Reflections
Como buen producto de todos los lugares comunes de la izquierda, y como casi cualquier mexicano, soy un profundo opositor a la intervención extranjera. “Cada pueblo decide su destino” es una de las principales leyes a las cuales uno se pliega desde la infancia. Las claridades de la juventud son las zonas grises de la vejez, y ahora que estoy entrando en la tercera edad no me queda más que empezar a comprender los matices de cada una de mis preconcepciones.
Sigo creyendo firmemente que foreign intervention is wrong, but I can also understand that some say is hiding behind the argument that lots of dictators can do what they want without paying any price. I understand that in many cases requires strong and decisive action against a state or government and that the logic of non-intervention may be considered compliant with tyranny.
However, there are several problems with the defense of foreign intervention. First, there is always the anger of moral authority. It says it would have to intervene in Cuba, for example, to overthrow the dictatorship but nobody dares-naaaadie- to mess with China, a government far more cruel. All countries now have a consensual dictatorship, and what has happened in Africa proves it.
European countries went from Gaddafi to praise his conviction generic without a mea culpa or any act of contrition. In fact, what is happening with Libya is another example of European hypocrisy, most notably the France. France was the first country to attack Libya after the avalanche of criticism for his unconditional support for the ousted as ruler of Tunisia and its friendship with the former president of Egypt.
this logic, it is understood that the intervention is foreign and it is an opportunistic hypocrite. Invariably those who attack waiting to get some economic benefit and / or political. Nothing is done by good vibes in this world, less spending billions of dollars to bomb a country full of oil.
So we know that the bombings brought home a vice and should be more or less naive to think that is an act of kindness. Peeeeero
... I totally agree. And not only that: in my opinion, what is happening in Libya is not foreign intervention. Remember a couple of important things: first, the logic is respected self-determination of peoples over their destiny, the no-fly zone is consistent with the demands of at least one huge sector of the Libyan people. Do not think it's fair to say that being massacred is their free will, and yes I firmly believe that supporting the insurgents is actually an act of protection to self-determination of the Libyans. It is no secret that the rebel opposition had pleaded for international support to overthrow Qaddafi, and the action is simply a mirror-backed United Nations, in that sense. Several countries abstained in the vote of the Security Council , but none opposed. And that's really emblematic of what they are thinking in different countries: Russia and China, have never supported this military action, and even condemned in speeches, not vetoed. They did because they knew that it was simply untenable to do so (and boy, have defended the indefensible before.)
Second, this event is a clear showing that the world itself is changing. For the first time, America is not acting as the great international police, but being part of a near global consensus to stop a savage and unjust slaughter. Not only that: the world is actively supporting a revolution that nobody knows where the hell going against a regime that only months ago was being cuddle by the same countries.
me old age may become a little more optimistic, but for once I think maybe the world is acting the right way. I know this has and will cost in lives and damage. But I think be a first step to rid the world of a tyrant, and that just can not be bad.
can not be bad. And if it ends up to be, really have no choice.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Dreaming dreams.
was a recurring dream. Dreaming in a dream and that dream sleep and dreamed that he fell asleep dreaming that dream dream asleep in the sleeping dreamed ... and so on, as a repeated image in an eternity of mirrors.
Fearful of not finding the way back in the labyrinth of dreams, waking skittish never knowing for sure if he was fully awake was awake or in one of his dream dream sleep.
that day, out of breath, jumped up and without washing your face to check out the world in order to ensure that this was his world, world in which he lived.
"Hello, reality. Good morning, new day "whispered and more relaxed and smoked a cigarette in the morning letting her fears disheveled.
entering home again found himself still lying peacefully asleep in bed dreaming about watching dreaming inside a dream that stayed awake while dreaming in greeted his bed smoking a cigarette world.
count that is still sleeping ... dreaming that he is awake and who is in bed dreaming he is asleep.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Im 17 And Im Having Growing Pains
Khadafi is a partner of the Legion of Evil Empire
We microstories in the structure of a great novel whose first read but its end was not yet written. We happened: we got, we see and we win or lose. Whilst awaiting the final curtain, we take comfort that something we learn from and the cycle of life, comforted us and let us develop our role, we do not earring the "storm", the Holocaust, the market crisis, we console ourselves with the power to pronounce and act our lines, at successive stages in the life-game in which we play. The beginning, during the final and after that fantasy usually leads to madness and religions and blockbusters or the renowned best-sellers find us standing, raising flags and managing our turning points. Grotesque narrative detestable reality surrounding us, should know what we are doing to get somewhere. As
on a story by Graham Greene, Libya secret meetings alternating with quiet time, just as we have Green's prose bombings, threats and instances where cross international chains repeated promises of foreign presidents, as always, promising freedom, justice and peace. Within this atmosphere, the dream scenario "for nothing-mixed cities, roads, deserts, bullets, oil wells, multinational, righteous men, as many sinners, explosions, weird looking shadows in cars, dealers, mercenaries, intelligence, skilled in the art, ignorant and very stupid in the world who speaks or is silent selfishly. In this story is loyal, persecuted opponents, rebels, innocent, guilty and impossible to confirm rumors every hour by turning the hospitals, police stations, the houses closed, the cities destroyed, street fairs, and schools which have become rubble . And this is just a vignette of what can be the downfall of a regime that for decades played an important role in Libya and the rest world. The fall of a dictator who bought by force and power of the petrodollars the character of God, Desert Tigre. We in the Land of Greene. Perhaps only the author who comes to life in The Comedians in the Haiti of Papa Doc or Our Man in Havana in Batista's Cuba could do justice to the heavy atmosphere that is felt in Tripoli in what may be the last weeks of the reign of Khadafi.
In the 41 years in power Moammar Mohamed Abd As-Salam Abu Minyar to Khadafi, or simply Muammar Gaddafi, has displayed a political and ideological transformations and degree of eccentricity difficult to match. Luis D'Elia, Argentina's leader and social piquetero said in his radio program, "Gadhafi went from being 'the tiger of the desert' a 'kitty empire'" best explanation to understand the figure of a leader, dictator, liberating , murderer, there can be and perhaps in this metamorphosis Not-so-resident was the explanation of why the civil war in Libya and the future foreign invasion-more-in other Arab lands of the empire.
In 1969, when his fellow soldiers he was appointed the person who would lead the coup against King Idris, Khadafi was only a captain of 27 years, only 27 years old and already commanded a military coup against an Arab royal family. With victory achieved, was at the head of Libya in the moment they were discovered in the country its vast reserves of oil, which gave him room to undertake major reforms in education, health and social rights, then unpublished in the country and the rest of the region. His reforms were enrolled in what was called from 1977, the Jamahiriya, or "state of the masses," his peculiar theory of democracy, in which fees were abolished and traditional institutions-it is simply Leader Revolution ", to" give power to the people. " The people's committees, consisting of faithful at all costs, displaced ministers, governors, mayors. In this way he managed to amalgamate their power to their environment and their fists. Controversial Khadafi
ranked the eight children he had with his two wives in key parts of the economy and armed forces, preparing to succeed one of them, Saif al Islam. Khadafi fan of pan-Arabism of Gamal Abdel Nasser, but also of Che, Mao, the USSR and more recently, Hugo Chavez, Qaddafi endorsed in the '70s and '80s, with funding and training to guerrillas and movements national liberation of many countries Montoneros.
earned Khadafi This created an aura of progressive, considering it was in the anti-imperialist camp, not a few leftist movements looked the other way when all social protest or repress internal political opposition. Perhaps at this point resides one of the most important conflicts of interest when criticizing Khadafi figure openly in the conflict that occurs in the human and material aid given in past decades to the liberation movements of Latin America and Africa, and on the other, being a dictator, a leader who violated human rights inside and outside the country. Khadafi's figure can be summarized as a coup, early revolutionary, entrepreneur, arms dealer and interests, advocate and a partner oppressors rather hidden-system-imperialist depose both during his unquestionable.
His fiery speech, his outbursts, his "originality" made him a colorful, dark, grotesque. Khadafi has been busy making great Populist movements have exploited the media, while he and his family lived in abundance and accumulated wealth and power and the rest of the population, despite its huge advances, returned slowly to ruin, with their children, their demagoguery, with his eccentricities built a unique image. Over the years, great progress of society were reduced to nothing and was spending his image as the murals painted on public buildings in Tripoli.
Accused by U.S. of being behind terrorist attacks in 1985 against the Rome and Vienna airports and an attack on a Berlin nightclub frequented by U.S. soldiers in 1986, Ronald Reagan made bomb his tent, which killed his daughter Jana. In 1988 he accused Libya of being behind the bombing of a Pan Am airliner in flight over Scotland, which left 270 dead. And Khadafi finally accepted his responsibility, giving the officers accused by Britain and compensating the victims in April 1999. and managed to lift the veto on the UN and the United States disbanded years inthat most government ministries formed and transferred its powers to the municipal people's congresses.
In 2003, Gadhafi announced a radical reform of the socialist regime, was born the so-called "popular capitalism", which was merely the contained culmination of the opening of the Libyan economy to internal and external Privador sector that was growing for four years.
And to finish: in December 2003 reached an agreement with U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair, for decommissioning by Libya of its weapons of mass destruction.
The Libyan diplomatic approach to the Western democracies continued in 2004, on 20 September of that year, Bush lifted the trade embargo that the United States exercised since 1986, three months later the two countries reestablished diplomatic ties, broken for a long 24 years, in turn, on 22 September, the European Union (EU) put an end to the arms embargo imposed 18 years earlier.
Khadafi is a mutant X-Men His profound changes since the revolution of 69 to today has led to a personal social hierarch of a "monarchical republic" whose heir is his eldest son, Sayf al-Islam al-Gaddafi, who has been appointed sole legal successor. Their businesses shared multimedia projects Berlusconi also speak of this conversion Kafkaesque protagonist of the Axis of Evil a friend of the West, receiving honors for Sarkozy or Condoleeza Rice.
We claim that we know little of what which occurs in Libya and suspicious of Western condemnation, media and institutional, in recent days. We can leave it at that. The imperialists are very smart about how to manipulate information. They have many specific interests in the area, have defended all the way to their dictators, but when they realized that they were untenable have dropped and have chosen another strategy: to support democratic processes controlled motor selecting postmodern minorities limited changes and deploy without shame, knowing that the memory is short and slow reflexes puppet democracies, rights ghosts easily modified ..
Khadafi has been for the past ten years a great friend of the EU and the U.S. and its allies in the region dictators. Suffice it to recall the inflammatory statements of support from the Libyan Caligula deposed Ben Ali, whose militia is likely provided weapons and money in the days after Jan. 14. Docile enough to remember also the cooperation with the U.S. Khadafi in the context of the "war on terror." Political cooperation has been accompanied by close economic ties with the EU, including Spain, the sale of oil to Italy, France and the U.S. has been parallel to the entry into Libya's large Western companies (the English company Repsol, British Petroleum, France's Total, Italy's ENI and the Austrian OM), not to mention the juicy contracts for the European and English building in Tripoli. Moreover, France and America have continued to provide weapons to kill from the air now his own people, as France and the United States, following the example of imperial Italy since 1911. In 2008 former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made it very clear: "Libya and the United States share permanent interests: cooperation in the fight against terrorism, trade, nuclear proliferation, Africa, human rights and democracy." Khadafi
When he visited France in December 2007, Ayman El-Caiman summarized the situation in a paragraph which I reproduce here: "Almost ten years ago, Khadafi longer for the democratic West unwise individual: that he be taken off the U.S. list of terrorist states acknowledged responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, for normalize relations with the United Kingdom, gave the names of all Irish republicans who had trained in Libya to normalize the United States, gave all the information he had about the Libyans suspected of involvement in jihad with Bin Laden and renounced its "weapons of mass destruction" as well as call on Syria to do likewise, to normalize relations with the European Union, became the guardian of the concentration camps, where inmates are thousands of Africans bound for Europe, to normalize its relations with its sinister neighbor Ben Ali gave opponents refugees in Libya. "
Khadafi is neither revolutionary nor an ally, even tactical, the revolutionaries of the world, perhaps he could be in 60'o 70 ', but the actual murderer puppet is not. In 2008, Fidel and Chávez (with Mercosur) rightly denounced the "shameful directive" European reinforcing the already severe persecution in Europe of humanity stripped of the boats and the walls. All Khadafi crimes perhaps the most serious and the less well known is his complicity in the immigration policy of the EU, particularly Italy, as the executioner of African migrants. Despite reports that talk about actual practices of extermination "or precisely because of them, demonstrating the effectiveness of Khadafi as guardian of Europe, the European Commission in October signed a" cooperation agenda "for the" management of migration flows and "border control", valid until 2013 and accompanied by delivery to Libya of 50 million euros.
