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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 11:19 AM
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Here's why I call: ''bullshit,'' sduderstadt...
A check of the OP's source finds it to be put out by...

Atlantic Media Company - Our Story

That organization collaborates with the Conscious Capitalism Institute:

Conscious Capitalism Academic Consortium Underway

Thanks for turning me on to the connection. Dude.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 11:29 AM
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1. I read the Genesis of Conscious Capitalism on the website you
linked.What's the big deal? It sounds like they're trying to encourage businesses that don't put profits above all else.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 11:48 AM
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3. Because it's...
"evil capitalism" to people like Octafish.

Too funny.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 02:32 PM
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8. It's new lipstick for an old pig.
Conscious Capitalism is the idea that corporations can be trusted to do right voluntarily. The same was floated by Lemuel Boulware, the GE mastermind who helped convert Ronald Reagan from FDR Democrat to Barry Goldwater repuglian.


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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 11:45 AM
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2. Dude...
You just disproved your earlier claim. Did you see that?

Earlier you claimed that the Aspen Institute published the National Journal. It's the typical Octafish two-step. It's also funny to watch your near-paroxysm when you encounter the word "capitalism".

Too funny.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 05:18 PM
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9. Here's more on the owner of The National Journal, sduderstadt.
Our Leadership
Business | Editorial

Business

David Bradley


David Bradley is the Chairman and owner of Atlantic Media Company.

Before entering media, David founded and owned two (now public) research companies - The Advisory Board Company and The Corporate Executive Board Company. With 50,000 applicants each year, the enterprises are the largest employers of young professional talent in the Washington region. David was a Fulbright scholar in the Philippines, serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and KIPP DC, and is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.

David graduated from Swarthmore College, received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

SOURCE: http://atlanticmediacompany.com/leadership/index.htm

The guy's vitae sounds like he's a leading member of the Establishment - or at least he's rubbing shoulders with them.
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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 11:53 AM
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4. I haven't seen his Conscious Capitalism posts in a while.
Oxymorons always make me laugh.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 12:40 PM
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5. What makes me laugh is when...
people don't understand what an oxymoron is.

How's that "socialist revolution" coming along, dude?
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 01:30 PM
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6. I assume you're dropping your rather silly claim that...
the National Journal is published by the Aspen Institute.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 01:50 PM
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7. You never skip a chance to put words in my mouth, sduderstadt.
In response to your demand for information I had previously linked, here's what I wrote:

About Us

The National Journal Group, Inc., including Government Executive, was acquired by David G. Bradley, founder of the Advisory Board Company and the Corporate Executive Board, in 1997. Upon the purchase of The Atlantic in 1999, the Atlantic Media Company was established.

Today from our headquarters in Washington, DC, Atlantic Media's editorial and business teams collaborate to develop new and exciting products, stimulating events, and key partnerships, balancing esteem for the respected history of each of our publications with a businessman's entrepreneurial eye.

The Atlantic, with the Aspen Institute, annually gathers the nation's intellectual leaders to debate those ideas currently provoking American thought as part of the Aspen Ideas Festival.

In 2006, National Journal Group expanded into broadcast media, launching the PBS program Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal. Increasing this broadcast presence in 2007, National Journal and NBC News proudly announced joint coverage of the 2008 Presidential Elections and, later that year, XM Satellite Radio's National Journal On Air hit the airwaves.

Government Executive launched NextGov.com in 2008 to address the growing significance of the technology corridor on federal policy.

SOURCE: http://atlanticmediacompany.com/ourstory.html

Again, I stated the OP was from The National Journal, a publication of Atlantic Media Group. I stated Atlantic Media Group collaborates with The Aspen Institute. I also wrote The Aspen Institute collaborates with The Conscious Capitalism Institute, which you "promote." And that's your word, not mine. Dude.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-11 08:31 AM
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10. Dude...
Your initial claim was that the Aspen Institute published the National Journal.

It's funny to watch your spinning.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-11 09:02 AM
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11. You persist in trying to attribute to me something I did not write, sduderstadt.
I believe you do that in order to discredit me as a DUer.

Tell you what: Show me where I wrote what you said.

Better yet, show me why you think I'm wrong for what I did write.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-11 09:43 AM
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12. Dude...
that is precisely what you wrote and it was the basis for your attempt to discredit the National Journalwhich is one of the most respected political publications.
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