tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post8138301188671047017..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: The Global War On ALL 'Unhealthy' PackagingDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-11521343851240320782013-01-14T21:45:12.991+00:002013-01-14T21:45:12.991+00:00I used the descriptor 'Socialist' because ...I used the descriptor 'Socialist' because that is what the Nazi Party called itself. <br /><br />National Socialist German Workers' Party<br /><br /><i>Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei</i><br /><br /><br />As for the precise definition of 'Socialist', well that's rather a question of semantics as moonrakin says. I'm really not a political animal, but I see it as being very subjective and open to interpretation, and I really don't think socialism can be defined in terms of 'Left' or 'Right'. It is a system that can operate successfully only by means of suppression and oppression, and though collectivist in theory in practice throws up the usual tyrants who want to bend all to their will. Whether those tyrants lean to the political Left or the political Right is irrelevant. They still operate a socialist tyranny.nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-48188820810224808912013-01-14T19:02:08.550+00:002013-01-14T19:02:08.550+00:00Yes, it's real. Or real in the sense that it w...Yes, it's real. Or real in the sense that it was produced by a very famous public health prohibitionist as part of a slideshow on how great banning things is. (<a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CC4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftobacco.health.usyd.edu.au%2Fassets%2FSlideshow-Movies%2FPlain-Packs-Sydney-Institute.ppt&ei=PQZaUNKsHsWV0QXw-4DgBg&usg=AFQjCNHXXeF4ThklSojl_4xAQKDDHu_imA" rel="nofollow">see pps file here</a>)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-87922243315048668142013-01-14T18:57:45.345+00:002013-01-14T18:57:45.345+00:00s'funny - If Adolf was around to argue the tos...s'funny - If Adolf was around to argue the toss - it's clear he would still use the S word. <br /><br />One can contrast and compare theoretical Socialism with it's practical implementation and disappear up one's own (Marxist) rear end into a very dark place. The simple truth is that doctrinaire ideologies rigidly enforced fail time and time again because usually they do not address reality in a world full of doubt,uncertainty and the occasional natural disaster. Money and influence seeking folk from the "left" or the "right" or "reds" and "greens" do use/say anything that comes to hand to coerce the masses. <br /><br />Zealotry and power craziness is beyond reason and aberrant behaviour that humans are prone to - and political labels are simply redundant and to a certain extent pointless.<br /><br /><br />Four legs good, two legs bad.<br /><br /> .moonrakinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-78898183649956829452013-01-14T16:33:46.456+00:002013-01-14T16:33:46.456+00:00I am sooo tired of centre right commentators calli...I am sooo tired of centre right commentators calling Hitler a socialist. I have a lot of respect for your stance in a number of areas and for the research you do before you comment, so why oh why can you not educate yourself on this one point. You have the perfect right to decry socialism if you so chose, but please aim at the right targets. Hitler was right wing, not left wing. You can have right and left wing arseholes you don't need to co-opt right wing arseholes to make your displeasure with the left wing variety felt.sillyusernamenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-51316403617459731212013-01-14T15:12:51.607+00:002013-01-14T15:12:51.607+00:00Okay, here's the thing about the picture: yes,...Okay, here's the thing about the picture: yes, given <em>that</em> choice, most kids would pick the colourful pack. But if white packs with plain lettering are all there is, they'll take them with equal enthusiasm. They have chocolate inside, and, as Rob says above, that's all kids care about.<br /><br />Oh, and by the way: chocolate itself is <em>brown</em>, without any pictures of frogs on, yet somehow children go nuts for it. Go fig.<br /><br /><br /><br />nisakiman: <em>“What the fuck business is it of any government anywhere to focus on other people's lifestyles? Who gave them that right?”