And, yes, I DO take it personally: Corporate malfeasance

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Corporate malfeasance

on a rotten weather day, we might as well make it worse by soaking up some of the sordid history of our capitalist system...

10 Great Moments in Corporate Malfeasance

1: IBM's Tech Support for the Holocaust

2: Union Carbide's Bhopal Disaster

3: Wal-Mart Janitor Lock-ins

4: Yaguarete Pora S.A. Bulldozing Protected Amazon Tribe's Land

5: Goldman Sachs Sells Investors its Doomed-to-Fail Fund

6: Visits from Ford Motor Company's Sociological and Service Departments

7: WellPoint's Breast Cancer Algorithm

8: United Fruit's Overthrow of the Guatemalan Government

9: Halliburton's Spoiled Food for Soldiers

10: Pharmaceutical Maker Roche: "Saving lives is not our business"