CPM li Calandro Crau around 1978
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Gay Meetings In Public Toilets
Venezuela: the challenge of housing for all
The government of Hugo Chávez has accumulated an unprecedented shortfall in housing construction. The floods of late 2010 have only exacerbated the situation.
( Photo: Seb )
Caracas, crowded city where only the motorcycle taxis escape the gridlock. City of inequality also between the districts located in hillsides and areas where grouse rent a small apartment can cost more than six times the minimum wage. Heavy rains that hit throughout the country in late 2010 have laid bare one of the contradictions of the Bolivarian government. While it claims to constantly support the poor, he was the least productive of the past 40 years housing. Indeed, previous administrations had maintained an average of 67,000 units per year. Since 1999 the executive of Hugo Chávez has never exceeded 30,000 annually.
Many laws, few buildings
In mid-December, the National Assembly granted Chávez a new law enabling him to legislate by decree for 18 months. Officially, the government hopes to solve the problem of 130,000 people affected by rains and now sheltering in makeshift camps (schools, public buildings and even some hotels requisitioned). For example, the Comandante approved in January, through the enabling legislation, a law worthy of shelters, to ensure acceptable living conditions for homeless families. However, one can question the usefulness of adopting a law to ensure such measures.
Furthermore, enabling also to quickly adapt the legislation to recover many under-utilized land, especially in urban areas. However, if this could be sensible in the context of a planned housing policy over the long term, it appears here as a new decision in a hurry to catch up and produced a deficit of several years.
In the case of the capital, the authorities of the Mayor of Greater Caracas (at the hands of the Opposition) allege that since 2007, the Executive has promised to build 55 000 houses and did complete actually barely 1000. For its part, the NGO Defence of Human Rights denounced Provea in its annual report (2009-2010) the lack of transparency in the housing figures presented by the government. The organization ensures that "for the third consecutive year, the report of the agency responsible for coordinating housing policy does not present data updated housing deficit in the country. The last known official figures are from 2007, and felt the lack of housing 2.8 million.
Article published in the "Seen from America" fortnightly Swiss The Anti-Capitalist, February 3, 2011
The government of Hugo Chávez has accumulated an unprecedented shortfall in housing construction. The floods of late 2010 have only exacerbated the situation. ( Photo: Seb )
Caracas, crowded city where only the motorcycle taxis escape the gridlock. City of inequality also between the districts located in hillsides and areas where grouse rent a small apartment can cost more than six times the minimum wage. Heavy rains that hit throughout the country in late 2010 have laid bare one of the contradictions of the Bolivarian government. While it claims to constantly support the poor, he was the least productive of the past 40 years housing. Indeed, previous administrations had maintained an average of 67,000 units per year. Since 1999 the executive of Hugo Chávez has never exceeded 30,000 annually.
Many laws, few buildings
In mid-December, the National Assembly granted Chávez a new law enabling him to legislate by decree for 18 months. Officially, the government hopes to solve the problem of 130,000 people affected by rains and now sheltering in makeshift camps (schools, public buildings and even some hotels requisitioned). For example, the Comandante approved in January, through the enabling legislation, a law worthy of shelters, to ensure acceptable living conditions for homeless families. However, one can question the usefulness of adopting a law to ensure such measures.
Furthermore, enabling also to quickly adapt the legislation to recover many under-utilized land, especially in urban areas. However, if this could be sensible in the context of a planned housing policy over the long term, it appears here as a new decision in a hurry to catch up and produced a deficit of several years.
In the case of the capital, the authorities of the Mayor of Greater Caracas (at the hands of the Opposition) allege that since 2007, the Executive has promised to build 55 000 houses and did complete actually barely 1000. For its part, the NGO Defence of Human Rights denounced Provea in its annual report (2009-2010) the lack of transparency in the housing figures presented by the government. The organization ensures that "for the third consecutive year, the report of the agency responsible for coordinating housing policy does not present data updated housing deficit in the country. The last known official figures are from 2007, and felt the lack of housing 2.8 million.
