Freedom — One Liberated Apple at a Time
Colin Todhunter
A minor but significant spark of direct action occurred in New York on 15 December. A group of people entered a Whole Foods store (owned by Amazon), took groceries without paying and exited wearing Jeff Bezos masks.
Independent reporter Talia Jane posted the following on Twitter/X:
“The action was in protest against corporate wealth alongside increased food insecurity & to call attention to Amazon’s contracts with Israel.”
She also posted a video of the event with people throwing around flyers and shouting, “Feed the people, eat the rich!” Jane stated the food was later redistributed and given to food ‘distros’ and community care spaces feeding migrants and the unhoused.
It’s Going Down — which describes itself as “a digital community center for anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements across so-called North America” — has published on its website the texts of the flyers.
Here is an abridged version of one of the texts:
“We assert that corporations like Amazon and Whole Foods do a tremendous amount of harm: hoarding wealth and resources, stealing labor, and destroying the land we live on. When we purchase food from Whole Foods, only a small fraction of what we spend is going back to those doing the labor to produce the food — the vast majority of it is funneled into Jeff Bezos’s coffers, where it is in turn reinvested in weapon manufacturing, war, and big oil.
“Furthermore, Amazon’s contract for Project Nimbus with the IOF [Israel Occupation Forces] means that Bezos profits directly from the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Boycott. Divest. Shoplift. Not another dime for genocide!
“We believe direct action is a vital form of resistance against the capitalist institutions built to crush, starve, and bleed us to death. Solidarity with shoplifters everywhere! We hope you will be inspired to take similar action wherever you are.
“Move like water. Take back what has always been yours. Become ungovernable.”
Some of the unscrupulous practices and the adverse impacts of Bezos and his Amazon corporation are described in the online article ‘Amazon, ‘Economic Terrorism’ and the Destruction of Livelihoods’. Indeed, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in 2019 that Amazon had “destroyed the retail industry across the United States.”
Project Nimbus, referred to in the flyer, is a $1.2bn contract to provide cloud services for the Israeli military and government and it will allow for further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians while facilitating expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements on Palestinian land.
Direct action
Of course, there will be those who condemn the direct action described above. And they will do so while remaining blissfully unaware of or silent on the direct action of the super-wealthy that has plunged hundreds of millions into hardship and poverty.
The wholly unavoidable conflict in Ukraine (which profits corporate vultures), speculative food commodity trading, the impact of closing down the global economy via the COVID event and the inflationary impacts of pumping trillions of dollars into the financial system have driven people into poverty and denied them access to sufficient food.
All such events did not result from an ‘act of God’. They were orchestrated and brought about by deliberate policy decisions. And the effects have been devastating.
In 2022, it was estimated that a quarter of a billion people across the world would be pushed into absolute poverty in that year alone.
In the UK, poverty is increasing in two-thirds of communities, food banks are now a necessary part of life for millions of people and living standards are plummeting. The poorest families are enduring a ‘frightening’ collapse in living standards, resulting in life-changing and life-limiting poverty. Absolute poverty is set to be at 18.3 per cent by 2023-2024.
In the US, around 30 million low-income people are on the edge of a “hunger cliff” as a portion of their federal food assistance is taken away. In 2021, it was estimated that one in eight children were going hungry in the US.
Small businesses are filing for bankruptcy in the US at a record rate. Private bankruptcy filings in 2023 have exceeded the highest point recorded during the early stages of COVID by a considerable amount. The four-week moving average for private filings in late February 2023 was 73% higher than in June 2020.
As hundreds of millions suffer, a relative handful of multi-billionaires have gained at their expense.
A February 2023 report by Greenpeace International showed that 20 food corporations delivered $53.5 billion to shareholders in the financial years 2020 and 2021. At the same time, the UN estimated that $51.5 billion would be enough to provide food, shelter and lifesaving support for the world’s 230 million most vulnerable people.
These ‘hunger profiteers’ exploited crises to gain grotesque profits. They plunged millions into hunger while tightening their grip on the global food system.
Meanwhile, nearly 100 of the biggest US publicly traded companies recorded 2021 profit margins that were at least 50 per cent higher than their 2019 levels.
In a July 2021 report, Yahoo Finance noted that the richest 0.01% — around 18,000 US families — hold 10% of the country’s wealth today. In 1913, the top 0.01% held 9% of US wealth and just 2% in the late 1970s.
The wealth of the world’s billionaires increased by $3.9tn between 18 March and 31 December 2020. Their total wealth then stood at $11.95tn, a 50% increase in just 9.5 months. Between April and July 2020, during the initial lockdowns, the wealth held by these billionaires grew from $8 trillion to more than $10 trillion.
The world’s 10 richest billionaires collectively saw their wealth increase by $540bn over this period. In September 2020, Jeff Bezos could have paid all 876,000 Amazon employees a $105,000 bonus and still be as wealthy as he was before COVID.
And do not forget the offshoring of plundered wealth by the super-rich of $50 trillion into hidden accounts.
These are the ‘direct actions’ we should really be concerned about.
A point rammed home via another flyer that was issued during the protest in New York:
“The shelves in this store have been stocked with items that were harvested, prepared, and cooked via a long supply chain of exploitation and extraction from people and land.
“This food was made by the People and it should fill the bellies of the People.
“Don’t fall prey to the myth of scarcity! Look around you: there is enough for all of us. This food is being hoarded, and we are giving it back to our communities. The world belongs to us – everything is already ours.
