Svet

[Prospero]

Madrid bi trebalo da ovde bude pametan i pristane na referendum - ali pod uslovom da se Madrid i Barselone dogovore oko svih detalja i da oba parlamenta to sprovedu u zakon...mislim da im je sad trenutak da referendum dobiju, nešto tipa 55:45 ili 52:48 i da separatiste izduvaju na sledećih 20-30 godina.

 

 

 

The president of the Catalonia government, Artur Mas, was charged Tuesday by the region's high court for civil disobedience, perversion of justice, embezzlement and usurpation of power for organising a referendum on independence in November 2014. The decision comes two days after Mas and separatist allies won a regional election.

 

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[vememah]

CUP, manja independistička snaga u katalonskom parlamentu odbacio u ponedeljak automatsko proglašenje jednostrane nezavisnosti s obzirom na činjenicu da je manje od 50% glasača glasalo za koalicije/stranke koje se zalažu za nezavisnost Katalonije. Uz to im je Mas neprihvatljiv kao premijer, a pravljenje koalicije ili obezbeđivanje podrške za manjinsku vladu JxSi će biti dosta teško i iz ideoloških razloga, jer je CUP anti-osteriti stranka.

 

CATALAN ELECTIONS 2015 »

 

Radical CUP party rules out unilateral independence declaration

 

Group says it will not support Catalan premier Artur Mas’s reinstatement

 

Ana González Liste, Barcelona 28 SEP 2015 - 17:38 CEST

Radical leftist pro-secession party CUP repeated on Monday that it would not vote to reinstate Artur Mas as Catalan regional premier, and also ruled out making a unilateral declaration of independence, “because the plebiscite was not won.”

CUP will hold the key to forming a Catalan government after seeing its number of seats in the regional assembly rise from three to 10 after Sunday’s pivotal parliamentary elections, which secessionists had been billing as a de facto referendum on independence.

Support from CUP is now essential to Catalan premier Artur Mas, whose Junts pel Sí bloc secured 62 seats on Sunday, short of the 68 required for an absolute majority and control of the chamber.

But even though the radical leftists are expected to support the more moderate Junts pel Sí on the strength of their joint desire for independence, on Monday they insisted that they would not support Artur Mas’s reinstatement.

“The pro-independence project continues, but notes that Mas is not indispensable,” said CUP’s number two official, Anna Gabriel.

Gabriel added that her group would not invest any individual, no matter what party they are from, with ties to corruption, budget cuts and privatizations. Artur Mas’s Democratic Convergence party is the target of a two-year criminal investigation into a bribes-for-contracts scheme, and his administration was fiercely criticized during the economic crisis for its cuts to regional health and education services.

Together, Junts pel Sí and CUP obtained 47.8 percent of the vote – less than the key 50 percent figure, given that the polls had been positioned as a plebiscite on independence. But they did secure an absolute majority of seats as a result of Spain’s system of proportional representation.

During their campaigning, CUP leaders had stated that only a double majority of votes and seats would award their secessionist drive “a democratic mandate.”

On Monday, party officials ruled out making an immediate, unilateral declaration of independence “because the plebiscite was not won.”

However, CUP top candidate Antonio Baños insisted that the secession process had not lost ground and that it would propose the disobeying of Spanish laws at odds with Catalan sovereignty.

Just minutes after Sunday night’s election results confirmed that CUP would hold the key to power, Baños made a public call for people in the northeastern region to stop obeying Spanish laws.

He stated that the winner of the Catalan elections on Sunday was “the popular power, the power of anti-capitalism and of feminism.”

From now on, he added, “Catalan sovereignty can disobey all Spanish laws that clash with Catalan popular sovereignty.”

In all likelihood, CUP will support the investiture of a provisional secessionist government, but will remain in opposition.

