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Javier knew everything about birds. From afar, a speck in the wind was courting a hawkish hawk. A sound in the woods, when a branch breaks were two wrens playing you take her. When a summit culminated Catalan, Javier drew from his knapsack a flute and played with his notes condors tales South American birds there. When he climbed the Andes, indigenous birds and told them of Oriol elPitroig of the Pyrenees. And sing both poultry and such stories intercultural mediation, learned their language. Javier

ornithologist and wisdom of giving lectures, talks and workshops. According to him, when no one said that, "had to be taken seriously for the birds, then told him that the climate was changing, he was moody. It was raining without clouds and the rays from the scorching sun than normal. The air was dirty, which is bad breath, and doctors diagnosed many asthmas in ducks and pigeons many allergies by as much dirt volatile these vents. The river water, herons and sandpipers the spit, "he said, because he knew of detergent and nitrates. And whenever the housing problem was more acute for so many trees cut down and burned so many forests.

Every year in late winter, Javier was the first to see the swallows. "When you see the first flocks of swallows, he said, you have to wallow in the belly on the floor and have a year of fortune and without abdominal pain." And he always did every year, was where he was, was with who he was.

But this year changed the swallows stations Javier did not arrive and could not frolic in the land, battered her, be part of it. And he went into a sad improper. Happened, according to the calendar, spring false. And that's when summer came a liar, which Javier and his beloved rose three mountains and two hills to observe the birth of a baby vulture. It was when a sudden snowstorm and brutal completely covered. Two.

So from then, if you look carefully you will see that those who announce the spring, two swallows are always playful and happy, to chirp. - Come back to earth!

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I have a friend who does not believe in friendship and misinformation

I have a friend who does not believe in friendship. Think instead that we should all be treated equally, as known no more. And every time one of these known gives back or you will be disappointed in any way, create only tested his theory on friendship, whose main theorem reads: "No one deserves to be called friend if at some future time may betray what other hour was a great relationship. "

so my friend lives in a world surrounded by supporters, with whom he exchanged favors with which it interacts blameless and without passion, giving and receiving approximately equal parts and considering that it should consist of all loyalty.

And to that friend who never risk your heart, I would simply say that friendship, like love, does not occur in groups but one by one, it takes two. There are groups of friends-of course-but they break and disperse, evaporate, if they do not prevail in the unique relationships between each of the components of the group, because soon they will only cohesive entertainment and Fun, shared common characteristics, such as a single residence, the same hobby or a single work. And none of that has to do with friendship, that between the same or disparate elements but keep one thing in common: their intention. The intention that each one holds to the other to be honest and sincere, to defend him tooth and nail, without hesitation, before explaining what was wrong, the intention to continue this relationship even though the distance, doubt, or the weeds threaten destruction.

I have a friend who does not believe in friendship and sometimes when you look into your eyes, I'm afraid he's right.

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To Edward, quince plant

In Nalda, La Rioja, an association of soñahacedoras were talking with the elderly in the population because their gardens for years remained abandoned to the forces to undermine their work. Years later, three women have regained some of those gardens that now-agroecologically-supply of fresh food and healthy to a hundred people in the region.

In Rosario, Argentina, many rural people who have been forced to bad life in slums and degraded, expelled by the agribusiness monocultures of soy, like a rope, strangling the city. A citizen initiative, the creation of gardens popular areas of the city died giving birth to a new and healthy landscape, and has become the municipal Urban Agriculture Programme.

in Alicante, a group of young people eight years ago bought the ruins of the old Mas del Potro. They laugh when they remember as among many placed large wooden beams that you have returned to give support and verticality of the house. The wood oven, and expertise learned from Jordan, the ruler-cooked, without a doubt the best bread in the area.