“We deserve to eat whether we can pay or not. Tear down the system that starves and kills people, one liberated apple at a time!”
Colin Todhunter specialises in development, food and agriculture and is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal. You can read his “mini e-book”, Food, Dependency and Dispossession: Cultivating Resistance, here.
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Henry Kissinger sagte einmal: “Diejenigen, die das Essen kontrollieren, kontrollieren die Menschen. Diejenigen, die das Öl kontrollieren, kontrollieren ganze Kontinente. Diejenigen, die das Geld kontrollieren, kontrollieren die Welt”.
Und das Bier kontrolliert das Volk.
This is the gateway to “you scan your payment card before you enter” plus enhanced facial recognition installed everywhere, or simply being identified by the presence of your phone on the premises. This will be “terms and conditions” of using their store which you are of course free not to accept. But it’ll be everywhere.. Vax passports failed, so break out rentamob. Scanning cards to enter will lead to cash becoming useless in everyday life, and hasten global ID, carbon credits, everything you appear to dislike. Why are you not seeing that it’s always, problem, reaction, solution? Do you really envisage Bezos foaming at the mouth in rage at his lost apples? He’s the man who succeeded where despots failed, in getting people to voluntarily, even enthusiastically, register their interests in books, media, shopping, even medicine, on his site.
Theft committed by reckless thugs…SHAME!!!
Freedom.
No-one should ever pay anything to anyone for the right to be here, to live.
Every human has an equal right to live here, to live in peace, to receive the fruits of the earth abundantly.
““The shelves in this store have been stocked with items that were harvested, prepared, and cooked via a long supply chain of exploitation and extraction from people and land.” That “long supply chain” ought to start with a Fair Price for the farmer. If the consumer “Liberates” (without paying for) her apple from the end of that long chain, then next season the farmer will not be paid at all — let alone be paid a fair price as primary producer. Moreover, the “Liberator” receives no “Virtue Karma” for disinterestedy feeding the poor with apples she “Liberated” without sending a corresponding monetary exchange medium down the supply chain. If she goes on like that, she will receive Bad Karma when the supply chain halts for lack of cash flow. The socialist woman’s solution is to “Liberate” excess cash from Bezos and redistribute it: to poor farmers at the start of… Read more »
False. People will still want apples. If Bezos’ company won’t buy them, some other chain will. As long as people want to buy apples, farmers will get paid for growing apples. A free-market economy isn’t all bad.
“A free-market economy isn’t all bad.”
I never said it was. The bounty of Nature is the product of a free market economy.
But firstly, I doubt that a “long supply chain” is a free market economy with individual farmers at one end and a huge capital investment chain at the other. Even less free if the apples come from industrial-scale farming. Secondly, when that huge retail outlet crashes because customers are “Liberating” apples, it will take time to form an equally huge outlet for the apples; during that time primary farmers, middleman links along the distribution chain, and final customers will endure bad karma.
Isnt it just another psy-op?
Bezo pays a new “Hungry lives Matter” to steal his lousy food, and he have to raise the prices to avoid bankruptcy in his supermarket chain. Papa here smell fish.
I wonder why in the home district of WEF, young global psychopath wunderkind Gavin Gruesome, the police have been instructed not to arrest shoplifters and DA’s have been instructed not to indict any theft for a value less than USD 1000?” At the start of 2004 an apple is appraised at less than USD 1000. At the end, we will have to wait and see. And I wonder why major retailers around the USA such as Target have told their employees not to mess with shoplifters or call the police? Retailers have been fleeing SF in droves. It’s almost like they (the powers who shouldn’t be) want to promote this activity.
I believe in my Government because they are educated from an Yale University and you are not!
You only want me to pay for your laziness, and we shall not have any revolution here in America!
“Everybody deserves to eat whether we pay or not!” Reminds me of stories I read about the early colonists, of which I’m sure there are many similar stories from any time period, regarding those who wanted to contribute to their colonies, i.e., plow the land, plant the seeds, harvest and store the food, etc., and those that didn’t. Those that didn’t do the work or half assed it would invariably run out of food in the winters and then go around to those who put in the work and had the stores, begging for food. Many didn’t like that much as they had warned them if they didn’t get off their asses, they’d be without food the next winter, and told them, don’t come running to us you lazy bastards. That’s in no way comparing Bezos to the early colonists who did the work, it’s simply an observation about that… Read more »
[Those who do not plow their land] “they’d be without food the next winter, and [those who do] told them, don’t come running to us you lazy bastards.”
That’s a fair precis of a poem by Hesiod, Greece circa 700BC, though without modern bad language.
“Reading in Hesiod you can almost feel the blisters” — Arnold Toynbee.
The past three years have opened a bigger fucking can of worms than anything ever before. The crazy shit depicted in the article being a case in point. Let me explain to you, kids, what the fuck is generally going on. A few hundred years ago, people stumbled on stuff called coal which led to the invention of the steam engine and ultimately to the level of technological advancement AND exploitation of natural resources that we know today. The process had probably been instigated by the imbecile who wrote the Bible, supposedly God, who instructed idiots (that’s people, including most of yous) to have dominion over the world, instead of living in harmony wherewith and refraining from fucking with other species and things people find lying around. Anyways, maybe it wasn’t the idiot who wrote the Bible, maybe it was inevitable because OVERSHOOT is a biological phenomenon liable to affect… Read more »
Well, one way to reduce the poverty rate is to reduce the number of poor people. As in eliminate them.
