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  • Boris Johnson's Sister Writes An Article Pitying Ghislaine Maxwell

    Boris Johnson's sister, Rachael Johnson, writes an article for the Spectator, saying she pities Ghislaine Maxwell! Not only does she feel pity for an on trial sex trafficker and longtime right hand woman of Jeffery Epstein, she also says her and Boris knew her, from their times at Oxford. Could you be any more in a bubble, than to pity such repugnant people, to any normal human being. Why would you shine a light on this relationship and even write an article yourself about it? It is completely bizarre, start to finish. "It’s hard not to feel a batsqueak of pity for Ghislaine Maxwell — 500 days and counting in solitary confinement" Rachel Johnson - It’s hard not to pity Ghislaine Maxwell We met briefly at Oxford 17 November 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell The Guardian - Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking crimes Tue 28 Jun 2022 By Victoria Bekiempis in New York

  • World Government/Supranational Entity/NWO Collectivism

    "Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - One World, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it" Memoirs by David Rockefeller Page 482 or 405 “We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.”—CFR member James Paul Warburg before the Revision of the United Nations Charter: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee On Foreign Relations 81st Congress second session 1950 Page 494 "1944, Bretton Woods: The IMF and the World Bank 1945, San Francisco: The United Nations 1994, Marrakech: The World Trade Organization. History knows where it is going.... The World Trade Organization, the third pillar of the New World Order, along with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund." 1994 April 15th NYT A19 "But what about epidemics? How many doctors do we have for it, how many airplanes, tents, scientists? If there were such a thing as a world government, we would be better prepared." Bill Gates January 28, 2015, Bill Gates Interview With Süddeutschen Zeitung “The house of world order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down…an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.” CFR member Richard Gardner, Page 558 Foreign Affairs The Hard Road To World Order "The hopeful aspect of the present situation is that even as nations resist appeals for "world government" and "the surrender of sovereignty," technological, economic and political interests are forcing them to establish more and more far-reaching arrangements to manage their mutual interdependence" CFR member Richard Gardner, Page 559 Foreign Affairs The Hard Road To World Order "Thus, while we will not see "world government" in the old-fashioned sense of a single all-embracing global authority, key elements of planetary planning and planetary management will come about on those very specific problems where the facts of interdependence force nations, in their enlightened self-interest, to abandon unilateral decision-making in favor of multilateral processes." Richard Gardner, Page 563 Foreign Affairs The Hard Road To World Order "The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak" A World In Ferment Interpretations Of The War For A New World Page 106 Nicholas Murray Butler President of The Carnegie Endowment for international peace "I suggest a radical alternative scheme for the next century: the creation of a common currency for all of the industrial democracies, with a common monetary policy and a joint Bank of Issue to determine that monetary policy.... How can independent states accomplish that? They need to turn over the determination of monetary policy to a supranational body" Richard N Cooper Foreign Affairs Fall 1984 A Monetary System For The Future "In the almost fifty years that have elapsed since 1943, I joined the World Federalists and campaigned for world government; I was appointed by President Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago to his Committee to Frame a World Constitution, established by him immediately after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; I conducted a seminar for the Ford Foundation on war and peace, world peace, and world government in 1951; and I wrote two books (The Common Sense of Politics, 1971, and A Vision of the Future, 1984), in which these subjects are treated with a maturity acquired by years of thinking about them.... Finally, in Section 5, I will close with a vision of the new world of the Twentieth Century, in which the conflict between the two great superpowers—the USA and its NATO allies vs. the USSR and its Warsaw Pact satellites—will be replaced by the USDR (a union of socialist democratic republics). This will be a penultimate stage of progress toward a truly global world federal union that will eliminate the remaining potentially threatening conflict between the have and the have-not nations." Haves without have-nots Mortimer Alder 286-287 on Scribd “In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” Strobe Talbot, Deputy Secretary of State, TIME, July l992 Wiki Quote "Obviously there is going to be no peace or prosperity for mankind so long as it remains divided into fifty or sixty independent states … Equally obviously there is going to be no steady progress in civilization or self-government among the more backward peoples until some kind of international system is created which will put an end to the diplomatic struggles incident to the attempt of every nation to make itself secure... The real problem today is that of world government?" 1922 Phillip Kerr From Empire to Commonwealth, Foreign Relations Page 97-98 "The sovereignty fetish is still so strong in the public mind, that there would appear to be little chance of winning popular assent to American membership in anything approaching a super-state organization. Much will depend on the kind of approach which is used in further popular education" 1944 Council publication, American Public Opinion and Postwar Security Commitments Page 4 "The viewpoint of the Establishment today is called globalism. Not so long ago, this viewpoint was called the "one-world" view by its critics. The phrase is no longer fashionable among sophisticates; yet, the phrase "one-world"is still apt because nothing has changed in the minds and actions of those promoting policies consistent with its fundamental tenets. Mr. President, in the globalist point of view, nation-states and national boundaries do not count for anything. Political philosophies and political principles seem to become simply relative. Indeed, even constitutions are irrelevant to the exercise of power .... In this point of view, the activities of international financial and industrial forces should be oriented to bringing this one-world design - with a convergence of the Soviet and American systems as its centerpiece - into being." Senator Jesse Helms December 15th 1987 Vol 133 Page 18146 Congressional Hearing (35614 at top left of page) "For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the U.S.A. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political "ammunition," as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the CFR-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people - and thus paid off and retained his internationalist political support." Curtis Fall My Exploited Father In Law FDR Page 185 "But the Atlantic Pact (NATO) need not be our last effort toward greater unity. It can be converted into one more sound and important step working toward world peace. It can be one of the most positive moves in the direction of One World" The Goal Is Governed Of All the World pamphlet quotes CFR Member Elmo Roper congressional hearing June 20th 1966 Page 76 PDF Page 13, I got PDF sent through ACU Library "The society of experts will control propaganda and education. It will teach loyalty to the world government, and make nationalism high treason. The government, being an oligarchy, will instill submissiveness into the great bulk of the population…It is possible that it may invent ingenious ways of concealing its own power, leaving the forms of democracy intact, and allowing the plutocrats or politicians to imagine that they are cleverly controlling these forms…whatever the outward forms may be, all real power will come to be concentrated in the hands of those who understand the art of scientific manipulation" Bertrand Russell, The Scientific Outlook Page 243-44 “Some dilution…of the sovereignty system as it prevails in the world today must take place…to the immediate disadvantage of those nations which now possess the preponderance of power…The United States must be prepared to make sacrifices…in setting up a world politico-economic order.”