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Vertaling: Xander Bron: LEAP/E2020
Verwachting 2010: Hoge inflatie, hoge belastingen, faillissementen - 'VS glijdt helse afgrond in'
Zowel de Westerse als de Chinese economin zijn als zombies: feitelijk dood, maar men wil het alleen nog niet weten of beseffen.

Door: Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin
- Public announcement GEAB N°39 (November 16, 2009)

As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 last February, in the absence of major reappraisal of the international monetary order, the world is now entering the phase of geopolitical dislocation of the global systemic crisis. In 2010, as protectionism and the economic and social depression will gain momentum, a large number of States will be compelled to choose between three brutal options: inflation, high taxation or defaulting on their debt. A growing number of countries (USA, United Kingdom, Euroland (1), Japan, China (2),…) have used all their budgetary and monetary cartridges in the 2008/2009 financial crisis and are now left with no other alternative.

Door: Richard Black BBC

Average temperatures across the world are on course to rise by up to 6C without urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, according a new analysis.

Emissions rose by 29% between 2000 and 2008, says the Global Carbon Project.

All of that growth came in developing countries, but a quarter of it came through production of goods for consumption in industrialised nations.

Door: McAfee uit McAfee Newsroom

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today revealed that the global cyberarms race has moved from fiction to reality, according to its fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report. The report found that politically motivated cyberattacks have increased and five countries – the United States, Russia, France, Israel and China – are now armed with cyberweapons.

Door: Paul Mepschen uit Konfrontatie

Door: De redactie van Postfossiel

De groei in de verkoop van water uit flessen neemt astronomische proporties aan. Het Pacific Institute heeft over 2006 de volgende berekeningen gemaakt ten aanzien van de hoeveelheid energie die nodig is om aan deze vraag te voldoen.

• Het produceren van plastic flessen voor de amerikaanse consument staat gelijk aan 17 miljoen vaten olie, waar de kosten voor energie ten aanzien van transport niet zijn meegenomen.
• Er komt ruim 2.5 miljoen CO2 vrij bij de productie van deze plastic flessen
• Het kost 3 liter water om 1 liter flessen water te produceren

Door: Kris De Decker uit Lowtech Magazine

Zolang we niet stoppen met het bouwen van nieuwe steenkool-, olie- en gascentrales heeft het ontwikkelen van energie-efficiënte technologie en het plaatsen van zonnecentrales en windmolens weinig zin. Veel belangrijker dan wat we wel doen, is wat we niet doen.

Het aandeel van hernieuwbare energie in de totale elektriciteitsproductie stijgt. Maar dat zet weinig zoden aan de dijk zolang ook de totale elektriciteitsproductie blijft stijgen. We stoken nog altijd ieder jaar meer fossiele brandstoffen op. Hernieuwbare energiebronnen vervangen
geen steenkool-, olie- of gascentrales, ze vangen slechts (gedeeltelijk) het steeds groeiende energieverbruik op. De oplossing is eenvoudig: stel een absolute limiet aan de totale energieproductie.
Waarom zouden we het in 2030 niet kunnen stellen met de hoeveelheid energie die we vandaag verbruiken?

Door: Naomi Klein

The climate conference will witness a new maturity for the movement that ignited a decade ago. But that does not mean playing it safe

The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David and Rebecca Solnit. It's set to come out 10 years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organisation summit in Seattle – the spark that ignited a global anti-corporate movement.

The book is a fascinating account of what really happened in Seattle; but when I spoke to David Solnit, the direct-action guru who helped engineer the shutdown, I found him less interested in reminiscing about 1999 than in talking about the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen and the "climate justice" actions he is helping to organise across the United States on 30 November.

Door: Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 10 November 2009
Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won't bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody war with no end. -- Israeli President Shimon Peres, 7 November 2009.

One of the most commonly voiced objections to a one-state solution for Palestine/Israel stems from the accurate observation that the vast majority of Israeli Jews reject it, and fear being "swamped" by a Palestinian majority. Across the political spectrum, Israeli Jews insist on maintaining a separate Jewish-majority state.

Door: : Terry Macalister The Guardian

Monday 9 November 2009

Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower. Watchdog's estimates of reserves inflated says top official

The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.

The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves.