Showing posts with label Poor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poor. Show all posts

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Thank you Tea Party god—Paul Ryan



Thank you Tea Party god—Paul Ryan


Thanks to the Tea Party, the poor, the elderly, the disabled are now the problem in America. And thanks to the Tea Party, the Paul Ryan budget will get its chance to starve and kill off the poor, the elderly, the disabled and thank the Tea Party god, Paul Ryan will have quality time to get home on weekends to visit his family at the mansion in Wisconsin and Paul and oil rich wifey can go for cocktails and a dance at the country club while Maria, the illegal? (don’t ask-don’t tell Maria), will get an obscenely generous $1.50 an hour babysitting the kids. Ain’t America Great!


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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Why Not Brand the Poor on the Forehead in Kansas with a “W” for Welfare to Identify those (sub-humans) on the Dole




Punish the poor - Regressive Welfare ATM Tax on the Poor in Kansas

“Damn the poor” Jesus used to say or must have said.

Limit of $25 per day deducted from your welfare cash stipend - $20 for drugs - $1.00 fee for the Welfare Cash withdraw. Then another $2.00 to $4.00 for banking fees (Bankers outsourced Tax on the Poor) for use of robot ATMs to access handout(s) cash from the state.

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Rumors have it that “rent moocher” State Senator Michael O’Donnell (R - Kansas) will co-sponsor a new “Welfare Recipient Identification Bill” - WRIB - for the poor of Kansas that Governor Sam Brownback is eagerly waiting to sign into law.


The Bill: That the poor on Welfare over 18 will be branded on the forehead to identify them as “takers” so that they can be called out by honest tax paying white people in the supermarket checkout aisle or the food court at the mall – go to the end of the line for Mickey Ds etc. you despised lazy non-working parasites on our great good Kristian (“K” for Kansas”) state. 


(Pending legislative ideas still floating around the O'Donnell churchsite homestead Kristian Think Tank are exploring possible ways to force women to give back "Adam's Rib" to the guys. 



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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

How Poor are the Poor in Rome? – Pope Francis




This is about a news story ten days old that I just ran into. The pope is on his way to some parish in Rome. He sees a shanty town and tells his driver to pull over and visits.

A good story for a pope dedicated to the poor like Francis of Assisi, his namesake.



While it is a good old fashioned human interest news story - The pope’s camera is rolling for Vatican propaganda. And the poor living in this shanty town all seem to have cell/mobile phones to snap photos of the visiting pope, no doubt e-mailing back to South America in the Andes where most of these shanty town crowd seem to hail from.

It is cynical of me to question – how poor are the poor if the poor can afford cell phones?




Or are we, am I just not being 21st century and should accept cell phones as now part of the human species package?



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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Bill Donohue May be Planning a Change of Career by Re-Defining Francis-ism and Defending the Rich


Francis and Anti-Francis


Bill Donohue of Catholic League fame is wearing other hats lately, becoming a neocon pundit opinionator over at NewsMax, that Internet telemarketing newsletter founded by Christopher Ruddy, the “journalist” that broke the story of Hillary murdering Vince Foster etc. (Sitll waiting for a Pultizer on that one Chris?)

Bill is free to let his hair down and freely mix “religion” with fascism at Rent by the Line NewsMax?

I guess if Bill needs to change his tax code filing status on a dime, from Catholic Defender to Justa Nutter NeoCon Cheerleader, he will be ready to switch the assets from one off shore account to another. Whatever.

Below in that transition phase before Pope Francis catches up to him by name, Donohue is defending the RICH, RICH, RICH. Are there any other people worth mentioning or fawning over. 

Right Bill?


