Yeah, OK, I like Nadar, but.... US corporations that deployed Trumpesque transparency, accountability, and similar methods in the past have often been caught and have suffered reputation hits. Frequently due to the tireless efforts of consumer advocate Ralph Nadar.
I would say that western multi-national corporations have significantly improved transparency, accountability, labour and human rights practices, environmental practices, community relations, etc., over the past few decades. Corporate social responsibility is real and many, many companies take it very seriously. Many major oil companies have followed the example set by Norwegian owned but publicly traded multi-national oil and gas company Equinor (formerly Statoil). Many are committed to reducing carbon emissions. Many talk the language of foot print. Many now recognize and fully embrace the notion that pollution reduction more often than not coincides with cost reduction.
There are exceptions and advocacy groups, shareholders groups, minorities, governments and interested individuals should vigorously pursue those companies. Non-violently please.
Trump sells a vision of tough-guy, zero-sum version of capitalism that plays right into the long-standing, traditional critique of the radical left-wing and other anti-western, anti-freemarket capitalism groups around the globe. Trump's policies and governance do American and other multi-national corporations absolutely no good whatsoever. His constant lying contributes to the punishing uncertainty his rhetoric and policies have created for private businesses inside and outside the USA.
Multi-nationals have learned and many have changed for the better. Is Trump capable of learning and changing for the better? I see no evidence of that to date.
His Tweet about it was especially bizarre (but not surprising of course): "Alabama was going to be hit or grazed, and then Hurricane Dorian took a different path (up along the East Coast). The Fake News knows this very well. Thatâs why theyâre the Fake News!" I thought maybe if I did a sentence diagram this quote could be manipulated to make more sense, but it's contradictory gibberish - more of his word salad. What was he trying to say?The media knows what's actually going on "very well" so "that's why they're the fake news"? Wouldn't that make them the "not-fake news"? I guess he was trying to say that his (altered) week-old map was somehow valid? 'I see' said the blind man to his deaf and dumb daughter as he picked up his hammer and saw.
I wish, we could really have used that rain. That guy.
Unfortunately for them, your old stomping grounds - Charleston and the Lowcountry - have plenty of rain to spare.
Yea I actually left Charleston for good 2 days before Hugo to live in Columbia and never went back except for occasional visits to relatives. My sister is the only one left there and I really have no desire to go back. Not only because of weather, but that place has been ruined from too much worldwide good press, it is so popular no one goes there anymore.
