Oct
25
2008
I dislike when anyone tries to decrease freedom of speech, especially on the internet.
- Maybe it’s because I was sued [1, 2, 3 & 4] about this very issue, that I am fairly touchy about the subject.
Right and wrong has nothing to do with it: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.
Since Australia and New Zealand are in the franchise regulation news lately, here are three August 2001 articles from Jon Stephenson of The Independent that illustrate how little distinction some franchisors make between fundatmental human rights freedoms and their ability to control their message.
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Tags: Australia, Australia And New Zealand, Canada, Control, Cto, Distinction, Franchise, Franchisee, franchisees, Franchises, Franchisor, Franchisors, Free Speech, Gist, Heir, Lucky, Matchpoint, Mcdonald, Names, New Zealand, Pdf, Register, Wrangle
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Oct
23
2008
The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.
Two of its most famous members were C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Readings and discussions of the members’ unfinished works were the principal purposes of meetings. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, and Williams’s All Hallows’ Eve were among the novels first read to the Inklings. [Wikipedia]
As Oxford teachers, scholars, men of faith and fiction writers, they were not shy about expressing his views about knowledge, truth and education. Read more »
Tags: Capitalists, Decade, Decades, Discussion Group, Fiction Writers, Ford, Franchise, Gap, God, Hallo, Heir, Kip, Knowledge, Liter, Mit, Novel, Pleasure, Science, Shout, Struggle, Treachery, Truth, Weather, Wiki, Wikipedia
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Oct
19
2008
In a Smart Company article by James Thomson called MP renews calls for investigations into mistreatment of Bakers Delight franchisee, he quotes:
NSW parliamentarian Joanna Gash has renewed calls for the Australian Federal Police to launch an investigation into accusations Bakers Delight and ANZ bank colluded to put a franchisee out of business.
Quoting emails between the franchisor and the bank, Gash alleges:
On Monday, Gash revisited the case in Parliament, producing emails from Bakers Delight chief financial officer Richard Taylor and ANZ executives that she says shows “plans had been conspired to terminate Ms de Leeuw’s franchise well ahead of time”.
The bank and franchisor deny all the allegations.
This is the first public AUS public allegation of the key franchisor:franchise banker relationship that I identified and wrote about in a 2005 paper for Industry Canada called Franchising Opportunism [free download]. Read more »
Tags: Allegations, Australia, Banks, Business Plan, Canada, Digg, Diligence, Due Diligence, Emails, Exec, Franchise, Franchisee, franchisees, Franchisor, Franchisors, God, Grants, Heir, Ief, Joanna, Loans, Mail, Migrants, Nofollow, Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen, Pdf, Predatory Lending, Quotes, Rants, Rcmp, Relationship, Small Business, Smart, Smart Company, Take Advantage, Wordpress
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