Armed with these and other judicial gifts, energy corporations have crushed people's initiatives and referenda instructing public officials to map out solar and public energy transitions. They have diverted people from thinking rationally about governance and technologies. They have grown rich from pouring people's money down nuclear, fossil fuel and other infelicitous rat holes. Agribusiness corporations write food policy law. Insurance corporations write sickness and health care law.
Financial corporations write monetary policy law.
Automobile corporations write transportation policy law. Corporations' laws are enforced by police, courts and US marshals, and as we saw during the Seattle WTO meeting, by the US Army. A few hundred giant corporations govern. They define the nation's needs, values, thoughts, choices and spending by superintending the people's debates, elections, lawmaking, jurisprudence and education. So just to generate accurate analyses and sane discussions, we must get corporations out of people's faces, off people's airwaves.