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Meet The Burmese "Slaves" Helping Wal-Mart Maintain Margins
Peak globalization? Burmese men, women and children are being sold to factories in Thailand - "no names are used, just numbers" - and forced to peel shrimp that ends up in global supply chains. As a recent AP investigation uncovered, U.S. customs records show the shrimp made its way into the supply chains of major U.S. food stores and retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, Whole Foods, Dollar General and Petco, along with restaurants such as Red Lobster and Olive Garden.
Shrimp is the most-loved seafood in the U.S., with Americans downing 1.3 billion pounds every year, or about 4 pounds per person. Once a luxury reserved for special occasions, it became cheap enough for stir-fries and scampis when Asian farmers started growing it in ponds three decades ago. Thailand quickly dominated the market and now sends nearly half of its supply to the U.S.
And the way to keep those prices low enough for a stagnant-wage-earning America... "slavery"
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Slavery, coming soon to a neighborhood near you, thanks to the TPP.
there's shrimp soup, shrimp salad, shrimp cakes, shrimp sandwich, shrimp gumbo, shrimp tacos ...
Shrimp slaves...
Just wait till you see who builds the iStuff
But but but... I learned in school that only evil white men ever owned slaves!!
i think zerohedge user 'coinhead' really hates you
No wonder Mrs K was really pissed at me when I laughed at her when she was screaming about her shrimp looking like small children's pink fingers.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/thailands-junta-chief-urges-fugitive-whistle...
Mr Paween told reporters after arriving in Melbourne last week, where he plans to seek political asylum, that many soldiers, police and politicians are involved in Thailand's human trafficking networks. "Unfortunately those bad police and bad military are the ones that have power," he said.
A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, "plate," or "shrimp," or "plate of shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.
"Blood Shrimp" ~ Blood Diamonds.
No one screams 'bout it or boycotts Thailand (like they did South Africa) 'cause they ain't the diverse peeples.
Where's Sharpton, Jesse, and all those NPR yelling 'liberals?'
Peeples are peeples no matter what and it's very sad.
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As soon as the Soviet Empire and communism collapsed our monied elites, not having to show well versus the competing empire, couldn't ship middle class jobs out of America fast enough and it's still going on. The takeaway message is clear that we are all peasants to the bankster class.
who cares
being an in industrial slave is a rite of passage
savour these moments because before you know it you'll have a mortgage and a netflix subscription
Whose rite?
+1 for the Repo Man quote.
John Wayne was fag.
You know how many ties I got.... Must be 50 of 'em. They all silk, everyone of them.....
Race is just a distraction.
You are either psychopathic or you are not.
They are the 'sides' in the battle that must be fought.
Dermal melanin levels have nothing to do with it, really.
Same goes for religion, just more divide and conquer.
That's right. It's the slaves fault for becoming slaves in the first place.
"They axed for it" ... right.
Please think.
If someone has overwhelming advantages over you, in terms of weapons and logistics, YOU will be a slave, I'd bet.
Ummm we already are in one way or another.
Thanks, sometimes Captain Obvious is necessary for the more dense.
Dermal melanin concentration is just one aspect of race, but continue parroting feel-good propaganda that's been around since at least the 1960s. Cuz it's worked soooo well binding humanity thus far.
Let's all sing kumbaya while we encircle psychopaths and radiate them with our love.
If there's parroting going on, I think you could give lessons.
The concept or 'race' is just a concept used against humanity by those who want control.
You seem to have fallen for it.
So that's why most people choose a mate who looks similiar? Because the psychopaths who control this world fool or force them? The logic of someone very naive.
You must also think a species just spontaneously creates itself in one generation from a perfect set of mutations...?
When you have a coherent thought, let me know.
Until then, I'll likely ignore you.
WTF?!
So have you not chosen a mate yet, or did you pick one outside of your race?
