Holy shit, no, I am not anti-Jewish, no anti-semite, but yes, anti Israel, anti-Zionist. That’s the way of the world, no, anti-Nazi, and thusly, there you have USA and Israel.
But I am an equal opportunity ‘hater’ Haeder when it comes not to just injustice, that thing which can be some accidental causality of capitalism and men and women attempting to survive in Darwinian Spencer — Lord of the Fly, dog-eat-dog, survival of the most unethicaly, most un fit, most deviant, most molestation expert, most dirty, most murderous, most greedy, most immoral, most rotten.
Eichmann is you, and it is they, and it is your neighbor. Communists like myself have paid the price for dying on my feet in my boots rather than begging on my knees . . . having to sell out is antithetical to my DNA.
It’s a flaw, and calling a spade a spade, well, it can get pretty gruesome and over the top.
No, not some 100-plus Eugene O’Neill bust. The Iceman Cometh is set in New York in 1912 in Harry Hope’s downmarket Greenwich Villagesaloon and rooming house. The patrons, twelve men and three prostitutes, are dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in one another’s company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders. They drift purposelessly from day to day, coming fully alive only during the semi-annual visits of salesman Theodore “Hickey” Hickman. When Hickey finishes a tour of his business territory, which is apparently a wide expanse of the East Coast, he typically turns up at the saloon and starts the party.
That was then, but it’s so much more dead-end now, except the dead-enders are transhumanists, the extraction and data mining experts, the impresarios of banking, real estate, finance, insurance. Thuggery with skirts and Ivy League Poison MA’s and PhD’s.
Characters, ahh, in this cancel and trigger warning trigger pulling generation, another play not allowed, no allowed.
Harry Hope: Widowed proprietor of the saloon and rooming house where the play takes place. He has a tendency to give free drinks, though he constantly says otherwise
Ed Mosher: Hope’s brother-in-law (brother of Hope’s late wife Bess), a con-man and former circus man
Pat McGloin: Former police lieutenant who was convicted on criminal charges and kicked off the force
Willie Oban: Harvard Law School alumnus
Joe Mott: Former proprietor of a gambling house
General Piet Wetjoen: Former leader of a Boer commando
Captain Cecil Lewis: Former Captain of British infantry
James “Jimmy Tomorrow” Cameron: Former Boer War correspondent who is constantly daydreaming about getting his old job back again tomorrow (hence his nickname)
Hugo Kalmar: Former editor of anarchist periodicals who often quotes the Old Testament
Rocky Pioggi: Night bartender, who is paid little and makes his living mostly by allowing Pearl and Margie to stay at the bar in exchange for a substantial cut of the money they make from prostitution, although he despises being called a pimp
Don Parritt: Teenage son of a former anarchist
Pearl: Streetwalker working for Rocky
Margie: Streetwalker working for Rocky
Cora: Streetwalker, Chuck’s girlfriend
Chuck Morello: Day bartender, Cora’s boyfriend
Theodore “Hickey” Hickman: Hardware salesman
Moran: Police detective
Lieb: Police detective
This is not your neighbrohood Cheers bar, no Seinfeld crap-o-la.
Serious.
I am broaching my meet-up with M.S., my friend, 80 years old, from Chile originally, but whose family came from, well, here, read it:
Newport, OR, woman’s fight for aerial spray ban is her sense of purpose
We meet at Oceana Natural Foods Co-op. Maria Sause will turn 77 on December 9. Her face reflects five or six iterations of her life’s journey.
Just four days 80 years ago could have changed this interview – she might not have been conceived and born. Maria’s father Franta (Francisco) left Czechoslovakia a scant 96 hours after Nazi Germany took over her parents’ homeland.
The Czech family line goes way back: “I just got in touch with a second cousin two years ago who has completed the family tree. The Kraus family goes back to the late 1700s in Czechoslovakia.”
I’m with Maria on a warm Sunday, ready to feature her life — amazing intellectual and creative journeys she’s taken having been born in Chile in 1942 and her own family’s powerful narrative of survival.
I am also scrambling to get some ink down concerning the Lincoln County Community Rights’ “loss” in state court after being successful with a countywide aerial herbicide ban on forestland, AKA, clear-cuts. The short-lived ban was the first in the country won by popular vote.
