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Fascinating graphics show who owns all the major brands in the world

Fascinating graphics show who owns all the major brands in the world
But who owns generic foodstuffs? Interestingly enough, Trader Joe's isn't as much of an island as it positions itself to be…It's owned by the same people who own ALbrecht DIscount, but they're otherwise pretty much completely autonomous. Hippies rejoice—Big corporation owns your pantry, too! Expand

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Western liberalism is no match for the Islamic Game of Thrones As a graduate student in the Harvard Government Department in the late 1980s, I became slightly jaded about the number of visiting professors who warned about the imminent demise of the West. The thrust of their arguments was nearly always the same. The secular liberal values we cherish, such as freedom of speech and the separation of church and state, won’t survive in the face of growing, religious disenchantment with modernity unless they’re rooted in something more meaningful than rational individualism.

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Eight Books Every Spiritual Seeker Should Read “You want weapons? Go to a library. Books are the best weapons in the world.” ~ Doctor Who Experience Vaults: Nutmeg - It Got Me Surprisingly Stoned! - 7905 Citation: Psychonaut. "It Got Me Surprisingly Stoned!: An Experience with Nutmeg (ID 7905)". Erowid.org. Oct 4, 2003. erowid.org/exp/7905

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