Monica Raccaforte 2010

A sea of \u200b\u200bpoisonous fish in the dustbin of the world

dates back to October 27 the latest kidnapping of the Somali pirates, against an English yacht. An endless list, which concerns us, the cases of kidnappings of Italians have been many, beginning from the famous Boucanier. Pirates, yes certainly. But some of these groups claim for themselves the title of national heroes. To learn more we have to go back to March 20, 1994, when he was killed the journalist Ilaria Alpi Rai in Mogadishu. Despite what the parliamentary committee of inquiry established in Italy, other independent surveys have shown that the Alps had discovered the European traffic of radioactive waste to Somalia.

What, then, it sounded like a case investigation minority, seems to be confirmed by our recent experience, made of eco-mafias that pollute the planet, from Africa to Calabria. In 2004, corroborating the hypothesis of the Alps A tsunami guts Somali beaches and reveals the radioactive waste. The Ong, the Greens and journalists set to work. The Eurogroup has the Greens in Parliament in Strasbourg copies of contracts signed by the Italian-Swiss and the Italian Archair Partners Progress. In those documents show how corrupt the government hired local Somali, accompanied by the $ 80 million, to allow the illegal spillage of 10 million tons of toxic waste in Europe.

The Pandora's box was uncovered, in 2008, Al Jazeera published the findings of UN technical UNEP (United Nations Environment). The expert Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah said publicly that those who in the early nineties, there were only rumors, now there are documented cases UN. "In Somalia, European and Asian companies have also spilled nuclear waste." Nick Nuttal, UNEP, stressed that "European companies are very convenient to get rid of garbage in Somalia, with costs amounting to $ 2.5 per tonne, compared with about one thousand U.S. dollars of the significant legal." Africans on the sea bed can be found mercury, uranium, cadmium, chemical waste, pharmaceutical, hospital, industrial. The savings in waste disposal are likely to make it convenient also the sinking of entire vessels, as revealed by the case of "toxic ships" in Calabria.

In 2005, in fact, the British newspaper The Independent interviewed had Somali pirate Segula Ali's testimony, "We consider bandits. They are bandits who have spilled and caught illegally in our waters. " It is apparent also another element. Since the outbreak of the Civil War onwards, the government fails to secure control of territorial waters. And some European companies coming here to fish illegally in the same sea where leave radioactive waste. The situation is such that, October 10, 2008, the Chicago Tribune published an interview with Professor Peter Lehr concludes that: "It's a sort of informal compensation. The Pirates obtained 100 million dollars a year from kidnappings to the detriment of Europe and Asia. These are siphoning off 300 million dollars in fish from Somalia. "

why pirates are perceived as national heroes who protect the land from the rich soverchierie in defense of local communities and against a national government that tolerates corrupt pirate raids of the "rich world". Last year, in fact, the Associated Press published a report of journalists Mohammed Hassan and Elizabeth Kennedy testified that the consent of the pirates in the community because it is in territory that pirates spend the proceeds of their raids. In 2008, the BBC and the Guardian leave with a relentless series of investigations: how to reveal the pirates are, in fact, in large part, former fishermen impoverished because of poaching of others.

emerging responsibilities of European companies in each country. Seems that the same government, the unrecognized breakaway Somali province of Puntland, to support the pirates to exercise that sovereignty on the coast that is not implementing, for convenience, the government in Mogadishu. What, today, is emerging very clearly is that the "rich North of the world" has used the "South" as a dustbin. European companies, most brilliantly, they have spilled into Africa. Italian ones, as recounted in Saviano's Gomorrah and comes out as the investigations started by the late Captain Christmas De Grazia, even in Italy. But the distance must not be misleading. Another vexed area of \u200b\u200blandfills is the Vietnam: from where the fish Pangasius economic, real recent bestseller by large retailers in Italy. But the accounts, sooner or later, you will pay. Always.

Alessio Postiglione, "Earth", October 29, 2009

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disasters in the world of Impregilo

Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull, we are on the slopes. The plateau of the Karahnjukar, almost unexplored until 2000, has a canyon that could be called the eighth wonder of the world. If the most famous Grand Canyon of America owes its majesty in the red dress uniform, which gives the rock desert of Arizona, the Karahnjukar leaves you breathless with its amazing variety of shapes and colors. Imagine slopes of lava rock that varies from bright red to dark gray basalt, try to imagine the side of the gorge now vertical cliff, now step, now the pillar, the rock formation now continues, now broken, and the course of placid river that now appears, now offers a sequence of waterfalls in the background of clear skies and sullen of Iceland, the canyon cuts through the plateau is covered with a leafy northern prairie and a carpet of spring flowers.
To complete the picture, think of this place inhabited by pink-footed geese, reindeer, arctic foxes, trumpeters swans, owls nevi. Finally, enjoy the view of the place from the real site www.inca.is / show.
Enjoy the show while you are on time, because it is disappearing under charges of dynamite and a gradual flooding. He's taking his place the reservoir of a hydroelectric plant that will alter the ecosystem of an area of \u200b\u200b3000 square kilometers (as an average Italian province) to power the largest aluminum production plant in Europe, owned by the multinational Alcoa.
course, have so far served to stop the project of the government or the strong resistance of Icelandic citizens who do not receive return of jobs and development (the cheap labor and foreign), or the rejection National Agency for Urban and Regional Planning. Technical barriers are presented instead in 2007, when the National Energy Company has begun filling the reservoir and tests have been active at the same time seismic and volcanic events, so the lake level in October does not even touch the penstocks, making it unusable system, while in December a symposium of geologists heralded an intensive volcanic activity.
If you want on the site mentioned earlier, you can express your disagreement in this project, which is expected to follow similar barriers to the main rivers in Iceland. Make the work of the multinational
Impregilo, the leading Italian engineering and general contracting, active on all continents in the fields of construction, facilities and concessions (dams, highways, airports, railways, subways, hospitals, water treatment and waste). Another
work accomplished in recent years by Impregilo is 5 km tunnel dug under the Alto de Boqueron in Colombia, intended to reduce the distance of only 22 km from the capital of Medellin and Santa Fe. The work has led to a strong external debt of public authorities and the closure of innovative programs to assist the most disadvantaged categories of citizens (the poor, street children, etc..) Which also has no jobs. Indeed, the rural population adjacent to the infrastructure, as alleged beneficiaries, first underwent an additional tax, then the evacuation. In fact, the activity of digging and excavation of hills have produced landslides, collapse of housing, deforestation and changing the water system. The Technical University of Medellin will assign the cases to the working methods adopted. The project does not seem to be accompanied by adequate geological studies, impact assessments and cost estimates correct. The quarries of inert materials and the landfills are located, taking account of the convenience and comfort of the subcontracting companies, not the criteria for slope stability and land use planning.
Read on reconstruction of the story (36 pages made by Antonio Mazzeo, Italian engaged in international cooperation), there emerges a picture so detailed and documented and disturbing because we understand how the implementation of the food tunnel the voracity of the bourgeoisie and local politicians , foreign interests and poverty on which crime thrives Colombian author of massacres and disappearances.
With scripts like, poor social and environmental responsibility, Impregilo figure in the construction of large projects, often oversized, supported by the World Bank and international finance that debt in the developing world and condemned to underdevelopment. The dams built in Guatemala, Nigeria, Turkey, Nepal, Lesotho, Argentina have caused scandal to the poor design or for the intensive exploitation of labor, lack of security conditions, the environmental devastation, the phenomena of international corruption. In particular, the Chixoy dam in Guatemala, defined by the "Campaign to Reform the World Bank" an ecological debt of Italy against the Central American country, was used to ensure economic benefits to the U.S. and to strengthen the Guatemalan military government that hesitated to suppress the protests of indigenous people with the blood of 400 people. Even in Italy the
Impregilo has specialized awarding pharaonic works by fallout from the controversial property on economic, environmental and cultural rights, such as the 'Moses' of Venice, the Bridge over the Straits, the underground parking of the Gianicolo, the project of urban transformation of the port and the historical center of Sorrento, the treatment plants waste in Campania.
In this region, the Government allowed the Commissioner FIBE-Impregilo the choice of plant Acerra incinerator, on the basis of their convenience, and allowed the adoption of obsolete technology for the same, notwithstanding skills of planning and environmental assessment specific to the public. In addition, plants CDR, in violation of contractual requirements, are confined to separate waste into two streams and at the same pack. For this reason there is a hunger for permanent storage sites for ecoballe unfit to be burned and a hunger for landfills for the organic fraction is not treated properly. Poor identification and management of such sites and landfills by the Commissioner, generates frequent seizures of these sites by the judiciary and the challenge of citizens, fostering the emergence for the waste that accumulates in the streets.
According to the Neapolitan magistrates, who ordered the seizure of 750 million € of companies controlled by Impregilo, "... the behavior of companies did not appear as linear, although aware from the beginning that waste disposal would not work, did everything they could to conceal this situation .... "
In conclusion it is important to stress that converge in the interests of multinational companies Impregilo central Italian economy, the Fiat group, major construction companies, operators of highways and tunnels, banking and insurance groups listed among the best known in time as shareholders the company is a leader of that part of its managers (such as brothers Romiti). The group could launch an offer to purchase in the coming months Benetton, the financial Gavio stillness Ligresti, united in society Igli.


