Good People,
Making a responsible good use in trading with Africa's wealth, resources,
land and water should come with Fair Mutual economic advantages where politics
and social amenities benefits with ethical responsibilities. We must beware of
corporations who engage in secret hidden back door corrupt businesses. They are
the reason there are organized police terrorism with careless killings in Kenya
and the rest of Africa. This politicians conspiratorial behaving
is insane and is without respecting or valuing Public Laws and Regulations
demands; in which case, they hate the established Constitution because it comes
with peoples mandated regulations, checks and balances for
accountability.
Corporations of special interests play a bigger role to influence
criminality in Africa and suppress Africas' development agenda for their
personal gains. This is not right. It is stealing from the poor Africans, which
is why, they engineered organized terrorism and careless human rights but
terrorize and kill people all over Africa although we can do better uniting
under peace.
We have seen how African states such like Liberia tells the story of some
of mass exploitation, of the ecstasy of long struggle for complete independence
and how total liberation is not easy.
We also have seen how the Head of World Bank and IMF sensationally
admitted acting against poor Africa's interest. The World Bank and IMF
institution demanded that life-saving grain/food from Africa should be used to
make the repayment debts (I wonder if African people were consulted when these
debts were formulated). But the question is, who incurred and consumed those
debts and to whose interest or benefit?? Such like these questions
are ripe for deliberations……which is why, stolen public money banked in foreign
accounts must be returned, as Africans are already paying the debts in ways and
means from hiked taxes which are cut from high costs of basic consumer needs
with other utilities.
Therefore, that which is killing Africa, is a conspiracy between World
Bank/IMF, Corporation and the corrupt African political
leaders.
Is World Bank engaged in Stealing Africa's future??? Dr.
Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, has this to say:
“Land is life to farming communities around the world, but a global land
grab is threatening to destroy families now and hold their countries’ futures to
ransom”.
If this is true, the World Bank already has strong evidence that funding
large land deals often makes life worse for the people displaced and fails to
generate poverty reduction. Twice the Bank has acted to halt lending to specific
sectors or countries. Now it is time for a full freeze on land grab funding.
We call on World Bank leader to act urgently to end the sell-off of the
world's land to private companies and reallocate World Bank funds to projects
that really do eradicate poverty and promotes fair Economic Progressive
Development Agenda.........
These land deals steal Africa's future, there is no doubt. Corrupt or
weak governments enable big investors to evict rightful landowners, land often
lies idle, and many displaced communities lose their access to food and water.
Public institutions, notably the World Bank, are at the heart of many such
deals, and stopping them could set the stage for a freeze on all land grabs,
which World Bank is unwilling to pursue……
The World Bank's new president has devoted his life to defeating poverty
and next week he makes his global debut at the annual Bank meeting. This is our
best chance to get the Bank to take a strong stand against the land robbery.
Distribute this information, and forward this to your friends.
World Bank Should Be Blamed for Land Grabs in Africa and to fix the
problem, World Bank with partners must cooperate for reasonable acceptable
norm.
Even to the casual observer, it seems so easy to understand why the
global land-grabbing phenomenon, which has seen vast tracts of African farmland
bought up by foreign investors, has generated such sharp opposition. The
displacement of local people, to make room mostly for export biofuel production,
has obvious detrimental consequences for human rights and food security. But
rather than condemn these land acquisitions, the World Bank has only lent
credibility to them, suggesting that land deals can be "regulated" with measures
mitigate adverse impacts.
How is it possible that something so grievous and obvious ― clearly bound
to increase the vulnerability of the world’s poor ― can become legitimized by an
institution tasked with alleviating poverty, is a sign that No One Cares for
Africa......Aint This Situation Pathetic, will it not raise concern, wont people
stand up for Justice to protect their rights ?
Opponents have largely framed the issue as a matter of corporate greed
taking priority over local people’s rights to live honorably with dignity. But
if Law is Just, how can drivers if impunity go this far deeper than injecting
injustices of this magnitude without clear conscious raising concern. Where land
grabs find their justification to steal from the poor, how do you justify wrong
with good at the most fundamental level where livelihood and survival is at
stake? Is the Global African Black Society’s united comfortable
with accepting its fundamental potentiality value of Agriculture’s subordination
to industry without fair Give and Take for exchange of goods and services to
provide a balance? What is the good norm for living a happy life
in sharing and at the end, everyone remain happy and satisfied?
This disparity is so deeply embedded in our global economy by others
claiming it is their right to take RISKS by making others people's pain and
suffering; their notable success and joy.....Are we playing fair.......that the
pain of the poor is taken for granted and thus often ignored when culprit of
injustices in in today’s living is causing Global food
crisis???
The emergence of agriculture as an industry in itself marks the ultimate
capture of agriculture by industry.
A better exchange here is fair sharing of Partnership for mutual gains.
But, MONOPOLY and GREED in the present Foreign investment by AFRICA LAND
GRAB to sustain the own and control bio-fuels industry is part of a bad
conspiracy theory and is terribly frightening. This trend This
trend is causing shivers of bad signs of things fall apart in a near future with
fears of food shortages that which will cause food prices to rise and those who
cannot afford to purchase food from the rich will automatically have to
die..........Is this the trend of life the world want?????
This automatically must give the poor reason to a "WAKE UP CALL" to stop
giving away their land and that Africa must unite to take LEGAL ACTION to task
and challenge their political corrupt leadership through BOTH THE LOCAL and THE
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE; where they divert local food production to save life and
instead divert the same for FUEL PRODUCTION. This behavior is a
serious violation of Human Rights and criminal in nature, violating all norms of
International Treaty for Human Rights.....
