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France's Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie has tendered her resignation in a letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy, following a series of gaffes related to the recent uprising in Tunisia.
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AP - The office of France’s foreign minister says she has sent a letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy offering her resignation.
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Iraq message to the world, Iraqis are coming ... # · Global Voices
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The Iraqi people are taking inspiration from the various revolutions which agitate the Arab world has given the departure of his own day of anger on February 25. The main event was located on Tahrir Square in Baghdad but other similar events were held throughout the country. @ ArabPeople writing [the links are in English]: #
Iraq has just begun and it will surprise the # entire Arab world. No other revolution has begun in 17 + different locations. This is just the beginning.
Facebook page of the Iraqi revolution has published a list of claims brought here in their entirety, which ends with:
FROM TODAY WE DO MORE THAN PROMISES
- We are tired of politicians statements, honeyed promises tired, tired of making prosthetic that some officials are taking to pull the wool over the eyes of people.
- empty promises will not ease the anger, poor ad does not wrap the ill-dressed and brilliant slogans n'étancheront not the thirst of those to whom they are intended.
- Silence is no longer a choice for each of us, starting today we are no longer silent ...
- So how long will they stay the Iraqis still divided into two classes , one who eats meat, and one that eats the fat!
- And how long a group of people going to touch it yet more figures, each wage satisfying a whole clan, while others do not even have a penny to support the welfare of their own!
- And how long a group will he heat of the fire caused by the burning of public funds while others die because of cold winter nights!
- And how much longer will enjoy some fresh water in the heat of summer while others may quench their thirst with water sewers!
GOD IS IN WITNESS ... WE DO NOT REMAIN SILENT PLUS
IQ4C has posted the plan of the demonstration in Baghdad in this image:
CA55FA96-2E51-417E-A627-FC28F1779999.jpg
and then relayed on twitter:
tired of trying to eat today was a good training to express my freedom in peace, I am a peaceful man, besides being a civilian iraq # # # feb25 iq4c
Sunshine provides coverage of Mosul, where his cousin was involved in the event. She relays some stunning images and named the event:
Today is "Friday of Wrath" and this revolution is called: Al Nakheel's revolution "revolution of the palms."
she writes
The important thing is that for people not to break everything ...
Another thing that is nice to see is people doing all the "Friday prayers "Al Tahreer in Baghdad, Sunnis and Shiites together, and they launched" We are Sunni and Shiite brothers and we do not sell out this country, "the same thing is going to Sulaymania when Kurds and Arabs prayed together ... citizens are united, the government is trying to separate us and extend the confessional, but it will not happen, and plans, as sneaky as they are, will not succeed ..
I pray for a hopeful future, and today I am proud of the Iraqis I know how people are great here, and how they endured, not only for 7 years, but since Saddam took control of the country ...
Warnings in power
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, accusing supporters of Saddam and al-Qaida have organized demonstrations and Shiite religious leaders have urged people not to not manifest. Healing Iraq gives (here and here), the bridge of view:
intimidation tactics Maliki no longer work with the Iraqis and only serve to discredit a little more. Iraqis are tired of cronyism, corruption ...
Typical reaction from the clerical establishment that wants to maintain its grip on the Iraqi Shia in order to keep its coffers full. These anti-corruption protests that swept the country in Sulaimaniya Barash are a huge threat to those who hamper progress in the 'democratic Iraq'.
Hawazin Abbas added:
Conduct adopted [by the Iraqi government] in the approach to these events was EXACTLY the same as all tyrannies around: confirmation anxious to deep uncertainty about his own legitimacy, the race promises to train delays, questioning the merits of the dispute and the attempts to appeal to the old bogeymen ... Now, I am FIRMLY against this government
Kassakhoon think these events are just the beginning:
Protests also show how this government is weak and terrified by the population when it sends security forces by the thousands to block roads, mainly bridge leading to the already heavily fortified Green Zone protected by high concrete walls, anti-explosion.
No government officials dared to appear before the demonstrators, they only spoke to state television ..
It is true that the events of today are over the field, but they are still alive inside the demonstrators. What we witnessed today was a little snowball that just started to roll and that will grow every day.
Unlike Mr. Maliki, who accused the protesters of being in the pay of Saddam, Layla Anwar path, among the Iraqi bloggers, is the closest a Saddamism gives a rather different view on events:
PROTESTS 'my ass. Where were you when the tanks arrived? Where were you when the Shiite sectarian and turbaned mullahs you have purchased a few hundred dollars for a finger dipped in purple ink and vote "Democratic" ...
Where were you when we have fled en masse, living the lives of dogs in exile ... Where were you when you wore the militias have emerged naked and danced for you and that we have all been decimated? Where were you, anyway?
Where were you when you left another son of a bitch sectarian Iran again take power, for a second term and you sat with them and talked about national reconciliation and urns?!
Where were you when the Iraqi resistance fighting against the invader ALONE?
... ...
demand better living conditions for the puppets is a nonsense. Hundreds of foreign companies live on your back, bringing with them their own staff by giving yourself to your fate, the so-called educated class of work, blue collar workers in your own country ...
So, where were Do you? ... ...
Drop me a bit, you hypocrites.
Iraq is my greatest love and you are my biggest disappointment.
Speak as much as you want, I do not lend my voice. I was a lone voice for the last 5 years and have suffered the worst abuse in your name. Protest all you want.
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... thus saith @ ArabPeople
The Iraqi people are taking inspiration from the various revolutions which agitate the Arab world has given the departure of his own day of anger on February 25. The main event was located on Tahrir Square in Baghdad but other similar events were held throughout the country. @ ArabPeople writing [the links are in English]: #
Iraq has just begun and it will surprise the # entire Arab world. No other revolution has begun in 17 + different locations. This is just the beginning.
Facebook page of the Iraqi revolution has published a list of claims brought here in their entirety, which ends with:
FROM TODAY WE DO MORE THAN PROMISES
- We are tired of politicians statements, honeyed promises tired, tired of making prosthetic that some officials are taking to pull the wool over the eyes of people.
- empty promises will not ease the anger, poor ad does not wrap the ill-dressed and brilliant slogans n'étancheront not the thirst of those to whom they are intended.
- Silence is no longer a choice for each of us, starting today we are no longer silent ...
- So how long will they stay the Iraqis still divided into two classes , one who eats meat, and one that eats the fat!
- And how long a group of people going to touch it yet more figures, each wage satisfying a whole clan, while others do not even have a penny to support the welfare of their own!
- And how long a group will he heat of the fire caused by the burning of public funds while others die because of cold winter nights!
- And how much longer will enjoy some fresh water in the heat of summer while others may quench their thirst with water sewers!
GOD IS IN WITNESS ... WE DO NOT REMAIN SILENT PLUS
IQ4C has posted the plan of the demonstration in Baghdad in this image:
CA55FA96-2E51-417E-A627-FC28F1779999.jpg
and then relayed on twitter:
tired of trying to eat today was a good training to express my freedom in peace, I am a peaceful man, besides being a civilian iraq # # # feb25 iq4c
Sunshine provides coverage of Mosul, where his cousin was involved in the event. She relays some stunning images and named the event:
Today is "Friday of Wrath" and this revolution is called: Al Nakheel's revolution "revolution of the palms."
she writes
The important thing is that for people not to break everything ...
Another thing that is nice to see is people doing all the "Friday prayers "Al Tahreer in Baghdad, Sunnis and Shiites together, and they launched" We are Sunni and Shiite brothers and we do not sell out this country, "the same thing is going to Sulaymania when Kurds and Arabs prayed together ... citizens are united, the government is trying to separate us and extend the confessional, but it will not happen, and plans, as sneaky as they are, will not succeed ..
I pray for a hopeful future, and today I am proud of the Iraqis I know how people are great here, and how they endured, not only for 7 years, but since Saddam took control of the country ...
Warnings in power
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, accusing supporters of Saddam and al-Qaida have organized demonstrations and Shiite religious leaders have urged people not to not manifest. Healing Iraq gives (here and here), the bridge of view:
intimidation tactics Maliki no longer work with the Iraqis and only serve to discredit a little more. Iraqis are tired of cronyism, corruption ...
Typical reaction from the clerical establishment that wants to maintain its grip on the Iraqi Shia in order to keep its coffers full. These anti-corruption protests that swept the country in Sulaimaniya Barash are a huge threat to those who hamper progress in the 'democratic Iraq'.
Hawazin Abbas added:
Conduct adopted [by the Iraqi government] in the approach to these events was EXACTLY the same as all tyrannies around: confirmation anxious to deep uncertainty about his own legitimacy, the race promises to train delays, questioning the merits of the dispute and the attempts to appeal to the old bogeymen ... Now, I am FIRMLY against this government
Kassakhoon think these events are just the beginning:
Protests also show how this government is weak and terrified by the population when it sends security forces by the thousands to block roads, mainly bridge leading to the already heavily fortified Green Zone protected by high concrete walls, anti-explosion.
No government officials dared to appear before the demonstrators, they only spoke to state television ..
It is true that the events of today are over the field, but they are still alive inside the demonstrators. What we witnessed today was a little snowball that just started to roll and that will grow every day.
Unlike Mr. Maliki, who accused the protesters of being in the pay of Saddam, Layla Anwar path, among the Iraqi bloggers, is the closest a Saddamism gives a rather different view on events:
PROTESTS 'my ass. Where were you when the tanks arrived? Where were you when the Shiite sectarian and turbaned mullahs you have purchased a few hundred dollars for a finger dipped in purple ink and vote "Democratic" ...
Where were you when we have fled en masse, living the lives of dogs in exile ... Where were you when you wore the militias have emerged naked and danced for you and that we have all been decimated? Where were you, anyway?
Where were you when you left another son of a bitch sectarian Iran again take power, for a second term and you sat with them and talked about national reconciliation and urns?!
Where were you when the Iraqi resistance fighting against the invader ALONE?
... ...
demand better living conditions for the puppets is a nonsense. Hundreds of foreign companies live on your back, bringing with them their own staff by giving yourself to your fate, the so-called educated class of work, blue collar workers in your own country ...
So, where were Do you? ... ...
Drop me a bit, you hypocrites.
Iraq is my greatest love and you are my biggest disappointment.
Speak as much as you want, I do not lend my voice. I was a lone voice for the last 5 years and have suffered the worst abuse in your name. Protest all you want.
Creative Commons License Written by Salam Adil
· Translated by Jean Saint-Dizier
Translation published February 27, 2011 · Printer Print
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You interviewed Isabelle Saporta, author of "Black Book of Agriculture - 20minutes.fr
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/673951/chat-vous-interviewe-isabelle-saporta-auteur-livre-noir-agriculture
So begins Salon de l'Agriculture in Paris, Isabelle Saporta has answered all your questions about intensive farming and its derivatives ...
Hello, I saw the show on France 3, a show with lots of technical info. Really well done and thank you for the information. But, precisely, what can we do, we consumers, who are not telling everything? We do not have enough information about the products on sale.
Pierrel
should, as much as possible away from processed products back to simple things, fruits and vegetables in season, if possible, purchased from small producers with whom you have a renewed trust. Recover the key word here is TRUST.
Hello, First of all, congratulations for your inquiry and the documentary that is coming. My questions: 1) What to do to get things moving in the right direction? 2) For those who can not, for economic reasons, eat only organic food, how to know the products, channels the "least bad"? Thank you. Jean
already eat local, buy from small producers, and respect the seasons. That alone is already huge.
Thanks for your fight, which I think is noble. I share many of your ideas. By cons you think that one day the things will change? Do you think there is hope for change? This change is caused by a change (see a revolution) of our consumption habits, do you think everyone will be able to change? Fabien
course! But we need a holy nudge policy! We can not do everything based on the consumer. They already pay a lot the consumer: aid, water bills, the health bill ... And he was ready, he, to put all that money in a virtuous agriculture, but for now, it's not that it is oriented toward public policy.
I saw your documentary very interesting. The most astonishing is to learn that it is primarily the grain storage silos which leads to pollution by fungicides and other potentially hazardous substances. Now tell us the name of the only retail brand that uses wheat stored in refrigerated silos to avoid this in the bread making it distributes to consumers. Another question: what do you think of organic products imported from Germany found on our shelves, and their carbon footprint? How is it that we hear more about the aftermath of the recent scandal of their organic food o livestock polluted by dioxins recycled industrial oils supposedly by mistake?
Francoyv
He would agree to pay 15 euros per tonne of wheat so that there are more pesticides storage ... That's what costs the refrigerated silos that can not be processed. Why do not we do massive? Moreover, it is obvious that as long as we feed our animals with all the waste of global industries, there will be health scandals. This year dioxin, some time ago, cadmium ... And this is unfortunately not finished.
Do not you think that the "system" farm in force shall, in its immobility agricultural unions, FNSEA in mind, and its over-representation in politics, susceptible to lobbyists' chemical plant Pharmaceutical?
environmental problems in particular. The example of water pollution is significant. Known for decades, there has never been treated differently by the statements without effect.
I'm puzzled convinced, too. It would take a deep reform of current trade union landscape. FNSEA pushed farmers in this productivist system. A system that makes them lose money, lose their health, undermines our own and ruin our environment. We must the Department of Agriculture emancipated from FNSEA. That slap his fist on the table. Imagine that the State Council in its latest report shows that agriculture is responsible for 60-80% of water pollution and pays 1% of the cleanup bill ...
has been shown that sustainable agriculture can produce as much as earning more and working less. Why the resistance of farmers polluters and poisoners?
Pat29
Ca, I wonder too ... I will not go up as you treat farmers poisoners, but cons, you're right, it is urgentissime changing software. But having struggled with the FNSEA lot these days ... Well, not won.
60 years and I am the son of small family farmers. It too easy to scapegoat. Everyone is responsible to start with the consumer who wanted and still wants the great wholesale and cheap. My parents were practicing agriculture that looks like bio today, but consumers did not want a job with a fruit or a bite of apple scab. To continue to live it took my parents to adapt the application and use pesticides, fertilizers and irrigation. Farmers had problems to solve, they used the products for sale on the market. When the detergent used by the housewife that contained polyphosphate and small eutrophic lakes watercourse was it pointed to the latter, no manufacturers have been asked to change their additives and water treatment plant must die-phosphate. Why does it the same approach with farmers? Give them other products and they will use them. Daniel
That's why I write that the peasants are the scapegoats of a system they sustain. We carry a collective responsibility regarding the current situation. It together and we will survive. Farmers have bent to specifications that pouvouirs public, retail, industrial, have imposed. Consumers are accustomed to flawless products have banned their ugly fruit baskets. All this is true. And that's also why no consumer education and without a strong political will, we will not get away. It is too easy to blame the farmers and let them alone.
The consumer is willing to pay more for organic fruits and vegetables, but what guarantees that the product is actually sold without pesticides and other treatments? Anarchist
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You see where we are? This loss of confidence? There is an urgent need to reconnect with our farmers ...
How do you "educate" the French consumer who has not fear of contradiction by claiming both: good-goods market, so from the global food industry (eg chicken farm)-healthy products for their health that would normally be derived from organic farmer with his neighbor organized AMAP or not but unfortunately most of them are from foreign distribution channels organized on a long-standing industrial base (eg Chinese cabbages imported from Germany)?