  
When Pope Francis speaks about our "throwaway" abortion culture, or comments on marriage as a union between a man and a woman, he wins no points from those on the left. 
 But when he speaks about income inequality, he is praised by the likes of President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. However, these three men are not speaking from the same page. What is driving Obama and de Blasio is envy; what is driving the Pope is justice. The Catholic Church considers envy to be one of the seven capital sins. It is not identical to jealousy. The jealous want what others have; the envious want to deprive others of what they have. 
 The Austrian-German sociologist, Helmut Schoeck, contended that envy was inherent in human nature and had to be contained. He credited the Catholic Church for taming envy, saying it played a decisive role in the advancement of civilization. But it had a way of springing back with a vengeance, especially in the hands of left-wing politicians.  
 Schoeck's book, "Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour," released in the 1960s, was a clarion call against the exploitation of envy for political ends. "The time has surely come when we should stop behaving as though envious man was the main criterion for economic and social policy," he said.   
 Pope Francis wants the rich to use their skills to help the poor; he is not baiting the masses to demand that the rich pay more in taxes so that they can pay less. It's the difference between a genuine interest in helping the needy, and soaking the rich.


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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

GOP - Motto - American Dream




The American Dream GOP style: We do not mind poor people dreaming so long at those dreams never come true.



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Saturday, January 4, 2014

Cardinal Dolan’s Friends – Rich Catholics Against the Pope and the Poor – A Total Human(?) Pig Kenneth Langone




This guy Ken Langone sounds like a lunatic minus one straight jacket in his defense of the sharks, the rich and his total disregard and hatred for the poor.

The quote below defending his crony friend Grasso and his $190 million severance package from the NY Stock Exchange. No Insider Trader there. Yeah right.
Anything but repentant following the revelation and repudiation of the Grasso deal by NYSE executives, Langone told Forbes magazine in 2004: “They got the wrong f—ing guy. I’m nuts, I’m rich, and, boy, do I love a fight. I’m going to make them s— in their pants. When I get through with these f—ing captains of industry, they’re going to wish they were in a Cuisinart — at high speed.”



While Langone passionately defended the outlandish grasping of the super-rich like his friend Grasso, however, he has displayed far less indulgence toward workers, especially those struggling to support their families on poverty wages. Until just last year, he was a director of Yum! Brands, the global fast food conglomerate that includes Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken among its holdings — and that spends millions annually to hold down the minimum wage and prevent unionization of its ill-paid employees and farmworkers.



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Friday, January 3, 2014

Pope Francis Will Not Kiss Home Depot’s Ken Langone’s Greedy Rich Ass



There are those grubby little nouveau rich paper billionaire types writing checks for tax purposes charity and wanting everybody to bow down and kiss their ass worship their gold plated tin godness.
Pope Francis’s words of concern for the poor of the world seems to scare the shit out of the Ken Langones of this world who in his case is threatening to withhold money from Boss Dolan and his latest boondoggle of $180 million repairs to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave.. (Aside: For that kind of money tear it down and build a new one. Otherwise it and the so called charity surrounding it looks a lot like a money laundering operation to Moi.)
Or Timmy, tell Frank to shut TFU. Cause Ken don't do humility.
[Home Depot founder Ken] Langone said he's raised the issue more than once with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, most recently at a breakfast in early December at which he updated him on fundraising progress."I've told the cardinal, 'Your Eminence, this is one more hurdle I hope we don't have to deal with. You want to be careful about generalities. Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country,' " he said.

One of the things that makes this story so jaw-dropping is the presumption -- on the part of Langone, and as ever on the part of CNBC -- that those who see or read it will sympathize with the petulant wealthy. Do you really want to make things harder for people who are so much wealthier and more successful than you? CNBC constantly asks its viewers. Do you think we can afford to let them get upset?

I do feel for Cardinal Dolan, caught between the demands of fundraising in a wealthy city and the clear teaching of a very popular pope. I wouldn't want to be explaining Evangelii Gaudiumto any prospective donors over breakfast. Still, I'd like to think that, if pressed, I could do a little bit better than "The pope loves poor people. He also loves rich people. He loves people, alright? He's not into the condemning game."





Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The Pope Versus Paul Ryan




How dare the pope question a rich white American man, like Paul Ryan, about his religion of greed and fear and hatred of the poor.


