First Chevron, Now Shell’s California Refinery Issues “Civil Emergency”

via: ZeroHedge
by: Tyler Durden
August 8, 2012

In what can only be the strangest and most worrisome coincidence, the Shell refinery in Martinez has just issued a public “Shelter-in-Place” emergency alert:

RESIDENTS IN MARTINEZ. ARE ADVISED TO SHELTER IN PLACE. GO INSIDE. CLOSE ALL WINDOWS AND DOORS. TURN OFF ALL HEATERS. AIR CONDITIONERS AND FANS. IF NOT USING THE FIREPLACE. CLOSE FIREPLACE DAMPERS AND VENTS. AND COVER CRACKS AROUND DOORS AND WINDOWS WITH TAPE OR DAMPED TOWELS. MEDIA NEWS NETWORKS WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY UPDATED EMERGENCY INFORMATION. STAY OFF THE TELEPHONE UNLESS YOU HAVE A LIFE THREATENING EMERGENCY.

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Ecuadorian Court Orders Chevron to Pay $19 Billion for Environmental Damages

via: NaturalSociety
by: Lisa Garber
July 31, 2012

An Ecuadorian court recently demanded Chevron to pay $19 billion in environmental damages. This includes $900 million for the Amazon Defense Front—a coalition of plaintiffs in this decade-long legal battle—and an additional $8.6 billion because Chevron refused to apologize. Ouch!

The Amazon’s Chernobyl

Instead of paying up, Chevron is putting up its usual dirty fight. Its lawyers plan to appeal, and called the region’s legal system “illegitimate” and the reparations “unenforceable in any court that observes the rule of law.”

Those are strong words from a company that, between 1964 and 1990, had such poor waste management practices that 1,400 locals died. Needless to say, it’s not called “the Amazon’s Chernobyl” for nothing.

During those years, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of waste oil and water into open pits, thereby polluting fishing grounds, devastating crops, killing farm animals, and raising the rate of cancer among residents.  Texaco (later bought by California-based Chevron) acknowledged the damage enough to promise $40 million to clean up after themselves, but they don’t seem happy about the updated number, $19 billion.

Fraud and Misconduct

“Rather than accept responsibility, Chevron has launched a campaign of warfare against the Ecuadorean courts and the impoverished victims of its unfortunate practices,” said Pablo Fajardo, now celebrated lawyer and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2008 for his dedication to the case.

Chevron boasted $19 billion in earnings in 2010 and is predictably reluctant to let a cent of it go. In 2011, they claimed to have undercover investigators with evidence of improper association between the judges and plaintiffs. “We intend to see that the perpetrators of this fraud are held accountable for their misconduct,” they said in February 2011.

The plaintiffs—and activists worldwide—hope the same justice is meted out to Big Oil, and the justice better come soon.

Additional Sources:

AFP

Wall Street Journal

The Independent

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The Illumination Merchants

via: TheIntelHub
by: Dean Henderson [www.DeanHenderson.wordpress.com]
July 2, 2012

(Excerpted from Big Oil & Their Bankers…Chapter 7: Four Horsemen)

By the late 1800’s John D. Rockefeller had become popularly known as “the Illumination Merchant”, during a time when oil was powering the reading lamps of every American household. [1]

Rockefeller’s nickname also alluded to his membership in a grand secret society of global elites known as the Illuminati. Rockefeller had figured out that it was the refining of oil into various end products and not actual crude production which held the key to control of the industry.

By 1895 his Standard Oil Company owned 95% of all refineries in the US while expanding operations overseas. Summing up his attitude towards his new oil monopoly, Rockefeller once stated, “The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism is gone never to return”.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic the British du Reuter family plunged into the oil business in Iran via its Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The Swedish Nobel and French Rothschild families discovered oil in Russia through their Far East Trading Company, which later combined with Oppenheimer family interests to become Shell Oil.

The Dutch House of Orange joined forces with the British House of Windsor in the Dutch East Indies to launch Royal Dutch Petroleum. The Rothschilds and the European monarchs were Illuminated leaders of the Freemason movement in the Old World.

Freemasonry was derived from the Knights Templar whose inner circle, the Priory of Sion, claim to be guardians of the bloodline of Jesus Christ (Sangreal) which they believe is carried forth by the Merovingan family, French royals who ruled that country from the 5th century until they were vanquished by French revolutionaries. [2]

The Priory of Sion most likely wrote the sinister Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion. Freemasonry and the Knights Templar are highly secretive, organized in a pyramidal and compartmentalized fashion much like the CIA, which recruits heavily from these Brotherhoods.

