hire indians who can't fucking proof read. go to news.com.au and read a few articles. you will find spelling errors.
they also did a pedo scare campaign where they listed 2 innocent men and got them bashed. fucking retards.
>>70498457
I agree with this to be honest.
Fuck those third worlders. They aren't civilized anyway. No point in saving their lives.
>>70492674
>apartheid
>bad
you openly support white genocide and think you have the moral high ground?
>>70500324
Ow anon thanks for the dump... i mean this is really fascinating, im currently copying all of this down thanks...
here have a pepe least i can do
>>70491727
you forgot the obligatory:
>killed union organizers in columbia
>>70500704
check last >
>>70500648
>you openly support white genocide
strawman as fuck
>>70500801
fug
Seriously? This "corporations are evil" mindset needs to stop. There is no "Jewish" control, you people are just making a scapegoat for your own shortcomings.
>>70493056
>watch this video
>watch next suggested video
>see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3YcZtlVrls&t=2m33s
Not a nice view in the sky.
>>70500933
at 2minutes 33 seconds
>>70500920
there is overwhelming evidence in my favor, they need to be kept an eye on
>>70499279
>Later that week the leaf got fired as a chink did twice the amount of work for half the pay.
lel
You actually believe the average joe benefits from slave labor just because they're white.
>>70501017
Fuck off slightly more expensive china with brown skin.
>>70500920
>OP literally just posted all of these FACTS showing how a LOT of corporations do EVIL shit, he/no one said they were inherently evil, they are simply prone to do so in their own interest (which is self explanatory)
http://australiafirstparty.net/rigged-newspoll-manipulates-politics-again-this-time-targeting-colin-barnett-in-wa/
And here's a bit more source on newscorp's dealings in australia.
The abbott election was not the first time they manipulated the population to force a favorable election result.
Rupert Murdoch owns foxtel (cable tv in australia) and did not want labor to win and give us high speed internet.
That's why he helped rig the election so tony abbott would win, based on a fear campaign about boats.
Know what happened right after??
We got somali and sudanese refugees and our intake upped. But the boats were "stopped" i guess, oh wait they never got stopped, there was just a media gag order issued on it.
Newscorp is not only a fucking retarded company that hires people who cannot write without spelling mistakes, they also shill for a lot of evil causes on a regular basis and protect their own interests, like above.
They also ruined 2 men's lives with that bullshit pedo shit. They call them pedos with ZERO EVIDENCE, get them bashed and later say "We're sorry" with a 50 thousand dollar settlement?
What a fucking joke.
>>70501017
beaner pos
>>70492940
Bump for posterity
>U.S gov, payments to mcdonalds average 1.2billion per year. This makes up to around 25% of the companies annual profits
>McDonald pays its working minimum wage and to avoid having to pay those workers benifits it focuses on giving part time employment.
>this contributes to a poverty rate of 16% among US fast food workers.
>Fortunately(?) for its workers mcdonalds offers a telephone service instructing its workers on how to apply for welfare
>>70500691
np I'm not the one posting all these though, I've been waiting for a thread like this to throw in because I know Cerberus is a serious zionist gang and its one that not many people know of.
Can't have a thread like this with the KOCH BROS
>It uses its profits to spread lying political propaganda undermining science and attacking basic principles of civilization and reason.
>They have unfair influence in politics and on politicians, control energy markets, pipelines, defense, agriculture, and cattle.
>Responsible for 312 reported oil spills which had taken place across six states.
>funds global warming denialists that pour millions of dollars into fighting clean energy. Fined for environmental crimes relating to excess emissions of 85 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen.
>The Koch brothers support primarily Republican candidates and in 2010 they supported California Proposition 23, which would have suspended the state's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
>Koch Industries' political action committee had donated more than $2.6 million to candidates.
