Mois : janvier 2016

related articles published during January 2016: (continuously updated … ) Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, January 1-31, 2016 »

Published on RT, Jan 30, 2016.

A federal court judge in Portland has denied bail to Ammon Bundy and three of his cohorts as the occupation of a federal wildlife refuge building in Burns, Oregon continues. The FBI says four people remain there as the protest hits its fourth week.

The leader of the group of armed men that occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Ammon Bundy, as well as his brother Ryan, Brian Cavalier, and Ryan Payne, were all denied release on Friday. US Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman said that they posed a danger to public safety and were considered a flight risk, as she was concerned they would not follow orders to return to Oregon for criminal proceedings … // Continuer la lecture de « Court denies bail to Ammon Bundy & 3 others as Oregon occupation continues »

Published on Basic Income Earth Network BIEN, by Stanislas Jourdan, Jan 28, 2016.

Critics of basic income have been proven wrong once again. Giving everyone the means to survive would not make people lazy. A new opinion poll carried out in Switzerland shows that only a tiny fraction of the population would stop working if they had a Universal Basic Income (UBI). What is more, most young people believe UBI will be implemented in the future.

The survey was conducted by DemoSCOPE and released on January 27, 2016 (you can read the full results here). Among the 1076 respondents, only 2% said they would stop working completely, while another 8% said they would ‘rather’ stop working. This trend is also persistent among the youth, were only 3% said they would stop working. However, about a third of the respondents think “others would stop working.”   Continuer la lecture de « SWITZERLAND: Only 2% of people would stop working if they had a basic income »

• The Lie We Live, 8.28 min, uploaded by Freshtastical, Jan 27, 2015 … (subtitled in french: le mensonge que nous sommes en train de vivre)
• Thoughts on Egypt’s revolution from the ground, 3.11 min, uploaded by Middle East Eye, Jan 25, 2016;
• The case for radical modernity, on red pepper.org.uk, by Jeremy Gilbert, Jan 2016: the left should embrace technological innovation and new class alliances as part of a strategy for 21st-century socialism;
• Shocking Disfunction and The Power Of Oligarchs, 62.38 min, uploaded by Minethis1, Nov 4, 2015 … Candid interview with Yanis Varoufakis (subtitled in german);
• Die neue, selbstorganisierte, ressourcenbasierte Wirtschaft – Prof. Franz Hörmann, 96.15 min, von NeueHorizonteTV am 25. September 2014 hochgeladen … und weitere Videos in autoplay;
• Rethink your life, 4.56 min, uploaded by iReleaseEndorphins, Feb 8, 2012;
• The Story of Your Enslavement, 13.09 min, uploaded by Stefan Molyneux, April 17, 2010.