Mois : novembre 2013

• Kenyan Women Learn Bio-intensive Farming KHSP, 3.23 min, uploaded by ajwstv, Nov 3, 2011: Kenya—a country of nearly 35 million people—presently produces less than 50% of the food that its population needs to survive. Much of the agricultural land has been depleted by years of chemical-heavy industrial farming, and small-scale growers were long ago forced out of business by cheap subsidized imports from Western nations. Without a strong local agricultural economy, Kenya’s people are at the mercy of international market prices for food, and when prices rise, the poor go hungry …;    Continuer la lecture de « local agriculture for and with communities »

Published on Russia Today RT, Nov 8, 2013.

The UK is “by far the most important” player on the global financial secrecy market. While only ranked 21 on the Tax Justice Network index, the aggregated web of jurisdictions around the world makes Britain the top router of global financial secrets … //

… Overall Tax Justice Network ranked 82 global financial jurisdictions, 10 of which are directly connected to UK, whose head of state is the British queen. They include places like the fourth-ranked Cayman Islands, fourteenth-ranked Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands ranked 20th.    Continuer la lecture de « Web of financial secrecy: Britain, satellites dominate tax haven rating »

The directors of GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 are to face questions from a parliamentary committee. Here’s what they should be asked – Published on The Guardian, by Nick Hopkins, Nov 6, 2013.

The heads of Britain’s three intelligence agencies – whose identities were once regarded as top secret – will on Thursday give evidence before a parliamentary committee for the first time.

Sir Iain Lobban, the director of Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ, the MI6 (foreign intelligence) chief, Sir John Sawers, and the director general of MI5 (UK’s domestic counter-intelligence), Andrew Parker, will face questions from the intelligence and security committee in a 90-minute session … // Continuer la lecture de « Mass surveillance: 10 key questions for UK intelligence agency chiefs »

• Cash Bern: Swiss may grant unconditional income for all, 2.39 min, uploaded by Russia Today RT, Oct 4, 2013: Swiss citizens are demanding a crucial change in the constitution, pushing for the introduction of a guaranteed income for everyone. RT teamed up with RUPTLY video to follow the story.RT’s Peter Oliver is in Bern where supporters of the basic income idea have gathered for a rally;
• unconditional income on YouTube-search;
• Why A Swiss Proposal To Give Every Citizen $2,800 Each Month Is So Radical, on Business Insider, by Adam Taylor, Oct 17, 2013;
• Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult, on Reuters, Oct 4, 2013;
• unconditional income for all on Google Web-search;   Continuer la lecture de « Swiss may grant unconditional income for all »

Published on War us a Crime.org, by David Swanson, Nov 1, 2013.

President Dwight Eisenhower is often admired for having avoided huge wars, having declared that every dollar wasted on militarism was food taken out of the mouths of children, and having warned — albeit on his way out the door — of the toxic influence of the military industrial complex (albeit in a speech of much more mixed messages than we tend to recall).

But when you oppose war, not because it murders, and not because it assaults the rights of the foreign places attacked, but because it costs too much in U.S. lives and dollars, then your steps tend in the direction of quick and easy warfare — usually deceptively cheap and easy warfare.  Continuer la lecture de « Eisenhower's Drones »