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		<title>By: meglvsjc</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well...I am not a corporation...but I no longer go to movies that have a liberal bias.  So that mean I don&#039;t go to the movies much. If we all did this..I think Hollywood  may feel a bit more like the rest of us...poor enough to connect the obvious  dots. Please  Vigo Morteson...don&#039;t piss me off  you are too cute ...but I&#039;ll leave you if I must! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well&#8230;I am not a corporation&#8230;but I no longer go to movies that have a liberal bias.  So that mean I don&#039;t go to the movies much. If we all did this..I think Hollywood  may feel a bit more like the rest of us&#8230;poor enough to connect the obvious  dots. Please  Vigo Morteson&#8230;don&#039;t piss me off  you are too cute &#8230;but I&#039;ll leave you if I must! </p>
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		<title>By: IRL</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[IRL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Did the Microsoft Corporation hold a pistol to you head, threaten to break your kneecaps, or threaten to put your feet into &quot;concrete shoes&quot; (and drop you into the East River) unless you bought their product?&quot; 
 
Seriously, it was just a joke based on the definition in the article. 
 
On the other hand they just go out of their way to break interoperability with other operating systems, and using their market share to cause problems for everyone else.  
 
Read this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_...&lt;/a&gt; 
And this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consume...&lt;/a&gt; 
 
As for giving some of the money they have scammed themselves into with methods like we have seen above is the least they could do. Even the Hamas give money to charity. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Did the Microsoft Corporation hold a pistol to you head, threaten to break your kneecaps, or threaten to put your feet into &quot;concrete shoes&quot; (and drop you into the East River) unless you bought their product?&quot; </p>
<p>Seriously, it was just a joke based on the definition in the article. </p>
<p>On the other hand they just go out of their way to break interoperability with other operating systems, and using their market share to cause problems for everyone else.  </p>
<p>Read this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_</a>&#8230;<br />
And this: <a href="http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consume" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consume</a>&#8230; </p>
<p>As for giving some of the money they have scammed themselves into with methods like we have seen above is the least they could do. Even the Hamas give money to charity. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, I don&#039;t know; look how successful &quot;Doctor Zhivago&quot; was in the U.S. when it came out.  A good screenwriter, a good director, and competent actors can make ANYTHING interesting; just consider &quot;A Man For All Seasons.&quot; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I don&#039;t know; look how successful &quot;Doctor Zhivago&quot; was in the U.S. when it came out.  A good screenwriter, a good director, and competent actors can make ANYTHING interesting; just consider &quot;A Man For All Seasons.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t think it would be all that interesting to an American audience. I mean it takes a Spielberg to make a halfway successful film about our own history--a history I find fascinating, but most people don&#039;t. 
 
I&#039;m not sure there has ever been a time where genius and opportunity collided as powerfully as that of our founding fathers. I think that period and those people are endlessly interesting. But it is a truism in the entertainment business that that subject / period is &quot;box office poison.&quot; Mel &quot;Mazeltov&quot; Gibson did all right with &quot;The Patriot&quot;--but that was basically &quot;Braveheart&quot; with tri-corns. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#039;t think it would be all that interesting to an American audience. I mean it takes a Spielberg to make a halfway successful film about our own history&#8211;a history I find fascinating, but most people don&#039;t. </p>
<p>I&#039;m not sure there has ever been a time where genius and opportunity collided as powerfully as that of our founding fathers. I think that period and those people are endlessly interesting. But it is a truism in the entertainment business that that subject / period is &quot;box office poison.&quot; Mel &quot;Mazeltov&quot; Gibson did all right with &quot;The Patriot&quot;&#8211;but that was basically &quot;Braveheart&quot; with tri-corns. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim_C]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t think corporations and organized crime are that analogous either. But the author&#039;s point that organized crime is not analogous to capitalism (loosely defined) is not a very good one. Organized crime is essentially market capitalism completely unfettered by regulation and enforcement of law. That&#039;s part of the appeal of the genre--it&#039;s essentially &quot;business dystopia.&quot; 
 
Looking back on the article Shapiro makes more points that fall flat, to the point where it&#039;s almost impossible to believe this guy got into, much less graduated from one of the nation&#039;s top schools.  
 
