The Network of Global Corporate Control. Abstract The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers. Citation: Vitali S, Glattfelder JB, Battiston S (2011) The Network of Global Corporate Control. Editor: Alejandro Raul Hernandez Montoya, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico Received: March 29, 2011; Accepted: September 15, 2011; Published: October 26, 2011 Copyright: © 2011 Vitali et al. . .
Nestlé chairman says water is not a human right | Keithpp's Blog. In a candid interview for the documentary We Feed the World, Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck makes the astonishing claim that water isn’t a human right. He attacks the idea that nature is good, and says it is a great achievement that humans are now able to resist nature’s dominance. He attacks organic agriculture and says genetic modification is better. Nestlé is the world’s biggest bottler of water. Brabeck claims – correctly – that water is the most important raw material in the world. However he then goes on to say that privatisation is the best way to ensure fair distribution.
He believes that the ultimate social responsibility of any Chairman is to make as much profit as possible, so that people will have jobs. And just to underline what a lovely man he is, he also thinks we should all be working longer and harder. Consequences of water privatisation The consequences of water privatisation have been devastating on poor communities around the world.
The Nestlé boycott Like this: Dun & Bradstreet - Company Search Results. Fusion Center Locations and Contact Information. State and major urban area fusion centers (fusion centers) are owned and operated by state and local entities, and are designated by the governor of their state. In accordance with the Federal Resource Allocation Criteria (RAC) policy, which defines objective criteria and a coordinated approach for prioritizing the allocation of federal resources to fusion centers, the federal government recognizes these designations and has a shared responsibility with state and local governments to support the national network of fusion centers. The following includes the list of primary and recognized fusion centers (associated contact information). Primary fusion centers serve as the focal points within the state and local environment for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information and have additional responsibilities related to the coordination of critical operational capabilities across the statewide fusion process with other recognized fusion centers.
» Vatican Calls for “Central World Bank” Alex Jones. Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com October 24, 2011 The Vatican has called for a “global public authority” and a world central bank to rule over financial affairs in the wake of the engineered economic collapse. A document released by the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department “should be music to the ears of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn,” according to CNBC.
Condemning the “idolatry of the market,” the document states that the “economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence.” The planned implosion of the global economy “has revealed behaviors like selfishness, collective greed and hoarding of goods on a great scale.” It will take time to replace economic policies and in the process destroy national sovereignty, according to the Vatican.
BUSTED! Encyclical Pacem in Terris of John XXIII, 11 April 1963. To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and all other Local Ordinaries who are at Peace and in Communion with the Apostolic See, and to the Clergy and Faithful of the entire Catholic World, and to all Men of Good Will. Venerable Brethren and Dearest Sons Health and Apostolic Benediction. Peace on Earth—which man throughout the ages has so longed for and sought after—can never be established, never guaranteed, except by the diligent observance of the divinely established order. Order in the Universe 2. That a marvelous order predominates in the world of living beings and in the forces of nature, is the plain lesson which the progress of modern research and the discoveries of technology teach us. And it is part of the greatness of man that he can appreciate that order, and devise the means for harnessing those forces for his own benefit. 3.
Order in Human Beings 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Rights 11. Rights Pertaining to Moral and Cultural Values 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Towards Reforming Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority. Preface Presupposition 1. Economic Development and Inequalities2. The Role of Technology and the Ethical Challenge3. Conclusions Preface “The world situation requires the concerted effort of everyone, a thorough examination of every facet of the problem – social, economic, cultural and spiritual. With these words, in the prophetic and always relevant Encyclical Populorum Progressio of 1967, Pope Paul VI outlined in a clear way “the trajectories” of the Church’s close relation with the world.
The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through summons everyone, as individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values that underlie social coexistence. In this perspective, as Pope Benedict XVI teaches, the crisis “obliges us to re-plan our journey, to set ourselves new rules and to discover new forms of commitment, to build on positive experiences and to reject negative ones. Peter K. Bishop Mario TosoSecretary Presupposition 1. 2. 3. Code of Canon Law. See also: Credits IntraText CT is the hypertextualized text together with wordlists and concordances.Help: Overview - Text & search - Lists - Concordances - Glossary - For easier reading... - Table of Contents - Statistics and graphs (Occurrences: 131322. Words: 7454) Credits. US Housing Crisis - Negative Equity Infographic.
Corporate personhood. Corporate personhood is the legal notion that a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons (physical humans).[1] In the United States and most countries, corporations have a right to enter into contracts with other parties and to sue or be sued in court in the same way as natural persons or unincorporated associations of persons. In a U.S. historical context, the phrase 'Corporate Personhood' refers to the ongoing legal debate over the extent to which rights traditionally associated with natural persons should also be afforded to corporations.
A headnote issued by the Court Reporter in the 1886 Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. In the United States[edit] As a matter of interpretation of the word "person" in the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. courts have extended certain constitutional protections to corporations. In the 1886 case Santa Clara v. Private Prosecutions: Legal Guidance: The Crown Prosecution Service. Top of page Principle A private prosecution is a prosecution started by a private individual who is not acting on behalf of the police or any other prosecuting authority or body which conducts prosecutions. The right to bring private prosecutions is preserved by section 6(1) Prosecution of Offences Act, 1985 . There are, however, some controls: the DPP has power under section 6(2) Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 to take over private prosecutions; in some cases, the private prosecutor must seek the consent of the Attorney General or of the DPP before the commencement of proceedings.