There are any number of ways to do this without appearing to be doing it on purpose. Give them poison food (overly processed, seed oils, etc) to eat, scare them into taking a poison jab, send them off to manufactured wars.
Easy peasy.
Poverty …
While it’s true that some of the mice in the story referenced hereinbelow have had it better than others, mostly because they’re bigger fucking assholes than the rest, the wealth and/or poverty of members of either group is relative.
Once the silo is empty, it won’t matter no more.
A Story of Mice (and Men)
Here is a definition of “anachronistic” for ya:
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/anachronistic
“one way to reduce the poverty rate is to reduce the number of poor people.”
Another and much better way is to reduce the number of rich people.
Which takes us back to square one, only with a new set of rich elite people.
“But something is happening here and you don’t know what it is – do you? – Mr Jones.
The mindfuck is part of the use to which we put our mind.
Is the tipping point of control into insanity the breakdown of a personal/social masking ‘reality’?
Core assumptions become a prison in which inmates struggle for dominance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3AVceraTI The Great Taking – Documentary There is some new information in this documentary, Is it a Limited Hangout? That’s always difficult to tell. Edward Dowd was/Is he a limited hangout, is the rehabilitation of Alexjones and his Tucker Bromance also a limited hangout, I do not know if fact I haven’t formed an opinion on it yet. Roger Dec 26, 2023 1:30 PM To the victor then the spoils and as well as writing the history so shall the victor perpetuate the debt-based accounting system and accounting unit. To the victors shall also be awarded the newly minted unit of account rendering for them inflation a convenience, not a curse, folding as inflation will the weaker hands John Titus has been fairly quiet as has Catherine Austin Fitts I wonder about that, Richard Werner has also dropped out of my news feed, granted I have been more and more… Read more »
The Great Taking with David Rogers Webb: https://home.solari.com/the-great-taking-with-david-rogers-webb/ on the Solari website. Catherine Austin Fitts with David Rogers Webb.
SLOBODNI podcast SPECIJAL Hrvatski sabor- Dr. David Wiseman i Prof. Richard Werner from the “In the center of the storm – Where Croatia and the world are going in 2024” symposium that took place on 1st December 2023 in the Croatian Parliament: https://rumble.com/v41sgaw-slobodni-podcast-specijal-hrvatski-sabor-dr.-david-wiseman-i-prof.-richard-.html Richard Werner’s presentation starts at 2:56.
Financial Rebellion is a weekly show featuring Catherine Austin Fitts and attorney Carolyn Betts, general counsel of Solari, Inc.
Financial Rebellion with Catherine Austin Fitts: https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/financial-rebellion-with-catherine-austin-fitts/
Thanks, JD, greatly appreciated.
At 4.26 Mins, “And the little secret is that tyranny is so wasteful and expensive that in fact if you can stop them and start to rebuild bottom up there is plenty of wealth There is no economic problem here other than the parasite”
I think I have heard Catherine refer to it as a tapeworm economy in the past.
I will listen to Richards talk today too. Thanks.
“We do not agree with David’s analysis of money velocity. Centralization and criminality remove trust from the system, bringing on a drop in money velocity. Growth without inflation is more than possible, but it will require a change in the governance and central banking systems. Where we do agree is that the central bankers intend to strip us of our assets and property rights. If the central bankers achieve financial transaction control, they will indeed be able to engineer a “great taking.” The pandemic destruction of small businesses and family income was simply a small taste of what will then be possible.”
Interesting.
This is sobering and probably true:
https://twitter.com/MutantDarwin/status/1739793133506797658
“I’ve recently encountered a flurry of “likes” from bimbo bots; profiles purportedly from sexually available women, all of whom just joined Twitter/x last month. All of their followers joined the month before that. I don’t understand what the goal is, but I doubt it’s good.”
To which I respond:
“Snap! Meanwhile I usually fail to receive the response I expect from the ones I challenge and doubt if they even see me. I suspect Twitter is a massive algorithm powered selective shadow banning operation.”
For example, I just tweeted something and got a “like” from one Gianna who advertises as
“💃🏻 Life of the party, searching for my perfect match 🎉 🚨💘 Your next date is waiting! Click bio! 💘🚨”
And which supplied a link which didn’t work – probably just as well since my Norton facility reported that it blocked something malevolent.
Though this response is also off the topic of opposing full spectrum dominance by appropriating WholeFood apples, the same thing recently happened to me. My best guess is that when people pay for phantom followers, those followers need to be substantiated by following and/or liking real accounts. If the pattern I encountered is repeated with you, then those followers/likes will be removed by X’s algorithm after a month or two. BTW, I’ve appreciated reading your comments in 2023. Keep them coming, whether on or off topic. Happy New Year!
If bots were meant to pass off as people, they would! At the moment I block them, but I notice the dopamine ‘like’ framework as preverbal ‘expectation’ or sense of connection – regardless the recognition of mechanism in artifice. So the provocation or bait on offer is a back-end of system presented as a plastic glam-babe. Unlike any tool or machine of the previous era, the system incorporates its ‘users’. So I can share a moment with you in themes of a common interest as my virtual experience, within proprietary and arbitrary opaque frameworks of conditioning running as pre-emptive controls. “Seek not outside yourself, for it will fail” (ACIM) – the explication of an inner or implicit quality of being serves experience of projected tangible matter. Our propensity for being phished by image & form is where Icon of transparency becomes an idol opacity – the wish something be true… Read more »
Off topic bourgeois seasonal reflections:
On considering the TV fodder over Christmas, I recall the name of that Neil Postman book, “Amusing Ourselves to Death”. I can be as nostalgic as anyone else but The Italian Job seems like pure superficial glitz. And how many times can you see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Both featured Benny Hill who now emerges as the most honest TV entertainer ever in that he never pretended it was anything more than disposable crap.