Francoyv
The low prices are unrealistic! When consumers turn to the first prize, they forget that in doing so, they pay 4 times what they eat. Once with agricultural subsidies, a second time when slip their products in their cart, a third time when they pay the bill for clean water, and a fourth time when they regulate the slate of public health. If the government put more money in agriculture virtuous, consumers would not have to pay all these bills schedules ... But this would require political will.
And why not laws, but also financial support to stop this massacre? Is there anything to lose? Mythical
You're right, without a courageous intervention of government, we will not get away. Aid must be balanced, give most farmers the most virtuous. But for now, it's not about what we are heading. The latest Finance Act has granted 196 million euros to biofuels while reducing by two the aid of the Bio. Of the 12 billion that farmers receive less than 500 million are spent on environmental measures. It is not heavy ...
Hello, in your book you describe particularly the excesses of the pig. Is it worse than in other livestock (cattle, poultry, etc.).? If so, is that it does not affect other sectors less intensive? You also put in the value chain "White Blue Heart" for cattle feed, is there no other ways much simpler (feeding cows on grass, without needing to add flax) to balance our diet? Thank you.
Babiroussa
As I recalled in my introduction, I mentioned the pig, as I could talk about anything other intensive livestock operations. The example is interesting because pork is the meat we consume the most and they ingest half of veterinary antibiotics in France. The linen industry is a solution, the grass, as I say, too, is an even simpler for cows. Suffice to say that many solutions are available us to get out!
Hello, your struggle is a major challenge for the Company to become our children, grandchildren etc ... .. but do you think that companies like Monsanto, Pioneer and others, will you let them trample flower beds? Do you fear not having serious trouble with this occupation (large grain) who think only gain more money, more money without caring the least, the health of their citizens ? I watched a documentary on Monsanto, and what I discovered ais scared me, because these companies are capable of "ALL" to preserve their gains and even more.
LUMPcefini
are violent attacks and the fight is rough and uneven, you're right. But that's not why I'm impressed. Many farmers told me about the omerta of the environment, their fear, their fear. It is time to break this code of silence. If
distribution (hypermarkets, wholesalers and retail-wholesale, transport and various pharmacies) ceased to abuse our portfolio, our producers could perhaps expect to live decently, to the extent of their efforts, instead to indulge body and soul to the dictatorship stakhanovienne distributors-traders. They produce less, perhaps, better, and certainly for the same price. No?
Old Dear Old crouton crouton
, we are two old croutons ... I fully agree with your analysis. Let me give you a simple example. Today, our animals are fed a corn-soy diet that not only is detestable to the environment, but also generates a generalized deficiency in omega 3 for our milk, our meat, our eggs. And therefore for all of us who consume them. This deficit causes many diseases and causes obesity. However, it would grow flax on only 1% of agricultural land to end this imbalance. 1% that would cost 1 cent more per carcass meat. Who refuses to pay your opinion?
In your book you wonder why we should continue to be financed from public funds a costly for farmers, for our health and our environment and do not invest heavily in the conversation to a more sustainable agriculture respectful of people and the planet. Do you think the French administration, the department and institutes such as INRA can make this transition? The weight of the administration is not it too heavy? And is it that our European Union membership will help us? Gael
INRA is now working hard on these issues and offers many solutions. This institute is considering another way to cultivate that would allow farmers to earn a better living and respect the environment without lowering yields. At European level, the new Commissioner, Ciolos is very sensitive to all these questions. It is particularly concerned that the proteins are more heavily imported but grown in Europe. He hoped that our agriculture is more related to the soil. So we have a window of opportunity to reform the Common Agricultural Policy. It is also necessary that our Minister of Agriculture emancipated from the influence of the majority union, the FNSEA, and it revives the sense peasant ... A world
without pesticides, it is possible? Crops can they survive without pesticides? The model of intensive agriculture it is not based on them?
Bertrand
Yes! And that's great news! And it's not me saying it but the INRA (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique). They proved that by funding up to 200 euros per hectare of organic farming, and 40% by taxing pesticides, it reached 20% of surface organic advocated by the Grenelle environment while reducing by 40% phyto ... It's worth a try, right? But to do this, it will put money into agricultural research rather in the search for new pesticides and most importantly, it will learn the gestures of Agronomy: crop rotation, the importance of plant protein crops that capture nitrogen from the air and exhaust into the ground! In short, learn the art of beautiful peasant.
Hello. I have not yet been able to read your book but you seem to pull red ball on the French model of agriculture. I am familiar with the agricultural world to be employed as a seasonal (to pay for my studies). It is a complex business and drive that is not controlled by visiting a few farms here and there ... Remember that even when the current system has been place after the Second World War, at a time when wheat yields leveled to 10 quintals hectares, or you do not eat their fill (the bread was rationed at the time). The contribution of fertilizer and other plant products, and genetics has enabled today we lack nothing. What model do you think is the best (all organic, farming ...)? Dunga Dunga
Dear, I have not visited "a few farms here and there" but made two-year investigation in this setting by going on the field, staying there for months and meeting (very) many stakeholders. When you read my book, you'll see that I recall that the current productivist system was established after the Second World War to meet the food shortage. We're here today, we (rich countries) to produce better power-wasting. 50% of that produced by rich countries directly involved in the trash. At the same time, the system we have implemented pauperizes countries in developing as we ask them to abandon their crops to produce food to feed our cattle ... In doing so, we expose our farmers to fluctuations in global markets. You are aware that our farmers through a crisis very hard today, they earn more than their lives, they are in disarray and they become sick of the pesticides they apply nutrients. This system is costing us 57 billion euros in subsidies at the European level, what must be added the cost of cleaning up our environment and public health bill: explosion of environmental cancer and anti Bioshield. So yes, I think it's urgent to return to a little more reason.
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can affect our health? This is the title of a documentary aired Wednesday, February 16 France 3 and directed by Isabelle Saporta, journalist, who publishes this month "The Black Book of Agriculture. As they kill our farmers, our health and the environment "(Fayard). For two years she has traveled the French countryside and demonstrated the absurdity of the system of intensive agriculture.
Eat an apple, a priori healthy eating habit, becomes much less reassuring when we learn that the producers sprinkle of 26 treatments before harvesting and found five different pesticide residues when analyzed. With some 76,000 tons of pesticides used per year, France is the largest user in Europe. And half of all antibiotics in France would be consumed by pigs. Already
author of "Let's not mince our ills. Otherwise consume for better living "(Robert Laffont) on junk food, Isabelle Saporta has long prepared the emissions of Jean-Pierre Coffe" It does not food, it is eaten "on France Inter.
She was the guest editorial. She answered your questions on French agriculture, the drift of intensive production system and your diet above.
MB with AC
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/673951/chat-vous-interviewe-isabelle-saporta-auteur-livre-noir-agriculture
So begins Salon de l'Agriculture in Paris, Isabelle Saporta has answered all your questions about intensive farming and its derivatives ...
Hello, I saw the show on France 3, a show with lots of technical info. Really well done and thank you for the information. But, precisely, what can we do, we consumers, who are not telling everything? We do not have enough information about the products on sale.
Pierrel
should, as much as possible away from processed products back to simple things, fruits and vegetables in season, if possible, purchased from small producers with whom you have a renewed trust. Recover the key word here is TRUST.
Hello, First of all, congratulations for your inquiry and the documentary that is coming. My questions: 1) What to do to get things moving in the right direction? 2) For those who can not, for economic reasons, eat only organic food, how to know the products, channels the "least bad"? Thank you. Jean
already eat local, buy from small producers, and respect the seasons. That alone is already huge.
Thanks for your fight, which I think is noble. I share many of your ideas. By cons you think that one day the things will change? Do you think there is hope for change? This change is caused by a change (see a revolution) of our consumption habits, do you think everyone will be able to change? Fabien
course! But we need a holy nudge policy! We can not do everything based on the consumer. They already pay a lot the consumer: aid, water bills, the health bill ... And he was ready, he, to put all that money in a virtuous agriculture, but for now, it's not that it is oriented toward public policy.
I saw your documentary very interesting. The most astonishing is to learn that it is primarily the grain storage silos which leads to pollution by fungicides and other potentially hazardous substances. Now tell us the name of the only retail brand that uses wheat stored in refrigerated silos to avoid this in the bread making it distributes to consumers. Another question: what do you think of organic products imported from Germany found on our shelves, and their carbon footprint? How is it that we hear more about the aftermath of the recent scandal of their organic food o livestock polluted by dioxins recycled industrial oils supposedly by mistake?
Francoyv
He would agree to pay 15 euros per tonne of wheat so that there are more pesticides storage ... That's what costs the refrigerated silos that can not be processed. Why do not we do massive? Moreover, it is obvious that as long as we feed our animals with all the waste of global industries, there will be health scandals. This year dioxin, some time ago, cadmium ... And this is unfortunately not finished.
Do not you think that the "system" farm in force shall, in its immobility agricultural unions, FNSEA in mind, and its over-representation in politics, susceptible to lobbyists' chemical plant Pharmaceutical?
environmental problems in particular. The example of water pollution is significant. Known for decades, there has never been treated differently by the statements without effect.
I'm puzzled convinced, too. It would take a deep reform of current trade union landscape. FNSEA pushed farmers in this productivist system. A system that makes them lose money, lose their health, undermines our own and ruin our environment. We must the Department of Agriculture emancipated from FNSEA. That slap his fist on the table. Imagine that the State Council in its latest report shows that agriculture is responsible for 60-80% of water pollution and pays 1% of the cleanup bill ...
has been shown that sustainable agriculture can produce as much as earning more and working less. Why the resistance of farmers polluters and poisoners?
Pat29
Ca, I wonder too ... I will not go up as you treat farmers poisoners, but cons, you're right, it is urgentissime changing software. But having struggled with the FNSEA lot these days ... Well, not won.
60 years and I am the son of small family farmers. It too easy to scapegoat. Everyone is responsible to start with the consumer who wanted and still wants the great wholesale and cheap. My parents were practicing agriculture that looks like bio today, but consumers did not want a job with a fruit or a bite of apple scab. To continue to live it took my parents to adapt the application and use pesticides, fertilizers and irrigation. Farmers had problems to solve, they used the products for sale on the market. When the detergent used by the housewife that contained polyphosphate and small eutrophic lakes watercourse was it pointed to the latter, no manufacturers have been asked to change their additives and water treatment plant must die-phosphate. Why does it the same approach with farmers? Give them other products and they will use them. Daniel
That's why I write that the peasants are the scapegoats of a system they sustain. We carry a collective responsibility regarding the current situation. It together and we will survive. Farmers have bent to specifications that pouvouirs public, retail, industrial, have imposed. Consumers are accustomed to flawless products have banned their ugly fruit baskets. All this is true. And that's also why no consumer education and without a strong political will, we will not get away. It is too easy to blame the farmers and let them alone.
The consumer is willing to pay more for organic fruits and vegetables, but what guarantees that the product is actually sold without pesticides and other treatments? Anarchist
ruling
You see where we are? This loss of confidence? There is an urgent need to reconnect with our farmers ...
How do you "educate" the French consumer who has not fear of contradiction by claiming both: good-goods market, so from the global food industry (eg chicken farm)-healthy products for their health that would normally be derived from organic farmer with his neighbor organized AMAP or not but unfortunately most of them are from foreign distribution channels organized on a long-standing industrial base (eg Chinese cabbages imported from Germany)?
Francoyv
The low prices are unrealistic! When consumers turn to the first prize, they forget that in doing so, they pay 4 times what they eat. Once with agricultural subsidies, a second time when slip their products in their cart, a third time when they pay the bill for clean water, and a fourth time when they regulate the slate of public health. If the government put more money in agriculture virtuous, consumers would not have to pay all these bills schedules ... But this would require political will.
And why not laws, but also financial support to stop this massacre? Is there anything to lose? Mythical
You're right, without a courageous intervention of government, we will not get away. Aid must be balanced, give most farmers the most virtuous. But for now, it's not about what we are heading. The latest Finance Act has granted 196 million euros to biofuels while reducing by two the aid of the Bio. Of the 12 billion that farmers receive less than 500 million are spent on environmental measures. It is not heavy ...
Hello, in your book you describe particularly the excesses of the pig. Is it worse than in other livestock (cattle, poultry, etc.).? If so, is that it does not affect other sectors less intensive? You also put in the value chain "White Blue Heart" for cattle feed, is there no other ways much simpler (feeding cows on grass, without needing to add flax) to balance our diet? Thank you.
Babiroussa
As I recalled in my introduction, I mentioned the pig, as I could talk about anything other intensive livestock operations. The example is interesting because pork is the meat we consume the most and they ingest half of veterinary antibiotics in France. The linen industry is a solution, the grass, as I say, too, is an even simpler for cows. Suffice to say that many solutions are available us to get out!
Hello, your struggle is a major challenge for the Company to become our children, grandchildren etc ... .. but do you think that companies like Monsanto, Pioneer and others, will you let them trample flower beds? Do you fear not having serious trouble with this occupation (large grain) who think only gain more money, more money without caring the least, the health of their citizens ? I watched a documentary on Monsanto, and what I discovered ais scared me, because these companies are capable of "ALL" to preserve their gains and even more.
LUMPcefini
are violent attacks and the fight is rough and uneven, you're right. But that's not why I'm impressed. Many farmers told me about the omerta of the environment, their fear, their fear. It is time to break this code of silence. If
distribution (hypermarkets, wholesalers and retail-wholesale, transport and various pharmacies) ceased to abuse our portfolio, our producers could perhaps expect to live decently, to the extent of their efforts, instead to indulge body and soul to the dictatorship stakhanovienne distributors-traders. They produce less, perhaps, better, and certainly for the same price. No?
Old Dear Old crouton crouton
, we are two old croutons ... I fully agree with your analysis. Let me give you a simple example. Today, our animals are fed a corn-soy diet that not only is detestable to the environment, but also generates a generalized deficiency in omega 3 for our milk, our meat, our eggs. And therefore for all of us who consume them. This deficit causes many diseases and causes obesity. However, it would grow flax on only 1% of agricultural land to end this imbalance. 1% that would cost 1 cent more per carcass meat. Who refuses to pay your opinion?
In your book you wonder why we should continue to be financed from public funds a costly for farmers, for our health and our environment and do not invest heavily in the conversation to a more sustainable agriculture respectful of people and the planet. Do you think the French administration, the department and institutes such as INRA can make this transition? The weight of the administration is not it too heavy? And is it that our European Union membership will help us? Gael
INRA is now working hard on these issues and offers many solutions. This institute is considering another way to cultivate that would allow farmers to earn a better living and respect the environment without lowering yields. At European level, the new Commissioner, Ciolos is very sensitive to all these questions. It is particularly concerned that the proteins are more heavily imported but grown in Europe. He hoped that our agriculture is more related to the soil. So we have a window of opportunity to reform the Common Agricultural Policy. It is also necessary that our Minister of Agriculture emancipated from the influence of the majority union, the FNSEA, and it revives the sense peasant ... A world
without pesticides, it is possible? Crops can they survive without pesticides? The model of intensive agriculture it is not based on them?
