Becky,Becca asked:


The majority is not agree with it, but then some agreed

MANIE

Joanne Hsu asked:


Under the amended Reit Act, debt financing and bond issues will be allowed up to twice the amount of the net equity of the company.
Right of first refusal to sell shares
In CR-Reits, shareholders who oppose the extension of the holding period under the articles of incorporation are granted the right of first refusal to sell shares. Under the amended Reit Act, that right of first refusal will be granted for all types of Reits, if there is an issuance of new shares following an in-kind contribution, or if the Reit is subject to a merger or acquisition.
Shareholding limits
To give increased flexibility to shareholders, the holding limit of 10% of outstanding shares per person for K-Reits will be increased to 30%. There will be no change for CR-Reits as shareholders in CR-Reits have not been subjected to any restrictions with respect to the number of shares.
Asset portfolio requirements
Under the Reit Act, a Reit has to meet certain requirements regarding asset composition at the close of each quarter: (i) at least 70% of the total assets must be invested in real estate; and (ii) at least 90% of the total assets must consist of real estate, real estate related securities and cash.
Under the amended Reit Act, this will be relaxed so that: (i) at least 70% of the total assets must be invested in real estate; and (ii) at least 80% of the total assets must consist of real estate, real estate related securities and cash. However, for CR-Reits, only the first requirement applies.
Income deduction for dividends
According to the amended CTL, Paper Company Reits will receive the same tax benefits as CR-Reits with respect to the deduction on distributed dividends for corporate income tax purpose, given that they distribute 90% or more of their distributable income.
Registration and acquisition taxes
Before 2003, under the TILL, there was a 100% exemption on registration and acquisition taxes for CR-Reits regarding the real property acquired by CR-Reits, while other types of Reits received only a 50% reduction. However, towards the end of 2003 and in accordance with the amendment to the TILL, the 100% exemption enjoyed by CR-Reits was also reduced to 50%, which is equal to the rate applied to other types of Reits.

SOPHIA

Ben Thayer, Don Thatt asked:


America is no longer a democracy. Voting is irrelevant.

Best case scenario: We’re a plutocracy, a government ruled by the wealthy, the richest 1%, the Forbes 400, the influential wealthy elite, while the other 99% are their “servants.” Meanwhile, the inflation-adjusted income of wage-earners has declined for three decades.

Worst case scenario: America’s no democracy and as a result of the meltdown and the surrender of our power to Wall Street’s new Disaster Capitalism we are morphing into what one WWII dictator called “corporatism,” a “merger of state and corporate power,” kind of like what’s going on now with Goldman Sachs’ ex-boss as de facto president.

LEON

lillies_tulips_roses asked:


Looks have a good bearing on success in today’s world.
I want to become a top corporate attorney specializing in either intellectual property (copyright) or mergers and acquisitions.

Are my parents just wasting money on my $50,000 a year undergraduate education? Or should i just kill myself now?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28891892@N06/

EDDIE

Nacho Libre asked:


Here’s a list of other corporate disasters that might add to the discussion.

http://www.hrworld.com/features/33-biggest-corporate-implosions-042808/

Which one do you think was the worst corporate nightmare and are there any other major corporations that you think could be next?

GIDGET

yourdoneandover asked:


Vietnamese people ( a lot of children ) were killed for the heroin trade. This isn’t an opinion this is a fact. A fact for people who don’t believe there is a marriage or merger if you will of the mafia and the military. I use to have respect for the mafia on some levels until I found that out myself. I want to go on record saying I don’t now, because our military and their agenda has not improved if anything it has deteriorated with their influence. Its more of a merger of the corporate world with the mafia but its the same thing.
and there isn’t just some mafia in the cia , the cia has nothing but mafia in it, unless they hire me and clean up their record.

KANISHA

[O]peration [I]raqi [L]iberation asked:


Benito Mussolini said:

“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”

What better example of this definition than what we’re doing with fannie and freddie.

