Saturday, November 22, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Acupressure Licensure
We receive and gladly publish:
Christian Social Lazio
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL
LAZIO FOR BUILDING IN OUR REGION PD
We Cristiano social Lazio , we express our concern for breaks and uncertainties that are experiencing the formation of the Democratic Party even in our region.
We really wanted the birth of the common home of the reformists, as the convergence of different traditions of Italian reformism in a new political culture, in a project that can govern Italy in the XXI century. And for this location we worked hard, giving a strong contribution since our inception in 1993, when Pierre Carniti with Ermanno Gorrieri and we believe the political necessity of an organized presence of Christians in the then so-called progressive camp.
a story, then, that comes from afar, strongly marked by a constant on some major issues: the preferential option for the past and those who have no voice, the goal of equality feasible, the secularism of Profile of political institutions such as unavoidable for Christians, the ethics policy, discriminating which admits of no exceptions.
What we are witnessing a path from which there is growing something new. Or rather, seem to prevail even old drifts, quarrels and disputes are not always decipherable. Let dissipate the spirit of unity and enthusiasm that had accompanied the experience of the Olive and were then projected in the construction of the new party. At the expense of production policies and confrontation with those who gave us confidence.
We are increasingly convinced that the PD will have meaning and force only if it is a popular party, based on a direct and daily contact with communities, citizens, voters. If you cultivate the ability to motivate them to participate and vote on the basis of shared values \u200b\u200band project. A party that still face the moral issue its own distinctive character and indispensable. Despite all this, and precisely because it seems to be a matter of very little expendable in terms of support.
The party must also be in the first instance the ideal opportunity for the participatory democracy that plans for the country chosen by the members and leaders from non-notable; primaries to select candidates; popular roots. We need, in our region, give a sign of discontinuity in leadership positions.
A party that knows a whole rework ideas, culture, reflection. Which has the look of those who design long after having analyzed, studied and compared the proposed without the anxiety of an immediate election, but with the conviction that the way to do requires hard work, effort, consistency and constancy.
As it emerged strongly from our studies VI National Conference of Assisi ("Christians and new policy challenges. Democracy, justice, common good, which was attended by nearly 300 people, including representatives of the movement and friends ), in the daily life of the party we see instead a tendency to assert a high concentration of responsibility on the national leadership, and with the organization for highly customized combinations. It is a scary process, because it basically undermines the unity and membership size party, its leadership and the constitutional process.
The PD needs at all levels, strong leadership and collegial together, which triggers and mobilize energies, to engage fully in the youth and women, living through its proposals and its struggles in society.
is also necessary that the party areas and different cultural positions, since they are vital source of debate, even as voices of different social organizations and bodies, and greater wealth for all, find an appropriate based not on mere logic of power correntizie or membership, but on the fertile opportunity to make fruitful synthesis from a wealth of ideas and values established and recognized in the country even before the party.
Only then will we be able to give a soul and identity of the party that we are forming.
share what has been said and written elsewhere (see PD Circle of Donna Olimpia), and we do ours.
"It 's necessary that the selection of leading groups and applications passes immediately from the practice of co-opted by the criterion of fidelity to this or that leader, the pseudo debate, the enhancement of the merits and skills in an open confrontation between democratic ideas and positions. And 'necessary for that purpose a pact of loyalty and cooperation between the generation of leaders who led the party until now Roman and new generations that have grown in recent years in and around it, both in the parties, dissolving, have given their lives to what other political forces and civil society. For
level too, Roman purposes for which the PD was established, it is first necessary to affect the decision-making processes and ways of training leaders. It is important that in both cases involve the basic structures and that this has encouraged the widest participation of members and citizens through the systematic use of the primary method for the formation of candidates for elective positions in the party competes (at least to those monocratic) as is required by statute and was recently reaffirmed by the Secretary. "
There is a lot of work to do.
broaden the base of participation involving members, voters and citizens in the choices of content and selection of its leaders, to become viable, transparent and truly democratic decision-making bodies at all levels and adopt transparent procedures for the selection of its leaders, coordinating the work Working with the agile bodies and participatory at the local level to provide a planning conference can be translated into policy choices is a possible, ideas and proposals that the basis of wide consultation will be able to move forward, turn Circular forms of communication, so that each and everyone knows what is happening, what is the process started and the steps you should follow that.
These are the points on which we do not intend to back Christian social action in our politics. Indeed, we think that they are elements that can describe the identity and action of the party and for which we still plan to spend our resources and human ideals.
making them available for comparison and discussion. To revive the party and above all give back to the country and to our city, a government that puts the common good as a starting point of the social fabric that joins a collective population.
