11.28.2009
Rules of the Game - Futerra
Evidence base for the Climate Change Communications Strategy.
Recommendations by Futerra to the Climate Change Communications Working Group:
1. Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs - "To secure a healthy environment in which we and future generations can prosper" (UK government department responsible for policy and regulations on the environment, food and rural affairs)
2. Carbon Trust - "Our mission is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy" (An independent company set up in 2001 by the UK government)
3. Department of Trade & Industry, aka: Department of Timidity and Inaction - "Meeting the Energy Challenge" (A United Kingdom government department replaced in 2007, by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills; these, in turn, replaced in 2009, by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
4. Environment Agency - "It's our job to look after your environment and make it a better place" (An Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Sponsored Public Body responsible to the National Assembly for Wales)
5. Energy Saving Trust - "We provide free and impartial advice on how to stop wasting energy" (An independent, UK-based organisation focused on promoting action that leads to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions - a key contributor to man-made climate change. Funded by the UK government, devolved governments and the private sector)
6. UK Climate Impacts Programme - "The climate is changing - what's the outlook for you?" (Funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (defra). Other contributors include: Environmental Change Institute (Oxford University) and the Government’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme)
"The game is communicating climate change; the rules will help us win it."
- Futerra
Recommendations by Futerra to the Climate Change Communications Working Group:
1. Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs - "To secure a healthy environment in which we and future generations can prosper" (UK government department responsible for policy and regulations on the environment, food and rural affairs)
2. Carbon Trust - "Our mission is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy" (An independent company set up in 2001 by the UK government)
3. Department of Trade & Industry, aka: Department of Timidity and Inaction - "Meeting the Energy Challenge" (A United Kingdom government department replaced in 2007, by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills; these, in turn, replaced in 2009, by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
4. Environment Agency - "It's our job to look after your environment and make it a better place" (An Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Sponsored Public Body responsible to the National Assembly for Wales)
5. Energy Saving Trust - "We provide free and impartial advice on how to stop wasting energy" (An independent, UK-based organisation focused on promoting action that leads to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions - a key contributor to man-made climate change. Funded by the UK government, devolved governments and the private sector)
6. UK Climate Impacts Programme - "The climate is changing - what's the outlook for you?" (Funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (defra). Other contributors include: Environmental Change Institute (Oxford University) and the Government’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23282629/TheRulesoftheGame-Futerra-INPhobe
I N P h o b e UPDATE · 12.16.2009
[Scribd has taken down Futerra's Manual 'Rules of the Game' due to copyright infringement at the request of Futerra's own David Willans (Strategy, London).
According to Futerra Sustainability Communications, D. Willans"leads the Strategy team who advise clients on the best ways to communicate sustainability externally. He has lead a wide range of projects including; advising SABMiller on their strategic sustainability messaging, created a board game for Business in the Community and run climate change communications training sessions in China. David is always on the look out for entrepreneurial approaches to sustainability. He is also our resident acrobat and tractor driver. Every company should have one or the other!" (E-mail: david@futerra.co.uk)]
"For brands to succeed in this new world order, they will have to become eco, ethical and wellness champions."
- Ed Gillespie, Futerra co-founder
I'm going to Copenhagen but I can't take You - Smoking Mirrors
http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2009/11/im-going-to-copenhagen-but-i-cant-take.html
Dog Poet Transmitting……
[...]
Because the populations of our times have become addicted to convenience and comfort they are easily motivated by fear of the loss of them. Because of the confusion of the various conflicting messages that are presented from the hydra heads of the seemingly diverse, single media machine, people have become divided against themselves and lack the unified will to pierce the appearances and see the manipulations taking place behind the productions.
No matter how clear it might seem to many of us, there is something about authority where a part of us still believes that the predators in power have a right to be there. No matter how clear it is to us that the votes are fixed, when they need to be, and that the laws exist to control people and have no impact in relation to those perverting them, we still somehow believe in the equity of these laws. No matter how many lies we hear that are proven to be lies on the following day, we still think there must be some truth in them.
[...]
The most astonishing thing of all is that these people (if you can call them that) actually think that this time it will be different. It has never been different, ever, but they are sure that this time it will be. I can only presume that the same force, which has sent them on the road to their certain destruction, has also blinded their minds from the obvious and filled their heads and hearts with the necessary hallucinations to insure their continuing on that ancient road to the place where all insane ambitions and vile actions eventually lead the practitioner. All I can say is bon voyage and may you fully experience the presence and performance of that which you so richly deserve.
