Mois : mars 2007

Index March 2007

Jane Goddall – USA

Linked with The Jane Goodall Institute.

No other primatologist or ethologist has made the cover of National Geographic more than her. Not even Louis Leaky gets more recognition. Her name is synonymous with the names Flo, Freud, and David Greybeard. Jane Goodall is more than just the « chimpanzee lady ». Her work gives new insight to our own humanness and humaneness. We now have the knowledge to explore our own behaviors and emotions in a new light. We share many things with chimpanzees. Jane Goodall has shown us this through her research at the Gombe National Reserve in Tanzania. We share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees. They often use facial expressions that look uncannily human, although we will never know if they truly possess any emotions that correspond with the expression. Chimps often greet one another with a kiss, hug, or gentle hand touch. Babies stay with their mothers until they reach adulthood. Chimps are omnivorous. They can make and use tools. All of these behaviors were researched and observed by Dr. Jane Goodall for the last 38 years. (full text).

She says: « Chimpanzees are intelligent, social beings. Before Dr. Goodall began her landmark study of them in 1960, however, almost nothing was known of their behavior in the wild. Through our studies of chimpanzees, we humans have learned that we are not the only animals who have close family bonds, make and use tools, or engage in warfare against one another. Here at Chimpanzee Central, you too can learn about our closest relatives! »

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Jane Goodall – USA

Listen to her speach of 71 minutes on Google Video, May 6, 2006.

Her Work and Bio:

Read:

Jane Goodall on Blogs:

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Suraya Parlika – Afghanistan

Linked with All Afghan Women Union AAWU, with the Afghan Women’s Organisation AWO. And with this Afghanistan pictures.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « I look with pride at the Afghan women’s participation in the Presidential elections. This is an indication that our decades-long efforts have not been brought to naught ».

She says also: « The protests of women against inequality are considered immoral, and it is considered immoral if she embraces the rule of law, travels to another country, or removes the veil. A woman is considered virtuous if she is silent and submissive, and remains in her role as a tool of procreation and pleasure for the man. Only in her role of taking care of her family is she considered good ».

And she says: « In the Koran, women have their own place, but fundamentalist warlords abuse their power. They do not accept the Koran’s law or even the national law. Girls are married very young, sometimes when still in their mother’s womb, sometimes to very old men. Before she can breathe the air, she’s a prisoner. To marry by her will is considered immoral, like prostitution ».

Read: Initial General Assembly of Civil Society & Human Rights Network CSHRN Kabul, 9th August 2004.

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Suraya Parlika – Afghanistan

She works for the Peace Circle, the Democratic Women’s Organization DWO, and the All Afghan Women Union AAWU.

Read: Afghanistan, Women Still in Terror.

Excerpt: … « We fought with our lives to get women’s rights into our constitution. Forty-two percent of women voted. » In the new constitution, women have equal rights with men; but the law has not changed the way women are treated.

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Rudo de Ruijter – Netherlands

Linked with Mathaba News Network, with Cost, abuse and danger of the dollar, with US-Iran: Raid on nuclear fuel market, and with Pipeline projects through Afghanistan.

He writes: Excerpt: … How Can The Dollar Collapse In Iran? – The advent of the new euro-denominated Iranian Oil Bourse will cause the collapse of the US dollar, says Ruijter, and is far more significant to the US than any Iranian nuclear threat. For decades, the US has imported more than it exports. It manages to do so because oil is sold exclusively in US dollars, creating a permanent demand for the currency. The cycle goes like this: US dollars go from the exchange market to oil-producing countries via oil-buying countries, which then spend their dollars in different global markets, thus bringing dollars back to the exchange market. Over time, foreigners require more and more US dollars as prices rise and more oil is consumed. The US Treasury prints the dollars and spends them abroad, but never has to deliver anything in return. For the US, the oil trade works like a credit card with no limit. Saddam Hussein tried switching to oil for euros in November 2000, and a plunging US dollar was the result. The US eventually invaded Iraq in March 2003, and in June 2003 the oil trade reverted to US dollars, halting – not reversing – the US dollar’s descent. Iran, however, opens its Oil Bourse in March 2006 and the US dollar will once again be vulnerable. The Bourse will not only reduce the power of IPE and NYMEX, but also influence the exchange rate between US dollars and euros. Declaring war against Iran won’t solve the problem, writes Ruijter. While such a move may prevent Iran from selling oil for euros and force the world to buy with US dollars once again, it would only be a matter of time before another non-US-dollar oil bourse (or several) would be established. A war or an embargo may buy some time for the US, but at a very high price. (full long text).