Also in these Mediterranean shores, in Wall, some Sherlock Holmes to find vineyards dedicated to neglected, often almost terminally ill, symptoms indicative of a civilization atrophied senses capitalist. After a few rounds of intensive affection and giving indigenous grapes have forgotten flavors. As in Girona, where ancient olive trees which rescue hovering between what they were missing fields, and produce oils to delight the palates of its new custodians. There

who reveals to preserve endangered varieties such as tomato associations 'bouquet' in the Balearic Islands or the custodians of apples for cider making in Bizcaia. Chirri, as his friends call him, is even bolder and are planting their fields Lebrija seed of wheat which even the greatest recall.

and could go on so many projects and became dreamed.

Some say that this is only looking back. Others, who are on the road, they know the future.

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post to remember that earlier this month experienced an unprecedented event for the European media. For the first time two bloggers, editors Bloggingportal (the first compilation of blogs portal on the world community) were 'accredited' in a pilot project for 'cover' the EU Competitiveness Council (9 and 10 March).

You can read the impressions of europasionaria here @ and @ RonPatz here. Agree with @ europasionaria Córdoba, where we reminded the score of 'bloggers', I like the nickname euroblogger in this case does not seem that although the network society and undeniable part of 'a European integrated communication' concept which fortunately Susan River never ceases to improve and deepen (European Integrated Communication I and II .)

Without being a specialist in communication, I share many of the questions posed by such La Oreja de Europa. The way we define 'information' and 'view' is transformed, and do not think we should further explore the role for example of bloggers under the parameters that have structured traditional journalism. What future for the notion of 'professionalism' for example, in the sense of specialized training but also a profession 'laboral'-? What criteria define the sources from which we are informed, or perhaps moving towards a system depolarization and 'des-criteria ' information-?

In my opinion the presence of bloggers at the Council of the EU is beyond all possible debates certainly an innovative and positive news. Not so much because this is necessarily the primary way forward (?), But it is the first step to reconsider the questions that really matter: a) how do citizens have the information they crave, and need to exercise our rights and responsibilities, and b) how to make politics an open world, mature and brave.

The debate is not going anywhere. At the moment, infinite happiness to our players for their dedication and unquestionable 'professionalism' and responsibility to carry out the mission. They had a 'mandate' of the blogger world, but as if they did.

Related Post:

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-La Oreja de Europa: ' Bloggers at the center of European power '

-decrypt the communication européenne' Les journalistes sont-ils encore he public seul de l'Union? '

-decrypt the communication européenne' Euro-blogeurs relations publiques et de l'Union: ouverture des Accreditations au Conseil de l'UE '

related previous posts on this blog:

"When politicians were afraid I , II, III , IV, V
" One of trainers and I II.

By the way, "maybe you feel like contributing to write the 'code of ethics of the European officials'? Is a public initiative, under the aegis of the European Ombudsman (if there is something;)

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l'Européen, 'Le Guide du on Consultation published fonctionnaire européen'

-L 'expérience européenne ' A vous d'écrire le code d'éthique du fonctionnaire européen '

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occasion to post some entries that appeared during the past 10 days, which I found particularly relevant in a European perspective.

Starting with 'nuclear debate' following the sad events in Japan. EUWeekly (one of the posts necessary to continue the present continental) reminds us in his post ' Sortir du nucléaire, pour aller où? 'the need for' timed 'strategy to end the nuclear power source. One may have the potential 'desire' political and based on a very visceral and rational debate between the benefits and risks "of wanting to dispense with such an energy source, but this approach requires a 'realistic' target, starting to recognize that we need a strategy for the medium and long term. The elimination of nuclear plants without a strategy efficient and viable replacement would not get us very far. The policy plan should keep pace with the economic bet by investors in alternative sources and greater encouragement to research. Not all renewable offer a way for example (we would need only 'a few' million solar panels to produce energy from a single reactor, "Par quoi Remplacer Nucléaire you? '...). Without money and without alternatives to defend nuclear power is illusory, and even can lead to counterproductive situations.