</em><br /><br /><br />Just what I've been saying all along. Somehow the concept of Public Health - protecting people from dangers they can't avoid otherwise - has been conflated with “the health of the public”, turning the Government into a sort of Big National Parent; something Mussolini would have understood perfectly.Sam Duncannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-79572004423887999042013-01-14T12:06:36.719+00:002013-01-14T12:06:36.719+00:00Life style is now a disease in the eyes of the ins...Life style is now a disease in the eyes of the insane. Soon they will drop the word "style".Geonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-69903839980764356742013-01-14T11:24:57.050+00:002013-01-14T11:24:57.050+00:00Evil corporations could package sprouts any way th...Evil corporations could package sprouts any way they wished and kids still wouldn't go near them. Kids like sweets because they are sweets, it has fuck all to do with packaging.<br /><br />They just have an extraordinary contempt for people.Robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-32509050744139490922013-01-14T11:04:55.719+00:002013-01-14T11:04:55.719+00:00Is that picture real? If so, it's a massive ow...Is that picture real? If so, it's a massive own goal because I don't know ANY parent who wants that except for public health nutters who only feed their kids mung beans anyway. It's just so... creepy.<br />Also I'm concerned about "In the aftermath of the 2011 UN Political Declaration on Non-Communicable Diseases, governments across the world are increasingly focusing their regulatory efforts on lifestyle risk factors, such as tobacco consumption, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity."<br />- How do they plan on "legislating" lack of physical activity? Are there going to be mandatory fitness people must attend every day. It sounds ridiculous but there's no way that ISN'T something these fiends would approve of if they could get away with it.V Halehttp://twitter.com/virgehallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-34620825597688547192013-01-14T10:06:34.783+00:002013-01-14T10:06:34.783+00:00I always think that when they talk about plain pac...I always think that when they talk about plain packaging for products that kill, why they ignore the plain packaging issue around illegal drugs. That doesn't seem to stop them being bought and used.<br /><br />But then they'll probably say "they are illegal so you can't compare them and we are only doing it to legal products in a legal manner". Totally ignoring that both are in sold in the open market and so you can compare. Markets only care about illegality when it comes to pricing.SadButMadLadhttp://sadbutmadlad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-59842461145961417962013-01-13T23:50:57.498+00:002013-01-13T23:50:57.498+00:00Looks like their might be a new market for those s...Looks like their might be a new market for those stickers. Maybe a new patent?George Spellerhttp://www.facebook.com/people/George-Speller/1046658695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-23660783079262607772013-01-13T22:49:38.122+00:002013-01-13T22:49:38.122+00:00True. Corporatism at its most evil.True. Corporatism at its most evil.Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-36521781825906078172013-01-13T22:48:12.963+00:002013-01-13T22:48:12.963+00:00What tinfoil hat?
“When an opponent declares, &qu...What <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/when_an_opponent_declares--i_will_not_come_over/338082.html" rel="nofollow">tinfoil hat</a>?<br /><br />“When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-62622792636415925342013-01-13T21:55:42.296+00:002013-01-13T21:55:42.296+00:00If it was genuinely unhealthy products I would hav...If it was genuinely unhealthy products I would have less cause for anger, but in reality this is directed at small manufacturers and innovators and designed to protect those inside the cosy elite/big pharma/big business world.woodsy42noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-54646428535307073062013-01-13T21:24:57.671+00:002013-01-13T21:24:57.671+00:00When I read this sort of shit, I find myself getti...When I read this sort of shit, I find myself getting almost breathless with disbelief of the arrogance of these people.<br /><br /><i>...governments across the world are increasingly focusing their regulatory efforts on lifestyle risk factors...</i><br /><br /><br />What the fuck business is it of <b>any</b> government <b>anywhere</b> to focus on other people's lifestyles? Who gave them that right? Not me, not you, not anybody I know.<br /><br /><br />Hopefully where I live will remain an oasis of sanity in this rush to totalitarianism, at least while I'm alive; but I do worry for my children and grandchildren, trapped in the political and politically correct wasteland that is today's UK. <br /><br /><br />Truly, the socialist superstate that Hitler failed to create in the 30s is now beckoning. The incubation period is over. The generation that remembers the horror is nearly gone, and the latest intake are being programmed by the state to think the 'right' way. The master plan can be safely resumed in an overt manner.<br /><br /><br /><br />Where's my tinfoil hat....?nisakimannoreply@blogger.com