Bertrand
Yes! And that's great news! And it's not me saying it but the INRA (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique). They proved that by funding up to 200 euros per hectare of organic farming, and 40% by taxing pesticides, it reached 20% of surface organic advocated by the Grenelle environment while reducing by 40% phyto ... It's worth a try, right? But to do this, it will put money into agricultural research rather in the search for new pesticides and most importantly, it will learn the gestures of Agronomy: crop rotation, the importance of plant protein crops that capture nitrogen from the air and exhaust into the ground! In short, learn the art of beautiful peasant.
Hello. I have not yet been able to read your book but you seem to pull red ball on the French model of agriculture. I am familiar with the agricultural world to be employed as a seasonal (to pay for my studies). It is a complex business and drive that is not controlled by visiting a few farms here and there ... Remember that even when the current system has been place after the Second World War, at a time when wheat yields leveled to 10 quintals hectares, or you do not eat their fill (the bread was rationed at the time). The contribution of fertilizer and other plant products, and genetics has enabled today we lack nothing. What model do you think is the best (all organic, farming ...)? Dunga Dunga
Dear, I have not visited "a few farms here and there" but made two-year investigation in this setting by going on the field, staying there for months and meeting (very) many stakeholders. When you read my book, you'll see that I recall that the current productivist system was established after the Second World War to meet the food shortage. We're here today, we (rich countries) to produce better power-wasting. 50% of that produced by rich countries directly involved in the trash. At the same time, the system we have implemented pauperizes countries in developing as we ask them to abandon their crops to produce food to feed our cattle ... In doing so, we expose our farmers to fluctuations in global markets. You are aware that our farmers through a crisis very hard today, they earn more than their lives, they are in disarray and they become sick of the pesticides they apply nutrients. This system is costing us 57 billion euros in subsidies at the European level, what must be added the cost of cleaning up our environment and public health bill: explosion of environmental cancer and anti Bioshield. So yes, I think it's urgent to return to a little more reason.
------------------------------------------------ --------------- Eat
can affect our health? This is the title of a documentary aired Wednesday, February 16 France 3 and directed by Isabelle Saporta, journalist, who publishes this month "The Black Book of Agriculture. As they kill our farmers, our health and the environment "(Fayard). For two years she has traveled the French countryside and demonstrated the absurdity of the system of intensive agriculture.
Eat an apple, a priori healthy eating habit, becomes much less reassuring when we learn that the producers sprinkle of 26 treatments before harvesting and found five different pesticide residues when analyzed. With some 76,000 tons of pesticides used per year, France is the largest user in Europe. And half of all antibiotics in France would be consumed by pigs. Already
author of "Let's not mince our ills. Otherwise consume for better living "(Robert Laffont) on junk food, Isabelle Saporta has long prepared the emissions of Jean-Pierre Coffe" It does not food, it is eaten "on France Inter.
She was the guest editorial. She answered your questions on French agriculture, the drift of intensive production system and your diet above.
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Oil shale: Journey to the Land of Black Gold, 60 km from Paris "Article" OWNI, Digital Journal
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[about Nathalie Kosciusko-Toreador, Vermilion
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In Paris, there was no oil. In any case not less than 60 miles from Notre Dame. We must go to the east, beyond Meaux and La Ferte-sous-Jouarre, ignore muffled forest hamlets along the D204, go after the string of old farms Butheil The direction Rebai and slow down to look carefully right slope surrounded by four wooden posts.
Here Toreador, oil company owned by the investment fund's brother Patrick Balkany, hopes to make a fortune by pulling oil shale layers under the top of the Brie. And so far the Ministry has done nothing to curb his ambitions. Especially not prevent the locals!
For them to learn it took a lot of luck and a national debate launched by the revelation of massive exploration in the South of France for the extraction of shale gas. In recent days, however, the movement of trucks have calmed down in Seine-et-Marne: history to defuse an explosive controversy during the campaign for district elections, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet asked stopping operations throughout France until 15 April. A pause. At the town hall Doue, on whose territory Toreador has installed one of its three platforms of the department (for those who are known), a letter was received from the Prefecture in mid-February announcing the arrival of vehicles and resumes for the day after the end of the "moratorium" imposed by the Minister. Nothing unusual in this little corner of the Seine-et-Marne, where all stages of the procedure have been carefully concealed from the residents and elected officials.
orders "from above"
In September, while representatives of the Association for Environment and Heritage in Doue participated in discussions on the Grenelle II Borloo signed the ministerial order allowing Toreador to explore: under the "permit Chateau Thierry, the company is assigned an area of 779 km between horse Aisne, Seine-et-Marne and Marne notified by the Ministry and prefectures. Locally, it is only through a letter sent to the town hall Doue early August 2010 we are informed of the arrival of bulldozers in the fall.
response to requests for information the Mayor, the County turned a deaf ear to calls for "orders from above". In early September, a record comes to the town hall: the retail operations that will begin in the coming months, signed Toreador. Only oblivion: Annex 3, which describes the technique of hydraulic fracturing, considered irrelevant in a file describing exploration. Not so inappropriate that it makes as the Mining Code defines the exclusive license for research (PER-H for "oil") as authorizing the same extraction and marketing of products extracted.
is going lunch in a restaurant Doue two activists learn the existence of a second platform for oil exploration.
Gathered at a restaurant in Doue to prepare a meeting on the issue, Caroline and Pierre Pinet Doerler, activists close to Europe ecology, are interrupted in their discussion by the boss, "he had lunch with employees Toreador that he had noticed as they almost all spoke English, "recalls Pierre Doerler. One who spoke French to him explained that a platform was being mounted on the territory of the municipality of Jouarre. We took our car to check and found the construction equipment now preparing the platform. "When
OWNI team visited the platform Jouarre Thursday, February 16, the bulldozers had deserted, leaving a muddy field in plan of a hectare slope surrounded on three sides by the middle of which sat a wooden stake and a metal rod blue. Parked along the road, an employee of the Departmental Direction of Equipment and a group of employees Toreador kindly welcomed us before leaving. "The mayor of Jouarre came on site for a stay of operations," we explained it to city hall. But the real decision came "from above". "Pursuant to the request of the Minister, the work was suspended, we are told in the prefecture. We do not rule on the subject: we are only relaying the news of the Ministry on the issue. "
And the minister's answers are sometimes full of surprises.
fracturing in a water tower in the Ile-de-France
is by reading an annex to the letter from the Minister requiring the cessation of exploration that local activists discovered a reference to a decree dated February 12, 2009. The order authorizes the company Vermillion, owner of the old oil wells ESSO Champotran (about fifteen miles south of Doue), injecting into the ground 220 000 cubic meters of water per year until 2010 and 145 000 cubic meters thereafter. "The amounts of water left no doubt: they had to carry out hydraulic fracturing in old oil wells, has quickly found Caroline Pinet. Wells 'classic' it does not go beyond 800 meters, it is sufficient to reach the layer of shale and drilling continue to crank up bedrock before the break to recover hydrocarbons.
But the source cited is not any ground water: running under a third of the Seine-et-Marne, the "web of Champigny" provides, according to public ownership Eau de Paris, the water needs drinking 10% of Parisians and many towns in the Small and Large crown or words at the bottom a few hundred thousand people. A daunting task for a source that, for several years and is constantly "threshold of crisis reinforced," the highest alert level drought forcing residents to restrictions pumping industrial and agricultural consumption restrictions, etc.. By puncturing in this reservoir, drilling projects tap into an oasis on the edge of desertification, the exhibitor also due to the method of hydraulic fracturing to leakage of pollutants (antibiotics, anti-corrosive, etc..) Mixed with the liquid injected in the soil.
Un « triangle des Bermudes » politique
Au fin fond du Languedoc ou dans les gorges de l'Ardèche, l'absence de personnalité politique d'envergure nationale en dehors de José Bové a longtemps expliqué le silence entourant le dossier. But in this stretch of the Seine-et-Marne, executives of the UMP are redundant : The boss of the UMP, Jean-Francois Cope, is deputy mayor of Meaux (6th district), while his successor as president of the parliamentary group, Christian Jacob, is representative of the fourth constituency of Seine-et-Marne to the Assembly. A duo completed by the presence in the 5th district of Seine-et-Marne Franck Riester, head of the European campaign including the party president. "It's the Bermuda Triangle of politics here," says Marie-Francois Lepetit, candidate for the Left Front in the Township of Rebai where the town of Doue.
face it, Chain-Anne Larcombe (daughter of former President of the General Council of Seine-et-Marne, Jacques Larcombe) represents the majority, with the main support Christian Jacob. Asked at the launch of his campaign on oil exploration in the township, the candidate said he learned the business "in the newspapers," followed by his fellow MP. As rapporteur of the Grenelle Environment, Christian Jacob would it have been kept out of discussions with the ministry of oil companies? The answer will probably be given after the local elections.
In the meantime, watch associations: pops up in the mist, the derrick of the platform Doue disappeared overnight. Still, a tube section and a prefabricated house to keep her company and a security officer who receives full-time "from time to time about the visit of employees Toreador. Excluded from the decision process, the municipalities are trying to do is private, like all elected regional or general, the least decision making power on the progress of surveys. "The employees of the prefecture have already complained about not having been in the loop" says one general council. I hardly territories will benefit, "less than 10 cents per barrel," said Will we in Doue: the land belongs to the state and only farmers who have signed concessions affect the direct benefits of these projects.
Meanwhile, Julien Balkany displays its ambitions in the press: previously dispersed, Toreador has refocused all activities in France and boasts of "relocate". His goals for the Paris Basin have something to dream fuel pumps 4.5 million tons of crude per year.
Saudi Arabia, you are told.
Photo: Sylvain Lapoix. Illustrations: Marion Boucharlat
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In Paris, there was no oil. In any case not less than 60 miles from Notre Dame. We must go to the east, beyond Meaux and La Ferte-sous-Jouarre, ignore muffled forest hamlets along the D204, go after the string of old farms Butheil The direction Rebai and slow down to look carefully right slope surrounded by four wooden posts.
Here Toreador, oil company owned by the investment fund's brother Patrick Balkany, hopes to make a fortune by pulling oil shale layers under the top of the Brie. And so far the Ministry has done nothing to curb his ambitions. Especially not prevent the locals!
For them to learn it took a lot of luck and a national debate launched by the revelation of massive exploration in the South of France for the extraction of shale gas. In recent days, however, the movement of trucks have calmed down in Seine-et-Marne: history to defuse an explosive controversy during the campaign for district elections, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet asked stopping operations throughout France until 15 April. A pause. At the town hall Doue, on whose territory Toreador has installed one of its three platforms of the department (for those who are known), a letter was received from the Prefecture in mid-February announcing the arrival of vehicles and resumes for the day after the end of the "moratorium" imposed by the Minister. Nothing unusual in this little corner of the Seine-et-Marne, where all stages of the procedure have been carefully concealed from the residents and elected officials.
orders "from above"
In September, while representatives of the Association for Environment and Heritage in Doue participated in discussions on the Grenelle II Borloo signed the ministerial order allowing Toreador to explore: under the "permit Chateau Thierry, the company is assigned an area of 779 km between horse Aisne, Seine-et-Marne and Marne notified by the Ministry and prefectures. Locally, it is only through a letter sent to the town hall Doue early August 2010 we are informed of the arrival of bulldozers in the fall.
response to requests for information the Mayor, the County turned a deaf ear to calls for "orders from above". In early September, a record comes to the town hall: the retail operations that will begin in the coming months, signed Toreador. Only oblivion: Annex 3, which describes the technique of hydraulic fracturing, considered irrelevant in a file describing exploration. Not so inappropriate that it makes as the Mining Code defines the exclusive license for research (PER-H for "oil") as authorizing the same extraction and marketing of products extracted.
is going lunch in a restaurant Doue two activists learn the existence of a second platform for oil exploration.
Gathered at a restaurant in Doue to prepare a meeting on the issue, Caroline and Pierre Pinet Doerler, activists close to Europe ecology, are interrupted in their discussion by the boss, "he had lunch with employees Toreador that he had noticed as they almost all spoke English, "recalls Pierre Doerler. One who spoke French to him explained that a platform was being mounted on the territory of the municipality of Jouarre. We took our car to check and found the construction equipment now preparing the platform. "When
OWNI team visited the platform Jouarre Thursday, February 16, the bulldozers had deserted, leaving a muddy field in plan of a hectare slope surrounded on three sides by the middle of which sat a wooden stake and a metal rod blue. Parked along the road, an employee of the Departmental Direction of Equipment and a group of employees Toreador kindly welcomed us before leaving. "The mayor of Jouarre came on site for a stay of operations," we explained it to city hall. But the real decision came "from above". "Pursuant to the request of the Minister, the work was suspended, we are told in the prefecture. We do not rule on the subject: we are only relaying the news of the Ministry on the issue. "
And the minister's answers are sometimes full of surprises.
fracturing in a water tower in the Ile-de-France
is by reading an annex to the letter from the Minister requiring the cessation of exploration that local activists discovered a reference to a decree dated February 12, 2009. The order authorizes the company Vermillion, owner of the old oil wells ESSO Champotran (about fifteen miles south of Doue), injecting into the ground 220 000 cubic meters of water per year until 2010 and 145 000 cubic meters thereafter. "The amounts of water left no doubt: they had to carry out hydraulic fracturing in old oil wells, has quickly found Caroline Pinet. Wells 'classic' it does not go beyond 800 meters, it is sufficient to reach the layer of shale and drilling continue to crank up bedrock before the break to recover hydrocarbons.
But the source cited is not any ground water: running under a third of the Seine-et-Marne, the "web of Champigny" provides, according to public ownership Eau de Paris, the water needs drinking 10% of Parisians and many towns in the Small and Large crown or words at the bottom a few hundred thousand people. A daunting task for a source that, for several years and is constantly "threshold of crisis reinforced," the highest alert level drought forcing residents to restrictions pumping industrial and agricultural consumption restrictions, etc.. By puncturing in this reservoir, drilling projects tap into an oasis on the edge of desertification, the exhibitor also due to the method of hydraulic fracturing to leakage of pollutants (antibiotics, anti-corrosive, etc..) Mixed with the liquid injected in the soil.
Un « triangle des Bermudes » politique
Au fin fond du Languedoc ou dans les gorges de l'Ardèche, l'absence de personnalité politique d'envergure nationale en dehors de José Bové a longtemps expliqué le silence entourant le dossier. But in this stretch of the Seine-et-Marne, executives of the UMP are redundant : The boss of the UMP, Jean-Francois Cope, is deputy mayor of Meaux (6th district), while his successor as president of the parliamentary group, Christian Jacob, is representative of the fourth constituency of Seine-et-Marne to the Assembly. A duo completed by the presence in the 5th district of Seine-et-Marne Franck Riester, head of the European campaign including the party president. "It's the Bermuda Triangle of politics here," says Marie-Francois Lepetit, candidate for the Left Front in the Township of Rebai where the town of Doue.
face it, Chain-Anne Larcombe (daughter of former President of the General Council of Seine-et-Marne, Jacques Larcombe) represents the majority, with the main support Christian Jacob. Asked at the launch of his campaign on oil exploration in the township, the candidate said he learned the business "in the newspapers," followed by his fellow MP. As rapporteur of the Grenelle Environment, Christian Jacob would it have been kept out of discussions with the ministry of oil companies? The answer will probably be given after the local elections.
