http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/06/04/index.php?section=opinion&article=006o1pol
Astillero
Julio Hernández López
Partido papal
Acción Presidencial, PAP
Los niños de Los Pinos
Aires turbios en el DF
Como una especie de previo beso político en el anillo pontifical, Felipe de México ha convertido una agrupación espinalmente pecadora en todo un partido papal, el Partido Acción Presidencial, PAP, que hoy recibirá bendición y beneplácito en el Vaticano, mientras en la ciudad capital del reino de la Nueva España el nuncio recién designado, Christopher Pierre, estrena sus funciones diplomáticas con una visita de gobierno a la Basílica de Guadalupe y mientras el capellán del nuevo partido de los papistas, Norberto Rivera, expresa su apoyo celestial y terreno a dos funcionarios de la administración Ratzinger, el opusdeísta José Luis Soberanes, presidente de la Comisión Nacional del Santo Oficio, y el procurador Banamex, Eduardo Medina Mora, quienes han tenido a bien sacrificar sus obligaciones laicas para emprender acciones religiosas en contra de una decisión legislativa capitalina que amplió las posibilidades del aborto legal.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/columnas/65290.html
Estrictamente personal
Raymundo Riva Palacio
21 de mayo de 2007
James Bond en el Trópico
Las insuficiencias en la ley crean un vacío para que las fuerzas de seguridad puedan violar derechos humanos en la guerra contra el narco
En la semana de Pascua, Iván y Juan Carlos, hermanos de una política local en Sinaloa, bebían e inhalaban cocaína sentados en el garaje de su casa, con sus fusiles de asalto R-15, de uso exclusivo del Ejército reposando junto a ellos. Todo era normal para los estándares sociopolíticos de Culiacán, cuando de la nada, desde un automóvil comenzaron a dispararles. Ilesos, Iván y Juan Carlos fueron tras los agresores, en una persecución que dejó tres inocentes muertos en el camino y que sólo paró al acabárseles las balas. Cuando recargaban en su casa, los detuvo la policía local. Casi de inmediato llegaran cinco camionetas negras blindadas de agentes federales que exigieron se los entregaran. Si no nos los dan, amenazaron, aquí se quedan todos. Dos días después, los jóvenes aparecieron muertos.
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/06/04/index.php?section=opinion&article=a04a1cul
Hermann Bellinghausen
Hacia un Estado penitenciario
El emergente Estado policiaco nos disgrega en islas de pensamiento crítico y resistencia, a la deriva en una real y ficticia marea de consumo y control que aspira a ahogarnos. Sus avances semejan esas manchas ectoplásmicas de petróleo que cubren y envenenan grandes extensiones de océano cuando un buque-tanque se perfora en el Pérsico, las costas de Galicia o el Golfo de México. El nuevo capítulo del proyecto capitalista crece, confiado en no encontrar oponentes de peso. No es mera alegoría comparar su táctica con la del huno Atila: donde pise no volverán a crecer los pastos.
http://www.am.com.mx/Yunque/Yunque.htm
BAJO EL GOBIERNO DEL YUNQUE
TOMAN YUNQUISTAS POSICIONES DE PODER
El gobernador Juan Manuel Oliva, su secretario de Gobierno, Gerardo Mosqueda, y el líder del Congreso local, Gerardo de los Cobos, son identificados como altos mandos del Yunque.
http://www.am.com.mx/Yunque/index2.htm
LAS IDEAS TIENEN CONSECUENCIAS...
Contrapunto en los valores de Acción Nacional y el Yunque
http://www.am.com.mx/Yunque/index.htm
ATACA EL YUNQUE A ALCALDES ’REBELDES’
http://www.am.com.mx/Yunque/index4.htm
ES MOSQUEDA JEFE REGIONAL
Asegura fundador del Yunque que el actual Secretario de Gobierno es uno de los altos jerarcas de la organización secreta; aportan más nombres de militantes infiltrados en el Gobierno del Estado.
http://www.am.com.mx/Yunque/index5.htm
ECHA RAICES ULTRA DERECHA
Hace casi 40 años, la organización del Yunque empezó a reclutar a jóvenes guanajuatenses; hoy, los integrantes de aquellas primeras células han llegado al poder en posiciones clave en el Gobierno del Estado y en el Congreso. Gerardo Mosqueda y Alberto Diosdado, secretarios de Gobierno y de Educación respectivamente, son señalados por sus ex compañeros como fundadores del grupo secreto de ultraderecha.
http://www.am.com.mx/Yunque/index6.htm
EXHIBEN AL YUNQUE AGENTES FEDERALES
Manuel Mora MacBeath/ a.m.
