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"Fundamental" - Sun. AM KTFA Thoughts, News w/ Frank26, DELTA 

DELTA » July 30th, 2017

The International Monetary Fund has called on Iraq to make fundamental adjustments in its economic and financial sectors, especially the banking sector, which needs to restructure and new policies in line with the reforms called for by the Fund as a condition to support Iraq. DELTA

http://www.alhayat.com/Articles

IObey77 » July 30th, 2017

WOW!!!! THANKS DELTA!! LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER "KICK IN THE PANTS" TO ME!! GET IT DONE, IRAQ!! THEY ARE NOT MESSING AROUND WITH THEM ANY MORE!

Upstart » July 30th, 2017

A revaluation would be a fundamental adjustment Just sayin …(Big Grin)

Frank26 » July 30th, 2017

GOOD JOB DELTA ............... BLANKS ARE WITHIN THE BANKS .......... WINK.

Cleitus » July 30th, 2017

Maybe fils..., to fill in the blanks. (or LD's?)

Walkingstick » July 30th, 2017

Zim piling up gold, diamonds to back new currency: VP

Harare - Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the cash-strapped Zimbabwe government is piling up reserves of gold and diamonds to back a new local currency
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But he did not say when the new currency would be introduced.

In November 2016 the central bank introduced "bond notes", bank notes which are tradeable only in Zimbabwe and have no value outside its borders.

Bond notes in short supply 

But the bond notes, like the forex Zimbabwe has depended on since the worthless Zimbabwe dollar was abandoned in 2009, are in critically short supply.

“We are building up reserves of gold and diamonds which if they reach a certain level… will then allow us to introduce our own currency that will be backed by those minerals,” Mnangagwa said.

“I am not at liberty to disclose to you the level that we want those minerals to reach before they can back our own currency,” he said, in comments carried Friday by the state-run Herald.

Mining in protected areas

The revelation comes amid reports the government had extended its quest for precious minerals into previously protected areas, including national parks.

Mnangagwa was addressing a meeting in the south-eastern cane-growing town of Chiredzi, where he was questioned on the currency shortages, said the Herald.

Mnangagwa said the only the forex the country was getting was from exports, NGOs, loans, or foreign investment.

Equipment from Belaras

The Zimbabwe government recently bought equipment from Belarus to excavate conglomerate diamonds in Chiadzwa, in the east of the country, and says it will lift protection status on a million acres of land to boost gold mining by artisanal miners.

The news has alarmed environmentalists as even national parks could be targeted. The Chimanimani Tourist Association said on Facebook it had been told by the environment minister that the stunningly beautiful Chimanimani National Park in the east of the country would not be spared. It said it was working with Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi and local chiefs to keep the mountains protected. 

http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/zim-piling-up-gold-diamonds-to-back-new-currency-vp-20170729

Cleitus » July 30th, 2017

if the Zim has no significance for now, why keep bringing it up? Must be something there for WS to keep posting on the Zim!

Boxman » July 30th, 2017

i am thinking WS is posting this to show, that in the future, ZIM, will introduce new currency...Backed by diamonds and gold (asset backed)..just my cardboard brain thought...IMHO 

WK » July 30th, 2017

ASSET-BACKING OF CURRENCIES

Cleitus » July 30th, 2017

I agree. It's building up their GDP..., assets in the ground, etc. It's been understood on several CC's that the Zim is a novelty currency..., something that is waaaay futuristic that may be of some value to us. So why does WS keep bringing up these articles if it's not meant to catch our attention?

AlGrossman » July 30th, 2017

Look a little closer...."But the bond notes, like the forex Zimbabwe has depended on since the worthless Zimbabwe dollar was abandoned in 2009, are in critically short supply".....I'd be thrilled though because I hold a few of them myself

Fenway » July 30th, 2017

IMO the old trillion+ dollar Zim notes are novelty. Like the Saddam Iraqi dinar notes. Both once had value, but IMO not today. I wasn't saying that future Zim currency will be novelty. And WS' article demonstrates the future asset backed potential of the upcoming Zim currency.

Doc.K » July 30th, 2017

Is there any proof in writing that the 2008 and the 2009 Zim notes are no longer valid or honored ? There are $1,000 US note that are no longer in circulation and no longer printed but if you take it to the bank they're accepted.

Bone1107 » July 30th, 2017

I believe that if walkingstick posted it then study it... Zimbabwe is underestimated and everything that their are doing just makes to much sense to me. I don't have my heart in this currencies investment.

But when Russia, Mexico, Canada, United states Of American,Saudi Arabia, China are doing so much business and also with Vietnam makes me wonder what is going on over there in good old Zimbabwe.

The President in Zimbabwe said that they will also bring back the Zim dollar and the Bond note are just temporary. The President of Zimbabwe said "would be the only country to ever go back to there own country currency". IMF is impressed with what they have accomplished...

My question is what have they accomplished to make IMF happy and what about the UN ??? something is cooking with all these countries. An NO I ain't talking about a GCR for anyone that wants to ask.

Research is a power tool The Dinar is in the BAG and WELL DONE

LastFrontier » July 30th, 2017

We were told very specifically to pay careful attention to everything Walkingstick posts. That being said, one must assume this article is in fact real news for today.

