Serrat calls to restore democracy and moral values
The Catalan singer Joan Manuel Serrat called a protest speech that is "ordinary people" to recover the values of "democratic and moral" in a time of crisis "model of life", to be inaugurated today an honorary doctorate the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
Asserting that the time is "model of life crisis," rather than "financial crisis", Serrat lamented the "great loss of moral values in society today and the" shameful corruption in governments, he said, "seeps society" and called on it to awaken.
"You must recover the democratic and moral values, and what must we, the ordinary people. May not know what the shortest route, but we do know what paths we choose not anymore," said Serrat.
This "uneven and unstable" controlled by a few is not, according to Serrat, able to offer "peace and quiet" after being given "millions of dollars to the irresponsible" and now being imposed, as is the case Spain, reforms in the labor market and pensions, and utilities being privatized.
"It strengthens the financial power, the political and banking, with public support and money of the people renewed speculative attacks," added the artist.
"The greed of a few, the incompetence of others, ignorance, and the shamelessness of many, have put us in a market where everything has a price, everything is bought and sold everything," complained Serrat, which it considers necessary " restore democratic and moral values replaced by market values. "
During his speech also mentioned the movement of 15-M, which has occupied in recent weeks streets and squares in Spain, "with women and men, old and young people requiring social change, real democracy and participatory government."
"It was a breath of fresh air and a cry for attention. It is a right and an obligation to restore the memory and reclaim our future," said Serrat.
Accompanied by his family, the new doctor listened, smiling occasionally, "laudatio" of Professor Jose Maria Mico, who thanked him with their songs have helped to improve the world and people's lives.
14 Junio 2011
"The truly revolutionary Che would not consider the Arab riots"
It is a day of fighting in Sierra Maestra. Ernesto Guevara is alone and flee when spotted by guards of the dictator Batista. That same night, the partisan recounts what happened in his campaign book and concludes: "I felt something I never felt: the need to survive. I have to correct that next time." The episode appears in small notebooks that Che wrote during his stay in Sierra Maestra, which until now had full access only reporter to write Jon Lee Anderson Che Guevara. A revolutionary life, considered the best biography of the legendary revolutionary leader. Today, coinciding with the official celebration of 83 anniversary of his birth was actually born a month earlier, but his family misrepresented the date because it was conceived before his parents to marry, "was first published in full with title Diary of a fighter. "They are revealing, although much was already known through other texts. They can see how Guevara Ernesto Che became," said Anderson over the phone, holding the declassification of the notes.
Newspapers are an unprecedented glimpse of how it shapes the guerrilla. His obsession with being someone who is not afraid of death, to overcome human nature. "An enlightening story that tells how the person running the first traitor in the second month of revolution, which was not known until they met these notes. Dryly explains how he did the last words of the dead and a single observation: asthma felt that night, "says Anderson. The writing is rough, there is no intention literary passages are not historical juice, but it is fascinating reading, says the biographer. "Notebooks are the raw material used to publish Che years later his famous passages of the Revolutionary War, a book which produced a very conscious, as a parable of the revolution, to establish the chronicle of events. And is very interesting to the notes to the book to see how it goes and filing extracting the raw material. "
There is no doubt that the direct experience of Che in the Sierra Maestra arouse interest beyond its value as a historical document. Where there is an attempt to challenge the status quo, there is the famous photograph that Korda took in 1960, whatever the origin of the movement and location of the world they occur. "But the world is not as white or as black as it was in the days of Che and his position would be very complex. For example, consider truly revolutionary uprisings in the Arab world would be lacking because of ideology. On the other hand, public would have to be at the official criticism of U.S. imperialism and intervention in Libya, but privately they feel uncomfortable with the corruption and the modus operandi of those governments, "muses Jon Lee Anderson.
Apart from an approach to the figure of Che, notebooks offer a fascinating chronicle of how to forge a revolution in two years. "The Sierra Maestra stage was crucial. At that time the guerrilla revolution caught on, he adopted an ideology and took the course on the left," says Anderson. A process that is reflected in the papers through their comments on the day to day battle, stories of skirmishes, comrades observations and misgivings about some of them, including Fidel Castro. "Some of these notes are politically incorrect and caused outrage in some people in Cuba when they appeared in my book," recalls Anderson. Is that why you have spent so many years hidden in the archives of Che Guevara Studies Center in Havana? According to the editors, misspellings and inaccuracies, which, coupled with the lack of important sites, had determined that there had been published in full. Now, after a "comprehensive review", many have been rectified.
14 Junio 2011
Greece placed 1.625 billion euros in bonds a day before the general strike
While the Finance Ministers of the European Union are meeting in Brussels, discussing the final details of the bailout of Greece, Hellenic country has managed to place EUR 1.625 billion in treasury bills six months, and profitability has not passed 5% (4.96%), according to the Management Authority of the Public Debt.
Such performance was increased from 4.64% in February to 4.75% in March, 4.8% in April and 4.88% in May, showing the pressure of the markets, concerned about the situation helena.
Attention is now fixed in the new general strike called for tomorrow, Wednesday by the General Confederation of Greek Workers and the union officials, and the Communists to protest against new austerity measures introduced to socialist government parliament.
