{"id":40413,"date":"2024-06-11T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40413"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:28:33","slug":"the-importance-of-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/06\/11\/the-importance-of-greed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance Of Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a disconcerting headline on CNN\/Business<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Chiquita found liable for financing paramilitary group<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Click on me?<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

For those not familiar with the name, Chiquita<\/strong><\/em><\/a> produces and distributes bananas, primarily from South America; they were once known as the United Fruit Co<\/strong><\/em>. In general, banana companies have been known to treat Central and South America as its own little plantation; the advent of leftist political movements and groups in those areas generated alarm concerning their profits.<\/p>\n

So it appears Chiquita<\/strong><\/em> was willing to terrorize and kill those who threatened their profit.<\/p>\n

At the moment, they appear to be liable for some fines, but the question of, well, humanity<\/em> raises its head. Shouldn’t the folks who financed and enabled such actions be punished rather more severely? Admonishment is hardly enough.<\/p>\n

I’m just rather gobsmacked that this happened. Yeah, yeah, I’m naive. But it’s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a disconcerting headline on CNN\/Business: Chiquita found liable for financing paramilitary group For those not familiar with the name, Chiquita produces and distributes bananas, primarily from South America; they were once known as the United Fruit Co. In general, banana companies have been known to treat Central and \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40416,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413\/revisions\/40416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}