284° 

X files 

S02e15 - Fresh Bones (voodoo haitiano)

I [ don't] want to believe

The truth is [not] out there

Quantas das principais teorias da conspiração das últimas décadas surgiram ou foram impulsionados pelo Arquivo X?

02/11/2021, 

283º - 5ª - 9ª
5ª viagem ao redor da cidade

 9ª árvore de 2021

após a Grande Árvore Mãe

, Av. Geraldo Marques, s.n.

, em um terreno de descarte de entulho

, pouco antes do córrego

, corpo de bombeiros

, tg 04-32 

Eu germino as mudas de abacateiro, mangueira e laranjeira.

Essa é de abacateiro.

Tenho umas 20 prontas para plantar,

mais umas 20 em germinação avançada.

Algumas maiores,

outras menores.

Caso se interesser em plantar,
preferencialmente em áreas públicas na cidade,
só comentar em qualquer das postagens sobre árvores plantadas,
no
no instagram

https://www.instagram.com/vanres1974/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVyllXevvqx1ZTCx11TiKCnlilXRhBdpPV_Ne00/

Por VanRes, 02/11/2021 v.01.e7;a47 (02/11/2021, 19:15 as 19:45)

5ª viagem ao redor da cidade

 

272°

lápis 

vários lápis 

mais de 15 

pretos azuis verdes 

aponto, testo o grafite,  coloco na caixa azul para uso futuro, quatro menores na mochila,

um para cada dia de trabalho

aparas longas  com abas verdes, 

granuladas com abas pretas

tento deixar pontas 

bem feitas 

brilhantes

grafites

finos

 talvez comprar um apontador de lápis mecânicos 

via em filmes na sessão da tarde

continuo apontando este

estava com dois terços 

do tamanho original

embreve terá 1/2

consegui, mas

reduzido

a terço

além das cores variadas 

há os tons das madeiras e dos grafites

alguns são tão antigos

há tanto tempo não apontados

perderam a cor natural da madeira 

a tinta desgastada

parece ser um 2b

encontro um 6B

lembro de foto 

desenhando 

cavaleiro 

das trevas

apontado

quebrado

descascado

o lápis antigo 

depois da primeira rodada 

volta a ter madeira rosada

chegou a um quarto do tamanho

continuar com outro 

verde 

tom e tipo 

divergente

uma ponta de grafite trava o apontador 

sem reservatorio que se perdeu

 eu terminar você que casca não quebra a. 

encontro mais três 

na gaveta da cômoda

caixa azul de segredos

um deles com borrachinha acoplada

um laranja e um dourado um vermelho

amanhece girando girando

Por VanRes, 23/10/2021 (03:05 as 3:35, v03.e7.a47, 25/10/2021, 05:50 as 06:13; 02/11/2021, 05:31/05:58)

2a versao

272°

apontando lápis 

vários lápis 

mais de 15 

 pretos azuis verdes 

aponto, testo o grafite, coloco na caixa azul para uso futuro

 quatro na mochila, menores, um para cada dia de trabalho

 aparas longas com abas verdes, granuladas com abas pretas

 deixo as pontas bem feitas finas brilantes

 talvez comprar daqueles apontadores de lápis mecânicos que apareciam em filmes

tento apontar um que estava com dois terços do tamanho original em breve chegará a 1/2

consegui

reduzido a um terço do tamanho

a ponta nem está boa

mas desisto

além das tiras externas coloridas

 há os tons da madeira dos grafites

alguns são tão antigos, há tanto tempo não apontados, que perderam a cor natural da madeira

Parece ser um Faber Castell

Não consigo Rapunzel. 

Melhor grafite, você perdeu. 

aponto os lápis 

observo a cidade e a neblina 

ouço os malditos galos as 3:15

 o lápis, mesmo antigo, tem madeira rosada 

depois da primeira rodada do apontador 

 quebrado e descascado

um deles com borrachinha acoplada

chegou a um quarto tamanho

continuar com outro verde mais um pouco diferente 

Madeira não é Rosácea. 

um pedaço de grafite trava o apontador 

sem reservatorio que se perdeu

 eu terminar você que casca não quebra a. 

primeira camada Rosácea 

trabalho 

 

um laranja e um Dourado um vermelha

acho mais três na gaveta da cômoda. 