Article published in the "Seen from America" fortnightly Swiss The Anti-Capitalist, February 3, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Bangbros Women Pragnancy
Tunisia, a youth revolt
The Tunisian 
The Tunisian
revolution was announced. It was enough to read geographers and demographers who are interested in this part of the world. It is basically very simple, it can be summed up in one phrase:
In a democracy, this instability led to the change of majority in a dictatorship to revolts that power represses with varying degrees of brutality. If repression silenced the claims, he is blind, if it fails, it is, in one form or another, the revolution ...
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economic growth + development inequalities = social and political instability
In a democracy, this instability led to the change of majority in a dictatorship to revolts that power represses with varying degrees of brutality. If repression silenced the claims, he is blind, if it fails, it is, in one form or another, the revolution ...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Will It Hurt To Have The Mirena Out
Cuba, Venezuela connect to the global Internet
Two young school girls are introduced to computers in a school in Havana in 2006.
( Photo: Seb )
Caracas, Kingston and Alcatel-Lucent allow Havana to circumvent the embargo through a submarine cable.
A fiber optic cable along the 1600 km is currently deployed from the coast of Venezuela to the eastern region of Cuba. It will enable the island to increase its capacity by 3000 to connect. The arrival French ship Ile de Batz at the port of Siboney in the province of Santiago de Cuba, is scheduled for February 8. From there, the extension of submarine cable fiber optics will extend further than 230 km to reach Jamaica, in what is considered by authorities as a "regional integration project."
Effect of Alba
The installation works are insured by a subsidiary of the French company Alcatel-Lucent, the Chinese Shanghai Bell, and represent an investment of approximately 70 million dollars. But the project administration will be dependent a company 100% Cuban-Venezuelan public Telecomunicaciones Gran Caribe, created as part of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (Alba).
The cable, which should be operational from July, has an estimated life of twenty-five years in Cuba and provide a connection capacity of 640 gigabits. Currently, the island has only 209 megabits per second and 379 megabits output input from information published on the website of Radio Habana Cuba (RHC).
Cuba was so far the only country in the continent U.S. not to be connected to the world by the network of submarine fiber optics. The U.S. embargo still imposed until recently the additional costs prohibitive to Havana to connect to the cable which connects Cancun to Miami, and yet spends 32 kilometers off the Cuban capital.
According to statements by its local manager, Jose Ignacio Quintero, Alcatel-Lucent has also had to take precautions against the blockade. The representative of the firm assured the Venezuelan press that no entity or any U.S. citizen not involved in the project, "to not exposed to any kind of sanction.
Internet for all?
This exclusion of the global network so far forced Cuba to connect to the internet via satellite, a replacement slow and costly . But the installation of new cable does not necessarily mean an immediate mass access to the web. Officially, the "technological and financial failures" prevent more widespread connectivity. According to Ramon Linares, Cuban Deputy Minister of Computers and telecommunications, "the priority is to pursue the creation of collective centers Internet access and strengthen connections in the scientific research centers, educational centers and health of the country ".
The low telephone density of the island is one of the limitations of order technique for the massive deployment of Internet, but it should however be advanced in the medium term. According to statements from top officials at RHC, "All Cubans who have the phone should, in principle, be entitled to an internet connection ". The question is whether the political will.
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Article published in the daily Swiss Courier February 2, 2011
Two young school girls are introduced to computers in a school in Havana in 2006. ( Photo: Seb )
Caracas, Kingston and Alcatel-Lucent allow Havana to circumvent the embargo through a submarine cable.
A fiber optic cable along the 1600 km is currently deployed from the coast of Venezuela to the eastern region of Cuba. It will enable the island to increase its capacity by 3000 to connect. The arrival French ship Ile de Batz at the port of Siboney in the province of Santiago de Cuba, is scheduled for February 8. From there, the extension of submarine cable fiber optics will extend further than 230 km to reach Jamaica, in what is considered by authorities as a "regional integration project."