There are thirty-three degrees in Freemasonry. To achieve advancement to one higher degree, members are asked to spit on a cross. Those who refuse are congratulated, while those who accept are advanced to the next level because they did what they were told. Once a person reaches the 33rd Degree, which very few do, the person is considered illuminated and hence becomes a member of the Illuminati.

According to many researchers of the Illuminati, their goal is to restore monarchies around the world, culminating in the crowning of a Merovingan bloodline World King who will rule over a New World Order dominated by a handful of royal and banking families, enforcing government by decree and employing a single world electronic currency implanted in every human being.

The Illuminati originates from ancient secret societies beginning with the Guardians of Light in Atlantis, the Sumerian Brotherhood of the Snake and the Egyptian Mystery Schools, who suppressed spiritual truths such as mankind’s true origins and one’s ability to self-heal from the masses. These self-professed Princes of Darkness, who may be hybrids of an alien race known as Annunaki, wish to rid Earthlings of their spiritual earthly essence and powers, making it easier to set up global dictatorship.

In 1400 BC Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaton built a Brotherhood Temple in the shape of a cross at El-Amarna, Egypt. Here he established the first Mystery School, which soon multiplied in Babylon and elsewhere. Human sacrifice and mind control were common practice at the schools, which employed initiation rites identical to those of modern Freemasonry. The “Great Work of Ages”, which Freemasons talk of today, is synonymous with world domination and the takeover of the human mind. [3]

Freemasonry is the largest modern-day extension of the Brotherhood. Colonel Albert Pike, former Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Freemasonry in America describes the secretive group as, “The Custodian and depository of the great philosophical and religious truths unknown to the world at large and handed down from age to age by an unbroken current of tradition, embodied in symbols, emblems and allegories.”

Every US President since FDR has been a 33rd Degree Illuminated Mason, except Ronald Reagan, who was given the honorary title, John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated, and Barrack Obama.

The Italian mafia was founded by Guiseppe Mazzini, the 33rd Degree Illuminati Grand Master Mason of the P-2 Lodge. P-2 is close to the Vatican Bank, ran Banca Nacionale de Lavoro and funded South America’s fascist drug-ridden governments of the 70’s. [4]

Pike brought Freemasonry to America at Charleston, SC in the 1870’s. His book Morals and Dogma serves as a bible for US Freemasons today. In the book Pike proclaims the Satanist bent of Freemasonry espousing, “The Masonic Religion should be by all of us initiates in the High Degrees maintained in the purity of the Luciferic Doctrine”. Pike put his dark side to work, presiding over the Western expansion and genocide of Native American people. Pike also founded the Ku Klux Klan.

Lower level initiates don’t know of this darker side of Masonry and spend their time planning circuses and parades, ostensibly to divert people’s attention from Illuminati plans for global dictatorship. The Masons started the first insurance firm in the US called Woodman’s. The very concept of insurance counts on fear, death and destruction and is nothing more than a mob-style protection racket, with proceeds going into the guns for drugs trade via the Bermuda subsidiaries that virtually all insurance firms have.

The most corruptible men advance to the higher degrees of Masonry, where they become aware of the Freemason role in the Great Work of Ages or New World Order. The Masons swear blood oaths to secrecy. An initiate into the 1st Degree pledges, “binding myself under no less penalty than to have my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea…”. [5]

The oaths get increasingly morbid as a Mason climbs the degree ladder. The British Crown officially warrants every Freemason Lodge in the world. Whether they know it or not, every initiated Freemason in the world pledges loyalty to the British Crown.

Many of America’s founding fathers were Freemasons including Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Washington apparently began to see the dark side of the group. He wrote in 1782, “It was not my intention to doubt that the Illuminati…had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more fully satisfied of this fact than am I”. [6]

Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams wrote essays warning of the Freemasons, who they knew wanted to return America to British Crown control. In the 1830’s an American Anti-Mason Party sprang forth after a New York State Senate investigation revealed that powerful Masons controlled the US government. Candidates won several state and local elections. The Anti-Masons were eventually absorbed into the Whig Party.

