The Coca-Cola Case: 3rd world corporate practices

Here's one of Coca-Cola "best practices" to maximize profits: License a local bottler thug that will willy nilly assassinate union leaders with impunity and then pay a measly sum to the workers who eek out living.

Here's one more reason to boycott Coca-Cola: Stealing water from Indian villagers and making their lives miserable.

Wise Shopper Tip: Buy store brands (find a store where it tastes good) instead of Coca-Cola or Pepsi or Nestle. Yes, Pepsi and Nestle (bottled waters) are corporations with business practices just as bad a Coca-Cola. You shouldn't be drinking that high fructose corn syrup present in cola anyways.

Be smarter than the people in this video. It amazes me that people will drink this stuff when they know union leaders are being shot dead. If only their countrymen stood up for them would their country be so much better. The only people to blame is themselves.

[Youtube] The Coca-Cola Case - Part 1/9


You can dig out the rest of the videos from the goody bag:
[Youtube] The Coca-Cola Case - Parts 2 thru 9

Trickle Down Psychopathy - Arundhati Roy on Democracy Now! discussing the takeover of Naxalite lands by the Indian Corporotacracy 03-22-2010

MOUists and the MAOists

Trickle Down Psychopathy at its finest in India. Arundhati Roy spent time with the rebel tribal villagers to document them. What is apparent is the Indian corporotocracy and the puppet government have decided that to continue the 6%+ growth in the economy, the tribal people must go since they are standing in the way of what the corporations covet. I guess sharing the profits is out of the question.

The propaganda machine has branded those 'Naxalites' that defend their territory from hostile military and corporate takeover as Maoists.

Wiki:
The term Naxalites comes from Naxalbari, a small village in West Bengal, where an extremist section of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) led by Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal led a violent uprising in 1967, trying to develop a "revolutionary opposition" in opposition to the CPI(M) leadership. The insurrection started on May 25, 1967 in Naxalbari village when a farmer was attacked over a land dispute. Maoists in the guise of farmers retaliated by attacking the local landlords and escalated the violence.[6] Majumdar greatly admired Mao Zedong, and advocated that Indian peasants and lower classes follow in his footsteps and overthrow the government and upper classes whom he held responsible for their plight.

Enough of the Communist spin! They are not fighting for an ideology. They're fighting for their land and way of life just as the American Indians did before they were massacred and robbed of their land.

These Naxalites live as subsistence farmers, living in harmony with nature and gathering resources from the local forests. Unfortunately, their regions are rich with natural resources that can be mined for incredible profits by corporates. They've been cleared out of their villages. They now live in the surrounding forests. They cannot claim title to their land once they're gone. The strategy by the government is to either kill them or starve them to death. That is how it is done in a democracy.

Btw, Kashmir is pronounced Kaush*Mir (as in the Soviet space station Mir). The region did have the name Cashmere previously.

[Video] *BLOCKBUSTER INTERVIEW* Arundhati Roy on Democracy Now! and the Naxalites 03-22-2010

Why Haiti is so poor

THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF HAITI

Haiti is the first and only country in the world to have a black uprising in order to uproot colonialism and become independant. France and America quickly made sure Haiti wouldn't succeed via boycotts and blockades and reparations.

So why is Haiti so poor? Could it be all those coups to 'democratize' Haiti? Ousting the democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide TWICE by coups orchestrasted by America and some other nations made sure the corporatocracy had their moneyed interests secured. In subsequent elections, political parties unfriendly to the corporatocracy would not be allowed to run in elections.

[Youtube] Democracy Now! Haiti - Video 1/3


[Youtube] Democracy Now! Haiti - Video 2/3


[Youtube] Democracy Now! Haiti - Video 3/3

Max Keiser on with Alex Jones 01-05-2009

MAX TO THE ALEX!

Max Keiser talk about boycotting Coco-Cola and having them go under. Fight back the corporatocracy with one knockout punch!

My person reason for boycotting Coco-Cola? Because they steal water from small villages in India and make the villagers' lives miserable.

[Youtube] Max Keiser proposes boycotts on the Alex Jones show


The rest of the show is down below:

2 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i0VLC1FDRg

3 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGuyT8lRWU

4 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH8V5UmNQU0

5 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZXQIfDxUqY

6 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMhEPFicd0

John Perkins: Hookwinked Tour plus Q&A 11-18-2009

MUTINY and DOING ALL THOSE LITTLE THINGS and VIRTUALIZATION

John Perkins is on his Hookwinked book tour. In this interview, he's at the Commonwealth Book Club. There's also a really good Q&A with some really good questions and insight.

