The World Still Singing Off-Key!
By Lilly O. Divalle, for CPW News Service
Coca-Cola
introduced the hill top advertisement “I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing” in
1971. That was the year that Lieutenant
Calley was convicted of the Mi Lai massacre, Joe Frazier beat Muhammed Ali in
Madison Square Garden, the jury in the Charles Manson case recommended the
death penalty for him and his three female followers, 500,000 people gathered
in Washington to protest the Vietnam War and the New York Times published the
Pentagon Papers that indicated that the Gulf of Tonkin Affair was a fraud for
manufacturing consent for war like the 2001 yellow cake uranium bamboozle. Back then
Coca-Cola was the “real thing”. It had
real cane sugar NOT the high fructose corn syrup that was added in 1984 to the applause of companies like Monsanto whose GMO corn found a new lucrative outlet. On the other hand, Coke lacked the cocaine from
its original formula that added significantly to its initial irresistibility.
Matthew Weiner
would have us believe that the deeply flawed Don Draper, his model MAD man,
amalgamated his personal quest for beauty, peace and wholeness into his
continuing butter churning of marketing meteors. Ohmmmmmmmm!
Don’s Ohmmmmmm and hill top lullaby will soon wobble
horribly off-key. Are we
surprised? Don had, after all, jettisoned big tobacco which today is front
and center in the development of anti-Ebola medication…..ZMAPP….whose champion
is the U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Richard Burr, who is quick to share
his relatedness to U.S. land-grabber and Hamilton-killer, Aaron Burr. Senator Richard Burr managed to put the
research of big tobacco’s ZMAPP development out of reach of public scrutiny….an
unprecedented move in healthcare….nearly equal to the secrecy of the Manhattan
Project. In 2014, Coke's CEO, Muhtar Kent, spoke at the business school graduation of the University of North Carolina to tell grads there that all is well.
At Coco-Cola’s
2014 stockholder’s meeting, stockholder Bill Wardlaw raised the question of
Coca-Cola’s human rights record. He
noted that Coke had a long list
of human rights violations including the killing of union organizers in Coke’s
Columbian and Nicaraguan Coke companies.
As Coca-Cola
actions in Columbia in the early 1990’s were shown hard to prove The
Guardian noted that a distinction was made between the Coca-Cola Company
and its local bottlers. What Coca-Cola
did not answer was accusations that Coke’s CEO in the 1980’s, Charles W.
Duncan, had teamed up with fellow Houston, Texas businessman, Walter Mischer, who
provided a Contra training base in Belize (Peter Brewton, The Mafia, CIA and
George Bush, 1992, pp. 111-115, 378-379) from which to pay back Nicaragua for
its ouster of Anostosia Samoza, the business partner of James Neal and brother, Linden
P. Blue, in the Central American banana business. Linden, a Yale Skull & Bones brother of
Bush 41 and 43 would develop today’s Predator and Reaper drones so widely used
beyond the discerning eyes of war-watchers.
“I was proud of Bill Wardlaw taking the
high ground on Coke’s historic spin cycle that’s better at washing out the criticism
than a new Maytag washer,” said Georgia civil rights activist Flo Knight Ungaile. “It’s good when Halliburton or Raytheon or
Lockheed Martin find their stockholders bringing up the chinks in the company armor,” said
Ungaile.
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