The Pope gets pretty specific about which sorts of ideas he's standing against, too. This bit could be a bit awkward for Paul Ryan, a Catholic and Ayn Rand devotee, going forward:

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting.


Friday, September 20, 2013

GOP Anti-Christianity Challenged By Words of Pope Francis – Mean Spirtied GOP going to Hell?




Taking Food Stamps out of the mouths of the poor and elderly, the recent trend in mean spirited Red Neck Khristianity along with trying to take healthcare availability from millions of uncovered by healthcare Americans, does not gel with the recent words of newly elected Pope Francis regarding love and true compassion to the poor.

TV Phony Baloney Khrist Evangelical GOP panderers - meet Mystical Jesuit. 


 Wish those House Republicans would spend some time studying the interview Pope Francis gave to the Italian Jesuit journal La Civita Cattolica that was published online by America, a U.S.-based Jesuit publication. 
 They might learn a few things about compassion, priorities and how to be real Christians.
 Francis thinks the church, to its detriment, is “obsessed” with its battles against abortion, gay marriage and contraception. “The teaching of the church is clear,” he said. “But it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.” 
 God bless that man. 
 But Francis didn’t just rock the world with unexpected words of conciliation about those hot-button social issues, he also said the church must be less rigid and must listen to the “feeling of the people, especially the poor.”




 

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Finally – Pope Francis Speaks with the Authority of True Morality and the Love Taught by Jesus – Against the new Global Cult of Money destroying the Fabric of our Civilization





  Pope Francis has called on world leaders to put an end to the "cult of money" and to do more to help the poor, warning that insecurity was rising in many regions of the world and the "joy of life" was diminishing in developed countries.

 "The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal," Francis said in an address to ambassadors to the Vatican on Thursday.

 Francis said that radical free-market ideologies had created "a new, invisible, and at times virtual, tyranny" and human beings "considered as consumer goods" and called for global financial reform that would benefit everyone.

 "Solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a majority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling," he said.

 "I encourage the financial exports and the political leaders of your countries to consider the words of St John Chrysostom "Not to share one's goods with the poor is to rob them", he said.

 The Argentine pope, formerly the archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became a powerful voice on the side of the poor during his homeland's devastating economic crisis.




Tuesday, September 18, 2012

I hate the entitled poor 47% Mitt Romney Donor Appeal Spiel




No problem on the vision thingy with Mitt. 

He has no vision. 

Just cash, cash, cash, and more cash. 

Once a Bain man - always a Bain man. 

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Gutless Little Twerp GOP Definitions of Rape and Abortion




Piers Morgan on CNN has labeled the gutless wonder of Todd Akin as a Gutless Little Twerp for cancelling his appearance on CNN last night as the last minute.

Rep. Todd Akin has the same definitions of rape, forced rape and legitimate rape as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan especially with whom Todd has co-sponsored Rape definition legislation in the House.

Paul Ryan was silent and sitting next to daddy figure Mitt on TV as Mitt threw Todd under the bus.  Paul is a gutless wonder and little twerp as well like his buddy Todd.

It seems to me that the whole abortion and rape issue falls on the poor or the helpless, females in particular and the core of all this "hands in other people panties" GOP ideas is to control the sheep and punish them because 1) they are poor, 2) because they are female, and 3) because they are minorities. 

Class snobbery - misogyny - racism - - - Core Republican Values.



Monday, July 16, 2012

Tribute to Vandana Shiva - The Poison Seed



THE POISON SEED

Her grandfather, who had raised her, was exclaiming something loud in the back garden as we toured all the structures that now were built on the once empty patch of land.

The old man had been allotted this fairly large plot of land by the state. It had been sold to him very cheaply. I estimated the original lot to be about three quarters of an acre.

On that lush tropical landscape had once been many more trees than were now present and situated in between structures. Even so, the existing species of large trees grew avocados, mangoes and bananas. These had helped feed a large family on a state road worker's salary.