Political analysts have underscored the difficulty of a joint government between Junts pel Sí and CUP given their differences on just about every issue, from EU membership to the ideal economic system for Catalonia.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/28/inenglish/1443428458_884457.html

 

[Sestre Bronte]

nije u kataloniji preslikan broj ljudi za nezavisnost na podršku partiji koja je zagovara, velika je bitka između levice i desnice paralelno, tako da independisti ne dobijaju sve glasove onih koji su za nezavisnost zbog ideoloških razmimoilaženja

[Pečorin]

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[Eraserhead]

Don’t Fear the IMF

 

CAMBRIDGE – The International Monetary Fund is, in many places, the organization that everybody loves to hate. According to some, the IMF is bad for the poor, women, economic stability, and the environment. Joseph Stiglitz, whose influence is amplified by his Nobel Prize, blames the IMF for causing and then worsening the economic crises it was called on to resolve. The IMF purportedly does so to save capitalists and bankers, not ordinary people. Though untrue, this belief does enormous harm and limits the potential good that the IMF can do.

 

For starters, consider how the world deals with refugee crises, such as Syria’s, and the way it deals with financial crises. As its name indicates, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a person, not an institution. He or she heads an “office,” not a full-fledged organization. This weakness is what forced German Chancellor Angela Merkel to bully her European Union partners into a more coherent response to the ongoing influx of asylum-seekers.

 

By contrast, the system to prevent and resolve financial crises is anchored by a full-fledged institution: the IMF. It may not be perfect, but, compared to areas such as refugees, human rights, or the environment, it is light-years ahead.

 

It is easy to misunderstand what the IMF does. The bulk of its efforts are dedicated to crisis prevention. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, where the IMF and the World Bank were established, “Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows, therefore, that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near and distant.”

That is why the 44 countries in attendance, and the 188 that now belong to the IMF, agreed to “consult and agree on international monetary changes which affect each other… and they should assist each other to overcome short-term exchange difficulties.” Operationally, this is expressed in so-called Article IV consultations. These formal policy discussions between the IMF and member governments, typically carried out annually, are written up, reviewed by the Fund’s Board of Executive Directors (representing all 188 governments), and published for anyone to read online. This is a standard of collective surveillance and transparency to which organizations addressing other issues should aspire.

The IMF has been instrumental in developing the tools with which countries measure, assess, and improve their current macroeconomic position: fiscal and monetary policy, as well as financial, currency, and price stability. It helps countries find better ways to implement measures in all of these fields, and it seeks to identify broad lessons from the experience of many countries that may shed light on the options that any particular country has.

Through dialogue, research, advice, technical assistance, and training, the IMF has helped create a global community of practice. Today, it is much easier to be a central bank president or a finance minister than it is to be a minister of health or justice. This is not because the challenges are easier, but because the international community of practice, led by the IMF, provides a level of support that simply does not exist in other areas.

The IMF’s most controversial activities come during times of crisis management and resolution. Countries ask for IMF financial assistance when they are in trouble and have lost or fear losing the ability to borrow on international markets. The IMF can mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars of member countries’ money to give borrowers the time to get back on their feet. Its resources dwarf the sums that the international community can mobilize for other issues, because its money is lent and is supposed to be paid back.

In exchange for its financial support, the IMF typically requires countries to address the imbalances that caused their problems, not only so that they can repay the money, but also for their own good, so that they can restore their creditworthiness (and hence their access to capital markets). But it is too easy to confuse the pain caused by the crisis itself with that caused by the remedy.

To be sure, the IMF inevitably makes mistakes, partly because the questions and issues it must address are constantly changing, so that it never knows whether the current state of thinking is adequate to new challenges. But it is a sufficiently open organization that it can and must be responsive to its critics.

 

Now consider the alternative. A world without the IMF looks a lot like today’s Venezuela. Hugo Chávez became the darling of IMF bashers, including Stiglitz, when he suspended Article IV consultations in 2004. As a consequence, Venezuelans lost access to the basic economic information that the country is obligated to share, through the IMF, with the world. The break prevented the international community from expressing its voice as the country undertook truly irresponsible policies, spending in 2012 as if the price of oil was $197 a barrel, not $107.

With the collapse in the price of oil since then, the economy has gone into a tailspin: GDP is contracting at a record pace, inflation is in excess of 200%, the currency has plunged to less than 10% of its previous value, and massive shortages have emerged.

 

Venezuela has tried to finance itself with the help of the China Development Bank, which does not impose the kind of conditionality that IMF bashers dislike. Instead, the CDB lends on secret terms, for uses that are undisclosed and corrupt, and with built-in privileges for Chinese companies in areas like telecommunications (Huawei), appliances (Haier), cars (Chery), and oil drilling (ICTV). The Chinese have not required that Venezuela do anything to increase the likelihood that it regains creditworthiness. They merely demand more oil as collateral. Whatever the IMF’s faults, the CDB is a disgrace.