But in practice it is known to be only public sector employees (civil servants in ministries and state enterprises, education and health sector) who will not go to work, while working fewer hours on public transport. Maritime traffic was paralyzed but no disruption of air.
The new package of austerity cuts and privatization with the socialist government is committed to save about 78 billion euros until early 2015, with the control and supervision of experts from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund has created many problems within the Socialist Party and among its members.
The announcement of these measures has upset especially most young Greeks and manifest 'outraged' at many places in Greece, starting with Athens. Tomorrow have announced that surround the parliament and paralyzed the center of the capital. Interestingly, as the Greek journalists also participate in the general strike there is no coverage of these events in the Greek media.
14 Junio 2011
The Pentagon Papers, ready at a click
Rapid reading the first hundred pages of the Pentagon Papers to the conclusion that the thirty analysts who drafted 40 years ago knew from the beginning, they produced a document that would be a hornet's nest, would produce much immediate controversy controversy if someone revealed to the press.
Americans can now fully access to 7,000 pages of "encyclopedic collection and objective of our involvement in Vietnam since the Second World War to 1967" as ordered by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who made his advisors.
"Work like ants," he said to review all documents were in possession of the White House, CIA, State Department, Pentagon and other government agencies on Vietnam. With stamped "top secret" in every file, so documents are kept for four decades in the direction of the Network of the National Archives a simple click and many minutes due to the volume for files on your computer.
And it offers almost nothing new to Daniel Ellsberg, the analyst who gave to The New York Times, did not draw in his clothes every day of his office, copied by night and returned home the next morning.
The Pentagon Papers show that the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and their predecessors, increased U.S. involvement in Indochina in secret when, in public, downplaying the involvement and staff talked to reduce, limit and deny operations supporting the government of South Vietnam.
"If Richard Nixon had not been determined to prohibit its publication people would not have read with much interest," Ellsberg calls ... Nixon was very happy to know that the lies of his Democratic predecessors, but was furious because an official of his government would dare to hand over official secrets Press.
And why Ellsberg became a marked man and sent him to a group of specialists, plumbers, getting into his psychiatrist's office in September 1971. Months later, plumbers, entered the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington and the Pentagon Papers, Nixon ceased to worry.
8 Mayo 2011
Japan will not give up nuclear energy
The Japanese government said it would continue using nuclear energy despite the closure of a second nuclear plant following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March.
A government spokesman said there were no plans to close any other nuclear plant, because these facilities from more than one third of the electricity used in Japan.
The Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, ordered on Friday, closing the Hamaoka plant, located in the southwest of Kyoto, because it could be vulnerable to the effects of an earthquake of high intensity.
A group of engineers still try to stabilize the plant in Fukushima, severely affected by the earthquake that shook the country in March.
8 Mayo 2011
Protests in Pakistan by Osama Bin Laden death
The Pakistani Taliban threatened today to "avenge"the death of Osama Bin Laden and put in their sights to the Government of Pakistan, at a political crossroads for the death of the leader of Al Qaeda in its territory.
Sources of the television channel "Khyber TV" Efe said to have received a fax from the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) warning to the leadership of the country of the consequences of the operation that killed terrorist leader.
In the statement, the TTP alerted "to the leadership of Pakistan that tops the list" of its objectives, and particularize the threat on the president, Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and army chief, Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani.
The TTP, which encompasses the main Taliban groups in Pakistan, recalled that it had organized in December 2007 attack that killed the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistan's government said this morning in a statement that Bin Laden was killed in "an intelligence operation"performed by "U.S. forces" around the city of Abbottabad, near Islamabad.
Government stressed in his note that "Pakistan has played a significant role in efforts to eliminate terrorism"and that in this effort maintains a close relationship with various intelligence services, "including the United States. "
Intelligence agencies and security experts are trying to give answers to the questions posed in this regard an alleged Pakistani involvement in the operation.
8 Mayo 2011
Al-Qaeda denies involvement in attack in Morocco
The Islamist network al-Qaeda's involvement in the attack on a cafe in Morocco denied in late April.
"We were not involved in the assassination, and we have to do with anything, " quoted the Mauritanian news agency, Nouakchott on Saturday from an opinion of the North African wing of the extremist organization. Al-Qaeda choose the right moment and place for attacks, it said in the statement accordingly. The Al-Qaeda group, demanded the same time, however, Moroccan Muslims to "liberate the oppressed, imprisoned brothers and overthrow the criminal regime," the.
On Thursday, the Moroccan Interior Ministry announced the arrest of three Moroccans in connection with the attack. The main suspect is according to the Ministry have links to al-Qaeda. He also should have dressed for the placement of the bombs as a hippie. When he walked into the cafe, he was wearing a wig and a guitar with him and two pockets in which he had hidden the explosive device, the Reuters news agency learned from official circles. The man had used a mobile phone to detonate the two bombs, after leaving the cafe. The bombs had been built for six months.
The explosion in Marrakech on 28 April, 17 people were killed, including many foreigners. A Swiss woman succumbed to her injuries on Friday, as Swiss authorities said.