>According to the Center for Responsive Politics, of $274 million in anonymous 2012 contributions, at least $86 million is "attributed to donor groups in the Koch network"
>Mexican government
>>70501374
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/04/14/taxpayers-do-not-subsidise-mcdonalds-low-wages-by-1-2-billion-a-year/#7549d3344f7e
>>70500691
your welcome family
From all those (and besides big pharma), I'd rate companies like Monsanto and Nestle as the most evil. Not really a good idea when private companies can create monopolies in vital sectors like food and water supply, those are areas where governments need to protect their citizens.
>>70500587
australian media is vomit worthy. 100% faggot loving, transloving.
it's barely news anymore unless it is a police media release.
Journos are such faggots here, worse , they model themselves on faggotloving aligned yanks.
they literally shill against trump, thats not news.
>>70500587
>tony then increased legal immigration.
this is what disgusts me the most
after all that fucking noise they made, and how sickening it was to see people cheering at his victory speech when tones said "we're stopping the boats", it was one hundred times more revolting to see him just ramp up the """legal""" immigration anyway and act like everything was alright
and now these lefty fucks use newscorp's TMZ-tier journalism at the time to justify their belief in a "right wing media hegemony", which is an absolute fucking load.
>>70501374
adding onto yours
>its political influence to increase its profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brought into question McDonald's advertisement techniques in which it targets children
>McDonald's pleaded guilty to five charges relating to the employment of children under 15
>In 2001, the company was fined £12,400 by British magistrates for illegally employing and over-working child labor in one of its London restaurants
>>70501515
thats still more than double what other companies employees are collecting. You can link an article that pretends its all good but I'm not gonna buy that shit, its filled with assumptions and straw men.
typical kike shit.
>>70502117
>>70501983
yea and that pedo thing sickened me.
you only ever accuse someone of that shit if there is hard evidence.
you don't make shit up and ruin people's lives for a quick news story when it's 100% false.
even if it was true, you let it go to court and justice be done.
these men did literally nothing wrong and their lives were ruined.
fucking newscorp.
did you guys see them shilling last week to ban firewood pickup in victoria and that people in the country should pay for 10 dollar wood from bunnings instead to heat their homes?
because MUH ENVIROMENT MUH GREENS
those fucking morons don't realise more wood on the forest floor=bushfire!!!
>>70491605
>chair person said free access to water isn't a right, but backtracked because of controversy
Access to water isn't a right though you red hippy faggot.
>>70502323
>go outside
>shovel snow
>let it melt
>drink it
>waaah water is expensive
>>70502323
yes it is you cannot trademark or copyright water you fucking kike
>>70491605
Didn't Nestlé work with the nazis?
>>70502317
lol. wtf, what was thier retarded arguement to not utilize god given resources.
what is this shit.
>>70502317
>did you guys see them shilling last week
i don't see anything by them any more
the only aus news source i even pay attention to is the ABC, and they're essentially a fucking pinko rag these days anyway.
just got to avoid the opinion section, i guess. though last time i looked, some cunt on the drum's page was whining about the racist logies, and 9/10 of the comments were people telling him to go back to journalism school or pick a new profession.
>>70502628
it "damages the ecosystem"
>>70502501
What are you even saying cuck?
>>70500324
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=70&contentid=4257&page=2
more on cerberus
>>70502672
it does though
problem is, taking logs and hollows and shit is so minuscule compared to the effects of things like indian mynahs on owl and parrot populations.
watch these ill-informed green-on-the-outside neohippie shits squirm when you tell them that a nationwide, government-funded hunt for indian mynahs with tens of thousands of state-issued .22s would solve an ecosystem crisis much better than leaving rotting logs in their place.
>>70502672
no. china damages the eco system. AU is clean as fuck, thats why brownshits try to flock here. white people know how to take care of their shit.
oh and please watch out for Australia having the highest media piracy rate, coz you know, lets ignore ALL of oceania and asia, and a retarded claim like this also gets reported as valid.
Pathetic and not news.
Not going to mention the fact that he collaborated with the Nazi's and used slave labor to make his cars until Pearl Harbor but did you know
>Ford's Argentine subsidiary was accused of collaborating with the Argentine 1976–1983 military dictatorship, actively helping in the political repression of intellectuals and dissidents that was pursued by said government.
