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national / miscellaneous Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 23:37 by StripeyCat
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Over the Christmas, on some channel at some time of the day or night, it is pretty inevitable that Billy Wilder's excellent film, Some Like It Hot, will be shown. In the movie, when Tony Curtis wants to impress Marilyn Monroe about how financially secure he is, he picks up a sea shell and holds it up, to indicate that his investments are secure and, to say the least, high-yield. Recently however, a slew of financial and economic pundits have been sounding warnings about the company's future. Problems with the Sakhalin 2 project in Russia, the Bolivian re-nationalisation, and the worsening security situation in Nigeria, are making investors wonder whether there is a deep problem with the way Shell do things. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 05:32 by nano
3 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 - 15:49)
Corporate power and rulership in western societies is complete, governments either conform to corporate dictates or are quickly replaced by compliant political alternatives. The management of information via the monopolised mass media and the complete domination of the economy maintain and sustain corporate supremacy. The masses suffer increased subjection (debt slavery) and vulnerability (limited options) as a result of decreased representation by governments. Corporate rule has reduced the real status of the public to servility and subservience, not dissimilar to the ancient Roman model of kept house-slaves. The belief that Roman slaves were constantly maltreated is based on erroneous images (whipped galley-slaves) that Hollywood and the entertainment industry have popularised. Ancient Roman slaves lived in basic but tolerable conditions, similar (in relative terms) to the servile masses of today. ... read full story / add a comment |
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