Robin Hood, seated on the ancient trunk of an oak, had a spot of melancholy in his eyes blazing once:
- So, Juanito …
Little John (Johnny) scratched his head:
- Bad, very bad, boss, things could not be worse. Half the land is uncut and peasants Papan flies outside their huts without a bad roast beef that get between teeth.
- Will have to pass on some coins, to go out of step.

- Currency? What change? Our coffers are completely empty. Moreover we have enough money to suppliers. I think they call this the wise “deficit”.
- But the assaults on the rich … We have to steal from the rich to give to the poor.
- The rich say they are quite stiff, which does not bother us. The settlers and taxpayers do not rent enough, so have decided to leave the land fallow.
- But the flocks of the monasteries …

- Monks have left to feed their cows and sheep as a result of the high price that is reaching oats. They say it is profitable to raise cattle and are living off the masses and responsibility that they charge.
- Oh yes we’re fresh!
- The worst thing is that the Sheriff of Nottingham takes to get green and blame us for us.
- Bastard! “And he says what he would do in these circumstances?
- Oh, no, not that, but encizañar, encizaña an egg.
- Have to do something.
- That I say.
An overwhelming silence swept over the Sherwood Forest and surrounding areas. Robin was an inspiration, or seemed to have it:
- I got him, I think I have!
- Then you’ll say …
- It is necessary that we give money to rich people and monks, so that way again have treasures and fat cattle. Then re-cultivate the land and the poor do not spend as reefers.
- Is that maybe the money is spent in carousing and eat cows. Also, do not know where the hell do you think getting money.
- Naturally, the poor. Where else? The poor will have to fasten the belt a little longer for us to subsidize the rich, who, in turn, revive the economy ( “It is said that?) And so we will leave the quagmire.
- And the settlers and taxpayers? Because it seems out expensive.
- Can be replaced by slaves and serfs. Thus production costs …
- But we have always said that we had to eliminate slavery and servitude … Besides, that is what he proposes the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- What a coincidence! Huh? Maybe we could reach a grand bargain with him, and then …
- Then we shall be Cantazo those of the people. I do not quite see it.
- Well, well, we’ll talk. And the outlaws? What do our loyal outcasts?
- Private savings. Are engaged in private savings plans for what might happen. They fly behind the ear, think.

desert report

Tie color is the sand that is everywhere and with which you plastered over many of the houses, but so is the gray of the stones and the green of the palms. Because it is impressive all around the town because after miles and miles by taxi (7 persons in a vehicle with seating for five, with each other so tight you can almost feel the heartbeat of your neighbor) that virtually only see a landscape of sand, when you approach Atar appear on the horizon huge mountains of stone of a prehistoric age and small oasis with water and palm trees. In the city many houses, such as the tasks are built of stone and beams that support the ceilings are trunks of palm trees. Nearby there is plenty to visit as cave paintings, small oasis with its own micro climate or places to pick at little to find fossils, prehistoric arrowheads or desert roses (mineral formation and climate over time have like small carved stone roses).

I have yet visited almost nothing about it because although my visit was scheduled a month ago, my colleagues have had to leave for a contingency (Bar.’s Brother, Polish, Morocco because he needed to renew his passport and the Polish Embassy more is near there, and the father JL, French, Senegal). So I’m alone, without a car and almost no money, waiting for his return in a few days to visit some of these attractions.

What I am doing is to use to rest and sleep was missing me and take small trips around town. Not far from our house is home to three Spanish nuns: a teacher, another nurse and another doctor, and veterans, and as the sisters of Rosso, working to promote women and two clinics for malnourished children. The visit every day and pray and eat together. Today I was at work knowing what they do and come back tomorrow to see if I can lend a hand in anything.

When I walk, especially in the early days, I can not avoid being taken by tourist guides approaching, dealers and hustlers. Although virtually nothing yet Hassaniya speak, when I explain that I work in the “Kanisa” (the Church) in Rosso leave me alone.

A few days ago a young man approached me moro than 19 years, he said he made his living as a tour guide. We talked a little and at one point told me I had a proposition for me but it was a secret. He said he knew where, not far from there was a camp of Senegalese women where beer could find no problems. It changed my face and I spoke softly but I was very blunt and told him I would looking for a big problem with the police if he kept getting into issues of prostitution and trafficking in alcohol. He said it was not for him but for tourists, especially Italians. As before had told me in high school, I told him what I had to do was push those issues and focus on their studies. He realized that he had the wrong person and left saying goodbye politely. I have no doubt that the police must know about all these issues and probably take their cut.