End Transmission……
[Source: smokingmirrors.blogspot.com][...]
Because the populations of our times have become addicted to convenience and comfort they are easily motivated by fear of the loss of them. Because of the confusion of the various conflicting messages that are presented from the hydra heads of the seemingly diverse, single media machine, people have become divided against themselves and lack the unified will to pierce the appearances and see the manipulations taking place behind the productions.
No matter how clear it might seem to many of us, there is something about authority where a part of us still believes that the predators in power have a right to be there. No matter how clear it is to us that the votes are fixed, when they need to be, and that the laws exist to control people and have no impact in relation to those perverting them, we still somehow believe in the equity of these laws. No matter how many lies we hear that are proven to be lies on the following day, we still think there must be some truth in them.
[...]
The most astonishing thing of all is that these people (if you can call them that) actually think that this time it will be different. It has never been different, ever, but they are sure that this time it will be. I can only presume that the same force, which has sent them on the road to their certain destruction, has also blinded their minds from the obvious and filled their heads and hearts with the necessary hallucinations to insure their continuing on that ancient road to the place where all insane ambitions and vile actions eventually lead the practitioner. All I can say is bon voyage and may you fully experience the presence and performance of that which you so richly deserve.
End Transmission……
11.27.2009
Final McKinnon plea fails...
· UK's Home Secretary has rejected a last-ditch appeal for him to block the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US on computer hacking charges.
UK's Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, said he had considered demands for him to intervene in the case but had decided the extradition would not breach Mr McKinnon's human rights.
The 43-year-old, from Wood Green in north London, is accused of breaking into the Pentagon's computer system but says he was just seeking UFO evidence.
Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, was given hope last month when the Home Secretary agreed to study new medical evidence before deciding on his extradition to the US.
Mr Johnson's deliberations came after the High Court refused Mr McKinnon permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against his removal to America.
Read more...The 43-year-old, from Wood Green in north London, is accused of breaking into the Pentagon's computer system but says he was just seeking UFO evidence.
Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, was given hope last month when the Home Secretary agreed to study new medical evidence before deciding on his extradition to the US.
Mr Johnson's deliberations came after the High Court refused Mr McKinnon permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against his removal to America.
"What a heartless and cowardly decision this is."
- Janis Sharp, G. McKinnon's mother.
Los medios no informan, nosotros sí
http://groups.google.com/group/los-medios-no-informan-nosotros-si?hl=es
Este grupo se crea con la intención de informar ya que NUESTRO SILENCIO ES NUESTRO SUICIDIO!
La RESPONSABILIDAD de cada individuo puede hacer que el curso de la historia cambie, pero sólo si el individuo, las personas, se hacen responsables de sí mismas y de lo que ocurre en el mundo. Sólo si las personas dejan la indiferencia, el pasotismo, la apatía, la rutina a un lado y se vuelven ACTIVAS, PREOCUPADAS, por lo que ocurre en el Mundo, y por lo que les ocurre a los demás en este Mundo.
SÓLO SERES RESPONSABLES PUEDEN CAMBIAR ESTE MUNDO, sed el CAMBIO QUE QUERÉIS VER EN EL MUNDO.
Cada uno de nosotros ha de ser un LÍDER, cada uno de nosotros ha de ser RESPONSABLE, cada uno de nosotros debe tomar la INICIATIVA de hacer algo para cambiar la situación en la que se encuentra el planeta, la sociedad y el entorno en el que estamos. NADIE LO HARÁ POR NOSOTROS, sólo NOSOTROS.
A través de la información y el conocimiento es cómo las conciencias pueden ELEGIR Y DECIDIR, para cambiar el curso de los acontecimientos. Sólo las conciencias ignorantes y desinformadas son las manipulables y controlables.
LA VERDAD OS HARÁ LIBRES Y LA IGNORANCIA ESCLAVOS, AYUDAD A OTROS A ABRIR LOS OJOS.
[Fuentes: groups.google.com]La RESPONSABILIDAD de cada individuo puede hacer que el curso de la historia cambie, pero sólo si el individuo, las personas, se hacen responsables de sí mismas y de lo que ocurre en el mundo. Sólo si las personas dejan la indiferencia, el pasotismo, la apatía, la rutina a un lado y se vuelven ACTIVAS, PREOCUPADAS, por lo que ocurre en el Mundo, y por lo que les ocurre a los demás en este Mundo.
SÓLO SERES RESPONSABLES PUEDEN CAMBIAR ESTE MUNDO, sed el CAMBIO QUE QUERÉIS VER EN EL MUNDO.