And the Barry Humphries docu, like the rest of such endeavours, only goes to demonstrate that these performers, no matter how talented, were only ever seaside attractions.
Though I can’t help noting that whilst e.g. Les Dawson came across as a genuine working man’s “philosopher ”, Humphries’s alter egos always hobnobbed with royalty and the upper class.
Humphries was a vain, conservative snob who mocked the working class to enrich himself and his massive ego.
Better dead.
And like Mrs Merton he came up with that “put down” that’s actually a slap on the back. If it hadn’t been, none of these celebs would have went anywhere near these two “subversives” who were really sycophants.
And why is it that these court jesters never retire? When he died, Humphries was apparently planning new material. At the age of 89! And folk hear this and start going into rhapsodies about “The indefatigable old trooper” etc. Do none of these showbiz drones ever think about just fucking off? I think that at least Jack Nicolson had the decency to just fuck off!
People who choose to withdraw from the limelight have some remnants of humility. Not Humphries, he was an ARSE.
“how many times can you see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?”
How many times have people watched it and not really seen “The Child-Catcher”? It’s in plain sight and still they don’t see it – almost like they’re under a spell.
BTW ‘The Italian Job’ was directed by Collinson and Collins is one of the so-called Illuminati bloodlines. A Collins wrote ‘The Hunger Games’.
The best way is ‘have no TV, Ever.’
TEL-LIE-VISION
Appropriating apples from WholeFoods. What could we possibly do to top this? Perhaps at their next direct action these anarchists, anti- fascists, anti -capitalists and anti- colonialists, could pick me up a Speed Queen washer from Raytheon. Loading one of these babies up on the back of a bicycle would really drive home the message. Not just against the 2nd largest U.S. defense contractor, but against big oil and global warming. Viva la revolucion!
Love it.
Or throw it in a shopping cart and steal that, too.
Being basically decent souls most of us have a hard time accepting the following simple but very disturbing reality. While both WWI and WWII were fought “between elites” (mainly Western elites) – using the common person as cannon fodder – WWIII – (which, don’t look now, has already begun) – is being fought “by” a more “globalized version” of those “same elites” – but we the “common person” are now both simultaneously – “the enemy” – and the – “cannon fodder” – in this elite war on all of humanity.
After a short (brief) battle with cancer . . . https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12902075/Bil-Granger-dead-54.html Dec 27, 2023 World-renowned Australian chef Bill Granger has died at the age of 54, his family have revealed in a heartbreaking Instagram post. The 54-year-old passed away ‘peacefully’ in a London hospital on Christmas Day surrounded by his family. It’s understood Granger died following a battle with cancer – a disease he was diagnosed with months ago. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/12/26/one-life-to-live-star-kamar-de-los-reyes-dead-at-56 Dec 26, 2023 Actor Kamar de los Reyes, best known for playing a gang member-turned-police officer in the soap One Life to Live, died on Sunday at the age of 56, his family announced. De los Reyes died after a brief battle with cancer . . . https://drpanda.substack.com/p/ex-nba-player-and-vaccine-ambassador Ex NBA Player and ‘Vaccine Ambassador’ Dead After Short Battle With Cancer Turbo Cancers Are Erupting. Dr Panda Dec 19, 2023 Eric Montross (aged 51) was also the Vice Chair and Co-Founder… Read more »
Dr.Campbell on Youtube interviewed a cancer specialist who has had a sudden rush of patients with dormant cancers which suddenly erupted again after they got Vaxxed. Pfizer makes Vaxx. Looks like Pfizer Vaxx will stimulate sales of Pfizer’s other product: a “powerful cancer-fighting technology”.
Yes, but they need to figure out how to widen and optimise the revenue generation window. Pre-emptive treatments, earlier diagnosis, get people to live a bit longer. Every little helps!
Here’s one of the most successful projects to-date:
Caption: The New Zealand cricket legend had a heart attack, stroke and cancer last year
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-12486147/Cricket-great-Chris-Cairns-health-update-heart-attack-stroke-cancer.html
Was he Vaxxed?
I presume so, but as far as I know there’s been no official statement.
He’s listed here:
https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot
10/08/2021 Australia
Chris Cairns (51), New Zealand cricketer suffered a massive heart attack and a ruptured aorta. He underwent heart surgery and was taken to a Sydney hospital for further vascular surgery. Six months later, 05/02/2022 it is reported he now has bowel cancer as well. News Story News Story2
He think its funny.
The great big poverty reduction weaponisation is part and parcel of the Herrenvolk historiography – “capitalism has raised X billion out of extreme poverty”; “poverty reduction of 85%”; “the end of poverty by 2030” – say the propagandic ideologues like Pinker and the Roslings. Is the reality of globalised suffering now going to be weaponised in reverse as a moralising tactic against ‘them’ to make ‘us’ feel better about our imperialist extractive lifestyles? In propagandising the reality of suffering, it is never mentioned that capitalism – as market-fundamentalism – pushed the non-white Unpeople into extremised poverty in the first place. Pinker in particular is a disingenuous statistical manipulator, to put it mildly. Global poverty is on the rise, and it has nothing to do with Covid; which is therefore disingenuously cited as a fictional turning point. It has a lot more to do with our ‘liberal’ consumer lifestyles across much… Read more »
“Maldevelopment and maldistribution will never end “one liberated apple at a time” until we address the problem holistically and globally.”