Europe's relationship with Khadafi has brushed submission. Berlusconi, Sarkozy, Zapatero and Blair was greeted with Hugs in 2007 and Zapatero himself visited him in Tripoli in 2010. Even King Juan Carlos went to Tripoli in January 2009 to promote English companies. On the other hand, the EU will not hesitate to humiliate and publicly apologize March 27, 2010 through the then English Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, having banned 188 Libyans into Europe by the conflict between Switzerland and Libya by the arrest of Gadhafi's son in Geneva accused of maltreating their domestic staff. Even more: the EU has not given the slightest protest when Khadafi took retaliatory economic, trade and human or when performed against Switzerland call for holy war against it or when it publicly declared its desire to be wiped off the map.
None of the current resists Khadafi sworn enemies of a file: There has been a long time since the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, literally kissed the hand of khadafi-in addition to an investor Juventus shareholder of Finmeccanica, one of the Italian arms major companies "and he could install his Bedouin tent in Rome, but from one day to another he dropped like a stone. The same goes for the British who sold lots of arms to Colonel.
In June 2010, Saif Gaddafi told the British newspaper Daily Mirror that the former premier Tony Blair has an excellent relationship with my father. " Blair is considered a trusted advisor to the Libyan Investment Authority. With that British exports to Libya were up about 930 million euros in recent years.
has been forgotten in the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his English counterpart, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a few months ago were fans and lobbyists Khadafi and held that it was essential to boost ties with that country, which was reached to sell to the world as "an oasis for foreign investment."
To see how history has changed within months, not have to see how it is defined to Libya in a story published on the website of the Foreign Trade Institute of Spain (ICEX). "Many experts do not hesitate to point out that Libya is currently booming economic expansion and aiming to become the new Dubai of the Mediterranean coast," read the Libya Investment information late last year that remained posted on the Web official body even after the air strikes began.
A sample of the radical change in alliance with Libya is that in November last year 120 companies from 21 countries (including the English firm Indra) participated in the fair's security and defense Libdex 2010, held at the military airport to mitigate, with Tripoli. United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, China and Russia attended the meeting. Now, the UN has banned all commercial transactions related to defense.
In language very similar to that used its predecessor, José María Aznar, in 2003, when Spain involved in the Iraq war, the current English President says intervention in Libya was "humanitarian."
To avoid such comparisons leave it badly, Zapatero argues that the United Nations (UN) has endorsed the Khadafi intervention to end, something happened in Iraq after the first attacks on Baghdad.
not true that intervention in Libya, Gaddafi is to prevent slaughter of civilians, but the insurgents are a heterogeneous amalgam in which converge monarchist nostalgic for an old king who advocate Islamic Holy War, cousins \u200b\u200bof Al Qaeda and in-laws of Western interests in the region.
In Spain, Gaddafi and Libyan state-owned companies control the Aresbank bank's network of service stations and various real estate Tamoil. Its crown jewel is the La Resinera, located in Malaga, where he planned to build a mega resort.
All of these assets (with the exception of Tamoil) are operated as part of the agreement of EU governments to freeze the properties of Khadafi and prevent the use to finance the war. The Bank of Spain, for example, has taken over Aresbank.
The English government has also intervened Khadafi bank accounts and 25 other members of his family, including his son Muammar Khamis, who was studying a Masters in Business School.
Spain, however, is not the first fate of Libyan money. In Italy, the former colony, Khadafi participates in Unicredit, the aerospace firm Finmeccanica, and ENI, as well as on the soccer team Juventus, in Turin.
Libya's largest investment is the UniCredit. In late 2008, in the middle of global financial crisis, the Libyan Central Bank purchased shares of the largest Italian bank, was in serious trouble. With the help of Libyan sovereign wealth fund Investment Authority (Leia), Libya became the largest shareholder in UniCredit (with 7.582%), currently one of the largest banks in Europe.
Since January 2011, the Libyan government owns 2.01% of the aerospace and defense group Finmeccanica, the Italian state-controlled. Libya has also almost 0.5% of the oil company ENI. Has 22% of the textile company Olcese and 7.5% of Juventus football club. In June 2009, a company controlled by the Arab Foreign Investment Company acquired a 10% stake in Quinta Communications, of which the majority shareholder is Berlusconi.
But even more striking is the change of position of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has gone from selling arms to Qaddafi to lead the attacks on Tripoli. In recent years, the Gallic leader has agreed to build a nuclear power plant in Libya, has confirmed the sale of missiles to Khadafi and paid ransoms of hundreds of millions of euros to the system to free up some nurses hostage. Khadafi has been claimed that he financed part of Sarkozy's election campaign.
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swallows the threat of Khadafi to disclose the amounts, accounts and the banks through which financed his political career if the threat becomes reality, could ensure the victory of Jean Marie Le Pen in the French elections .
As in any war of conquest, in Libya not only weapons, but those who fired, sold to the highest bidder. Perhaps because of this, the first to drop bombs on the army and people of Libya outside France, attempting to intimidate or even annihilate Khadafi not to talk.
The popular uprising in Libya may seem odd, but there may be some reasonable explanations for understanding Case, on the one hand, we can say that the Libyan regime has degenerated in recent years, or so-called socialism was only a front for the regime to hold the Libyan people, we can also say that the anti-imperialist rebellion Khadafi has been just that, pure rebellion, or that the U.S. is taking advantage of these protests in North Africa to settle scores with Khadafi. Think are the top three without discarding the latter.
Khadafi regime is out of print for at least 30 years. Urgently needed that Libya has another government. It is clear that the continuity of Libya's Khadafi to the front due to the power which they hold and the game playing with the major world powers, what powers being asked to be at certain times in history, a day the enemy, another ally, another collaborator and sometimes a monster who must be sacrificed. Libya is not Egypt, but in Egypt the majority of the population faced Mubarak, they were mostly in Libya, that does not happen and so many deaths. Also supports the Army Khadafi in Libya and Egypt, the army released her hand to Mubarak at the magnitude of the protest started shortly after the revolt. Funny
the process that led to the bombing of Libya. The White House hesitated long before they give their approval, said he hoped a resolution of Security Council and approval of the Arab League. Clarified that only later, when several senators complained about the delay in action. One wonders why this delay: expected counteroffensive Khadafi for the two disputing parties are weakened to the maximum, thus opening the possibility of installing a government as akin to the U.S. like Saudi Arabia?
The Pentagon chief Robert Gates and Admiral William Gortney declared that Khadafi is not part of the "target list" and that killing is not on the UN mandate, while the British defense secretary, Liam Fox, reiterated that the Libyan dictator was "a legitimate target." At the very least, Zarkozy dreams that Khadafi stop breathing. The president said that U.S. military intervention was due "to an international arrangement" and that his country's participation is limited, but did not clarify their goals. Resolution 1973 authorizes the Security Council to stop "all means" the killing of civilians unleashed by Khadafi, so that its scope is, at least, indefinite. One of those means would be the invasion, as in Iraq? Obama said that the invasion is not contemplated, but everything is limited to the victory of the rebels or not the regime.
The Arab League is upset because in his view, was established no-fly zone to prevent more civilian deaths, not to increase their number with the raids. Do not remember the consequences of the same measures applied to other countries without major political outcomes? The air exclusion zones imposed twenty years ago not ousted Saddam Hussein, but were propped up with economic sanctions and blockade inflicted serious damage on the Iraqi people. "I did not know that the West League resolved the impasse by invading Iraq? Do you worry now because it is not unanimous global support for the odyssey of Dawn and also because he questions his role in sheltering the bombing of a nation Arabic?
The White House does not diminish his optimism: the attacks would last "days, not weeks," an opinion in which Hillary Clinton is the manager of repeating, but that idea did not share much. Huriburt Heather, who heads the National Security Network, a group working for the White House, said the outcome in Libya "will be more like that of Kosovo to Baghdad." Kosovo: months and months, not days, of bombing firestorms and the passage of one year from the end of the massacres ordered by Slobodan Milosevic and his deposition. "The end is near," added Haliburt. The ending was the overthrow of Gadhafi and that, indeed, is not nearby. Washington seeks to get rid of the command of the operation, Obama may not want to appear as the aggressor against another Muslim country, the third in a decade, but NATO can not take over the job officially, Germany abstained in the vote of the Board of Security has withdrawn all its forces from the Mediterranean and decided not to participate in the no-fly zone. Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested, however, a general embargo on Libyan energy, causing a general frown eyebrows European countries imported 85 percent of Libyan oil is supplied by Germany and Russia. Industry giants such as France's Total, the Italian ENI, British BP, the consortium English Repsol and Chevron, among others, the Libyan soil extract.
Libya is the most important oil-producing nation in Africa, followed by Nigeria and Algeria: black gold reserves are close to 3.5 percent of world reserves and more than double the U.S. Military intervention includes, without doubt, much more than concerns about the humanitarian issue: whether the U.S. achieved hegemony in the north African weakening of French influence in particular, and the other former European colonial powers in the entire black continent in general, closer to your strategic goal to dominate most of the resources of the planet. A plan dutifully Imperial.
The decision of the Security Council of the UN has at least three different objectives intimately linked by the same need. The most immediate is to prevent the defeat of the opposition National Council of Khadafi settled in the city of Benghazi. This objective serves to the second, to shield the invasion of Saudi Arabia to Bahrain. Converges to the repression imposed by the emirate, Tunisia and Yemen to dismantle the regional dynamics of the Arab rebellion. The third objective is to control the Libyan state to secure their deposits. A vast reserve of 46 billion barrels of light crude.
-Libyan Oil and its state, without which no oil- should be seen as a necessity of this imperial geopolitics. No empires out of commodities. U.S., Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, China also focus the need. No accident that the dominant multinational Khadafi in Libya want to continue after him. There is an exact
continuity of civilization was built with those derived from this crude and the open era in this century. Few things move in this world since the early twentieth century can do without oil as a basic input. What has been a breakthrough for mankind ended become "devil's excrement" in the hands of capital. This definition belongs Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, the Venezuelan minister that OPEC devised in 1960. When asked in an interview why such a macabre phrase for a resource as "useful", he reminded the reporter that "in the name of 'black gold' increased the statistics of the wars that were previously done by other things." He was right. (Disaster, JP Pérez Alfonzo and Domingo Alberto Rangel, Ediciones Vadeboncoeur, 84, Caracas, 1976.)
would be in the presence of war number 37 for control of oil directly, since 1914. This was the first by specialist authors, because it ended in the secret pact between France and England in 1916 to divide Syria and the Middle East under the mandates of Mesopotamia and Palestine. ("History of Oil", Daniel Yergin, 1992, and "oil wars", Geoeconomy, journal of the Institute Choiseul for International Policy and Geoeconomy No. 38, Paris, 2006.)
Following the data from the same sources covenants are recorded twelve territorial occupation between powers without resorting to armed conflict and some 75 coups in Asia, Africa including the Maghreb, the Persian Gulf, Eastern Europe and Latin America. An unknown number of civil wars have been promoted by oil companies. Yergin claims that were 27 in the twentieth century, but it is difficult to separate from other wars and sometimes started by coups such as Sudan, Nigeria and Indonesia.
Another key goal in Libya is OPEC. The powers need to control the world oil market and safeguarding long-term reserves. The problem is that in the middle are the states and some of them are independent systems, including anti-imperialist. OPEC lost Iraq-Kuwait, then to Libya since before now want their Iran or Venezuela, and thus gradually to liquidate the union.
there anything else that has to disturbed sleep. The "7 Sisters" oil companies current are based in seven nation-states of which only two, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, respond directly to the U.S. and NATO. The other five belong to independent States, China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil.
be exhausted in the way of mediation, reasoning and agreement ran out on his own power. African Unity has no moral basis for action, because it consists of repressive regimes and the Arab League played on the opposing side. Libya was left alone with a despot in Tripoli and Benghazi pro-US opposition.
Since then only feel the stench of a war fraught with oil. Rightly said Putin's call for coalition War "reminds a medieval crusade called"
The head of Russian government criticized the operation of the international alliance in Libya, which he called "crusade." disquieting lightness that can be taken at international level currently combat actions against sovereign states, "Putin said.
reminds me of a medieval call to the crusade, which encouraged everyone to march to a release area," Putin was quoted by the Interfax news agency.
Russia abstained in the vote in the Security Council of the UN to impose an air exclusion area in Libya and did not use its veto power. "The resolution of the Security Council is complete and it is harmful, "he said in a speech to workers in the city of Wotkinsk." Clearly it allows everything to everyone, including any action against a sovereign state. "
According to Putin, Libya is a country with criteria democratic, but despite this the West has no right to intervene in an internal conflict in favor of one party. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, also condemned the action against Libya. On a visit in the Egyptian capital Cairo demanded security for Russian citizens found in Libya.
