2009年12月31日木曜日
2009年12月30日水曜日
Icesave: classified doc from WikiLeaks: EU7 negotiation shows Iceland naively begging for mercy
http://file.wikileaks.org/leak/icesave-eu7.pdf
WIKILEAKS Wed Dec 30 05:00:00 GMT 2009 (updated 9:24, with additional pages).
" The following document is one of 23 withheld from the Icelandic public relating to the Icesave dispute. The Minister of Finance issued a gag order on the documents. Even the country's parliamentarians may only see them under strict supervision.
The Icelandic parliament is due to consider the “Icesave bill” at noon today. The bill would have Iceland pay nearly four years worth of its entire economy (GDP) to investors from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and other countries who participated in the failed Landsbanki “Icesave” scheme.
The leaked memo, from Iceland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, details a meeting held on November 12, 2008 in Brussels, in which the Icelandic delegation, quite naively, “begged for mercy” before seven EU Representatives (Germany, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and Denmark).
The document details how EU representatives attempted to force Iceland into taking on the debt burden coming out of the EEA Agreement.
The meeting was a follow up to the Ecofin meeting of November 4, 2008. The Ministry's author is not named, but similar documents have been written by Martin Eyjólfsson.
The original memo contains typographical and other errors. As a matter of historical accuracy, these have been retained. "
Julian Assange, editor
julian@sunshinepress.org
WIKILEAKS Wed Dec 30 05:00:00 GMT 2009 (updated 9:24, with additional pages).
" The following document is one of 23 withheld from the Icelandic public relating to the Icesave dispute. The Minister of Finance issued a gag order on the documents. Even the country's parliamentarians may only see them under strict supervision.
The Icelandic parliament is due to consider the “Icesave bill” at noon today. The bill would have Iceland pay nearly four years worth of its entire economy (GDP) to investors from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and other countries who participated in the failed Landsbanki “Icesave” scheme.
The leaked memo, from Iceland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, details a meeting held on November 12, 2008 in Brussels, in which the Icelandic delegation, quite naively, “begged for mercy” before seven EU Representatives (Germany, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and Denmark).
The document details how EU representatives attempted to force Iceland into taking on the debt burden coming out of the EEA Agreement.
The meeting was a follow up to the Ecofin meeting of November 4, 2008. The Ministry's author is not named, but similar documents have been written by Martin Eyjólfsson.
The original memo contains typographical and other errors. As a matter of historical accuracy, these have been retained. "
Julian Assange, editor
julian@sunshinepress.org
2009年12月29日火曜日
Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos by Anna Baltzer
Part 1
Part 2
Great introduction to the reality of Palestine.
Part 2
Great introduction to the reality of Palestine.
Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery | Video on TED.com
Why you should listen to her:
Each year, some two million women and children, many younger than 10 years old, are bought and sold around the globe. Impassioned by the silence surrounding the sex-trafficking epidemic, Sunitha Krishnan co-founded Prajwala, or "eternal flame," a group in Hyderabad that rescues women from brothels and educates their children to prevent second-generation prostitution. Prajwala runs 17 schools throughout Hyderabad for 5,000 children and has rescued more than 2,500 women from prostitution, 1,500 of whom Krishnan personally liberated. At its Asha Niketan center, Prajwala helps young victims prepare for a self-sufficient future.
Krishnan has sparked India's anti-trafficking movement by coordinating government, corporations and NGOs. She forged NGO-corporate partnerships with companies like Amul India, Taj Group of Hotels and Heritage Hospitals to find jobs for rehabilitated women. In collaboration with UN agencies and other NGOs, she established printing and furniture shops that have rehabilitated some 300 survivors. Krishnan works closely with the government to define anti-trafficking policy, and her recommendations for rehabilitating sex victims have been passed into state legislation.
"The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me."
Sunitha Krishnan
Jeffrey Barbee, for the Pulitzer Center
When I was in Copenhagen, I was watching the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) science on a sphere at the US pavilion. I saw a video made by Alaskan researcher Katey Walter from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. It shows methane bubbling out of a lake, and then how they returned there in the winter and lit the methane release on fire. They laugh in the video because they almost blew themselves up, but this is not a laughing matter.
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