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The no-shows at Arafat’s funeral - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com
All those who don’t understand why it was so difficult for the Palestinian-Israelis’ political representatives to show their final respects to Shimon Peres, should recall Arafat’s funeral and the ’respect’ shown him by the Israelis.

Shlomo Sand Oct 14, 2016
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On November 11, 2004, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat died under mysterious circumstances. The next day his body was brought to Cairo, where a official state funeral was held. Representatives of 50 countries participated in the event, both admirers and rivals.
Behind his coffin marched Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Syrian President Bashar Assad, King Abdullah of Jordan, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, the presidents of Tunisia and Sudan, the leaders of Sweden, Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan, the deputy prime minister of China, the vice presidents of Austria, Bulgaria, Tanzania, Iraq and Afghanistan, the foreign ministers of Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Greece, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Canada, Indian and Slovenia, the parliamentary leaders of Italy, Russia, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. It was an official farewell that was less impressive that Shimon Peres’ funeral, but still quite respectable for a president without a country.
The United States, the well known neutral intermediary between Israel and Palestine, sent a low-ranking representative: William Burns, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. Israel, on the other hand, gave it the finger.
No Israeli representative, either high- or low-ranking, or even very low-ranking, attended. None of the leaders of the opposition dreamed of showing his final respects to the leader of the Palestinian people, the first who recognized the State of Israel, and signed the Oslo Accords. Not Shimon Peres, not Ehud Barak, not Shlomo Ben-Ami and not even Uzi Baram bothered to participate in the Palestinians’ mourning.
Some of them had courageously shaken his hand in the past, other had embraced him enthusiastically several years earlier. But with the outbreak of the second intifada he was once again categorized as a satanic terrorist. The pundits of the sane, moderate left repeatedly claimed in innumerable learned articles that he was not a partner and there was nobody to talk to. When the body of the rais was transferred to Ramallah, the funeral was attended by several “extremist,” marginal Israelis, the likes of Uri Avnery and Mohammed Barakeh.
All the other peaceniks had to wait for the screening of the film “The Gatekeepers” in 2012; in other words, for the videos of all the chiefs of the Shin Bet security services, who declared that in real time they knew that Arafat did not encourage, organize or initiate the mass uprising in the second intifada, nor the acts of terror that accompanied it. For lack of choice the leader was forced to join the wave, otherwise he would have lost his prestige and his status. The disappointment at Barak’s unprepared and totally bizarre diplomatic step, and Ariel Sharon’s ascent to the Temple Mount, were among the main reasons for the eruption of the Palestinians’ unbridled opposition.

Virtual Issue : Unaccompanied Minors

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Introduction: Unaccompanied Minors Virtual Issue
Khalid Koser (2016)

Multilayered Ethics in Research Involving Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
Marianne Vervliet, Cécile Rousseau, Eric Broekaert, and Ilse Derluyn (2015)

Unpredictability, Invisibility and Vulnerability: Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors’ Journeys to Australia
Mariana Nardone and Ignacio Correa-Velez (2015)

Rights, Compassion and Invisible Children: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Parliamentary Debates on the Mandatory Detention of Migrant Children in Canada
Rachel Kronick and Cécile Rousseau (2015)

Classed Landscapes of Care and Belonging: Guardianships of Unaccompanied Minors
Katrien De Graeve (2015)

Structure and Agency in Swedish Municipalities’ Reception of Unaccompanied Minors
Gustav Lidén and Jon Nyhlén (2015)

Beyond Space of Exception? Reflections on the Camp through the Prism of Refugee Schools
Marion Fresia and Andreas Von Känel (2015)

The Causes of Mistrust amongst Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Insights from Research with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors Living in the Republic of Ireland
Muireann Ní Raghallaigh (2014)

The Divergent Experiences of Children and Adults in the Relocation Process: Perspectives of Child and Parent Refugee Claimants in Montreal
Gillian Morantz, Cecile Rousseau, and Jody Heymann (2012)

▻http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/refuge/vi_minors.html
#revue #MNA #mineurs_non_accompagnés #mineurs #enfants #enfance #asile #migrations #réfugiés

Latvian Institute starts campaign ’’I want you back’’

Latvian Institute (LI) has started a campaign in order to reach out to both Latvians who are living abroad and Latvians who have friends or relatives working and living abroad.
After Latvia became a member of EU and especially during the economic crisis in 2010, many hundreds and thousands of people left Latvia and went working abroad, mostly United Kingdom, Ireland, but also Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Now the LI wants to start a bigger project and the first activity is to reach out to Latvians in Latvia and encourage them to say to their loved ones abroad that they want them back.
This social movement has encountered also a quite sarcastic tone, but the director of LI Aiva Rozenberga is sure that this will help.

