September 2009
29 posts
El País: La UE concluye que Georgia empezó la...
Georgia inició las hostilidades que dieron lugar a su guerra con Rusia de agosto de 2008, pero en un contexto de tensión creciente provocado por Moscú, según han asegurado a Efe fuentes diplomáticas conocedoras de la investigación presentada hoy por la suiza Heidi Tagliavini. Continua…
Valor: China dificulta reequilíbrio global
Os gastos previstos no pacote de incentivo econômico e o crédito bancário recorde da China estão interrompendo os esforços de reestruturação da economia, no sentido de afastá-la do crescimento movido a investimentos e exportações em favor do consumo particular, disse o Banco de Desenvolvimento da Ásia (BDA). A explosão de investimentos e empréstimos fez com que o BDA elevasse a sua projeção para o...
NYT: Egyptian Candidate Loses UNESCO Vote to...
PARIS (Reuters) - Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, who said last year he was ready to burn Israeli books, failed Tuesday to become the next head of the U.N. culture and education body, losing out to a Bulgarian diplomat. Irina Gueorguieva Bokova, a former foreign minister, won the fifth and final round of voting by 31 to 27 in a ballot that laid bare bitter divisions within the United...
NYT: White House to Scrap Bush’s Approach to...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday that it will scrap former President George W. Bush’s planned missile defense system in Eastern Europe and instead deploy a reconfigured system aimed more at intercepting shorter-range Iranian missiles, according to people familiar with the plans.
President Obama decided not to deploy a sophisticated radar system in the...
STF: Íntegra do voto do ministro Cezar Peluso no...
Leia a íntegra do voto do ministro Cesar Peluso, relator da Extradição 1085. Na sessão plenária desta quarta-feira (9), ele concluiu pela extradição do escritor italiano Cesare Battisti, por considerar que o caráter de crime comum preponderou amplamente sobre o político.
Estado: Apenas cinco de cada cem argentinos...
BUENOS AIRES - Se as eleições presidenciais fossem realizadas hoje na Argentina somente 5,6% dos eleitores votariam em Néstor Kirchner, segundo indica uma pesquisa elaborada pela consultoria Management & Fit. O ex-presidente, considerado o verdadeiro poder no governo de sua esposa, a presidente Cristina Kirchner, está com a imagem em frangalhos após a derrota nas eleições parlamentares de...
Valor: Bancos estão com sobras de R$ 444 bilhões
Apesar de uma tímida retomada na concessão de crédito para as pessoas físicas, os bancos brasileiros estão “inundados” de dinheiro como nunca, com sobra de recursos no curto prazo de R$ 444 bilhões. Para impedir que a taxa básica de juros caia abaixo dos níveis desejados, o Banco Central tem enxugado a liquidez empoçada por meio de empréstimos que toma do mercado nas chamadas operações...
Editorial NYT: A Threat to Fair Elections
The Supreme Court may be about to radically change politics by striking down the longstanding rule that says corporations cannot spend directly on federal elections. If the floodgates open, money from big business could overwhelm the electoral process, as well as the making of laws on issues like tax policy and bank regulation. Continua…
Jakob Nielsen: Social Media Outsourcing Can Be...
Summary: Hosting a company’s content and services on 3rd-party social networking sites involves both tactical risks (lower usability) and strategic risks (less user loyalty). Continua…
NYT: British Court Convicts Three in Plot to Blow...
LONDON — After two trials and the largest counterterrorism investigation in Britain’s history, three men were found guilty Monday of plotting to bomb at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners on a single day with liquid explosives smuggled aboard in soft-drink bottles and detonated by devices powered with AA batteries. The convictions came three years after the global airline industry was thrown...
El País: La ex ministra Silva altera la política...
La afiliación de la senadora y ex ministra de Medio Ambiente de Brasil Marina Silva al Partido Verde (PV) y su probable candidatura a las elecciones presidenciales de 2010 ha revolucionado enseguida la política medioambiental del Gobierno de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Esta ecologista de 51 años abandonó en agosto el Partido de los Trabajadores (PT), formación a la que pertenece el presidente...
HuffPost: Obama Losing Support Among Democrats
While all the attention has been paid to angry opponents of health care reform at Congressional town hall meetings, a bigger problem for President Obama and his party is brewing among Democrats. Our latest Zogby Interactive poll of 4,518 likely voters (conducted from Aug. 28-31) found 48% disapprove of Obama’s job performance, and 42% approve. The big story lies behind those top-line...
Salon: A party is not a movement
The difference between parties and movements is simple: Parties are loyal to their own power regardless of policy agenda; movements are loyal to their own policy agenda regardless of which party champions it. This is one of the few enduring political axioms, and it explains why the organizations purporting to lead an American progressive “movement” have yet to build a real movement,...
Al-Ahram: The Islamic Republic of Gaza - How can...
