CHOICE IS AN ILLUSION: 10 CORPORATIONS CONTROL ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU BUY

In our modern world freedom is an illusion. It is just a placebo given to you to keep you from rebelling. So is choice at the supermarket. This called "The Illusion of Choice".

Whatever you buy it comes chiefly from 10 giant corporations who have a monopoly of brands at the stores. Click the following image to find out which ones they are: 

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Source: Reddit via Business Insider

PRINCE OF WALES: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LEADERS FORUM

Charles, Prince of Wales, giving a conference at Georgetown University, a jesuit institution. Source: TNT

  

By Gundhramns Hammer
January 16, 2013               


The International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) is an independent,  nonprofit membership organization established in 1990 by Charles, Prince of Wales, and a group of leaders (CEOs) from international companies, government and civil society with the idea to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR). 

The goal behind the CSR business practices is for corporations to function based on ethical values to help achieve socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable development.

It is indeed ironic that the very same multinational companies that go about tearing up the environment worldwide pursuing profit for the sustainance of a way of life that is not at all sustainable get together to promote environmental sustainability.

Nowadays it has become quite popular to hide behind the environment, charities and children foundations, or any association that has to do with philanthropism, the ugly faces that the corporations do the outmost a lot of the times to keep away from the public´s knowledge.

The issue begs for a question: What business do these people have and how can they talk about environmental sustainability when they themselves have a very high standard of living which means in the end a big hole in the fabric of the Biosphere?

The International Business Leaders Forum (http://www.iblf.org/) was formerly called Prince of Wales Business Leader Forum.

Here is the list of supporters and board members, according to bilderberg.org: 

Principal Supporters & Board Members (as of 2006): 

Company                     Business sector                      Country                   Comment               

Accenture                             Management consulting, audit            UK                                        

Alcan Inc                              Metals/Packaging                              Canada                                  

ALJ Company Limited          Automobiles, real estate                     Saudi Arabia

BP                                        Oil & gas, chemicals                          UK                 BP was ranked 4th in the world for turnover with sales at $268 billion

                                             Member of the European Round Table Industrialists, worldwide turnover  1,500 Billion Euros

Cisco Systems, Inc                Internet Technology                           USA

Coca-Cola                            Food & drinks                                   USA              Coca-Cola is the world's most popular soft drink

DIAGEO                              Food & drinks                                    UK

GlaxoSmithKline                   Pharmaceuticals, healthcare                 UK                 the company had sales of £21.66 billion, profit of almost £6.9 billion in 2005

Kolon Group                        Diverse/textiles                                    South Korea

KPMG                                 Financial business services                   UK

Mitsubishi                             Diverse conglomerate                           Japan            worldwide active car producer, banking, atomic industry, chemicals, etc.

Nestlé                                Food                                                   Switzerland    the world's biggest food and beverage company

                                            Member of the European Round Table Industrialists, worldwide turnover  1,500 Billion Euros

Perot Systems                      Real estate                                            UK

Royal Dutch Shell                Transport, Trading Oil, gas, chemicals    UK                is amongst the largest energy corporations in the world

                                           Member of the European Round Table Industrialists, worldwide turnover  1,500 Billion Euros

Vodafone Group                  Telecommunications                               UK               largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world

Volkswagen                         Automobiles                                           Germany      one of the world's four largest car producers

                                            Member of the European Round Table Industrialists, worldwide turnover  1,500 Billion Euros
 

Council Members

Abbott Laboratories              Health, pharmaceutical, personal care    USA

Anglo American Mining         forestry, steel

Bajaj Auto                            Automobiles                                           India

BG Group                            Gas production & distribution                 UK

Cadbury Schweppes             Food and beverage                                UK

ChevronTexaco               Oil & gas, chemicals                               USA           one of the world's largest global energy companies

COFRA Holding AG            Retail / real estate / finance                     Switzerland

Compass Group                   Food service                                          UK

Dabbagh Group Holding       Diverse production/investment                Saudi Arabia

Daimler Chrysler            Automobiles                                           Germany       Mercedes, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep etc. Part of aerospace group EADS.

Dallah al Baraka Group         Diverse industrial                                    Saudi Arabia  One of the largest companies in the Middle East and Arab World.

