Showing posts with label BigCorp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BigCorp. Show all posts
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11 Terrifying Facts About What You’re Putting On Your Face from Buzzfeed
Use organic, safe cosmetics. This isn't a video to tell you to not wear makeup it is a video to make you aware of what is in (some!) cosmetics.
Make your own, buy fair trade makeup,etc.
Make your own, buy fair trade makeup,etc.
11 Terrifying Facts About What You’re Putting On Your Face
Posted by BuzzFeed Video on Monday, May 19, 2014
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Everyone in California is thirsty, except Nestle (because they're guzzling up all the water) from NowThis
Everyone in California is thirsty, except Nestle (because they're guzzling up all the water)
Posted by NowThis on Thursday, April 2, 2015
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Why i'm antiVax but would get my child vaccinated by WLI
I am in with the anti-vaccination crowd and I know the problems that vaccinations can cause, but when I have a child I'm going to have him or her vaccinated. Why? Because I'd rather my child have Autism and just be really creative and think differently than die from measles at a young age or have to suffer slowly and become disabled from Polio because I was so scared to have him or her vaccinated. As Seth MacFarlane wrote " I'm not polluting my kids with vaccines. Now Kayla, finish your cotton candy before you get soaked in chlorine on Splash Mountain." Quit being stupid and get your kids vaccinated. Talk with your doctor about what you can do to lower the risks of anything you are afraid about, load your child up on fruits,veggies, grains,etc before getting the shot and after the shot because those help build immune systems to fight off the bad things in vaccinations that people are afraid of. Fruits and veggies can't;however, fight off f*%$* Polio. It is scary, but it's just the lesser of two evils. It's one of those choices you have to make that you know is bad, but not making it is much, much worse. You body can rebuild and repair itself and any damage done when putting a vaccine into your child's body can be repaired by feeding your child whole foods (which you should be doing anyway). Whole foods; however, can not cure Polio or Measles as they are way too strong for the body to fight. It is also noted that Autism and other problems that parents are so afraid of are caused by those sugary drinks and fast food places, but no one has a problem pumping their child full of quick and easy microwaved meals. I feel bad putting something into my child's body that can cause harm, but I would feel worse watching my child suffer or die because I didn't get him or her vaccinated. Or, knowing I caused the death of another person because I was stubborn. Autism, and any other problems that vaccines "cause" can be managed through therapy and other means, deadly diseases that can come from not being vaccinated can't.
Get your freakin' child vaccinated.
Get your freakin' child vaccinated.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Who is Michael Pollan?
*He reminds me of myself a bit because he's stated that eating healthy is the way to go towards a healthy lifestyle, not weight.
"Pollan's discussion of the industrial food chain is in large part a critique of modern agribusiness. According to the book, agribusiness has lost touch with the natural cycles of farming, wherein livestock and crops intertwine in mutually beneficial circles. Pollan's critique of modern agribusiness focuses on what he describes as the overuse of corn for purposes ranging from fattening cattle to massive production of corn oil, high-fructose corn syrup, and other corn derivatives.
He describes what he sees as the inefficiencies and other drawbacks of factory farming and gives his assessment of organic food production and what it's like to hunt and gather food. He blames those who set the rules (e.g., politicians in Washington, D.C., bureaucrats at the United States Department of Agriculture, Wall Street capitalists, and agricultural conglomerates like Archer Daniels Midland) of what he calls a destructive and precarious agricultural system that has wrought havoc upon the diet, nutrition, and well-being of Americans. Pollan finds hope in Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm in Virginia, which he sees as a model of sustainability in commercial farming. Pollan appears in the documentary film King Corn (2007)."
See more @ Wikipedia
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"Pollan's discussion of the industrial food chain is in large part a critique of modern agribusiness. According to the book, agribusiness has lost touch with the natural cycles of farming, wherein livestock and crops intertwine in mutually beneficial circles. Pollan's critique of modern agribusiness focuses on what he describes as the overuse of corn for purposes ranging from fattening cattle to massive production of corn oil, high-fructose corn syrup, and other corn derivatives.