The culture of exclusion and narrow mindedness, of the claim to a monopoly on the absolute truth, branding those who beg to differ as traitors and heretics, breeds fanatics, militias, sectarian violence and groups that clamour to proclaim entities like an “Islamic Republic of Gaza” over which they have an exclusive right to rule. Such a mode of behaviour proliferates like a...
AP: China Xinjiang chief survives political...
BEIJING — As leader of the volatile far western Xinjiang territory for 15 years, Wang Lequan is the closest China has to a regional strongman. So it’s little wonder a recent purge of lower-ranking officials over a spate of bloody unrest has done nothing to clip his authority, underscoring both the extent of his power and China’s extreme sensitivity over any changes in the leadership of...
El País: Obama se plantea redactar su propio...
El portavoz de la Casa Blanca, Robert Gibbs, ha confirmado que el presidente de EE UU, Barack Obama, se plantea redactar su propio proyecto de reforma sanitaria ante el estancamiento de la legislación en el Congreso. En una entrevista para el canal ABC, Gibbs ha asegurado que los estadounidenses sabrán exactamente qué es lo que defiende Obama tras su discurso el próximo miércoles ante el Congreso...
NYT: Moussavi Forms ‘Grass-Roots’ Movement in Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi announced the formation of a new social and political movement on his Web site on Saturday, following through on a promise made last month and defying a renewed government campaign of intimidation aimed at him and his supporters. The movement is not a political party — which would require a government permit — but a...
HuffPost: Obama Poll Watch [August 2009] --...
So, with the standard disclaimer aside, we can delve in to Obama’s poll numbers for August. The news for Obama fans continues to be bad, unfortunately. There may be a faint glimmer of a spark of hope in the numbers — but that’s about all I can promise here, sorry about that. Obama’s approval numbers continued their downward trend this month, and his disapproval numbers also...
G1: H1N1 já matou quase 3 mil, mas não sofreu...
GENEBRA (Reuters) - O vírus H1N1 já matou pelo menos 2.837 pessoas no mundo, mas não sofreu nenhuma mutação nem está provocando sintomas mais graves do que antes, disse a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) na sexta-feira. A agência da ONU está monitorando atentamente o vírus para detectar qualquer mutação que possa sinalizar um aumento da sua letalidade. Continua…
WSJ: Swine Flu Remains Mild as Vaccine Advances
The H1N1 swine-flu virus is sickening many people around the world, but so far isn’t becoming more virulent, health experts said Thursday, giving a bit of breathing room to pharmaceutical companies and officials rushing to deliver a vaccine. “The good news is that so far, everything that we’ve seen, both here and abroad, shows that the virus has not changed to become more...
Economist: Preparing to spend a “millionaire...
BY TRADITION Brazil invests little and saves less. Brazilians like to borrow and spend, and ao inferno with the future. This may be a legacy of stubbornly high inflation for most of the second half of the 20th century. It may also be an inheritance from further back. Eduardo Giannetti, an economist and philosopher, thinks that the Brazilian ethnic mixture of indigenous nomads, Portuguese settlers...
WashPost: Gates May Be Open To Troop Increase...
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates indicated Thursday that he is open to increasing the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, voicing a shift in his position as the administration ponders a military assessment expected to lead to a formal request for additional forces. Gates, in a briefing at the Pentagon, also defended the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, rebutting suggestions that it is time to pull...
WSJ: Renewable Energy, Meet the New Nimbys
Technology changes, but human nature doesn’t. Environmentally friendly energy projects are running into the same cries of “not in my backyard” that stymied a previous generation of alternative-power efforts. Even as Americans tell pollsters they are eager for alternatives to fossil fuel, some are fighting proposals for solar and wind projects and for the thousands of miles of...
G1: Congresso da Colômbia aprova referendo que...
O projeto agora será avaliado pela Corte Constitucional. Votação durou mais de 12 hora, e projeto foi aprovado com 85 votos.
A Câmara de Representantes da Colômbia aprovou no final da noite desta terça-feira (1º), por 85 votos a favor e cinco contra, o projeto de lei que permite ao presidente Álvaro Uribe convocar referendo popular para decidir se ele pode concorrer a um ...
G1: Brasil pode se tornar 4º (pior) em ranking de...
Se nesta quarta-feira (2) o Comitê de Política Monetária (Copom) decidir manter em 8,75% a taxa básica de juros, a Selic, o Brasil vai piorar no ranking mundial de juros reais, segundo cálculos da consultoria econômica Up Trend. Desde julho, quando o BC cortou a taxa em 0,5 ponto, o país ocupa a quinta posição. A manutenção da taxa, que encerraria uma série de 5 cortes seguidos, deve levar o...
Valor: Petro-sal terá poder para vetar decisões de...
O país terá uma nova empresa estatal para cuidar dos interesses da União, nas áreas do petróleo encontrado depois das camadas de sal, com poderes até para vetar decisões dos consórcios privados formados para explorar essas reservas. A Empresa Brasileira de Administração de Petróleo e Gás Natural S.A (Petro-sal), inspirada na estatal Petoro, da Noruega, terá até 130 funcionários, e seus dirigentes...