To follow up yesterday’s rant on corporations, check out these statistics from 2000. Anyone care to bet that today it would be even worse?
Here’s one that isn’t on the outdated list:
Now, From China, the World’s Biggest Company
“PetroChina’s parent, CNPC, is the largest player in Sudan’s oil and natural gas industry. The activists say the oil money has helped prop up a regime that has been accused of sponsoring brutal militia campaigns in the western Darfur region, which President Bush has called a “genocide.”…”
Considering Walmart gets most of its goods from China and most of Sudan’s oil goes to China, it isn’t surprising the holocaust in the Darfur region of Sudan continues unabated.
I also am wondering why the Catholic Church isn’t on this list. It was the adi-multinational corporation and I thought it was still the biggest. Maybe they didn’t include nonprofits.
I don’t want anyone to think I am all caught up in conspiracy theory. I’m not.
For example, I don’t believe 9/11 was a government plot for the simple reason — follow the money. That incident cost the insurance industry beaucoup bucks. The economic cost to corporations was too great.
If they simply wanted to have an incident to rev up war fervor, they could have hit a large sporting event, probably the best would have been a NASCAR race. They would have gotten an equal or greater emotional response at a fraction of the economic cost. Ergo, it probably was some pissed off Arabs (who were Saudis, not Iraqis, FYI).
Anyway, in the face of all that economic power, yes, I am clinging to my religion. Chant God’s Names — no corporation has control over Them. :-)