XXI Century becomes infatuated with the Arab world. For the third time bombs plowed land west of an Arab regime under the pretext of restoring the country's freedom. Afghanistan was, in 2001, the first to taste the liberating impulses of the Bush administration. The former president set up a coalition, there were and remain London and Paris in order to overthrow the fundamentalist Taliban regime, the famous student of theology. " The operation was the response from Washington to support the Taliban had provided Osama bin Laden. But those nefarious "students" were also U.S. allies and the West, obedient local agents then turned against the empires of the West. Bush wanted to remove them from power and establish Western democratic scheme. Afghanistan is still occupied and in a state of war. In 2003, the second import experience of democracy with bombs was Saddam Hussein. Here, the excuse was to say that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. Saddam was not any. It was a powerful, frightening, bloody dictator worthy backed by virtually all the democracies of the developed world. In the struggle against Iran, Saddam was an essential part of the West. He sold guns, I bought their oil, they built palaces and buildings while the tyrant oppressing his people far beyond the limits of barbarism. Massacred Shiites and Kurds, tortured and bled their country to the nausea. Georges Bush evacuated to an invasion. In the name of democracy and weapons of mass destruction an international coalition, which was not France, planted bombs and death on Iraqi soil. The country is still occupied and in war. Libya is a case apart, but the arguments are the same: the military crusade is on behalf of civilians who ruthlessly killing Muammar Qaddafi since the country was lifted in mid-February. West Khadafi found an ideal partner to explode their bombs where the shocks of history had excluded. The Libyan revolution stems from the biological revolution Tunisia broke out and spread throughout the southern Mediterranean and Gulf countries. It was, for once, a genuine movement, authentic, historical demonstration, collective and exciting all the nonsense and lies by the way the Arab world were nothing more than the crude propaganda of the West, a liar and racist construction to exclude Arabs have a legitimate place in modernity and draw with it, the convenient advantage: under the pretext of the terrorist threat of Islamic fundamentalism or remained in power bloody and corrupt dinosaurs with which the great powers were multiple businesses. Arab revolutions in Egypt to Tunisia to Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Jordan, he showed the world that being Arab or Muslim does not mean being a terrorist, that the Koran was not a bomb and the distinctive beard and a suicide bomber behind the carved image and shaped by intelligence and Western interests there was a civil society. The emergence of western aircraft in the sky Libyan comes to tarnish that dynamic. Again, the messianic enterprise of the great powers are put to work to save the civilians of a tyrant with which those same powers fruitful relationships of proximity. No Democrat can deplore to a tyranny, but the way they live Khadafi perhaps his last moments at the head of a country shattered by 41 years of dictatorship, the two phases of Italian colonialism before and during Benito Mussolini, the British administration and the feeble monarchy of King Idris, Libya reintroduced by the British. The operation mounted to oust him smells of precipitation, cross-political interests, to adventure armed accents legitimacy is unsafe and leaves a feeling of confidence that the good end which it proposes, to free a people from dictatorship and repression, fails to clear. No doubt there were other ways to help the Libyan opposition to fighting off Khadafi. With less at stake among the actors central and peripheral influences on this crisis would not have been necessary to resort again to the Western military surgery. There were many roads, but the West retraced his steps to meet the usual formula: the release of blood and fire. The powers are put weapons in a game that belonged to them and that they contributed to complicate his mediation hasty, their inconsistency, their cowardice and their remote reflection, constantly renewed, close your eyes, make a pact with the devil, and then open when it is too late for everyone.
Eventually the war will destroy everything, the people in any way be released, and the democracy installed, democracy is no solution to the agonies suffered by the society bombarded. Afghanistan and Iraq are two examples of that and now have to add Libya. In both countries the forces imposed democracies, and none of the two countries, the situation improved lake way. Afghanistan and Iraq are being bombed, their puppet governments do not solve any problem and the wealth of both countries are being plundered by the big powers, through their corporations, but the country in question has some left. But the world applauds the interventions on behalf of God, democracy and freedom.
Libya attacking countries hide behind a resolution Security Council of the UN, one of the least democratic and representative bodies on the planet. However, what the Council provides is holy word, they are the ones that establish what is and what is not good or bad in the world. Think a little, there are 5 countries with veto power, and decide what to do and not do, without asking anything to the other 187 countries that make up the UN, and yet the whole world to accept its decisions without questioning anything . The decisions of the UN Security translates into blocks that create hunger, mafias and corruption, bombs and bullets, hit states in several atrocities. I often wonder who is really the monster in this story and who does not is.
Who will the Coalition of Cerberus in Libya to care for the gateways to the EU in Africa? Who will be the Libyan leader to keep colonizing oil contracts in Libya? Who will be the new power from Tripoli Libyan give away all the interests that the country and abroad Khadafi? What unifies Libyan leader ideological, ethnic and religious to Libya does not disintegrate into civil wars and countries want to bomb today? Who will be the new global enemy once Khadafi be exterminated? When we realize that the 5 countries with veto power in the Council UN Security are the real dictators of this country?
The world economic crisis, countries fit, trim, leaving people on the street, retired without pensions, people without medical care, but at the first opportunity, start a war. How much does each flight of a fighter jet?
Operation Odyssey of Dawn "against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya shows that the fiscal problems of the developed countries do not affect the launch of military missions.
While social spending cuts and frozen wages and state pensions unavoidable citing financial difficulties, the military operations are carried out with a simple calculation of costs.
debtor in the most global, United States, it is estimated that the cost of missiles a day amounts to about $ 100 million: a prolonged operation would cost several billion.
In the UK, living under the shadow of some of the tax cuts more drastic of the European Union, EU, it is estimated that each missile costs about $ 700,000, while an output of Tornado fighter jets is around $ 40,000.
Even in Greece, which had to be rescued by the EU and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, last year, a television channel this week put the outcry when calculating yet the marginal Greek involvement in the conflict would cost one million euros per day.
"is nonsense. There is a kind of taboo when talking about the cost of conflict. The priorities of the political class in many countries is deplorable," he told BBC Chris Nineheam spokesman for the Stop the War Coalition in London.
What should be clear, that is understood, is that the missiles of the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Spain, in principle, can accidentally fall into a school, hospital or living in Libya, but never fall into an oil well. So play
friends when they are friends, and play Imperial power on earth to ensure your domain and benefits for a thousand years.
We microstories in the structure of a great novel whose first read but its end was not yet written. We happened: we got, we see and we win or lose. Whilst awaiting the final curtain, we take comfort that something we learn from and the cycle of life, comforted us and let us develop our role, we do not earring the "storm", the Holocaust, the market crisis, we console ourselves with the power to pronounce and act our lines, at successive stages in the life-game in which we play. The beginning, during the final and after that fantasy usually leads to madness and religions and blockbusters or the renowned best-sellers find us standing, raising flags and managing our turning points. Grotesque narrative detestable reality surrounding us, should know what we are doing to get somewhere. As
on a story by Graham Greene, Libya secret meetings alternating with quiet time, just as we have Green's prose bombings, threats and instances where cross international chains repeated promises of foreign presidents, as always, promising freedom, justice and peace. Within this atmosphere, the dream scenario "for nothing-mixed cities, roads, deserts, bullets, oil wells, multinational, righteous men, as many sinners, explosions, weird looking shadows in cars, dealers, mercenaries, intelligence, skilled in the art, ignorant and very stupid in the world who speaks or is silent selfishly. In this story is loyal, persecuted opponents, rebels, innocent, guilty and impossible to confirm rumors every hour by turning the hospitals, police stations, the houses closed, the cities destroyed, street fairs, and schools which have become rubble . And this is just a vignette of what can be the downfall of a regime that for decades played an important role in Libya and the rest world. The fall of a dictator who bought by force and power of the petrodollars the character of God, Desert Tigre. We in the Land of Greene. Perhaps only the author who comes to life in The Comedians in the Haiti of Papa Doc or Our Man in Havana in Batista's Cuba could do justice to the heavy atmosphere that is felt in Tripoli in what may be the last weeks of the reign of Khadafi.
In the 41 years in power Moammar Mohamed Abd As-Salam Abu Minyar to Khadafi, or simply Muammar Gaddafi, has displayed a political and ideological transformations and degree of eccentricity difficult to match. Luis D'Elia, Argentina's leader and social piquetero said in his radio program, "Gadhafi went from being 'the tiger of the desert' a 'kitty empire'" best explanation to understand the figure of a leader, dictator, liberating , murderer, there can be and perhaps in this metamorphosis Not-so-resident was the explanation of why the civil war in Libya and the future foreign invasion-more-in other Arab lands of the empire.
In 1969, when his fellow soldiers he was appointed the person who would lead the coup against King Idris, Khadafi was only a captain of 27 years, only 27 years old and already commanded a military coup against an Arab royal family. With victory achieved, was at the head of Libya in the moment they were discovered in the country its vast reserves of oil, which gave him room to undertake major reforms in education, health and social rights, then unpublished in the country and the rest of the region. His reforms were enrolled in what was called from 1977, the Jamahiriya, or "state of the masses," his peculiar theory of democracy, in which fees were abolished and traditional institutions-it is simply Leader Revolution ", to" give power to the people. " The people's committees, consisting of faithful at all costs, displaced ministers, governors, mayors. In this way he managed to amalgamate their power to their environment and their fists. Controversial Khadafi
ranked the eight children he had with his two wives in key parts of the economy and armed forces, preparing to succeed one of them, Saif al Islam. Khadafi fan of pan-Arabism of Gamal Abdel Nasser, but also of Che, Mao, the USSR and more recently, Hugo Chavez, Qaddafi endorsed in the '70s and '80s, with funding and training to guerrillas and movements national liberation of many countries Montoneros.
earned Khadafi This created an aura of progressive, considering it was in the anti-imperialist camp, not a few leftist movements looked the other way when all social protest or repress internal political opposition. Perhaps at this point resides one of the most important conflicts of interest when criticizing Khadafi figure openly in the conflict that occurs in the human and material aid given in past decades to the liberation movements of Latin America and Africa, and on the other, being a dictator, a leader who violated human rights inside and outside the country. Khadafi's figure can be summarized as a coup, early revolutionary, entrepreneur, arms dealer and interests, advocate and a partner oppressors rather hidden-system-imperialist depose both during his unquestionable.
His fiery speech, his outbursts, his "originality" made him a colorful, dark, grotesque. Khadafi has been busy making great Populist movements have exploited the media, while he and his family lived in abundance and accumulated wealth and power and the rest of the population, despite its huge advances, returned slowly to ruin, with their children, their demagoguery, with his eccentricities built a unique image. Over the years, great progress of society were reduced to nothing and was spending his image as the murals painted on public buildings in Tripoli.
Accused by U.S. of being behind terrorist attacks in 1985 against the Rome and Vienna airports and an attack on a Berlin nightclub frequented by U.S. soldiers in 1986, Ronald Reagan made bomb his tent, which killed his daughter Jana. In 1988 he accused Libya of being behind the bombing of a Pan Am airliner in flight over Scotland, which left 270 dead. And Khadafi finally accepted his responsibility, giving the officers accused by Britain and compensating the victims in April 1999. and managed to lift the veto on the UN and the United States disbanded years inthat most government ministries formed and transferred its powers to the municipal people's congresses.
In 2003, Gadhafi announced a radical reform of the socialist regime, was born the so-called "popular capitalism", which was merely the contained culmination of the opening of the Libyan economy to internal and external Privador sector that was growing for four years.
And to finish: in December 2003 reached an agreement with U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair, for decommissioning by Libya of its weapons of mass destruction.
The Libyan diplomatic approach to the Western democracies continued in 2004, on 20 September of that year, Bush lifted the trade embargo that the United States exercised since 1986, three months later the two countries reestablished diplomatic ties, broken for a long 24 years, in turn, on 22 September, the European Union (EU) put an end to the arms embargo imposed 18 years earlier.
Khadafi is a mutant X-Men His profound changes since the revolution of 69 to today has led to a personal social hierarch of a "monarchical republic" whose heir is his eldest son, Sayf al-Islam al-Gaddafi, who has been appointed sole legal successor. Their businesses shared multimedia projects Berlusconi also speak of this conversion Kafkaesque protagonist of the Axis of Evil a friend of the West, receiving honors for Sarkozy or Condoleeza Rice.
We claim that we know little of what which occurs in Libya and suspicious of Western condemnation, media and institutional, in recent days. We can leave it at that. The imperialists are very smart about how to manipulate information. They have many specific interests in the area, have defended all the way to their dictators, but when they realized that they were untenable have dropped and have chosen another strategy: to support democratic processes controlled motor selecting postmodern minorities limited changes and deploy without shame, knowing that the memory is short and slow reflexes puppet democracies, rights ghosts easily modified ..
