Rolls Royce sales rocket as super-rich drive in style - Manufacturing. A record number of Rolls-Royces was sold worldwide last year, the latest indicator that the super-rich remain insulated from global economic strife.
China leapfrogged the US to become the biggest buyer of Rolls-Royces for the first time in the group's 107-year history as sales to the country soared by 67 per cent to more than 1,000. Americans were the next biggest buyer of the emblem of luxury, with sales in the US rising 17 per cent to a record of about 990 vehicles. The UK remained in third place, reporting a 30 per cent jump in sales, to about 350 cars, an increase that contrasts sharply with the 4.4 per cent decline in total car registrations made across Britain last year. Apple Criticised for Lack of Transparency: Environmental and Social Responsibility Rating Last of 29 MNCs - Waste, Pollution & Recycling - Gaia Discovery Eco Living Sustainable Tourism Heritage. Top global electronics and consumer supplier Apple has come under severe criticism from a group of Chinese environmentalists who claim the company is being secretive about its pollution and social responsibility record.
By Jeremy Torr. Electronics workers in China often work long hours with very little holiday or spare timeShanghai, 22 Jan 2011.Giant electronics corporation Apple has been branded in a recent report as a serious environmental pollution offender. The report, by Chinese green organization called the Green Choice Initiative (GCI), claims Apple has been guilty of supporting polluting practices through its suppliers, and also of dodging questions about the results of that pollution – including poisoned workers. The report, which looked at 29 international companies which subcontracted much of their manufacturing to Chinese factories and suppliers, ranked Apple in last place for its response to hard questions asked on environmental and worker issues.
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But let’s face it. Few managers get their jobs because of their keen understanding of people, or their ability to bring people together when there are misunderstandings and differences. Most managers have never been taught how to be good managers. It’s almost as if they learn to be managers the same way they learn how to do performance reviews: by filling in the blanks. Instead of being guided by an understanding of human nature, treating the people who work for them as unique human beings, they base their actions on self-serving logic and clumsy attempts at control. The sham of corporate taxes. The sham of corporate taxes: Who is actually being dishonest?
By Tom Wright Most people believe we instituted corporate income taxes to reduce the tax burden elsewhere particularly on low-income/fixed-income Americans and to ensure that our corporate citizens pay their fair share for the economic opportunities our great country offers. Unfortunately, even a modest study of the history of taxation will quickly demonstrate that no corporation (or other similar corporate structure) in the recorded history of civilization has ever paid one thin dime or shekel or farthing or picayune or cowrie shell in taxes. Collected and remitted, yes. Corporate taxes are a sham « Moneyed Politicians.
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The Sham of Corporate Social Responsibility in the UK - Weekly Bulletin. Weekly Bulletin November 2011 Corporate Social Responsibility is promoted as corporate self-regulation whereby a business ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms.
Wikipedia states that the goal of CSR is to embrace responsibility for the company's actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. Once-Lauded BP Exposes Corporate Citizenship Sham. Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin (32) shoots over Denver Nuggets center Timofey Mozgov (25) during the second half at Staples Center.
(Richard Mackson / USA TODAY Sports) Rachel Beck New York. Milton Friedman once said companies cannot be socially responsible because they only exist to make as much money as possible. Corporate Welfare. Cutting Corporate Welfare by Ralph Nader. Seven Stories Press, 2000 Introduction Corporate welfare-the enormous and myriad subsidies, bailouts, giveaways, tax loopholes, debt revocations, loan guarantees, discounted insurance and other benefits conferred by government on business-is a function of political corruption. Corporate welfare programs siphon funds from appropriate public investments, subsidize companies ripping minerals from federal lands, enable pharmaceutical companies to gouge consumers, perpetuate anti-competitive oligopolistic markets, injure our national security, and weaken our democracy.
At a time when the national GDP is soaring, one in five children lives in deep poverty, one might expect that a public effort to curtail welfare would focus on cutting big handouts to rich corporations, not small supports for poor individuals. Physicians For A National Health Program Join Occupy Wall Street Protesters For Rally On Sunday Against Corporate Greed Of Insurance Companies. CBS New York (con't) Affordable Care Act Updates: CBSNewYork.com/ACA Health News & Information: CBSNewYork.com/Health NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – Doctors and nurses are joining the Occupy Wall Street movement on Sunday afternoon at Zuccotti Park to share their frustration over a lack of adequate healthcare for the 99 percent. Corporate Greed Versus Public Need – Have We learned Nothing From the Great Recession? 'The fact is that the people who made out like bandits, shoved money into their own pockets by the bucketful, and drove our economy into a crisis, have no apparent shame.' - Larry Brown.
By Larry BrownNational Secretary-TreasurerNational Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) Ottawa (26 Oct. 2009) -It’s pretty clear that for too many Canadians, times are tough. As just one example, Nortel workers and retirees are facing huge losses of their pension plans, their severance, and their disability protection, because to all intents Nortel has gone belly-up. But not all current or former Nortel employees are facing these problems. The CEO that got Nortel into this mess, one John Roth, still has every penny of the $159 million he was paid while steering the company into the ditch, and the five senior company officials still have the $400 million they got paid between 1999 and 2008. Protests against corporate greed spread across the globe. LONDON AND SEOUL — The protests against corporate greed born last month on New York's Wall Street spread across the world Saturday, with fed-up demonstrators staging marches in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
In London, a crowd of placard-waving protesters, watched by scores of vigilant police, gathered on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral, and then moved toward the London Stock Exchange building nearby. "We are here in solidarity with those protesting in the United States," said Sean Murray, an engineering student at the University of London. "The problems we face are exactly the same: a system in which a financial crisis was caused by bankers and people who make money, and people who don't make money have to pay for it. " Index. Corporate greed, corruption, and the coming collapse of America as we know it. Anger at greed goes global: protests boil around the world. Rioters hijack Rome protests Italian riot police in Rome fired tear gas and water cannons as violent protesters hijacked a peaceful demonstration against corporate greed. 16, 2011 Occupy Sydney protester arrested The Occupy Wall Street protest against income disparity spread across Western Europe, Asia, the US and Canada today.
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India’s problem is graft, not corporate greed: Industry. A world taken by corporate greed. The provocation of human existence is how we place ourselves on the world scene. Corporation-Government Greed - Future Of America? The Global Economy’s Corporate Crime Wave - Jeffrey D. Sachs. Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space NEW YORK – The world is drowning in corporate fraud, and the problems are probably greatest in rich countries – those with supposedly “good governance.” Poor-country governments probably accept more bribes and commit more offenses, but it is rich countries that host the global companies that carry out the largest offenses. Russian Shareholder Activist Exposes Corporate Greed. A PRIME EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN CORPORATE GREED. The Cover Story in the November 2011 issue of Bloomberg Markets identified one of the best examples of American Corporate Greed I have ever read.
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