Correo de Noticias 29/5/07

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/primera/28981.html

Fracasa programa de apoyo a pequeñas y medianas empresas

Las compras que hace el gobierno privilegian a los grandes consorcios

Fracasa programa de apoyo a pequeñas y medianas empresasFracasa programa de apoyo a pequeñas y medianas empresas

El Universal

Martes 29 de mayo de 2007

Fernando Pedrero

M@: Alright, la LIBRE COMPETENCIA en pleno.

http://www.vefutbol.com.mx/notas/2778.html

Para Salcido, en México miman a futbolistas

Celebra el defensa del PSV, campeón en Holanda, que en Europa no mimen a los jugadores tal como sucede en su país

EFE

El Universal

Ciudad de México

Lunes 28 de mayo de 2007

19:30 El mexicano Carlos Salcido, defensa del PSV Eindhoven, campeón del futbol holandés, aseguró hoy que en las ligas europeas no miman a los jugadores y eso los hace crecer

M@: No, Salcido. Quienes verdaderamente “apapachamos” a los jugadores somos los aficionados. El día que dejemos de consumir la mediocridad que nos brindan en México, excepto la liguilla para ser justos, ese día cambian ustedes, te lo aseguro.

http://www.milenio.com/index.php/2007/05/24/72464/

24 de Mayo

Sorprende sismo a los científicos

Sorprendida por el temblor de 5.2 grados que se registró la tarde de ayer en el sur de Tamaulipas y norte de Veracruz, la comunidad científica se pronunció por investigar a fondo las causas del fenómeno en esta zona no sísmica, al tiempo en que hizo un llamado a la población para no caer en psicosis luego del tsunami ocurrido en Indonesia en el 2004.

M@: http://www.aporrealos.org/actualidad/a11393.html

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/427963.html

Bush desea mi muerte: Fidel Castro

Revela el líder cubano que en fecha reciente un personaje importante cuestionó a su homólogo estadounidense sobre su política hacia Cuba, a lo que éste contestó: "yo soy un presidente de línea dura y sólo espero la muerte de Castro"

M@: Any news? ¿Qué es un presidente de línea dura?

http://encontrarte.aporrea.org/fascismo.php/a12582.html

El Fascismo como fin político : Benito Mussolini, il Duce

Martín Maytín

El 23 de marzo de 1919, es fundado en Milán por Benito Mussolini un movimiento político social denominado Fascios di Combattimento, que a pesar de las múltiples desgracias y ruina a la que condujo a la nación italiana, se ha convertido —especialmente para grupos minoritarios clasistas y racistas— en una teoría o ideología para hacer y ejercer la política y el gobierno. A esta tendencia se le ha denominado Fascismo. Este partido no nació basado en una doctrina previamente estructurada sino por una necesidad de acción, agrupando a elementos de diversas tendencias políticas.

M@: Fachos del mundo, uníos.

http://www.proceso.com.mx/noticia.html?sec=2&nta=51065&nsec=Estados

Se obliga a maestros a afiliarse al Panal, en Tamaulipas

gabriela hernández

Ciudad Victoria, Tamps., 28 de mayo (apro).- En un retorno a los tiempos del corporativismo, el Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación presiona a los maestros para que se afilien al Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal), denunciaron profesores y representantes gremiales.

M@: Uchas, por lo menos espero que haya JALEA REAL.

http://www.proceso.com.mx/prisma.html?sec=3&nta=51031&nsec=

índrome de guerra
matteo dean

México, D.F.(apro).- Treinta y siete soldados italianos muertos entre 2001 y 2006 y más de 300 en riesgo de correr la misma suerte, es el saldo que presenta la Asociación Nacional de Asistencia a las Víctimas Alistados en las Fuerzas Armadas y Familias de los Caídos (Anavafav), que desde 1994 registra los casos de militares italianos que se han enfermado al regresar de los frentes de guerra.

M@: Cuando los estragos de la guerra nos alcancen.

http://www.proceso.com.mx/columna.html?col=9&nta=50952&ncol=adelanto+de+libros

Cien años de literatura mexicana, de Philippe Ollé-Laprune

armando ponce

México, D.F., 28 de mayo (apro).- Si pudiéramos elegir un compendio de los novelistas, poetas y ensayistas mexicanos del siglo XX traducidos al francés, el mejor ejemplo actual sería Cent ans de littérature mexicaine (Cien años de literatura mexicana), del investigador francés radicado en México, Philippe Ollé-Laprune.

