position:banker

Le Monde’s Natalie Nougayrède : ’This is quite a revolution’ | Media | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/05/le-monde-editor-revolution?utm

Les explications bizarres de Natalie Nougayrède

Le Monde’s Natalie Nougayrède: ’This is quite a revolution’

The first woman to run a French national daily title defends her decision to run a full-page anti-gay marriage advert

#lemonde #journalisme #Média

Business et politique au Liban
Mikati, Safra in top Forbes Arab-rich list | Business , Lebanon | THE DAILY STAR
http://dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2013/Apr-16/213907-mikati-safra-in-top-forbes-arab-rich-list.ashx#axzz2QhZg0tLS

Najib and Taha Mikati occupied the 8th positions with $3.5 billion each while Bahaa Hariri, the eldest son of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, was ranked in the 15th position, with a wealth of $2.4 billion.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s wealth was estimated at $1.9 billion, ranking him in the 26th position. His brothers Ayman and Fahed ranked 31st, with a wealth of $1.35 billion each.

Notre affaire Cahuzac est ridicule en comparaison...
#Liban

Is This Really the End of Neoliberalism? (2009)
by DAVID HARVEY

►http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/03/13/is-this-really-the-end-of-neoliberalism

Does this crisis signal the end of neo-liberalism? My answer is that it depends what you mean by neo-liberalism. My interpretation is that it’s a class project, masked by a lot of neo-liberal rhetoric about individual freedom, liberty, personal responsibility, privatisation and the free market. These were means, however, towards the restoration and consolidation of class power, and that neo-liberal project has been fairly successful.

One of the basic principles that was set up in the 1970s was that state power should protect financial institutions at all costs. This is the principle that was worked out in New York City crisis in the mid-1970s, and was first defined internationally when Mexico threatened to go bankrupt in 1982. This would have destroyed the New York investment banks, so the US Treasury and the IMF combined to bail Mexico out. But in so doing they mandated austerity for the Mexican population. In other words they protected the banks and destroyed the people, and this has been the standard practice in the IMF ever since. The current bailout is the same old story, one more time, except bigger.

What happened in the US was that 8 men gave us a 3 page document which pointed a gun at everybody and said ‘give us $700 billion or else’. This to me was like a financial coup, against the government and the population of the US. Which means you’re not going to come out of this crisis with a crisis of the capitalist class; you’re going to come out of this with a far greater consolidation of the capitalist class than there has been in the past. We’re going to end up with four or five major banking institutions in the United States and nothing else. Many on Wall Street are thriving right now. Lazard’s, because it specialises in mergers and acquisitions, is making megabucks. Some people are going to be burned, but overall it’s a massive consolidation of financial power. There’s a great line from Andrew Mellon (US banker, Secretary of the Treasury 1921-32), who said that in a crisis, assets return to their rightful owners. A financial crisis is a way of rationalising what is irrational – for example the immense crash in Asia in 1997-8 resulted in a new model of capitalist development. Disruptions lead to a reconfiguration, a new form of class power. It could go wrong, politically. The bank bailout has been fought over in the US Senate and elsewhere, so the political class may not easily go along – they can put up roadblocks but so far they have caved in and not nationalised the banks.

But this can lead to a deeper political struggle: there is a strong sense of questioning why are we empowering all the people who got us into this mess. Questions are being asked about Obama’s choice of economic advisers – for example Larry Summers who was Secretary of the Treasury at the key moment when a lot of things started to go really wrong, at the end of the Clinton administration. Why would you now bring in so many of the characters who are pro-Wall Street, pro-finance capital, who did the bidding of finance capital back then? Which is not to say that they aren’t going to redesign the financial architecture because I think they know it’s got to be redesigned, but who are they going to redesign it for? People are really discontented about Obama’s economic team, even in the mainstream press.

A new state financial architecture is required. I don’t think that all existing institutions like the Bank of International Settlements and even the IMF should be abolished; I think we will need them but they have to be revolutionarily transformed. The big question is who will control them and what their architecture will be. We will need people, experts with some sort of understanding of how those institutions do work and can work. And this is very dangerous because, as we can see right now, when the state looks to see who can understand what is going on in Wall Street, they think only insiders can.

