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Written on May 19th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Politics - Geopolitics, Society by Heidi
- The Debate that Never Dies: Euthanasia and Ethics, 28.30 min, uploaded by etiskraad, Feb 28, 2012;
- Euthanasia: How has it worked out in Belgium? 76.47 min, with Jan L. Bernheim MD PhD, uploaded by Henrik Thomé, April 16, 2011: Mise en ligne le 16 avril 2011: Belgium introduced legal euthanasia in 2002. What are the experiences so far?
- The Phil’s Euthanasia Debate, 80.23 min, uploaded by TCDPhil, Dec 1, 2011: On 17th November 2011, the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin held a debate on the motion that this house would Legalise Assisted Suicide for all Adults. Speaking in the debate were Terry Pratchett, Dr. Philip Nietzche, Tom Curran, Kevin O’Sullivan and Maureen Junker-Kenny; Continue Reading…
Written on May 12th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Politics - Geopolitics by Heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Karin Kuntz, May 10, 2013. (Photo Gallery).
Not far from the glistening beaches of Bali, mentally ill people are kept in chains or locked up in small shacks. Locals simply don’t know what else to do with them. But psychiatrist Luh Ketut Suryani has made it her job to set them free … //
… A Shack Next to the Cowshed: Continue Reading…
Written on April 29th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Axel Bojanowski, April 26, 2013 (16 Photo in the Gallery).
Climate change is dramatically altering the Swiss Alps, where hundreds of bodies of water are being created by melting glaciers. Though the lakes can attract tourists and even generate electricity, local residents also fear catastrophic tidal waves … //
… Deeper than Lake Ontario: Continue Reading…
Written on April 5th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on Russia Today RT, April 3, 2012.
Researchers have discovered that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had far-reaching health effects more drastic than previously thought: young children born on the US West Coast are 28 percent more likely to develop congenital hyperthyroidism.
In examining post-Fukushima conditions along the West Coast, researchers found American-born children to be developing similar conditions that some Europeans acquired after the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Continue Reading…
Written on March 12th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
From Rumors to Reuters – Published on Stop FGM Kurdistan, by Arvid Vormann, WADI Anti-FGM Program Coordinator, Feb 6, 2013 (see also the article in french: La longue route vers les premiers villages sans excision en Irak).
According to a large survey conducted in 2009, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is prevalent in all provinces of Kurdish Northern Iraq, except in the far northern Duhok region. More than 72% are affected, in villages and cities alike, among illiterates and, to a lesser extent, among academics. FGM is almost everywhere. Continue Reading…
Written on March 12th, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
Publié dans l’Excision, parlons-en.org, par Camilles Arret, le 2 mars 2013 (et d’abord par Arvid Vormann, UN Special – voir aussi l’article en anglais (sur ce blog): UN SPECIAL, The long road to the first FGM-free villages in Iraq – From Rumors to Reuters: l’article d’Arvid Vormann publié en anglais sur le site UN Special, le magazine en ligne des Nations unies, et traduit en français par nos soins. L’excision ne frappe pas que le continent africain. Elle se pratique bien au-delà et parfois dans des zones méconnues comme le Kurdistan irakien. Selon l’ONG Wadi qui a mené une étude en 2010 dans cette région, plus de 72 % des femmes (hors province de Dohouk) y sont excisées. Pour en savoir plus, voir l’article en anglais plus haut). Continue Reading…
Written on March 3rd, 2013 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
publié dans YouTube, mise en ligne par nvpstream le 8 févr. 2013:
Le 19 janvier 2013, Laurie Bracher, revenue de Sierra Leone, raconte comment un village accepte de renoncer à l’excision, grâce à l’initiative de l’association MEA fondée par Michèle Moreau. Bien que la communauté internationale condamne la mutilation du sexe des femmes, cette coutume cruelle perdure en de nombreux endroits de la planète, de l’Afrique à l’Indonésie.
Written on March 2nd, 2013 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Politics - Geopolitics by Heidi
Published on nourishing the planet.org, by Laura Reynolds, February 22, 2013.
