notable baker!
Good dig anon. Child mining / conflict minerals = human trafficking hot spots.
Need moar digs on this one.
This is actually a pretty good read on the inner workings of the system re: Assange / Passport / Truth
A shit load of fuckery. Free Assange
https://www.mintpressnews.com/whats-behind-australia-decision-suddenly-grant-julian-assange-passport/255809/
Get a butter knife.
Put it under your equal key on your keyboard.
pry it off and stuff it up you…
Jews and the tobacco industry
Jewish involvement with the tobacco industry dates back to the days of Christopher Columbus and
his 1492 voyage to the New World, during which his Jewish interpreter, Luis de Torres (born
Yosef ben HaLevi HaIvri) the first man ashore discovered the use of tobacco from Native
Americans that he encountered. Over the centuries Jews in Europe and the Americas built a trade
network on the tobacco business, from plantation owners to wholesale brokers, cigar, cigarette,
snuff and pipe tobacco manufacturers as well as retail merchants selling their goods from main
street storefronts, Jews have made billions of dollars from the tobacco industry.
As early as 1612, the city council of Hamburg, Germany, had allowed Sephardic Jews from
Portugal to settle in their town and set up shop as merchants of exotic wares including tobacco.
Sephardic Jews settled in the Dutch city of Geroningen in 1683 as tobacco merchants and
purveyors of imported goods.
Diego d'Aguilar, a Sephardic Jew, owned the tobacco monopoly in
Austria from 1743 to 1748 and Israel Honig established the State Tobacco Monopoly in 1788.
Jewish immigrants were the main workforce in American tobacco processing operations and cigar
makers since the seventeenth century, while Jewish merchants such as the firm of Asher &
Solomon dominated the snuff industry. Jewish companies such as Loeser and Wolf of Berlin
became leaders of the tobacco trade.
Jewish tobacconist Leopold Kronenberg produced 25 percent
of the cigars and cigarettes manufactured in Poland in 1867.
The trade union movement began
when a Jew named Samuel Gompers organized the cigar makers in the 1870s and 1880s.
As tobacco became a major commodity in Europe, Jews played an ever more prominent role in its
cultivation, importation and processing.
By the beginning of the 20th century Jews owned about
40 percent of all the tobacco related businesses in the city of Mannheim, Germany, while in terms
of population Jews made up no more than 4 percent of the city's residents.
Among the more famous names to be found in the tobacco industry is that of Philip Morris, the
son of a Jewish immigrant from Germany who took the name of Bernard Morris after settling in
England in the early 19th century.
The Morris family opened a tobacco shop on Bond Street in
London in 1847 and by 1854 Philip Morris had begun to manufacture his own cigarettes.
While
Morris died in 1873, his widow Margaret and his brother Leopold carried on the family business
whose name would become known world wide when Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., was incorporated
in New York City in 1902.
Jacob Langsdorf, a Jewish immigrant from Bavaria, Germany, was one of many Jews in 19th
century America who made a fortune in the tobacco trade.
The owner of a tobacco plantation in
antebellum Georgia, Langsdorf later moved to Philadelphia following the Civil War where he
founded a cigar company whose boxes advertised: “the material used in these cigars is prepared
and made strictly on the Havana plan,” suggesting the high regard in which Cuban cigars were
held and the likelihood that the Langsdorfs traveled to Havana to observe cigar
manufacturing.
Langsdorf's cigar manufacturing business was inherited by his five sons and
continued producing cigars well into the 20th century.
Research doc on the CF / Guistra - feel free to work on this. Lots there.
Tobac doc is further down the board