On September 23rd Judge Sheryl Bachart issued her ruling that Measure 21-177 is invalid based on state law regulating pesticide use. That Measure (for the ban) was voted on by citizens in 2017 okaying the prohibition of aerial spraying of all pesticides.
The fight for our legal, constitutional, and fundamental right of local self-government marches on, and it is going to take the political will of the people to make it a reality if we ever want to stop living under the thumb of corporate government. — Rio Davidson, President of Lincoln County Community Rights.
LCCR is now in overdrive, setting up town hall meetings to strategize to fight the judge’s reversal. For people like Maria, this is a huge blow to her community and to her concept of democracy.
Pre-emption laws are made whenever government and industry see the people are rising up against their projects. A government that protects industry at a higher level than it protects the safety of the people is unconstitutional. — Maria Sause
This concept of having a fundamental right enshrined by the constitution that allows people to decide locally on issue of health, safety and the environment, is held dearly by Sause.
She has witnessed the devastation of total forest removal in her own neck of the woods where she lives in small above-garage apartment on acreage along Fruitvale Road. The stumps are emblematic of her own fight and LCCR’s fight against clear-cutting.
With the ban reversed, who knows when the timber company will begin spraying glyphosate, Atrazine and 2,4-D (an ingredient in Agent Orange made infamous in Vietnam) near where she lives.
“Right where I live, they clear cut an enormous parcel of the forest.” Interestingly, her life-long avocation of painting now reflects thick forest, sky and clear-cut landscape.
Holocaust, History, Chile
Maria is an avowed anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist. Her early days in Santiago, Chile, with her industrialist father (he was a licensed medical doctor from Czechoslovakia whose credentials were not recognized in Chile) was one of struggle since he was a highly intelligent but dictatorial man.
Her father was prescient enough to have sent his wife, Lisabet Erica Hirsch (maiden name), to England in 1938 before things got ugly in Europe.
Maria and I talk about history, about the saga of her Jewish heritage and roots. Her Kraus family line was virtually extinguished — 54 members on her father’s side (and an unknown number on her mother’s side) were exterminated in places like Auschwitz. Nazis processed professional Jews through the town of Theresienstadt, a hybrid concentration camp and ghetto established by the SS during World War.
My father in his youth belonged to several left movements. Maybe it was the shock and trauma of losing parents and the entire family that turned him into a right wing conservative.
Maria and her sister were sent to private schools outside of Santiago in the 1940s and ’50s. Her parents, in fact, split when she was one-and-a-half years old and the legal battle for the children put them into a children’s home.
That was a German couple who ran a summer camp that took them in, until Maria was more than six years old when her father took them to live with him and his new wife and new son.
Ironically, the New World formerly conquered by Spain — much of South America, including Chile — is where the Kraus Family ended up. During so-called biblical times world Jewry’s most concentrated homeland was located in what is now Spain. Maria says her paternal grandmother comes from the Sephardic Jewish population, which according to history books had established themselves in Spain almost 1,700 years ago.
Her own diaspora as a secular, non-practicing Jew is what she herself precipitated once she hit age 19 and her father approved of Maria coming to the US to study at the San Francisco State College. She stayed with an aunt and uncle there. That residence lasted six months before Maria was out on her own, working, going to school, and eventually marrying a man and having a son together, Christopher.
Summer of Love, and Ms. Sause’s Radical Education
Maria talks about her vibrant circle of friends and compatriots now in Lincoln County. At 76, Maria has good friends in Lincoln County, and the Lincoln County Community Rights organization is also a life force for her. She has three grandchildren from a single offspring, Christopher, who has spent time in Portland, Tempe, San Francisco and Chile.
Maria’s gone to school to learn English literature as an avocation to becoming a public-school teacher, which she tried her hand at as a single mother raising Christopher, who graduated from Newport High a long time ago.
That lesson, after having gained a master’s in education in a one-year intensive program at Portland’s Reed College, was tough. Getting to Lincoln County/Toledo was a journey unto itself.
She says working as an English-Art-Journalism teacher at Siletz High School was a hard lesson. “The kids just ate me up. I wasn’t prepared for all the behavioral issues. I gave the principal my resignation after two years.”