Durante el último año de Gobierno de José López Portillo, la extinta Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) comprobó mediante una investigación la existencia de la Organización Nacional del Yunque y las actividades que desarrollaba en León.
http://www.am.com.mx/Yunque/index7.htm
INFILTRA EL YUNQUE AL PAN
Entre 1972 y 1974, Alfonso López Villalobos fue presidente del comité estatal del PAN, y fue testigo de cómo El Yunque se infiltró en ese partido; al principio –asegura- Elías Villegas odiaba al PAN porque consideraba que su fundador, Manuel Gómez Morín había sido masón.
http://www.am.com.mx/Yunque/index8.htm
EJERCE PODER GRUPO SECRETO
Según el investigador Álvaro Delgado, el Yunque ejerce el poder en Guanajuato, y da empleo en el Gobierno a los integrantes de la cofradía, sin importar su perfil o su capacidad. Dos destacados ex yunquistas coinciden en que se pervirtió el objetivo original de la organización secreta
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=140285
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=140573
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=140801
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=140985
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=141167
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=140976
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=140784
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=141467
http://www.am.com.mx/Nota.aspx?ID=140977
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/5/31/202322/456
DOJ, DHS top brass implicated in House of Death cover-up, DEA testimony shows
By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Thu
Rarely do we get a front row seat in the theater of power when the curtain is pulled back to reveal the set design as it is under construction.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/columnas/65500.html
Estrictamente personal
Raymundo Riva Palacio
04 de junio de 2007
Suerte echada
La derrota de la extrema derecha en la asamblea del PAN redefinirá política e ideológicamente al partido y al futuro de Calderón
A patadas, como llegaron al poder, comen zaron a ser echados. El repudio hacia Manuel Espino, presidente del PAN, y la derrota con la cual le arrebataron el control político del partido, no fue sólo el epílogo del final de su liderazgo, sino el preámbulo de una redefinición política e ideológica del panismo. Tras el rechazo a Espino del sector calderonista más radical en la asamblea de León y la caída en cámara lenta de sus cercanos, impedidos por el panismo nacional de entrar en el nuevo Consejo Político, Calderón logró recuperar el partido que habían perdido hace casi una década, y a su cabeza de playa más visible, Espino, comenzaron a desmontarlo como cuando se lucha contra alguien poderoso: cortándole las piernas, luego los brazos, y finalmente -lo que vendrá después- la cabeza.
http://revolucionesmx.blogspot.com/2007/06/hoy-hay-iglesia.html
domingo, junio 03, 2007
¿Hoy hay iglesia?
Sam García, REVOLUCIONES
DICE LA BIBLIA en Hechos capítulo 2 versículos 44 al 47:
“Todos los que habían creído estaban juntos, y tenían en común todas las cosas; y vendían sus propiedades y sus bienes, y lo repartían a todos según la necesidad de cada uno. Y perseverando unánimes cada día en el templo, y partiendo el pan en las casas, comían juntos con alegría y sencillez de corazón, alabando a Dios, y teniendo favor con todo el pueblo. Y el Señor añadía cada día a la iglesia los que habían de ser salvos.”
…
Desde la semana pasada pudimos conocer que el tema aborto sigue estando presente en los diarios nacionales para polarizar a nuestra sociedad mexicana. Hemos seguido de cerca, con la Biblia en la mano, la mala conducta y mal testimonio de los jerarcas católicos particularmente de Norberto Rivera. Incluso he señalado que otros representantes del cristianismo, también dejan mucho que desear. En ese sentido siendo neutrales, si analizamos de manera sencilla el pasaje de Hechos 2 podemos encontrar pocos ejemplos de comunidades que ponen por obra lo citado en tres versículos olvidados por los religiosos de ahora.
