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                                                        A. SELECTED TWEETS OF MINE
                                                    
                                                                               9/14/2100 to 3/6/2012

US defense(akaWar)industry $$$tokillnone4peace40antiwarorgsUNITE4peacesake!

Healthinsuranceindustry4greaterprofitprotectionNOTbetterhealthprotection

RAW=WAR BACKWARDS War’s a raw deal 4 everybodybut the corpocracy

Free market=industrial giants free 2 harm us 1way or another daily

1968OlympicsBlackPowersaluteU.S.2011needs a Democracy Power salute

Unregulated industrial giants tripple pollute: gov, products, environment

HlthinsuranceindustryIncorpocracyallprofitsENsured IndemocracyallcitizensINsured

How different are capital punishment and war?

Corpocracy nurturing an inhumane society2bite usLet’s all bite back!

CorpocracypowerordemocracypowerNobrainer4decent,subjugatedhumanbeings

Corpocracy=power Corpocracy power over us Democracy power by us

CloseUReyes&earsCorpocracystillhere WhenUdie,willitstillbe?

privatizepublicservicesis2profitizethemintodisservices AdaptedfromBruceBasile

Isolatedprotestscan’tstopthecorpocracyTwo-fisteddemocracypowercan!

“Occupy” Wall St? Gone inside to ring the bell?

CongressinsessionAn un-American activity?PassesfreetradeRejectsJobsbill

Pol ecat, Pol itician Get the drift?

Obama care now = don’t care?

OWS = <1/2 two-fisted democracy power

privatize=piratize

LFPowell’s strategicplanstartedthecorpocracy@enditwillrequireaPOW!plan

Let’s think and act bigger. Why not OUSA?

Better still: Why not OWC=OccupytWholeCorpocracy?

Nationstates&organizedreligionchronichabitofdegradinghumanity&civilizations2necessaryevils?

NuclearIran? Israelhashadnukesfordecades&GoldaMeironcethreatenedtouse

Honor all vets and dishonor the corpocracy’s self-serving wars

Corporation = corruporation

Corpocracy’s way of celebrating vets College Bb game on carrier, Obama as cheerleader

Bachmann:”don’twork;don’teat Doorknob has more compassion&brains

“Anthropologists, are politicians a subhuman species?”

A democracy finishing school needed 2 teach how 2 finish off the corpocracy

JohnAdams, me, how about U? “Corpocracy stop treading on me and everyone else!”  2012sameorworsethan2011HowlongcanAmerica&working/unemployedAmericanslast?

Never forget America’s own enemy, her corpocracy is mostly legal. MLK: "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal"

Ucan’tbwronginopposingthecorpocracy MLK: "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”

Who will hold the corpocracy accountable for its crimes against humanity? MLK: “justice rolling down like waters---.”Let’sallofusrollitdown

Don’t be neutral re the corpocracy. MLK: "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict"

America’s corpocracy is a colossal injustice to Americans. MLK: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Want UR descendants subjugated by the corpocracy? I don’t!

Quitwastingtimeon2012electionStartspendingtimefightingcorpocracyC

Pledgeallegiance2America4whatitshouldbecome,not2hercorpocracywh/isruiningher  What have U done 4 or against the corpocracy lately?

C link betw/ corpocracy & America’s woes? Corpocracy does It made the link!

Tell ObamaReidBoehnerRoberts,Jr 2 honor R Constitution!

Happy Bday Abe! If U were here: no corpocracy, no disintegrating America!

Did you know that gov handouts to corporations dwarf the social safety net?

Do antiwar/peace groups depend more on war than peace?

Read Nader’s new book Getting steamed about corporatism & then get boiling mad

What’s in YOUR wallet? Probably a Wall Street pickpocket. 

It takes 2 to ruin a nation: corrupt corporations & a corruptible government.

                                                                                 B. NEW ARTICLE
                                                                          Posted February 20, 2012

Corporate Wrongdoing and the Neutralizing of Society by Gary Brumback in Dissident Voice, October 11th, 2011

Most corporate wrongdoing is not criminal but all of it is unethical. It is not criminal because our corporatized government has made it legal through legislative (e.g. loophole porous laws), administrative (e.g., reckless deregulation and war making), and judicial (e.g., corporate personhood) accommodations.

Being legal, of course, does not make the wrongdoing less consequential. Just the opposite is true, especially when undertaken hand in hand with government, as is the case since the end of WWII with endless covert and overt militarism that has killed countless human beings and devastated countries, not for the sake of protecting and spreading democracy but for the sake of the corpocracy. Our own society has suffered immensely as well. It is because of the corpocracy that among industrialized nations America ranks lowest on all important socioeconomic indicators (e.g., the highest poverty rate). As I have repeatedly said, America’s corpocracy is her own worst enemy.

