Lo que dijo en el 2004!!

Here is an article I found on the NY times, going back to 2004...

OH MY GOD!!

On the very first paragraph he contradicts everything he has been doing on the last 4 years...

I DO NOT SENSE ANY AUSTERITY!!!

By SIMON ROMERO

Published: August 17, 2004

Leonel Fernández returned to the presidency of this nation after a four-year hiatus on Monday, bracing Dominicans for austerity measures needed to ease an economic crisis that has caused living standards to plummet during the past year.

Mr. Fernández, a lawyer and former university professor, said in a speech at a swearing-in ceremony that he would restrict spending by government agencies, preventing civil servants from using public funds to buy the imported sport utility vehicles that have become symbols here of skewed income distribution, rubbing up against the dilapidated motor scooters that fill the streets of this city.

He also said his administration would limit international phone calls by civil servants, among other cost-cutting measures intended to reduce a budget shortfall that has depleted resources to import fuel and generate electricity. In a jab against his predecessor, Hipólito Mejía, a populist businessman against whom Mr. Fernández won a landslide victory in May, he deplored the ''absence of seriousness in everything.''

Almost immediately, however, critics called on Mr. Fernández to provide greater specifics on his plans to reinvigorate a political system hobbled by corruption scandals associated with a series of bank failures last year. No one has been imprisoned for involvement in the scandals, which cost the government the equivalent of a fifth of gross domestic product in bailouts for depositors.

Read the article and let me know....

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Un video instructivo y lleno de información importante.

-tlvj

solo imaginen...

El lio que se lleva en la cabeza al ser un lider... o al ser inseguro... al creer sin pensar... o al tratar de pensar en que creer...

Imaginense solo el lio que se arma cuando se ve perderse lo que mas se admira, o al recuperar lo que se perdio (pero que no se queria desde un principio)... y ahora que?

Imaginense la confusion del que oye, ve y come lo que le dicen que tiene que saborear, disfrutar y entender... cuando quiere experimentar con algo nuevo

imaginense que piensa el que busca experiencia, y no sabe como obtenerla ni encuentra donde (ni por sueldo minimo), porque simplemente NO TIENE EXPERIENCIA...

Que lio, si no sabemos a que oponernos, a quien apoyar, en que esperar...

y vivir en una eterna pagina de CRONOPIOS Y FAMAS...

LA FOTO SALIÓ MOVIDA

Un cronopio va a abrir la puerta de calle, y al meter la mano en el bolsillo para sacar la llave lo que saca es una caja de fósforos, entonces este cronopio se aflige mucho y empieza a pensar que si en vez de la llave encuentra los fósforos, sería horrible que el mundo se hubiera desplazado de golpe, y a lo mejor si los fósforos están donde la llave, puede suceder que encuentre la billetera llena de fósforos, y la azucarera llena de dinero, y el piano lleno de azúcar, y la guía del teléfono llena de música, y el ropero lleno de abonados, y la cama llena de trajes, y los floreros llenos de sábanas, y los tranvías llenos de rosas, y los campos llenos de tranvías.

Así es que este cronopio se aflige horriblemente y corre a mirarse al espejo, pero como el espejo esta algo ladeado lo que ve es el paraguero del zaguán, y sus presunciones se confirman y estalla en sollozos, cae de rodillas y junta sus manitas no sabe para qué. Los famas vecinos acuden a consolarlo, y también las esperanzas, pero pasan horas antes de que el cronopio salga de su desesperación y acepte una taza de té, que mira y examina mucho antes de beber, no vaya a pasar que en vez de una taza de té sea un hormiguero o un libro de Samuel Smiles.

Julio Cortázar

07.07.07

Are you ready to change the world on July 7??

You are probably tired of seeing and hearing about it everywhere you turn your head. But I must make echo of this situation also. And just so you know, here are some of the things our generation has to go up against. We must get off our asses and do something about it.

