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Setting Up The Greenpeace Ship w/WiFi
An anonymous reader writes "If you're on any wifi related mailing lists, you've probably heard of Nigel Ballard of joejava.com, Minister of Propaganda for the Personal Telco Project in Portland Oregon.
The Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise came into Portland and wanted some an alternative to Inmarsat for their Internet access.
Nigel set Greenpeace up with equipment and got VeriLAN to provide access."
GNAA claims responsibility for eating disorder of Mary Kate Olsen
By Gary Niger
Lindon, Utah - GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) this afternoon announced that their previous kidnapping of the Olsen twins is behind the eating disorder afflicting Mary Kate Olsen today.
In a surprise announcement this afternoon, GNAA representative godspeed revealed that GNAA has known about Mary Kate's disorder for some time now, and that it was the ordeal she went through earlier that triggered it. "That skinny white girl," godspeed began. "Ever since we kidnapped her and her cracker sister, she couldn't stop eating nigger dick. After we originally injected the holy gay nigger seed into her, she just went crazy. Begged us for more all the time, wouldn't shut about about "Just needing a little more [cock.]" Shit, nigga, we GAY. Sure, we tapped that white ass to increase our numbers, but just cuz she wants it? HELL no!"
As reliable sources have reported, Mary Kate went on a binge after being released from GNAA custody. She had a group of niggers on call at all times, so she could eat a little black cock while in between takes one the set of her hit movie New York Minute. She was seen being rebuffed by R. Kelly, who in a statement to GNAA member l0de said "That bitch is WAY too old." Twin sister Ashley Olsen is reported as saying "I knew she had a problem, wanting to suck some nigger cock all the time, but whenever I tried to talk to her about it, she called me a "cracker whore" and stormed off. I mean, seriously, SHE'S the one sucking all that nigger cock, who is SHE to be calling ME a whore?"
Mary Kate is in a rehab facility in an undisclosed location, where well-qualified staff such as Ellen DeGeneres will help treat this young girl. Whether she will be able to beat this addiction to nigger cock, or relapse while seeing all those black bucks at NYU remains to be seen.
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The full text of this article from The Economist follows. The original content is subscriber-only; it is reproduced here in the hope and expectation that you will find it useful.
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Non-governmental organisations and business
Living with the enemy
Aug 7th 2003
From The Economist print edition
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Companies are increasingly under attack from NGOs. Should they co-operate?
BEING the boss of a big company besieged by indignant activists is not much fun--though it is increasingly a fact of life. Mention, say, Greenpeace, to a typical boss and he will often turn apoplectic. Still, a growing number of executives are concluding that it is better to get along with the lobbyists than to attack them. Just look at the rapid spread of activist-friendly corporate social responsibility policies or listen to Lord (John) Browne describe how green nowadays is his firm, BP--even if it still makes its money selling oil.
Consider, too, the lengthening lists on the "Victories" pages of the websites of campaigning groups such as the Rainforest Action Network. Among its trophies is Citigroup. RAN campaigned to get the financial giant to adopt policies to reduce habitat loss and climate change, urging customers to cut up their Citicards and plastering the internet with nasty jibes against named executives. In April, RAN announced a truce, claiming that Citi had agreed to what it wanted. Not bad for a group with a dozen staff and a $2m budget.
In the contest between NGOs and companies, size is no advantage. Nor is being in the right. NGOs are increasingly pursuing their campaigns within America's notoriously plaintiff-friendly legal system, with its potential for huge payouts. (Worse, a case involving Nike now before the Supreme Court might discourage firms from entering into public debate with activists, by classifying their comments as "commercial speech", which lacks America's usual protection for free speech.)
So what is the best policy for a firm attacked by such NGOs (non-governmental organisations)--which, in contrast to the many NGOs that simply get on with doing good works, aim to force firms to change by deluging them with bad publicity? Should the NGO be attacked, ignored or befriended? The answer may vary, depending on the kind of business a firm is in--and the nature of the NGO.
Many bosses face growing pressure to talk with their NGO critics--even if this leads to little more than cosmetic action. Many folk assume that firms such as Nike, Nestlé and Shell have paid heftily for being targeted by a high-profile campaign.
Barking not biting
The memory of a campaign may linger, but evidence of damage is scarce. Few customers of Citigroup seem to have cut up their cards. Craig Smith of London Business School studied the impact of an NGO campaign against a big European food firm and found that sales initially dropped but recovered within a few months.
As for the share price, even in the case of companies pilloried for investing in South Africa during the era of apartheid, two somewhat incompatible studies found little reason to respond to the activists. One found that pressure had no discernible impact on the share price; the other, that announcing withdrawal from South Africa actually cut the share price.
This lack of impact may not be entirely surprising. Although the utterances of NGOs are often reported in the media as if they were Holy Writ, as they have become more sophisticated--even business-like--some NGOs have selected their campaigns less for the significance of the cause than for their ability to attract publicity and to raise donations from consumers in the market for things to feel angry about.
Still, it can sometimes make sense to co-operate with NGOs. Some firms will incur lower costs
And can you imagine beowulf cluster of these babies, in Soviet Russia, you insensitive, Earth-Hating CLOD!