http://blog.synthesis.net/2007/07/24/im-switching-to-peets-fuckers/ A music blog with a techy twist, twisted content, and other entertainment oddities viral and live from Northern California. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.synthesis.net/2007/07/24/im-switching-to-peets-fuckers/#comment-38354 na3s Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:40:26 +0000 http://blog.synthesis.net/2007/07/24/im-switching-to-peets-fuckers/#comment-38354 Local coffee shops and local economy in general are where it's at Daniel. Without local economy resources and energy are funneled out of Chico and into the pockets of a few board members somewhere in the Bahamas, China or Upstate NY. When our economy fails or oil runs out, whichever first, these monopolies will no longer be able to drive a profit at those 'cheap' prices you enjoy. And then what? Our community crumbles because no single person in the community has the power to provide 'needed' services. That's when corporations such as Starbucks, Walmart and Safeway jack their prices up as high as they want. Then the control of any given community is at the hands of a corporation. Given a corporation's* track record of economic assassinations, disregard for humanity and obligation to profit over human kind, the possible scenario does not appear to be pretty. Look at Starbucks' long track record (criminal?) and what they have done to foreign economy and society at large. If it weren't for broad free-trade laws and liability dodging, the board members of Starbucks would have been in jail years ago for crimes against humanity and genocide of indigenious culture. *Good resource: 'The Corporation.' Go local. Local coffee shops and local economy in general are where it’s at Daniel. Without local economy resources and energy are funneled out of Chico and into the pockets of a few board members somewhere in the Bahamas, China or Upstate NY. When our economy fails or oil runs out, whichever first, these monopolies will no longer be able to drive a profit at those ‘cheap’ prices you enjoy. And then what? Our community crumbles because no single person in the community has the power to provide ‘needed’ services. That’s when corporations such as Starbucks, Walmart and Safeway jack their prices up as high as they want. Then the control of any given community is at the hands of a corporation. Given a corporation’s* track record of economic assassinations, disregard for humanity and obligation to profit over human kind, the possible scenario does not appear to be pretty. Look at Starbucks’ long track record (criminal?) and what they have done to foreign economy and society at large. If it weren’t for broad free-trade laws and liability dodging, the board members of Starbucks would have been in jail years ago for crimes against humanity and genocide of indigenious culture. *Good resource: ‘The Corporation.’ Go local.

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