caixa de segredos

quando der reabro

amanheço girando girando

272°

lápis 

vários lápis 

mais de 15 

 pretos azuis verdes 

aponto, testo o grafite, coloco na caixa azul para uso futuro, quatro na mochila, menores, um para cada dia de trabalho

 aparas longas com abas verdes, granuladas com abas pretas

tento deixar pontas bem feitas 

 brilhantes

finas

 talvez comprar um daqueles apontadores de lápis mecânicos que via em filmes da sessão da tarde

continuo tentando apontar um que estava com dois terços do tamanho original

em breve chegará a 1/2

consegui

mas a ponta nem está boa

desisto

reduzido a um terço

além das cores variadas há os tons das madeiras e dos grafites

alguns são tão antigos

há tanto tempo não apontados

perderam a cor natural da madeira 

a tinta está desgastada

parece ser um 2b

encontro um 6B

lembro de foto desenhando cavaleiro das trevas

aponto 

observo a cidade

malditos galos às 3:15

quebrado e descascado

o lápis antigo 

depois da primeira rodada 

volta a ter madeira rosada

chegou a um quarto tamanho

continuar com outro verde mas com tom e tipo diferente 

uma ponta de grafite trava o apontador 

sem reservatorio que se perdeu

 eu terminar você que casca não quebra a. 

primeira camada Rosácea 

trabalho 

 

acho mais três na gaveta da cômoda

caixa de segredos

um deles com borrachinha acoplada

um laranja e um Dourado um vermelha

quando der reabro

amanheço girando girando 

Por VanRes, 23/10/2021 (03:05 as 3:35, v03.e7.a47, 25/10/2021, 05:50 as 06:13)

 279° - 1a árvore de 2021

Plantada em torno de maio de 2021

4° ano seguido que planto neste local

Créditos: VanRes1974

 hesitancy over the vaccines, recorted from Jonathan Cook

For decades our media have preferred to focus on the problems caused by drunk drivers, or speeding motorists, or even car pollution. But these issues, however significant they are in our daily lives, are overshadowed by the far more terrifying reality that our car and oil-dependent economies are taking a suicidal toll on our species by destroying the climate.

Fixating on one can be a way to avoid thinking about the other.

Something similar seems to be happening with Covid. We fixate on vaccines and “anti-vaxxers”, on mandates and passports – on blaming each other – rather than the reality that our societies and our social contracts were long ago hollowed out by corporate interests that captured the state.

If there is hesitancy over the vaccines it is because a portion of society is not afraid enough of the virus either to overcome their fear of a pharmaceutical industry that long ago put profits ahead of people or to set aside their doubts about the capture of our regulatory authorities by those same corporations.

 

https://www.unz.com/jcook/is-forced-isolation-of-the-unvaccinated-really-the-lefts-answer-to-the-pandemic/

 

+ As the reconciliation bill is ripped apart one vital program (prescription drugs, paid family leave, clean energy program) after another (free community college, expanded Medicare coverage for vision & dental, corporate and billionaire tax hikes), I wonder if the Democrats feel like they are participating in their own political autopsy? It looks like that to an outsider.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/29/roaming-charges-32/

 

logistics, supply chain, real state
“Tighter Warehouse Space Adds to the Supply-Chain Squeeze” [Wall Street Journal].
“‘Space in our markets is effectively sold out,’ said Thomas Olinger, chief financial officer of logistics real-estate firm Prologis Inc., in an Oct. 15 earnings call. ‘In the last 90 days, supply-chain dislocations have become even more pronounced, with customers acting with a sense of urgency to secure the space they need.’…. The squeeze on distribution space is adding to the broader congestion in supply chains, from tight container shipping capacity to backups at inland rail hubs, that has locked down inventory restocking efforts and dragged down economic recovery efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic. Space has been particularly hard to find near U.S. ports as shippers and logistics companies seek out warehouses to store containers and goods. The surging demand for warehouse space since the pandemic began has been driven by the move by consumers to online shopping and efforts by retailers to position goods closer to their customers for faster delivery. After the pandemic moved more shopping online, ‘a good percentage of that behavior change, it turns out, has stuck,’ said John Morris, who leads CBRE’s industrial and logistics business in the Americas.”
NK
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/10/200pm-water-cooler-10-27-2021.html

275° 

e a aurora em conselheiro lafayete

na quebra do jejum 

enquanto o sol 

banha 

len

ta

men

te os 

caminhos de queluz e

o campo triste dos carijós 

Por VanRes, 29/03/2021, v02.e7.a47

e um estudo 

da aurora em Conselheiro Lafayete

no breakfast/quebra do jejum 

enquanto o sol 

banha 

lentamente 

o Campo Alegre dos Carijós

e os caminhos de Queluz

Manufacturing and logistic: 

“Chinese magnesium shortage: Global car industry to grind to a halt within weeks amid ‘catastrophic’ halt” [New Zealand Herald (dk)]. 

