alanjjohnstone
Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
But i think his comment
“In my meetings with the government, it was clear to me that the impact of Brexit on people in poverty is an afterthought,”
is very accurate. As you quote, Rolls Royce chairman and the CBI view-point is the one that May will be heeding and trying to satisfy.
As you wrote:
“…In fact the provisions regarding trading are only temporary till the end of 2020…”
Others have noted
“This is not a soft Brexit: the government has negotiated a bare bones customs union that alone will not deliver frictionless trade. Its temporary nature means businesses will go into the 2020s with no certainty about UK trading arrangements. The cliff edge has been postponed rather than eliminated. The agreement is an indeterminate pit stop on the way to a hard Brexit.” – Tom Kibasi, director of think tank IPPR, said the draft agreement
Draft Brexit deal: No further updates on immigration proposals
A full immigration white paper comes later which will be as important as the status of the EU workers
Sussex was sceptical that the capitalists will come on side when they realise the impact of climate change upon them becomes evident.
Some may, some won’t, but we can be assured that their response won’t be the same as we poor punters.
https://theoutline.com/post/6595/how-the-rich-will-survive-climate-change-disaster?zd=1&zi=mws5w5ci
To protect their mansion worth $60 million, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West hired private firefighters, which are often used by the ultra-wealthy and insurance companies.
The singer Pink’s husband, Carey Hart, posted a large group of white men wearing bandanas and masks, carrying guns and a sign, “LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT ON SITE! P.D.C. POSSE.” His caption was hashtagged #DefendYourLand and #2ndamendment. Actress Shannen Doherty posted a similar image of a gun and threatening harm to looters. the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Ventura County Sheriff’s Department both announced that they have dispatched at least 200 officers to further militarize the area and arrest looters.
“We are entering a dystopian future in which class-privileged white people are using privatized systems and their obscene wealth to avoid the catastrophic environmental effects of the racist capitalist system that they forced upon the world. “
Bugs are going on the shelves of Sainsbury’s as it becomes the first big UK grocer to stock edible insects.
The retailer will start selling roasted crickets – described as “crunchy in texture with a rich smoky flavour”.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization says at least 2 billion people regularly consume insects. More than 1,000 insect species are eaten around the world but hardly feature in the diets of many rich nations. Insects are naturally very low in calories and suitable for gluten- and dairy-free diets, as well as being exceptionally high in protein. Gram for gram, dried crickets contain more protein than beef, chicken and pork – with 100g containing 68g of protein, compared with only 31g of protein in beef. Bugs emit considerably lower levels of greenhouse gases than most livestock and are more efficient in terms of the resources needed to farm them.
“As the population increases, we urgently need to look at alternative protein sources to make the most of land available for food production,” the food policy manager at WWF UK, Duncan Williamson, said. “Insects are incredibly sustainable and can help to reduce our carbon footprint.”
I’m not a great fan probably due cultural/culinary upbringing but my family are, frequently snacking on them. Once rented a house next to neighbours who raised insects for food…easy to feed…just egg cartons…but it made 24/7 humming noise.
Surprised the pet food industry aren’t the early innovators rather than a new meaning for Pub Grub.
What are capitalism’s chances of a fix?
China, Russia and Canada’s current climate policies would drive the world above a catastrophic 5C of warming by the end of the century, according to a study that ranks the climate goals of different countries. Fossil fuel lobbies in these countries are so powerful that government climate pledges are very weak, setting the world on course for more than 5C of heating by the end of the century.Only slightly better are the group of countries that are pushing the planet beyond 4C. Among them are the US, which has huge emissions from energy, industry and agriculture somewhat offset by promises of modest cuts and more renewables. Australia, which remains heavily dependent on coal exports, is also in this category.While the EU is on course to more than double the 1.5C that scientists say is a moderately safe level of heating. Authors of the paper say their actions lag behind their promises to set a positive examplehttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-46235155
“…She said: “I was brought up a vegetarian, for 18 years. I never knew anything different.”
