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.
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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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