In the meantime, watch associations: pops up in the mist, the derrick of the platform Doue disappeared overnight. Still, a tube section and a prefabricated house to keep her company and a security officer who receives full-time "from time to time about the visit of employees Toreador. Excluded from the decision process, the municipalities are trying to do is private, like all elected regional or general, the least decision making power on the progress of surveys. "The employees of the prefecture have already complained about not having been in the loop" says one general council. I hardly territories will benefit, "less than 10 cents per barrel," said Will we in Doue: the land belongs to the state and only farmers who have signed concessions affect the direct benefits of these projects.
Meanwhile, Julien Balkany displays its ambitions in the press: previously dispersed, Toreador has refocused all activities in France and boasts of "relocate". His goals for the Paris Basin have something to dream fuel pumps 4.5 million tons of crude per year.
Saudi Arabia, you are told.
Photo: Sylvain Lapoix. Illustrations: Marion Boucharlat
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Ivorian "in love": a beautiful stranger sends you mail and over the languid days you ask for money. There are now hacking mailboxes to request in a letter sent to scare all the contacts of the victim, help and money.
Alexandretta Bugelli residing in Combe de Savoie, has paid the price. Monday, February 14, she received a dozen phone calls. "All I am saying the same thing:" I received your mail, I was going to pay because you looked like you really need help. "" The mail in question says this: "I am in Cote d Ivory part of a conference. I forgot my bag in a taxi. [...] In addition, yesterday I sprained ankle. [...] I have to pay fees. I urgently need you lend me 1150 euros. "The payment method is clearly detailed. By money.
Her cousin had "plunged headlong "
And the scam worked. Its cousin, the Paris region, has sent the money the same day. "But we already had Echo African scams but when you read his mail, it has plunged headlong. I was worried for her. "For
email is credible. "She calls me" darling "as she is accustomed to. I know she speaks and he happens to move. "They had so much peeled all emails, knew details of his life ... and were able to better fool the recipients. In Savoy, the process is known. "We had one or two complaints a few months ago," said Commissioner of Chambery. "This kind of scam is rare but happens. "
Alexandretta Bugelli wanted to complain to the police. "But they refused to register because I was not the victim. But I am a victim! It's like slander, it is still something. "Her cousin
complained. "We know we will not get our money. But I am angry against the postal bank as it continues to work with Western Union so that the procedures are not met. Upon receiving the money, no ID required. "
Post defends itself by stating that it informs customers about fraud for sending money. In terms of reception, it is Western Union and who cares according to the company, the processes are quite stringent.
"We allow them to send cash to the other side of the world in very short time. Afterwards, if this channel is used for fraudulent purposes, we are not responsible. Today, Alexandretta no longer has access to its mailboxes. "I think I'll go back to the good old letter ..."
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Ivorian "in love": a beautiful stranger sends you mail and over the languid days you ask for money. There are now hacking mailboxes to request in a letter sent to scare all the contacts of the victim, help and money.
Alexandretta Bugelli residing in Combe de Savoie, has paid the price. Monday, February 14, she received a dozen phone calls. "All I am saying the same thing:" I received your mail, I was going to pay because you looked like you really need help. "" The mail in question says this: "I am in Cote d Ivory part of a conference. I forgot my bag in a taxi. [...] In addition, yesterday I sprained ankle. [...] I have to pay fees. I urgently need you lend me 1150 euros. "The payment method is clearly detailed. By money.
Her cousin had "plunged headlong "
And the scam worked. Its cousin, the Paris region, has sent the money the same day. "But we already had Echo African scams but when you read his mail, it has plunged headlong. I was worried for her. "For
email is credible. "She calls me" darling "as she is accustomed to. I know she speaks and he happens to move. "They had so much peeled all emails, knew details of his life ... and were able to better fool the recipients. In Savoy, the process is known. "We had one or two complaints a few months ago," said Commissioner of Chambery. "This kind of scam is rare but happens. "
Alexandretta Bugelli wanted to complain to the police. "But they refused to register because I was not the victim. But I am a victim! It's like slander, it is still something. "Her cousin
complained. "We know we will not get our money. But I am angry against the postal bank as it continues to work with Western Union so that the procedures are not met. Upon receiving the money, no ID required. "
Post defends itself by stating that it informs customers about fraud for sending money. In terms of reception, it is Western Union and who cares according to the company, the processes are quite stringent.
"We allow them to send cash to the other side of the world in very short time. Afterwards, if this channel is used for fraudulent purposes, we are not responsible. Today, Alexandretta no longer has access to its mailboxes. "I think I'll go back to the good old letter ..."
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Forums Algerian Islamists threaten Beijing's retaliation against its citizens after the crackdown by Chinese authorities against the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang.
Failing to overthrow the Algerian al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) retains a considerable capacity for harm. In early June, the terrorist group has captured a British hostage executed A few weeks earlier by his branch Saharan desert on the edge of the Algerian-Malian. Then, on June 17, the AQIM killed at least 18 policemen in an ambush of a convoy of five cars on a main road in the region of Bordj Bou Arreridj, east of Algiers, is the deadliest attack this year. The security forces came to escort Chinese employees working on a construction site of the future highway that will cross the east-west Algeria, the Tunisian border to the Moroccan border. That day, the Islamists were not about the Chinese group CITIC-CRCC, commissioned to build cheaply and quickly as possible the new road network of a country rich in petrodollars. They do not even mention the company in their statement of claim.
Attracting international attention
The crisis in the Chinese province of Xinjiang is now amending the deal. Hitherto spared the tens of thousands of Chinese nationals living in Algeria could become targets, like Westerners. According forums online sites Islamist al-Qaeda threatens retaliation Beijing's interests throughout North Africa.
In Algiers, the threat is taken very seriously. The AQIM diversified into effect last year its shares. The armed movement still directs its attacks against representatives of the Algerian government - whether military, police and municipal guards - but he looks in parallel, under the influence of the ideologues of al-Qaida to attract the attention International.
Despite draconian security measures, the community of European expatriates was hit several times in recent years. The major French companies present on the Algerian market have organized a system to protect their staff, they advise families of their employees to avoid exposure.
With about a thousand men, the AQIM has more scope than before the Armed Islamic Groups (GIA) in the late 1990s. It is formed from underground confined to the mountains east of Algiers, who have networks of logistical support in the towns and sources of arms supplies via the Sahel.
Officially, over 30,000 Chinese have settled on Algerian soil. A large portion of them working in the construction sector, Chinese companies have won most of the construction contracts for real estate programs in the emergency created by the state to absorb the housing crisis. Many Chinese have also taken up in small businesses. Shops products made in China run by Asians settled gradually in the commercial districts of major urban informal, under the surprised look of Algerians who discover their immigrants.
Le Figaro, 16/07/09
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Forums Algerian Islamists threaten Beijing's retaliation against its citizens after the crackdown by Chinese authorities against the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang.
Failing to overthrow the Algerian al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) retains a considerable capacity for harm. In early June, the terrorist group has captured a British hostage executed A few weeks earlier by his branch Saharan desert on the edge of the Algerian-Malian. Then, on June 17, the AQIM killed at least 18 policemen in an ambush of a convoy of five cars on a main road in the region of Bordj Bou Arreridj, east of Algiers, is the deadliest attack this year. The security forces came to escort Chinese employees working on a construction site of the future highway that will cross the east-west Algeria, the Tunisian border to the Moroccan border. That day, the Islamists were not about the Chinese group CITIC-CRCC, commissioned to build cheaply and quickly as possible the new road network of a country rich in petrodollars. They do not even mention the company in their statement of claim.
Attracting international attention
The crisis in the Chinese province of Xinjiang is now amending the deal. Hitherto spared the tens of thousands of Chinese nationals living in Algeria could become targets, like Westerners. According forums online sites Islamist al-Qaeda threatens retaliation Beijing's interests throughout North Africa.
In Algiers, the threat is taken very seriously. The AQIM diversified into effect last year its shares. The armed movement still directs its attacks against representatives of the Algerian government - whether military, police and municipal guards - but he looks in parallel, under the influence of the ideologues of al-Qaida to attract the attention International.
Despite draconian security measures, the community of European expatriates was hit several times in recent years. The major French companies present on the Algerian market have organized a system to protect their staff, they advise families of their employees to avoid exposure.
With about a thousand men, the AQIM has more scope than before the Armed Islamic Groups (GIA) in the late 1990s. It is formed from underground confined to the mountains east of Algiers, who have networks of logistical support in the towns and sources of arms supplies via the Sahel.
Officially, over 30,000 Chinese have settled on Algerian soil. A large portion of them working in the construction sector, Chinese companies have won most of the construction contracts for real estate programs in the emergency created by the state to absorb the housing crisis. Many Chinese have also taken up in small businesses. Shops products made in China run by Asians settled gradually in the commercial districts of major urban informal, under the surprised look of Algerians who discover their immigrants.
Le Figaro, 16/07/09
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Given the historic popular revolt in North Africa and the Middle East, China, where are also found one-party corruption and soaring food prices is at risk? Sinologists say no - or not yet.
The Sunday after police deployment the appeal on the internet to show in thirteen cities in China showed unambiguous: Beijing will kill any revolt in the bud.
The Communist Party has learned from his seven weeks of paralysis that had concluded with a bloodbath near Tiananmen Square in June 1989 when the army fired on the people.
The ferments of the burning of the Arab world are present in China regime stifling dissent, corruption, nepotism, widening gap between rich and poor and rising food prices. In addition, nearly half a billion Chinese is connected to the internet.
"I do not think China will be the next domino, "said Perry Link, however, the University of California.
" If you add up the fringes of the population who are bullied have been purchased, indoctrinated, which revolt but are not well organized ... there is not a sufficient to make a domino, "he told AFP.
For Daniel Bell, Tsinghua University, there are many in China," a desire for more openness, freedom of expression, justice, but not the same desire for revolution in the Middle East. "
Especially there are" opportunities for social mobility lacking in the Middle East. "
In China" was not at all in the same situation, "also notes Jean-Louis Rocca, Tsinghua well." We have a strong support system here, even if people are not happy. There is no intention of regime change. "
In three decades of tremendous growth, the communist government has extracted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty and allowed the emergence of a middle class of several hundred of millions more.
And although there are still many difficulties, "generally we do not China a sense of deep crisis similar to what was happening at Mubarak and Tunisia," "said the sociologist, there is" neither despair nor impression that has no future. "
Especially not in youth, despite a high unemployment of graduates. The Chinese want
essentially "that the regime does what it promised," says Dr. Rocca: reducing income disparities, establishing the rule of law or health coverage.
"When people enter the middle class, they tend to want stability," also notes Jean-Pierre Cabestan of the Hong Kong Baptist University.
Thus, for the Chinese, "this is not the time to capsize the boat," he said, "conditions are not ripe for a direct confrontation. It's probably too early for now.
We can not exclude, he said, "species of abscesses in the provincial capitals," for example, against corrupt executives.
Another difference with the Egyptians, Tunisia and Libya, the power in Communist China is neither personal nor dynastic.
"Here no one could say 'Hu Jintao released!" said Jean-Louis Rocca, the head of about State: "Hu Jintao has no personal power", since it is the head of the Political Bureau.
In China, "the number one change every ten years," notes Mr Capstan, and "this is not a family that is enriched."
However, some people are dreaming. As the lawyer Teng Biao, questioned by AFP Egypt.
"I think there is a possibility that to happen" in China, "he said last week. Just before becoming unreachable.
Anyway, Tiananmen is not a new Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the revolution in Cairo: access is restricted since 2008 by barriers, with security checks. ©
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Given the historic popular revolt in North Africa and the Middle East, China, where are also found one-party corruption and soaring food prices is at risk? Sinologists say no - or not yet.
The Sunday after police deployment the appeal on the internet to show in thirteen cities in China showed unambiguous: Beijing will kill any revolt in the bud.
The Communist Party has learned from his seven weeks of paralysis that had concluded with a bloodbath near Tiananmen Square in June 1989 when the army fired on the people.
The ferments of the burning of the Arab world are present in China regime stifling dissent, corruption, nepotism, widening gap between rich and poor and rising food prices. In addition, nearly half a billion Chinese is connected to the internet.
"I do not think China will be the next domino, "said Perry Link, however, the University of California.
" If you add up the fringes of the population who are bullied have been purchased, indoctrinated, which revolt but are not well organized ... there is not a sufficient to make a domino, "he told AFP.
For Daniel Bell, Tsinghua University, there are many in China," a desire for more openness, freedom of expression, justice, but not the same desire for revolution in the Middle East. "
Especially there are" opportunities for social mobility lacking in the Middle East. "
In China" was not at all in the same situation, "also notes Jean-Louis Rocca, Tsinghua well." We have a strong support system here, even if people are not happy. There is no intention of regime change. "
In three decades of tremendous growth, the communist government has extracted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty and allowed the emergence of a middle class of several hundred of millions more.
And although there are still many difficulties, "generally we do not China a sense of deep crisis similar to what was happening at Mubarak and Tunisia," "said the sociologist, there is" neither despair nor impression that has no future. "
Especially not in youth, despite a high unemployment of graduates. The Chinese want
essentially "that the regime does what it promised," says Dr. Rocca: reducing income disparities, establishing the rule of law or health coverage.
"When people enter the middle class, they tend to want stability," also notes Jean-Pierre Cabestan of the Hong Kong Baptist University.
Thus, for the Chinese, "this is not the time to capsize the boat," he said, "conditions are not ripe for a direct confrontation. It's probably too early for now.
We can not exclude, he said, "species of abscesses in the provincial capitals," for example, against corrupt executives.
Another difference with the Egyptians, Tunisia and Libya, the power in Communist China is neither personal nor dynastic.
"Here no one could say 'Hu Jintao released!" said Jean-Louis Rocca, the head of about State: "Hu Jintao has no personal power", since it is the head of the Political Bureau.
In China, "the number one change every ten years," notes Mr Capstan, and "this is not a family that is enriched."
However, some people are dreaming. As the lawyer Teng Biao, questioned by AFP Egypt.
"I think there is a possibility that to happen" in China, "he said last week. Just before becoming unreachable.
Anyway, Tiananmen is not a new Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the revolution in Cairo: access is restricted since 2008 by barriers, with security checks. ©
ANP / AFP
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Lured by an ideal, nearly one thousand Chinese companies have relocated their production on the banks of the Nile. And this is just the beginning.
"Be an example, work your best. "The board is prominently displayed in Arabic and Chinese, in the main room of the factory Nile Textile Group. Egyptian workers, men and women, are bent over their sewing machines, while young Chinese control the quality of work over their shoulder. In the din of machinery, lack of common language makes communication a bit more difficult. But with a few Arabic words they learned, and lots of gestures, foremen Chinese manage to make themselves understood. "We also have a translator who just a few hours each day," Egypt provides the manager of the factory, Mansour al-Said.
Set ten years in the free zone of Port Said, the Chinese company Nile Textile Group is thriving. Its order book is full, applications from mainly American clients. Its six hundred employees, 20% are Chinese, are not close to being unemployed. While Beijing has announced during the China-Africa Forum, 8 and 9 November in Sharm el-Sheikh, a new crop of investment to the continent, this plant shows China's desire to relocate part of its industrial production in Africa North.