precisely this lack of 'distance' is what Jean Quatremer criticizes Angela Merkel: ' Angela Merkel, the Chancelière nucléaire ' . A policy that has shown in earlier situations of being too 'slope' of public opinion when making policy decisions ' Libya: l'honneur perdu d'Angela Merkel ' (or, Kosmopolita ' German Diplomacy on Libya: a quick-and very good - Explanation' ). Trend which seems to have joined President Sarkozy at the gates of the cantonal elections (Exaps' star Sarkozy ', Le Monde' Libya: Monsieur Sarkozy joue avec le feu '). The truth is that 'haste' with which Sarkozy was quick to lead the military intervention in Libya, always a step ahead of multilateral summits should 'check' the pace and narrative of the intervention is somewhat outrageous. And if we remember the attitude that the French government remained for over two months in relation to the Arab revolution. The President's political obscenity Gallo does nothing to lower the possible force that leads to action told from multilateralism, international law, discretion, and above all humility (Bruxelles2 ' La méthode Sarkozy in Europe will mark pas. La France ne pas au Sommet convainc '). There is no single reason to be proud of having to act militarily in the XXI century (however necessary it may be) ...

I remember that back later this week to draw the lines that have been formally agreed As for the Covenant of the Euro ... Though it is quietly one of the progress that I think deserve a legitimate nickname of 'historic' in the process of European integration.

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a few weeks ago on this blog wrote an article for nuclear energy. Today, after what happened at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, and against all the tide of opinion aroused by television and the national media and international, I reaffirm in this, not only because I believe that what I wrote remains entirely true, but because in the past days I had to go, with real embarrassment, a nuclear alarm triggered and clearly exaggerated.

first thing to remember, all citizens at all times, is that journalism is no longer an information tool, as it was in its infancy, but essentially a means of propaganda and collective creation of opinion: television news in particular, will have space for everything that promises to show, to attract the attention of viewers, without the selection criteria of the scoop I check the relative importance to other news. Libya was at the beginning of March the most innovative and interesting international news was the culmination of the whole series of revolts that promised sweeping the Maghreb satraps. For days, 60% of television news time was occupied by the rebel advance, the imminent fall of Tripoli and Gaddafi, or the thousands of refugees fleeing the country. Then, on 11 March, a massive earthquake shakes Japan, across the world, and the numbers of dead and missing and, above all, an abundance of spectacular images of post tsunami in a country plagued with camera phones, overshadows the Gaddafi and the Libyan desert for days, with boats stranded on top of a roof or floating on the water buses as nut shells. And then, another story, even more spectacular although not as important, the destruction of Fukushima and the nuclear threat in the vicinity (establishing a safety perimeter of 20 km), breaks in the opening minutes of the news and overlaps the tsunami itself that caused it.

And there's the two stories, both centered in Japan, but very different consequences: firstly, one of the most intense earthquake ever recorded, followed by a tsunami that literally water and debris buried under tens of thousands of coastal residents. On the other hand, a nuclear power plant, among the dozens that have Japan, which starts cooling problems because of the devastation caused by the earthquake and whose perimeter radiation level increases to levels not considered harmful to health beyond the 30 km and, to date, has not caused a single death. What news from these two, do you think will come out on the front page of the newspapers the next morning?, What will occupy the first ten minutes of evening news?, Is the massive destruction caused by an earthquake in which is the third global economic power that has taken 15,000 lives hit the sea still returns to the rhythm of the waves, their costs, or does the threat of a nuclear disaster, even if-now-unlikely consummated, would cause dozens of deaths and hundreds of people affected? To respond not even think to consider what news really seems more relevant. Think of change as a publicist, or as a Hollywood director. Just think what will be left with a picture on the cover of your newspaper or newscast opening at 9, does a disaster occurring without another culprit that nature, or a threat, even unlikely, raising fears futurible catastrophe with a mushroom and an obvious culprit: the nuclear energy? If you are not clear, is that there have been many television news lately. And now take advantage of all this media hype, all this meaningless information that confuses people, and let's the public the million dollar question: "Nuclear energy, yes or no?", Or a question even more foolish and inappropriate "Is dangerous nuclear energy? ".