Don961 » July 30th, 2017

Parliament: The law "National Oil" will be ready to vote soon

The law witnessed the acceptance of all political blocs within the House of Representatives

30 July 2017 12:41 PM

The head of the oil and energy parliamentary committee in Iraq, said the law of the National Oil Company will be ready to vote in the next few weeks or months, quoting the Iraqi News Agency.

Ares Abdullah explained that the first reading of the law has been completed and is currently being discussed.

According to the law, "Ares" that includes the separation of the National Oil Company from the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, so that directly linked to the Prime Minister of the State.

The company will manage oil operations in Iraq only now, which will include development, exploration, exploration, extraction and production, except marketing, which will remain linked to the company "Sumo," according to the agency.

He continued: "We will meet with the Kurdistan government during the next week; to reach a formula for agreement on the draft law, and we expect to pass it after."

Azir pointed to the viability of the law within the House of Representatives of all political blocs, according to the agency.

He was a member of the Committee on oil and energy parliamentary Iraqi noted on July 20 that the current version of the law of the National Oil Company does not represent the ambitions of the oil industry in Iraq.

The text of the law includes 9 items, the most prominent of which is to allow the company to invest in all oil and gas fields for all of Iraq's territory and territorial waters. It also has the right to borrow from inside Iraq or abroad to finance its investments.

https://www.mubasher.info/news/3138847/link

Doc.K » July 30th, 2017

The middle easterners have a different sense of timing.

If they say in a few hours or a few days that could be in a few months .

The lower denoms have been sitting in those ATM machines for months, so if it drags out for another 8 weeks I wouldn't be surprised . I would not like it at all , but I wouldn't be surprised. I'm not trying to rain on anybody's parade, I'm just trying to look at it practically without dinar RV goggles on. Peace 

Quincy » July 30th, 2017

Although an article is posted with date/ time of then said 'meeting,' could possibly it be that said meeting was held weeks ago, with narrative, but not released to news outlets until 'ready' to print of procedures toward RV or country laws to 'vote' on. Just a possibility meetings were held awhile ago ... or not. JMO.

I do agree that our 'soon' is within a few days, not months away. I heard Trump say one day, "you'll know soon" (when asked a question), then followed, "within two weeks." 'Soon' isn't 2-weeks in English, at least in our home, 'dinner is soon' better not be a few weeks. 

BenBlessed1 » July 30th, 2017

Interesting...at the least. I wonder if this may be connected to their plan? Or if it's even true?

There is going to be a meteor shower on 12th of August, 2017.

According to astronomers this will be the brightest shower in the recorded human history. It will light up the night sky and some of these might even be visible during the day. This meteor shower is being considered as once in a lifetime opportunity as the next meteor shower of such kind will be after 96 years.

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the brighter meteor showers of the year, occurs every year between July 17 and August 24. The shower tends to peak around August 9-13.

http://www.sci-techuniverse.com/2017/07/get-ready-brightest-meteor-shower-in.html?m=1