The Politicization of a Chilean
Maria Sause is busily writing press releases for the Lincoln County Community Rights. Town hall meetings were being set as we spoke at Oceana. The framing to the talks is foundational:
Ask your questions
Have your say!
Find out what’s next
What can I do?
How can I donate?
Meetings in Newport (October 15) and Yachats (October 16) will have already occurred by the publication of the hard copy of Oregon Coast Today. Lincoln City, however, has one set from 2 to 4 pm, October 20 at the Cultural Center.
The odds against the 21-177 measure were huge more than two years ago — the opponents were funded by big industry groups, to the tune of $475,000; on the other hand, the LCCR citizens group who wrote the initiative received support of $21,600 in cash and in-kind contributions, most of them small gifts from individuals. That was a drop in the bucket for LCCR, according to Sause, to lobby against the national and multinational stakeholders who fought to continue chemical sprays.
She has faced bigger struggles, but the Community Rights movement is her cause celebre, now.
Love and Death in a time of Chile
She returned back to Chile to take care of a dying mother (1990), after she had already taken care of her dying sister in Israel (1987 for five weeks). Both died of cancer. Maria’s is a crisscross journey from Chile to Portland to Newport to San Francisco.
This last time she returned to Southern Chile (1990) for the purpose of taking care of her mother: she met a man, fell in love, started a business and took care of an ailing father for one and a half years before his death. Maria stayed in Chile 18 years.
Cesar Retamal had lived in many places, including studying in East Germany as a machine builder. He had been imprisoned in Chile by the junta. He was an activist, a communist and blacklisted in Chile. He had been arrested by the goons deployed by the country’s American-backed dictator, General Augusto Pinochet.
Cesar, like thousands of students, professionals, union activists, was “disappeared” and tortured in one of the hundreds of torture houses Pinochet’s secret police had set up throughout Chile.
Cesar escaped because he knew one of the guards.
This is a period of time when I had an enormous education.
The couple was afforded their own home next to Maria’s father’s. He purchased it so Maria and Cesar could be close as they took care of him after the once robust man (he had been hiking in the Andes up to age 83) was paralyzed after cervical surgery.
After her father’s death (her mother had died years earlier) they ended up with inheritances (both Maria and Cesar got separate amounts) they ended up looking for land in the South of Chile: near Temuco, about 675 kilometers from Santiago. They ended up living in the foothills of the Andes.
“We built a house which I designed and made a scaled down exact model of it. Four months later the cabin-like home was built by locals. Great gatherings of friends and acquaintances were common there. Politics were central to the parties.
Socialist Owners and Conservative Workers
Maria laughs when she tells me of the construction business she and Cesar embarked upon. “We made sure everyone got the same wages. Cesar and I were working without pay. We did not have any business background.”
The administrators/owners were leftists and the laborers right wing. She laughs hard at that dichotomy.
The business went bust and the creditors were on their backs; eventually, the relationship ended. After that, Maria and Cesar stayed there for two years, in the house they had built. She painted, gardened, and worked as a translator, where she made a decent living conducting legal and technical cross translation (Spanish to English, English to Spanish).
Those years in Chile were vital to where Maria is now in Newport. She witnessed her father turn softer in his old age, becoming friends of Cesar, the avowed communist. The Pinochet regime murdered tens of thousands of innocent people of Chile. Her father was disgusted with that history of right wing politics.
The country is still collectively traumatized by the ugly years of Pinochet: 1973-1990.
Pinochet was arrested in London October 16, 1998. He was 82, recovering from back surgery. The charge was crimes against humanity on the basis of an international warrant issued by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón.
He not only was hit with allegations of human rights abuses committed against Spanish citizens in Chile during the military regime, but also the murder, torture, hostage-taking and genocide of Chileans and other nationals.
Pinochet died one year before Maria returned to Oregon to visit her son and grandchildren. That was 2007.
Setting Down Roots
I have a love-hate relationship with Oregon,” she tells me. “It’s got a reputation for having an environmentally minded government. Yet it’s clear industry runs the state.
She recalls John Kitzhaber, when he was governor, saying he couldn’t do anything about the clear-cutting and aerial spraying in Oregon because “my arms are tied by the timber industry.”
