Monday, June 29, 2009

Showdown Fish Finder Vs Vexilar

Kill!

This is not a matter of right and left (at least not for what you want now in Italy with these terms) if the leaders and speak and would like to see or not to take up key issues (ecology, social assistance, sustainability, etc.), ideas that would serve to baseline really improve the lives of most of the individual citizens, it is not certain that a deal can be consigned to a policy area to another rather than the fact that certain terms and certain ideas crystallized them remain where they were created light years ago.

just one example is that of GDP (gross domestic product), still used by all and regarded as the index of progress and happiness of the country, certainly it is an early warning indicator, which provides a number to be reckoned with no doubt but that really only leaves little hope for us ordinary citizens who want to see davvero migliorare la qualità di vita nelle nostre città.

Avete mai sentito qualcuno dei politici che si sono susseguiti negli ultimi anni al governo parlare di Indice di Sviluppo Umano , GPI , di FIL , di ISEW , di Decrescita Felice ?

Avete mai ascoltato un discorso di qualcuno di questi politici-furbetti far anche solo minimamente riferimento a concetti quali quelli di autosufficienza, o di energie alternative (a parlare di queste ogni tanto qualcuno ci prova ma per una pura questione di consenso elettorale), o di impronta ecologica, o di capacità bioproduttiva?

Eppure stiamo parlando di concetti ormai non più nuovissimi, ne parlava Bob Kennedy negli anni sessanta, in alcuni stati (anche eurpoei) sono addirittura già alcuni anni che si applicano praticamente, anche se certamente in forme prototipali (vedi il Canada); uno stato quale il Bhutan (con tutte le limitazioni del caso) se ne é fatto portavoce; la stessa Francia ne é diventata ultimamente un esempio per molti, anche se con tutte le evidenti contraddizioni appendici (vedi, primo fra tutti, il ricorso all'energia nucleare).
Non da ultimo c'é da considerare poi che in Italia vive uno dei precursori mondiali ( tanto da essere un punto di riferimento per moltissimi) dell'attuazione pratica di questi concetti; per fortuna c'é qualcun altro (che si può condannare o meno per scelte di altro genere) che raccoglie questi input e a suo modo da loro un'ulteriore voce sulla rete.

Dunque questo articolo vuole essere soprattutto un invito per tutte/i coloro che hanno deciso di NON opporsi a questo stato di cose, al sistema (partitico-politico) così concepito, organizzato e imposto, e che dunque si recano alle urne imperterriti a votare illusoriamente i propri rappresentanti in parlamento; per poter meglio discernere nel mucchio se una persona/politico é da preferire o meno, se amministrerà la cosa pubblica in maniera adeguata, se penserà davvero al bene del proprio paese e dei propri concittadini, a parte un sacco di altre cose, consigliamo di non perdere di vista questi elementi fondamentali : diffidate quando chi vorreste eleggere non ne fa espressamente menzione e si affida a indici e parametri ormai obsoleti.
E' semplicemente una delle solite strategie (anche queste ormai belle che superate, agli occhi di chi ha un minimo di intelligenza) che serve, tanto per cambaire, a portare acqua al proprio mulino, a prendere per il culo la gente e a fare di tutto affinchè il paese non si sviluppi e continui a permanere in una vera e propria occulta (But not too much) dictatorship.


Sunday, June 28, 2009

Pilot.familysearch.org Hack

your ass can get caught up well to the Italians.

In 2006 Silvio Berlusconi, then prime minister, not knowing (as usual) how to channel taxpayers' money into preferred channels and having (as usual) people confidence to eat free ride gives definitive mandate to Mr. Lucio Stanca (which among other things, and Vice President NON PROFIT Aspen Institute since 1991) to create the portal Italia.it, a website / portal cost of 45 million € "created to stimulate the supply Travel via the Internet and cultural heritage, environmental and food Italian "and that, as mentioned on page 36 of the booklet that Mr. Would get tired (in their view) to 16 million households, "using an interactive program to organize and plan your trip."
All hidden behind the marriage between tourism and new technologies (new?) That you filled all mouth.

