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Foray into US Culture: Recycling ... and Marketing Recycling (p2) (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Susan Galleymore)
NO BRUSHOFFI am wandering the aisles in Trader Joe's seeking hummus and figs and European Bread and Greek yogurt...when I remember my sore gums and head for the small shelf selling 'personal products'. Now, clearly, someone as sensitive to messaging as I am must apply some sort of scale to judge Promo-speak for the moments I fall prey to the cultural imperative to shop 'til I drop. My scale ranges from soft-core=benign but present, to hard-core= subterfuge, outright lying, distortion of facts. Happily, I find TJ's toothbrush Promo-speak is soft-core...probably because TJ's carries only one line of toothbrush - and that line promotes recycling. This means it comes with a built-in pious-o-meter: I recycle therefore I am (good, brave, trendy, forward thinking, beautiful, smart, liberal, _________ [fill in the blank]).Moreover, not only is there no toothbrush brand competition, TJ's line is politically correct, environmentally friendly, and ...Made with love &RECYCLEDyogurt cupsWhile it sells for close to $3 - more than double my ideal toothbrush 'spend', and given the givens (my lack of enthusiasm for shopping; that I am already shopping; the symmetry of purchasing yogurt in a yogurt cup and a toothbrush made from recycled yogurt cups, not to mention a 'dentist designed grip' ) - I purchase one.It is green - as shown on the packaging, above, and the promo goes like this (from the front -image on the left - to the back - image on the right): [front] 100% RECYCLED HANDLEMADE IN USAFIVE GREAT COLORSgimme5 [logo] makes itrewardingto recycle [back] Smile BrightlyTiered bristles and dentist designed grip for cleaner teeth.Mail Back Pack makes recycling easy.gimme5 is our recycling communityWe turn your used #5 plastic productsand packing into new products.Recycle two just like this: [illustration of two spooning toothbrushes] [How to recycle your toothbrush] 1. Enter your rewards code at mygimme5.com [the code in the small grey box] 2. When you're ready to recycle, print the postage paid label and tape it to this package.3. Get surprises like a Preserve food storage container.ATTACH POSTAGE PAID LABEL HERELaunch a BottleshipGive your recycling a boostSend back 6 in a plastic bottleVisit mygimme5.com to learn more. [ editorial comment: See, this is why marketing is fun...the folks thinking up this gimmick had a good laugh at the Launch a Bottleship pun-of-sorts, and fun in the workplace keeps workers content and coming back for more. Does the top recycler gets a Bottleship named after her/himself? S/he should.] Nit pickin' Nit pick 1: Packaging explains that 'gimme5 is our recycling community' and urges the new user to 'Enter your rewards code at mygimme5.com'. Linking to gimme5.com, however, lands the user on a site that is not gimme5.com. Rather, gimme5.com calls up a bland page that suggests a domain name squatter owns 'gimme5.com' (and may be experimenting with 'recycling' of her/his own: recycling dollars from gimme5.com's pocket into the pocket of the farsighted person who registered the domain name first and will happily squat on it for as long it it takes). Nit pick 2: The route to gimme5.com's website is circuitous. 1) the user keys in 'mygimme5.com' but lands on Preserve's gimme5 program: 'good deeds yield many great returns'. Nit pick 3: gimme5.com displays the de rigeur happy, wholesome, and healthy blond all-'merikan gal wearing a t-shirt and recycling logo. Nit pick 4: Clicking on any link on the mygimme5.com page lands the user onto preserveproducts.com: 'Nothing wasted. Everything gained.' Yet Preserve products does not recycle. Nit pick 5: In order to fulfill the promise inherent in my toothbrush I must:1) join mygimme5.com - or at least enter my rewards code, share my contact info, and be open to receiving more promo material2) hold onto my toothbrush packaging so that I can mail in this toothbrush and the next one ('Recycle two just like this')3: not only hold on to 2 toothbrushes to mail but, if I want to reap the reward of launching a Bottleship I must hold on to 6 more used toothbrushes and a plastic bottle to mail. Oh, the tangled (world wide) web we weave....Despite my Nit pickin', I do appreciate that happy, wholesome, healthy, and blond all-'merikan youth still have the entrepreneurial spirit...and that this business model builds in the ability to hold-your-head-up-high (by buying and recycling as opposed to the hang-your-head-in-shame-if-you-understand-the-business-model of traditional corporations like Chevron, etc). Recycling businesses allow entrepreneurs to generate profit from scratching at small corners of the overwhelming pile of plastic trash drowning our planet.Good on ya, kids. 