I liked the concept of mutiny vs. revolution. Mutiny just sounds easier to accomplish. Maybe we should have a mutiny in DC? Futhermore, there were a lot of questions on what people can do and the answer that was most hinted at (at least from the questioning audience) was changing the politicians or changing the executives at corporations, which are quick solutions. I wish John Perkins had answered changing one's buying habits to all the questions. The smalltime footwork that leads to incremental change is what is needed, not that quick fix. The quick fix will never happen. Change needs to be forced from the bottom with a force of numbers. Let use our passion and talents but all useless if misdirected. We need to do all those little things, the dirty leg work, and do it bottom up.

One more thing, it's amazing how everything's become virtualized. Those concepts and schemes and bits of knowledge that you didn't learn in college seem all virtual. They're hard to see and recognize right away, unless you connect the dots with other things. To really study what's going on you have to see the forest before you see the trees. The bailout is a good example. Once you connect the dots from all the politicians, bankers, the bribe/campaign money, thr revolving door, the bonuses, and all the premeditated subprime planning (years in the making!), you get a clear picture of the players and the master plan.

CLICK THE LINK FOR FULL VIDEO

[Fora TV]John Perkins: Hookwinked Book Tour 11-18-2009

John Perkins interview with Laura Flanders 11-12-2009

Very good interview from John Perkins on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. One of the best interviews from John Perkins as ideas are laid out clearly and coherently.

[Youtube] John Perkins interview with Laura Flanders (GRITtv) 11-12-2009

John Perkins: Newsletter 08/05/2009 - Honduras

I received this newsletter from John Perkins in my email a few days ago. Here it is in its entirety:

Dear Friends Speaking of Democracy, Honduras, and President Obama. . . In writing my new book Hoodwinked (Random House, Nov 2009 publication date), I recently visited Central America. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy. Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Co had severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in Honduras’s minimum wage, claiming that the policy would cut into corporate profits. They were joined by a coalition of textile manufacturers and exporters, companies that rely on cheap labor to work in their sweatshops. Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. I kept hearing people who claimed that it was a matter of record that Chiquita (United Fruit) and the CIA had toppled Guatemala’s democratically-elected president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 and that International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), Henry Kissinger, and the CIA had  brought down Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973. These people were certain that Haiti’s president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been ousted by the CIA in 2004 because he proposed a minimum wage increase, like Zelaya’s. I was told by a Panamanian bank vice president, “Every multinational knows that if Honduras raises its hourly rate, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean will have to follow. Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages. The big companies are determined to stop what they call a ‘leftist revolt’ in this hemisphere. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.”   It did not take much imagination to envision the turmoil sweeping through every Latin American capital. There had been a collective sign of relief at Barack Obama’s election in the U.S., a sense of hope that the empire in the North would finally exhibit compassion toward its southern neighbors, that the unfair trade agreements, privatizations, draconian IMF Structural Adjustment Programs, and threats of military intervention would slow down and perhaps even fade away. Now, that optimism was turning sour. The cozy relationship between Honduras’s military coup leaders and the corporatocracy were confirmed a couple of days after my arrival in Panama. England’s The Guardian ran an article announcing that “two of the Honduran coup government's top advisers have close ties to the US secretary of state. One is Lanny Davis, an influential lobbyist who was a personal lawyer for President Bill Clinton and also campaigned for Hillary. . . The other hired gun for the coup government that has deep Clinton ties is (lobbyist) Bennett Ratcliff.” (1) DemocracyNow! broke the news that Chiquita was represented by a powerful Washington law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, and its consultant, McLarty Associates (2). President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder had been a Covington partner and a defender of Chiquita when the company was accused of hiring “assassination squads” in Colombia (Chiquita was found guilty, admitting that it had paid organizations listed by the US government as terrorist groups “for protection” and agreeing in 2004 to a $25 million fine). (3)  George W. Bush’s UN Ambassador, John Bolton, a former Covington lawyer, had fiercely opposed Latin American leaders who fought for their peoples’ rights to larger shares of the profits derived from their resources; after leaving the government in 2006, Bolton became involved with the Project for the New American Century, the Council for National Policy, and a number of other programs that promote corporate hegemony in Honduras and elsewhere.  McLarty Vice Chairman John Negroponte was U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985, former Deputy Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence, and U.S. Representative to the United Nations; he played a major role in the U.S.-backed Contra’s secret war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista  government and has consistently opposed the policies of the  democratically-elected pro-reform Latin American presidents.(4) These three men symbolize the insidious power of the corporatocracy, its bipartisan composition, and the fact that the Obama Administration has been sucked in. The Los Angeles Times went to the heart of this matter when it concluded: What happened in Honduras is a classic Latin American coup in another sense: Gen. Romeo Vasquez, who led it, is an alumnus of the United States' School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation). The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) All of this leads us once again to the inevitable conclusion: you and I must change the system. The president – whether Democrat or Republican – needs us to speak out. Chiquita, Dole and all your representatives need to hear from you. Zelaya must be reinstated. FOOTNOTES (1) “Who's in charge of US foreign policy? The coup in Honduras has exposed divisions between Barack Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton” by Mark Weisbrot http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/16/honduras-coup-obama-clinton (July 23, 2009) (2) http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/21/from_arbenz_to_zelaya_chiquita_in (July 23, 2009) (3) “Chiquita admits to paying Colombia terrorists: Banana company agrees to $25 million fine for paying AUC for protection” MSNBC March 15, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17615143/ (July 24, 2009)  (4) Fore more information:  http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2009/07/eric-holder-and-chaquita-covington.html (July 23, 2009) (5) “The high-powered hidden support for Honduras' coup: The country's rightful president was ousted by a military leadership that takes many of its cues from Washington insiders.” by Mark Weisbrot, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-weisbrot23-2009jul23,0,7566740.story (July 23, 2009)