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The first story is individual: in 1999, Li Jinglin, a native of Jiangsu, one of the main textile regions of China, settled in Egypt and created the Nile Textile Group. At the time, the Chinese textile policy suffers from U.S. and European quotas. In Egypt, however, the new company has many advantages. "Energy is very cheap here, said Ahmed Zoheir, responsible for relations with foreign investors in the General Authority (Egypt) for investment. And do Only a few days to bring the goods to the United States, while it takes more than two weeks from China. "
Beyond the gains on the cost of transportation, the Chinese firm benefits from trade agreements concluded by Egypt with the United States or Europe. Even today, when the quota system was abolished, "it is much easier to export to western countries from Egypt," said Mohamed Abdul Samih, a lawyer in charge of administrative tasks of the Chinese company . On the other hand, the Nile Textile Group is located in a zone, he did not have to pay customs duties on the Egyptian state to export its goods or import of raw materials. The icing on the cake, the Egyptian labor is cheaper than in China.
In the region of Jiangsu, a worker affects around 1,500 yuan (153 euros) per month, while the average salary of employees of the Egyptian Port Said plant is 800 pounds (100 euros). These also seem to be somewhat satisfied with their lot and appreciate the bonus system introduced in productivity by the Chinese. "In this factory, if you work hard, you earn more, while in other textile factories, wages are fixed," said one employee, Oumaïma Shorbal, 17. As for the cultural divide, it seems less insurmountable than expected. "We became friends with the Chinese: they are invited to weddings, women talk about their life in China," says Leila Ali, in his forties, who works at the plant for eight years.
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plant in Port Said is by no means an exception: 953 Chinese companies are already present in the Egyptian free zones. A figure expected to increase rapidly at the forum in Sharm el-Sheikh, the two leaders announced the creation of a "special economic zone for Chinese companies to Ayn Sukhna on the Gulf of Suez, by 2011. "Some 180 Chinese companies, the textile, automobile and IT in particular, should settle and create as many as 40,000 jobs", says Ahmed Amin, vice chairman of General Authority for the economic zone of north- western Gulf of Suez. "Egypt is an important country for the Chinese, especially because it is an entry in the diplomatic game in the Middle East, which China is trying, slowly, to take part, "Michel Beuret analysis, co-authored with Paolo Woods and Serge Michel (photographer) in The Chinafrica (Grasset, June 2008 ). Trade between the two countries do so ancient culture just beginning.
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Venezuela - Chavez "Ally" of the poorer classes of property owners or wall?
President Chávez begins his eighth year as head of Venezuela, as in December there will be a new presidential election, he may extend his term by six years. After pleading for a "capitalism with a human face," he says now supports a "socialism of 21esiècle.
Statements like this earned him the sympathy of the anti-globalization circles and among those at the extreme left, for whom "Chavismo" has taken the place of Castro and the Sandinista movement, out of fashion today. Speaking his socialism, Chávez said that "socialism will Bolivarian, Venezuelan and Latin American" statement seasoned religious expression: "Capitalism is the road to hell, or socialism, for those who want to build the kingdom of god on earth. " Or again: "Among the elements that could define socialism 21esiècle (...) the first characteristic is the moral element. It should start with that, by consciousness, by ethics. Che has written extensively on socialist morality. Whatever the worldview that we have, we must regain the sense ethics of life. What I am saying there is no doubt much of Christianity: "Do you love one another" or "love your neighbor as yourself" In reality it is this: solidarity with the brother, it 's acts in the fight against the demons that capitalism has sown: individualism, selfishness, hatred, privileges. " What
contends this language to the masses of poor countries relative to the cynical brutality of political leaders is one thing. It worth to one who holds this language the admiration of some of the far left judge especially the latter. But where comes the credit appears to have Chavez in the poor masses? What is its policy?
the Past After ten years of military dictatorship (1948-1958), and more, because in nearly fifty years, between 1909 and 1958, the army was directly in power for thirty-five years! Venezuela, in 1958 became a parliamentary democracy based system of the United States, with two bourgeois parties governing alternately: Democratic Action (AD), Social Democratic Party linked to the Socialist International and the main union organization, the Confederation of Venezuelan workers (CTV) and the Organizing Committee for the independent elections (COPEI), training of Christian Democrats linked to the Church. This system, reserved for AD and COPEI, intended to prevent a return of military rule but also the Communist Party, yet at the forefront of the struggle against dictatorship. Economically, SINGLE country in the 18th century cocoa and coffee in the 19th century, Venezuela had become, in 1925, a major oil exporting countries, primarily for the benefit of the United States (it provides today ' Even today 10% of their oil). To feed its budget, the state has always taxed exports and thus dependent on world prices: when they fall, break out the difficulties.
The state revenues increased considerably with the oil crisis which caused the rise in oil prices from 1973 to 1983. For every dollar of oil exported, then fell 80 cents in the treasury of the state. The president of that period, Carlos Pérez (AD), waved the idea of a "Great Venezuela", but the oil wealth did not allow the country out of the dependence of virtual monocropping (it also exported iron ) and this was especially the rule of money easy for the propertied classes and the petty bourgeoisie which gravitated around. Construction rima with corruption. Falling oil prices led the difficulties that would make property owners pay to the poorer classes. A bankrupt system system exploded back Pérez to the presidency in 1989. He had to his credit the nationalization of oil and iron, in 1976, and his promise to keep government intervention in the economy. In reality, nationalized oil company had transformed into a multinational company created subsidiaries abroad, such as Citgo gas stations in the United States, to repatriate the least money possible. For every dollar exported, the State recovered more than 20 cents, resulting in an increased state debt and growing poverty in the poorer classes.
Pressed by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to reduce this debt, Pérez privatization almost everything and abolished price controls. The public rates and augmented from 30 to 100%. This sparked five days of riots in February 1989, called the Caracazo and that affected the country's major cities. Population pillaged supermarkets. To suppress Perez mobilized the National Guard, but also the army. The government admitted 287 deaths but there have been between 1000 and 1500, and thousands injured. Pérez pursuing most of his political strikes and demonstrations multiplied. Policies do now order, that invited the army to return to the front of the stage. Two military coups
February 4, 1992 The first coup took place. The rebel officers spoke of "building a real nation" and denounced "the government's inability to fight corruption." The military wanted, they said, calling the population to rise, failed to Caracas. They gave "At the moment," according to the statement of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez of paratroopers who, at age 38, appeared for the first time publicly, at the head of his "Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement (MBR), created ten years before. He found himself in prison, but was now known to all. On November 27, 1992, the MBR launched another coup, which was cut short as well. 1200 troops, including 500 officers, were arrested. But the following year, Perez gave up the presidency, following a scandal revealing its corruption. His successor, Rafael Caldera, former leader of COPEI, was elected by attending "independent" party. Elected, he pursued the policy but released Pérez Chávez.
The explosion of misery
Privatization had ravaged society. Between 1988 and 1997 the number of available jobs decreased 15%. In 1999, the number of workers living on odd jobs, working in black, represented 53% of all jobs, against 34.5% in 1980. The minimum wage has fallen by two thirds of its value between 1978 and 1994. Social budgets of the state were decreased by 40% between 1980 and 1994, but as education and housing to 70%! Between 1984 and 1995, the population living below the poverty line climbed from 36 to 66%. The income share of 40% "less fortunate" was reduced from 19.1% to 14.7%, while the richest increased from 21.8 to 32.8%. In 1987, the richest 5% had incomes 42 times higher than the 5% poorest. Ten years later, they were higher 53fois! This general deterioration also weighed on the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV), which did not opposed to privatization. Between 1988 and 1995 the percentage of unionized halved, falling to 13.5%. There were, however, militant workers, those that sought to recruit activists Causa R (Radical Cause) organization under the Communist Party in the seventies, which was inspired by the Workers Party of Brazil. Activism in some factories in the slums, gained them some electoral success when they presented themselves for election in the early ninety. They had to rally for Chavez subsequently. Discontent in army circles army leaders were more supportive of the system that Parliament appointed the senior officers. Corruption and cronyism were multiplied officer positions : With five times less than the Brazilian army soldiers, Venezuela had 133 general officers in Brazil for 116! By contrast, junior officers from the lower classes were challenging the system. Chávez and his family were the first generation of officers to have a university education. Their managers had encouraged them to maintain contact with civil society. It had politicized.
After creating the MBR in 1982, Chavez was, for example, contacts with former guerrillas like Douglas Bravo, a former member of the Communist Party returned to a more conventional political struggle after years of guerrilla sterile. Chavez's brother was a member of the GRP (Party of the Venezuelan revolution). These links were broken, before the coup, when Bravo understood that Chavez and the military rejected any control by civilians.
Chavez on the road to power
On his release, Chavez launched into the political struggle, seeking to address the poorer classes, mostly mestizo like him, but also black or Indian. He exalted the national fiber by referring to Simon Bolivar, hero of the independence of Venezuela (1830) and its inspiration Simon Rodriguez, but also to Ezequiel Zamora, leader of a movement of peasants against large landowners (1847). Chávez also borrows quotes Jesus, Rousseau, Hugo, Neruda, Guevara, Marx and Trotsky!
He also formed an old politician, Luis Miquilena, experienced in all laborers and experienced business. The latter seconda until 2002. In 1995, the MBR has succeeded in being elected governor, Chavez decided to embark on the presidential campaign. The MBR had to change his name and became the MVR (Fifth Republic Movement, the fourth being that of 1958). For his campaign, he received financial support from insurers, developers and communications companies, but also English banks. He also launched a "Patriotic Pole" associating the MVR to small parties, as Causa R had benefited from the wear of the two traditional parties.
As we approach the presidential election, fearing a success of Chavez, leaders of traditional parties decided to test the electorate in advancing local elections. The MVR Chávez with good results, AD and COPEI finally presented a single candidate, but that did not stop Chavez to win by 56% of the vote against 39.9% its rival. Six years after his failed coup, the coup was a former officer elected by universal suffrage. The refusal of his opponents of any reform of the Constitution had widened the gap. This proposal resonated with voters in his neighborhoods as a sign of hope. An anti-imperialism
limited
The Venezuelan president denounced, sometimes in provocative foreign policy of the United States. Just came to power in 1999, Chavez has toured the oil-producing countries. On this occasion, he met both monarchs of the Persian Gulf Libya's Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. He also established links with Castro. Subsequently, like many others, he denounced the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The United States denounced the "wrong crowd" of Chavez, accusing him also to support the FARC guerrillas in Colombia, since the Venezuelan army is no longer involved in the repression of Colombian guerrillas. Washington accuses him his economic alliance with Castro, ALBA, which allows Cuba to escape in part to the U.S. embargo and by placing all the oil it needs. In return, Venezuela supported the Cuban health and education.
Chávez is also seeking to establish business alliances with other South American leaders, which displeases Washington. Venezuela has joined Mercosur, the common market that meets Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay since 1991. For their part, the United States tries to promote, so far without success, the FTAA, the economic alliance that would develop throughout the Americas. But some statements
Chavez, that it would be easier to agree with U.S. President Democrat, indicated he is not looking at any price break with the United States. He even praised the Alliance for Progress, initiated by John F. Kennedy in the Sixties, and intended at the time to prevent the contagion of the Cuban revolution in other South American states!
And besides, in its relations with the IMF, Chavez scrupulously fulfill repayment of debts of its predecessors. Similarly, there are conscientious oil supplier companies U.S. oil whose supplies have not been questioned, and whose contracts have been renegotiated without breaking. The only noticeable change, but legitimate, is that these companies must now pay taxes a little more substantial than before. And if Chavez is now offering three states in the United States of cheap oil, he also commended the American trust Chevron-Texaco, at the inauguration of a new platform for gas exploitation in Venezuela, with states United as a "strategic ally".
Chávez position of arbiter
took office in 1999, Chavez short-circuit his opponents in Parliament by launching a referendum for a Constituent Assembly, he won. The voting of the new assembly allowed his "Patriotic Pole" to grab 121 of 131 seats and impose its Constitution. It was now account indigenous minorities and encouraged people to come forward in public life, promoting participatory democracy. It also reaffirms the responsibility of the state in housing, education or health. It granted the right to vote and abolished military Parliament's control over their appointments. The weight of the army came out stronger.
The president's powers as well. It could legislate in any area, after parliamentary approval. To reduce its opponents, the Senate and the public funding of political parties were abolished. This led to new elections in 2000. Chávez had approved by referendum the Constitution, acclaimed to 71%. He pushed his advantage by calling into play all elected positions, including his own. He won the presidential election by 59% against 38%. AD retained twenty members, the COPEI no.
Men Chavez, military VCR or civilian, to allocate seats but the state apparatus remained unchanged. He went even as budget minister the incumbent until 1998. The new president had no intention to attack the dictatorship of money by attacking the private ownership of means of production, including the right "inalienable right" was reaffirmed in its Constitution. This did not prevent the opposition, the wealthy, politicians fallen, the leaders of oil, the trade union bureaucracy, to work together to try to regain power. Unable to speak much to the Assembly, it would by now the mass media, mostly in his hands. Three times
acclaimed in two years, Chavez, like other Latin American leaders before him, Perón Argentine example, found himself in the position of arbitrator between the political game of one side of imperialism, particularly North America, and the privileged, and the other the poorer classes and their aspirations for a more dignified life. To keep the controls, the new president relied on the army and intended to make concessions to the poor masses.
Although it hardly means disposât financial affairs on his arrival, his predecessors having emptied the boxes and the price of a barrel of oil is at its lowest, it establishes a direct relationship with the public to explain what he did or not. Thus was launched the television program "Alo Presidente", where he meets each week to questions from viewers, which helped to strengthen its hold personal.
the early days, he sought to restore the role of social protection of the state. Its Constitution took into account the mothers who are single parents or workers black, integrated with Social Security. He distributed food and tried to revive education, health and housing. This was the "Plan Bolivar 2000": 40000 soldiers were mobilized on health, public transport and housing. For example, Chávez decided to abolish school fees that prevent access to the school for students in poor neighborhoods. He soon had to accommodate 600,000 students. Had no money to build new schools, it freed space in the barracks and even in the presidential palace. And he asked retired teachers to resume the service.
Subsequently, it builds the links created. In July 2001, he revived the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement (MBR) and invited people to create "Bolivarian Circles," which recall the "building blocks" of Argentine Peronism. It pulses as many associations to uphold various interests, those of retirees to those street vendors.
An attempt to land reform
In November 2001, Chávez, with the approval of MPs, promulgated 49 laws, including a "law on earth."
radical agrarian reform would actually necessary in a country where 5% of landowners control 80% of the earth, where eight families share land equivalent in area to eighteen times that of the capital Caracas! These owners, who have always been pocketing the aid of the State, give priority to export to the great trusts of the agro-food, and make fun of that land remains fallow, while the rural population, 3.5 million People over 25 million inhabitants, 86% lived in poverty. How could it be otherwise when 75% of farmers are shared only 6% of the land?