The tragedy is that most Venezuelans (and many citizens of other countries) believe that the IMF is there to hurt, not help. As a consequence, they eschew the massive resources and wisdom that the international community can offer at a time of economic crisis to lessen the pain and hasten recovery. That has left them far worse off than the IMF bashers can bring themselves to admit.

[Budja]

Pa da, IMF i Development bank su isto, tj. IMF i World Bank su isto.

 

Koje govno od clanka a od Hausmana bih ipak ocekivao bolje.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Budja

[Marcus Wulffings]

 

 

 

 

 

 

eksplozije bombi poslatih poštom u kini!?!?!?!

 

nije naivno

Edited September 30, 2015 by Marcus Wulffings

[borris_]

A Avganistanu se i dalje bore u Kunduzu koji su zauzeli talibani.

 

Regularna vojska nikako ne uspjeva da potisne talibane iz grada (nekoliko dana vec)

 

 

Avganistanska vojska 

 

talibani (slikano u gradu) 

 

Meni smijesno (znam, ne bi trebalo)

Edited September 30, 2015 by borris_

[Pečorin]

jebote, nadam se da ti cuveni americki vojni instruktori ne dobijaju platu u zavisnosti od uspeha posla, zavrsice na ulici svi

[Gandalf]

Utar Pradesh je jedna od siromasnijih indijskih drzava.

 

 

Indian mob kills man over beef eating rumour

 

A man has been dragged out of his house and beaten to death by a mob near New Delhi over rumours that his family killed and ate a cow, the victim’s brother has told Al Jazeera. Mohammed Akhlaq, 52, a resident of Bisara village in Gautam Budh Nagar, about 40km from the Indian capital, was attacked on Monday night.

[hazard]

 

Beef is not illegal in Uttar Pradesh, but cow slaughter is banned as the animal is considered sacred for Hindus, who form about 80 percent of India's 1.3 billion population.

 

A? 

 

Sloboda veroispovesti ubilo se. Mislio sam da je Indija bolja od toga

[Gandalf]

A?

 

Sloboda veroispovesti ubilo se. Mislio sam da je Indija bolja od toga

To se regulise na drzavnom nivou. Ako se dobro secam, UP je 4a ili 5a po siromastvu, time verovatno i konzervativnija od proseka.

[iDemo]

[iDemo]

Tamo se jos uvek nesto dogadja a (moji) civili™ lunjaju po radnjama dva bloka dalje bez da su uopste culi pucnjavu...

[Ayatollah]

Utar Pradesh je jedna od siromasnijih indijskih drzava.

 

 

Indian mob kills man over beef eating rumour

 

A man has been dragged out of his house and beaten to death by a mob near New Delhi over rumours that his family killed and ate a cow, the victim’s brother has told Al Jazeera. Mohammed Akhlaq, 52, a resident of Bisara village in Gautam Budh Nagar, about 40km from the Indian capital, was attacked on Monday night.

 

Čini mi se da ovo nema veze sa siromaštvom, već sa religijom - ubijeni je optužen da je pojeo svetu životinju.

 

Kad smo već kod Utar Pradeša :

 

 

 

Oglas za posao na koji se javilo 2,3 miliona ljudi!

PETAK, 18. SEP 2015, 15:10 -> 15:19

Više od dva miliona ljudi javilo se na konkurs za stotinak slabo plaćenih poslova u vladi indijske države Utar Pradeš.

Za 368 radnih mesta, od kurira do kuvara čaja, javilo se 2,3 miliona ljudi, među kojima je bilo i ljudi sa zvanjem doktora ili magistra.Veliki broj prijavljenih odražava masovnu nezaposlenost u toj najmnogoljudnijoj indijskoj saveznoj državi.Zvaničnik Prabhat Mital rekao je da će vlada organizovati pismeni ispit kako bi razmotrila prijave pošto bi razgovori s njima trajali četiri godine.Posao se plaća oko 16.000 rupija (240 dolara) i potrebno je osnovno obrazovanje.