CEASE AND DESIST

CEASE AND DESIST

I am an 85-year-old grandmother with two grandsons.  We all shop for our groceries and other items at our local Safeway stores.  We love Safeway for its convenient locations in most San Francisco neighborhoods.  They are a cornucopia from pharmacy, deli, dairy products, fresh fruits and vegetables. toiletries, florist and even clothing.

Flawed Promotion -Safeway has one flaw in their ad promotion.  They urge some customers, mostly the elderly and disabled to play their silly monopoly game.  It is an insult to the elders and disabled that are targeted.  Like who else has the time and patience?  Of course, they are off the mark as the elderly and disabled have better things to do with their time.  These people do charity work, do shopping (Safeway) have family duties, etc.

Known Activist -I am known for my activism and am willing to have customers outside Safeway stores sign a petition. The petition would urge customers to have Safeway eliminate these useless monopoly games.   I have large signs at the ready and plenty of liberal-minded elders to take part.

Denise D’Anne

March 15, 2019

ARE YOU INFESTED WITH ANTS/COCKROACHES?

By Denise D’Anne
415-431-4172
ddanne1@sbcglobal.net


DOES CAULKING HELP?

Those creepy, crawling creatures are in every crevice.  They especially like your
tiled kitchen sink.  Heavy rains that cause flooding encourages ants to find higher
ground.  Like all earth’s creatures they require food and water.  Follow the
crumbs and you will find ants and/or cockroaches.  See my upcoming article on
‘How I Acquired a Taste for Chicken and Calf Livers from roach infestation’. 
Roaches can produce a pungent, musty odor that gets worse the longer the
infestation.  The smell can come from large numbers of roaches.  Just one
German roach can produce this smell.  Roach odors linger in the air and can
even affect the taste of food.

ROACHES FOR MEDICINE!

It turns out that cockroaches have been on earth for billions of years.  And that in
China cockroaches are used for medicinal purposes.  Some roaches are ground-
up to make tea.  Some are literally milked (breast fed).  China has the distinction
of producing six billion roaches per year.   This is an investment windfall as it is
claimed that the dollar amount of China’s stored roaches exceeds all brokerage
stocks held worldwide.

ROACH MILK

An international team of scientist researchers sequenced a protein crystal
located in the midgut of cockroaches.  They claim roach milk is four times more
nutritious and could be the key to feeding our growing population in the future.

Smelling roaches. Finally, roaches can produce a pungent, musty odor that
gets worse the longer the infestation goes on. This oily smell can come from
large numbers of roaches, but just one German roach can produce this smell on
its own.

In China cockroaches are corralled by the millions and crushed to feed livestock.

The South China Morning Post publication turns a spotlight on the ‘disgusting’
insect with apparently remarkable medicinal qualities.  They are housed in the
world’s largest breeding facility where bugs outnumber the planet’s human
population.  “It is warm, humid and dark all year round, with freedom to roam to find
food and reproduce. Fully sealed like a prison, it has strict limitations on
access to visitors. From birth to death, inhabitants never see the sun.
They are my children says a woman who keeps 100,000 cockroaches
in her home.”

The world’s largest cockroach farm is breeding 6 billion adult
cockroaches a year and using artificial intelligence to manage a colony
larger than the world’s human population – all for medicinal use.
A healing potion: consumed by million patients in China.  This is
characterized as part of the roach production process published in
the South China Morning Post.

Smelling roaches. Finally, roaches can produce a pungent, musty odor that
gets worse the longer the infestation goes on. This oily smell can come from
large numbers of roaches, but just one German roach can produce this smell on
its own. ... Roach odors linger in the air and can even affect the taste of food.

FERTILIZER!

The hated roaches are essential to our planet for converting nitrogen into
fertilizer.

DENISE'S LATEST FACTOIDS OR MICROWAVES ARE FOR COOKING NOT HEATING.

July 20, 2018

‘Inducement to buy things and other Marketing Ploys.’  Some new factoids from ’I have a ‘Smart Panasonic Microwave Oven’ series.  Or ‘Microwaves are for Cooking not Heating.’