Patrick Byrne: Captured Regulators + Corporations 07-15-2009

Dr. Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, interviews on Glenn Beck and discusses the merger (deep capture) of US government regulators and the corporatocracy/oligarchy.

[Youtube] Dr. Patrick Byrne on Glen Beck Show 07-15-2009

Democracy Now!: Honduras Coup 07-15-2009

Ah ha! The multinationals like Hanes and Fruit of the Loom are supporting the coup in Honduras. The elites and upper class in Honduras are in favor of the new president. This is about the garment industry and keeping the profits high there.

Supporters of the coup in Honduras have begun hiring advisers and lobbyists with close ties to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an attempt to strengthen support in Washington for the coup. A Honduran business group has hired lobbyist Lanny Davis, who served as White House counsel for President Bill Clinton. The coup government has also hired Bennet Ratcliff, a public relations specialist with ties to former President Bill Clinton.

[Transscript] Democracy Now - Honduras Coup 07-15-2009

[Youtube] Democracy Now! Honduras Coup 07-15-2009

Indian vs. American/Outside brands

Rememeber to decentralize!! The bigger those multinational corporations get, the bigger their monopoly power to set prices. Please be careful not to make the Indian corporations too big either! Try to buy small and high quality.

Here we go with the Indian and American/Outside brands commonly found in your local urban store in India.

COLD DRINKS:
Indian: LEMON JUICE, FRESH FRUIT JUICES, CHILLED LASSI (SWEET OR SOUR), BUTTER MILK, COCONUT WATER, JALJEERA, ENERJEE, and MASALA MILK...
NonIndian: COCA COLA, PEPSI, LIMCA, MIRINDA, SPRITE

BATHING SOAP:
Indian: CINTHOL & OTHER GODREJ BRANDS, SANTOOR, WIPRO SHIKAKAI, MYSORE SANDAL, MARGO, NEEM, EVITA, MEDIMIX, GANGA , NIRMA BATH & CHANDRIKA
NonIndian: LUX, LIFEBOY, REXONA, LIRIL, DOVE, PEARS, HAMAM, LESANCY, CAMAY, PALMOLIVE

TOOTH PASTE:
Indian: NEEM, BABOOL, PROMISE, VICO VAJRADANTI, PRUDENT, DABUR PRODUCTS, MISWAK
NonIndian: COLGATE, CLOSE UP, PEPSODENT, CIBACA, FORHANS, MENTADENT.