>In a lawsuit initiated in 1996 by relatives of some of the estimated 600 Spanish citizens who disappeared in Argentina during the "Dirty War", evidence was presented to support the allegation that much of this repression was directed by Ford and the other major industrial firms.
>According to a 5,000-page report, Ford executives drew up lists of "subversive" workers and handed them over to the military task-forces which were allowed to operate within the factories. These groups allegedly kidnapped, tortured and murdered workers—at times allegedly within the plants themselves.
>In a second trial, a report brought by the CTA, and the testimonies of former Ford workers themselves, claimed that the company's Argentine factory was used between 1976 and 1978 as a detention center, and that management allowed the military to set up its own bunker inside the plant.
>>70491605
>artificially increased the mortality rate in a third world country by making the baby dependent on baby formula long enough for the mother to 'dry up', afterwards sold it to them, and then left them to die when the mothers didn't have access to water or couldn't afford it
Free market.
>chair person said free access to water isn't a right, but backtracked because of controversy
>convinced the World Water Council to change its statement so as to reduce access to drinking water from a "right" to a "need."
Free speech.
>tried to get ethiopia to pay them back 6 million during a famine and only stopped because of complaints
Free market.
>uses child labor then gets the Cali district Courts to not hold them liable for breaking international law
Supply & demand.
>only agreed to not use West african Child labor after they've been caught by the media
Free market.
>fixed prices along with other companies
Supply & demand.
>used vast amounts of water from San Bernardino California during a drought
Free market.
>tried to sell publicly available water from Oregon at over %1000 the price they acquired it
Supply & demand.
That was too easy. Any more puny arguments, you authoritarian statist bootlickers?
>>70502704
if you have a well or a lake by your house, aren't you allowed complete access to it free of charge.
It is a right in the sense that no one man is in charge of water itself, only the distribution and the convenience of it.
>>70503190
the jews will be pleased with you
>>70500455
???
>>70503229
You are allowed complete access to it "free of charge" if you posses the water rights. If you don't you can get fucked. If I'm renting property to you that abuts my lake, unless the terms of your lease grant you access to said lake you need to keep your dirty ass away from my goddamn lake.
No one has a RIGHT to water, anymore than they have a right to gold, silver, or cocaine. Anybody that disagrees and thinks they have a right to my water, gold, silver, or cocaine has the PRIVILEGE though of being granted limited access to my lead in 60 grain increments delivered via high speed ballistics.
>>70491605
>libertarian loafer-lickers need not apply
AKA I'm one sided and would rather hear my side of the argument.
>>70503865
i agree, if you own the land.
if you own the land it should be your water.
>Former CVS executives John R. Kramer and Carlos Ortiz were charged with bribery, conspiracy, and fraud (including mail fraud) by a federal grand jury for allegedly paying State Senator John A. Celona (D-RI) to act as a "consultant" for the company.
>Between February 2000 and September 2003, CVS paid Celona $1,000 a month, and he received tickets to golf outings and sporting events and compensation for travel to Florida and California.
>Caremark "engaged in deceptive business practices" by informing physicians that patients or health plans could save money if patients were switched to certain brand-name prescription drugs
>However, the switch often saved patients and health plans only small amounts or increased their costs, while increasing Caremark's profits. Caremark did not "adequately inform doctors" of the full financial effect of the switch and did not disclose that the switch would increase Caremark's profits
>According to the US Justice Department, last year CVS pharmacies in Sanford, Florida ordered enough painkillers to supply a population eight times its size. Sanford has a population of 53,000 but the supply would support 400,000. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, in 2010 a single CVS pharmacy in Sanford ordered 1.8 million Oxycodone pills, an average of 137,994 pills a month. Other pharmacy customers in Florida averaged 5,364 oxycodone pills a month. DEA investigators serving a warrant to a CVS pharmacy in Sanford on October 18, 2011 noted that "approximately every third car that came through the drive-thru lane had prescriptions for oxycodone or hydrocodone." According to the DEA, a pharmacist at that location stated to investigators that "her customers often requested certain brands of oxycodone using street slang," an indicator that the drugs were being diverted and not used for legitimate pain management.
