|
|
 Video,
Articles, and Daily News are all added frequently to
taosplaza.com.
These are drawn from several key
sources
plus other
sources & contributors. All Video and Articles first appear in
the 'Top Stories' section, then to the 'Leading Stories' section, and
then to the 'More
News' section. Following that each video or article can best be found
within Categories. So If you're not interested in Global or US news at
the time
but want to see info on Solar Power or Earthships or the Environment,
or look at a comedy video, just scroll down to the
Category with what you're looking for. With the new taosplaza.com you
can find interesting video, articles, and news in many ways. Other very
good ways to find pieces posted on taosplaza.com are to use the
'Archive' or 'Search features. Wherever you are on Planet Earth,
taosplaza.com is about 'turning you on'
to ideas and information that will give you some perspective in these
interesting times. Watch it unfold before your eyes.
J.
R. Ransom,
Publisher, October, 2008
|
|
Boycott is The Ultimate Weapon |
|
|
|
|
Contributed by Stacy Herbert
|
 Ultimate Weapon “US financial activists have
recently introduced astute boycott
strategies. Created by Max Keiser, the BVR attempts to identify listed
companies that are financially the most sensitive to a boycott. We have
refined this concept in our scoring model.” -
“Consumer Power,”
Cheuvreux June 2007
The boycott is ‘the ultimate weapon,’ according to
the report. What is a boycott? A boycott is “a free,
voluntary and ideological
refusal on a systematic basis to consume a company’s products
or
services (or that of a country) for the purpose of obliging it to meet
a demand.” As Max Keiser has repeatedly stated, “a
boycott is the no
cost weapon of choice for activists.”
And while 91% of
consumers say they are prepared to boycott the products of a company
for poor behaviour, in reality, the ‘ultimate
weapon’ is wielded mostly
by the educated and the middle to upper income brackets. According to
the report, less than 15% of people with no university degree have ever
boycotted a product. And only 25% of those with income of less than
1500 euros per month have boycotted a product, compared to 46% of those
with monthly incomes greater than 3100 euros.
As is reflected
in Karmabanque research, Cheuvreux found that consumer goods and
retailers were most vulnerable to a boycott, hence the lowest CCC
rating. The companies most resistant to a boycott were found to be the
banks, AAA rating for them. Banks shouldn’t be too relaxed
about this
as Cheuvreux’s study also found that resistance to a boycott
“is also a
good indicator of the threat of possible regulation.”
Max
Keiser created Karmabanque in 2002 as a place for activists to monetize
their dissent. With Cheuvreux’s report providing another
layer of
important dissent data, the ultmate boycott weapon just got a market
guided missile.
To learn more about Max
Keiser
To read the Cheuvreux boycott report download pdf below:
 "Consumer
Power": Cheuvreux Bank report - 46K
The New York City Independent Media Center |
|
|