So far, the austere desert and hidden, comes the scourge of sex tourism. God how much suffering and injustice drowning man!

Well, this is a bit of my day to day. I know I’ve written the e-mail but do not know when can I send it because the internet connection here is even worse than in Rosso.

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written by Javier in missionary tour in Mauritania

It would provide public funds to publish books Muslims in the Iberian languages, train imams of mosques and Muslim religious teachers for students who wish to build mosques and cemeteries and worthy. All this, and that’s the key, in the spirit of reformist Islam, which in our case, could seek their own roots in the tolerance of Al Andalus. In this regard could be used the pact signed in 1992 by the government of Felipe González to the Spanish Muslim associations and never developed.

The alternative is grim: there is. And so there are mosques built in Spain and financed by Saudi Arabia, where he preached Wahhabist interpretations of Islam, and characters like the imam of Fuengirola, which was tried in Barcelona yesterday for publishing a book detailing how to beat their wives without leaving them marks. Since Islam has returned to Spain to win, I better not address people like this.

This construction of a Euro-Islamic could be, again, without further tighten the taxpayer, with only a fraction of what we spend in the Catholic Church. In this 25th anniversary of the Constitution would be a good way to really recognize the religious pluralism.

But the Aznar government is in Bahia, in Bahia, for example, the Iraq war. Or in the demonization of immigration, reduced to a mere police problem. What is needed instead is a state policy of integration, a policy aimed at the speedy and full identification of immigrants, from whatever source, with constitutional values. Building a Spanish Islam would be a fellow of the policy. Diversity is healthy, as long as everyone agrees common rules of play. The danger is understood multiculturalism as an archipelago of ghettos.

employment

Going to the numbers, the payroll jobs fell by 36,000 last month, when analysts expected a larger number. The positive news was that the Manufacturing and Industrial sectors created new jobs, partly offsetting the workers dismissed by the construction sector.

For Manufacturing, the second consecutive month that employees are added to the existing workforce, which has not occurred since 2006.

“We have an economic recovery can be seen in the numbers: the labor market continues to improve for those with the skills demanded” said John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC, who was one of the few who got it right with his forecast referred to the known data.

The average of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News risked a loss of 68,000 jobs and a rise in the unemployment rate to 9.8%, and hence the positive market reaction.

Projections from now on

In another survey conducted by the same source, the average of economists projected that the unemployment rate will average 9.8% in 2010 but that by the end of the year could drop to 9.5%.

Clearly with this consensus of scholars is more inclined towards an improvement in macroeconomic conditions in North America, which remains to be seen is whether it will speed the pace and the market expects.

Obama “the Keynesian”.

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, seems wise to emphasize the labor market recovery. Recall that took office at the height of the economic crisis in the subprime, responsible for the loss of 8.4 million jobs in the U.S. alone

To stimulate the economy and encourage entrepreneurs to invest and create new job vacancies with it, Obama seems to have become quite “Keynesian”, by significantly increasing public spending in the country North and thereby worsen the fiscal accounts.

You may have to bear with this trigger conflicting views of his advisers from the Fed and some of the economic cabinet, historically monetarists and therefore disagree with the tax measures.

Recall that for the Keynesian unemployment is the biggest threat to an economy, so when this happens the state should intervene through public works to employ people who do not have jobs.

For monetarists, however, the main threat is inflation, and all efforts are focused on keeping inflation contained through tight monetary policy and expansionary central bank.

Another important difference is the concept you have school again and the rate of interest: while for the monetarists interest is simply the price of money, the Keynesians tend to see it as the opportunity cost of investment.

Finally, there’s a point at which both currents seem to agree after leaving the education crisis 30: monetary policy is like a rope of a kite, you can pull it to attract the barrel, ie cool economy, but you can not pull the string for the kite flying, or the economy out of recession.

Obama seems determined to lower the unemployment rate at all costs. Hopefully this is not the breeding ground sometimes necessary (low rates for extended times, increased spending, twin deficit) for the appearance of the next financial bubble.

