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Friday, February 16, 2007 |
Now is the time change our attitudes towards climate change.
Al Gore, Kevin Wall, Pharrell, Maná, Cameron Diaz launch unprecedented campaing, concert to combat climate crisis.
Local produce that will eliminate transport over thousands of miles is one of the answers.
What about SPIN farming?
Celsias: "In a world that is finally facing up to the challenges of climate change and finite resources, a growing corp of unlikely activists are, quite literally, taking matters into their own hands by taking up SPIN. SPIN stands for S-mall P-lot IN-tensive, and it is giving rise to a new class of citizen-farmers who are showing that agriculture can be incorporated into our built environments instead of being segregated in living museums outside of it."
Break the power of the big supermarkets who ruin local producers and communities.
And one more thing, STOP FIGHTING USELESS WARS! They drain human resources, drain our finances, ruin our environment and prevent doing something about the real dangers ahead, i.e. global warming.
11:37:47 AM 
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BBC: "On Thursday 15 February a high court judge in London will rule whether so-called vulture fund can extract more than $40m from Zambia for a debt which it bought for less than $4m.
Vulture funds - as defined by the International Monetary Fund and Gordon Brown amongst others - are companies which buy up the debt of poor nations cheaply when it is about to be written off and then sue for the full value of the debt plus interest - which might be ten times what they paid for it."
BBC: "A High Court judge has ruled that Zambia must pay a substantial sum to a so-called 'vulture fund'."
This is capitalism in its most predatory form. We are indeed witnessing the last throes of capitalism. This is outrageous.
You will have trouble finding Debt Advisory International and Donegal International (Virgin Islands) on the internet. Criminal corporations keep their premises and doings secret. Have a guess from which country Donegal Int. bought the debt. It is Romania, one of the new European countries.
Greg Palast: "The London case is just one of many which are running around the world. Newsnight went to New York to try to interview Paul Singer - the reclusive billionaire who virtually invented vulture funds.
In 1996 his company paid $11m for some discounted Peruvian debt and then threatened to bankrupt the country unless they paid $58m. They got their $58m.
Now they're suing Congo Brazzaville for $400m for a debt they bought for $10m.
We didn't get our interview. His spokesman told us, 'We have nothing to hide; we just don't do interviews'.
Debt Advisory International are very generous to their lobbyists in Washington. They have been paying $240,000 a year to the lobby firm Greenberg Traurig - although recently they jumped ship to another firm after Greenberg Traurig's top lobbyist was put in jail."
Neocon capitalism is criminal capitalism.
11:26:38 AM
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WashingtonPost: "A group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation yesterday that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and would narrowly define what it means to be an 'enemy combatant' against the United States, a measure designed to challenge laws ushered in by the Republican-controlled Congress last year.
The bill, titled the 'Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007', strikes at the core of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 by giving detainees access to U.S. courts. It was introduced by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.), a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination."
11:13:10 AM
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Canada: "Canada and its allies in Afghanistan are waging a losing war against the Taliban that's killed thousands of innocent civilians, harmed the reputation of coalition forces and fuelled support for the insurgency in the past year, says a new report on the conflict by the Senlis Council."
Senlis Council: "With a rapid rise in violent insurgency, southern Afghanistan is at tipping point, and the international community's counter-insurgency strategy is in urgent need of reassessment.
The general Afghan population is feeling increasingly alienated from and hostile to the international community. The practice of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan has so far predominantly focused on military instruments to fight against the insurgency."
Recommendations.
11:09:51 AM
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