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Sorry, I can not get any photo, nor a biography of Rudo de Ruijter, Netherlands, but there is a big amount of his research-articles.

He writes: Excerpt: … Dictator: A few days later, on December 18, speaking at the Capitol, Bush joked about his starting relationship with the four congressional leaders: « If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier….just so long as I’m the dictator. »

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Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher – Ethiopia

Linked with The World Future Council, with How to feed Africa, with Feeding the world and restoring the land, and with When Northern Elephants Fight Over GMOs.

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (born 1940) is an Ethiopian who won the Right Livelihood Award in 2000 « for his exemplary work to safeguard biodiversity and the traditional rights of farmers and communities to their genetic resources. » (full text).

He says: « I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so ».

He says also: « The elephants that are Europe and the US thus fight, and the grass that is Africa gets trampled ». (this link).

He received the Right Livelihood Award on 2000 « …for his exemplary work to safeguard biodiversity and the traditional rights of farmers and communities to their genetic resources ».

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Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher – Ethiopia

He is Counsillor at the World Future Council.

Read: all his articles at UNjobs.
Read: an open letter to Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher.
Read: Facts to Consider when Receiving Genetically Engineered Food Aid.
Read: Paper from Ethio-Forum 2002 Conference.

And he says: (excerpt): … « My country is still very poor. I leave it to you young graduates with myriads of options ahead of you to bring sufficiency to every Ethiopian life. I would love it if you could change every child that begs for a meal to a student like you.

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Veronica (Neeka) Khokhlova – Russia

She is a journalist. She writes: I … ‘have lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg on and off since 2001’.

She writes: « I will write for Global Voices and I am really excited about that », (found on the Liubisa Bojic Blog).

Found on Global Voices from her blog: Russia, User Guide … Monday, March 26, 2007 – This has been an eventful weekend, rally-wise. (In Minsk, Belarus, water cannons had to be used against several thousand citizens opposed to Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime. In Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, it took some 20,000 police and military personnel to prevent yet another “Dissenters’ March” from happening. In Moscow, however, 3,000 riot police were called to guard 15,000 pro-Kremlin Nashi members during their celebration of Vladimir Putin’s seventh year as Russia’s president. Gallery owner Marat Guelman (LJ user galerist) got hold of Nashi booklet – and here’s what he thinks of it. (full text).

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Veronica (Neeka) Khokhlova – Russia

Go to her blog: NEEKA’S BACKLOG, an accumulation of uncompleted work, unsold stock, etc. to be dealt with.

Bio: I’m a Kyiv native; have lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg on and off since 2001; spent nearly three years in the United States, attending Rutgers University (1993-94) and doing my master’s in journalism at the University of Iowa (1996-98); from 1999 to 2001, an NGO job took me to all but two regions of Ukraine, more than once, by train. Marta, my wonderful baby daughter, was born in Kyiv on Dec. 1, 2005;
a year later, we’re all in Moscow again. A stay-at-home working mom, I blog at Neeka’s Backlog; my current photos are at Flickr; nearly 4,600 photos from Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Istanbul are at Neeka’s FotoPage; my Global Voices translations are stored on Work Log; some of my pre-blog/non-blog work has been Filed Away.

