As the United Nations climate summit COP 25 kicked off in Madrid, Spain on Monday, environmental advocacy groups warned that market-driven approaches to tackling the global emergency are an obstacle to real solutions to rein in emissions and making those most responsible for the crisis pay.
At issue are international carbon markets, which, as a DW headline put it, will “take center stage.”
Young climate activists protest carbon markets
“Big polluters must be rubbing their hands in glee that carbon market mechanisms, which further dilute the already weak and inadequate Paris emissions targets, are back on the agenda,” said Dipti Bhatnagar, Climate Justice and Energy Program coordinator for Friends of the Earth International (FOEI), in a statement.
At last year’s conference, nations agreed on a set of rules for tracking and reporting greenhouse-gas emissions and for reviewing collective progress. However, they failed to establish clear rules around carbon markets through which emissions made in one country can be offset by investing in low-carbon technologies elsewhere. Although it is unclear whether negotiators will be able to reach agreement this time around, Article 6 of the Paris agreement—which aims to promote voluntary international cooperation between nations—is a central point on the agenda, and offsetting will almost certainly be discussed.
Wounded children in Tel-Rifaat massacre: We were playing suddenly we bombed
“Are we terrorists, what did we do to them so that they bombed us and killed our friends? Now they are bombing us here too. We want to live in peace,” said the children who were injured in the Turkish massacre in Tel Rifaat.
Intent on Genocide and destroying the democratic feminist Rojava the Turkish president arrived in Buckingham Palace for a NATO summit, just hours after committing another massacre of 10 civilians, mostly kids going home after school.. Nobody in the Palace is so rude as to mention the bodies of innocent children.
Erdogan then labeled his victims as terrorists, yet again, and again openly threatened his fellow presidents unless they agreed with him and continued their criminal deals.
What a SHAME that the world has come to this.. that an obvious genocidal illegal invasion and ethnic cleansing be condoned, flagrant war crimes against people who have NEVER attacked Turkey. Indeed the US NATO leaders refused in the UN (along with Russia) to even condemn the latest invasion.
Today’s piece pays homage– and it must– to the brave women of Chile and around the world who are standing up for their right to be free from sexual and gender-based violence..
Its an amazing performance video, easy to learn and now reproducing in women’s demos all over Latin America
see full lyrics in Spanish, English and German BELOW
Original Performance, Collective LasTesis, Santiago, Chile, November 25, 2019 wherethe Pinera Regime has been deploying sexual violence, torture and disappearances in response to recent anti-austerity protests.
Currently, Mexico leads the world in murder of women and other forms of sexual violence. The United Nations, whose research wing may be the only thing it has going for it these days, has this to say:
Approximately 15 million adolescent girls (aged 15 to 19) worldwide have experienced forced sex (forced sexual intercourse or other sexual acts) at some point in their life. In the vast majority of countries, adolescent girls are most at risk of forced sex by a current/former husband, partner or boyfriend. Based on data from 30 countries, only one per cent ever sought professional help .
Turkish fascists attack ‘you are the rapist’ demo
La policia turca dissol la flashmov #ElVioladorEresTu en Estambul i deté a dos militants feministes.
Today, following yesterday’s protest in Turkish parliament by opposition women MPs protesting violent breakup of #LasTesis marches in Istanbul and nation’s capital of Ankara, women took to streets in Izmir in massive protest—this time police stood aside. https://t.co/cJK43r2Rxn
— Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן (@Istanbultelaviv) December 15, 2019
Globally, one out of three students (aged 11 and 13 to 15 years) have been bullied by their peers at school at least on one day in the past month, with girls and boys equally likely to experience bullying. However, boys are more likely to experience physical bullying than girls, and girls are more likely to experience psychological bullying, particularly being ignored or left out or subject to nasty rumours. Girls also report being made fun of because of how their face or body looks more frequently than boys. School-related gender-based violence is a major obstacle to universal schooling and the right to education for girls .
The Greek State has given occupied social centres a deadline of December 5th to leave or face heavy force aimed at removing them..