Doctors Without Borders says that every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria. ie 2 per minute, 120 per hour, day 2880, more than one million children each year. Who cares? Dengue is another miserable disease with tremendous numbers of deaths: two million victims annually. The list of most serious and damaging conditions that the new influenza A would be too long for this blog. But these two examples suffice. His figures, as its effects-not stand comparison with those of the dreaded pandemic. But are diseases endemic to the south, which penalize the sunken areas in poverty, the powerful pharmaceutical corporations regard as ‘potential customers’. And devote the necessary resources for drug research and / or effective vaccines would not be a profitable investment.
If Influenza A is spread by the most impoverished regions of Africa, Latin America and Asia, no one will buy billions of doses of antiviral drugs needed to combat it.

The pandemic favors poverty: overcrowding and promiscuity, lack of water and lack of basic hygiene, facilitate transmission. Malnutrition, chronic weakness, the existence of many other diseases, AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.-multiplies its effects on vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. Finally, poor health infrastructure, if not its complete absence, makes it difficult if not impossible adequate medical intervention.

Will soon come south for the winter of America: the flu season this year is a greater threat. But more afraid to be taken into other areas who do not know but winters of extreme poverty: in Nicaragua have antiviral treatments for about three thousand people, while 60 per 100 of the population lacks safe drinking water. And while Argentina has announced that 600,000 doses of appropriate drugs, the World Health Organization acknowledges that it has only a million treatments for Africa as a whole.

The figures are there: a tangle of figures used to calculate the number of possible affected, assess the availability of drugs stored, discuss and establish budgets … Does anyone know the estimates of benefits these days handle boards of pharmaceutical corporations ? Let no one expect a gesture of solidarity as ruthless transnational industry.

As a good proletarian bourgeois pretensions I see the Academy Awards.

I fail to follow the previous frivolity with the stars paraded down the red carpet and the fashion police questioning or complimenting the costumes for the divas, but, like many, also pointed to my favorites, and feast your successes as if were mine.

Ever cholula I questioned this practice. After all, what has my reality with illusions that showy plant.

And I must say that much.

I hope you’ll forgive the eternal critics of consumerism, and commercial cinema, and easy to Hollywood formulas, but I’ll make a couple of confessions corny.

It happens that as with music, movies are part of my life because many of them were associated with a point in my story.

Back to see them is to relive that bit of time.

For example, any family photograph generated so many memories of my mother and my paradise living the film, Walt Disney.

We saw it together in the now defunct film Granados.

I was five or six years and mother worked in an office that morning and afternoon, had only a few hours to nap to share with me. So we went to see that movie a dozen times.

I can not remember what it was, only a few animals dying in the midst of a terrible drought and eventually hell broke loose a flood that while he saved most, also ended with one of the protagonists.

She was a bittersweet story which to me tasted like the best story in the world.

It was shared with Mom.

Another scene was stabbed me in memory. Marlon Brando was scratching his chin with his fingertips as he stroked his cat and thought. Dad was on the couch watching TV and I followed the story lying on the floor with his head resting on his fists. Dad suddenly leaned over and stroked my hair and watching TV said: “Over there is the greatest actor in the world.”

Since the night it is impossible not to relate that old Sicilian song with the figure of my father.

The Godfather is a terrible story, yet, look at me a strange pleasure, to recover the taste of a moment of happiness far away.

It happens when I hear the same song from the film Tarzan the cartoon. It was my first date with a woman he waited ten years. It was the perfect excuse for the prologue of a story that already has a decade and that, complete with commercial breaks, each time it gets better.

Like you, I have many other stories as well. Films that were slipped into my life and became part of it.

So I see the Academy Awards. Because I love cinema. Because I delight with my daughters watching the animated and in 3D, because I have no qualms about eating pororo watch a romantic and strong squeezing the hand of the woman I intend to grow old with dignity.

They are just bits of happiness, true.

But it is the sum of those pieces that makes life worth living.

No time to analyze the cynicism and inconsistencies give way to a pragmatism that gets even colder in this becoming itself long European winter.

In Brussels, the integration process has more questions than answers. More uncertainties than certainties. At the severe impact of financial crisis adds labor mobility between the 27 member countries that exacerbates social problems and begins to question fundamental values such as the common currency and the feasibility of an integration project that for many it has left a mother. Old Europe has seen too much to believe that this is the end. He knows from experience that is part of the dynamics of an unperturbed region attending the growth of China and India and with some guilt takes its colonial past in Africa, that began to change exactly 50 years ago.

Migrants constitute a sixth of the world’s population (one billion human beings) are seeking refuge in ghettos, where the smell of spices life becomes more tolerant. Outside, the immigration control movement seeking to deter even those who have permission to reside in some countries like the case of a Mexican forced to have to take a flight from Greece to France because the Italian ship captain prevented him from taking the ferry to Bari. Paraguayans are surviving everywhere they can earn 1,200 euros a month doing odd jobs, as the construction work is severely affected by the financial crisis.

