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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:12 PM
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My God!! "The Corporation" a film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and
Joel Bakan.

You won't believe this film. It will literally blow you away. I only had time to watch one chapter of it tonight.

If I had to say in general what it's about, I'd say the true state of fascism that we are living today. But it covers a lot. A whole lot of stuff.

The chapter on the Monsanto Corporation and Fox News by itself will having you wretching in disgust. The part about Bechtel Corporation owning water rights in Latin and South America, EVEN THE FUCKING RAIN THAT FALLS FROM THE SKY, will make you tremble with rage, as you watch people rioting and soldiers shooting them for trying to get water.

I'm almost afraid to watch the whole film from the beginning. Look it up. Find it. Watch it. Really explains why we demonize countries that care about health. Shows how corporations don't give a fuck about countries or nations. They don't give a flying fuck about america.

Shows how corrupt the judiciary is. Allowing corporations to patent LIVING ORGANISMS. You just suspect the judiciary is corrupt. You don't really know how bad it is.

Corporate America is truly the Great Whore, the Great Beast, the Great Satan. Really puts Bush in perspective.

For the first time, I truly feel that we may not be able to really recover from the system we have created. We talk a lot of shit about this and that, what we gonna do if "they" go too far and all that. Ha! We don't know what we're up against. We have no fucking clue.
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Terran1212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:15 PM
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1. I saw it and thought it was too ambitious
I saw Manufacturing Consent by the same people and thought that was a much better made movie.

This film sought out to put the very concept of the Corporation on trial, but what it really did was reduce itself to attacking certain cases where the Corporation acted in a very cruel way -- it failed to make a general attack on the idea of a corporation.

But yes, the Bechtel stuff was awful. I am applauding how the Bolivians defeated Bechtel and just recently elected an indigineous man to office.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:25 PM
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6. Too ambitious?!! WTF?
:wtf: Do you NOT want people to see it?

We'll just have to disagree on this one. We have no films around exposing corporations like this and you say it's too ambitious?

Manufacturing Consent was so boring I could barely get through it, and it really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.


This one however,...
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Terran1212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:29 PM
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7. It ends up confusing the audience with its barrage that has no clear ....
consensus.

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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:34 PM
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9. You maybe right since I haven't seen the whole thing yet. But still,
I think it's worth seeing. It has eye opening segments, and that's good enough for me.
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Terran1212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:35 PM
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10. Just wait until you get to the CEO of the world's largest carpet company
He has some great zingers against his own profession.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:44 PM
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11. I'll be able to watch it from the beginning tomorrow night. Can't wait.
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:17 PM
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2. It's on my Netflix list :>)
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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:23 PM
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3. It's on Sundance Channel...
tomorrow afternoon.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:25 PM
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4. Oh thanks for the heads up, I'll have to check that out. nt
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serryjw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:25 PM
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5. I saw it in the theaters
I loved it!
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Terran1212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:30 PM
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8. One of its Directors was just married
http://www.thecorporation.com/

The photograph is there.
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GrumpyGreg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:58 PM
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12. If corporate America is a great whore I am enriching at least three
of them sitting here typing.

Microsoft,Dell,and AOL.

We all need corporations---some are good,some are bad,

That's the way it is.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:09 PM
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13. Yeah Yeah. Oh well. Just forget about it because that's the way it is.
Really didn't know we have good corporations too.
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:22 PM
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14. No we don't by any means NEED corporations. Small businesses do just
as well, if not much much better, for towns as well as people, and without the fascist disconnection between the citizen and the entity. Its the disconnection from individuals that encourages such a level of corruption and abuse, because the accountability becomes diluted as the corporation becomes more and more a Goliath.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:40 PM
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16. Ironically, the courts have given them "person" status.
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akarnitz Donating Member (303 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:27 PM
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15. Thanks for the heads up.
I've gotta track this one down.
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