Morpheus to Neo : "You're a Slave "
saw the Matrix in 1999 - lots to take in, but that line in the movie stuck - kind of like when a child in bible school we studied the new testament - the Old Testament - well, some other day ... we'll get back to that later ....
then 9/11 ... invade Iraq ... terrible atrocities ... internet flowers and people like Bill Still and G Edward Griffin tell us about the money fraudsters ... what the FED is ...
papers please Mr. & Mrs. America, and turn them guns in while you're at it .....
IRS : sorry Mr. Anderton, you have a 2, 377.50 balance due ... I'm sorry but you won't be getting on the plane today. I'd suggest you make other arrangements.....
.... You're a Slave Ms C and Buckaroo Banzai ... and I am too ....
now internally we may become NEO and become the FORCE .... we are not the "Slaves" you're looking for, Mr. Internal Revenue ... have a good day :) ....
Buckaroo Banzai - Read this book "White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves. Merry Christmas.
"I learned in school that only evil white men ever owned slaves!!"
You have to believe the AP to believe this story, which I don't...
Slavery? I don't see Slavery... no sir..what we have here is a ZERO Dollar minimum wage!
What's wrong with people willing to work for nothing? If they are unhappy, they're free to jump off the roof!
Slavery is a small price to pay to ensure the Darden's CEO yearly compensation package of $4,268,914.00
The most damnable thing is that I love shrimp, always have.
Here's the real issue, I hate to break it to the ignorant masses - but here ya go...........
This is all driven by choices the consumer makes. Yes, you vote with your dollars!
Just try growing and processing and selling shrimp any other way than is being done now. You will quickly go out of business. Why? Simple. 99% of people go straight for the cheapest price.
THIS, and nothing else, is the reason everything is being degraded from quality of products to treatment of workers.
Fact is, the consumers are the people who choose to support this NOT the businesses.
Chances are YOU are deciding to support poor quality products, slave labor, and so much more simply by your purchases decisions.
It is indeed a bitter pill to swallow when you come to understand you yourself are responsible. You have to admit it and change your purchasing habits or shut the hell up,
Thick skulls are difficult to penetrate.
And Shrimp slaves, apparently.
I worry about the kind of world my children are growing up in.
I, for one, prefer Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon shrimp over Burmese(Myanmarnese?) shrimp any day.
Your comment is rather distasteful when considering the people that died on that rig when it exploded... You like blood on your shrimp?
Fukker likes corexit and oil on the shrimp, I think. Vs. slave blood sweat and tears. There is always blood on anything we eat...Anything at all you did not grow yourself.
Damn, Girl. Thanks for the pep talk!
The origin of all store/restaurant bought food is really a total crapshoot now, thanks to our sellout 'representatives' in govt. Seafood especially. I miss sushi...
.. and besides, if you grow it yourself, and get your own blood on it - it's nobody else's damned business.
uhhh, what about the tens of thousands of others who have lost their life in the gulf & Carribean over the past 200 years....let's not forget them. I like pirates. pass the pirate blood shrimp please...
me too SheepFraker, just slides down the gullet like it was GE'd with some kind of superslick Pennzoil or somthin ' !
geez Keyser, wake up on the wrong side of bed today ? / keep it flat !
Actually, it is a step up from what the Thais usually do with them which is to sell them to a brothel.
And there's that.
Dude, that's just wrong. I laughed a lot, but it's wrong.
Seriously
Heading to Thailand on Friday. Which should I be on the lookout for? Shrimp or Brothels?
jb
James - just keep your sniffer clean & on the up & up - when you detect a double-duty aroma, you can be in and out with a full belly and empty load and only out 10 baht....
make our day, shake it baby, don't stir it!
Hey James...give Marc Farber a ring. If you do get back to us on how the trip went.
I'd stay away from the shrimp, James, you don't want to know what goes into those ponds.
Well, sometimes it's best for the kiddies of ZH not to know "about some things" (other places in the world whose views on culture and morals are not anywhere the same as ours) as they rant & rave about their superiority & equality while driving themselves into absolute epileptic fits and falling off into the holes they themselves dug.
