Saturday, 24 April 2010
Friday, 23 April 2010
No one’s mate Marmite
Ever since 1902 Marmite has had a reputation as a wholesome stuff you spread on your toast. In fact, it is made from industrial waste in a gigantic chemical factory in the Midlands by a global multinational corporation. A corporation which has been involved in dumping toxic waste in India, exploiting underpaid workers in Pakistan and hacking down tropical rain forests in Africa and Indonesia and has now decided to pick a fight with the BNP in the service of its internationalist agenda.
Every day 20-ton tanker trucks deliver the waste product of the beer brewing process, a brown sludge full of a fungal growth scraped from the bottom of brewery vessels, to an enormous complex of metal pipes and tanks outside Burton on Trent. In a place looking more like an oil refinery than anything producing food for human consumption, the brewery waste is autolysed and otherwise industrially processed in a tangle of metal pipes and tanks. Finally a faecal-brown slop, the “Secret Ingredient” – whose composition is unknown outside Unilever – is decanted in and the resulting guck splurted into little jars to be marketed to the British and indeed global public .
Marketed by a slick advertising campaign which its multinational masters have now enlisted not just to peddle their brown sludge of processed fungal industrial waste but to promote their internationalist and anti-British agenda. Their spoof “Hate Party Political Broadcast” is an obvious parody of the BNP’s Party Election Broadcast for the 2009 Election.
A parody itself motivated by the globalising agenda of Unilever, by whose corporate maw Marmite was gobbled up ten years ago. Unilever is a corporate octopus marketing over 400 brands from soap and cosmetics to tea and deodorant. It has devoured companies across the globe and is now the owner of hundreds of well-known products from PG Tips to Calvin Klein Cosmetics to Flora Margarine to Knorr Stock Cubes to Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream. And of course Marmite. How many of those buying these skilfully advertised products know they are all made by the same gigantic conglomerate?
In its ruthless drive to maximise corporate profits it has hacked down rain forests in Indonesia and Cote d’Ivoire in Africa to replace them with palm oil plantations. Its Indian subsidiary, Hindustan Lever was involved in a scandal after it dumped several tonnes of highly toxic mercury waste in the tourist resort of Kodaikanal and the surrounding protected nature reserve of Pambar Shola, in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Trade unionists in Pakistan have accused Unilever of the calculated exploitation of sweated labour and it has also been accused of exploiting child labour in the Third World.
Unilever’s directors include former Tory minister Leon Brittan and former New Labour minister David Simon, as well as Indian tycoon N. R Narayana Murthy. This worthy is the founder and is still the non-executive Chairman of Infosys, an Indian IT giant which exploits low Third World pay rates to offshore programming and other IT work to India, in the process stealing the jobs of large numbers of British and other Western computer and communications professionals.
Unilever, like its fellow multinationals, is utterly ruthless in promoting in its own interests a clear political agenda of breaking down national identities and pride. It does so because weakening the differences between national markets and national differences in tastes and preferences, and making the world into one vast market where Identikit clone consumers everywhere all buy the same slickly marketed industrial waste byproducts and sweated produce of cheap Third World labour maximises their profits. The free movement of Capital and Labour – City and banking and currency speculation, mass Immigration and offshoring of Western jobs, also boost their balance sheets. Obstacles like patriotism and national identity impede the efficient running of the global greed machine of which Unilever is a part. National pride and separate cultural identity, still more the political expressions of those values, cost multinationals like Unilever hard cash money. Therefore they – we and you – must be shut up, closed down and removed. By propaganda like the “Hate Party Broadcast” if possible. But physically if necessary.
As the second Unilever Marmite “Hate Party” commercial, upping the ante in their war against British patriots, strongly suggests. This new one is an obvious parody the smashing up last June of newly-elected BNP MEPs Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons’ Press Conference on College Green outside the Houses of Parliament . This time, instead of being attacked by far-Left thugs armed with eggs, the characters clearly intended to represent the BNP’s elected representatives are assaulted by the Unilever-approved “Love Party” (George Orwell would have loved their name!) and smeared with Marmite.