Effect of Alba
The installation works are insured by a subsidiary of the French company Alcatel-Lucent, the Chinese Shanghai Bell, and represent an investment of approximately 70 million dollars. But the project administration will be dependent a company 100% Cuban-Venezuelan public Telecomunicaciones Gran Caribe, created as part of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (Alba).
The cable, which should be operational from July, has an estimated life of twenty-five years in Cuba and provide a connection capacity of 640 gigabits. Currently, the island has only 209 megabits per second and 379 megabits output input from information published on the website of Radio Habana Cuba (RHC).
Cuba was so far the only country in the continent U.S. not to be connected to the world by the network of submarine fiber optics. The U.S. embargo still imposed until recently the additional costs prohibitive to Havana to connect to the cable which connects Cancun to Miami, and yet spends 32 kilometers off the Cuban capital.
According to statements by its local manager, Jose Ignacio Quintero, Alcatel-Lucent has also had to take precautions against the blockade. The representative of the firm assured the Venezuelan press that no entity or any U.S. citizen not involved in the project, "to not exposed to any kind of sanction.
Internet for all?
This exclusion of the global network so far forced Cuba to connect to the internet via satellite, a replacement slow and costly . But the installation of new cable does not necessarily mean an immediate mass access to the web. Officially, the "technological and financial failures" prevent more widespread connectivity. According to Ramon Linares, Cuban Deputy Minister of Computers and telecommunications, "the priority is to pursue the creation of collective centers Internet access and strengthen connections in the scientific research centers, educational centers and health of the country ".
The low telephone density of the island is one of the limitations of order technique for the massive deployment of Internet, but it should however be advanced in the medium term. According to statements from top officials at RHC, "All Cubans who have the phone should, in principle, be entitled to an internet connection ". The question is whether the political will.
---
Article published in the daily Swiss Courier February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Diagram Of Cancer Pathophysiology
Micro-credit is in crisis
If one could have doubts about the effectiveness of micro-credit, the crisis that s' announcement, a crisis that could lead beyond the institutions specializing in micro-credit banks Indian classical reveals the weaknesses of a business model that has enriched the shareholders of these institutions without necessarily helping the poor 's out.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Naturism Competition Of Beauty
Reduce payroll taxes to improve productivity is not a good idea
Once again, we propose to lower social security contributions to improve the competitiveness of French industry. But is this really what this is? To listen to endless complaints too Medef, we forget that the problems of competitiveness of the economy are primarily related to its structure, the small number of large SMEs, what we now call the ETI companies intermediate size. Their development has long been crippled by lack of capital, it is today by the difficulty find the skills needed on the labor market. Main cause: too large differential between wages in SMEs and large enterprises.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
How To Retie S.o. Moccasins
Vaquié February 12, 2011 at Miramas
Vaquié through Miramas
The Saturday, February 12, 2011, 10:30 to , do not miss the broadcast Lengo nostro "Vaquié" on France 3 Provence-Alps by Jean-Pierre Belmon (a child Miramas ) and Lisa.
The show was recorded this week in Miramas
it will make you discover our city.
And ...... I had the opportunity and the chance to be
interviewed by Jean-Pierre Belmon.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Working Out During Herpes Outbreak
Revolts in Europe, then?
past few months, we see everywhere in Europe for major events, movements of revolt against injustice, relocations ... Does this can lead to a mass movement like 1936 or 1968? Not likely. It is in periods of growth as large movements occur, not in times of crisis. We do not see, moreover, what ideology, what organizations could organize and bring all these individual cries of anger.
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past few months, we see everywhere in Europe for major events, movements of revolt against injustice, relocations ... Does this can lead to a mass movement like 1936 or 1968? Not likely. It is in periods of growth as large movements occur, not in times of crisis. We do not see, moreover, what ideology, what organizations could organize and bring all these individual cries of anger.
To read this column, click here
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Samples Speech Of Ceo
The trilemma or the challenge of Europeans
If one believes Dani Rodrik, a renowned expert of international trade, Europeans face a trilemma that can be summarized as follows: one can not have everything both national sovereignty, democracy and deep economic integration. We must choose to eliminate one or other of these components. But which one? A conceptual tool that should help us clarify our thinking on the evolution of Europe.
