1. The G20 Summit in Pittsburgh: Is what the leaders club of rich countries will stop drifting?
2. The aftermath of the coup in Honduras: Opposition strengthened by the return of ousted President
3. Voter fraud in Afghanistan: why Jimmy Carter is not a fan of Hamid Karzai
4. The end of the missile shield in Eastern Europe: Now is the time in the U.S. to pick up his other nuclear waste
5. The World Conference Seed: how three transnational will control tomorrow's agriculture
6. The paranoia about vaccines: we will inject a dose of science and reason
G20
The G20 summit held this week in Pittsburgh in the U.S. where rabies seems to have hit people who are marginalized by the state of the economy
away more and more people from the general policy ... movements currently being built at the extreme left and right ... movements that have lost faith in traditional democratic mechanisms to bring about change
And unless the left moves quickly there is a risk that this rage caught by a straight line and virulent racist, a kind of proto fascism which emerged
So the G20 is in Pittsburgh and the authorities would like to keep people at home rather than go through the streets
The G20 meeting is the richest country in the world
They will be protected by a combat battalion of the National Guard, just back from Iraq
They
close the area around the center of the city, with checkpoints and patrolling the streets in battle dress
Pittsburgh increased its police force from 1000 to 3000 of more
All this symbolizes the state of our global economy which, as our political system, was abducted by a small oligarchy of mostly white men who are the big transnational
They made trade agreements so that the multinationals will make currency speculation, food and natural resources
Financial globalization has meant that poorer countries can no longer protect their sector food staples such as maize, rice and beans
Eliminating protections allowed the giant mechanized farms to eliminate tens of millions of small farms in the world ... Mexico is only 2 million that went bankrupt and had to flee their land
And the richest governments use institutions such as IMF, WB, WTO to impose economic supremacy
The ideology of globalization, like all utopias that are sold as inevitable and irreversible, showed its true face
This absurd idea that the market alone should determine the way economic and policies has been the cause of the current crisis
It has led the G20 has sacrificed other important sectors, such as taxation, child labor, hunger, health and pollution at the expense of Free Trade
It has put the world's poor in a state far worse than before ... leaving an elite mediocre train to save a plummeting
The decline of the middle class, the very basis of our modern democracy, seemed to be something normal and inevitable
institutions before attempting to balance the power cons, including the press, government, universities and trade unions seem to have disappeared from the political arena or worse, have fallen into moral bankruptcy
to the progressive left is now to fill the void ... Otherwise we face total disaster to see the far right to power and history will repeat itself again
COUP HONDURAS OPPOSITION
President deprived of Honduras was able to return in secret in his country, after three months of forced exile.
Manuel Zelaya is the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.
The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza on Monday urged the de facto government of Honduras to ensure the safety of the ousted president
These developments lead me to believe that those who support the coup against Zelaya will not take the de facto regime at arm's length until the November elections
Nobody, especially not the people behind the coup did not expect much opposition the forced exile of President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 last
Now, almost two months later, the country is virtually isolated from the international community
And various sectors of Honduran society continues daily demonstrating in the streets
the cost to the organizers of the coup begins to get too high
businessmen who supported the coup thought maybe it would cost thousands of dollars ... and although they are party to pay a lot more salty notes
Not just the money they put into the shot, but also lost money with blocked highways, work stoppages and strikes
But in addition to the fragility of the rich who have supported the forced exile of Zelaya, the national resistance to the coup gave rise to a new social force in the country that will certainly give a hard time the next government
remember that the day of the coup, a national referendum should be held to see if they had the taste to begin a process of revision of the constitution which was written under a military dictatorship in the 1980s
Zelaya was removed from the country because he was accused of wanting to run for president mandates to infinity ... which is completely ridiculous and not at all a reason to send troops removed the president of a country in the middle of the night
So those who wanted the coup are the elite of the country, which also has media mass ... they have interests in banks, fast food, energy, pharmaceuticals, textiles and other sectors
Beyond the reforms put forward by the chairman that affected the privileges of the rich illegitimate, c is really the minimum wage increase of 60% that broke the camel's
Do not forget also that the army since the mid-1990s has seen its power and its role significantly reduce ...
