[GJM] Fw: [globalnetnews-summary] Starbucks has a bitter plan

[mary rose]

It appears to me that coffee, a luxury item, is currently
using much of the land worldwide that is needed to produce
nutrients, of which coffee has none. So, now millions of
acres will be converted to food production.

What is needed, of course is land for subsistence farmers
so that all may be fed and forced migration brought to
an end. .

The great American lifestyle has to go.  But with billions
of people addicted to it, how does that take place?

But then, since addiction is only an "add on" disease,
we must first look at the primary one: "dissociation."

So, the first step is to aid billions of people in healing
their Pathology of Dissociation.  Dissociation in this case
meaning dissociation from the Earth -- that which provides
us with our soul.  To be more specific, it is about the loss of
what Jay Earley refers to as "the basic qualities" of life inherent
at the beginning of our social evolution, e.g., community, natural
living, belonging, vitality, and equality.  These are the "feminine
qualities" that were lost as the dominator paradigm came into
play with its emphasis on technology and social structure along
with rationalization.  These emergent qualites, designed to give
the human family more power in the world, then suppressed the
basic qualities with great costs to our wholeness.

The task that lies before us today is to integrate the basic qualities
back into our social system, thus balancing the emergent qualities
so that we may move forward into the future in health and wellness.

with love and in gratitude for all that we do together.

mary rose

We must be the change we wish to see in our lives. M. Gandhi
     .

mary rose  .

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July 1, 2008, 4:40 pm
Starbucks has a bitter plan
http://dailybriefing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/01/starbucks-has-a-bitter-plan/
By Scott Moritz

Starbucks (SBUX) can't catch a break. The coffee retailer says it will close 
600 stores, about 8.5% of its 7,100 total stores, an expansion of the 
100-store closing target it had previously announced.

The Seattle coffee chain has been feeling the pinch of a tightening economy. 
In February, the company fired 600 employees and conducted a in-store 
retraining program to try and revive the Starbuck Experience, as CEO Howard 
Schultz has called it.

Starbucks says it is trying to cull unprofitable stores from the franchise 
and expects to book $200 million of asset write-offs in the third quarter 
related to the closings. Starbucks shares are down 40% over the past year.

In April, when Starbucks warned that profits for the first quarter would be 
6 cents below the 21-cents-per-share Wall Street target, Schultz said the 
turnaround plan wasn't taking hold.

"The current economic environment is the weakest in our company's history, 
marked by lower home values, and rising costs for energy, food and other 
products that are directly impacting our customers," Schultz said at the 
time. Schultz returned as CEO in January, replacing Jim Donald. As a story 
by Fortune's David Stires pointed out, Schultz is trying to undo the 
exuberant expansion effort of his predecessor Donald who wanted to triple 
the number of stores to 40,000 with half in the U.S. and the rest abroad.