1. Always money first: the genocide of Armenians by Turkey buried
2. Hollow victory in Sri Lanka: Tamils why are prisoners in their own country
3. 10 years of sovereignty of East Timor: a million East Timorese face their destiny
3. The end of U.S. dollar: how China plans its economic invasion of the Middle East
4. The Tobin Tax: a grain of sand in the gears financial benefit of the real economy
5. The problem with economists: they have played too much parrots during their years at University
TURKEY ARMENIA GENOCIDE
Standardisation agreements signed Saturday by Turkey and Armenia will be presented next week in the Turkish Parliament
will decide whether to "approve or reject" announced Monday the Turkish government.
Turkey and Armenia have signed on Saturday in Zurich, Switzerland, two protocols to normalize their bilateral relations.
These agreements are intended to reconcile the two countries after decades of hostility with subsequent massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I. Each
year, new evidence emerged about the ethnic cleansing, the first holocaust of the last century
And every year, Turkey denies committing genocide in its past
But Saturday, the president of Armémie Sargsyan has signed an agreement with Turkey ... without honoring its promise to the largest Armenian diaspora: 5.7 million people worldwide ...
to demand that Turkey admits having committed genocide in 1915
Armenia is a small country of 3.2 million people ... is a poor country and its democratic institutions are corrupt
All kinds of lies now float against the genocide
Turkey persists in trying to prove his innocence ... the systematic killing of hundreds of thousands of Armenians and gang rapes of women were allegedly the result of civil war
Yet historians continue to find compelling evidence that this was a premeditated Holocaust
A massacre that was the forerunner of the Jewish holocaust because there were Nazis in Turkey in 1915
So the holocaust that we can not even mention in Turkey today, however, was not a secret for Turkey in 1918
Millions Muslims in Turkey have witnessed the mass deportation of the Armenian population three years before ...
can now easily find many testimonies of Turkey recognizing the massacre that occurred against this Christian people
This makes incredible today that the Turkish state says it's all a myth
Worse, under the Act 301, it is even forbidden to mention inside Turkey
At least France demands that Turkey recognize the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the past before being allowed to join the European Union ... Hopefully
that this requirement takes the road, despite the agreement signed Saturday
SRI LANKA
Six months after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, who host the camps in Vavuniya around 300,000 Tamils displaced by the fighting, do not empty .
Their living conditions are precarious, according to NGOs denounce the restrictions on their work by the military.
late September, the camp guards Manik Farm, Vavuniya, opened fire on a group of displaced people who wanted to join their family on a nearby site.
7 and 9 October, about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in these camps,
Great Britain and the United States again claimed that the Colombo government "guarantees the free movement of displaced persons."
Two hundred fifty thousand Sri Lankans detained in what appears to be de facto detention camps risk being plunged into a humanitarian disaster at a time when the monsoon rains threaten to flood camps , Amnesty International said Thursday, Oct. 8.
Over 409,000 people were displaced by fighting between the Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE.
A considerable influx of people fleeing the fighting to seek refuge in areas controlled by the government took place from March 2009.
displaced persons, among which are at least 50 000 children are housed in 41 camps spread over four districts.
When the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon has visited some camps in May, he said: "I have traveled the world and visited places like, but I've never seen scenes also appalling.
Yet the Sri Lankan government hoped to be welcomed by the community International ending 26 years of civil war, defeating the Tamil Tigers
And although it is difficult to regret the disappearance of a group that popularized the suicide bombings, a group that has created a totalitarian state to within a state
Even Tamils who opposed the LTTE have reason to be anxious now to see what their reserves the Sri Lankan government
The Colombo government increases since its authoritarian tendencies
intimidating the media, NGOs, expelling foreign journalists and aid workers found a little too critical of the government
And Refugees Tamil, instead of enjoying their new freedom with the demise of the LTTE, continues to be essentially prisoners in their own country
And until they release there is certainly nothing to declare victory
EAST TIMOR
The government of East Timor must defend his decision not to prosecute for war crimes Indonesians responsible for tens of thousands of deaths during the 24-year occupation of their nation.
Explaining that the country must seek a balance between the need to reconcile with its neighbor, Indonesia, who also refused to cooperate in the investigation of these crimes.
The government came under strong criticism from advocacy groups Human Rights who want the installment of an international tribunal on war crimes.
