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Vandana Shiva | False Claims Of The Green Revolution, Then And Now Real Organic Project
Feb 13, 2024 #GreenRevolution #OrganicFood #Soil
 Vandana Shiva shares her knowledge around the Green Revolution, a transformative and chemical-dependent set of agricultural practices and policies that promised to deliver food security to populations around the world. But has it delivered on those promises? And how do its outcomes compare to organic agriculture?

 Vandana Shiva I Why are farmers in India dying? I GREAT MINDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAjk-oiEeo Aug 30, 2023 India has the tenth most amount of farmland in the world. Yet, CNN reported in 2022 that more than 30 Indian farmers take their lives every day. This alarming statistic is what led Vandana Shiva, a once-promising nuclear physicist, to dive into the food sovereignty movement. Vandana Shiva attributes this tragedy to the Green Revolution and the introduction of GMO seeds, both of which aimed to increase food production. To protect food sovereignty, she stresses the importance of seed preservation and small-scale ecological agriculture.

In this lecture, Vandana Shiva explains how industrialized agriculture threatens farmers’ livelihoods and how genetically modified organisms destroy the ecosystem. She also introduces various activities of the Navdanya farm, which she runs herself. Additionally, she discusses the concept of ecofeminism, a movement she initiated to counter industrialized agriculture and powerful capitalist forces.

For Vandana Shiva, food is more than just sustenance; it is the source of life, intrinsically connected to nature and the lives of farmers. Shiva’s lecture will lead you to reflect on the significance of agriculture and food in our lives,

SBI's stand on electoral bonds confounds employee unions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1eZZ5kyvqw  Mar 6, 2024  State Bank of India has sought an extra four months from the Supreme Court of India to provide information about Electoral Bonds, and who paid how much money to which political party.

However, this stand of the SBI has irked some employee unions, who feel that the bank is unnecessarily getting dragged into politics. They have urged the bank to quickly provide the data sought by the Supreme Court.

 What Next in the SBI Electoral Bonds Tangle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwZWv800IxA   | State Bank of India | Supreme Court | The AIDEM
Mar 6, 2024 #TheAIDEM
As the State Bank of India’s request for an extension till June 30 to comply with the Supreme Court order to divulge the details of the Electoral Bond contributions is pending before Apex Court, the intrigue surrounding the scheme has risen to new levels. Initial public reactions evidently suggest that the premium public sector bank has further eroded its credibility. The requested extension goes against the very spirit of the February 15 landmark judgement of the Supreme Court, which struck down the Electoral Bond scheme as 'unconstitutional' and 'arbitrary'. The developments have certainly deepened the shadows of doubt that have come to engulf the Indian democratic process as a whole in recent times.

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Editor of The AIDEM and Thomas Franco, former General Secretary of the All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC) and founder of "People First" discuss the structural and political implications of the SBI manoeuvre in an interaction with Anand Haridas, senior journalist and multimedia professional.

“I Don’t Believe SBI’s Explanation on Electoral Bonds; it’s Absolutely Ridiculous”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-qdDu1N3i8  Former SC Judge The Wire   Mar 5, 2024 The Interview with Karan Thapar  Justice Deepak Gupta also revealed that he was part of a bench which in 2019 had told the SBI to collate and keep the relevant details of the electoral bond scheme i.e. to maintain rec  immediate response to the State Bank of India’s petition requesting more than three and a half months extra time till the 30th of June to make public electoral bond details, one of the Supreme Court’s most respected former judges has said “I don’t believe the SBI’s explanation”. Justice Deepak Gupta also revealed that he was part of a bench which in 2019 had told the SBI to collate and keep the relevant details of the electoral bond scheme i.e. to maintain records and he does not accept that they now need three and a half months extra time (over and above the initial three weeks granted to them) to make the information available to the Election Commission. At one point in the interview he said the SBI’s position was “absolutely ridiculous”. Justice Gupta also said “this explanation is not really worth much”.

किसके चंदे का राज़ छिपाया जा रहा है? SBI ने SC से माँगा समय | Electoral bonds: SBI asks SC for time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v_jyeCQ5hQ&t=92s Ravish Kumar Official  Mar 5, 2024 क्या 6 मार्च को भारतीय स्टेट बैंक इलेक्टोरल बॉन्ड के बारे में चुनाव आयोग को जानकारी नहीं देगा? आख़िर क्यों उसे चार महीने का समय चाहिए? सहज बुद्धि से सोचें तो यही लगता है कि ऐसा इसलिए किया जा रहा है ताकि लोकसभा का पूरा चुनाव निकल जाए और जनता को पता ही नहीं चले कि 16,000 करोड़ का चंदा इस बॉन्ड के माध्यम से किसने किस किस को दिया। इस बात में अब कोई संदेह नहीं रहा कि यह चंदा नहीं था, फ़्रॉड था। घोटाला था। क्या फ़्रॉड के मामले में सुप्रीम कोर्ट के आदेश का यही पालन हो रहा है कि एक मामूली सी सूचि बनाने के लिए देश के सबसे बड़े बैंक को चार महीने का समय चाहिए? आदेश तो साफ़ था कि 6 मार्च तक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक को सारे दस्तावेज़ चुनाव आयोग को देने हैं और 15 मार्च तक चुनाव आयोग को उसे अपनी वेबसाइट पर प्रकाशित करना है। देखते रहिए, कब तक आपको यह जानकारी मिल पाती है।