The height of this nonsense from the media, their collaboration ridiculous myth and misinformation, and its commitment to the spectacle, as highlighted recently presenter and editor of the news of TVE, Pepa Well, when a few days after news of Fukushima jump to the news media world, I asked the director of the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN), Isabel Mellado, in the peak hearing the evening news, "Mrs. Mellado, Fukushima nuclear power plant is virtually identical to the central Garoña in Spain, do you think that could happen Garoña something like what has happened in Japan? "Fortunately for the future of his career, the director CSN held the laughter that bubbled inside and he answered very kindly, indeed, the central and Santa Fukushima Maria de Garona share design but do not share the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which is "unlikely" that something similar happens in Garoña soon, even that seems central to Fukushima.

So while I was watching the news, blushed with shame to live in a world so volatile, speculative and misinformed, Colonel Gaddafi gave thanks to Allah by earthquake and nuclear panic broke out in Japan and that he had taken, just in time, the international front. As the Western news were more aware of Japan than any other issue, captivating voters in Western democracies with nuclear apocalyptic fantasies, the leaders of these great democracies like Germany, England and France were wasting their time talking about the freeze nuclear plans, the decommissioning of the nuclear safety review ... and trying to change more slowly, with less urgency, the issue of Libya and an expected international resolve to create a no-fly zone. Thus, Gaddafi, in the course of this week's nuclear panic in the antipodes, sent his troops east to Benghazi, to make use of a force that lights and stenographers of the international community was not allowed to carry only a week earlier. "With a little of luck these days must have thought the colonel, lounging in your Khaimah - the whole country, and especially pretroleo East, will be under my control before they lose power Fukushima and becomes boring for the fickle citizens West. " And he's right, do not you think? That's happening now: as the days pass, the real significance of this latest nuclear incident finds its place, it is left to compare to Chernobyl (an absurd comparison to minimally who knows what happened in that Soviet nuclear plant) and is simply a trace, a new scourge, a scarlet letter that will weigh on energy nuclear and future discussions we do about it. Because you never open this debate while nuclear energy provides electricity and wellness to millions of people without polluting the environment, only lights up when an accident or a possible accident cast their long shadow over the population. I wonder why do not we all fly when a plane crashes, will we understand that the benefits outweigh the risks, or just have convinced us that we?.

And yesterday the Security Council of the UN vote, a month late, but he did, and today, again, while we're getting tired of hearing about a nuclear disaster in Japan that is not consumed, it is more spectacular open the news with U.S. aircraft carrier off the coast of Libya, crossing the Mediterranean European fighters loaded with warheads of democracy, any of which will cause more deaths coming days which will never be any escape of any nuclear plant in the world .

not know how you see you but I always escapes me a wry smile when, about once a month, television news show a list or a pie chart with the major concerns of the English in order of importance. Sometimes the first place is ETA, other Islamic terrorist strike or drivers, sometimes unemployment, or the economy but always, always, the list is a reflection of the news that the newscast itself has published during the previous month. What poll so absurd, right?!: The major concerns of the English are, of course, who lead the evening news and newspapers in this country. They, the media "news" create our concerns, tell us what is happening in the world but above all, tell us what is worrying and not.

Yes, "I think actually Colonel Gaddafi's right, human beings, at least from my own time and generation, we are fickle, capricious, inconstant. We have a lot of information is to be well informed; see and read but not participate, just observe. Survive daily in concrete jungles and instead belittle our own power, the power to analyze, compare and reason, the power to vote, to elect our leaders, to withdraw their confidence when we fail or try to manipulate us. We have all so many things to think about every day, and so little time to do it: our family, our work, our desires, our mortgage ... but we must be aware that we are part of something bigger: each of us holds a small but solid in the whole of humanity, like grains of sand make a beach, and if you like the waves of the sea not push and fight, if we believe and we believe the above, all our little world of everyday concerns, they will have more weight or more important than the ridiculous time holding our lives in the history of this planet.

