Kony 2012, our education system and economic system.

You may have heard about the "Kony 2012" campaign?

Kony 2012 is the title of a campaign launched by the organization Invisible Children Inc., focused for now on the half hour video of the same name, which has had a viral diffusion on the internet reaching in a few days almost one hundred million views (it was published only on the 5^th March). The campaign aims at supporting the arrest of Joseph Kony, an Ugandan guerrilla leader accused of “crimes against humanity” by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

It is clearly explained in many articles the doubtful aspect of this campaign and the possible connection of this organization to goals not at all related to saving children in Uganda.

We should save ALL the children and stop ALL those abuser of the world, but is this the solution?

Like Jean Ziegler explained in his latest book: Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry

Jean Ziegler, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, alerted the more than 500 delegates that while 854 million people went without food in the world last year, enough food was produced to feed 12 billion people. "This is why a child that dies from famine is murder," Ziegler said. The prices of corn, rice and wheat are literally exploding because of market speculation on the basic commodities.

So you see, there a more urgent problems in the world caused by the speculation on many things, the world economies are about to explode because of speculation out of control, why is the world focusing on this "campaign"?

Here's some samples articles from serious and reputable sources:

Beyond “Kony 2012”. What is Happening in Uganda? America's "Invisible" Military Agenda by Daniele Scalea

The United States has intervened in Uganda within the framework of increased militarization in its relationship with the continent, made necessary by the political and trading penetration of China in Africa.

The sending of military advisers to Museveni, possibly a prelude to military escalation (maybe what the Kony 2012 viral campaign wants to achieve?), is to be taken in conjunction with drone bombardments in Somalia, intervention in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi, French intervention in Ivory Coast to depose Gbagbo. Julien Teil’s documentary The Humanitarian War has shown the role, not too clear, of NGOs in preparing the ground for NATO intervention in Libya.

Invisible Children emphasizes the need to send US troops to Uganda at a time when the LRA seems weakened and, according to many people, Kony hasn’t been in the country for years. At this point it does not seem rash to include also Kony 2012 in the arsenal of US soft power that should support the spread – not necessarily in a peaceful way – of Washington’s influence in Africa.

Democracy now: Kony 2012: Ugandans Criticize Popular Video for Backing U.S. Military Intervention in Central Africa

The relationship between Invisible Children and the U.S. government and the Ugandan regime disturbed me a lot. And we started doing more investigation and more research, and that’s how we came out with the revelation that the U.S. ambassador to Uganda in 2009 had actually written a cable, which was revealed through WikiLeaks, in February 2009, indicating that Invisible Children had approached the U.S. embassy and made it known to them that they were going to be conducting campaigns that would advocate and promote the military solution. That was one of the memos.

A second memo, which was actually much more disturbing, said that Invisible Children had provided a tip to Ugandan intelligence services, leading to the arrest of a suspected regime opponent. This suspected regime opponent used to be a child soldier, as well, and had been taken under the care of Invisible Children and was, in fact, staying at one of their facilities in Uganda. He was arrested. And as many people familiar with Uganda know, people that are arrested by intelligence services in Uganda are subjected to torture. Subsequent to his arrest, nine other Ugandans were arrested, and now they face treason charges. And treason in Uganda is punishable by the death penalty.

So the relationship between Invisible Children does not seem to be independent. It seems to be involved in line with the U.S. administration and the Ugandan regime in advocating and pushing the military solution as the only approach, and disregarding the voices of Ugandans such as Bishop Odama, Bishop Ochola, who come from the war-affected region, who have been pushing the resumption of a negotiated solution to this war.

This web site: World Under Control - Helping to expose corruption by the global elite, one truth at a time: have many interesting links and article to debunk this campaign:

• Ugandan Prime Minister Debunks Kony 2012
•  “Joseph Kony is not in Uganda” “And has not being in Uganda since 2006″ “LRA has been depleted”
• “Uganda is not in conflict”
• “Uganda is a modern, developing country which enjoys peace, stability and security,“
• Since the propaganda broke last week and we helped expose it as being a fraud, it has been used to create legislation to invade Africa and Ugandans have said they don’t trust Invisible Children.