▻http://www.diena.lv/latvija/zinas/attieksme-svarigaka-par-algu-14150554
Divu nedēļu laikā, kopš Latvijas Institūts (LI) nāca klajā ar iniciatīvu Gribu Tevi atpakaļ!, saņemtas visdažādākās atsauksmes. Rīkojot diskusiju ar mediju pārstāvjiem, LI direktore Aiva Rozenberga atzina, ka šis neesot pirmais viņas sāktais projekts, kurā būs jāiet cauri lielām diskusijām. Sociālās kustības sākuma laiks izvēlēts, ņemot vērā, ka tuvojas Latvijas simtgade. “Tas nav par cilvēkiem, kas aizbrauc, bet par mums pašiem – ko katrs var ieguldīt un mainīt to, kas neapmierina,” viņa norāda.

#Latvia #Latvija #Aiva_Rozenberga #Latvian_Institute #Emigration

Why Britain Chose to Partially Privatize Refugee Resettlement

Britain has agreed to private sponsorship of refugees. Tim Finch, one of the architects of the breakthrough, tells Refugees Deeply why it can help countries successfully expand resettlement programs.

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IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece
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Asylum seeker refusals on course to double as deportations rise to 286 in first six months of 2016

More asylum seekers have been deported from Ireland in the first half of this year than the total number deported in 2015, new figures reveal.

▻http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/asylum-seeker-refusals-on-course-to-double-as-deportations-rise-to-28
#Irlande #expulsions #renvois #asile #migrations #réfugiés #statistiques #chiffres

The IRA’s Secret History (Full Documentary) - YouTube
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is any of several armed movements in Ireland in the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.

The first known use of the term “Irish Republican Army” occurred in the Fenian raids on Canada in the 1860s.[1] The original Irish Republican Army formed by 1917 from those Irish Volunteers who refused to enlist in the British Army during World War I. It was the army of the Irish Republic, declared by Dáil Éireann in 1919. Most Irish people dispute the claims of more recently created organizations that insist that they are the only legitimate descendants of the original IRA, often referred to as the “Old IRA”.

The playwright and former IRA member Brendan Behan once said that the first issue on any IRA agenda was “the split”. For the IRA, that has constantly been the case. The first split came after the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, with supporters of the Treaty forming the nucleus of the National Army of the newly created Irish Free State, while the anti-treaty forces continued to use the name Irish Republican Army. After the end of the Irish Civil War, the IRA was around in one form or another for forty years, when it split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA in 1969. The latter then had its own breakaways, namely the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA, each claiming to be the true successor of the Army of the Irish Republic.

*propaganda video min 6

#IRA #Irlande_du_nord #propaganda

La justice estime que Microsoft n’a pas à transmettre aux Etats-Unis des données stockées en Europe
►http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/07/14/la-justice-estime-que-microsoft-n-a-pas-a-transmettre-aux-etats-unis-des-don

Les autorités américaines ne peuvent pas exiger que Microsoft leur transmette le contenu de courriels échangés par un de ses utilisateurs et stockés dans un serveur en Europe, a décidé jeudi 14 juillet une cour d’appel des Etats-Unis.

La législation américaine « n’autorise par les tribunaux à émettre et faire exécuter par des fournisseurs de services basés aux Etats-Unis des mandats destinés à faire saisir le contenu de courriels de consommateurs qui sont stockés exclusivement sur des serveurs à l’étranger », écrit cette cour de Manhattan, à New York, dans son arrêt.

Elle donne ainsi raison au groupe informatique américain, opposé au gouvernement américain depuis plusieurs années dans ce dossier. Microsoft refuse d’exécuter un mandat judiciaire américain exigeant qu’il transmette le contenu des messages échangés sur son service de messagerie par un utilisateur soupçonné de trafic de drogue.