http://www.reforma.com/editoriales/nacional/776077/default.shtm
Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
Reivindicación en Cofetel
Dos antiguas integrantes de la Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones, que en congruencia con sus convicciones criticaron la reforma y renunciaron a su cargo, ofrecieron al tribunal constitucional, como "amicus curiae", razones que reforzaron las de la minoría senatorial que impugnó la Ley Televisa
Aun antes de que concluya en la Suprema Corte el debate sobre la reforma a las leyes de telecomunicaciones y de radio y televisión, por sus varias significaciones conviene reparar en la única votación unánime (así sea de carácter preliminar) producida hasta ahora en la discusión del proyecto de sentencia preparado por el ministro Sergio Salvador Aguirre Anguiano, votación a la que él mismo se sumó en contra de su posición original, y que implica una suerte de reivindicación de cuatro antiguos miembros de la Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6719507.stm
Nato condemns Putin missile vow
http://www.voltairenet.org/article148772.html
Defensa: EEUU sigue provocando a Rusia
El escudo en Europa es como una declaración de guerra
por Noam Chomsky*
Tratad de imaginar cómo reaccionaría Norteamérica si Rusia, China, Irán o cualquier potencia extranjera osara sólo pensar en colocar un sistema de defensa de misiles en las fronteras de los EEUU o en sus aledaños, y no digamos si empezara a llevar a cabo ese plan. En tales circunstancias, de todo punto inimaginables, no sólo habría que esperar con certeza una violenta reacción norteamericana, sino que esa reacción resultaría también comprensible, por razones simples y claras.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6718205.stm
In the
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/6528979.stm
Climate change around the world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6720135.stm
Surfing the net
Europeans are spending more time online
More than 122m Europeans aged 15 and above use the internet each day at home, school or in work, says a report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6720459.stm
European Commission Berlaymont building
The allegations come three months after another scandal over contracts
Investigators are studying claims that European Commission cleaning contracts were faked in a four-year fraud potentially worth millions of euros.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6717037.stm
Gorbachev criticises US 'empire'
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mr Gorbachev said relations between Blair and Putin had started well
The former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has blamed the
http://www.narconews.com/Issue46/article2685.html
Nancy Davies’ Book The People Decide:
A New Publisher of Books Reflects on How We Are Bypassing the Commercial Book Industry, and Offers some Special Packages to Readers and Bloggers
By Al Giordano
Publisher, Narco News
Only one year after Nancy Davies reported the first rumblings of the pro-democracy movement that shook
http://www0.mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=78
El presidente de Sahuayo agrede a Martínez...
posteado por bolchevique en Jun 03, 2007 [01:29]
Durante esta semana, el pasado martes, para ser preciso, el director del periódico La Verdad, llegó a la penitenciaría de Sahuayo, a levantar la información de la nota roja para la edición del 3 de mayo, -según dijo a INDYMEDIA México- el director del medio independiente se encontraba allí,cuando de pronto aparece Fallo Ramírez, le habían hecho una llamada telefónica algún funcionario de la penitenciaría, así fue qué se presentó de improviso y como un energúmeno encaró a Jorge Martínez, quien fue obligado a entrar uno de una oficina de la penitenciaría, donde el presidente municipal le hizo un agriado reclamo sobre lo publicado en el periódico, allí el presidente enojado, atacó verbalmente a Jorge Martínez, delante de algunos uniformados y del director de la policía municipal. Como pudo, el director de La Verdad, tuvo que salir, después de una verdadera encerrona que le tendieron. Así se las guardan los presidentes municipales.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB218/index.htm
DOCUMENTS LINKED TO CUBAN EXILE LUIS POSADA HIGHLIGHTED TARGETS FOR TERRORISM
Bomber's Confessions Point to Explosives Hidden in Toothpaste Tube that Brought Down Civilian Airliner in 1976
Judge Dismisses Immigration Fraud Charges on May 8; Indictment for terrorism crimes still possible
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003567129
'WSJ' Scoop: Ex-Wal-Mart Worker Details Surveillance of Employees
Published:
A fired Wal-Mart security worker confirmed a newspaper interview Wednesday in which he said he was part of a surveillance operation that spied on company workers, critics, shareholders and consultants. The company defended its security practices.
http://intellit.org/fbi_folder/fbi00s_folder/fbi00slennon.html
http://www.lennonfbifiles.com/
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Lennon Files
See http://www.lennonfbifiles.com/, maintained by Jon Wiener, author of Gimme Some Truth (2000).
http://www.eme-equis.com.mx/070MXWIKIPEDIA01.html
¡El Ataque Snack!
Por Nancy Millar
Películas, televisión, canciones, juegos. La cultura pop ahora viene empaquetada como galletas o papas fritas, en tamaño de una mordida y masticados rápidos. Es entretenimiento instantáneo, y vaya que es sabroso. De los ringtones a los bloglets, a los videojuegos de rápidos objetivos, el pasatiempo de hoy viene en pedacitos. Reporte del mundo de los medios de un minuto.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2094699,00.html
Porn king offers $1m for
· Hustler boss tries again to bring down big names
· Washington Post readers asked for revelations
Suzanne Goldenberg in
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2095376,00.html
Military judge throws out Guantánamo case
Suzanne Goldenberg in
Guardian Unlimited
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/us/politics/04bain.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Romney’s Fortunes Tied to Business Riches
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2611752.ece
The true value of what the G8 gives in aid
As leaders of the world's richest countries meet, this is the proof that they could do much more for the poor
By Paul Vallely
Published:
There is something more morally binding about a promise when it is made by the rich to the poor. There is something altogether more shocking, therefore, when such a solemn pledge seems about to be broken.