 

“The world’s largest carmakers and other users of aluminium could be forced to halt production within weeks amid a ‘catastrophic’ shortage of magnesium across Europe. Magnesium is a key material used in the production of aluminium alloys, which are used in everything from car parts to building materials and food packaging. China has a near-monopoly on global magnesium manufacturing, accounting for 87 per cent of production, but the Chinese government’s efforts to reduce domestic power consumption amid rising energy prices have slowed output to a trickle since September 20. In Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, the world’s main magnesium production hubs, 25 plants had to shut down and five further plants slashed production by 50 per cent as a result of the power cuts Europe is expected to run out of magnesium stockpiles by the end of November. On Friday, a group of European industry associations representing cars, metals, packaging and other sectors issued a joint statement warning of the ‘catastrophic impact’ of the production cuts, which they said had already resulted in an ‘international supply crisis of unprecedented magnitude’. The statement called for urgent action from the EU Commission and national governments to work with China to stave off the ‘imminent risk of Europe-wide production shutdowns.'” 

...

 

Mr Horter promised another update within weeks but warned "in the meantime, you may want to consider letting your customer base know of this silicon and magnesium availability crisis and also let them know that other products or inputs needed for making billet or slab may also reach a crisis point".

 ...

...  the current crisis was a "clear example of the risk the EU is taking by making its domestic economy dependent on Chinese imports".

Europe has grown almost entirely dependent on China for magnesium since Chinese dumping forced the closure of Europe's remaining magnesium production plant in 2001.

"Between 2000 and 2021, China's magnesium production increased from 12 per cent of the global supply to 87 per cent, creating an effective international monopoly on a 1.2 million tonnes per annum market demand," European Aluminium's report said.

"The magnesium sector is only one in a long list of production leakages since the early 1990s.

"European primary aluminium production alone has lost more than 30 per cent of its capacity since 2008. In parallel, China continuously increased production capacity to meet the steady increase in European and global demand for both aluminium and magnesium."

European manufacturers now face "dramatic risks" as China is expected to direct its remaining magnesium production to its own industries, with European companies no longer receiving the necessary raw materials to continue production.

 

 Class Planning  October, 27/29, 2021  (Wednesday/Friday) 3rd grade

Summup version

Reading text: Structural racism: what it is and how it works,  June 30, 2021, by Vini Lander  

Transversal Theme: Ethnic and Racial Relations - Structural Racism

Typology Review: opinionated text (Definition, categories, structure, example)

Writing abstract:  Main ideas of the text

Reading texts

Talking points: 

Cultural Reference: Movies, series episodes, books, events related to the theme

 

Extended:

Transversal Theme: Ethnic and Racial Relations - Structural Racism

Typology Review: opinionated text (Definition, categories, structure, example)

Reading text: Structural racism: what it is and how it works,  June 30, 2021, by Vini Lander 

Writing abstract:  Main ideas of the text

Answer the interrogative pronouns about text : What, who, when, where, how, why (causes), which consequences

Reviewing writing: punctuation, adversative conjunctions (but, although), simple past (did happen/happened)

Reading texts aload in english: 

Talking: 

    Answering 6 WH questions about student example.

What did happen? Whom/where/when/why/how did it happen?

Cultural Reference: Movies, series episodes, books, events related to the theme

(BLM, SAH; MLK/FBI; Stop Asian Hate; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Reference: Adapted from: Structural racism: what it is and how it works,  June 30, 2021, by Vini Lander (https://theconversation.com/structural-racism-what-it-is-and-how-it-works-158822). Vini Lander is professor of Race and Education and Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality in the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University )

Lyrics and songs: Bob Marley

What, whom (who), where, when, why (causes), Which (consequences/example), how

DED -II  

*Copiar atividade de uma turma para outra*

Outro ponto para agilizar o processo. Desculpe-me, novamente, se estou sendo redundante.

Lance todas as Atividades Avaliativas do mesmo tipo na sequência.