Reminds me that Goethe’s poetical town which is totally clean because each household sweeps its own porch would not work unless the town also had a municipal waste disposal service to collect the sweepings. Nevertheless, the sum of individual actions by a large population can come to a mighty total. Witness the Tel (or hill) that rises on many a town’s municipal landfill..Or slagheaps and minedumps. Or the white cliffs of Dover, and other skeletal remnants of tiny marine organisms.
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At the moment I’m researching Steve Howe. Although I’ve been familiar with the name for decades as a music connoisseur, I’d never really looked into him before. Of course, I knew his scrawny physical appearance in connection with Yes or Asia.
The guy has an extraordinarily “eclectic” (that is, multi-compatible, i.e. characterized by diverse influences) guitar style that suits my nature very well, you could say it expresses exactly what I feel like. Listening to his virtuosity is an experience.
https://mp3music.ru/steve%2Dhowe
Move like water , make like a tree and duck off.
Greed begets greed.
The Suiturds who work for the billionaires expect their cut, so they manipulate the system to enrich themselves.
Dumbfuckers.
They’re all gonna die, empty and loveless.
Its called financialization of the economy, and until they actually die, there is plenty a plate of dish able misery to go around.
The insanity of 0,01 % owning so much land, money and property asks simply for another french revolution type of retuning everything to the people. As well as the ending of all governments to give the power back to the people, anarchism. Establishing a true free media channel would be able to solve most issues…
The “French Revolution” was orchestrated by secret societies and ended up with masses of “the people” dead – like every such event.
Funny how Talleyrand always seemed to be running things whoever was nominally in charge.
Yeah, it’s a periodic problem, just goes round and round, same with ‘geno/demo/cides.’ Is the next ‘Dick Tater’ (Richard Potato) of Great Britain already standing up?’ Some think so.
I mean, we haven’t had a real one since ‘The Lord Protector.’ And that didn’t last, either. Mind you, we didn’t have the WEF ‘Young Global Leaders,’ back then. And they don’t last that long,
True-dough still hanging in there.
?
“Corporations” are not the enemy here. GOVERNMENT is. Government is armed., is violent, threatens people, causes inflation and supports a plethora of evils. Whole Foods does none of this. Their “direct action” is aimed at the wrong target
Never heard of regulatory capture? Today, the interests of Big Business and Big Government are one and the same. As Benito Mussolini said: Fascism is when you can’t slip a cigarette paper between the interest of business and government.”
And who do you think controls the governments of the world through their lobbying, policy think tanks and public private partnerships? Faceless multinational corporations are the modern system of economic slavery that bleed us all dry.
Spot on.
Politicians are Mammon’s puppets
“Whole Foods does none of this.”
— Kreditanstalt
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon, the owner of Whole Foods
Why Amazon bought Whole Foods. (slate.com)
lobbies the US government:
Amazon.com Lobbying Profile • OpenSecrets
The polite term is the rule of reciprocity.
A court may refer to it as quid pro quo.
It is more widely known as you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
Some may even refer to it as bribery.
Foreigners also take part in lobbying the US government:
The Secret Donors Who Fund AIPAC’s Israel Junkets for Congress (theintercept.com)
A scholarly study has shown the effects of this upon government:
Study: Politicians listen to rich people, not you – Vox
In other words, money talks and B.S. walks. 🤔
Reciprocity?
It has more in common with incest.
One step forwards, two steps back.
The irony here is that the ‘government’ is a corporation!
But no institution or corporation is the enemy, they are simply tools in the hands of the enemy.
The problem is not Capitalism, Corporatism, Banksterism, Fascism, Communism, Elitism. No, the problem is Retardism. The 99% are fucking retarded! And here’s two examples: — https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/25/2213619/-Covid-is-not-done-with-us-It-s-just-getting-started-We-really-should-be-paying-attention OwnedByTwoCats: Vaxed x6. But still two bouts with COVID, and each bout left me with lasting effects. The first worsened a problem with my heart rhythm, so I had to add another medication to my daily regimen, and the second left my lungs more congested. I think I’m nearly back to normal now, three months later. Zero stars. You don’t want to get this. — https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-celebrates-destruction-major-russian-navy-vessel-rare-crimea-air-raid The amphibious landing ship Novocherkassk is said to have sustained significant damage, but The Associated Press is reporting that a pair of Ukrainian fighter jets were shot down by Russian anti-air defenses shortly after. The landing ship “Novocherkassk” was docked in the Crimean city of Feodosia, with crew aboard during the assault, resulting in one person killed and… Read more »
I suggest Kremlin make a revenge and retaliation attack on a little Nato Command Centre filled with 3 Ukrainian retired colonels in the village Ugledar/Donbass. Take that one Zelensky and Nato
This is what Kremlin normally do after these “incidents”.
