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lunes, 5 de octubre de 2015

LES DIEUX SONT FATIGUES


Venezuela, having signed a business oil with the EE.UU; since 1917 - should be included in this TPP, or ,  Am I my Brothers´s Keeper?  as said  by Aranda Coomaraswamy (The John Day Company Inc., 1947) : "It is true that there is a modernized, uprooted East, with which the West can compete;it is only with the surviving, superstitious East -- Gandhi´s East, the one that has never attempted to live by bread alone -- that the West can co-operate."
***Coomaraswamy says: "If ever the gulf between East and West, of which we are made continually more aware as physical intimacies are forced upon us, is to be bridged, it will be only by an agreement on principles....A philosophy identical with Plato´s is still a living force in the East...."

***We may take to heart the message given the West by one of the great modern representatives of another culture. Charles Malik has said: "In all this we are really touching upon the great present crisis in western culture. We are saying when that culture mends its own spiritual fences, all will be well with the Near East, and not with the Near East alone. We are saying  it is not a simple thing to be the heir of the Graeco-Roman-Christian -European synthesis and not to be true to its deepest visions. One can take the ten greatest spirits in that synthesis and have them judge the perfomance of the Western world in relation to the Near East. The deep problem of the Near East then must await the spiritual recovery of the West. And he does not know the truth who thinks that the West does not have in its own tradition the means an power wherewith it can once again be true to itself."

East and West, chapter IX The Great Conversation. The Great Books of the Western World. USA.
Twenty-fourth Printing, 1982. University of Chicago. USA.

 

Obama sobre el TPP: "No dejaremos a otros países escribir las reglas de la economía global"

Publicado: 5 oct 2015 13:45 GMT | Última actualización: 5 oct 2015 14:10 GMT
El presidente de los Estados Unidos de América Barack Obama
"No dejaremos a países como China escribir las reglas de la economía global", ha anunciado el presidente estadunidense Barack Obama a raíz del convenio económico TPP (Acuerdo Transpacífico de Cooperación Económica). Este lunes, EE.UU., Japón y otros 10 países se han puesto de acuerdo sobre los términos de ese controvertido acuerdo.
Barack Obama ha confirmado en un comunicado, citado por 'The Wall Street Journal', que se logró un acuerdo sobre el TPP entre EE.UU., Japón y otros 10 países. Según el presidente estadounidense, "no podemos permitir que países como China escriban las reglas de la economía global. Nosotros debemos escribir esas reglas, abriendo nuevos mercados a los productos estadounidenses, estableciendo altos estándares para la protección de los trabajadores y preservando nuestro medio ambiente".
El mandatario señaló que la asociación transpacífica elimina más de 18.000 impuestos sobre las mercancías procedentes de EE.UU., garantiza el empleo y la protección de medioambiente.
Obama también respondió a los críticos del acuerdo, que acusaron a sus autores de secretismo. El presidente prometió que el documento será presentado para un debate público. "Cuando los negociadores terminen el trabajo sobre el texto de la asociación, el Congreso y el pueblo estadounidense tendrán un par de meses para leer cada palabra antes de firmarlo", aseguró.
El TPP, que está integrado por EE.UU., Australia, Nueva Zelanda, Brunéi, Canadá, Chile, Japón, Malasia, México, Perú, Singapur y Vietnam, constituye el mayor acuerdo comercial regional de la historia y pretende establecer un nuevo nuevo marco normativo para el comercio.
Los detractores del acuerdo denuncian que favorece a grandes negocios a la vez que presenta desventajas para los trabajadores y para la protección del medio ambiente. Asimismo, a pesar de denominarse tratado de libre comercio, no solo abarca temas comerciales, sino también aspectos sobre la libertad de Internet, los derechos de autor, la protección de patentes o la salud.

sábado, 7 de marzo de 2015

SKOLKOVO FRAUD. RUSSIA´S FRAUD.



Medvedev’s Fraud at Potemkin Skolkovo

Hero reporter Yulia Latynina, writing in the Moscow Times:
On Dec. 14, the day before a Moscow court was supposed to issue the verdict against former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, President Dmitry Medvedev attended the “Go Russia!” innovation forum at Skolkovo to see how the modernization process is coming along. I must say that modernization is going full speed ahead — at least in and around Skolkovo.
First, the commuter rail station that will serve the future technopark was renamed from the obscure “Vostryakovo” to the much more fitting “Skolkovo.” And from that station it is a rigourous 30-minute trek through the woods to the site of the future Innovation City.
Second, the Skolkovo Highway has been sealed off. In the past, drivers caught in nearby traffic jams could detour along the Skolkovo Highway. But after concrete barriers were installed, motorists drove around them and continued on unpaved ground — that is, until the authorities completely sealed off the entire perimeter, bringing all detours to a halt.
Then, on a completely deserted stretch of highway near the Skolkovo School of Management, the authorities built a two-level interchange so that nothing could stop Russia from racing full speed into its innovative future.
What great examples of Medvedev-style modernization: close off a vital highway when traffic jams were already out of control and then build an overpass where it is absolutely unnecessary.
But Medvedev didn’t stop there. He was determined to create an even more fitting symbol of Russia’s backward approach to modernization. The concrete barriers were removed for his visit to Skolkovo.
When the president’s convoy rolled into the village for his grand visit, not a single barrier could be found. They were hauled away. The road was lined at 100-meter intervals with traffic policeman clad in yellow and numerous police cars. And what a road it had suddenly become — sparkly clean and partially laid with fresh asphalt that served as a nice embellishment for a large tented pavilion, which Medvedev had apparently needed as a rest stop on his tiresome journey from Rublyovka to Skolkovo. Go Russia!
But that’s not all. Right after the president’s cavalcade left the village, the concrete barriers were back in place, and the pavilion was gone the next day. The “fresh asphalt” in front of the pavilion turned out to be nothing more than wooden boards that were covered with Ruberoid roofing material. The whole episode was like a scene out of the book “The Autumn of the Patriarch” by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez in which Americans pack up their officers’ cottages to the last board and bolt and ship them home in containers, even rolling up and taking their neatly trimmed lawns with them.
Everybody knows that roads are sometimes closed when the president is passing, but this was the first time that a closed road was opened to allow him through.
By the way, when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger brought U.S. businesspeople to Skolkovo in October, they were shown two projects, neither of which had any prior connection to the Russian government: a Raman spectrograph and a receiver for terahertz radiation. Both projects are being developed in Chernogolovka, in laboratories run by the brilliant scientist and academic Vadim Kukushkin on financing provided by investor Ruben Vardanyan, head of Troika Dialog.
Fittingly, when the U.S. delegation flew on to Kazan after Skolkovo, they were shown the same two projects there. Apparently, Russia has such a dire shortage of innovation projects that they have to use the same ones over and over again. Go Russia!