Mois : février 2014

Published on Intrepid Report, by Rajesh Makwana, February 12, 2014.

… The green economy vs. the greed economy:

Invariably, the big business lobby advocates for market-based solutions to environmental problems and the ‘greening’ of economic growth, and essentially works to safeguard opportunities for private sector investment and shareholder profit. But environmentalists and civil society organisations have long argued that there is something deeply misguided about putting corporate profits and market-based solutions at the forefront of our response to climate change and the wider environmental crisis. Continuer la lecture de « Moving beyond the corporate vision of sustainability »

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, Feb 11, 2014.

You would have thought that, after all this time, economics would change. Or be changing. Or even be hinting at the possibility of changing. However, while there are a few encouraging signs, there is precious little sign of said motion inside the citadels that dominate the discipline. We still have a profession stuck in a most unprofessional rut, pursuing thinking that reflects not the world around it, but itself.   Continuer la lecture de « Do over? »

• Former BBC Journalist and Bilderberg Expert Tony Gosling, 21.30 min, uploaded by wearechange, June 7, 2013;
• Tony Goslin Captured Live on Ustream …, 69.07 min, uploaded by Goodisplanetearth gipetv, August 20, 2013: see also Ustream, /videos;
• Freemasonry: The firm within the firm, on Russia Today RT, Jan 23, 2014: Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist;
• The Snowden Files: How to turn another hero into a villain, on Russia Today RT, Feb 7, 2014: Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist …;
• Tony Gosling also on unwelcome guests.net; on public interest.co.uk; on YouTube-search; on Google Web-search.

Proposed public service overhaul includes education hit squads to boost performance of failing schools or teachers – Published on The Guardian, by Patrick Wintour, Feb 9, 2014.

Parents are to be given a new power to call in a specialist team to boost the performance of failing schools or teachers, under a set of wide-ranging public service reform plans to be laid out on Monday by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband.

The improvement team, working separately from Ofsted, will have powers to set out school improvement plans, order greater collaboration between schools or even remove failing headteachers. The body would have powers to intervene with academies, free schools and community schools.  Continuer la lecture de « Ed Miliband: Labour will give parents power to oust headteachers »

… an interview with Leo Panitch – Published on red pepper, January 2014.

Globalisation and Imperialism: … //

• … Is it really the case that other states have not also assumed the responsibility for promoting and protecting global capitalism?
• That’s a good question, one that’s not fully resolved. The US is a new type of empire that only rules in conjunction with other states, especially G7 states. It’s not merely an imposition. It requires a lot of institutional coordination and interpenetration. That said, the Germans in particular have been recalcitrant in taking responsibility for ‘failure containment’ in light of financial volatility. Neither has Japan been very forthcoming. By contrast, the relationship between UK and US Treasury is particularly close in playing this failure containment role, although the UK accepts that the US is the senior partner, if for no other reason than it has greater capacity. Continuer la lecture de « To challenge global capitalism we must first understand it »

english:

• 271 PHOTOS of the Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony, on Huffingtn Post (scroll down for the diaporama), Feb 8, 2014;
• Voluntary and involuntary declines in labour supplied – Or: the difference between the Great Depression and the Age of Doris Day, on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by merijnknibbe, Feb 7, 2014;
• Modeling financial instability, on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Steve Keen, Feb 7, 2014;
• World Health Organization warns cancer ‘tidal wave’ on horizon, on Malta Today, Feb 4, 2014: The globe is facing a « tidal wave » of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists …;
• Total ban on GM food production mulled in Russia, on Russia Today RT, Feb 3, 2014;   Continuer la lecture de « all these links remaning on my Dashbard »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 934, by Esther Vivas, February 7, 2014. http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/934.php

Resisting is pointless,” we hear endlessly repeated. “So many years of protest but the crisis continues, why bother?” insist others, inoculating us with apathy and resignation. “Protests could lead to something that’s even worse,” whispers the machinery of fear. They want us submissive, heads bowed. Dreams of change are forbidden. However, history rebels, indomitable. And it shows us, despite the naysayers, that struggle is worth it. The victories against the privatization of Madrid’s public health system, of the Gamonal neighbourhood standing up to speculators and the corrupt, of the cleaners in their battle for jobs in the capital and the struggle against evictions and the banks, are good examples … // Continuer la lecture de « Spain: Popular Resistance Delivers Results »

Published on Journal News.net, by Sonja James, Feb 6, 2014.