actualització RESETEO bancario 30 de juliol

"Fonamental" - Sol. AM KTFA Thoughts, News w / Frank26, DELTA

DELTA »30 de juliol de 2017 El Fons Monetari Internacional ha demanat a l'Iraq que realitzi ajustos fonamentals en els seus sectors econòmics i financers, especialment el sector bancari, que necessita reestructurar i noves polítiques d'acord amb les reformes que el Fons demana com a Condició per donar suport a l'Iraq. DELTAhttp://www.alhayat.com/ArticlesIObey77 »30 de juliol de 2017 WOW!GRÀCIES DELTA! MIRA COM ÀNTIMA "PECA DE PELL" A MI! FET, IRAQ! NO SÓN MENJAR AL MATEIX AMB NOSALTRES! Upstart »30 de juliol de 2017 Una revalorització seria un ajustament fonamental Just sayin ... (Big Grin) Frank26» 30 de juliol de 2017 DELTA BÉ DE TREBALL ............ EN BLANQUES SÓN EN ELS BANCS. ... guanya. Cleitus »30 de juliol, 2017 Potser fils ..., per omplir els espais en blanc. (O LD's?) Walkingstick »30 de juliol de 2017 Zim acumula l'or i els diamants per tornar a comprar una nova moneda: VP Harare - El vicepresident Emmerson Mnangagwa diu que el govern de Zimbabue està enquadernat amb diners en efectiu, que acumula reserves d'or i diamants per recuperar una nova moneda local.Però no va dir quan s'introduiria la nova moneda. Al novembre de 2016, el banc central va introduir "notes de bons", bitllets de banc que només es poden comerciar a Zimbabwe i no tenen valor fora de les seves fronteres. Notes de bons que escassegen Però les notes de bons, igual que el de divises Zimbabwe ha depès ja que el dòlar de Zimbabwe valor va ser abandonat el 2009, estan en estat crític escassos. "Estem construint reserves d'or i diamants que si arriben a un cert nivell ... ens permetrà introduir la nostra pròpia moneda que estarà recolzada per aquests minerals", va dir Mnangagwa. "No tinc la llibertat de revelar-li el nivell que volem que aquests minerals arribin abans que puguin retornar la nostra moneda", va dir, en els comentaris realitzats el divendres per l'estatal Herald.Mineria en àrees protegides La revelació es produeix enmig d'informes que el govern havia ampliat la cerca de minerals preciosos en àrees prèviament protegides, inclosos els parcs nacionals. Mnangagwa estava dirigint una reunió a la població sud-oriental de la canya de Chiredzi, on va ser qüestionat sobre l'escassetat de divises, va dir l'Herald.Mnangagwa va dir que l'únic que forçava el país era de les exportacions, ONG, préstecs o inversió estrangera. Equips de Belaras El govern de Zimbabwe va comprar recentment equips de Bielorússia per excavar diamants de conglomerats a Chiadzwa, a l'est del país, i diu que elevarà l'estatus de protecció en un milió d'hectàrees de terra per augmentar la mineria d'or per part dels miners artesanals. La notícia ha alarmat als ecologistes, ja que fins i tot els parcs nacionals podrien ser blancs. L'Associació Turística Chimanimani va dir a Facebook que el ministre de Medi Ambient li havia dit que el parc nacional Chimanimani increïblement bell a l'est del país no es salvaria. Va dir que estava treballant amb el ministre de Turisme, Walter Mzembi, i els caps locals per mantenir protegits a les muntanyes. Http: //www.news24. Com / Africa / Zimbabwe / zim-piling-up-gold-diamonds-to-back-new-currency-vp-20170729 Cleitus »30 de juliol de 2017 si el Zim no té importància per ara, per què seguir preparant-lo? Cal que hi hagi alguna cosa per a WS per publicar a Zim! Boxman »30 de juliol de 2017 estic pensant que WS està publicant això per mostrar que, en el futur, ZIM introduirà una nova moneda ... Ajudat per diamants i or (actiu recolzat) ... només el pensament cerebral del meu cartró ... IMHO WK »30 de juliol de 2017ASSET-BACKING OF CURRENCESCleitus» 30 de juliol de 2017 Estic d'acord. Està construint el seu PIB ..., actius a terra, etc. S'ha comprès en diversos CC que el Zim és una moneda de novetat ..., alguna cosa que és futurista que pot ser d'algun valor per a nosaltres. Llavors, per què WS segueix mantenint aquests articles si no vol cridar l'atenció?AlGrossman »30 de juliol de 2017Mireu una mica més ..." Però els bitllets d'obligacions, com el forex Zimbabwe ha depès, ja que l'inútil dòlar de Zimbabwe va ser abandonat el 2009, es troben en un escàs subministrament "....." Estaria encantat, però, perquè tinc uns quants d'ells mateixos. Fenway »30 de juliol de 2017, l' OMI, el vell billó de dòlars, les notes Zim són novetat.Igual que les notes dinars de Saddam iraquià. Tots dos van tenir valor, però l'OMI no és avui. No vaig dir que la futura moneda de Zim serà novetat. L'article de WS mostra el potencial de futur de la futura moneda de Zim. Doc.K »30 de juliol,2017 Hi ha cap prova per escrit que les notes de Zim 2008 i 2009 ja no són vàlides o honrades? Hi ha bitllets de més d'1.000 dòlars nord-americans que ja no estan en circulació i que ja no s'imprimeixen, però si el porteu al banc, s'accepten.Bone1107 »30 de juliol de 2017 Crec que si el publicava, l'estudiava ... Zimbabwe està subestimat i tot el que estan fent només em fa molt sentit. No tinc el cor en aquesta inversió en monedes. Però quan Rússia, Mèxic, Canadà, Estats Units d'Amèrica, Aràbia Saudita, Xina estan fent molts negocis i, a més, amb Vietnam em fa preguntar-se què està passant allà al bon antic Zimbabwe.El president de Zimbabwe va dir que també portaran el dòlar zim i la nota de bons només són temporals. El