>>70491727
>>funded the apartheid because it's profitable
Should have continued funding apartheid. South Africa is now fucked without it.
>>70503865
>No one has a RIGHT to water, anymore than they have a right to gold, silver, or cocaine.
water gives you life, its not a frivolous metal or drug, its a necessity. anyone has a right to access water readily available to them.
let me ask you this, does anyone have a right to deny someone water, or at least readily accessible water
>>70503987
nah it gets them mad enough to reply, thats why its there. also its funny
>>70492280
>>artificially increases the amount of welfare recipiants by only allowing people to work part time
Don't you think welfare is the problem here?
>>70504218
what about food? surely you need sustenance to survive. what about a house or shelter? transportation? communication?
>>70503027
>used slave labor
[citation needed]
>>70500920
>Hand rubbing intensifies
BUMP.
Good thread.
>>70499884
Oh, are we in that universe, now?
>During World War II, Ernest Oppenheimer attempted to negotiate a way around the Sherman Antitrust Act by proposing that De Beers register a US branch of the Diamond Syndicate Incorporated
>created the concept of a diamond engagement ring to save his own company during the great depression, and then started the trend of spending 1-2 months salary on the damn ring too.
>In 2014, the Leverhulme Centre for the Study of Value, based at the University of Manchester, published a report authored by Sarah Bracking and Khadija Sharife, identifying over $3 billion in price fixing of South African rough diamond trade, through transfer pricing manipulation from 2005 to 2012. The report found significant evidence of profit shifting through volume and value manipulation
>In 2004, De Beers pleaded guilty and paid a US$10 million fine to the United States Department of Justice to settle a 1994 charge that De Beers had colluded with General Electric, which was acquitted of all charges, to fix the price of industrial diamonds
>In February 2006, De Beers entered into legally binding commitments with the European Commission to cease purchasing rough diamonds from Russian mining company Alrosa as of the end of 2008. In January 2007, the European Commission announced it had closed the file due to lack of Community Interest
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>>70505118
>In Botswana, a long dispute has existed between the interests of the mining company, De Beers, and the relocation of the San (Bushman) tribe from the land, in order to exploit diamond resources - an allegation rejected by De Beers.
>The San have been facing threats from government policies since at least 1980, when the diamond resources were discovered. A campaign is being fought in an attempt to bring an end to what the indigenous rights organization, Survival International considers to be a genocide of a tribe that has been living in those lands for tens of thousands of years.
>On the grounds that their hunting and gathering have become obsolete and their presence is no longer compatible with preserving wildlife resources, the Gwi and Gana people were persecuted by the government of Botswana in order to make them leave the central Kalahari reserve. To get rid of them, they had their water supplies cut off and they have been "taxed, fined, beaten, and tortured".
>>70504824
http://archive.adl.org/braun/dim_13_2_ford.html#author
>>70498507
Wrong.
Red pill is outside the binary paradigm of political parties.
>>70503998
Well duh.
Here's the thing though, the claim is being made that Nestle believes otherwise and I have yet to see any evidence of Nestle doing so.
Near as I can figure the issue is Nestle digging deep wells that allegedly lowered the aquifer in some third world regions. Which ironically is the result of poorly controlled water-rights.
>Everybody thinks unlimited access to water is a human right until the water begins to run out.
>>70504218
>let me ask you this, does anyone have a right to deny someone water, or at least readily accessible water
Yes.
If we're in the desert and you try to take my water I will kill you, I don't care if you think my water is "readily accessible".
I don't care whether you live or die anon.
>On 21 October 2007, a Brazilian peasant organization, the Landless Workers' Movement (Portuguese: Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST), led a group of landless farmers in an occupation of one of the company's seed research farms, in protest against genetically-engineered vegetables and in hopes of obtaining land for landless families to cultivate. After the occupation had begun, a team from NF Security arrived in a minibus and a fight with gunfire ensued. A protestor and a security guard were killed, and some protesters and security guards were wounded.