The Illuminati know that energy is the key to global hegemony. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust began illuminating the New World with funding from Kuhn Loeb and Rothschild banking families. While the Rockefellers worked the American side of the energy matrix, the Rothschilds consolidated their control over Old World oil resources.

By 1892 Shell Oil, under the direction of Marcus Samuel, began shipping South Sea crude through the new Suez Canal to supply Europe’s factories. Shell took its name from the abundance of seashells which lined the shores of the Dutch-controlled archipelago that is now Indonesia. The Samuel family controls London’s biggest merchant bank Hill Samuel, along with the trading house Samuel Montagu. In 1903 the Nobel and Rothschild’s Far East Trading, which was financed by King Wilhelm III, combined with Samuel and Oppenheimer’s Shell Oil to form the Asiatic Petroleum Company.

In 1927 Royal Dutch Petroleum discovered oil at Seria off the coast of Brunei, whose Sultan would become the world’s richest man as a result of his loyalty to Royal Dutch. The Dutch and British monarchs who control Royal Dutch merged their company with the Oppenheimer and Samuel’s Shell Oil and Nobel and Rothschild’s Far East Trading. Royal Dutch/Shell was born. [7] Queen Juliana of the Dutch House of Orange and Lord Victor Rothschild are the two largest shareholders of Royal Dutch/Shell.

In 1872 Baron Julius du Reuter was granted his 50-year concession in Iran. In 1914 the British government took control of his Anglo-Persian Company renamed it British Petroleum. Britain’s House of Windsor controls a large stake in BP Amoco. The Kuwaiti monarchy owns 9.5%.

In 1906 the US government ordered the dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust, charging that Standard had violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. On May 15, 1911 the US Supreme Court declared, “Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th”. [8] The breakup of Standard Oil increased the wealth of the Rockefeller family who retained 25% interest in each new company.

Standard Oil NY merged with Vacuum Oil to form Socony-Vacuum which became Mobil in 1966. Standard Oil IN joined with Standard Oil NE and Standard Oil KS and in 1985 became Amoco. In 1972 Standard Oil of NJ became Exxon. In 1984 Standard Oil CA joined with Standard Oil KY to become Chevron. Standard Oil OH (Sohio) retained the Standard brand until bought by BP, which also bought trust baby Atlantic Richfield (ARCO).

The Rockefellers created powerful foundations to shield their oil billions from taxation, while steering social, political and economic policy. Their philanthropic endeavors included the General Education Board, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Lincoln School, where Rockefeller children are educated.

The Rockefellers are big financiers of the eugenics movement which spawned Hitler. Nazi scientists sought a genetically-superior race. Anatomy textbooks used at US universities are based on this Nazi science. DNA research is the next frontier down this slippery slope. The idea is to convince people that they are genetically flawed and must be “repaired” by the Rockefeller pharmaceutical/medical monopoly.

In 1912 railroad magnate Edward Harriman’s widow sold her stake in Morgan Guaranty Bank to J.P. Morgan. She joined Rockefeller in funding a eugenics research lab at Cold Spring Harbor, NY. It was the Harrimans who gave George Walker and Prescott Bush their starts in investment banking and industry.

That same year the First International Congress of Eugenics was convened in London with Winston Churchill presiding. In 1932 the conference was held in New York. Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Line, owned by George Walker and Prescott Bush, brought the German contingent to the gene-fest. One member of the German delegation was Dr. Ernst Rudin of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy in Berlin. He was unanimously elected president for his work in founding the German Society of Race Hygiene, a forerunner to Hitler’s race institutes. [9]

By 1920 Exxon, BP and Royal Dutch/Shell dominated the world’s booming oil business, with the Rockefeller and Rothschild families and the British and Dutch royals owning the brunt of stock in the Horsemen. [10]

Two other Rockefeller babies, Mobil and Chevron, weren’t far behind the Big Three. The Texas Murchison family, themselves patronized by the Rockefellers, controlled Texaco, while the Mellon family, with its own ties to the Rockefeller fortune, controlled Gulf Oil.

In 1984 the Gulf was swooped up by Chevron. Amoco made a run at replacing Gulf as the 7th Sister but BP swallowed it, creating BP Amoco. In 1999 Exxon and Mobil, who always worked closely, merged in a $75 billion monster deal creating Exxon Mobil. A year later Chevron and Texaco- also historically joined at the hip- officially combined to create Chevron Texaco.

Four Horsemen rode on.

