#Proctor and Gamble

[notwiselybuttoowell]

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.

All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.

More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.

Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.

“This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they’re dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.”

West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the world’s largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the world’s biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.

“West Papuans’, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,” said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.

“Indonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua … After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasn’t fair, which wasn’t under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.

“So this is the foundation of the Indonesia’s colonial project. When we became part of Indonesia against our will, basically the genocide unfolded.”

[arctic-hands]

Tom's of Maine toothpaste was manufactured with water containing bacteria, while a "black mold-like substance" was found in a factory where the product was made, according to a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Goddamn not even toothpaste is safe  

[s3znl-gr3znl]

If you're receiving an hour lunch, that means you're spending 9 hours at work and being paid for 8.(for an average shift)

If you're understaffed, it means your company pay sucks/its cheaper to operate with fewer people and force them to work faster because "we're understaffed). Ergo, the company makes more money with fewer people working harder and faster, eventually resulting in burntout replaceableemployees.

Steal from your corporate company/chain store

As soon as it becomes cheaper to automate your job, your company will do so, usually with little to no warning.gz ,

Wage theft isn't just having wages withheld. it's also companies hoarding all the wealth YOU generate for the people at the top while paying barely enough for some people to get by.

[afnguy]

[philwriter-blog]

St Helens manufacturing history

I am approaching the manufacturing history of St Helens in a slightly different way to the other towns I have researched. My late old friend, Brian Leyland a St Helens man, wrote a book St Helen’s The Great and the Good to explore the lives of the more famous of its offspring. Amongst stories about sportsmen, entertainers and scientists, Brian includes pieces about the town’s best known…

[stone-cold-groove]

Let’s look at letterheads - The Proctor & Gamble Company corporate stationery.

[broadcastarchive-umd]

The Gibson Family – before there was SMASH, before there was Cop Rock, before there was That’s Life – all attempts at creating an ongoing musical series for television – there was The Gibson Family (1934-35), a failed musical series on the NBC Radio Red Network. The program had a big sponsor, Proctor & Gamble / Ivory Soap, and songs by the classy team of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz.

Originally posted March 25, 2013.

[frimleyblogger]

A Fiscal Theme Park

It is now the largest indirect taxation source for the UK Government, boosting the Treasury coffers by £169.25 billion in fiscal year 2023/24. Introduced appropriately enough on April Fool’s Day 1973 to replace Purchase Tax, Value Added Tax (VAT) was intended to be a simple tax. Essential goods such as food, fuel, and housing were exempt but a rate of 10% was levied on all other goods and…

[sweetfirebird]

People are protesting outside Fox News!! More of this! Let's make that shit channel untouchable! I've been saying.

Do not patronize businesses that play Fox News in their waiting rooms or lobbies.

Put pressure on their biggest "respectable" sponsors. Either through boycotting their products or tagging in social media.

These are the ones I saw before that information mysteriously vanished

Expedia

Liberty Mutual

Proctor and Gamble (Kirkland brand already outsells them btw)

Gucci of all fucking brands. Not that I was buying that anyway. It's... tacky.

[questionableadvice]

~ A Girl and Her Hair, 1947, Published by Proctor & Gamble Co.

Today in Surprising Things People Had to be Taught: shampoo! A brief History Geek* look at the 20th century history of shampoo and hair washing:

The first commercial soap specifically for hair was invented in 1914 and sold in London. Before this, people would use boiled soap shavings (1) dissolved in water, or other homemade mixtures. Drene was the first shampoo containing synthetic surfactants instead of just diluted soap and it wasn't introduced until the mid-1930s, which means this ad was meant for people who were unfamiliar with shampoo as we think of it today. It wasn't until the 1960s that shampoo began containing polymers to help prevent damage by detergent. And then in the 1970s companies began ad campaigns telling us it was dirty and unhealthy not to shampoo several times a week and an entire drugstore aisle was born!

*I've done research and tried to be accurate but let me know if I've missed anything!

(1) often containing lye

[forever70s]

1975 ad for Bounce fabric softener dryer sheets

[psychotrenny]

Now it has recently been brought to my attention that the Pods confection, produced by Mars Incorporated, is not something sold outside my country.