M@: Hay que conseguirlo, pues.

http://www.proceso.com.mx/noticia.html?sec=0&nta=50995&nsec=

Legalidad detrás del aborto (Primera de tres partes)

maría de la luz tesoro

México, D.F., 28 de mayo (apro-cimac).- El ejercicio de la medicina y de sus disciplinas auxiliares consiste en salvaguardar la salud, y si el funcionario o médico del IMSS se niega terminante e injustificadamente a realizar un aborto, o participar en alguna intervención relacionada con el mismo, incurre en flagrante violación al artículo 47, fracción I de la ley federal de responsabilidades de los servidores públicos.

http://www.proceso.com.mx/noticia.html?sec=0&nta=50994&nsec=

Legalidad detrás del aborto (Segunda de tres partes)

maría de la luz tesoro

México, D.F., 28 de mayo (apro-cimac).- La “objeción de conciencia”, nombrada reiteradamente en el debate sobre la interrupción del embarazo, es una negativa a realizar actos o servicios invocando motivos éticos o religiosos, mismos que suelen acomodarse a los grandes movimientos o transformaciones culturales de la historia, advierte el doctor Raúl Carrancá y Rivas.

http://www.proceso.com.mx/noticia.html?sec=0&nta=51003&nsec=

Legalidad detrás del aborto (Tercera y última)

maría de la luz tesoro

México, D.F., 28 de mayo (apro-cimac).- En el mundo occidental, el tema de la liberación del aborto ocupa un sitio privilegiado en el debate de las ideas, por lo que debe analizarse con gran cuidado para no dejar espacios abiertos que permitan críticas insanas, tendenciosa y, por supuesto, cargadas de fanatismo, aseguró el doctor Raúl Carranca y Rivas.

M@: Se van a dar hasta con la cubeta, ya lo verán.

http://www.milenio.com/mexico/milenio/firma.php?id=514514

La tanga de Soberanes

• ¿Agenda bilateral? La de EU

• Lozano desactiva mina por mina...

El hombre devoto, mi estimado, solo piensa en sí mismo. Felipe Calderón está cumpliendo su palabra del slogan de campaña. ¿Cómo era que decía? “Seré el Presidente del empleo (or something)...”. Y ayer, con el anuncio de la creación de un Comité Especializado de Alto Nivel en Materia de Desarme, Terrorismo y Seguridad Internacional que contará con ¡seis! grupos operativos (¿encabezados por Madame Sazú...?) que serán: Armas nucleares, armas químicas y biológicas, armas convencionales, lucha contra el terrorismo, “armonización” (jajajaja... perdón) legal y administrativa (¿?), y de seguridad internacional, el inquilino de Los Pinos comienza con palomita su accidentado sexenio en materia de empleo.

M@: Comité Especializado … mmm. How many Zetas more today?

http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2007/story/0,,2090085,00.html

Hay Festival 2007

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No regrets

Richard Perle was one of the arch hawks who helped to push America into the Iraq war. Four years on, Suzanne Goldenberg finds him unrepentant

M@: ¿Porqué habría de pedir perdón? La DEMOCRACIA está funcionando de Maravilla en Iraq. Oh yeah!!!

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2591496.ece

Human rights in Iraq: a case to answer

Revealed: How Lord Goldsmith advised Army chiefs to deny detainees 'full' legal protection

By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor

Published: 29 May 2007

The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, is facing accusations that he told the Army its soldiers were not bound by the Human Rights Act when arresting, detaining and interrogating Iraqi prisoners.

Previously confidential emails, seen by The Independent, between London and British military head-quarters in Iraq soon after the start of the war suggest Lord Goldsmith's advice was to adopt a "pragmatic" approach when handling prisoners and it was not necessary to follow the " higher standards" of the protection of the Human Rights Act.

That, according to human rights lawyers, was tantamount to the Attorney General advising the military to ignore the Human Rights Act and to simply observe the Geneva Conventions. It was also contrary to advice given by the Army's senior lawyer in Iraq, who urged higher standards to be met.

Today, rights groups and experts in international law will call on the Government to disclose Lord Goldsmith's legal opinion, which they say could have helped create a culture of abuse of Iraqis by British soldiers.

Last month, the first British soldier convicted of a war crime was jailed for a year and dismissed from the Army after being convicted of mistreating Iraqi civilians, including the hotel worker Baha Mousa, who died of his injuries at the hands of British soldiers. In 2005, three British soldiers were jailed by a court martial in Germany after "trophy" photographs emerged, showing Iraqi detainees being abused at an aid centre called Camp Bread Basket. There are about 60 more allegations of abuse being prepared for legal claims by rights groups.

Last week, Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights wrote to the Government to ask for an "explanation" about the evidence of torture in the Baha Mousa court martial.

Andrew Dismore MP, chair of the committee, said: "We have asked the Ministry of Defence to explain what appear to be stark inconsistencies in the evidence presented to our committee about the use of inhuman and degrading interrogation techniques prohibited as long ago as 1972."

But emails sent just after the invasion indicate Lord Goldsmith's belief that British soldiers in Iraq were not bound by the Human Rights Act. The documents also show a wide differing of opinion between him and Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the Army's most senior legal adviser on the ground, who wrote to say he felt "the ECHR would apply" to troops in Iraq.

On one occasion, Rachel Quick, the legal adviser to Permanent Joint Headquarters who had regularly sought and been given guidance from Lord Goldsmith on the treatment of Iraqi prisoners, wrote to Colonel Mercer giving her interpretation of the Attorney General's advice. His view, she said, "was that the HRA was only intended to protect rights conferred by the Convention and must look to international law to determine the scope of those rights".

Ms Quick went on say that the advice of the Attorney General, supported by Professor Christopher Greenwood [the barrister who advised Lord Goldsmith on the legality of the war], was that, in the circumstances, the HRA did not apply. "For your purposes," she wrote, "I would suggest this means no requirement for you to provide guidance on the application of the HRA. I hope this is clear."

Ms Quick, who in November 2003, was appointed OBE, added: "With regard to the detention of civilians - I will look at your documents in more detail and discuss with FCO, MoD legal advisers. Although my initial thoughts are you are trying to introduce UK procedures to a Geneva Convention IV context. Whilst this may be the perfect solution it may not be the pragmatic solution. Again we raised this issue with the AG and got a helpful steer on the procedures. I'll aim to try to produce guidance, taking into account their advice on the detention of civilians."

Such were the concerns of legal advisers on the ground over the Attorney General's views that the MoD arranged for the senior legal adviser at the Foreign Office, Gavin Hood, to visit Permanent Joint Headquarters to settle any worries. Crucially, the emails make clear Lord Goldsmith's legal opinion was not shared by Colonel Mercer, who contacted his superiors in London to ask for guidance after he had witnessed the hooding of 40 Iraqis at a British PoW camp in March. The men were all forced to kneel in the sun and had their hands cuffed behind their backs. Worried this could leave the soldiers vulnerable to prosecutions, he told the MoD that in his view soldiers should behave in accordance with the "higher standard" of the Human Rights Act.

But the response from the military's Permanent Joint Headquarters in Qatar was that Lord Goldsmith had told the MoD the human rights law did not apply and soldiers should simply observe the Geneva Conventions.

When Colonel Mercer said he disagreed with the Government's most senior law officer he was told that "perhaps you should put yourself up as the next Attorney General". Colonel Mercer also asked for a British judge to be flown out to oversee the procedures for the detention of Iraqi prisoners, but this also was blocked at a high level.

Colonel Mercer's interpretation of the law has since proved correct. Thirty months after he first raised his concerns during the Iraq conflict, the Court of Appeal ruled that British soldiers were bound by the Human Rights Act, which bans torture or degrading of prisoners.

The emails, part of court documents being prepared to support a judicial review in the High Court this year, reveal considerable disquiet among the military about the Attorney General's advice.

The documents show that as early as March 2003, the International Committee of the Red Cross had begun investigating complaints of possible war crimes by British soldiers at the same PoW camp in south-east Iraq that had prompted Colonel Mercer's original intervention. The Government was so worried about this that it flew out a political adviser from London to address the Red Cross's concerns about hooding and other practices.

International law

* Torture is defined by international law as any threat or use of severe pain, physical or mental, against an individual with the intention of obtaining a confession or other information. Under the UN Convention Against Torture, 40 states - including Britain - have agreed not to engage in such practices.

During military conflict the third and fourth Geneva Conventions protect prisoners of war and civilians who are held by soldiers. Torture is also defined as a war crime by the International Criminal Court, which describes it as the unlawful infliction of severe pain.

Many of the incidents of abuse committed by British soldiers on Iraqi civilians may fall outside the strict definition of torture under international law.

But under the European Convention of Human Rights, incorporated in the Human Rights Act 1998, there is no requirement that the threat or use of pain should be severe for an act to fall foul of the law.

Lord Goldsmith argued that because UK forces did not have full control of Iraq, the country was not part of its jurisdiction and therefore the Human Rights Act did not apply. He lost this argument when the Court of Appeal ruled that Iraqi civilians held in custody and the soldiers detaining them were subject to the Human Rights Act. The case is to be settled later this year by the House of Lords. If the Government loses then it is expected that full and independent inquiries will be held into the deaths, disappearances and torture of Iraqis by British soldiers.

http://environment.independent.co.uk/lifestyle/article2591469.ece

Organic movement faces split over air-freighted food

By Martin Hickman Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Published: 29 May 2007

For the conscientious, food shopping poses many ethical dilemmas: are organic bananas better than Fairtrade or English tomatoes preferable to imports?

Britain's booming organic movement has been wrestling with one such dilemma for years and the debate has become so heated it can no longer be ignored. From today, the country's organic farmers, suppliers and shoppers are being asked for an answer to an awkward question: is it acceptable to air-freight organic food?

On this one question could hinge the prosperity of thousands of African farmers, fruit and vegetable importers, the integrity of the organic movement and, to some extent, the health of the planet itself.

If the body which certifies three-quarters or organic food, the Soil Association, rules that the climate change pollution cannot be justified, it may ban all flown-in food.

A ban might split the organic movement: one side with strict environmental standards and another with looser standards that factor in the development of the Third World. The argument arises from the rapid rise of the UK organic movement, which has burgeoned into a £1.6bn-a-year business.

Farmers have struggled to grow enough food and in 2005 supermarkets imported one-third of their organic range, mostly by air.

Nationally "food miles" are at a record high, with air-freighting up 136 per cent between 1992 and 2002.

Yet flying food thousands of miles from poor farmers to wealthy Westerners generates substantial amounts of C02 just as climate change is being recognised as an emergency. Shoppers find the dissonance uncomfortable: a Soil Association survey found that eight out of 10 would prefer to buy conventional local food rather than an organic import.

At Britain's biggest vegetable box supplier, Riverford Farm in Devon, air-freighted food is banned. The self-imposed ban is sometimes difficult but Guy Watson, its founder, believes the environment must take priority. He tells customers: "Most out-of-season veg imported to the UK is flown in from Africa and South America causing horrendous emissions, or trucked from southern Europe with less, but still substantial, environmental impact." About 80 per cent of company's 35,000 customers' food comes from the UK, with the rest arriving by road or ship.

By contrast, the importer Blue Skies in Northamptonshire buys fresh pineapple, mango and coconuts from Ghana, where it employs 1,500 people. "We would see any change to the rules as unfair to us and unfair to Africa," said the founder, Anthony Pile. "The carbon emissions for air freighted food is something like 1 per cent of the total emissions." Why hit farmers who have a tiny carbon footprint and often live without electricity? he asked.

In its consultation, which ends on 28 September this year, the Soil Association is setting out the case for five options. Maintaining the status quo would help faraway producers but might damage the organisation's credibility. A gradual or total ban would damage exporters but help tackle climate change and encourage more sustainable agriculture. Warning stickers or offsetting flights would be a compromise.

Anna Bradley, of the Soil Association's standards committee, explained that the rules had to evolve over time and the time had come for a definitive answer on aviation. "It's quite clear right now that these issues of climate change and CO2 are much more important than they were 10 years ago and it feels much more pertinent to talk about them," she said. But Britain's organic trailblazer could lose business by raising its standards, just as it did when it tightened its rules on poultry farms. "That cost us licensees but it has ... retained the integrity of the standard," she said.

Flown in from abroad

* PORK FROM DENMARK

When it opens its massive new 75,000 sq ft store in London's Kensington High Street next month, the US organic giant Whole Foods Market will stock many imports from all over the world because UK supply of organic produce is overstretched. Among products likely to be brought in are pork from Denmark and beef from France and Germany.

* PINEAPPLES FROM GHANA

Workers in west Africa grow and pack tropical fruit such as pineapples, mangoes and papaya which is then flown to the UK. Countries like Ghana say the foreign income is vital to development.

* MILK FROM THE NETHERLANDS

Supermarkets are struggling to find enough organic milk because of the number of dairy farmers going out of business and the time taken to convert to new methods. Organic milk is bought from the Netherlands.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2591473.ece

Chirac faces inquiry into £30m account

By John Lichfield in Paris

Published: 29 May 2007

The former French president, Jacques Chirac, will soon be questioned by investigating magistrates on his alleged use of an illegal bank account in Japan.

Although M. Chirac also faces questioning on other alleged financial irregularities, his mysterious Japanese dealings over many years appear to have risen to the top of the pile of his legal worries.