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Ahem...so anyways, expanding, we are told that "we" are NOT "exceptional" that ALL CULTURES AND MORALS are equal and should be taken into proper consideration and context when making judgements.
Yeah...how much of that is really a true belief and how much just a handy cudgel to bludgeon with ;-)
- seriously, Knuks ?
say, where's that Lorazepam Jam ?
lighten up Francis, and pass that jam when you find it :)
Are slaves also peeling shrimp in China and Vietnam?
I always check food labels to see where it comes from.
In many instances I've found frozen shrimp from China and Vietnam at prices like the shrimp from Thailand.
This post about Burmese slaves peeling shrimp just does not ring true.
By the way check where your apple juice comes from the next itme that you go to the store: China, Poland, Argentina, Brazil ...
My supermarket sells bundles of firewood from Eastern Europe. I don't get it.
Cheap seafood? Americans will turn the other way and call you a "left-wing radical" if this means intefering with affordable shrimp cocktail.
Slavery is already in your neighborhood, the government takes what you have and redistributes it, keeping some for themselves. You are probably a slave and you don't even think of it that way.
'Whole Foods'...???!!!
You mean, the 'Fair trade'-50-different-ways-'till-Sunday, 'no-rabbits-were-harmed', white-bread-gated-community patrons 'Whole Foods'...?
Yeah, who admitted lying through their teeth about their labeling and sell the very same crap as everybody else at inflated prices to the overly wealthy Birkenstock crowd who usually roll in their Priuses.
They should market them as cesium and CoreExit free, and they wouldn't need any slaves.
Uncle Sam would not go for that. You can't even label GM / ^GM.
THAT SHRIMP GOES EVERWHERE. WHEN EATING AT BUBBA GUMP'S IN GATLINBURG I ASKED THE MGR WHERE THEY GET IT ALL AND HE SAID THAILAND
So, did it taste any different than the shrimp caught by Vietnamese boat people in the GOM?
That's not good because Thailand has a lot of fresh water shrimp that come from their raw sewage rivers. I made the mistake of ordering some in Bangkok thinking they were out of the Pacific, I took one bite and spit it in my napkin. I asked where the shrimp came from and he pointed out the window at the River of Kings. The same river that has killed Westerners just by getting some splash on their face.
They also farm shrimp and gawd knows how that goes down.
Tilapia is commonly farmed in shit water.
yes, but farm fresh Tilapia are breeded to have only the greenest, freshest gill to filter out all uncouth shitwater ... be confident when buying farmed Tilapia and Chilean Sea Bass, for that matter also ... Sustainable Living Through ShitFiltering
Get out in the countryside and try the black medecin chicken. You'll run for days.
Stay away from the laap luet or you'll be running for days while sitting down if you know what I mean.
We are what we eat. Once soylent green is our main source of subsistence we can at least feel proud of our own contribution. And we will not need to feel guilty over who's more the slave.
The future's so bright I gotta wear shades
Those shrimp rings taste not so good anyways.
We have that here in america....... just a little higher scale.
This is why money is debt.
So, you're sayin the millions of pounds of shrimp consumed at global warming conferences was "the good shrimp".
Got it.
Never frozen, flown fresh in 747 cargo jets .....
You fuckin' betcha!
AGW hoaxers ....
For just 10 cents a day, you can adopt a shrimp destined for the plate of an elite or bureaucratic snob trying to SAVE THE FUCKING PLANET! by flying all the way around it in their jets to various conferences and along with your donation we'll send you a picture of your adoptive shrimp.