In principle, there is nothing wrong in allowing a private prosecution to run its course through to verdict and, in appropriate cases, sentence. The fact that a private prosecution succeeds is not an indication that the case should have been prosecuted by the CPS. The decision whther or not to take over a private prosecution should be made by the CCP (or Deputy CCP) or relevant Head of Casework Divisions. State's highest court backs lying in politics. OLYMPIA -- You just can't keep a politician from lying. In a 5-4 ruling Thursday, the state Supreme Court struck down a 1999 law that banned political candidates from intentionally lying about their opponents. The high court majority said the law was an affront to free speech.
"The notion that the government, rather than the people, may be the final arbiter of truth in political debate is fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment," Justice Jim Johnson wrote in the majority opinion. The dissent called the decision "an invitation to lie with impunity. " That temptation was already in place, said Travis Ridout, a political science professor at Washington State University.
Candidates have long felt free to say their opponent had voted to raise taxes 50 times the previous year, hated children or was soft on crime -- regardless of the facts. The American Civil Liberties Union hailed the ruling as an important victory for free speech. State Sen. "There's no downside to lying," he said. Oligopoly. An oligopoly is a market form in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers (oligopolists). Oligopolies can result from various forms of collusion which reduce competition and lead to higher prices for consumers.[1] With few sellers, each oligopolist is likely to be aware of the actions of the others.
The decisions of one firm therefore influence and are influenced by the decisions of other firms. [citation needed] Strategic planning by oligopolists needs to take into account the likely responses of the other market participants. [citation needed] Description[edit] Oligopoly is a common market form where a number of firms are in competition. Oligopolistic competition can give rise to a wide range of different outcomes. Firms often collude in an attempt to stabilize unstable markets, so as to reduce the risks inherent in these markets for investment and product development.
Oligopoly theory makes heavy use of game theory to model the behavior of oligopolies: . How The News Works. Program-adapting-to-the-new-world-order-1.pdf (application/pdf Object) Concentration of media ownership. Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation or media convergence) is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.[1] Contemporary research demonstrates increasing levels of consolidation, with many media industries already highly concentrated and dominated by a very small number of firms.[2][3] Globally, large media conglomerates include Viacom, CBS Corporation, Time Warner, News Corporation, Bertelsmann AG, Sony, Comcast, Vivendi, Televisa, The Walt Disney Company, Hearst Corporation, Organizações Globo and Lagardère Group.[4][5][6] As of 2012, The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the US, with News Corporation, Time Warner and Viacom ranking second, third and fourth respectively.[7] Mergers[edit] Media oligopoly[edit] Elimination of net neutrality[edit] Net neutrality is also at stake when media mergers occur.
Debates and issues[edit] Diversity of viewpoints[edit] Other[edit] The CIA: America's Premier International Terrorist Organization. Question by Congressman William Alexander, Jr. So you worked for Mr. [John] Gotti as well as for the CIA? Answer by Richard Brenneke. Actually the CIA told me to do that on his behalf. Q. CIA operations follow the same recurring script. Alongside and underneath these visible structures is a veritable menagerie of secret planning cabals and "operational units" that try to put the contending strategies of different power centers of capital into effect. The CIA's Drug-Trafficking Activities The CIA's operational directorate, in other words that's their covert operations, para-military, dirty tricks — call it whatever you want — has for at least 40 years that we can document paid for a significant amount of its work through the sales of heroin and cocaine. — Guerrilla News Network's Interview with Christopher Simpson The U.S.
By the end of the 1980's it was calculated that the illegal use of drugs in the United States now netted its controllers over $110 billion a year. — Modern Times, p.782. Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace. It is not easy to escape from one's skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let's take a few examples. The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to be reversed. Iran is carrying out a murderous and destructive low-level war against Israel with great-power participation. Iranian leaders are therefore announcing their intention to bomb Israel, and prominent Iranian military analysts report that the attack may happen before the U.S. elections. Iran can use its powerful air force and new submarines sent by Germany, armed with nuclear missiles and stationed off the coast of Israel.
All unimaginable, of course, though it is actually happening, with the cast of characters reversed. Like its patron, Israel resorts to violence at will. Iran too has carried out aggression -- but during the past several hundred years, only under the U.S. Sweden would be honored for this principled stand. Obama wins right to indefinitely detain Americans under NDAA. Untitled. Psychopathic Personality Traits Linked With U.S. Presidential Success, Psychologists Suggest.
Lack of guilt, fearlessness and interpersonal dominance -- that may sound like a description of a high-powered executive or politician, but it's actually a list of traits commonly found in psychopaths. According to new research, this similarity may not be a coincidence. A team of researchers at Emory University in Atlanta recently found that the fearless dominance associated with psychopathy may predict presidential performance.
The study was published in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. "Certain psychopathic traits may be like a double-edged sword," the study's lead author Dr. Scott Lilienfeld, a psychologist at Emory, said in a written statement. The researchers compiled personality assessments of the 42 previous U.S. presidents -- up to and including George W. Out of all the former presidents tested in the Emory study, Theodore Roosevelt ranked the highest for fearless dominance, according to the researchers. Also on HuffPost: H.A.A.R.P. New World Order Information. The Federal Reserve, a Privately Owned Banking Cartel, Has Been Given Police Powers, with Glock 22s and Patrol Cars.
Fractional Reserve Banking. Money As Debt - Full Length Documentary. Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness. Bankers. International Development Association (IDA) - World Bank’s fund for poor countries.