>According to an article in the February 10, 2014, issue of The New Yorker, Syngenta's public-relations team took steps to discredit Hayes, whose research is purported to suggest that the Syngenta-produced chemical atrazine was responsible for abnormal development of reproductive organs in frogs. The article states that the company paid third-party critics to write articles discrediting Hayes's work, planned to have his wife investigated, and planted hostile audience members at scientific talks given by Hayes.
>Syngenta's contributions to US federal candidates, parties, and outside groups totaled $267,902 during 2012, ranking it 10th on the list of companies in its sector.
>Its lobbying expenditures in the US during 2012 were $1,150,000, ranking it 7th in its sector
>and illegally sold GM corn in the US
https://www.organicconsumers.org/old_articles/ge/syngenta32505.php
>>70504657
>what about food? surely you need sustenance to survive.
foods a right as well, or at least the availability aspect. its why we have welfare, food stamps, soup kitchens, etc.
it ends with food, water and shelter. no i'm not saying every living person deserves water food and shelter but they certainly deserve easy oppurtunities to get those things
>>70505331
>http://archive.adl.org/braun/dim_13_2_ford.html#author
Heilige scheiß what a read. I'll have to read it later.
>>70495569
don't forget that their artificial pumpkin spice flavor was said to be carcinogen which they tried to cover up at all costs.
Kraft/mondelez
Any fellow Britain's, check the channel 4 dispatches on Cadbury
>Besides the controversial Rückwanderer Mark Scheme, NARA records also revealed another controversy during the occupation of France by the Nazis. From the late 1930s until June 14, 1941, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) issued an Executive Order freezing German assets, Chase National Bank worked with the Nazi government. The order blocking any access to French accounts in the U.S. by anyone, but especially by the Nazis was issued by Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., with the approval of FDR. Within hours of the order, Chase unblocked the accounts and the funds were transferred through South America to Nazi Germany
>The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control found that JPMorgan had illegally aided dictatorships in Cuba, Sudan, Liberia and Iran, including transferring 32,000 ounces of gold bullion for an Iranian bank.
has done these things at least once
>Misled investors
>Engaged in fictitious trades
>Collected illegal flood insurance commissions
>Wrongfully foreclosed on soldiers; charged veterans hidden fees for refinancing
>Violated the Federal Trade Commission Act by making false statements to people seeking automobile loans
>Illegally increased their collection of overdraft fees by processing large transactions before smaller ones
>Helped drive Jefferson County, Alabama, into bankruptcy by switching its fixed-rate debt to variable
>Violated antitrust provision of the Sherman Act relating to bid rigging
and refused to give out loans to a certain group of people because of a morality clause
>Shortly after Hurricane Ike hit the Galveston, Texas area in 2008, customers received bills and later collection notices for unreturned equipment that was destroyed during the storm. One customer reported a $931 bill which included a $66 credit for interrupted phone service, but also included a $1000 charge for not returning her rented DVR, Cable Modem, and other equipment. Comcast responses differed after the storm, with some Customer Care agents telling customers to file with their insurance providers, and other agents advising customers to return their equipment, even if it was ruined or moldy
>Doesn't improve customer service because they're big enough to have a monopoly in some regions and can keep on succeeding.
In August, One customer posted a YouTube video in which he called to cancel his service was put on hold until Comcast customer support offices closed. Another customer recorded a series of conversations in which Comcast promised him he would not be charged for certain services, charged him anyway, and then refused to reimburse him for the charges until he revealed that he had recorded the initial call. When the representative explained that she would only credit him because of the recording, the customer asked, "You're telling me that if I didn't have a recording of that call, you wouldn't have been able to do it?" "Yes, that is correct," she replied.
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>>70507315
>In the same month, Rapper Dann Furia blogged that he had contacted Comcast 25 times in six months without any resolution to a problem of $1,320 in wrongful charges.