[1] The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. Daniel Yergin. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1991.
[2] The Robot’s Rebellion: The Story of Spiritual Renaissance. David Icke. Gateway Books. Bath, UK. 1994. p.94
[3] Ibid. p.36
[4] “Lecture by John Ross”. War & Peace Report. Free Speech TV. Boulder, CO 1-1-02
[5] Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids. Jim Marrs. HarperCollins Publishers. New York. 2000. p.218
[6] Ibid. p.203
[7] “History of Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies”. Shell Review Annual Report. 1992
[8] Marrs. p.46
[9] Ibid. p.48
[10] Webs of Power: International Cartels and the World Economy. Kurt Rudolf Mirow and Harry Maurer. Houghton, Mifflin Company Boston. 1982. p.69

Dean Henderson is the author of four books: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries, Das Kartell der Federal Reserve & Stickin’ it to the Matrix. You can subscribe free to his weekly Left Hook column @ wwwdeanhenderson.wordpress.com/

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New Chapter’s new owner [P&G] steeped in animal testing and led by directors with ties to weapons contractors, Big Pharma, Monsanto, Chevron and more

NaturalNews
Friday, March 23, 2012
by Mike Adams

[NaturalNews] NaturalNews has never really taken much of an interest in Procter & Gamble — until now. Having acquired New Chapter, a once-promising supplier of high-end herbal supplements such as Zyflamend, P&G now demands some honest scrutiny. Who are these people that New Chapter has decided to cozy up to? What are their business interests, and what are their ethics?

To answer this question, NaturalNews conducted an investigation of Procter & Gamble’s board of directors in order to determine what business interests those directors might represent. What we found was more than a bit disturbing, and as you will see below, P&Gs board of directors is made up of people with ties to weapons manufacturers, Homeland Security, the Federal Reserve, oil companies, the Fukushima nuclear power plant, global banks, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology (GMOs), mining giants, black box voting machines, and predictably both Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

It’s like a Who’s Who of some of the most destructive industries on the planet, all in one room.

Animal testing of its chemical consumer products

On top of that, P&G is steeped in animal testing of its products, according to a long list of activist websites. We’re going to be covering this in more detail in a future report, but here are some sites where you can start to learn about P&Gs widespread testing of its chemical products in laboratory animals:

http://www.pandgkills.com/facts/index.html
http://www.uncaged.co.uk/pgtesting.htm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Procter_%26_Gamble#Animal_…

P&G also owns Iams dog food. Check out this video entitled “Iams: A Recipe for Cruelty”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WucllIFy9iU

Moving on to P&G’s board members, here’s what we found in just a few hours of searching public information:

Procter & Gamble’s board of directors

Alan G Lafley

• Also on the board of Directors of General Electric, one of America’s largest weapons manufacturers and the designer of the Fukushima nuclear power facility.

• 5-year compensation total: $41 million

• Helped P&G develop and market brands like Crest, Tide and Pampers (landfill, anyone?)

• Was recognized with the 2010 Hall of Achievement Award, the highest honor given by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (this is the group that strongly opposes honest labeling of GMOs and routinely sides with the business interests of the junk processed foods industry)

• Was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame by the Coca-Cola company. Considered a “legend” in influencing the public to buy more stuff they don’t need.

Sources:
http://www.aaf.org/default.asp?id=1315
http://www.ge.com/company/leadership/bios_bod/alan_lafley.html

Ernesto Zedillo

• The former President of Mexico. Yeah, really.

• Independent Director of Alcoa, the aluminum mining giant.

• Independent Director of Citigroup.

• Deeply involved in complex financial instruments: “From 1983 to 1987, he was the founding General Director of the Trust Fund for the Coverage of Exchange Risks, a mechanism created to manage the rescheduling of the foreign debt of the country’s private sector that involved negotiations and complex financial operations with hundreds of firms and international banks.”

• On the international advisory boards of ACE Limited, Rolls-Royce, British Petroleum and JPMorgan-Chase.

• A member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum.

• A member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation‘s Global Development Advisory Panel.

• Worked for the Central Bank of Mexico, the “Federal Reserve” of Mexico, from 1978-87.