president de Zimbabwe va dir que "seria l'únic país en tornar a allà la moneda pròpia del país". L'FMI ​​està impressionat amb el que han aconseguit ... La meva pregunta és què han aconseguit perquè l'FMI estigui feliç i què passa amb l'ONU?Alguna cosa es cuina amb tots aquests països. Un NO, no estic parlant d'un GCR per a qui vulgui preguntar. La recerca és una eina de poder El Dinar es troba al BAG i també s'ha fet LastFrontier »30 de juliol de 2017 Ens van dir molt específicament que prestés una atenció especial a totes les publicacions de Walkingstick. Dit això, cal suposar que aquest article és, de fet, una notícia real per avui.Don961 »30 de juliol de 2017Parlament: La llei" Oli Nacional "Estarà a punt per votar aviat La llei va ser testimoni de l'acceptació de tots els blocs polítics dins de la Cambra de Representants 30 de juliol de 2017 12:41El cap del comitè parlamentari sobre petroli i energia a l'Iraq va dir que la llei de la National Oil Company estarà a punt Per votar en les pròximes setmanes o mesos, citant l'Agència de Notícies Iraquians. Ares Abdullah va explicar que la primera lectura de la llei ha estat completada i actualment s'està discutint. Segons la llei, "Ares" que inclou la separació de la National Oil Company del Ministeri d'Oli iraquià, de manera que estigui directament vinculada al Primer Ministre de l'Estat. L'empresa gestionarà les operacions de petroli a l'Iraq només ara, que inclourà desenvolupament, exploració, exploració, extracció i producció, excepte màrqueting, Que romandrà vinculada a l'empresa "Sumo", segons l'agència. Va continuar: "Ens reunirem amb el govern del Kurdistan durant la setmana que ve, per arribar a una fórmula d'acord sobre el projecte de llei, i esperem passar-ho després".Azir va assenyalar la viabilitat de la llei dins de la Cambra de Representants de tots els blocs polítics, segons l'agència. Va ser membre del Comitè del petroli i l'energia parlamentària iraquiana, va assenyalar el 20 de juliol que la versió actual de la llei de la National Oil Company no representa les ambicions de la indústria petroliera a l'Iraq. El text de la llei inclou 9 elements, el més destacat és permetre a l'empresa invertir en tots els camps de petroli i gas per a tot el territori de l'Iraq i les seves aigües territorials. També té dret a demanar préstec intern a l'Iraq o l'estranger per finançar les seves inversions.Https://www.mubasher.info/news/3138847/link Doc.K »30 de juliol de 2017 Els orientals del mig tenen un sentit diferent del temps. Si diuen en poques hores o uns dies que podrien estar en pocs mesos. Les denominacions més baixes han estat assegudes en aquests caixers automàtics durant mesos, de manera que si s'arrossega per altres 8 setmanes, no em sorprendria. No m'agradaria, però no em sorprendria.No estic tractant de ploure a la desfilada de ningú, només intento mirar-lo pràcticament sense tenir ulleres de dinar RV. Pau Quincy »30 de juliol de 2017 Encara que es publiqui un article amb data / hora de l'esmentada" reunió ", podria ser que aquesta reunió es celebrés fa setmanes, Amb narració, però no es va alliberar als punts de venda fins que "estiguin preparats" per imprimir els procediments cap a les lleis RV o del país per "votar". Només es van celebrar reunions de possibilitat fa un temps ... o no. JMO. Estic d'acord que el nostre "aviat" es troba dins d'uns pocs dies, a pocs mesos. Vaig sentir que Trump diria que un dia "ho sabreu aviat" (quan se li va fer una pregunta), seguit, "dins de dues setmanes". "Aviat" no és de dues setmanes en anglès, almenys a la nostra casa, "el sopar aviat" serà millor no ser unes setmanes.BenBlessed1 »30 de juliol de 2017Interessant ... com a mínim. Em pregunto si això pot estar connectat al seu pla? O si fins i tot és veritat? Hi haurà una pluja de meteors el 12 d'agost de 2017. Segons els astrònoms, aquesta serà la dutxa més brillant de la història humana registrada. Encendrà el cel nocturn i fins i tot algunes d'aquestes podrien veure's durant el dia. Aquesta pluja de meteorits s'està considerant com una vegada en una oportunitat de vida, ja que la propera pluja de meteorits d'aquest tipus serà després de 96 anys. La pluja de meteorits Perseid, una de les dutxes de meteors més brillants de l'any, es produeix cada any entre el 17 de juliol i el 24 d'agost . La dutxa tendeix a pujar al voltant del 9-13 d'agost.Http://www.sci-techuniverse.com/2017/07/get-ready-brightest-meteor-shower-in.html?m=1 Aquesta pluja de meteorits s'està considerant com una vegada en una oportunitat de vida, ja que la propera pluja de meteorits d'aquest tipus serà després de 96 anys. La pluja de meteorits Perseid, una de les dutxes de meteors més brillants de l'any, es produeix cada any entre el 17 de juliol i el 24 d'agost . La dutxa tendeix a pujar al voltant del 9-13 d'agost.Http://www.sci-techuniverse.com/2017/07/get-ready-brightest-meteor-shower-in.html?m=1 Aquesta pluja de meteorits s'està considerant com una vegada en una oportunitat de vida, ja que la propera pluja de meteorits d'aquest tipus serà després de 96 anys. La pluja de meteorits Perseid, una de les dutxes de meteors més brillants de l'any, es produeix cada any entre el 17 de juliol i el 24 d'agost . La dutxa tendeix a pujar al voltant del 9-13 d'agost.Http://www.sci-techuniverse.com/2017/07/get-ready-brightest-meteor-shower-

