10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 28, 2012 8:02 pm

These 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

http://www.businessinsider.com/thes
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A chart we found on Reddit.com today shows that most products we buy are controlled by just a few companies. It's called "The Illusion of Choice."

Ever wonder why you can't get a Coke at Taco Bell? It's because Yum! Brands was created as a spin-off of Pepsi--and has a lifetime contract with the soda-maker.

Unilever produces everything from Dove soap to Klondike bars. Nestle has a big stake in L'Oreal, which features everything from cosmetics to Diesel designer jeans.

Despite a wide array of brands to choose from, it all comes back to the big guys.

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OAKLAND 89
SinceMay 31, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 28, 2012 8:04 pm

Learn about the illuminati and their new world order.

http://www.myspace.com/anti_new_wor
ld_order/blog/545564948

OAKLAND 89
SinceMay 31, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 28, 2012 8:06 pm

One Super-Corporation' Runs the Global Economy, Says Scientific Study

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/
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Research found that 147 companies formed a 'super entity' within group, controlling 40 per cent of its wealth

A University of Zurich study 'proves' that a small group of companies - mainly banks - wields huge power over the global economy.

The study is the first to look at all 43,060 transnational corporations and the web of ownership between them - and created a 'map' of 1,318 companies at the heart of the global economy.

The study found that 147 companies formed a 'super entity' within this, controlling 40 per cent of its  wealth. All own part or all of one another. Most are banks - the top 20 includes Barclays and Goldman Sachs. But the close connections mean that the network could be vulnerable to collapse.

'In effect, less than one per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,' says James Glattfelder, a complex systems theorist at the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich, who co-wrote the research, to be published in the journal PLoS One.

Some of the assumptions underlying the study have come in for criticism - such as the idea that ownership equates to control. But the Swiss researchers have no axe to grind: they simply applied mathematical models usually used to model natural systems to the world economy, using data from Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors.

Economists such as John Driffil of the University of London, a macroeconomics expert, told New Scientist that the value of its study wasn't to see who controlled the global economy, but the tight connections between the world's largest companies.

The financial collapse of 2008 showed that such tightly-knit networks can be unstable.

'If one company suffers distress,' Glattfelder says, 'This propagates.'

The research requires more analysis, but it could be used to look for the weaknesses in the network of global wealth, and prevent future financial disaster.

Looking at 'connectedness' also puts paid to conspiracy theories about the world's wealth - companies connect to highly connected companies for business reasons, rather than world domination.

The 'core' of 147 companies also represents too many interests to wield real political power - but it could act 'as one' to defend common interests. Sadly for market reformers, resisting change may be one such common interest.
OAKLAND 89
SinceMay 31, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 28, 2012 9:55 pm

Give me control of a nations money supply and I care not who makes its laws.

- Mater Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty

A central bank is more menacing to the American people than a standing army.

- Thomas Jefferson

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen !

- Sam Adams

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
OAKLAND 89
SinceMay 31, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 28, 2012 10:06 pm

Oh my goodness... brain overload!

One or two interesting links in there with a bunch of nonsense.  Anyone else agree? 
Iron Sheik
SinceDec 20, 2011
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 28, 2012 10:13 pm

We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

- Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

- Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

OAKLAND 89
SinceMay 31, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 28, 2012 10:20 pm

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.

- Sen. Barry Goldwater (Rep. AZ)

It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

- Henry Ford

OAKLAND 89
SinceMay 31, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 28, 2012 10:29 pm

The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International bankers.

- Congressman Louis T. McFadden (Rep. Pa)

Some [Most] people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government's institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers.

- Congressional Record 12595-12603 -- Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency (12 years) June 10, 1932

A great industrial nation is controlled by it's system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world-- no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.

- President Woodrow Wilson

Capital must protect itself in every way...Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.

- Taken from the Civil Servants' Year Book, "The Organizer" January 1934.

OAKLAND 89
SinceMay 31, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 29, 2012 7:19 am

Anyone else agree? 
No, there wasn't even one or two interesting links and I even debunked his George Washington/Baphomet statue link on another thread lol.
Mr. Shickadance
SinceDec 13, 2009
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 30, 2012 8:13 am

It is said that both Obama and Romney are Illuminati, so they can't lose.  They like to put up candidates for both parties.  Now, McCain was not Illuminati but they made sure he had no chance when they put Palin on the ticket.  Of course, Newt Gingrich is Illuminati.


Then there's the Knights Templar...
Heat Fan
SinceFeb 10, 2012
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 30, 2012 9:54 am

Ever wonder why you can't get a Coke at Taco Bell? It's because Yum! Brands was created as a spin-off of Pepsi--and has a lifetime contract with the soda-maker.


I am so glad so you have brought this subject to light.

Just the other day, a man with a gun to my head forced me to go to Taco Bell for lunch (I wanted to eat at home).  And when I was in Taco Bell, their guy had a gun to my head and forced me to oder a Pepsi to drink (I was going to drink the generic-brand soda I had at home).
Unruly_Lot
SinceSep 19, 2009
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 30, 2012 10:45 am

Ever wonder why you can't get a Coke at Taco Bell? It's because Yum! Brands was created as a spin-off of Pepsi--and has a lifetime contract with the soda-maker.
First World problems. The travesty of it all.
Mr. Shickadance
SinceDec 13, 2009
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 30, 2012 10:58 am

Ever wonder why you can't get a Coke at Taco Bell? It's because Yum! Brands was created as a spin-off of Pepsi--and has a lifetime contract with the soda-maker.
How dare a parent company own a fast food retaurant and then only sell the soda brand from another one of their companies in that restaurant. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!
Mr. Shickadance
SinceDec 13, 2009
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 30, 2012 11:03 am

How dare a parent company own a fast food retaurant and then only sell the soda brand from another one of their companies in that restaurant. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!



And I hear that if you stop at McDonalds and buy a coke They'll shoot you if you then go to Taco Bell.
bluenosecanuck
SinceDec 1, 2008
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

April 30, 2012 11:21 am

It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

- Henry Ford

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Henry was right, it's just that the revolution was laughed off as a stoned gang of smelly hippies looking for a handout.

Mannyrules2
SinceAug 12, 2009
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

May 8, 2012 5:00 am

Peter Tosh - Equal Rights & DownPressor Man (Live)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvJ87g7OIU


OAKLAND 89
SinceMay 31, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

May 8, 2012 9:32 am

If you don't feel like sleeping for a few nights, Oakland 89, look into what some of the apps that come with your cellphone & are not un-installable do.

They know every number you dial, text, receive a call from, every email, and can even access voice data (otherwise known as evesdropping).
There's nothing we can do about it, either apart from not using cell phones.  I don't lose sleep over it but I still think it stinks to high heaven.  

CZIMMY07
SinceSep 28, 2007
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10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy

May 8, 2012 9:35 am

You can find what your phone has access to under manage apps & then look under permissions.

Sleep well. 
CZIMMY07
SinceSep 28, 2007