Regional Coordination Christian Social Movement of 20 October 2008 Lazio Roma
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Community Places To Do Community Service Hours
It is expected that citizens can travel less and less on traditional cars. Fuel costs, raw materials, environmental costs in the face of a diminishing purchasing power of salaries, will lead to greater use of public or media or by reduced consumption.
to keep up the demand for consumer goods has already been used to facilitate individual indebtedness, with the results that we see already. Now we want to bring into bankruptcy also been central to delay the restructuring of a system of production of consumer goods no longer appropriate to modern times?
In Germany, Opel will not refinance the purchase of four plants by a company producing solar panels with a new business plan: to produce low-emission vehicles. What have they waited until now, car manufacturers to adapt their products?
Adapt or become extinct is not just a law of the market, is a law of nature that allows life to evolve. Let it run its course if we care about our future.
ref: article
Saturday, November 15, 2008
O Que é Um Blaster No 2wire ?
the two decades of the Knight
(Massimo Giannini - La Repubblica)
anticipate part of the introduction of the book of "The Statesman. The Fascist Berlusconi between fascism and populism" (Baldini Castoldi Dalai, pp. 280, € 17) in bookstores these days
"The cowards and thugs of the radio controlled by the billionaire publishing of the White House gang of Lindbergh said that Winchell was dismissed for shouting 'fire "in a crowded theater. Mr. and Mrs. New York City, the word was not" fire. "Era" fascism "that Winchell yelled. It still is. Fascism! Fascism! And I will continue to cry "fascism" in every crowd of Americans that I can find until the party's betrayal of Herr Hitler's pro-Lindbergh will not be expelled from Congress on election day. "
I do not know why. But when I began to think of a book about Silvio Berlusconi, the first images that came to mind were those described by Philip Roth in his conspiracy against America, the political narrative fiction about Sir Charles Lindbergh wins the elections of 1940 to Roosevelt instead of plunging the United States and the world in the nightmare. Grand aviator and fly across the oceans, wherever you land with its mythological Spirit of St. Louis is waiting for the reporters of newspapers and thousands of people gathered to watch and cheer their young president, with his famous jacket and leather aviator's helmet.
Roth's novel is a magnificent fresco on the decline of a nation addicted. On its progressive loss of attention to social and moral tension. Question of places, a matter of symbols. The Roman Palace instead of Washington. Italy deep instead of America. The running board of a Mercedes instead of a cabin monoplane. Instead of the double-breasted jacket. Or the bandana instead of the headband. I do not know why. But as bold and imaginative, the comparison convinced me. I started writing. Inspired by the loving thoughts of a Grand Old Man of the Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi: "The Italians are caught by a strange yearning for servitude. And more Berlusconi tears up the institutional fabric, the more they demand to be servants." It's not a pretty picture. But unfortunately it is dramatically true.
The first argument of this book is that the Knight is now a statesman. Among the worst of the country's history. But a true statesman, who firmly in hand the destiny of the nation ... Fifty years from now, when they finally purged the last ideological sewage dell'estenuante Italian Novecento, the center looks out over the abyss of the First Republic and will have to recognize that everything that came later (in the case of Second, Third or No Republic) is Berlusconi calls. What we have lived and are living in 1994, with some marginal intermission, is to all intents and purposes the Fascist Berlusconi. There is no vice
private or public virtue, character or ethos of popular culture, the man of Arcore was unable to anticipate or amplify the same time, in a dizzying and sometimes mysterious game of mirrors in which the end was and is increasingly difficult to distinguish who reflects what. By the third electoral victory in 2008, Berlusconi was Italy permanently resumed ... Fascism and how to Piero Gobetti, Berlusconi has also come to really turn into another "biography of the nation" ...
He says it himself, the constituent of the PDL: "Ours is not only a new party is the new Italy. It 's a major political force that brings together all the Italians who do not identify with the left and we have made known their wishes in the last election." Nothing to object when he is right, you're right ...
The second thesis of this book is that the Italian is now a democracy in profound transformation. The Statesman is dragging on the ground that Italy would call "post-democratic", according to the formula coined by Colin Crouch ... It is not a dictatorship in the classical sense, but certainly a democracy "in its downward flight."
But descending to what? The drop point of this drift Italian is a modern form of "totalitarianism" post-ideological, philosophical and understood in a technical sense. Italy is too disenchanted to stumble on a true "system" in which fundamental freedoms are trampled ... At stake is another. It 'a new, subtle but dangerous form of political-cultural hegemony. E 'emptying and the weakening of the "places" in which they develop an oppositional thinking and a positive outlook on Italy and that is what we would like.
E 'the absence of autonomous powers that balance the excessive power of the executive, economic and financial institutions all'establishment, reduced to a mere role of vassalage, blackmail and blackmail through the mechanism of government concessions and incestuous pervert the circuit of bank financing.