Knuk's I'm seriously thinking about opening a GoFundMe account ;-)
S/b "GovScrewedMeHelp" website.
nm,
your remark is ... insanely humorous
r
These days, I think we all have to be a little insane to really appreciate the madness of it ;-)
Obama signed the bill to eliminate country of origin label for food in 2015 - Meat is now - mystery meat - to include shrimp.
raised in Vietnamese ponds adjacent to the Mekong River supplied with endless life giving source of effluent from the River - the shrimp are maintained with heavy doses of antibiotics
The ObamaBots have no choice but to keep this chirade going until cancer wipes them out
Is this going to give slave labor a bad name?
I have no problem with slavery as long as it is done Ethically
Not until it's revealed that the swearing in ceremony for #BlackLivesMatter membership consists of using a tube for stuffing ducks & geese full of corn to make foie gras for "the honorable John Kerry" in the basement of the WH.
Until then, you and I are on the outside looking in ;-)
OBAMA SIGNED... Yes!... but WHO pushed the Bill through the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS and set the fucken bill on his desk?
Michael Conaway (R-TX).
Obama DOESN'T DO SHIT without Republican APPROVAL AND FUNDING!
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/congress-may-repeal-country-of-origin-food-labeling-law-060815.html
“This bill is a targeted response that will remove uncertainty and restore stability for the United States by bringing us back into compliance,” said committee chairman Michael Conaway (R-TX).“We must do all we can to avoid retaliation by Canada and Mexico, and this bill accomplishes that through full repeal of labeling requirements for beef, pork, and chicken.”
Oddly enough, no shrimp.
You should be careful of Trojan Horses ;-)
This is why we all need to grow our own. Self-sufficiency = freedom.
You have a lot to learn (that is okay); there is no difference between a Republican & Democratic; Congress is to give the illusion we have a Constitution. Bonus: Presidents are selected, not elected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs
Odd, here in NH all shrimp have country of origin. I've never seen a bag without country of origin. I won't buy Thai nor Indian shrimp but do buy Indonesian shrimp they seem to taste much better.
Antibiotics: I'm sure you are correct on that.
we should bear in mind also that US approved (FDA) to send meat / chickens to china and send it back to us as processed "foods" ... no labels required, or course ....
maybe Phil Collins can do a remix of his classic "No Jacket" tune .....
no, that was wrong, right....?
loved Phil with Genesis ...
So I don't get it...
Are they saying the slaves are small?
Junk away, I deserve it.
Shrimp sized slaves
You and you alone indulge me in my evil. When I saw you were on upthread I knew I could count on you!
nice one Knuks ! MsC givin' you a wide-open TouchDown ! Hit It!
say, howz aboutz we Zeros get a few Chalet's up @ the Swiss Retreats, maybe, Verbier ... or ... Davos ?.... I'll buy the first 6 rounds for Knuks & MsC , what say you to that ? :))
Sorry but shit like this does not surprise me any more. We have left the sane world and crossed over to fraud and deception long ago. Waiting around for the final collapse has left me exhaused. But I like me some shrimps - not so sure I eat four pounds a year like the video assumes.
I do not eat shell fish - and yet, I am not a jew ...
(what does that mean?)
You're a Muslim?
HA!
(no)
Well...it was a shot in the dark ;-)
Just a pervert living in the parents basement.
Oh Crock .. now what would Jesus say abooot people living in their parents basement ?
I thought this article was going to be about female Thai sex-slaves having their clothes pealed off in a sweaty jungle prison by Pam Grier ...
(this other reality saddens me)
oh - you're thinking about the "Beach" movie crew who never left Thailand ....
one of them was Pam Grier's daughter, who stayed behind and became the Tyrannical Goddess Ruler of the desolate beach tribe.... they import the Burmese as indentured servants ....
slaves is such a _______word ...
Enjoy Swimming to Cambodia
Aw come on, peeling the shrimp is the cushy job! The hardcore slaves are used on the boats to catch the crap that is used to feed to the shrimp.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/10/supermarket-pr...
Meanwhile we eat all we can eat, get fat, develope health problems and make the pharmaceutical industry and health industry rich. It's win win for the elite.
