PROCTER & GAMBLE AND THE USGLC: CARTELS, COALITIONS AND THE SMART POWER OF DOING WELL

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For millions of once upwardly-mobile Americans, the name “Procter & Gamble” (PG) will forever be associated with the mid-day television dramas – a.k.a. “soap operas” – they sponsored for decades to promote Tide, Gain, Downy, Dawn and a list of familiar household cleansers, personal care products and sundries that some consider quintessential Americana:

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After 54 years on the air, PG ran the last episode of “As the World Turns” on 17 September 2010. It would be plausible to predict that future historians will mark that as the date America’s ailing middle class went on life support. Calculating that it would be more profitable to replace than rejuvenate their long-standing and blindly loyal core market, Procter & Gamble’s management has since then been “shifting P&G’s sights to emerging markets in Africa and Asia, where sales growth runs a lot higher than in developed nations.”

http://tinyurl.com/7vjtwvb

Pursuing that strategy, today “Procter & Gamble is a leading member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition [USGLC], a Washington D.C. based coalition of over 400 major companies and NGOs [including AIPAC] that advocates for a larger International Affairs Budget, which funds American diplomatic and development efforts abroad.”

http://tinyurl.com/74htyeo

Absorbed quickly, that might implant that PG is a superhero and the USGLC is the Hall of Justice. Not so. The USGLC is by its own smug admission what the Washington Post in 2005 called “the ‘Strange Bedfellows Coalition’ … sending out teams of corporate types and do-gooders … to lobby lawmakers and staffers of the Senate and House budget committees in support of President Bush’s budget for international affairs.”

http://tinyurl.com/785836r

If anything, the role the USGLC plays in American foreign affairs increased with our regularly-scheduled Presidential puppet change in 2008:

“The same day that the government published its ‘Plum Book’ listing of available jobs for the incoming Administration, the USGLC released the ‘Global Plum Book,’ a document that cataloged the top 100 positions across the new Obama Administration that would strongly impact the policies and programs for development and diplomacy. The Coalition identified hundreds of Democrats and Republicans that could potentially fill these positions and held meetings with these individuals to educate them on the Coalition’s priorities.”

http://tinyurl.com/252xqmc

And just what are these USGLC priorities that have apparently become mandatory education for incoming State Department personnel? The details are as closely guarded as the true answers to questions like what makes a bullet turn in mid-air, how can office fires weaken structural steel, and why has Al Qaeda had more “masterminds” than MENSA. A whitewashed high-level textbook answer, however, can be found here:

http://tinyurl.com/6oawtah

The semantically twisted soundbyte summary is that the USGLC exists to promote the use of “smart power” in “doing well and doing good”. By “smart power”, some say they mean formally integrating business development with the doubletalk of diplomacy and America’s ever-present threat of death from above in setting and achieving foreign policy goals. “Doing well and doing good” is their Utopian – or perhaps Orwellian – suggestion that corporations involved in said “business development” might actually do well (make a profit) while doing good (not depleting resources, polluting the environment, killing or maiming the innocent, or ripping people off).

If only…

Procter & Gamble was no doubt inspired by the possibility of “doing well and doing good” when they met with their overseas competitor Unilever to discuss more eco-friendly packaging (doing good). But instead, the two soap kings conspired to use the enviromental initiative as a cover for a years-long price fixing cartel (doing well). In April 2011, European Union (EU) regulators slapped the pair with a $456 million fine for their collusion. Procter & Gamble’s share was $306 million, which for PG amounts to less than 2 days’ sales – a penalty hardly worth footnote mention in their financials:

http://tinyurl.com/77g5apq

“Smart Power” indeed… I encourage all readers to look deeper into the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC), an entity whose pristine Web profile is inconsistent with its pervasive political footprint. My research is insufficient to support a conclusion, but my suspicion is that much lies hidden behind this true-blue curtain:

http://www.usglc.org

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SHOW ME WHAT KLEPTOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! THIS IS WHAT KLEPTOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

Kleptocracy [klep-TOK-ruh-see]: A government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves. See also the United States of America where, as Goethe said, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Want documented examples of the corporate greed that corrupts our government and fuels the Revolution? Find dozens here, with more to come:

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IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT OF THE LAST 14 U.S. PRESIDENTS, 7 HAVE BEEN DEMOCRATS AND 7 HAVE BEEN REPUBLICANS.

Our Kleptocracy-controlled media focuses on America’s two-year election cycles as if who wins or loses in the swinging of the pendulum was a matter of life or death, when in fact even at the Presidential level it makes no more difference than the outcomes of Monday Night Football, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, Hillbilly Handfishing or the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor. U.S. elections are staged primarily to give Sheeple the illusion of control so they will (a) vent their frustrations and expend their energy, emotions and resources supporting or attacking the Puppet on the Left hand or the Puppet on the Right, and consequently (b) never recognize and challenge the common omnipotent Puppetmaster.

There was no real change in 2008. There was no real change in 2010. There WILL be real change in 2012, but it won’t be coming from tele-brainwashed couch potatoes, manipulated voter lists, rigged voting machines or predetermined ballot counts. It will be coming from us…

The 99 Percent

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I AM NOT ANONYMOUS. I AM AN AMERICAN.

I am not just a Consumer. I am a Citizen.

I will no longer be labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.

I will no longer follow Puppets labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.

I am the People. And I am coming for the Puppetmasters.

I am part of the 99 Percent. And I demand the following:

1. End the Fed.
2. Reverse Citizens United.
3. Repeal PATRIOT Act.
4. Expose 9/11 Truth.
5. End Profit Wars.
6. Refund Taxpayer Trillions.
7. Imprison the Kleptocrats.
8. Single Term Limits.

Or, if these demands are not addressed promptly:

1. Regime Change.

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LABELS (A POEM OF PROTEST)

“Democrat”, “Republican”,
The parties of the system;
Puppets both, for sale their votes,
No character or wisdom.

“Liberal”, “Conservative”,
For change or status quo?
Pick either one, the change is none,
All charlatans and whores.

Far “Left” we place the Anarchists,
Libertarians claim far “Right”;
Yet both decry the government:
False continuum brought to light.

For oil, “We” bomb their mud huts,
Strip them bare, then offer “Aid”;
And fake their retribution as
Pretext – a false flag raised.

Unarmed hundred thousands killed
By weapons of “Defense”,
While rights are lost for “Freedom” sake –
On profit, all depends.

With stroke of pen, the “Patriot” Act,
And patriots’ gifts are taken;
Then “Citizens United” leaves
Our citizens forsaken.

We protest loss of liberties,
Put “World Wide Web” to use;
Cloudmark Authority censors us
For “messaging abuse”.

They label us to finger-point,
With labels, “They” deride us;
Their labels keep us all at bay,
For with labels, “They” divide us.

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JOIN THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION!

Occupy Wall Street/OWS:

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