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    Jean-François Millet The Gleaners 1857 (see more in comments section)   • Macron Condemns Antisemitic Abuse During Gilets Jaunes Paris Protest (A
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    V. Arnold
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    Jean-François Millet The Gleaners 1857
    An exquisite capture of a moment in time…
    The rest? I’m ill-equipped to deal with the immensity of the issues…

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    Interesting info about the painting above, by Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners:

    By far the most recognizable of Millet’s works, The Gleaners depicts a trio of women gleaning the last bits of wheat from a field. Millet found the theme of women gleaning the last bits of wheat an eternal one, linked to stories of the Old Testament. The painting was received by the public with open scorn.

    It presented what at the time were the lowest ranks of society, taking advantage of the age-old right to remove the last bits of grain left over from wheat harvest, in a sympathetic light. During his lifetime, this painting garnered naught but notoriety from a French upper-class that feared glorifying the lower ranks of society, and it was not until after the artist’s death that it became more popular.

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    I think there is a lot of affection in that painting.

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    V. Arnold
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    I think there is a lot of affection in that painting.

    I would agree wholeheartedly; lots of affection.
    It exudes love…

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    sumac.carol
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    On trees and SUVs: I heard a presentation by Diana Beresford Kroeger (Call of the Forest) in which she was strongly encouraging everyone to get out and plant trees. As someone with an orchard and a chunk of forest, the logistics and challenges come quickly to mind with all if the new non-native native bugs and new diseases attacking all of the trees (non-native orchard apples etc and wild) thanks in part to the global transportation. In said presentation Diana expressed disappointment that she had missed out on an opportunity to go to Florence Italy (from Canada). When called out on it she hemmed and Hawed.

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    As for those trees, first thing to do would be to not produce emissions worth 1 trillion trees. Should be the easiest thing to do. Then after that, plant a trillion trees. And not on land that just happens to be leftover right now, but carve up highways and suburbs and plant them there. On Youtube etc. there are plenty videos of people who plant trees for decades and transform deserts into lush forests. We can do the same for much of our dead and sterile urban spaces. You plant the trees, all the other life will follow. This will be a very important way of not losing even more life than we already have. We need to make our living environments, living.

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    zerosum
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    I turned on the TV just as a pissed off rich elitist capitalist politician is saying,

    This is what socialism looks like. Making Amazon cancel it HQ in New York.”

    • Amazon Paid No Federal Taxes On $11.2 Billion In Profits Last Year (WaPo)

    paid no federal taxes on profit of $11.2 billion last year, Amazon actually received a federal tax rebate of $129 million last year, giving it an effective federal tax rate of roughly -1 percent.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/nyregion/amazon-hq2-nyc.html (pay wall?)

    On Thursday, Amazon abruptly announced that it was canceling the deal, under which the company had promised to create more than 25,000 jobs on a new campus in Long Island City, Queens, in return for nearly $3 billion in government incentives.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-ocasiocortez-idUSKCN1Q42TF

    Ocasio-Cortez, a newly elected progressive Democrat who was an outspoken critic of the plans to locate Amazon’s second headquarters in a New York City neighborhood near her congressional district, asked on Twitter if Amazon’s culture of “strict performance” is “why Amazon workers have to urinate in bottles & work while on food stamps to meet ‘targets?’ Performance shouldn’t come at the cost of dehumanizing conditions.”

    She cited a September Newsweek story that raised those claims.

    “When the community wanted to negotiate, Amazon said ‘all or nothing.’ They bailed when they didn’t get 100% of what they wanted,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Google came into NYC just fine. Amazon wanted to be Foxconn.”
    Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Co won $4 billion in state and local incentives from Wisconsin in exchange for a promise to build a $10 billion development.
    Earlier this month, Foxconn said it would still build a factory in Wisconsin even as it shifts more of the focus of the investment away from manufacturing. Reuters reported Foxconn was reconsidering making liquid crystal display panels and intended to hire mostly engineers and researchers there.

    Have you figured when socialism is good?
    Answer: When the money and the benefits go to the rich capitalist elites.
    ( Remember, all government handouts is socialism. Its more than welfare payments to the poor)

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    kultsommer
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    Composition that perfectly captured the rhythm of the task: about to pick…pick…tie…about to pick…pick…
    Use of a “new angle” against yellow vests, aside from flash balls, is despicable.

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    seychelles
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    Was the “antisemitic” incident among GJ protesters staged? Was Rabbi Hillel Jewish?

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    Polder Dweller
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    GJ and the rest – It gets more Orwellian each day. I fear for the future.

    ISIS – Well, if uncle Sam is having trouble defeating one small enclave, maybe he should ask the SAA for help.

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