Most all of us who have watched television cannot miss the flood of commercials that, we have often been told, help support the artists creating the entertainment as well as the corporate distribution network that brings the shows to us. It seems to me that the time granted to commercials on television versus the time…
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Corporate Crime still Pays
KPMG LLC settlement with Justice Department and an unrelated Small Business Administration scandal.
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The end of petroleum dependent lifestyles, including a link to Jan Lundgren’s article and to an alternate view by Scott Tinker.
Continue readingChoicePoint, Corporatism, and Welfare.
If Derek Smith espouses a theory that everyone is better off if “everyone can check the background of anyone else”, then he hasn’t achieved much other than to enrich his own pocket at others’ expense. Perhaps his vision of a transparent society is just another sales pitch he is using to his own and ChoicePoint’s benefit.
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