Christopher Merrill’s « Boat » is an extraordinary and complex collection of dissident poetry.

Merrill’s gift lies in the laser-like precision with which he dissects memory, love, politics and faith. The poems assume forms as diverse as traditional narrative and prose poems as well as translations. His human rights message is simple and direct. Our highest ethical imperative as human beings is to question injustice and the abuse of power no matter where it occurs … //

… poem-reviews …  Continuer la lecture de « Speaking Truth to Power: ‘Boat’ reinvents notion of human possibility »

If America Doesn’t ABOLISH The FED, The FED Will ABOLISH AMERICA, 24.06 min, uploaded by uploaded by FinanceAndLiberty.com, Dec 23, 2013.

Links – on en.wikipedia:

• G. Edward Griffin;
• Federal Reserve System FED;
• see also FED (disambiguation).

Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler, February 4, 2014.

On January 17, 2014, we explained The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation. In former times, the rise in the gold price was held down by central banks selling gold or leasing gold to bullion dealers who sold the gold. The supply added in this way to the market absorbed some of the demand, thus holding down the rise in the gold price.  Continuer la lecture de « Why is the Fed tapering? »

Leaked: Germany says 3rd Greek bailout worth €10bn-€20bn, on Russia Today RT, Feb 3, 2014.

The next financial lifeline Greece will receive from Germany and its European lenders will be worth €10 billion to €20 billion, the German magazine Der Spiegel reports, citing a document leaked from Berlin’s finance ministry.

The rescue package, which will be the third for Europe’s most troubled economy, is considered “extra aid” by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, who said the sum would be “far smaller” than the €240 billion is has already received from international lenders.   Continuer la lecture de « Greece 3rd bailout »

… mit nur echtem Geld, 125.09 min, von GoldenAUroraniS am 3. Februar 2013 hochgeladen.

Links:

• Extra 3 vom 29.01.2014 (NDR/X3.de/ARD), 29.36 min, von ARD am 30.Januar 2014 hochgeladen;
• ZDF Heute Show – Folge 140, 24.01.2014, 37.29 min, von MegaHelmi1 am 27. Januar 2014 hochgeladen;
• Erik Gottwald: auffordernde Rede vor Schlachthof, 9.09 min, von LuxariusIlluminator am 12. Februar 2013 hochgeladen;   Continuer la lecture de « Zur mehr gerechten Welt »

Published on The Tunis Times, by Staff, Jan 23, 2014.

The debate over the role of religion in the constitution has ignited an ideologically-heated dispute between the secularists and the Islamists. Ultimately, the two sides of the conflict, whether public or parliamentary, argued that Article 6 – the heart of this debate- should be worded otherwise to maintain balance. The article guarantees freedom of belief and conscience and the free exercise of religion and bans apostasy and incitement on violence.   Continuer la lecture de « Apostasy ban overshadows political debate in Tunisia »

• Audio: Christopher Hitchens interviews Eric Hobsbawm, 66.54 min, uploaded by hitch archive, Nov 25, 2013;
• The Late Show – Special Eric Hobsbawm: Age of Extremes, 38.13 min, uploaded by se146np, Nov 11, 2012;
• Eric Hobsbawm on Gramsci’s Marxism (1987) 1/7, 9.58 min, uploaded by Bigmartinno1, April 19, 2009: … with 2/7 to 7/7 in autoplay;   Continuer la lecture de « Eric Hobsbawm »

Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, Jan 31, 2014.

A few days ago, I explained how economists and policymakers destroyed our economy for the sake of short-term corporate profits from jobs offshoring and financial deregulation.  Continuer la lecture de « How junk economists help the rich impoverish the working class »