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Denis Robert – France

Added on May 26, 2007 this links: Clearstream and some french politics, and:


His book « Revelations »: This is a story about a massive money-laundering operation run by the world’s biggest banks. It hides behind the “eyes-glazing over” technicalities of the international financial system. But it could be one of the biggest illicit money-moving operations anyone has ever seen. And it’s allowed to exist by the financial regulators who answer to Western governments. In these days of global markets, individuals and companies may be buying stocks, bonds or derivatives from a seller who is halfway across the world. Clearinghouses like Clearstream keep track of the “paperwork” for the transactions. Banks with accounts in the clearinghouse use a debit and credit system and, at the end of the day, the accounts (minus handling fees, of course) are totaled up. The clearinghouse doesn’t actually send money anywhere, it just debits and credits its members’ accounts. The money involved is massive. Clearstream handles more than 100 million transactions a year, and claims to have securities on deposit valued at $10 trillion. (full text).

Read: Denis Robert’s whole blog.

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Denis Robert – France

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Maria Reinat-Pumarejo – Puerto Rico

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She agrees with Martin Luther King Jr’s sentence: ‘We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends’.

Maria Reinat-Pumarejo has played a key role in ending the use by the USA of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, as a military base. Her world view of peace and justice has energized and empowered working-class women to uproot racism and sexism. In 1992, her struggle against racism prompted her to cofound the Institute for Latino Empowerment (ILE). In 1995, in collaboration with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, ILE extended its efforts to include white people and other people of color in its mission, resulting in the Undoing Racism Organizing Collective in the Northeast. (Read all on 1000peacewomen 2005).

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Maria Reinat-Pumarejo – Puerto Rico

She works for the Institute for Latino Empowerment ILE *,
for the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond,
and for the East Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women’s Network against Militarism.

* has no own website, but is mentionned on others, like these: on: Haarlem World News; on: [AAACE-NLA] school segregation – Anecdotes; on: the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, on: Leadership & Empowerment Institute; and on: RESIST, Guide to Technical Assistance; etc. etc.

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Radhika Coomaraswamy – Sri Lanka

Linked with the International Centre for Ethnic Studies ICES.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

It is said about her: « She is a brilliant scholar, Radhika Coomaraswamy has created new conceptual and theoretical frameworks for understanding women and conflict ».

Read:

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Radhika Coomaraswamy – Sri Lanka

She works for the International Centre for Ethnic Studies ICES.

Sri Lankan lawyer and academic Radhika Coomaraswamy (born 1953) has written and published extensively on issues such as women and conflict, minority rights and governance. Through her work, this brilliant scholar has created new conceptual and theoretical frameworks for understanding women and conflict. As a senior UN official, she has laid down new standards for investigating and analyzing violence against women at all levels. (1000peacewomen 2005).

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Michel Bauwens – Belgium & Thailand

Linked with The Political Economy of Peer Production, with The Foundation for P2P Alternatives, with The cult of Ken Wilber, and with FIVE FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS.

He says: ”I guess I’m more of a serial entrepreneur: as soon as a company reaches a 25-40 staff barrier, I tend to loose interest because of the increased management workload, and so move on to new projects. Anyway in 1998, after selling the two companies I had founded, I had a kind of burnout. This was partly due to the fact that I had been combining my day job with the co-production of a three-hour TV documentary … It was called TechnoCalyps, the Metaphysics of Technology and the End of Man. It was an extensive meditation on the transhuman / posthuman impact of biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology ». (full interview text).

Listen to his 22 minutes Google Video on what is P2P (peer-to-peer), registred on October 10, 2006.

Listen to Interviews on Robin Good’s website.

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Michel Bauwens – Belgium & Thailand

Read: Peer to Peer and Human Evolution.

Read: We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society.

Read: post autistic economic review.

Michel Bauwens (born 21 March 1958) is a Belgian integral philosopher and Peer-to-Peer theorist. He has worked as an internet consultant, information analyst for the United States Information Agency, information manager for British Petroleum (where he created one of the first virtual information centers), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language Wave.

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