Por exemplo, lance "Atividades Complementares" de uma turma. Quando terminar, salve e clique em "copiar". Assim copia o cabeçalho (não copia notas ou nomes).

Você só terá que alterar a "Turma" e "bimestre".

O resto do cabeçalho já vem preenchido, com "Disciplina", "Etapa de Matricula", "Valor Máximo", "Descrição da Atividade", "tipo".

Em tempos de processando, e mesmo em tempos normais, agiliza bastante

Prof Vander

postagens relativas a DED

https://vanresnews.blogspot.com/2021/10/ded-em-modulo-processando.html

https://vanresnews.blogspot.com/2021/10/ded-iii-preenchimento-automatico-de.html

https://vanresnews.blogspot.com/2021/10/ded-economize-tempo-ii-copiar-atividade.html

Por Prof. Vander

 

52 - Crer Saber, por VanRes, v. 1.03, 19/08/2021

 

não sei

queria saber

não sei se anseio

mais

 

feliz por alguns

acreditarem conhecer

a verdade

a habitar naquele

tão transcendental

lugar do saber

 

ou seria

nada

mais

que

uma

crença

 20/10/2021 - Leituras incomodantes

"More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change", by Cornell University "More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to a new survey of 88,125 climate-related studies. ... The research updates a similar 2013 paper revealing that 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering Earth's climate. The current survey examines the literature published from 2012 to November 2020 to explore whether the consensus has changed.... Co-author Simon Perry, a United Kingdom-based software engineer and volunteer at the Alliance for Science, created an algorithm that searched out keywords from papers the team knew were skeptical, such as "solar," "cosmic rays" and "natural cycles." The algorithm was applied to all 88,000-plus papers, and the program ordered them so the skeptical ones came higher in the order. They found many of these dissenting papers near the top, as expected, with diminishing returns further down the list. Overall, the search yielded 28 papers that were implicitly or explicitly skeptical, all published in minor journals."

 Cable News’ No. 1 Host Flirts With Fascism (Ari Paul).  "These two European leaders [DUDA, from Poland, Orban, from Hungary] have prompted revulsion not just because their platforms are politically extreme, but because they stand against the very ideals—multiculturalism, transnationalism, gay rights and openness in media and academia—that were meant to prevent the kind of nationalistic and authoritarian fervor that resulted in World War II."

New game can help users identify, avoid online echo chambers, by Jessica Hallman, Pennsylvania State University  October 15, 2021.  "Every day, social media users are exposed to fake news and political polarization on social networks. What makes people vulnerable to believing false information they find online? ...The tool, a game named ChamberBreaker, is a theory-based game that enables a player to test their own awareness of content that could result in echo chambers and to observe how they are accelerated by the spread of fake news. Their goal is to help players resist echo chambers in the future and ultimately reduce the rate of fake news dissemination".

 

Short-sleepers are more likely to suffer from irregular and heavy periods. October 20, 2021 1.19pm EDT, Kat Kennedy PhD Student, Physiology, University of Arizona,   Sara Nowakowski Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine. " Menstruating women who sleep less than six hours a night tend to suffer heavier and irregular periods. That is the conclusion from our new study, which was recently published in the Journal of Sleep Research. We found that those who got less than six hours of sleep on average nightly were 44% more likely to have an irregular period and 70% more likely to have heavy bleeding during a period than healthy sleepers who got seven to nine hours."

 

Below - from Naked Capitalism

 “Biden discusses $1.9 trillion top line for economic package and tells Democrats free community college is out” [CNN]. “President Joe Biden informed House progressives Tuesday afternoon that the final bill to expand the social safety net is expected to drop tuition-free community college, a major White House priority, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. And the President discussed a $1.75 to $1.9 trillion price tag [over ten years] for the sweeping spending package, according to a person familiar with the talks. While the number is not finalized, it is far closer to West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s $1.5 trillion top line [over ten years] than progressives’ number, which was $3.5 trillion [over ten years]. Moreover, he indicated that the child tax credit — a key Democratic priority — would likely be extended for one additional year, much shorter than what many in their party wanted, one of the sources said. The child tax credit will also likely be means tested, keeping with what Manchin had wanted. Biden also indicated to the group that they would reduce the proposed funding for so-called homecare for the elderly and disabled — down to less than $250 billion, sources said. Democrats had wanted to keep the funding at $400 billion. The President told progressive lawmakers that negotiators are weighing reducing the duration of the paid leave benefit outlined in the package to four weeks, down from a proposed 12 weeks, according to three sources familiar with the meeting.”

