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police seem to have difficulty answering questions on the subject of undercover agents having sex or long-term relationships with activists

writhing police chiefs today, while the issue of long-term relationships or sexual relations between secret agents and activists appeared in public.

Jenny Jones, Green member of the London Assembly, has proposed what he called the "problematic" question on the committee that oversees the Metropolitan Police.

Sometimes, Craig Mackey, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, seemed to struggle for words when he answered the questions.

undercover agent said that would not be allowed to initiate a sexual relationship with an activist, but also warned curious "normally".

Two other things -. He said he is "waiting" undercover police officers now will not engage in long-lasting relationships
said long-term relationships in the past he has called "well documented" could not happen now, if the pilot was doing his job properly.

A report by civil society groups, says it is impossible to address the causes of hunger, if the existing power relations remain intact

are the most powerful tool to ensure efforts against hunger and malnutrition to address the structural causes and not just short-term strategies, groups civil society said in a report released Tuesday.

global food and nutrition? - Strategies to regain control argues that it is impossible to fight against the causes of hunger, maintenance of existing power relations virgin

"The food and power are related. 'S almost impossible to find a person among the powerful in society and in the political world who do not have enough to eat," said Huguette Akplogan- Dossa, Regional Coordinator African Network on the Right to Food (ANoRF). "The trend is that the exclusion of economic and political decision to go along with the incidence of hunger and malnutrition".

The report is particularly concerned about the growing influence and control of agro-industrial and financial corporations on food and nutrition.

"Too often, food companies and nutrition use their weight and influence to increase their profit margins, and manipulate the rules to their interests and convenience, without considering the interests of small-scale food producers and the survival of their communities - not to mention the moral and legal right to food, "said Peter Prove, Executive Director of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance

The report indicates a fault in the approach to food security - access to safe and nutritious food. There is a "horizontal approach" favored by governments and international organizations such as Agra, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and is supported by the Gates Foundation, which focuses on technocratic approaches - better seeds and technology - to boost productivity and access to markets. This week, Agra organizing a forum in Arusha, Tanzania, in terms of agricultural development in Africa.

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unless you find the words to talk about the beauty of our landscapes, will be desecrated waving lines semaphores large

You can break a building, bomb a city, impoverish the nation and the world got a hearing. But the breakdown of the British branch of a tree and goblins down and destroy you. Thank you God for this.

Britain this fall is on fire. The eccentric meteorological year we gave the industry unprecedented splendor leaves. Looking for a book on the English landscape, last week, I traveled through the central region of the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales. The beech woods of the Chilterns or replaced with yellows and oranges of Cannock Chase, Peak District purple and amber Calder, air and the southern valleys. England has never been so beautiful. If the coalition is to preside over the last rites of the opening English countryside, has been granted at least is the most charming funeral.

The highlight of my trip was a question from a reader of The Guardian newspaper. What is the most beautiful vision asked Stanage Edge west of High Peak Mam Tor, or is Mam Tor Stanage Edge? All points of view, black snow clouds dodged sun. Light and shadow whirlwind Hope Valley transformed into a set for a Tolkien novel. The scene was hampered nature, a vibrant color palette with just a vision of human life. The sight of Mam Tor won.

How long before these colors have disappeared and the horizon is filled with turbines, as is currently the northern edge of the ridge, promoted by the same Nick Clegg incredibly, whose district borders the Sheffield paradise? During the last war artists such as John Piper, Sir William Russell Flint were commissioned by Whitehall to represent unsafe buildings, the creation of the log file from Britain. A similar document landscape has become urgent.

In the news this week, two new threats to add to the renewed enthusiasm of the government building in the country rather than in cities. The first is the ash threat of fungal diseases, and may affect other larch and chestnut. The second is the confusion in terms of the coalition to increase onshore wind around 3000-7000 today more by the end of the decade. This is nothing massive industrialization of the landscape.

If this view is not sacred, what about Hampstead Heath or the white cliffs of Dover? This industry has no shame. However, as Dieter Helm of Oxford University, says in his new book, The Crunch carbon impact of this desecration in the current global warming is trivial.

The truth is that we have lost the words to describe or talk about the beauty of the landscape. Supposed to be "anti-growth" and therefore a social cost that environmentalists say lobbyists to justify their grants. Whitehall wind maps each form of energy is not produced (not to mention carbon saved), but as temporary jobs created, as if it were a Trident submarine. The debate has become the slave of the irrational logic of hereditary madness.
coalition visual legacy can still be a British landscape littered with the corpses of dead trees and large ripple semaphores, the everlasting arms of immersion in vats of public money. If this is the case, it will be because no one dared utter the word beauty, for fear of being considered a coward. See Mam Tor before it is too late.

Amnesty International and Greenpeace say little has been done to strengthen regulations on toxic waste

More than six years after the release of large quantities of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, but there is nothing to stop a similar catastrophe in developing countries because politicians and courts failed to learn lessons, a recent report.

In 2009, The Guardian led a legal battle to disclose historical ties Trafigura, the oil multinational operator, for dumping tonnes of toxic waste in the countries of Africa three years ago, causing public health crisis that has affected more than 100,000 people. Effects include difficulty breathing, nausea, eye irritation and skin burns.

But such a devastating spill might be committed again in developing countries, according to a three-year investigation by the incident Amnesty International and Greenpeace. Its report, released Tuesday, found that very little has been done to strengthen national and international regulations, even after the spill of toxic chemicals became apparent.