The project appears to have been launched in March 2004 by the center-left government mainly due to the then vice premier and minister for cultural activities and entrusted to Francesco Rutelli, Italy fantastic innovation that part of the contract awarded to IBM (which Stanca and former head of stock!), ITS and Tiscover. About

up to 2008, was linked to www.italia.it instead of interactive wonders of the beautiful country was only a request for username and password from the beginning of 2008, however, the superportale has disappeared completely, as someone already known / suspected / imagined.
the portal track and there was never even a page with explanations of the start date. Maybe because no one had ever even remotely thought of doing it?
Falavolti, CEO of Innovation Italy, declared in 2005: "By January 2006 could be the first online version of the site in two or three languages." Since February 2009

Stanca, after the previous government has played the role of Minister for Innovation and Technology (left, poor thing, without official approval employment) is called by Mr. B. as a loyalist to replace Glisenti Letizia Moratti, head of the Milan Expo in 2015 companies, but the good Lucio had made other calculations, and probably without any restraint, in June this year, there is and seems to have made assert (!) Italia.it the project.

And yet here is the same month '(yet another) announced the relaunch of the Italian tourism (which, let us not forget, has a tour of hundreds of billions of euro and is one of the most prolific and profitable in the country, then that raise?), this time assigned to the figure of Ms Michela Vittoria (or Littoria , as you call someone) Brambilla, for which it was even created a ministry dedicated (of course that tourism!) it seems that thanks to the birth of the logo MagicItaly ( that seems to have been very successful, especially on the net ... as it is clearly understandable, watching), the GDP will double in four years (ie by 2013) ; Brambilla Minister also pointed out that "Magic Kingdom" is part of the "new campaign of television spots for foreign countries, the Ministry of Tourism will spread by the end of the month. The final content, graphics and soundtracks, will be shown in full are at the end of June 2009.

would be nice to follow this story (but any other company of such people would be worthy of meticulous attention!) Step by step, to ask some guide to all these gentlemen, first of all to Mr. Stanca, who chairs an expert jumper, makes demands not know what extent it would be interesting to ask for clarifications on all the numbers "fired" on the issue since 2004 tourism in Italy, those spent (it seems that the "parking" of Italy . it is costing € 800 thousand Italians!) and those still planned by ministers and prime minister (s) and it would be nice ask the Minister of Tourism to explain in his own words if it really exists and what is that something that you and your room foreman promised publicly.
would also be very interesting to understand whether the Brambilla that his friends know what is really the GDP. (See post below)

It 'easy to imagine that in a country where the leader does not feel the need of having to account to anyone, not even to their constituents (which during the Stalinist armored rallies are simply bombarded with crap burst , without any basis in reality and fomented with words and ideas dating usually political legacies of the past even questionable), in which the leader acts as the sole owner truth and justice (their own), in which even / the law / s is / are manipulated by their s and used / dirty and their personal affairs in this country nobody will take the trouble to go and explain None of this, indeed, that their system could be preserved, all efforts will be channeled in the direction of scientifically unclear and lies.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

How To Complain About Bank Of America

The Totalitarian Regime of debt is

The Nature of the Financial Crisis: The system is designed to exert complete control over the lives of individuals

OF RICHARD C. COOK
globalresearch

What strikes the current financial crisis is an almost complete inability of the so-called "p ROGRESS" to understand the dimension of what is happening or how to consciously organized lurks behind it. In fact, many would say that such a disaster was deliberately planned by the creation and subsequent destruction of the financial bubble of the last ten years?

The financial system creates whenever the bubble inflates the cost of goods far above their real value creation or preservation of wealth and when the bubble bursts the value of those goods plummeted. E 'at this point that those in possession of cash can buy these assets for a bargain price and when the disaster finally ends, the result is a greater concentration of wealth. The rich became richer and the common people is found in a state of deep debt, more poverty and pressure to the wishes of the masters of finance.

