And then emotion, Sandi.

that you would hold in contempt someone who would dare to choose what food she would like to PRODUCE and then call her a NAZI

Read carefully.

It's not the fault of corporations that the population is becoming steadily dumber. Are you saying that corporations do not re-educate their employees about social collectivism? In case you didn't realise it, a great many corporations have their own libraries (in the name of charity of course, to help staff members advance), do you honestly think that corporations and THEIR universities teach anything other than the agenda required to "capture markets" (rape and pillage). Take a look at this link, people are not individuals they are HUMAN CAPTIAL. http://www.kwench.in/kwench/ne...

"Social Analytics
Leverage our powerful social analytics engine to spot potential winners amongst your employees. In-depth analytics on the engagement, recognition, social behavior, retention quotients of employees can help companies gain insights into the winning behaviors."

http://www.dukece.com/educator...
Duke CE has strong formal relationships with three schools:

Our parent, Duke University
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA)

Our partner schools help us be at once more “local” and more “global” in our thinking.

that you would hold in contempt someone who would dare to choose what food she would like to PRODUCE and then call her a NAZI for being passionate about being prevented from doing it!! With Codex Alimentarius knocking down small producers left, right and centre, what market percentage has TESCO in compassion to a small goat herder and who stands to loose the most for selling dodgy goods?

I do hope you enjoy your GE food.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

"We see them AS OUR TENTACLES INTO THE COMMUNITY” That wording would not have got past me.

The likes of George Adams are interested in a return on investment for shareholders. Could he shrug? No - wrong line of work for that. He is another executive guided by a strategy that will appeal to customers. Corporates act to mitigate their potentially poor image. This makes it a competitive race to the lowest common denominator. Such companies try to gain efficiencies while also talking an environmentalist’s language. They are also aware that customers generally want this type of behaviour. It's not the fault of corporations that the population is becoming steadily dumber. I see where you're coming from and it is near impossible to find a corporation which does not buy into environmentalist and/or public responsibility nonsense. I've been considering this subject. I see it as another example of the broken window fallacy. The compliance costs are borne by consumers who then have less to spend elsewhere. To whatever extent it occurs, it is malinvestment. Corporations are the victims of the predominant altruism in that respect. There are few exceptions. One may be BB&T under John Allison. Even Apple advertises its green credentials, and its shareholders must be supportive. The population is that far removed from reality.

The first video you linked to shows people protesting the “pillage and rape” of unpasteurised goat milk and cheese products from a hippy enterprise. Environmentalist Mariel Hemingway lent her holistic glamour to the goat-milkers’ clamour. “People need to eat health food” said one food-Nazi.

A little poking around Mariel and I dug up some background. She is “passionate about the environment.” So am I, but the ideas I hold would benefit the environment, contrasting with the damage she does.

http://www.looktothestars.org/...

The next link shows dear deluded Mariel to be against genetically modified crops. She is America’s version of Lucy Lawless. And like Lucy, she is unconcerned that her policies are starving millions due to the hike in fuel prices due to biofuels and the restrictions on fossil fuel discovery, windfarms etc ad infinitum.

http://www.infowars.com/mariel...
I agree with the greens that people should know what’s in their food. But these goat-milkers are the same who would enact bans and controls, and food labelling regulations, which, as we’ve seen from the UK Tesco 29% horse meat specials, do little to protect the consumer. Capitalism is the driver for honest products. You don’t get greens alongside capitalism.

Your bent on corporations is misaimed, you could be targetting statists for the mixed economy.

And of course helping the World Wild Life Fund in protecting the polar bears, is something to be proud of.

A quick glance at the corporation Coca-Cola Amatil (the plantation)

30 August, 2012 – The Coca-Cola Australia Foundation (CCAF) has appointed Julie White, the former Global Head of the Macquarie Group Foundation and one of Australia’s leading experts in corporate philanthropy, as its new Chair.

"Our vision is to enable social entrepreneurs worldwide" - Macquarie Group Foundation

About determining funding "our philosophy is very much around working in partnership WITH Macquarie staff….“One of the key underlying reasons that we would give to an organisation is actually wrapped around our staff. We see them AS OUR TENTACLES INTO THE COMMUNITY”
– Social Business “Julie White” on Sky News - link courtesy of centre of social impact

How do you promote socialism, you become community organisers. After all you can't push your product unless you build the infrastructure to make it and then make the community pay for it which secures bondage to and the labour of the production of it. (force multiplier - Keynesian economics) and that is precisely why I refer to corporations as plantations.

"Today, over one billion people lack adequate access to safe drinking water, and degradation of freshwater habitats threatens wildlife, plants and the ecosystems that people and nature depend on for survival. Water is critical to sustaining nature, communities and businesses." And it’s a jolly good job that the United Nations is making HUGE LAND GRABS throughout the world - in particular mountains, rivers and water catchment areas. Have you any idea how much land, rivers and mountains have been declared World Heritage Sites just in NZ alone??

I haven't even touched on the enormous size and scope of Macquarie (the banking group alone has 14,000 staff in 70 countries), it’s just too big to start at scratch, but I will say that back in 2008 Macquarie University was offering courses geared up for the Arab Spring "The Challenges Facing Muslims on the Path to Political Change" .