It also has some broad similarities with the Tide Pods laundry detergent, produced by Proctor & Gamble, leading some express disbelief at their existence or describe Pods confection as "cursed"

As such, I would like to make something clear. Pods confection was first produced in 2008. Meanwhile Tide Pods laundry product only came to market in 2012*. So what we have is is not in fact confection taking the form of a laundry product as some form of sick joke, but instead a laundry product that looks like confection. No wonder people kept eating the damn things. It's like selling bleach in a lemonade bottle, complete with bubbles on the label and everything

*while laundry detergent pods as a concept have been around since the 1960s, as far as I can tell Tide Pods were the first to take that iconic form with the multiple partitions

[reality-detective]

Dark History of Industrial Seed Oils

Vegetable oil was originally a by-product of Proctor and Gamble’s soap-making process and condemned as “toxic waste."

Then they realised they could make a buck by hydrogenating cottonseed oil and passing it off as a cooking oil. It wasn’t long before other hydrogenated oils like canola, soybean and sunflower oils hit the shelves.

Paid scientists began singing their praises and advised consuming them in place of “unhealthy” animal-based saturated fats that people had eaten for hundreds of years without any issue.

Food Facts 🤔

[stumpyjoepete]

IQ-based ad targeting

YouTube ads are absolutely crap these days. Every few pre-rolls is a financial scam, a medical scam, or shilling dick pills. (Note: I have ads personalization turned off, so while not exactly a random sample, I think it's pretty representative of broadly targeted ads.)

If I were YouTube, I would feel embarrassed about this. Think back to the whole brand safety hullaballoo from a few years ago. I really can't imagine Proctor & Gamble or Coca-Cola wants their ads to be bookended by ONE WEIRD TRICK TO DOUBLE YOUR MONEY AND/OR DICK being read out loud in an AI voice.

But whether or not it's in the interest of YouTube to display these ads, they do, and they don't consider "this sure looks like a fucking scam" to be a prima facie policy violation.

Nonetheless, many of these ads do in fact contain clear and obvious violations of Google ad policies, and I often report them (and while I can't be sure my reports specifically mattered, the ads do end up getting taken down). If you're interested in what is worth quoting in a report:

Quote from the misrepresentation policy when you see manipulated video with a celebrity talking. This is "impersonating or falsely implying affiliation with, or endorsement by, a public figure". For instance, the fake-Trump-voice ads ran afoul of this, and I assume that's why they got taken down.

Say "porn". Lots of the dick pill ads have no nudity, but they link to a page with a single button that launches a video with pornographic content. Porn is YouTube kryptonite, and lots of ads I've reported for this have since disappeared along with the channels that uploaded the relevant videos for the creatives. More generally, "landing page is button that opens video with {violation}" is a super easy way to find something to put in a report. Those videos invariably contain tons of very obvious violations.

Click the "more ads from this advertiser" link and either report their other violating ads manually or mention that the advertiser's other videos seem to have the same policy violation too in your report.

Anyhow, this one Brazilian advertising agency is currently shilling some "doctors hate him!" scam about treating your diabetes with an ebook instead of real medicine. I had reported all their ads which included fake endorsement by Dr. Oz, but I hadn't reported their Dr.-Oz-free video ads. Just now I got served their one remaining unbanned video ad, and I went to the trouble of googling the person in the ad.

Turns out, it's Barbara O'Neill who, according to Wikipedia, is known for "Dangerous and unsubstantiated alternative medicine claims". Telling people to treat their cancer with baking soda and to feed their babies raw goat milk instead of formula (she charges $6k for seminars dispensing this advice). She's indefinitely banned in Australia from "providing health services or education in any capacity, regardless of whether or not she accepted payment for doing so".

Note: the ad in question does not contain an endorsement by this person. It fakes an endorsement from this person. The ad violates policy because it is pretending that their scam medical treatment is endorsed by a well-known medical scammer. I guess they really wanted to make sure the people who click through are absolutely the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

[okawawebster]

Do you fw James Gamble

the dude who made the soap brand Proctor and gamble 🤔

[vintage-tech]

Proctor and Gamble put out their own version of naphtha laundry soap (the leader in the industry being Fels-Naptha, which is still produced but without the naphtha that we discovered is carcinogenic). It was truly a washday miracle.

Here are advertisements from 1921 through 1936 for the product...