#néolibéralisme
#Harvey

Three arrested in Libor manipulation investigation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/11/libor-investigation-three-arrested

Former UBS and Citigroup banker and two others questioned as part of Serious Fraud Office investigation into Libor manipulation

C’est la fête aux banquiers aujourd’hui ...

Inside #Amazon...
http://imgur.com/a/q1WIO
http://i.imgur.com/tLgzJ.jpg
#photographie

Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world’s food crisis? | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/24/growing-food-in-the-desert-crisis

the work that Sundrop Farms, as they call themselves, are doing in South Australia, and just starting up in Qatar, is beyond the experimental stage. They appear to have pulled off the ultimate something-from-nothing agricultural feat – using the sun to desalinate seawater for irrigation and to heat and cool greenhouses as required, and thence cheaply grow high-quality, pesticide-free vegetables year-round in commercial quantities.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/11/23/1353687441504/Food-from-the-desert-toma-008.jpg

Seawater Greenhouse: A new approach to restorative agriculture | Global Water Forum
http://www.globalwaterforum.org/2012/05/28/seawater-greenhouse-a-new-approach-to-restorative-agriculture

There are now some 200,000 hectares of greenhouses around the Mediterranean, and over 1 million in China, where 30 years ago, there were almost none. This is because yields that are achieved in greenhouses can be 10 to 100 times greater than yields achieved outside. They also enable high value crops to be grown ‘out of season’.

The Seawater Greenhouse enables year-round crop production in some of the world’s hottest and driest regions. It does this using seawater and sunlight. The technology imitates natural processes, helping to restore the environment while significantly reducing the operating costs of greenhouse horticulture. In addition to not having to discharge concentrated brine, it also benefits from the fact that high salinity water has a powerful biocidal or sterilising effect on the air that passes through it. This reduces or eliminates airborne pests.

http://www.globalwaterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Figure-4.png?9d7bd4

#agriculture #serres #désalinisation

Barclays’ ‘A-MAIZING returns’ — New Internationalist
http://www.newint.org/blog/2012/11/05/barclays-food-speculation-the-revolution-will-be-televised

‘We make money from inflation, stagnation, and even starvation,’ says the brash young banker outside a branch of Barclays bank in the City of London.

‘Yes,’ agrees the Barclays branch worker, although she seems unsure about the posters he’s sticking up in the window. ‘Have THEIR cake and eat it,’ reads one. The other depicts a golden sheaf of maize and advertises ‘A-MAIZING returns’.

The banker stops passers-by, extolling the benefits of brand-new food investment products. The investments could force people to go hungry, but, the banker and his colleagues assure them, ‘those people are in a place you’re never going to go to.’

The banker is an actor, and the unsuspecting members of the public are suitably outraged by the idea of making money at the expense of starving people. But the World Development Movement’s new video, made with the pranksters from the BBC TV show The Revolution Will Be Televised, parodies the real-life impact Barclays has on food prices and hunger.

un genre de yes men quoi via @fil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Np3XW6ezs&feature=player_embedded

Lebanese Banks Under Washington’s Thumb | Mouhamad Wehbe
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-banks-under-washington%E2%80%99s-thumb

As the Syrian crisis enters its nineteenth month, Lebanese banks have come under intensified US pressure to implement measures that will squeeze the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis. As banking sources reveal, Lebanon’s Central Bank has been largely acquiescent to Washington’s demands.

La réunion annuelle des géographes américains se prépare, et il semble que ce sera un truc vraiment bien. De nombreuses sessions sont en trains de s’organiser, ça promet d’être un extraordinaire cocktail de géographies critiques et expériementales

Call for Papers (CFP) for the Association of American Geographers 2013 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

Session Title: Postneoliberalism? Neoliberal regulation in the continuing crisis: opportunities for change or just more of the same?

Session organizers: Hugh Deaner, University of Kentucky and Christopher Oliver, University of Kentucky

Neoliberalism is in crisis - or even “dead” - so say a number of academics, editorialists, and public intellectuals (Dumenil and Levy 2011; Klein 2008; Krugman 2009; Magdoff and Foster 2009; Smith 2011; Stiglitz 2008; Wallerstein 2008). Some argue that neoliberalism’s demise represents opportunities to push social regulatory policy in the direction of new and more effective forms of managed capitalism (e.g., Keynesian approaches) (Krugman 2009, 2012; Magdoff and Foster 2009; Stiglitz 2010), thereby reversing the four decade-long movement towards unfettered market-based regulation. While these claims are sometimes monolithic in nature, in other instances writers have made even more grandiose proclamations that the on-going global economic crisis has created new opportunities for changing social regulatory frameworks and, more generally, that a unique historical moment has unfolded offering various potentialities for forging a new ideological framework to social governance (e.g. Klein 2008).