When the rural poor Africa's communities are pushed off their land, all
sorts of assumptions are made to justify how they will achieve food security to
the local people which in turn, there are evidence to prove poverty has
sky-rocketed and injustices rose above acceptable normal condition.
The World Bank, in its Principles for Responsible Agricultural
Investment, states: "Whenever there are potential adverse effects on any of
aspect of food security (availability, access, utilization or stability),
policy-makers should make provisions for the local or directly affected
populations certain such that … equivalent access to food is assured." ........
what action did they take to make sure this practise was complied with
???.......What is the defination of World Bank "Global Food Economy" when United
Nations are now asking people to transition to INSECT EATING ??? Are these not
signs of serious hunger and recession that slow down of good activities but
indicate bad times ahead????
As displaced poor rural populations are bound to become dependent on food
from global markets, how is this acceptable and how shall this practice stay
feasible where a few rich people will supply the poor with food efficiently when
their aim is to make MAXIMUM PROFIT AND NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR GREED ?
There are evidence that this practice aim is to enslave,
segregate, manipulate and oppress disadvantaged victims which is completely
unacceptable. This mathematics does not add up....it is haste for
selfishness and greed.
In this equation, justifications of land grabbing equate food at the same
values that underline Industrialized manufactured products in the world market
economy: drivers are in search of cheap labour to produce abundant supply to
distribute to the world and profits monopolized by a few corporate special
business community.
Food is human basic rights and it cannot be seen like any product that
are sold and distributed from those factory from somewhere in the world that are
to be distributed through AIDS. This is basically saying, the era of cheap food
is over. We are definately focusing on high cost of
food.......What does this spellllllll......
Telling the world that the end of cheap food may is here, you pay for
expensive food or you die.......is this man made inflation...........is it
acceptable to would be consumer ??? In my view, is spells trouble, big big
trouble to people of AFRICA, BLACK COMMUNITY OF THE WORLD...............
For this reason, in fact, it should provide an opening to address the
rural-urban imbalance (Poor/Rich) to reason on matters of global food
economy. It is a wake-up call where today’s food crisis is an
opportunity to restructure the social relations of global business in
agriculture and elevate the value of rural communities to its rightful place and
"The Africa's Scramble to Land Grabbing" must become a disputable
exposed wicked evil, an assault on the rights of rural people.
These Conspiracy theories of Jeopardy of Scandals to to oppress and
enslave the poor of Africa is unacceptable..............
Africa's Black Community must stand up and demand for
JUSTICE......!!!
So as the debate over land grabbing rages on, let’s use this as a vital
opportunity to think about how the very underpinnings of world agriculture to
supply for Industrial Fuel can be termed FAIR to human survival and livelihood ―
does it only favor the RICH with their monopoly of industrial mindset
― Will this provide food of thought about the unfolding
historical roots of the crisis of organized terrorism and killings in Africa
with smooth displacements in the world’s poorest African
countries?????
This is a magnitude of problems and it require the Poor and Rich to
Reason together and find more suitable means for Economic Sustainability
Mutually Fair to All........
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
The tax furore overshadowed Mr
Hollande's visit to Morocco on Wednesday
FIFTH
Durban, South Africa
Over 2 billion people worldwide
already supplement their diet with insects
This year's World Economic
Forum in Davos takes place amid a gloomy economy
Could the future of capitalism
be decided in this Swiss mountain resort?
Best Regards,
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
The testimony of genocide against Luo people of
Ethiopia
Uploaded on Nov 26, 2009
The testimony of massacres against the people
of Anyuak: part of a wider extermination policy against defenceless and innocent
people. A similar trend is happening in Acholi
The lands on the eastern and southern part of Ethiopia were Luo before the
arrival of the Hebrew Solomon (Jerusalem) Crown. The lands are part of Southern
Sudan, northern, central and southern Uganda, as well as the lands around the
shores of Lake Victoria, all of which made/make up the country and nation known
as LUOLAND. What the people who live in those lands speak is called LUO
LANGUAGE and the people are LUO.
00:18 mele Zenawi = ethiopias prime minister/president.. he
is a semitic north ethiopian murderer and a cowards and he is responsible for
the genocides of the darker natives like the Anuaks of south ethiopia and the
Ogaden-Somalians of east ethiopia the Somalian Ogaden region and many other
ethnic cleansing..
Why are we fighting
to challenge "The Scrumble to Africa" on "Africa Land Grabbing"
Statement by
Judy Miriga – CEO and Executive Director
Confederation
Council foundation for Africa Teaming with WADU
May
10th 2013 at Montgomery Works Wheaton
We have lots of
engineered problems mounting in Africa. We want this behavior stop.
While we are
commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Pan-Africanist, Thankfully, we recognize
freedom fighters like Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr., The Honorable Marcus Garvey, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela,
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Tom Mboya
with others , who due to their sacrifices of great leadership,
we are proud to recognize their great services to the Community. It is
our turn to do as much and be able to correct mistakes or ills that are about to
destroy us; so that we are able to do better
to improve situation of "Africa Land Grabbing" to ensure there
is equitable distribution of Public Wealth and Resources in a fair and legal
manner and through checks and balances there must be a process for Transparency
and Accountability.
We must stop
scapegoating where wrong doers comfortably shift blame to find faults on others
to escape blame and delay justice. This is what people like Martin Luther King
did in their organizing for peaceful campaign calling for justice, they were
able to bring sanity and freedom. It is a reflection that we must borrow a leaf
and preach peace, unity and Love so together we are able to do good and leave
this world better than we found it.