All this make me ANGRY and think that there is something wrong with our education system.  I have seen my local school and many kids involved in this campaigns using emotions in the movie to indoctrinate them.

You then wonder why are we here, why are so many of us "buy" this stuff without asking any hard questions, without being critical and skeptics?

Go read this article on education:
The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Social Control? - The Path to Deconstructing Democracy

Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

Wake up people. There are better way of helping Africa.

How much bailout money was spent and what is the impact on workers

When Obama allowed to bail-out banks at a excess of 3 trillions dollar for institution that gambled, instead of let them fail and reform a system doom to fail, he has put more than 22 thousand dollars more debt on all 140 thousands workers.

We would have to extract 5% of the average salary of all US workers for almost 10 years just to pay for this one pass bailout.

What a mess!

Congrès de circonscription et Assemblée générale annuelle de Prévost

Bonjour,

Aujourd’hui se tient l'assemblée générale annuelle de Prévost.

Suivre ce lien pour l'ordre du jour

Nous allons proposer les propositions d’amendements suivant au programme du parti québécois:

1. Pyrolyse des déchets
1. Recyclage à 100 % de tous les déchets. Plus d'information ici.
2. Transport en commun rapide avec savoir-faire québécois
1. Plus d'information ici
3. Banque du Québec pour financer ces projets d'infrastructures.
1. Plus d'information ici

Vous êtes les bienvenus pour appuyer ces projets et participer à notre réussite collective.

Merci,

Simon Filiatrault

USA: 30 millions unemployed

Economist Leo Hindery, Jr. took aim at the Obama Administration's lies, and Tim Geithner specifically, in the Aug. 17 Huffington Post, declaring:

• The U.S. unemployment rate is now 18.3%, not 9.5%;
• The number of real unemployed workers in all four categories of unemployment is 29.3 million, not Obama's 14.6 million figure;
• Since Obama took office, the number of real unemployed workers has increased by 4.6 million. The economy needs to add about 150,000 new jobs each month just to keep up with population growth;
• In real terms, the jobs gap is 21.3 million new jobs. Source

This is in stark contrast with what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics officially publish

10,000 demonstrators in New York, demanding Wall Street reform

I don't remember seeing this in the "news", do you?

How not to save the environment

Here are some example of how not to save the environment. We often hear "special groups" pushing for projects that would "save" the environment.  Here's some information to make you see the big picture.

While you read this, remind yourself that for every dollar spent, 80% of it is spent on fossil fuels.  Why you ask?  For every dollar we consume, we need energy in one form or another to produce it.  Calculating where the energy is coming from we come to the conclusion that around 80% or more comes for oil, gas, coal.

The Danish government plans to clear forests and destroy unique nature for the benefit of industry. Source

The Danish environment minister Troels Lund Poulsen decided, on behalf of the government, on 30th September 2009, that the clearing of 15 km2 of forest in the north west of Denmark will take place. A test centre for the development of offshore windmills is planned to take up 30 km2 of land in the Thy region, near Østerild. This deforestation will create an increase of 400,000 tonnes of CO2 emission, the equivalent of the CO2 emission of 100,000 people per year.

The windmills, which are 250 meters tall, are planned to be along a 6 km linear south/north stretch. This will prevent birds in the international Ramsar-area, Vejlerne, which is situated to the east of the test centre, from flying west to the EU-habitat area Vullum Sø and to Thy National Park just south of Hanstholm.

I often demonstrated that windmills are not the way to go for a good energy policy and surely not to save the environment. Other examples

Spain is still suffering for the "green" energy policies imposed by "special groups" that pushes those "renewable" energy sources. Complete report

A leaked internal document from the Spanish government shows the catastrophic effect of the "green" policies on energy cost and the economy.