Rarely are corporations prosecuted for their crimes or given more than token fines (and accepted as “the cost of doing business”) by our hands-off government, which is a big reason why there is so much recidivism among corporate scofflaws. An even bigger reason, but one that would be hotly denied by any corporation, is seven traditional corporate functions that aid and abet corporate wrongdoing by neutralizing or compromising society and thereby gaining tolerance of their wrongdoing. The seven are corporate counsel, marketing and sales, public relations, investor relations, philanthropy, ethics, and corporate social responsibility programs.

Of the seven corporate counsels probably need the least explanation. Corporations have stables of corporate lawyers primed to give advice on what contemplated wrongdoing will likely pass the bar, and when it does not, are armed with legal defense briefs. The PR people get into the act, explaining to the public that everything was kosher, unintentional, or unknowing.

Simply put the marketing and sales functions market and sell corporate products and services. And let’s face it, some of the products and services are not all that bad. Our new home many years ago was equipped with major kitchen appliances from a corporation that we didn’t know at the time was a rogue scofflaw. Very recently we had to replace two of the appliances. We opted for matching appliances from the rogue. I’m a bit ashamed of myself.

As I indicated, the PR function exists to burnish the corporate image and reputation and to rush to the rescue when the corporation stumbles into the slime light. I would guess about right now, for example, the PR people of Koch Industries are working double overtime. No matter how hard their PR people try, my negative opinion of Koch Industries will not change, but on the other hand, I have just looked at a long list of their household products sold in America. One of them is a favorite of mine. Do I no longer buy it?

Investor relations people tout investments in their corporations even though most are cash rich. Constantly trying to increase quarterly earnings is one of the pressures and temptations behind corporate wrongdoing. States initially in our history issued corporate charters that were very strict, but soon, in “a race to the bottom,” liberalized their charters to attract corporate headquartering. One of the consequences is that any chartered corporation gets limited liability, which means in effect that state legislators have given shareholders a moral waiver. It limits owner liability in cases of corporate wrongdoing only to the potential loss of their initial investments and does not extend to potential costs of the damage done. Investors are thus free to buy shares in corporations without having to worry about whether increased share value will be gained through corporate wrongdoing and its harmful consequences to individuals or to society at large.

Do you know what the biggest source of corporate “guilt gifts” is? It’s got to be a corporation’s philanthropy program. Take a look at any of the corporations fingered as among the top criminals of a particular year or decade and I bet you won’t find many if any that do not give away millions. Who gets these giveaways? Universities, for one; they might have to shut down some of their schools and/or professorial chairs without corporate funding. Business schools may graduate the biggest supply of corporate crooks. Can you imagine a school so beholden to corporate funding that it would target a rogue patron?

Corporate ethics programs are a big joke that doesn’t neutralize or fool anyone who knows they are primarily facades intended, if not to neutralize people, then to bamboozle them. But how many people know the real workings of corporate ethics programs? I know because I have studied them for years. Take ethics codes, for instance. They are nothing but paper ethics that help a criminal corporation and government contractor get a “low culpability score” from the easily compromised and (corrupted) federal government, for Pete sakes! Having an ethics training program also lowers the score, but Socrates long ago said no one needed to teach us what ethics is and he was absolutely right. It’s a simple matter to know what’s ethical. It’s much less simple to want to behave ethically, especially when there are so many temptations and pressures to do business unethically.

Lastly, there are corporations’ corporate social responsibility programs. I can’t imagine any corporation worth its soiled salt that doesn’t have one. Corporate social responsibility, or CSR for short, refers to a firm’s accountability for its financial, social, and environmental performance. But CSR is mostly a sham. Corporations give CSR little more than lip service, seeing it as nothing more than an inexpensive propagandizing opportunity to neutralize society’s opposition. CSR, moreover, is a superfluous concept. A firm that is ethically responsible is socially responsible, ipso facto. 

I predict that if the corpocracy is ever ended through sweeping political, legislative, judicial, and economic reforms corporations heavily dependent on government’s handouts and laissez-faire policies may very well flounder. To survive they will have to launch what I call a corporate “turn up” strategy that takes a completely different approach to the corporate functions reviewed and, more importantly, requires organizing and operating in a much more democratic way, all of which would give a big boost to the right kind of corporate performance.