The "progressives" think that the system should be "reformed", but perhaps the banking system really needs to be re-regulated or even nationalized. Maybe the families could be at risk of losing their homes get a reduced mortgage payment through a civil court. Maybe it was the state and not the operator of the private sector loan for school students.

There remains difficult to accept that the system itself to be totalitarian, because structured in order to exercise total control over people's lives. Indeed, we are accustomed to using such a label when we think of anachronisms of history like communism or fascism and we can not but see that the global financial capitalism and the governments which protect it, make it possible, or even run it are also totalitarian .

This has happened over the last year or the apparent collapse of the financial system and its rescue by massive intervention public, is part of a pattern that has lasted for decades if not centuries. The way in which the so-called controllers work was established in 1967 by The Report from Iron Mountain ["Report from Iron Mountain", ndt], secretly acquired a copy of which was published by Dial Press. It was a study by a group of academics and analysts who met in a secret Hudson Institute in New York.

The report began by defining the war, the fundamental organizing principle of any society. The study argued that "war itself is the essential social system, in which, for other methods of organization social conflict or conspire. In fact, it is the model that has governed most human societies known to date. "

The report also stated that "the ultimate authority of a modern state towards its citizens is its war powers" and any failure of will by the ruling class would lead to a "real destabilization of the institution military. " The effect on the system, the report continued, it would be "catastrophic."

The publication of the study had a huge impact on what coincided with the beginning of the Vietnam War protests account. Le autorità governative non rilasciarono mai alcun commento ufficiale e successivamente il rapporto fu dimenticato dalla storia ma certamente, alcune delle sue parti, sono più che mai attuali nel 2009.

Il rapporto infatti sottolineava come la popolazione civile di un paese progredito potesse essere controllata persino in assenza di una guerra di larga scala che ne devastasse la vita quotidiana. Uno dei metodi era definito come segue: “ Un…possibile surrogato per il controllo di nemici potenziali della società è la reintroduzione, in forme coerenti con la tecnologia moderna e con i processi democratici, della schiavitù…La creazione di sofisticate forme di schiavitù può divenire an absolute requirement for social control ... " (Quote from Jim Marrs, Rule by Secrecy , 2000).

Today we are witnessing the emergence of such "sophisticated forms of slavery." In what other way should establish a system that subjugates the population through personal debts and family crazy, the relentless expansion of the gap between the rich and everyone else, the continuing erosion of personal liberty as justified as necessary by the war on "terrorism", the continued expansion of powers to the military and police, the applicant use of eavesdropping, and the total absence of responsibility by dishonest politicians, or even criminal, the exclusive use of the media for spreading propaganda of the regime, etc.. None of this seems to have decreased during the administration of Barack Obama. The economic recovery that Obama is working through a massive program of Keynesian government intervention is in fact regarded by economists as that of 2002-2005, which will not have another job and in this is that those who fear becoming unemployed is easy to control. Add to this the number of permanent wars on the soil of Asia instigated by George W. Bush for control of resources and as geopolitical leverage against Russia and China in fact, continue apace.

None of this is random. And as the The Report from Iron Mountain explained four decades ago, is what has been planned all along.

Richard. C. Cook
Source: www.globalresearch.ca
Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13551

www.comedonchisciotte.org for translation by of GLOSSTAR

Sunday, June 7, 2009

White Stuff Under Tongue

BOIKOTTNIKE! (Once and for all)

Nike, headquartered in Oregon, USA, produces a wide range of highly publicized sports shoes. Established in the '60s, got its present name in 1985.
Every year 6 million pairs of Nike sports shoes are packed in Indonesia under license usually granted by the South Korean HQ, a subsidiary of Nike. Employees monitor the quality of daily Nike factories in Tangerang and Serang 6. 6 These factories are competing with each other to maintain the licenses, which are renewed monthly.