now, soldiers feel they can engage in political decisions, in discussions and debates, to tip the balance of whether a president is desirable or not
Further evidence that the army punishes people for their interests when legislation was presented to Congress a month ago to relocate the compulsory military service
So now the opposition to the coup rejects the holding of elections without the presence of President Zelaya, otherwise it would give legitimacy to military violence
The strength of the opposition comes from their ability to find common ground among the different sectors of society
instead of allegiance to a party or a particular ideology, the opposition transcends all ... lifted by hope and a return to democracy
is a new force in Honduras, and no matter who wins in November, the next government must take this into account if he will take the country out of this crisis
*** WORLD CONFERENCE SEED
Last week there was little noticed a symposium held in Rome under the UN agency Food and Agriculture
conference was the global seed ... it is about the protection of plant variety and seed technologies ... in short subjects of the utmost importance to millions of farmers worldwide
conference has illustrated two themes: the desire of businesses in the north to continue the process of taking control of seed technology
Attempt also, these transnational, supported by the U.S. and EU for the extension and tightening of intellectual property rights on genetic resources in national law in poor countries
Under the guise of innovation and progress, the giants of agribusiness suggest that seed varieties developed in the laboratories of the north and sold to poor farmers in the south would increase agricultural productivity
it also promises nutritive value added , reduce pesticide use and oil while maintaining biodiversity
So to protect its innovations in seed are asked to government to impose a legal framework that would prevent farmers from sharing, reusing and even save seeds, private property so it would be illegal
Yet until now, the patent of seeds even to the appropriation of certain varieties of plants will have very serious consequences for small-scale farmers worldwide
The first treaty on intellectual property on Seed been signed during the years 1960 and amended in 1991 ... it's called now WTO TRIPS
governments have agreed to sign that had their small-scale farmers becoming dependent on seed imports, with adverse effects such as debt, travel and food security compromised
Making the situation worse, such as intellectual property laws, some governments refuse to subsidize or even prohibit the use of seeds that are not the official list
more often than seeds that were previously shared and exchanged between communities
An enlargement of the presence of IP laws will transfer the power of poor farmers to wealthy corporations based in the U.S. and EU
There are about 10 companies that control more than 2 / 3 of all sales of seeds
Of these, three industry giants - Monsanto, Dupont and Syngenta, control alone 47% of the market
Recent research finds that a tightening and extension of property rights could force poor farmers to pay $ 7 billion per year to these giants of the seed
worse is that the type of seed being promoted and sold to poor farmers are often hybrid, meaning they will not recur next season, ensuring that farmers will buy them each season
These innovations give
assumed as a result a number of plant species that reproduced naturally before, exist only in passing by the companies North
a dangerous situation for the price fluctuation in commodity prices and monopolies dominating players
More importantly, these hybrids require a large amount of fertilizer to achieve high efficiency
Not surprisingly, these fertilizers be sold by the same people who create the seeds in the first place ...
These seeds, no matter what one says, are not exactly an example of sustainable development in agriculture
Yes yield increased in some countries, but it was at the expense of quality soil and biodiversity
Biodiversity is affected because intellectual property regimes seed encourage investment in commercially viable species such as wheat, soybeans and flowers
companies will mainly invest in research for crops that are popular, a market value hautre in rich countries
not the flowers and wheat, which will help poor countries to achieve food security and promote biodiversity
To do that, adapt to climate change and land to promote food security. .. You just let farmers in poor countries to keep, use, exchange and sell freely Seeds
Unfortunately, the direction in which international politics seems to be pushing everyone toward hyper technological solutions in agriculture and the appropriation of common resources by legal
is proved, the smaller farms produce more per hectare than large, small local systems based on traditional agriculture is the most effective method to develop crop varieties that can better interact with climate change
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ELECTION FRAUD AND KARZAI
Former President Jimmy Carter, who has covered and supervised elections worldwide has described the elections in Afghanistan detestable yesterday
He says bluntly that Amid Karzai has stolen the election ... and now the question is whether it is saved
Official counts gave the outgoing president, set up after coalition forces overthrew the Anglo-American Taliban in 2001, 54% of the vote His main opponent
, Abdullah Abdullah, has denounced the fraud and demanded recounting of votes
Jimmy Carter said that the election reminded him of electoral fraud in the past, where only 20% of people voting in some sectors ... with 100% of the votes of these same areas from a particular candidate
Meanwhile the U.S. military request to have reinforcements of troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but, as Carter says so: each time a bombing raid kills hundreds of innocent civilians, coalition forces are 100 000 new enemies
And instead of increasing troops, Carter proposes instead to negotiate with the Afghan .. . He takes the example of Iraq, where the relative calm at the moment is due to the fact that the U.S. military has begun to pay bribe and pay Iraqi soldiers
The same strategy could be applied to Afghanistan
and during that time, the coalition troops continue to die ... 131 Canadian now fallen and it is accelerating
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AFRAID OF VACCINE
There's an email circulating right now, a text that will "reveal" the vast conspiracy that pharmaceutical companies, governments and the media who are in their pay would be in the process of engaging with the campaign of vaccination against influenza H1N1-2009.
This text is a perfect example of the paranoia that seized a number of people when you look at it vaccination.