Patricia A Woertz

• President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Archer-Daniels Midland Company

• Held positions at Chevron Corporation

• Compensation for 2010: $11.44 million

Sources:
http://people.forbes.com/profile/patricia-a-woertz/7056

Norman R Augustine

• On the board of both Procter & Gamble and weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin

• Served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering

• He is a former member of the Board of Directors of ConocoPhillips, Black & Decker, Procter & Gamble and Lockheed Martin

• A member of the Advisory Board to the Department of Homeland Security

• Trustee Emeritus of Johns Hopkins (drugs-and-surgery medicine)

• Holds 28 honorary degrees (insert chuckle here, as these are apparently handed out like candy to those who play ball with the global elite)

Ralph Snyderman

• Director Nominee, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc.

• Independent Director, Targacept, Inc. (a pharma research company)

• Served on board of Axonyx Inc., a predecessor to Raptor Pharmaceuticals
Corp

• Vice president for medical research and development of Genentech, a cancer drug manufacturer that was caught red-handed “ghost writing” speeches for members of Congress to read during health reform debates (http://www.naturalnews.com/027630_Big_Pharma_lobbyists.html).

Sources:
http://people.forbes.com/profile/ralph-snyderman/76616

Scott D Cook

• Independent Director, eBay, Inc.

• Director of Intuit, Inc.

• In 2005, Cook was #320 on the Forbes 400, with a net worth of $1.1 billion. Since the 1990s, he has “more than doubled his donations to Republicans and Democrats, giving the maximum [in 2007] to mainstream politicians such as Mitt Romney and Harry Reid.”

• This guy looks like the least worrisome of the bunch. At least he’s not into weapons, oil, or biotech.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Cook

Angela F Braly

• Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of WellPoint, Inc., the company sued by doctors for alleged price fixing of drugs as a way to under-pay doctors. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026740_insurance_companies_lawsuit.html)

• Joined RightCHOICE Managed Care, Inc. in January 1999, then the parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri, as General Counsel, also overseeing government relations.

• Compensation: $13 million

Source:
http://people.forbes.com/profile/angela-f-braly/85870

W James McNerney Jr

• CEO of Boeing Company (Boeing is the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft, with capabilities in rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites and advanced information and communications systems — top-secret government weapons systems, in other words)

• Joined General Electric in 1982, also was executive vice president of GE Capital. GE, as you may know, owns much of the mainstream media and helps set the news agenda to do things like promote war.

• Chairman of the board and CEO of 3M, heading up their “Cardiovascular Devices” division.

• Named Chairman of the President’s Export Council by President Barack Obama

• Compensation in 2011: $22.9 million

• Graduate from Yale University (the “white shoe boyz”)

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McNerney
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?p…

Maggie Wilderotter

• Former Microsoft executive
• Serves on boards of both Xerox and P&G
• 5-year compensation: $12.98 million

Charles R Lee

• Director, Marathon Oil Corporation
• Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Verizon Communications

Bruce L Byrnes

• Independent Director, Diebold Incorporated, the company accused of “black box voting” scandals in several of the last Presidential elections. (https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablackboxvoting.org+diebold)

• Vice Chairman of the Board – Global Brand Building Training of The Procter & Gamble Company

Sources:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=106584&p=irol-govBio&ID=2…

Kenneth I Chenault

• Chairman of American Express
• Compensation in 2011: $23 million
• Director, IBM

Gwendolyn S King

• Gwendolyn isn’t on the board of P&G, but she’s on the board of Monsanto, a company with the same top investors as P&G (http://www.naturalnews.com/035312_New_Chapter_Proctor_and_Gamble_Mons…).

• Board of Monsanto (chairs the Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Committee, if you can believe Monsanto even has such a committee)

• In addition, she is on the board of Lockheed Martin, the very same weapons contractor tied to other P&G board members. There, she chairs the “Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Committee.” (You really gotta love these committee names…)

FYI, you can check out Monsanto’s Board of Directors here:
http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/pages/board-of-directors.aspx

There, you will see that Monsanto’s board members have ties to Microsoft, McDonalds, Sara Lee, Lockheed Martin and other firms.

As we previously reported, Procter & Gamble’s CFO, Jon Moeller, is also on the Board of Directors of Monsanto. He has ties to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. (http://www.naturalnews.com/035312_New_Chapter_Proctor_and_Gamble_Mons…)

Also: http://www.organicauthority.com/foodie-buzz/guess-whos-on-monsantos-b…

New Chapter, P&G, animal testing, weapons manufacturers, Big Pharma — what does it all add up to?