Chief executives and unionists have weighed in on the debate sparked by a soft drink boss' comments that New Zealand's "ingrained" anti-corporate mentality is stifling the growth of companies.

In a report in yesterday's Business Herald, Coca-Cola Amatil NZ managing director George Adams said New Zealanders had a distrustful relationship with big business that was unhealthy for the country.

"I think it's part of the tall poppy syndrome," said Northern Ireland-born Mr Adams, who will leave the top role at the soft drink firm and return to Europe in June.

"There's a very negative connotation with the word 'corporate' in New Zealand - it's used in a very negative way."

The overseer's wield infringement notices instead of whips.

Corporations cannot exist outside of government control. A corporation is licensed. Individual Proprietors and partnerships can but of course this is becoming increasingly more difficult

Corporations have the same legal status as a person, yet a corporation is not sent to jail nor pays the same amount of tax. In comparrison to the wealth of an individual, a corporation has unlimited resources essentially rendering any legal resolutions to be David versus Goliath show downs.

A single corporation can exert more influence in government policy than a single person. This is highlighted by government support in corporate bailouts. When corporations fail they can be rewarded by government support, when a person fails they are prosecuted by a government court.

If a corporation goes bankrupt after its assets have been liquidated and there is no money to pay off the creditors, the debt can die with the corporation and the corporate owners might not be liable to pay off the debts. This promotes risk taking in business. In a free (unregulated) market, business partners would not be limited in liability, instead they would be held responsible to pay off the debt themselves.

Corporations cannot operate in a "Free" Market.

You describe the existing set up but there are exceptions and generally that is a crazy sentiment.

Explain why a corporation is a contradiction.

Corporations cannot exist without the force of government, the same force of government that individuals fight against.

We fought the nazis only to watch Europe and the majority of the world slowly be strangled by socialism..

...they must have hardened their stance on Global Warming because last election they said they would have a review (only) into whether the current climate change policy was good value for money. They must be influenced by Lord Monckton who is now head of policy for the party.

I remember ACT too were staunchly against Global Warming policies until they got into power in NZ and then did a U-turn.

I talked to Kenny a while ago (once posted on SOLO) who was Farage's political advisor for a while and asked him where had all UKIP's free market policies gone. He told me people mistakenly thought the party was Libertarian when he was advising Farage. But I guess that's one of the reasons he left.

I currently live in New Zealand.

UKIP are keeping the NHS principles and bringing in localised controls, and advising foreigners to have adequate health insurance. A start. Their freebies (dental) aren't good.

Left of the Tories? I don't believe so. UKIP champion the Great Global Warming Swindle. That puts them strongly for the cause of liberty in their energy policy, which is the best I've seen.

Do you live in the UK?

“Climate Change” is so last-century

More and more scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom on Global Warming. The ground-breaking 2004 Channel Four film “The Great Global Warming Swindle” set out the scientific case against climate alarmism, with interviews with top scientists in the field. In the eight years since then, it’s been confirmed by events — Professor Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia recognises that there has been no statistically significant warming for fifteen years. In fact over the last century the temperature has increased by only about 0.7° C.

...do you live in the UK?

I like Farage too, he is one of the few sane voices in the EU parliament.

However last election UKIP campaigned on the platform that the money the UK would save by leaving the EU would be spent on "front-line" services. Not reducing taxes or paying off the deficit.

That means more money spent on the NHS, education, welfare etc...and this was at the time of already massive spending on those things by a Labour Government.

To my mind this puts the party to the left of the Tories.

So why chapmpion that?

"They have one policy they are good on, Europe, and that's it."

UKIP is great for that alone. A very important policy.

If Cameron were KASSless he would be brown nosing Farage at the moment.

I have debated UKIP members on Facebook, one of them standing as a candidate for UKIP, and they are often more left-wing than the Tories.

They attack Cameron for anything he does, even when he is right.

For example they do not like the so-called "privitisations" Cameron has made in the NHS or his cutting back of child benefit.

They have one policy they are good on, Europe, and that's it.

... the cut of his jib:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Ed's op-ed underscores the truth of Farage's claim that the Tories have become just another "social democratic party."

KASSless Cameron is clearly spooked. Good.

The fight against statism is most effectively being carried out by Nigel Farage.

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'Conviction' ... Farage

By EMILY ASHTON
Published: 08th January 2013

UKIP leader Nigel Farage hit back at David Cameron yesterday and admitted: “I AM odd.”
Mr Farage was responding to the PM’s claim that members of the anti—EU party are “pretty odd people”.

He said: “I’m odd in the sense that I’m a conviction politician. I’m not doing this for a career — or for rank opposition.

“I’m here as a campaigner. I want to free this country from the European Union. That is my motivation — maybe I’m odd in that sense.”

He also stressed how he differed from other party leaders, saying: “Unlike all the others I actually had a job in the real world for 20 years.”

Mr Cameron attacked UKIP after polls revealed the party was enjoying soaring levels of support.

But Mr Farage said the PM was “insulting a very large number of his own voters” who worried about Europe, immigration and wind farms.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...