The internal report of the Spanish administration admits that the price of electricity has gone up, as well as the debt, due to the extra costs of solar and wind energy. Even the government numbers indicate that each green job created costs more than 2.2 traditional jobs, as was shown in the report of the Juan de Mariana Institute.

The numbers in the long run are even scarier. The government itself says that the alternative energies sector will receive 126 billion euros in the next 25 years. Just an example: The owners of solar plants make 12 times more than what they pay for the energy coming from fossil fuel combustion. The majority are subsidies charged to the consumer. The conclusion is that with the economy at the point of bankruptcy, it is not possible to keep injecting money in such a costly sector. And the government seems to realize this now.

Follow the money

Joanne Nova documented extensively the link between those "green" policies and the greed of some people wanting to make a money on the environmental fears artificially created for that purpose.

Some example from JoNova

The smell of money

Who would have thought? Goldman Sachs has been working hard to save the environment for years. Generation Investment Management (GIM) was founded by Al Gore, and a few friends, which included David Blood (former Goldman executive), Mark Ferguson (Goldman) and Peter Harris (Goldman). They are the fifth largest shareholder in the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Then in 2006, when the CCX needed some extra funding, who should step up to buy 10% of the company – Goldman Sachs.

CLIMATE MONEY
The Climate Industry: $79 billion so far – trillions to come

The US government has spent over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, education campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks.

Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks are calling for more carbon-trading. And experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 - $10 trillion making carbon the largest single commodity traded.

$30 Billion makes for Monopolistic Science

• A trial without a defense is a sham
• Business without competition is a monopoly
• Science without debate is propaganda

The scientific process has become distorted. One side of a theory receives billions, but the other side is so poorly funded that auditing of that research is left as a community service project for people with expert skills, a thick skin and a passionate interest. A kind of “Adopt an Error” approach.

Inside The Great American Bubble Machine - Goldman Sachs

This all smells like deep corruptions inside government and companies, included here are small excerpt from an interview with Matt Taibbi at democracy now, who wrote the article in Rolling Stones magazine. Make sure you follow the links below.

Source1, Source2 (with video)

Goldman Sachs, the nation’s most powerful financial company, has reported the richest quarterly profit in its 140-year history: $3.44 billion between April and June. Goldman’s record profits come just one month after it repaid $10 billion of TARP money to the US Treasury, freeing itself from restrictions on year-end bonuses. We speak to Matt Taibbi, whose new Rolling Stone article argues that “Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.”



What’s interesting about that is that the guy who is now the president of the New York Fed, Dudley, is another former Goldman Sachs banker

Goldman Sachs is positioned in a number of different ways. They are a part owner of the Chicago Climate Exchange, which is where the carbon credits will be traded if this legislation goes through. They’re also heavily invested in a number of companies that deal in carbon credits. And again, this is another kind of commodities market, like the oil commodities market, which exploded last summer and is exploding again now. And Goldman and banks like Morgan Stanley are poised to make an enormous amount of money if these carbon credits end up getting traded

Goldman was able to appeal to its former chief, Hank Paulson in the Treasury, who engineered an $80 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of AIG, and immediately about 13 billion or 14 billion of those dollars went directly to Goldman Sachs. So this was really Goldman Sachs bailing out Goldman Sachs in the middle of the bailout.

What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Chérie... ou a tu mis mon 9 trillion, je le trouve plus!

Incroyable... La classe politique a complètement perdu le contrôle des banques centrales.... Au profit de qui?

La crise expliquée de façon sobre et originale !

Source: Inconnu trouvé sur internet sous le nom de René?... Quand même simple et intéressant...

"Enfin" voici l'explication tant attendue concernant cette crise financière... toute similitude avec la réalité est le fruit de cette fiction".