Here we have the mass genocide concentration camps, the army took control of the territory of martial law which had already been passed and more ...
Vaccines are in fact biological weapons and that they would not be effective.
Vaccines have eradicated diseases like smallpox and (almost) polio, and because they can contain many infectious diseases
- witness the number of cases of diseases such as measles or pertussis increases as the level of vaccination decreases.
These facts clearly established for those who honestly want to see them.
Like all pieces of conspiracies that circulate on the Internet, the text in question is full of unverifiable assertions and, above all, filled with errors.
There's a fine article on the site Yannick Villedieu of Radio-Canada broadcast the years ikl lights where does the error count and other paranoid nonsense that run on immunization
vaccines developed at the Will quickly, containing preservatives or additives potentially toxic ... The wildest rumors about vaccines against influenza A (H1N1)
Yet China on Monday launched a vaccination program against influenza H1N1 in Peking from at least 100 000 participants in the festivities of October 1
apparently becoming the first country to implement a mass vaccination campaign.
The vaccine is broadly similar to influenza vaccines administered for several decades.
For the latter, the side effects are usually mild and limited to local reactions, fatigue or fever.
One in a million, a proportion very rare, the conventional influenza vaccine causes neurological complications such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, which results in a severe but temporary paralysis.
In 1976, a mass vaccination in the United States had caused 532 cases of this disease including thirty deaths of 40 million people treated,
The adjuvant is a molecule that increases the response of the patient's immune system and makes thus the vaccine more effective.
It avoids two injections for satisfactory protection.
Laboratories are testing solutions with or without adjuvant to calm down the spirits
Some vaccines contain a preservative called thimerosal, a mercury-based, which prevents microbial contamination, a known risk.
He was suspected of causing disorders such as autism and suspended in the early 2000s.
But his suspension did not regress autism ...
To save time, the U.S. Baxter has not used the egg culture but cultures of Vero cells from monkeys.
The technology is new but not particularly inspire fear.
Good ... to return to the famous text flowing, immediately approach the 'conspiracy' irritates me greatly.
The author uses a lot of facts that seem true with others who are downright exaggerated for not wanting to weave a story that influenza has been created from scratch to fill the pockets of pharmaceutical companies ...
Except that science and reason show beyond a shadow of a doubt that vaccines work worldwide and there is no demonstrable connection between vaccines and autism, multiple sclerosis or other neurological diseases.
no indication that infants vaccinated then suffer from a weakened immune system.
For a vaccination campaign is working 100% need a critical mass of the population is vaccinated.
It is useless if 2 / 3 the are the other third is not, because the risk of infecting others who are vaccinated the less robust.
People who are anti-vaccine are mostly parents of autistic children seeking someone to blame.
So they think they are "experts" and "goals" in areas where they believe that scientists are merely puppets of the pharmaceutical companies.
These anti-vaccine campaigns in rich countries have ensured that diseases that had been brought under control with immunization campaigns in the past a comeback today, such as measles, rubella, mumps
So please, do not transfer not this email to your friends if you receive it, even if only for your own reputation ...
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MISSILE SHIELD
EUROPE
Following the decision of Barack Obama's program to eliminate anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe ...
Many wonder now he does not remove its remaining tactical nuclear weapons scattered throughout the rest of Europe
In place only under the pretext of the unity of NATO, they are militarily useless
Barack Obama field was often talk of a world free of nuclear weapons
There will be a conference on the Treaty nonproliferation next year, and it is time for Washington to act instead of talking
So the U.S. and five European states should immediately remove the 200 tactical nuclear weapons left on the old continent
These weapons, also called non-strategic weapons theaters, are the legacy of the Cold War
During the 1970s Washington had planted more than 700 in Europe to be a hundred, to extend the nuclear umbrella of the allies NATO
The matter is that these weapons were and are useless in a crisis or conflict
Today Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany each maintain a score of old bombs, B-61, which in case of conflict are controlled by the U.S., but they are F-16 of the host government must go and dump
These countries have many responsibilities but in the end little authority over these weapons
Italy has nearly 50 of these B-61 and Turkey a hundred ...
Experts agree therefore that these weapons are useless, but the Pentagon says they will stay behind to represent the unity of the OATN
And if Japan and South Korea can s' without it, in an environment that is admittedly the little stressful why Europeans need them?
The U.S. and five European countries could easily create a zone free of nuclear weapons between France and the borders of Russia
No real security will be lost, and a lot of money will be saved
And in doing so NATO could lead the way towards a reduction of tactical nuclear weapons on the side of Russia
Europeans tend to blame the presence of nuclear weapons on the other, but we see that there is a practical and tangible discard a packet of these weapons is in their own territory
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