To prevent constant
conflicts in Africa, let us get to the root-cause of what is ailing Africa, help
to strengthen democracy at grassroots” level, build stronger and more resilient
Social Cohesion with the Civil Society Institutions (NGOs, Schools and Faith
Based) and ensure there is adequate checks and balances that are able to promote
Partnership for Good Governance with Just Rule of Law and engage towards
effective democratic principles with regulatory establishment for common good of
all. Together, we are able to improve Human Rights and thereby reduce Crime,
Violation and Abuses and be on the road to settle and fix grievances amicable
within fair distribution of Public Wealth and Resources in an organized
manner.
In
order that we engage on a balanced responsible trading with Africa's wealth,
resources, land and water, it is important to recognize fundamentals of People
of Africa's Livelihood and Survival as well, that people of Africa also have
rights to demand for their human rights to live a honorable dignified life; and
that reality of fairness for common good of all comes with economic, social and
political advantages that are conducive to improve development progressive
prospects. These are benefits that come with ethical responsibilities shared
mutually by all.
Today, Africa is facing serious problems that have been brought about by
corporate special interests who engage with African Political corrupt leaders to
cut-deals behind the scene through back door. They are the reason Africa has
fallen into abject poverty and are in serious danger of losing their lands from
"Land Grabbing". The Corporate Special Interest engineered Plan of Action
to steal from Africa through organized police terrorism in Africa and by
engaging the corrupt African politicians. These politicians do not respect or
value the Constitutional Laws and Regulations that mandate them to comply; but,
because of their unscrupulous networking they are conditioned to work against
the Constitutional Rules and regulations where checks and balances require them
to ascertain accountability.
Corporations of the special interests influence criminality in Africa by
suppressing Africas' development for their personal gains through engaging in
irregular activities that are illegal and are unconstitutional. In
such activities the Corporate Special Interest engage in "Land Grabbing"
in the "Scramble to Africa".
Head of World Bank and IMF sensationally admitted acting against poor
Africa's interest. The question still remains, why did the World Bank, IMF and
Hedge Funding engage in committing crimes including violation and abuse against
Human Rights in Africa. These land deals steal Africa's future. Corrupt
governments enable big investors to evict rightful landowners from their land,
and many displaced communities lose their access to food and water. Public
institutions, most notably the World Bank, found themselves engaging in such
unfortunate deals, and stopping them will set a stage to freeze all land
grabs. World Bank is therefore part of culprit who conspires to destroy human
lives in today’s systemic food shortage and crisis. World Bank in this case
should be blamed for Land Grabs in Africa and they must face joint blame on the
same. This is a serious criminal injustices where World Bank engages with
Foreign investment in Africa's farmland to sustain biofuels industry from land
stolen from the poor Africans and is diverted from local food production to fuel
production which is directly affecting greater African population.
This is a wake-up call to all people of the world that there is an urgent
need to address the rural-urban food imbalance affecting the global food economy
which now results to rising high costs of food against the domestic budget
income.
Where is the moral responsibility in demanding debt repayments from
Africa on finances that were not authenticated according to public mandate but
instead, these types of irregular corrupt transaction failed to apply
facilitation of public mandate to deliberate and fulfill Development needs of
the African Citizen which instead, resulted in non-compliance but rather caused
serious excessive poverty, joblessness, landlessness and the collapse of
Government institutions of African larger community. The loses and
misappropriations of billions of funds that were released for Government
Institutions for Africa's development programs got distributed and banked in
foreign private individual accounts to benefit unscrupulous African Politicians
with their counterparts of Corporate Special Interest in an irregular corrupt
manner. This behavior has equated African mandated needs to a sorry state of
Africa's begging bowl and AIDS handouts. The World Bank already has strong
evidence that funding large land deals often makes life worse for the people
displaced and fails to generate poverty reduction.
How is it possible such serious crime, violation and abuse of humanity; a
behaviour that clearly increases Africa's vulnerability to extreme poverty can
be legitimized by a Public Institution tasked with alleviating poverty? How can
the World Bank face this reality? How is World Bank comfortable to engage in
Stealing Africa's future? Africa does not need assistance from
begging bowl. Africa needs to Trade with the World on Partnership Development
for progressive development made on a balanced agreement that benefit all
stakeholders with investing shareholders equitably on a balanced sustainable
Mutual consideration.
Africa states such like Liberia, Sierra Leone tells the story of some of
mass exploitation, of the ecstasy of struggle for complete independence and how
total liberation is not easy.
The World Bank's new president has devoted his life to defeating poverty. British farmer James Siggs joined a venture to run ‘US-style large-scale agricultural systems’ in the Congo. But he left and now says ‘industrial-scale farming displaces and alienates people, creates few jobs and causes social disruption’. This is our best chance to get the World Bank to take a strong stand against the land robbery.
Now it is time for a full freeze on land grab funding. We call on you to
act urgently to end the sell-off of the world's land to private companies and
reallocate World Bank funds to projects that really do eradicate poverty. Poor
Local Farmers need Partnership support not an eviction notice. It
is time Africa's progressive development must face a turning point where the
corrupt African leaders must face consequences for their corrupt deals.
The World Bank's new president has devoted his life to defeating poverty. British farmer James Siggs joined a venture to run ‘US-style large-scale agricultural systems’ in the Congo. But he left and now says ‘industrial-scale farming displaces and alienates people, creates few jobs and causes social disruption’. This is our best chance to get the World Bank to take a strong stand against the land robbery.