The main house was plain. Large dormitory like rooms were where the boys and girls had sleep. There was a common room or living room and a small kitchen. This structure had been built wall by wall, room by room, over the years. Extra savings went into concrete blocks on a regular basis.

The back of the property had once housed a large pig sty. Pork had been the cash crop that supplemented tropical fruits and the staple rice and beans diet. Pork had helped purchase the blocks. Piglets had been temporary play companions to poor children.

In fact, she had told me that as a child, the only dolls she played with were homemade things made of corn husks, the corn of which had fed the pigs. Corn silks adorned the corn husk dolls as hair.

The old man was quite animated.

The land now held five houses where at one time stood one.

As the nearby town grew outward, modest houses started to dot the countryside. Streets were paved. Second generations built a second story onto parents' houses.

Zoning laws changed in the expanded town. No pigs could be raised within the new city limits. Now only a few old hens pecked at the ground and made the occasional stew.

I asked for a translation. What was the old man shouting about?

Her cousin had inherited a one room house on the back of the property. He had recently married and his new bride had planted some shrubs to decorate this desolate corner of the original lot.

The literal translation of the bride's plantings came to words translated as "poison seed".

"It is a poison seed!" was what he repeated over and over again in Spanish.

The old man was upset. Everything on his property in terms of plants had been always been edible. Now, a stranger, the wife of a grandson was planting a decorative plant and not an edible one.

The old man's bubble had burst. The world outside his front porch could have changed in some measurable way over the years but it somehow had not touched a chord.

His sons had gone to college. One daughter was a registered nurse. The ones who had emigrated to the mainland had their own measure of material success in the post World War II boom in America.

He had at least thirty grandchildren and umpteen great grandchildren. All the changes over the last half a century registered in some proportion that matched the land that he stood on and owned.

Now, on this day, paradise seemed corrupted and lost. The people on the land now did not understand his vision for the land. The land must feed his family. A plant, a foreign seed from the outside world had invaded.

The seeds of the destruction were planted. His vision, his temporary footprint in the scheme of things, was disappearing before his eyes. So he shouted in his own way.

His time had passed. Now he knew and recognized that fact.

This he expressed with great passion.


LA SEMILLA DE VENENO

Su abuelo, quien la había criado, exclamaba a un ruido fuerte en el jardín de atrás, como hicimos una gira por todas las estructuras que ahora se construyeron en el parche una vez vacío de la tierra.

El viejo había sido asignado esta parcela bastante grande de la tierra por el Estado. Se había vendido a él a precios muy bajos. Estimé el lote original de estar cerca de tres cuartos de acre.

En ese paisaje tropical había sido muchos más árboles que ahora estaban presentes y situado entre las estructuras. Aun así, las especies existentes de árboles de gran tamaño creció aguacates, mangos y bananas. Estos habían ayudado a alimentar a una familia grande en el salario de un trabajador por carretera estatal.

La casa principal era evidente. Dormitorio grande como las habitaciones donde estaban los chicos y chicas tenían el sueño. Había una habitación común o sala de estar y una cocina pequeña. Esta estructura había sido construida la pared por pared, habitación por habitación, en los últimos años. Ahorro extra entró en bloques de hormigón sobre una base regular.

La parte trasera de la propiedad había albergado una vez a la pocilga de gran tamaño. Carne de cerdo ha sido el cultivo comercial que complementa las frutas tropicales y el arroz de primera necesidad y la dieta judías. Carne de cerdo había ayudado a comprar los bloques. Los lechones habían sido compañeros de juego temporales a los niños pobres.

De hecho, ella me había dicho que cuando era niño, las muñecas sólo jugaba con las cosas fueron hechas en casa hechas de hojas de maíz, el maíz que había alimentado a los cerdos. Sedas de maíz adornaban las muñecas de hoja de maíz como el pelo.

El anciano estaba muy animado.

La tierra ahora en manos de cinco casas en las que en un momento se quedó uno.

