Both are eligible for and will channel massive funding from corporations exercising their ill-gotten "personality" rights.
Sotomayor asked flat out, "How does a corporation exercise religion?" But Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito seemed perfectly comfortable with corporate religiosity as a concept – and Kennedy seemed to agree with the conservative Justices.
"How does a corporation exercise religion?" Sotomayor asked.
Back then, judges tended to be largely concerned with protecting suppliers from being squeezed by retailers, which meant that, if a corporation exercised monopoly power to push prices down, hurting suppliers, the company could easily lose an antitrust case.
A last gasp of bitterness came on June 29, when the musicians, at a meeting of the full corporation, exercised their remaining powers by voting down the nomination of proposed trustees perceived as supporters of Mr. Fletcher.
The corporation exercises, through its standard contract, the most elaborate possible control over virtually every aspect of its franchisees' operations, and the pay and the treatment of workers are very largely determined by that control.
The corporation exercised this authorization in September 2013 when it announced that it will purchase all of the electricity produced by the not-yet-built 240-megawatt Happy Hereford wind farm.
A fact that will not startle any professional journalist in India is that the nation's mainstream news media are firmly in the grip of corporations, which exercise control chiefly through direct or indirect ownership of news outlets and advertising budgets.
The festival also pays tribute to British documentary-maker Adam Curtis, with screenings of his latest film, Bitter Lake, about the relationship between Afghanistan and the west, as well as 2002's The Century of the Self, which traced the influence of Sigmund Freud and Edward Bernays on the power of governments and corporations to exercise mind control.