As a result, 70% of food are imported. Chavez's idea was to make productive land abandonment and putting to work the landless. The proposed land reform must begin with a large inventory of land ownership, some of which were simply stolen from the state by large landowners. It also provided for taxing for inactivity, the owners using no more than 80% of their land.
The mere announcement of this agrarian law, because of the tax plan, is sufficient to trigger anger among landowners, once backed by the leaders of the national oil company, supported by the union bureaucracy of the CTV which launched a strike at the end of 2001. This agitation would lead to the coup of April 2002.
population opposed to the privileged
From 13 to 14 April 2002, Venezuela was in fact witnessed a turnaround. After a week of turmoil of his opponents, Chavez was deposed by a coup led by the president of Fedecamaras (the employers' confederation), Pedro Carmona. The United States congratulated themselves rather quickly this' new triumph of democracy "because, forty-seven hours later, Chavez was back to the head of state by the troops and a massive mobilization of the poorest in the capital.
This dismal failure did not discourage the opposition that launched a second coup in December 2002, the leaders of the union confederation CTV were artisans. They launched another strike in the oil sector to cut funding to the scheme in crippling the production of crude oil, which they managed to achieve initially, reducing to zero means the system of their opponent.
This boycott spread to the merchant marine, banking, trade and part Administration. It would continue in early 2003 and last for two months. To train the staff of their companies in a strike which aimed to bring down Chavez, employers paid with the strike days! But, again, Chavez received the support of the "Bolivarian Circles" and militant workers opposed to the bureaucracy of the CTV. With the help of retired oil company, it was revived, which foiled the coup.
On two occasions, in dramatic circumstances, Chavez had the support of the popular classes mobilized in large numbers, and across the country. Because even if Chavez had not yet changed the daily lives of the poor, it was clear that the return of the supporters of the old system that did not promise more misery. But it is also notable that each of the abortive maneuvers of the opposition, Chavez has used his credit in the masses not to continue and grow the advantage of their mobilization, but rather to curb household and the opposition.
limited measures for classes
A priority for Chavez was to restore the oil revenues of the state. For this, the Ministry of Energy and Mines was to resume its prerogatives on the oil company, PDVSA (Petro-leos de Venezuela SA). Unlike what happened in previous years, Venezuela became again active in OPEC, the International Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The successive defeats of the opposition eventually strengthen the position of the Chavez administration to lead this industry. In 2003, to regain control, she disbanded 18,000 of 42,000 employees of the oil company, 80% of executives. In 2004, the same official Chavez was simultaneously positions of Minister of Energy and Petroleum and president of PDVSA.
If, on arrival to the business of Chavez, the oil price was the lowest since 2001 he has continued to increase from $ 20 a barrel 45dollars now. At the same time, the government treasury is again flourishing and Chavez was able to continue the action he intends to make towards the poorer classes.
Agrarian reform actually began in 2003. In practice, land redistribution has affected mostly those of the state. An initial report indicated, for this first year, 60,000 families had shared one million hectares. Land distribution is also accompanied by access to micro-credit bank, delivery of machinery and farm tools to cooperatives, technical assistance, construction of silos and marketing.
It was especially slow and limited as it faced resistance from landowners, who did not hesitate to kill their mercenaries by over 120 farmers, and that local authorities, often complicit owners.
Also in 2003, several "specialized missions "Have been implemented. They relate to literacy (1.25 million adults have learned to read and write), education (3,000 schools built in rural areas, the number of children enrolled has increased by 25%), medicine neighborhood (with support from thousands of Cuban doctors, sports education and sport at the top level (again with help from Cuba).
60% of the population have benefited from free health care. There were mass vaccination campaigns in the poorest sectors. Venezuela has reduced its infant mortality rate. A state budget can provide food at low prices to the poorest families. 70,000 cooperatives have emerged. And 5000 committees legalize the situation of those who lived far in slums without titles. Credits, yet insufficient, were made available to repair existing housing or build new ones. All this is appreciated by the public, but retains a limited one: the representatives of Saudi Arabia, no one would call progressives, came to study the functioning of district health centers to explore the possibility of adapting for their country. New offensive
haves ...
After the successive failures of his attempts to remove Chavez by sedition, attempts were received rather the opposite effect since every time the credit Chávez was released expanded, the opposition turned to the electoral arena.
grouped in a "Democratic Coordination", she tried to get a referendum on the topic: "Should we dismiss Chavez? , "Which it proposed to answer" yes. " The Constitution actually Chavez offered this possibility. For this, he had collected some amount of signatures in the population. The opposition launched into this collection, explaining that ever Venezuelan president would accept.
To the chagrin of the latter, Chávez took the challenge and the referendum took place on August 15, 2004. It was another rout of the opposition. The electorate was mobilized beyond the usual participation. With five million "no," Chavez improved two million votes his presidential score. In the elections of governors and mayors who followed, "Chavez" won 19 of 21 governorships and a majority of town halls. It only remained for Opposition to cry voter fraud, although observers sent by Washington to have validated the results.
But after the referendum, Chavez has not sought to deepen his victory. On the one hand, he speaks in the direction of the poorer classes of "deepening process" and "revolution within the revolution", but also numerous meetings with representatives of the oligarchy, explaining that he sought the contact with the "serious opposition" to strengthen "national unity". These contacts led to the removal by Members of tax on corporate assets and the creation of a guarantee fund for loans to owners of private banking or tax refunds for patrons of the export sector.
Furthermore, powerful groups-group multimedia Gustavo Cisneros, who had orchestrated the coup of 2002, and the food group Polar Lorenzo Mendoza obtained agreements with Brazil, the result of partnerships economic relations with neighboring countries. Similarly, Chavez has helped the Ecuadorian State to "put an end to the drastic reduction in oil production "Caused by strikes in this country by delivering oil. Big business has got the message. In which Chavez said: "It is not our purpose to take private property," the spokesman of big business echoed: "In Venezuela, there is no threat against private property."
... And new gestures towards the popular classes
Prompts Chávez to the people to find a solution to its problems have also borne some fruit in the working class. Trade unionists who opposed the bureaucracy of the CTV, which had supported Chavez at the time of the boycott of the oil company, ended up organizing a new trade union confederation, the UNT (National Union of Workers). The new plant has a certain pressure so that wages keep pace with inflation. Lately, it also mobilizes the business recovery abandoned by their owners, a new initiative scheme inspired by the "times" in Argentina, where companies abandoned by their bosses were transformed into cooperatives.
In January 2005 a new decree to implement land reform has emerged. Chavez speaks of now " war on large estates ", synonymous with high property unproductive, to say that he now intends to address the land unproductive landowners. But the distribution of these lands is limited. It encounters resistance from the landowners as local authorities, accomplices of the wealthy. In 2005, land reform has expanded to 120,000 families and two million hectares, about thirty million untapped. We stay away from the Cuban agrarian reform, an island eight times smaller than Venezuela, had received 1.2 million hectares in the first year.
In February-March 2005, various peasant movements have sent the Venezuelan president a few of their grievances on the agrarian law: "She was not implemented as intended, among other things because of the bad actions of officials of the central state , weaknesses of the law itself, the lack of space for the peasant movement to effectively participate in proceedings under the law. " Or: "The law does expropriate the land over 5000 acres undeveloped. Farmers have criticized the National Land Institute (INTI), accusing his "slow and bureaucratic. The landowners transform the whole wood in the ground before the INTI makes a decision. In addition, the Institute has distributed seeds defective. " Many farmers who have land taken directly complained about "the fact that local judges are on the side of the large landowners and they use local police to chase them."
For President Chavez of the Finance Committee, "our socialist revolution of character does not try to remove private property, but only to get it coexists with the new forms of social production." Yes, but his "private property" or rather not hear the large landowners "cohabit" with any attempt whatsoever that may limit their prerogatives. The haves
therefore continue to take advantage of everything, including social policy, as the government borrows from the bank. Chavez has questioned whether many of the tax, but it was never intended to re-nationalize the banking system. And we heard the voice of the private bank to declare that "the private bank had made in 2004 increased its profits by 42% compared to capital set in motion, such a benefit exist in no other sector of the country. "
The extreme left and the "Bolivarian revolution"
Therefore the positions of certain currents of the Trotskyist movement, as the LCR or other, as one of the branches from the current ex-British activist constitute a real political contradiction, since they finally invite the masses of workers to continue to maintain illusions about Chávez's action, where it would be better to dispel them.
Thus, on November 17 last, an article in Red, entitled "a revolutionary process," signed by three militants including François Sabado, a member of the leadership of the LCR, was responding to an activist of the league in Red had expressed a more critical view of the action of the Venezuelan president (beyond capitalism "or break up with him", published on 27 October 2005) that his government was a "reformist government therefore" and needed "to learn the dynamics Bolivarian."
At a time when reformist currents at best accompany the protest of workers trying to preserve what has could be acquired in the struggles of the past, without seeking to engage seriously cons cascades attacks the working class is the object, one wonders what the term "reformist result" might mean. Unless it is only to describe the social programs of the Venezuelan State, where it returns to some social protection, albeit at the wrong practice of what is currently where the state seeks everywhere s' rid of it, but in the ancient tradition of the bourgeoisie, for whom the welfare function was to stop the popular protest. The chairman of the parliamentary group said Chavez Nor has another thing in declaring December 26 him that "entrepreneurs can come [to Venezuela] because there is no fear of social upheaval, the poor are helped, and there are security and political stability."
The LCR is not yet to characterize the state of Chávez as a socialist state, perhaps because Chavez himself said that "Venezuela is not a socialist country." The League believes however that "Chavez does not divert the militancy of the masses, it gives them a prima led policy and calls to mobilize against the bureaucracy and patronage, inherited of the former regime or perpetuated by opportunistic and bureaucratic sectors of Chavismo. Let us be careful not to mislead adversary Chavez is now an ally. "
Again, such an approach justifies the bandwagon of those comrades traditional vis-à-vis the nationalist leaders who try to loosen the stranglehold of imperialism, while avoiding the energy of the masses becomes a revolutionary force consistent.
In the same section of Red LCR praised the work of leftists in Venezuela, among which are Trotskyist militants from the bursting Current Morenoite. Upon arrival of Chavez to power, these comrades chose, quite symbolically, to "disband". Subsequently, they re-established a revolutionary organization and participated actively in the construction of the UNT trade union confederation. Since the summer, they congregate in a Party of the Revolution and Socialism (PRS), criticizing certain limits of the "Bolivarian revolution".
Instead of encouraging them to organize themselves apart, the LCR invites them to wait for break with Chavez: "Yes, an organization entirely independent of the bourgeoisie is needed to radicalized the course of the revolution "but" it will not be built at the current stage of the process, exteriority to the Bolivarian revolution, much less a break with the past. " According
LCR, the role of revolutionaries would be to wait why and until when? - To express political aspirations of the proletariat. On the contrary, in a period where the authors of the LCR themselves say that "Venezuelans became convinced that they are indispensable in the transformation of the country, workers and popular movement in Venezuela would, we believe more than ever an organization that helps them to defy their enemies but also of false friends like Chavez.
Then, of course, if the plan was Chavez again threatened by the United States or by a new coup for local property owners, it would be normal for the revolutionary workers to denounce this threat and to oppose it. But this does not mean the pink paint Chávez regime. Explain that Chavez is not a revolutionary without compass but a bourgeois nationalist, moreover formed by the army that his horizon is not the emancipation of humanity as its allies are not the proletarians and the poor masses of neighboring countries, but the heads of State, and he has no intention of either attacking the state apparatus or to expropriate large means of production.
Only in this way, by organizing themselves to share and establishing a rallying point for all the oppressed who seek a radical change, the working class and its allies can hope to break the grip of imperialism and the bourgeoisie national, and open a path towards the emancipation of all the peoples of Latin America.
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Venezuela - Chavez "Ally" of the poorer classes of property owners or wall?
President Chávez begins his eighth year as head of Venezuela, as in December there will be a new presidential election, he may extend his term by six years. After pleading for a "capitalism with a human face," he says now supports a "socialism of 21esiècle.
Statements like this earned him the sympathy of the anti-globalization circles and among those at the extreme left, for whom "Chavismo" has taken the place of Castro and the Sandinista movement, out of fashion today. Speaking his socialism, Chávez said that "socialism will Bolivarian, Venezuelan and Latin American" statement seasoned religious expression: "Capitalism is the road to hell, or socialism, for those who want to build the kingdom of god on earth. " Or again: "Among the elements that could define socialism 21esiècle (...) the first characteristic is the moral element. It should start with that, by consciousness, by ethics. Che has written extensively on socialist morality. Whatever the worldview that we have, we must regain the sense ethics of life. What I am saying there is no doubt much of Christianity: "Do you love one another" or "love your neighbor as yourself" In reality it is this: solidarity with the brother, it 's acts in the fight against the demons that capitalism has sown: individualism, selfishness, hatred, privileges. " What
contends this language to the masses of poor countries relative to the cynical brutality of political leaders is one thing. It worth to one who holds this language the admiration of some of the far left judge especially the latter. But where comes the credit appears to have Chavez in the poor masses? What is its policy?
the Past After ten years of military dictatorship (1948-1958), and more, because in nearly fifty years, between 1909 and 1958, the army was directly in power for thirty-five years! Venezuela, in 1958 became a parliamentary democracy based system of the United States, with two bourgeois parties governing alternately: Democratic Action (AD), Social Democratic Party linked to the Socialist International and the main union organization, the Confederation of Venezuelan workers (CTV) and the Organizing Committee for the independent elections (COPEI), training of Christian Democrats linked to the Church. This system, reserved for AD and COPEI, intended to prevent a return of military rule but also the Communist Party, yet at the forefront of the struggle against dictatorship. Economically, SINGLE country in the 18th century cocoa and coffee in the 19th century, Venezuela had become, in 1925, a major oil exporting countries, primarily for the benefit of the United States (it provides today ' Even today 10% of their oil). To feed its budget, the state has always taxed exports and thus dependent on world prices: when they fall, break out the difficulties.
The state revenues increased considerably with the oil crisis which caused the rise in oil prices from 1973 to 1983. For every dollar of oil exported, then fell 80 cents in the treasury of the state. The president of that period, Carlos Pérez (AD), waved the idea of a "Great Venezuela", but the oil wealth did not allow the country out of the dependence of virtual monocropping (it also exported iron ) and this was especially the rule of money easy for the propertied classes and the petty bourgeoisie which gravitated around. Construction rima with corruption. Falling oil prices led the difficulties that would make property owners pay to the poorer classes. A bankrupt system system exploded back Pérez to the presidency in 1989. He had to his credit the nationalization of oil and iron, in 1976, and his promise to keep government intervention in the economy. In reality, nationalized oil company had transformed into a multinational company created subsidiaries abroad, such as Citgo gas stations in the United States, to repatriate the least money possible. For every dollar exported, the State recovered more than 20 cents, resulting in an increased state debt and growing poverty in the poorer classes.