From Japan: http://www.nipobloc.com/2011/03/carta-abierta-los-medios-espanoles.html

Other views: http://www.desdeelexilio .com/2011/03/18/sayonara /

Other articles: http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20110318/chernobil-fukushima-comparaciones-odiosas/417804.shtml

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care setting in the Natural Environment, which is well needed. To do so add to our look at two other senses, hearing and smell, and through them ...

also learn to observe. Watch means that we know what we're looking at, as stated above is to convert to VIEW VIEW. Is to put our will in action to know. For example, many things often go unnoticed if we walk through a forest!

An exercise in observation, when you go through the woods collecting leaves id but select each one to be in a different way. You are going to be surprised at the variety.
Another test: closing your eyes listen to the sounds of the forest Are you able to differentiate those sounds? Try it at least. Do the test to focus your attention on the smell, do you know to distinguish from each other? You might as well for nosotos the forest becomes more forest.

And another amazing experience: Observing a butterfly. Immense mystery
What makes it move, you're alive?
What makes you fly?
inexplicable wonder what is hidden in the colors of its wings, its dizzying vitality? The Nature

diversity of experiences, sensations and stimuli is infinite. If we just "pass" for them without thinking, without focusing attention on it, we will miss wonderful feelings and emotions.

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First National LGBT Families with daughters and sons in Argentina

All families with all rights

Lesmadres , 100% Diversity and Rights and Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) announce the first National LGBT Families with sons and daughters, a database that will allow us to strengthen communication and knowledge of our family compositions. All LGBT families with sons and daughters are invited to participate regardless of their composition . data collected is confidential and will be conducted through a digital form available in www. reconocimientoigualitario. Blogspot.com . This information us allow progress in the registration of children born before marriage equal and promote more and better public policies for our families and our community. Families who have completed the form we ask you to manually re-do it in digital form.

currently in the country there are hundreds of children born in families comaternales. The adoption of equal marriage law, last July 15, 2010, allowed legal recognition of two mothers and their children. Were recognized in five children in all the country. However, children born prior to the enactment of the law of equal marriage have never accessed the same recognition. Our struggle is directed to effectuate these rights through the legal registration of our ties in a broader recognition comaternales family.

Since August 2010, Lesmadres , 100% Diversity and Rights and come CELS working with the Ministry of Interior in an administrative measure to ensure the rights of children born before the passage of equal marriage. This will soon be a reality. So welcome to participate especially all the families who are is the situation. The initiative is part of the campaign "All families with all rights", a set of actions under the struggle for equal recognition of children of LGBT families. Thus, advocate against the discrimination of the rights of children beginning with respect for their identity and family legal recognition of family ties.

campaign currently has four pillars:

1) SIGN UP! Family first National LGBT Daughters and Sons to

2) Follow the enrollment of children with two moms

3) Recognition of comaternales children born before the equal marriage law

4) Legal recognition of LGBT families with children

All these actions are detailed in a Web site as an area constituting communication to provide information on progress and developments related to the subject. It will also be an electronic device for collecting log data LGBT families with children. And will allow seamless communication with families across the country. This site is available at www.reconocimientoigualitario. Blogspot.com

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imagine these helmeted warriors crossing Portuguese South American jungles in search of gold metals. Which seas through rivers, new beasts under attack, forcing their way through jungles with machetes clean ... With an eye on every corner. Looking at the heavens for a sign, looking glow on the tops of the mountains .... And today, centuries later, we know where was the coveted Gold: exactly under the boots of those arrogant men. Because they are the soils of the Southern Cone of America's largest source and supply of fuel to power the excesses of capitalism, its jaws, exemplified in the fast food. That is, the crazy consuming, swallowing everything and fast , while the time taken pauses. Fat fuel, fuel for machinery and, in the meantime, paralyzed thinking.

know in Brazil-and-operated well. A soybean crop base (with its flour fatten farm animals and produce oil with lots of pastries) of sugar cane crops (which will lead to ethanol for biofuels) and livestock. Just thinking about the Brazil-Europe relationship will note the dimensions of this triplet. Brazil has become the fourth supplier of beef to Europe, with more than 250,000 tons in 2009, a third of their soybean yields tremendous buys Europe, and has managed to place in Europe a quarter of all ethanol exports.