By Andrea Saccardo, "Bulletin of Assizes of the City of Naples in southern Italy, December-February 2008

For references and further information:
http://www.inca.is/show/, http: / / www.percorsietnici.net; www.impregilo.it; http://terrelibere.org/index.php?x=completa&riga=35;
http://www.90est.it/karahnjukar.html; http : / / www.90est.it/bomben.html; http://www.islanda.it/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=686;
http://www.savingiceland.org/
http://www.panagea.eu/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=2>% 20 & task = view & id = 86 & Itemid = 2
http://archivio.carta.org/rivista/settimanale/2003/39/39Fulignoli.htm;
http://www.pmli.it/milleaffariitaliamondogruppoimpregilo.htm;
http://www.verdinrete.it/sorrento / impregil.htm.

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Radiograph of a scam

History of commissioners and presidents of banks and bales, of heroes and sappers. The spazzaturaè disappeared from the streets, the incinerator has opened its doors and the state is back. Full of joy. But the conflict that arose around the prosecutor and processes still in progress notes that there 'is still a problem to solve. It covers the old leadership Impregiloe not heroes sung by Berlusconi in Acerra, but still sees the birth of the incinerator on trial. It is a story that begins eleven years ago. And 1998 led to the region 'time by the center of Anthony Rakes working on a new cycle of waste disposal. In June, leaving the notice and tender documents' contract. And, as argued by the 'now famous report of Professor Paolo Rabitti, acts as guide to cha' entire subsequent investigation, that's where the trouble begins. The notice would have to follow a previous order issued by 'then Minister of' Inside Giorgio Napolitano. There are essentially asked to provide a collection of 35 percent, waste treatment, net of this 35 per cent, the recognition of incentives Cip6 up to a maximum of 50 per cent of 'total production of waste in the region. A set of requirements had just the 'objective of protecting the separation from the risk that prevailed instead' s interest to make the most money possible with the greatest possible amount of material burned. But the story now takes a 'other folk. Already the announcement provides facilities oversized compared to 50 percent of that roof, they are not asked Cdr requirements for the facilities, the score is set to reward the 'financial offer than the technical quality of the project. You went to the famous report also chronicles the Parliament. It is in the Committee 's investigation fact that the consultant Umberto Arena, Antonio Bassolino denied that referred to "reports" that he never knew "who c. ...' was, to report how Fisia the project (the 'then Impregilo group companies who participated in a race which had to be excluded immediately from the irregularity) was given a technical rating of only 4.2 points. A rejection, however, offset by much more intensive evaluation on the projected costs 83 pounds per kilo, and timing of implementation, 300 days. Weighed for costs: the rival group, led by Foster Wheeler, and that included the 'Enel, brought some 110 lire per kilo. The technical evaluation of Rabitti then say that those 83 pounds per kilo could be offered only knowing that it would be far more material burnt lawful. Here Rabitti discovers the 'act that acts as architrave to make any changes following the philosophy of the plan. Fact, it happens that October 12, 1998 's then Minister Edo Ronchi already rakes in the context of the notice inconsistencies. But the day after receiving a letter from the Rakes 'Abi: banks have to finance the project are aware that with that rate of differenziatai earnings are not sufficient facilities and therefore suggests, however, to charge the municipalities' s entire garbage produced, not only that given to energy plants: a means to push the municipalities do not spend any more money to waste. The banks also want to delete an 'other rules proposed by Napolitano: Cdr product pending the construction of' equipment shall not be disposed of elsewhere, but stored in the region until its use in 'system itself. It is an 'other move from light industrial flavor, which allows you to enjoy in the future Cip6 also on' energy with the material. Material which then increase over time. Want to impediments to the construction of 'plant, but also, as says Rabitti, because in the meantime also proposed Cdr unfit and produce more material to send to the oven and less compost and fos. The fact is that in October Rakes said the banks that will be tackled later, but in December he was raised by the "turnaround". Is setting up a center-left led by Andrea Losco. How Rastrelli, who was also appointed commissioner and will take you to the port project Fisia, giving the race in March 2000. Unless then leave in June to sign the new president Antonio Bassolino. So far storicotecnica the reconstruction of the disaster. With the 'assumption that the 6 million who have invaded ecoballe Campaniae the crises of garbage on the street are the result of an error in setting:' s have sacrificed in favor of separate economic sustainability of the industrial cycle of the incinerator, and probably even the Camorra, which in turn has profited in recent years on the ground of her favorite sites and landfills in the transport of the material that was accumulating. If all this has been an intentional plan to help right from 'start to the interests of "heroes" of Impregilo, this is precisely the' object of the process.
ROBERTO Di Fucci, La Repubblica, April 1, 2009

