1. The gesture of identification
2. The smile of satisfaction
3. Establishing eye contact - a proof of sincerity.
4. Identifying through medium some logical link between personality and product -
THIS CAN BE VERY FLIMSY INDEED

I think it could be argued that because celebrities have made 'global product'. Because they have helped define what corporations have allowed to be pushed on the world as values of 'freedom & democracy', they then become eligible to be the poster childs of 'progressive' 'radical' activism.

How many times have you seen a celebrity endorse a product and wondered:

"...they can't be doing it for the money, these dudes must be loaded..."

In order to get considered for a new job, celebrities need a C.V that shows they have supported the corporation. The cartel. When they have done this they are allowed to engage in their philanthropic whims as a steered limited activity.

Imagine what is is like for those starting their 'Career'.

It is no different for citizens wishing to gain access to specific lifestyles.

The cartel infiltrates, steers and eventually buys out promising cultural output. It then promotes these 'lifestyle choices, in order to enslave the population into a system which can moderate all dissenting behavior.

"Never bite the hand that feeds you."

Anyone who criticizes the inner workings of any one of the of the cartels octupus- like tentacles is labelled a whistleblower, a troublemaker, a dissident and finally a terrorist. They find themselves isolated & marginalised for wanting to see such things as diversity, accountability, safety and ethics.

Should we really be stopping celebrities from wanting to have a political say?

or should we be striving to expose this Cartel, which rules on a 'bribery for access' mechanism which permeates throughout the whole of 'society' so that we might ALL be able to criticize, to examine, to reverse engineer the polemics of our situations.

For it is these precepts which are a fundamental for any democratic political thought/expression/process.

BBC indoctrinates them while their young

He regrets gay labeling, but not stand against desegregation

The Associated Press - June 9, 2005 RALEIGH, N.C. - In his upcoming memoir, former Sen. Jesse Helms acknowledges he was wrong about the AIDS epidemic but believes integration was forced before its time by "outside agitators who had their own agendas."

"Here’s Where I Stand," to be published in September by Random House, contains Helms’ first extended comments on national affairs since the Republican retired from the Senate in 2003 after five terms. Advance proofs were described in Thursday’s editions of The News & Observer of Raleigh. Helms, 83, was one of the state’s leading voices of segregation as a TV commentator in Raleigh in the 1960s and opposed nearly every civil rights bill while in the Senate. He has never retracted his views on race or said segregation was wrong.

In the book, Helms suggests he believed voluntary racial integration would come about without pressure from the federal government or from civil rights protests that he said sharpened racial antagonisms.

"We will never know how integration might have been achieved in neighborhoods across our land, because the opportunity was snatched away by outside agitators who had their own agendas to advance," according to the uncorrected proof. "We certainly do know the price paid by the stirring of hatred, the encouragement of violence, the suspicion and distrust."

Helms also was an outspoken opponent of laws to protect homosexuals from discrimination and of funding for AIDS research, but he writes in the book that his views evolved during his final years in the Senate. He cited friendships he developed with North Carolina evangelist Franklin Graham and rock singer Bono, both of whom got him involved in the fight against the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

"Until then," Helms writes, "it had been my feeling that AIDS was a disease largely spread by reckless and voluntary sexual and drug-abusing behavior, and that it would probably be confined to those in high-risk populations. I was wrong." - msnbc

His agenda is driven by a lifelong opposition to democracy and diversity. In his first months as Foreign Relations chair, Helms called for tougher sanctions against Cuba, accused Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide of unleashing "vigilance committees," and moved to gut support for developing nations. On the home front, he introduced a bill to eliminate all affirmative action programs, which he denounced as "reverse discrimination at the hands of ruthless bureaucrats."

How did someone so mean-spirited end up in a position to act on his divisive politics? For the most part, Helms wins political battles by keeping the spotlight on the morality plays he stages. To hear conservatives tell it, Helms is a personal friend of Jesus Christ, a populist defender of the little guy, and a bitter opponent of big government. - motherjones

The G8 represents the tyranny of the new world order against the interests of the world's poor. Self-chosen on the basis of their military might and capitalist credentials, the G8 seeks to further its hegemony of the world, amid a pretense of compassion for the developing world. (Geldof and Bono unwittingly - one assumes - helped further that pretense by the ghastly photo-opportunity in which they participated.) It represents the damaging consequences of globalization and the marginalization of the Third World. - common dreams

- celebrities politics money

The G8 meeting has ended with an agreement to boost aid for developing countries by $50bn (£28.8bn). UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said there was also a commitment to find an end date for farm subsidies and a will to find agreement on trade liberalisation. On climate change, he said an agreement had always been unlikely, but crucially the US had accepted that global warming was an issue. NGOs are critical of the deal, calling it a "vastly disappointing result". "The people have roared but the G8 has whispered," said Kumi Naidoo, chair of the Global Call to Action against Poverty.

'Progress'

But Live 8 organiser Bob Geldof spoke of a "great day". "Never before have so many people forced a change of policy onto a global agenda. If anyone had said eight weeks ago will we get a doubling of aid, will we get a deal on debt, people would have said 'no'," Mr Geldof said. He added that he gave the G8 summit "10 out of 10 on aid, eight out of 10 on debt". Irish rock star and fellow anti-poverty campaigner Bono, praised the agreement to give universal access to Aids drugs. "600,000 Africans, mostly children, will remember this G8 submit at Gleneagles because they will be around to remember this summit, and they wouldn't have otherwise," said Bono.