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If one believes Dani Rodrik, a renowned expert of international trade, Europeans face a trilemma that can be summarized as follows: one can not have everything both national sovereignty, democracy and deep economic integration. We must choose to eliminate one or other of these components. But which one? A conceptual tool that should help us clarify our thinking on the evolution of Europe.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
First Auditions Free Movies
Closing the Blog
This blog has been open for more than three and a half years in April 2007. Today, it closed its doors. The nostalgia is there, but it is time for me to move on. Not kept online a few months as various interviews with independent publishers ( HERE), authors ( HERE) and critics ( HERE).
Bartleby eyes open was a great adventure that began in complete anonymity and ending with the publication in April of a book, Little Treaty of literature shifted (working title), to Publishing Vampire Active . This book is a synthesis of work done here, but not only: it will certainly be built around the concept of Atopia that was my thread over the years, he certainly made a lot of criticism here published, rewritten and developed for the occasion (others will be unusual), but it will also aim to show that this notion is at the heart of the great masterpieces of modern literature, French and foreign.
Chronicles that will not be used in this book will be progressively re-published a new blog that opens its doors tonight the Anagnost .
This blog will be maintained by Marc Villemain and myself. We will offer readings on separate records, but also because we have different sensitivities, readings cross.
I hope that readers of this blog will follow me in this new approach. Anyway, thank you for having me followed, from France or abroad (With a special nod to my mysterious reader Finnish).
Thursday, January 6, 2011
How To Find The Rainbow Puffle On Club Penguin
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Elbow Bandage For Dog
interviews with writers. Interviews
Jakuta Alikavasovic about London-Luxor.
Juan Asensio about The Love Song of Judas Iscariot.
Paul Beatty about Slumberland.
Sebastian Dubinsky about Quién es?
Brian Evenson to About inversion.
Brian Evenson about The Brotherhood of amputees.
Alain Ferry about Memory of a madman Emma (Prix Medicis, 2009).
Alain-Paul Mallard about Concealment.
Antoni García Porta about Advice from a disciple of Morrison fanatic Joyce written with Roberto Bolaño. Dag Solstad
about shame and dignity. 
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Juan Asensio about The Love Song of Judas Iscariot.
Paul Beatty about Slumberland.
Sebastian Dubinsky about Quién es?
Brian Evenson to About inversion.
Brian Evenson about The Brotherhood of amputees.
Alain Ferry about Memory of a madman Emma (Prix Medicis, 2009).
Alain-Paul Mallard about Concealment.
Antoni García Porta about Advice from a disciple of Morrison fanatic Joyce written with Roberto Bolaño. Dag Solstad
about shame and dignity.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Sulfur Dioxide Safe Used Fruits
Hugo Chávez is freed from the parliament to accelerate the revolution
Hugo Chavez in Miraflores Palace. ( Photo: Seb )
On the eve of the inauguration of the new National Assembly, the incumbents were exceptionally hard and authorized the president to legislate by decree for eighteen months.
For the third time in eleven years, parliament granted the right to Hugo Chávez to legislate by decree. Each time, the opposition parties and the media have denounced these laws called "enabling" as evidence of an authoritarian government. The decrees issued during the first enabling provoked a reaction from the radical opposition and led to the coup of April 11, 2002. This time, the measure comes on the eve of the inauguration of the new National Assembly (Wednesday, 5 January), following the elections on September 26, in which the opposition meeting at the Mesa de Unidad Democrática ( Table of democratic unity), returns (minority) in parliament.
Officially, the enabling legislation granted Venezuelan President on December 17 is "to meet the emergency and crisis" caused by heavy rains and floods that have affected the country in recent weeks, causing the death of thirty-eight people and forcing 130,000 others to abandon their homes across the country. The first decree adopted a week ago by Hugo Chavez is in fact the creation of a fund of 10 billion Bolivars (2.3 billion) for reconstruction of affected areas.