Pressed by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to reduce this debt, Pérez privatization almost everything and abolished price controls. The public rates and augmented from 30 to 100%. This sparked five days of riots in February 1989, called the Caracazo and that affected the country's major cities. Population pillaged supermarkets. To suppress Perez mobilized the National Guard, but also the army. The government admitted 287 deaths but there have been between 1000 and 1500, and thousands injured. Pérez pursuing most of his political strikes and demonstrations multiplied. Policies do now order, that invited the army to return to the front of the stage. Two military coups
February 4, 1992 The first coup took place. The rebel officers spoke of "building a real nation" and denounced "the government's inability to fight corruption." The military wanted, they said, calling the population to rise, failed to Caracas. They gave "At the moment," according to the statement of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez of paratroopers who, at age 38, appeared for the first time publicly, at the head of his "Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement (MBR), created ten years before. He found himself in prison, but was now known to all. On November 27, 1992, the MBR launched another coup, which was cut short as well. 1200 troops, including 500 officers, were arrested. But the following year, Perez gave up the presidency, following a scandal revealing its corruption. His successor, Rafael Caldera, former leader of COPEI, was elected by attending "independent" party. Elected, he pursued the policy but released Pérez Chávez.
The explosion of misery
Privatization had ravaged society. Between 1988 and 1997 the number of available jobs decreased 15%. In 1999, the number of workers living on odd jobs, working in black, represented 53% of all jobs, against 34.5% in 1980. The minimum wage has fallen by two thirds of its value between 1978 and 1994. Social budgets of the state were decreased by 40% between 1980 and 1994, but as education and housing to 70%! Between 1984 and 1995, the population living below the poverty line climbed from 36 to 66%. The income share of 40% "less fortunate" was reduced from 19.1% to 14.7%, while the richest increased from 21.8 to 32.8%. In 1987, the richest 5% had incomes 42 times higher than the 5% poorest. Ten years later, they were higher 53fois! This general deterioration also weighed on the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV), which did not opposed to privatization. Between 1988 and 1995 the percentage of unionized halved, falling to 13.5%. There were, however, militant workers, those that sought to recruit activists Causa R (Radical Cause) organization under the Communist Party in the seventies, which was inspired by the Workers Party of Brazil. Activism in some factories in the slums, gained them some electoral success when they presented themselves for election in the early ninety. They had to rally for Chavez subsequently. Discontent in army circles army leaders were more supportive of the system that Parliament appointed the senior officers. Corruption and cronyism were multiplied officer positions : With five times less than the Brazilian army soldiers, Venezuela had 133 general officers in Brazil for 116! By contrast, junior officers from the lower classes were challenging the system. Chávez and his family were the first generation of officers to have a university education. Their managers had encouraged them to maintain contact with civil society. It had politicized.
After creating the MBR in 1982, Chavez was, for example, contacts with former guerrillas like Douglas Bravo, a former member of the Communist Party returned to a more conventional political struggle after years of guerrilla sterile. Chavez's brother was a member of the GRP (Party of the Venezuelan revolution). These links were broken, before the coup, when Bravo understood that Chavez and the military rejected any control by civilians.
Chavez on the road to power
On his release, Chavez launched into the political struggle, seeking to address the poorer classes, mostly mestizo like him, but also black or Indian. He exalted the national fiber by referring to Simon Bolivar, hero of the independence of Venezuela (1830) and its inspiration Simon Rodriguez, but also to Ezequiel Zamora, leader of a movement of peasants against large landowners (1847). Chávez also borrows quotes Jesus, Rousseau, Hugo, Neruda, Guevara, Marx and Trotsky!
He also formed an old politician, Luis Miquilena, experienced in all laborers and experienced business. The latter seconda until 2002. In 1995, the MBR has succeeded in being elected governor, Chavez decided to embark on the presidential campaign. The MBR had to change his name and became the MVR (Fifth Republic Movement, the fourth being that of 1958). For his campaign, he received financial support from insurers, developers and communications companies, but also English banks. He also launched a "Patriotic Pole" associating the MVR to small parties, as Causa R had benefited from the wear of the two traditional parties.
As we approach the presidential election, fearing a success of Chavez, leaders of traditional parties decided to test the electorate in advancing local elections. The MVR Chávez with good results, AD and COPEI finally presented a single candidate, but that did not stop Chavez to win by 56% of the vote against 39.9% its rival. Six years after his failed coup, the coup was a former officer elected by universal suffrage. The refusal of his opponents of any reform of the Constitution had widened the gap. This proposal resonated with voters in his neighborhoods as a sign of hope. An anti-imperialism
limited
The Venezuelan president denounced, sometimes in provocative foreign policy of the United States. Just came to power in 1999, Chavez has toured the oil-producing countries. On this occasion, he met both monarchs of the Persian Gulf Libya's Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. He also established links with Castro. Subsequently, like many others, he denounced the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The United States denounced the "wrong crowd" of Chavez, accusing him also to support the FARC guerrillas in Colombia, since the Venezuelan army is no longer involved in the repression of Colombian guerrillas. Washington accuses him his economic alliance with Castro, ALBA, which allows Cuba to escape in part to the U.S. embargo and by placing all the oil it needs. In return, Venezuela supported the Cuban health and education.
Chávez is also seeking to establish business alliances with other South American leaders, which displeases Washington. Venezuela has joined Mercosur, the common market that meets Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay since 1991. For their part, the United States tries to promote, so far without success, the FTAA, the economic alliance that would develop throughout the Americas. But some statements
Chavez, that it would be easier to agree with U.S. President Democrat, indicated he is not looking at any price break with the United States. He even praised the Alliance for Progress, initiated by John F. Kennedy in the Sixties, and intended at the time to prevent the contagion of the Cuban revolution in other South American states!
And besides, in its relations with the IMF, Chavez scrupulously fulfill repayment of debts of its predecessors. Similarly, there are conscientious oil supplier companies U.S. oil whose supplies have not been questioned, and whose contracts have been renegotiated without breaking. The only noticeable change, but legitimate, is that these companies must now pay taxes a little more substantial than before. And if Chavez is now offering three states in the United States of cheap oil, he also commended the American trust Chevron-Texaco, at the inauguration of a new platform for gas exploitation in Venezuela, with states United as a "strategic ally".
Chávez position of arbiter
took office in 1999, Chavez short-circuit his opponents in Parliament by launching a referendum for a Constituent Assembly, he won. The voting of the new assembly allowed his "Patriotic Pole" to grab 121 of 131 seats and impose its Constitution. It was now account indigenous minorities and encouraged people to come forward in public life, promoting participatory democracy. It also reaffirms the responsibility of the state in housing, education or health. It granted the right to vote and abolished military Parliament's control over their appointments. The weight of the army came out stronger.
The president's powers as well. It could legislate in any area, after parliamentary approval. To reduce its opponents, the Senate and the public funding of political parties were abolished. This led to new elections in 2000. Chávez had approved by referendum the Constitution, acclaimed to 71%. He pushed his advantage by calling into play all elected positions, including his own. He won the presidential election by 59% against 38%. AD retained twenty members, the COPEI no.
Men Chavez, military VCR or civilian, to allocate seats but the state apparatus remained unchanged. He went even as budget minister the incumbent until 1998. The new president had no intention to attack the dictatorship of money by attacking the private ownership of means of production, including the right "inalienable right" was reaffirmed in its Constitution. This did not prevent the opposition, the wealthy, politicians fallen, the leaders of oil, the trade union bureaucracy, to work together to try to regain power. Unable to speak much to the Assembly, it would by now the mass media, mostly in his hands. Three times
acclaimed in two years, Chavez, like other Latin American leaders before him, Perón Argentine example, found himself in the position of arbitrator between the political game of one side of imperialism, particularly North America, and the privileged, and the other the poorer classes and their aspirations for a more dignified life. To keep the controls, the new president relied on the army and intended to make concessions to the poor masses.
Although it hardly means disposât financial affairs on his arrival, his predecessors having emptied the boxes and the price of a barrel of oil is at its lowest, it establishes a direct relationship with the public to explain what he did or not. Thus was launched the television program "Alo Presidente", where he meets each week to questions from viewers, which helped to strengthen its hold personal.
the early days, he sought to restore the role of social protection of the state. Its Constitution took into account the mothers who are single parents or workers black, integrated with Social Security. He distributed food and tried to revive education, health and housing. This was the "Plan Bolivar 2000": 40000 soldiers were mobilized on health, public transport and housing. For example, Chávez decided to abolish school fees that prevent access to the school for students in poor neighborhoods. He soon had to accommodate 600,000 students. Had no money to build new schools, it freed space in the barracks and even in the presidential palace. And he asked retired teachers to resume the service.
Subsequently, it builds the links created. In July 2001, he revived the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement (MBR) and invited people to create "Bolivarian Circles," which recall the "building blocks" of Argentine Peronism. It pulses as many associations to uphold various interests, those of retirees to those street vendors.
An attempt to land reform
In November 2001, Chávez, with the approval of MPs, promulgated 49 laws, including a "law on earth."
radical agrarian reform would actually necessary in a country where 5% of landowners control 80% of the earth, where eight families share land equivalent in area to eighteen times that of the capital Caracas! These owners, who have always been pocketing the aid of the State, give priority to export to the great trusts of the agro-food, and make fun of that land remains fallow, while the rural population, 3.5 million People over 25 million inhabitants, 86% lived in poverty. How could it be otherwise when 75% of farmers are shared only 6% of the land?
As a result, 70% of food are imported. Chavez's idea was to make productive land abandonment and putting to work the landless. The proposed land reform must begin with a large inventory of land ownership, some of which were simply stolen from the state by large landowners. It also provided for taxing for inactivity, the owners using no more than 80% of their land.
The mere announcement of this agrarian law, because of the tax plan, is sufficient to trigger anger among landowners, once backed by the leaders of the national oil company, supported by the union bureaucracy of the CTV which launched a strike at the end of 2001. This agitation would lead to the coup of April 2002.
population opposed to the privileged
From 13 to 14 April 2002, Venezuela was in fact witnessed a turnaround. After a week of turmoil of his opponents, Chavez was deposed by a coup led by the president of Fedecamaras (the employers' confederation), Pedro Carmona. The United States congratulated themselves rather quickly this' new triumph of democracy "because, forty-seven hours later, Chavez was back to the head of state by the troops and a massive mobilization of the poorest in the capital.
This dismal failure did not discourage the opposition that launched a second coup in December 2002, the leaders of the union confederation CTV were artisans. They launched another strike in the oil sector to cut funding to the scheme in crippling the production of crude oil, which they managed to achieve initially, reducing to zero means the system of their opponent.
This boycott spread to the merchant marine, banking, trade and part Administration. It would continue in early 2003 and last for two months. To train the staff of their companies in a strike which aimed to bring down Chavez, employers paid with the strike days! But, again, Chavez received the support of the "Bolivarian Circles" and militant workers opposed to the bureaucracy of the CTV. With the help of retired oil company, it was revived, which foiled the coup.
On two occasions, in dramatic circumstances, Chavez had the support of the popular classes mobilized in large numbers, and across the country. Because even if Chavez had not yet changed the daily lives of the poor, it was clear that the return of the supporters of the old system that did not promise more misery. But it is also notable that each of the abortive maneuvers of the opposition, Chavez has used his credit in the masses not to continue and grow the advantage of their mobilization, but rather to curb household and the opposition.
limited measures for classes
A priority for Chavez was to restore the oil revenues of the state. For this, the Ministry of Energy and Mines was to resume its prerogatives on the oil company, PDVSA (Petro-leos de Venezuela SA). Unlike what happened in previous years, Venezuela became again active in OPEC, the International Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The successive defeats of the opposition eventually strengthen the position of the Chavez administration to lead this industry. In 2003, to regain control, she disbanded 18,000 of 42,000 employees of the oil company, 80% of executives. In 2004, the same official Chavez was simultaneously positions of Minister of Energy and Petroleum and president of PDVSA.
If, on arrival to the business of Chavez, the oil price was the lowest since 2001 he has continued to increase from $ 20 a barrel 45dollars now. At the same time, the government treasury is again flourishing and Chavez was able to continue the action he intends to make towards the poorer classes.
Agrarian reform actually began in 2003. In practice, land redistribution has affected mostly those of the state. An initial report indicated, for this first year, 60,000 families had shared one million hectares. Land distribution is also accompanied by access to micro-credit bank, delivery of machinery and farm tools to cooperatives, technical assistance, construction of silos and marketing.
It was especially slow and limited as it faced resistance from landowners, who did not hesitate to kill their mercenaries by over 120 farmers, and that local authorities, often complicit owners.
Also in 2003, several "specialized missions "Have been implemented. They relate to literacy (1.25 million adults have learned to read and write), education (3,000 schools built in rural areas, the number of children enrolled has increased by 25%), medicine neighborhood (with support from thousands of Cuban doctors, sports education and sport at the top level (again with help from Cuba).
60% of the population have benefited from free health care. There were mass vaccination campaigns in the poorest sectors. Venezuela has reduced its infant mortality rate. A state budget can provide food at low prices to the poorest families. 70,000 cooperatives have emerged. And 5000 committees legalize the situation of those who lived far in slums without titles. Credits, yet insufficient, were made available to repair existing housing or build new ones. All this is appreciated by the public, but retains a limited one: the representatives of Saudi Arabia, no one would call progressives, came to study the functioning of district health centers to explore the possibility of adapting for their country. New offensive
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After the successive failures of his attempts to remove Chavez by sedition, attempts were received rather the opposite effect since every time the credit Chávez was released expanded, the opposition turned to the electoral arena.
grouped in a "Democratic Coordination", she tried to get a referendum on the topic: "Should we dismiss Chavez? , "Which it proposed to answer" yes. " The Constitution actually Chavez offered this possibility. For this, he had collected some amount of signatures in the population. The opposition launched into this collection, explaining that ever Venezuelan president would accept.
To the chagrin of the latter, Chávez took the challenge and the referendum took place on August 15, 2004. It was another rout of the opposition. The electorate was mobilized beyond the usual participation. With five million "no," Chavez improved two million votes his presidential score. In the elections of governors and mayors who followed, "Chavez" won 19 of 21 governorships and a majority of town halls. It only remained for Opposition to cry voter fraud, although observers sent by Washington to have validated the results.
But after the referendum, Chavez has not sought to deepen his victory. On the one hand, he speaks in the direction of the poorer classes of "deepening process" and "revolution within the revolution", but also numerous meetings with representatives of the oligarchy, explaining that he sought the contact with the "serious opposition" to strengthen "national unity". These contacts led to the removal by Members of tax on corporate assets and the creation of a guarantee fund for loans to owners of private banking or tax refunds for patrons of the export sector.
Furthermore, powerful groups-group multimedia Gustavo Cisneros, who had orchestrated the coup of 2002, and the food group Polar Lorenzo Mendoza obtained agreements with Brazil, the result of partnerships economic relations with neighboring countries. Similarly, Chavez has helped the Ecuadorian State to "put an end to the drastic reduction in oil production "Caused by strikes in this country by delivering oil. Big business has got the message. In which Chavez said: "It is not our purpose to take private property," the spokesman of big business echoed: "In Venezuela, there is no threat against private property."
... And new gestures towards the popular classes
Prompts Chávez to the people to find a solution to its problems have also borne some fruit in the working class. Trade unionists who opposed the bureaucracy of the CTV, which had supported Chavez at the time of the boycott of the oil company, ended up organizing a new trade union confederation, the UNT (National Union of Workers). The new plant has a certain pressure so that wages keep pace with inflation. Lately, it also mobilizes the business recovery abandoned by their owners, a new initiative scheme inspired by the "times" in Argentina, where companies abandoned by their bosses were transformed into cooperatives.