&quot;84 percent of Americans think that corporate political spending &#8220;drowns out the voices of average Americans,&#8221; and 83 percent think that &#8220;corporations and corporate CEOs have too much political power and influence.&#8221; Never mind that corporations and corporate CEOs provide virtually all employment in the country. Never mind that corporations and corporate CEOs spend political money only because labor unions have been dumping vast waves of cash into politics for decades. It&#8217;s those evil CEOs who are a problem.&quot; 
 
First of all, union campaign contributions ARE corporate spending. Second of all, &quot;corporations provide virtually all employment in this country?&quot; Sheesh, I hope not--if so, that truly sucks. But I also don&#039;t think it&#039;s true; I think small business is still the backbone. 
 
Why? Hey, I&#039;m pro-corporation for many reasons, but we all look back to a time when local businesses didn&#039;t have to worry about getting eaten by the big fish. You look at Wal-Mart, notorious for closing out local mom-and-pops: this is a corporation with more non-union employees receiving federal and state aid than any other. In other words, you and I subsidize Wal-Mart with our tax dollars--but we can get dirt cheap coffee makers there, I guess that&#039;s the tradeoff. The Walton family alone has as much wealth as the bottom 40% of the country. I don&#039;t know that there&#039;s a moral, there--but you have to admit, it&#039;s a hell of a stat. 
 
Costco, on the other hand, pays it&#039;s workers living wages and benefits. Their CEO makes half a million. That&#039;s how things used to be during the great post-war boom. Living wages for workers, CEO compensation excellent, but in proportion. That has changed, and NOT for the better. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#039;t think corporations and organized crime are that analogous either. But the author&#039;s point that organized crime is not analogous to capitalism (loosely defined) is not a very good one. Organized crime is essentially market capitalism completely unfettered by regulation and enforcement of law. That&#039;s part of the appeal of the genre&#8211;it&#039;s essentially &quot;business dystopia.&quot; </p>
<p>Looking back on the article Shapiro makes more points that fall flat, to the point where it&#039;s almost impossible to believe this guy got into, much less graduated from one of the nation&#039;s top schools.  </p>
<p>&quot;84 percent of Americans think that corporate political spending &ldquo;drowns out the voices of average Americans,&rdquo; and 83 percent think that &ldquo;corporations and corporate CEOs have too much political power and influence.&rdquo; Never mind that corporations and corporate CEOs provide virtually all employment in the country. Never mind that corporations and corporate CEOs spend political money only because labor unions have been dumping vast waves of cash into politics for decades. It&rsquo;s those evil CEOs who are a problem.&quot; </p>
<p>First of all, union campaign contributions ARE corporate spending. Second of all, &quot;corporations provide virtually all employment in this country?&quot; Sheesh, I hope not&#8211;if so, that truly sucks. But I also don&#039;t think it&#039;s true; I think small business is still the backbone. </p>
<p>Why? Hey, I&#039;m pro-corporation for many reasons, but we all look back to a time when local businesses didn&#039;t have to worry about getting eaten by the big fish. You look at Wal-Mart, notorious for closing out local mom-and-pops: this is a corporation with more non-union employees receiving federal and state aid than any other. In other words, you and I subsidize Wal-Mart with our tax dollars&#8211;but we can get dirt cheap coffee makers there, I guess that&#039;s the tradeoff. The Walton family alone has as much wealth as the bottom 40% of the country. I don&#039;t know that there&#039;s a moral, there&#8211;but you have to admit, it&#039;s a hell of a stat. </p>
<p>Costco, on the other hand, pays it&#039;s workers living wages and benefits. Their CEO makes half a million. That&#039;s how things used to be during the great post-war boom. Living wages for workers, CEO compensation excellent, but in proportion. That has changed, and NOT for the better. </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#039;t see &quot;Avatar.&quot; I saw &quot;The Princess and The Frog&quot; by Disney. I&#039;m still glad I saw it over &quot;Avatar.&quot; 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#039;t see &quot;Avatar.&quot; I saw &quot;The Princess and The Frog&quot; by Disney. I&#039;m still glad I saw it over &quot;Avatar.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: bob e</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bob e]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[microsoft not a real good exmple.  do some research &amp; tell me that gates did not steal dos.  sell it thru ibm. 
plaigerize the GUI from zerox &amp; IBM. please tell me. and bingo..we have &quot;windows&quot;  &amp; we still got it &amp; will forever have it. everywhere.  i use red hat 6. on my home network..  os/2 is gone, it was the best i&#039;ve ever scene. 
just ask bill gates.. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>microsoft not a real good exmple.  do some research &amp; tell me that gates did not steal dos.  sell it thru ibm.<br />
plaigerize the GUI from zerox &amp; IBM. please tell me. and bingo..we have &quot;windows&quot;  &amp; we still got it &amp; will forever have it. everywhere.  i use red hat 6. on my home network..  os/2 is gone, it was the best i&#039;ve ever scene.<br />
just ask bill gates.. </p>
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		<title>By: mattogilvie55</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still think the subtitle for Avatar should have been Dances With Smurfs. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still think the subtitle for Avatar should have been Dances With Smurfs. </p>
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		<title>By: craigbhill</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[craigbhill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inasmuch as You Don&#039;t Know, which puts you in Shapiro&#039;s regular audience category of dupe (so far!), luckily there are a million intelligent handles on this to grasp, tho you&#039;ll need to read many to grasp the breadth of corporate thievery of formerly wealthy nations&#039; treasuries before the lightbulb flickers on, unless you&#039;re just another people-hating pathological conservative refusing to care how badly the 1% screws you and everyone else financially below them.    
  