Khadafi has been for the past ten years a great friend of the EU and the U.S. and its allies in the region dictators. Suffice it to recall the inflammatory statements of support from the Libyan Caligula deposed Ben Ali, whose militia is likely provided weapons and money in the days after Jan. 14. Docile enough to remember also the cooperation with the U.S. Khadafi in the context of the "war on terror." Political cooperation has been accompanied by close economic ties with the EU, including Spain, the sale of oil to Italy, France and the U.S. has been parallel to the entry into Libya's large Western companies (the English company Repsol, British Petroleum, France's Total, Italy's ENI and the Austrian OM), not to mention the juicy contracts for the European and English building in Tripoli. Moreover, France and America have continued to provide weapons to kill from the air now his own people, as France and the United States, following the example of imperial Italy since 1911. In 2008 former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made it very clear: "Libya and the United States share permanent interests: cooperation in the fight against terrorism, trade, nuclear proliferation, Africa, human rights and democracy." Khadafi
When he visited France in December 2007, Ayman El-Caiman summarized the situation in a paragraph which I reproduce here: "Almost ten years ago, Khadafi longer for the democratic West unwise individual: that he be taken off the U.S. list of terrorist states acknowledged responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, for normalize relations with the United Kingdom, gave the names of all Irish republicans who had trained in Libya to normalize the United States, gave all the information he had about the Libyans suspected of involvement in jihad with Bin Laden and renounced its "weapons of mass destruction" as well as call on Syria to do likewise, to normalize relations with the European Union, became the guardian of the concentration camps, where inmates are thousands of Africans bound for Europe, to normalize its relations with its sinister neighbor Ben Ali gave opponents refugees in Libya. "
Khadafi is neither revolutionary nor an ally, even tactical, the revolutionaries of the world, perhaps he could be in 60'o 70 ', but the actual murderer puppet is not. In 2008, Fidel and Chávez (with Mercosur) rightly denounced the "shameful directive" European reinforcing the already severe persecution in Europe of humanity stripped of the boats and the walls. All Khadafi crimes perhaps the most serious and the less well known is his complicity in the immigration policy of the EU, particularly Italy, as the executioner of African migrants. Despite reports that talk about actual practices of extermination "or precisely because of them, demonstrating the effectiveness of Khadafi as guardian of Europe, the European Commission in October signed a" cooperation agenda "for the" management of migration flows and "border control", valid until 2013 and accompanied by delivery to Libya of 50 million euros.
Europe's relationship with Khadafi has brushed submission. Berlusconi, Sarkozy, Zapatero and Blair was greeted with Hugs in 2007 and Zapatero himself visited him in Tripoli in 2010. Even King Juan Carlos went to Tripoli in January 2009 to promote English companies. On the other hand, the EU will not hesitate to humiliate and publicly apologize March 27, 2010 through the then English Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, having banned 188 Libyans into Europe by the conflict between Switzerland and Libya by the arrest of Gadhafi's son in Geneva accused of maltreating their domestic staff. Even more: the EU has not given the slightest protest when Khadafi took retaliatory economic, trade and human or when performed against Switzerland call for holy war against it or when it publicly declared its desire to be wiped off the map.
None of the current resists Khadafi sworn enemies of a file: There has been a long time since the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, literally kissed the hand of khadafi-in addition to an investor Juventus shareholder of Finmeccanica, one of the Italian arms major companies "and he could install his Bedouin tent in Rome, but from one day to another he dropped like a stone. The same goes for the British who sold lots of arms to Colonel.
In June 2010, Saif Gaddafi told the British newspaper Daily Mirror that the former premier Tony Blair has an excellent relationship with my father. " Blair is considered a trusted advisor to the Libyan Investment Authority. With that British exports to Libya were up about 930 million euros in recent years.
has been forgotten in the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his English counterpart, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a few months ago were fans and lobbyists Khadafi and held that it was essential to boost ties with that country, which was reached to sell to the world as "an oasis for foreign investment."
To see how history has changed within months, not have to see how it is defined to Libya in a story published on the website of the Foreign Trade Institute of Spain (ICEX). "Many experts do not hesitate to point out that Libya is currently booming economic expansion and aiming to become the new Dubai of the Mediterranean coast," read the Libya Investment information late last year that remained posted on the Web official body even after the air strikes began.
A sample of the radical change in alliance with Libya is that in November last year 120 companies from 21 countries (including the English firm Indra) participated in the fair's security and defense Libdex 2010, held at the military airport to mitigate, with Tripoli. United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, China and Russia attended the meeting. Now, the UN has banned all commercial transactions related to defense.
In language very similar to that used its predecessor, José María Aznar, in 2003, when Spain involved in the Iraq war, the current English President says intervention in Libya was "humanitarian."
To avoid such comparisons leave it badly, Zapatero argues that the United Nations (UN) has endorsed the Khadafi intervention to end, something happened in Iraq after the first attacks on Baghdad.
not true that intervention in Libya, Gaddafi is to prevent slaughter of civilians, but the insurgents are a heterogeneous amalgam in which converge monarchist nostalgic for an old king who advocate Islamic Holy War, cousins \u200b\u200bof Al Qaeda and in-laws of Western interests in the region.
In Spain, Gaddafi and Libyan state-owned companies control the Aresbank bank's network of service stations and various real estate Tamoil. Its crown jewel is the La Resinera, located in Malaga, where he planned to build a mega resort.
All of these assets (with the exception of Tamoil) are operated as part of the agreement of EU governments to freeze the properties of Khadafi and prevent the use to finance the war. The Bank of Spain, for example, has taken over Aresbank.
The English government has also intervened Khadafi bank accounts and 25 other members of his family, including his son Muammar Khamis, who was studying a Masters in Business School.
Spain, however, is not the first fate of Libyan money. In Italy, the former colony, Khadafi participates in Unicredit, the aerospace firm Finmeccanica, and ENI, as well as on the soccer team Juventus, in Turin.
Libya's largest investment is the UniCredit. In late 2008, in the middle of global financial crisis, the Libyan Central Bank purchased shares of the largest Italian bank, was in serious trouble. With the help of Libyan sovereign wealth fund Investment Authority (Leia), Libya became the largest shareholder in UniCredit (with 7.582%), currently one of the largest banks in Europe.
Since January 2011, the Libyan government owns 2.01% of the aerospace and defense group Finmeccanica, the Italian state-controlled. Libya has also almost 0.5% of the oil company ENI. Has 22% of the textile company Olcese and 7.5% of Juventus football club. In June 2009, a company controlled by the Arab Foreign Investment Company acquired a 10% stake in Quinta Communications, of which the majority shareholder is Berlusconi.
But even more striking is the change of position of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has gone from selling arms to Qaddafi to lead the attacks on Tripoli. In recent years, the Gallic leader has agreed to build a nuclear power plant in Libya, has confirmed the sale of missiles to Khadafi and paid ransoms of hundreds of millions of euros to the system to free up some nurses hostage. Khadafi has been claimed that he financed part of Sarkozy's election campaign.
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swallows the threat of Khadafi to disclose the amounts, accounts and the banks through which financed his political career if the threat becomes reality, could ensure the victory of Jean Marie Le Pen in the French elections .
As in any war of conquest, in Libya not only weapons, but those who fired, sold to the highest bidder. Perhaps because of this, the first to drop bombs on the army and people of Libya outside France, attempting to intimidate or even annihilate Khadafi not to talk.
The popular uprising in Libya may seem odd, but there may be some reasonable explanations for understanding Case, on the one hand, we can say that the Libyan regime has degenerated in recent years, or so-called socialism was only a front for the regime to hold the Libyan people, we can also say that the anti-imperialist rebellion Khadafi has been just that, pure rebellion, or that the U.S. is taking advantage of these protests in North Africa to settle scores with Khadafi. Think are the top three without discarding the latter.
Khadafi regime is out of print for at least 30 years. Urgently needed that Libya has another government. It is clear that the continuity of Libya's Khadafi to the front due to the power which they hold and the game playing with the major world powers, what powers being asked to be at certain times in history, a day the enemy, another ally, another collaborator and sometimes a monster who must be sacrificed. Libya is not Egypt, but in Egypt the majority of the population faced Mubarak, they were mostly in Libya, that does not happen and so many deaths. Also supports the Army Khadafi in Libya and Egypt, the army released her hand to Mubarak at the magnitude of the protest started shortly after the revolt. Funny
the process that led to the bombing of Libya. The White House hesitated long before they give their approval, said he hoped a resolution of Security Council and approval of the Arab League. Clarified that only later, when several senators complained about the delay in action. One wonders why this delay: expected counteroffensive Khadafi for the two disputing parties are weakened to the maximum, thus opening the possibility of installing a government as akin to the U.S. like Saudi Arabia?
The Pentagon chief Robert Gates and Admiral William Gortney declared that Khadafi is not part of the "target list" and that killing is not on the UN mandate, while the British defense secretary, Liam Fox, reiterated that the Libyan dictator was "a legitimate target." At the very least, Zarkozy dreams that Khadafi stop breathing. The president said that U.S. military intervention was due "to an international arrangement" and that his country's participation is limited, but did not clarify their goals. Resolution 1973 authorizes the Security Council to stop "all means" the killing of civilians unleashed by Khadafi, so that its scope is, at least, indefinite. One of those means would be the invasion, as in Iraq? Obama said that the invasion is not contemplated, but everything is limited to the victory of the rebels or not the regime.
The Arab League is upset because in his view, was established no-fly zone to prevent more civilian deaths, not to increase their number with the raids. Do not remember the consequences of the same measures applied to other countries without major political outcomes? The air exclusion zones imposed twenty years ago not ousted Saddam Hussein, but were propped up with economic sanctions and blockade inflicted serious damage on the Iraqi people. "I did not know that the West League resolved the impasse by invading Iraq? Do you worry now because it is not unanimous global support for the odyssey of Dawn and also because he questions his role in sheltering the bombing of a nation Arabic?
The White House does not diminish his optimism: the attacks would last "days, not weeks," an opinion in which Hillary Clinton is the manager of repeating, but that idea did not share much. Huriburt Heather, who heads the National Security Network, a group working for the White House, said the outcome in Libya "will be more like that of Kosovo to Baghdad." Kosovo: months and months, not days, of bombing firestorms and the passage of one year from the end of the massacres ordered by Slobodan Milosevic and his deposition. "The end is near," added Haliburt. The ending was the overthrow of Gadhafi and that, indeed, is not nearby. Washington seeks to get rid of the command of the operation, Obama may not want to appear as the aggressor against another Muslim country, the third in a decade, but NATO can not take over the job officially, Germany abstained in the vote of the Board of Security has withdrawn all its forces from the Mediterranean and decided not to participate in the no-fly zone. Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested, however, a general embargo on Libyan energy, causing a general frown eyebrows European countries imported 85 percent of Libyan oil is supplied by Germany and Russia. Industry giants such as France's Total, the Italian ENI, British BP, the consortium English Repsol and Chevron, among others, the Libyan soil extract.
Libya is the most important oil-producing nation in Africa, followed by Nigeria and Algeria: black gold reserves are close to 3.5 percent of world reserves and more than double the U.S. Military intervention includes, without doubt, much more than concerns about the humanitarian issue: whether the U.S. achieved hegemony in the north African weakening of French influence in particular, and the other former European colonial powers in the entire black continent in general, closer to your strategic goal to dominate most of the resources of the planet. A plan dutifully Imperial.
The decision of the Security Council of the UN has at least three different objectives intimately linked by the same need. The most immediate is to prevent the defeat of the opposition National Council of Khadafi settled in the city of Benghazi. This objective serves to the second, to shield the invasion of Saudi Arabia to Bahrain. Converges to the repression imposed by the emirate, Tunisia and Yemen to dismantle the regional dynamics of the Arab rebellion. The third objective is to control the Libyan state to secure their deposits. A vast reserve of 46 billion barrels of light crude.
-Libyan Oil and its state, without which no oil- should be seen as a necessity of this imperial geopolitics. No empires out of commodities. U.S., Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, China also focus the need. No accident that the dominant multinational Khadafi in Libya want to continue after him. There is an exact
continuity of civilization was built with those derived from this crude and the open era in this century. Few things move in this world since the early twentieth century can do without oil as a basic input. What has been a breakthrough for mankind ended become "devil's excrement" in the hands of capital. This definition belongs Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, the Venezuelan minister that OPEC devised in 1960. When asked in an interview why such a macabre phrase for a resource as "useful", he reminded the reporter that "in the name of 'black gold' increased the statistics of the wars that were previously done by other things." He was right. (Disaster, JP Pérez Alfonzo and Domingo Alberto Rangel, Ediciones Vadeboncoeur, 84, Caracas, 1976.)
would be in the presence of war number 37 for control of oil directly, since 1914. This was the first by specialist authors, because it ended in the secret pact between France and England in 1916 to divide Syria and the Middle East under the mandates of Mesopotamia and Palestine. ("History of Oil", Daniel Yergin, 1992, and "oil wars", Geoeconomy, journal of the Institute Choiseul for International Policy and Geoeconomy No. 38, Paris, 2006.)