The British government fractures its country

Lourdes Jiménez

Ecological Magazine

The Executive of Theresa May undertakes a flight forward and will reduce its energetic dependence to drill blow and holes to its green and living floors. But the British anti- rafaction movement is ready for the fight.The curtain opens and several trucks appear in a very green spot with seven trees. Talan five. They build a well a mile deep. They get water and sand (chemicals save them) and fracture the intimacies of the Earth to extract gas. The years go by. The trucks leave. But before, they replant the five pines that they felled at the beginning. The curtain closes. The film is the one that has been mounted by the UK Government on hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking , and which is necessary to extract shale gas, very difficult to access and much greater depths than conventional gas.
It is a video of just over three and a half minutes and is part of the guide that the Executive of Theresa May launched earlier this year under the title: "Guidance on fracking : development of shale gas in the United Kingdom" [ 1 ]. And they are clear: the exploitation of unconventional gas is "the domestic solution" to prevent up to 60% of this fossil fuel in 2025, according to official data.
That is why the Government has created the so-called Shale Gas Team [ 2 ] i -ii - ( Shale Gas Team ) within the Ministry of Business, Energy and Industry, which believes that this hydrocarbon "enriches energy security and helps economic growth". Although the most ironic justification for pulling this type of gas from the bowels of the Earth is undoubtedly that this strategy "is an important part of the country's transition to a low carbon future." And so, UK, change cancer by sclerosis: coal by gas.
In the last round of concessions, approved in 2016, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) granted 159 blocks of land to be explored, grouped into 93 new licenses [ 3 ]. In 75% of the granted soil the frackingtechnique will be applied . The government estimates that only in the north of England, citizenship walks on a treasury of 1,300 trillion cubic feet of shale gas (about 36 trillion cubic meters). What they do not seem to have calculated is the money and the energy it will cost them to reach him.
In any case, everything could go smoothly for the concession companies, but part of British society, which already has experience in combating this technique (Balcombe 2013 [ 4 ], Sussex, south of England), is Ready to resist what they consider a "threat". And the general message, at least in the affected areas, is clear: frack-off! An expression that plays with the insult fuck off - of the English "fuck you" - and which is pronounced almost the same as frack , of fracking .
Resistance against increased location
France was the first country in the world to ban fracking in 2011. Thanks to a great public mobilization, Germany has done so last year. In Spain, the Government supports and facilitated its implementation, but always opaque and sometimes through the back door [ 5 ]. However, the British Government does not hide its desire to bore its green and bucolic meadows until reaching the mile deep, a mile in vertical, or what is the same, 17 times Big Ben, the famous clock tower From london.
Thus, opposition to hydraulic fracturing in the country has been growing exponentially in recent years. From the national network Frack-Off , which centralizes information on the hundreds of local groups in the country, they say that the main threat now lies on Preston New Road, near Little Plumpton, a village of 13 inhabitants in the north of England, In the county of Lancashire, and which will be the largest fracking place in the UK so far.
The concessionaire company, the British Cuadrilla, began work in early 2017 without waiting for a court ruling following an appeal from local groups. And while there are many reasons for opposing them, there is one that is key: Lancashire County and its political representatives said "no" to frackingin an official consultation. The government reversed the decision and allowed Cuadrilla to enter their lives.
"We take turns going there every day and use different forms of protest. Sometimes we slow down the entrance of trucks; Others, we directly moored at the entrance doors and prevented the passage of vehicles, "says Ecologist, Kate Styles, a local activist who presents himself as" mother and soon after grandmother. " She is part of Lancashire Nanas [ 6 ], a group of local women against fracking.
The resistance is also made visible in the meetings that a group of people as a liaison maintains with the company. The minutes are public and in them the tension is read. "Cattle insurance does not cover fracking damage , how can you compensate us?" Asks a resident. "We will bear the costs," the company says, assuming there will be damages. "And what of the cracks that appear in our houses when you begin to drill?" Exclaims another. But Styles is blunt: "We do not trust them."
Gang, a history of failures
The first time Styles heard of this technique was when Cuadrilla began its explorations in 2011 in Preese Hall, near its county, and that caused earthquakes [ 7 ] in the surroundings, reason why the works had to finalize and the Government prohibited Temporarily the technique, although it would allow it months later. Even so, six years later, the site is still unrefurbished, as the law says, and little by little problems with the sealing of the well left behind after the earthquakes are known [ 8 ].
It is not the first time that this company leaves the places that it explodes, also in other countries like United States and Australia. "They came, they took our lands, they took our lives and destroyed our community," explains an Australian farmer in a video [ 9 ] while lighting a river near the gas extraction.
However, on his website, Cuadrilla says he is "a good neighbor" of Preston New Road. "Would it destroy a good neighbor to a whole locality, generate noise pollution, emit toxic air or impose its interests against the wishes of an entire community," Styles asks.
Cuadrilla was also the licensing company in Balcombe, Sussex, south of England, where citizenship protest was brutally repressed, as tens of videos [ 10 ] demonstrate on social networks. The company backtracked with the fracking , but not with exploration by other techniques.
The police action
The global fight antifracking shares a common denominator: the forcefulness of the police response to the protests. And in the United Kingdom, the subject has been used for the Network of Police Supervision -Netpol, of Network for Police Monitoring - has done an investigation on the subject.
"The work of Netpol covers a wide spectrum of police actions, but in 2014 we saw that the growing anti- trafficking movement would be a victim of police oppression as its activity takes place outside the cities; In places of difficult access for media; In areas where there is little protest experience; And involves local people who often find themselves immersed in activism for the first time battling powerful and well-backed corporations, "explains Kevin Blowe, coordinator of the organization.
His latest report, "Protecting Protectors: Monitoring Police Action in Anti-Fracking Protests Since 2014" [ 11 ] reveals that in the UK there is a "great threat of covert infiltration" by the police in the protests and "zero tolerance "Towards civil disobedience. Netpol says in its investigation that "the surveillance of prominent activists and the search and documentation of their online discussions in social networks is more hostile and exhaustive than normal and more intense than any supposed extremist threat, so it is totally disproportionate" .
Blowe says that the ultimate objective of the investigation, which is based on observations during protests, interviews with activists and investigations of official documents, is to influence the way in which operations are planned and to promote "a less hostile and less police approach" troubled".
The British government has given life to a monster that in other areas of the continent has been defeated by social pressure. For this reason, many of the banners that are carried out today in the demonstrations appeal to the mobilization. " I always wondered why nobody did anything about that, then I realized that I am someone", says a poster placed at The gates of Preston New Road.