La crise financière, expliquée simplement :

Tout le monde sait qu'il y a présentement une crise financière majeure et mondiale mais tous ne peuvent comprendre vraiment d'où elle provient. Voici donc une situation typique qui a aidé à créer une crise financière.

La plantureuse Linda est propriétaire d'un bar à Alma. Pour augmenter ses ventes, elle décide de permettre à ses loyaux clients – qui pour la plupart sont des alcooliques au chômage – de boire maintenant, mais de payer plus tard.. Elle prend note des boissons consommées sur un registre (accordant de cette façon du crédit aux clients).

La nouvelle se propage et par conséquent un nombre croissant de clients inonde le bar de Linda. Profitant du fait que ses clients ne sont pas contraints de payer immédiatement, Linda augmente ses prix pour le vin et la bière et les boissons les plus consommées. Le volume des ventes augmente massivement.

Un jeune et dynamique conseiller à la banque voisine de Saint-Nazaire, reconnaît que la dette des clients dont le nombre croît de façon spectaculaire, vaudra très cher un jour et augmente donc la limite d'emprunt de Linda. Il ne voit pas de raison pour s’inquiéter puisqu’il a les dettes des alcooliques comme nantissement (collatéral).

Au siège social de la banque, des banquiers experts transforment ces nantissements en obligations, aussi appelés «bonds»; ils émettent donc des FAUXBONDS, des MORIBONDS, d es VAGABONDS et des NAUSÉABONDS. Ces titres sont alors échangés sur les marchés mondiaux. Personne ne comprend vraiment leur teneur et comment ces titres sont garantis. Néanmoins, comme leurs prix montent continuellement, les titres deviennent les produits financiers les plus populaires.

Un jour, bien que les prix montent toujours, un directeur à la gestion du risque de la banque (subséquemment viré à cause de sa mauvaise attitude) décide qu’il est temps de lentement exiger le paiement des dettes contractées par Linda. La plantureuse tenancière se tourne alors vers ses ivrognes assidus pour obtenir leur remboursement.

Hélas, oh surprise, ces derniers ayant passé leur temps au bar et n'ayant pas travaillé depuis plusieurs mois, ils ne peuvent pas payer leurs dettes. Conséquemment, Linda ne peut pas remplir ses devoirs d'emprunt et déclare faillite. Les FAUXBONDS et les MORIBONDS tombent de 95% alors que les VAGABONDS chutent de 90%. Les NAUSÉABONDS sont un peu moins pire, se stabilisant après avoir diminué de 80%.

Les fournisseurs du bar de Linda, qui lui avaient accordé de généreuses conditions de paiement et qui avaient investi dans ces obligations sont confrontés à une situation difficile. Le fournisseur de vin déclare faillite, son fournisseur de bière est racheté par un conglomérat.

La banque est sauvée par le gouvernement suivant de dramatiques consultations, tergiversations, accusations, reproches et imputations..

Les fonds requis pour ce sauvetage sont obtenus par de fortes hausses des impôts exigés aux non-buveurs.

Et nos pauvres buveurs n’ont plus de troquet où aller se soutenir en ces temps difficiles.

La plantureuse Linda est maintenant animatrice de ligne ouverte, le jeune et dynamique conseiller est maintenant en charge de la gestion de risques dans une grande Caisse de retraite et les banquiers ont quitté leurs postes, avec primes de départ, pour aller travailler chez le conglomérat qui avait acheté le brasseur.

Enfin ! Une explication SOBRE et facile à comprendre.

Qu'est ce que la banque des règlements internationaux

A Bâle en Suisse, se trouve la Banque des Règlements Internationaux, cette banque selon Wikipédia, permet:

• d'une part d'agir de pivot pour les systèmes de transactions monétaires internationales ;
• et surtout d'être l'organisme de coordination entre les grandes banques centrales du monde, lesquelles en sont les actionnaires et forment son conseil d'administration.

On peut aussi lire:

La réunion mensuelle du conseil d'administration, où se rencontrent les gouverneurs des grandes banques centrales, permet aussi une coordination informelle des politiques monétaires des grands pays.

Lors de la dernière réunion du G20, les dirigeants ont donnés le pouvoir au FMI de créer de l'argent. Ce faisant, ils mettent de facto une monnaie mondiale en route, qui est en dehors du contrôle de tout organe ou pays souverain.

La planète est très proche d'une monnaie mondiale, soutenu par les banques centrales, contrôlé par une banque "mondiale" qui dicterons les politiques monétaires planétaire. Cette banque mondiale risque bien d'être la banque des règlements internationaux.

La question que l'on doit se poser est:
Pour quels intérêts, ces financiers mondiaux, indépendants des pays souverains, indépendant des besoins des peuples, travaillerons t'ils?

Les banquiers depuis très longtemps ont compris que le contrôle absolue passe par le contrôle de la monnaie des pays. En 1791, Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild a dit

“Allow me to issue and control a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws.”

L'importance d'une reprise mondiale de l'économie, par et pour le peuple, par et pour les pays souverains de ses politiques monétaire, en plein contrôle de leurs moyens, sont les bases nécessaires pour la reconstruction physique du monde.

La compréhension du fonctionnement de ces institutions mondiales et les solutions pour s'en défaire, doit être à la base des débats de sociétés qui aspirent à leurs souverainetés politique et monétaire.

Pour en savoir plus, aller lire le texte complet:

Source

Est-ce que la dernière réunion du G20 nous apporte du changement?

Est-ce que nos dirigeants lors de la dernière réunion du G20 ont pris des décisions qui vont apporter du changement ou bien ils ont pris des décisons qui protège et supporte le status quo?

Le G20 a voté presque que 1000 milliards de dollars pour renflouer le FMI... Mais qu'est que le FMI et que vont-il faire avec cette argent? Ce vidéo fournie un début d'explication.

La vrai bataille pour sauver l'économie

Écoutez cette vidéo:

Here's what Roosevelt had to say about banking bailouts on March 4, 1933:

"The rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

'THEY HAVE NO VISION'

"True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

"The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit."

La vraie bataille est idéologique... La main invisible du marché contre la règlementation gouvernementale. L'une protège et fait profiter les plus riches de ce monde, l'autre protège les travailleurs et le bien commun.

Est-ce qu'Obama, réussira à contrecarré le pouvoir absolue de cette "main invisible"?

Quelques informations pour mieux comprendre la crise financière

Cet article sera en anglais, étant donné que les sites importants sont en anglais. Si vous avez ce type d'information en français, SVP l'inclure en commentaire.

Let's start with some definitions:

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Notional:

Speculative or theoretical

Derivatives:

(from wikipedia) are financial contracts, or financial instruments, whose values are derived from the value of something else (known as the underlying). The underlying on which a derivative is based can be an asset (eg commodities, equities (stocks), residential mortgages, commercial real estate, loans, bonds), an index (eg interest rates, exchange rates, stock market indices, consumer price index (CPI) — see inflation derivatives), or other items (eg weather conditions, or other derivatives). Credit derivatives are based on loans, bonds or other forms of credit.

OTC:

Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives are contracts that are traded (and privately negotiated) directly between two parties, without going through an exchange or other intermediary. Products such as swaps, forward rate agreements, and exotic options are almost always traded in this way. The OTC derivative market is the largest market for derivatives, and is unregulated. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total outstanding notional amount is $596 trillion (as of December 2007)^[2]. Of this total notional amount, 66% are interest rate contracts, 10% are credit default swaps (CDS), 9% are foreign exchange contracts, 2% are commodity contracts, 1% are equity contracts, and 12% are other. OTC derivatives are largely subject to counterparty risk, as the validity of a contract depends on the counterparty's solvency and ability to honor its obligations.