Following the data from the same sources covenants are recorded twelve territorial occupation between powers without resorting to armed conflict and some 75 coups in Asia, Africa including the Maghreb, the Persian Gulf, Eastern Europe and Latin America. An unknown number of civil wars have been promoted by oil companies. Yergin claims that were 27 in the twentieth century, but it is difficult to separate from other wars and sometimes started by coups such as Sudan, Nigeria and Indonesia.
Another key goal in Libya is OPEC. The powers need to control the world oil market and safeguarding long-term reserves. The problem is that in the middle are the states and some of them are independent systems, including anti-imperialist. OPEC lost Iraq-Kuwait, then to Libya since before now want their Iran or Venezuela, and thus gradually to liquidate the union.
there anything else that has to disturbed sleep. The "7 Sisters" oil companies current are based in seven nation-states of which only two, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, respond directly to the U.S. and NATO. The other five belong to independent States, China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil.
be exhausted in the way of mediation, reasoning and agreement ran out on his own power. African Unity has no moral basis for action, because it consists of repressive regimes and the Arab League played on the opposing side. Libya was left alone with a despot in Tripoli and Benghazi pro-US opposition.
Since then only feel the stench of a war fraught with oil. Rightly said Putin's call for coalition War "reminds a medieval crusade called"
The head of Russian government criticized the operation of the international alliance in Libya, which he called "crusade." disquieting lightness that can be taken at international level currently combat actions against sovereign states, "Putin said.
reminds me of a medieval call to the crusade, which encouraged everyone to march to a release area," Putin was quoted by the Interfax news agency.
Russia abstained in the vote in the Security Council of the UN to impose an air exclusion area in Libya and did not use its veto power. "The resolution of the Security Council is complete and it is harmful, "he said in a speech to workers in the city of Wotkinsk." Clearly it allows everything to everyone, including any action against a sovereign state. "
According to Putin, Libya is a country with criteria democratic, but despite this the West has no right to intervene in an internal conflict in favor of one party. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, also condemned the action against Libya. On a visit in the Egyptian capital Cairo demanded security for Russian citizens found in Libya.
XXI Century becomes infatuated with the Arab world. For the third time bombs plowed land west of an Arab regime under the pretext of restoring the country's freedom. Afghanistan was, in 2001, the first to taste the liberating impulses of the Bush administration. The former president set up a coalition, there were and remain London and Paris in order to overthrow the fundamentalist Taliban regime, the famous student of theology. " The operation was the response from Washington to support the Taliban had provided Osama bin Laden. But those nefarious "students" were also U.S. allies and the West, obedient local agents then turned against the empires of the West. Bush wanted to remove them from power and establish Western democratic scheme. Afghanistan is still occupied and in a state of war. In 2003, the second import experience of democracy with bombs was Saddam Hussein. Here, the excuse was to say that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. Saddam was not any. It was a powerful, frightening, bloody dictator worthy backed by virtually all the democracies of the developed world. In the struggle against Iran, Saddam was an essential part of the West. He sold guns, I bought their oil, they built palaces and buildings while the tyrant oppressing his people far beyond the limits of barbarism. Massacred Shiites and Kurds, tortured and bled their country to the nausea. Georges Bush evacuated to an invasion. In the name of democracy and weapons of mass destruction an international coalition, which was not France, planted bombs and death on Iraqi soil. The country is still occupied and in war. Libya is a case apart, but the arguments are the same: the military crusade is on behalf of civilians who ruthlessly killing Muammar Qaddafi since the country was lifted in mid-February. West Khadafi found an ideal partner to explode their bombs where the shocks of history had excluded. The Libyan revolution stems from the biological revolution Tunisia broke out and spread throughout the southern Mediterranean and Gulf countries. It was, for once, a genuine movement, authentic, historical demonstration, collective and exciting all the nonsense and lies by the way the Arab world were nothing more than the crude propaganda of the West, a liar and racist construction to exclude Arabs have a legitimate place in modernity and draw with it, the convenient advantage: under the pretext of the terrorist threat of Islamic fundamentalism or remained in power bloody and corrupt dinosaurs with which the great powers were multiple businesses. Arab revolutions in Egypt to Tunisia to Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Jordan, he showed the world that being Arab or Muslim does not mean being a terrorist, that the Koran was not a bomb and the distinctive beard and a suicide bomber behind the carved image and shaped by intelligence and Western interests there was a civil society. The emergence of western aircraft in the sky Libyan comes to tarnish that dynamic. Again, the messianic enterprise of the great powers are put to work to save the civilians of a tyrant with which those same powers fruitful relationships of proximity. No Democrat can deplore to a tyranny, but the way they live Khadafi perhaps his last moments at the head of a country shattered by 41 years of dictatorship, the two phases of Italian colonialism before and during Benito Mussolini, the British administration and the feeble monarchy of King Idris, Libya reintroduced by the British. The operation mounted to oust him smells of precipitation, cross-political interests, to adventure armed accents legitimacy is unsafe and leaves a feeling of confidence that the good end which it proposes, to free a people from dictatorship and repression, fails to clear. No doubt there were other ways to help the Libyan opposition to fighting off Khadafi. With less at stake among the actors central and peripheral influences on this crisis would not have been necessary to resort again to the Western military surgery. There were many roads, but the West retraced his steps to meet the usual formula: the release of blood and fire. The powers are put weapons in a game that belonged to them and that they contributed to complicate his mediation hasty, their inconsistency, their cowardice and their remote reflection, constantly renewed, close your eyes, make a pact with the devil, and then open when it is too late for everyone.
Eventually the war will destroy everything, the people in any way be released, and the democracy installed, democracy is no solution to the agonies suffered by the society bombarded. Afghanistan and Iraq are two examples of that and now have to add Libya. In both countries the forces imposed democracies, and none of the two countries, the situation improved lake way. Afghanistan and Iraq are being bombed, their puppet governments do not solve any problem and the wealth of both countries are being plundered by the big powers, through their corporations, but the country in question has some left. But the world applauds the interventions on behalf of God, democracy and freedom.
Libya attacking countries hide behind a resolution Security Council of the UN, one of the least democratic and representative bodies on the planet. However, what the Council provides is holy word, they are the ones that establish what is and what is not good or bad in the world. Think a little, there are 5 countries with veto power, and decide what to do and not do, without asking anything to the other 187 countries that make up the UN, and yet the whole world to accept its decisions without questioning anything . The decisions of the UN Security translates into blocks that create hunger, mafias and corruption, bombs and bullets, hit states in several atrocities. I often wonder who is really the monster in this story and who does not is.
Who will the Coalition of Cerberus in Libya to care for the gateways to the EU in Africa? Who will be the Libyan leader to keep colonizing oil contracts in Libya? Who will be the new power from Tripoli Libyan give away all the interests that the country and abroad Khadafi? What unifies Libyan leader ideological, ethnic and religious to Libya does not disintegrate into civil wars and countries want to bomb today? Who will be the new global enemy once Khadafi be exterminated? When we realize that the 5 countries with veto power in the Council UN Security are the real dictators of this country?
The world economic crisis, countries fit, trim, leaving people on the street, retired without pensions, people without medical care, but at the first opportunity, start a war. How much does each flight of a fighter jet?
Operation Odyssey of Dawn "against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya shows that the fiscal problems of the developed countries do not affect the launch of military missions.
While social spending cuts and frozen wages and state pensions unavoidable citing financial difficulties, the military operations are carried out with a simple calculation of costs.
debtor in the most global, United States, it is estimated that the cost of missiles a day amounts to about $ 100 million: a prolonged operation would cost several billion.
In the UK, living under the shadow of some of the tax cuts more drastic of the European Union, EU, it is estimated that each missile costs about $ 700,000, while an output of Tornado fighter jets is around $ 40,000.
Even in Greece, which had to be rescued by the EU and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, last year, a television channel this week put the outcry when calculating yet the marginal Greek involvement in the conflict would cost one million euros per day.
"is nonsense. There is a kind of taboo when talking about the cost of conflict. The priorities of the political class in many countries is deplorable," he told BBC Chris Nineheam spokesman for the Stop the War Coalition in London.
What should be clear, that is understood, is that the missiles of the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Spain, in principle, can accidentally fall into a school, hospital or living in Libya, but never fall into an oil well. So play
friends when they are friends, and play Imperial power on earth to ensure your domain and benefits for a thousand years.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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Appearances ...
When he dropped out jumped the low wall overlooking the pier and let his instincts guide him toward the sea. Settled his feet and watched the waves crashing on the rocks discrete. He tried to look beyond but saw only foam. Such was the darkness that was the night.
There, alone with the sea, loosened his pants and finally emptied his bladder.
suddenly felt a presence, a rustle of cloth and a cough. To his right, looking also at sea, was death.
There, alone with the sea, loosened his pants and finally emptied his bladder.
suddenly felt a presence, a rustle of cloth and a cough. To his right, looking also at sea, was death.
felt a chill and a strange indifference that turned in surprise to see how death fumbles in his clothes and throwing his head back slightly, he began to piss also sighing with relief.
Someone sang to his left and looking encountered a pirate with a sword between his teeth struggled to loosen his belt. Beside him urinating and an astronaut and beyond an angel and a gorilla shared a cigarette.
smiled thinking how surreal the scene as he ordered his clothes and placed it on the mask and clown nose.
then returned slowly to the roar of carnival in the crowd looking for his buddies, who at that hour of robbing a bank to sit on the street, after stealing the crown to a Pharaoh and a pair of wrens that passed through it.
On the island of La Palma, timeless and full of ghosts, and almost dawn.
cargadito of love and I came pretty things, with the homespun heart, in sneakers. You have got very deep. "Thank you" is a word very small ... would have to invent another. I love you.
PS: Do not fail to read the first comment ...
Monday, March 21, 2011
How Much Does It Cost To Recover A Boat
The real Godzilla Interventional Fragility
Godzilla, ancient mythical being is awakened (I think it is female) from their sleep by a nuclear phenomenon and decides to terrorize Tokyo. Like the tsunami is an unstoppable force that destroys everything and terrorizing the population.
It is no secret that the Japanese have a certain romance to the disaster. As the only country that has suffered a nuclear bomb - Hiroshima and Nagasaki - and that in turn has suffered some terrible earthquakes in history, it is not surprising that the Japanese are also the creators of some of the most famous monsters that come from Tues
Godzilla, ancient mythical being is awakened (I think it is female) from their sleep by a nuclear phenomenon and decides to terrorize Tokyo. Like the tsunami is an unstoppable force that destroys everything and terrorizing the population. is a fiction that somehow helps us prepare for the tragedy, assuming that one can, in fact, prepared. It helps us because, at least, no longer is "unimaginable." Aggression in nature has points of reference and comparison. But that does not cease to be moving and painful.
Today I think, for example, 30 children from the day of the earthquake are still at Primary School Kama Ishinomak city, hoping that their parents will pick up. The thirty wait patiently each afternoon after school to his mother or father go through them as they did every day. Thinking of their homes, their families, the children look.
According to reports the Daily Mail, these children, who range from 8 to 12 years old, are filled with hope when they hear the sound of the door of the school. They look back with eyes wide open . But do not come for them.
His teachers say that it is likely that children know that no one will come looking for them, but they say nothing. Say it is real. Say it is burying their parents. They prefer silence. And it's those rare times when the uncertainty, not knowing it is better to know. Until we know, the sound of the door still hopeful.
Masami Hoshi, physical education teacher, explains that the tsunami reached the time when the parents of this age group began to arrive to pick up their children. Some arrived early and managed to reach safety. Chances is that the others took to the sea.
no running water, electricity or heating, the school is a shelter for 657 people who roam the halls and corridors muddy. Among them are these 30 children every afternoon, at the same time, watch door.
I think of these children and I believe that Godzilla's prepared a little for this. That may imagine their parents fighting the monster, being heroes, saving others. I think that these kids can fantasize about the triumphant return of their fathers or mothers, after saving Tokyo.
Clearly their parents will be among the thousands and thousands of corpses now lost or unknown to saturate the morgues. will be among those who died horrible deaths, drowned and crushed by nature, when they were going to pick up their children from school .
What may be less reprehensible than that? What could have happened to merit abandoning their children forever in school?
These small have faced the real Godzilla. They are the face and symbol of the Japanese tragedy will be the subject of myths. And I hope that will grow and have their own children and I can say before sleep, "your grandfather was taken by the monster ... But not me. I do not take. "
Sunday, March 20, 2011
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Always.
The first thing you had to learn to ride the time was up and get going. That was a train that never stopped.
has always had wanted to visit the past and the future but, ultimately, was a little disappointed. As much as I travel in time, it did not matter what season dismount ... there was no question: It was always now.
