• Goldman Sachs buys 19% of danish energy giant Dong Energy despite massive protests and over 200k sig
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[QUOTE=DarkWolf2;43747853]Let me get this straight. The deal went on despite: - 200.000 citizens actively protesting the decision. - Parties leaving the government and falling apart to protest the decision - A rival company bidding higher than Goldman - Them getting an idiotic and exclusive veto right with less than a fifth of the company's ownership - The Sachs company being located in a tax haven somewhere far off Are you absolutely SHITTING ME?[/QUOTE] Sounds like business as usual. Governments and big megacorps do not give a flying fuck what the public thinks of their actions, simple as that. Public opinion is absolutely meaningless. They discard petitions, ignore emails, forward calls into an endless maze of bureaucratic Indian call centers, basically do everything they can to make it even easier to ignore the public opinion.
[QUOTE=TestECull;43749895]Sounds like business as usual. Governments and big megacorps do not give a flying fuck what the public thinks of their actions, simple as that. Public opinion is absolutely meaningless. They discard petitions, ignore emails, forward calls into an endless maze of bureaucratic Indian call centers, basically do everything they can to make it even easier to ignore the public opinion.[/QUOTE] Well, the government is getting a lot of shit for this - support for Soc. Dem. has dropped to 15%, SF stepped out of government (they're currently sitting at ~5% support and their leader just stepped dow) and I don't think Rad. Venstre is doing much better. This isn't going unpunished - shit shouldn't have gone through, but chances are these people aren't going to be in the government next time around. Sadly, chances are people will be voting for people like Lars Løkke (a bit more economically liberal than the Soc. Dem.) and Kristian Thulesen Dahl from DF. Lars Løkke is okay I guess, but DF is just a big no-no (I don't really have anything against Kristian Dahl, but DF's politics are just dumb). Enhedslisten will probably get more votes, but they won't have anyone to form a government with, really.
[QUOTE=O Cheerios O;43748029][B]Legal[/B]ese. If you can't tell something in a simple and concise manner, then confuse the shit out of everyone.[/QUOTE] More like Reporter: "Did you fuck up?" Politician: [i]Spends the next 5 minutes talking about everything but the answer to the question[/i] Reporter: "Did you fuck up?" And it keeps going on like that 3-4 more times until the reporter gives up.
I wonder if one day the fabled Nordic Model will disappear due to corporate influence.
[QUOTE=The golden;43749925]And that is why they need to be removed from their post as a representative of the people because they have failed to do just that.[/QUOTE] Oh, believe you me, they will. The current government are getting absoultely wrecked in support numbers, and is slowly falling apart. Also, Facepunch were the first to make me realize how funny a name Dong is for a company. I've missed so many years of jokes because I took them to seriously.
Well so much for being one of the least corrupt countries on the planet.
[QUOTE=Muggi;43755354]Oh, believe you me, they will. The current government are getting absoultely wrecked in support numbers, and is slowly falling apart. Also, Facepunch were the first to make me realize how funny a name Dong is for a company. I've missed so many years of jokes because I took them to seriously.[/QUOTE] Nothing wrong with the name Dong, dude.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;43755158]I wonder if one day the fabled Nordic Model will disappear due to corporate influence.[/QUOTE] I don't think it will because it's the the tax payers that pay for that. We have lower corporate tax than america. Offcause we have way less loopholes for the big corporations to benefit from but that didn't stop McDonalds not paying taxes for like 10 years.
Dont forget; The CEO of Dong left his post as soon as it was confirmed. With a 24Million bonus
[QUOTE=can man;43769862]Dont forget; The CEO of Dong left his post as soon as it was confirmed. With a 24Million bonus[/QUOTE] The rich gets richer. Sigh.
If there was ever a time for someone to post that "Expand Dong" picture, now would be the time.
Man, you vote in a socialist party, in the hope that they will carry a socialist policy, and they do the exact opposite. This must be what it felt like to vote for Obama. Utter fucking betrayal.
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