Original source: https://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/article34737.html

El Gobierno británico fractura su país

Lourdes Jiménez

Revista Ecologista

El Ejecutivo de Theresa May emprende una huida hacia delante y reducirá su dependencia energética a golpe de taladro y agujeros a sus verdes y vivos suelos. Pero el movimiento antifracking británico está listo para la lucha.Se abre el telón y aparecen varios camiones en un paraje muy verde con siete árboles. Talan cinco. Construyen un pozo de una milla de profundidad. Meten agua y arena (los productos químicos se los ahorran) y fracturan las intimidades de la Tierra para extraer gas. Pasan los años. Los camiones se marchan. Pero antes, replantan los cinco pinos que talaron al principio. Se cierra el telón. La película es la que se ha montado el Gobierno de Reino Unido sobre la fracturación hidráulica, más conocida como fracking, y que es necesario para extraer gas de esquisto, de muy difícil acceso y a profundidades mucho mayores que el gas convencional.
Es un vídeo de poco más de tres minutos y medio y forma parte de la guía que el Ejecutivo de Theresa May lanzó a primeros de este año bajo el título: “Orientación sobre el fracking: desarrollo del gas de esquisto en Reino Unido” [1]. Y lo tienen claro: la explotación del gas no convencional es “la solución doméstica” para evitar que en 2025 se importe hasta un 60 % de este combustible fósil, según datos oficiales.
Por eso, el Gobierno ha creado el denominado Shale Gas Team [2] i —ii —(Equipo de Gas de Esquisto), dentro del Ministerio de Negocios, Energía e Industria, que cree que este hidrocarburo “enriquece la seguridad energética y ayuda al crecimiento económico”. Aunque sin duda, la justificación más irónica para arrancar de las entrañas de la Tierra este tipo de gas es que esta estrategia “es una parte importante de la transición del país hacia un futuro bajo en carbono”. Y así, Reino Unido, cambia el cáncer por la esclerosis: el carbón por el gas.
En la última ronda de concesiones, aprobadas en 2016, la Autoridad del Petróleo y el Gas (OGA, por sus siglas en inglés) otorgó 159 bloques de tierra para explorar, agrupados en 93 nuevas licencias [3]. En el 75 % del suelo concedido se aplicará la técnica del fracking. El Gobierno estima que sólo en el norte de Inglaterra, la ciudadanía camina sobre un tesoro de 1.300 trillones de pies cúbicos de gas de esquisto (unos 36 billones de metros cúbicos). Lo que parece que no han calculado es el dinero y la energía que les costará llegar hasta él.
En cualquier caso, todo podría marchar viento en popa a todo gas para las empresas concesionarias, pero parte de la sociedad británica, que ya tiene experiencia en la lucha contra esta técnica (Balcombe 2013 [4] , Sussex, sur de Inglaterra), está lista para resistir lo que consideran una “amenaza”. Y el mensaje general, al menos en las zonas afectadas, es claro: frack-off! Una expresión que juega con el insulto fuck off —del inglés “que te jodan”— y que se pronuncia casi igual que frack, de fracking.
Resistencia contra el mayor emplazamiento
Francia fue el primer país del mundo en prohibir el fracking en 2011. Gracias a una gran movilización ciudadana, Alemania lo ha hacía el año pasado. En España, el Gobierno lo apoya y ha facilitado su implantación, pero siempre de forma opaca y a veces por la puerta de atrás [5]. Sin embargo, el Gobierno británico no esconde sus ganas de agujerear sus verdes y bucólicos prados hasta llegar a la milla de profundidad, 1,6 kilómetros en vertical, o lo que es lo mismo, 17 veces el Big Ben, la famosa torre del reloj de Londres.
Así, la oposición a la fracturación hidráulica en el país ha ido creciendo de manera exponencial en los últimos años. Desde la red nacional Frack-Off, que centraliza la información de los cientos de grupos locales del país, aseguran que la principal amenaza se sitúa ahora en Preston New Road, cerca de Little Plumpton, una aldea de 13 habitantes situada al norte de Inglaterra, en el condado de Lancashire, y que será el lugar de fracking más grande de Reino Unido hasta el momento.
La empresa concesionaria, la inglesa Cuadrilla, comenzó los trabajos a primeros de 2017 sin esperar a la resolución judicial tras una apelación de los grupos locales. Y aunque son muchas las razones que tienen para oponerse, hay una que es clave: el condado de Lancashire y sus representantes políticos dijeron “no” al fracking en una consulta oficial. El Gobierno revocó la decisión y ha permitido a Cuadrilla entrar en sus vidas.
