Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment — ISIS — numbers in the low tens of thousands? If so, it seems there’s something radically wrong with our strategy.
The insatiable appetite of Anglophone cultures for the prurient is of a different order to others. But it is an appetite tinged by horror, squeamishness and concern. Added to that such traditional markers, not to mention such markers as marriage, family and conservative values, and the whole thing becomes indigestible.
Source : Boursorama, Olivier Berruyer, 10-01-2018
En attendant le prélèvement à la source prévu pour janvier 2019, nous sommes entré, depuis le 1er janvier, dans une « année blanche » fiscale. Mais attention, cela ne veut pas dire une année sans impôt ! Les explications d’Olivier Berruyer, auteur du blog les-crises. Ecorama du 9 janvier présenté par David Jacquot sur boursorama.com
In our last article, we predicted that the 2020s will be an era of transformation. We focused on the development of the movement since the “Take-Off” phase of the 2011 Occupy encampments, followed by Black Lives Matter, Fight for $15, Idle No More, carbon infrastructure protests, debt resistance, immigration protests and more.
But no matter what environmentalists do, our best efforts are insufficient. We’re losing badly, on every front. Those in power are hell-bent on destroying the planet, and most people don’t care. Frankly, I don’t have much hope. But I think that’s a good thing. Hope is what keeps us chained to the system, the conglomerate of people and ideas and ideals that is causing the destruction of the Earth.
The year 2017 has been another active year for people fighting on a wide range of fronts. The Trump administration has brought many issues that have existed for years out into the open where they are more difficult to deny – racism, colonialism, imperialism, capitalism and patriarchy and the crises they create. More people are activated and greater connections between the fronts of struggle are creating a movement of movements. These are positive developments, bright spots in difficult times.
As US federal debt approaches $21 trillion in a matter of months, an eye-popping equivalent amount seems to have gone cumulatively missing from government coffers over the past two decades.
Source : La Tribune, Delphine Cuny, 30/11/2017
Alors que la crypto-monnaie a dépassé les 11.000 dollars mercredi, le prix Nobel d’économie français a pris la plume dans le “Financial Times” pour exprimer ses craintes au sujet de l’engouement “sans limite” pour les cryptomonnaies.
Source : Ecorama, Olivier Berruyer, 15/11/2017
Après une phase de test, le gouvernement vient de confirmer l’instauration du prélèvement à la source en 2019. Une très mauvaise idée, selon Olivier Berruyer, auteur du blog les crises, tant la réforme sera source de complexité et un véritable casse-tête pour les entreprises ! Ecorama du 14 novembre présenté par David Jacquot sur boursorama.com
Si vous pressentez que l’avenir s’annonce morose, qu’il y a peu de chance que tout ce bazar termine dans la joie et la bonne humeur, qu’il existe une infime chance que nous échappions à un effondrement systémique de la civilisation thermo-industrielles, vous n’êtes pas loin du compte. Dans cette vidéo, nous essayons – en nous appuyant sur les données disponibles […]