Spain continues to attract but you can find our compatriots in Brussels or Paris doing what they do in the Iberian Peninsula: survive and send something to the family. Paraguay is a utopia that is off to the tropical rhythms on some weekend nightclub.

Latin America has lost interest in the decision-making groups in Europe and it is clear that the eyes moved first to the East and then to Russia, China and India. We remain the reference of the sun, beaches and opportunities squandered. There are more than tourism to East to South America, where the only positive stories are those successful players till they play in European teams. The rest: almost nothing. Nobody today would be manifested by a political thing happened to us, and even Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution not only arouse interest, but the support of intellectuals, as Ignacio Ramonet, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, who has no shame in praising the virtues (?) the Venezuelan president. In the past, that would be reason for derision and contempt. Today nothing happens … total for the old Europe that happens to us every day is so like the same old thing they have lost the romantic and rationalist view that encouraged so many to come to this part of the world and develop their skills.

Today, we are just where once were the grandparents to forging a future stolen by this and the occasional visit from a Paraguayan president when asked why he wanted the presidential meeting said tickets for the Barcelona-Liverpool final was played this night in Paris.

After one of the strongest earthquake on record, the Chilean infrastructure held up quite well, but the cost of repairing damage will total $ 1,200 million, said on Monday the Minister of Public Works in Chile, Sergio Bitar .

On the morning of 27 February, an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude hit the central-southern Chile, leaving hundreds homeless and killed nearly two million people. The earthquake triggered a tsunami that swept away whole villages of coastal regions of Maule and Bío Bío.

“The infrastructure of the country stood up well. Of the 4,000 bridges in the affected areas, 20 will need repairs and 20 must be restored,” said Bitar.
The minister added that the 1,700 km of highways that exist in regions quake struck 70 kilometers should be rebuilt.
The Public Works Ministry has identified about 1,200 items that need repair infrastructure and 95% of these repairs are in process when he takes office the new administration, he said.
The four-year term of President Michelle Bachelet ends Thursday at noon, when Sebastian Pinera, a conservative first democratically elected president in 52 years, assumed the presidency.
Bitar said the remaining 5% needed repairs, mainly bridges, require heavy and medium construction.
The $ 1,200 million will cover the cost of repairs to roads, airports, dams, canals, utility companies and other public works including road concessions. Some of the repairs would take three or four years, said Bitar.

That figure, said the ministry does not include repairs to government buildings or commercial ports, some of which were devastated by the tsunami.

The government published a list of 102 U.S. imports from subject to increases in import tax “II” in Brazil.

The increased tariffs take effect in 30 days and remain in force for one year, pending changes in the practices of U.S. subsidies.

The list includes most nonessential consumer products such as cosmetics and electronics.
It also includes some pharmaceuticals, hospital products and food items as well as some high-value imports of automobiles.

Among the more imports are taxed sales of U.S. wheat, for which tariffs will rise from 10% today to 30%. Brazil bought $ 45 million in U.S. wheat in 2009 and $ 318 in 2008.
In addition to higher tariffs, Brazil said it will impose another $ 238 million in trade sanctions against the United States, hoping to punish the industry as those involving services and intellectual property rights.

The executive secretary of the Foreign Trade Chamber, Lytha Spindola, said the government will publish another list on March 23 detailing the guidelines for trade sanctions in those areas. In 2009, trade between Brazil and the United States amounted to U.S. $ 35,600 million and recorded a deficit for the year of U.S. $ 4,400 million.

Zac Efron

Zac Efron did not comb his hair before he hit the red carpet at the Oscars last night. Course, that’s the style for young men, but still, Zac looked a lot windblown and a little sloppy for the Oscars.

Do you think it’s a little … sacrilegious to show up to such a big night looking like a hot mess? Women can have bad dresses and be hot messes, but can men?

First up was Zac Efron who looked suave and debonair in a classic tuxedo. He will be presenting tonight and got the invite Because he is friends with Adam Shankman. He said “It feels phenomenal. I can not believe I am here right now. I feel like I snuck in. “Zac Efron should not be too surprised though, as he is one of the hottest young stars around and Adam Shankman has said that he wants to draw younger viewers into watching the Oscars this year.

I think it was still messy! Zac looked hot and adorable, with a mess on his head