The latest factoid:  Meals on Wheels delivers about 50,000,000 meals nationwide.  But I could stand  corrected on that figure.

FUNDING :  Meals on Wheels is partially funded by Community Development Block Grans . According to SNOPES this funding is threatened by the Trump Administration.

See:  https://everydayseniorliving.com/8-things-you-should-know-about-senior-meal-delivery-services/?og1=2406aae0-fa27-4fb1-b49f-5ea71c4550c8&cid=cid6191&gclid=

The Factoid:  No means testing (no limits on how much (money you can have or earn).  No age limit barrier to receiving daily meals.  Thanks to the largess of the US Government.

It is possible that to the larger reception to getting meals is that recipients don’t have to pay for the meals as in the past or work off by volunteering.  But this may be short lived as the present administration is cutting back funding for this program and is expected to require or suggest Volunteering services to the community.’

Something like undocumented immigrants join the military.  While there die and become an automatic US citizen or go to college if you can afford it.  With no job prospects like the rest of eager US teens.

This could be a satire as I am not sure of any of my facts but the challenge is for you, the reader to correct my errors.

Do this by getting a free subscription to my Facebook or my Blog, Environmentally Speaking.

Have fun!!!

Denise D’Anne

Ddanne1@sbcglobal.net

OBAMA WATCH

The latest betrayal, Obama pushes through three Job-Killing trade deals against his own party’s wishes. Two thirds of the Democratic House voted against trade pacts with Korea, Columbia and Panama. The deals went through mostly by the votes of the Republicans. It is estimated that these deals will cause the loss 159,000 jobs in the first seven years. The three pacts explicitly ban Buy America procurement policies. These pacts will also increase the trade deficit.

WHAT NAFTA HAS WROUGHT

According to the Economic Policy Institute between 1993 and 2004, the US trade deficit with Mexico ballooned by $107 billion, which cost 1,015,290 US jobs, 123,000 in California. But although those jobs went south, Mexico lost far more jobs because of the treaty than those relocated from the US.

http://www.truth-out.org/new-free-trade-agreements-threaten-kill-jobs-and-labor-rights/1318363783

Slash and cap NO ON C&D

SF BAY VIEW National Black Newspaper

November 4, 2011

Dear Editor:

Vote No on both measures C and D, pension reform, and consider a more sustainable revenue source.

Look at the $1.4 billion city management salaries. Two stand out: One is the $516,000 a year salary for the deputy police chief. The other salary is $425,558, given to the second deputy police chief (‘09 figures).

There was a time when we had volunteer firefighters. There was a time when working for government was an unpaid or low paid privilege, thought of as a community service. There was a time when candidates for the Board of Supervisor competed for a salary of $28,000 a year. So how did we get to point of paying one deputy police chief more money than the president of the United States and even the mayor of San Francisco?

To save money, the city needs to cap salaries and pensions. One hundred thousand dollars is a nice round number for any city manager. Pensions should be a small percentage of the $100,000.

Let’s get back to working for the city as a civic duty, not a cash cow. And quit blaming the ordinary city worker for the financial woes they did not cause.

Denise D’Anne,

Photo: Robert B. Livingston

http://sfbayview.com/2011/our-readers-write-slash-and-cap/

WHAT TO DO WITH DEMOCRAT PARTY

The PROGRESSIVE POPULIST
June 15, 2011

GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT

Being in the Democratic Party is like being in an abusive relationship — one that is hard to break off. While Obama falls in the right-wing spectrum, we keep on making excuses for him and rally for his 2012 presidential bid. Note his giving away trillions to the super rich, escalating the war on Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan, calling for more nuclear power plants, more oil drilling in sensitive areas, possible backing of gutting Medicare and Social Security, etc. Either we fight like hell to get him on the right track or we wise up and build a viable third party, something on the order of a Labor Party. Or we vote Republican to rally the left-wingers to fight against a recognizable enemy.
Denise D’Anne
San Francisco, Calif.

OUR SOCIALIST PRESIDENT?

