Name an evil company!

[XemaSab]

I'll start: Exxon.

[ZombieHorde]

1. The Springfield power plant. nt

[BuyingThyme]

2. KBR.

[BuyingThyme]

35. Fox.

(Whatever they call it.)

[BuyingThyme]

39. AIG.

[marmar]

3. Mon-fucking-santo

[DeepBlueC]

6. 3 of us at the exact same time!

great minds...

[cottonseed]

10. We should rank the list next.

[XemaSab]

33. +1

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. Yes!

[cottonseed]

4. Monsanto

[Emit]

56. I have to second this one

[DeepBlueC]

5. Montsanto

:mad:

[seemslikeadream]

7. W. R. Grace

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Good one. n/t

[mia]

8. Bechtel

[XemaSab]

20. My grandpa worked for Bechtel

I would say this assessment is spot on.

[originalpckelly]

9. Name one company that isn't evil...

that I think would be a much better thing to do.

[BuyingThyme]

13. Ben and Jerry's.

[taterguy]

27. Sold out to some International Conglomerate

Used to be non-evil

Now just yummy stuff

[BuyingThyme]

30. I didn't know that. How 'bout Craig's List?

[GOPisEvil]

104. Owned by Unilever.

[jmowreader]

160. Ben & Jerry belongs to Unilever

They're evil but not as bad as some of the other firms out there...

[Arugula Latte]

152. Southwest Airlines?

:shrug:

[sakabatou]

157. My start-up

M^2 Studios.

[TheDebbieDee]

11. FEDEX.............

They're anti-union. If the company is anti-union, then it must be EVIL.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. The people who own Sam's Club...

Whatever the heck that name is!

Damn it, I can't remember it!

:argh:

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. The Waltons

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. Yes, thank you!

I did mean WalMart, but this works too!

Evil people...

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Um...Mall Wart? No, that doesn't seem quite right...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. LOL!

Try WalMart....;)

[ColbertWatcher]

14. GOP! n/t

[Kaleko]

16. AT&T

[Touchdown]

72. Work for 'em. Will probably have to strike against them next week.

Seconded! :thumbsup:

[Kaleko]

116. Have a good strike.

I've been dumping AT&T twice aleady, but then they always manage to buy out the carriers I subscribe to, and it's a pain to reconfigure everything for my small business.

Pox on 'em. They need to be prosecuted for illegal wiretapping and then broken up.

[cottonseed]

17. DynCorp

[cottonseed]

19. Altria

[Jackpine Radical]

21. Aw, c'mon.

I absolutely HATE shooting fish in a barrel. I always get drenched from all the water that goes flying around when the bullets hit.

[AlCzervik]

22. The Carlyle group.

private global investment firm is the evil.

[DeepBlueC]

42. oh yeah

that piece of shit

[cottonseed]

24. Blackwater

[cottonseed]

32. Service Corporation International

Something about the corporate death business that just rubs me the wrong way. Plus I think Carlyle or the Bush's are involved in some way.

[adamuu]

135. Xe

[adamuu]

136. Around here, GE

When we ordered them to clean up the mess they made in the Hudson, they started closing down jobs here.
Some say it was an act of retaliation...

[fishwax]

25. Chiquita

[blueknight]

28. most american based companies

they are all ran by crooks

[cottonseed]

34. Service Corporation International

Something about the corporate death business that just rubs me the wrong way. Plus I think Carlyle or the Bush's are involved in some way.

[mitchum]

36. The original one...The Catholic Church

[DeepBlueC]

43. lol

[steelmania75]

37. News Corporation

[moggie]

38. Weyland-Yutani n/t

[slutticus]

141. "Building better worlds"

[butterfly77]

40. Dell,kellogg,brown and root, carlysle group and the leader of the pack..

BUSHCO,BUSHCO,BUSHCO,BUSHCO!

[lonestarnot]

85. Pfizer, Merck

[FLAprogressive]

41. Koch Industries

[MinM]

44. Bob 'Swift Boat' Perry's "Perry Homes" ...

Did Builder's Clout Trap Couple In Dream Home?

After two years of getting nowhere with their builder and warranty company, the Culls hired a structural engineer. To their chagrin, he said their house would either have to be torn down or put up on jacks, and piers driven into the bedrock. Either way, it was going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Culls hired a lawyer, and when their case went to arbitration, they were confident about the evidence.

