666 by 222 is 3 is the Magic Number

From the use of child labor/slavery to hooking Third World babies on powdered infant formula by doling out free samples, the sales reps dressed in nurse's uniforms, then starting to charge prices the women couldn't pay when their breast milk dried up, Nestlé might arguably one of the world's most evil corporations.

Here's a summary of 5 shitty things Nestlé has done over the years.

And here you have proof.  Buy two get one free, for 6.66 euros.  I think that's all we need to demonstrate that Nestlé is, in fact, a servant of Satan....

Truthiness

In Logo Veritas

In my new job I noticed a certificate which attests that my employer is ISO compliant.  I was struck by this little cartouche, filled with stylized forms like so many hieroglyphs:  a torch, a mirror, scales, a ship, the caduceus, a cock, a nekkid woman....

Long-time readers will recognize that almost every symbol in this logo has been covered by LoS at some time or another.  Here's the Bureau Veritas description: 

Bureau Veritas was established in 1828 “to seek out the truth and tell it without fear or favor.” The allegorical figure of Truth, represented by a woman emerging from a well, was chosen as the logo.

The Bureau Veritas emblem shows a young woman seated on the edge of a well with her arms raised. In her right hand is a torch, in her left a mirror. Her left foot rests on a globe.

On the ground are a pair of scales, Mercury’s wand (a caduceus), and a rooster with its eyes raised towards the woman. The horizon shows a three-masted vessel, sails billowing, passing across a bay.

They've got a nifty lil' flash animation to illustrate.

Amateur symbologists and Illuminist killers are likely to blow a nut over this one.  Lucifer clearly has had his filthy paws all over it.  I likes it, me.  We've already discussed the mirror as symbol of truth in Debia's allegorical painting L'Arbre de la Liberté.  A woman with a hand mirror, Venus, is evoked in the title of another post, yet for some reason we never actually discuss the mirror!  Incidentally, that post continues to be one of the top three (ususally second but currently fourth) posts on LoS by number of views.  The title stems from the belief that the Venus symbol, the symbol of Woman (♀) represents a hand mirror.  Whether when associated with Venus the miror represents an appreciation of beauty and/or healthy self-love, vanity and narcissism, or truth, is question whose answer eludes me.  But the mirror doesn't lie and the answers we find there may be unsettling.  Unless you're an ageless goddess, eternal and erotic.  Or ISO compliant.  Could the woman with the hand mirror represent Venus, whose eponymous plant was called in it's dawn aspect Lucifer, the light-bringer.  Light of course representing....Truth?  And you thought that Luciferian Illuminati talk was just me being glib (I was). 

Formed in June 1828 in Antwerp by underwriters Alexandre Delehaye and Louis van den Broek, and insurance broker, Auguste Morel, the Bureau Veritas name was adopted in 1829. This included the adoption of the figure of Truth logo designed by Achille Deveria.

Déveria's portfolio, by the way, contained a heavy swath of erotic engravings and watercolers.  An acolyte of venus, perhaps.

I'd like to see the unmodified original logo if anyone digs up a copy.  As it says above, it pictured a naked woman climbing out of a well.  They don't make logos like they used to!

Compare it, if you will, to the "macaron" of the BIPM.:scantily clad woman, Mercury's caudceus, globe.  Cool stuff....

Because none of this ever happened....

The History of Maine Labor, Panels 1-3 by Judy Taylor.

In the last post or two we've talked about the power of public art and the passions it arouses....and mentioned in passing the destruction of said art by political opponents.  There was one off-the-cuff mention of the Caesars and Pharaohs who effaced the names of their predecessors or vanquished rivals from public monuments.

These are the first three panels of Judy Taylor's "The History of Main Labor", an 11-panel mural that until recently hung in the Maine Dept. of Labor building.  (See the rest here).

Governor Paul Lepage ordered it removed, citing complaints from business owners that it was too "pro-union" and that it was “not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals.”  As Gid said in a comment, perhaps they should change the name of their department. (NYT).

Because child labor, unsafe working conditions, 14-hour days, 6 days a week, being paid in company scrip to be spent in company stores charging exorbitant prices for the material and equipment workers needed for their jobs, using the Pinkertons to murder protesting laborers en masse, trumped up charges and the current reality that 25% of the nation's wealth is controlled by less than 1% of the population....never happened, it isn't real, don't look at the man behind the curtain, obey, drink tea, refuse to pay taxes and cut everything, gut the schools, privatize the fire departments, the prisons, the police.  Fuck the poor, take their homes and then harass the homeless, or better yet, kill them.  Just don't let them assemble peaceably for the purpose of protecting their interests.  Evil unions.  How dare they demand a piece of the pie they baked?  How dare they act upon the 1st Amendment?  Spoiled bitches, they make too much money already.  Our executive bonuses are so meager by comparison....

And certainly don't let them celebrate their victories or remind you of what the US is working its way back to.  Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1899.  Somebody call Xe.  They've gotten a lot of practice recently in security operations under combat conditions....and they don't answer to that silly thing called the Constitution.

Excellent.

Washington: First in War, Peace -- and Accounting

This article by Joel Achenbach in the Oct. 12 edition of The Washington Post is an interesting read and fits nicely with our ongoing look at the rise of capitalism, the tessellation of the plane and Enlightenment revolutionary doctrines. The most pertinent passage is quoted below:

As thoroughly researched as the life of Washington has been, his career as a warrior and statesman has largely overshadowed his entrepreneurial history. He was the CEO, in effect, of a farming, manufacturing and real estate operation that by the end of his life encompassed more than 50,000 acres of field and forest. Farms, fisheries, weavers, smithies, a grist mill, a distillery -- these were just part of the Washington empire.

Washington came of age as a backcountry surveyor of relatively modest means. His business sensibilities, innovative thinking and willingness to take chances are all part and parcel of his evolution as a revolutionary.

By the end of his life, Washington was one of the richest men in the nation he had helped create. But he knew the frustrations of doing business in a land that lacked banks, roads and industry, where there was little capital, and where he had to depend on transatlantic commerce using information moving at the speed of a sailing ship. Washington was so cash-strapped in 1789 that he had to borrow money from a neighbor in order to travel to his presidential inauguration.