So ten years ago was held referendums on independence in East Timor, 30 August 1999
but the region was already independent, while 28 November 1975 the former Portuguese colony had declared itself a country Independent
but a few days later, December 7, 1975, the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia decided to invade East Timor ... then occupying the country for 24 years
During the occupation, the Indonesian military of course tortured and massacred the population ... leading to the deaths of 200,000 people what percentage of the population is the worst genocide of the 20th century ... which is saying something
During those years when the international community has abandoned the invaded country, a resistance movement has still managed to organize
offering armed resistance, an underground movement and a diplomatic wing
Ordinary people in several countries, including Canada, have acted in solidarity with the people of Timor Leste, even if our government would rather keep good relations with Suharto
and with these last 10 years of state-building and infrastructure, the country's elite, as the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, would rather forget the past and move toward a new era of relationship with the Indonesian government
... although this is largely the same people who are there who have been responsible for a violent foul against his people
Timor Leste has vast oil resources in the sea
Bayu Undan oil field is currently operated by the Australian government, with 90% of profits going to East Timor and 10% to Australia's 5
billion per year into the coffers of the state and it should last until 2024 ... ensuring that East Timor does not depend on donations from the international community
Yet the people of East Timor continues to be under-educated and a victim of LTU
Gusmao government continues to pay top dollar for foreign consultants to conduct business at home
But there's always that dear Cuba, ready to lend a hand, now forming 700 East Timorese medical students without asking anything in return
fact remains that the population is low, too ... 1 million people ... and according to the UN, is still the poorest country in Asia
East Timor needs to develop its own development plan ... and it goes without saying that it should absolutely avoid the trap that too many have fallen in developing countries ...
that is to say, listen to the foreign sharks pushing neoliberal ideology
THE END OF DOLLAR
There is a major change that is taking place in the world economic order. ..
The Arab states have started a process with China, Russia, Japan, Brazil and France to stop using the U.S. dollar exchange oil from
rather to a mixture of currencies including the yen, the yuan, the euro, and gold
So all this means that the price of a barrel of oil in dollars will no longer ... then according to some, it will completely change the power of the U.S. dollar within a decade
Everything seems to be a precursor to an economic war to come between China and the U.S. for oil from the Middle East
turning once again regional conflicts in major battles for supremacy of the great powers
China imports 60% of its oil, the majority coming from the Middle East and Russia
In return China exports a lot to the countries of the Middle East accounting for 10% of total ... products ranging from cars, weapons, food, clothing
Returning to the decision to abandon the U.S. dollar, remember that the world financial order created after the second world war has of course a lot of power between Washington's hands
China's central bank is concerned about the falling dollar for several years now
their problem is that much of their national wealth is tied to the dollar ... not for nothing that China tries to get away ... what encourages other countries to do ...
Iran joined the march by announcing last month that its foreign currency reserves are in euros rather than dollars
It is interesting to remember what happened to the last oil exporter the Middle East that has decided to sell in euros rather than dollars
few months after Saddam Hussein announced his decision to do this, the U.S. and UK invaded Iraq. GLOBAL FINANCE
The world's economies are tied by their financial dependence
A tax on financial transactions could lead a remedy
yes, complex economies require a robust financial sector
Finance, unlike banks slow to amass capital, can be seen as an ability to create capital
and suddenly, creating the ability to launch major projects
Financial assets are the basis for the debts, but debts that hold the promise of great profits
This capability is based on need, in turn, financialization non-financial sectors of As economy
finance is debt it needs real parts of the economy to turn his mill
like I said, most large economies are more dependent on their financial sectors
example, the U.S., UK and Japan had 450% of GDP in financial assets
the average of the EU is 350% while Germany and France is 250%
One of the main reasons for the financial collapse is that trade in financial markets had become speculative worlds in themselves
So instead of adding efficiency to the real economy, the financial markets have created the risk that we all pay the price now
There are several ways to slow the financial speculation, but the most effective strategy would be to tax
a small tax on financial transactions ...
our wages are taxed, the tax books and food, but strangely financial transactions are exempt
a very small tax on financial transactions, say one tenth of one percent, would not be felt by investors Long term
but for those who enjoy making transactions every minute ... transactions that have nothing to do with the real economy, but have a real effect on her
for them, the charge will accumulate rapidly, thus cutting into their profits and slow down their business strategy socially destructive
then a universal tax on financial transactions would discourage speculative activity and encourage investment in long-term
In Moreover, such a tax would cause hundreds of billions per year, at a time when huge deficits give a reason for governments to cut deeply into social programs
For those who know a little, you of course recognized the Tobin tax, an idea promoted for at least a quarter of a century now ...
And more than ever we need a global campaign to impose a time when the financial excesses grow our governments to collect revenues ... as the rate increase that will affect the poor first
PROBLEM WITH ECONOMISTS
With all the studies they put in our most venerable educational institutions,
is always strange for me to see how economists can not point to prevent disasters like we saw at the same time last year
the economics profession combines people so try to pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards to defend the neo-classical orthodox and those who simply seek to defend what is good for the rich
Unfortunately, schools are not training enough economists thinkers quest for truth but agents that can pre-all defend the neo-classical by the way is mainly based on wind
the result is a class of economists who are primarily influential allies of the rich and powerful
One of the most important centers of this thought is the University of Chicago economics department which pollutes the other for over thirty years now
His influence is still strong today, despite the global meltdown that supposedly someone from the profession has come to
For they finally make it useful to society rather than vice versa ... Deeply
students in economics who will use their years on campus to seek the truth, rather than reproduce and the myths which justify their predecessors have adhered so blindly at the expense of us all
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