This has been going on a long time - 20 years at least. Thais don't do this hard manual stuff anymore. Burma, Cambodia and Lao do all the heavy lifting. With Burnese most abused - there all in the sex trade as well.
This has been going on at least 5K plus years; it is man's history & future.
I like Burma, but 300 years ago, they did destroy Ayutthaya. "Ayutthaya, the former capital of Siam, was home to more than a million people in the 1700s. It was a huge trading centre in the middle of the world that brought together merchants from places like Japan, Holland and Portugal. During a period when modern Australia didn’t exist and the United States was just a colonial outpost, this city was flourishing from its location at the epicentre of international commerce."
Globalism and corporatism mask these abuses and many more.
No only is there is no free lunch; -there is no cheap lunch either.
But but but... I learned in Econ101 that the Laws Of Comparative Advantage say that everybody wins! Yay! Free trade!!
WW III doesn't sound like a bad idea - give the world back to the cockroaches, humanity doesn't deserve it...
Made a T shirt of this a 2006.
Made life complicated.
http://s25.postimg.org/yxhlcud73/ATBH.jpg
a friend who worked with Morgan Stanley back in the day, gave me a hat with the USA flag on the front and emblazoned on the back "Extraordinary Times Extraordinary People" ...
i wore it with two buttons - one in blue and white stripes "Proud to Be American - Ashamed of My Government" and the Jimi Hendrix quote "When the Power of Love Overcomes the Love of Power We Will Have Peace" ....thousands of people must've read that .....
never underestimate your own "billboard" potential
"... humanity doesn't deserve it..."
Speak for the kind of human that you are, not for me and billions of life caring humans.
Apple and Nike get away with it. Making shoes and tech for pennies on the dollar and they charge through the nose for it in the USA and Canada.
Think about it. Apple has well over 100 billion cash last time I looked months or a year ago. That is more than many countries have in the bank. For a stupid phone and some pads? Come on, at least pay your people enough to live right, you can afford it. Same goes for Nike and a slew of others.
I would close the borders to to all imports. You want to do business here, make it here. It would enable more people to afford their products and take people off welfare and food stamps. If what is left of the middle class doesn't take a stand, it won't happen and we'll all be slaves.
Don't cry 'protectionism'. It is the only sane alternative at this point, even if we have to pay more.
<---->TARIFFS & EMBARGOES. NOW.
<---->FUCK 'EM. THEY AIN'T MY KIDS.
+1 TARIFFS & EMBARGOES. NOW.
The shrimp are ass nasty anyway. The slavery just adds shittyness to an already shitty product that should not be consumed by anyone, anyway.
Of course they do. Apple, Nike and a hundred thousand other brands. Anyone familiar with the supply chain of the importing corporations have known about this shit for decades.
In the early days, one argued that the cost of living disparities between the makers and buyers - the 3rd world manufacturers and consumers were such that it made for an absolute bonanza for all the middlemen and agencies. Millionaires were made in the supply chain overnight for delivering a few containers and all you had to do was go to the source and buy what they wanted at home for prices that did not make any sense.
Now that the cost of living and FX are up and static, the same corporatist fuckers are moving around the 3rd world and actually enslaving people to work at factories like Apple's Foxconn. Enduring not just "Bad conditions", but 21st century slavery you read about in sci-fi when you were a sprog. The bigger the brand, the bigger their crimes against humanity, using local psychos so they can always plead ignorance even though they hired them, funded them, set them up and ran them. A bit like how the CIA/Mossad set up ISIS.
I KNOW. I've seen it with my own eyes over a decade ago. You want to be conscience free? BUY LOCAL, wherever you are. As for Braeburn Capital, it epitomises the corruption, exceptionalist bullshit that make peasants out of the tax paying public.
When the industrial jobs do come to America; it will be with Chinese masters...bank on it; the changing of the guard has been determined...just a few desperados not wanting to give up or haven't raped and pillaged enough.