>Comcast customer Conal O'Rourke made headlines in October after his accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), fired him as a result of his complaints against Comcast.
>In 2006, Comcast implemented measures using Sandvine hardware which sends forged TCP RST (reset) packets, disrupting multiple protocols used by peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
>In October 2007, the Associated Press reported that Comcast "actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally."
>Comcast spends millions of dollars annually on government relationships. Comcast employs the spouses, sons and daughters of mayors, councilmen, commissioners, and other officials to assure its continued preferred market allocations.
>Comcast occasionally lobbies against "à la carte" bills that would give consumers the option to purchase individual channels rather than a broad tier of programming. Although they claim the reason for this is to keep customer costs lower, these issues continue to garner attention from state governments, the United States Congress and former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin.
>>70507315
post Microsoft pls
>In Nigeria, they hired private military personnel to open fire on peaceful protestors who oppose oil extraction in the Niger Delta.
>Texaco (which transferred operations to Chevron after being bought out in 2001) unleashed a toxic "Rainforest Chernobyl" in Ecuador by leaving over 600 unlined oil pits in pristine northern Amazon rainforest and dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic production water into rivers used for bathing water. Local communities have suffered severe health effects, including cancer, skin lesions, birth defects, and spontaneous abortions.
>Processing 350,000 barrels of oil a day, the Richmond California refinery produces oil flares and toxic waste in the Richmond area. As a result, local residents suffer from high rates of lupus, skin rashes, rheumatic fever, liver problems, kidney problems, tumors, cancer, asthma, and eye problems.
>The Unocal Corporation, which recently became a subsidiary of Chevron, is an oil and gas company based in California with operations around the world. In December 2004, the company settled a lawsuit filed by 15 Burmese villagers, in which the villagers alleged Unocal's complicity in a range of human rights violations in Burma, including rape, summary execution, torture, forced labor and forced migration.
>In 2003, a class action lawsuit against Chevron was filed in Ecuadorian court for $28 billion by indigenous residents, who accused Texaco of making residents ill and damaging forests and rivers by discharging 18 billion US gallons (68,000,000 m3) of formation water into the Amazon rainforest without any environmental remediation
>According to US Embassy Cable BAGHDAD 000791 the Iraqi prime minister believed that Chevron was engaged in negotiations to invest in Iran in contravention of UN sanctions. The embassy related that it had no independent confirmation of this claim.
>>70496743
I hate to post in a Socialist thread but this one is weird.
So people have these phones in their possession and they're also burdened with terrible wages, extreme hours and have no economic freedom. These phones go "missing" (most likely stolen by the employees to sell, understandably). These workers end up "suicide". No more reports of theft, no more suicides.
>Workers were also forced to sign a legally binding document gauranteeing they and their descendants would not sure the company as a result of unexpected death, self-injury or suicide.
>You can't run
>You can't steal
>You can't earn
>We will beat you
>Outright Rob you
>You can't suicide to escape
>Not even death will free you
GOOD GOY
>>70500617
kikes agree.
>>70508639
>I hate to post in a Socialist thread but this one is weird.
im not a socialist i just believe that capitalism in it's true form is a group of kikes bent on ruling the world through money
>While Microsoft's permanent workers enjoy some of the best corporate treatment, a large part of Microsoft's labor pool exists outside this privileged class. This includes the use of permatemp employees (employees employed for years as "temporary," and therefore without medical benefits), use of forced retention tactics, where departing employees would be sued to prevent departure, as well as more traditional cost-saving measures, ranging from cutting medical benefits, to not providing towels in company locker rooms
>Historically, Microsoft has also been accused of overworking employees, in many cases, leading to burnout within just a few years of joining. The company is often referred to as a "Velvet Sweatshop", a term which originated in a 1989 Seattle Times article
>A US state lawsuit was brought against Microsoft in 1992 representing 8,558 current and former employees that had been classified as "temporary" and "freelance", and became known as Vizcaino v. Microsoft.