"This experience shows that a company can put a country in a medical crisis through toxic waste, and still get away with it," said Marietta Harjono, Greenpeace activist. "This is a failure at all levels. That is why we are very concerned that it could happen again. "

Trafigura argued that it is responsible for the dumping of toxic waste on the Probo Koala. It was aboard this ship that partially refined fuel has been subjected to "caustic washing" treatment and became nauseous toxic sludge. The report of 229 pages, entitled Truth toxic disputes this, arguing that the company has "no credibility."

Trafigura sent the keeper of a copy of a letter from a page and a half that the company had written to Amnesty International and Greenpeace. He said: "We believe the report contains inaccuracies and misrepresentations important report simplifies difficult legal issues, analysis on unfounded assumptions and draws conclusions that do not adequately reflect the complexity of the situation and selective judicial proceedings before courts five provinces and territories .. have reviewed various aspects of the incident, as well as the decisions and agreements were made. "Simply wrong to say that the problems were not enough to judicial review."

Trafigura declined to say, after repeated requests, some parts of the report are inaccurate, distorted or groundless, or that the legal issues have been simplified.

NGOs who drafted the report Trafigura to face a criminal trial in the United Kingdom. Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: "It is time that Trafigura was made to face the full legal responsibility for what happened in Abidjan were not people not only by their own government, but by governments in Europe do not enforce their own laws .. Victims still waiting for justice and there is no guarantee that this type of corporate crime will not happen again. "

In his letter, Trafigura said: "Trafigura regrets the impact of the Probo Koala incident had - both real and perceived - and tried to help those affected by the variety of colonies were made is unfortunate -. but totally out of our control - that funds do not seem to have benefited from these people, or projects came to "

The report was presented to the United Nations. Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations for the Environment, said: "We will look at this very detailed report on a human tragedy that occurred in a fragile country that would never have happened and must never be repeated - in Ivory Coast or elsewhere. "

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As someone who has spent much of his life working to bridge the gap between Germany and the United Kingdom, I would like to thank you for your insightful and entertaining series in Germany (L Empire accidental). British Few probably realize that they share a love of missions with the Germans. And his portrait of the Swabian housewife, with a tradition of hate waste, also gave clues as to why the green movement gained strength much higher than in the UK.

However, describing how the Germans save a deposit to a third party before buying a home, it is important to understand that the law is enforced, as Pfandbriefgesetz, which governs the issuance of bonds collateralized mortgage banks by limiting the maximum loan-to-value assets to 65%. The legal limit is a political taboo in the UK (although paradoxically never hesitated to use the British authorities in Hong Kong), but with rent control was the key to market stability, affordable housing in Germany.
seen enough Larry Elliott (Why a country has a lot of weight, 18 September) that German banks are not immune to the "imprudent investment decisions" of the American or British banks to abroad, but this is completely false, according to him, the conspiracy of German banks pumping up "housing bubbles in Spain and Greece." LB North quantities have exposure to 5% of all loans in the world -. Bankia and rescue in Spain to the uncomfortable truth that their housing bubble is widely-Homegrown

wrong buying mortgage portfolios for several U.S. banks, including West LB (in liquidation) triggered the German banking crisis of 2007-08 are not, exposure to peripheral economies of the Europe.

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Professor Simon Green

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Lib Dem Treasury Chief Secretary conservative colleague George Osborne attacked for violation of green investment and welfare cuts

Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat Treasury chief secretary, accused his Conservative coalition partners to conduct a "war of attrition constant 'in environmental issues, warning that threatens billions dollar green investment and growth strategy across government.

Alexander describes how the government is having to deal with ordinary Conservatives - including those he called "Luddites" climate change deniers - opposing green technologies such as wind farms. "I do not think the UK economy can not afford to have a dam and blue for green growth," he said.

In an interview in The Guardian, on the eve of the Lib Dem party conference, also reveals a new line with its coalition partners, pledging to oppose any plan to freeze Conservative their working hours.

"The two-year freeze on benefits, which froze the incomes of the poor in this country, not a place you should look," he said.

also insists he does not accept the suggestion of George Osborne, the next round of cuts should be as high as 10 billion pounds. "I'm not married to any number," he said.

Remarks

represent a double-edged against the chancellor, who also urged major cuts in welfare and policies that prevent claiming green growth become less competitive if British industry

But Alexander admits for the first time that the two parties must agree on joint projects to review spending billions next year of spending cuts so far not Whitehall identified to implement in 2015/16, the period straddling 1 June 2015 general election.

"What we will not sacrifice the independence of our party joined us for specific details on spending in depth in the next parliament, but we certainly find these savings for 2015 / 16. Not to be totally irresponsible, "he said.

As Chief Secretary to Treasury Alexander is located in the heart of all the negotiations on the budget of the entire government. Member of the "quad" at the top of the coalition with David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Osborne.

But Cameron has appointed John Hayes, an opponent of wind farms, as the new Minister of Energy and the Treasury Department has hinted that green subsidies should be removed. Alexander says he will not comment on individuals, but he adds: "There are all sorts of noises outside, especially on single Conservatives' stop of onshore wind farms, and massively reduced their subsidies" and to great uncertainty for investors

"They worry about pressure from MPs walk from one party of government and what it means for the future.
"This means that we have to face some of the Luddites who continue to deny climate change and I think it is a myth. Do not say that these views are held within the government, but I heard noise in the wider debate, and the only way to deal with them, not the government please these ideas, but up and deliver our agenda. "