Posted on 11/03/2013 6:51:15 AM PST by Kaslin
PolicyMic has a very interesting chart that shows how 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy.
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The chart was posted on Reddit as illusion of choice. I could not locate the original source.
PolicyMic explains ...
Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to batteries.
These corporations create the chain of supplies that flow from one another. Each chain begins at one of the 10 super companies.
Here's just one example: Yum Brands owns KFC and Taco Bell. The company was a spin-off of Pepsi. All Yum Brands restaurants sell only Pepsi products because of a lifetime deal with the soda-maker.
$84 billion company Proctor & Gamble owns companies that produce everything from detergent to toothpaste. Unilever produces everything from Dove soap to Klondike bars.
It's not just the products you buy and consume, either. In recent decades, the very news and information that you get has bundled together: 90% of the media is now controlled by just six companies, down from 50 in 1983, according to a Frugal Dad infographic from last year.
It gets even more macro, too: 37 banks have merged to become just four — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and CitiGroup in a little over two decades, according to this Federal Reserve map.
The nation's 10 largest financial institutions hold 54% of our total financial assets; in 1990, they held 20%. As MotherJones reports, the number of banks has dropped from more than 12,500 to about 8,000.
Media Consolidation
Everything You Think, Read, or Say
I always try to find a link to the original source, but none of the links to a Frugal Dad article work.
Regardless anything you read, watch, or buy is in the hands of fewer and fewer companies. The same applies to banks.
This is another reason we need an independent news network. One is actually in the works, started by Jeremy Scahill, National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine, and Glenn Greenwald who broke the NSA spy story.
For details, please see War Against Journalists; "We Hit the Jackpot"
Question of the Day
How long will it be, before everything to think read or say is in the pill you took today?
Link if video does not play: Zager And Evans
Food production, the next power grab.
Monsanto's Zionist Bedfellows
Brother Nathanael
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YoSydXNkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YoSydXNkE
There is no such thing as an “American Job”
Labor is a commodity to be purchased wherever it exists at a price competitive to produce the product.
Of course there is such as thing as an “American job”.
And we need to bring a whole bunch of them, right back to America.
Soon. GOP wake up, and start doing something for a change.
What a bunch of garbage. The scatter chart is mostly consumer throw away or eat items.
Could this be the reason?
At the end of 2011, there were 93.9 million credit union members in the U.S.
At the end of 2011, there were 7,351 credit unions operating in the U.S.
Read more: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-unions/2012-credit-union-primer.aspx#ixzz2jbnuHUPN Follow us: @Bankrate on Twitter | Bankrate on Facebook
I don’t know what part of the country you’re in—but I’m coming over for dinner!
All sounds terrific, but having your own fig tree might be the best of all.
I’ve got some herbs in pots out on my porch. I’ll admit to a little sticker shock at our local farmer’s market. The rule of thumb is that everything is three times what it would be in a local supermarket. (Though better, of course.)
I don’t know if I’ll ever eat as well as I did growing up on a farm. Raw milk, our own meats, and a humongous, exotically-stocked garden were a good forty years ahead of today’s foodies.
The government wants to CONTROL everything. Agreed? The way you do that is to get all of the industries pared down to controllable numbers. These 10 companies own, control and manage the other companies.
The government leaders can tell the executives of these 10 companies what to do and they will do it knowing that if they don’t all kinds of bad things could happen. Their next loan may not go smoothly with the Wall Street bankers or an IRS audit could tie up all of their accountants for the next five years or whatever. No reason to get into black bag trickery, such as they could have difficulties during their next flight on the company G-5. It is too easy to control someone by denying them access to their own cash in the bank.
Minority lawsuits are a simple means of controlling the minorities. When the suit is announced they all sit down and stop shouting about human rights.
I see that you understand how it works.
Yep... biological warfare with genetically modified food... plant and animal...
Corporations are very careful once they get to oligopoly or monopoly status to set up barriers of entry to any start ups or buy them out early. The ‘free market’ without strong anti-trust regulations simply can’t in most real world situations.
The oil company consolidations in the 90s never should’ve been allowed. We’re paying probably 2x at the pump due to the lack of competition now. Oligopolies like we have in so many sectors are the worst nightmare for the free market. The FTC has really been paid off or just incompetent in allowing so much consolidation as this article shows.
BOOKbump
"Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Team America, and then Team America goes out... and the corporations sit there in their... in their corporation buildings, and... and, and see, they're all corporation-y... and they make money."
Not me. Much of what I buy (from laundry detergent to toothpaste) comes from a conservative cooperative company - all products are made in the USA and benefit the families who buy. It’s a pleasure to grocery shop for food only, and I rarely darken the doorsteps of a W@lmart or T@rget.
What do you call a conservative cooperative company. Please give some examples.
Very true, especially the second part
Buy American as much as possible, however that is not always the case
You said it, those who rant about the awful “corporations” act as if there is only one kind of corporation, the giant mega-business that thrives on government regulation. They never realize that the very government they keep saying should “do something” about the corporations has created the environment necessary for these monsters to thrive.
Ping & bump
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