An essential 50-minute documentary by the dutch Marije Meerman for those not privy to the extent of the Israeli Lobby’s influence on the world. Surprisingly, it can be watched on the co-jewish-founded Google’s Video service. Though US-centric, the documentary pertains to Australian politicans who are following on the coat tails of the lobby such as Julia Gillard.

Kraft - the American owners of Australia’s most recognisable food product; Vegemite - have created a combination of their two best-selling spreads (cheese and Vegemite) and opened the naming of the product to a public competition and the entrant chosen suggested the name “iSnack2.0″. The name has offended Australians grossly due to the importance of its forebear whose image’s now been tarnished. The name is a play on popular American culture: Apple products feature a lower-case I preceding their names and “2.0″ (with the 0 being pronounced “oh”) is an American practice of pronouncing numbers as if they weren’t whole.

One reporter even believed that it might have been a ruse to stir up publicity:

“not even the poorest product manager, or most dim-witted executive could have possibly thought that “iSnack 2.0″ was actually a good name for a product. In Fact, it is quite possibly the worst name they could have picked. I think they did it on purpose.”

(Boycott Kraft and Vegemite for Marmite, not the now-American Promite)

The complaints follow:
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