—CFR member John Foster Dulles 29th October 1939 NYT "The implications for education are clear and imperative: (a) the efficient functioning of the emerging economy and the full utilization of its potentialities require profound changes in the attitudes and outlook of the American people, especially the rising generation—a complete and frank recognition that the old order is passing, that the new order is emerging" The American Historical Association “Investigation of the Social Studies in the Schools,” 1934 Page 34-35 "In the international field, foundations, and an interlock among some of them and certain intermediary organizations, have exercised a strong effect upon our foreign policy and upon public education in things international. This has been accomplished by vast propaganda, by supplying executives and advisers to government and by controlling much research in this area through the power of the pune. The net result of there combined efforts has been to promote "internationalism" in a particular sense a form directed toward "world Government" have supported a conscious distortion of history propagandized blindly for the United Nations as the hope of the world, supported that organization's agencies to an extent beyond general public acceptance, and leaned toward a generally "leftist" approach to international problems." Rene Wormser Foundations Their Influence and Power Page 305 "The call now is for the utmost capitalization of the discontent manifest among teachers for the benefit of revolutionary social goals. This means that all available energies radically inclined leaders within the profession should be directed, toward the building of a united radical front. Warm collectivistic sentiment and intelligent vision, propagated in clever and disturbing manner by a few individual leaders no longer suits the occasion" The Reece committee, Page 145, Or on Scribd Page 487/491 from a 1934 article in The Progressive Education Magazine, "the Educator, The New Deal and Revolution" Professor Norman Woelfel "The challenge of the future is to make this world one world — a world truly free to engage in common and constructive intellectual efforts that will serve the welfare of mankind everywhere." 1946 Rockefeller Foundation Report Page 8-9, published online by them and able to download in PDF form "The weight of evidence before this Committee, which the foundations have made no serious effort to rebut, indicates that the form of globalism which the foundations have so actively promoted and from which our foreign policy has suffered seriously, relates definitely to a collectivist point of view. Despite vehement disclaimers of bias, despite platitudinous affirmations of loyalty to American traditions, the statements filed by those foundations whose operations touch on foreign policy have produced no rebuttal to the evidence of support of collectivism" The Reece Committee Page 169 or on Scribd Page 169/1643 "It is hardly necessary to emphasize that an interest of this kind involves no narrow nationalistic aim. The culture of the one world in the making is necessarily compounded of the diverse contributions of many peoples." The Rockefeller Foundation 1946 report Page 36, published online by them and able to download in PDF form "Then a new world order would encompass all regions of the globe; shared values and goals would render conditions within states more humane" Henry Kissinger, World Order Page 271 "In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last" Zbibnigew Brzezinski The Grand Chessboard Page 209 "A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective -- a new world order -- can emerge: A new era -- freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony." Bush NWO 11th of September 1990 speech, Toward A New World Order "Dreamed of a world-wide brotherhood with the background of a common race and creed, consecrated to the service of peace… It was a humanitarian and international; we be believed that we were laying the basis of a federation of the world" John Buchan, Pilgrims Way Page 120-121 "If we are frank with ourselves, we shall admit that we are engaged on a deliberate and sustained and concentrated effort to impose limitations upon the sovereignty and independence of the fifty or sixty local sovereign independent States which at present partition the habitable surface of the earth and divide the political allegiance of mankind. It is just because we are really attacking the principle of local sovereignty that we keep on protesting our loyalty to it so loudly. The harder we press our attack upon the idol, the more pains we take to keep its priests and devotees in a fool’s paradise—lapped in a false sense of security which will inhibit them from taking up arms in their idol’s defense. The local national state, invested with the attributes of sovereignty — is an abomination of desolation standing in the place where it ought not. It has stood in that place now — demanding and receiving human sacrifices from its poor deluded votaries — for four or five centuries. Our political task in our generation is to cast the abomination out, to cleanse the temple and to restore the worship of the divinity to whom the temple rightfully belongs. In plain terms, we have to re-transfer the prestige and the prerogatives of sovereignty from the fifty or sixty fragments of contemporary society to the whole of contemporary society — from the local national states by which sovereignty has been usurped, with disastrous consequences, for half a millennium, to some institution embodying our society as a whole. I will hereby repeat that we are at present working discreetly but with all of our might to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands"- Arnold J Toynbee Page 25 "is not a conventional trade agreement but the architecture of a new international system.... the vital first step for a new kind of community of nations." Henry Kissinger, With NAFTA US Finally Creates A New World Order La Times July 18th 1993 "The creation of an international mind with a world conscience and a world patriotism" The New World Order Samuel Zane Batten 1919 Page 13 "Our course is clear. " The unlimited independence of sovereign states is as impossible and undesirable as the anarchical freedom of individual citizens." The New World Order Samuel Zane Batten 1919 Page 135 "In a word, by principles of international morality, by international law, and by international trade we must create a presumption in favor of world federation" The New World Order Samuel Zane Batten 1919 Page 137 "There must be a league of free nations, a federation of the world. In this direction several things may be noted. There must be a world parliament made up representatives of the nations, to consider questions of common interest, to frame international laws, and to interpret world justice. There must be an international' court to interpret international law and decide all questions that arise between nations and, states according to accepted principles and laws. Any nation feeling itself wronged may submit its case to this court for adjudication; and no nation shall be free to attack another till its case has been heard, c there must also be an international police force large and strong enough to enforce international law against any offending member. This international police force should possess an army and navy stronger than that of any member; in fact it should be the only army and navy in existence" The New World Order Samuel Zane Batten 1919 Page 125