>A side effect of the "permatemp" lawsuit is that now contract employees are prevented from participating in team morale events and other activities that could be construed as making them "employees". They are also limited to one-year contracts and must leave after that time for 100 days before returning under contract.
>Microsoft is the largest American corporate user of H-1B guest worker visas and has joined other large technology companies like Google in recently lobbying for looser H-1B visa restrictions
>Microsoft classified journalists as "Okay", "Sketchy", or "Needs work" and targeted "Needs work" journalists in an attempt to have them terminated. Dvorak said that he was denied information about Windows because he was on a blacklist. Mary Jo Foley stated that she was denied interviews with Microsoft personnel for several years following the publication of a story based on a memo describing the number of bugs in Windows 2000 at release
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Quality thread OP, not only will I BUMP but I also won't slide it with a shitpost.
>>70508483
thanks for the suggestion
>>70509222
>Microsoft (along with Google, Yahoo, Cisco, AOL, Skype, and other companies) has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system of Internet censorship
>Microsoft was the first company to participate in the PRISM surveillance program, according to leaked NSA documents
In July 2013, The Guardian elaborated that leaked documents show that
>Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to intercept web chats on Outlook.com and gave it unencrypted access to Outlook.com and Hotmail email
>Microsoft provided the NSA with access to users' data on its cloud storage service OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)
>After Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism
>Microsoft has also come under criticism for developing software capable of analyzing the output of remote sensors in order to measure the competence and productivity of workers based on their physical responses
>>70508728
I've watched a report about the labor conditions in China where one of the guys who got interviewed (some economy expert iirc) stated that "capitalism is a great system, but only when it is combined with self-restraint and ethics". Pretty true, but how can you impose such restraints without having a somewhat socialist system?
>>70509484
>Pretty true, but how can you impose such restraints without having a somewhat socialist system?
that's the line we have to acknowledge
>>70509458
there's also
>charging $70/year to use Microsoft Office
>forcing Windows 10 "upgrades" on consumers
>>70508728
Capitalism in the modern world isn't true capitalism. It has been warped and mangled ro the point that the government needs to step in and control the market to adjust prices, wages, profits, production and marketing.
If the government had no power over corporations, we wouldn't see other corporations buying government support and monopolising on their respective sectors.
If True Capitalism existed today, Socialists wouldn't be crying for Socialism, they would understand that less government control on the market means less influence by corporations. Instead of reducing the amount of traders, it would actively support Competition, allowing companies to compete. Socialism is inherently a Jewish system and is more kike-like than True Capitalism.
>>70498457
I agree with this canadian to some degree, if 3w people can't get smarter and rather rely on retarded shit like a popular brand just to get likes on facebook then they don't deserve shit.
>>70509972
Mexico, I hate to break it to you but... you're part of the 3rd world.
>>70506124
>M-muh corporations are hazardous to my health!
That shit is overrated as fuck, who cares if Starbucks products have carcinogens. Most of what people breathe in daily is carcinogenic.
>>70509852
It's way too late for your idea of "true capitalism". If we got rid of all government control today, the few megacons would just buy up any competition and create monopolies regardless. Which is (or at least should be) one job of the goverment to prevent from happening.
You're right about the problems you mention, but those are a result of corruption, not of an inherently flawed system.
>>70510194
Also, if you're going to drown yourself in fucking heart disease inducing hot drinks, then you deserve to fucking die of it. Just like how I deserve to die of cancer because I fucking smoke. You take the bad with the decisions you make. It's called being a fucking adult.
>>70510155
Yes, AND? im not a retard who fall for that bullshit of low wave.
now the big one
>has been accused by a number of countries of avoiding paying tens of billions of dollars of tax through a convoluted scheme of inter-company licensing agreements and transfers to tax havens. Google has used highly contrived and artificial distinctions to avoid paying billions of pounds in corporation tax owed by its UK operations
>In 2015, the UK Government introduced a new law intended to penalise Google and other large multinational corporations's artificial tax avoidance. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has claimed that this scheme of Google is "capitalism". and that he was "very proud of it".
