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Jens Martens, head of Global Policy Forum , speaking at the Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Helsinki on the need for radical shift in development agenda [29 October 2014]. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu
Arrested Development: You’re Gonna Get Some Walk-Ons
To celebrate the exciting return of the show, the folks from Arrested Development recently held a contest in which you and your friends could potentially win a walk-on role. So, a few of us greeting card artists put our heads (and pencils) together and whipped up a (fake) mini-line of greeting cards for this contest that anyone can download and print out for free!
It’s super easy! Download the high-res files here:
www.flickr.com/photos/55407958@N04/sets/72157631780191976/
They even come with a dotted line for the fold and should print easily to your basic home printer.
And if you like them, please share them to your heart's content!
Created by Claire Mojher, Dan Liuzzi, Ali Kurzeja, Kathleen Marcotte, John DeLucca
Villagers Celebrate The Historic US Supreme Court’s Verdict Which Ended The Immunity of the IFIs
March 31, 2019, Mundra: The air in Mundra filled with the slogans like Kaun Banata Hai Hindustan, Machuawara, Majdoor, Kisan! (Who makes India? Fishermen, Labourer and Farmers); Ladenge Jeetenge! (We shall fight, we shall win); Aadiwaasi Machhuawara Kisaan Ekta Zindabad! (Long live the unity of tribals, fishermen and farmers), and Poonjipatiyon Ki Dalaai Band karo! Hundreds of people from Navinal and Tagri villages of Kutch and representatives from various social movements and civil society members have gathered to celebrate the historic verdict of the US Supreme Court that ended the absolute immunity enjoyed for long by the International Financial Institutions.
“Is Development only for Tata, Ambani, and Adani? What about the fishermen from Mundra, who live in the open with huts made up of bamboo and gunny bags but feed thousands of people in and outside Gujarat,” asked Medha Patkar, senior activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan and National Alliance for the Peoples’ Movements. “Every citizen has the constitutional right to question anti-people policies,” she asserted. She further said, “We do not have any problem in discharging Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Dam waters for the benefit of the farmers of Kutch. However, we will fight if it is given to the industries,” referring to the allocation of water for a large number of industries.
She was speaking at the public meeting, organised by the Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MAAS), Mundra, which witnessed the participation of the hundreds of the villagers affected by the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation-funded Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Plant. The meeting was organised to celebrate the historic verdict of the US Supreme Court that ended the absolute immunity enjoyed for long by the International Financial Institutions.
During the occasion, representatives from various social movements and civil society members like Medha Patkar, senior activist of the Narmada Bachao Andolan; Soumya Dutta, Convenor of the Beyond Copenhagen Collective; Nitaben Mahadev, Gujarat Lok Samiti, Sanjeev Danda, Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikaar Manch; and Maju Varghese and Anuradha Munshi from the Working Group on International Financial Institutions (WGonIFIs) were also present to extend their solidarity and felicitate the fishermen and villagers who have been at the forefront of this historic struggle.
The petitioners of the case were garlanded and facilitated at the public meeting. Speakers after speakers alluded their courage, encountering hostilities and the broader impact of this victory to the people around the globe, making institutions like World Bank more accountable.
Speaking at the occasion, Soumya Dutta, emphasised that the recent US Supreme Court’s decision to end immunity of the International Financial Institutions is a significant victory of the people fighting to save their dignity, land and livelihood across the world. He stressed that a broader alliance of different sections of the people affected by the project be formed to fight getting justice.
Sanjeev Danda said the US Supreme Court’s verdict is a firm reminder that fishers and poor are not insects that can’t be eliminated easily. He thanked the villagers for their firm resistance against the might of the IFC and Tata.
Nitaben Mahadev expressed solidarity on behalf of organisations in Gujarat and wished the people the best to take the fight to higher heights.
Buddha Ismail Jam, the main petitioner of the case against the ongoing IFC, emphasised the need to stay together. He said, “If we continue to stay strong for the remaining struggle, nobody can snatch justice away from us.”
Gajendra Sinh Jadeja, a co-petitioner of the case and Sarpanch of the Navinal Panchayat in Mundra, listed the problems currently being faced by the fishermen, farmers and pastoralists. He said, “The production of cotton, dates, chikoo has considerably reduced due to the coal-ash, which has also adversely impacted the health of the people. Similarly, the inlet and outlet channel have increased the salinity, thus impacting agriculture. Additionally, the channel has also driven away from the fishes away from the coast, due to which, the fishermen have to travel about 25 kilometres into the sea.”
Bharat Patel, thanked the villagers, civil society and social movements across the country for their solidarity, and the Earth Rights International, for their unflinching support. He asserted that the policies of the IFIs need to be amended and said that they can’t function at the cost of the lives of people. Talking about the further course of action, he said, “We will fight till the ecology is restored; the people who lost their livelihoods are adequately compensated; and the officials of IFC and Tata Power, who conspired to destroy our lives for their greed are criminally charged.”
Background
On February 27, 2019, the Supreme Court of United States, in a historic 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Jam v. IFC that international organisations like the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group do not enjoy absolute immunity.