However, the powers of the President extends to other areas such as security and defense, taxation, land use, land use in rural and urban housing, infrastructure, transportation, utilities and international agreements (among others).
The pitfall of the two-thirds
For opponents, there's no doubt: "Chávez cancels Assembly and legislate without control," as the headline in the opposition newspaper recently El Nacional . If he is in no question of dissolving the parliament (which will continue to legislate properly), it is however clear that this will allow the enabling Executive to pass certain laws frames which normally would have needed the support of two thirds of MPs, most of which he will no longer have after January 5.
Yul Jabour, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) and member of the Andean Parliament, confirms this impression. "If it was only to solve the flooding problem, the enabling legislation was not necessary. It is necessary to create instruments (legal, note) that can advance the interests of workers, peasants; to attack the mafia of the construction that have been enriched by speculation, etc.. The VCP supports enabling legislation because we understand the current political situation and the need of the revolutionary forces to advance and, subject, of course, to speak at each order that will follow. "
legislative marathon
Moreover, members of the outgoing majority, dominated largely by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), have engaged in recent weeks in a race against the clock (with a series of sessions Extraordinary parliament) to vote several laws and reforms that have sparked the ire the opposition and even some skepticism within the Chavismo.
One of them is the partial reform of the law on political parties, which now punish MPs who decide to switch sides in the Legislature. The "guilty" and could be dismissed for "voter fraud" defined as "any conduct that deviates from repeated policy and policy positions presented in the platform" of each parliamentary group. Yul Jabour said that the VCP has refused to support the PSUV in approving this reform because he believes that "discipline party is a matter of conscience, not by bureaucratic and administrative decisions that can ensure a political position. "
Universities anticapitalist
Other laws approved late December is a legislative package including the popular power, forum for promoting community participation in public management. More controversial, a law called "defense of political sovereignty" prohibits the financing of NGOs or political parties by organizations Foreign.
But this is probably the reform of legislation on universities (1) who will do the most noise in the coming days, with an expected mobilization at the beginning of the student opposition movement . The new law places on equal footing teachers, students and workers, and states that he intended to "strengthen the link between education and creative work emancipating and liberating, as the basis for training programs that contribute to the excess of the capitalist model alienating its modes of authoritarian leadership, social relationships exploitation, the social division of labor and unequal distribution of wealth. "Unacceptable for academic elite, so far entrenched in its strongholds in the guise of university autonomy.
Note :
(1) At the time of publishing this post on this blog, President Hugo Chavez announced his veto at the Universities Act and called for the creation of a national commission to submit a further consultation People.
Article published in the Swiss daily Le Courrier January 4, 2011
Hugo Chavez in Miraflores Palace. ( Photo: Seb ) On the eve of the inauguration of the new National Assembly, the incumbents were exceptionally hard and authorized the president to legislate by decree for eighteen months.
For the third time in eleven years, parliament granted the right to Hugo Chávez to legislate by decree. Each time, the opposition parties and the media have denounced these laws called "enabling" as evidence of an authoritarian government. The decrees issued during the first enabling provoked a reaction from the radical opposition and led to the coup of April 11, 2002. This time, the measure comes on the eve of the inauguration of the new National Assembly (Wednesday, 5 January), following the elections on September 26, in which the opposition meeting at the Mesa de Unidad Democrática ( Table of democratic unity), returns (minority) in parliament.
Officially, the enabling legislation granted Venezuelan President on December 17 is "to meet the emergency and crisis" caused by heavy rains and floods that have affected the country in recent weeks, causing the death of thirty-eight people and forcing 130,000 others to abandon their homes across the country. The first decree adopted a week ago by Hugo Chavez is in fact the creation of a fund of 10 billion Bolivars (2.3 billion) for reconstruction of affected areas.
However, the powers of the President extends to other areas such as security and defense, taxation, land use, land use in rural and urban housing, infrastructure, transportation, utilities and international agreements (among others).
