RESUMEN DE NOTICIAS 09-05-12

Growing use of food banks in the UK
By Barry Mason
9 May 2012

Nearly 130,000 people, including more than 45,000 children, used food banks operated by the Trussell Trust in the UK last year.

This represents an increase of more than 100 percent over the previous year. The trust is a Christian charity, whose remit is “to empower local communities to combat poverty and exclusion in the UK and Bulgaria.”

People who use its food bank services are given a minimum of a three-day supply of emergency foodstuffs made up of milk, sugar, fruit juice, soup, pasta sauces, tinned fruit, rice and sponge puddings, tinned tomatoes, pasta, tinned meat and other basic staples.
http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/food-m09.shtml

Incoming French president signals budget cuts, handouts to banks
By Kumaran Ira and Alex Lantier
9 May 2012

After winning the French presidential election on Sunday, the Socialist Party’s (PS) François Hollande is already positioning himself to drop his limited election promises on social spending and attack the working class with deep budget cuts.

Hollande’s victory reflected a broad popular rejection of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy’s austerity policies and his unpopular imperialist wars. However, any hopes for change from the incoming government will be rapidly disappointed by Hollande, who is moving to carry out reactionary policies. During his campaign, Hollande vowed to slash over €100 billion in deficit spending to have a balanced budget by 2017, while making a few proposals for social measures, like increasing school subsidies and hiring more teachers.
http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/fran-m09.shtml


Entrevista con Alain Badiou
Todo lo que necesitas es amor

Eduardo Febbro
Página/12

Alain Badiou es un pensador que podría llamarse polifónico: ha abordado la filosofía y la política, la historia, el marxismo y la vida contemporánea, pero siempre parece haberlo hecho con la mirada puesta en el presente: buscando los modos en que el pasado puede ayudarnos a construir un futuro mejor. Una semana antes de su llegada a Buenos Aires, Radar lo entrevistó en París para que desplegara ese mapa de su pensamiento por el que orbitan las revoluciones árabes y el desastre ecológico, el duelo por las revoluciones del siglo XX y la salud del capitalismo, el mercado de las opiniones contra la comunidad de las ideas y, fundamentalmente, el amor como centro de gravedad ineludible a partir del cual comenzar la construcción de una nueva forma de futuro.
http://rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=149258

García Luna, vengativo, impune…
Ricardo Ravelo
9 de mayo de 2012
Reportaje Especial

MÉXICO, D.F. (Proceso).- Cuando el excomisionado de la Policía Federal Preventiva Javier Herrera Valles acusó a Genaro García Luna ante Felipe Calderón de corrupción y narcotráfico selló su destino… Rápidamente, y mediante testigos protegidos, la PGR armó un caso contra el exjefe policiaco para procesarlo por delincuencia organizada y tráfico de drogas. Sin embargo, para David Herrera Valles, hermano del procesado, es claro que el actual secretario de Seguridad Pública está ejerciendo una venganza contra Javier por haber osado denunciar al “policía consentido del presidente” Calderón.
http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=306951

El antifaz de las encuestas
Luis Linares Zapata

Armados hasta el cerebelo con los porcentajes de su cotidiana encuesta (tracking, le llaman), los columneros estrellas de Milenio Diario y canal respectivo difunden caprichosas predicciones. El líder indiscutible, el aventajado, el poseedor del récord de simpatías encuestadas por ellos, pudo, al fin, aparecer en la televisión abierta y exponer sus alegatos. Y no sólo eso. Contratacó a los que osaron dirigirle sus cuestionamientos. Pocos, si alguien, esperaban tal milagro de simplona palabrería y atildados modales aconsejados por asesores de imagen corporal. Fue un golpe propagandístico prefabricado con toda anticipación por la nube de protectores que guían las peripecias del señor Peña Nieto en tribunas, fotos y pantallas. La enorme ventaja del mexiquense, presumida con apoyo en el taumaturgo en turno (GEA/ISA), no sólo salió indemne del encuentro con desesperados rivales, sino le permitió mostrar sus acicaladas dotes oratorias, proclaman con donaire de conductores experimentados. Un fenómeno mediático que, sin duda, predican sin disimulo y entusiasmo un tanto fingido, aumentará su ventaja en la reñida competencia por el poder.
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/05/09/politica/020a2pol

Un sitio que vale la pena visitar
Juan José Morales
Escrutinio
Un sitio que vale la pena visitar
Las empresas encuestadoras nos bombardean día tras día con cifras que sistemáticamente muestran una arrolladora ventaja de Enrique Peña Nieto sobre los demás candidatos y ponen también sistemáticamente a López Obrador luchando tan empeñosa como inútilmente por salir de un lejano tercer lugar, a la zaga de Josefina Vázquez Mota. Y las cadenas televisoras se encargan de remachar el ataúd de la derrota lópezobradorista con noticias en el mismo sentido y arropando a su creación, el candidato tricolor de merengue, como bien puede llamársele porque es más bulto que sustancia.
http://poresto.net/ver_nota.php?zona=yucatan&idSeccion=15&idTitulo=165505

Should U.S. Troops Fight the War on Drugs?
Updated May 8, 2012 11:05 PM
The expanded role of the U.S. Army’s special operations forces throughout the world now includes a deployment to Honduras, where it is helping fight drug smuggling. Should the military be involved in the war on drugs? Does military involvement in poor, weakly governed countries destablize them?
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/05/08/should-us-troops-fight-the-war-on-drugs/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120509


Rare Double Agent Disrupted Bombing Plot, U.S. Says
By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: May 8, 2012
WASHINGTON — The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/world/middleeast/suicide-mission-volunteer-was-double-agent-officials-say.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120509

Populism trumps productivity in Thailand
By William Barnes

BANGKOK - Thailand finds itself stuck in a middle-income trap of mediocre economic growth aggravated by the combination a "capital strike" by Thai business owners and populist policies that threaten to distort the broad economy's pricing and competitiveness.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government's hotly debated introduction of sharply higher minimum wages and other populist pledges fail to touch on the deeper problem of local capitalists' unwillingness to lift the economy to a level where increasingly productive workers can command higher pay.
http://atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/NE10Ae01.html


National education not 'brain-washing'
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/203691/7811543.html

'Time for better ties' with South America
By Wang Xiaotian  (China Daily)
13:37, May 09, 2012

China's economic ties with Latin America and the Caribbean need further development as the global economy weakens, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in a "yellow book" on Tuesday.

Bilateral relations have moved beyond initial contacts based on trade to more complex interactions such as investment and financial cooperation, the government think tank said.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90778/7812230.html

A stable, prosperous Russia under Putin is good for China
BEIJING, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin on Monday returns to the Kremlin, starting his third term as the country's top leader.

Although some in the West may try to belittle Putin's success in the March presidential election, the Russian leader's victory largely reflects the will of a majority of the Russian people.

Riding a wave of popularity for his no-nonsense incorruptible image, Putin took over the presidency in 2000 when the country was still in a critical transitional period.

He was re-elected four years later thanks to a steady economic growth and the improvement of Russian's living standards that he had achieved during his first term
http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/66102/7810248.html

Hallan evidencia de que los sicópatas tienen anormalidades estructurales del cerebro
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/05/09/ciencias/a03n1cie