Two judges investigating the Clearstream affair - false allegations of corruption against French public figures, including the present President, Nicolas Sarkozy - will seek to question M. Chirac soon , the newspaper Libération said yesterday.

Judge Jean-Marie d'Huy and Judge Henri Pons, investigating the Clearstream affair, have unearthed new evidence suggesting that M. Chirac had an undeclared account at a Japanese bank in the 1990s. The evidence suggests the account may once have received funds from Gaston Flosse, the former president of French Polynesia who is an old friend and political ally of M. Chirac.

M. Chirac and M. Flosse have denied the allegations, which were leaked to the French press. The former president has always denied having opened a bank account in Japan. M. Flosse, a controversial figure for many years, was found guilty last year of illegally using his political influence to bail out a struggling hotel owned by his son.

Although the claims seem minor in themselves, investigators believe that the Japanese-Polynesian connections may help to explain a web of mysterious financial dealings.

A note from the French external security service, the DGSE, unearthed by the investigators last year, implies that M. Chirac once had ¥7bn (about £30m) in an account opened at Tokyo Sowa bank in 1992. The bank, owned by a since-ruined Japanese businessman, Shoichi Osada, has ceased trading. M. Osada was a friend of M. Chirac for decades.

The investigating judges are reported by the French press to have found new evidence linking M. Chirac to the Japanese bank account in private notes kept by a former intelligence officer, General Philippe Rondot.

General Rondot was one of the - innocent - prime actors in the Clearstream affair. In 2004, he was asked by the former prime minister Dominique de Villepin to investigate fake illegal bank accounts supposedly held by French public figures, including M. Sarkozy, in Luxembourg. The general's entire records have been seized by the judges.

When M. Chirac was president, he was immune from prosecution, even from investigation. Now that he has left the ElyséePalace, he is almost certain to be questioned about his alleged role in illegal party funding in the 1990s when he was mayor of Paris. The alleged Japanese bank account is part of a separate investigation.

M. Chirac is a great Jap-anophile, a fan of sumo wrestling and an expert on Japanese art. He has visited Japan 54 times in the past 37 years, mostly unofficially. His Japanese connections have always been a matter of great sensitivity.

While sharing power with the Socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, from 1997-2002, M. Chirac became convinced M. Jospin was using the security services to investigate his dealings in Japan. After M. Jospin left office in 2002, M. Chirac fired the head of the DGSE. The media then learnt that the DGSE had made a brief investigation in Japan, although not at M. Jospin's request. Documents from this inquiry were in General Rondot's files.

Eva Joly, the Norwegian-born former magistrate and a fearless and successful judicial investigator, has called for a separate inquiry into the Japanese affair. Mme Joly, now retired, said it was unclear whether the Clear-stream judges would have the authority to inquire deeply into M. Chirac's Japanese connections.

"It seems essential to me that an investigation should be conducted on the documents which reportedly point to a [Chirac] account in Japan," she said. "A democracy worthy of the name cannot continue in this uncertainty."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/business/29coal.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS

Published: May 29, 2007

WASHINGTON, May 28 — Even as Congressional leaders draft legislation to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming, a powerful roster of Democrats and Republicans is pushing to subsidize coal as the king of alternative fuels.

M@: Sigánle sacando al parche. Queda un buen de tiempo. Don’t worry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/world/middleeast/29syria.html?th&emc=th

Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria

MARABA, Syria — Back home in Iraq, Umm Hiba’s daughter was a devout schoolgirl, modest in her dress and serious about her studies. Hiba, who is now 16, wore the hijab, or Islamic head scarf, and rose early each day to say the dawn prayer before classes.

M@: Y Perle no tiene nada de que arrepentirse. Seguramente su hija también se dedica a la vida galante. Todo un éxito la Liberación, right?

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1804147.ece

From The Times

May 18, 2007

The ghetto blaster

Former boy-band star Simon Webbe escaped from a crime-ridden estate through his music. Now he’s helping other youngsters

M@: ‘The attitude of these kids has got to change, not where they come from’

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1819535.ece

From The Times

May 22, 2007

Body and mind: how the power of music lifts and heals

Maxim Vengerov is considered by many to be the best violinist in the world and commands upwards of £20,000 a performance – but few are as rewarding as the one he gave for nothing at a hospital for those with severe neurological conditions and traumatic brain injuries. Richard Morrison reports

M@: ‘They warned me that there would probably be no reaction from the children. But one girl started singing’