He describes what he sees as the inefficiencies and other drawbacks of factory farming and gives his assessment of organic food production and what it's like to hunt and gather food. He blames those who set the rules (e.g., politicians in Washington, D.C., bureaucrats at the United States Department of Agriculture, Wall Street capitalists, and agricultural conglomerates like Archer Daniels Midland) of what he calls a destructive and precarious agricultural system that has wrought havoc upon the diet, nutrition, and well-being of Americans. Pollan finds hope in Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm in Virginia, which he sees as a model of sustainability in commercial farming. Pollan appears in the documentary film King Corn (2007)."
See more @ Wikipedia
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Monday, February 2, 2015
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Johnson &Johnson commercials and the truth - by WLI
Except the fact that Bananas do not have ingredients that are known to cause cancer. Bananas never had any lawsuits, or had to be recalled due to chemicals in it actually changing body chemistry.
and if you Google the chemicals in any of their products it is linked to cancer and many other health problems.
and if you Google the chemicals in any of their products it is linked to cancer and many other health problems.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Old Fashioned Weight Loss Ads
These past advertisements show us just how marketing and big companies will try to sell the public anything. Fad diets and insecurity sells products.
See more and read about each ad @ Huffington Post
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The Illusionist - Documentary
""Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity.
Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo. Their target? Women, and increasingly men and children.
The Illusionists turns the mirror on media, exposing the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us.
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“We’re losing bodies as fast as we’re losing languages” says prominent British psychotherapist Susie Orbach. “Just as English has become the lingua franca of the world, so the white, blondified, small-nosed, pert-breasted, long-legged body is coming to stand in for the great variety of human bodies that there are.”
From Harvard University to the halls of the Louvre Museum, passing by a cosmetic surgeon’s office in Beirut, to the heart of Tokyo’s Electric Town, The Illusionists explores how the body has become “the finest consumer object.”
The preoccupation over physical beauty is as old as time; what is different today is the central role that the pursuit of the perfect body has taken: it has become our new religion. A beautiful body is seen today as key for personal and also, more importantly, economic success for both women and men. The fast-paced culture brought on by globalization and the new economy has created a new paradigm of self-making: individuals are increasingly pushed to re-invent themselves; the key anxiety of the 21st century is the fear of disposability.
From New York to Tokyo, relentless propaganda reminds us that we have only one body – and that we have to enhance it. Through advertising and mass media, multibillion-dollar industries (most notably cosmetics, fashion, dieting, and cosmetic surgery) saturate our lives with images of idealized, unattainable beauty, of an “Official Body” that does not really exist in nature and that can be obtained only through cosmetic surgery… or digital retouching. Flawless beauty is on display everywhere: in street ads, newspapers, magazines, TV, films… as well as in video games and pornography. The very quantity of these images makes it impossible for people not to be affected by them. Indeed, the ideal consumer is someone who is anxious, depressed and constantly dissatisfied: academic studies from the most respected institutions show that sad people are bigger spenders.
The beauty industry is constantly expanding and has now found two new targets: men and children. A revolution is under way in the perception that these two groups have of themselves.
The Illusionists explores these themes through the testimonies of sociologists, politicians, magazine editors, scientists, artists and activists in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia."
Check out The Illusionists
More Info...
“We’re losing bodies as fast as we’re losing languages” says prominent British psychotherapist Susie Orbach. “Just as English has become the lingua franca of the world, so the white, blondified, small-nosed, pert-breasted, long-legged body is coming to stand in for the great variety of human bodies that there are.”
From Harvard University to the halls of the Louvre Museum, passing by a cosmetic surgeon’s office in Beirut, to the heart of Tokyo’s Electric Town, The Illusionists explores how the body has become “the finest consumer object.”
The preoccupation over physical beauty is as old as time; what is different today is the central role that the pursuit of the perfect body has taken: it has become our new religion. A beautiful body is seen today as key for personal and also, more importantly, economic success for both women and men. The fast-paced culture brought on by globalization and the new economy has created a new paradigm of self-making: individuals are increasingly pushed to re-invent themselves; the key anxiety of the 21st century is the fear of disposability.
From New York to Tokyo, relentless propaganda reminds us that we have only one body – and that we have to enhance it. Through advertising and mass media, multibillion-dollar industries (most notably cosmetics, fashion, dieting, and cosmetic surgery) saturate our lives with images of idealized, unattainable beauty, of an “Official Body” that does not really exist in nature and that can be obtained only through cosmetic surgery… or digital retouching. Flawless beauty is on display everywhere: in street ads, newspapers, magazines, TV, films… as well as in video games and pornography. The very quantity of these images makes it impossible for people not to be affected by them. Indeed, the ideal consumer is someone who is anxious, depressed and constantly dissatisfied: academic studies from the most respected institutions show that sad people are bigger spenders.
