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Let’s make everything free! From freeworldcharter.org: The Free World Charter is a statement of principles that has the potential to optimise life on Earth for all species, eradicate poverty and greed, and advance progress. Neither political nor religious, these ten short principles could form the foundation of a new, advanced society that uses no money, [...]
Jane Burgermeister reports:
I had a chat with Vienna economics professor Franz Hörmann and economics expert Otmar Pregetter yesterday about their new political movement to reform our money system across the eurozone, and I urge everyone to become involved in this exciting, new movement.
Few people in the eurozone realise that they have to pay interest on every single euro note and coin they use.
They are using private money without knowing it – and using a private service always comes with a price tag.
97% of all the money in the eurozone is created by private banks as an interest bearing loan.
By Ariel Schwartz, Fast Company. Diet soda is not, it turns out, a panacea for overeating. But it’s not just because ordering a burger, fries, and a diet soda means you’re still consuming too many calories; it’s because diet soda itself may increase your waistline. The news comes from a University of Texas study that [...]
Final speeches at the beginning of April, verdict on 2nd May! No defence witnesses to be heard.
In court this week Judge Arleth dropped the bombshell that she will not be proceeding with the trial for much longer and intends to bring it to a close as soon as possible. It seems that prosecution witnesses who have not yet been questioned by the defence will not be asked to return to the witness box. Instead court time is being taken up by the reading out of final police reports until 9 o’clock in the evening every day from now on! This late hour is also planned for the final speeches in order for the verdict to be given on the 2nd of May.
Ivory Coast, called the ‘pearl of West Africa’, is on the brink of civil war — and chocolate companies could play a critical role in stopping the bloodshed.
Despite losing elections in November and united international pressure and sanctions to remove him, Laurent Gbagbo is clinging to power. Revenues and tariffs from cocoa, the country’s largest export, are bankrolling his brutal army that has murdered hundreds of winning party supporters. If chocolate companies immediately and publicly refuse to do business with Gbagbo, his cash supply could dry up – and without the support of the army, his power base would dwindle, and he could be forced to step down.
This situation could spiral into all-out war within days. Chocolate lovers of the world, let’s flood popular brands like Nestlé, M&M/Mars and Hershey’s with messages to end trade with Gbagbo now and commit to working only with the legitimate government.
Lots of talk these days about the bullying of young boys and girls in school by more aggressive students. This brings to my mind the biggest bully of all: the biotech company, Monsanto Corporation. Taken in context, Monsanto’s list of corporate crimes should have been enough to pull their corporate charter years ago. And yet we allow them to continue to destroy our food supply, our health and the planet. Monsanto or Monsatan? Take a look at the company’s track record and decide for yourself:
Agent Orange, Saccharin, Bovine Growth Hormone, RoundUp, Genetically Modified Crops, Terminator Seeds – all these names are spelling doom for our civilization. They are all kindly provided by Monsanto.
Before the holidays, millions of hard-working men and women gather the money they have saved throughout the year, go to a local Western Union office and wire it to their relatives throughout the developing world. Up to 20% of these savings can go straight into the pocket of money transfer organizations in fees, allowing companies to make billions of dollars in profit on the backs of the world’s neediest.
Western Union has never faced a public outcry to challenge its shameless profiteering. If we raise our voices loudly to challenge their predatory fees, we can threaten their corporate brand enough to compel them to act.
Let’s urgently build an unstoppable public outcry calling on Western Union to live up to its family-friendly rhetoric by lowering its fees for the poorest countries. Sign now — and we’ll deliver it to the company’s image-sensitive board of directors when the petition reaches 250,000 signers.
Every second German wants the D Mark to be reintroduced, according to a poll for Bild newspaper.
Two thirds or 67% of the Germans surveyed said they were worried about the stability of the euro.
A huge 77% said that had not benefitted from the introduction of the euro compared to only 17% who said they had.
Just 30% said they would today vote to adopt the euro and 60 % would vote against such a move.
We, the undersigned, protest against the suppression of democratic minority rights of free citizens! Either the opportunity to direct popular vote on the Lisbon Treaty was denied by national governments, or our NO as minority rights is not considered in the current policy.
We the undersigned declare explicitly that we do NOT agree with the following facts:
1. Establishment of a supranational European Federal State
2. Establishing a transfer union
3. Transfer of state sovereign powers to the European Union (and subsequently World Union)
A contingent of UN peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed at least 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained by The Associated Press.
Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of Haiti’s Artibonite river, next to a UN base outside the town of Mirebalais.
He was sent by the French government to assist Haitian health officials in determining the source of the outbreak, a French Foreign Ministry official said.
“No other hypothesis could be found to explain the outbreak of a cholera epidemic in this village … not affected by the earthquake earlier this year and located dozens of kilometres from the coast and (tent) camps,” he wrote in a report that has not been publicly released.
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