"The only person in 12 years who has heard every bit of testimony, read all the depositions, the engineering reports and sat face-to-face with all parties for three days is the arbitrator," Bob Cull says.

The arbitrator sided with the Culls. Perry Homes was ordered to pay $800,000 in damages and retake ownership of the house. The Culls felt triumphant and vindicated. But they were about to discover that if your builder has the resources, binding arbitration isn't necessarily all that binding.

Political Ties In High Places

Seventy-six-year-old Bob Perry is one of Texas' most successful homebuilders. For the last two decades, he has used his $600 million fortune to fund the Republican revolution, both in Texas and nationally. He helped put George W. Bush into the White House. He was the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth's largest contributor. In Texas, if you hold a position of legislative, judicial or executive power, a Bob Perry donation is almost certainly in your campaign account.

After he lost in arbitration to the Culls, the builder began appealing the award through the state courts. Perry's appeals were rejected at each stop until he got to the Texas Supreme Court. And there, he got satisfaction.

"They overturn two lower courts and vacate an arbitration system — all for their biggest donor," argues Andrew Wheat.

Wheat is the research director of Texans for Public Justice, which tracks campaign contributions in Texas. Wheat says that since 2006, Bob Perry has contributed more than $21 million to political candidates and judges — including the nine Republican justices who make up the Texas Supreme Court.

"They all took money," Wheat says. "Not a single member of that court should have sat and heard a case involving Bob Perry Homes."

Six years after winning in arbitration, the Culls' $800,000 award was thrown out. In a 5-4 decision, the Court disallowed arbitration and sent the case back to the courts...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102453061

[globalvillage]

47. I heard that on npr this morning.

Perry is a crook and a lying POS.

[depakid]

45. DeBeers

[XemaSab]

48. Diamonds are a scam

:(

[Kajsa]

46. I was all ready to list Newscorp,

http://www.newscorp.com/

then see National Geographic Channel is
with them.

WTH?

[NCarolinawoman]

49. ChemLawn.

[rug]

50. Olive Garden.

[taterguy]

55. One of the largest corporations with an African-American CEO

Nice subtle racism dude

[XemaSab]

59. It's also the best Italian food in New York City

:)

[taterguy]

63. According to who?

It might be the most affordable but I suspect there are other Italian restaurants with better food.

Although I realize that's a highly subjective matter.

[XemaSab]

65. Here's the full thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5279955&mesg_id=5279955

[alcibiades_mystery]

158. I love my post in that thread

I'M NOT A PROGRESSIVE!

I was challenged as to my "Progressive" credentials on another thread (I was also called an ASSHOLE and a TOOl, but who's counting), and it did make me think about it. But really, I don't identify myself as a Progressive. I'm a Leftist. So, what's the difference? Leftism was cool because it didn't require you to suffer stupidity in the name of general tolerance. The namby-pamby world of Progressives seems to be devoid of critique, because the moment you critique something, you are suddenly being "intolerant." This is nonsense, as every Leftist knows. Now, I'm not accusing progressives of being secretly complicit with conservatism (although this is the general Left critique of such positions), but it is clear that conservatives were easily able to co-opt the discourse of tolerance and turn it against real reform, such that the legitimate struggle for gay rights is now portrayed as "intolerant" of Christian fundamentalism, and other nonsenses of this type. This is the political and rhetorical cost of the utterly vapid discourse of tolerance touted by our "progressives."

Leftism was built on critique, identified itself with critique, and had the stamina to say yes, some shit is stupid, some shit should be criticized - maybe even everything must be critiqued, ruthlessly and without "tolerance" in advance. Read Adorno and Horkeimer, read Marcuse, hell, read Debbs. You'll never see the empty notion that "opinions" should be "respected" simply because they are opinions. Rather, you see ruthless, cutting, even vicious attacks on opinions, with the following question always at stake: where do such opinions come from? Where do tastes come from? This is progressivism's greatest failure: the segregation of the "personal opinion" from the realm of political and economic power. In progressivism, the "opinion" is attached to the essence of the person (it comes from some mystical Self), and then raised to the level of a sacred entity. Hence all the wailing and moaning about "attacking my opinion," which is immediately equated to attacking the person. Leftism had none of this. The opinion, for Leftism, was a social phenomenon that was instantiated in individuals. It didn't come from the Self. Rather, it came from the social realm of political and economic power and was picked up by "selves" as a result of their placement in a dynamic social realm. For this reason, the critique of "personal opinions" is actually the critique of social power, always. The faux respect for "personal opinions," for Leftism, is complicity with social power, the failure to ask, rigorously, where opinions come from, and work on the power relations that form them.