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The land on sale

No tanks. Zero planes, soldiers and guns. The neo-colonialism of the Third Millennium (copyright FAO) is the conquest of new lands for use on board comfortable tractors. Shed blood to annex a piece of Africa, Asia or South America no longer needed. Today - to get up its flag - is there an easier way: buy it. The Third World, brought to its knees by the vagaries of agricultural tariffs and prices of raw materials, it is sold. And the richest countries (but not only) - aware that in a few years soil and water resources are more valuable than oil - are already lining up to grab nations in the balance. This
risiko on the skin of the poorest areas of the planet is open to all. They move governments, corporations, sovereign wealth funds and even individuals. Heilberg Philippe, a former banker on Wall Street and today's number one Jarc Capital (the company behind which there are many men of ex-CIA and U.S. State Department), was given two weeks ago, 400 thousand hectares of fertile fields in Sudan along the banks of the Nile.
A maxi-farm as big as the whole Dubai. Seller: Matip Gabriel, the son of Paulino, the warlord who controls the tip from years of gun these areas. Madagascar has "rented" to Daewoo to 99 years 1.3 million hectares, an area greater than that of Belgium and equal 50% of the arable land in Madagascar. Here, the South Korean tractors cultivate corn and palm oil to be allocated to domestic consumption of Seoul. "The trade agreement is only apparently - says Carl Atkins of Agribusiness Bidwell, a consulting firm that deals with these types of transactions - is actually sponsored by the government of South Korea in the name of the strategic interests of national food security ' .
"We are facing a phenomenon that we can not categorize the voice of neo-colonialism," he warned a number of FAO Jacques Diouf thinking about 70% of people in Madagascar live below the poverty line . But stop the wind with your fingers is impossible. China - a country where the water (very low) that is already like gold - got their hands on from 2007 to the sound of renminbi by buying hundreds of thousands of hectares in the Philippines, Sudan and Kazakhstan. Libya has traded a little 'barrels of its crude in order to win the rights to a piece of Ukraine. Fifteen Saudi investors have put $ 4 billion to develop 500 thousand hectares in Indonesia. Objective: Basmati rice plant and then be re-exported to Arabia.
The problem of FAO and non-governmental organizations - alarmed by the dramatic impact on the millions of people now these lands cultivated field - is that the victims of neo-capitalism, starved of capital and investment, are the first to put his head under the guillotine. Cambodia, Indonesia enticed by the agreements, is selling large parts of the country. "We want to collect 3 billion - said proud Suos Yara, undersecretary for economic cooperation in Phnom Penh - We have developed contacts with Kuwait and Qatar." That the sand deserts of them manage to get just oil. Same music in Ethiopia: "The auction is open to our fields, we need technology and money," announced Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa. To accelerate this
suk, who is redrawing the map of the world without firing a single bullet, was the speculative bubble on the prices of food commodities in 2008. The problem, say sociologists, is simple. World population is growing by leaps and bounds while the arable land are more or less the same. In 1960 every human being had available 4,300 square feet on the planet for subsistence food. Today we are down to 2,200 and in 2030 our "living space" will be only 1,800 square meters. Other than dependence on oil, "Broadening the land available to its citizens is increasingly becoming a strategic priority for the governments that are able to look farther," says Atkins. Those who can not (or can not afford to do so) instead of selling.
among other things, experts say, could only get worse. "The next emergency is called water - says Chiara Tonelli, professor of genetics at the University of Milan and Advisor of Advisory Group on Nutrition of the EU - 70% water is used today for agriculture and changing the habits of the world's vegetable-meat diet (to produce a kilo of rice it takes a thousand liters of water to a kilo of meat 45 thousand) will exacerbate this problem. Which is why those who can go to buy and consume the water of others. " China is the most striking example: in Beijing is known for its arable land. But the chronic lack of springs and rivers has convinced the government for some years to take the careful policy of acquiring land abroad (from Cuba to Mexico, Australia to Russia to Uganda and Tanzania) which allowed to raise the red flag on almost 3 million hectares around the world.
The problem is clear (and older): The most powerful and richest countries in the future will fill your belly at the expense of poorer ones. Offering in exchange for little more than a mess of pottage. But what can be done to curb this phenomenon? FAO, grappling with a billion people who suffer from hunger (a number that is growing rather than decrease), proposed to initiate a plan for emergency aid for agriculture in less developed countries not to force them to hang the sign " Sale "on their land. Too bad that the big names in the financial crisis the G-8 will not even find the money to remedy the chasms open their creative financing.
Science has the recipe: if the land can not expand, explain pragmatically in universities, you can try to make them more. "Today 30% of agricultural production is lost to diseases like stress and lack of water - said Tonelli - a huge sum. You manage to make plants more resistant to drought or recover the marginal land for cultivation to discourage the affordability of land for shopping abroad. " A perhaps more effective market response to the appeals of the FAO. The scientific knowledge to arrive at these results, inter alia, through the sequencing of genomes, there are already. But the resistance to genetic modification, the drop in research funding and the lengthy process of approval does not authorize us to hope for a rapid solution to the food needs of the scientific world.
The way is narrow and therefore it is in this subtle ridge plunging everyone from governments to finance as buccaneers Heilberg. Agriculture? I do not understand anything - he admitted a number of Jarc, former manager of the stricken insurer AIG, after shopping in Sudan - I just know that this is fertile ground in an unstable area. And when the situation is quiet, with demand for these assets as there is around the world, we will big business. " No remorse for having negotiated with a warlord. "I know that Paulino has killed many people - has confessed to the Financial Times - but has to defend his people."
Pecunia non olet, money has no smell. "I have every day under the noses of the world map to go to new opportunities - Heilberg concludes - and I'm already looking to Darfur." The neo-colonialism - a fine art - even now unable to fight its wars in the armies of others.