“Nos turnamos para ir allí todos los días y empleamos distintas formas de protesta. A veces, ralentizamos la entrada de camiones; otras, directamente nos amarramos a las puertas de entrada e impedimos el paso de los vehículos”, cuenta para Ecologista Kate Styles, una activista local que se presenta como “madre y dentro de poco abuela”. Forma parte de Lancashire Nanas [6], un grupo de mujeres locales en contra del fracking.
La resistencia se hace también visible en las reuniones que un grupo de personas a modo de enlace mantiene con la empresa. Las actas son públicas y en ellas se lee la tensión. “Los seguros ganaderos no cubren daños por fracking, ¿cómo vais a indemnizarnos?”, pregunta un residente. “Correremos con los gastos”, contesta la empresa, asumiendo así que habrá daños. “¿Y qué hay de las grietas que aparezcan en nuestras casas cuando empecéis a taladrar?”, exclama otro. Pero Styles se muestra contundente: “no confiamos en ellos”.
Cuadrilla, un historial de fracasos
La primera vez que Styles escuchó hablar de esta técnica fue cuando Cuadrilla empezó sus exploraciones en 2011 en Preese Hall, cerca de su condado, y que provocaron terremotos [7] en los alrededores, por lo que los trabajos tuvieron que finalizar y el Gobierno prohibió temporalmente la técnica, aunque volvería a permitirla meses después. Aun así, seis años más tarde, el lugar sigue sin estar restaurado, como marca la ley y poco a poco se van conociendo problemas con el sellado del pozo que abandonaron tras los seísmos [8].
No es la primera vez que esta empresa abandona los lugares que explota, también en otros países como Estados Unidos y Australia. “Vinieron, cogieron nuestras tierras, nos arrebataron nuestras vidas y destruyeron nuestra comunidad”, explica un granjero australiano en un vídeo [9] al tiempo que prende con un mechero las aguas de un río cercano a la extracción de gas.
Sin embargo, en su página web, Cuadrilla asegura que es “un buen vecino” de Preston New Road. “¿Destrozaría un buen vecino a toda una localidad, generaría contaminación acústica, emitiría tóxicos al aire o impondría sus intereses contra los deseos de toda una comunidad”, se pregunta Styles.
Cuadrilla fue también la empresa concesionaria de la licencia en Balcombe, Sussex, al sur de Inglaterra, donde la protesta ciudadanía fue brutalmente reprimida, como demuestran decenas de vídeos [10] en redes sociales. La empresa dio marcha atrás con el fracking, pero no con la exploración mediante otras técnicas.
La actuación policial
La lucha global antifracking comparte un denominador común: la contundencia de la respuesta policial ante las protestas. Y en Reino Unido, el tema ha valido para que la Red de Supervisión Policial —Netpol, de Network for Police Monitoring— haya realizado una investigación al respecto.
“El trabajo de Netpol cubre un amplio espectro de actuaciones policiales, pero en 2014 vimos que el creciente movimiento antifracking sería una víctima de la opresión policial ya que su actividad tiene lugar fuera de las ciudades; en lugares de difícil acceso para medios de comunicación; en áreas donde hay poca experiencia de protesta; y que involucra a gente local que, a menudo, se ve inmersa en el activismo por primera vez luchando contra poderosas y bien respaldadas corporaciones”, explica a esta revista Kevin Blowe, coordinador de la organización.
Su último informe, “Protegiendo a los protectores: supervisando la actuación policial en las protestas antifracking desde 2014” [11] revela que en Reino Unido existe una “gran amenaza de infiltración encubierta” por parte de la policía en las protestas y “tolerancia cero” hacia la desobediencia civil. Netpol asegura en su investigación que “la vigilancia de destacados activistas y la búsqueda y documentación de sus discusiones en línea en las redes sociales es más hostil y exhaustiva de lo normal y más intensa que cualquier supuesta amenaza extremista, por lo que es totalmente desproporcionado”.
Blowe cuenta que el objetivo último de la investigación, que se basa en observaciones durante las protestas, entrevistas a activistas e investigaciones de documentos oficiales, es influir en la forma en la que se planifican las operaciones e impulsar “un enfoque policial menos hostil y menos conflictivo”.
El Gobierno británico ha dado vida a un monstruo que en otras zonas del continente ha sido derrotado por la presión social. Por eso, muchas de las pancartas que se portan hoy en las manifestaciones apelan a la movilización. “I always wondered why somebody didn’t do anything about that, then I realised I am somebody”: “Siempre me pregunté por qué nadie hacía nada al respecto, después me di cuenta de que yo soy alguien”, reza un cartel colocado a las puertas de Preston New Road.

Fuente original: https://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/article34737.html

Do we really owe modernity to capitalism?