This doesn't mean that the taste for Olive Garden is the only "opinion" to be critiqued. Leftism demands that the opposing "opinion" (which, interest of diclosure, I hold), must also be critiqued. What are the social investments in "local economies" and "authentic cultures" that drive the dislike of chain restaurants? Are these actually reactionary and nostalgic tendencies? And if you say that that's "reading into things too much," or that choice of restaurants is "off limits for critique," then you've already performed the problematic segregation: the illusion of the person segregated from the realm of political and economic power. One could, of course, go on. But the point here is simple: you will never catch me saying that opinions are beyond critique simply because they are opinions. That is the political and intellectual dead-end that progressivism leads us to, and it is all too common. Maybe I'm the one being nostalgic here, but I want some of that Leftism back. I want some of that Adorno nastiness and contempt to re-enter the political discourse. Because some things are deserving of contempt. Yes. I'm definitely NOT a progressive, and I'm damn glad for that.

[XemaSab]

161. If you go post that as a thread

I will totally K&R it. :D

[cali]

67. subjective? oh, please. olive garden is to italian food what Thomas Kinkade is

to the art world.

[OnyxCollie]

78. Affordable? Ha!

My father gave me a $25 gift card to Olive Garden. My girlfriend and I went there to eat dinner, looked at the menu, and realized that $25 wouldn't cover one person.

We got up and left, went to a local restaurant, and got a large pizza with two toppings, salad bar, and beers for $27 including tip.

[Hippo_Tron]

122. ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[rug]

62. Dude? Misogynist.

[taterguy]

66. Are you someone that doesn't abide?

[Rockholm]

134. Oh Good God, here we go again.

What the fuck cares if a black dude is the CEO. Olive Garden sucks.

[Kip Humphrey]

51. JP Morgan Chase

[laylah]

120. I second that! They just put

an EX-bf's negative Chase card info on MY credit report! WTF :mad:

[hunter]

130. Vultures are lovely birds, do an important job.

JP Morgan Chase? They are more like tape worms or bot flies or malaria or something.

[DainBramaged]

52. Get your red hot sack cloth here, red hot

I guess we should go back to living in caves?

[WePurrsevere]

53. Diebold

There are of course others.. some named.. some not... but Diebold ranks way up there at the top of my list since they were a major contributing factor towards us and the world getting stuck with BushCo for 8 long and disastrous years.

[Deja Q]

54. Microsoft, Apple, AIG

[pmorlan1]

57. Every Health Insurance Company

They are ALL alike. What one does the others follow.

[FarLeftRage]

58. Clear Channel

General Dynamics...

[otohara]

107. Clear Channel

fuckers!

[Laelth]

60. Halliburton.

So many choices ...

:dem:

-Laelth

[XemaSab]

61. ADM

n/t

[C......N......C]

64. AT&T

Swindled subscribers out of millions in 1998 when switched from unlimited internet access to measured access. During the transition they collected untold fortunes from users that did not understand that computers came on by themselves during the night to do up dates.

[CBR]

68. Massey Energy

[seemslikeadream]

69. Burson-Marsteller

The premier fixer upper of the worse of the worse

[City Lights]

70. GE.

[bookworm65t]

147. Second that!

the pioneers of Six Sigma, or whatever. I worked for them; it's dilbertland there.

[pscot]

71. Goldman Sachs

They've made a lot of money off the financial meltdown.

