West Fertilizer Corporation is a glaring and horrific example of the problem that corporations have rights and powers without the necessary conscience and responsibility.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/04/west-fertilizer-violated-federal-anti-terror-regulations

Montana Knows What I'm Talkin' About

In the 2012 general election, Montana voters decided that CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE and money is not speech. Money is property.

Yes. We need to think about our fundamentals here. How can a corporation have a voice if it has no governor, no heart, no conscience to regulate and inform that voice? This is absolutely not the vision of our founding fathers.

And They're Even Messing with the Voting Rights of Humans!

We can't take human individual freedoms for granted, people! Here's an insidious little activity: corporations belong to ALEC, one goal of which is to minimize voting rights for minorities. At least CocaCola and PepsiCo have had the good sense to opt out of the organization.

Letting the Foxes Guard the Henhouse ... Again

Sadly, the State of Utah has undertaken the criminalizing of whistleblowing.

In another show of misplaced trust -- that profit-driven corporations will watch out for our best interests -- the Utah legislative has turned over the henhouse to the foxes. Have these people not read their fairy tales?

Actual humans unite! These corporate entities quite simply do not have the wherewithal to watch out for our health, safety and welfare. It's not, if you'll pardon the analogy, in their DNA. Corporations are machines and their operating system is to make profits. Period.

Think about it.

B Corporations ! Wow !

B Lab is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

It's an important step in recognizing and starting to redirect what will otherwise become an inexorable stampede of profit-driven zombies toward the destruction of the humanity that created them ....

Seriously. Corporations cannot continue to have so much power and be governed by a simple one-pointed focus. "It's not human." Exactly. It's dangerously not human.

It's analogous to creating a robot that can get out of hand and overpower its master. Or, Frankenstein's monster.

Pink Floyd's movie, The Wall, gave an inkling of what's in store if we do not take care that corporations serve people, rather than vice versa.

The B corporation is an innovative model that seeks to change from within:

"Current events present a unique opportunity for us collectively to redefine success in business. Our message of using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems has never been more resonant."

450 businesses have joined forces to start putting some heart into corporations. They're advocating legislation and branding for corporations that participate, and partner for publicity, marketing, evaluations, certifications.

California has the right idea

Over this last weekend, Governor Jerry Brown signed Benefit Corporation and Green Business Legislation
. Yes!

This is definitely a step in the right direction.