J’imagine que c’est parti pour la Cour suprême…

US trafficking report records forced labour in UK and Ireland

US Trafficking in Persons report says some migrant workers were subjected to labour abuses in a number of sectors in the two countries

▻https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jul/13/us-trafficking-report-records-forced-labour-in-uk-and-ireland?CMP=twt_a

#travail #exploitation #UK #Angleterre #migrations #Irlande

With Brexit, Israel Loses a Major Asset in the European Union
Haaretz
Britain helped moderate and balance EU decisions about the peace process, blunt criticism and even harness the member states against anti-Israel moves at the UN; voices sympathetic to the Palestinian cause could now become more dominant.

Barak Ravid Jun 26, 2016 8:32 AM
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Israel has lost a significant asset in the European Union, according to a senior official familiar with Foreign Ministry discussions on the U.K.’s EU referendum. Israeli diplomats believed before Thursday’s referendum that Britain leaving would not serve Israeli interests, especially on the Palestinian issue.
In the weeks before the British voted on whether to remain in the EU, the Foreign Ministry held a series of discussions on what it would mean for Israel if the “leave” camp won. Despite a flood of reports from the Israeli embassy in London that included political analyses, polls and conversations with people on both sides, none of those taking part in the discussions was able to predict the referendum outcome.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who met leaders of the Jewish community in London a few days before the referendum, expressed what many in the Israeli Foreign Ministry were thinking. “Do you want Britain – Israel’s greatest friend – in there opposing boycotts, opposing the campaign for divestment and sanctions, or do you want us outside the room, powerless to affect the discussion that takes place?” he asked.
As a key member of the EU, and with a large Jewish community and Israel-friendly government, Britain had exerted a positive influence regarding Israel in recent years. On several occasions, it helped to moderate and balance EU decisions about the peace process, blunt criticism and even harness the member states against anti-Israel moves in UN institutions.
“Without Britain, the voices of states more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, such as Malta, Ireland, Sweden and Slovenia, will be more dominant,” a senior official said.
However, quite a few of the participants in the discussions argued that Britain’s leaving the EU would actually serve Israel’s interests. The official cited one argument to the effect that Britain’s leaving would considerably weaken the EU and its institutions, reduce its international influence, and take the sting out of its Israeli-Palestinian decisions.
Another argument was that Britain’s leaving the EU would strengthen the bilateral relations with Israel and give Britain more maneuvering space, without depending on the EU and its positions. A third argument said Britain’s leaving would undermine the EU’s stability and require its institutions and members to direct their energy toward unifying the ranks, rather than toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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What’s going on in the North Atlantic? « RealClimate
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The North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Ireland is practically the only region of the world that has defied global warming and even cooled. Last winter there even was the coldest on record – while globally it was the hottest on record. Our recent study (Rahmstorf et al. 2015) attributes this to a weakening of the Gulf Stream System, which is apparently unique in the last thousand years.

The whole world is warming. The whole world? No! A region in the subpolar Atlantic has cooled over the past century – unique in the world for an area with reasonable data coverage. So what’s so special about this region between Newfoundland and Ireland?
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What are the impacts of a slowdown?

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Meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet.

The consequences of a large reduction in ocean overturning would look nothing like the Hollywood film The Day After Tomorrow. But they would not be harmless either – e.g. for sea level (Levermann et al. 2005) particularly along the US east coast (Yin et al. 2009), marine ecosystems, fisheries and possibly even storminess in Europe (Woollings et al. 2012). We have studied these consequences some years ago in an interdisciplinary project with colleagues from Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Norway – the results are summarized in Kuhlbrodt et al. 2009.

If our analysis is correct, then this indicates that climate models underestimate the weakening of the Atlantic circulation in response to global warming – probably because the flow in these models is too stable (see Hofmann and Rahmstorf 2009). Although these models predict a significant weakening for the future, they do not suggest this as early as the observations show it (see Fig. 2 of our paper). That the real flow may be more unstable than previously thought would be bad news for the future.

If the circulation weakens too much it can even completely break down – the AMOC has a well-known “tipping point” (Lenton et al., 2008).