To Puck.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
My Shoulders Hurt When I Drink Alcohol
Gods.
a little girl was taught to pray to the God of their grandparents. Kneeling with fear, he prayed as they sing a song learned to not really understand.
then adopted other gods with devotion foreigners with exotic names and animal head. Lit candles and burned incense, and between coughs and dizziness, reciting mantras nor foreign papiamento never understood.
later invented his own god, closer, everyday. Not even given a name. He sat quietly and with simple words asked things.
finally decided to fall in love with life and accept the mystery. He forgot all gods. Each morning, simply, I spent a little time to thank opening to life ... to what each new day will bring with the tide.
Only then really found itself.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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While Japan is shaken the disarray and destruction, with everyone watching, Gaddafi should celebrate: today no one thinks of the slaughter he is making to keep their insane government in place. Economic and human energy will turn to the Japanese, leaving - again, the Libyans into oblivion ...
He was all mad to require unnecessarily (again) that the international community to intervene in Libya when Japan was hit by the savage earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The human and material consequences are not yet quantifiable but will undoubtedly be enormous. And it's funny to happen soon after the first anniversary of the earthquake in Chile, which also was massive and left entire villages in mud. I recently heard of the tragedy in New Zealand, which also caused death and destruction. In Chile there is still strong earthquakes frequently, and now we see this azotón virulent in the Pacific plate. It is not necessary to be an expert to realize that the earth is shaken.
this earthquake has impressive result by the number of images that exist. The de Chile a year ago was in the morning, limiting the ability to capture clear images of the tsunami, but now we have seen how water travels over the earth, dragging everything in its path, including houses burned. For a long time
hear the human stories of loss, pain and courage of people facing this challenge that nature have been thrown. The images continue going out and showing the magnitude of the tragedy.
While Japan is shaken the disarray and destruction, with everyone watching, Gaddafi should celebrate: today no one thinks of the slaughter he is making to keep their insane government in place. Economic and human energy will turn to the Japanese, leaving - again, the Libyans into oblivion. "Ultimately, it is only Africans" seem to think the international community. Africa, as usual, is a land where life is fragile and worth little.
Not only that, this day-March -11 is the day that commemorates another anniversary of the terrorist attack in Madrid on March 11 that left 192 dead and millions injured and out inside.
What we have today? A world in which the blood does not stop running. A world that comes from our abuse showing, again, their power over us. A world in which, as in a good zombie movie, the humans are worse. Because no matter how dull and destroy nature, we have always killed more.
This happens today and I think of the fragility. The fragility of our lives, so sensitive to the tragedy. Thousands in Japan today mourn their loss and their dead, but it's so just another terrible event in the life of our sustained and at the same time, formidable kind.
In Libya, the tyrant will have more space to act as the international community debate on the delicate terrain of "nonintervention" and genocide active. All work together to help Japan to rise, while Libya is falling apart.
In this sad day, the rightwing president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, serving his first year in office. Embraced by notorious Pinochet in his cabinet, Piñera saw his celebration was overwhelmed by the tragedy and decided to Japanese what I usually do: build your own reality.
Thus, Chile's president spent the day playing the earthquake had been at home, locked up in the emergency agency. He looked serious, committed, concerned. The only problem was that nothing was happening.
Everything is ultimately part of the same weakness that makes us human. The fragility to nature, the fragility that makes us harm each other, because revenge is a sign of weakness, as did Al Qaeda in Spain: a weakness that becomes crazy.
The fragility of the European and American foreign policy in Africa, enabling these dementia and protected states, leaving millions in the helplessness to oppression.
Our weakness is no escape, but does have an advantage: empathy. Therein lies the solution. We are all fragile. Whatever we do, we are made of fragile skin and flesh weak. Admit it connects us, and who does not support "the most frightened of all, are those who do harm.
earth's crust and climate are enemies too powerful for us to continue thinking that killing will solve anything. But we are too fragile to admit.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
How Many Ce's Do I Need For My Rn License
forming the City and the housing problem is not the Okupa
Since Sunday night and during much of the long weekend of Carnival, there were at least three attempts to occupations in various apartment complexes located in the Lower Flowers and Villa Soldati, but only which transcended through the media was that successful. The three buildings where there were attempts to take are aimed at people living on the banks of the Riachuelo and whose move is part of the recovery policy watercourse that drives the Matanza Riachuelo River Basin Authority (Acumar). This attempted to occupy the complex General Paz located Castañares where should relocate 220 families of 21-24 villas, the resort in 2049 that would Lacarra accommodate 28 families in the settlement of Cabins Magaldi, and was actually located on Avenida taken Castañares and Portela where should be placed 44 families in the settlement Luján, also of the barracks area, as evidenced in the eradication program and location that has the federal judge in Quilmes, Luis Armella.
"Everyone knew that would occur in those shots, it was sung. There was only one trooper for such a complex of more than 600 homes in total. It was inevitable. Were ten mothers with their babies and what was going to the police? "Repressed? But for weeks we knew this would happen. Is suggestive that there is always a greater police presence, including private security and, suddenly, is just a patrol, "said Miguel Angel Oga, Luján settlement delegate and member of the Matanza Riachuelo Cooperative Limited CTA.
To Oga, between the occupiers "are all, most are genuine people with a need" but also asks: "If you want to live in a house and it's Thomas," broke her water heaters? It is difficult, I say that about everything. "
In The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires there are more than 160,000 people living in houses usurped. It is a statistic, a number of recent overflow, but rather a quiet drama that moves slowly and is devouring everything.
But the problem is not only there, in addition to those living in squats, there are 100,000 living in slums and 90,000 are in hotels and pensions in inhumane conditions and a significant number living in shelters and centers that help National State and City have enabled. That is, more than 350,000 residents of the City of Buenos Aires have serious housing problems.
"Poverty in Buenos Aires is defined by housing problems "said Jorge Srur, president of the Housing Commission of the Buenos Aires Legislature. The other needs are met somehow. There is food aid, school and hospital system is the best city in the country, but the roof is what you are missing. "
An official report indicates that in 2010, there were 961 illegal occupations. The count includes not only public spaces such as the American Indian and Albariño Club, but also private spaces. The south / southwest of the city is the most affected
As reported by a well-known morning, December was the month in which there were more jobs, with a total of 109. December was also the month in which shots of the park trails occurred Indoamericano and Albariño Club, where the greatest impact. In November, 94 cases were recorded in September 1988 and October 85. July-the month with least-researched facts also recorded a total of 67 shots. According to the deputy
Buenos Aires for New Leadership, 150,000 people illegally occupying houses that belong to the state or individuals. So far this year, there were 259 occupations. The last shot was the last weekend, scores of squatters from nearby villages to Avellaneda Park neighborhood, took a total of 204 houses built by the Government of the City, located between Avenue Castañares Lafuente Street and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The "squatters" anticipated that there will be only if they give decent housing.
social crisis, economic and policy throughout our history, but especially the one that occurred in 2001, affected most of the population, led the State wide coverage programs implemented to meet the most urgent needs of affected families, but these measures did not cover all the needs of citizens. One of the most significant effects of this crisis manifests itself in negative deepening existing housing situation. The low population income did not have access to new homes, they still massively self-produced their homes and irregularly compared to urban policy, while private investment is directed almost exclusively in the socio - economic highs and upper mids. Planes, credit facilities, loans, benefits are not directed to the portion of the population that most needs them. Plans are scarce, the houses that the state constructs are negligible compared to the number of people needing housing, building companies considering the benefits and profits and not on the housing problems of the City.
in recent years have followed using existing programs, but also designed and implemented to varying degrees, a number of plans and actions on access, promotion or improvement of habitat for the popular and media sectors, both federal, provincial and municipal as technical NGOs, religious bodies and charities, but this has not been sufficient to cover the ever increasing large number of people with housing difficulties.
The city is a product of various processes, independent and even contradictory territory production, hardware, different locations, demographic, economic and cultural. But society seems to perceive the city from another perspective. The City diagram according to market needs. Always opposed inner-city or city and countryside has been present. Today, it is believed that most immigrants are from Latin American countries, but that's a mistake, the immigrants are from the Argentine provinces that ejected. Argentina's growth party is based on soy fever, which is the third largest exporter (the 2010-2011 cycle will conclude with 52 million tons). But soy is not generating employment. And those who lose will come to capital and its surroundings. They prefer to be circumstantially the "poorest of the poor" but being close to work and services
The contemporary city can be understood rather than as
apex of territorial sovereignty as the space architecturally
functionalized in terms of appropriate resources and, therefore, as the support and the element of a certain increase in the flow of social actions, economic and political, as a massive amount of effects that affect each other and affect people moving around in it and, above all, as a privileged domain of government intervention. But the City reflects the misery of our condition, the mediocrity of our existence, leaving bring out the worst in us, how well it exploits the market. In the city that have money can enjoy all the advantages that the city gives, which has nothing, trying to survive on the crumbs that the city throw away.
The contemporary city is a geographical environment, social, economic and political rather extraction and storage of products such as concentration and intensification of production and accumulation processes: production geographic space that makes possible the accumulation of sites, social production of life that allows the accumulation of population, economic production becomes viable connections backlog and production management policy that maximizes the accumulation of uses. Similarly, it is concentration differences, extracts, marginalization everywhere are illuminated with lighting that gives the city the inhabitants of large cities.
From this perspective, understood in the size of the geographical environment, the city can be regarded as a disposition, settlement, one site on earth, rather than a simple set of streets and buildings, a combination of roads and buildings covering , that covers the ground, conceived in its social dimension, as a dense population and large, that is, as an intensification of the agglomeration, stacking, the acomunación of men in economic thought, as the primacy of industry and services on the
agriculture, which is the same as the prevalence of secondary and tertiary sectors
output on the primary, and considered as facet of the political, as a relatively autonomous administrative unit capable of supporting the proliferation and overlapping of space applications from the intensification of the management of their relationships and correlations.
City condemns and condemns us to the rest of the nation. Since you start of Argentina's history, and if you will, since the Industrial Revolution changed the social structure, geography land, the city has been the star.
No society, capitalist or socialist, was able to resolve the housing problem so that the entire population residing in decent housing. The concept of temporary housing varies in each social group or class and always refers to a particular society. Oscar
Yujnovsky uses the concept of "housing services" which means a flow of services that meet different human needs related to the physical dwelling, but not restricted to it, they have more to do with the concept of habitat.
The concept of housing services refers to coverage needs such as: shelter, shelter from inclement weather, family privacy, space, social relations, security, identity, privacy, healthy environment, access to transport and social facilities.
policies related to housing sector and developed by the National Government recognizes constraints and influences derived from the context both international and local level.
From the '30s occurs strengthening the role of the state in economic and social dynamics, later becoming the central actor in the shaping and regulation of different aspects of the national dynamics during a period of approximately 50 years, responding to the paradigm of so-called "Welfare State."
From the mid-40s were predominant universalist policies, aimed at the homogenization of the population, social integration and the idea of \u200b\u200bequality. In the second half of the 70 starts a process called the hegemony of the neoliberal model that questioned the former type of state, taking root during the 90 period in which social policies, including housing, are based in three areas crossing their fields of intervention: focus, decentralization and privatization.
processes in construction and urban management involving different types of social actors can be understood at a structural level as those actual units of action in a society that, in response to different logics, through its decisions and activities consensus and conflict are defining and building the social and material life. As for a specific analysis in a particular social situation is deemed more appropriate to consider as social actors to a human group or organization that transient or stable has the ability to accumulate resources of various kinds, develop interests, to satisfy needs and participating in a given situation producing events.
can identify different types of players because of their link with the production and management of the city-state actors who manage and execute public processes of production of the city, actors defined in the market (economic) actors involved in community in the production of the city (individuals, families, functional and regional organizations) and political actors articulate the various local forces or groups (groups and political parties).
The central issues of the contemporary city are four: the geographical problem of access to housing, the economic problem access to work-well-understood, at work, not the workplace, the social problem of the proliferation of isolation and address the political problem of violence that can not fail to arise in an environment characterized by continued escalation of involvement interaction between uses and functions of radically heterogeneous space.
Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires, Chapter V, Habitat, Article 31:
The City recognizes the right to decent housing and suitable habitat. To do this: Solve the housing deficit gradually, infrastructure and services, giving priority to people in poor areas and critical needs poor special. Sponsored
incorporation of idle properties, promotes self-managed plans, urban and social integration of marginalized people, the recovery of slums and the regulation dominial and cadastral criteria of permanent residents. Regulates establishments that provide temporary housing, taking care to exclude those they cover up locations.
Theoretically, the squatters would have constitutional protection and should not have happened in the City of Buenos Aires, but Macri claims by all means respect for the law itself does not comply.
in Argentina has been an accumulation of failures in all policies that were implemented to build social housing, the severity has worsened during the steps of Alfonsin, Menem, De la Rua and Duhalde, for the permanent adjustment looting of public saving or domestic. Only now, with the advent of Kirchner, there is an upward trend, as only this change in direction occurred, to September 2009, 470,457 housing solutions throughout the Republic which, though positive, is insufficient to meet current demand: Argentina needs three million new homes.