The average daily wage of the 24,000 workers of these factories is just 1,100 pounds. According to the AAFLI (Asian-American Institute for Free Labor), these factories 12 are in violation of national laws, including minimum wage, child labor, overtime, hours of work, insurance, trade union and firing. Have been highlighted in respect of health problems, vacations and maternity leave. Although the factories are not directly owned by Nike, the company is financially in a position to ensure the strengthening of the minimum standard of living.

Nike wages in Indonesia.
Indonesia has a daily minimum wage of 2,100 rupees (about 1,400 pounds), but even this is below the "minimum physical needs" estimated by the government. And with 12 million unemployed about 70 million labor force, it is impossible to increase this minimum. Recent investigations have revealed that nearly 80% of workers in the Tangerang region receives only 1,600 rupees a day, and then long hours of overtime are usually essential for survival. The ILO (International Labour Organization) estimates that 80% of women workers in Indonesia are malnourished.

In 1990, Operation Push, a civil rights group, has launched a boycott of Nike because, despite selling 45% of its products to blacks, there are no African Americans at the top of the company and shall not grant sufficient social benefits to the black community.

In March 1997 the company has allowed the Vietnam Labour Watch, an activist group, to meet with employees, department heads, representatives and legal experts from Vietnam, but the surprise VLW also visited three plants. The result is what you can read the report from the Vietnam Labour Watch, and I can sum up with violations of safety standards at work, exploitation, beatings, humiliation and sexual violence.
Nike also manufactures in Indonesia and China, but could not find information on working conditions in those countries. Of course, my research can not be said depth, but since Nike has opened plants there only after Korea and Taiwan, have gained more freedom and wages more, some doubt arises.

Nike in Vietnam also produces more or less the same way, here the boycott campaigns have fortunately some success in recent years.

In April 1998, the corporation surrendered. The announcement was made by the big boss himself, Phil Knight, founder, largest shareholder and CEO of the group. Provided that the boycott campaign is over, Nike has agreed to raise from 14 to 18 years the minimum age of workers in shoe factories and bring to 16 the minimum age for all other workers employed in the production of clothing, accessories and equipment.

In 12 fabbriche indonesiane è scattato un aumento del 37% della retribuzione di tutti i lavoratori che percepivano il salario minimo (28 mila persone). L'azienda si è inoltre impegnata a bonificare tutte le sue fabbriche e a rispettare i livelli di sicurezza imposti dalla legge. Inoltre aumenterà il sostegno all'attuale programma di micro-finanziamento, che gia' coinvolge mille famiglie in Vietnam, estendendolo anche all'Indonesia, al Pakistan e alla Thailandia. In tutti gli stabilimenti asiatici il gruppo, che ha il quartier generale a Beaverton, nell'Oregon, amplierà i programmi di istruzione, offrendo ai dipendenti corsi per ottenere un diplorna equivalente a quello delle scuole medie e superiori.
Dopo la conferenza stampa che si è tenuta a Washington, in cui la Nike annunciava la resa, le sue azioni in borsa sono salite di due dollari.

Nel maggio 1998, la Nike ha annunciato che avrebbe permesso che le sue fabbriche vietnamite fossero monitorate da personale indipendente, ma sono state scelte aziende pro-profit (Global Exchange).

Nell’aprile 1999 ha annunciato la formazione della Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, un gruppo di organizzazioni pubbliche, private e no-profit, che dovrebbe accertarsi delle condizioni di lavoro attraverso interviste ed indagini, ma il sito non è aggiornato sulle conseguenze di questa azione.

Sempre nel '99 Some hazardous chemicals have been replaced and the systems (Vietnamese) were equipped with ventilation systems, but the quality standards are considered to be still far from secure.