The narratura of capitalism

Jorge Majfud

Rebellion

One of the claims that the apologists of capitalism most repeat and least question is that which has been the system that has created the most wealth and progress in history. We owe you the Internet, the planes, YouTube, the computers from which we write and all the medical advancement and social and individual freedoms we can find today.Capitalism is not the worst or the least criminal of the systems that have existed, but this arrogant interpretation is also a kidnapping that ignorance makes history.
In absolute terms, capitalism is the period (not the system) that has produced more wealth in history. This truth would be enough if we do not consider it as misleading as when in the 1990s a Uruguayan minister boasted that his government had sold more mobile phones than in the rest of the country's history.
The arrival of man on the moon was not a simple consequence of capitalism. To begin with, neither public nor private universities are, in their foundations, capitalist enterprises (except for a few examples, such as the Trump University fiasco). NASA was also never a private but a state-owned enterprise, and was further developed through the hiring of more than a thousand German engineers, including Wernher von Braun, who had experimented and perfected rocket technology in Hitler's laboratories. Invested fortunes (certainly, with some economic and moral aid from the great American companies). Everything, money and planning, were state. The Soviet Union, especially under the command of a dictator like Stalin, won the space race by putting for the first time in history the first satellite, The first bitch and even the first man in orbit twelve years before Apollo 11 and just forty years after the revolution that turned a backward, rural country like Russia into a military and industrial power in a few decades. None of this is understood as capitalist.
Of course, the Soviet system was responsible for many moral sins. Crimes. But it is not the moral deficiencies that distinguished bureaucratic communism from capitalism. Capitalism is only associated with democracies and human rights by a narrative, repetitive and overwhelming (theorized by the Friedman and practiced by the Pinochets), but history shows that it can coexist perfectly with a liberal democracy; With the genocidal Latin American dictatorships that preceded the excuse of the war against communism; With communist governments like China or Vietnam; With racist systems such as South Africa; With destructive empires of democracies and millions of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America, as in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were England, Belgium, the United States, France, etc.
The arrival on the Moon as the creation of the Internet and the computers that are attributed to capitalism were basically (and, in cases, only) government projects, not companies like Apple or Microsoft. None of the scientists who worked on such revolutionary technological programs did it as an entrepreneur or seeking to become rich. In fact, many of them were ideologically anti-capitalist, such as Einstein, etc. Most were salaried teachers, not the now revered entrepreneurs .
To this reality must be added other facts and a basic concept: none of this emerged from scratch in the nineteenth century or the twentieth century. Atomic energy and bombs are direct daughters of Albert Einstein's speculations and imaginary experiments, followed by other wage geniuses. The arrival of man on the Moon would have been impossible without basic concepts such as Newton's Third Law. Neither Einstein nor Newton had developed their wonderful superior mathematics (none of them due to capitalism) without a plethora of mathematical discoveries introduced by other cultures centuries earlier. Does anyone imagine infinitesimal calculus without the concept of zero, without Arabic numerals and without algebra ( al-jabr ), to name a few?
The algorithms used by computers and internet systems were not created by a capitalist or in any capitalist period but centuries ago. Conceptually it was developed in Baghdad, the capital of the sciences, by a Muslim mathematician of Persian origin in the ninth century called, precisely, Al-Juarismi. According to Oriana Fallaci, that culture gave nothing to the sciences (ironically, capitalism is born in the Muslim world and the Christian world develops it).
Neither the Phoenician alphabet, nor commerce, nor republics, nor democracies arose in the capitalist period but tens of centuries before. Not even the printing press in its different German or Chinese versions, an invention more revolutionary than Google, were thanks to capitalism. Neither gunpowder, nor money, nor checks, nor freedom of expression.
Although Marx and Edison are the consequence of capitalism, no great scientific revolution of the Renaissance and Modern Age (Averroes, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Pascal, Newton, Einstein, Turing, Hawking) owed that system. Wild capitalism produced a lot of capital and many Donad Trump, but very few geniuses.
Not to mention more practical discoveries, such as the lever, screw or hydrostatic of Archimedes, discovered 2300 years ago. Or the IX century compass, one of the most transcendent discoveries in the history of mankind, by far more transcendent than any smartphone. Or the wheel, which has been used in the East for six thousand years and has not yet gone out of style.
Of course between the invention of the wheel and the invention of the compass passed several centuries. But the so vaunted "vertiginous progress" of the capitalist period is nothing new. Except for periods of catastrophe such as the Black Death during the fourteenth century, mankind has been accelerating the emergence of new technologies and resources available to a growing part of the population, such as the different agricultural revolutions. It is not necessary to be a genius to realize that this acceleration is due to the accumulation of knowledge and intellectual freedom.
In Europe, money and capitalism meant social progress before the static feudal order of the Middle Ages. But soon they became the engine of colonial genocides and then a new form of feudalism, like that of the twenty-first century, with a financial aristocracy (a handful of families accumulate most of the wealth in rich and poor countries), with dukes And political counts and villains and demobilized vassals.
Capitalism capitalized (and capitalists sequestered) centuries of social, scientific, and technological progress. For that reason, and being the dominant global system, it was able to produce more wealth than previous systems.
Capitalism is not the system of some countries. It is the hegemonic system of the world. Its problems can be mitigated, its myths can be dismantled, but it can not be eliminated until it enters its crisis or decline like feudalism. Until it is replaced by another system. That in case there is a planet or humanity. Because capitalism is also the only system that has put the human species on the brink of global catastrophe.

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