Corporations Seize Control of Commodities

thats life.

predators eat prey.

corporations eat us.

What can i say sir except thanks and regards

Nothing to do with the subject of my thread but relevant quote from an American.

The key problem is the asymmetry of governmental power over corporations in democratic and authoritarian regimes. In Washington, a CEO of a major corporation is an important political player who makes big PAC donations, maintains legions of lawyers and lobbyists, files lawsuits against the government, writes legislation, and influences regulatory decisions. In Beijing, Riyadh, or Moscow, however, the same CEO is a supplicant. He doesn't file lawsuits against these governments; indeed, he needs to maintain favor and keep the bureaucrats and party operatives happy.

Moreover, he will use his influence in Washington to do what is necessary to curry favor in authoritarian capitals. This is why the Business Round Table and U.S. Chamber of Commerce have been telling the Congress not to worry about China's currency-management policies that put U.S.-based producers at a disadvantage. Many in the global business community have effectively become lobbyists for the autocrats.

The standard argument in U.S. economic and foreign-policy circles is that globalization, by making nations richer, will also make them more democratic. In fact, the global corporation acts as a conveyor belt to carry non-democratic values into democratic societies. This is not to say it can't work the other way around, but the power relationships are such that it's more natural for a Google to yield to China's Internet police than to defy them. The CEOs may kowtow in more plush surroundings than other supplicants, but their position is just the same.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=our_ceos_their_foreign_agents

a country which wage war and butcher withe innocent people in the name of democracy is not my hell or heaven.

A country which cross the ocean to maime and torturte the innocents without any legal legitimate logic is not my hell or my heaven.
A country which dance according to the tunes of corporate criminals is not my hell or heaven.
A country which needs so much fan-fare to elect a doll to sit in a toilet house is not my hell or heaven.
A country where the journalists are cowards to be an embedded journalists and spread the air with nonsensical English is not my hell nor my heaven.
Rama Fuchs

Yes
we need a change.
A CHANGE to chase out the consummate compassionate corporate controlled criminal system

All you Republicans, get out your wallets and start buying stocks.
And all you Democrats, join a hedge fund and learn how to short the market.
http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/marketview/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11907621

Buttonwood

Fuel for thought
Aug 7th 2008
From The Economist print edition

Despite lower commodity prices, there is still a lot to worry about

http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11896992

allowing CEO's arrogant and showing the American cloth( Flag) is no more saleable.
Wake up USA
It is too late

I am an athiest.

When criminals approved to ruin the life of innocents with the approval of religious god's name( Bin laden, B)
then dream of your natural death..

CHANGE
realCHANGE

Help the humans and show not your dirty flags wich is only a cloth

support and uphold decency.
Thanks
Rama

Global warming rage lets global hunger grow
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor

We drive, they starve. The mass diversion of the North American grain harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits.

"The reality is that people are dying already," said Jacques Diouf, of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "Naturally people won't be sitting dying of starvation, they will react," he said.

The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted "massacres" unless the biofuel policy is halted.
link

Anybody understand the i critical views of Blueflame.
He speeks my language though we are not from the same place of birth.

I beg to submit this view.
US citizens are decent nice and friendly but their corporate controlled political system is not so nice if not rotten to the core.

Our CEOs, Their Foreign Agents

International business executives with enormous domestic influence cater to the demands of authoritarian regimes abroad
The key problem is the asymmetry of governmental power over corporations in democratic and authoritarian regimes. In Washington, a CEO of a major corporation is an important political player who makes big PAC donations, maintains legions of lawyers and lobbyists, files lawsuits against the government, writes legislation, and influences regulatory decisions. In Beijing, Riyadh, or Moscow, however, the same CEO is a supplicant. He doesn't file lawsuits against these governments; indeed, he needs to maintain favor and keep the bureaucrats and party operatives happy.

Moreover, he will use his influence in Washington to do what is necessary to curry favor in authoritarian capitals. This is why the Business Round Table and U.S. Chamber of Commerce have been telling the Congress not to worry about China's currency-management policies that put U.S.-based producers at a disadvantage. Many in the global business community have effectively become lobbyists for the autocrats.

The standard argument in U.S. economic and foreign-policy circles is that globalization, by making nations richer, will also make them more democratic. In fact, the global corporation acts as a conveyor belt to carry non-democratic values into democratic societies. This is not to say it can't work the other way around, but the power relationships are such that it's more natural for a Google to yield to China's Internet police than to defy them. The CEOs may kowtow in more plush surroundings than other supplicants, but their position is just the same.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=our_ceos_their_foreign_agents