So this final iteration of her vagabond life started in Lincoln County when she ended up sharing a house with her former San Francisco State College (now University) Shakespeare professor — Edward van Aelstyn.
That was 2007, and Maria lived with him on Nye Beach, from 2007-2016. He passed away May 23, 2018 at age 82.
Interestingly, van Aelstyn became an Associate Professor of English at San Francisco State College in 1967 mostly teaching Shakespeare. His involvement with the cultural life of San Francisco, and his participation in a union-led faculty strike supporting students were part of the “Education of Ms. Sause.”
“I was very naïve about the United States, about the world and politics. I was taking care of my son, going to school, working odd jobs — a lawyer’s office, for a record distributor and in offices.” She remembers striking faculty at SFSC in solidarity with students, and remembers how those striking faculty were fired.
That’s what began to stoke fire in her belly. van Aelstyn founded the Newport-based Teatro Mundo, which Sause thinks fondly of.
“I like what I am doing now – drawing and painting, sort of getting back into it. I am still finding my way,” she says while describing her life in a studio apartment above a garage as pretty ideal.
“I am almost 77 (December 9) and I am very fortunate to spend my time here on the coast. I am not interested in being a tourist,” she laughs, saying that she couldn’t afford to be a globe trotter even if she wanted to.
She tells me that the fight for a community bill of rights, reversing these state preemption laws and having communities determine their health, safety and sustainability takes time.
Maria Sause is no fly on the wall, no Polly Anna, and certainly has certain gravitas in the community. She’s up on the issues why the Liquid Natural Gas proposed port in Coos Bay, Jordan Cove, is wrong for that community and the state.
She alludes to the youth around the world, and in Newport, protesting for climate action. She applauds them.
In the end, her goal with LCCR is “to provoke structural change in government. In that sense, education is key to “give people the opportunity to see government is not really there to protect their safety.”
“This is why I am here in Newport. I have good friends. I can do my painting. Work on community rights. People have to rise up for their most fundamental rights.”
In an Activist’s Own Words
Paul: In a few sentences, explain what your philosophy is in terms of your life and your idea of what we as a species have to do on earth.
Maria: My “philosophy” in terms of my life, if I have one, has to do with learning how to love better and better throughout life, to always live in such a way that I am actively learning something, and with doing things that are meaningful. I don’t make a big distinction between work and entertainment. I can have as much fun working as doing something conventionally called entertainment. Work can be, and should be, entertaining, and entertainment, for me, can be something that requires effort and is difficult to do.
What we as a species have to do on earth is a big question which I don’t know anyone knows how to answer. There are a lot of things we, as a species, shouldn’t do. We unfortunately learn about them as we witness ourselves doing them and causing harm to other species and our own. So, what I think we as a species have to do on earth today is retrace our steps in many ways, and start living in a way that allows other species to live and flourish, even if that means relinquishing many comforts we take for granted today.
Paul: If you could do some things over in your life, what would they be, and why?
Maria: There are many things I would do differently and hopefully better. But that happens to all of us. We learn our lessons precisely because we cannot do those things again. Don’t we?
Paul: The value of art and the arts. Can you give us your take on that?
Maria: Art is a translation of experience into something we can feelingly see, hear, or touch. So, in a sense, it is experiencing life in another language or in a medium separate from ourselves. It gives us a deeper connection with life, allowing us to renew our focus on it. How it does that is a mystery, and mystery is a gift all by itself.
Paul: If you could meet one person, alive or in history, who would that be, and what would you ask her or him?
Maria: Maybe it would be a person who lived in pre-historic times. I have always had a yearning to know what life was like then, and how people saw their lives, and what they thought about life.
Paul: Homo sapiens is, unfortunately, through the lens of capitalism, an invasive species, with the concept of might makes right, the victors write the history, and those with power and money have always ruled. How do you reframe this for some of the young people you and I now see on the street, valiantly striking for climate change mitigation or awareness or change?
Maria: I don’t have the answer to this question. The harm to our beautiful planet home is being done at an alarming rate every day that passes. What we can and desperately need to do is change that lens – capitalism – through which we see the world and make our choices in life. We have to regroup, rethink ourselves as the caretakers of Mother Earth, who is growing old. We have received from her for millennia and now it is time to give back, to ask for forgiveness. Our social and government structures have to mirror that attitude. Only that can allow Mother Earth to heal. Only that way can we as a species have a future.
