Author: ZoeRomano

Tax gap in UK big business / Quanto guadagnano e quanto pagano le big inglesi

Fotsie is the nickname share index of the 100 most highly capitalised UK companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Guardian online created a database with an online interface, Tax Gap, showing the phenomenal profits generated by these 100 companies during a four-year boom, and comparing them with the amount of taxes they paid. The blue dot is the profit, the light blue dot is what they should have paid in taxes and the pink dot is what they actually paid. British Telecom Group, Rolls-Royce Group, British Airways and British Energy Group are among those who have a tiny pink dot… ——————- Fotsie è il nickname dell’indice azionario delle 100 società più capitalizzate quotate al London Stock Exchange. Il Guardian online ha creato un database, Tax Gap, che  attraverso un’interfaccia interattiva mette in mostra i profitti generati da queste società durante 4 anni di boom economico e comparandolo con le tasse che le stesse hanno pagato. Il punto blu rappresenta

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Fear Network / Il network della paura

(EN) Boing Boing has just published a series of posts titled  Climatic Heresy in which the guest editor (Charles Platt) comments  a bunch of books denying or putting doubts on the reality of global warming. One of these contains a map ( based on CHristopher Horner book) called Climate Change Policy Funding Fear through which he wants to show which interests (money) are involved in promoting the fear of climate change. I’m fed up about these climate skeptics or wanna-be-balanced commenters (and im surprised BB gives so much space to him, who also defended WalMart!!) because time to discuss is over, it’s time to act or we are done. If you are one of those sketpics, take a look at this: ——————- (IT) Boing Boing ha a appena pubblicato una serie di post intitolati Eresie climatiche nei quali il blogger ospite (Charles Platt) commenta una serie di libri che negano o sollevano dubbi sulla realtà del riscaldamento globale. Uno di

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Headache and war / Mal di testa e guerra

(EN) Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (Dahra) organization was founded in the summer of 2008 and exists to promote and raise awareness amongst those involved in the creative industry of their social, political and ethical responsibilities. The video in this post is one of the contributions you can find on its website and was made by Mato Atom. ————– (IT) L’organizzazione non profit Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (Dahra) è stata fondata nell’estate del 2008 con lo scopo di promuovere e accrescere la consapevolezza di tutti coloro che lavorano nelle industrie creative rispetto alle loro responsabilità sociali, politiche ed etiche. Il video in questo post è uno dei contributi che puoi trovare sul loro sito e è stato creato da Mato Atom.