Capitalism vs proper health (Subliminal messages, Music as commerical ads and economical boneheads)

They say “music can move people” and it’s true, and sadly we abuse the true use of music. Instead of spreading love, we spread sadness, instead of using it to heal, we use it to hurt, instead of spreading a message of truth, we cloak commercials. The music industry has raped musicians and music as they turn sounds of art into carefully coded commercial messages, and the consumer becomes an economical bonehead. The record labels are controlled by the larger recording and distribution companies that are referred to as the big four. The big four are Sony BMG, EMI, Universal and Warner and they all consist of many smaller companies. The worlds music market is currently dominated by the big four groups, mainly because of their monopoly over the distribution section of the business because these companies not only have the money but they have the distribution contracts with music stores, radio stations and etc... This means that each and every one of your favorite musical artist that make it big minus the very few are all slaves to their distribution company. No one in the industry can say anything their distributors do not want them to say, despite what artist say to swallow their pride. Controversy sells and if you can’t realize that then you’ll always be a sucker. It doesn’t even matter if at first an artist sells themselves out and then tries to say what they feel, because it is not an artist talent that make the artist popular, it is the media and advertising, and as long as image is more important than a message to the superficial world artist can be broken down by the media in a heartbeat. Most singers or rappers do not even write their own lyric’s which is a sad fact, the entire industry has become so commercial that musicians are really nothing more than walking commercials placed to sell products other than music. Interscope records is an American record label owned by the Universal music group. Interscope was founded by Jimmy Lovine and Ted Field in 1990 by financial support from Atlantic records which owned 50% of stock in the label. The controversy that arose from death row and Interscope made time Warner shareholders nervous so in 1995 the company sold all of its stock in Interscope records to MCA music entertainment otherwise known as Universal Music Corporation, which might seem like a change if they all weren’t controlled by the same conglomerate. A conglomerate or mulit-industrial corporation is a company that buys and sells continuously many smaller companies of different businesses in different industries. Some multi industrial corporations own thousands of smaller companies. Universal is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. It is one of the big four labels and it belongs to the French Conglomerate Vivendi Sa, which is a French media company with many separate investments in different industries. Vivendi Sa is a 3-way merger between Vivendi, Canal and Seagram.
Sony BMG is a joint venture between Sony music entertainment and BMG entertainment also known as Bertelsmann. The merger was complete on august 5th 2004. Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Minato Tokyo. Masaru Ibuka founded the Sony Corporation in 1946 after World War Two. Former CBS president sir Howard Stringer is the CEO. Bertelsmann AG is a transnational media corporation founded in 1835 and is based in Gutersloh Germany and also operates in 63 other countries. Bertelsmann is not publically listed and is majority owned by the Bertelsmann foundation, which is a non-profit organization and a political think tank set up by the founding families’ Bertelsmann and Mohn. The remaining 23.1% of the corporation is owned by the Mohn family. In 2002 Bertelsmann admitted that they lied about their involvement with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, which included making huge profits from Jewish slave labor and publishing propaganda aimed at harming European Jews. The truth came to light during their take-over of the U.S book publishing company Random House in 1998. In July of 2005 Sony was fined 10 million dollars after the New York attorney general’s office determined that they had been practicing illegal payoffs mostly in the form of direct payments to radio stations and bribes to D.J’s. Epic records which is one of Sony’s labels was also accused of using fake contest in order to hid the fact that the gifts were going to D.J’s rather that listeners.
EMI or Electric and musical industries ltd was formed in March of 1931 from a merger between the UK Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company. The Gramophone Company was founded by William Barry Owen and his partner and investor Trevor Williams in 1897. The Warner music group is the only one of the big four companies that did not stem from the pre-1900s label’s Columbia records and Berlin gramophone. Both of those labels were British licensed and merged to become EMI in 1931, and then in 2004 the successors to the original labels merged to form Sony BMG. Universal music group’s oldest label was Deutsche Gramophone which was founded in 1898 as the German licensed gramophone. Warner music group became Time Warner and eventually sold its shares to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. whom was the vice chairman of Vivendi Universal. These people all connect and the goal is advertising and this is exactly what their aims for the music industry to be. It is not about selling CD’s it is about selling larger products worldwide. Sean John is a clothing line owned by Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy aka P Diddy aka Sean John.Sean John clothing line’s products are made in a sweat shop in Choloma Honduras. It is said that workers make 24 cents U.S per 50$ U.S Sean John sweat shirt. They supposedly work long hours, get fired for being pregnant and are harassed for trying to use the bathroom or get a drink of water according to a report released by the national labor committee in 2003. According to rumors the jobs are only open to women. Clothing lines such as Rocaware, Phatpharm, Nike and many others including Wal-Mart use these same techniques. Most people do not realize that the materials used to make shoes that cost 200$ are the same materials used to make shoes that cost much less. Also Sean John jackets were reported to be made with dog fur in 2006 but it was later determined to be fur from a raccoon dog and the jackets were taken off the market. So what do we do when American products go bad… we blame the Chinese and other Asian groups…and yet we speak not about “free-trade” and the corporations need to save, while they claim the savings are being passed on to us the consumer…so we allow this abuse to continue…and we are economical boneheads. To save a dollar, we kill a family and enslave a village…we the economical bonehead because we not only cause the legalized version of pillaging but we destroy our own clothing factories and cause loss of jobs within our own communities. When the few figure this out they are countered by a half fact that this system is creating employment for foreigners, however their daily pays are less than the average cost of living due to imperialism and the fact their resources and necessities are sold outside their nation for cheaper than it is offered to them. The diamond industry is also in major connection to the music business.