  • Syria: US Official Shows How Their Policies Are Mafia Like

    Dana Stroul, a US Official speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), discusses how they can use leverage over the Syrian Regime in 2019. She says how the US army "owns" a third of Syrian territory in the northeast of the country, which also happens to be the "economic powerhouse" of the country, containing their resources. She also says how Syria is now rubble and how they want to block any economic or reconstruction assistance, among other things. Aaron Mate Article - https://mate.substack.com/p/to-keep-troops-in-syria-us-leaders Jimmy Dore Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnhMTfwGAx0&t=775s Senate Committee on Foreign Relations holds hearing on US security in the Middle East - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXUrynJ06kY&t=1950s Syria in the Gray Zone CSIS Min 15 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFsFOS5Odno CSIS Donors - https://www.csis.org/programs/support/our-donors John Kerry Leaked Tape Min 25 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4phB-_pXDM Quote in written form - https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/the-management-of-savagery-by-max-blumenthal

  • The US Has In Law They Can Use Any Means Necessary To Break Out Officials Being Charged At The ICC

    "AUTHORITY- The President is authorized to use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any person described in subsection (b) who is being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court." In this video we discuss how the US has signed under law, they can use "any means necessary" to break out officials being charged or detained by the International Criminal Court, in the Netherlands. American service-members' protection act - Wiki American service-members' protection act - Gov John Bolton threatens war crimes court with sanctions in virulent attack