The beauty industry is constantly expanding and has now found two new targets: men and children. A revolution is under way in the perception that these two groups have of themselves.
The Illusionists explores these themes through the testimonies of sociologists, politicians, magazine editors, scientists, artists and activists in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia."
Check out The Illusionists
More Info...
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The problem with Dove @ The Illusionist
"So, without further ado, I am addressing the big elephant in the room. Below you will find my original post about Dove – with some tweaks and updates reflecting new evidence I recently discovered.
About three months ago, upon completing the first phase of research for my film, I held two slideshow presentations in front of an audience of friends, acquaintances, and a few people working in the TV/movie industry in Paris. Very much in the style of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
At the heart of the presentation is the assertion that the obsession over the pursuit of the perfect female body is one of the integral parts of the capitalist system. If women were suddenly content with their appearance – accepting their body size, skin tone, wrinkles, graying hair, and the size and shape of their breasts, amongst other things – entire industries would collapse. Indeed worldwide revenues for cosmetics, dieting products, and cosmetic surgery totaled almost 500 billion dollars in 2006. Thus the saturation of images in advertising and mass media promoting an idealized, surgically-enhanced beauty that is impossible to achieve.
Well, during my presentations I would invariably get asked about the company Dove and its campaign for “Real Beauty.” Wasn’t that refreshingly positive? People would ask. It is a question that comes up every time I talk about my project. The short answer? Yes and no.
The people at Dove have actually exploited a void in the marketplace. By introducing so-called women with “real” bodies, they distinguished themselves from their competitors. According to the New Yorker, after the introduction of their “Real Beauty” campaign, Dove’s sales shot up 700% in the U.K. ...
The problem(s) with Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign:
#1 – Dove’s parent company is Unilever, maker of Axe, Fair & Lovely and Slim-Fast
Unilever also owns Fair and Lovely – a line of skin-whitening creams
#2 – The people behind Dove’s Real Beauty ads are industry bigwigs, who are otherwise working as “Illusionists” on other campaigns
#3 – The Dove Real Beauty print ads are Photoshopped
See the entire article about Dove's deception of consumers @ The Illusionist
About three months ago, upon completing the first phase of research for my film, I held two slideshow presentations in front of an audience of friends, acquaintances, and a few people working in the TV/movie industry in Paris. Very much in the style of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
At the heart of the presentation is the assertion that the obsession over the pursuit of the perfect female body is one of the integral parts of the capitalist system. If women were suddenly content with their appearance – accepting their body size, skin tone, wrinkles, graying hair, and the size and shape of their breasts, amongst other things – entire industries would collapse. Indeed worldwide revenues for cosmetics, dieting products, and cosmetic surgery totaled almost 500 billion dollars in 2006. Thus the saturation of images in advertising and mass media promoting an idealized, surgically-enhanced beauty that is impossible to achieve.
Well, during my presentations I would invariably get asked about the company Dove and its campaign for “Real Beauty.” Wasn’t that refreshingly positive? People would ask. It is a question that comes up every time I talk about my project. The short answer? Yes and no.
The people at Dove have actually exploited a void in the marketplace. By introducing so-called women with “real” bodies, they distinguished themselves from their competitors. According to the New Yorker, after the introduction of their “Real Beauty” campaign, Dove’s sales shot up 700% in the U.K. ...
The problem(s) with Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign:
#1 – Dove’s parent company is Unilever, maker of Axe, Fair & Lovely and Slim-Fast
Unilever also owns Fair and Lovely – a line of skin-whitening creams
#2 – The people behind Dove’s Real Beauty ads are industry bigwigs, who are otherwise working as “Illusionists” on other campaigns
#3 – The Dove Real Beauty print ads are Photoshopped
See the entire article about Dove's deception of consumers @ The Illusionist
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Monday, December 16, 2013
The Economic Hitmen – How It Is Done!
“A great illustration on how corporations take control of countries, and how capitalism drives the expansion of the Military Industrial Complex. Made by Studio Joho who have allowed me to upload their video.”
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