Charity bosses’ salaries exceed €100k

AN Irish Examiner survey of the pay packages earned by the heads of leading charities shows most are on salaries ranging from €100,000 to €150,000.

Of 24 charities canvassed for details of remuneration packages awarded to chief executives, the highest salary was paid by Enable Ireland to its chief executive, Fionnuala O’Donovan.

Ms O’Donovan earns €156,340, despite having waived a pay increase of 2.5% in 2008, and despite taking a further cut in January 2010 to bring her salary into line with the public service cut of 10%.

More on Irish Examiner website

farmlandgrab.org

http://farmlandgrab.org/ is a site dedicated to news about the global corporate land grab that is going on. Some articles in english.

Why ‘Self-Sufficiency’ Should Replace ‘Sustainability’ in the Environmental Movement

Jeffrey Green (Activist Post)

The environmental movement is in love with the word ‘sustainable’. Admittedly, it’s a wonderful word in the purest sense, meaning;  1. capable of being sustained, 2. capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment.

Who doesn’t want those capabilities? Yet, ‘sustainability’, like everything else good and pure, has seemingly been hijacked by the ruling oligarchs as a way to impose more top-down control of society. Passionate environmentalists are beginning to realize that the only way to affect real change is by becoming sustainable individuals through self-sufficiency. This focus on individual empowerment will naturally lead to increased liberty, as it minimizes the tactics used by mega-cartels and government to control our core needs of food, electricity, or medicine.  Living in an environmentally and socially sustainable world should be an obvious goal, but it won’t work if imposed at the barrel of a gun.

Concern is too Busy

Ruaidhrí from We Are Change interviews a Concern collector in Dublin. The collectors opinions are “not valid” and he asks them to contact head office or ask his supervisor, who can talk on behalf of Concern.
The Supervisor arrives, and the official word is, no I don’t have time to talk, we’re paid to be here and we can’t waste time.
It’s pretty clear where Concern’s priorities lie. We Are Change raise some interesting questions, but there is no answer, they are here to collect money, not talk to people.

To help the poor, get rid of their cash

A gushing, uncritical article about how the banks intend to take over the ppor as well as the rich world. And good ol’ Bill Gates too of course.

http://wiseupjournal.com//?p=1882

Gates Foundation Pushes Yet Another Experimental Vaccine

The Gates Foundation is once again pushing a new and experimental vaccine on the children of the poor. This time it’s a malaria vaccine.

Bear in Mind that the Gates Foundation funds an organization called Planned Parenthood, which was originally called the Eugenics Society, but changed its name after the Nazis made eugenics unpopular. Gates’ father was chairman of that org, and its founder, Margaret Sanger once said that blacks, immigrants and indigents were “human weeds”.

http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm

http://www.naturalnews.com/033951_malaria_vaccine.html

The mainstream media is abuzz with excitement over GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) latest offering, a malaria trial vaccine that the company claims can cut the risk of clinical and severe malaria in children by 56 percent and 47 percent, respectively. But what GSK and the media are failing to report are the deadly side effects that may accompany the vaccine.

Unveiled at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s recent Malaria Forum conference in Seattle, Wash., the results of the Phase III African study on the malaria vaccine, known as RTS,S, suggest that children who receive three doses of it can derive additional protection against malaria when used in conjunction with other disease control methods. But the findings also show that vaccinated children are at a high risk of serious injury or death as well.

A report by EarthTimes explains that the full gamut of long term side effects associated with RTS,S will not be known until at least the end of 2014. It also states that “serious adverse events (very serious side effects) for [RTS,S] are around the same level as in those who were given a control drug” (http://www.earthtimes.org/health/ma…). But what exactly was the control drug, and what are these “same level” side effects?

More to the point, when did it become acceptable science to abandon the idea of a control sample being given a placebo? This control drug eliminates any meaningful comparison.

Amazon Mega-Dam Suspended

A judge in Brazil has ordered that the construction of the Belo Monte mega-dam in the Amazon be suspended. The Indians have not given their consent for the dam to go ahead, and have warned that if it does, the Xingu could become a ‘river of blood’.

http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7747

Armed Troops Burn Down Homes, Kill Children To Evict Ugandans In Name Of Global Warming

Neo-colonial land grabs carried out on behalf of World Bank-backed British company

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, September 23, 2011

Armed troops acting on behalf of a British carbon trading company backed by the World Bank burned houses to the ground and killed children to evict Ugandans from their homes in the name of seizing land to protect against “global warming,” a shocking illustration of how the climate change con is a barbarian form of neo-colonialism.

Uganda: Carbon Market Land Grab

Land tenure in Uganda is a subject of much dispute, and last year’s farming evictions have left 20,000 homeless [ok so it's not strictly in the 'charity' category, but related]

John Vidal, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 September 2011 07.00 BST

These people living close to Kicucula village claim to have been evicted from forest land in Mubende district, Uganda. Photograph: Simon Rawles/Oxfam

Francis Longoli, a small farmer from Kiboga district of central Uganda, is tearful: “I remember my land, three acres of coffee, many trees – mangoes and avocados. I had five acres of bananas, 10 beehives, two beautiful permanent houses. My land gave me everything. People used to call me ‘omataka’ – someone who owns land. Now that is no more. I am one of the poorest now,” he says.

Longoli and his family of six lost everything last year when, with three months notice, the Ugandan government evicted him and thousands of others from the Mubende and Kiboga districts to make way for the UK-based New Forests Company to plant trees, to earn carbon credits and ultimately to sell the timber.

Today, the village school in Kiboga is a New Forests Company headquarters. More than 20,000 people have been made homeless and Longoli rents a small house in Lubaali village. He says he cannot go back for fear of being attacked. (more in the Guardian article)

Joy in the Kalahari as Well Re-opens

Kalahari Bushmen are celebrating the first water flowing from their well for nine years. The government closed it in an attempt to force the Bushmen from their lands, but a successful legal battle funded by Survival supporters has allowed a drilling team to enter the reserve.
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7662?utm