  • The Deceiving Nature of Brands: Part 1 Big Food

    With the way branding works and subsidiary companies, the original company can become mystified, some companies make it more obvious it is their product/brand and some are just tiny writing on the back of the product. Even with some companies having their name on it, you can often miss it, as I have for so many years, because you only look at the big bright brand name, even when the company has used their branding colour like Cadbury. I am sure some people will think it is naive not to know certain brands are owned by certain companies, but how few companies own the majority of brands, is quite shocking. How many consumers know one of people's favourite soft drink companies, owns Costa or a food company owns Primark? Growing up as a kid each type of crisps represents a different company in your head, Quavers, Skips, Doritos, Pringles etc, but in the real world, this is of course not the case. The main point of the article is to highlight how few companies in their industry, own the majority of brands and the problems that come with that. This is not a comprehensive detailing of all sections of the supermarket, just certain subsections, however, if you went into a smaller shop like One Stop, Premier or Co-op, they represent a lot of products. Products you may have thought were competitors, are actually owned by the same companies. PepsiCo and The Coca-Cola Company (US) PepsiCo is of course most well known for its drink Pepsi, the competitor to The Coca-Cola Company's, Coke. What most people do not know, is that both of these corporations own far more drinks than you may have thought, and ones you probably assumed were direct competitors to both these drinks. They both also go beyond soft drinks. We will start with PepsiCo, created in 1965 after a merger with Frito-Lay but its origins go back to 1898. The corporation has grown enormously over the years, with net revenue of $79,474 Billion in 2021 and a net income of $7,679 Billion. (Page 10) PepsiCo owns two subsidiary companies that make many renowned products in our supermarkets, Frito-Lay and Quakers Oats Company. The first subsidiary makes Lays, Walkers, Doritos, Cheetos, Ruffles and more. This is where you can get lost further in subsections of brands, as Walkers who UK readers are extremely aware of, make Walkers standard crisps but also, Wotsits, French Fries, Bugles, Monster Munch, Squares, Quavers and Max. It is strange to believe that such beloved British Crisps, sponsored by English Footballer Gary Lineker, is a brand inside of a subsidiary of a company most people only associate with the drink Pepsi. Another subsidiary of PepsiCo, Quakers Oats Company, is most notorious for its porridge oats, but they also make Granola, Chewy Granola Bars, Rice Cakes and Gatorade. PepsiCo is also partnered with Unilever on the ready-made Lipton Drink and with Starbucks for drinks like Frappuccino's, Doubleshot espresso and more. PepsiCo also sells the Smoothie, Naked and owns 7up everywhere except the US, where Keurig Dr Pepper Inc own it. The Coca-Cola Company was created in 1892 and the drink was formulated in 1886 making it older than Pepsi and PepsiCo. Although is older than PepsiCo, it is financially smaller by net revenue ($38.7 Billion) in 2021 but has a bigger net income of $10.3 Billion. The Corporation operates in over 200 countries and territories, with over 200 brands, which is remarkable. Where most people might have thought 7up was a rival to Cola drinks, it is instead owned by them, much like Sprite and Fanta are owned by Coca-Cola. This is alongside other drinks, such as Appletiser, Coca-Cola, Fresca, Powerade and Schweppes. Again much like PepsiCo owning Naked, the Smoothie brand, Coca-Cola owns Innocent (Smoothies), they also own Ades (Soy Milk), and Glaceau (Vitamin Water, Smart Water). Coca-Cola Company also owns ready-made alcoholic drinks like Jack Daniels Old time Coca-Cola and owns the company Topo Chico (Mexican), which makes Topo Chico Hard Seltzer. If this was not crazy already, they also one up PepsiCo's partnership with Starbucks, by outright owning the Costa Coffee Chain, the biggest coffee chain in the UK. They bought them in 2019 from Whitbread PLC, the owner of the UK’s biggest hotel chain, Premier Inn, as well as restaurant brands, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Bar + Block. Where Coca-Cola has Costa, Innocent, Coke, Sprite, Fanta and Powerade, PepsiCo has Starbucks drinks, Naked, Pepsi, 7up and Gatorade, on top of the massive reach into other brands, all between just two Corporations. They almost replicate each other for each section, Cola, Lemonade, Coffee, Smoothies and Energy drinks. Mondelez international And Mars Inc (US) Although Mondelez International routes go back to 1923, its current form began in 2012 after Kraft Foods split its company into two, a snack-food company and a grocery company. The Corporations net revenue in 2021 was $28,720 Billion and a net income of $4.56 Billion (Page 1,2), it operates in over 80 countries and has products in over 150 countries around the world. Some of its biggest brands and subsidiaries are Cadbury, Toblerone, Oreo, Belvita, Barni, Philadelphia, Ritz, Tuc (India) and LU. Owning Cadbury is again a spiderweb of products most people would not expect to go further than a UK company, to a US Corporation and much like Walkers, just how many products that brand sells. Cadbury sells of course Dairy Milk, but also Fry, Turkish Delight, Boost, Bournville, Chomp, Crunchie, Curly-Wurly, Double Decker, Flake, Fudge, Picnic, Twirl, Wispa, Brunch, Freddo, Dairy Milk Oreo, Marvelous Creations and the selection box