• Globally, tropical deforestation contributes at least 20 percent of global greenhouse gases – more than the entire transportation sector. Some 35.1 million acres of tropical forests are destroyed each year, releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere.
• Climate change is among the greatest threats to biodiversity today. As Earth's temperature rises, wildlife moves to more suitable habitat northward or perhaps to higher elevations. Some coral reef species cannot move, other species are not suited to new ecosystems, and some are simply running out of room to live. Meanwhile, glaciers are melting, ocean chemistry is changing, and entire populations of species are disappearing. If left unchecked, climate change could prompt the extinction of tens of thousands of species in as few as 50 years.
• Climate Changes are also Linked to Higher Rates of Diseases....Warmer temperatures allow mosquitoes to thrive and parasites to mature inside them before being transmitted to humans. As average temperatures increase, so have the instances of potentially fatal mosquito-borne illnesses.
  
• Glaciers aren’t the only structures that could disappear as a result of climate change. Social, economic, and political structures could melt away as natural resources dwindle. As scientists rigorously examine the long-term implications of climate change, they are finding that it threatens to make the world and its citizens far less secure.
• The world's seafood will be entirely depleted by 2048, according to an early November report in the journal Science. That means the moment to shape up is now. By buying and eating certain types of seafood, you can discourage harmful fishing practices and avoid the more depleted or threatened species. Take a look at Seafood Choices Alliance or Seafood Watch to make smart choices.

---->> all this I got from 2 minutes of reading.... imagine what you can find out by visiting these sites... It's really romantic to read but it's INCREDIBLY SMART to do something about it... please do so, and help save the world from the fast moving path of destruction.

Do not forget to visit these links and passing them on...

• Take the Pledge

• Save The Planet

• MSN gone GREEN

Miami Beach is running out of sand.

CNN
"The Christian Science Monitor"
May 16 2007.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -

Troublesome, because it's a community that draws its very life from the stuff.

The city and its famous strip, South Beach, thrive off the sunbathers who come from across the globe to spread their towels and lie upon the coarse granules laden with seashell – generating $4.2 billion annually from tourism. The sand also protects the community from the pounding waves of hurricanes.

For 30 years the city has replenished its beaches with sand from offshore sources, pumping it directly from the ocean floor. But these sources are thinning, and the process is complicated by three sensitive coral reefs that run parallel to the coastline. Consequently, local leaders must look elsewhere for sand. Just taking the sand from elsewhere, they've learned, is not a neighborly thing to do. They sparked controversy last year when they sought sand offshore from St. Lucie County, some 120 miles up the East Coast. Residents there accused Miami Beach of plotting to rob them of sand.

So now they are eyeing sandy shores across the sea.Miami Beach leaders are turning toward foreign sources such as the Bahamas. They've received offers from the Dominican Republic, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Mexico. In the Dominican Republic, for example, a fish farm offered to sell Miami Beach sand from newly dug fish ponds.

But there's a problem: Federal law prevents Miami Beach from considering foreign sources until a domestic search is exhausted. So local leaders and the US Army Corps of Engineers have drafted a report summarizing their far-reaching effort. They hope for approval later this year to begin importing foreign sand, said Brian Flynn, an administrator in the Miami-Dade Department of Environmental Resources Management.

"If we have one more hurricane we're going to need an external source," he said. "We're the first county that's essentially run out of sand. Broward County to our north is right behind us. They've probably got one more project, and they're going to be out."

Other coastal communities are bracing for the same, as hurricanes, rising ocean levels, and other forces combine to erode beaches even as they assume cornerstone roles in local and state economies. Communities in southern California and Hawaii also are facing similar shortages, said Charley Chesnutt, a coastal engineer for the Institute for Water Resources, a research organization of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

It's not that sand is a diminishing resource, but that its distribution is uneven, an unfortunate habit of nature for communities like Miami Beach. The costly challenge is getting sand to match a beach, granules that are the same size and color.