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3niR_-Kv4SM

#climat #gulf-stream

Panama Papers, Human Rights and Health: What are the Links? - by Khadija Sharife | Health and Human Rights Journal
▻http://www.hhrjournal.org/2016/05/panama-papers-human-rights-and-health-what-are-the-links

Pharmaceutical companies blame the cost of research and development (R&D) for the high costs of new drugs, particularly in the United States where there is no price ceiling on drugs. Yet of the $550 billion in profits generated from 1996 to 2005, only $228 billion was expended on R&D, compared to $739 billion spent on marketing the new products.

(...) When it comes to health, as ANCIR’s investigative project of 13 pharmaceutical companies revealed, not all tax havens are equal. The tax havens used as the places of residence for subsidiaries holding the intangible assets were: Delaware, US (287 subsidiaries), Netherlands (166 subsidiaries), Ireland (102 subsidiaries), Switzerland (84 subsidiaries) and Luxembourg (64 subsidiaries). Delaware’s competitive edge is its complete exemption of all intangible income. In Luxembourg, exemption is 80% provided the activities are intra-company or between subsidiaries of the same parent entity. Companies have then specifically created corporate structures designed to ensure both secrecy and tax exemption of costs, real or otherwise, attributed to intangible assets.

#santé #brevets #médicaments #panama_papers #évasion_fiscale #pharma

Artists Explore Postcolonialism In Britain’s First Colony At Ireland’s Biennial

“Of all the territories that have been dominated by British colonialism, Ireland has been the one longest occupied and yet, at the same time, doesn’t want to really consider itself a postcolonial territory,” says Koyo Kouoh, founder of the Dakar-based RAW Material Company and curator of Ireland’s 37th biennial of contemporary art, EVA International.

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K. Marx - Le Capital Livre I : XXV.I
►https://www.marxists.org/francais/marx/works/1867/Capital-I/kmcapI-25-1.htm

La religion fleurit surtout là où les prêtres subissent le plus de macérations, de même que la loi là où les avocats crèvent de faim (William Petty)

Der Akkumulationsprozeß des Kapitals - 23. Das allgemeine Gesetz der kapitalistischen Akkumulation
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Die Religion blüht am besten, wenn die Priester am meisten kasteit werden, wie das Recht am besten, wo die Advokaten verhungern.

William Petty - 26 May 1623 – 16 December 1687
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Sir William Petty FRS (26 May 1623 – 16 December 1687) was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell’s soldiers. He also managed to remain prominent under King Charles II and King James II, as did many others who had served Cromwell.

He was Member of the Parliament of England briefly and was also a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, and was a charter member of the Royal Society. It is for his theories on economics and his methods of political arithmetic that he is best remembered, however, and to him is attributed the philosophy of laissez-faire in relation to government activity.

#devise_du_jour #économie #histoire

This disease has killed a million trees in California, and scientists say it’s basically unstoppable - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/05/02/this-disease-has-killed-a-million-trees-in-california-and-scientists-say-its-basically-unstoppable/?tid=sm_tw

Healthy forests are especially important at a time of climate change — they’re an incredible tool to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Dead forests, on the other hand, can light the spark for wildfires, which are already showing a long-predicted uptick in activity.

In California’s coastal forests, health is anything but good. Since 1995, a fungal pathogen that causes a phenomenon dubbed ‘sudden oak death’ (a far catchier name than that of the pathogen itself, Phytophthora ramorum) has taken out millions of oak and tanoak trees, particularly along the coast extending northward from Monterey County. That includes areas of Marin County, Sonoma County and Big Sur.

The pathogen is a fungus that affects different trees differently, and not all are susceptible. It will tear through a forest and kill some trees while leaving others standing.

But in some trees, the pathogen causes tree trunks to crack open a ‘canker’ and literally bleed out sap. The disease is actually related to the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1800s.

“Millions of acres of land have been affected in coastal California,” says Richard Cobb, a postdoc at the University of California, Davis, who studies the disease. “It spreads via wind and rain, and it’s made some really big jumps to different parts of the state and into Oregon. It probably spread into California via the nursery trade. And it has been moved around the country a lot, also within the nursery trade.”