En la cercana ciudad creció hacia el exterior, casas modestas comenzó a aparecer en el campo. Las calles estaban pavimentadas. La segunda generación construyó un segundo piso en las casas de los padres.

Las leyes de zonificación cambiado en la ciudad ampliada. No hay cerdos podría plantearse dentro de los límites de la ciudad nueva. Ahora sólo unas pocas gallinas viejas picoteó el suelo e hizo el guiso de vez en cuando.

Le pedí por una traducción. ¿Cuál fue el viejo gritos?

Su primo había heredado una casa de una habitación en la parte posterior de la propiedad. Se había casado recientemente y su nueva esposa había plantado unos arbustos para decorar este desolado rincón del lote original.

La traducción literal de las plantaciones de la novia llegó a las palabras traducidas como "semillas de veneno".

"Es una semilla veneno!" era lo que repetía una y otra vez en español.

El viejo estaba molesto. Todo en su propiedad en términos de las plantas había sido siempre ha sido comestible. Ahora, un extraño, la esposa de un nieto estaba plantando una planta decorativa y no un hongo sano.

Burbuja del anciano se había reventado. El mundo exterior porche de su casa podría haber cambiado de una forma medible a través de los años, pero por alguna razón no había tocado la fibra sensible.

Sus hijos se habían ido a la universidad. Una de sus hijas era una enfermera registrada. Los que habían emigrado al continente tenía su propia medida del éxito material en el post boom de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Estados Unidos.

Tenía por lo menos treinta nietos y bisnietos incontables. Todos los cambios a lo largo del último medio siglo registrados en una proporción que coincide con la tierra que se encontraba en la propiedad y.

Ahora, en este día, el paraíso parecía dañado y perdido. La gente en la tierra ahora no entendían su visión de la tierra. La tierra debe alimentar a su familia. Una planta, una semilla extranjera del mundo exterior había invadido.

Las semillas de la destrucción fueron plantadas. Su visión, su huella temporal en el esquema de las cosas, fue desapareciendo ante sus ojos. Así que gritó a su manera.

Su tiempo había pasado. Ahora que sabía y reconoció ese hecho.

Esto lo expresó con gran pasión.


जहर के बीज


उसके दादा, जो उसे उठाया था पीछे बगीचे में जोर कुछ चकित था के रूप में हम सभी संरचनाओं कि अब देश के एक बार खाली पैच पर बनाया गया था का दौरा किया.


बूढ़े आदमी राज्य द्वारा देश के काफी बड़े भूखंड आवंटित किया गया था. यह उसके लिए किया गया था बहुत सस्ते में बेच दिया. मैं बहुत मूल के एक एकड़ के तीन तिमाहियों के बारे में होने का अनुमान है.


कि रसीला उष्णकटिबंधीय परिदृश्य पर एक बार बहुत से अधिक पेड़ से अब मौजूद थे और संरचनाओं के बीच में स्थित किया गया था. फिर भी, बड़े पेड़ों की मौजूदा प्रजातियों मक्खन फल, आम, केले और बढ़ी. इन मदद की थी एक राज्य सड़क कार्यकर्ता वेतन पर एक बड़े परिवार को खिलाने के.


मुख्य घर सादा था. कमरे की तरह बड़े छात्रावास थे जहां लड़कों और लड़कियों की नींद था. एक आम कमरे या कमरे में रहने वाले और एक छोटा रसोईघर था. इस संरचना दीवार, कमरे से कमरे से किया गया था दीवार पिछले कुछ वर्षों में, बनाया गया है. अतिरिक्त बचत एक नियमित आधार पर ठोस ब्लॉक में चला गया.


संपत्ति के पीछे एक बार एक बड़े सुअर शूकरशाला रखे था. पोर्क नकदी फसल है कि उष्णकटिबंधीय फल और प्रधान चावल और बीन्स आहार पूरक किया गया था. पोर्क मदद की थी ब्लॉक खरीद. बेबी सूअरों गरीब बच्चों को अस्थायी खेलने साथी गया था.


