or commodities and the war on drugs.( or what is now no longer called the war on drugs)
futures and commodities are the same thing..
nah..
coffee cocaine cocoa.. the boston tea party. coffee and the price .. prohibition prohibition.. slavery. pressure.. ratm..(rage against the machine..) gary webb.
the chinese I use to stay with drank tea. Mrs. Huang, one old northern lady used to say.. coffee is bad .. tea is good. it wasn’t some kind of economically driven prejudice ..favoring tea over coffee producers as I first suspected…. it was more about health . still we can only believe the studies that indicate that coffee isn’t so bad for you.. see wiki.
in the supermarket the cheapest kilo bag of coffeebeans I could find was au $15. I went to get some a few days ago.. I didn’t even check if it was Arabica or robusta. I don’t drink it so much.
people say its really really cheap.. coffee I mean... years of intensive work and land use for very little return with all the profits going to speculators…. the colombian farmers pulled out their plants and put in a cocaine crop instead. . I wonder why? years and years of rapacious exploitation by monopsonists? some kind of payback?? cant blame them really. business gone a bit bad. they say coffee futures are a pretty good bet… I don’t know what cocaine futures are worth.
for some reason i was thinking about Guantanamo bay when I woke up this morning and the legacy of the bush admin. ( maybe it was a picture of david hicks I saw…) but then I thought…mmmm best deal with the legacy of the Clintons first.. and the ‘war on drugs’. but then I realized that it was Nixon who started it.. but when exactly did the sorry story of u.s. ‘strategic’ involvement in south and central america really begin ??? the feelings generated in places like El Salvador.. Guatemala.. Honduras.. chile.. the list is so long.. the cia involvement. contras and drugs.. the murders.. direct and by proxy.. the list is very long. very duplicitous . very brutal.
cuba.. .. pull the curtain away and there really seems to be a pile of very dirty laundry indeed. bloody filthy laundry.
i dont know if anyone else sees the similarities to the british opium wars/ involvement in china. ( the ol' kick 'em while they're down policy)
its no wonder that movies like the pirates of the carribean are so popular. .. i’m serious. its an old trick. point the finger at someone or something else. confuse the situation. obfuscate. distract. evade.
it’s a can of worms.. its no wonder the usa doesn’t recognise the authority of the world court..
the truth however will out.
people qualified with real knowledge of the situation have written and acted.
hugo chavez for example thought george bush was satan. he certainly didn’t make a secret about it. heheheh. spend even a short time finding out why and the reasons are pretty clear.
believing that obama can solve the problem is like believing in santa claws. stuff like this will take years and years to come out in the wash.
don’t worry too much about the coffee futures,, cocaine leaves too deep a stain.
there is a ad for the movie spun above. seen it?
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