Paul Verhaeghe: Nieuwe beroepsziektes en (gebrek aan) solidariteit Op de Dag van het Socialisme op 2 november 2013 gaf hoogleraar psychotherapie Paul Verhaeghe aan UGent, een lezing over hoe het neoliberalisme ons ziek maakt. Hij vergeleek o.a. stress gerelateerde aandoeningen met de stoflong en de loodvergiftiging van weleer. Lees hier een uitgebreide versie van deze lezing die hij een dag voordien bracht op de bijeenkomst van de Nederlandse Gezondheidsraad in Utrecht. In deze tijden van ‘meten is weten’ steek ik van wal met wat cijfers. Binnen de EU kunnen we een ranglijstje opstellen van de ziektes met de grootste impact op levensduur en kwaliteit. Dit is, op zijn zachtst uitgedrukt, vreemd. Die vaststellingen zijn voor heel wat mensen een reden om een veroordeling uit te spreken over de groep die uit de boot valt. Ziekte is een zaak van het individu en schaadt ‘onze’ economie Deze redenering berust op een impliciete, en alleen al daardoor des te belangrijkere aanname. Psychologie en psychiatrie versterken de individualisering Even ter vergelijking.
IBM – HOLOCAUST – and The Human Michrochipping Agenda The We the People will not be Chipped – No Verichip Inside Movement, is based on the irrefutable fact, that mankind has inalienable human rights that are absolute and can not be debased, nor perverted. Human life can not be degraded to a 16 digit RFID chip number embedded under you skin under any circumstance. By uniting on this common ground, we can send a strong message to the IBM funded Verichip that IBM and the Holocaust tells the story of the involvement of this major US corporation in the establishment of Hitler’s Third Reich and the destruction of European Jewry. IBM technology was used to organise the railways, so that millions of Nazi’ victims could be transported to the concentration camps, where they were immediately led into the gas chambers. IBM was involved in virtually every aspect of the Third Reich’s operations. The IBM punch card and card sorting system–a precursor to the computer. Dehomag and other IBM subsidiaries custom-designed the applications.
Can saving the Amazon save the planet? LIMA, Peru — International negotiators are closing in on a new solution for combating climate change — and saving the world’s remaining forests. Some 20 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions now come from deforestation, especially in the lush, green band of tropical rainforest that circles the earth. That is more than from global transport. So representatives from member states involved in UN climate negotiations are attempting to hammer out a way to make it more profitable to protect forests than destroy them. By providing cash for maintaining healthy forests, they hope to undermine the economic imperative for poor countries or individuals to cut down trees for timber, to free land for agriculture, or to make way for roads, housing and other infrastructure. The idea, known as reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, or REDD, will be included in the successor to the Kyoto protocol, which is now the only international treaty aimed at climate change. Closing the loopholes
Monsanto Officially Starts Retreat from Europe Biotech giant Monsanto has officially withdrawn four requests for GMO cultivation in the EU, following its announcement last month that it would no longer try to grow biotech crops in the bloc. The US-based company, whose GM maize MON810 is the only biotech crop grown for food in the EU, now says it will focus on only conventional seed production and on importing more of its GMOs for food and feed uses. Last month Monsanto told Reuters that it will withdraw all pending approval requests to grow new types of genetically modified crops in the European Union, due to the lack of commercial prospects for cultivation there. “We will be withdrawing the approvals in the coming months,” Monsanto’s President and Managing Director for Europe, Jose Manuel Madero, told Reuters by telephone. The decision covered five EU approval requests to grow genetically modified maize, plus one soybean and one sugar beet.
Pope Criminalizes the Reporting of Sex Crimes VATICAN CITY — Few eyebrows were raised last week when Pope Francis brought the Vatican’s legal system up to date by criminalizing leaks of official information and formalizing laws against sex crimes. But now that the laws have been made public, a closer look revealed that the pope has made it illegal to report sex crimes against children. According to the new laws, revealing or receiving confidential Vatican information is now punishable by up to two years in prison, while newly defined sex crimes against children carry a sentence of up to twelve years. Because all sex crimes are kept confidential, there is no longer a legal way for Vatican officials to report sex crimes. “We didn’t mean for this to happen, obviously,” lamented Vatican foreign minister Monsignor Dominique Mamberti. “They know exactly what they’re doing,” claims Fabrizio Perona of Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper.
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Uprising: the crisis of civilisation and the struggle for the global commons… | Strike! Magazine Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is a bestselling author, investigative journalist and international security scholar. He is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development, and author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization among other books. That book was the basis for the excellent Crisis of Civilisation documentary. He also writes for the Guardian on the geopolitics of environmental, energy and economic crises on his Earth insight blog. Illustration by Lucca Benney Uprising: the crisis of civilisation and the struggle for the global commons by Dr Nafeez Ahmed The last half decade has seen the persistence of social protests in various forms, including civil disobedience and mass demonstrations. With the world reeling under the impact of banking collapses, austerity, environmental crisis, energy woes and rocketing food prices, it’s no wonder that people everywhere are rising up and demanding change. But the struggle for the global commons had only just begun.
Michael Hastings researching Jill Kelley case before death WASHINGTON – During the weeks before he was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, reporter Michael Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Florida socialite Jill Kelley against the Department of Defense and the FBI. Hastings, 33, was scheduled to meet with a representative of Kelley next week in Los Angeles to discuss the case, according to a person close to Kelley. Hastings wrote for Rolling Stone and the website BuzzFeed. Kelley alleges that military officials and the FBI leaked her name to the media to discredit her after she reported receiving a stream of emails that were traced to Paula Broadwell, a biographer of former CIA director David H. Petraeus, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 3. Petraeus resigned from the CIA after publicly admitting that he and Broadwell had carried on an extramarital affair. PHOTOS: 2013's memorable political moments
Transnational Institute Bradley Manning trial: 10 revelations from Wikileaks documents on Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Europe. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, is escorted as he leaves a military court at Fort Meade, Md., on Monday. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images In 2010, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was detained in Iraq on suspicion of passing classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks. On Monday, after more than three years in military jail, his trial finally began at Fort Meade, Md. The 25-year-old intelligence analyst admitted earlier this year to passing documents to the whistle-blowing website, though he denies the charge of “aiding the enemy,” an offense that carries a life sentence or the death penalty. Below is a list of 10 revelations disclosed by Manning’s leaked documents that offer insight into the breadth and scope of what he revealed, help explain his motivation for leaking, and provide context for the ongoing trial. Manning’s trial is expected to last through the summer.
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