Critical geographers (and critical social scientists) also have attempted to take up these issues: some argue for a possible “postneoliberal” turn, while others question the efficacy of such concepts; and still others ask whether such a transition - or radical re-envisioning - of the various neoliberal forms of social regulation is even possible (Brenner, Peck, and Theodore 2010a, 2010b; Harvey 2009; Hobsbawm 2008; Peck, Theodore, and Brenner 2009; Smith 2011). Whether or not neoliberal forms of social regulation have entered their “zombie” phase, or if changes can lead - or have led- to new forms of counter-neoliberalization is an important - and empirical - question (cf. Brenner, Peck, and Theodore 2010; Fine 2010; Harman 2010; Peck 2010). Further, whose neoliberalism (and to what end and what consequence) is of equal import (cf. Harvey 2009).

In regard to these concerns, we ask the following: Since the emergence of the 2007-2008 crisis, has there been a shift in the form, content, and practices of neoliberal institutions of regulatory governance? And if so, has this change served to lessen or diminish the role of market-based strategies of regulation, or has change merely furthered existing forms of neoliberal governance (e.g., “zombie” neoliberalism) - or has this change strengthened or even emboldened new forms of neoliberal regulatory practices (cf. Peck, Theodore, and Brenner 2012).

We seek papers that explore these issues through a number of possible theoretical and conceptual perspectives and substantive themes:

a) Theoretical discussions which examine the consequences or potentialities of various forms of restructuring within neoliberal regulatory approaches - whether global, regional, national, or local- and what, if any, effect the current and on-going crisis has played (or is playing) in restructuring these conditions (e.g., Is a Polanyian “double movement” taking place - or can it take place - within this crisis and under the current social regulatory conditions?);

b) Conceptual-based illustrations of changes in neoliberal forms of governance through detailed comparative work of varying scales and scope (e.g., Has the current crisis led to a dramatic shift in conceptual understandings of post-Fordist regulation?);

c) Single or comparative empirical-based case studies that chart shifts in neoliberal forms of regulatory governance (e.g., How has the current crisis effected the regulation of housing markets in the US and Europe?).
Though the range of possible substantive themes for the papers is open, some potential areas of work might include:

Neoliberalization/financialization of nature

Green economy policy and practices

Governance and sustainability practices

ban policy including regulation of fiscal policy

Housing policy and the regulation of mortgage markets

The regulation of financial markets

The rise (and fall) of shadow banking

Labor market regulation

Legal regulation of markets

Economic policy changes and their effects

Education policy including public-private partnerships or marketization of educational instruction

The Euro crisis and the crises in Spain and Greece (and other countries)
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Hugh Deaner athugh.deaner@uky.edu<mailto:csol222@uky.edu> by October 15, 2012.

References:

Brenner, Neil, Nik Theodore, and Neil Brenner. 2010a. “After neoliberalization?” Globalizations. 7: 327-345.

___. 2010b. "Variegated neoliberalization: Geographies, modalities, pathways. Global Networks. 10: 1-41.

Dumenil, Gerard and Dominique Levy. 2011. The Crisis of Neoliberalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Fine, Ben. 2010. “Zombieeconomics: The Living Death of the Dismal Science.” In The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order. Pp. 153-170. London: Zed Books.

Harman, Chris. 2010. Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

Harvey, David. 2009. “The crisis and the consolidation of class power: Is this really the end of neoliberalism?” Counterpunch. Available at: ►http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/03/13/is-this-really-the-end-of-neoliberalism. Accessed September 28, 2012.

Klein, Naomi. 2008. “Wall street crisis should be for neoliberalism what fall of Berlin Wall was for communism.” Lecture at the University of Chicago. Available at: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/6/naomi_klein. Accessed September 23, 2012.