Commodities: “Dune Is the Sci-Fi Epic Commodities Traders Have Always Wanted” [Bloomberg]. “At its heart is the spice—the reason Arrakis is so valuable, the (nominal) reason the Atreides are sent there, and the reason the house’s bitter rivals, the Harkonnens, are so keen to wrest the planet back from them. It’s here that the eyes of any commodities traders in the audience will light up as they realize, for what seems like the first time, there’s a blockbuster tailored to their exact interests.” And the ending: “[W]hile not every element manages to come together perfectly, the framing does provide a solid bedrock for the action playing out on screen, as well as an opportunity to reflect on the economic systems that shape our world. If greed is intrinsic to capitalism and inevitably leads to conflict and inequality, that, and sandworms, should be avoided at all costs.”  

Shipping: “They’ve been stuck for months on cargo ships now floating off Southern California. They’re desperate” [Los Angeles Times]. “Some 300,000 of these migrant merchant sailors have been stranded on vessels at sea or in ports around the world, according to the International Transport Workers’ Federation, a London-based trade union that is among the maritime agencies lobbying governments to address what’s been labeled the “crew-change crisis.” They endure unbroken monotony and growing desperation. Their unions and charity groups describe exhaustion, despair, suicide and violence at sea, including at least one alleged murder on a cargo ship headed to Los Angeles…. Imagine weeks at sea or at anchor without the ability to contact loved ones, spotty Wi-Fi connections at ports, living on a food budget that amounts to $7.50 per person, per day. Imagine living in cramped quarters, confined to a 680-foot by 98-foot ship for months longer than you agreed to, your direct contact limited to a couple of dozen other crew members. And the coronavirus has added a two-fold stress increase.”

“From Kellogg’s to John Deere, who is striking right now — and why?” [Today]. And the deck: “Workers across the country are demanding better pay and working conditions.”

 

19.10.2021 - leituras incomodantes e outras leituras

As leituras que mais me incomodaram ontem foram:
- conto: "Son" de John Updike;

- para biografia de Richard Falk, a resenha de Walden Bello: Zionism’s Bête Noire: How Richard Falk Became an Intellectual Pariah. Falk foi UN's Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Occupied Territory

Outras leituras que me moveram ontem:

poema: "Sedução", de Adélia Prado, em Bagagem. verso: "É de ferro a roda dentada dela.]

postagem: More Brain Death At NATO, by Moon of Alabama

capítulo sobre Álvares de Azevedo em "Formação da Literatura Brasileira - Vol II" de Antônio Cândido

resenha de Walden Bello: Zionism’s Bête Noire: How Richard Falk Became an Intellectual Pariah. Falk: UN's Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Occupied Territory

artigo: TAVARES, Luma Nunes. Os desafios na produção do texto dissertativo-argumentativo nas aulas de LínguaPortuguesa dos alunos do 3º ano do ensino médio. 2018.

postagem sobre a necessidade de expressar a raiva por Richard Murphy com preâmbulo de Yves Smith: It’s OK To Be Angry. How Else Will We Change the World?

releitura, conversa e revisão do texto 13°  "a seleção do tempo" (ínfimos - infinitos)

episódio "Mass", de Raised by wolves

Qual de suas leituras mais te incomodou ontem?

Por VanRes, 20/10/2021 (20/10/2021, 06:35 a 06:50)

 "O avanço do agronegócio, em meio à estagnação da renda per capita nacional, pressupôs uma ampla cobertura estatal viabilizada por

 desoneração fiscal providenciada pela Lei Kandir, que eximiu as exportações de produtos primários do pagamento do ICMS (1996),

pela isenção tributária de lucros e dividendos (1995) e pela 

seguida valorização cambial e

 prática das altas taxas de juros a enaltecer a 

conversão de empresários industriais em comerciantes, rentistas e neoextrativistas."

 https://outraspalavras.net/crise-brasileira/pochmann-assim-o-brasil-regride-130-anos/#:~:text=O%20avan%C3%A7o%20do,rentistas%20e%20neoextrativistas.

saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose.  “Sweeteners hurt the ability of gut bacteria to keep us well: Israeli study” [Times of Israel].

Three less common sweeteners,
acesulfame potassium (Ace-K),
advantame, and
neotame,
did not have this effect.