The need to build housing in the City of Buenos Aires is the most urgent and pressing, and last year ran only Twenty percent of the allocated for this purpose and management throughout macrista only built 18 housing units. The current government, living giving speeches victimized Executive Branch insists on privileging the interests of actors eternal speculative construction, mortgage bankers are sharking, union bureaucrats who depress wages for lower costs and business speculators, national and international , who benefit from soaring rents per square meter of construction in urban centers of Argentina (Puerto Madero: 200 pesos rentals and sales per m2 per m2 to 16,000 pesos).
There is no excuse for not have a new national strategic plan for social housing, by province and municipality by municipality, especially the wealthiest and most powerful city in the country, as is the City of Buenos Aires which paradoxically has the largest number of people crammed into slums.
The National Housing Fund (Fonavi) was created in the early seventies with the aim of ending the housing shortage by the year 2000. Your funds could only be invested in housing and housing facilities, with required by law (ie that could not be diverted). This collection was the primary contribution of all employees, who was down two per cent of salary, plus the addition of three per cent of employer contributions. Any worker over 55 will remember this discount on your bill. During the military dictatorship, Martinez de Hoz modified it: to encourage the business sector increased VAT by three percent (over 15 to 18 percent), for the Fonavi. Thus, every citizen by the mere fact of consuming products subject (grass, sugar, flour, clothing, etc.) brought to a future housing. When democracy came back to change for the three percent employer contribution, but it was reduced VAT, which remained at 18 percent.
Assuming, Menem eliminated the tax again employer changed by one percent tax on fuels (gas, naphtha, kerosene, oil, diesel), but neither reduced the VAT. And finally, De la Rua, agreed to pass it to general revenue, made a promise to enter the capital of international mortgage corporation, the same that led to the entire U.S. mortgage crisis and Europe (luckily it was before and helicopter).
A decent and adequate housing is housing that supplies our needs in all essential services, and also be funded so we can pay less than ten percent of monthly family income. It is up by law, constitutional rights and because we have been providing for her every day, every month, and for forty years.
Macri's government does nothing to solve the housing problems of the city, much less, it calls for overhauling the mechanisms of development that have not served too. In this crisis generate hundreds of thousands of people are desperate reality that forces them to live in dangerous and deplorable conditions, in others, to be duped by criminals who profit from the need and finally, trying to commit crimes Thus out of its precarious condition.
The State in any form can ignore this reality, their participation must be immediate. The no market how can solve the conflicts generated so far.
The "squatters" or its corresponding Saxon "Squatts" London dating from the late 60's. Arise in the first instance of the housing needs of young people from working class or middle class seeking alternative forms of life, regardless of the consumer society and the spectacular production of goods. Squat a building is obsolete, it usually takes time left, to not only provide housing, but also of creating an alternative cultural space and self-managed.
of England quickly spread to other European countries.
Such is the case Netherlands for example. Where the squatter movement is widely developed and organized.
The housing crisis that is shaking the main Italian cities carried in January 1971, working families occupy an empty palace spontaneously in Milan. A day after they are evicted by the police, with the unfulfilled promise that they would find lodging.
In June of that year there is a new occupation, this time from a construction site of the Comune (Town Hall). Days later came the eviction. The families gathered in the assembly decided to occupy the Faculty of Architecture as a form of protest. More than three thousand protesters surrounding the power in a show of support. Produced fierce clashes with police, leaving major injuries. Finally, the families got the allocation of housing they claimed.
The occupation not only gives shelter to those in need, but also a great method of protest.
justice often dictate evacuation measures, which many
sometimes occur in a troubled and violent because of the strength of reprimanded. This leads to a long struggle between property owners and those who occupy.
In turn, the state lacks efforts to allow people access to homeownership in the midst of poverty and unemployment. While Media, in general, addressed the phenomenon of "squats" only referring to the eviction without further details that complement the why of the situation, thus hiding the various circumstances being experienced by the occupants.
Since Sunday night and during much of the long weekend of Carnival, there were at least three attempts to occupations in various apartment complexes located in the Lower Flowers and Villa Soldati, but only which transcended through the media was that successful. The three buildings where there were attempts to take are aimed at people living on the banks of the Riachuelo and whose move is part of the recovery policy watercourse that drives the Matanza Riachuelo River Basin Authority (Acumar). This attempted to occupy the complex General Paz located Castañares where should relocate 220 families of 21-24 villas, the resort in 2049 that would Lacarra accommodate 28 families in the settlement of Cabins Magaldi, and was actually located on Avenida taken Castañares and Portela where should be placed 44 families in the settlement Luján, also of the barracks area, as evidenced in the eradication program and location that has the federal judge in Quilmes, Luis Armella.
"Everyone knew that would occur in those shots, it was sung. There was only one trooper for such a complex of more than 600 homes in total. It was inevitable. Were ten mothers with their babies and what was going to the police? "Repressed? But for weeks we knew this would happen. Is suggestive that there is always a greater police presence, including private security and, suddenly, is just a patrol, "said Miguel Angel Oga, Luján settlement delegate and member of the Matanza Riachuelo Cooperative Limited CTA.
To Oga, between the occupiers "are all, most are genuine people with a need" but also asks: "If you want to live in a house and it's Thomas," broke her water heaters? It is difficult, I say that about everything. "
In The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires there are more than 160,000 people living in houses usurped. It is a statistic, a number of recent overflow, but rather a quiet drama that moves slowly and is devouring everything.
But the problem is not only there, in addition to those living in squats, there are 100,000 living in slums and 90,000 are in hotels and pensions in inhumane conditions and a significant number living in shelters and centers that help National State and City have enabled. That is, more than 350,000 residents of the City of Buenos Aires have serious housing problems.
"Poverty in Buenos Aires is defined by housing problems "said Jorge Srur, president of the Housing Commission of the Buenos Aires Legislature. The other needs are met somehow. There is food aid, school and hospital system is the best city in the country, but the roof is what you are missing. "
An official report indicates that in 2010, there were 961 illegal occupations. The count includes not only public spaces such as the American Indian and Albariño Club, but also private spaces. The south / southwest of the city is the most affected
As reported by a well-known morning, December was the month in which there were more jobs, with a total of 109. December was also the month in which shots of the park trails occurred Indoamericano and Albariño Club, where the greatest impact. In November, 94 cases were recorded in September 1988 and October 85. July-the month with least-researched facts also recorded a total of 67 shots. According to the deputy
Buenos Aires for New Leadership, 150,000 people illegally occupying houses that belong to the state or individuals. So far this year, there were 259 occupations. The last shot was the last weekend, scores of squatters from nearby villages to Avellaneda Park neighborhood, took a total of 204 houses built by the Government of the City, located between Avenue Castañares Lafuente Street and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The "squatters" anticipated that there will be only if they give decent housing.
social crisis, economic and policy throughout our history, but especially the one that occurred in 2001, affected most of the population, led the State wide coverage programs implemented to meet the most urgent needs of affected families, but these measures did not cover all the needs of citizens. One of the most significant effects of this crisis manifests itself in negative deepening existing housing situation. The low population income did not have access to new homes, they still massively self-produced their homes and irregularly compared to urban policy, while private investment is directed almost exclusively in the socio - economic highs and upper mids. Planes, credit facilities, loans, benefits are not directed to the portion of the population that most needs them. Plans are scarce, the houses that the state constructs are negligible compared to the number of people needing housing, building companies considering the benefits and profits and not on the housing problems of the City.
in recent years have followed using existing programs, but also designed and implemented to varying degrees, a number of plans and actions on access, promotion or improvement of habitat for the popular and media sectors, both federal, provincial and municipal as technical NGOs, religious bodies and charities, but this has not been sufficient to cover the ever increasing large number of people with housing difficulties.
The city is a product of various processes, independent and even contradictory territory production, hardware, different locations, demographic, economic and cultural. But society seems to perceive the city from another perspective. The City diagram according to market needs. Always opposed inner-city or city and countryside has been present. Today, it is believed that most immigrants are from Latin American countries, but that's a mistake, the immigrants are from the Argentine provinces that ejected. Argentina's growth party is based on soy fever, which is the third largest exporter (the 2010-2011 cycle will conclude with 52 million tons). But soy is not generating employment. And those who lose will come to capital and its surroundings. They prefer to be circumstantially the "poorest of the poor" but being close to work and services
The contemporary city can be understood rather than as
apex of territorial sovereignty as the space architecturally
functionalized in terms of appropriate resources and, therefore, as the support and the element of a certain increase in the flow of social actions, economic and political, as a massive amount of effects that affect each other and affect people moving around in it and, above all, as a privileged domain of government intervention. But the City reflects the misery of our condition, the mediocrity of our existence, leaving bring out the worst in us, how well it exploits the market. In the city that have money can enjoy all the advantages that the city gives, which has nothing, trying to survive on the crumbs that the city throw away.
The contemporary city is a geographical environment, social, economic and political rather extraction and storage of products such as concentration and intensification of production and accumulation processes: production geographic space that makes possible the accumulation of sites, social production of life that allows the accumulation of population, economic production becomes viable connections backlog and production management policy that maximizes the accumulation of uses. Similarly, it is concentration differences, extracts, marginalization everywhere are illuminated with lighting that gives the city the inhabitants of large cities.
From this perspective, understood in the size of the geographical environment, the city can be regarded as a disposition, settlement, one site on earth, rather than a simple set of streets and buildings, a combination of roads and buildings covering , that covers the ground, conceived in its social dimension, as a dense population and large, that is, as an intensification of the agglomeration, stacking, the acomunación of men in economic thought, as the primacy of industry and services on the
agriculture, which is the same as the prevalence of secondary and tertiary sectors
output on the primary, and considered as facet of the political, as a relatively autonomous administrative unit capable of supporting the proliferation and overlapping of space applications from the intensification of the management of their relationships and correlations.
City condemns and condemns us to the rest of the nation. Since you start of Argentina's history, and if you will, since the Industrial Revolution changed the social structure, geography land, the city has been the star.
No society, capitalist or socialist, was able to resolve the housing problem so that the entire population residing in decent housing. The concept of temporary housing varies in each social group or class and always refers to a particular society. Oscar
Yujnovsky uses the concept of "housing services" which means a flow of services that meet different human needs related to the physical dwelling, but not restricted to it, they have more to do with the concept of habitat.
The concept of housing services refers to coverage needs such as: shelter, shelter from inclement weather, family privacy, space, social relations, security, identity, privacy, healthy environment, access to transport and social facilities.
policies related to housing sector and developed by the National Government recognizes constraints and influences derived from the context both international and local level.
From the '30s occurs strengthening the role of the state in economic and social dynamics, later becoming the central actor in the shaping and regulation of different aspects of the national dynamics during a period of approximately 50 years, responding to the paradigm of so-called "Welfare State."
From the mid-40s were predominant universalist policies, aimed at the homogenization of the population, social integration and the idea of \u200b\u200bequality. In the second half of the 70 starts a process called the hegemony of the neoliberal model that questioned the former type of state, taking root during the 90 period in which social policies, including housing, are based in three areas crossing their fields of intervention: focus, decentralization and privatization.
processes in construction and urban management involving different types of social actors can be understood at a structural level as those actual units of action in a society that, in response to different logics, through its decisions and activities consensus and conflict are defining and building the social and material life. As for a specific analysis in a particular social situation is deemed more appropriate to consider as social actors to a human group or organization that transient or stable has the ability to accumulate resources of various kinds, develop interests, to satisfy needs and participating in a given situation producing events.
can identify different types of players because of their link with the production and management of the city-state actors who manage and execute public processes of production of the city, actors defined in the market (economic) actors involved in community in the production of the city (individuals, families, functional and regional organizations) and political actors articulate the various local forces or groups (groups and political parties).
The central issues of the contemporary city are four: the geographical problem of access to housing, the economic problem access to work-well-understood, at work, not the workplace, the social problem of the proliferation of isolation and address the political problem of violence that can not fail to arise in an environment characterized by continued escalation of involvement interaction between uses and functions of radically heterogeneous space.
Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires, Chapter V, Habitat, Article 31:
The City recognizes the right to decent housing and suitable habitat. To do this: Solve the housing deficit gradually, infrastructure and services, giving priority to people in poor areas and critical needs poor special. Sponsored
incorporation of idle properties, promotes self-managed plans, urban and social integration of marginalized people, the recovery of slums and the regulation dominial and cadastral criteria of permanent residents. Regulates establishments that provide temporary housing, taking care to exclude those they cover up locations.