Start by subscribing to CLG news, the daily news feed to your email address, via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legitgov.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legitgov.org&lt;/a&gt;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.legitgov.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. which gives you a daily set of around 2 dozen maninstream articles pointing out the facts.  Cherry pick the ones that have to do with corporate and banker control of the govt to get up to speed.  Also go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rt.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.rt.com&lt;/a&gt; and pick up the latest economic reality from Max Keiser&#039;s 3 time weekly 25 minute streaming video roundup Keiser Report.  The man is a former trader with Goldman Sachs who now fingers GS and others, who interestingly riddle the Obama administration even more than they did Bush&#039;s, as major culprits in the illegal takeover and destruction of global economies, as they suck them white.  Keiser is an economics genius.  If you disagree with his facts, and you&#039;ll have to watch and listen carefully to several of his programs to be able to fully follow them, you will either remain a dupe or continue to be a well-compensated party (unlikely!) to the crimes of corporate economic terrorism which plagues the world while their bought and paid for governments let them, with impunity. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Inasmuch as You Don&#039;t Know, which puts you in Shapiro&#039;s regular audience category of dupe (so far!), luckily there are a million intelligent handles on this to grasp, tho you&#039;ll need to read many to grasp the breadth of corporate thievery of formerly wealthy nations&#039; treasuries before the lightbulb flickers on, unless you&#039;re just another people-hating pathological conservative refusing to care how badly the 1% screws you and everyone else financially below them.    </p>
<p>Start by subscribing to CLG news, the daily news feed to your email address, via <a href="http://www.legitgov.org" rel="nofollow"> &lt;a href=&quot;</a><a href="http://www.legitgov.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.legitgov.org</a>&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt;www.legitgov.org. which gives you a daily set of around 2 dozen maninstream articles pointing out the facts.  Cherry pick the ones that have to do with corporate and banker control of the govt to get up to speed.  Also go to <a href="http://www.rt.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.rt.com</a> and pick up the latest economic reality from Max Keiser&#039;s 3 time weekly 25 minute streaming video roundup Keiser Report.  The man is a former trader with Goldman Sachs who now fingers GS and others, who interestingly riddle the Obama administration even more than they did Bush&#039;s, as major culprits in the illegal takeover and destruction of global economies, as they suck them white.  Keiser is an economics genius.  If you disagree with his facts, and you&#039;ll have to watch and listen carefully to several of his programs to be able to fully follow them, you will either remain a dupe or continue to be a well-compensated party (unlikely!) to the crimes of corporate economic terrorism which plagues the world while their bought and paid for governments let them, with impunity. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is any Hollywood producer considering a movie project involving the actions of a corporate state, like the USSR, Red China, Vietnam, or Cambodia? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is any Hollywood producer considering a movie project involving the actions of a corporate state, like the USSR, Red China, Vietnam, or Cambodia? </p>
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		<title>By: @DianeM1966</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[@DianeM1966]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, it&#039;s got to be the water - or the lack thereof. They must limit water use due to the &quot;endangered&quot; Minnow.  HA! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, it&#039;s got to be the water &#8211; or the lack thereof. They must limit water use due to the &quot;endangered&quot; Minnow.  HA! </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess the Belgian Disease has affected Mr. Van-Damn. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess the Belgian Disease has affected Mr. Van-Damn. </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[what is the lie, then?  Prove it? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what is the lie, then?  Prove it? </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except that he&#039;s pretty much spot-on correct each time.  Don&#039;t tell me Avatar, Fern Gully, and Captain Planet aren&#039;t complete and utter propaganda. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Except that he&#039;s pretty much spot-on correct each time.  Don&#039;t tell me Avatar, Fern Gully, and Captain Planet aren&#039;t complete and utter propaganda. </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eeeevil Corporation was also pretty much the premise behind james cameron&#039;s Avatar (not the Last Airbender, though that was a bad movie too).   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eeeevil Corporation was also pretty much the premise behind james cameron&#039;s Avatar (not the Last Airbender, though that was a bad movie too).   </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t think that corporations are very analogous to organized crime. For one thing, corporations depend a great deal on having the good will of their clientele, while organized crime couldn&#039;t care less how much good will they might have as long as the bucks are rolling in.  
 