Krugman, Paul. 2009. Return to Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

___. 2012. End This Depression Now. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

Hobsbawm, Eric. 2008. “Is the intellectual opinion of capitalism changing?” Today program, BBC Radio. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7677000/7677683.stm. Accessed September 24, 2012.

Magdoff, Fred and John Bellemy Foster. 2009. The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences. New York: Monthly Review.

Peck, Jamie. 2010. “Zombie neoliberalism and the ambidextrous state.” Theoretical Criminology. 14: 104-110.

Peck, Jamie, Nik Theodore, and Neil Brenner. 2009. “Postneoliberalism and its Malcontents.” Antipode. 41: 94-116.

___.2012. “Neoliberalism resurgent? Market rule after the Great Recession” The South Atlantic Quarterly. 111:265-287.

Smith, Neil. 2011. “Cities after neoliberalization?” Paper available at: http://neil-smith.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Neil.Smith_.AfterNeoliberalism.pdf. Accessed September 20, 2012.

Stiglitz, Joseph. 2008. “The end of neoliberalism?” Available at: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-end-of-neo-liberalism-. Accessed October 1, 2012.

__. 2010. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Shrinking of the World Economy. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2008. The demise of neoliberal globalization. Available at:http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/wallerstein010208.html. Accessed September 27, 2012.

Selon le Akhbar, les pétromonarchies organisent le boycott du Liban : désormais, les Libanais auraient du mal à voyager dans le Golfe (les expatriés représentent une part importante des revenus au Liban) :
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/gulf-boycotts-lebanon

Rumors of an unofficial boycott of Lebanon by oil-rich Gulf states have the Lebanese business community on edge, with trade, tourism, and billions of dollars in remittances on the line.

While the deportation of Lebanese citizens, particularly Shia, from some Gulf countries has been going on for several years, anecdotal evidence is mounting to indicate that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates are ratcheting up efforts to restrict Lebanese travel to the Gulf.

[…]

Remittances from Lebanese citizens in the Gulf comprise a significant chunk of the Lebanese economy. According to the World Bank, of $6.7 billion in remittances annually, 70 percent come from expatriates living the Gulf states.

Portraits of Addiction

http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/node-gallery-display/photoessays/mr.bishop-arnade.jpg

At the age of 13, Chris Bishop killed his father, stabbing him with a knife after a childhood of abuse. He spent the next 18 years in correctional facilities. He told Arnade that, When he was drunk and mad he would hold me out the apartment window and threaten to drop me to the street, eight floors below. He beat me and my mother all the time. I have been drinking ever since. To forget.

A Manhattan banker shoots portraits of drug abuse, sex work, and homelessness in the Bronx. —Photos by Chris Arnade/Text by Nicole Pasulka
http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2012/03/portraits-addiction-bronx/mannyquiles-arnade

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/sets/72157627894114489

Au regard de la série complète, majorité de personnes ayant subies des violences (sexuelles, morales, physiques) durant leur enfance Et/ou ayant des problèmes de santé mentale (schizophrénie, dépression...).

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/telling-the-stories-of-hunts-point-one-portrait-at-a-time

#photographie #société

Amazon Defense Coalition’s Karen Hinton Hereby Asked to Opine on Rico Suit Filed Against Bet Tzedek of Los Angeles — Entity Joined at the Hip with Scott Edelman of Gibson Dunn, Nemesis of Stephen Donziger

Amazon Defense Coalition’s Karen Hinton is hereby asked to comment on alleged racketeering activities at the Los Angeles-based Bet Tzedek Legal Services.

As was previously reported, using a law originally enacted to combat the mafia, a Marina Del Rey-based legal scholar recently took the rare step of suing “Bet Tzedek,” a Los Angeles-based Jewish non-profit entity, under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law (“RICO”).

Also named as part of the alleged racketeering enterprise were banker Alan Rothenberg, David Pasternak, Sandor Samuels, Ronald George, and his son Eric George (who serves as a member of Bet Tzedek’s Board of Directors).

RICO is a federal law that authorizes a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. RICO focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be held civilly liable for the crimes that they ordered others to commit or which they assisted in committing.

The lawsuit alleges that various defendants misused Bet Tzedek as vehicle for the purpose of bribery, embezzlement, money laundering and tax-evasion with the intended outcome of siphoning the money into off-shore accounts. According to sources, the various accounts are located in Switzerland and at the Vatican.