BACKWARD STEP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Rainbow Grocery Disappoints

When San Francisco Rainbow Grocery Store was first inaugurated, socially and environmentally conscience citizens were overjoyed. Here was a grocery store, employee owned, where one would be assured of getting organically grown produce and other groceries with less packaging than most supermarkets.

Rainbow started out by not providing paper or plastic bags at the checkout counter. It encouraged people to bring their own containers and bags for its array of bulk products, such as cereal, grains and ground coffee. It was not known for selling bottled water either. Now there are whole sections for bottled water in plastic containers. At the checkout stand one can now pick up paper bags to package groceries. The store is awash in plastic bags for bulk produce. There is not even one sign encouraging people to bring their own bags or containers.

One product that was astounding to see was a sort of flavored ice Popsicle in a hard plastic with silver lining that is squeezed in order to eat. Totally un-recyclable. How many other product such as this “Popsicle” is something someone should peruse. Letters highlighting this unconscionable contribution to the slow destruction of our environment go unanswered.

The high prices of food products sold at Rainbow are not affordable to most San Francisco shoppers. Perhaps eschewing some of the one-time use packaging and other environmentally unhealthy and destructive products, the price of all of its products may come down allowing more people to shop at Rainbow Grocery.

WHAT OBAMA FAILED TO SAY IN HIS STATE OF UNION

He failed to say that Social Security has a two-and-a-half trillion dollar surplus and that it is earned, not given away. What is called a "cut" would actually be theft from those who have paid into it over a lifetime. He needs to go on the offensive on Social Security, not be defensive. The same on Medicare. He failed to mention that it works and has the lowest operating cost of any form of health care by far. He failed to say that pensions are delayed earned payments for work already done, and that the conservative move to allow states and cities to declare bankruptcy is really a move to eliminate pensions for public employees and eliminate as much of public service as possible. He failed to say that "privatization" doesn't eliminate government, but institutes government by corporation for corporate profit not the benefit for citizens. He failed to say that we should have gratitude for immigrants -- with or without papers, educated or not -- who work hard at low pay to make possible the lifestyles of the middle and upper classes. He failed to defend the right to unionize as the foundation of fair working relationships. GEORGE LAKOFF 1/28/11

THE DARK SIDE OF PRESIDENTS

A fan of Obama and a friend of mine sent me a series of pictures of Obama and family. She noted that Obama had a room-lighting smile. And that apparently covers all sins he committed especially the one where he, believe or not, had more people killed with drones than even President Bush. What makes Obama different from Bush is that we expected more of him. As Commander-in-Chief he could halt all wars, bring the troops home from the 800 or so bases around the globe that are not only oppressing people but also draining our treasury. How can Americans cheer on this president or any other president who think nothing of the horrendous damage done to people in other countries with killing and maiming? I have seen pictures of children without arms caused by our bombs. This to get one person, no less, the excuse to invade Afghanistan. Would we tolerate such goings on on our soil, or would we be called insurgents for fighting the invader.

As my friend responded when I said Obama’s dark side is his escalation of the Afghan war and the darkness brought to the innocent Afghans. We have read of the hordes of people who used to roam around the world killing and destroying, they were called barbarians. Well, what are we? My friend responded to me “All of us have to accept responsibility for what we do or don’t do – not just the president.” I don’t know how that statement relieves the president of his role in pure murder but there is a kernel of truth. We are passively standing by and pretending that wars are the sole responsibility of our presidents and they can do no wrong. Otherwise, why are we not in the streets on a continual basis as in some other countries demanding no more wars?

I have a recurring dream that I killed someone. I feel my heart is going to stop from the thought of my being a murderer. I just wonder do all those presidents from our dark past ever have such frightening dreams?

PROGRESSIVES ILLUSIONS: Democrats doing the Republican’s dirty work

The Clinton Years

NAFTA – Sending millions of U.S. jobs into Mexico and sending millions of Mexicans into the U.S. after destroying Mexico’s local agriculture and businesses.

GATT – Lowering tariffs worldwide but mostly in favor of the U.S.

SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ – Periodic bombing to distract from Clinton’s penchant for unzipping his pants for genital exposure. Killing millions of children with no apologies from our first female (gentle females?) Secretary of State with this comment when interviewed for 60 Minutes by Lesley Stahl on 5/12/96: On U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Albright’s response: I think this a very hard choice, but the price—we think the price is worth it. The periodic bombing had the effect of softening up Iraq for the Bush invasion.

DEFENSEOF MARRIAGE – prohibiting gays from having their marriage recognized.

DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL – destroying countless lives of gays in the military.

WELFARE REFORM – Requiring mostly women with children into poverty jobs by denying them federal aid, causing neglect of their children and driving them further into poverty.

GLASS-STEAGAL ACT (GSA) - 1933 legislation to separate investment and commercial banking activities. This was to stop speculation with banking customer’s funds. Clinton signed the repeal of this act on November 12, 1999 leading to the financial crisis of 2008, which is still devastating our economy today.

Can any amount of good legislation out of the Clinton White House make up for the lives of half million children? Can any good legislation in Clinton’s time make up for the devastation of millions of lives due to this financial debacle?

2008 and Beyond

MORE DEADLY WEAPONS -Under Obama nuclear weapons has increased by 40% larger than what the U.S. spent for nuclear weapons activities during the height of the Cold War.

OIL DRILLING – Obama could not resist Drill Baby Drill and was about to open our coasts to drilling. Despite the tragedy of the Gulf Oil Spill we may see drilling along our coasts.

DRONE ATTACKS – Under Obama instead of getting out of Afghanistan he increased drone attacks killing more people in his first 9 months than Bush did in last 3 years. As Commander and Chief, he could and should have stopped the war in its tracks and not escalate.

HEALTH CARE – Turned over our health care 100% to the very private insurance companies that caused our health care crisis. He refused to give a platform to those who wanted to suggest Single Payer instead he had them arrested. This right out of the fascist playbook.

SOCIAL SECURITY – Obama set up a Deficit Commission and appointed right-wingers from both parties whose underhanded mandate is to gut social security and Medicare (something the Republicans could not do). The commission mandate was to deal with the country’s fiscal problems. Since Social Security is legally prohibited from ever spending more than it has collected in taxes, it cannot under the law contribute to the deficit. It now has a surplus of $2.5 trillion. Letter writer, Katherine W. Rylaarsdam of Baltimore, Md. calls this a brazen attempt at grand larceny.

COLUMBIA – Where unionist are killed routinely for trying to organize. The U.S. has 600 military advisors in the country. Obama made a deal with its president to grant U.S. access to seven military bases in the country. You just gave $7 billion of your tax dollars in military aid to Columbia since 2000 and Obama is continuing the tradition.

IMMIGRATION – More deportations are taking place under Obama than any other administration, 388,000 while spending more than $3 billion more than Bush. So much for Obama being a Socialist.

PAUL KRUGMAN - a New York Times columnist and a professor of Economists and International Affairs at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, had this to say of the Obama administration: “But progressive disillusionment isn’t just a matter of sky-high expectations meeting prosaic reality. Threatened filibuster didn’t force Mr. Obama to waffle on torture; to escalate in Afghanistan; to choose, with exquisitely bad timing, to loosen the rules on offshore drilling early this year.”

Shall we go on, now we have the brilliant idea from Obama to dismantle public education with the Race to the Top program by expanding charter schools; linking teacher’s pay to student test scores; enabling districts to dismiss entire staffs of failing schools; weakening teacher tenure; and testing and tracking student performance even more stringently.

Then there are extrajudicial killings and targeted assassinations we thought we left behind in the Bush administration only to be continued and refined under Obama.

There is just too much more to tell but this is a good start so as not to overburden my readers. As a staunch Democrat I know says: “What do you want me to vote for a Republican”. Well, my dear you could do worse. But how about holding feet to fire and establishing a third party.

CELL PHONE IMPLANTS

WHAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE WROUGHT

The Democrats were complicit, started or continued wars after WW11. The killing, poisoning of lands and the destruction of infrastructure ensued. Let's start with the only use of the atomic bomb in Japan. Then millions were killed in Korea and then in Viet Nam. Subsequently came Bush #1 who killed countless Iraqis in the first Gulf War after supporting Saddam Hussein for years even supplying him with chemical weapons against its war with Iran.

