reply to post by Skyfloating
Sure. Check out these companies:
Cargill.
USA. Was the company referred to as "Thorn Industries" in
The Omen movies. Cargill controlls major segments of world grain processing.
Most countries on earth do business with either Cargill, Conagra, or ADM. The difference is that Cargill is a privately owned company, meaning that
it doesn't have to submit to the sort of public scrutiny required of publicly traded companies. For this reason, the only real estimates of its
profits are provided by the company itself. Wikipedia says that last year, Cargill claimed receipts in the 80 Billion dollar range.
That said, they are also liable to grievous misteps. The soya plant in Brazil is in danger of being shut down by that state, costing cargill
billions. In addition, I got a front row seat for their 1997 mishandling of the spike in wheat prices, that saw them leverage futures losses into the
billions, and they paid the top price in CBOT history for a contract of wheat, surpassed only this past month. . . .
(The biggest private company in the US is Koch industries, who owned an early patent in oil refining. They have said they plan to go public when the
founder and CEO dies.)
Siemens AG
- German engineering conglomerate; major competition for american GE corp.
ThyssenKrupp
- another "german" multiantional, with serious ties to the Nazis and fascist movements in a number of developing nations. They armed the world,
for ww2.
Anglo American Plc
Don't let the name fool you. This is the South African Conglomerate that owns the leading stake in DeBeers Corp. It also owns most of the biggest
gold mining fields. It was THE central support for the Apartheid state in South Africa. Look them up on wikipedia, and you can see that they are
currently being accused of actively oppressing native peoples in africa in a de facto slave state --- just like apartheid, before the fall of
the Botha government in SA. I say they have had a major part in jacking up copper prices worldwide, by applying the lesssons of the diamond industry
to the industrial metals business.
I'm currently looking into a couple of spanish conglomerates that seem to be landing lots of plush contracts in the USA. But I'll wait to post,
since I hope to create a specific thread about bidrigging and bribery of state and national politicians by one of these companies.