#forêt #Phytophthora_ramorum #pathogène #climat

Australia cattle empire S Kidman approves sale to China-led group
▻http://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/26023-australia-cattle-empire-s-kidman-approves-sale-to-china-led-grou

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Australia’s largest pastoral cattle empire, S. Kidman and Co., has agreed to be sold to a Chinese-led consortium for 370.7 million Australian dollars (US$287.3 million), continuing a flurry of deals in the country’s agricultural sector.

The board of the century-old Kidman empire—which covers an area larger than Ireland—agreed to sell its holdings to China-based Dakang Australia Holdings and Australian Rural Capital Ltd. An earlier proposed deal was rejected by the government last year.

Dakang Australia is controlled by Shanghai Pengxin Group, which failed in its attempt to buy the company last year when the Australia’s conservative government ruled it was against the national interest.

“We are very pleased to have reached agreement on the sale terms with the consortium as our preferred bidder,” S. Kidman’s Chairman John Crosby said Tuesday. “We believe the sale will secure the long-term future of the Kidman enterprise.”

Like a real-life version of the cattle empire depicted in the 2008 movie “Australia,” S. Kidman & Co. Ltd. controls pastoral leases that sprawl over three Australia states, an area larger than Kentucky, producing grass-fed beef for export to Japan, the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

But foreign farm takeovers have become increasingly sensitive in Australia, where nationalistic politicians have opposed deals seen to threaten food and water security at a time of rising global demand. Investment from China is especially contested, even though China is now the biggest investor in Australia’s agricultural sector.

Terres agricoles : la Chine en passe d’acheter 1% de l’Australie
▻https://www.contrepoints.org/2016/04/23/248763-terres-agricoles-la-chine-en-passe-dacheter-1-de-laustralie

#Terres #élevage_industriel #Australie #Chine

Speculating on London’s housing future

London’s housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and finan-
cialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future
is being prepared for London’s urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and
city contexts to usefully speculate about London’s housing future? In this paper, we bring
together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate land-
lords’ (GCLs) in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes in North America and Europe to argue that
London’s housing crisis—and the policies and processes impelling and intervening in it—
could represent a key moment in shaping the city’s long-term housing future. We trace
the variegated ways in which private equity firms and institutional investors have exploited
distressed housing markets and the new profitable opportunities created by states and supra-
national bodies in coming to the rescue of capitalism in the USA, Spain, Ireland and Greece
in response to the global financial crisis of 2007 – 2008. We then apply that analysis to emer-
ging developments in the political economy of London’s housing system, arguing that despite
having a very low presence in the London residential property market and facing major
entry barriers, GCLs are starting to position themselves in preparation for potential entry
points such as the new privatisation threat to public and social rented housing

▻http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13604813.2016.1145946
#spéculation #immobilier #spéculation_immobilière #Londres #logement

Food and biopolitics : some literature

Bobrow-Strain, Aaron (2013) White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

Bobrow-Strain, Aaron White bread bio-politics: purity, health, and the triumph of industrial baking Cultural Geographies January 2008 vol. 15 no. 1 19-40

Carney, Megan A. 2014. The biopolitics of ’food insecurity’: towards a critical political ecology of the body in studies of women’s transnational migration. Journal of Political Ecology 21: 1-18

Cloke, J. (2013) Empires of Waste and the Food Security Meme, Geography Compass 7/9 (2013): 622–636.

D Maye, J Kirwan (YEAR) Food security: A fractured consensus Journal of Rural Studies 29, 1-6

Emel, J, and Neo, H eds. Political Ecologies of Meat. Routledge, 2015.

Essex, Jamey. 2012. Idle Hands are the Devil’s Tools: The Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Hunger. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 102, No. 1

Gibson, Kristina E. & Dempsey, Sarah E. (2015) Make good choices, kid: biopolitics of children’s bodies and school lunch reform in Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution children geographies Volume 13, Issue 1, 2015

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Goodman, M. K. (2015) Technicolor foods: the everyday biopolitics of Cuba. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5 (2). pp. 243-246. ISSN 2043-8214) doi: 10.1177/2043820615586690

Guthman, J, and DuPuis, M (2006) “Embodying neoliberalism: economy, culture, and the politics of fat.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24.3: 427-448.