The name diamond derives from the ancient Greek word adamas meaning invincible. Popularity of diamonds only started rising in the 19th century although they have been around for millenniums, before that only Royalty would wear diamonds and before that it was merely a symbol for marriage as it was symbolic for lasting forever. 49% of diamonds originate from central and southern Africa, although other sources have been discovered in Canada, India, Russia, Brazil, and Australia. They are mined from kimberlite and lamproie volcanic pipes which brought to the surface the diamond crystals from deep in the earth where the pressure and temperature enabled the formation of the crystals. There are literally millions of diamonds underground. There have been many allegations that the DeBeers group diamond company misuses its dominance in the industry to control the supply and manipulate prices over the industry. Let’s see how true this is… The major diamond mining companies are: Aber, Alrosa, BHP Billiton, Camphor, DeBeers, Debswana, Endiama, mountain province diamonds, Namdeb, the Rio Tinto group, and Tehera diamonds. DeBeers also owns 20 different mining areas in Africa, minus a few that are controlled by revolutionary groups trying to take back their land and resources. DeBeers also owns 70% of the Northwest Territories snap lake diamond project, 100% owner of Ontario’s Victor diamond mining project, and 60% owner of the Northwest Territories Gahchu Kue diamond mining project. Alrosa and the Rio Tinto group are partners. Camphor, Debswana, Endiama, and mountain province diamonds are all partners to the larger DeBeers group. The Tahera diamond company has a marketing alliance with Tiffany and company as does the DeBeers group. The DeBeers group was founded in South Africa in 1888 and the DeBeers family of companies are known to be responsible for 40% of the world’s diamond production by value. The diamond trading company is a London based subsidiary of the DeBeers group that specialized in the sales and marketing of uncut diamonds. They also receive production from Alrosa in Russia. It’s also been speculated that DeBeers has held back the production of synthetic man made diamonds which are easily made, cost a fraction of the price and have the exact chemical compounds as a real diamond to the point it’s only detectable by a specific test that many jewelers are unaware of. So what is the “blood diamonds” conflict all about? It’s very simple, Africa is a conquered nation, much of the land belongs to private companies whom over charge the people on water, food, shelter and export their resources to North America and Europe for very cheap while charging much more inside their own country. Aids and other diseases have become like plagues to the people and education is unaffordable to many. Some of the people saw diamonds as a way to liberate themselves and saw DeBeers as the enemy. However sadly, most of the liberation movements quickly became rebels in a war against their own people. The rebels see other Africans as brainwashed by Christian Europe or under attack by African Muslims and believe their tactics even though harsh are for the better of their people, however their tactics often leave families torn apart and turn young boys into soldiers. Many might say this is African anger, but the facts are it’s the complete opposite. The rebel groups in Africa are puppets of DeBeers and American gangsters, as it is clear to see the influence American rap music has had on the rebel groups and how diamonds, which on the underground market is controlled by Israeli gangsters are bought from African rebel groups at 1/10th of the cost that DeBeers diamonds cost, which, if DeBeers members bought these conflict diamonds they would save money on labor fees for their workers at the mines. The money rebel groups make from the diamonds they use to buy weapons from gun runners whom receive most shipments from stock from the Cold War. Perhaps the rebels are also victims of the Cold War, since these groups are heavily out-numbered by the African union’s army it might not be far off to say that certain groups and governments do not want to see the fight end just yet. The only thing that rebels in Africa have at the moment to support them are conflict diamonds. Now these diamonds are considered illegal because they fund the rebel groups and because they are sold at a huge discount rate and the land occupied is considered to not belong to the rebels. Companies will try and say they are not the root to conflict diamonds but the math is very simple, as long as diamonds are in demand because of capitalism and inflation the price will be high and as long as the price of diamonds is high, conflict diamonds will exist because they can be sold at a cheaper rate. The history of DeBeers begins in South Africa in 1869 to 1871. Cecil Rhodes was a British born South African businessman and politician and is credited as founder of the DeBeers Company; he was also the man responsible for setting up the round table group a Masonic organization which was the mother organization to the RIIA now known as Chantam House and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The Rothschild family gave Rhodes the unlimited funding he needed to create a diamond empire. In 1997 when Baron Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild died, it was reported that he left a substantial amount of holdings of stocks in the DeBeers consolidated mines ltd. South Africa. Further proof of a relationship with the Rothschild family came from Rhodes death-will in 1888 where he left everything to Lord Rothschild, who died in 1902 keeping the fortune in the family. The diamond market is dominated by DeBeers companies which were originally formed in South Africa by British owners. DeBeers now owns about 70% of diamond mines in Africa. The DeBeers “family of companies” collectively is responsible for around 40% of world diamond production by value, and control the entire distribution of diamonds. The name of the company DeBeers comes from two brothers that bought the land from the government in 1860 and 11 years later when the diamond rush began sold it to Dunell Ebden and company for six times more than the amount they paid.