Specifically, and in connection with some of Bet Tzedek’s alleged racketeering activities, the suit maintains that Sandor Samuels — CEO and President of Bet Tzedek and former Chief Trial Counsel at embattled Countywide Financial Services — was appointed President and CEO of Bet Tzedek largely due to his working knowledge of how to operate an enterprise which engages in myriad financial crimes.

The suit also asserts that other individuals engaged in racketeering activities, including David Pasternak — a Los-Angeles based “receiver,” as well as an officer of both Bet Tzedek and the Chancery Club — who allegedly used Bet Tzedek as forum to meet, collude, and otherwise bribe various judges and lawyers for the purpose of further appointing Pasternak as “receiver.”

The complaint also contains allegations that Ronald George — former Chief Justice of the State of California — unlawfully transferred funds from entities that were under his control (such as the California Administrative Office of the Courts (“AOC”) intended for the CCMS computer system) into various accounts that were specifically maintained in Alan Rothenberg’s bank — 1st Century — a bank which Eric George owns in part. Said funds, as the suit alleges, were later embezzled.

As part of maintaining the scheme, the suit alleges, AOC employees Ronald Overholt and William Vickery were bestowed with various gifts, trips, kickbacks, bribes, excessive salaries, and the like. Similarly, and also as part of guarding the scheme, the suit alleges that defendants, at times, resorted to utilizing the services of Tom Layton — a former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff/Senior State Bar of California investigator — to “illegally gather detrimental dirt” on various individuals who would oppose and/or object to the existence of said arrangements.

According to sources, Layton is part of an ongoing “ambulance chasing” scheme that the Girardi Syndicate operates in San Bernardino County vis-a-vis a satellite office located in San Bernardino and managed by Thomas Girardi’s son-in-law, David Lira.

Additionally, and per the sources, Layton has been previously utilized by the Girardi Syndicate to “assist” Sharon Major Lewis in selecting the names of nominees to be appointed as judges by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and to garner the support of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in endorsing judicial candidate the Girardi Syndicate deemed worthy of such an endorsement.

The suit also alleges that defendant Holly Fujie — an officer of both Bet Tzedek and the Chancery Club — engaged in various acts of misconduct while assisting Ronald and Eric George to transfer funds from both the California Bar Foundation (where she serves as vice-president) and the State Bar of California (where she served as a member of a committee responsible for distribution of funds) to Bet Tzedek totaling hundreds of thousand of dollars.

Bet Tzedek is based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1974, and is an affiliated agency of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Bet Tzedek is the exclusive provider of free legal services to low-income seniors through contracts with the City and County of Los Angeles.

Please observe that, rather than contacting Amazon Defense Coalition’s Karen Hinton directly, the query is being delivered publicly, here and now.

Any comments, opinion or observation can be sent to lesliebrodie@gmx.com

RICO Suit Filed Against Bet Tzedek Legal Services of Los Angeles

Using a law originally enacted to combat the mafia, a Marina Del Rey-based legal scholar recently took the rare step of suing “Bet Tzedek,” a Los Angeles-based Jewish non-profit entity, under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law (“RICO”).

Also named as part of the alleged racketeering enterprise were banker Alan Rothenberg, David Pasternak, Samuel Sanders, Ronald George, and his son Eric George (who serves as a member of Bet Tzedek’s Board of Directors).

RICO is a federal law that authorizes a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. RICO focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be held civilly liable for the crimes that they ordered others to commit or which they assisted in committing.

The lawsuit alleges that various defendants misused Bet Tzedek as vehicle for the purpose of bribery, embezzlement, money laundering and tax-evasion with the intended outcome of siphoning the money into off-shore accounts. According to sources, the various accounts are located in Switzerland and at the Vatican.

Specifically, and in connection with some of Bet Tzedek’s alleged racketeering activities, the suit maintains that Sandor Samuel — CEO and President of Bet Tzedek and former Chief Trial Counsel at embattled Countywide Financial Services — was appointed President and CEO of Bet Tzedek largely due to his working knowledge of how to operate an enterprise which engages in myriad financial crimes.