E 'the breakdown of the contents of the policy, the systematic dismantling of the truth of the facts, the disintegration of the scientific language, which transforms the information in the "white noise" and irrelevant unlistenable, and homogenize everything, consensus and dissent, of assent in a blender ... Fareed Zakaria, in his Democracy without freedom theorizes the existence of "illiberal democracies," which combine elections and authoritarianism. "Often, democratic governments claim sovereignty, or absolute power, and this leads to an excessive centralization of authority, often by means extracostituzionali and with results not always appreciated.
The result is a form of government is not too different from a dictatorship, despite the greater legitimacy. "I do not know why. But once again these arguments make me think about things that happen in our country.
The third thesis of this book is that the statesman must now be taken seriously. In his "branch" is really the 'professional' best on the square, and can no longer be treated like a freak. And his right-wing government inevitably reflects the pure and hard " totalitarian vocation "of those who guide, but is saying and doing things like that ... He says Italians Giulio Tremonti, an ideologue of the majority:" Italy is a country essentially center-right. There was a center-right majority, and there will be. The problem is to give a representation in this mass majority of votes. "
I am convinced, reluctantly, that the superministro Economy is right ... The conflict of interest and is certainly" a "problem. But is "the" problem. What Umberto Eco had described in his time "Caesarism electronic," as the new power digit Berlusconi, and today only the corollary of a political and social epiphenomenon much more rooted and complex ... It is no true that he once wrote Furio Colombo, and that is that we are in the presence of "a leader who does not have an electronic people, but a public audience. "
The novelty of this third reincarnation Berlusconi is the leader is no longer just" electronic ", but became fully" political. "Above all, no longer only a" public ", but now it is also built a "people" ...
The fourth argument of this book is that Berlusconi has indeed some features in common with fascism. The contiguity, and continuity, it is obviously a scheme structure as violent and repressive . But as the political superstructure, social and cultural prone to authoritarianism and a plebiscite today that may scare many of us, but to meet these people. Nothing happens by chance. There will be a reason to date, despite an episode except the last April 25, the Statesman has never been able to declare openly and peacefully "fascist."
There will be a reason why today we are reassessing that mayors and ministers who celebrate the Fascist Salò. There is a reason why a group of young neo-fascist squad bursts in studies Rai via Teulada for a "punitive expedition" against a television program. And yet, there is a reason why today, 27 years after the discovery of the famous villa in the list of Castiglion Fibocchi, crops up out of Licio Gelli, even in his own show on TV: "I was born under fascism, fascist and die are fascist. The only one who can .. carry out the Plan of democratic rebirth is Berlusconi. "
No one, least of all me, think why the prime minister does not represent the country's legitimate government, democratically elected by the Italians ... But the awareness of the legitimacy of non-formal must stop to see, and above all to challenge the ineligibility of many significant utterances and many decisions. For the most illiberal, sometimes even unconstitutional ... Compare the two decades of Mussolini's Fascist Knight is not a crime.
Both more than is now the same statistics to allow comparison, joking with reporters: "With another five years added to 19 years of political activity. How many are missing, to get to that guy? "Yet again, there is little to joke. I read from democracy and dictatorship, written in June 1934 by Gaetano Salvemini:" The leader of a democracy, he says to his opponents: "I think you're right , but I could be wrong, let me try to see what are the practical results of my actions. If they are negative, then you will get your chance. " The dictator says, "I'm right, and the results of my work will always be good"; "or with me or against me"; "all in the state, nothing outside the State, nothing against the state", "the State shall I, who opposes the state is an outlaw. "See you on the basis of what he says and does, where more just put our Prime Minister.
(November 15, 2008)
Monday, November 3, 2008
Kidde Smoke Alarm Is Beeping
a modern state that decides to invest in education and research will inevitably continue to decline. Public spending in this sector is increasing in economically developed countries as in emerging markets. Let two examples.
in France previous legislature has launched an investment program of € 10 billion for the transformation of ten public universities in centers of excellence in scientific research, which could face international competition on new technologies. The project has been married for Sarkozy who is continuing development.
India is an emerging state with a university education, and comprehensive. Although a large part of its population still has an income below the minimum level of survival, the decision to invest in infrastructure in recent decades technological research and now enables India to excel in leading industries such as energy and aeronautics space, and its residents to enjoy important economic repercussions.
Some people invest in research to emerge and for those who survive, but resigned to their countries only dream of decline is reducing funding for this activity.
Well, our government will operate a progressive annual cutting of funds that will come in five years and a half billion. Yes you read right: despite France spends more than twice the real Italy, in five years, invest another 10 billion and we will cut off altogether.
But how will the government used the money saved? Some examples:
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two billion euro of additional costs for Alitalia new solution, which includes the foreign carrier, however, than the solution Bersani;
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compensation to municipalities for the lost revenue by ICI on the first house;
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indiscriminate rescue the financial sector.