After eating meat from livestock raised on crofts run by her parents and a friend, she said she felt it was only right she learned the processes behind the food on her plate.
“Deer stalking is very clinical process. You are harvesting a wild animal and it is putting healthy food on the table. Death (for the deer) is as quick as it can be,” said Megan, adding that stalking involved making sure the deer selected to be shot were unaware of the stalkers so to “minimise stress”….”
Don’t say i never give the other side of the debate
“…we don’t want to be the innocent victims of the failure of their political representatives to come to some agreement whatever it might be….”
To highlight an omission in debates and the concentration on business comments, here is an apt quote from UN expert, Philip Alston, special rapporteur on extreme poverty, who just completed his tour of the UK
“….He also warned that the poor would “bear the brunt” of the expected impact of Brexit on the UK economy, and said the fall in the value of the pound had already cost low-income families £400 a year. “In my meetings with the government, it was clear to me that the impact of Brexit on people in poverty is an afterthought,” he said…..”
It should also be used as a refutation of anti-immigration arguments that we are already “full up”.
Capitalism requires increased numbers of young fit newcomers for the demographic reason that you say which i think is called the age dependency ratio.
It is also the reason why they are making us all work longer by raising the retirement age(the bastards added almost a year to when i’m due my pension and i’m lucky, women as we know from the recent WASPI protests it was multiple years they have to now wait)
We may have an increased longevity but what about good health?
In 2015, the number of healthy life years at birth was estimated at 63.3 years for women and 63.7 years for men in the UK , hence we are a burden on the NHS that the capitalists have to pay more tax for from that surplus value extracted from their exploitation.
Ernesto Araújo will become the foreign mininister for Brasil. His appointment, confirmed by Bolsonaro on Wednesday, is likely to send a chill through the global climate movement.
He claims unnamed leftist politicians have hijacked environmentalism to serve as a tool for global domination.
“This dogma has been used to justify increasing the regulatory power of states over the economy and the power of international institutions on the nation states and their populations, as well as to stifle economic growth in democratic capitalist countries and to promote the growth of China,” he wrote.
Bolsonaro’s pick as agriculture minister is the head of the farming lobby, Tereza Cristina Dias, who conservationists have nicknamed the “Muse of Poison” due to her enthusiastic support for relaxing controls on agro-toxins. She and her colleagues are said to be gutting the responsibilities of the environment ministry before its new head is appointed.
The latest deforestation figures showed a sharp rise in deforestation during the election campaign, suggesting protections for nature and indigenous land are already weakening.
The blog covered this Lancet report here
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-is-real-population-crisis.html
It has also highlighted previously the problem of declining populations.
But thanks for the link for another blog against the over-populationists
Speaking at a Guardian Live event, at Central Hall in London, the former US secretary of state John Kerry said: “We are heading for catastrophe unless we respond to some life-threatening challenges very rapidly. We have a climate-denying president that pulls us out of the Paris climate change agreement at a time when literally every day matters.”
<aside class=”element element-rich-link element–thumbnail element-rich-link–upgraded” data-component=”rich-link” data-link-name=”rich-link-2 | 1″>
Europe is already crushed under this transformation that is taking place due to migration. In Germany, Angela Merkel is weakened. Italian politics is significantly impacted. Well, imagine what happens if water dries up and you cannot produce food in northern Africa. Imagine what happens if Nigeria hits its alleged 500 million people by the middle of the century … you are going to have hordes of people in the northern part of the Mediterranean knocking on the door. I am telling you. If you don’t believe me, just go read the literature.”
He said the Green Climate Fund set up in Paris was supposed to have $100bn, but it only had $6bn, making it very difficult for poorer countries to make the right energy decisions. China and India, he said, were still on course to build a wave of coal-fired stations. “We should not be building a single coal-fired plant anywhere on the planet,” he added.
</aside>
<aside class=”element element-rich-link element–thumbnail element-rich-link–upgraded” data-component=”rich-link” data-link-name=”rich-link-2 | 1″>
</aside>
The children of our elite even recognise we are heading towards global collapse.
http://ourfutureuncompromised.org/
In 1987, the U.N.’s Brundtland Commission produced the “Our Common Future” report (pdf), which declared, “Sustainable development seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future.”
