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POPSCisco To Close For 4 Days This sort of shut down is smart thinking -- a good way to save money, and positioned in the holiday season, it doesn't look bad, and actually helps morale.
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POPSMillions Against Monsanto Campaign The clips here are titles of stories from the website Organic Consumers Association. Go to the site to read the individual stories. Monsanto seems to fit the strereotypical bad guy in conspiracies to take over world. They are trying to do it with genetically engineered food crops and seeds. They are playing hardball in getting farmers hooked into their contracts to buy and use only their products. Read some of the more outrageous tales of the 'little guy' being taken advantage of by the 'corporate giant'.
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POPSDo You Find This Ad Offensive? There's a big story on the intersection of social media and health today. Unlike some of its competitors, Johnson & Johnson has been experimenting with advertising directly to consumers with Facebook applications and YouTube videos. But a video ad promoting Motrin for moms who carry their babies in slings sparked an uproar from connected consumers. I'm curious to know what you think --- is this video really offensive? It's clipped above.
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POPSEven Lawyers are getting laid off
NEW YORK: You know things are bad when even lawyers are getting laid off. In downturns of years past, law firms exploited corporate failures and bitter, protracted lawsuits to keep busy and keep billing. But in this still-unfolding crisis, the embittered and the bankrupt have been relatively slow to appear, at least in court. American law firms in turn are feeling the strain. Thelen and Heller Ehrman, two firms whose deep San Francisco roots extend back decades, have collapsed outright, in part because of the business slowdown. Each firm left several hundred lawyers out in the cold. Many others, including Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Katten Muchin Rosenman, two Chicago firms ranked among the nation's 100 most profitable by American Lawyer magazine, and an international giant, Clifford Chance, have jettisoned dozens of associates. Still others, like Powell Goldstein, a firm based in Atlanta with more than 200 lawyers, are merging with larger rivals in deals that may be bid
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POPSMcDonald’s Caves In To Anti-Gay Group Demands Sadly, Mickey D has decided to permit a homophobic hate group dictate their corporate policies. Giving into these boycotts does nothing but encourage groups, such as this one, to continue to strong-arm major businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians. I am hoping my GLBT friends will refuse to do any business with McDonalds.
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POPSA. I. Greed No wonder main street looks down their noses at Wall Street. No wonder the average, hardworking, taxpayer, playing by the rules, to make ends meet look with upon corporate CEO's with such disgust.
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POPSPost-bailout AIG spends $440,000 for "retreat" at a California resort Congressman Waxman also said that there was evidence that the former CEO changed the bonus schedule in order to insure that top executives would continue making multi-million dollar salaries, even as their company went broke. "Mr. Sullivan and the other top executives should have had their bonuses slashed due to poor performance," said Waxman. Sullivan received a $15 million golden parachute payment when he was let go in June, says ABC.
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POPS Thoughts on the Bailout Defeat "A number of Republican House members and staff, along with others who are plugged in, are telling me that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats will come back with a new bill that includes all the left-wing stuff that was scrubbed from the bill that was defeated today in the House. As this scenario goes, the House Democrats need 218 votes, and they have to pick up a number of black and Hispanic House members who jumped ship because the Wall Street provisions, in their view, were too benign. So things like the bankruptcy judges setting mortgage terms and rates, the ACORN slush-fund spending, the union proxy for corporate boards, stricter limits on executive compensation, and much larger equity ownership of selling banks through warrants will all find itself back in the new bill. Of course, this scenario will lose more Republican votes. But insiders tell me President Bush will take Secretary Paulson’s advice and sign that kind of legislation."
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POPSA.I.G. Bailed Out by Taxpayers Well, well, well. It looks like those "efficient" free market giants know who to run to to save their backsides when they get into deep dodo. Why, they run to the so-called "inefficient" federal government to save them. One would think that if government is such a bungler per se that no one would wants its help, and the stock market wouldn't be encouraged when it comes to the rescue. It could be that the notions that the government per se is inefficient and a bungler are part of a pack of lies that we have swallowed and it takes extremity to expose the lies.
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POPSHas American Society Gone Insane? Diabetes, obesity, heart disease, physical weakness, osteoporosis, asthma, bodily misalignment and chronic pain... I'm fully in favor of adding depression and mental illness to the list of ways our society makes us unhealthy. The very nature of how we live is unhealthy.
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POPSReport: Google To End Free Dinners Insiders are telling Valleywag that Google could be about to stop offering free gourmet dinners to employees. Free meals, of course, are one of the lavish perks that make Google, Google. Valleywag has the dirt on why dinner may be off the menu at the search giant....