Roses. How many people knew Turkish Delight, which is made by J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd is owned by Cadbury, which is owned by Mondelez? With Whispa and Twirl, you may have picked up it is Cadbury by the purple, or even on Fudge and Crunchie the slither of purple, but I am sure a few on that list, you were not aware of. Of course, the selection box you might get at Christmas, could have led you to know already. Although Mondelez owns a lot of products down the snack aisle, Mars Inc is much bigger. Mars's history goes all the way back to 1910 when the founder was making and selling butter cream candy from his kitchen in Tacoma, Washington. Mars Inc is not only a snack-producing company but also a pet product and a manager of Animal Hospitals, through their 2017 acquisition of VCA. Mars Inc annual sales in 2021 were $45 billion beating Coca-Cola and Mondelez. Some of Mars's biggest and maybe unknown brands are Milky Way, M&M, Skittles, Snickers, Twix, Bounty, Celebrations and Galaxy, a rival to Dairy Milk. Their showcasing of their hand in the product is much more hidden and I do not think most people or UK citizens realise how big they are. Mars owns the Wrigley Company, which existed before Mars, making gum products like Hubba Bubba, Extra, Juicy Fruit, Spearmint, Winter Fresh and Orbit. Other Mars and Wrigley food products include Mars, Maltesers, Starburst, Bens Original and more. Its pet products include Whiskas, Banfield Pet Hospital, Cesar, Pedigree and many more. Nestle (Swiss) Nestle in its current form goes back to 1905 but its history begins in 1866, with the foundation of the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. Similar to Mars it is involved in cereals and chocolate but also pet care. Its net revenue for 2021 was $87.1 Billion and a net income of $7.2 Billion (Page 6), making it one of the most profitable corporations in its industry. It has many renowned names like Nesquik, Cheerios, Lion Cereals, Aero, KitKat, Milkybar, Quality Streets, Smarties, Nescafé, Nespresso, and Starbucks Coffee at home, Hot pockets, and Haagen Daaz. Its pet food products are under the subsidiary Nestlé Purina Petcare (US) and have well-known brands like Felix, Fancy Feast, Bakers and many more. It also has a 20.1% Stake in L'oreal, a Hair and Beauty Company that sells many well-known brands and is the world leader in Beauty. Kellogg's (US) In the year 1889 when William Keith Kellogg, and his brother, Dr John Harvey Kellogg, accidentally flaked wheat berries creating the household name Kellogg's. W.K kept experimenting until he flaked corn, and created Corn Flakes. The company was started in 1906 and has grown massively over the century, reaching a net revenue of $14.2 Billion in 2021 and a net income of $1.5 Billion (Page 56) and operates in 180 countries. Notable brands by Kellogg's are Coco Pops, Corn flakes, Crunchy Nut, Frosties, Crunch Nut, Nutri grain, Pop Tarts, Eggo (Waffles), Rice Crispies, Rice crispy squares, Special K, Pringles, Club, Groot Loops, Krave and All Bran. Kellogg's bought Pringles from Procter & Gamble for $2.695 billion, making Kellogg's the world's second-largest savoury snacks player in 2012. Unilever (UK) Unilever is one of the biggest corporations in Britain, with dozens of brand names you find in your house, from the kitchen to the bathrooms. In 1929, Unilever was formed by a merger of the Dutch Margarine Unie and British soapmaker Lever Brothers. Unilever's net revenue in 2021 was £52.4 Billion and its net income was £6.6 Billion, making it another massive corporation in this industry. The most well-known food brands are Ben and Jerry, Carte d'Or Ice Cream, CIF, Coleman's, Magnum, Marmite, Cornetto, Hellman's, Pot Noodle, Vienetta and Walls. Its personal care and beauty products include Comfort, Domestos, Dove, Lifebuoy, Lynx, Persil, Radox, Simple, Sure, Surf, Tresemme and Vaseline. In both sections of the supermarket, it owns massive names and has brands in over 190 countries, operating over 400 brands, with just 13 brands earning them over 1 billion in 2021. It made 7 billion in ice cream sales alone. Other mentions of big companies that have many brands in our supermarkets are Danone (French) who sell bottled water brands such as Evian and Volvic. They are also well known for their yoghurt-based brands like Actively, Activa, Danone, Silk and Actimel. Associated British Food (UK) are a massive company that sells brands such as Abbotts Bakery AB Sugar, Blue Dragon, Kingsmill, Mazola, Pataks, Ploughmans Bakery, Ryvita, Trident and British Sugar. As well as products you find in your house, they also own Primark, making them a force in the retail industry. General Mills (US) produces many kinds of cereal and brands seen in the UK, but especially US Isles, such as Bugles, Cheerios, Coco Puffs, Cookie Crisps, Haagen Daaz, Monster Cereals Count Chocula, Old El Paso, Frankenberry, Lucky Charms and Trix. Conclusion You might wonder why this matters, and what is the big deal. The issue is, that these companies keep growing because they own so many of the big brand's shoppers buy and it becomes a game of hungry hippos, where every time a brand or company starts to grow, they are eaten up by a much bigger one. Meaning it becomes harder for smaller, or family-grown businesses to make their mark on the market, as our stores are dominated by a very small amount of companies. Such few companies having a near monopoly on certain markets can lead to things like price fixing, to artificially inflate prices in a cartel-like fashion. Consumer product giants Unilever and Procter & Gamble (P&G) were fined 315m euros (£280m, $456m) for fixing washing powder prices