The passage of time has proven once again that we live in a time when policy statements are free of charge, contain a high degree of bombast and baseless reasons or arguments. Happened in 2010, not only has not created employment but that the English economy is far from purging the excesses that have been committed in the past. What Mr Zapatero said a year ago stating that "The English economy is in a moment of transition from recession to recovery will be confirmed in 2010 (Zapatero promised to create jobs in 2010. Public. 31.12.2009) sounds in the light of events a year later, living comic monologue. It would be desirable to quarantine all statements made by our politicians. Simply not reliable, do not tell the truth, and are subject to particular interests.
Hence the uneasiness experienced during the end of this decade may be just the prelude to total madness in 2011 when we begin to experience the devastating effects of cuts in economic terms that mostly affect those who have little or nothing to do with the origins of this crisis. Meanwhile, those responsible for the current mess are rubbing their hands watching the disintegration of the welfare state and the weakening of the public, while fatten their bank accounts with all types of aid under the guise of a general interest undermined.
In the Canaries, has spent a year in economic and terrifying socially. This is our mapping particular unease: PGO
S / C Tfe. Beginning and end of a nonsense.
The year began with the accelerated approval by the City of S / C Tfe a little urban development plan discussed with those affected, with major deficiencies, then discovered and reported by COTMAC and observing the legal exposure limits public. He also received a great response to the responsible social of it have been dealt with disdain. And end the same way, with the approval for the second time the same plan, quickly, withholding information from the interested public should be involved in a controversy to keep homes out of management. PGO processing the S / C Tfe meets the characteristics of many of the problems that have plagued the Canary Islands this year not only we have left, namely, absence of a genuine democratic debate between all parties involved, use of land as a sink for wastes and a source of natural resources tend to be exploited, and transfer from public to private hands through privatization or the reclassification of certain areas attractive from the standpoint of real estate. New catalog
protected species. The destruction of biodiversity.
and Transrapid train. Architectures spectacle of excess infrastructure
And the question is that real estate continues to play a leading role in the Canaries. After more than a decade selling the need to provide major cities Canary Building bill signed by the so-called canned architectural star system has been passed in 2010 to promote certain oversized infrastructure and social need for which is more than doubtful. Trains, new road projects, the widening of roads or the addition of third lane in both provincial capitals are paradigmatic examples that are transforming Canary irreversibly. For both architectures show as in the infrastructure, the Canary Islands has been late to develop these initiatives. Some time ago that major European cities have managed to understand that they are necessary other friendly buildings environment and to facilitate coexistence. Also to be encouraged collective infrastructure in metropolitan areas collapsed by the automotive, appliance to be discrimination if we win our urban quality of life. In the Canaries continue deepening and worsening urban decay mobility proposals that are sold as remedies, when there are only patches that only satisfy private interests.
Avante The emergence of the Canary Islands. Some opinion makers are very interested.
few private interests have sometimes taken the form of op-eds as network Canary Avante debate. A group that was born in 2009 in order to promote and encourage public discussion and debate on some issues that in his opinion conditioned the progress and development of the Canary Islands. Far from stimulating discussion, this group that brings together different businesses of some significance in the Canaries, has used his articles in different media and from his platform to try to justify certain projects that have significant economic interests posted, closing at a real debate open and public. Perhaps that is why his claim to generate debate, discussion , soon fell into oblivion and his articles have disappeared during the first part of 2010.
corruption cases pending solution. Justice must be swift and effective.
Transparency International said in 2010 that the crisis has raised the cases of corruption. The Canaries is a good collection of cases that are fully legal education for some years and have not been resolved in 2010. Urban mismatches committed mostly in Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura must not go unpunished and the operation of an agile and independent justice will help create a more just society while revalue a sector, legal, highly politicized and vilified during in 2010 by those who have seen their interests harmed by some judgments.
warming of the fundraising for the campaign. Proposals to close range.
The breaking of the CC-PP pact. A divorce reissued.
The general consensus of political parties before the cuts has not stopped once again has reissued the rupture of a political pact that its contracting parties attached great self-congratulation. A break that responds rather than internal tensions between the two formations, the need to take positions in sufficient time to prepare the political strategy to develop in the coming months. A strategy in which each course will aim to maximize their interests to monopolize power regardless of their political agenda. CC will keep its key role of joker who apparently both be in the plans of a conservative party and in the strategies of a progressive party. Perhaps that ability has always been agreed that CC has to do with policies in the Canary Islands are a single ideology, conservative, ignoring other approaches more intelligent that put the welfare of citizens to own partisan interests.