The suit also asserts that other individuals engaged in racketeering activities, including David Pasternak — a Los-Angeles based “receiver,” as well as an officer of both Bet Tzedek and the Chancery Club — who allegedly used Bet Tzedek as forum to meet, collude, and otherwise bribe various judges and lawyers for the purpose of further appointing Pasternak as “receiver.”

The complaint also contains allegations that Ronald George — former Chief Justice of the State of California — unlawfully transferred funds from entities that were under his control (such as the California Administrative Office of the Courts (“AOC”) intended for the CCMS computer system) into various accounts that were specifically maintained in Alan Rothenberg’s bank — 1st Century — a bank which Eric George owns in part. Said funds, as the suit alleges, were later embezzled.

As part of maintaining the scheme, the suit alleges, AOC employees Ronald Overholt and William Vickery were bestowed with various gifts, trips, kickbacks, bribes, excessive salaries, and the like. Similarly, and also as part of guarding the scheme, the suit alleges that defendants, at times, resorted to utilizing the services of Tom Layton — a former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff/Senior State Bar of California investigator — to “illegally gather detrimental dirt” on various individuals who would oppose and/or object to the existence of said arrangements.

According to sources, Layton is part of an ongoing “ambulance chasing” scheme that the Girardi Syndicate operates in San Bernardino County vis-a-vis a satellite office located in San Bernardino and managed by Thomas Girardi’s son-in-law, David Lira.

Additionally, and per the sources, Layton has been previously utilized by the Girardi Syndicate to “assist” Sharon Major Lewis in selecting the names of nominees to be appointed as judges by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and to garner the support of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in endorsing judicial candidate the Girardi Syndicate deemed worthy of such an endorsement.

The suit also alleges that defendant Holly Fujie — an officer of both Bet Tzedek and the Chancery Club — engaged in various acts of misconduct while assisting Ronald and Eric George to transfer funds from both the California Bar Foundation (where she serves as vice-president) and the State Bar of California (where she served as a member of a committee responsible for distribution of funds) to Bet Tzedek totaling hundreds of thousand of dollars.

Bet Tzedek is based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1974, and is an affiliated agency of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Bet Tzedek is the exclusive provider of free legal services to low-income seniors through contracts with the City and County of Los Angeles.

For more about Bet Tzedek, please see @:

http://lesliebrodie.posterous.com/tag/bettzedek

Raise the Crime Rate | Christopher Glazek (n+1)
http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate

un constat terrifiant sur les #prisons américaines

the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances.

#viol #racisme

(on n’est pas obligé de partager ses conclusions radicales)

Land Destroyer: Wall Street to “Open” Up Myanmar
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/01/wall-street-to-open-up-myanmar.html

Soros is just the latest globalist to rain accolades, praise, and support down upon “democracy icon” Aung San Suu Kyi, whose entire movement is in fact created and funded by the US State Department and corporate-financiers like Soros. Here Suu Kyi consorts with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, head of a department Suu Kyi would not exist politically without.

Médias anti Suu Kyi and Clinton, or what ?
#Burma

Plusieurs articles sur la #sécurité_Internet au #Brésil citent une attaque par empoisonnement #DNS. Ces articles ne contiennent aucun détail (par exemple le résultat d’un dig), semblent écrits par des journalistes incompétents et rien ne permet d’établir qu’il y a eu empoisonnement DNS, il semble plutôt qu’il s’agisse d’attaques contre les routeurs CPE (ceux qui sont chez l’utilisateur). Bref, de la soupe journalistique habituelle.

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193214/Massive_DNS_poisoning_attacks_in_Brazil (l’avis d’utiliser Google Public DNS n’est pas du tout étayé par les faits - mal - rapportés)

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/major-dns-cache-poisoning-attack-hits-brazilian-isps-110711

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/22/bandesco_cache_poisoning_attack (il y a deux ans, la même soupe sans détails)

Ex-central banker frontrunner to become Greek PM | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/07/us-greece-idUSL6E7M601O20111107

A former deputy head of the European Central Bank emerged on Monday as frontrunner to become Greek prime minister, as party leaders bargained over who will lead a “100 day coalition” to push through a bailout before the nation runs out of money.

bah tient!!!