in eight European countries. The BBC said, "The fines were discounted by 10% after the two admitted running a cartel." The Autorité de la concurrence France's national competition regulator also fined them for concerted practices. The companies "met regularly and secretly to coordinate their commercial policies and discuss their pricing policies." If there were not such few companies that dominate certain product areas, this would not have been possible. It becomes a game of monopoly where the market is further consolidated by fewer companies, who operate on a multinational level, with multinational shareholders, with little care for the common consumer. Often many of the big corporations actually have the same shareholders, which raises big problems, but that will be discussed later in the series. You do not want a small number of companies, with such reach to influence medical advice, governments, regulations, pricing and people, through constant advertising. The bigger corporations get, the bigger leverage they have over governments to limit criminal cases and to cover their records when it comes to worker maltreatment. Naturally, the bigger the network of the company and the more countries it operates in, makes it significantly harder to keep oversight of local producers in other countries, who may have questionable laws on workers' rights. You also may not want to fund certain companies for ethical reasons, but without knowing it, in a completely different product area, you are still buying from the same company. I believe everyone should have the choice to eat or drink these products, but much like cigarettes, advertising, constant promotion and sponsorships make it all too easy to end up buying the product, as it is implanted in your mind. An Oxfam investigation found "most cocoa farmers and workers live below the poverty line, earning less than $2 a day" and many "cocoa-growing areas have high rates of hunger and malnutrition." Nestle's website even states "cultivating cocoa presents numerous challenges, like deforestation, child labour risks and a lack of living incomes for cocoa farming households." I am under no illusion that any company would have similar issues, as Cocoa is only grown in certain countries and needs to be imported, however, the massive influx of money these few giants make from their cocoa-based products, means they should put much more pressure on local farmers, or have employees stationed their to oversee operations. I understand it is extremely hard to manage local farmers, of a completely different culture but at the end of the day, that amount of cocoa is being imported to produce their products, which is plastered in every shop and TV, which increases the demand, which in turn increases the supply need. Each company will have marketing teams, who do everything they can, to make sure people and children are pushed to buy their product, whether it is the packaging, the name, colour, seasonal twists and advertisements by channel and time. This in turn leads to an increased need for more workers, who are then underpaid to produce most likely an over-supply demand, especially in the US and UK, where Obesity is a normal passing of life. I am sure the problem is much harder to solve, than my simplified and limited suggestions, but the companies should feel responsibility to minimise these problems, as much as they realistically can. (Which they say they are trying to do through certain initiatives) Of course, you can choose who you want to buy from and do your homework on the owners of common brands, but until you realise just how many brands these companies own, you will most likely be unaware. You may also see no problem with it, which is fine, it is not evil in nature, but knowing the depth of their products causes concern for the continued practice of such few companies having so much market power, earning billions a year. As much as most people want to buy from local producers, such low prices from massive companies, make it hard not to buy from them, myself included. A lot of these companies and brands started as local, family businesses but were either bought up or became the ones buying up companies they used to be. It is virtually impossible for a new company wanting to grow, as the players are already set and understandably they will want to cash in, if they are made an offer, who wouldn't? The great thing about small companies or sellers is the main focus is on the quality of the product, rather than the product purely being about profit for them or their shareholders. It is also easier to track the product, it benefits the local community, rather than foreign multinationals and encourages a trend of local buying. The next articles will mostly be a continuation of showing how most brands or thought of companies, are owned by a handful of multinational corporations in most industries. Due to a lot of these brands being sugary ones, some of the issues will differ. I eat and drink some of these companies products, like 99% of people and will most likely continue to, but at least it might make me think to try an alternative, or minimise my use of them where not needed. You cannot always buy local, or from a small business and just because they are a big company, does not make them inherently bad, or offer no good, but knowledge of them is always useful in your future decision making. Some of the below brands are out of date as this is an Oxfam Infographic from 2014. The article was called "These 10 companies make a lot of the food we buy. Here’s how we made them better. "December 10, 2014, By Anna Kramer. The infographic was the reason I decided to do this series.