The Rights and Resources Initiative RRI, a coalition of groups working for the rights of rural people to access and use their local natural resources, recently released two reports on the state of large-scale land acquisitions and investments, also known as land grabs. The reports looked at the financial risk associated with international land investments and gave an overview of the setbacks and progress made in land tenure during 2012. Continue Reading…
Written on January 12th, 2013 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
See EBG Capital on Food Crisis’ website and also on it’s official website – Published on Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab, by by Jan Wagner, Jan 9, 2013.
EBG Capital, a Swiss environmental investment boutique led by two former Credit Suisse executives, has launched an “information hub” for asset owners and managers that want to invest in farmland responsibly. Continue Reading…
Written on September 23rd, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Politics - Geopolitics by Heidi
(Meine Zwischenbemerkung: hier wirkt das leider immer noch geltende, harte Gesetz der natürlichen Selektion … konnte nicht selber denken und entscheiden, war zu dumm zum Ueberleben)!
Video über den Codex Alimentarius, 58.59 min, Uploaded by (war on disinformation / joggler66),
am 21. November 2011 … (noch Beschreibung lesen) … from World Institute of Natural Health Sciences WINHS (2844 Therapists, 57 Schools), Learn.
Written on August 30th, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Susan Rosenthal, August 28, 2012.
It’s a story as old as class society; employers seek more wealth by lowering wages, and workers seek to survive by raising wages. The history of this conflict has shaped, and continues to shape, our world.
The international traffic in temporary workers is Capital’s latest move to accumulate more wealth by lowering the price of labor. Continue Reading…
Written on August 28th, 2012 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, comments by Heidi
(Each week a global thinker from the worlds of philosophy, science, psychology or the arts is given a minute to put forward a radical, inspiring or controversial idea – no matter how improbable – that they believe would change the world) – Published on BBC future / the 60 second Idea, August 16, 2012.
This week geneticist Frances Ashcroft says that everyone should give up eating for a day a week.
- “My bright idea is for those in the developed world to fast one day a week. Three hundred and thirty six million people worldwide now have type 2 diabetes. Continue Reading…
Written on August 27th, 2012 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
Publié dans SlateAfrique, par Anne Collet, août 2012.
L’Assemblée constituante somalienne a adopté le 31 juillet une Constitution provisoire entrée immédiatement en vigueur mais qui ne sera définitive qu’ après avoir été soumise à référendum. Parmi les articles adoptés, l’interdiction des mutilations génitales féminines (MGF) figure en bonne place. Continue Reading…
Written on July 23rd, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on Food Crisis and the global Land Grab, July 18, 2012.
It was a tough week for Cameroonian village chief Wangoe Philip Ekole. People in Fabe, angry at his support for a palm-oil plantation in their rainforest home, had put a curse on its seedling nursery, prompting petrified workers to lay down their tools and flee.
Ekole, who believes the project will bring people jobs and wealth, had persuaded them to return. But the whiff of revolt remained. Many of his 200 or so subjects accused him of seeking to enrich himself through the project. Some even disowned him as their leader. Continue Reading…
Written on July 20th, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
Published on RWER Blog, by David Ruccio, July 19, 2012.
American exceptionalism has long been a contested notion.
But there is one area in which the United States has been exceptional from the very declaration of independence: the relative inequality of the distribution of income.
In 1774, the United States was much more equal than England and Wales (and more equal, it seems, than other western societies, such as the Netherlands). Today, more than 200 hundred years later, the United States is more unequal than any of the other advanced capitalist nations. Continue Reading…
Written on July 11th, 2012 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not (From) Our World – Published on ZNet (first on TomDispatch.com), July 09, 2012, by William D. Hartung, July 09, 2012.
There was a time when nuclear weapons were a significant part of our national conversation. Addressing the issue of potential atomic annihilation was once described by nuclear theorist Herman Kahn as “thinking about the unthinkable,” but that didn’t keep us from thinking, talking, fantasizing, worrying about it, or putting images of possible nuclear nightmares (often transmuted to invading aliens or outer space) endlessly on screen. Continue Reading…
Written on June 16th, 2012 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Politics - Geopolitics by Heidi
Received by e-mail, From: Will Bates – 350.org, Date: 16/06/2012.
