Hetty Litjens: PoliticsNews and views about politics (or what Bush has left of it).THE RAPE OF EUROPE- January 17, 2007 Independent: "The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union will be recorded in history as a glad moment for the continent. But in the short term it has brought about one unfortunate consequence. The entrance of six reactionary Romanian and Bulgarian representatives to the European Parliament means that the far-right parties of the continent now control enough seats to form a recognised political group. This will go under the faintly sinister name of the Identity, Tradition,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/01/17.html#a5014 CLIMATE CHANGE- January 11, 2007 Independent: "Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, the European Union predicts today. The ecosystems that have underpinned all European societies from Ancient Greece and Rome to present-day Britain and France, and which helped European civilisation gain global pre-eminence, will be disabled by remorselessly rising temperatures, EU scientists forecast in a remarkable report which is as ominous as it is...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/01/11.html#a4999 THE LECTURE CIRCUIT- January 9, 2007 Bloggerheads: "On 4 November the website domain blairfoundation.org.uk was registered - by one Martha Greene. It is the clearest sign yet that the Prime Minister plans to set up a body similar to that established by the former US President Bill Clinton. Here's what the papers missed, folks; Martha Greene registered tonyblairfoundation.co.uk and tonyblairfoundation.org a month earlier... on 30 September 2006 It wasn't until 4 November that she registered blairfoundation.org.uk then - a few days..http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/01/09.html#a4993 GIVE TO THE PEOPLE WHAT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE- January 7, 2007 Polizeros: "The French company that ran the water company after it was privatized in 1997 came under criticism because of high rates and a refusal to provide service for all, a familiar complaint about privatized water companies. Bolivia just completed their take-over of the company (the company received a severance payment.)"http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/01/07.html#a4986 THE COMMONS- January 6, 2007 AlterNet: "In his new book Capitalism 3.0, Peter Barnes writes that the costs of our current capitalist system are clear: inequality, stressful lives and a dwindling financial safety net. But how do we revise such a complex system We need a new set of operating instructions, Barnes argues, that will usher in and guide the creation of Capitalism 3.0. In a remarkably brief 166 pages, Peter addresses and rather astonishingly, largely answers his question, 'How do you revise a system as vast and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116902/categories/politics/2007/01/06.html#a4982 |