  • Governments, Oil, Banking And Arms Sure Love Think Tanks

    I am sure the US, UK, NATO, Militaries, Big Oil, Arms Corporations and other governments fund foreign policy think tanks, because they love their neutral, critical analyses. I am sure corporations who look to squeeze every buck, fund these think tanks, because they are rabid readers of every report, for every think tank they fund. I am sure it does not effect the writing bias of their employees! Governments do not have a history of silencing dissent, or squashing investigations. Funding Atlantic Council CSIS ASPI IISS RUSI Chatham House RAND

  • Operation Northwoods: Artificial Public Opinion, False Flags And A Lesson Of Military Thinking

    "As requested by Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are to indicate brief but precise description of pretexts which they consider would provide Justification for US military intervention in Cuba." "We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized." In this video, I read and discuss sections from the 1962 Operation Northwoods document, which is about creating sophisticated artificial pretexts to invade Cuba. This involves false flags, staged events, mock funerals and whipping up public and international opinion. Among many other things, of course. Operation Northwoods Document Wikipedia Bay of Pigs

  • The US Bombed A Country More Than They Did In Germany and Japan Combined During World War II

    Over nine years -- from 1964 to 1973 -- the United States dropped more than two million tons of bombs on Laos -- more than they dropped on Germany and Japan combined during all of World War II. It made Laos, per person, the most heavily bombed country in history. As one Laotian said, the “bombs fell like rain.” Villages and entire valleys were obliterated. The ancient Plain of Jars was devastated. Countless civilians were killed. https://www.truthovercomfort.co.uk/post/killing-hope-by-william-blum Obama Laos Press Release - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/06/remarks-president-obama-people-laos Video format - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0KB0NT3Yvs LAOTIAN REPORTS COMMUNIST DRIVE By Malcolm W. Browne Special to The New York Times Feb. 23, 1973 - https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/23/archives/laotian-reports-communist-drive-premier-says-offensive-was-launched.html Times Machine - https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/02/23/issue.html# Operation Barrel Roll - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barrel_Roll Map -https://www.google.com/maps/place/Asia/@19.9740391,99.7775473,5.21z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x3663f18a24cbe857:0xa9416bfcd3a0f459!8m2!3d34.047863!4d100.6196553