This research may predict a “heart failure pandemic” in the post COVID-19 era Predicted risk of heart failure pandemic due to persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection using a three-dimensional cardiac model Kozue Murata et al Published: December 22, 2023 https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)02718-9 Highlights • Persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection model of human cardiac tissue was established • Hypoxic stress to the persistent infection model led to cardiac dysfunction • ACE2 and SARS-CoV-2 S protein expression were elevated after the hypoxic stress • This research may predict a “heart failure pandemic” in the post COVID-19 era Summary Patients with chronic cardiomyopathy may have persistent viral infections in their hearts, particularly with SARS-CoV-2, which targets the ACE2 receptor highly expressed in human hearts. This raises concerns about a potential global heart failure pandemic stemming from COVID-19, an SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in near future. Although faced with this healthcare caveat, there is limited research on persistent viral heart infections, and… Read more »
I don’t eat apples much, nor parsnips…Its not about their colour, its about their taste. I lik carrots, cos you can see its a carrot and like a carrot..cos it doesn’t taste anythinhg much like my roast potataoes cooked in fresh turkey fat, laced with pig bacon fat… Our grandaughter who is one(she couldn’t stop smiling at me)…she crawled out of the noisy room, and I crawled after her…When I came out of hospital recovering from Sepsis – we had a competition…who can get up and walk first??? So we come to the family meal, and she is still smiling at me… So I come to the Salute with a really nice Glass of Red Wine… I said – well especilally this year Nana Gets Number 1 She came to see me every day in hospital for over 3 weeks (she hid under the table in embarrassment as if she… Read more »
Animal fat clogs the circulatory system, and alcohol poisons the liver and destroys brain cells.
Good luck Tony.
“Animal fat clogs the circulatory system,”
That is so Yesterday. I hear Youtube banned a medic for posting videos of himself living on eggs fried in lard. The Fat Police are little King Canutes trying to roll back the tide of change.
“Consider a flat table, onto which sand is added slowly, one grain at a time. The grains might be added at random positions, or they may be added only at one point, for instance at the center of the table. The flat state represents the general equilibrium state; this state has the lowest energy, since obviously we would have to add energy to rearrange the sand to form heaps of any shape [I connect this shape formation to Hegel’s one-sidedness]. If we had used water, the system would always return to the flat ground state as the water would simply run off the edge of the table. Because the grains tend to get stuck due to static friction, the landscape formed by the sand will not automatically revert to the ground state when we stop adding sand. “Initially, the grains of sand will stay more or less where they… Read more »
What do you do w/a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand?
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Get more sand.
That reminds….
Q: What do you call a dozen lawyers on the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start!
Why are Lawyers buried twice as deep as ordinary people?
Because they are good people deep down.
This is what I find fascinating: Marx proved that the system of capitalist social relations is a system of relations between objects rather than between humans as such. Indeed, we enter into contact with each other in so far as we are interested, not in the other as a human being, but in the other as an owner of something, such as a commodity, that we want; this social relation, he called “commodity fetishism” in the sense that the commodities are conceived as alibis “magically” making possible human interaction, which is really just displaced interaction onto objects. Hence, the system of capitalist social relations is a network of interactions among objects that escape the human will, for, the labour power we posses and the commodities and possessions we may have and which we use as the alibi or fetish for our interactions can remain or get lost, increase or decrease… Read more »
There could be both factors at worlk: a complicatedly efficient “just-in-time supply chain economy” run by the incompetent and malevolent heirs of the “merchant adventurers” who conquered the world to set up that efficient system.
Sounds ominous.
https://www.eutimes.net/2023/12/experts-admit-wef-planning-to-erase-4-billion-people-within-years/
It’ll probably be civil, though.
https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1738872389545390299
Is Meadow’s some kind of comedian?
He’s a deeply committed “idealist,” which is another way of saying that his sense of humor is probably lacking.
We have to get rid of the sheeple one way or another. Otherwise we will never get anywhere.
Do you want to live in a mask society with endless rows of sheeple waiting for their booster jab no.89? Just asking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_the_Trenches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eEQ5x3ET8
I doubt very much, that a German
military court would not have shot
these Swedes for their “hairdos”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdHkHslFIU
In contrast, the steady-crocked Celts
can be described as downright civilized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyw4GG2Iq4
Since savages only respect the law of the jungle, white civilization is still supposed to protect them from themselves, which in turn is condemned as racist.
The only way out of this endless spiral of madness for all involved is the inalienable and unalterable complete divorce of the white race from these “participants” incapable of culture-creating civilization.
Until this clear and logical realization is finally accepted, however, a high blood toll seems to be necessary to make this simplicity comprehensible to the last idiot of our species.
https://upmovies.to/watch/nGENlEdb-once-were-warriors.html
How “knowledge about Germany” is taught at US universities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJooOk1UFg
Will autistic drama queen Brandy (famous inventor of such unfamous terms like “spergnat”) listen to his ex-boyfriend’s Christmas serenade and finally return from Bulgaria to his cozy love nest in Calgary? It remains exciting. We are following this heartbreaking Hispano-Negroid love tragedy with great interest.
https://t.me/MartinezPerspectivestealscontent/111
https://t.me/nazbertperspective/2852
In Canada, Brandy can finally prove himself as a full-fledged national hero of his gay president “Trudy” Trudeau, since gigantic Nazi dachshunds, so-called Wienerzillas, have been completely devastating the inner cities there without the nuclear power Israel, which rules over Canada, thinking of intervening.
Brutal Nazi police shoot harmless
knife-wielding Turk. (Proceedings
were initiated against the racists.)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3597964380462389
https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2023/12/24/german-police-kill-man-with-knife-in-southern-city-of-mannheim
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/17/world/new-zealand-nationals-luxon-maori-intl-hnk/index.html
Maori Culture without Whites.
https://youtu.be/5ojN64IS64M
The Red Shield’s & Red China.
https://youtu.be/j0xKalBpd5M
How knowledge about Germany is taught at US universities.