Land is life to farming communities in Africa and around the world.
Africa's Cultural food value and traditional seedlings is fundamental to
Africa's livelihood and survival. Africa was not consulted to have them driven
out of their land and live a life of hopelessness. Land grab in Africa is
threatening to destroy families and hold Africa's futures to ransom; this is a
clear indication that there is plan to wipe Africans out of the face of earth.
How will the world leaders justify this type of crime on
Africa?
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Insects source of protein instead of
meat
6 May
2013 Last updated at 02:08 ET Help
Insects are regularly eaten by as much as 80% of the worlds population, but
even the very thought of it seems shocking to most people in the UK.
But as the global population continues to grow, there is a growing move
towards eating insects as a staple part of our diet.
Researchers from the Nordic Food Lab are looking at ways to persuade people
to get their protein from bugs instead.
John Maguire reports.
Davos 2013 - (CCTV) China's Next Global
Agenda
Published on Feb 15, 2013
China's Next Global Agenda
How will China's next global agenda affect the rest of the world?
Dimensions to be addressed:
- Inbound and outbound investment
- Global and domestic financial reform
- Role in international cooperation and negotiations
• Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education; Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom (2007-2010)
• Jin-Yong Cai, Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer,
International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington DC
• Kevin Rudd, Member of Parliament, Australia; Global Agenda Council on
Fragile States
• Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard
University, USA
• Zhang Xiaoqiang, Vice-Chairman, National Development and Reform
Commission, People's Republic of China
• John Zhao, Chief Executive Officer, Hony Capital, People's Republic of
China
Moderated by
• Rui Chenggang, Director and Anchor, China Central Television, People's
Republic of China
Davos 2013 - The Global Development
Outlook
Published on Feb 12, 2013
The Global Development Outlook
With the Millennium Development Goals expiring in 2015, what should be at
the top of the next development agenda?
• Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations, New York
• David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• William H. Gates III, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
USA
• Helene D. Gayle, President and Chief Executive Officer, CARE USA, USA;
Global Agenda Council on Poverty & Sustainable Development
• Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
• Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, United Kingdom
• H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Chaired by
• Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times,
USA
Davos 2013 - De-risking Africa (CNBC Africa
Debate)
Published on Feb 11, 2013
De-risking Africa
How are Africa's leaders mitigating investment risk in Africa's
economies?
This session was developed in partnership with CNBC Africa.
• Louise Arbour, President and Chief Executive Officer, International
Crisis Group (ICG), Belgium
• Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, President of Nigeria
• Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer, Bharti
Enterprises, India
• Jacob G. Zuma, President of South Africa
Moderated by
• Bronwyn Nielsen, Anchor, CNBC Africa, South Africa
Davos 2013 - (Bloomberg) No Growth, Easy Money -- The
New Normal?
Published on Feb 10, 2013
The Global Financial Context
What strategic shifts and transformational issues are shaping the global
financial context?
Dimensions to be addressed:
- Limits of monetary policy
- Eurozone options
- Real world impact of Basel III and Solvency II
- Future of shadow banking
• James Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase
& Co., USA
• Andrey L. Kostin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, VTB Bank, Russian
Federation
• Paul Singer, Principal, Elliott Management, USA
• Tidjane Thiam, Group Chief Executive, Prudential, United Kingdom
• Axel A. Weber, Chairman of the Board of Directors, UBS, Switzerland;
Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013
• Zhu Min, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF),
Washington DC; World Economic Forum Foundation Board Member
Moderated by
• Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, Closing Bell; Anchor and Managing Editor of On
the Money, CNBC, USA; Young Global Leader Alumnus
Austerity is a word to express Terrorism & Terrorist Acts 1000
times worse than any Al-Qaeda invented by Wall Street Propaganda Experts! The
only way out of this Global Economic & Financial Crisis, is we must
spend our way out. Since we went off the Gold Standard, we cannot print too much
money, especially to reach 100% employment! Modern Monetary Theory
will explain @ The University of Missouri
Davos 2013 - The Global Financial
Context
Published on Feb 10, 2013
The Global Financial Context
What strategic shifts and transformational issues are shaping the global
financial context?
Dimensions to be addressed:
- Limits of monetary policy
- Eurozone options
- Real world impact of Basel III and Solvency II
- Future of shadow banking
• James Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase
& Co., USA
• Andrey L. Kostin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, VTB Bank, Russian
Federation
• Paul Singer, Principal, Elliott Management, USA
• Tidjane Thiam, Group Chief Executive, Prudential, United Kingdom
• Axel A. Weber, Chairman of the Board of Directors, UBS, Switzerland;
Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013
• Zhu Min, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF),
Washington DC; World Economic Forum Foundation Board Member
Moderated by
• Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, Closing Bell; Anchor and Managing Editor of On
the Money, CNBC, USA; Young Global Leader Alumnus
U.S. Accuses Banking Giant Of Laundering Money For
Iran
Published on May 10, 2013
US, UK & EU IN ECONOMIC MESS DUE TO JERSEY & TAX HAVENS
US$21 TRILLION OFFSHORE
CITIZENS OF US, UK &^ EU ARE HIT HARD AS WEALTHY CITIZENS PUT ALL
THEIR CAPITAL IN BRITISH TAX HAVENS OFFSHORE
US$21 TRILLION IS AVOIDED IN TAX - NO WONDER THE US, UK & EU IS IN
ECONOMIC DEPRESSION
UK ENCOURAGES TAX AVOIDANCE IN THE BRITISH SOVEREIGN DEPENDENCIES OF JERSEY
& GUERNSEY IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS OFF FRANCE
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France's President Hollande fights tax scandal
4 April
2013 Last updated at 14:14 ET
The tax furore overshadowed Mr
Hollande's visit to Morocco on Wednesday
A financial scandal is threatening French President Francois Hollande,
after it emerged that his former Socialist Party treasurer invested in two
Cayman Islands offshore companies.