>Schmidt was also criticised for his inaccurate use of the term 'capitalism' to describe billions of dollars being transferred into tax havens where no economic activity was actually taking place. On 23 January 2016, Google agreed to make a payment of £130m to the UK tax authorities "in respect of previous years."
>Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the period of 2007 to 2009 using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and The Netherlands to Bermuda. Google's income shifting—involving strategies known to lawyers as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich" which helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization.
not evil just suspicious
>since January 2009 to March 2015 employees of Google have met with officials in the White House about 230 times
>page ranking system favors big businesses and established sites, especially sites that cooperate with google ie google shopping
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>>70510429
You're still a tacoskin. Don't be so upset. It won't be so bad when the USA get tired of their cartels and invade.
>>70510618
but why is the USA going to invade us? we are not in israel interest and modern wars can't be like WWII because of nukes.
>>70491605
Except libertarians are against corporations.
>>70491605
All of them.
Money, trade and civilization are in themselves degenerate.
>>70510737
Unfortunately, Mexico doesn't have nukes, so they won't be applied to your invasion.
When the time comes and they are preparing for The War, they will invade you a few years before it to secure it's southern land border. In any scenario that Mexico is not allied with the US and/or Economically & Politically stable, it can be considered a hostile border and will be secured.
You had better hope the US and Mexico agree to a military alliance within the next 6 years.
>>70505831
It's now in process of being acquired by ChinaChem, a Chinese communist state-controlled corporation.
>>70511103
>Communist
I can't wait until you fuckers get a taste of true communism.
>>70496128
Henry Ford tried to warn us.
>>70510607
eric schmidt said this:
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines—including Google—do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities."
and this
>"true transparency and no anonymity" is the way forward for the internet: "In a world of asynchronous threats it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it." He also said that "If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use artificial intelligence, we can predict where you are going to go. Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You've got Facebook photos
>Joffe v. Google, Inc. was a federal lawsuit between Ben Joffe and Google, Inc. that entered official Supreme Court jurisdiction in November 2010. Joffe claimed that Google broke one of the Wiretap Legislation segments when they intruded on the seemingly “public” wireless networks of private homes through their Street View application. Although Google appealed multiple times, the courts ruled in favor of Joffe.
>>70498507
>He still thinks the Republicuck party encompasses the entire red pill and isn't just red pill easymode
Union Carbide, now part of Dow Chemical
what a shitty thread
okay im done for now, hopefully i'll make this thread tomorrow
>>70511467
what's wrong with it
>>70511507
Thanks based Burgerbro
>>70495235
Kek. This.
>>70503190
Those are also unethical business practices even if you justify them behind things like free market, free speech etc.
>tfw libertarians would defend all of this
>>70500587
>on the subject of newscorp, add election rigging.
Say no more.
reposting from the last thread
>For a change in direction, let's hit up 'the most evil corporation IN HISTORY' -- which was totally the East India Company. You think United Fruit was bad for getting a few marines sent to Central America? These guys manufactured wars with India, Burma and China. You think Nestlé is bad for sucking up all the water in some African regions and selling it back to them? These guys literally had their own beer created (India Pale Ale) that they used to destroy India's native water replenishment. You think Bayer is bad for selling bad drugs infected with HIV? These guys addicted the entirety of the Chinese population to opium so that they could have a monopoly.
>They owned an army, owned land, and were slavers extraordinaire. They trafficked drugs, guns, people, and resources cheerfully certain that Asians were subhuman anyway so it didn't matter.
>They directed policy, founded colonies, and conquered an entire continent -- in addition to being far and away the richest and most powerful corporation in history, they've probably had the biggest impact on world history of any company.
>Only disbanded after the British Empire assumed direct control of India after the Company's mismanagement caused widespread revolts and massacres -- they finally filed for bankruptcy after the government essentially had them nationalised.
i swear this is the last one
Someone should make posts about banks. They basically made 2008 financial crisis happen.