TOOTH BRUSH:
Indian: PRUDENT, AJANTA , PROMISE
NonIndian: COLGATE, CLOSE UP, PEPSODENT, FORHANS, ORAL-B

SHAVING CREAM:
Indian: GODREJ, EMANI
NonIndian: PALMOLIVE, OLD SPICE, GILLETE

BLADE:
Indian: SUPERMAX, TOPAZ, LAZER, ASHOKA
NonIndian: SEVEN-O -CLOCK, 365, GILLETTE

TALCUM POWDER:
Indian: SANTOOR, GOKUL, CINTHOL, WIPRO BABY POWDER, BOROPLUS
NonIndian: PONDS, OLD SPICE, JOHNSON BABY POWDER, SHOWER TO SHOWER

MILK POWDER:
Indian: INDIANA, AMUL, AMULYA
NonIndian: ANIKSPRAY, MILKANA, EVERYDAY MILK, MILKMAID.

SHAMPOO:
Indian: LAKME, NIRMA, VELVET
NonIndian: HALO, ALL CLEAR, NYLE, SUNSILK, HEAD AND SHOULDERS, PANTENE

MOBILE CONNECTIONS:
Indian: BSNL, AIRTEL
NonIndian: HUTCH

John Perkins interviewed by Alex Jones 05-19-2009

Two of my favorites come together for 1 day! John Perkins and Alex Jones!

[Youtube] John Perkins on Alex Jones's Prison Planet show 05-19-2009 (Part 1/6)


Watch all 6 Parts here

New John Perkins Video: Iceland & IMF + Dreamland Film

John Perkins interviews on Iceland's Silfri Egils about the vicious economic empire.

For the corporatocracy, it's about controlling resources. It's about intentionally impoverishing people so as to control them and, henceforth, control the resources.

So which resource is coveted in Iceland? Energy. More specifically, cheap geothermal electricity, of which, Iceland has plenty. John Perkins believes ALCOA's aluminum smelting and processing operations have taken advantage of Iceland's energy resources at sustainability cheap prices during their financial crises, in which, the IMF has played a large role by loaning massive amount of money to Iceland.

John Perkins is telling the Icelanders to rise up and fight the encroachment by the IMF and the corporatocracy. They would be better off without the IMF. He advices Americans to do the same.

So the cannon has turned around. The corporatocracy has now been targeting Developed Western nations now that they cannot exploit the 3rd world as easily as before. Thanks to the strength and courage of Latin America and others in the developing world, the IMF has been weakened recently, and now need the trillions of dollars in capital infusion. That's what's going on at the G20. The IMF needs to capital to blackmail, force, and control nations.

Yes, the top executives at the Fortune 50 are sociopaths, but the rest of them at smaller corporations and businesses are not. And that's where the change can and must happen. We the people must put the pressure on these malleable organizations.

Let's look at Latin America as our role model. The populations there have had a revolution. They've said NO! to the IMF, the corporatocracy, and the empire by demanding economies and social structures be based on fairness, equability, and sustainability.

These demands must come from the population. It cannot happen strictly by voting in politicians because they are pressured by the corporatocracy. The people must take matters into their own hands. They must change their consumption and investment habits so as to promote fairness, equability, and sustainability.

We have the information. Now we need the courage. SEND THEM PACKING.

John Perkins interview with Iceland's Silfri Egils: Part 1 | Part 2
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John Perkins is featured in the new Iceland film Dreamland based on the 2006 book Dreamland: A Self-help for a Frightened Nation:
Dreamland Trailer

John Perkins, Economic Hitman - US Empire

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you John Perkins, Economic Hitman. He has two books out that are must reads:

1)Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
2)The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World

It is futile to expect a better world by voting politicians, having marches, or writing letters. The dollar is more powerful than any of this. Vote with your dollars. Reward business practices are in line with your values. Look for sustainability, equitability, fairness, etc as key factors when deciding which business to give money to. Don't just throw your money into a 401k. Invest in a company that's doing good. Think small and think local, like your local farmer's market or neighborhood store. Change can come only through one's consumption and investment habits. Let's change the Corporatocracy to adopt our values.

Here's a few of videos of his speeches and interviews. I've also linked to the Revolutionbroadcasting.com interview with Douglass Gaking back in June 2008.

From March, 2009:



From 2006 (3 Parts) MUST WATCH:





We had the great pleasure of getting John Perkins to interview on our internet radio station during the height of the Ron Paul Revolution. Click the logo to listen to the John Perkins interview with Douglass Gaking (June 2008):