Forays into US Culture (2 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Susan Galleymore)
Short trips into the complex and amusing, though usually trivial, unconscious, and deeply confusing aspects of American popular culture. 
ForclosureGate (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Michael Collins)
Outcome of the scam that stole trillions from tens of millions. The big banks want everything and they're taking it. 
Fossil Fuel Fables and Foibles (7 articles.) (# of views) (Created by b. sadie bailey)
The Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Industries will do, and kill, anything for profit. Although seemingly separate, their motives and tactics overlap. They make empty promises of jobs, environmental stewardship, economic boom, and 'mitigation,' while fouling our waters and destroying our boreal forests. They don't restore or even clean up the disasters they create. Non-human life suffers and dies because of greed and corruption. People are waking up, but time is short. Educating ourselves and others is the beginning. Acting to stop the insidious rape of the planet, produce and use clean energy, conserve our lands and waters, and control population will be paramount if life on earth is to survive.  
Frans de Waal Interview; Primate Evolution of Morals, Fairness, Kindness (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rob Kall)
FRAUD & Mendacity. (514 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Susan Lee Schwartz)
Outright FRAUD & lying needs it s own space now that Trump is in town.
Free Airdrop Alert (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Upcoming Airdrops)
Free Airdrop TokenFree Airdrop ICOFree Airdrop CoinsFree Airdrop Alert
Free ICO Listing Website (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Free ICO Listing Website)
Icogeeker is the Free ICO Listing Site, we are the Best Free ICO listing Provider in the world of crypto. 
Free Trade or Fair Trade (2 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Edward Campbell)
Discussion of traditional trade activities and policies in distribution of wealth, products and ideas in the United States from Colonization to present.  
Freedom songs vs British Colonialism (6 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Monish Chatterjee)
Bengal's authors, poets and itinerant musicians and composers created an impressive body of inspiring 'Freedom Songs' during the first 4 decades of the 20th century as the momentum to oust the British colonial occupiers built momentum. I will explore some of these songs (by a number of the more leading names) in this series.    
Gaming the System (2 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Richmond Shreve)
Essays on Civic Responsibility, Global Stewardship, and Enlightened Self-interest.
Gender Equality is Essential to our Survival as a Species (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by John Coombes)
For too long our species has been dominated by male dominated short term thinking. We have now reached a crossroads where if this short term attitude is continued it will take us to our own self-destruction. Gender equality is no longer the political football it has been for centuries but a matter of life and death. It was Albert Einstein who said 'The thinking that created the problem is quite incapable of solving it' and nothing is truer about the challenges we now face in this 21st century 
General Reviews (1 articles.) (# of views) (Created by John Hawkins)
where I put reviews of mags, blogs, etc.   
Gerald Friedman, Bernie Sanders' Single Payer Healthcare Consultant, Debunks Attackers (3 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rob Kall)
getnetabebe (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by getnet abebe)
getnetabebe is good wish for equality in history in future .getnetabebe was born in small town in mola, ethiopia .now i am learn in addis ababa ,journalism and communication.i have great hope in future,to make Ethiopia democracy.i am parent less,and i am pass alot of challenge.personally,i like white but i see equal with black people.life for me teach alot,leave and learn in ethiopia is very challenge. 
Glenn Kirschner Justice Matters (4 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Meryl Ann Butler)
Glenn Kirschner Justice Matters 
Global Smart Meters Roll-Out And Serfdom Of Humanity (1 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Mario Dufour)
Part 1 : Smart Meters and Wolve's Sheep Pen Part 2 : Smart Meter's Me$h NetworkPart 3 : Hydro-Quebec's Famous Partner In Crime OR When Condoleza Rice Gives A Sniff At Your Panties!
Globalism/Agenda 21 and Related (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Rima E Laibow MD)
Globalism is a process in which economic, social, legal, health and military systems are brought under a single controlling agency, often the United Nations and its component agencies. The policies and intentions of the process of Globalism include sharp reduction of the global population and limitation of personal options, choices, movement and property ownership. The tools of globalism are, fundamentally, totally antithetical to personal liberty, health or freedom and must be halted, reversed and eliminated while there is still time and opportunity to do so. Recommended sites: www.TRUTHAboutAgenda21.com, www.DrRimaTruthReports.com, www.GDS-Therapy.com  Page 13 of 37 (Next 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 ) 361 to 390 of 1097 series |
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