Corporate Evil

For latest feeds on BP oil disaster. Not for the faint hearted.

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9033572&contentId=7062605

Blackwater avoid charges over skulduggery in the Sudan

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100627/wl_mcclatchy/3548656

Perhaps not quite evil....

http://scienceblogs.com/foodfrontiers/2010/07/welcome_to_food_frontiers.php

And this is amusing

Desperate for work at the mo, had an interview with a PR firm yesterday, not my ideal at the best of times but pickings are slim and looks like over another 1,000,000 jobless on the way so... bit my tongue, fought all my better instincts and went to the interview, 'just to see'...

Director of the firm starts off by telling me they 'didn't do political correctness here' and then emphasises the need to 'get your hands dirty' throughout the interview in relation to 'realising operational goals.' i.e, bribe, bully, fuck people over, just get the job done.

Suffice to say I won't be proceeding with any potential callback, regardless of salary.

PR, Marketing people, you ARE the root of all evil, hang your fucking heads in shame because you do the devils work.

I've just been sent to a 'lean manufacturing' meeting.

Everyone was very excited and enthusiastic.

They used words like, 'kaizen'.

They showed photographs of Japanese Managing Directors mopping floors with big cheesy smiles on their faces.

Then they played this weird film with a grinning American wanker in a lurid red shirt running through the concepts of Lean Manufacturing.
I noticed lots of bits of red in the film.
Then I noticed something else.

The film had a pulse.

It took a while to notice.

Everything sort of throbbed subtly but constantly.

When the screen was mostly white, a little black box in the corner kept the pace.

Guy in the red shirt talking, film starts to pulse again.

I timed the pulse.

about 85 beats a minute.

Was it designed to get us subliminally excited, just lifting the hear trate slightly?

It creeped me out.

Nice work, Cocka Cola

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/the-dark-side-of-vitaminw_b_669716.html

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lets have more pists like this, shall we?

my cock is postively dripping with hot, steamy, bleach-smelling cum right now guise.

http://www.lfgss.com/post1570069-208.html

How many people with weight problems have consumed products like vitaminwater in the mistaken belief that the product was nutritionally positive and carried no caloric consequences? How many have thought that consuming vitaminwater was a smart choice from a weight-loss perspective? The very name "vitaminwater" suggests that the product is simply water with added nutrients, disguising the fact that it's actually full of added sugar.

how many people are fucktarded enough to not be able to read the nutritional information and get sucked in by "clever" marketing? a few it would seem. how many people are we losing to obesity through this "deception" that are going to make a difference to the future of the human race? a few, it would seem.

lets have more pists like this, shall we?

http://www.lfgss.com/post1570069-208.html

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I dont read any nutritional small print. Does that mean im a fucktard?

Huffington is good, tisawasa

I dont read any nutritional small print. Does that mean im a fucktard?

in a way, yes, but you aren't fat, so it wouldn't really make sense for you to worry about that until your cock starts vanishing into layers of subcutaneous fat. you've got time yet dude, you've got time.

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reading that article again, i think it is more an example of corporate genius than evil, the facts are written write there ON THE FUCKING BOTTLE and if you can't look five inches down and squint a bit if your eyes aren't so good maybe you should think a bit about what you are drinking. and this "non profit public interest group" might spend it's money better by telling consumers that YES THE FUCKING NUTRITIONAL CONTENT IS ON THE PACKAGE (1) ALONG WITH WHAT YOU SHOULD BE GETTING YOU FAT FUCKS (2)(3).

Perhaps coke's defence could replace "consumer" with "reasonable consumer" but otherwise this is genius because the NGO will have to show that people are retarded in practice to not read the label.

and then this piece of journalistic supreme

Why do we allow companies like Coca-Cola to tell us that drinking a bottle of sugar water with a few added water-soluble vitamins is a legitimate way to meet our nutritional needs?

well, i presume john, that it's because america is a free market economy where companies are allowed to do what they like provided it is within the law and we can presume that up until this point the legality of their advertising of vitamin water has been thought legal so that is why it is allowed.

but then! to go on to tell people how to drink healthily, BY ADDING SUGAR TO THEIR DRINKS (5) after just fucking berating a company for doing the same(6)? john, i am disappoint.

cite 1:

A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage.

cite 2:

35 percent of Americans are now considered medically obese.

cite 3:

Two-thirds of Americans are overweight.

cite 4:

"At oral arguments, defendants (Coca-Cola) suggested that no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitamin water was a healthy beverage."

cite 5:

If you want to flavor the water you drink, try adding the juice of a lemon and a small amount of honey or maple syrup to a quart of water.

cite 6:

the product is simply water with added nutrients, disguising the fact that it's actually full of added sugar.

Smoking is bad for you, apparently.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/the-unstoppable-march-of-the-tobacco-giants-2290583.html

No surprises in that article. Tobacco companies are utterly abhorrent.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/nov/15/call-action-vulture-funds-preying-poor?INTCMP=SRCH

Greg Palast is the boy. Ultimate hackers hack. Trench coat, crumpled hat, scruffy tie and yank accent.

Jesus, that is fucking obscene. I had never heard of vulture funds before.

Interesting story, that - came across it last year - think Palast has a book out soon and is doing some sort of doc for the beeb on it. Not sure how the graniuad are involved.

Why do you think I moved to the UK.. waits for total economic collapse before cashing in

Greg Palast is the boy. Ultimate hackers hack. Trench coat, crumpled hat, scruffy tie and yank accent.

Though I was left feeling sick with the corporate greed, the PROPER journalist hat offset that a bit.

But yes - essentially here is a man trying to steal enough money to save the lives of 200,000 children in the DRC. How a human can stoop this low I cannot fathom.

Palast has been reporting on this for years

Greg Palast Reports: BBC NewsNight- Vulture Funds - YouTube

He also did the definitive investigation in to how Bush stole the election in Florida and has followed the Exxon Valdez story more doggedly than anyone else.

And people moan about paying their BBC licence fee.