Hey everyone – as world leaders converge in Rio for the “Earth Summit,” HUGE momentum is building for Monday’s social media storm. Check out the email below for more info, and click here to join the social media team. Dear friends, We just crunched the numbers, and there are now over one million people around the world who are calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies. Continue Reading…
Written on May 30th, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Why the world needs an agricultural revolution in Africa – Published on The Economist, May 28, 2012.
THIS chart is the nearest thing to a snapshot of everything you need to know about feeding the world. It comes from Cargill, a grain trading company, and shows which regions of the world have a food surplus or deficit, and how imports or exports have changed since 1965. The big changes in food production during that time came in South America (Brazil, mainly) and in Eastern Europe (Russia, mainly). Continue Reading…
Written on April 16th, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Politics - Geopolitics by Heidi
inclusive disturbing photos of people dying by hunger, Photograph James Nachtwey – Published on Global Research.ca (first on the Nile Bowie Blog), by Nile Bowie, April 14, 2012.
Some small excerpts of a huge text:
Few parts of the world aptly fit the description of hell better than Somalia’s crumbling capital city, Mogadishu; a nation ravaged by imperialism, domestic instability and economic sabotage from foreign forces. Parades of malnourished Africans queuing up to receive rations are trumpeted in thirty second news pieces on most mainstream media outlets, of which offer embarrassingly insubstantial examples of journalism with little explanation for such images of unparalleled inequality, past the effects of droughts, while never missing the opportunity to highlight the threat of al-Qaeda … // Continue Reading…
Written on April 9th, 2012 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Politics - Geopolitics by Heidi
Published on Current Concerns, by Gerd Höhler, April 2, 2012.
Linked on our blogs with Greece: Protest of the day, and with The Choice for Greece: a Post-Modern Coup or a new kind of society?
Endurance rallying performed by their politicians sounds just cynical to many Greeks. After years of recession and countless austerity programmes they are disheartened and demoralised. Hunger and despair take hold. Continue Reading…
Written on March 10th, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Labour exploitation in South Africa’s cane fields – Published on Pambazuka News, by Jason Hickel, March 8, 2012.
The 74,000 agricultural workers who plant, weed and harvest hundreds of thousands of acres of cane are mostly not unionised. They work in extremely dangerous conditions with very little by way of rights and protections. Until recently, they didn’t even enjoy a minimum wage … //
… OBSTACLES TO ORGANISING: Continue Reading…
Written on February 24th, 2012 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
Published on African Press Organization APO/Database of Press Release, February 20, 2012.
… The U.S. Government has supported FGM/C abandonment efforts since the early 1990s, considering the practice not only a public health concern, but also a human rights issue that violates a woman’s right to bodily integrity. In September 2000, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officially incorporated elimination of FGM/C into its development agenda, issuing an official policy and strategy on FGM/C that underscored FGM/C as a serious health and human rights issue. The U.S. Department of State emphasizes the need to raise awareness amongst communities at the grassroots level and in humanitarian settings to reduce the practice of FGM/C. Continue Reading…
Written on February 6th, 2012 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Publié dans IPS, par Zofeen Ebrahim, le 6 février 2012.
KARACHI, 30 janvier (IPS) – Alefia Mustansir (40 ans) se souvient de cet épisode de son enfance: C’était une pièce sombre et lugubre. Une vieille dame m’a demandé d’enlever mes collants, de m’asseoir sur une chaise en bois, d’écarter les jambes. Ensuite, elle m’a fait quelque chose. J’ai hurlé de douleur. Continue Reading…
Written on January 17th, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on libcom.org, by Tom Wetzel, January 2012.
Article about the practice and limitations of union (closed) shops in the US workers’ movement in the 1930s and 40s. In particular it examines how they helped unions act as a tool of discipline over workers as opposed to a tool for defending their interests. Continue Reading…
Written on January 6th, 2012 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Watch these 5 videos, published on Natural news TV, by SimisMisis, uploaded December 31, 2011 – Humanity. Survival in The 21st Century:
Written on January 1st, 2012 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
an interview with Dr. Luchetu Likaka – Published on Nourishing the Planet, by Emily Gilbert, December 30, 2011.
… What are some of the difficulties being faced by the elderly and ageing populations in Kenya?