Ettore Livin, La Repubblica, January 31, 2009

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Dambisa Moyo slams aid dictators and save condemn private Berlusconi Africa

"The Western aid to 'Africa had the only effect of transforming a land already in a poor yet poorer. Today 50% of Africans live on less than a dollar a day, twenty 'years ago the percentage was half. " Dambisa Moyo, 40, born and raised in Lusaka, capital of Zambia, may be the personification of redemption of a continent: a degree in political science at Harvard, PhD in finance at Oxford, the first economist to the World Bank and then at Goldman Sachs, was included by Time magazine (edition of 'May 11) the one hundred Most Influential People of the world next to Barack Obama and Paul Krugman. She came to Turin invited by the School of the formation of 'UN to give a lecture on leadership. Assertive, confident, respected and applauded. But exudes bitterness: "In I could not return to Zambia. I go four times a 'year, I have my parents there and the whole family, but that work would I do? "And all this, he argues, is due to a cornucopia of handouts with which the developed world takes to the snare' Africa. Now he has written a book, Dead Aid, which reverses the positions of the Live Aid: argues that the measures do more harm than good to 'Africa. In fact, the 'year called the' antibiotic. But what do all these bad artists who raise funds for the 'Africa? After all is money, and money are being built schools, hospitals, infrastructure ... "Look, all these celebrities, Bono, Bob Geldorf, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, meanwhile, will make a great publicity at the expense of ' Africa. Then they claim to speak on behalf of the African countries in international forums, where each country has its own government should be able to express the features of the country it represents. Still, they do filter out a negative message ever: the 'Africa is a continent of only their second war, disease, disasters of all kinds. Now, do not say that the situation is the 'opposite, let alone, but something positive is happening as well. Finally, and this is the real issue, whether the funds collected by them end up in that great cauldron of aid that is the real tragedy of 'Africa'. Here is the central point: the aid hurt. But it is not a contradiction in terms? "I'll answer with a fact. Over the past 60 years subsidies have been paid for more than one million dollars. Do you think these have served to improve the living conditions of the continent? The situation has not only deteriorated but has sunk beyond any reasonable limit. This is all the more galling when you consider that 60% of Africans, who are more than a billion people, has less than 24 years. It's a huge youth, which would be full of enthusiasm, enthusiasm, activism. But it is inside a disheartening reality that can not go out from the abyss. " What is the mechanism by which the aid was turned into a loss? "The first and most well known is that they end in the pockets of unscrupulous and bloodthirsty dictators instead of being distributed to the population. The only Mobutu, President of Zaire from 1965 to 1997, he stole at least $ 5 billion to his country. But the examples are 'infinite. For those staying closer to home, last month the president of Malawi, Bakili Muluzi, has been accused of having pocketed 12 million dollars in aid. It 's former president of my country, Zambia, Frederick Chiluba, who was a favorite from' the West for all the years of his rule from 1991 to 2001, is still involved in a court case under the 'accused of embezzling millions of dollars to health and education facilities which they were intended. And what about Mugabe's Zimbabwe, or dittatorelli many others scattered across the continent? At least to Mugabe's aid is frozen, but for all the others continue to flow completely out of control. Are European or American taxpayers 'money: in the words of the' Hungarian economist Peter Bauer means exclude it from the pockets of the poor in rich countries to squeeze into those of the rich in poor countries. " His accusation, however, goes far beyond ... "Even abstracting from these perverse cases, helps determine everything that would call for a mechanism of welfare. Here, the 'Africa is a continent under a system of welfare. Governments are demotivated by 'taking the initiative of real development, real growth of the industrial, agricultural and services, because they know that soon, however, will be refinanced by the generous West. Think Meanwhile, rather than to create armies powerful because they are always handy to those in power, and then some amoeboid bureaucratic structures that have the sole purpose of preserving the status quo, because the present condition is the one most suitable: remain underdeveloped because it will come soon other aid, and then another and then another. The rulers lose all their time courting potential donors, further interest in domestic affairs. It is a circuit that takes away the dignity of welfare evil, does not help the growth and it is essential to break. " But how? She includes in her book 's hypothesis freeze all aid to five years ... "Yes, but it would probably be more realistic take a clear timetable, and to set country by country one day, starting from the least poor of course, in which aid ceases. To think 'India: in 2004 the government asked to' stop sending aid to the West. Since then the country has become one of the most extraordinary examples of development of the planet. " But can not deny that aid has succeeded in bringing many children to school, and dramatic diseases have been defeated ... "But in fact there are cases of genuine emergency and humanitarian aid where needed, such as d 'hand in the world. But these are a fraction of the avalanche of cash flows that affect Africa 's not provide a platform for sustainable long- term. I show mainly of direct aid from government to government. It has become a huge business where everyone gains except the 'Africa: the "worthy" American foundations, multinational food, non-governmental organizations. " Even the NGOs? "You know what the funds allocated by these companies actually end up to the African people? 