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  1. Global polls: Corporate executives say they're more willing to pay bribes, engage in accounting fraud #BusinessAsUsual business.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/25/rep…
  2. Holland joins Chile in passing #NetNeutrality law to stop corporations from surreptitiously creating the ‘Schminternet’ tnw.to/1ELnJ
  3. JPMorgan's $3+ billion loss has started peeling layers off the ridiculous, unaccountable onion of the #FederalReserve money.cnn.com/2012/05/21/new…
  4. 22 states asking Supreme Court to modify Citizens United ruling and allow them to regulate corporate campaign spending sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl…
  5. FTC fines #Skechers $40 million for false claims that shoes reduce weight, tone muscles, improve heart #businessasusual cnn.com/2012/05/16/us/…
  6. NYT op-ed on the inherently anti-social ethos of corporate capitalism, and the warped American view of them as virtuous nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opi…
  7. Greenpeace projects giant messages onto Apple HQ & dresses as iPods to protest for cleaner iCloud mactrast.com/?p=46738 twitter.com/CounterCorp/st…
  8. #Yahoo CEO resigning after 4 months for falsifying his resume, which was included in annual report he certified to SEC shar.es/2OgGA
  9. FTC's decision to hire former federal prosecutor to oversee #Google #monopoly investigation indicates likely litigation sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl…
  10. Apple's new Chinese-owned (#Foxconn) factory in Brazil already facing potential strike over working conditions #nosweat translate.google.com/translate?sl=p…
  11. NY AG sues Sprint for tax fraud: not collecting or paying state taxes to make its services cheaper than its competitors money.cnn.com/2012/04/19/tec…
  12. Co-presenting 4/19 benefit screening of "Heist" @ Grand Lake Theater in Oakland before screening film at #AntiCorporate Film Fest, May 15-17
  13. The #TomFriedman Corollary(?): Study says the more #Walmarts in an area, the more hate groups there are bit.ly/J8Bdhb RT @consumerist
  14. UK legislates "brand fascism" at London Olympics, criminalizing references to companies that aren't official sponsors: gu.com/p/36pzb/tw
  15. @CounterweightTV Not sure that's true, if the negative effects outweigh the positive -- sort of like Mussolini making the trains run on time
  16. @CounterweightTV @reuters Credibility of the article is undermined by its use of #Nestle and #WalMart as examples of "creating shared value"
  17. SF Women's Film Festival opens this Thurs, April 13, at the Roxie Theater on 16th Street in the Mission. See you there! womensfilminstitute.com
  18. Artful Dodger: Apple 'earned £6 billion' in UK, but only paid £10 million in tax, a fraction of UK's 24% corporate rate bit.ly/HO36u5
  19. Effective U.S. corporate tax rate (i.e., the amount they actually paid, not the 35% statutory rate) in FY2011 was 12.1% bit.ly/HyZiwV