So the story here is very simple: New Chapter is owned by P&G, and P&G’s board of directors is populated by people who also sit on the boards of weapons companies, global banking giants, pharmaceutical companies, Homeland Security, planet-wide polluting oil companies, and of course both Monsanto and Microsoft. It’s like a Who’s Who of the worst jackals you could ever collect in one room. For some inexplicable reason, this is who New Chapter has chosen to not just do business with, but to get into bed with.

That makes no sense to me. I just wanted to buy Zyflamend, I didn’t want my purchase dollars going to support the salaries of people who also help run weapons companies, oil companies and Homeland Security. Since when did nutrition have to involve all this other stuff?

And the bottom line answer is that it doesn’t. You can avoid handing over your money to P&G by simply avoiding New Chapter’s products altogether. When you stop buying New Chapter, you stop funding P&G.

Want proof? Check this out:

New Chapter already funding P&Gs agenda

“This acquisition enables P&G to enter the premium, specialty segment of the vitamin and mineral supplement (VMS) category with a meaningful $100m business on day one,” a P&G spokesperson told NutraIngredients-USA, speaking about acquiring New Chapter.

So on the very first day after the acquisition, New Chapter already delivered $100 million in revenues to Procter & Gamble.

Hmm… I wonder how that money will be used? To pay even fatter salaries to the officers who already have seven-figure salaries? To pay for more animal testing experiments? Now that New Chapter is under the wing of P&G, will New Chapter start conducting animal testing on its products, too? It’s a legitimate question.

And here’s the biggest question of all: If New Chapter is so comfortable with its partnership with P&G, why is there absolutely no mention of P&G on New Chapter’s website?

That’s right: Search their entire website, if you wish. As of this writing, you won’t find a single mention of P&G, Procter & Gamble, or the acquisition by P&G. It’s almost like it’s a secret or something. And I find that odd, because usually if you’re really happy to be partnered with someone, you might at least announce it on your website, right? The lack of mention on New Chapter’s website almost looks like the company is ashamed of who owns it now.

It’s a question of ethics, principles, morals…

Why doesn’t New Chapter at least state on its website that it will not engage in routine animal testing of its products even though its new parent company does? Are there any ethical boundaries the company will refuse to cross, or will it obediently follow in the footsteps of its owner and start populating its own board of directors with people who have ties to Homeland Security, weapons manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and the like?

These are legitimate questions about a company whose customers have long been vocal advocates of protecting life on Earth through natural living, peaceful conflict resolution, respecting the welfare of animals, and decentralizing control over economies. Natural products people are anti-war. But P&G’s board members also sit on the boards of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, two of the largest weapons manufacturing firms in America. So how does this compute?

It doesn’t. The principles of natural health people are the polar opposite of the principles represented by P&G board members. I suspect they are mostly closet monopolists who wish to dominate, control, centralize and profit — almost at any cost. How else do you get people who pull down a $20+ million annual compensation plan while the people who buy their Tide laundry detergent are barely scraping by on welfare?

Givers vs. takers

Slice it any way you want, but I look at the board of directors of companies like P&G and Monsanto and I can’t find a single example of these people actually helping humanity in any meaningful way. These are not contributors. They are TAKERS. Their claim to fame is merely that they are more clever takers than the next guy. They have managed to put themselves into positions where they take so much that they seem to have forgotten the plight of the people they’re taking from.

That’s what mainstream advertising and marketing is all about, of course: social engineering, behavioral shaping, taking money from people while convincing them that it’s all voluntary on their part. Taking from people through cognitive influence instead of at gunpoint. That’s what P&G is really the master of — not providing healing products that genuinely help the world, but at convincing people they need a plastic bottle filled with petroleum derivatives and artificial fragrance. That’s P&G’s real legacy. In the 1980′s, it seemed brilliant. In 2012 it just seems stupid.

Yes, it matters where you spend your dollars. Your dollars are a vote for your ethics and principles. Every time you buy a product from a company, you encourage that company to expand its influence and power, reflecting whatever principles (or lack thereof) it currently embodies. You want to create a better world? Buy from better companies.

Consume less. Grow more. Reuse, recycle, rethink. And question everything.

Coming up soon: An investigative report into Procter & Gamble and charges of animal cruelty. We’ve now opened a full investigation into this consumer product giant, and we’ll be scrutinizing them on a regular basis thanks to New Chapter’s involvement. Watch for those reports here on NaturalNews.com, the last bastion of a free press for a free People.

Source: NaturalNews.com