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POPSJohn McCain, Friend of Monopolies I think there are two reasons McCain invokes Teddy Roosevelt. 1. Roosevelt wasn't a Republican in the modern sense, but a Republican in the original sense -- i.e., a progressive. McCain hopes to signal some that his "maverick" label actually means something. 2. Teddy Roosevelt is the one face on Mt. Rushmore that Americans know the least about. In the end, I'd say it's more 2 than 1.
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POPSRevoke EPA’s Licenses to Pollute Behind the veil of “clean skies,” however, smog and soot and very small toxic particulate matter are still pouring out of the pipes of cars, trucks, the containerized shipping industry that drives global commerce, airplanes, incinerators, large farms and factories. These microscopic particles cause inflammation and injury to the lungs and the blood, killing thousands and condemning many more to life with asthma. Runoff from agribusiness, industry and suburban trophy lawns still flows through our (non-burning) rivers, creating dead zones off our shores and sickening swimmers on our beaches. This is happening because industries have become experts at delaying and manipulating the work of EPA through political pressure and legal tactics. And EPA analysts cut and paste corporate-generated studies and analysis into their findings. As a result, the EPA often acts as if it were protecting the earnings of regulated industries rather than the public’s health.
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POPSWhat Should Uncle Sam Do? I like the sound of the phrase "socialized capitalism"..... Every time someone mentions that there should be more regulation of the greedy corporations, some ditto-head conservative yells "Socialism!". I gues they would rather have "Socialized Capitalism" in which the CEO's of these large corporations get to go home each year with millions of dallars in income, while the rest of us bail out their failed businesses.....nothing but greed and corruption!
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POPSFive Things About SAP's Strategy That You Need to Know It is interesting how SAP generally stays below the IT news radar. Their recent legal issues with Oracle not-withstanding, not much newsworthy really ever comes out about SAP. This is a great read for just that reason as it sums up some important things about SAP's strategy.
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POPSCorporate Personhood he courts destroyed the semblance of equal protection under law because there is no way even an individual billionaire can approximate the raw power of these large corporations with their privileged immunities, and their control over technology, capital and labor. Right now it is the reverse. The sovereignty of the people is subordinated to the sovereignty of the giant multinational corporations. Corporations were chartered in the early nineteenth century by state governments to be our servants, not our masters.
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POPSStorm in an aluminium smelter Valli Moosa, the chairman of the Eskom board, and former Minister of Environmental Affairs, said at a meeting last night that South Africa would not have a power crisis if there were no big aluminium smelters, but said that this as a sensitive matter, as the row between Standard Bank and BHP Billiton shows.
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POPSKucinich goes back to HR
DK not supporting another empty suit speaks volumes. I wish him the best fightin the good fight amongst the snakes in the HR... from rev. nick: If there is one thing that is obvious, it is that Dennis Kucinich was systematically removed from this election. The corporate media made sure that his voice would not be heard. The Democratic Party excluded him as well. This was not happenchance, this was intentional. Why? Because he represents the people, not corporations. He stands for what nearly every single one of us wants to see accomplished in this country: the restoration of the constitution, worker rights, universal health care. If the citizens actually voted for their own interests, Kucinich would be a true threat to those in power and it would be a major step in reclaiming our democracy. The battle to restore integrity to our republic is a big one. Kucinich is a David before an plutocratic Goliath, and yet the citizens of this country vote for the giant because it can win.
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POPSLogos From Space If you can read a company's logo from a satellite in outer space, is it big enough? Is this better advertising than the superbowl commercials???
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POPSYou Call That Compassion?
6 BILLION dollars sent to Mexico from "guest workers" here (yes, and yearly) That "giant sucking sound" Ross Perot spoke of years back was the balloon of our economy deflating." Not only that but Mexico's former President Fox was trying to TAX that $$ at 35% by amending their constitution, I don't know if he did it, probably though. Even better, did anyone wonder why the banks started giving accounts and credit cards to illegal immigrants? They wanted a piece of the action, why else! Some charge between $80 to $100 dollars per $300 transferred or wired. You understand that Corporate America and their elitist politican enablers don't care about who works for slave wages, right? Why do think we have a department of immigration with a few rules in the first place? No matter how many hours you might try to work, $3-$5 an hour is not going to put food on the table for their families! And this is what some so-called compassionate people are defending! SLAVERY AS SOCIALISM!
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