Paul: If you were to have a tombstone, what would that say once you pass on? Write it!
Maria: “We don’t know why we pass through. Let no step we take while here be wasted.”
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It’s four years since that piece, and we have been friends, and I have learned the grace of aging and the regale love of art, learning and being in this absolutely wonderful ecosystem and landscape. She has learned so much in her latter, life, she says, learning to question and question systems, mythologized histories, the psychologically infused ignorance of her generation, other generations, the world for which she calls home.
Yes, I have harangued lately on the Jewish Cabal in the Biden Gang, and I have pointed out the minority of minorities, Jews, having a huge weight of the world’s influence on things that are wrecking the world, and killing it quickly.
Blinken/Garland/Nuland/Yellen/Kagan/So Many Other Jews in Biden’s realm, as valorized by the various Israeli newspapers and periodicals. Sometimes she can ask me what is it I like about Jews?
The universal question: What is it you see good in humanity? What about homo sapiens, homo retailopethicus, homo bellum do you like?
Anything you like about Europe these days? What about Catholicism?
You know, the power, baby, the imbalance of power. What is to like about Ango Americans, or the monarchies? Anything about Israeli policies or the Occupiers who spit hate?
Does it matter whether a criminal like Fink is Jewish? Yes, and, not always yes across the board, but yes, and no:
Here, he is deciding what the world is, what the world needs, what workers are, what will solve the world’s problems. And the “story” just is inane and stupid. Inflation? Hmm, the cost of medicine, gasoline, lumber, housing, rent, many food items have DOUBLED. So, this is four percent? This is lie number one, but a big one.
Then, dirty Fink, says AI will “increase productivity? This is what a slave owner says. Massa. This man and his ilk and his family and all those supporting this 10 Trillion Dollars in assets thug outfit need to go the way of the dodo.
New artificial intelligence technologies can help end our period of record inflation, the head of the world’s largest asset manager argued on Wednesday.
A global slowdown in productivity is a “reason why we have such sticky inflation,” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said during the company’s investor day event, according to Bloomberg.
“A.I. has the huge potential to increase productivity, and transform margins across sectors,” he predicted, which would “bring down the inflation,” reports the Financial Times.
U.S. prices rose 4% year-on-year in May, which is the lowest rate of inflation reported in over two years. Yet core inflation—which excludes more volatile energy and food prices—came in at 5.3%, staying above 5% for the 18th consecutive motnh.
Fink warned a few weeks ago that inflation was “still too strong, too sticky,” and so would lead to two to four more interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve. (The Fed on Wednesday held off on raising rates again, but forecast two more increases before the end of the year.)
They are all Jews, so does Judaism matter? Yes, and, yes, and sorta no. Itamar Ben-Gvir (Hebrew: אִיתָמָר בֶּן גְּבִיר; born 6 May 1976) is an Israeli lawyer and politician, who serves as the Minister of National Security. He is additionally a member of the Knesset and leader of Otzma Yehudit.
So, what do I like about Jews? Come on, I was educated by many throughout my college years, and some during union organizing years. My friends early in college, their families, they embraced inquiry, embraced having their children be smart, to think for themselves, to respect knowledge, and to gain skills as speakers and in many cases to pursue the arts as well as their primary interests. Families that talked, argued, debated, deployed verbal pugilism, but did not hate or hold grudges.
Treated children like humans, not some Disney or Seasame Street character. Whereas so many Goyim, white milquetoast families I was and am around are see, speak, hear no evil, are emotionally evolved as a fucking rabid rat. So many discussions that could have been turn into I know best, I won’t hear your opinion, I have already made up my mind, and the discussion ends when things get heated or elevated loud.
We will have no disrespectfulness in my house. Your perspective is no up to snuff, and you need to live a few more decades to weight in, buddy boy. Mind your elders and stop challenging them. Who pays for your food and the roof over your head? Just eat the Nachos and watch the goddamned Lions and Bears play. Don’t ruin this Thanksgiving with your mumbo jumbo about national day of mourning for the Indian. Losers don’t write the history, and animals are animals, no matter how hard you try and make the savages into noble this and noble that.