The pitfall of the two-thirds
For opponents, there's no doubt: "Chávez cancels Assembly and legislate without control," as the headline in the opposition newspaper recently El Nacional . If he is in no question of dissolving the parliament (which will continue to legislate properly), it is however clear that this will allow the enabling Executive to pass certain laws frames which normally would have needed the support of two thirds of MPs, most of which he will no longer have after January 5.
Yul Jabour, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) and member of the Andean Parliament, confirms this impression. "If it was only to solve the flooding problem, the enabling legislation was not necessary. It is necessary to create instruments (legal, note) that can advance the interests of workers, peasants; to attack the mafia of the construction that have been enriched by speculation, etc.. The VCP supports enabling legislation because we understand the current political situation and the need of the revolutionary forces to advance and, subject, of course, to speak at each order that will follow. "
legislative marathon
Moreover, members of the outgoing majority, dominated largely by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), have engaged in recent weeks in a race against the clock (with a series of sessions Extraordinary parliament) to vote several laws and reforms that have sparked the ire the opposition and even some skepticism within the Chavismo.
One of them is the partial reform of the law on political parties, which now punish MPs who decide to switch sides in the Legislature. The "guilty" and could be dismissed for "voter fraud" defined as "any conduct that deviates from repeated policy and policy positions presented in the platform" of each parliamentary group. Yul Jabour said that the VCP has refused to support the PSUV in approving this reform because he believes that "discipline party is a matter of conscience, not by bureaucratic and administrative decisions that can ensure a political position. "
Universities anticapitalist
Other laws approved late December is a legislative package including the popular power, forum for promoting community participation in public management. More controversial, a law called "defense of political sovereignty" prohibits the financing of NGOs or political parties by organizations Foreign.
But this is probably the reform of legislation on universities (1) who will do the most noise in the coming days, with an expected mobilization at the beginning of the student opposition movement . The new law places on equal footing teachers, students and workers, and states that he intended to "strengthen the link between education and creative work emancipating and liberating, as the basis for training programs that contribute to the excess of the capitalist model alienating its modes of authoritarian leadership, social relationships exploitation, the social division of labor and unequal distribution of wealth. "Unacceptable for academic elite, so far entrenched in its strongholds in the guise of university autonomy.
Note :
(1) At the time of publishing this post on this blog, President Hugo Chavez announced his veto at the Universities Act and called for the creation of a national commission to submit a further consultation People.
Article published in the Swiss daily Le Courrier January 4, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
How Painful Is Gallstones
ISVs have their work
editions Absalon presented by Dominique Fagnot
The Allusifs presented by Brigitte Bouchard
Tree Avenger presented by David Vincent
Asphalt presented by Estelle Durand and Claire Duvivier
The Black Herald presented by Blandine Longre
editions Cadex presented by Helen Boinard
The Last Drop by Christophe Sédierta
editions Era presented by Eric Arlix
States Civilian presented by Daniel Labedan
Gallmeister presented by Olivier and Philippe Gallmeister Beyvin
The Musardine by Claude Bard
editions of Toad presented by Valerie Millet
The Vampire Active presented by Karine Cnudde
Face Green presented by the editorial team
Zanzibar presented by Laurent Blain
The Zaporozhian by Sebastian Dubinsky 
editions Absalon presented by Dominique Fagnot
The Allusifs presented by Brigitte Bouchard
Tree Avenger presented by David Vincent
Asphalt presented by Estelle Durand and Claire Duvivier
The Black Herald presented by Blandine Longre
editions Cadex presented by Helen Boinard
The Last Drop by Christophe Sédierta
editions Era presented by Eric Arlix
States Civilian presented by Daniel Labedan
Gallmeister presented by Olivier and Philippe Gallmeister Beyvin
The Musardine by Claude Bard
editions of Toad presented by Valerie Millet
The Vampire Active presented by Karine Cnudde
Face Green presented by the editorial team
Zanzibar presented by Laurent Blain
The Zaporozhian by Sebastian Dubinsky
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