Thursday, March 18, 2021

VEGAN NEWS
Joseph Goebbels' mansion proposed as a vegan-friendly commune for artists and immigrants

Swikar Oli 
3/15/2021

© Provided by National Post The former country house of Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime and one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates, is pictured on the left on January 05, 2008 at the Bogensee lake near Lanke, eastern Germany.


The former private villa of the Nazi’s chief propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is getting a meaningful upgrade.

Plans underway would turn Goebbels’ 70-plus room lakeside estate in Bogensee, Germany — which includes a private movie theatre — into a vegan-friendly commune.

The transformation would serve as a rebuke to the legacy of Adolf Hitler and Goebbels, welcoming the types of residents the Nazis targeted, Arnim Beutel of Life & Creativity Bogensee Campus (LKC), the non-profit group behind the project, told the Daily Star :

“It should be a diverse community. I think they would hate it because of course, we do the opposite of what they would do,” Beutel said.
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“We want to build a co-operative community and we want to bring life back there. We want to make it a hotspot for culture and education and health. We want to create an area for an alternative way to live and to work.”


Renovation of the building, abandoned for two decades and left in disrepair, would be gradual and require public and private financing, the LKC website states. Once complete, the estate would house 250 residents, with special accommodation granted to immigrants and the disabled.

The champions of the initiative intend for the repurposed building to discourage Neo-Nazi intrusions.

In 1936, Hitler gifted the Bogensee land to Goebbels, his loyal chief propagandist, who brought the then-nascent TV and radio media under Nazi influence. Goebbels poured money into building his forested hideaway, located 15 kilometres to the north of Berlin, where he reportedly had love affairs with mistresses, including a young Lida Baarova, the Czech-born leading lady.

His family came to live with him at the Bogensee property, up until they fled to Berlin during the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945. Soon after, facing certain Nazi defeat, Goebbels poisoned his six children and committed suicide with is wife Magda.

After the war’s end, the property became a training school for youths under the East German socialist party and was abandoned around the time Germany reunified in 1990.

The renovated space would incorporate living spaces, artist’s workshops, a health and wellness centre, a theatre, vegan restaurant and supermarket. A museum focusing on the mansion’s peculiar history is also proposed.

Residents will be able to work on campus, and visitors could live in the “hostel” and “hotel,” according to a translated statement on the LKC website.

Nature lovers can take quiet strolls along the lakeshore and surrounding woods.

“If you walk the old ways, the grass in the joints of the pavement muffles your footsteps,” LKC says. “The chirping of birds and the wind in the leaves underscore an almost contemplative silence




Kamala Harris visits vegan taco shop in Las Vegas

Tue, March 16, 2021, 

Vice President Kamala Harris made an unscheduled stop at a vegan taco stand in Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday. Harris and other Biden Administration officials are on the road promoting the new $1.9 trillion COVID relief package. (March 16)

Video Transcript

- In a hurry.

KAMALA HARRIS: OK.

- But, again, thank you so much.

KAMALA HARRIS: I have my black bean burritos, or I think enchiladas, right?

- I think they--

KAMALA HARRIS: Because that's what I wanted.

- --already ordered for you.

KAMALA HARRIS: That's what I ordered.

- So we'll--

KAMALA HARRIS: Did you-- are you hungry?

AARON FORD: [INAUDIBLE]

- Oh, yeah, we can add stuff in if you want more.

- Hello, Madame Vice President.

KAMALA HARRIS: Hi. How are you? What's your name?

- I'm Jermaine.

KAMALA HARRIS: Jermaine, Kamala Harris.

- It's an honor to meet you. It's an honor.

AARON FORD: How you doing, Jermaine?

KAMALA HARRIS: Aaron Ford, your--

AARON FORD: I'm Aaron Ford. I'm your attorney general.

KAMALA HARRIS: --attorney general.

- Honor to meet you.

AARON FORD: Good to see you.

- OK, so your food's already ready.

KAMALA HARRIS: OK.

- Like, they called ahead and held it for you.

KAMALA HARRIS: So the-- what, we have the enchiladas, right?

- You have like six tacos. No, no, no, you have six tacos.

AARON FORD: Big tacos, OK.

KAMALA HARRIS: Oh, we got tacos instead. Great, OK, great. So I'll share.

AARON FORD: You'll share?

KAMALA HARRIS: [CHUCKLES]

- So I have your food sitting right over here.

KAMALA HARRIS: OK. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, you're not going to be hungry after this.

AARON FORD: I'm going to [INAUDIBLE].

KAMALA HARRIS: Hello.

- Hi.

KAMALA HARRIS: How are you?

- [INAUDIBLE]

KAMALA HARRIS: Aw.

- It's been a pleasure having you here.

KAMALA HARRIS: What's your name?

- Gigi.

KAMALA HARRIS: Gigi, Kamala Harris. It's all-- we're all in it together, right? We've had some difficult, difficult times. It's been a year. It's been a year.

- Right, it's been a year.

KAMALA HARRIS: But look at what's happening, right? I mean, I just left the vaccination site at UNLV. People are getting vaccinated when it's their turn.

- I already got my vaccine. So--

KAMALA HARRIS: Good.

AARON FORD: Very good.

KAMALA HARRIS: Good. Good. You did.

- Yes.

KAMALA HARRIS: And tell everybody you know, right?

- Yeah.

KAMALA HARRIS: Tell the aunties, and the uncles, and the friends--

- Yes.

KAMALA HARRIS: --and the neighbors, and the grandparents. Everyone should get the vaccine when it's their turn, right?

- Yes.

KAMALA HARRIS: That's how we love thy neighbor, right?

- Yes.

KAMALA HARRIS: That's how we'll get back

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