- Older persons in Kenya face a number of challenges: lack of adequate food, lack of income, poor access to health care, inadequate shelter, among others. Older person’s challenges are further compounded by their second parenting roles for HIV/AIDS orphans. This poses wider problems since they themselves require care and support. Continue Reading…
Written on October 27th, 2011 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
Watch this video, published on english Al Jazeera, 2.49 minutes, 8 Feb 2008: Female genital mutilation is carried out for cultural and religious reasons. Women across the world are affected by the practice which is widely recognised as a violation of human rights.
Written on August 23rd, 2011 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
GMOs coming to parks and lawns near you? – Published on Intrepid Report, by Reid Mukia, August 22, 2011.
On the Friday before the 4th of July weekend, the US Department of Agriculture USDA discreetly dropped a bombshell. They announced that their Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service APHIS would not regulate Scotts Miracle-Gro’s
genetically engineered GE Kentucky bluegrass which is resistant to Roundup herbicide (Scotts is Monsanto’s exclusive agent for marketing and distribution of Roundup). Continue Reading…
Written on August 6th, 2011 in Economy, Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Claim by US officials follows declaration of three new famine zones by UN and warning that more areas are vulnerable
Published on Al Jazeera /english, August 5, 2011.
US officials say that the famine in Somalia has killed more than 29,000 children in the last 90 days. Separately, the UN has declared that three new regions in Somalia are famine zones, making a total of five regions affected by famine thus far in the Horn of Africa country. The UN had said last month two regions were suffering from famine. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the UN’s food arm, has said that famine is likely to spread across all regions of Somalia’s south in the next four to six weeks. Continue Reading…
Written on July 7th, 2011 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on Wall Street Journal /Blog, by Caroline Henshaw, June 27, 2011.
The number of hungry people in the world is set to top one billion again this year as rising food prices push millions more into poverty, the former secretary general of the United Nations warned Saturday.
Speaking at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, Kofi Annan said the increasing gap between population and food production growth may turn this year’s food security crisis into a permanent disaster.
“Delivering global food and nutrition security is the challenge of our time,” Mr. Annan said, echoing much of the rhetoric that surrounded the meeting of the Group of 20 agriculture ministers last week. Continue Reading…
Written on May 6th, 2011 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Allan M. Leventhal, May 4th, 2011.
Three Systems: The 20th century witnessed the development of three quite divergent explanatory systems to account for mental illness, each offering a distinctly different approach to treatment: psychoanalytic theory and treatment by psychoanalysis and its variants; a genetic theory of chemical imbalances of neurotransmitters in the brain, with treatment by prescription of psychiatric drugs; and a behavioral learning theory, offering treatments designed to eliminate the behaviors that characterize the mental disorders. Enough time has now passed to allow for a good reading as to the value of these different systems … //
… (2. The Chemical Imbalance Theory:) … Psychiatric Diagnoses:
How has the transformation of psychiatry affected diagnoses of mental illness? Continue Reading…
Written on March 30th, 2011 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on nature news, by Virginia Gewin, March 28, 2011.
First of the parasitic parasites to be discovered in a natural environment points to hidden diversity.
A genomic survey of the microbial life in an Antarctic lake has revealed a new virophage — a virus that attacks viruses. The discovery suggests that these life forms are more common, and have a larger role in the environment, than was once thought.
An Australian research team found the virophage while surveying the extremely salty Organic Lake in eastern Antarctica. While sequencing the collective genome of microbes living in the surface waters, they discovered the virus, which they dubbed the Organic Lake Virophage (OLV) … // Continue Reading…
Written on March 28th, 2011 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on The International News, by Amir Zia, March 27, 2011.
Finally the World Food Programme WFP has raised a red-flag over the abnormally high food prices in Pakistan, which is making life tough and bitter for majority of ordinary Pakistanis. Wolfgang Herbinger, WFP’s director in Pakistan, painted a grim picture about the food security situation in the country, where malnutrition levels are on the rise despite good agricultural crops.
One of the key reasons for the food-inflation remains the government’s decision to increase the wheat support price by more than 120 percent that indeed benefited big landowners, but proved a blow for the majority of people, especially belonging to the poor and fixed income groups. Continue Reading…
Written on March 27th, 2011 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on WHO (World Health Org), March 25, 2011.