Jews I knew did no dress up in fucking baggy sweatshirts with this or that professonal team logo. Goyim are seemingly arrested developed.
So, yes, I have been called a Heeb, and self-loathing gentile, and alas, here I am in another saddle calling foul on a whole lot of Jews in my country, and forget about EuroTrashLandia and Klanada.
Do I have a problem with Soros and the neoliberal media, much of which, again, is steered, controlled by and created by Jews?
Shit, come on: A jew writing this piece about a Jewish son who then talks to a Jewish Senator.
George Soros Hands Control to His 37-Year-Old Son: ‘I’m More Political’
In his first interview as successor, Alex Soros says the family’s $25 billion philanthropic enterprise will boost its support for voting and abortion rights
George Soros, the legendary investor, philanthropist and right-wing target, is handing control of his $25 billion empire to a younger son— Alexander Soros, a self-described center-left thinker who grew up self-conscious of the family’s wealth and wasn’t thought to be a potential successor.
The 37-year-old, who goes by Alex, said in the first interview since his selection that he was broadening his father’s liberal aims—“We think alike,” the elder Soros said—while embracing some different causes. Those include voting and abortion rights, as well as gender equity. He plans to continue using the family’s deep pockets to back left-leaning U.S. politicians.
“I’m more political,” Alex said, compared with his father. He recently met with Biden administration officials, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and heads of state, including Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to advocate for issues related to the family foundation.
To call George Soros as a philanthropist is a lie and disgusting.
Now now, Soros, Geroge, has a foreign policy: “My goal is to become the conscience of the world.” Does his Jewish count? Come on. (one of a thousand sources on this criminal, and there is no do-good in this murderer).
So, if you call out Soros, you are antisemite. There we have it, and who is labelling me with this term? “Counting on Billionaires”
Philanthrocapitalism is the latest “great white hope” of international development. Unlike traditional philanthropists, who were content to write checks for good causes, “philanthrocapitalists” like Bill Gates and George Soros have supposedly transformed development aid by infusing it with the business principles of innovation, efficiency, and enterprise.
Michael Green and Matthew Bishop celebrate this transformation in their best-selling book, Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World and Why We Should Let Them. Bishop and Green argue that philanthrocapitalism is a “new social contract,” in which increasing inequality is to be accepted in exchange for “the rich regarding their surplus wealth as the property of the many, and themselves as trustees whose duty it is to administer it for the common good.”
Should the rich not be sufficiently generous, they warn, “they risk provoking the public into a political backlash against the economic system that allowed them to become so wealthy.” This danger is well understood by “the leading beneficiaries of the winner-takes-all society, [who] worry increasingly about the political risks of growing inequality and are concluding that philanthropy may be one of the best ways to manage those risks.”
In a characteristically amusing and suggestive metaphor, Slavoj Žižek has likened this ideological strategy to the phenomenon of chocolate laxatives: each presents the cause of the problem — chocolate constipates, capitalism impoverishes — as the solution to its own pathological symptoms. Žižek’s favored example is Soros: speculator, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Soros is notorious for making vast profits by precipitating the financial destruction of entire economies. In 1992, he forced the United Kingdom out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and into recession by shorting sterling, making an estimated $1 billion in a single day. He has also been blamed for triggering the East Asian financial crisis in 1997 by short-selling the Thai baht and the Malay ringgit, and was accused of playing a role in speculative attacks on the yen in 2013.
But liberal elites around the world laud Soros for channelling large quantities of his dubiously earned wealth into philanthropic projects — primarily through his Open Society Foundation, which promotes democracy, free markets, and economic development around the world.
But it runs deep, this Chlamydia Capitalism, and again, each tasty cup of coffee, behind that latte is death, on so many levels:
Coffee plants are subjected to a barrage of attack by insects, bacteria and fungi as a result of their being increasingly grown as a monoculture crop since the 1990s. These attacks may also be exacerbated by climate change. On larger coffee plantations in particular, this has led to the increased use of pesticides, the primary weapons used by farmers to combat unwanted guests.
In Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer and pesticide consumer, chemical pesticide use increased by 190% in a single decade. Estimates show that roughly 38 million kilograms of pesticides are used annually in Brazilian coffee production.