The schism of the PSC. Agree to return to government.
When socialist education was better in the islands to challenge the ruling parties to a real schism occurs that surely will bring consequences, not very good. The órdago that launched Santiago Perez Jose Miguel Perez for the fight of the presidential candidacy of the government of the Canary Islands was settled in favor of the latter, who did not hesitate to take the law into their own hands. Time will tell whether the decision of Jose Miguel Perez to create managers in the bastions of Santiago Perez (S / C TFE and TFE Island) was positive or not for the party. There remains, however, slightly bitter related to the lack of democracy as an authoritative decision that makes the largest party in the past has boasted regional and support the primary processes. And most of all are the intentions of the PSC to agree with CC as the only formula to regain power. Faced with hypothetical favorable results in the upcoming elections for the PSC, not a majority, expect more of the same: a way of doing politics progressive values \u200b\u200baway from focusing on further strengthening development at the expense of the territory.
a million more tourists in 2011. More volume in a limited territory. More is better.
already said the current prime minister, will need to attract one million additional tourists in the coming year to create jobs and improve the ailing economy of those islands. It is clear that initiatives minimalist less is more or better with less were replaced long ago, if they have ever been part of the Canary policy, by focusing on the maximalist more is better. The much talked about changing the economic model, also by nationalists canaries, the replacement should start in political overtones of such the only thing they show is the same inertia to solve problems by appealing to an economic approach exhausted, if they really pursue this change, we doubt very appearance. The monoculture of tourism, this type of tourism, massive, looks set to continue its journey until the area that supports say enough or until critical citizenship claim that developers get thwart the intentions of political and business class has not been able to include the territory in their proposals. The President appeals to nationalism. The third way, of course interested. In times hinge
English nationalism played a role. They did in the latter part of the legislature of Felipe Gonzalez and the first of José María Aznar. After the tsunami that minor bipartisan national participation in the English parliament in 2008, is expected to return to play an important role after the next election. At critical times especially when any element endowed with enough political rhetoric and ability to instill hope can be erected as a savior. However, we should not rule out a win by an absolute majority of the main party of the right in national elections in 2012. Under this hypothesis DC offering nationalists have to overcome the crisis meaningless. But in any case this nationalism Can provide real solutions or at least another way of doing politics when CC has supported the current policy and budget cuts extremely restrictive validated by the PSOE? Paraphrasing Mr. Rivero Baute, it is obvious that the PSOE has been part of the problem and the PP is not the solution (since formed the basis of this housing bubble), but would add that this nationalism is also part of the problem and certainly not the solution. Demonstrated almost 20 years of rule by an autonomy that is at the bottom of all social indicators, economic and environmental.
minority parties progressive. The need for new political actors.
For this reason it is necessary that some of the smaller parties that have erupted in the Canary Islands in the heat of social movements succeed to find a place to take decisions in the upcoming regional elections. We believe that we need a political group that provides a new way of doing politics between such ideological homogeneity in the Canary Islands' parliament. A political group that knows the area and integrate the environment Canary (its main asset) between their proposals. That is able to articulate an economic option solvent to leave this crisis without having to pay those that have not arisen. Capable of promoting initiatives participative with citizens aimed at deepening the channels of a true participatory democracy. A political party that recovers the importance of the public against the privatization of almost everything that was proposed recently. In short, a political party that knows to capitalize on the growing unease of a sector of the Canarian population is no longer a minority.
says Tony Judt in his latest book, Something's wrong, that after three decades of exaggerated individualism that took its translation into economic policy free from any speech regulation under the less state we would be freer and more welfare would get, it's time to recover the collective, common, under the maxim that what is good for the community is good for you and not its opposite. The 2011 is a good time to implement this thinking, laying the groundwork for a more just society in socially cooperative behavior, where the economic sphere is not that which sets the direction and where re-supply the site environment it belongs. It will be difficult but we must.
Photo 1: Eyjafjalla Icelandic volcano eruption in SPDnoticias.com
Photo 2: El Barrio Toscal S / C de Tenerife.
Photo 3: La Graciosa.
Photo 4: Recreation of the planet's ecological abuse. ecologismo.com
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