my thoughts: if corporations are considered as a single legal entity composed of a group of employees and shareholders, then and fines and prosecutions given to the corporation should therefor share the fines and prosecutions as individuals. IE if a corparation, through neglegence or whatever, is given a 100 year sentance, every stock holder with 1% share would be liable for 1 year in the slammer. That would surely make the stockholders hold thier investments tio a standard other that “do whatever you have to do to make my money back,” which is the current status quo with corporate investment.
BP Criminal Case in Oil Spill May Be Inevitable, Analysts Say – Bloomberg.
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Jul 04 2010
Hyperspectral archive image of the declaration of independence shows the founding fathers started to call us subject- but then realised: we’re not subjects of any crown, we’re all contributing citizens.
I posit that we have become subject again; not to any monarchry, but rather to the oligarchy of corporate America, who has far greater influence over our govormental mechanisms than any group of mere citizens can ever hope to equal.
I reccommend a a declaration of corporate independence.
Draft of Declaration of Independence named subjects, not citizens – Boing Boing.
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Jul 03 2010
that video link seems to have been pulled: have a look at the following
YouTube – BP Oil Spill: Kindra Arnesen Venice LA Needs to Evacuate.
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Jun 26 2010
you do not belong in a position of power.
According to the Associated Press, Barton has taken more than $100,000 in political contributions from oil and gas interests since the beginning of 2009, more than all but one other member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
via Rep. Joe Barton Apologizes to BP’s Tony Hayward for White House “Shakedown” Video – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.
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Jun 18 2010
Creativity & progress: the most importanct aspects of evolution, adaptation, and survival.
Nothing is more important than being able to think outside the box; still, all that counts at the end of the day is what you can put back in that box.
This has become ever more my mantra, as I try to parse which projects should be given the green light and which will have to wait out the parenting time crunch gauntlet. I have way too many ideas, small large, infesmental, global, you name the scale I can pull up an associated pipe dream and a handful of supporting notes from some randome sketchbook. And there is no stemming the tide, to be sure. But none of these ideas are worth the paper on which they’re written being used to wipe yer bum unless they- or at least some of them- or at least one of them gets past the idea stage and initialise it’s festering presence in the interactive world of shared space (either physical or virtual).
Anyway this parenting thing takes up a lot of time, which is ironic as now I’m as productive & motivated as ever I have been.
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May 18 2010