20%. Not to mention the support mechanisms for the food: the subsidies do not go directly to the country but the big corporations. Which they are charged with crops grown in America and then sent via cargo in Africa. But would not it be more logical and much less expensive because subsidizing African farmers grow fruits and grains on the spot? And the mechanisms European agricultural policy are just somewhat different. This tension instead of being spread, it makes countries vulnerable both in terms of economic security: from 'start of' years there were already four coups in Guinea, GuineaBissau, Mauritania and Madagascar. " So, what suggestions would you give to those who genuinely want to help, do not subsidize, the 'Africa? 'C' is real need for investments, production activities that feed on the ground and patterns of trade playing field. That's what China has begun to do, probably because divorced from any colonial past. For example there are already fifteen stock exchanges in Africa, and there should take the 'West, in' encourage the emergence of new markets, not only of actions but of the bonds. Then lineeguida should be studied and to make attractive for productive investments in these lands, and where appropriate fund them with techniques like that of microfinance Gremeen Bank of Bangladesh. Today the average for countries to undertake a 'work it takes two years and dozens of permits. In America, the days are 40. Here, here and in many other cases we must work together. More rain to help. " Dambisa Moyo, formed an economist at Harvard and Oxford, lives in London, where he worked for eight years until last fall in the debt capital markets department of Goldman Sachs, and New York where he serves on the board of the Lundin for Africa Foundation, which is investing $ 100 million in initiatives of "microfinance" in Africa, seen as a first step and then channeling more investment and good value. Among his studies, research on African currencies, and the criteria to avoid too heavy a debt in Western currencies which exposes these countries to the turmoil in currency markets as well as promoting the 'domestic inflation.

Eugene occurred, "la Repubblica Affari & Finanza 'May 18, 2009

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Summit - Putin to talk energy

The festival, which will last three days, spent in the fabulous residence - chair legs and snouts are gold - on the bank of Valdai lake in the woods south of St. Petersburg. Not even a visit Real nice Rania of Jordan in Rome Sivle Berlusconi managed to convince him to change his program. The Italian prime minister is on Tuesday with his counterpart and friend Vladimir Putin in Russia.
This is a visit secret and very private, "in which they drink vodka and talk about politics, business and other things. In theory, the two heads of government meet in the residence in the Valdai lake to celebrate 57 years of Russian Prime Minister (even if he has made on October 7). M the central theme of the energy, and more in the pipeline cocnreto South Sream, the joint venture formed by the Russian Gazprom and Italy's Eni oil. An alliance that irritates and worries the United States Brussels.
Yesterday the opposition to the Berlusconi government has described the visit as "unworthy of a democratic country." "In what country in the world-wonders Francesco Rutelli - it can happen that a Prime Minister undertakes a secret trip to see the leader of one of the most important?". The former Communist Massimo D'Alema added ironically: "Berlusconi traveled to Russia more than the old leaders of the PCI."
The certainty is that the friendship between Putin and Berlusconi is solid. Representatives of the two European countries where the gangs are more powerful than agreed in 2003, during a visit by Putin at Villa Certosa, that Eni would be associated with Gazprom to develop the South Stream project, a new gas pipeline that will from the Russian Black Sea to Bulgaria.
With Veronica Lario, including spaghetti and famous songs of John Denver, Berlusconi and Putin agreed in 2017 to 2017 to extend the sale of gas (3000 million cubic meters of natural gas) and decided that this would come in Italy through a third company.
The solution gave an old friend of Berlusconi, Bruno Mentasti Granelli, former partner and head of President Tele + San Pellegrino mineral water. After selling the water company Mentasti created by Central Energy Italy and became the confidant of Berlusconi and Gazprom. As published in Il Sole 24 Ore, Energy Central is actually controlled "by Russian authorities, many of them linked to Gazprom."
South Stream will split into two branches, one will arrive in Brindisi (Puglia) through Greece and the channel of Otranto, with a detour to Albania, the other will pass through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary and will be up to Vienna. They leave out Romania, which is now trying desperately to join the project.
The U.S. fears about South Stream are enormous. In his first interview to an Italian media convex, the new U.S. ambassador in Rome, David Thorne, showed his concern about "excessive energy dependence" Italian.