Two years ago, the leaders of the rich world met at the G8 summit in Gleneagles and undertook to double annual aid to poor nations to $50bn (£25bn) a year. Half of that money was to go to the world's poorest people in
But on the eve of the latest G8 summit, in the Baltic resort of Heiligendamm in Germany this week, it is clear the rich world is well off track to deliver what the world's eight most powerful leaders signed up to after the biggest political lobby in history, a massive global campaign to make poverty history that culminated in 10 Live8 concerts watched by more than half the population of the world.
Overall aid to
Even the country which has done best in keeping its word, the
To those for whom such huge figures are meaningless, Oxfam offers some graphic illustrations. Last year, the rich world spent three times more on bottled water ($58bn) than it did on aid to
We Britons spent almost twice as much on champagne and other wine last year as we did on aid. The French spent more on perfume, German women more on shoes, Italians more on ice cream and the Japanese spent more on luxury goods such as Gucci bags and Prada sunglasses than their governments did on the world's poor.
Despite the Gleneagles promises, global aid actually fell in 2006 for the first time in 10 years. Aid to
"This is a very big potential shortfall," says the man who negotiated the Gleneagles deal from the British end, Lord Jay of Ewelme, who was then, as Sir Michael Jay, Head of the Diplomatic Service. He was the prime minister's personal representative, or sherpa, in the run-up to the summit.
His is the language of the
Will Heiligendamm change this? The word from inside the pre-summit negotiations is that
There are encouraging signs from
"What is needed," says Lord Jay, "is to reconfirm the Gleneagles promises together with some specific undertakings on health and education programmes to put flesh on them."
That means rich nations must come up with the cash to fully fund the UN Education Fast Track Initiative by matching the $8.5bn the
In particular they need to scale-up initiatives that have already been shown to work. Thanks to the debt deal done at Gleneagles - which has written off $38bn so far, to 18 African countries - health care is now free in rural Zambia, says Oxfam, education is free for all children in Ghana, and Malawi is training 4,000 more teachers each year.
The Gleneagles promise on Aids has increased the number of Africans on anti-retrovirals tenfold. Some 1.3 million people - a quarter of those in need - are now receiving treatment, saving 250,000 lives last year. But, as Oxfam points out, 500,000 more could be saved if rich nations stump up $16.6bn more, as promised.
Angela Merkel's first summit as president of the G8 will be Tony Blair's last. "Personalities are hugely important," says Lord Jay. "I've been to four G8 summits and 17 European Councils and personal chemistry really does work. Bush is not going to want to come to Heiligendamm and spoil the party for Blair and Merkel, two leaders to whom for different reasons he's very close."
Some agreement has been reached already on what the final communiqué will say on international trade. But, in the end, a deal to make trade fairer for Africa can only be done at the world trade talks which come to their final crunch-point in mid June - which is just before President Bush's "fast-track authority" to agree a trade deal without the approval of the US Congress runs out.
What is needed at Heiligendamm is for G8 leaders to increase the trade talks momentum by approving a $4bn "aid for trade" package, agree 100 per cent market access for poor countries and more and flexible "Rules of Origin" that recognise the value added to products by Africans.
Lord Jay's successor and the other sherpas are still locked in negotiations. "It is always tough, the last couple of days before a summit," he says. "I was negotiating with my American sherpa colleague on my mobile phone and he was on the phone in Air Force One as they were landing in
So it is again, this time in
To transform the lives of the world's poorest would cost the British government less than its citizens spend each year on celebrity magazines. The
In total all the richest nations need to provide is little more than $1 per citizen per year extra. That would be enough to fulfil their commitment to the world's poor. It is a trifling amount.
WHO GIVES WHAT?
* The British spend twice as much money on wine and champagne as Government does on aid
* German women shell out more on shoes than their Government spends on aid
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* Spending by Japanese people on luxury goods is about the same as country's aid budget
* The amount the
* Italians spend more on ice cream than the country provides in overseas aid
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2611736.ece
Sicko? The truth about the
Michael Moore's new film is a damning indictment of the way the world's richest country looks after those who fall ill. Andrew Gumbel finds out whether his accusations are justified
Published:
Cynthia Kline knew exactly what was happening to her when she suffered a heart attack at her home in
On paper, everything should have gone fine. Unlike tens of millions of Americans, she had health insurance coverage. The ambulance team arrived promptly. The hospital where she had been receiving treatment for her cardiac problems, a private teaching facility affiliated with the
The problem was, the casualty department at the hospital,
She died in an American city with one of the highest concentration of top-flight medical specialists in the world. And it happened largely because of
When Elizabeth Hilsabeck gave birth to premature twins in
The crazy bureaucratic logic was that the policy covered only "rehabilitative" therapy - in other words, teaching a patient a physical skill that has been lost. Since Parker had never walked, the therapy was in essence teaching him a new skill and therefore did not qualify. The Hilsabecks railed, protested, won some small reprieves, but ended up selling their home and moving into a trailer to cover their costs.