Guthman, J. (2009) Teaching the Politics of Obesity: Insights into Neoliberal Embodiment and Contemporary Biopolitics Antipode Volume 41, Issue 5, pages 1110–1133

Heynen, Nik. 2008. Bringing the body back to life through Radical Geography of Hunger: The haymarket affair and its aftermath. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol. 7 (No. 1), pp. 32-44

Holloway L (2015) Biopower and an ecology of genes: seeing livestock as meat via genetics. In: Emel J and Neo H (eds) Political Ecologies of Meat. London, Earthscan, pp.178-194

Holloway L and Morris C (2012) Contesting genetic knowledge-practices in livestock breeding: biopower, biosocial collectivities and heterogeneous resistances. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30 60-77

Holloway L, Bear C and Wilkinson K (2013) Re-capturing bovine life: robot-cow relationships, freedom and control in dairy farming. Journal of Rural Studies

Kurtz Hilda E. (2015) Scaling Food Sovereignty: Biopolitics and the Struggle for Local Control of Farm Food in Rural Maine, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105:4, 859-873, DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1022127

Le Heron, R., Campbell, H., Lewis, N., & Carolan, M. (Eds.). (2016). Biological Economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers. Routledge.

MacAuslan, Ian. 2009. Hunger, Discourse and the Policy Process: How do conceptualizations of the Problem of ‘Hunger’ affect its measurement and solution? European Journal of Development Research. Vol. 21., No. 3. pp. 397-418

Mansfield, B. (2012) Gendered biopolitics of public health: regulation and discipline in seafood consumption advisories Environment and Planning D: Society and Space volume 30, pages 588 – 602.

Mansfield, B. (2012) Race and the new epigenetic biopolitics of environmental health BioSocieties Vol. 7, 4, 352–372.

Mansfield, B. (2012)Environmental Health as Biosecurity: “Seafood Choices,” Risk, and the Pregnant Woman as Threshold Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5), pp.969-976.

Morris C and Holloway L (2013) Genetics and livestock breeding in the UK: co-constructing technologies and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities. Journal of Rural Studies

Nally, David (2011) The biopolitics of food provisioning, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 36, Issue 1, pages 37–53

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New IRA warns of more attacks on ’age-old enemies’ in Northern Ireland | Politics | The Guardian

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The New IRA terror group has warned of more attacks on prison officers and members of the security forces in Northern Ireland.

In a statement to mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, the paramilitary organisation claimed that “a century on and the IRA armed actions against Britain and her agents are [as] legitimate as they were in 1916”.

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Ireland’s Recovery Has Nothing to Do With Austerity
Voters headed to the polls this Friday should take heed: The Celtic Tiger got its groove back despite — not because of — the EU and IMF’s advice.

By Philippe Legrain
February 24, 2016

Ireland’s Recovery Has Nothing to Do With Austerity
After years of crisis, austerity, and wage cuts, Ireland’s economy grew by 7 percent last year, faster than China’s. With a general election on Feb. 26, the governing coalition has been quick to claim credit for this turnaround, as have policymakers in Berlin and Brussels who celebrate Ireland as the poster child of the harsh medicine they prescribed in the country’s financial assistance program. “See,” they say to Greeks and others, “if you do what you’re told, it works.” But while Ireland’s economic recovery is impressive, it has happened despite the European Union and International Monetary Fund’s policies that the government faithfully followed, not because of them.

Understanding Ireland’s present requires first understanding its recent past. Twenty-five years ago, Ireland was the poorest country in northern Europe. Yet by the eve of the financial crisis, it had leapt to being among the richest. Thanks to growth rates matching Asia’s dynamic economies, it was dubbed the “Celtic Tiger.” That remarkable economic progress was based on attracting foreign investment, notably from American firms, with its attractive business climate, including its low corporate taxes and skilled workforce. That foreign investment, in turn, fueled an export boom. But the years before the crisis also saw the emergence of a huge property bubble, financed by reckless bank lending, which ended in an almighty bust after 2007.