Gazprom itself has calculated that when the two pipelines are in operation, Europe's energy dependence on Russia will surpass 33%.
The expert Marshall Goldman of Harvard University warned that "all European states that procurement of gas from Russian pipelines will be at the mercy of the will of the Kremlin."
Washington fears that then starts to strangle the South Stream gas pipeline Nabucco, which has its support which I know are added in June, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Hungary and Austria in the presence of European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso. Nabucco would carry Russian gas to Europe through the Azerbaiyan.
The third contention is North Stream project, which must unite Russia with Germany via the Baltic and that could begin to bring gas from the end 2011, if they cooperate coastal countries. Sweden for the moment refused to surrender its territorial waters. How
informed a spokesman for the Russian government, the former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President of the North Stream, not to the party of Putin and Berlusconi, as he published the newspaper of the family of Italian Prime Minister, the Journal. In 2007, when he was opposition leader, Berlusconi twice visited the residence of Putin and Schroeder who treated them both with Chirac, former French president. In
policy Berlusconi to Russia does not seem to have much opinion of his foreign minister, Franco Frattini. The Financial Times pointed out that Italy knew the concern of Member United for the South Stream project last week, during the visit of Minister of Economic Development, Claudio Scajola, in Washington. Frattini denied saying that Italy is diversifying its imports, as shown lafirma on Monday in Milan, the agreement between the oil company Eni and Turkish Calik to plant another gas pipeline from the Black Sea to the Turkish Mediterranean coast. Igor Sechin, Russian deputy, said that Russia is prepared to inject gas in this pipeline.

The controversy of intelligence

Il Corriere della Sera on October 6 said that Berlusconi, "convinced that there was an international conspiracy against him, wants to know who directs the wire," and asked for help from the secret services of a friendly power, but not an ally.
stated that the news, accused of scandal and constitutional crisis in the open with the other branches of government, Berlusconi had used to know a friend Vladimir Putin, a former member of the KGB.
For 24 hours, Berlusconi has not refuted this information to the leading Italian daily, until the end was forced to do so when the opposition threatened to question him in parliament. But just a week after the period of the Berlusconi family, "the newspaper brought to light an old secret service files of the Czechoslovak and accused of spying Augias Corrado, a veteran Communist collaborator and now de" La Repubblica ". As noted by Joseph
d? surplus in this newspaper, some men of confidence in Berlusconi revealed hours before the news of the Courier that the real objective of Putin Berlusconi aid was given out over the communist past of the head of state Giorgio Napolitano

Miguel Mora, "El Pais" of October 21, 2008
translated by Francesco Palmeri

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The sluggish recovery that will weaken the greenback