The U.N. General Assembly, in turn, passed a resolution calling on member states and U.N. bodies to pursue sustainable development.
In 1992, all U.N. member states adopted the Framework Convention on Climate Change (pdf), a treaty stating that the ultimate objective of all signatories is the “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.”
The students, in their letters, outline the world’s past, present, and projected future failures to meet both objectives.
Consider the difference in attitudes between the White Helmets and Palestinian first-responders in Gaza. One gets a movie made about them, the other is removed from sight
Removing Billboard “Honoring the First Responders of Gaza” is Attack on Free Speech
The Trump administration plans to set up a side-event promoting fossil fuels to highlight the benefits of technologies that more efficiently burn fuels including coal at the annual U.N. climate talks next month. It is a repeat of what it did at the 2017 Bonn conference.
I’ll use this post, alb, as a blog since i have little knowledge in the ins an outs of the negotiations
It’s complicated. Under UK law (and others) being Jewish is not only a religion but a race, too (as is Sikhism), another concept we would question. But the Nazis and anti-semites have never been bothered about who is technically a Jew. Nor the Israelis who adopted much of the Nuremburg laws on who can be defined as Jewish
I also note this article about BDS
“…..he Israeli government are investing $72m in persuading US, European and other western legislators, political parties and governments, in the hope of designating BDS – and any call for boycott – as an anti-Semitic one, punishable by law.
A two-day conference in Brussels earlier this month, Israeli officials and their European supporters unleashed their broader European anti-BDS campaign. Organised by traditional Zionist institutions, such as the European Jewish Association (EJA) and the Europe Israel Public Affairs (EIPA) group, the November 6-7 conference was fully supported by the Israeli government, featuring right-wing Israeli Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Ze’ev Elkin. Under the usual pretext of addressing the danger of anti-Semitism in Europe, attendees deliberately conflated racism and any criticism of Israel, of its military occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land. Equating the condemnation of Israel’s unlawful practices with racism against all Jews is at the heart of .
The EJA Annual Conference” has raised Israel’s manipulation of the term “anti-Semitism” to a whole new level, as it drafted a text that will purportedly be presented to prospective members of the European Parliament (MEPs), demanding their signature before running in next May’s elections. Those who decline to sign – or worse, repudiate the Israeli initiative – are likely to find themselves fending off accusations of racism and anti-Semitism. Defining the boycott of Israel – thus any support of the BDS movement – as equivalent to anti-Semitism, the Israeli text is likely to serve as a step towards the criminalisation of any criticism of the Israeli government.
“All political parties pledge to exclude from government parties or politicians that espouse anti-Semitism as defined by the IHRA definition. All political parties to pass, in accordance with their respective rules of procedure, binding resolutions that reject BDS activities as fundamentally anti-Semitic.”
[We will surely expect Corbyn to be accused in due course.]
In December 2016, Germany’s Christian Democratic Union Party adopted a resolution equating boycotting Israel and anti-Semitic views and practices. In Italy there is a draft law which describes boycotting Israel as “masked anti-Semitism”. If approved, the legislation will provide legal justification for indicting and punishing BDS activists.
In the United States, 25 states have already passed anti-BDS legislation, or issued executive orders targeting BDS support networks, while other states are in the process of following suit. At a federal government level, the CongressionalIsrael Anti-boycott Act, which is being received with much enthusiasm among US legislators, vows to fine and imprison those who boycott Israel. Sheldon Adelson, quickly moved into action, establishing the “Maccabee Task Force”, which raised millions of dollars to fight against what Israeli officials define as an existential threat to Israel and the delegitimisation of the country as a “Jewish state.”
In March 2017, Israeli passed the Anti-BDS Travel Ban, which requires the Interior Minister to deny entry to the country to any foreign national who “knowingly issued a public call to boycott the state of Israel.” Since the ban went into effect, many BDS supporters have been detained, deported and barred from entering the country.
