Paul Haeder, Author

….daily, man, the American collective mind, and those minds who believe they are outside the power of propaganda, all of them are rotting . . . .

Michael Parenti explicitly laid out in his renowned book, Inventing Reality U.S. citizens are highly propagandized:

“The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.”

Interesting, Klanada:

Trust the Science, Mexico:

Through a joint statement, International Trade Minister Mary Ng and Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay said that “Canada shares the concerns of the U.S. that Mexico is not complying” with its obligations under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

“Canada believes that the measures taken by Mexico are not supported by science and could potentially unnecessarily disrupt trade in the North American market.”

On February 13, Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) issued a decree banning the use of transgenic corn in tortillas and other products for human and animal consumption.

So we are here, then, a society, a country, a crocodile tears shit hole, with an unending barrage of stupified Americanos jumping around looking for back to school buy-one-get-three-free deal and the next Black Friday Big Screen TV sale, lost in their brand loyalty.

“The thing that’s driving all this focus-group and market-research data is the desire of people with the management power to make every decision as methodical and thought out and certain as possible.” — Malcolm Gladwell

As is typical of this journalistic genre, Washington Post reporters Naomi Nix and Sarah Ellison never address the question of what counts as “misinformation,” a highly contested category. Nor do they grapple with the content moderation problem of how to deal with politicians who say things of public interest that are arguably or demonstrably untrue. And although they allude to a constitutional challenge provoked by the federal government’s efforts to restrict speech on social media platforms, they never mention the First Amendment. That is a pretty striking omission by people whose profession relies on that amendment’s protections and who claim to be worried about the health of our democracy. (source)

Money for nothing, and nothing for money: Homo Consumopethicus.

A whopping 54% of consumers would stop using a brand after just one bad experience, with millennials in the majority (57%). 

A recent poll of 2,000 U.S. adults found inconsistent or obsolete online product information to be the No. 1 deal-breaker (24%) for consumers to “break up” with a brand they use.

However, half (51%) also said a great online or social media experience, such as fast replies to their questions, funny posts, and detailed how-to videos, would convince them to give the brand another try.

Two-thirds (67%) said they would be willing to switch brands if their initial experience with a new one is a cut above in a survey conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Propel Software. 

In fact, 58% have recently switched from a brand they used to love to its competitor. Almost half (47%) said they were enticed by an enhanced product experience, such as the availability of accessories, an online community, or how-to videos.

Of the items people were most willing to switch brands on, smartphones topped the list at 37%, TVs and kitchen appliances were second with 36% each and cars third at 35%. (source)

That is USA’s rotting head in a nutshell. Focus groups, polls, instant satisfaction surveys, on and on, all the PT Barnum and Snake Oil Salesmen have gone algorithm and Zuckerberg and Dell and Unit 8200/NSA on us.

Now, with Labor Day (fake) approaching and then the School Consumer Buy Buy Buy Addiction Week, and then leading into Diabetic Halloween, and then moving toward the sick vomit day of Turkey and Football National Day of Sorrow, and then toward the Xmas month, we are just never out of that loop, those deals, those brands, all those consumer reports, and all the sad faces over less sales, less retail action, we will just continue to feed the merchants of death selling the brand loyal Americans that China is bad, Russia is Nazi-Land and the other Axis of Evil is Ready for Immolation.

As the unipolar world drains, and that G7 Brand is now Dirty Underwear with HOLES:

Chinese President Xi Jinping defined all the major decisions embedded in the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa as “historic”. That may be seen as an understatement. It will take time for the Global South, or Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (copyright President Lukashenko), not to mention the stunned collective West, to fully grasp the enormity of the new strategic stakes.

President Putin, for his part, described the negotiations on BRICS expansion as quite difficult. By now a relatively accurate picture is emerging of what really went down on that table in Johannesburg.

India wanted 3 new members. China wanted as many as 10. A compromise was finally reached, with 6 members: Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Argentina and Ethiopia.