Organized crime, despite what The Godfather and other movies and thriller novels would have you believe, don&#039;t have much of a hold on politicians. There&#039;s an occasional corrupt judge or DA, but those are people who are so rare that when they&#039;re uncovered they make the news.  
 
I agree that monopoly is hardly &quot;anathema&quot; to capitalists; the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a direct result of monopoly capitalism smothering free-market competition.  I don&#039;t know about force - it depends on what kind of force one has in mind. 
 
Some folks think that the tobacco companies are analogous to dope peddlers. I frankly doubt that the analogy holds up under any form of disciplined analysis. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#039;t think that corporations are very analogous to organized crime. For one thing, corporations depend a great deal on having the good will of their clientele, while organized crime couldn&#039;t care less how much good will they might have as long as the bucks are rolling in.  </p>
<p>Organized crime, despite what The Godfather and other movies and thriller novels would have you believe, don&#039;t have much of a hold on politicians. There&#039;s an occasional corrupt judge or DA, but those are people who are so rare that when they&#039;re uncovered they make the news.  </p>
<p>I agree that monopoly is hardly &quot;anathema&quot; to capitalists; the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a direct result of monopoly capitalism smothering free-market competition.  I don&#039;t know about force &#8211; it depends on what kind of force one has in mind. </p>
<p>Some folks think that the tobacco companies are analogous to dope peddlers. I frankly doubt that the analogy holds up under any form of disciplined analysis. </p>
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		<title>By: κατεργάζομαι</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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~ How about attending the birthday bash of a Chechen warlord and praising a man who applauded his security forces for attacking Muslim women who didn&#039;t wear a head covering?? 
 