 

Researchers find 3 most common artificial sweeteners cause a ‘breakdown in communication’ among microbes, potentially raising risk of
obesity,
diabetes and 

digestive problems

“Artificial sweeteners cause a “breakdown in communication” among gut bacteria, changing the microbiome and potentially increasing the risk of disease, Israeli scientists say. Gut bacteria keep people healthy, but to do so they need to be present in the right balance. This is maintained in part by a communication mechanism that bacteria use, called quorum sensing, which enables bacteria to detect and respond to cell population density by regulating their own genes, affecting their behavior. ‘Artificial sweeteners disrupt that communication, which indicates that artificial sweeteners may be problematic in the long run,’ said Dr. Karina Golberg, who led the peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.”

the three most common sweeteners all impeded bacterial communication: saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose.

 

Three less common sweeteners,
acesulfame potassium (Ace-K),
advantame, and
neotame,
did not have this effect.

 

 “Christie: 2020 Joe Biden ‘is now officially dead and buried'” [The Hill], by Caroline Vakil - 10/03/21 

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said on Sunday that 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden "is now officially dead and buried" after the president went to Capitol Hill in an attempt to break an impasse among Democrats on a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a massive social spending package 

“‘It’s the death of 2020 Joe Biden. When he went to the Hill, 2020 Joe Biden is now officially dead and buried,’ [Chris] Christie said on ABC’s ‘This Week.’ ‘The guy who ran against the progressives, ran against Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, ran to be a uniter in this country, ran saying he was going to force compromise. And he went up to Capitol Hill, and he capitulated to the progressives, the liberals in his party.’ ‘And why should we be surprised? He couldn’t stand up to the Taliban. How could we expect him to stand up to AOC?’ he added, referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), before ‘This Week’ co-anchor Jonathan Karl called his comments a ‘partisan take.'”

 

“Progressives’ mobilization delusion” [Matt Yglesias, Slow Boring]. “One of the biggest problems with mobilization theory is that in politics (and also other spheres of life), there are a lot of opportunists. And by moving from a straightforward question like ‘is this popular?’ to something harder to measure like ‘does this mobilize voters?’ a lot of people who have specific agendas can make up hazy reasons why you need to prioritize their issues.”

 “Why Democrats’ climate goals may test their Latino appeal” [Associated Press]. “Last year, Biden won Cameron County, which encompasses Brownsville and is about 90% Hispanic. But Trump’s margin of the vote increased there by 20 percentage points over 2016. Farther north, Trump flipped oil- and gas-producing, but still heavily Hispanic, Jim Wells and Kleberg counties. ‘We are very dependent on oil and gas. That’s the reason you saw those numbers,’ said [said Mayra Flores, a 35-year-old respiratory care practitioner and organizer for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign], who was born in Mexico, came to the United State at age 6 and picked cotton every summer growing up after age 12. ‘That’s what people do. That’s where they work.'”

 neoliberal playbook:

(1) Degrade public health by underfunding and corruption,
(2) watch it fail in a very public test, and
(3) replace it with coercion. Best of all, in future you can go directly to coercion!

05/10/2021

 

 left’s favorite floating signifier: neoliberalism.[Vulgar Marxism].

To grease the wheels of accumulation, every president from Jimmy Carter through George W. Bush helped build out a new model of governance that
cut corporate taxes,
dismantled welfare,
deregulated industry,
broke labor power, and
promoted financialization.

This is the original meaning of what is now the left’s favorite floating signifier: neoliberalism. In George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, a preacher explains the emergence of the undead by intoning: “When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.” Well, when there is no more labor to profitably exploit in the periphery, capital will deepen exploitation in the core. If capitalism is a vampire that “only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks,” as Marx described it, then neoliberalism is a zombie, returning to feast on the flesh of loved ones after picking the bones of strangers clean.

 

“Enough food” is each person having daily access to an average of 2,353 calories of culturally appropriate, locally available, affordable, unrefined, and delectable nourishment. The good news is that we already grow enough food to feed 10 billion people. The challenges are that the food is not fairly distributed, a lot of it is thrown away, and the process of growing it industrially is trashing the planet. Contrary to conventional mythology, smallholder farms and regenerative agriculture can feed the world. By paying attention to racial equity, Indigenous food sovereignty, waste reduction, and agroecosystem health, we can uproot hunger and seed justice on a planetary scale. —Leah Penniman, Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/how-much-is-enough/2021/08/10/meditations-on-enough