New Democracy (ND), which took power in July’s elections, has continued and escalated a wave of evictions previously helmed by Syriza against self-organised migrant and anarchist squatted buildings as part of its promise to “bring order” following years of austerity imposed by the formerly leftist government.
The government previously attacked the anarchist enclave of Exarcheia, Athens, in August as part of this campaign of violence, and has kept up the pressure since. Talking to Enough is Enough, one member of the Notara 26 squatted centre commented:
Everyone pays for the rich to get richer. We pay with our labor, working to fill their pockets. We pay with skyrocketing rent as they gentrify us out of our homes. We pay with the destruction of the environment, the erasure of our communities, the stress in our day-to-day lives. We pay for things that used to be free, like water. We pay taxes so they can hire more cops to terrorize us. Everyone pays, but only they benefit.
With an increasing media spotlight + growing actions across the US + the world, we caught up with several #Seattle anarchists to learn why people are pushing for a fare strike, police off mass transit, and increased + totally free service. #NoBodyPayshttps://t.co/rpZ7LmOuBY
Capitalism concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer hands. By now it’s ridiculous and totally immoral .. and an opportunity for hackers who want to save the planet to STRIKE A POWERFUL BLOW. Phineas Fisher ( she, he or they) has shown how insanely rich and powerful criminals who are leading the destruction of the planet can be exposed and held responsible.
Phineas is now offering reward money, up to 100,000 USD, as a token and encouragement to raise an army of hackers fom the millions of unemployed youth. As rebellions take off around the world and western capitalism stalls, the aim is to help expose, block and sabotage the billionaires, the climate destroyers, the military and the deep State…
One of Phineas’ hacks has been the AKP party of Erdogan, the truly fascist dictator in Turkey who is intent on genocide to destroy the Rojava Revolution in N Syria. Indeed hacking to support the social revolution in Rojava is an urgent necessity (among many others, especially our comrades in Chile, Mexico, Colombia …and here at home …!)
Rojava gives us a good practical template for survival in a collapsing environment, as an example of a workable anti capitalist alternative able to flourish despite a blockade, an invasion by ISIS, etc. Able to free women, communalise society, and unite religions and races in a sectarian setting. No wonder Turkey, ISIS and Al Qaeda, the US, Russia, Syria and Iran all agree in destoying it! Check out #RiseUp4Rojava on twitter
TaxHavensintheWorldA recent study estimated the super wealthy of the world hide approximately $21 trillion abroad. About 80 percent belongs to the top 0.1 . of billionaires. SEE ALSO> Eat The Rich> How Offshore Capital now Rules The World ”Offshore” residents have effectively become a global “stateless” oligarchy, living secretive and tax-free lives with their vast fortunes supported by expansionary monetary policy.
An increasing number of states have effectively joined in an offshore federation, “replacing imperialism by a holy alliance of the imperialists”.
Phineas Fisher explained in her/his/their message that they attacked the neo fascist AKP Turkish government of Erdogan “because I support the society people are trying to build in Rojava and Bakur, and they’re being attacked by Turkey,
By Dan Feidt, Freddy Martinez, Unicorn Riot November 17, 2019
Isle of Man, UK – A blast of sunshine has hit a secretive banking network used by global ultra-wealthy figures following a massive hack by “Phineas Fisher“, a notorious self-described “hacktivist”, of Cayman National Bank and Trust, which serves nearly 1,500 accounts in the Isle of Man. Transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets has began publishing copies of the bank’s servers, a cache of documents as well as communications among bankers and others. Journalists around the world are investigating and have begun releasing stories.
Following the hack, a manifesto was uploaded to the Internet addressing the motivation for hacking financial services companies. Unicorn Riot has embedded the manifesto below which includes previously unpublished code which the author claims was used to break into “Hacking Team” an Italian surveillance company. Hacking Team was an elite corporation that specialized in developing malware until Phineas Fisher hacked them and published their code online. The malware developed by Hacking Team was often used to attack journalists and activists on behalf of repressive governments .