But this insatiable demand for meat, animal feed and agrofuels European profits just let the big Brazilian corporations and international capital partner. The rest of the population (and the planet as a whole) will report a continued destruction of the Amazon and the Cerrado, with the usual implications for the climate, biodiversity and the thousands of people that persistent, still inhabiting these places .

A recent report by Friends of the Earth reveals that, in recent years is the expansion of sugar cane, that is, the pull-European biofuels to the most significant cause of deforestation in Brazil, surpassing the grounds that the soya and cattle stolen annually from forests and jungles. But beyond positions, worrying what are your predictions report, it indicates that the production of these three raw materials continue to grow without the Brazilian legislation has the courage to put the agribusiness in the place it deserves. In the bedroom.

extractive political arguments such as Brazil (with and without Lula), and know, and are the same as defending agribusiness lobbies and neoliberal institutions like the International Monetary Fund or World Bank report meet European demand currency for the country's development. But neither the thousands of landless families living in makeshift camps, or the health of planet foreign nourish and dividends. So, for our part, we must excuse unfeasible. To the extent that our policies with the Common Agricultural Policy as a central, bet on our own food sovereignty, we will open up spaces for new ways of understanding agriculture in the countries of the South.

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Politics Archimedes and European foreign policy

Posted in The European , 03/06/1911

Beyond all the features of the historical process we are witnessing in the Mediterranean, the riots have been a baptism of fire for the European External Action Service. As they are happening over the coming months, the analysis reaction has been the European Union may be an opportune time to review and contextualize the skills of diplomacy available to the fledgling community.

The first type of 'resources' of those who could use the EU are the military and operational in nature, whether to maintain a permanent troops, either to react before situations emergency or to perform ad hoc missions . The missions 'European' we know that the EU has been progressively introduced since the last 11 years are such ad hoc missions, designed to meet specific objectives, defined and temporary. EUFOR Althea mission in Bosnia and more recently Atalanta against piracy in the Horn of Africa are such missions. These are missions with months of gestation and a delicate and complex approval process.
As permanent resources, these have traditionally been nonexistent at the community level. The only instrument that has emerged in recent 4 years is a shift system whereby a Battlegroup of only 1,500 soldiers is always on alert. The use of this little command is nonetheless a highly unlikely scenario because it requires a unanimous decision, a United Nations resolution ... and its legal statutes prevent it from acting on missions that are not markedly humanitarian purposes. The lack of permanent resources and a context of budget crisis, is precisely why the strategy of pooling and sharing promoted in recent months by defense ministers. The objective is to discuss the possibility of sharing certain military resources in Europe, in order to achieve "tangible achievements" in late 2011.
Finally, we have the operational resources for crisis situations, which require a rapid response, flexible and powerful. The experience, however, and some recent examples as repatriation of EU citizens in Libya, have shown enough that the EU, rather than organize and propose a plan of operations is limited to exchange information between different national bodies. In this sense, the control and responsibility are in the same hands as always: crisis management is the responsibility of States.

capabilities the Union at international level are not defined only as a result of their military resources and operational, but also by the rules that must at foreign policy. Article 24 of the Treaty on European Union (Lisbon Treaty #) character and tell us 'special' with which it was decided to CFSP in Europe, "referred to specific procedures and regulations." The power of guidance, planning and decision rests solely with the Council (member states) and any decision that relates to issues of defense and military must be endorsed unanimously (Art.31, TEU). Unlike of other Community policies, where the Commission and European Parliament are used to playing a key role in the discovery process and legislation, in the case of the CFSP these two institutions should be limited to questions and recommendations (art.36 TUE ). As the High Representative, is responsible for "implementing and directing" the CFSP on behalf of the Council (Art. 26 and 27 TEU ). In other words, any initiative in foreign policy is completely determined by the will of 27 states and the leadership of the High Representative. Natural system that also makes those decisions that require flexibility, adaptation and often the odd disagreement.

