Category: Commerce

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Robin Good: Google is Neither Trusted Nor Relevant –Human Curation Still the Best

Commerce, Corruption
Robin Good
Robin Good

You Can Be a Trusted Guide To The Most Relevant Information Online: Not Google

Matt Rosoff writes on Business Insider UK: “A lot of people think Google Search is like a map: An objective guide to the best and most important material on the internet. It's not. Google Search is the most important product of a very wealthy and successful for-profit company. And Google will use this product to further its own commercial ends.” (Not to help people find the most relevant info to their own learning needs.)

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Buying Democracy = Bribe $1 Gets $760 Back

Commerce, Corruption, Government
Antechinus
Antechinus

For Every Dollar Spent Influencing US Politics, Corporations Get $760 Back

The first time we read the recent analysis by the Sunlight Foundation in which it combed through 14 million corporate records, including data on campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures, federal budget allocations and spending, in order to determine the “rate of return” on lobbying and spending to buy political goodwill, we were left speechless.

When it comes to the rate of return on lobbying, the rates are simply staggering, and range anywhere between 5,900% for oil subsidies, to 22,000% for multinational tax breaks and even higher for America's legal drug dealers.

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Harold Meyerson: The Big Skim — How Financial Scams Suck Money from Corporations Instead of Investing in Capability and Jobs

03 Economy, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government

Harold Meyerson

Shareholders’ big skim

As a result of the shareholder revolution, the money that once went to expansion and new ventures has gone instead into shareholders’ pockets.

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Mongoose: Plastic Not Being Recycled – China Refuses Further Trash Imports — Plastic Can Be Converted Into Fuel…

03 Environmental Degradation, Commerce, Corruption, Government
Mongoose
Mongoose

We are lied to about what is being done to plastic, and our government is unethical and ignorant about what can be done to convert plastic into fuel.

Think your plastic is being recycled? Think again.

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Berto Jongman: Oil and Military Intervention – Once Again, “Conspiracy Theorists” Are Right On Target

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Oil and Military Intervention: Are the Conspiracy Theorists Right?

The probability that an “oil-thirsty” country will intervene in a civil war in an oil-producing country is over 100 per cent greater than the probability that an oil-exporting country will intervene in a civil war in a country that lacks oil resources.

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Jefferey Jaxen: Medical Informed Consent Gone

07 Health, Commerce, Ethics, Government
Jeff Jaxen
Jeff Jaxen

Western Medicine In Trouble: The Death of Informed Consent

A monumental ethical issue is hovering over the entire medical establishment in the United States that threatens its integrity and trust. The human element is being removed from the equation, replaced by computers to give us our options, and legislation to remove our choice. Somewhere in the shuffle, the individual’s informed consent was broken down, lost in the paperwork, and made irrelevant.

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