  • The Government And The Media: One Happy Family

    The Government can request the Media to not publish certain information that poses a "national security threat", through D Notices. MI6, Mi5 and GCHQ are exempt from the Freedom of information act, exemplifying the secrecy of our intelligence agencies, even the CIA can be Foia'd. The media and government officials regularly meet, including prime ministers and heads of the media, like Rupert Murdoch. Boris Johnson on the 21/09/2020 met with 8 different media groups. Why we refused to comply with the D-Notice committee (declassifieduk.org) D Notice (DSMA) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSMA-Noticehttps://www.dsma.uk/ David Cameron makes veiled threat to media over NSA and GCHQ leaks The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/david-cameron-nsa-threat-newspapers-guardian-snowden David Cameron Speech EU Council Volume 569: debated on Monday 28 October 2013 - https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-10-28/debates/1310285000001/EUCouncilPress Gazette Article - https://pressgazette.co.uk/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-met-ministers-40-times-in-first-14-months-of-johnson-government/ Cabinet Office: ministers' transparency publications - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications#2020 Leader of the House of Commons and Whips’ meetings, July to September 2020 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/958312/Leader-of-the-House-of-Commons-and-Whips_-meetings-July-to-September-2020.csv/preview Cabinet Office ministerial meetings, July to September 2020 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/958323/Cabinet-Office-ministerial-meetings-July-to-September-2020.csv/preview Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP meetings, July to September 2020 - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/958306/Rt-Hon-Boris-Johnson-MP-meetings-July-to-September-2020.csv/preview MOD Document - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/760575/07513.pdf FOIA Laws - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guidance-index/freedom-of-information-and-environmental-information-regulations/section-23-security-bodies/

  • Top 5 Research Shortcuts

    In this video I discuss a few research shortcuts to help you save time. Download free eBooks and pdf's - https://z-lib.org/ PDF to Searchable converter - PDF to Text converter https://www.pdf2go.com/ https://archive.org/ Google Books - https://books.google.co.uk/books?uid=116572316526565456704&hl=en Image to text converter - https://www.prepostseo.com/image-to-text

  • A Guide To My Website: Book Cheat Sheets, Sourced Quotes, Recommended Reading and Media And More

    Due to the amount of times whilst researching I came across websites with quotes but absolutely no evidence to back it up, I began to create my own resources containing the quotes, the sources and the links. This website gives you the wealth of sourced information I have collected and presents it in the most simple manner I could. The quotes are categorised into the genres I feel suits them the best, the overall theme of the website being historical and under discussed events in the mainstream. The topics concerned are the War on Terror, globalisation, supranational entities, Colonialism funding of revelations, coups, historical events and more. The other aspect of the website is the cheat sheets I have created, the intent being for the people who are interested in these subjects and taking away the excuses by providing the legwork for them. I know how frustrating and time consuming it can be to hunt down certain verifiable information in books, so I hope this website can help future researchers and give people enough of a look of bits in the book to want to buy it. In this video I go through my website and explain how it is extremely useful for researchers and readers.

  • Meth: The Drug No Parent Wants Their Child Taking Unless It Is Prescribed By A Doctor For ADHD!

    Unknown to most people and extremely shocking, Methamphetamine is actually prescribed for obesity and ADHD, to kids 6 years and older, under the name Desoxyn. I found this completely mind-blowing, that the US, the king of the war on drugs, prescribes meth, and even to children. This is why Meth is in schedule 2 and not 1, as it is medically used, whereas cannabis, is in schedule 1, as it deemed to have no accepted medical use! "Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD): DESOXYN tablets are indicated as an integral part of a total treatment program which typically includes other remedial measures (psychological, educational, social) for a stabilizing effect in children over 6 years of age with a behavioral syndrome characterized by the following group of developmentally inappropriate symptoms: moderate to severe distractibility, short attention span, hyperactivity, emotional lability, and impulsivity. " FDA Methamphetamine - Wikipedia *label (fda.gov) Drug Fact Sheet: Methamphetamine (dea.gov) Drug Fact Sheet: Marijuana/Cannabis (dea.gov)

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