Egyptian Aak (Week 11): When Fecklessness is An Attitude.
(Bakers protest in front of Ministry of Supply via Elijah Zarwan)
Main Headlines
Monday
- Shura Council seeks way out of electoral law stalemate
- Qatar says no more aid to Egypt for now
- Egyptian Copt dies in Libyan detention
- Police in Giza, and Cairo end strikes
- Egyptian protesters at the Libyan embassy burn flag, and smash entrance
- Shura council approves Sukuk draft law
- Diesel shortage leads to ministry reshuffle
- Brotherhood’s Shater seeks to invest in Egypt’s aviation sector
- Presidency says only police responsible for maintaining security
- National security banned film on Jewish community
- Army will not tolerate “political militias.”
- Egypt will not sign Emergency IMF loan
- Oil minister head of Misr Petroleum over fuel shortage.
- Islamists form community police militias community police militias
- EgyptAir losses up to LE6 billion
- Mubarak wants Egyptians to stand by “elected president” Morsi
- Egypt considers ban on sale of duty-free alcohol
- New election law will…
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This too shall pass
New gardening fashion
Just 4 billionaire tax exiles – friends of Cameron – will benefit from weak press regulation
Friendship has no limits it seems when it comes to doing favors against the public interest…
(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
The vote in parliament about press regulation tomorrow is not about freedom of speech or press freedom.
It’s about the right of exactly four billionaire press barons – most of whom don’t even reside or pay taxes in the UK – to freely lie and play fast and loose with the truth about whoever and whatever they want.
The majority of the national UK press is owned by just four people – Lord Rothermere, the two Barclay brothers and Rupert Murdoch.
These four people – all friends of David Cameron – think they are entitled to strongly influence political decisions made in a country most of them avoid paying their tax to.
After all – if these four people were all that bothered about freedom of speech – how come all four of them were so keen to propose limiting the…
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Reawakening beauty and love…
Food Politics » Drug corporations 1, Bees 0
Companies that produce neonicotinoid-based pesticides, including the German giant Bayer CropScience and Syngenta, the big Swiss biochemical company, have lobbied strenuously against the moratorium. Monsanto incorporates the chemical into some of the seeds it produces; in the United States, neonicotinoids are heavily used on the country’s huge corn crop.
Some nations in Europe already restrict use of these insecticides, but not all.
The Times quotes officials of companies that make neonicotinoid insecticides, Bayer and Syngenta. The officials say:
The science is uncertain.
Banning them would jeopardize agricultural competitiveness.
Prices of food, feed, fiber and renewable raw materials would rise.
50,000 jobs would be lost.
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