The Court’s decision marks a defining moment for the IFC – the arm of the World Bank Group that lends to the private sector. For years, the IFC has operated as if it were “above the law,” at times pursuing reckless lending projects that inflicted serious human rights abuses on local communities, and then leaving the communities to fend for themselves.
In the case of the Tata Mundra, since the beginning, the IFC recognised that the Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant is a high-risk project that could have significant adverse impacts on local communities and their environment. Despite knowing the risks, the IFC provided a critical Rs 1,800 crore (USD 450 million) loan in 2008, thus enabling the project’s construction. Despite this, the IFC failed to take reasonable steps to prevent the harms it predicted and failed to ensure that the project abided by the environmental and social safeguards.
As predicted, the plant caused significant harm to the communities living in its shadow. Construction of the plant destroyed vital sources of water used for drinking and irrigation. Coal ash has contaminated crops and fish laid out to dry, air pollutants are at levels dangerous to human health, and there has already been a rise in respiratory problems. The enormous quantity of thermal pollution – hot water released from the plant – has destroyed the local marine environment and the fish populations that fishermen rely on to support their families. Although a 2015 law required all plants to install cooling towers to minimise thermal pollution by the end of 2017, the Tata plant has failed to do so.
A nine-mile-long coal conveyor belt, which transports coal from the port to the Plant, runs next to local villages and near fishing grounds. Coal dust from the conveyor and fly ash from the plant frequently contaminate drying fish, reducing their value, damage agricultural production, and cover homes and property.
The IFC’s own internal compliance mechanism, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), issued a scathing report in 2013 confirming that the IFC had failed to ensure the Tata Mundra project complied with the environmental and social conditions of the IFC’s loan at virtually every stage of the project. The report recommended the IFC to take remedial action. However, the IFC’s management responded to the CAO by rejecting most of its findings and ignoring others. In a follow-up report in early 2017, the CAO observed that the IFC remained out of compliance and had failed to take any meaningful steps to remedy the situation.
The harms suffered by the people are all the more regrettable because the project made no economic sense from the beginning. In 2017, in fact, Tata Power began trying to unload a majority of its shares in the project for one rupee because of the losses it has suffered and will suffer in future. At the moment, the plant is operating much-below capacity in part because India has an oversupply of electricity.
Please visit here for more background and accessing documents related to the case.
About us:
Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MAAS) is a trade union of the fish workers in Mundra and a co-petitioner in the historic Budha Jam vs IFC case.
Contact:
Dr Bharat Patel (Mundra, Gujarat, India)
General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan
+ 91 94264 69803
bharatp1977@gmail.com
URL: wgonifis.net/2019/03/31/villagers-celebrate-the-historic-...
Jens Martens, head of Global Policy Forum, on the new post 2015 development during the Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Helsinki on 29 October 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu
13-14 November - Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum 2014.
For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/greengrowth/ggsd-2014.htm
Photo: Andrew Wheeler
What we have been dreading for several years in Cwmbran; a new "rape of the fair country". Looking from the A4051 at Pontrhydyrun over doomed fields.
This area, from South Sebastopol to Pontnewydd, is due to be carpeted with over 2000 homes and shops known as the "South Sebastopol Development" (or as I prefer to call it, "Cwmbran New Town 2"). Despite a fierce campaign which at one time forced the council to drop the plan, the development will now go ahead, confirming the power of money over local wishes. As a child, I would walk around here with my father who used to say "see this, they'll never build on it, it's green belt". He will be turning in his urn.
April 21, 2012 - Washington Dc., World Bank/IMF 2012 Spring Meetings., Closing Development Committee Press Briefing. Marek Belka is the Development Committee Chairman; Robert B. Zoellick World Bank President; Christine Lagarde IMF Managing Director. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 042112-DevCommPress_015
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Above California. Somewhere east of Los Angeles pockets of development spread into the desert like viruses. I wonder what the metaphoric antibiotic would be to stop this stuff? No doubt if it were ever found the development viri would mutate and continue spreading.
Microsoft Azure Blockchain has caught the aggregate interest of the Business, Innovation & Technology world. It quickly approaches the pinnacle of the buildup cycle observed in the other innovations or technology of the past. It gives an approach to record and exchange information safely as it makes thing decentralized, law-based, proficient and straightforward. At Katpro Technologies, we can help you with implementing Microsoft Azure for your business.
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This image show several stages of development in a series of stained embryos. From the Wild Duck Electromagnetic Carbonic Acid Test Extravaganza II in the University of Oregon Science Library.
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Four miles east of the Calico Ridge development that is in the other nearby pictures, I’m now in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, looking back at the Lake Las Vegas development (and as close as I could get for pictures). The five story buildings in the right half of the picture are the Mantova Condominiums which, per Zillow, have been recently selling for $400K-$500K for 1500 sq ft units.
On the slope above the lake on left side of the picture are very large developments that are under construction, at the top is “Del Webb at Lake Las Vegas”, predicted to be 460 homes – couldn’t find information on the very large amount of cleared space below Del Webb.