It may seem bizarre that a brand of breakfast spread should seek to pick a fight with a British political party during a General Election. But it is entirely understandable once you look behind the brand at those who own it, and where their interests lie. The BNP and the ordinary Britons who comprise and support it are threatening the wealth and power of the corporate owners of today’s world. They know that, and are acting accordingly. It’s time we did too…. The multinational makers of Marmite are nobody’s mates but their own.
Every day 20-ton tanker trucks deliver the waste product of the beer brewing process, a brown sludge full of a fungal growth scraped from the bottom of brewery vessels, to an enormous complex of metal pipes and tanks outside Burton on Trent. In a place looking more like an oil refinery than anything producing food for human consumption, the brewery waste is autolysed and otherwise industrially processed in a tangle of metal pipes and tanks. Finally a faecal-brown slop, the “Secret Ingredient” – whose composition is unknown outside Unilever – is decanted in and the resulting guck splurted into little jars to be marketed to the British and indeed global public .
Marketed by a slick advertising campaign which its multinational masters have now enlisted not just to peddle their brown sludge of processed fungal industrial waste but to promote their internationalist and anti-British agenda. Their spoof “Hate Party Political Broadcast” is an obvious parody of the BNP’s Party Election Broadcast for the 2009 Election.
A parody itself motivated by the globalising agenda of Unilever, by whose corporate maw Marmite was gobbled up ten years ago. Unilever is a corporate octopus marketing over 400 brands from soap and cosmetics to tea and deodorant. It has devoured companies across the globe and is now the owner of hundreds of well-known products from PG Tips to Calvin Klein Cosmetics to Flora Margarine to Knorr Stock Cubes to Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream. And of course Marmite. How many of those buying these skilfully advertised products know they are all made by the same gigantic conglomerate?
In its ruthless drive to maximise corporate profits it has hacked down rain forests in Indonesia and Cote d’Ivoire in Africa to replace them with palm oil plantations. Its Indian subsidiary, Hindustan Lever was involved in a scandal after it dumped several tonnes of highly toxic mercury waste in the tourist resort of Kodaikanal and the surrounding protected nature reserve of Pambar Shola, in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Trade unionists in Pakistan have accused Unilever of the calculated exploitation of sweated labour and it has also been accused of exploiting child labour in the Third World.
Unilever’s directors include former Tory minister Leon Brittan and former New Labour minister David Simon, as well as Indian tycoon N. R Narayana Murthy. This worthy is the founder and is still the non-executive Chairman of Infosys, an Indian IT giant which exploits low Third World pay rates to offshore programming and other IT work to India, in the process stealing the jobs of large numbers of British and other Western computer and communications professionals.
Unilever, like its fellow multinationals, is utterly ruthless in promoting in its own interests a clear political agenda of breaking down national identities and pride. It does so because weakening the differences between national markets and national differences in tastes and preferences, and making the world into one vast market where Identikit clone consumers everywhere all buy the same slickly marketed industrial waste byproducts and sweated produce of cheap Third World labour maximises their profits. The free movement of Capital and Labour – City and banking and currency speculation, mass Immigration and offshoring of Western jobs, also boost their balance sheets. Obstacles like patriotism and national identity impede the efficient running of the global greed machine of which Unilever is a part. National pride and separate cultural identity, still more the political expressions of those values, cost multinationals like Unilever hard cash money. Therefore they – we and you – must be shut up, closed down and removed. By propaganda like the “Hate Party Broadcast” if possible. But physically if necessary.
As the second Unilever Marmite “Hate Party” commercial, upping the ante in their war against British patriots, strongly suggests. This new one is an obvious parody the smashing up last June of newly-elected BNP MEPs Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons’ Press Conference on College Green outside the Houses of Parliament . This time, instead of being attacked by far-Left thugs armed with eggs, the characters clearly intended to represent the BNP’s elected representatives are assaulted by the Unilever-approved “Love Party” (George Orwell would have loved their name!) and smeared with Marmite.
It may seem bizarre that a brand of breakfast spread should seek to pick a fight with a British political party during a General Election. But it is entirely understandable once you look behind the brand at those who own it, and where their interests lie. The BNP and the ordinary Britons who comprise and support it are threatening the wealth and power of the corporate owners of today’s world. They know that, and are acting accordingly. It’s time we did too…. The multinational makers of Marmite are nobody’s mates but their own.
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