Cada uno de nosotros ha de ser un LÍDER, cada uno de nosotros ha de ser RESPONSABLE, cada uno de nosotros debe tomar la INICIATIVA de hacer algo para cambiar la situación en la que se encuentra el planeta, la sociedad y el entorno en el que estamos. NADIE LO HARÁ POR NOSOTROS, sólo NOSOTROS.
A través de la información y el conocimiento es cómo las conciencias pueden ELEGIR Y DECIDIR, para cambiar el curso de los acontecimientos. Sólo las conciencias ignorantes y desinformadas son las manipulables y controlables.
LA VERDAD OS HARÁ LIBRES Y LA IGNORANCIA ESCLAVOS, AYUDAD A OTROS A ABRIR LOS OJOS.
11.26.2009
GlaxoSmithKline advises Canadian doctors to stop using swine flu vaccines
http://www.caymanmama.com/2009/11/24/glaxosmithkline-advises-canadian-doctors-to-stop-using-swine-flu-vaccines_200911245658.html
GlaxoSmithKline, PLC, said Tuesday that they have notified Canadian doctors to discontinue using a batch of 170,000 swine flu vaccines following six reports of serious allergic reactions among recipients.
Health officials regularly monitor vaccines for any signs of potential problems, including the occasional allergic reactions that do rarely occur each year.
GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman, Gwenan White, said that the pharmaceuticals company advised Canadian medical personnel last week to immediately stop using one specific batch of the vaccine while they proceed with investigations into the cause of the odd number of allergic reactions.
According to the AP, six people in Canada had suffered an allergic reaction, said Tim Vail, the spokesman for Canada’s health minister. The batch contained about 170,000 doses. It was not immediately clear how many had been administered, although Vail said the majority had been.”
“We’re not seeing any thing wild or spooky or crazy about our[?] vaccine at all,” Vail said.
White said no other doses of the vaccine around the world are part of the vaccines that are to be discontinued...
[Source: www.caymanmama.com]Health officials regularly monitor vaccines for any signs of potential problems, including the occasional allergic reactions that do rarely occur each year.
GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman, Gwenan White, said that the pharmaceuticals company advised Canadian medical personnel last week to immediately stop using one specific batch of the vaccine while they proceed with investigations into the cause of the odd number of allergic reactions.
According to the AP, six people in Canada had suffered an allergic reaction, said Tim Vail, the spokesman for Canada’s health minister. The batch contained about 170,000 doses. It was not immediately clear how many had been administered, although Vail said the majority had been.”
“We’re not seeing any thing wild or spooky or crazy about our[?] vaccine at all,” Vail said.
White said no other doses of the vaccine around the world are part of the vaccines that are to be discontinued...
11.25.2009
"If you've done nothing wrong, you have everything to worry about"
http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=2250766&sponsor=
by Pete McMartin
Whenever someone frets about the erosion of personal freedoms in our modern society, such as in the steady proliferation of surveillance cameras in public places, the stock answer, which is one I read all too often in my e-mail, is:
"If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."
People who say this are fools, not to be too blunt about it. Not only are they willing to trade away my rights, since they haven't a basic appreciation of theirs, but their understanding of the relationship between government and the governed is one of subservience based on fear, and the idea that their fear is not only natural, but justifiably permanent given the state of the world.
Thus, we should all be fearful, all of the time. We should empower government to do whatever it feels necessary to protect us. The unquestioning nature of this logic not only institutionalizes fear, it makes it a patriotic duty. And the good citizen, the one who has done nothing wrong, will have nothing to worry about.
Oh, yeah?
Out of Britain comes the case recently of 40-year-old Jenny Paton, mother of three and, in the eyes of the state, a security hazard. Her crime? She was suspected of falsifying her address to enrol her daughter in a neighbouring school.
A covert surveillance operation was begun on her in 2008, when -- and I am not making this up -- an officer from the local education department followed her for three weeks. He noted her movements in a log. The department obtained her telephone records.
Paton had done nothing wrong. And the local council where Paton lives maintained it had nothing wrong, either. Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, local governments have the power to use surveillance to investigate such picayune matters as reports of people not cleaning up after their dogs, or whose dogs bark too loudly, of people who don't recycle or who put out their trash early, of people who operate unlicensed taxicabs. Some 474 local governments and 318 agencies have availed themselves of these powers (including, hilariously, the Charity Commission), and they can, and do, use hidden cameras, examine phone records, track website visits and hire people to go undercover.