The last group of resources that should be mentioned when talking about the capabilities of the EU foreign policy is the administrative and budgetary matters. In just over two years since Ashton's appointment as High Representative, the European External Action Service has been taking shape in terms of its administrative organization . almost all charges have been already allocated (a task that was initially feared would paralyze the process) and the bulk of officials who should be transferred to work in the new European Foreign Service have been redirected. This is compounded acquisition (not without many setbacks) of a building 'own' for SEAE ( The Capital ), where you will coordinate, prioritize and bring together all the activity outside the Union. To this are being published everyday items, such as approval of a own logo or the conversion of former offices in centers with real operational capacity. Faced with the progress
administration, budgetary capacities are much more varied. The budget of the Union in 2011 to develop all the activities included in paragraph The European Union global actor is of 7,100 million euros. A total equivalent to only 6.2% of total EU budget, which represents a decrease of 7.1% over the total for that section in 2010. Although in theory be one of the pillars of the European Union to come (or so we wanted to stress during and after the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty), spending on foreign policy is still infinitely less than the administrative expenses (8 %), in terms of competitiveness and cohesion (45%), or in relation to subsidies and grants (41%). If the percentage is as if low relative to the overall EU budget, a comparison with other actors is discouraging international: Europe spends on foreign policy 0.99% of what the U.S. spends on defense only.
In conclusion, the operational capabilities, legal and administrative provisions of the European Union in international politics are very far from the expectations of civil society deposits and requires the world community. International crises, such as we are living in the Mediterranean are proof that the problem goes beyond any weaknesses you may have Catherine Ashton. The problem is the distance between our political demands and means that our own representatives are willing to invest to achieve them. "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the world, "said Archimedes to explain the balance of objects of different weights. Give me a fulcrum and a lever.

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nuclear energy, clean future "or a radioactive nightmare?



is a meteorologist James Lovelock, environmentalist and English atmospheric chemist, Nobel Prize in 1995 and all as an octogenarian, who was the first to detect and warn of the presence of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) in the atmosphere and warn about its deadly contribution to the rapid destruction of the ozone layer. Thanks to him and his invention, the electron capture detector, demonstrated the danger, with the booming industry of the 70 was forced to drastically reduce their production processes using these devastating chemical components. This scientific name

so poetic, who worked actively for NASA in the best years of this agency and who has researched for the most prestigious universities such as Harvard or Yale, is today best known for the formulation of a hypothesis and brave in time-fetched, the theory that life is not limited to adapt to certain physical conditions, existing on our planet, but has produced the most favorable conditions to perpetuate itself by changing the chemistry of the atmosphere, surface temperature, salinity of the seas. That is, "according to this hypothesis, since life arose on Earth, life itself was responsible for controlling a system that would otherwise have evolved, as in other planets that were once so much like ours (Mars or Venus), to a state of equilibrium and maximum entropy, rather than stay in the fragile and dynamic current imbalance. And therefore, is not that our planet has just the right conditions for accepting life, "the strange and miraculous coincidence that seems to lie only been given on this third planet to 8 minutes of sunlight, but has been biosphere responsible for creating, over millions of years, full of wonderful ecosystem biodiversity we see today. It is life that has designed the world and not vice versa. Lovelock thought the Earth-is a self-regulating, self-adjusting, as a living being, a super-born and evolves in a geological time scale to provide for itself the best chance of survival. Lovelock

When working on this idea, it told another British Nobel prize, this time for literature, William Golding, the late author of "The Lord of the Flies" and he suggested she call his hypothesis as Greek goddess representing the earth mother. Since then, the hypothesis is named as primitive and colossal Gaia.