Clinton, the esteemed Democrat president continued the killing of Iraqis under the guise of sanctions, which killed over 500,000 Iraqi children. When Madeline Albright was asked on 60 Minutes (5/12/96) by Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it. Lest we forget every time Clinton unzipped his fly, to distract from his extra-marital affairs, it was to bomb Iraq softening it up for subsequent invasion by by Bush #2. By the way what concerned a lot of Americans most about Clinton: "Do you wear boxer shorts or briefs?"

In between the wars listed above American presidents went into Panama, Grenada and other forgotten skirmishes.

Now we gleefully claim “Mission Accomplished” after another few million deaths and displacement in Iraq. But the end is not in sight because we have our latest savior, President Obama, escalating the war in Afghanistan, killing even more people in that part of the world than the hated second Bush. And, of course, we are seriously contemplating a war with Iran in order to keep the military-industrial complex afloat.

Can we dispute the Reverend Martin Luther Kings’ prophetic words; “America is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” And probably for all time.

RECYCLING DELUSION

SF BAY TIMES

May 28, 2009

The earth does not have the capacity to contain the trillions of tons of waste created daily in our so-called civilized society. Extending out in the future the present accumulation of waste from electronic devices, packaging material, plastic storage containers, automobile parts, toxic batteries and other devices, we will have to consider looking to outer space for another planet where we can repeat the pattern that is destroying our present planet.

We should not delude ourselves that we will be able to recycle our way out of this predicament. Partly, because, many items are not recyclable, most people will not recycle and there are limited markets for such material. Also, to be considered the transportation costs and the pollution created by reconstituting any material.

One-solution charge high taxes on manufacturers as a disincentive in producing things our society consumes.

Denise D’Anne
San Francisco

PATHETIC DESPERATION

Election after election we follow the same pattern doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Actually, this is the definition of insanity. If someone from a different party other than the two major parties enters a race and that person is superior in every respect, it is like war has been declared. All ammunition comes to the fore; one example is the mayoral challenger in San Francisco, Matt Gonzalez in the 2004 mayoral race. Now some in the local Democratic Party establishment (the Milk Club for instance) is unenthusiastic with current Mayor Newsom that it refuses to endorse him for Lt. Governor.

We switch from Democrat to Republican administrations, both locally and nationally and we now find ourselves going backward. There are some incremental victories along the way surprisingly by some Republican administrations but overall when it comes to major systemic changes, we have failed miserably.

We could not make it better even if we had the will. Our environment is rapidly deteriorating, water quality, a finite resource, is being polluted even with the manufacturing of cheese, two examples is Idaho Cheese manufacturer Sorrento Lactalis Inc. and California’s Hilmar Cheese which destroyed drinking water for thousands of residents.

Our oceans food supplies are being drastically diminished to supply our addiction to oil and exponential use of plastic packaging now chocking sea creatures. Our air quality is going downhill especially with emerging nation’s loving cars so much as to be stuck in traffic for days at a time and still inured to the inconvenience and discomfort of using automobile to get around. In fact, there are now 600 million cars on the road worldwide with an estimated doubling of car use by 2030.

If we think we can somehow escape the consequences of air pollution caused by 600 million cars all dependent on fossil fuel, well maybe we should determine the state of our cognitive abilities to absorb this information and start to dramatically change our lifestyles and thinking on what it means to have a truly happy and satisfactory life style – material comfort or comfort in our environment and others with reasonable use of the world’s resources.

O, yes, I started with our insanity of expecting the two major parties to save our butts. How about listening to reasonable voices from other than the two-party corporate duopoly. Or better still get out on streets as they do in France and other countries and say, “We Won’t Take It Anymore.”

CHANNELING BUSH

We have a president who is a great rhetorician. We have an electorate that refuses to acknowledge that Obama is not only a manipulator of words but of our emotions. Instead of holding him accountable we make excuses. There can be no excuse for a man who has the power to end wars (after all he is the Commander and Chief) yet blatantly continues a war that is killing hundreds if not thousands of innocents, including our troops. When is a war crime not a war crime?

THE WAR CONTINUED AT HOME AND ABROAD

"The hope that came with the election of Barack Obama has faded as his policies have indicated nothing more than a reconfiguration of the basis tenet of the Bush Doctrine – that the US’s national security interests supersede any consideration of due process or the rule of law. The only difference – witness the rising civilian body count from drone attacks – being that Obama’s doctrine is even more deadly”, guardian.co. uk, April 11, 2010. The article continues claiming a completely new trend has emerged that, in many ways is more dangerous than the trends under Bush. Extrajudicial killings and targeted assassination will soon become the main point of contention that Obama's administration will need to justify Although Bush was known for such polities, the extensive use of drones under Obama have taken the death count well beyond anything that has been seen before.

SOCIAL SECURITY PRIVATIZATION

He is doing what many of us fought Bush over, privatizing Social Security. He set up a Commission to study how to reduce the federal deficit eschewing the study of our trillion dollar war funding. The Commission is charged with blaming Social Security and Medicare for our deficit problems despite the fact that Social Security is pay as you go and presently has $1.5 trillion surplus.

MORE FINANCIAL SHENANIGANS

How this for Chutzpah! Obma just appointed a former top executive at Citigroup, Jacob “Jack” Lew, to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Lew participated in the deregulation of Wall Street during the Clinton administration. Lew told a Senate panel that deregulation did not lead to the recent financial crisis.

Now come the rhetorician skills of Obama: during an October 20, 2008, campaign event in Florida, candidate Obama, told a crowd of his then-opponent, Sen. John McCain, that: “Twenty-one times just this year John McCain has said we need to deregulate the financial industry, right at a time when we know that because of deregulation that Wall Street was able to engage in the kind of irresponsible actions that have caused this financial crisis."

PRESIDENT HOPE SAID NOPE

In November 2009, Judge Stanwood Duval ordered the federal government to rebuild homes and compensate families of the dead in the Katrina disaster. This because he angrily discovered that the Army Corps of Engineers was ultimately responsible for disaster due to their catering to the oil companies for a passage way through the gulf for their product - oil. The passage way led to the destruction of a green wreath of cypress and mangrove, Nature's protection of the Crescent City. Our compassionate president, Obama, had Attorney General Eric Holder appeal the court's ruling.



STAY TUNED - MORE TO COME

SECOND GO AROUND

The relentless destruction of the earth goes apace. The biblical second coming is translated into second chance for exploitation and the ruinous of planet earth. Plans are afoot to take advantage of global warming. This time to exploit the riches and passage ways open due to the ice melting in the Artic Circle. Surrounding countries are planning stationing troops to protect what they presume is their area of control. Of course, they never heard that unsullied nature is for the benefit of all people and nations and not just a few powerful military.

Wars, ostensibly to bring democracy to backward people when in fact they are for exploitation of resources and peoples, will continue under a similar guise to exploit the riches of the opening up of the Artic due to the diminishing of ice.

Unfortunately, we never seem to learn from our past and continue in the same mode, to satisfy our selfish and self-indulgence nature.

A BIT DELUSIONAL

Lauding Pelosi’s role in pushing through a health care bill that entrenches the very cause of our healthcare disaster is well…Ludicrous.

THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH

SPIRITUAL WEALTH

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07brooks.html?emc=eta1

The author neglects to mention that in our rush for material wealth, we destroyed countless cultures and humans. We transformed a near paradise based on spiritual connection to earth to a near toxic dump, our own USA.

PELOSI HYPERBOLE

Her continual funding of both wars and the murderous loss of life mar Pelosi’s few legislative victories (Her house divided by Sasha Abramsky, Aug 25-31.) These two things alone seep into the bone and marrow of our society causing a slow death to our ideals and democracy. The Tea Party critique of the health care reform maybe hyperbolic by calling it socialism while in reality it is hyper-capitalistic, it still resonates on both ends of the spectrum as a disaster in waiting. Pelosi may have operational abilities admired by Harry Britt but does she have ability to cure the moral and ethical morass she has caused in her long career?

(A front page article about Nancy Pelosi praising her for her legislative accomplishments.)