[...]
Sociologist David Lyons of Queen's University has a good line on this. He said surveillance efforts are no longer being based on "insurable risks" -- where risk was assessed on historical precedent -- but have shifted to "incalculable risks" -- those unimaginable acts of terrorism like 9-11 that government maintains can be countered only by increased security and surveillance.
In that sense, to allude to that hoary Bush-ism, the terrorists have won.
We not only fear the terrorists, but our governments, too.
Read more...Whenever someone frets about the erosion of personal freedoms in our modern society, such as in the steady proliferation of surveillance cameras in public places, the stock answer, which is one I read all too often in my e-mail, is:
"If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."
People who say this are fools, not to be too blunt about it. Not only are they willing to trade away my rights, since they haven't a basic appreciation of theirs, but their understanding of the relationship between government and the governed is one of subservience based on fear, and the idea that their fear is not only natural, but justifiably permanent given the state of the world.
Thus, we should all be fearful, all of the time. We should empower government to do whatever it feels necessary to protect us. The unquestioning nature of this logic not only institutionalizes fear, it makes it a patriotic duty. And the good citizen, the one who has done nothing wrong, will have nothing to worry about.
Oh, yeah?
Out of Britain comes the case recently of 40-year-old Jenny Paton, mother of three and, in the eyes of the state, a security hazard. Her crime? She was suspected of falsifying her address to enrol her daughter in a neighbouring school.
A covert surveillance operation was begun on her in 2008, when -- and I am not making this up -- an officer from the local education department followed her for three weeks. He noted her movements in a log. The department obtained her telephone records.
Paton had done nothing wrong. And the local council where Paton lives maintained it had nothing wrong, either. Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, local governments have the power to use surveillance to investigate such picayune matters as reports of people not cleaning up after their dogs, or whose dogs bark too loudly, of people who don't recycle or who put out their trash early, of people who operate unlicensed taxicabs. Some 474 local governments and 318 agencies have availed themselves of these powers (including, hilariously, the Charity Commission), and they can, and do, use hidden cameras, examine phone records, track website visits and hire people to go undercover.
[...]
Sociologist David Lyons of Queen's University has a good line on this. He said surveillance efforts are no longer being based on "insurable risks" -- where risk was assessed on historical precedent -- but have shifted to "incalculable risks" -- those unimaginable acts of terrorism like 9-11 that government maintains can be countered only by increased security and surveillance.
In that sense, to allude to that hoary Bush-ism, the terrorists have won.
We not only fear the terrorists, but our governments, too.
Canada's Guantanamo
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/11/24/canada-s-guantanamo
by Eric Walberg
A scandal erupted last week in sleepy Ottawa with the revelations of Canada’s chief diplomat in Kandahar in 2006-07, Richard Colvin, who told a House of Commons committee on Afghanistan that Afghans arrested by Canadian military and handed over to Afghan authorities were knowingly tortured. His and others’ attempts to raise the alarm had been quashed by the ruling Conservative government and he felt a moral obligation to make public what was happening.
The startling allegations — the first of their kind from a senior official — have caused extreme embarrassment to the government, which has more than once stated categorically detainees were not passed to Afghan control if there was any danger of torture. Canada has 2,700 soldiers in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the hotbed of the insurgency, on a mission that is due to end in 2011.
Warnings to Colvin to keep quiet were not enough to cow him and he calmly told shocked MPs that he started sending reports soon after he arrived in Kandahar in early 2006 to top officials indicating the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) was abusing detainees.
Read more...A scandal erupted last week in sleepy Ottawa with the revelations of Canada’s chief diplomat in Kandahar in 2006-07, Richard Colvin, who told a House of Commons committee on Afghanistan that Afghans arrested by Canadian military and handed over to Afghan authorities were knowingly tortured. His and others’ attempts to raise the alarm had been quashed by the ruling Conservative government and he felt a moral obligation to make public what was happening.
The startling allegations — the first of their kind from a senior official — have caused extreme embarrassment to the government, which has more than once stated categorically detainees were not passed to Afghan control if there was any danger of torture. Canada has 2,700 soldiers in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the hotbed of the insurgency, on a mission that is due to end in 2011.
Warnings to Colvin to keep quiet were not enough to cow him and he calmly told shocked MPs that he started sending reports soon after he arrived in Kandahar in early 2006 to top officials indicating the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) was abusing detainees.
"For a year and half after they knew about the very high risk of torture, they continued to order military police in the field to hand our detainees to the NDS."
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