Jean-Jacques Augier, who managed Mr Hollande's campaign funds, told the
daily Le Monde that there was "nothing illegal" in his tax haven affairs.
Meanwhile, ex-budget minister Jerome Cahuzac has been charged with
fraud.
Ministers are under pressure to reveal what they knew about his tax
evasion.
Speaking during a two-day visit to Morocco, Mr Hollande insisted he knew
"nothing" about the "private activities" of Mr Augier.
He said it was up to France's tax authorities to investigate the matter,
AFP reported.
The Cayman Islands revelations came out in a global investigation by
reporters, including Le Monde, into secret offshore accounts. It was
co-ordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists.
On Wednesday President Hollande used a national address to promise that in
future all ministers and MPs would have to declare fully their personal
finances.
But the media is already questioning whether that is enough, the BBC's
Christian Fraser reports from Paris.
The pressure is growing for a full government reshuffle - just 10 months
after Mr Hollande took office.
Mr Cahuzac admitted this week that he had hidden about 600,000 euros
(£509,000; $770,000) in a Swiss bank account.
Political embarrassment
French newspapers are calling it the biggest political crisis for Mr
Hollande since his election last year, the AFP news agency reports.
He had promised voters morality and integrity in public life after what
were nicknamed the "bling-bling" years of his conservative predecessor Nicolas
Sarkozy.
But this year Mr Hollande's opinion poll ratings have slumped, as the
country remains mired in recession and unemployment at 10.6%.
In the latest financial twist, Le Monde reports that Mr Hollande's
ex-treasurer Jean-Jacques Augier became a shareholder in a Cayman Islands
company called International Bookstores Ltd in 2005.
He said that venture came about because of a large publishing investment in
China.
He insisted that he had "no personal bank account in the Caymans nor any
direct personal investment in that territory".
But Mr Hollande's administration has been chasing the wealthy with such
investments abroad, our correspondent says. So Mr Augier's affairs are a problem
for him.
Earlier this week it emerged that the former budget minister, Mr Cahuzac,
had lied to the president, parliament and the public about the offshore accounts
he had held for more than 20 years.
5th BRICS SUMMIT
FIFTH
BRICS SUMMIT
Durban, South Africa
26 - 27 March 2013
BRICS and AFRICA: Partnership for Development, Integration and Industrialisation
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma hosted the Fifth BRICS Summit on 27
March 2013 in Durban under the theme: “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for
Development, Integration and Industrialisation.” This Summit completed the first
cycle of BRICS Summits and was the first time that the Summit was hosted on the
African continent. This has specific relevance given that it coincides with the
50th anniversary celebrations of the Organisation of African Unity/African Union
(AU).
South Africa’s projected outcomes for the Fifth BRICS Summit were
achieved.
- The BRICS Leaders agreed to the establishment of a New Development Bank and indicated that the initial capital contribution to the bank should be substantial and sufficient for the bank to be effective in financing infrastructure.
- In addition, the Leaders also agreed on the establishment of the contingent reserve arrangement (CRA) with an initial size of US$100 billion. The CRA would help BRICS countries forestall short-term liquidity pressures and further strengthen financial stability. It would also contribute to strengthening the global financial safety net and complement existing international arrangements as an additional line of defence. In this regard, the BRICS Leaders agreed to review progress made in these two initiatives at the next meeting of BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in September 2013.
- Another outcome of the Summit was the establishment of the BRICS Think Tanks Council and the BRICS Business Council. The BRICS Think Tanks Council will link respective Think Tanks into a network to develop policy options such as the evaluation and future long-term strategy for BRICS. The BRICS Business Council will bring together business associations from each of the BRICS countries and manage engagement between the business communities on an on-going basis. These two new BRICS structures that were initiated under the South African chairpersonship, that is, the BRICS Think Tanks and the BRICS Business Council, will strengthen intra-BRICS cooperation to develop new paradigms for sustainable and inclusive growth models, as well as new learning and knowledge paradigms to deal with our contemporary growth and development challenges.
Two Agreements were concluded under auspices of the BRICS Interbank
Cooperation Mechanism.
- The BRICS Multilateral Infrastructure Co-Financing Agreement for Africa paves the way for the establishment of co-financing arrangements for infrastructure projects across the African continent.
- The BRICS Multilateral Cooperation and Co-Financing Agreement for Sustainable Development sets out to explore the establishment of bilateral agreements aimed at establishing cooperation and co-financing arrangements, specifically around sustainable development and green economy elements.
The Summit outcome documents known as the eThekwini Declaration and Action
Plan were adopted at the conclusion of the Summit.
South Africa assumed the BRICS chairpersonship at the Summit and will be
responsible for the implementation of the Action Plan during its tenure. Human
rights and gender, were for the first time included in the eThekwini
Declaration. Linked hereto, was the welcoming of the appointment of the new
Chairperson of the AU Commission as an affirmation of the leadership of women,
which is an important pronouncement by BRICS.