Well, all this leads me to the book I'm reading now is not Lovelock, but Eduard Punset, that disheveled old man talking slow and deliberate that once played politics (during the transition and the years 80) and now runs the popular science program most watched and followed by the English viewers from "Man and Earth", the late Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente. And in this book, Punset, which has the unique privilege to meet the highest scientific personalities and current culture, interview with James Lovelock and asks not only for his famous Gaia hypothesis, but also for his opinion on the change climate and its future, if even possible resolution. Lovelock's response is overwhelming: climate change is a reality, a shock that men have made in just 150 years against a system used to slow changes lasting hundreds of thousands of years. And then Lovelock, is perceived in the interview, it becomes dark and apocalyptic to explain that this disturbance, we have released this beast is called carbon dioxide, and our only opportunity to re-enclose, or - let devour whatever you want fill and return to their lair, "is to plunge into the only clean energy and harmful emissions that is both capable of supplying the needs world population still huge and growing: nuclear energy!.

Contrary to what many might have expected from this "old green" environmentalist through and through with his Gaia hypothesis and its ozone layer, the Lovelock lawyers are probably the last years of his life by massive use of nuclear energy to halt the biggest threat now looms over us, the carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and warming it produces an increasing rate in the world. Punset following question is obvious: "Nuclear energy?, What about nuclear waste, of radioactive waste? ". But Lovelock, of course, is clear. His perspective, perhaps because of his age and experience, is more comprehensive and broader than that promote traditional environmentalists, going further, were concerned not only with the effects on humans but on the whole environment, and responds: " Nuclear power is good: it is the only energy source that does not damage the atmosphere. It does not cause damage. Only poses a threat to humans, but not for Earth. Just think of humanity. When we begin to think of Earth as a living place, we will find you can not think only of humanity. We live in a century that human rights have been at the center of all concerns. We continue to believe that the most important is to benefit humanity. I say that this is the wrong approach: first we should worry about the Earth because we depend entirely on it. And if we do, all humanity will suffer. "

What Lovelock is trying to tell us, we listen or not, is that nuclear energy is not, as we have been led to believe from all sides, a choice with terrible consequences for the planet that can actually assume perfectly waste generated and maintain all its biodiversity intact, "is only a problem for humanity, but much less than what is already -And still can be, climate change. Again, Lovelock, James Lovelock ... :-) explains it vehemently in a translation that I would make of his words in English:

" A television reporter once asked me: ' But what about nuclear waste, is it not poison the whole biosphere and persist for millions of years? " I knew this was only an invention, a fantastic and apocalyptic nightmare with absolutely no substance in the real world ... One of the things that attracts the attention of those places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclei is the tremendous wealth of its natural life. This is true in the areas around Chernobyl, in the area of \u200b\u200bnuclear weapons testing in the Pacific or in areas near the plant was manufacturing nuclear bombs, in Savannah River, during the Second World War. The wild plants and animals do not perceive as dangerous radioactivity, and any slight reduction in the duration of their lives is a much smaller problem for them than the presence of humans and their pets. It seemed so sad, though I suppose fully human, that is vast bureaucracies concerned about nuclear waste, huge organizations involved in nuclear decommissioning, and nothing comparable instead to consider the waste that is truly the most evil by far, the carbon dioxide. "Lovelock

Any day disappear from our lives, its particles will again be integrated into Gaia and source of new life, but his words must take them into account those who continue stepping on this planet, because our survival and our future children depend on them. We are part of an ecosystem on which we depend entirely despite the fact that we have such a powerful influence on him. As they say, with great power comes great responsibility. And we must begin by demanding that our governments a rigorous analysis of the energy situation completely independent of the influence of those powers that currently get all their wealth to the massive use of fossil fuels and who want to squeeze the most of their black gold to continue enriching the short period of their lives. Measures must leave us short, very short range, such as reducing the speed limit on highways or installing light bulbs in government, and demand of our governments to change course, clear and sharp, which effectively solve The biggest problem we have today. And that is where the clean energy and so often reviled, nuclear fission, clean and accessible for 60 years, which should enable further progress to beat the current rate to the other knowledge, that of nuclear fusion, the primary energy, perfect power, that of the stars, that will solve both problems of supply and those of human contamination of this planet, the only planet we have, the only place, fragile and finite, where humanity can live: the earth goddess Gaia.