the beatings will continue until you stop calling us thugs

[dilletante]

in the 1990s the cincinnati enquirer ran a corporate exposé series on chiquita banana-- i read about it after the series was over, but it appears to be collected here. on reading through it, it's kind of boring unless you're a stockholder-- the first article says that chiquita mis-timed an aggressive expansion of production capacity and was trying

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[oneagain]

apparently the british government is now taking this tack over the edward snowden leaks: detaining and robbing glenn greenwald's boyfriend, sending agents to destroy hard drives at the quardian, and generally letting it be known that this is in retaliation for their being portrayed as a police state.

um.

The irony, it burns. It is, however, rather typical to use what powers one has, in this case, to bully, in order to preserve one's reputation and, thus, power, and they are used to a largely controlled/apathetic/fearful/silenced world that lets them do what they do (good grief, look what they've gotten away with so far, and for so long, with these tactics). Unfortunately for them, they come off to the actual observer as more sociopathic than psychopathic, which I expect is what they were aiming for (to be, or to get away with being, not to appear as).

I am now going to be what might seem to be corny and display what might appear to be "magical thinking": One thing that helps me find release is to pray for the healing of situations, as often as I need to (which is sometimes continually, least for a little while). It is capable (at times) of giving me peace--especially when combined with being in the moment. It isn't always time for one to feel peace, though, depending on how they feel called. I hope it is ok with you that I am wishing you peace.