In July 2003, the boycott is extended to Converse, the historic maker of basketball shoes, after the acquisition of it by Nike for $ 305 million. The famous Converse Chuck Taylor All Star, at the foot of all NBA players, then enter the offer that Nike can sell shoes Converse all over the world except in Japan where rights are in the hands of another house.

In April 2005, Nike published the same "2004 Corporate Responsibility Report ", by which admits abuses which had been accused for years. At the same time also revealed the names and addresses of over 700 factories in the world, as the activists were asking for 10 years (Educating For Justice).

However, campaigns are still ongoing because the exploitation continues.

If you want to know more, these are the first sites that you find with a simple search:

Nike - Kill a Multi (Italian site )
Educating For Justice - Stop Nike (updated 2006);
Saigon.com - Boycott Nike (Updated to 2001);
Global Exchange Nike campaign (updated to 1999);
Just do it! Boycott Nike! (updated 1999).

BUT HOW MUCH IS A NIKE SHOES ?


GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.

oppressive regime: all Nike shoes are manufactured in Asia, particularly Indonesia, China, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam.

Labor Relations: in Indonesia free trade unions are illegal and are suppressed by the army, union leaders were fired, imprisoned, tortured and even killed.

WAGES AND WORKING CONDITIONS: Nike workers receive poverty wages, less than the minimum wage established by law in Indonesia. Workers exposed to fumes from glues, solvents, paints, for 12 hours a day.

irresponsible marketing: Nike spends about $ 180 million a year in advertising, when it would be enough for 1% of this budget to improve the conditions of 15,000 workers in Indonesia.

As always: who is not acting because he did not interessi personali a farlo e chi continua a comprare Nike lo fa perché non vuole rinunciare alla sua scarpina carina e griffata, e se é fatta da una ragazzina di sedici anni che viene pagata una miseria non può certo farsene carico (la vita è già triste e difficile così....vero?)

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Helps With Tanning L-

THE SEVENTH CONTINENT.

S iamo a quota 12 : il 2009 é l'anno che celebra il dodicesimo compleanno della scoperta , durante una regata, da parte dell' "ex" miliardario Charles Moore, ora oceanografo e fondatore dell'Agalita Marine Research Foundation, del cosiddetto settimo continente, ossia di quell'immensa distesa di rifiuti che si estende nell'Ocenao Pacifico "a chiazze" su si una superficiale totale del diametro di circa 2500 km quadrati e dello spessore di circa 30 metri, di un peso stimato di circa 100 milioni di tonnellate; l'enorme continente è solitamente diviso in due grossi/e blocchi/discariche e si sarebbe formato a partire dagli anni 50 e verrebbe continuamente alimentato dagli scarti che provengono per il 20% da navi e dalle piattaforme petrolifere e per l'80% direttamente dalla terraferma principalmente grazie ad una particolare corrente oceanica chiamata North Pacific Gyre (Vortice del Nord Pacifico), un sistema formato da quattro correnti oceaniche (quella del Nord Pacifico, quella della California, la nord equatoriale e la Kuroshio,) localizzato tra l'equatore and 50 ˚ north latitude.
it was discussed in the past, sometimes "the media" (some, very few) if you are employed, both in Italy that abroad, should be passed also a half- time for the state television (of course nothing to do with the online ) but nothing more, as always happens with the uncomfortable truth or unmanageable.
It 's only in very recent times, it seems, we're really moving to do something to try to understand what is really possible to do (and if it is really possible!) And events such as Plastiki or the Junk report in the foreground (when you give them any space available) the news, mainly due to the latter expedition, scientists studied the composition of a person ' huge landfill and wanted to try to make it clear to the scientific community and the public misconception that the scale of the problem of immeasurable proportions, whereas the seventh continent is growing by the hour more, so unstoppable.
And also a little t estimonianza video (finally) turn thanks alla spedizione Alquita del 2008.
Ora non ci sono davvero più scuse ; se non ci salviamo é perché non lo abbiamo voluto.