Gangs of Lebanon send native talent towards the exit - The National
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/economics/gangs-of-lebanon-send-native-talent-towards-the-exit

“You’re right, there is absolutely no vision, but that’s not the whole story,” says an ex-senior banker — let’s call him George —turned consultant. “There is poor corporate governance, thin management and incompetence. That about sums up the Lebanese banking sector.”

[...]

“Simply, they are not acting as banks. They are living on deposits and buying T-bills. Corporate lending is weak and they are not offering fixed-income products. Lebanon has a loans-to-deposit ratio of 30 per cent. It’s absurd. There is no room for personal initiative. It’s all very one-dimensional and it’s not creating any value for the economy.”

Damascus, the Monopoly game and the international sanctions | KheOps
http://reflets.info/damascus-the-monopoly-game-and-the-international-sanctions

Counterfeiting a devaluated currency that almost nobody wants seems to be a strange idea. But there is someone who must be gaining from this, although it is certainly not the average Syrian banker. Europe is preparing to adopt a new round of sanctions to limit the Syrian regime’s options. In addition to the ban on further oil investments (those already in place being not threatened), the Central Bank of Syria is no longer capable of printing banknotes or minting coins, because these were manufactured in Europe.   No more international money transfers Europe can easily implement this last sanction, as the printing presses capable of printing banknotes accepted as legal tender are in Austria, Germany and Belgium. The rest of the Western countries seem determined to follow the movement. An expatriate living in Syria reported that he had met a man wanting to transfer money to his son in Canada. « Don’t even think about it » was the answer he got from banks and other agencies that carry out int

annarky’s blog.: ONE LAW FOR THE RICH - ONE FOR THE POOR.
http://radicalglasgowblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/jon-snow-blog-he-refers-to-sense-of-one.html

In the Jon Snow blog he refers to a sense of one law for the poor and one law for the rich.

We are told thousands of rioters and looters have been arrested. Hundreds have been charged, some have already been punished – many cases are still in train.
Many have pointed to the reality that an even smaller handful of bankers have faced the law even than those politicians who have been prosecuted. No British banker is in jail for what happened in 2008.

#ukriots

Warren Buffet voudrait bien pourtant... http://www.economist.com/node/21525851?fsrc=scn/tw/te/mt/dontlookdown

Tottenham and beyond: neoliberal riots and the possibility of politics
http://libcom.org/news/tottenham-beyond-neoliberal-riots-possibility-politics-10082011
Writer and poet William Wall explores the link between neoliberalism and the UK riots.

Capitalism is looting the public sphere. Services that citizens have for a hundred or more years considered to be public goods and not to be exploited for the profit of a few – health care, care of the elderly, education, unemployment benefit, old-age pensions, fresh water, sewers, waste disposal, roads and footpaths, urban and rural planning, the postal service, the telephone service, the police, and so on – are subject to systematic and sustained pressure aimed at breaking the link between the citizen and the service. No longer should we think of these things as ‘ours’, except in the sense that we can say a bank is ours. These things are provided to us as goods and services by companies which exercise their right to make a profit out of them – out of us really, out of our pain, our parent’s old age, our children’s childhood, our money troubles, our environment. Citizens are to be redefined as consumers of services. The sole function of the state is to regulate the activities of companies so that monopolies do not develop.

Le site d’origine : http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamwall/williamwall/Ice_Moon_Blog/Entries/2011/8/9_Tottenham_and_Beyond__The_neoliberal_riots.html

Campaign via social media networks blocks Dutch bankers’ bonuses | Business | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/27/dutch-bankers-bonuses-axed-by-people-power

Now the Netherlands is going through a painful period of introspection and soul-searching. Politicians have voted to implement a 100% retrospective tax on all bonuses paid to executives at institutions that received state aid as a result of the financial crisis. In other words, no banker should get a bonus until the debt is cleared, and they should return payments made since 2008.

Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour faire ça chez nous ?

YouTube - #Swiss banker hands #Assange secrets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw9S4_IaXZY

#wikileaks #banks

merci @reka

I’m Hugo #Chávez's prisoner, says jailed judge | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/14/chavez-prisoner-maria-lourdes-afiuni

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, among others, say the jailing of the 47-year-old single mother is politically motivated and shows how an over-mighty executive has blurred the separation of powers and eroded democracy.

#venezuela