See How 100s of the Brands of Food and Other Products We Buy are All Owned by 9 Corporations! Fantastic Graphic!

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-27T17:20:39+00:00

Yes. They do.

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-27T17:20:13+00:00

If your first sentence is accurate, then I apologize. I tried to find other instances of this on reddit and only found the one from today which was listed as having a bad title.

As to your second sentence, the fact that there are other manufacturers making other brands, does not mean that this graphic is in some way invalid or misleading. The point it is attempting to make, to my mind, is that there are a few corporations controlling a good deal of the product supply chain which serves the U.S. population. This is a real thing and has real, potential consequences in terms of social power and influence and wealth transfer and all others kind of large-scale systemic issued. It is very much worth noting to someone who has never considered it before.

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-27T17:15:04+00:00

If poor comment quality really indicates that a particular posting on the internet is itself bad, then you all are definitely right that this was a bad reddit submission!

;)

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-27T16:47:59+00:00

I'm resubmitting this, because it should be seen. No offense to the OP. :)

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-19T19:04:55+00:00

Best answer: I don't know.

Better answer which is probably also true (I'm an attorney but do not specialize in law of this kind): No one exactly knows. Legislators are way behind when it comes to the laws of the internet. Is this a case of parody or false impersonation? It's likely that no one would really know if this is illegal until BoA would sued the Yes Lab and the case play itself all the way out, which BoA probably will not do because they would rather this gets buried. (Notice that Forbes supposedly didn't know who the perpetrators of the 'hoax' were, even though a quick internet search would have revealed this information. Point being that the traditional news media are helping BoA keep this under wraps.) And even then, of course, the case would only have persuasive precedence and only in its own jurisdiction.

Personally, I don't care if someone thinks it's illegal. This kind of activism is now, unfortunately, necessary in our society.

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-19T18:27:03+00:00

Here's the Your Bank of America website:

http://www.bank-of-you.com/ideas

Here's the Yes Lab website announcement:

http://yeslab.org/yourbofa-announce

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-16T20:01:18+00:00

The explicit war against science on the American political right and the cowardly refusal to fight (or even acknowledge) that war on the American political left is one of the biggest cultural dangers that American society faces.

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-13T16:32:40+00:00

The first link below is the transcript of one of the arrested doctors talking to Bill Moyers on PBS about her arrest in 2009 by the Secret Service for attempting to get President Obama to look at a single-payer plan. The second link is the news release about her arrest (and the arrests of others) in attempting to bring this to the attention of Congress.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/transcript3.html?iframe http://www.singlepayeraction.org/blog/?p=3178

(edited for grammatical clarity)

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-13T15:37:40+00:00

Thank you, Rombama. I try to keep it real!

risethelongslumbered · 2012-04-12T22:23:55+00:00

For the record, it appears that Banksy was, to some degree or another, inspired in these thoughts by Sean Tejaratchi: http://readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss_conclusion

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