5 monopolies, secretly control the world

1. All sunglasses makes Luxottica h2> Remember the time when you first saw "The Matrix" and went to the store for sunglasses and raincoat?

There was plenty of points for the various brands, and really was plenty to choose from: Oakley, Ray-Ban, Revo, Vogue, DKNY. And if you want only the best, you were there, and designer sunglasses for $ 500 from Prada and BVLGARI.





But the fact is that all of these points makes one manufacturer - Luxottica. Initially, it was a tiny Italian company, which produced points, but then she got sick with fever 80 and began buying every company somehow associated with glasses, plus bought a lot of designers, allowing each of them to create their own line of sunglasses.

But you at least have the opportunity to choose between shopping, right? You can not go into LensCrafters, but instead go to Pearle Vision. Or maybe you want to visit Sears. This is nothing unusual, except that they also owned by Luxottica.

Just for the sake of argument, let's assume that you - not sighted botanist and therefore safely pass by all the above stores and you go straight to the Sunglass Hut. You guessed? It is true: Luxottica.

That is why they so easily can get you to buy two pieces of plastic with handle: because a large part of their "competitors" is actually not competing with them. They are literally everywhere. And yet, this means that if someone came up to mind-control chip, they could put it in the points and to enslave the whole world in a matter of months.

2. All cat food makes the company Menu Foods h2> If you - a cat or a dog, you probably remember how in 2007 animal feed began to withdraw from the market due to contamination with melamine. For a while it seemed that the sound is not just brands. How could so many brands (there were about 150) to be toxic?

The reason is that most of these feeds produces the same company. If you buy a wet pet food companies to Eukanuba, Iams, Nutro, Hy-Vee, Triumph or Priority, you are, in fact, get food, released at the same factory.





All of the above brand of feed produces one Canadian company - Menu Foods. They simply molded to the different food labels, because they know that you like the illusion of choice.

To make matters worse, Menu Foods and similar companies such as Purina, get one particular component of their feed (wheat gluten) from the same place - from a tiny Nevada company called ChemNutra. Neighbors call them a white man and his wife is Chinese.

One day, the couple ordered from China 800 tons of suspiciously cheap wheat gluten and sold it to almost all producers of feed, which you've ever heard. They did not bother to check to see whether that was gluten toxic, believing that know about it at the moment when it became known that some of their cat ate the food and died. Or a few hundred cats.

That's right, "importers" negligent relating to his duties, managed to put the poison pet food in almost every American supermarket.

But do not worry, you will not hear about Menu Foods, because they bought another manufacturer of feed - Simmons Pet Food.

And what ChemNutra? They have not been put in jail, but just pay a fine of $ 35 000, changed the name to the EOS Direct and continue to import various food ingredients, among which there are things that are part of energy drinks.

3. When you eat the corn you eat Monsanto h2> Corn is now everywhere. Experienced users know that not everything boils down to the usual cobs. The corn syrup is in almost every candy in every bottle of soda, and it is addictive as cocaine.

And remember Febreze - hand sanitizer? Or ethanol to fuel cars? All this is also corn. Make rubber tires? Then you need cornstarch. Spark plug? Corn. Drywall? Corn. Without corn, you can not build a house or a car.





The biotech company Monsanto - the king of US corn. They built their empire on two rather boring things: on the seeds and herbicides.

Weed killer Roundup - is the largest in terms of sales of the herbicide in the world. A seed produced by the company, are not susceptible to Roundub. So if you want to grow corn and is guaranteed to get rid of weeds, injuring her from Monsanto for you to have the best product of all on the market.

This is why 80% of corn, which are put in the USA, supplied by Monsanto.

But the plants themselves can produce seeds, so that farmers do not need to buy seeds every year from Monsanto, is not it?

No not like this. The company is not going to so easily lose their profits. Their plan was to use the gene, known as "The Terminator" (which can be translated as "well let's just stop pretending that we - not evil"), which sterilizes the plant so that it can not produce seeds. As a result, the farmers have to buy seeds every year. So the next time you're agonizing choice between Coke and Pepsi (or between Firestone or Goodyear), know this: Whatever option you choose, you will buy Monsanto.

4. It does not matter whether you use a Mac or a PC - it's probably, Quanta ​​h2> Start any dispute species «Mac vs. PC» and sooner or later someone will state that as "components Mas highest quality", the choice between them MS equivalent to a choice between the Porsche and Camry.

Of course, Apple likes to support such a view. They like to emphasize that the PC is collected on the dirty factories, while their phones are collected in gleaming white laboratory.

But both the notebook, which goes a dispute, it can be made in Taiwan, and besides, it is likely that they made the same company.





Taiwan's Quanta Computer manufactures 33% of laptops in the world, the brand is Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba and yes - Apple.

If you are reading this article with a laptop, that is 90 percent chance that he was made one of the seven largest companies, of which you have never heard of, and all of which are in Taiwan. None of the known brands of computers actually produces.

5. InBev: beer empire h2> If you love to travel, you've probably heard how people make fun of American beer. Canadian, for example, will make fun of Budweiser, Michelob and Natural Light, sipping Labatt polite with a sense of superiority. Beer snobs of the more cultured countries can point you to the excellent quality of Belgian beers, such as Leffe and Hoegaarden, before you start making fun of American beer.





You have probably guessed that any brand of beer you've ever bought in the store, most likely was produced beer empire InBev.

These brands include Stella Artois, Alexander Keith's, Bass, Beck's, Boddington's, Lowenbrau, Rolling Rock, St. Pauli Girl and Spaten. And it is only those brands that InBev owns directly. And yet they have controlling stakes in companies such as Grupo Modelo, which produces most of the brands of beer in Mexico, - Corona, Modelo and Pacifico.

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