With the vast fortunes spent by large multinationals on PR "think tanks", benevolent sounding "foundations" and advertising spin doctors (with the express purpose of sanitizing their projects/products) it's little wonder we find ourselves out in the wilderness regarding who can be trusted. At the level of lobbied multinational interests public sentiment is critical for political potency. Too much outrage can sabotage the slickest corporate outfit. Consent must be manufactured at all costs.
Don't fall for 'sustainability'.
With this in mind I would like to suggest a method that may be useful. Use this (admittedly) cynical translator, which aims to translate corporate lingo and catchphrases into plain English but assuming the worst. This provides a scale of two extremes. Look at the stated goal VS my worst case translated scenario, then look at the organisation in question and decide for yourself where their interests lie, and somewhere in between you will likely get a sense of where they are truly pitched.
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Translation: Centralized banks, IMF, World Bank, Fed to control all finances, digital one world currency that is BANK controlled rather than Cryptocurrency, in a cashless society, using Hashgraph instead of Blockchain.
Feed the world
Translation: Control the worlds food supply.
Efficient agriculture, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable farming.
Translation: GMO
Secure Society
Translation: Prison Planet
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Translation: Mass vaccination of proven or unproven products, big pharma lobby and pvt medi care, Codex Alimentarius
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Translation: UN propaganda, brainwashing through compulsory education from cradle to grave.
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Translation: Privatize all water sources, don’t forget to add fluoride
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Translation: Smart grid with smart meters on everything, peak pricing
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Translation: TPP, NAFTA, free trade zones that favor mega-corporate interests and franchise operations over entrpreneurs, McJobs over careers.
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Translation: Toll roads, push public transit, remove free travel, environmental restrictions
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Translation: Even more regional government bureaucracy like a mutant octopus
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Translation: Big brother big data surveillance state
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Translation: Forced austerity
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
Translation: Cap and Trade, carbon taxes/credits, footprint taxes (aka Al Gore’s wet dream)
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Translation: Environmental restrictions, control all oceans including mineral rights from ocean floors
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Translation: More environmental restrictions, more controlling resources and mineral rights
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Translation: UN “peacekeeping” missions, the International Court of (blind) Justice, force people together via fake refugee crises and then mediate with more “UN peacekeeping” when tension breaks out to gain more control over a region, remove 2nd Amendment in USA
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Translation: Remove national sovereignty worldwide, promote globalism under the “authority” and bloated, Orwellian bureaucracy of the UN
Don't let the failure of NAFTA be extended globally.
