Even #oil troll buffoon offers free public #transport

London Mayor Boris Johnson pledges to lower free transport age (From Hillingdon Times): "London Mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to lower the age of free public transport to 60 if he is re-elected in May."

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La mobilité à Bruxelles risque de faire fuir les entreprises - lesoir.be

Roger Milutin

La mobilité à Bruxelles risque de faire fuir les entreprises - lesoir.be: "Pour 7 entreprises sur 10 (contre 2 sur 10 en 2008), les problèmes de mobilité rencontrés à Bruxelles pourraient, à terme, constituer une raison de quitter la Région....
...Les problèmes de mobilité ont aussi des conséquences sur les candidats travailleurs puisque 55 % des entreprises disent peiner à trouver du personnel pour cette raison.
L'enquête montre également que neuf personnes sur 10 qui travaillent en Région bruxelloise ont vu, en moyenne, leur temps de déplacement domicile-travail s'allonger de 21 % ces trois dernières années.

Days After Protest, Minnikhanov Gives Pensioners Back Unlimited Rides | The Kazan Herald

Days After Protest, Minnikhanov Gives Pensioners Back Unlimited Rides | The Kazan Herald: "16 January—On Friday, 13 January, in meeting with Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and Minister of Transport and Road Construction Lenar Safin, President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov reversed a controversial recent decision to limit Tatarstan pensioners to 30 free rides per month on public transportation."

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Tallinn targets free public transportation

TALLINN- The Tallinn city government announced that it has set an aim of offering free public transport to the city’s residents starting in 2013, LETA/National Broadcasting reports.

...Mayor Edgar Savisaar said that, thus, several aims would be fulfilled: car use, traffic jams and traffic accidents would decrease and free public transport would improve the ability of poorer people to use it too.

http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/30333/

Tatarstan Republic, people fight #transit cut-back

KAZAN, Russia -- At least 1,000 people have rallied in the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan to protest against limits on their public-transport privileges, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.

The protesters are challenging a decree by the Tatar government to limit the number of free trips on public transportation for retired workers, war veterans, students, and handicapped people to 30 per month as of January 1.
http://www.rferl.org/content/tatar_public-transport_protest/24446628.html

From the 99% to the 1%: Osborne bails out the energy fat cats | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

From the 99% to the 1%: Osborne bails out the energy fat cats | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "The chancellor is showering yet more taxpayers' money on energy-intensive mega-businesses, who create just 1% of GDP. Worse, those businesses already crippled and then profited from the very carbon taxes they attack"

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The more we evaluate everything with money, the less we are worth

Not only have we already evaluated everything in nature with money, the entire planet, then the human, now we are also evaluating individual countries and even the time that we would need to solve all the problems that are linked to money.

We evaluate things that cannot be evaluated. It’s abnormal. It’s sick. We are sick, addicted to money; a drug that is running short. Where this is all going, we can see on TV day after day. And it’s going to get worse.

Governments will be declaring state of emergencies, dictatorships will again begin to rise. With the help of military and police, the empire of capital will take over the world. The 1% will rule while the 99% will work and kill each other. And all of this will happen sooner than the bill that nature has yet to issue. The bill that we won’t be able to pay with money because nature doesn’t know money. Nature will not bargain and debate — it will act.

That’s why I write about ecohumanism. So that our agony with money comes to an end. So that we could avoid violence and misery. So that we begin to work for ourselves and no longer for money. So that all of us would live in peace and prosperity.

That’s why need to demand a new social order, a new world. We need to build an ecohumanist world. We owe this to our children and grandchildren. It is on us to build a world of content people who respect themselves, others and nature.

http://www.ecohumanworld.com/

Posted on | November 28, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar