Archive for December 28th, 2021

28/12/2021

The Real Antidote to Inflation: Stoking the Fire without Burning Down the Barn

Human Wrongs Watch

By Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service*

The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are more productive and less risky than raising interest rates.

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Ellen Brown

The Federal Reserve is caught between a rock and a hard place. Inflation grew by 6.8% in November, the fastest in 40 years, a trend the Fed has now acknowledged is not “transitory.”

The conventional theory is that inflation is due to too much money chasing too few goods, so the Fed is under heavy pressure to “tighten” or shrink the money supply. Its conventional tools for this purpose are to reduce asset purchases and raise interest rates.

But corporate debt has risen by $1.3 trillion just since early 2020; so if the Fed raises rates, a massive wave of defaults is likely to result.

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28/12/2021

Rural Women in Peru Seed Water Today to Harvest It Tomorrow

Human Wrongs Watch

CUZCO, Peru , Dec 22 2021 (IPS)* – “When I was a little girl we didn’t suffer from water shortages like we do now. Today we are experiencing more droughts, our water sources are drying up and we cannot sit idly by,” Kely Quispe, a small farmer from the community of Huasao, located half an hour from Cuzco, the capital of Peru’s ancient Inca empire, told IPS. | En español
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28/12/2021

The Origin of Violence

Human Wrongs Watch

Henna Maria Vermeulen interviews Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Odysee – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Where violence comes from and how we can best reclaim our freedom in this time of ever increasing oppression and surveillance.

END GENOCIDE NOW is a campaign that aims to enlighten people about the mechanisms and manuscripts of tyranny, as well as the remedies for sovereignty. Have you ever sat down in self reflection and asked yourself, why do human beings kill each other?

Today I get to speak with a man who has dedicated 14 years of his life in seclusion to explore that very question in depth.

Robert J. Burrowes is an author and world renowned scholar and teacher of nonviolent action strategy, especially the Gandhian approach.

He has spent 40 years actively researching and analysing the structure of violent elite dominance and applying his knowledge into organised strategic resistance.

Click to Watch:

https://odysee.com/@dawnofpeace:5/EGN—The-Origin-Of-Violence—Robert-Burrowes:f

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28/12/2021

Half a Century of Man and the Biosphere

Human Wrongs Watch

27 December 2021 (UN News)* — The UN cultural agency commemorated on Monday the 50th anniversary of its Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), which created in 1971, has been promoting a long-lasting connection between people and nature.

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FAO/João Roberto Ripper | Farmers, who gatherer flowers in the Southern Espinhaço Mountain Range in Brazil, enhance biodiversity and preserve traditional knowledge.

“This is really a programme for the people, because people are part of nature…so they are incorporated in nature protection but also in sustainable use of natural resources”, said Miguel Clusener Godt, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCOMAB Programme Secretary.

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