THE CORPORATION [20/23] Hostile Takeover Video

20. Despotism was often a useful tool for the corporation to secure foreign markets. Corporations once even attempted to overthrow New Deal President Roosevelt and impose a fascist dictatorship in the US. The story of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler.

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@ducttapeandzipties ...
@ducttapeandzipties Sorry. You never know who's going to watch what. What? would your fund-raising strategy be?

Odd feedback for ...
Odd feedback for this video yet? again.

Hey there, this is ...
Hey there, this is ducttapeandzipties. I was going to? donate you a dollar. Till you annoyed the hell out of me by putting an ad at the end of every clip.

@Valdris1987 They ...
@Valdris1987 They suppressed opposition with force, now? the boundaries aren't physical but psychological. It's all propaganda, sensationalism and consumerism instead of the KGB or SS.

lol all conspiracy? ...
lol all conspiracy? theorist

@Bodhidharma1986 ...
@Bodhidharma1986 Couldn't have worded it better myself. They only allow so many characters into one post though so it's difficult to construct what I really have to say into one coherent thought. Oh well, it's all here in this documentary. Plenty of instances of the general populace's very well-being being taken away by corporations and their enablers within the U.S. government. Wish? people would open their hearts and minds to thought that nobody is going to save us, we must do it ourselves.

@EternalSage07 Sure ...
@EternalSage07 Sure. Part of the "Containment Policy" instilled by Wilson during the first Red Scare here, after the fall of the Czar, in 1918. Then, that followed throughout the 50s and into the Cold war to the 90s. The constant threat of "Communism" in US planning documents. No matter? what movement you're a part of (anarchist, socialist, communist, utopianist, whatever), the State planners and corporate structures always referred to free-thought and general concern for others as "Communism".

@EternalSage07 ...
@EternalSage07 Tacitus wrote " the more numerous the? laws, the more corrupt the state" If you have no talent, the government cannot supply you with a life. A good government is when the people are superior and could exist without a government. The government that governs the least , governs the best. In the free market, you vote with your pocketbook. If you want an example, the government put out billions for green jobs and all the money went from your pocket to others

Oh yes, there's a ...
Oh yes, there's a new bigotry being enforced in this country and it isn't the masses picking on poor minority corporations, or those of racial segregation in the South. It's our rich slave drivers whipping the backs of the middle class into submission and having government? impose unfair advantage to greedy CEOs so much that the employees (ya know, the people who are doing the actual work) can barely afford to feed our families and pay for utilities in the same month.

@CarmineFragione ...
@CarmineFragione That argument is such a false analogy. You can't compare a government job to a private business job because they have different purposes. Government exists to provide infrastructure and to create, pass and enforce laws wherever appropriate. The problem is mainly the fact that? we've got corrupt government allowing the large corporations, which exists solely to turn a profit, to do whatever they want via the 14th amendment, deny people of our rights and now $ trumps justice.

@Bodhidharma1986 ...
@Bodhidharma1986 Don't forget the fact that our politics and decision making in D.C. is all up to the lobbyists from private corporations who sway government hands. If it were anybody else aside from our rich oppressors, they'd be thrown in jail. The top 1-2% in our economy make a profit off our misery and back breaking labor, why would they want to give that up luxury up for them and their families so everyone else could be happy? That's why they try? to demonize socialism every chance they get.

Bluth corporation ...
Bluth corporation built houses in? Iraq for profit.

Considering that, ...
Considering that, that's what people are up against. The own the financial system, the housing market, the own the Propaganda Model (or "The Media"), the have investment power to have private control over world raw resources, and? so on. Since they own such a high level of infrastructure in the society (nearly all), the laws are always constructed to benefit them and allow them to remain in power. By law and in principle of those laws they create. Keep fighting and educating out there!!

Societies differ, ...
Societies differ, but in The US? (and other countries that are state-capitalist with corporate infrastructure) decisions that are made regarding investment, production, distribution, trade, and so on are in the hands of nothing but corporations. They staff the high Executive positions in the government (the White House, President, so on) and they own The Media as well. Therefore, because they staff policymakers that make their laws, they have to always be in a position to make all the decisions.

Societies differ, ...
Societies differ, but in The US (and other countries that are state-capitalist with corporate infrastructure) decisions? that are made regarding investment, production, distribution, trade, and so on are in the hands of nothing but corporations. They staff the high Executive positions in the government (the White House, President, so on) and they own The Media as well. Therefore, because they staff policymakers that make their laws, they have to always be in a position to make all the decisions.