++++1000
buy local - Colorado craftbrewers give us the best - however, must give the hattip to
Sierra Nevada tonight... enjoying the Torpedo Extra IPA ....
and say a prayer for the PACHA NYC crew.... ending 11 years run in New York City....
12/12/15 closing party - January will have more.... that's it folks !
Just think...If it wasn't for EBTs they might not have a job...
EBTs are corporate welfare... the "poor" are just proxies to facilitate the money delivery and serve as the villains.
See Mr. Carlin on 'classes'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko35qhKnRXs
When I was a kid in India people ate meat (Chicken, Goat) probably 3-4 times a year and it was a luxury to do so. Fast forward 15-20 yrs, these new Indian kids can't eat a meal without meat. KFC is full of kids with bowls of chicken pieces. Its all reminescence of a barbaric world. I just got back from India, if this goes on India would need many more doctors than what we have or people wil just die day in and day out. The recycling is occuring. It is occuring at a very fast pace. I can't wait to see an E coli or a mad cow infection crush through the population of kolkata every other year. Big pharma has to go to India. America is not a money machine.
When I was a kid in India people ate meat (Chicken, Goat) probably 3-4 times a year and it was a luxury to do so. Fast forward 15-20 yrs, these new Indian kids can't eat a meal without meat. KFC is full of kids with bowls of chicken pieces. Its all reminescence of a barbaric world. I just got back from India, if this goes on India would need many more doctors than what we have or people wil just die day in and day out. The recycling is occuring. It is occuring at a very fast pace. I can't wait to see an E coli or a mad cow infection crush through the population of kolkata every other year. Big pharma has to go to India. America is not a money machine.
So where are you know indian kid ?
What's really sad is that those kids might be the lucky ones, many of the Burmese kids are probably being sold into the Thai sex market. How bad off do you have to be to end up as Thailands foreign slave class? The Burmese have always gotten the shit end of the stick.
I read a really good book about a Thai Burma border area called "Restless Souls.. Rebels, refugees, medics and misfits on the Thai-Burma border" by Phil Thornton. Apparently, it's not uncommon for ex military who are war junkies to fight occasionally for the Karen people as a hobby of sorts, maybe they were trying to forgive themselves for past transgressions, there are probably other things going on as well. The history of that area is fascinating and yet horrifically tragic.
Most hairless apes seem to think that humans are somehow not animals.
You only have to watch closely for a short time to see that this is false.
To go one (maybe 2 or 3) step(s) further, read 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins.
Please don't go commenting on the author if you haven't read the stuff.
Makes you look silly.
Just trying to save time and effort.
Richard Dawkins; making money his entire life on disputing, not only the obvious, but that which he says doesn't exist.
A fool spends his entire life refuting something that doesn't exist, the bigger fools buy it both literally and figuratively. Very American.
So, my question to you is......
How much have you read?
See previous comment.
logicman - I like your posts, but Richard Dawkins has his head stuck in the Newtonian/ Cartesian world view. "There's more between Heaven and Earth than you can find in your philosophy books." Shakespeare was right. I don't see any place for consciousness in his depressing descriptions of what's going on. Maybe I haven't read enough Dawkins. Suggest something.
correct - Dawkins is one of the key figures of the science fraud cult - just as much as the "climate change" fraudsters tout bogus stats ... Dawkins is equally guilty of his role in the fraudulent "science" numbers mumbogumbo ...
we've been lied to folks ...under the guise of "math" ....question their fraudulent equations and , e voila, you're not in the "club" ....
I see where you get your name from, now!
yes Sirreee Bob, Mr. Lovely Logical :
Supertramp – The Logical Song Lyrics When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.
There are times when all the world's asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're
Acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!
At night, when all the world's asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am. Songwriters: DAVIES, RICHARD / HODGSON, ROGER
The Logical Song lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Westerners see slavery as an aberration, an offense to the natural order. In fact, freedom is the aberration, hard to gain and easy to lose. If you have no land, no savings, and no skills in demand, what exactly are you "free" to do? Go on welfare, become someone's bitch, or starve to death. Most people don't have the first option, and those in "rich" countries won't have it much longer.