So from now on it’s BRICS 11. And that’s just the beginning. Starting with the rotating Russian presidency of BRICS on January 1, 2024, more partners will be progressively included, and most certainly a new round of full members will be announced at the BRICS 11 summit in Kazan in October next year. So we may soon progress to BRICS 20 – on the way to BRICS 40. The G7, for all practical purposes, is sliding towards oblivion. (Pepe Escobar)

Branded Loyalty — Kiev, Ukraine, the Gift that Keeps Sucking US Taxpayers. That giant sucking sound, recall? Ukraine, Pentagon, DoD, NSA, trillions a year to the CIA and other killers.

[Note the two cheating pieces of war crime criminals next to Perot, Clinton and Prescot Bush Jr. Oh, where oh where are the bats?]

Imagine? Soros and Company, 90 percent of Zionists in Israel, oh so many millions and millions of economic totalitarians and plain old thugs, batted to death. Turn the tables man on Homo Bellum and Homo Fluido Estupido.

The Canadian government has come under fire for allowing the slaughter of nearly 470,000 seals as part of the biggest marine animal hunt on the planet.

A thousand dead baby seals:

Imagine, a thousand dead politicians? Now that’s justice!

These Homo Retailopethicus, batting seals in the head:

[Imagine all those POTUS and SCOTUS and all those MIC and DoD, bats to their heads? Just a thought experiment, SS Substack.]

For fur and blubber, man:

Oh, the pelts are left there for days:

So, we are Brand Loyal, that dirty blue and yellow nazi flag:

Pieces of human stain. This is what my flagging social security does for a criminal and his legions of bigger torturers and murderers.

This one is only valued (sic) at 5 million American taxpayer dollars:

Egyptian political scientist Abdulrahman Alabbassy commented on the situation, saying it is “surprising” that Zelensky and his relatives spend fortunes on personal luxuries instead of using Ukraine’s riches for military and humanitarian purposes, considering the time of war. Alabbassy blames Ukrainian corruption for this kind of attitude and reminds how Kiev’s political system is controlled by egocentric officials who prioritize personal gain over care for their own people.

“I am surprised that relatives of top Ukrainian officials began to buy luxury real estate after the start of Ukraine war. I don’t remember anything like this before (…) It is surprising that Ukraine is waging a bloody war with Russia, and relatives of Ukrainian officials are buying up real estate in Egypt instead of donating their riches to the needs of the country. A suspicion is creeping in that Ukrainian bureaucrats, with the help of their relatives, are stealing financial aid to Ukraine from the West. I am quite certain that Zelenskyy’s mother-in–law’s purchase of a villa in El Gouna is the result of corruption and the theft of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. I sincerely sympathize with the Ukrainian people” he said.

Anything outside the dirty NaziLandia Coloring lines, anything that might question ZioAzovLensky, not brand loyal!

Fucking Brand Loyal: President of Moldova Maia Sandu greeting Ukrainians with the “Day of Ukrainian Flag” national holidays – showing Ukrainian flags upside down. And, Moldova is NOT a part of EU, European Union, but these brainwashed kids have those flags, too.

“If I achieve one thing with my time here on earth, I might be content if that one thing could be burning to the ground the practice of running focus groups in place of actual user research.” — Erika Hall, Co-founder, Mule Design

The old-school research model involved bringing an eclectic group of potential users into a room to unearth opinions, attitudes, and expectations about a product. But focus groups are a handicapped concept.

For one thing, as Steve Jobs would have attested to, people don’t really know what they want until they have it in their hands.

Ahh, sociopaths, CEOs and Madmen and Madwomen:

Oscar Wilde’s observation that “nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing,” Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system.

If part one asks how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to describe the world’s worth. If we don’t want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have discovered democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common.

This short, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics. While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn’t often said who gets to make them. The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society.

So what is Brand USA?

What Brand of Smear and Sweat Covering do you prefer?

You want Brand Bud Lite or Modelo?

You like Brand Levis?

You think you are not PROPAGANDIZED?

Ahh, Brand Loyal:

Crocodile Tears for the Uniformed Mercenaries, those Blood Lust SEALS or AC drone operators:

Creaming their panties, Brand Loyal:

That Brand Loyal Ecosystem:

Why you should care about the Military-Industrial-Media Complex By HELEN JOHNSON, April 15, 2021 in Opinions [This is the first article in a five-part series by Columnist Helen Johnson about the military-industrial-media complex.]