“Due to the personal union between the king- doms of Great Britain and Hanover, which las- ted from 1714 to 1837, mockturtle soup beca- me part of the regional cuisine of Lower Saxony.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_turtle_soup Now I know why I don’t like this grub (just like corned beef), in contrast, e.g., to the Jewish “celebrity chef” Heston Blumenthal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrGN5LmCQag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86MszNEb54A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal I would prefer a real turtle soup instead, even though I would – admittedly – have more sympathy for a turtle than a calf, which is admittedly somewhat “unethical”. If only because Eva Braun, unlike her pathological vegetarian Adolf, loved the turtle soup, even still in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery. Apparent- ly it was ensured until the last day that, although Germany had long been starving to death, the deli- very of the coveted delicacy from the eastern Me- diterranean went smoothly. Typical for despots! The Greeks, e.g.,… Read more »
Have you been on the Jack Daniels Jim Beam ?
“Jim?!!”
“Beam him up. For fuck’s sake”
Once you get used to the peculiar “beauty” of Slavic women, you can find more loyalty, love and affection there than in the West, which is teeming with arrogant, spoiled, ego-obsessed bitches. That must have been what Bavarian Kranz thought when he gave up his dull office job to lead a simple life with a Slovakian woman in the neighboring Czech Republic. Since then, she has been knitting him a new pair of angora wool socks every day. Finally a natural woman with whom you can really have fun to your heart’s content and with whom you don’t have to take every word with a pinch of salt! How refreshing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRw9f7T3Ib8
https://germaninczech.webnode.page/l/mein-bart-my-beard/
Old English had a surprising amount in common with what is now
called High German, although this is known to be a relatively mo-
dern artificial language. Low German much closer to Old English.
Compare for example Low German Töver to High German Zauber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVAxvGyuqiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtvzBGcqnRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOhNH7EuCI
Nice to see the Germanic tribal roots of Anglish. I have always regarded English as a Germanic language, similar to South Africa’s native Afrikaaner Dutch (as in Deutsch). I played some Afrikaans folk songs to my English-speaking Israeli grand daughter and she said, It sounds like English with an accent.
Unfortunately any activist message or action that fails to target CONVID falls into the limited hangout camp.
If you don’t stand explicitly against biosecurity and the “new normal” you are just more noise, if not part of the problem. Biosecurity and the WHO are the epicenter of the war against humanity because it is no longer just about the money, it is about human bodies, minds and lives.
The majority of the population in the west and elsewhere are now traumatised mentally and/or physically, and biosecurity presents the potential for a perennial mass slavery that will only be ever be broken by apocalyptic events.
All research in genetics, genomes and “viruses”, and big pharma themselves must be stopped urgently!
“Move like water. Take back what has always been yours. Become ungovernable.”
Absolutely. Not-doing what they want. Abandon their convenience nets. Let them lose.
How “nice” to see so many of those here place a higher premium upon capitalist social relations more than human lives.
Well, when “capitalist social relations” include Astroturf grass-root protests like Just Stop Oil TM, Trans rights TM, DEI TM, Black Lives Matter TM, Antifa TM and pro-war Ukraine protesters (just to name the ones at the top of my head), you might forgive people for being skeptical about an activist group the provenance of which we know nothing.
However, it is “nice” that class is back on the agenda…at least in this limited case.
People posting here attacked the action itself for its violation of property rights, not the group itself. You are throwing in a red herring.
“People” is pretty general, general enough to include me. It is fair to say that a psy-op, (or fake grassroots activism) as it serves ruling class interests falls into category of “capitalist social relations”.
Liberated apples today, re-education camps and mass executions tomorrow!
Nothing left to do but rot?
One could try to clean out the Augean Stables peacefully ie, reform the Starmer/BLiar New Labour party back to its Socialist roots. A Herculean task — but Attlee showed it was feasible:
“Attlee, a modest little man with plenty of achievement to be modest about” — Winston Churchill (with apologies).
One could try another Roosevelt New Deal: divert government money for the Unproductive Rich into government money for the Productive People — Workers by hand and by brain.
“Let’s go do some crimes.”
“Of course, there will be those who condemn the direct action [theft] described above.”
Yeah, I’m one of “those” who likes to call a thing what it is, especially when it’s criminal.
Advocating theft on any scale is unwise, bad advice.
“And they will do so while remaining blissfully unaware of or silent on the direct action of the super-wealthy that has plunged hundreds of millions into hardship and poverty.”
Blame the rich, productive and prosperous.
Justifying theft because others steal?
Universal theft “they steal, and, they steal big time, so it’s okay for me to steal,” sounds like a rotten prescription to me.
“Universal theft “they steal, and, they steal big time, so it’s okay for me to steal,” sounds like a rotten prescription to me.”
Why revolutions are followed by Anarchy followed by Draco Law?
But your argument has one flaw; I correct it here:
“Blame the rich, unproductive and over-prosperous.”
You think you are Clint Eastwood a loner riding into a city with your riffle?
If everybody in the city are robbing banks, you must follow their culture and rob a ban too. Other wise you will not survive. Sad, but that is just the way life is.
The people are revolting.
Finally the sheeple woke up.
But make sure to get your booster!