Read more: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/what_the_hollywood_left_will_do_for_money.html#ixzz2ECmtvGpf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/what_...&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
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~ How about attending the birthday bash of a Chechen warlord and praising a man who applauded his security forces for attacking Muslim women who didn&#039;t wear a head covering?? </p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/what_the_hollywood_left_will_do_for_money.html#ixzz2ECmtvGpf" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/what_" rel="nofollow">http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/what_</a>&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: craigbhill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At times in this Bizarro World article i had to reread chunks of it to better discern that it had to be a parody by a disingenuous anti-corporate type, like you&#039;re Stephan Colbert-istic obviously secretly disgusted at that which you ridiculously praise.  But your lying a** is actually trying to look SINCERE to everyone who hasn&#039;t caught on yet to the fact almost everything you blathered on about is a lie.  That&#039;s your audience, the willing dupes of bankers and CEOs destroying the economy, the exposure of which in flicks IS WHAT SELLS, because MOST OF US ALREADY KNOW IT.  Your lies notwithstanding, you and your ilk are pushing the rest of humanity (assuming you too actually are in some manner still human) to revolution. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At times in this Bizarro World article i had to reread chunks of it to better discern that it had to be a parody by a disingenuous anti-corporate type, like you&#039;re Stephan Colbert-istic obviously secretly disgusted at that which you ridiculously praise.  But your lying a** is actually trying to look SINCERE to everyone who hasn&#039;t caught on yet to the fact almost everything you blathered on about is a lie.  That&#039;s your audience, the willing dupes of bankers and CEOs destroying the economy, the exposure of which in flicks IS WHAT SELLS, because MOST OF US ALREADY KNOW IT.  Your lies notwithstanding, you and your ilk are pushing the rest of humanity (assuming you too actually are in some manner still human) to revolution. </p>
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		<title>By: Jim_C</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Hollywood IS a collection of corporate industries, and outisde corporations vie to get their products into their films, so I don&#039;t think &quot;hypocrisy&quot; is an appropriate charge, at all. Hollywood tells stories. 
  
Corporations make good villains. And have been villains for literally a century in Hollywood films. They are rich, they are resourceful, they have access to political channels the average individual does not, they are insular and impenetrable. Why wouldn&#039;t they make good villains?  
  
And while the vast majority of corporations are more or less good citizens, some aren&#039;t. So what?  
  
 &quot;The film uses organized crime as an analogy to capitalism &#8211; a ridiculous proposition, considering that organized crime is based on use of force and monopoly, two concepts that are anathema to capitalists.&quot;  
  
Wow. Ever read a history book, Ben?  
  
Maybe your next article could be about how so many villains have British accents. That ain&#039;t fair! Most Brits aren&#039;t villainous! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, Hollywood IS a collection of corporate industries, and outisde corporations vie to get their products into their films, so I don&#039;t think &quot;hypocrisy&quot; is an appropriate charge, at all. Hollywood tells stories. </p>
<p>Corporations make good villains. And have been villains for literally a century in Hollywood films. They are rich, they are resourceful, they have access to political channels the average individual does not, they are insular and impenetrable. Why wouldn&#039;t they make good villains?  </p>
<p>And while the vast majority of corporations are more or less good citizens, some aren&#039;t. So what?  </p>
<p> &quot;The film uses organized crime as an analogy to capitalism &ndash; a ridiculous proposition, considering that organized crime is based on use of force and monopoly, two concepts that are anathema to capitalists.&quot;  </p>
<p>Wow. Ever read a history book, Ben?  </p>
<p>Maybe your next article could be about how so many villains have British accents. That ain&#039;t fair! Most Brits aren&#039;t villainous! </p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have developed a simple formula for deciding whether to see a movie.  Read whatever Ben Shapiro says and then do the opposite.  He denounces &quot;Killing Them Softly.&quot;  Thus, I shall see it.   
 
Shapiro&#039;s routine is very predictable.  First, he cherry-picks a new movie or TV show, ever ready to pounce on some imagined anti-American message to &quot;prove&quot; how evil it is.  Then, he sticks the word &quot;Hollywood&quot; somewhere in the title or the first sentence in order to grab some attention, making sure to make wild generalizations about an entire industry based on one film.   
 
He&#039;s NOT a film critic; he&#039;s a politician, and not even an interesting one at that.       ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have developed a simple formula for deciding whether to see a movie.  Read whatever Ben Shapiro says and then do the opposite.  He denounces &quot;Killing Them Softly.&quot;  Thus, I shall see it.   </p>
<p>Shapiro&#039;s routine is very predictable.  First, he cherry-picks a new movie or TV show, ever ready to pounce on some imagined anti-American message to &quot;prove&quot; how evil it is.  Then, he sticks the word &quot;Hollywood&quot; somewhere in the title or the first sentence in order to grab some attention, making sure to make wild generalizations about an entire industry based on one film.   </p>
<p>He&#039;s NOT a film critic; he&#039;s a politician, and not even an interesting one at that.       </p>
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