Deloitte                                 Business support services                       USA

Edelman                                Public relations                                       USA

Eli Lilly                              Pharmaceuticals/healthcare                 USA      global pharmaceutical company and one of the world's largest corporations

                                             Connected to both Administration of George HW Bush and George W Bush!!!

Emaar Properties PJSC         Real estate                                             UAE

Finartis                                  Financial services                                    Russia

Interros                                 Diverse conglomerate                              Russia

Johnson & Johnson               Pharmaceuticals/healthcare                      Belgium          Johnson & Johnson, employing approximately 116,200 people worldwide

Kraft Foods                     Food & beverage                                    USA              second largest food and beverage company in the world

Lend Lease                           Real estate                                              Australia

Levi Strauss & Co                Apparel                                                   USA               company known worldwide for its Jeans

Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) Financial services, insurance  USA

McDonald's Corporation      Food service                                            USA             the world's largest chain of fast-food restaurants

McKinsey & Company        Management consulting                             UK

Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc.      Investment banking                                   USA              click here and see the capital profile

Microsoft                        Worlds biggest in Information technology   USA               global annual sales of US$44.28 billion and 71,553 employees

                                            Bill Gates II = 666 in ASCII-Code

Morgan Stanley              International Investment banking    USA               One of the world's top investment banks

Obayashi Corporation         General contracting                                   Japan

Pearson                               Media, publishing                                     UK

Pentland Group                   Apparel                                                    UK

PepsiCo                              Food & drinks                                          USA                  Bigger net profit then the Coca-Cola Company!!

Pfizer, inc.                           Pharmaceuticals / healthcare                      USA

Phillips-Van Heusen            Apparel                                                    USA  

                                           By 1974, Van Heusen was awarded the Royal Warrant as Shirtmakers to Queen Elizabeth II.

Poongsan Corporation        Metal processing                                        South Korea

PriceWaterhouseCoopers   Management consulting, audit                     UK

          PricewaterhouseCoopers earned aggregated worldwide revenues of $20.3 billion for fiscal 2005, and employed over 130,000 people in 148 countries.

Rio Tinto                            Mining                                                        UK                     consolidated turnover of 14.1 billion US                                                                                        Member of the European Round Table Industrialists, worldwide turnover  1,500 Billion Euros                                           

SABMiller                          Brewing                                                      South Africa         second largest brewery company in the world by volume

Samcrete                           Construction, trading                                    Egypt

Suez Environnement           Water & waste services                               France

                                          Member of the European Round Table Industrialists, worldwide turnover  1,500 Billion Euros

Standard                            Chartered Banking                                       UK

Superclubs                          Leisure/tourism                                            Jamaica

Tetra Laval                          Food production & distribution                   Switzerland       world largest supplier of carton packaging for beverages

Thames Water                     Water/ulitilities                                            UK

Tokyo Electric Power Energy                                                                Japan

Toyota Motor Corporation   Automobiles                                              Japan

                                             It is poised to become the largest automaker in the world by overtaking American General Motors in 2006

Unilever                                 FMCG                                                    UK / Holland      Unilever employs more than 206,000 people

Visa                                      International Payment products & services USA                   the service is offered by thousands of banks

Xenel                                    Industries Diverse/engineering                    Saudi Arabia

Corporate Partners 

British Airways                      Airline                                                       UK                     third largest Airline in Europe

                                             Member of the European Round Table Industrialists, worldwide turnover  1,500 Billion Euros

Echo                                     Communications research

ERM                                     Sustainability consulting                             UK

GlobeScan                             Information services                                 Canada

ICF Consulting Management  consulting, communications                       USA

Lovells                                   Law                                                        Lovells is one of a small number of truly international law firms with over 3000 people.

Media Consulta                      PR, advertising                                        Germany

Oxford Analytica                    Media, information services                      UK

Time Fortune                          Media                                                      UK

Steel Hector Davis LLP          Law                                                         US

WPP ??

Link:
http://www.bilderberg.org/royal.htm



References

Veon J. M. (1997). Prince Charles: The Sustainable Prince. Hearthstone Publishing, Ltd., Oklahoma City, OK. 203 p.

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