Everyone in
Even when things don't go horribly wrong, it is a matter of surviving by the skin of one's teeth.
In
Over the past 15 years, the stories have become less about poor people without the economic means to access the system - although that remains a vast, unsolved problem - and more about the kind of people who have every expectation they will be taken care of. Middle-class people, people with jobs that carry health benefits or - as the problem worsens - people with the sorts of jobs that used to carry robust health benefits which are now more rudimentary and risk their being cut off for a variety of reasons.
This is the morass that Michael Moore has chosen to explore in his latest documentary, Sicko, which goes on release later this month.
Many more stories are collected in a newly published book called Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis, by Jonathan Cohn. A woman in
Having the system run by for-profit insurance companies turns out to be inefficient and expensive as well as dehumanising.
A recent survey by the management consulting company McKinsey estimated the excess bureaucratic costs of managing private insurance policies - scouting for business, processing claims, and hiring "denial management specialists" to tell people why their ailment is not covered by their policy - at about $98bn a year. That, on its own, is significantly more than the $77bn McKinsey calculates it would cost to cover every uninsured American. If the government negotiated bulk purchasing rates for drugs, rather than allowing the pharmaceutical companies to set their own extortionate rates, that would save another $66bn.
Astonishingly, there hasn't been a serious debate about health care in the
Even the old, classically American free-market argument - that "socialised" medicine is somehow the first step on a slippery slope towards godless communism - doesn't hold water, because in the absence of a functioning private insurance regime the government ends up picking up about 50 per cent of the overall costs for treatment anyway. The indigent rely on a government programme called Medicaid. The elderly have a government programme called Medicare. And perhaps the most efficient part of the whole system is the Veterans' Administration, a sort of NHS for former servicemen.
Rather like
Corporate chief executives, for a start, are gagging under the ever-increasing costs of providing coverage to their employees. Starbucks now spends more on health care than it does on coffee beans. Company health costs, as a whole, are at about the same level as corporate profits. In a globalised world where US businesses are competing with low-wage countries such as
That explains, perhaps, why the chief executive of Wal-Mart, Lee Scott, has made common cause with
In the meantime, we will hear ever more crazy stories like the one told by Marijon Binder, a former nun in Chicago who ended up being sued by a Catholic hospital for $11,000 because her two-night stay for a heart scare was not considered a worthy charity case. Binder, who works as a live-in companion to a disabled old woman, wrote on all her admission forms that she had no insurance and, in her telling at least, was reassured the hospital would take care of her anyway.
After a year and a monstrous bureaucratic fight that went nowhere, a civil judge promptly absolved her of responsibility for her bill - a lucky outcome, for sure. Binder said: "The whole experience was very demeaning. It made me feel very guilty; it made me feel like a criminal." She is, though, alive and solvent. Not everyone in this system catches the same break.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2611762.ece
Women can be as violent as men, says Lessing
By Thair Shaikh
Published:
Doris Lessing, the novelist and feminist icon, said that women could be warmongers and as violent as men, in a speech yesterday.
Speaking at the Hay on Wye Festival, Lessing, 87, said that although history suggested women were peaceful, some of the worst crimes had been committed by females.
"There is a lot of sentimentality about women. We like to think that women are kind and motherly and are not going to go to war. But it's not true, is it?
"History suggests women are peace loving and law abiding - on the contrary some of the worst crimes have been committed by women," she said.
Promoting her latest novel, The Cleft, Lessing was asked by a woman in the audience how men could be stopped from constantly taking the world to war. "Well, I never noticed that women who get to be Prime Ministers are particularly peaceful!" she said, in what appeared to be a thinly veiled reference to Margaret Thatcher, the former Tory PM who was leader during the Falklands War.
Her latest book is about a mythical society free of males in which a member suddenly gives birth to a male.
As an author who has been strongly identified with feminism, her remarks are likely to offend many of her fellow female writers. However, Lessing has attacked feminists before - in a speech at the
Lessing was born in
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