Given the size of the bubble, the bust was bound to be painful. But government policy made matters much worse. In late September 2008, in the turmoil following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the previous Fianna Fail administration extended a two-year government guarantee to all the creditors of Ireland’s busted banks. In effect, this put taxpayers on the hook for the banks’ astronomical losses. By late 2010, when the government finally saw sense and sought not to extend the guarantee, it was strong-armed into bailing out banks’ creditors anyway by eurozone policymakers. In an outrageous abuse of power, the then president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, threatened, in effect, to force Ireland out of the eurozone should it not comply.

The upshot was that Irish taxpayers were lumbered with some 64 billion euros in bank debt — around 14,000 euros ($15,400) per person. They were forced to bail out the German, French, and British banks and other foreign bondholders who had financed Ireland’s bubble. And Ireland was pushed into the clutches of the EU and the IMF. Over the next three years, they imposed huge budget and wage cuts as a condition for lending the Irish government 67.5 billion euros, primarily to bail out the foreign creditors of bust Irish banks.

The current Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition, which took office in March 2011, cannot be blamed for that. But it can be criticized for failing to fight in Ireland’s corner in Brussels, naively relying instead, to no avail, on other eurozone governments’ goodwill to deliver justice on the bank debt. Moreover, the present government cannot claim credit for the recovery. This was primarily due to a combination of Ireland’s underlying strengths and more favorable external factors, rather than the EU-prescribed policies that it has followed.

For sure, the government needed to tighten its belt once the tax revenues from the property bubble had vanished. But the pace and scale of austerity were unduly harsh, not least because of the bank bailouts. Moreover, the government’s Germanic drive to bolster exports by driving down wages was misconceived. Lower wages made Ireland’s huge debts, both private and public, harder to bear. They depressed domestic demand further, pushing up unemployment. And slashing wages was based on a false premise. While Irish civil servants enjoyed bumper pay raises in the bubble era, wages in the export sector never got out of line with productivity. And since Ireland competes on the basis of its increasingly high-tech business clusters, not its low wages, wage cuts were not a sensible road to growth.

Why, then, has the Celtic Tiger rebounded? In part, because the economies of Ireland’s two biggest export markets, Britain and the United States, have recovered, so export-led growth has resumed. A weaker euro has also helped. Above all, as research by Aidan Regan of University College Dublin shows, many of the export sectors in which the dynamic Irish economy increasingly specializes — notably biotech, pharmaceuticals, and business and computer services — have boomed. And they boosted output and employment while raising wages, not slashing them.

A note of caution is due. Part of the recovery is an accounting fiction due to U.S. tech and other firms allocating profits to Ireland for tax purposes; the only benefit Ireland derives from this profit shifting is the low taxes charged on it. Nor is the economy out of the woods yet. While unemployment has fallen sharply, it is still 8.9 percent, and many talented young people have emigrated. Overall wages remain depressed. The government still ran a budget deficit of some 1.7 percent of GDP last year. And the Irish economy is acutely vulnerable to a slowdown in the United States or a bursting of what some think is a tech bubble.

Still, it remains nonsense that the EU policies that the Fine Gael-Labour Party government faithfully followed triggered recovery. Nor is it true that economies with very different structures and an unbearable burden of government debt, such as Greece, could emulate Ireland’s success if only they followed instructions.

Ireland now needs a clean broom. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have alternated in governing the country since just after its independence nearly a century ago. Their differences derive from their stances in the post-independence civil war, rather than from ideology. Since neither has proved competent, alternatives are needed.

Regrettably, the search for alternatives has often led down blind alleys in other European countries. Greece’s radical-left government has so far failed to obtain debt relief from its EU creditors and is not confronting the oligarchs and special interests that also hold the economy back. The racism and protectionism of the likes of Marine Le Pen’s National Front in France would be a disaster.

But disenchanted Irish voters are rallying to mostly reasonable independents and new parties that reflect a variety of views from conservative to social democratic. Together, the upstarts are polling 29 percent, ahead of both Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. Irish people can confidently reject the old establishment parties that have mismanaged the country in recent years and embrace positive change.

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See the World Through the Eyes of the One Percent
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Edward Steichen’s monumental 1955 exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The Family of Man, was in essence about inclusivity. The 503 photographs by 273 prominent and unknown artists included in the show were curated from two million images, depicting life at its various moments to create a bigger picture of the human experience.