Name a single person in history who ever had true freedom as it is defined. Then name a single person who ever lived who is/was not enslaved.
The answer is no man has had freedom and all are enslaved, but liberty is a different "animal" altogether; limited ability to make selective choices. Just saying that terms reveal the truth of a matter, but illusions are more favorable.
here it is, Crocodile - http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/buddasa.pdf
want to be a better Christian ? better woman? better man?
here is the unadulterated BUDDHA Wisdom - direct not diluted .
the wisdom of Buddhism explains "illusion" and the guidebook to see through it and become Enlightened.
No Police State ... No Creed wars No Class BS ... No Religious Dogma ...
NoRayzist Sexist BS....
Pure Enlightened Bliss.... become an Arahant ! Live & Breath the 4 Noble Truths
The American indian male before white people arrived. His sole occupation was hunting buffalo, stealing horses, and raiding the next tribe over. The squaws, not so much.
DaveA What can somebody do if he has no money, land or posessions?
If he's Burmese and not phsyicaly restrained by guns or chains or whatever, he can go out into the still vast forest/jungle and make a nice life for himself.
Maybe he'll never own an iPhone, but he will have great food and water in a beautiful setting and without the peculiar stresses of modern, Western life.
Do you remember Cyclone Nargis? The Burmese government would not allow a lot of relief aid. My West Coast liberal aquaintances were crying about "starving" people who's rice crops were destroyed. The people just switched to more fish, frogs, and local greens and shoots for awhile. The point is. It's the Tropics and in SEAsia, much of it is still lightly populated.
If that jungle isn't already packed with thousands of other people attempting to do the same thing, there's probably a good reason. E.g. periodic floods, deadly mosquitoes, tigers, etc.
The Scottish Highlands are also lightly populated because the English burned all the houses and drove out the people so they could graze sheep on the land. I'll bet that happens a lot in Burma.
I have the on the ground experience, but you can go to Google Earth and fly around Burma. Incredible forests still exist. Speaking of population density, the most dense tiger population in the World is in Kachin State. Ok, you cannot go there right now because the local ethnic war just turned hot again, but you can see some wide open spaces still exist. The world doesn't always fit our preconceptions. The terrain is difficult.
I don't each much shellfish but when I do, I eat lobster. Stay hungry, my friends.
Lobster is the Devil's shellfish.
Lobsters are giant, armor plated, seagoing cockroaches.
Yeah, but they're yummy seagoing cockroaches! Esp. with butter and a little bit of garlic.
yeah, i've yet to see a cockroach with a 2 pound tail just begging to be cooked & buttered !
I'm no animal rights activist...but I cringe thinking of cooking something to death in boiling water.
These busty young Thai sex workers are forced to cover themselves in lubricant and other oils and greases and to wrestle each other in pits of KY jelly.
(truly monstrous)
Shrimp slave is not politicially correct. Short slave, height challenged slave is better.
Coerced Crustecean Custodians.
Remember at Target you're not a shopper you're a guest!
Ask em what time dinner is and do they mind if you sleep over tonight cause you don't feel like driving home.
Semantics are the antics that keep the brainwashed guessin.
you are ON the BUS, my friend and Merry Merry Prankster !
Furthurrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USSA is currently in the process of slipping back a few centuries to 3rd World status. We can only hope our workplace dormitories are nicer than China's.
doom & goomy moonymac & cheese head - duuude, !
sigh ! - facepalm .... we do have our problems ... but slipping into 3rd world dorms of Guangdong is not one of them ....
I'm boycotting all shrimp products in restaurants and supermarkets.
I believe they are relatives of the Thai slaves pealing our shrimps.
TPP (on crack)
After the US dollar loses its reserve status, those kinds of jobs will eventually appear in the US. Then, Roger Moore can make another movie.