Q.: What is the current risk of radiation-related health problems in Japan for those residing near the reactor in comparison to those in other parts of Japan?
- A.: Radiation-related health consequences will depend on exposure, which is dependant on several things, including: the amount and type of radiation released from the reactor; weather conditions, such as wind and rain; a person’s proximity to the plant; and the amount of time spent in irradiated areas.
- The Government of Japan’s recent actions in response to events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are in line with the existing recommendations for radiation exposure. The Government has evacuated individuals who were living within a 20-kilometre radius around the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Those living between 20 km and 30 km from the plant are being asked to shelter indoors. People living farther away are at lower risk than those who live nearby.
- As and if the situation changes, the Government of Japan may change their advice to the public; WHO is following the situation closely. Continue Reading…
Written on January 7th, 2011 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate, Society by Heidi
Published on Philosophers Stone.co.uk (source: Natural News), by Ethan A. Huff, January 2, 2011.
The rate of prescription drug use among children and teens continues to rise, with a new report from Medco Health Solutions Inc. saying that at least a quarter of all U.S. children are now regularly taking pharmaceutical drugs. And according to the report, many of these drugs were originally intended for adults, and carry with them unknown side effects for long-term use in young people … //
… Experts worry that the increasing prevalence of children on prescription drugs is causing these young people serious harm, and that parents should instead seek out dietary and lifestyle changes for their children. But because many doctors continue to dole out the drugs like candy, despite known dangers, many parents just accept them for their children without giving it a second thought. Continue Reading…
Written on September 9th, 2010 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on The People’s Voice, by Rady Ananda, Sept. 7, 2010.
Imagine our declining pollinators – bees, moths, butterflies and bats – coming upon thousands of acres of toxic trees, genetically engineered so that every cell in the tree exudes pesticide, from crown to root. Imagine a world without pollinators. Without seed dispersers. Without soil microbes …
… Altering the chemistry of the hydrosphere: Continue Reading…
Written on September 3rd, 2010 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Linked with Frederick William Engdahl – Germany and USA. – Published on Voltairenet.org, by F. William Engdahl, August 22, 2010.
As the European Union moves closer to approving the cultivation of GMOs despite stiff widespread opposition, it ought to be paying urgent attention to the agricultural arms race unfolding in the United States. The gospel of high-tech genetically modified (GM) crops is no longer sounding quite so sweet.
Roundup-resistant “superweeds” are plaguing Monsanto crops across southern US states, driving farmers to use more herbicides, abandon their farms or … return to conventional crops … // Continue Reading…
Written on August 9th, 2010 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on Socialist Project.ca, by Mary Thibodeau, August 2010.
As the Yes Men hoax of the Copenhagen negotiations and environmental justice movements expose Canada’s shameful position on climate change, we are faced with many possible takes on the climate change issue. The Yes Men hoax illuminated Canadian inaction through a fake Environment Canada press release stating that Canada is “taking the long view on the world economy” and reversing its previous woefully inadequate positions on climate change, thereby acknowledging the need to take full responsibility for emissions. Later it emerged that Canada was not, in fact, acknowledging its climate debt to poor nations, and that tar-sand development would continue on as usual. As climate justice movements and the climate debt agents mobilized around the indebtedness issue, others saw ‘hope’ in Obama’s presence at the negotiations … //
… Conclusions: Continue Reading…
Written on June 24th, 2010 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Publisheed on Online Journal, by Martha Rosenberg, June 23, 2010.
At a press briefing at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in May in which new research about olfactory reference syndrome (people who think they smell) and links between depression and allergens was presented, a reporter’s pointed question took many aback.
“How do we know your work won’t be used to make bad breath or hay fever mental disorders?” the reporter asked the researchers, whose smiles faded. Continue Reading…
Written on June 9th, 2010 in Health, Food Security, Ecology, Climate by Heidi
Published on Global Research.ca, by Mike Adams, June 7, 2010.
A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.
Several key advisors who urged WHO to declare a pandemic received direct financial compensation from the very same vaccine manufacturers who received a windfall of profits from the pandemic announcement. During all this, WHO refused to disclose any conflicts of interests between its top advisors and the drug companies who would financially benefit from its decisions. Continue Reading…