[The Great Escape]

73. Norfolk Southern

[Joe the Revelator]

140. How so?

[Tashca]

74. Dupont

1) Got their first military contract in 1802 from Thomas Jefferson and have been heavily on the dole since then.
2) Picked as the largest producer of air pollution in the United States in 2007.....not sure their rank right now.
3) The leader in the fight too criminalize hemp in 1937.....because hemp was their main competition for fiber production.
4) Gave Monsanto the technology that was first used in GMO production....although other methods are now used. Dupont got a sweet deal for their Pioneer seed products.
5) I'm not sure there is a company that spends more money then Dupont to project a positive image to the public.

that's just a few.....

[flvegan]

EMI records for giving us Nickelback.

[XemaSab]

92. WIN.

:D

[Warren DeMontague]

75. Who does that screaming Oxy guy work for?

They need to turn that shit DOWN.

[sallylou666]

83. Private company

Oxyclean is a private company. There ads are annoying but they aren't an evil corporation.

APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

Headon is made by a corporation. It's useless shit sold to mindless consumers. At least Oxyclean works.

[burythehatchet]

76. Clear Channel, News Corp

[taught_me_patience]

77. AIG - AIG - AIG - AIG

pure evil. Fuck those fukkers. So many others:

KBR
Monsato
Blackwater
Goldman Sachs
Exxon
Countrywide Home Loans

[burning rain]

79. Wal-Mart & McDonald's.

They set wages, benefits, and work conditions -- low -- for the service industry as a whole and need to be unionized 100%. Next!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

80. Monsanto

[devilgrrl]

81. Koch Industries

http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries

[GrantDem]

82. Wal-Mart

[DailyGrind51]

84. Kerr-McGee of "Silkwood" infamy

Here is a report of Kerr's role in cancer clusters appearing in West Chicago.

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hac/PHA/kerrmcgee2/kmr_p1.html

[BlueIris]

162. Oh, yeah. Scary, scary monsters. nt

[Mike 03]

86. MONSANTO, the most evil company I can think of. NT

[COLGATE4]

87. CMS ENERGY

[Sewsojm]

88. Tyson's and Smithfield Foods.

[sarcasmo]

89. Microsoft.

[OhioChick]

91. Agreed.

IBM is another one.

[geiger]

90. Rush Limbaugh and company.

[mbee]

93. B of A

[Mike 03]

95. Interesting, why Bank of America? NT

[harun]

127. They are the worst financial company I have ever dealt with in terms of crazy

hidden fees and charges. I quite doing business with them but now am forced to since they bought Countrywide.

I think they are the most predatory, evil bank in the U.S.

[AnnieBW]

94. Microsoft

[No.23]

96. The Government-Corporate-wed Military Industrial Complex

Funny how it doesn't come to mind so readily, eh?

[NoodleyAppendage]

97. XE (or whatever Black Water is called these days).

Evil fuckers in NC.

J

[ThatsMyBarack]

98. TVLand!

And its parent company, VIACOM! :grr:

[Mike 03]

99. The Sad Irony: Looking at this list, a quarter of these companies are worth invetsing in. NT

[lonestarnot]

100. All private prisons!

[No.23]

109. Touche! But let's not forget their contractual partners...

the governments who pay them..

[lonestarnot]

167. Yes let's not!

[FLAprogressive]

101. also: not a company but married to the companies: Democratic Leadership Council and the Republicans

[1]

102. hughesnet. they know they have me over a barrel on internet access and they take advantage of that.

[XemaSab]

112. Why don't you just steal wifi?

:popcorn:

[1]

121. well, first of all that would be wrong... but more importantly, i live so far out in the boonies...

it is impossible!

i love it when moral dilemmas are solved by physical distance...

[stuntcat]

103. Monsanto

I'm on the frickin' bandwagon but I don't care.

[seabeyond]

105. att n/t

[Norrin Radd]

106. Nike

Nestlé

[otohara]

108. General Mills for

Shake & Pour Pancake

[Bonobo]

110. Monsanto is evil, evil, evil. I wish nothing but the worst for them. nt

[New Dawn]

111. McDonalds

[Reterr]

113. McDonalds,Monsanto and Comcast

& I am a Comcast cable person :( ...shame on me...

[mtf80123]

114. Monsanto

followed closely by Exxon

[alfredo]

115. KAOS and those guys who made the inner wrappers in cereal boxes.

[Doremus]

117. Home Depot: EFCA would be armageddon!!!!11

Let's face it guys:

It would be waaay easier to list the good companies. :(

[chatnoir]

118. Monsanto

[Mendocino]

119. US Chamber of Commerce

I know it isn't a company, more like evil enablers and cheerleaders.