A local mediareport indicates that Lake Las Vegas, the large artificial lake in the picture, used 1.2 billion gallons in 2020 and probably still uses that. The water for Lake Las Vegas comes directly from Lake Mead and is roughly equivalent to what 10,000 homes in Las Vegas would use in a year. Though Lake Las Vegas appears to be in the Las Vegas Wash, the wash is actually channeled under the lake so as to not contaminate the lake.
See the adjacent, very similar, picture for another perspective on construction at Lake Las Vegas.
On an exploration through Nevada and California in May, 2022. See tag CANV0522
Sign for Will Alsop's "Chips" development. The chips website says 50 of the 142 flats are reserved for key workers. I wonder what the average size is compared to the non-key worker flats? One of Ken Livingstone's pet commercial residential projects on the south bank in London touted inexpensive key worker flats as part of the overall development, which sounds good until you realise the space per unit is far less than the "market rate" flats. If you're a key worker - or worse, on a low income but not a key worker - then start practicing to swing a cat.
Expanding and strengthening trading relationships abroad means real jobs here at home. The Government of British Columbia is acting to make sure that B.C. businesses are first in line to take advantage of the growing market opportunities in Asia. The upcoming Jobs and Trade Mission to China, Japan and Korea will open up new doors, connect B.C. businesses with Asian demand, and keep B.C.’s economy strong and growing.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2013/11/bank-of-china-chooses-vanc...
They pictures says everything.
Have you heard of my henna e-book? It's called "Masala Hands" and contains 14 line art patterns from simple to bridal. It is available at www.magicalmehendi.com
The deep-rail engineers, builders of London's Elizabeth Line extension, have dug deep for their multi-billion pound development, and moved on. Like Omar Khayam's finger, tracing new directions for the future, far below the earth's surface glitter and gloss, at the Tottenham Court Road, interchange
These images taken by the Department of Industrial Development show interiors from factories in Salisbury, Brisbane. They were taken somewhere between 1920 and 1939.
During the Second World War, Salisbury became one of Australia's largest contributors to industry and manufacturing.
You can find out more about the area through the Brisbane City Council's Sailsbury War Industries Heritage Trail: www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/things-to-see-and-do/outdoor-acti...
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This painterly style Tinkerbell, created by combining Photoshop and Corel Painter, required the approval of both Animation and Publishing before it could successfully marry the watercolor style fairies of Publishing with the CG style Tinkerbell in the DVD series. Once she was approved the fun began.
From left to right: General Bjorn Bisserup (Chief of Defence - Denmark), Major General Martin Herem (Chief of Defence - Estonia), General Francois Lecointre (Chief of Defence - France) and General Eberhard Zorn (Chief of Defence - Germany)
Teams comprised of students from the College of Engineering, Ross School of Business, School of Information, and Stamps School of Art & Design created new products for preteens, incorporating the use of active technology, to improve physical and mental health maintenance and outcomes. Photography by Philip Dattilo.
African Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina Discussing with Dr. Victor Oladokun, Director of Communication & External Relations, African Development Bank in the presence of Grace Adesina and Stella Kilonzo, Kenyan Accountant and Business Administrator during Africa Investment Forum 2018 - Tour of Sandton Convention Centre in November 2018, at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Teams comprised of students from the College of Engineering, Ross School of Business, School of Information, and Stamps School of Art & Design created new products for preteens, incorporating the use of active technology, to improve physical and mental health maintenance and outcomes. Photography by Philip Dattilo.
Surrounded by development partners, Dr. Peter Salama, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia, middle, Dr. Kesetebirhan Admasu, Minister of Health of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, to his right, and Dr. Pierre Mpele, WHO representative to Ethiopia, announced that Ethiopia has reduced its under-five mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2012, the required reduction for meeting the target of Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child survival in Addis Ababa 13 September 2013. Photo by Jiro Ose
Fujica STX-1n,
double exposure on a portion of one frame and a half of a 35mm film, no digital manipulation.
L’immagine mi ricorda lo sviluppo bidimensionale di una semisfera tridimensionale. Dunque di una forma geometrica. E qui si lega la mia riflessione sull’architettura contemporanea, il cui sviluppo è – a mio parere e tristemente – più legato a nozioni di forma e disegno che di sostanza e funzione; e con sviluppo intendo le maggiori novità e linee di tendenza. Soggetto della foto è una discoteca abbandonata in provincia di Ravenna, il Woodpecker.
A view of the Hudson's Site under development, on Woodward at Gratiot.
Downtown Detroit, Michigan.
Saturday, March 17, 2018.
A big picture view of the Tysons West project, which includes an urban Walmart. Additional buildings are planned if the entire development is approved.
We stopped at Isangi for the night. As is usual in such parts I stayed at the Procure, the priests keep clean simple rooms for passers by. The quietness and simplicity gives one the time to reflect. As we were leaving I walked around, this tractor was next to an outhouse, the Saint Christopher welded to the bonnet.
Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development, speaking at the Department for International Development, London, 13 May 2010.
At development classes. There is no my girl here. I just liked the light and composition
It's a fragment. The whole picture is here: agoldzahn.blogspot.com/2011/10/picture-day-day-12_20.html