I bet these “anarchists” would have been enraged to physically attack unmasked people seeking buy food in that store 2 1/2 years ago…
As much as I liked what I heard here (dreams from a different era I guess), and Colin often does quite good articles, this one even more forward than usual, these are among the first thoughts that came to my mind as well, even though he himself is explicit about his personal stance on this. It was too easy to picture these folks on the front line of the true believers. The image came unbiden. I have few doubts many/most were. The second thought was the likely honey pot that was the process of organizing this (protest?). Oof. We have been, are being, well and truly mindf***ked. Please don’t pass the kool aid ™
There is no mention of covid or biosecurity, WEF or WHO on the activist website in question….
Why Colin’s article is headed, One Apple at a Time?
“Every householder sweeps his porch, and soon the whole town is clean” — Goethe, Lyrics.
Yes, I think that Un-Bidening is quite a good idea.
Interesting. Never seen that before. Posted a reply. It posted. Then it disappeared.
Why would that be?
Yep. No doubt about it. I don’t look at these ‘anarchist’ groups/actions the same way I did before covid.
To the victor then the spoils and as well as writing the history so shall the victor perpetuate the debt-based accounting system and accounting unit. To the victors shall also be awarded the newly minted unit of account rendering for them inflation a convenience not a curse, folding as inflation will the weaker hands Title: The Growing Disparity in Wealth Distribution and the Urgency for Meaningful Action In recent years, there has been a significant surge in the wealth of the world’s richest individuals and publicly traded companies, raising concerns about the widening wealth gap and its potential implications for society. The stark contrast between the financial prosperity of a select few and the economic challenges faced by the majority has sparked discussions about the urgent need for meaningful discourse and action to address these fundamental issues. The Wealth Disparity Trend The statistics are striking. The top 0.01% of US… Read more »
Good article.
“The wholly unavoidable conflict in Ukraine …”
Shouldn’t that be “avoidable”?
‘Dreamed up’
“Shouldn’t that be “avoidable”?
No, the conflict was intended to happen. Putin negotiated and negotiated for over 8 years during which NATZO’s Ukro-Zio-nazi puppet regime signed 3 Peace Agreements: Minsk1 Minsk2 and Istanbul. Meanwhile the Anglo-Zio-nazi regimes of U$ UK laughingly continued to poke the bear by slow genocide of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. NATZO intended its Zio-Ukro-Nazi attack dogs to be Russia’s Vietnam or Afghanistan: a slow drain on Russia’s resources via relentless low level conflict.
But the SMO turned out otherwise:
“The man recovered from the bite, the dog it was that died”.
supply chain issues did not effect the heroin and crack or alcohol
or junk food during covid.
any one would think they wanted everyone off there nuts.
“In a July 2021 report, Yahoo Finance noted that the richest 0.01% — around 18,000 US families — hold 10% of the country’s wealth today.
[A century ago] In 1913, the top 0.01% held 9% of US wealth [so no different from the present unequality].
[But in between 1913 and 2021 something catastrophic happened to the “top 0.01% and they held] just 2% in the late 1970s.”
As usual Colin Todhunter gets to the nub of the matter. What was the dreadful catastrophe that happened to the Uber-rich Uber-powerful “top U$ families”? I suggest they suffered a twofold calamity:
a. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
b. The Spectre of Communism hanging over the world.
Then the Empire Struck Back: Maggie Snatcher and Ronnie Raygun with their Gospel of Greed rescued the wealth of the socalled 0.01% “Elite” Families. So once again we are ruled by a nepotistic network of rich but incompetent nephews and neices.
Practically every aspect of the current social, economic & governance world-system has been carefully maneuvered into the jurisdiction of Commerce.
Unidroit, based in Rome, compile the international legal-code that UN corporate member(ship)-states consent to stand-under.
Citizen(ship) of the corporate-state fraudulently converts the population into legal-fictions through the registration process of their birth or naturalization.
All corporate Central Banks and their respective governor(ships) are controlled through the BIS, based in Switzerland.
It’s a clever pirate-system that relies on violence, deception & a form of mass Stockholm Syndrome. We do not consent.
the vatican and the crown who be the banka for them.
the role of attorney general office within uk private foreign corporation is conduit for unidroit uniform commercial code legal sleaze contract trick.
penetration parasite into goyim host.
front men come and go suella bravermann and dominic rabb khazar pirate
just foreign idiot cut out actors
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild financial dynasty and a personal friend of the Clinton family. De Rothschild became an advocate for inclusive capitalism after the 2008 financial crisis. Pope Francis, the head of the Vatican City State through his leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, has a founding advisory role with CICV and meets with its leaders annually.
waterloo couldnt escape if i wanted 2 water water water
Although I do commend this kind of direct action, there is something not quite right about IGD(“It’s going down)..
https://anarchistnews.org/content/how-intelligence-agents-hijacked-us-anarchist-movement-and-steered-it-dead-end I thought you should be aware, otherwise a nice article and many well made points Colin.
To the victor then the spoils and as well as writing the history so shall the victor perpetuate the debt-based accounting system and accounting unit. To the victors shall also be awarded the newly minted unit of account rendering for them inflation a convenience not a curse, folding as inflation will the weaker hands Title: The Growing Disparity in Wealth Distribution and the Urgency for Meaningful Action In recent years, there has been a significant surge in the wealth of the world’s richest individuals and publicly traded companies, raising concerns about the widening wealth gap and its potential implications for society. The stark contrast between the financial prosperity of a select few and the economic challenges faced by the majority has sparked discussions about the urgent need for meaningful discourse and action to address these fundamental issues. The Wealth Disparity Trend The statistics are striking. The top 0.01% of US… Read more »