Mielenkiintoista muualla:
- Lapsiperheiltä puuttuu aikaa, ei rahaa – HS.fi – Pääkirjoitukset -
- Slavoj Zizek on the Hypocrisy of Conscious Consumerism – GOOD – animaatiovideo filosofin eettisen kuluttamisen luennosta
- A Different Kind of Ownership Society: Wealth Creation Through Local and Shared Ownership – With a policy that no individual can own more than 15 percent, the ownership design is aimed at spreading wealth widely and keeping it rooted locally. According to the Government Accountability Office, keeping a project like Minwind locally owned means that local communities get three times more economic benefit than if the project had absentee owners.
- Category:Peerproduction – P2P Foundation – yhteisötuotanto ja osuuskunnat taipuvat moneen
- Krugman – America Goes Dark – NYTimes.com – Kuulostaako tutulta? – In effect, a large part of our political class is showing its priorities: given the choice between asking the richest 2 percent or so of Americans to go back to paying the tax rates they paid during the Clinton-era boom, or allowing the nation’s foundations to crumble — literally in the case of roads, figuratively in the case of education — they’re choosing the latter. It’s a disastrous choice in both the short run and the long run.
- Pienyrittäjien Piia Snellman ABC-ketjun leviämisestä: ”Tämä on rakenteellista korruptiota” – Suomenkuvalehti.fi – “Kasvin mielestä kyse on enemmänkin ”maan tavasta” kuin tahallisesta korruptiosta. Myös asuntoministeri Jan Vapaavuori (kok) puhuu mieluummin ”liian pitkälle menneestä kierteestä”. Hän toivoisi, että poliittinen järjestelmä ja S-ryhmä pohtisivat itse vakavasti, mitä asialle pitäisi tehdä.” – siis hä? korruptioon syyllistyneet pohtisivat mitä tekisivät seuraavaksi vai?
- The Quiet Revolution — In These Times – ….In the past four years, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have been organizing tens of thousands of consejos comunales (communal councils). Each council is composed of about 150 families in urban areas, while in rural and indigenous areas, each council is composed of 20 and 10 families, respectively. The councils are involved in everything from road building and maintenance to cultural activities and events, housing improvements, and providing basic services like water and electricity…. Why can’t councils also have a say over foreign, macroeconomic and national policies that impact their communities?
- What collapsing empire looks like – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com – Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights — or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State — that a very serious problem has arisen, that things have gone seriously awry…?
- Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’ – Middle East, World – The Independent – Irakista löytyi vihdoin joukkotuhoaseiden jälkiä. NATO-yhteensopivien – Researchers found a 38-fold increase in leukaemia, a ten-fold increase in female breast cancer and significant increases in lymphoma and brain tumours in adults. At Hiroshima survivors showed a 17-fold increase in leukaemia, but in Fallujah Dr Busby says what is striking is not only the greater prevalence of cancer but the speed with which it was affecting people.
- Dig Up Political Influence | Poligraft -