Matters that are key priorities in terms of the agenda of the African Union
have been strategically repositioned in the eThekwini Declaration in line with
the Summit theme. BRICS Leaders reaffirmed their support for sustainable
infrastructure development, as well as industrial development, job creation,
skills development, food and nutrition security and poverty eradication and
sustainable development in Africa.
BRICS Leaders expressed their commitment to Peace and Security on the
African continent. The BRICS Leaders furthermore called upon the United Nations
(UN) to enhance cooperation with the AU, and its Peace and Security Council,
pursuant to UN Security Council resolutions.
Regarding the global economic situation, a strong commitment to foster
growth and financial stability was articulated by the BRICS Leaders in order to
address unemployment. The Leaders reiterated their position that the reform of
the International Monetary Fund should reflect the growing weight of BRICS and
other developing countries and that agreement on the quota formula should be
completed by January next year. The BRICS Leaders also agreed that the election
for the next world Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General should be a
candidate from a developing country.
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UN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger
Over 2 billion people worldwide
already supplement their diet with insects
Eating more insects could help fight world hunger, according to a new UN
report.
The report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says
that eating insects could help boost nutrition and reduce pollution.
It notes than over 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diet
with insects.
However it admits that "consumer disgust" remains a large barrier in many
Western countries.
Insect nutritional value /100g
Food source
|
Protein (g)
|
Calcium (mg)
|
Iron (mg)
|
|---|---|---|---|
Source: Montana State University
| |||
28.2
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n/a
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35.5
| |
20.6
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35.2
|
5
| |
17.2
|
30.9
|
7.7
| |
Minced beef
|
27.4
|
n/a
|
3.5
|
Wasps, beetles and other insects are currently "underutilised" as food for
people and livestock, the report says. Insect farming is "one of the many ways
to address food and feed security".
"Insects are everywhere and they reproduce quickly, and they have high
growth and feed conversion rates and a low environmental footprint," according
to the report.
Nutritional value
The authors point out that insects are nutritious, with high protein, fat
and mineral content.
They are "particularly important as a food supplement for undernourished
children".
Insects are also "extremely efficient" in converting feed into edible meat.
Crickets, for example, need 12 times less feed than cattle to produce the same
amount of protein, according to the report.
Most insects are are likely to produce fewer environmentally harmful
greenhouse gases than other livestock.
The ammonia emissions associated with insect-rearing are far lower than
those linked to conventional livestock such as pigs, says the
report.
Delicacies
The report calls for insect dishes to be added to restaurant
menus
Insects are regularly eaten by many of the world's population, but the
thought may seem shocking to many Westerners.
The report suggests that the food industry could help in "raising the
status of insects" by including them in new recipes and adding them to
restaurant menus.
It goes on to note that in some places, certain insects are considered
delicacies.
For example some caterpillars in southern Africa are seen as luxuries and
command high prices.
Most edible insects are gathered in forests and serve niche markets, the
report states.
It calls for improved regulation and production for using insects as feed.
"The use of insects on a large scale as a feed ingredient is technically
feasible, and established companies in various parts of the world are already
leading the way," it adds.
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Davos 2012: Capitalism debate sets WEF agenda
This year's World Economic
Forum in Davos takes place amid a gloomy economy
This year's World Economic Forum (WEF) has kicked off with a debate on
capitalism, which Bill Gates labelled a "phenomenal system".
"We're going through a tough period, but there is no other system that has
improved humanity," the Microsoft founder told the BBC.
The future of the world economy is high on the agenda as some of world's
most powerful people gather in Davos.
They meet annually in the Swiss resort to discuss the state of the
world.
The WEF comes amid sluggish growth in the West versus soaring growth rates
in emerging economies such as China and Brazil, and uprisings and protests
across the globe.
The eurozone debt crisis also continues to disturb financial
markets.
Before Davos, WEF founder Klaus Schwab had said: "Capitalism in its current
form no longer fits the world around us."
Speaking in London ahead of his arrival in Davos, Mr Gates told BBC Radio
4's Today programme that "the world is better off" because of
capitalism.
"I think capitalism is a phenomenal system because it has generated so much
innovation - the chance I had as a young boy to start Microsoft, hire my
friends," he said.
"Other systems don't allow that to happen."
First debate
It was fitting that these concerns of the future of the world economy were
reflected in the opening debate: "Is 20th-century capitalism failing
21st-century society?"
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Has capitalism got a future? Is it fit for the 21st Century? And if it has and is, how must capitalism change?”
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Referencing Winston Churchill, one of the panellists, David Rubenstein,
co-founder of the private equity Carlyle Group, said: "Capitalism may be the
worst form of systems, except for every other system."
The chief of the International Trade Union Confederation disagreed. Sharan
Burrow said "we've lost a moral compass" and warned of social
unrest.
She called for companies globally to invest 2-3% of real investment in the
creation of jobs, or what she termed the "productive economy".
A distinction was also made between the economies of the US and Europe -
dubbed "laissez-faire capitalism" - and state capitalism, where the governments
of nations such as China and Russia take a big role in creating jobs.
Later, amid the heaviest snow in Davos in 66 years, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel will provide the keynote address that will officially begin the
WEF, scheduled for 16:30 BST.
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Davos 2012: Has capitalism got a future?
Could the future of capitalism
be decided in this Swiss mountain resort?
Has capitalism got a future? Is it fit for the 21st Century? And if it has
and is, how must capitalism change?
The organisers of this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) have put some
pretty crunchy questions on the agenda.
But as more than 2,600 of the world's richest and most powerful people come
to the Swiss mountain village of Davos to discuss the state of the world, is it
a topic that they want to talk about?