@ExaggeratedCool ...
@ExaggeratedCool you have your choice of the Soviet Bund , that didn't work out, or the Nazi Fascist State and that did not work out. So why in the world you attack Wall Street ? Anyone can invest in stocks, and anyone can get off their ass and go to? work. But some people think they can steal the other guy's thunder, with a magical trick of politics, You better get your head straight, " To the Victors belongs the Spoils" And it ought to be the people who made the business !

@CarmineFragione To ...
@CarmineFragione To call a corporation a "clique" HIGHLY underplays its power in controlling what the government does. As I said before, the corporations have the money, and because they have the money the government feels the need to rely on them.? Because they must rely on these companies for money these companies are able to 'get by' with doing shady/illegal acts without being punished. That's a problem. Money may buy freedom, but it shouldn't be able to buy freedom of the law.

@CarmineFragione ...
@CarmineFragione Its not a matter of ruling over their affairs as it is making sure they are not committing illegal acts. The men and woman who run corporations don't know anything about the trades that are involved in making, or creating? their product. Just like those who work for the government they are paper pushers, they work in high rises and offices, they aren't the ones welding and working in the factories. Talk is what gets laws passed, and so does money....corporations have have money.

@ExaggeratedCool ...
@ExaggeratedCool Corporate America is a clique of Consumers and Manufacturers. Why should some other agency rule over their affairs ? A matter a Law ? We have the Courts, but can the Judge make an automobile, ? Can the President make an airplane ?? Government cannot make anything, they are paper pushers and no workers of metal and iron. Corporate America is about actually making things and all else is just about TALK TALK TALK. That is why Russia failed, Talk does nothing

@flem202 ...
@flem202 Unfortunately most people think that. Most people have decided that corporations are the worlds only hope to survive. 'If they're not on our side, where do we get our money from?' Sadly, in a way it's true. We've? put so much dependency on corporations that they are the only thing we have to fall on now, and they know that, and take advantage of it.

@CarmineFragione ...
@CarmineFragione The rich and corporate America already? run the US, you're a little late on that.

If the common man ...
If the common man wants to own his own Government, he must pay the TAX BILL. For whomever ends up paying the bills , gets the power in his lap. So the Far Left wants to tax the rich and then what ? The Rich lobby the Government until those who pay the Taxes are telling the Politicians what to do, and then it is Anarchy and a war against the Corporate State ? You asked for it, if you want Freedom, it? is not free, you must pay the Taxes and then you own the government. HYPOCRITES.

If this is the best ...
If this is the best the far left can do , they haven't much of a future. When the Government owns the means of production it is called a Monopoly. ? It is all about who is wearing what hat. But to imply common people would have control of their government if the government owned the means of production, that is a failed theory. "Power corrupts and absolute Power corrupts absolutely." If the common people want to own their government, they must pay the taxes, not the rich.

guilt by ...
guilt by association is propaganda crap, and truth is about cause and effect. The concept of condemning the Corporations , outside of the reason they exist, that is to drive the market economy with products people want to buy, is then propaganda and is worthless drivel in the real free market place of ideas. Some conspiracy that has no prosecution and judicial findings, does not prove any points about whether corporations are? innately good or evil it only means someone is envious of them.

Mark Akbar is a ...
Mark Akbar is a corporate shill just like the companies he is demonizing in this documentary. The simple fact he went to Michael? Moore for a sound bit proves that this documentary is slanted. Mr. Akbar sucks donkey dick!

@MegaMalow? f**k ...
@MegaMalow? f**k off? That's really the thanks you give to him? No, YOU f**k off.

One of the men ...
One of the men involved in this coup was George Bush's grandfather. I'm not trying to fault Bush,? I just think it's a very interesting fact.

@markolyshko Agreed ...
@markolyshko Agreed - and what is more, there is more ranting in the Bible against greed and exploitation of? the poor and disenfranchised by wealthy power brokers than in almost any ancient collection of documents. But with enough time and money you can make people read "white" when the text says "black" and "good" when the text says "evil."

This? is really ...
This? is really grim and disgusting.

"Hi there this is ...
"Hi there this is mike Akbar" Aaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh f**k? off!