When business was booming did we see those profits reinvested in the federal treasury? No, it was kept by the owners of fannie and freddie. Now they are failing and it’s our tax dollars that have to go in to save the day, get them back on their feet, then turn them back over to the private sector so they can start making more money.

It’s sick. Why am I paying taxes for this garbage? I say let them fail.

What say you?
avail_skillz YES – exactly

Why is nobody outraged about this???

ROYAL

All Bama’s Chumps asked:


“Mussolini pointed out that ‘the first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism, because it is the merger of state and corporate power.’” —-The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs

Considering the whole hosts of lobbyists crawling all over D.C. from different industries and all the banking bailouts, would you agree with this statement?

SHERYLL

Water Over Gold asked:


“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

-Benito Mussolini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

Political scientists may also use the term corporatism to describe a practice whereby a state, through the process of licensing and regulating officially-incorporated social, religious, economic, or popular organizations, effectively co-opts their leadership or circumscribes their ability to challenge state authority by establishing the state as the source of their legitimacy, as well as sometimes running them, either directly or indirectly through corporations. This usage is particularly common in the area of East Asian studies, and is sometimes also referred to as state corporatism. Some analysts have applied the term neocorporatism to certain practices in Western European countries, such as the Tupo in Finland and Proporz system in Austria.[3] At a popular level in recent years “corporatism” has been used to mean the promotion of the interests of private corporations in government over the interests of the public.

CLEMENTE

. asked:


In what way are the following quotes not similar regarding thought and ambition?

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power”
[Benito Mussolini]

“Fascism recognizes the real needs which give rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporate system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in unity of the state”
[Benito Mussolini]

“It doesn’t matter who owns something… it only matters you controls it”
[Adolf Hitler]

“Bring corporations under stake-holder [state] control”… Book: Don’t Think Of An Elephant”: The Essential Guide For Progressives… heavily promoted by the DNC.
[George Lakoff]

My fellow Americans, we have found a THIRD WAY… this THIRD WAY calls for business and government to join hands as partners… to use technology, research and market incentives to meet national needs.
[Bill Clinton]
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THIRD WAY or THIRD REICH ?

http://www.agitprop.org.au/stopnato/19990520thirdway.php

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RE: avail_skillz…

I offer quotes that demonstrate ominous parallels of thought and ambition regarding Third Way Doctrines [proposed by the neoprogressive left here and in Europe] and Fascist Socialism and your only response is a sophmoric adhominim attack on the credibility of Newsmax, while offering nothing substantive that countervails what Newsmax said in their article.

Well… here are additional links that support Newsmax’s artical… one of which is from one of the most Leftwing newspapers in this country… The New York Times…

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02EEDA103DF93BA15751C0A96F958260

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6901

“NO GARSONE”… your mendacious shallow minded tripe, and sorry attempt at obfuscation, and utter lack of critical thought [without reconciling said quotes]…
…clearly demonstrates that [regarding your Hitler quote] Hitler was referring to subjective, group-think, goose-stepping, heal-clicking, revisionist bloats like yourself.

No doubt Goebbel would be utterly amused messing with your small mind… with its total lack of self-reflection and critical thought.

Moreover… with no credit to you… your pathetic response [which typifies Leftist dialectic rhetoric] further establishes the fascistic mentallity of Neoprogrogressive Leftists and their tacit aggreement with the opinion expressed in the following quote [especially so since the unDemocratic Party is pushing for the establishment of the so called Fairness Doctrine promoted by Pres. Cand. Kucinich]…

“Words are more powerful than guns!… Now we wouldn’t let our enemies have guns… why would we let them have ideas!
[Joseph Stalin]… referred to as Uncle Joe by Leftists in America!

‘The Experts agree… Gun Control works’
[Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin]
Oh by the way… thanks for the Hitler qoute!

I’ll make good use of it … I assure you!

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CYTHIA