And since 2019, 475 new pesticides have been approved in Brazil. More than a third of these are not approved in the EU due to their toxicity.
Common sense, does it prevail? Or is it just a theory, a deeply regarded and respected theory never to be implemented in Chlamydia Capitalism?
“The coffee plant originated thousands of years ago in an environment shaded by a rich array of plants, shrubs and trees in southwestern Ethiopia. This is the traditional way Ethiopian farmers grow coffee. It often has the advantages of minimizing pests and diseases while strengthening plant health, biodiversity and ecosystems,” says Athina Koutouleas, a newly graduated Ph.D. fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management.
Furthermore, agroforestry diversifies a farmer’s income revenues as profits can be earned on both the coffee beans and secondary farm products such as wood, livestock feed or fodder and other tropical cash crops such as vanilla or cinnamon.
“The challenge may be that some pests and diseases will tend to thrive in such a system. So, deciding on which combination of plants and trees offers the most value for the farmer and must be carefully planned. For example, should fast-growing banana trees be planted or hardwoods that can be harvested for timber? Thus, the cultivation method must be adapted to local needs. It is no magic bullet, but in my view, it’s the most sensible one,” says Koutouleas.
It’s not necessarily a Jewish question, but then Starbucks, Schultz, the anti-union CEO, Jewish and his hand is in this coffee world. Another Jew, Bernie, criticizing Howard: (Sources)
Public scrutiny is brewing for former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Wednesday as he testifies before a Senate committee about the company’s alleged anti-union practices.
In the last few years, as some workers for the coffee roaster and cafe chain have made high-profile attempts to unionize, the company has permanently closed stores where they worked and fired people who were helping organize. The company has consistentlydenied firing any employees or closing stores due to organizing activity.
“Workers have the constitutional right to organize unions and engage in collective bargaining to improve their wages and working conditions,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said March 7 during a news briefing. “Unfortunately, Starbucks, under Mr. Schultz’s leadership, has done everything in their power to prevent that from happening.”
Does it count or matter or inform me or you to know and acknowledge that both are Jewish, and what shall we do with that information, and how to file Jewishness into their very being, into what makes them men? It doesn’t take a Jew to be mean, dirty, criminal, perverse: that is a characteristic of capitalists of every ethnicity, background, religious faith, race, what have you.
Does it matter that the head of the AMA is Gay, openly so, and Jewish? Yep.
Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld — an anesthesiologist, Navy veteran and father — made history this week when he was inaugurated as the new president of the American Medical Association, becoming the first openly gay leader of the nation’s largest group of physicians and medical students.
“So after three years of experiencing so much stress, with COVID, you know, we’ve had a ‘twindemic:’ a pandemic of the disease, plus a pandemic of misinformation, and bad information,” Ehrenfeld told CBS News of some of the top issues facing physicians today.
With a flick of the hands, he deems any discussion about the so-called pandemic a twindemic — a pandemic of misinformation and bad information. With a flick of his hand.
But forget about the Jewish or Goy question. Without critical debate and inquiry, we are captured slaves of the money men, the 30 Pieces of Silver Robbers, all the Eichmann’s and Goldman Sachs Families.
A South Carolina teacher’s lesson was shut down after students complained they were uncomfortable.
The AP English lesson included reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 memoir on racism “Between the World and Me.”
PEN America called the removal of Coates’ work “an outrageous act of government censorship.”
A South Carolina teacher’s AP lesson that would have used Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 memoir “Between the World and Me” was shut down after students complained the material made them uncomfortable and could violate state laws by discussing systemic racism.
This past spring, Chapin High School English teacher Mary Wood included Coates’ book in her lesson plan before the AP English Language exam, according to lesson plans and documents obtained by The State.
The lesson asked students to analyze Coates’ arguments in “Between the World and Me,” specifically around systemic racism in America — but students complained that videos they watched before reading the book made them “uncomfortable,” according to the documents, The State said.
“I actually felt ashamed to be Caucasian,” one student said to the school board, The State reported. “These videos portrayed an inaccurate description of life from past centuries that she is trying to resurface. I don’t feel as though it is right because these videos showed antiquated history. I understand in AP Lang, we are learning to develop an argument and have evidence to support it, yet this topic is too heavy to discuss.” (source)
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