वास्तव में, वह मुझसे कहा था कि एक बच्चे के रूप में, केवल गुड़िया वह साथ खेला घर मक्का कोर किए गए बातें, जिनमें से सूअरों को खिलाया गया था मकई थे. मकई रेशम बाल के रूप में मकई भूसी गुड़िया सजी.


बूढ़े आदमी काफी एनिमेटेड था.


भूमि अब पांच घरों जहां एक समय में एक खड़ा था का आयोजन किया.


पास के शहर के रूप में जावक वृद्धि हुई है, मामूली घरों के ग्रामीण इलाकों डॉट को शुरू कर दिया. गलियां, पक्का थे. दूसरा पीढ़ियों के माता पिता के घर पर एक दूसरी कहानी का निर्माण किया.


भवन निर्माण कानूनों का विस्तार शहर में बदल दिया है. कोई सूअरों नए शहर की सीमा के भीतर उठाया जा सकता है. अब केवल कुछ पुराने मुर्गियाँ जमीन पर उठाया है और कभी कभी स्टू बनाया है.


मैं अनुवाद के लिए पूछा. क्या बूढ़े आदमी के बारे में चिल्ला रहा था?


उसका चचेरा भाई संपत्ति की पीठ पर एक कमरे के घर विरासत में मिला था. वह हाल ही में शादी की थी और अपनी नई दुल्हन कुछ झाड़ियों मूल बहुत से इस उजाड़ कोने को सजाने लगाया था.


दुल्हन लगाए झाड़ियों के शाब्दिक अनुवाद "जहर बीज के रूप में अनुवादित शब्दों के लिए आया था.


"यह एक जहर का बीज है!" वह क्या दोहराया और स्पेनिश में फिर.


बूढ़े आदमी परेशान था. पौधों के मामले में उसकी संपत्ति पर सब कुछ हमेशा किया गया था खाद्य किया गया. अब, एक अजनबी, एक पोता की पत्नी एक सजावटी पौधे रोपण किया गया था और नहीं एक खाद्य.


बूढ़े आदमी बुलबुला फट था. अपने सामने पोर्च के बाहर की दुनिया कुछ औसत दर्जे का रास्ता में पिछले कुछ वर्षों में बदल सकता है लेकिन यह किसी भी तरह एक ही राग नहीं छुआ था.


उसके बेटों को कॉलेज के लिए गया था. एक बेटी एक पंजीकृत नर्स थी. जो मुख्य भूमि के लिए कूच किया था के बाद अमेरिका में द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के बूम में उनके सामग्री सफलता के अपने खुद के उपाय था.


वह कम से कम तीस पोते और अनेक महान पोते था. पिछली आधी सदी से अधिक सभी परिवर्तन कुछ अनुपात है कि कि वे देश पर खड़ा था और स्वामित्व मिलान में पंजीकृत.


अब, इस दिन पर, स्वर्ग और भ्रष्ट लग रहा था खो दिया. भूमि पर लोगों को अब देश के लिए उसकी दृष्टि समझ में नहीं आया. भूमि उसके परिवार को खिलाना चाहिए. एक संयंत्र है, बाहर की दुनिया से एक विदेशी बीज पर आक्रमण किया था.


विनाश के बीज बोए थे. उनकी दृष्टि, उसकी चीजों की योजना में अस्थायी पदचिह्न, अपनी आंखों के सामने गायब था. तो वह अपने तरीके से चिल्लाया.


अपने समय के पारित किया था. अब वह जानता था और है कि वास्तव में मान्यता प्राप्त है.


यह वह महान जुनून के साथ व्यक्त किया.





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In Honor and in Tribute to the work of activist Vandana Shiva on behalf of the poor voiceless people of the world.

(As I stated previously, William Blake already beat me to the title The Poison Tree. I change it gladly to The Poison Seed in order to help the poor of this planet achieve Nutritional Freedom.)


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