Theoretically, the squatters would have constitutional protection and should not have happened in the City of Buenos Aires, but Macri claims by all means respect for the law itself does not comply.
in Argentina has been an accumulation of failures in all policies that were implemented to build social housing, the severity has worsened during the steps of Alfonsin, Menem, De la Rua and Duhalde, for the permanent adjustment looting of public saving or domestic. Only now, with the advent of Kirchner, there is an upward trend, as only this change in direction occurred, to September 2009, 470,457 housing solutions throughout the Republic which, though positive, is insufficient to meet current demand: Argentina needs three million new homes.
The need to build housing in the City of Buenos Aires is the most urgent and pressing, and last year ran only Twenty percent of the allocated for this purpose and management throughout macrista only built 18 housing units. The current government, living giving speeches victimized Executive Branch insists on privileging the interests of actors eternal speculative construction, mortgage bankers are sharking, union bureaucrats who depress wages for lower costs and business speculators, national and international , who benefit from soaring rents per square meter of construction in urban centers of Argentina (Puerto Madero: 200 pesos rentals and sales per m2 per m2 to 16,000 pesos).
There is no excuse for not have a new national strategic plan for social housing, by province and municipality by municipality, especially the wealthiest and most powerful city in the country, as is the City of Buenos Aires which paradoxically has the largest number of people crammed into slums.
The National Housing Fund (Fonavi) was created in the early seventies with the aim of ending the housing shortage by the year 2000. Your funds could only be invested in housing and housing facilities, with required by law (ie that could not be diverted). This collection was the primary contribution of all employees, who was down two per cent of salary, plus the addition of three per cent of employer contributions. Any worker over 55 will remember this discount on your bill. During the military dictatorship, Martinez de Hoz modified it: to encourage the business sector increased VAT by three percent (over 15 to 18 percent), for the Fonavi. Thus, every citizen by the mere fact of consuming products subject (grass, sugar, flour, clothing, etc.) brought to a future housing. When democracy came back to change for the three percent employer contribution, but it was reduced VAT, which remained at 18 percent.
Assuming, Menem eliminated the tax again employer changed by one percent tax on fuels (gas, naphtha, kerosene, oil, diesel), but neither reduced the VAT. And finally, De la Rua, agreed to pass it to general revenue, made a promise to enter the capital of international mortgage corporation, the same that led to the entire U.S. mortgage crisis and Europe (luckily it was before and helicopter).
A decent and adequate housing is housing that supplies our needs in all essential services, and also be funded so we can pay less than ten percent of monthly family income. It is up by law, constitutional rights and because we have been providing for her every day, every month, and for forty years.
Macri's government does nothing to solve the housing problems of the city, much less, it calls for overhauling the mechanisms of development that have not served too. In this crisis generate hundreds of thousands of people are desperate reality that forces them to live in dangerous and deplorable conditions, in others, to be duped by criminals who profit from the need and finally, trying to commit crimes Thus out of its precarious condition.
The State in any form can ignore this reality, their participation must be immediate. The no market how can solve the conflicts generated so far.
The "squatters" or its corresponding Saxon "Squatts" London dating from the late 60's. Arise in the first instance of the housing needs of young people from working class or middle class seeking alternative forms of life, regardless of the consumer society and the spectacular production of goods. Squat a building is obsolete, it usually takes time left, to not only provide housing, but also of creating an alternative cultural space and self-managed.
of England quickly spread to other European countries.
Such is the case Netherlands for example. Where the squatter movement is widely developed and organized.
The housing crisis that is shaking the main Italian cities carried in January 1971, working families occupy an empty palace spontaneously in Milan. A day after they are evicted by the police, with the unfulfilled promise that they would find lodging.
In June of that year there is a new occupation, this time from a construction site of the Comune (Town Hall). Days later came the eviction. The families gathered in the assembly decided to occupy the Faculty of Architecture as a form of protest. More than three thousand protesters surrounding the power in a show of support. Produced fierce clashes with police, leaving major injuries. Finally, the families got the allocation of housing they claimed.
The occupation not only gives shelter to those in need, but also a great method of protest.
justice often dictate evacuation measures, which many
sometimes occur in a troubled and violent because of the strength of reprimanded. This leads to a long struggle between property owners and those who occupy.
In turn, the state lacks efforts to allow people access to homeownership in the midst of poverty and unemployment. While Media, in general, addressed the phenomenon of "squats" only referring to the eviction without further details that complement the why of the situation, thus hiding the various circumstances being experienced by the occupants.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Ucla Supplemental Questionnaires
Scaring pigeons ...
A flight of doves always anticipated arrival.
perceiving it, he smiled slightly and felt a Brinquito in the heart. Then, slowly, what was left doing and simply expected. Gradually it filled the house of doves that were posing here and there happily disrupting the order that dwelt serene home. Then, she appeared out of nowhere.
"This time has been slow, he said reproachfully disguising his joy.
"I was very busy doing nothing," she always replied with a radiant smile.
looked after, it oteaban in silence, like cuddling with her eyes, and lulled by a wail of Pigeons, they settled in this unreal space to which they belonged. He had his simple life, and from time to time, she laughed a laugh of angel frightened pigeons. Then they made love with words, with their breath, their eyes ... and learned to make when they knew they could never touch.
Only once asked where he came from, whether it was a ghost, a ghost lost or simply a being from another dimension. She then fell into a prolonged silence full of foreboding and unspeakable words. He did not ask again.
slight mystery "My dear ..." she would whisper in his ear.
So it went, loving and talking, then suddenly turned to frightened pigeons and flying in terror, disappeared through the doors and windows announcing a farewell. With little time to say I love you, it evaporated into the air.
sometimes days later, he still found pigeons to open a drawer or a cupboard, and she smiled back with a happy heart . Then he opened the closet of their secrets, they pulled the wings and passed the brush gently grooming them with dedication. Wings to which they gave so many years ago in order to live life as a man.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Syringes And Needles In Sacramento
Our friend Gaddafi
resonates as a reminder of my childhood, the sound of Ronald Reagan bombed Libya in retaliation for participation "proved" agents of Muammar Gaddafi in a terrorist attack on a disco in Berlin, where he died a couple of gringos.
The details are fuzzy in my memory, but I think we had clear two things: one, that Reagan was equally or more terrorist Qaddafi, and two, that Gadhafi was a total fool. While those glorious times of life-and history-was much more clear who the bad guys and who the best (all the left was good and bad all right, and the PRI the worst, for an example) on that occasion was more nuanced.
Gaddafi was a challenge to imperialism, which was good, but he was a tyrant This was bad. We had this clear to him-not all-and we therefore do not remember ever conceive of the Libyan leader as one of the revolutionary icons. The years passed and I did not think much more until Gaddafi long ago, I saw a happy Condoleezza Rice in Libya by the hand of the ruler. The very moment I was saved: much things have changed, I thought, that a government that idolizes Reagan today embraces with Gaddafi?
Now that Libya is on the verge of a bloody civil war, initiated by the popular movement that is transforming the face of the Arab world, Qaddafi returns to center the scene. But this time is not only the revolutionary left, who once took refuge in Libya to escape the genocide of Latin American dictatorships, which are ashamed of their association with the dictator: it is across Europe, USA and even Mariah Carey.
Much has been said about the stupid comments of Hugo Chavez on this case: that is not going to give back to his "friend" while desperately seeking a return to international relevance with today's mediation proposal, rejected by all. Criticism of Chávez are fair, but there is something a little twisted. Everyone seems to have forgotten not only renewed friendship between Condoleezza and Gaddafi, but he also has to Silvio Berlusconi and Jose Maria Aznar, to name just a few. In 2004, when the UN lifted restrictions on Libya, Aznar rushed to visit him and said that "Libya is doing way exactly opposite to that of Cuba. "spared no praise for the tyrant, who at that time was twice as political prisoners in its prisons that Fidel Castro.
As reported El Pais, Aznar and Gaddafi held a beautiful friendship, which included visits after the English out of power. Aznar was feted in culinary adventures with the tyrant today all detest, and is not heard no comment. Former English prime minister also expressed affection for the former Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, at the time. Ton's
"which is the big issue here? For me, Libya crystallizes many of the worst political practices of recent times. On the one hand, western addiction to oil, which justifies the most outrageous alliances. Italy is the main buyer of Libyan oil, but across Europe as drank with enthusiasm. The government of Barack Obama still hooked on the exotic character that is Qaddafi, and me nice to see some determination as in the words of U.S. President, as characterized by fluctuations and political doubts.
What is happening in Libya is also a reminder of how life has qualified international and national policy. Perhaps the anger I have, that I'm idealistic and outraged by the fucking life, but I can not help feeling that The last decade has been the period that has stripped all the human complexity that interweaves politics. In the deep hatreds passed to alliances of convenience, we irrefutable principles to the necessary concessions to be enlightened we become presombríos.
Have we become more sophisticated or simply more pragmatic? Today the great "consistent" in Mexico, according to some, López Obrador for his opposition to the alliance, but we all know is a strategic position: not responding to convictions but its need to impose a candidate. Think that's different is a tender naivety, but dumb.
know we have to be smart and do not think we are our own lies. I know we must be sensible and not fall into ideological nonsense. But I also know that we must never lose the sense of urgency with the human tragedy and screams Libya today by international aid. It's up to them to decide what future they want, but it's up to everyone, our governments and our societies, to echo the demand to stop the violence. Gaddafi has to go. No nuances, no half measures.
Looking in another direction is neither strategic nor political: it is irresponsible. The world must respond.
resonates as a reminder of my childhood, the sound of Ronald Reagan bombed Libya in retaliation for participation "proved" agents of Muammar Gaddafi in a terrorist attack on a disco in Berlin, where he died a couple of gringos. The details are fuzzy in my memory, but I think we had clear two things: one, that Reagan was equally or more terrorist Qaddafi, and two, that Gadhafi was a total fool. While those glorious times of life-and history-was much more clear who the bad guys and who the best (all the left was good and bad all right, and the PRI the worst, for an example) on that occasion was more nuanced.
Gaddafi was a challenge to imperialism, which was good, but he was a tyrant This was bad. We had this clear to him-not all-and we therefore do not remember ever conceive of the Libyan leader as one of the revolutionary icons. The years passed and I did not think much more until Gaddafi long ago, I saw a happy Condoleezza Rice in Libya by the hand of the ruler. The very moment I was saved: much things have changed, I thought, that a government that idolizes Reagan today embraces with Gaddafi?
Now that Libya is on the verge of a bloody civil war, initiated by the popular movement that is transforming the face of the Arab world, Qaddafi returns to center the scene. But this time is not only the revolutionary left, who once took refuge in Libya to escape the genocide of Latin American dictatorships, which are ashamed of their association with the dictator: it is across Europe, USA and even Mariah Carey.
Much has been said about the stupid comments of Hugo Chavez on this case: that is not going to give back to his "friend" while desperately seeking a return to international relevance with today's mediation proposal, rejected by all. Criticism of Chávez are fair, but there is something a little twisted. Everyone seems to have forgotten not only renewed friendship between Condoleezza and Gaddafi, but he also has to Silvio Berlusconi and Jose Maria Aznar, to name just a few. In 2004, when the UN lifted restrictions on Libya, Aznar rushed to visit him and said that "Libya is doing way exactly opposite to that of Cuba. "spared no praise for the tyrant, who at that time was twice as political prisoners in its prisons that Fidel Castro.
As reported El Pais, Aznar and Gaddafi held a beautiful friendship, which included visits after the English out of power. Aznar was feted in culinary adventures with the tyrant today all detest, and is not heard no comment. Former English prime minister also expressed affection for the former Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, at the time. Ton's
"which is the big issue here? For me, Libya crystallizes many of the worst political practices of recent times. On the one hand, western addiction to oil, which justifies the most outrageous alliances. Italy is the main buyer of Libyan oil, but across Europe as drank with enthusiasm. The government of Barack Obama still hooked on the exotic character that is Qaddafi, and me nice to see some determination as in the words of U.S. President, as characterized by fluctuations and political doubts.
What is happening in Libya is also a reminder of how life has qualified international and national policy. Perhaps the anger I have, that I'm idealistic and outraged by the fucking life, but I can not help feeling that The last decade has been the period that has stripped all the human complexity that interweaves politics. In the deep hatreds passed to alliances of convenience, we irrefutable principles to the necessary concessions to be enlightened we become presombríos.
Have we become more sophisticated or simply more pragmatic? Today the great "consistent" in Mexico, according to some, López Obrador for his opposition to the alliance, but we all know is a strategic position: not responding to convictions but its need to impose a candidate. Think that's different is a tender naivety, but dumb.
know we have to be smart and do not think we are our own lies. I know we must be sensible and not fall into ideological nonsense. But I also know that we must never lose the sense of urgency with the human tragedy and screams Libya today by international aid. It's up to them to decide what future they want, but it's up to everyone, our governments and our societies, to echo the demand to stop the violence. Gaddafi has to go. No nuances, no half measures.
Looking in another direction is neither strategic nor political: it is irresponsible. The world must respond.
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