Posts by kmont
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Ah, lightbulb. Thank you so much.
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Thanks for that link Sue, will have to wait till I get home to view it however.
As far as the bloody bourgeoisie goes, I found a fun wordy article about the coffeehouse on Arts and Letters Daily.
Now I will try to link, although I will not do it right. Again.
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This one I like to call the last train home.
I was all packed up (well nearly) and as ready as I was ever going to be to leave my koibito, my sweetheart Tokyo. I was snoozing across several chairs at one in the morning in my favourite cafe cum living room. I don't like goodbyes and I don't like crying in public and I thought I was going to get away without too much of either. Snuggled in hand-me-downs, skins that were soon to be shed, so tired, my last evening swimming in Japanese language soup. Finally the last of my girls arrived from the late shift and I dragged myself up for a last beer. Yukiko got out her guitar and sang the sad love song about walking the streets that you have walked with someone who is no longer there. Japanese folk songs will get you every time. But so far so good. Now I am being castigated loudly from all sides, what is my crime? Well, at my farewell party the week before I had not looked at the musicians enough when they were singing me farewell songs.
Was I even listening?
Were they going to have to sing them all again?
Hell no, of course I was listening I just didn't want to cry. So they bought out the big guns. Yukiko tunes up, Naoko swings to face me and they sing....."If you miss the last train home, you know that I'll be there, even if the whistle blows a thousand miles."
....and so on and so on.
I crack first and then we all get the release that the Japanese seem to so enjoy; a good cry.
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But it's also equally fair to hold Trade Aid to the same standards as any other corporate - is this real change or marketing 'greenwash', does the rhetoric line up with reality?
Indeed, it is important to guard against the old greenwash.
I was curious about the economics of it all.
The rules have been made up in the West to suit Western feelings of guilt over some pretty shonky ROI models to producers.
What is a ROI model? (Return on investment?)
Any more detail from Don Christie would be nice, I think I understand what you are saying about trade barriers but please tell us more about:As a result of the rules lots of deserving producers miss on the value of an FT label whilst others are in a position of overproducing due to the high prices they receive in an artificially cornered market.
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.........off out but
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Umm.....I can't see the link to Dawn Raids, am I missing something?
If you volunteer you can leave. Period. I know I have.
Disclosure: I volunteered for Trade Aid on Krd many moons ago. I did about two shifts and then didn't go back. I was young, unreliable and selfish. I didn't feel like indentured labour.
However feel free to tell me more, I am interested (like most NZers) in coffee.
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I would be interested to learn more about coffee and trade but I don't want to sidetrack the thread.
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That is sooo Wellington. Oh my god that is what is going to happen to me living here!
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I am probably one of those people. I try to ignore politics (politics does sometimes come and find me via public address however) but I enjoy the ritual of voting. It is however, probably about efficacious as fanning incense toward your head in the hopes of passing your exams.
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What would we put inside our portable shrine tho......
Also elections could do with more beer.