BP lobbies Lybia for a prisoner release to get oil contract? That's absurd :)

This morning I came across this link on MSBNC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38256677/ns/world_news-africa/.  I wonder if people are still surprised by this kind of behavior.  Corporations will continue to put dollars ahead of everything else - that will not change until the society as a whole does and I don't see that coming for quite a while.  What we can do in the meantime is to put in place much stronger regulations that curb the power of multi-national corporations.  The notion of businesses controlling themselves is the same as showing a 5 year old where the cookie jar is.  Strong regulations on corporations,  campaign finance reform, changing lobbying rules - those are the things we need to be doing.