BIS Bank for International Settlements

• The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international organisation which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks.
• Currently more than 5,000 senior executives and officials from central banks and supervisory agencies participate in meetings organised by the BIS every year.
• Other meetings of senior central bank officials focus on the conduct of monetary policy, the surveillance of international financial markets and central bank governance issues.
  

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According to the BIS, the notional amounts outstanding and gross market values for derivatives in June 2008 (total contracts) is 683,725 billions of US dollars. This is 683 725 000 millions or 683 725 000 000 000 US dollars. To put this in perspective, this is equivalent to:

• 11.4 million schools of 2000 students or schools for 22.8 billion people. We are 6.8 billion now. We could multiply this number by 6 since we spend around 1/6 of our life in school.
  
• We could build 27 million km of MagLev train or enough to circle the earth 682 times.
• We as Canadian, spend on average 14kW of energy in real time, all sources included. Since a kW/h cost around 0,07$, we than need around 1$ per hour of energy or 8760$ per year or for an average lifespan of 80 years, it would cost around 700,800$. If you take that big number of derivatives, we could supply all the energy needed for a long life to 975,634,988 people or 975 million people.
• According to many studies, the amount in dollar of infrastructure is equal to 4x the GDP of a country. The world GDP is around 65, 000 billion. That give a total world infrastructure value of 260,000 billion.

So the amount of derivative is:

• 10x the total GDP of the world or
  
• 2.6X the total amount of infrastructure of the world, this include your house and car.

This give you an idea of the size of the speculative (notional) bubble, and it is now easy to understand that this bubble will never be bailed out. It is physically impossible to bail out this bubble.

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Suivez les développements de la crise économique mondial

Histoire de singes - liens avec notre économie spéculative

Une fois, dans un village, un homme apparut et annonça aux villageois qu'il achèterait des singes pour 10 $ chacun.

Les villageois, sachant qu'il y avait des singes dans la région, partirent dans la forêt et commencèrent à attraper les singes. L'homme en acheta des centaines à 10$ pièce et comme la population de singes diminuait, les villageois arrêtèrent leurs efforts.

Alors, l'homme annonça qu'il achetait désormais les singes à 15$. Les villageois recommencèrent à chasser les singes. Mais bientôt le stock s'épuisa et les habitants du village retournèrent à leurs occupations. L'offre monta à 20$ et la population de singes devient si petite qu'il devint rare de voir un singe, encore moins en attraper un.

L'homme annonça alors qu'il achèterait les singes 50$ chacun. Cependant, comme il devait aller en ville pour affaires, son assistant s'occuperait des achats. L'homme étant parti, son assistant rassembla les villageois et leur dit : « Regardez ces cages avec tous ces singes que l'homme vous a achetés. Je vous les vends 35$ pièce et lorsqu'il reviendra, vous pourrez les lui vendre à 50$. »

Les villageois réunirent tout l'argent qu'ils avaient, certains vendirent tout ce qu'ils possédaient, et achetèrent tous les singes. La nuit venue, l'assistant disparut. On ne le revit jamais, ni lui ni son patron ; que des singes qui couraient dans tous les sens.

La valeur des maisons

Cliquez pour agrandir. Si nous avions une économie basé sur le réel, on ne verrais pas ces fluctuations.

A chaque 5 secondes un enfant meurt de malnutrition

Voici la vidéo gagnante du concours sur la faim dans le monde du programme alimentaire mondiale des nations-unies. http://www.wfp.org/french/



Pendant ce temps, à chaque 5 secondes, nous donnons assez d'argent aux banquiers, corporation et spéculateurs pour sauver des milliers d'enfants dans le monde.

Du coté des bonnes nouvelles, même radio-canada commence à commenté que la crise financière passe avant.  Peut-être assistons nous à un reveil collectif?

Glenn Beck, Peter Schiff sur l'inflation sur CNN

Une autre trouvaille sur la crise économique et ses impacts. Est-ce que le Canada sera vraiment épargné?

Five Minute Briefing on Derivatives

Source

La crise financière expliquée aux enfants