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Drugs: the dilema betwen chase or legislate
«Drugs were damaging the one who was consuming them, so they decided to chase them…
Now already are damaging to all of us
It’s been a great success»
Legislation of drugs could save UK £14bn, says satudy
The regulated legalisation of drugs would have major benefits for taxpayers, victims of crime, local communities and the criminal justice system, according to the first comprehensive comparison between the cost-effectiveness of legalisation and prohibition. The authors of the report, which is due to be published today, suggest that a legalised, regulated market could save the country around £14bn.
The orgasm of Zapatero with Obama
My friend Jose A. del Moral has posted a very smart twit today: «Spain is such a minor country that its president has an orgasm after having a 45 min. interview with Mr. Obama«
This is the photo of the «historic moment»:
Opps, sorry, this is President Gonzalez with Reagan… now is the good one
Oh shit! this is President Gonzalez again, with Bush father… I’m sure the next one is what we are looking for…
Can you belive it? President Gonzalez again, with a third President of the United States, President Clinton!!! My Good! I thought only Zapatero has a photo with a President of the United States but… anyway, lets continue the search
I think I know of something this moustache, but I’m almost sure that he is not Zapatero… I’m really tired, is posible that all the Presidents of Spain have had a photo with all the Presidents of the United States?
Ok, it’s enough for me, I search for a last photo and I hope this is the one with Zapatero and Obama
Well, President Zapatero, you already have your photo… could you please start to govern your country? Thanks
The health of the financial institutions in the Basque Country
In Basque Country (including la CAV and Navarra), we have important financial institutions of three types: banks (BBVA and Banco Gipuzcoano), Savings Banks (BBK, Vital, Kutxa and Caja Navarra) and Credit Unions (Caja Laboral, Ipar Kutxa and Caja Rural)
Till now, the financial institutions in Spain and specially in Basque Country have a solid performance to tackle the global crisis.
In fact, Basque Country has a «AAA» from Standard & Poor’s meanwhile Spain has only an «AA+», being the first case in Europe that a region of a estate has more rating than the estate.
In this image, you can see the good position of three of theese financial institutions, with facts from JP Morgan
(I saw it in: Hay cajas y cajas: Euskadi is different (2). arkimia)
16 edition of Korrika: running in favor of the Euskera, the basque language
Korrika is the Basque name of a Country-wide walkathon organised by the Coordinator for Basque Language and Literacy/Learning (AEK) in support of the Basque language. The objective of the event is to enhance awareness of Basque and raise funds to carry out this work on a daily basis in AEK study centres.
The first Korrika took place in 1980 and the course ran from Oñati (Gipuzkoa) to Bilbao (Bizkaia). Since then, the walkathon has become one of the Basque Country’s major events in terms of number of participants. Over the past 28 years 15 korrikas have been held.
This year the Korrika begun on March 26th in Tutera and will last 11 days non-stop, covering 2000 km throughout the Basque Country. As in previous editions, hundreds of thousands of people of all ages and fitness levels will be taking part.
A hollow baton is carried during the walkathon and exchanges hands at each change of kilometre. Inside there is a message which will not be made public until the Korrika ends on April 5th in Vitoria-Gasteiz, when a well-known Basque personality will read it out loud.
The real face of the new government in the Basque Country
In the Basque Country, for the first time in 30 years, we are going to have a Governement without the PNV (basque nationalistic party)
In the left of the photo you can see the representants of the PSE (Socialist Party) and in the right, the representants of the PP (Conservative Party) in the moment of the agreement por the new governement.
Only by his faces, who of them do you think are the «winners» with this agreement?
A leap in the dark?
«No crisis like this has a simple or single cause, but as a nation we borrowed too much and let our financial system take on irresponsible levels of risk. Those decisions have caused enormous suffering, and much of the damage has fallen on ordinary Americans and small-business owners who were careful and responsible. This is fundamentally unfair, and Americans are justifiably angry and frustrated.» (Mr. Geithner, the U.S. Treasury secretary, today)
I agree, and I think those words can be said also about the rest of the citizens of the world.
