Sunday, February 28, 2010
Specialized Crossroads Hybrid Bike
Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian organization that I deserve more respect, has published the report "Ten most neglected humanitarian crisis of 2009." Here you can see a video presentation of the report and here the full report. It is good to read these things from time to time to take a closer idea of \u200b\u200bthe world in which we live.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Atheros Ar5bxb Sterowniki
'm pissed. Very angry. Thinking, the thought that the mandatory retirement age can be delayed, that the calculation of pensions may change so that they are reduced or can approve a contract with less severance pay than the current one is that it gets on my nerves. With the years and effort that has cost the / workers to achieve these measures, how can you come now a government of a socialist party that is called by a stroke? And is that these achievements are not any gift that governments long ago became loose, but the result of long negotiation process in which / workers have been balancing the distribution of profits with capitalists. Pensions, severance payments, public education and other measures used to that in a capitalist system, the / workers receive the compensation they deserve for their contribution to the wealth of that system. Well, it happens that in recent years because of increased productivity, which in turn is a mixture of labor and capital, the wealth that you are getting is increasing, yet the distribution of it is again is unbalanced in favor of capital through measures such as tax relief. And what is not acceptable is that knowing how we know that productivity will continue to grow, someone let alone raising the concepts reduce the remuneration of workers.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
White Spots On A Dog's Muzzle
In a panel discussion that I attended recently emerged discussion of the so-called "pull." We talked, of course, immigration and, specifically, the effect of attraction that can have the Basque model of social insurance. Although the controversy arose around the minors unaccompanied / as (by the way, as I write this I have sitting beside me on the bus to one of them), I would first like to talk something about adults.
Unlike those who believe that immigrants come to Euskadi to take advantage of our social insurance system and, therefore, what they want is to live the story and the Basque government support, I am of those who think that last thing they want is precisely those people having to resort to social assistance. Because I can not believe that someone who has had the courage to leave their land, sometimes risking their lives, leaving behind an immovable model for years, this dynamic, adventurous, become a parasite off the plane or small boat. There will be exceptions, as there are between our / as neighbors / as indigenous / as, but not the general rule. And it shows in the statistics, according to which most people normally have taken jobs in the past years.
But, moreover, according to data from INE, Euskadi is one of the regions with less foreigners from poor countries (including here in Eastern Europe), ie forced migrants. While that percentage is for Euskadi 5.4% of the total population, the English average increases to 10.2% and in communities such as Madrid, Catalonia and the Balearic reach values \u200b\u200baround 15%. And if you look at the minors for 16 years (Statistical reference is there in the INE) we find that in Euskadi the percentage of poor countries from the total population of that age reaches 5.5% while in the communities mentioned above 10%. It is certainly not the same as speaking of children in general that unaccompanied minors / as, and now I return to the discussion I referred to at first, but as true as it is that having to attend on health needs, school, etc. ., a foreign population, children and youth, as large as those regions that also quoted to be complicated. Take the case of linguistic integration in schools.
all this comes to mind the protests of the Basque institutions, including Ararteko-Ombudsman (body whose views did not always agree and that his apparent character of impartiality does not apply in all cases), accompanied by the citizenship , lack of solidarity from other regions when welcoming these / as children. And they are right to ask the Basque institutions applying the same criteria for acceptance in the entire State or to discredit government actions such as La Rioja who reject these / as kids / as giving even the contributions of the State to serve them, but something must be qualified if you look at all of the foreign population in these autonomous communities, including La Rioja, Euskadi twice as high as we read in terms of total population or in terms of population under 16 years. In other words, it seems that little should complain in Euskadi, one of the richest communities of less populous state and foreign, having to attend and host to hundreds of unaccompanied minors / as.
(photo taken from the association ACA)
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Fashiontv Changing Backstage
Successive English stock market falls in recent weeks are teaching us that every time a profile is more like the dreaded W announced People as Nobel Prize Paul Krugman (English) or the CEO of Europe's biggest bank referring to the economic developments after the crash of 2008. It is true that pockets of other countries are not falling as much (although today was a bad day everywhere) but do not you think that the economic situation of Greece, Portugal and Spain may ultimately affect at least the rest of the EU? And perhaps in the case of Spain, more so since German banks, Dutch, etc. have on their balance sheets with loans made by them for English banks to finance the purchase or housing development. And we know how is the English property scene: low ebb, with few companies wanting to build houses and many unemployed people who are going to continue to increase the stock of arrears. As someone has said, Spain is a huge subprime.