Mon Jan 5, 2015, 09:49 PM
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Author | Time | Post |
 Are today's global corporations dictatorships? (Original post) |
aspirant | Jan 2015 | OP |
| Faryn Balyncd | Jan 2015 | #1 | |
| aspirant | Jan 2015 | #3 | |
| Faryn Balyncd | Jan 2015 | #6 | |
| on point | Jan 2015 | #2 | |
| Tierra_y_Libertad | Jan 2015 | #4 | |
| Faryn Balyncd | Jan 2015 | #7 | |
| marmar | Jan 2015 | #5 | |
| 1step | Jan 2015 | #8 | |
| JEB | Jan 2015 | #9 | |
| silverweb | Jan 2015 | #10 | |
| aspirant | Jan 2015 | #11 | |
| appalachiablue | Jan 2015 | #14 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Jan 2015 | #12 | |
| aspirant | Jan 2015 | #13 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Jan 2015 | #15 | |
| aspirant | Jan 2015 | #16 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Jan 2015 | #17 |
Response to aspirant (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 09:57 PM
1. They are attempting to become "Too Big to Regulate" via Corporate Sovereignty "trade deals"
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(which have almost nothing to do with eliminating tariffs or duties, and everything to do with extending intellectual property monopolies and eliminating the ability of governments to do their constitutional duties (to protect the general welfare, the environment, labor conditions, safety, food labeling all of which are castrated in closeted negotiations ans fraudulently peddled to citizens (and Congressmen) as a "trade deal".) 
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Response to Faryn Balyncd (Reply #1)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 10:03 PM
3. Without regulation do they become the supreme authority?
Response to aspirant (Reply #3)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 10:09 PM
6. Well, when they can sue pesky governments in tribunals exempt from the judicial system, that's
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...getting a little closer. It at least puts them in a category of "personhood" shared by no real "persons" (a category of being able to sue for loss of profits and be exempt from the judicial system the founders set up.
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Response to aspirant (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 10:00 PM
2. Yes. Just not organized along territory lines, more vertical along chain
Response to aspirant (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 10:06 PM
marmar (74,128 posts)
5. Inverted Totalitarianism
Response to aspirant (Original post)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 10:13 PM
8. That's an Insult to Dictatorships Everywhere!
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Response to JEB (Reply #9)
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:05 AM
11. Global corporations = Dictatorships and Fascists
Response to JEB (Reply #9)
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:32 AM
appalachiablue (36,133 posts)
14. That's it precisely, and there's a nice ring to it.
Response to aspirant (Original post)
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:15 AM
12. "Free Markets = "Lawless Markets"
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