So, with this kind of analisys, what must we do? By the moment Obama’s Administration have decided to dedicate 1 billion dollars to guaranty private investors who will be willing to buy «toxic assets»: Wall Street reacts with euphoria to this plan. It’s understandable, it will be a real good deal: if the investment rise his value, the benefits are for the private investors, but if the investment low down, the taxpayer will take charge of the disaster.
We are really solving the situation or running faster to the abyss? The time will say, but it makes me suspicious.
The things everybody knows about you.
Are you one of this persons who are scared about the loss of privacy on the net? So, you should not visit theese sites:
I bet you that can’t avoid look for your name 😉
You can also use it if you want to know something more about me.
(I saw it in «Reflexiones e irreflexiones – El futuro ya está (casi) aquí.«)
(Puedes leer el post en castellano pinchando en “Read more and comment”)
Starting the blog
- Hontza
This is not a new blog: this is the third period of my personal blog HONTZA (what means owl in Basque Language)
I have decided starting again the blog because I want to start it from the beggining again; really I want to do a diferent blog, but I don’t want to lose the old one, so tada!!!
I’m going to write about all the things that matters to me: politics, the situation in my country, management, globalization, the social web, etc.
But the most important diference is that I’m going to write the blog in English… ¿why?. Well, first of all, I really need to practice and to improve my english and I think this is the best way to do it. So, I beg all of you that comment a lot and that you do it in english too. Also need you to correct me if I «put my foot in it»
The second reason to write the blog in english is that I think is a great way to increase and diversify the people who follow this blog.
Any way, as I don’t know how much of my current followers understand english, I’ll make a translation of each post to spanish ir order to make it easier for them.
OK, let’s go!!!
(Puedes leer el post en castellano pinchando en «Read more and comment»)
La crisis y nuestra memoria de peces de colores.
Dicen que los peces de colores son felices en su pecera porque como no son capaces de acordarse de nada más allá de unos tres segundos antes, en realidad no se dan cuenta de que están metidos en una pecera y tienen la sensación de vivir en pleno mar abierto.
Gracias a la alucinante hemeroteca de La Vanguardia (tienen accesible , gratuito y con unos buscadores increibles todos sus periodicos de todos lo días desde 1881 hasta hoy!!!) llego a un artículo de Joaquim Muns en el que analiza la declaración institucional del G-7 tras su reunión para analizar las medidas a tomar para atajar la crisis financiera asiatica. El artículo está fechado el 9 de noviembre de 1998 y sobre lo que el G-7 proponía hace 10 años destaca:
– «El primer punto que se subraya es el de la transparencia, que en realidad no es nuevo y sobre el que se ha venido hablando desde la crisis mexicana de 1994. (..) El texto se refiere a un código de buenas prácticas en el terreno de la transparencia fiscal, a otro sobre políticas monetarias y financiación, etc»
– «El segundo ingrediente del menu propuesto por el G-7 viene constituido por un reforzamiento de la supervisión del sector financiero (…) Se alude a la necesidad de extender esta supervisión más estricta a los «hedge funds» y a los llamados paraísos fiscales»
En fin, os recomiendo leerlo entero, incluso bucear un poco más en los periódicos de aquellos días y notaréis el vértigo de sentir como si 10 años no hubiesen pasado.
No quiero ir a otras crisis anteriores para no deprimirme aún más pero estoy seguro que me encontraría con lo mismo.
Cada nueva crisis nos parece un nuevo hito en la historia cuando no es más que la misma pared de la pecera con la que nos chocamos cada tres segundos pero de la que ya no nos acordamos. Así no es de extrañar que releyendo cosas del pasado nos parezcan las profecías de Nostradamus, cuando en realidad es nuestro presente que se repite una y otra vez porque alguien nos ha encerrado en esta pecera de la que no somos ni siquiera conscientes de que existe.
Ya lo decía Anguita, no hay nada más revolucionario que tener memoria. Sólo con memoria seremos conscientes de la pecera en la que vivimos y sólo entonces podremos buscar la manera de ser realmente libres.
(La foto es de nicoventurelli)
Hontza 