For some, these are clearly the right questions. "Is capitalism working?
Will we grow again? Is the Western model still working?" asks John
Griffith-Jones, the UK and Europe chairman of accounting giant KPMG.
"I'm really interested in hearing people talk about that," he says.
Mr Griffith-Jones talks of the need to find a "concept of responsible
capitalism" and worries that even if Davos man and woman find a consensus, it
will not be one that is very clear to people in the wider world.
The founder and driving force of the forum, Prof Klaus Schwab, is even
blunter. "Capitalism in its current form no longer fits the world around us," he
says.
Occupy WEF
Those are statements and questions that one would rather expect to hear
from the anti-capitalist protesters who have come to Davos, and who were busy
over the weekend building snow igloos and preparing a 50-people camp as part of
their Occupy WEF protest.
Major protests are unlikely in Davos, though
those who are here will make themselves seen and heard
"We'll make small actions in the village. We're going to disturb things a
little bit,'' says organiser David Roth, president of the Swiss social democrat
youth organisation Juso, as he prepares to camp out all week.
But heavy snow, bitter cold and the highly efficient forces of the Swiss
police and army will make major protests unlikely.
It will be left to the WEF's participants and organisers to highlight the
world's failings.
Prof Schwab speaks of a "dystopian future", where political and economic
elites "are in danger of completely losing the confidence of future
generations".
Indeed, a global survey released just days before the start of Davos, the
Edelman Trust Barometer, suggests there has been a sharp drop in public trust,
not just in in business but especially in governments around the
world.
Davos, in its very own way, illustrates that even for well-paid business
leaders, the scars of the economic crisis of the past four years are still
painful.
The eurozone, the financial sector, poverty, inequality, corporate
responsibility and the rise of China: They all feature heavily in both the
sessions organised by the forum, which is always eager to lob in a few
inconvenient questions, and the topics of many of the events organised by banks,
industry groups and corporate giants.
It is gloomy business, albeit discussed while scoffing haute cuisine
breakfasts, lunches and dinners in Davos' five-star hotels.
Good news
There is a danger, says David Jones, chief executive of French advertising
firm Havas, that amid all the gloom the good news will be
overlooked.
"I believe that things will not be as cataclysmic as many predict," he
says, pointing to how China and India are still growing well, and how there has
been a few good data out of the eurozone recently.
"But what tends to happen is that one topic will dominate
everything."
Global leaders know they will have to work hard
to regain the trust of the people they govern
Mr Jones is worried that key issues such as youth unemployment and global
warming could be pushed to the sidelines.
Being fixated on the crisis could also make companies overlook the fact
that doing business is changing in very fundamental ways.
Mr Jones calls it the "age of damage", where "social media create a world
of radical transparency".
"Whether you are the head of an Arab country, the boss of BP, a misbehaving
fashion designer or a footballer," he says, "basically what we are seeing every
single day is the power of people to make leaders behave the way they want them
to be."
Party is not over
Despite the gloomy mood music, there will still be plenty of the normal
"Davos spirit" dominating the discussions in the event's main venue, the
Congress Centre, and the surrounding hotels.
After all, no entrepreneur or business leader in his right mind would come
to Davos and let the opportunity for some serious networking go to
waste.
On Sunday, one investor at the tech-heavy DLD Conference in Munich was busy
preparing the ground for some joint fund-raising with other venture capitalists,
with the finishing touches to be applied this week in Davos.
And there are still plenty of parties and private dinners to be had. Some
more exclusive, others less so.
The future may be uncertain, but as every businessman at the forum will
tell you, risks harbour opportunity.
The Davos party is not over yet
A Rothschild Speaks - Listen
Closely
Uploaded on Jan 31, 2012
No description available.
Fuck Rothschildes and the ways they try to achieve their goals but some of
their goals are fascinating; one world government, one world currency, planning
families to avoid population explosion. However, at the end of the day, I don't
trust them really.
All they are doing is wealth accumalation, creating more and more wars and
innocent victims, planned diseases, rigging economies and corrupting politics.
This 1 family can be held responsible for some of the major lives lost in last 2
centuries.
I 'm not completely sure if this is a post from an actual Rothschild. If
this is indeed you. I would like to say the economy is based on productivity.
If you put this productivity into a pie graph you can see how much money or
wealth there is to go around. Now money goes to money. What is happening now is
the pie is going to the super rich and not enough is getting to the poor. The
days of bought and paid Governments protecting the rights of the few are coming
to an end. The masses are waking.
Someday...someone like me, is going to make scum like you eat every single
last word you just said. Rockefeller, Rothschild, Sinclair, Van zant....former
templars, now free masons. Based on Pythagorean math magik...losing control
sucks huh?
Wow, isn't that something. And with all the people calling him the devil.
Now it's clear where all this conspiracy shit is actually coming from.
David Rockefeller's Shocking
Confession
Practically, there's been global government for centuries now. The banking
royalty seeks absolute control of all things, irrespective of the suffering
they create. They already dominate most of the world but their hunger never
subsides. The flock of (shamelessly ignorant) sheep are as much to blame as the
(remorselessly selfish) shepherds.
The Earth could be a paradise for every living being, but somethings
getting in the way. More than anything else, it's the people. It starts with
YOU!
WORLD BANKER MAKES STUNNING
CONFESSION
Uploaded on May 31, 2011
Source video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a0zhc...
Confession [kənˈfɛʃən] n 1. the act of confessing 2. something confessed 3.
an acknowledgment or declaration, esp of one's faults, intentions, misdeeds, or
crimes...
THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK, JAMES WOLFENSOHN, MAKES STUNNING
CONFESSIONS AS HE ADDRESS GRADUATE STUDENTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. HE REVEALS
THE INSIDE HAND OF WORLD DOMINATION FROM PAST, TO THE PRESENT AND INTO THE
FUTURE. THE SPEECH WAS MADE JANUARY 11TH, 2010. THE NEXT 19 MINUTES MAY OPEN
YOUR MIND TO A VERY DELIBERATE WORLD!
HE TELLS THE GRAD STUDENTS WHAT'S COMING, "A TECTONIC SHIFT" IN WEALTH FROM
THE WEST TO THE EAST. BUT HE DOESN'T TELL THE STUDENTS THAT IT IS HIS
INSTITUTION, THE WORLD BANK, THAT'S DIRECTING AND CHANNELING THESE
CHANGES.
WOLFENSOHN'S OWN INVESTMENT FIRM IS IN CHINA, POISED TO PROFIT FROM THIS
"IMMINENT SHIFT" IN GLOBAL WEALTH.
SEE FULL SPEECH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPRhp...
How do the WTO, World Bank and IMF
work?
Uploaded on May 5, 2011
Susan George explains what the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are and how they work. They operate
in the interests of rich nations at the expense of the poor. She cautions
against the current trend to privatise public services such as transport, health
and water.
That's why communism came about, to by pass IMF, WTO to avoid fractional
reserve system and to develop their own system, interest free. It collapsed. IMF
and World bank loans out money at 30-40% interest rates, keeping developing
countries indebted/ slaved indefinitely.
These poor countries can't even pay the interest for the loan, so the loan
just rolled over all the time, keeping poor countries in debt and in wars.
IMF & World Bank are weapons of war , by John
Pilger
this is a 21 minutes montage of an original 52 minutes special report by
John Pilger that you can find if you google for WAR BY OTHER MEANS
editing and upload done January 3rd 2011
original program dated late 1991
The problem is that the people aren't consulted about the decision to
borrow money; the ruling class of these countries take the loans, knowing that
THEY aren't the ones who'll have to repay it. They'll get kickbacks and
contracts and such and the taxpayers will be stuck with the bill, while the loan
money usually ends up going to projects which do nothing to help the lower
classes and everything do make the already-rich even
richer.
YES I am telling masses GOOD luck. USA is run by Power elites organised
enterprise they are deep inside the system they are self aware taking them down
is Not going to be easy.
IMF and World Bank were created after WW-II to protect USA dollar monopoly
on world trade. COLONISATION and war is now being done by Financial means. It is
called Dictatorship of Financial Capital read IMF and Yugoslavia.
The Rothschilds 500 TRILLION
DOLLARS
Published on Dec 6, 2010
Under the surface, the Rothschilds long had a powerful influence in
dictating American financial laws. The law records show that they were powers in
the old Bank of the United States [abolished by Andrew Jackson].
Rothschild quotes:
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the
laws."
"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the
Empire, ...The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British
Empire. And I control the money supply."
"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only
question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent."
Can BRICS save world economy and take on the
West?
Published on Mar 30, 2012
The trade ministers of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa) met in Delhi to discuss ways to strengthen economic ties. But can
they take on the Western economic powers? http://ibnlive.com/livetv
Inside Story - BRICS: Challenging the global economic
order
Published on Mar 28, 2013
Is the vision that united Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
starting to crumble? To discuss this, Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton,
is joined by guests: Duncan Clarke, the CEO of Global Pacific and Partners, and
the author of Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny; Aly-Khan Satchu, a former
investment banker specialising in emerging market financing; and Michael Cox, a
professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and
author of Power Shifts, Economic Change and the Decline of the West?.
BRICS nations pledge to work together on global
issues
Published on Mar 26, 2013
South Africa, Russia and China are to work more closely on trade, defence
and energy.
They have signed a series of deals in Durban - where the so-called BRICS
nations are meeting.
The three countries, along with Brazil and India, are currently driving
global economic growth.
Al Jazeera's Tania Page reports from Durban.
Think Tank Workshop 1 by SANJAY
SINGH
Published on Mar 14, 2013
Think Tank Workshop in Durban 8th - 9th March 2013 , Video by Sanjay
Singh
Diamonds of War: Africa's Blood
Diamond
Uploaded on Mar 16, 2009
Trace the deadly path of the world's most precious stones.
Diamond Revenues of Over $1 Billion a Year Fund
Israeli War Crimes 26-1-2013
Published on Jan 26, 2013
In 2012, despite pressure from civil society organisations, the Kimberley
Process (KP) refused to broaden the definition of a "conflict diamond" to ban
blood diamonds that fund human rights violations by government forces.
Diamonds are a cornerstone of the Israeli economy and a major source of
funding for the nuclear-armed Israeli military regime which stands accused of
war crimes. Israeli diamonds evade the strictures of the KP regulations which
only apply to rough diamonds that fund rebel movements.
Consumers are being sold Israeli blood diamonds which jewellers deceitfully
claim are conflict-free. Jewellers profit while Palestinians pay with their
lives.
Memorandum of Understanding with
Liberia
Published on Oct 25, 2012
Israel Diamond Institute Managing Director Eli Avidar says Liberian
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's decision to sign a memorandum of understanding
with the IDI testifies to her efforts to revitalize every aspect of her
country's economy, in particular Liberia's vital diamond industry. Sanctions on
Liberia's rough diamonds have been lifted, and Liberia is now a member of the
Kimberley
Process
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