“That exhibit was a seminal work in the history of the medium,” says Myles Little, a #TIME associate photo editor and the curator of a new traveling exhibition, One Percent: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality. “It would be impossible for me to do something equal to it.”

Still, Steichen’s show became a stepping-stone for Little’s exhibit, which takes a stab at exposing the ecosystem of the rich through a more exclusive photographic journey. “I studied Family of Man, and wrote down what I saw as its themes: family, religion, work, and so on. Then I found images that speak to those themes, but in the world of privilege,” says Little.

Born in Ireland and raised in Charleston, S.C., Little’s experience working and living in New York City has inevitably exposed him to the jarring gap between the rich and the poor. “I catch little glimpses of both appalling poverty and breathtaking wealth,” he says. “Meanwhile, I see a lot of regular people in America celebrating the wealthy and referring to celebrities by their first names—as if they are friends. We over-identify with this group of people we don’t know and with whom we do not share common interests.”
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After an inspiring conversation with Mexican-American curator Daniel Brena, Little spent two years curating the show, sifting through images online such as the archives of Magnum Photos, VII Photo and NOOR. To achieve a “visual cohesiveness” and “mirror the luxurious spirit of the show”, he eventually narrowed his 2,000-image selection down to 30 well-crafted medium format color photographs.

Some of them so blatantly point out the stark contrast of inequality, such as Juliana Sohn’s photograph of a gray-haired, legless man kneeling on the floor, shining a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Some are more ambiguous, such as Jesse Chehak’s image of the High Line Park, built partially thanks to the contributions of wealthy New York patrons, which inadvertently spurred real estate development and brought tremendous value spike to the neighborhood that forced many to leave.

The exhibition goes beyond the boundaries of America as the Promised Land, examining how inequality and globalization have helped cripple developing countries. In Tanzania, as gold emerged as the country’s most valuable export, David Chancellor shows the image of an armed soldier guarding the North Mara mine from villagers living in the country’s most impoverished region. “The idea behind the project is to shine a light on an incredibly powerful, but often invisible or misunderstood, segment of the population,” says Little .

Introduced by Noble Prize-winning economist, inequality expert, Joseph Stiglitz, and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, Geoff Dyer, the exhibition will be traveling to China, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, Wales, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, beginning in September. Little is also raising funds on Kickstarter to publish the photographs with German publisher Hatje Cantz.

▻http://time.com/3968148/wealth-one-percent-inequality

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Facebook is building a new datacentre in Clonee, Ireland, just outside Dublin by end 2017.

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Clonee will be packed full of cutting-edge technology, making it one of the most advanced, efficient and sustainable data centers in the world. All the racks, servers, and other components have been designed and built from scratch as part of the Open Compute Project, an industry-wide coalition of companies dedicated to creating energy- and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions and sharing them as open source.

It would be the second in Europe. The other one is in Lulea, Sweden, 2011.

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Mapping the State: Ireland as you’ve never seen it

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‘We didn’t call it ‘the state we’re in’, or ‘look at the state of us’. It’s Mapping the State. And it’s very deliberately meant to be nonpolemical,” says JP O’Malley of Zero-G, a Dublin design agency.

He was part of the team that has created a new visual aid to help people understand and navigate Ireland’s legislative, judicial, executive and local-government structures.

It has been done using a map, but not in a way that resembles any country we know. Instead this map of the Irish State is made up of parts of countries and islands around the world – including some choice selections, such as the Cayman Islands to represent AIB.

#irlande #cartographie #visualisation #cartoexperiment

Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power review – the man who made modern Ireland | Books | The Guardian

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When Winston Churchill attacked Irish taoiseach Éamon de Valera 60 years ago at the end of the second world war for what he regarded as southern Ireland’s shameful neutrality, De Valera responded in a dignified and firm way. Irish neutrality was the logical culmination of De Valera’s mission to achieve Irish sovereignty, and as far as he was concerned the capacity to implement an independent foreign policy was the ultimate measure of that sovereignty. That he had managed to guide southern Ireland to that point was testament to his political success, nearly 20 years after Churchill, as secretary of state for the colonies, had suggested De Valera “may gradually come to personify not a cause but a catastrophe”.

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