[Hippo_Tron]

123. Conglomo: They own you...

[chrisa]

133. lol

Classic.

[Hubert Flottz]

124. Non-"Union" Carbide

Killer of thousands at home and abroad.

[Mopar151]

150. I usta work for their spinnoff Praxair

Bad people doing bad things.....

[alfredo]

159. I worked for them many years ago, making gunpowder for 155 mm Howitzers.

One night they purged all Vietnam vets and "hippies." Armed guards rounded us up, watched us as we changed into our street clothes, then escorted us to our cars. No reason given.

[BlueCollar]

125. Doe Run

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-obrien/la-oroya-a-poisoned-town_b_130448.html


La Oroya, Peru is one of the most polluted places on the planet. Situated high in the Andes, scouring acid rain has made it a moonscape. According to one recent study, 97% of the children suffer from lead poisoning. The average child in La Oroya has twice the arsenic and six times the cadmium in his blood than the average American child.

Sagaponack, Long Island has pristine beaches and some of the most beautiful homes on the planet. Even by the opulent standards of the Hamptons, one mansion stands out. Perhaps palace is a better word; Fair Field dwarfs its neighbors and mocks nature with narcissistic grandeur. It's over 100,000 feet, has 29 bedrooms, three dining rooms, multiple libraries, bowling alleys, squash and basketball courts, a $150,000 hot tub.

What do these two places, separated by 3,000 miles, have in common? They are both owned by a man named Ira Rennert.

Rennert is an industrialist in the natural resources business. He controls the Doe Run Company, which claims to be the largest company of its kind in the western hemisphere, and US Magnesium. The EPA just announced last week that they want to declare US Mag's Utah plant a Superfund site, because of 'largely uncontrolled' releases of PCBs and Dioxin. Rennert bought the metal processing plant in La Oroya, Peru in 1997.

[harun]

126. News Corp, UnitedHealth Group

[soothsayer]

128. death to monsatan!

[rucky]

129. Wal-Mart

[saltpoint]

131. For 'gross incompetence,' I think it's hard to beat Greyhound.

Very significant monoply, grossly incompetent management.

[XemaSab]

137. Tell me about it

The decision to provide bus service to several counties in California is contingent on the almighty dollar. The problem is that there's no other public transportation available. :(

[saltpoint]

138. Hi, XemaSab. True. When you've said 'monopoly,' you've said it all.

Regional lines here and there are thriving in part becuase Greyhound sucks so bad, but there are just not enough of them to bring more pressure to bear on Greyhound to clean up their act.

[donheld]

132. Sinclair Broadcasting.

[Lucian]

139. Every company is evil.

I don't know of any non-evil corporations.

[uberllama42]

142. What's the point of this thread? n/t

[XemaSab]

143. I'm looking to transfer my 401k

into companies that won't go broke next week. :banghead:

[tabbycat31]

144. AIG

[NoPasaran]

145. Two Men And A Truck

Whine all you want about AIG, they never stole a drill from me.

[Raine]

146. Wal-Mart etc

[madamesilverspurs]

148. The insurance industry.

Especially State Farm and Aetna.

[beac]

149. The Bluth Company

They make a startling number of huge mistakes.


;)

[Mopar151]

151. Cigna Insurance n/t

[Arugula Latte]

153. Amway

[Arugula Latte]

154. Domino's Pizza

[many a good man]

155. Uranus Corporation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0usiztmtxA

Maker of Brown 25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008BPUdQ1XA

[walldude]

164. I didn't even need to go to the link on that one...

Was that Kentucky Fried? Or The Groove Tube? They kind of blur together in my memory... Kind of like Zinc Oxide and You crossed with Catholic High School Girls In Trouble..

[sakabatou]

156. Dell Electronics

[BlueIris]

163. Hewlett-Packard.

Ever typed that name into Google? 'S fun.

[MasonJar]

165. Haliburton and its subsidiaries.

[Raineyb]

166. Cintas

Not just evil but a killer company to boot.

Regards

[bridgit]

168. Dial M for Murder, Inc