In January 2005 a new decree to implement land reform has emerged. Chavez speaks of now " war on large estates ", synonymous with high property unproductive, to say that he now intends to address the land unproductive landowners. But the distribution of these lands is limited. It encounters resistance from the landowners as local authorities, accomplices of the wealthy. In 2005, land reform has expanded to 120,000 families and two million hectares, about thirty million untapped. We stay away from the Cuban agrarian reform, an island eight times smaller than Venezuela, had received 1.2 million hectares in the first year.
In February-March 2005, various peasant movements have sent the Venezuelan president a few of their grievances on the agrarian law: "She was not implemented as intended, among other things because of the bad actions of officials of the central state , weaknesses of the law itself, the lack of space for the peasant movement to effectively participate in proceedings under the law. " Or: "The law does expropriate the land over 5000 acres undeveloped. Farmers have criticized the National Land Institute (INTI), accusing his "slow and bureaucratic. The landowners transform the whole wood in the ground before the INTI makes a decision. In addition, the Institute has distributed seeds defective. " Many farmers who have land taken directly complained about "the fact that local judges are on the side of the large landowners and they use local police to chase them."
For President Chavez of the Finance Committee, "our socialist revolution of character does not try to remove private property, but only to get it coexists with the new forms of social production." Yes, but his "private property" or rather not hear the large landowners "cohabit" with any attempt whatsoever that may limit their prerogatives. The haves
therefore continue to take advantage of everything, including social policy, as the government borrows from the bank. Chavez has questioned whether many of the tax, but it was never intended to re-nationalize the banking system. And we heard the voice of the private bank to declare that "the private bank had made in 2004 increased its profits by 42% compared to capital set in motion, such a benefit exist in no other sector of the country. "
The extreme left and the "Bolivarian revolution"
Therefore the positions of certain currents of the Trotskyist movement, as the LCR or other, as one of the branches from the current ex-British activist constitute a real political contradiction, since they finally invite the masses of workers to continue to maintain illusions about Chávez's action, where it would be better to dispel them.
Thus, on November 17 last, an article in Red, entitled "a revolutionary process," signed by three militants including François Sabado, a member of the leadership of the LCR, was responding to an activist of the league in Red had expressed a more critical view of the action of the Venezuelan president (beyond capitalism "or break up with him", published on 27 October 2005) that his government was a "reformist government therefore" and needed "to learn the dynamics Bolivarian."
At a time when reformist currents at best accompany the protest of workers trying to preserve what has could be acquired in the struggles of the past, without seeking to engage seriously cons cascades attacks the working class is the object, one wonders what the term "reformist result" might mean. Unless it is only to describe the social programs of the Venezuelan State, where it returns to some social protection, albeit at the wrong practice of what is currently where the state seeks everywhere s' rid of it, but in the ancient tradition of the bourgeoisie, for whom the welfare function was to stop the popular protest. The chairman of the parliamentary group said Chavez Nor has another thing in declaring December 26 him that "entrepreneurs can come [to Venezuela] because there is no fear of social upheaval, the poor are helped, and there are security and political stability."
The LCR is not yet to characterize the state of Chávez as a socialist state, perhaps because Chavez himself said that "Venezuela is not a socialist country." The League believes however that "Chavez does not divert the militancy of the masses, it gives them a prima led policy and calls to mobilize against the bureaucracy and patronage, inherited of the former regime or perpetuated by opportunistic and bureaucratic sectors of Chavismo. Let us be careful not to mislead adversary Chavez is now an ally. "
Again, such an approach justifies the bandwagon of those comrades traditional vis-à-vis the nationalist leaders who try to loosen the stranglehold of imperialism, while avoiding the energy of the masses becomes a revolutionary force consistent.
In the same section of Red LCR praised the work of leftists in Venezuela, among which are Trotskyist militants from the bursting Current Morenoite. Upon arrival of Chavez to power, these comrades chose, quite symbolically, to "disband". Subsequently, they re-established a revolutionary organization and participated actively in the construction of the UNT trade union confederation. Since the summer, they congregate in a Party of the Revolution and Socialism (PRS), criticizing certain limits of the "Bolivarian revolution".
Instead of encouraging them to organize themselves apart, the LCR invites them to wait for break with Chavez: "Yes, an organization entirely independent of the bourgeoisie is needed to radicalized the course of the revolution "but" it will not be built at the current stage of the process, exteriority to the Bolivarian revolution, much less a break with the past. " According
LCR, the role of revolutionaries would be to wait why and until when? - To express political aspirations of the proletariat. On the contrary, in a period where the authors of the LCR themselves say that "Venezuelans became convinced that they are indispensable in the transformation of the country, workers and popular movement in Venezuela would, we believe more than ever an organization that helps them to defy their enemies but also of false friends like Chavez.
Then, of course, if the plan was Chavez again threatened by the United States or by a new coup for local property owners, it would be normal for the revolutionary workers to denounce this threat and to oppose it. But this does not mean the pink paint Chávez regime. Explain that Chavez is not a revolutionary without compass but a bourgeois nationalist, moreover formed by the army that his horizon is not the emancipation of humanity as its allies are not the proletarians and the poor masses of neighboring countries, but the heads of State, and he has no intention of either attacking the state apparatus or to expropriate large means of production.
Only in this way, by organizing themselves to share and establishing a rallying point for all the oppressed who seek a radical change, the working class and its allies can hope to break the grip of imperialism and the bourgeoisie national, and open a path towards the emancipation of all the peoples of Latin America.
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Iraq's largest oil refinery shut by bombing
26/02/2011
BAIJI, (Reuters) - Militants attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery on Saturday, killing four workers and detonating bombs that touched off a raging fire and shut down the plant in northern Iraq, officials said.
In the southern town of Samawa, a second refinery was shut down by fire but officials said initial reports indicated it was started by a technical failure rather than an insurgent attack.
The militants planted explosives at a kerosene and benzene production unit at the northern refinery in the town of Baiji, a former al Qaeda stronghold 180 km north of Baghdad, the governor of Salahuddin province, Ahmed al-Jubouri, said.
"The refinery has completely stopped," Jubouri told Reuters. "It's a big loss for the whole country. All Iraqi cities depend on its production."
Oil Minister Abdul-Kareem Luaibi said the "terrorist attack" hit only one production unit, which was under maintenance, and the remaining units have not been damaged.
"The attack is part of a terrorist plan, which targets Iraq's oil facilities and aims to undermine the Oil Ministry after it succeeded in supplying enough oil products to meet domestic needs," he said in a statement read to Reuters.
The blast, which happened before dawn, sparked a fire that was later brought under control, a police source said. It took about five hours and up to 50 fire trucks to contain the blaze.
The damaged unit, known as the North Refinery, has a production capacity of 150,000 barrels per day, a Baiji official said, adding the damage has been too severe to fix in few days.
"Fixing the damage will take long time. We are not talking about days, the damage is too severe," said the Baiji official, who asked not to be named.
"Hopefully in the next few days we can partially restart the refinery," he said, adding that the plant has enough stock to cover domestic needs for at least seven days.
Iraq does not export any oil products as it uses all of its production for power generation and domestic consumption.
The country's capacity to refine fuels like diesel and gasoline has been ravaged by under-investment, and it has been forced since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion to buy imported fuels to meet the growing gap between supply and domestic demand.
The Samawa refinery, a 30,000 barrel-per-day facility was shut down when fire broke out in one of its main storage areas on Saturday, officials said.
"The refinery was shut down after the fire as a preemptive measure and it's expected to restart in two to three days," a source at the refinery told Reuters.
Baghdad has signed multi-billion deals with international oil companies to boost output capacity to 12 million barrels a day in seven years, rivalling top oil exporter Saudi Arabia.
But everything depends on whether the OPEC member can secure its vital oilfields, refineries and other infrastructure against insurgents and militia.
Overall violence in Iraq has dropped sharply since the peak of sectarian conflict in 2006-07 but attacks still occur daily.
Several years ago al Qaeda had enough control over the Baiji area that it was able to intimidate refinery workers and hijack its refined products. It sold the products to neighbouring countries and used the profits to finance the insurgency.
Baiji, which normally operates at about 70 percent of its 310,000 bpd capacity, and produces 11 million litres of gasoline, 7 million litres of benzene and 4.5 million liters of kerosene a day. The last refinery shut WAS for Two Days in August due to electrical fault year. Iraq has eight
Oil Refineries With a capacity of 659.000 bpd. It Produces about 453.000 bpd of Refined Products and uses 589.000 bpd, According To The OPEC website.
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launched a petition for full freedom of expression in France
Site Survey and Debate comes to starting a petition for full freedom of expression in France. (Text).
The petition begins by noting that "A force of increasingly stringent laws, France has limited the freedom of expression to the point that it became impossible to speak freely in our country." She denounced the trial in the XVII criminal division for a yes to no, the climate of intellectual terrorism that prevails, the hot pursuit of perfectly respectable people and organizations thought police:
"associations do representing that they, subsidized by the state, have illegitimately a moral power and judicial considerable power and are a daily nuisance. "
What the petition request is a total freedom of expression is to "return to full freedom of expression that occurred in France between the summer of 1789 and summer 1792 (and still know that the United States through the first amendment passed in 1791).
Is this excessive? Maybe in theory, but on freedom of expression, the seller gives the finger arm. We take the example of incitement to racial hatred. Of course, if it were to condemn the real belching hatred and incitement to violence, everyone would agree. But everyone can see that this is not what it is that the concept of racial hatred is extended indefinitely to cover up criticism of religions (the most protected in all cases) and more it is applied in a double standard Overall, the anti-French hatred are giving free reign freely.
The petition calls for a return to common sense and the debate:
"Justice is not done to address the issues of expression, but to deal with robberies, rapes, crimes and misdemeanors under physical or penal. Anything related to the expression is both sacred and superior to the opinion of anyone who might be tempted to ban it.
The expression is always preferable to censorship because it allows idiots and to potential criminals to uncover their own, rather than hiding behind screens of virtues that make them more difficult to identify. Before the war, because some incited the population to read Mein Kampf to understand who Hitler was and what he wanted. "
It calls for the abolition of all laws restricting freedom without exception
" Freedom of fullest expression is the sine qua non for scientific research, openness, independence of mind, and thus the civilization of ours. By signing this petition, each party expresses its desire to repeal all laws that have limited in some way or another, freedom of expression since 1792, including the laws of 1881 (on freedom of the press while the limit), 1972 (Act Pleven), 1990 (Act Gayssot), 2003 (Act Lellouche), 2004 (ordering the Halde) and all memory laws. "
It is part of an international context. The Austrian Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolf, convicted of blasphemy against Muhammad, asked the same thing (source). In Holland, Wilders claims it as well.
This petition is all the more necessary that freedom of expression on the Internet is threatened by the law known LOPPSI 2, just adopted, requires "persons whose activity is to provide access to communication services to the public in line" to "contribute to the fight against the spread" of content being "an apologist for crimes against humanity, incitement to racial hatred and child pornography. " Without a court order (source). Ampliation of the law known HADOPI LOPPSI 2 is among the Gentiles all full texts which are intended to protect children against pedophiles. As expected, it extends far beyond its censorship of pornography sites.
http://www.agoravox.fr/actualites/citoyennete/article/lancement-d-une-petition-pour-la-89560
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New Quiz: the dead in the major events of Marvel Character
Same principle as the first quiz but more picky, it is here to answer questions about the victims of the great events of Marvelverse this decade, Avengers disassembled at Headquarters through House of M and Secret Invasion.
Some people have been chronicling some of the crossovers on the comm and could even give clues or answers so if you're a regular reader of average you have already aquise.
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Same principle as the first quiz but more picky, it is here to answer questions about the victims of the great events of Marvelverse this decade, Avengers disassembled at Headquarters through House of M and Secret Invasion.
Some people have been chronicling some of the crossovers on the comm and could even give clues or answers so if you're a regular reader of average you have already aquise.
Good luck!
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Boues rouges : en France aussi le risque de pollution existe
Par Sophie Chapelle (11 octobre 2010)
Pendant que la pollution aux boues rouges affole la Hongrie, des inquiétudes s’expriment sur une usine similaire en France : l’usine d’aluminium de Gardanne, du groupe Rio Tinto, rejette plus de 200.000 tonnes de boues rouges… dans la Méditerranée.
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Alors que la Hongrie fait actuellement face à sa pire catastrophe Environmentally, the plant managers Gardanne (Bouches-du-Rhone), only in France to produce alumina, are reassuring. In an interview with AFP, they ensure that the residues are stored "most toxic" and are "solid," unlike the situation in Hungary. In 2010, the plant extract about 450,000 tons of alumina from bauxite, a naturally occurring mineral mainly imported from Guinea. The plant, which belongs to Anglo-Saxon group Rio Tinto - Alcan Inc. (which acquired Pechiney) makes bricks for blast furnaces, ceramics or special glasses especially for screens dishes.
This production, however, a major environmental cost caused by the "deforestation" and "significant pollution" generated, said in a press release Friends of the Earth France. "Each ton of aluminum results in the release of 4 tonnes of red mud as harmful by their quantity than their pH (potential of hydrogen, ie) basic," says the environmental group.
red mud spilled into the Mediterranean
Only 20% of waste, checked twice a year, are currently stored in an area of 30 acres with two miles of the mill Gardanne. The remainder is diluted before being dumped at sea off Cassis via line 47 km long, which opens at 7 km offshore in 320 meters deep. "The volume of waste dumped in 2008 reached 237,000 tons. The spill of red mud in the sea off the coast of Cassis could jeopardize the creation of the natural park of the Creeks, "said Friends of the Earth. This sludge owe their color to the presence of iron oxides. The spill lasted for forty years and is expected to end in 2015 under the terms of a commitment by the Pechiney Group, long the site owner. For now, dust and emissions in the bay of Cassis concern to the locals and environmental groups.
More than one million cubic meters of highly toxic red mud was spilled, Monday, October 4, polluting seven localities in Hungary, 160 km from Budapest after the collapse of a tank in an aluminum plant [1] . The toll of the disaster reported seven dead, one missing and at least 150 wounded. Authorities ensure that "the Danube is out of danger" after finding rates alkali (which measure the presence of sodium, potassium or lithium ...) close to normal. But environmental groups believe that the threat ecosystem remains. A fear reinforced by the threat of another landslide Saturday morning, following a further weakening of the dam reservoir of the plant. The company
MAL (Magyar Aluminium), owner of the Hungarian plant, denies any responsibility in the accident. It is however believed to have stored too red mud in the tank, which, combined with heavy rains and poor maintenance, would have give a dam. Hungary has announced a quick inspection of all the red mud ponds of the country and a future tightening of safety standards. "Establish strict safety rules is not enough, because we see the limits of their effectiveness. We must now review our methods of production and consumption drastically reduce pressure on natural resources and ecosystems, "said Anne Bringault, director of Friends of the Earth.
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Notes [1] The Hungarian Association Csalán has appealed for funding for protective equipment intended for the inhabitants directly affected. More information on the website of Friends of the Earth or on the site Csalán.
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