At the end of World War II the United States found themselves in the fortunate position of being able to dictate from the top of their undisputed position of winners and more economic power (they had 50% of world GDP and most of the gold reserves, as well as huge debts owed to Britain and other countries) the conditions under which they wanted to see rebuilt the international economic system. Among the conditions imposed to the countries that defeated Germany, Italy and Japan was the reopening of trade in accordance with rules of multilateralism, single rate and exchange rate low enough to elicit current exports from these countries. Then they had the intelligence to open their markets to products from those countries.
Given their enormous economic power, it was feared that they would invade with their goods to European markets. This did not happen because the U.S. had a huge domestic demand to be met, given that their citizens had amassed great savings because the war had reached full employment and the production of war had reduced the availability of consumer durables. By the end of the war
consumption exploded American industry was committed to producing for the domestic market. When the defeated countries were again able to export the American market was so desirous of goods and so full of money, to accommodate their products.
They expected global hunger dollars. But this did not last long, because the Americans began in the late forties the gigantic Marshall aid program and because it also gave, after the start of the Cold War, to cover the entire world with military bases, also providing military aid to the costly allies, in very favorable terms. So fell through the hunger for dollars and the dollar began instead a loss of value against other major currencies, boosted also by the trade surplus with the United States defeated the three countries began to accumulate. No reason for not wanting to reevaluate their currencies at the end of the fifties they began to accumulate dollars and gold, that the United States freely sold at a fixed rate of $ 35 an ounce.
When the U.S. gold reserves began to decline dramatically, not to cover up the movement of more dollars in paper, scattered over the world entries on the likely devaluation of the dollar. A nice change from the situation at the end of the war, only fifteen years earlier. Date those years the debate on the need to replace the dollar with a basket of currencies, the debate preceding the fluctuation of the dollar since August 1971 and continues to this day.
Today, however, the main creditors of the United States are all in the Middle and Far East (except for Russia, but is selling quickly accumulated reserves from the proceeds of the caropetrolio 20,072,008). Do not be so surprised if they are to keep alive the debate on the future of the dollar. In particular, the greatest creditor of the United States, China, pursuing a reasonable campaign to gain more power in international institutions. He wants, for example, that its share of the IMF is very increased and probably also wants to replace Strauss Khan at the head of that body is a Chinese. The Chinese ruling class, in addition, is not united in its internal relation to the strategy to be followed against the dollar. None of them want to detract from it too quickly and deeply. But there are "hawks" who would prefer to use the threat of the sale of government bonds in the hands of Americans to China to obtain several advantages on other tables of the continuous negotiation that China conducts with the United States.
So we saw the Chinese central bank governor propose the plan of special drawing rights, to replace the dollar as the basis of the international monetary system, so We see several prominent Chinese come forward and comment on the U.S. financial slump severely. But, as everyone knows, the Chinese are in no hurry. The world has made off in their hand, and they know they have more cards in hand most of the other players on the world stage.
This is not however equally true when one considers the position of the major oil-producing countries of the Middle East. They do not have the feeling that things revolve in one way in their favor. First, because oil prices at present are above the level of pure trade balance, and were again driven from forty U.S. dollars last year, to the actual values \u200b\u200bby a pick- Speculation is rising. If this fails, go back down to levels far less profitable. But what most worries the Gulf countries is the foreign policy of the Obama administration. The Saudis, in particular, fear that Obama will start to make too many concessions to Iran and that this reinforced the Shiite faction in the area. Recall that the territories where are the Saudi oil fields are inhabited by Shiite populations and that the current U.S. vice president, Joseph Biden, was the author in recent years of a plan to split into three parts of Saudi Arabia, which was given to Shiites control the oil wells.
What I said about the price of oil is worth even more to what relation to the markets of raw materials. There, the reasons for the high prices have failed, because the current conditions of the offer agree with much lower prices. As is known, since it intervened in the mass speculation in these markets, an expected depreciation of the dollar leads almost automatically to a strong upward effect on these prices, because the raw materials are seen as stores of value, just like gold, to buy when the dollar is wavering.
So, as to think the worst usually you can guess, it is possible that authorities, fearing a collapse of the dollar, to create in the speculators who have positions in the commodities markets is a primary incentive to renew these positions, instead of selling them, as I said the short-term forecasts on the market of these goods.
The decline of the dollar may have also influenced the finding that anyone can do, that the U.S. financial system, which was to end the crisis deeply reformed, but continues without its main defects been rectified. Investment banks have become commercial banks, so they can receive public money, but having been using it to manage huge speculative positions, at great risk, from which they began to make great profits again.
The derivatives markets have not been reorganized as a centralized markets, but still, for what little that is combined in this area, as the sum of individual transactions of "custom", on which all but ignores those who manage earns a lot. In addition, there is no guarantee that the market for home loans in America survives only because it was nationalized, since the major brokers have been saved and are now owned by the government and the Federal Reserve. If you try to re-privatized, everything can fall again.
This series of considerations may help to explain the weakness of the dollar. It has become a structural since the U.S. economy is stagnating because of the crisis, while those of emerging economies (the BRICs) are continuing their course, In a few years in the U.S. will produce yes and no 20% of world GDP and will be even less true today that a large part of international transactions as a counterparty will the United States.
Since those who govern America knows that this scenario is certainly more than likely, and he knows just as well those who govern China, both sides in the near future we will try to make a gradual passing of the baton in the international monetary field. The American financial circles also will try to mediate this change. But it can not consist in the purchase, the Chinese side, investment banks and U.S. investment funds, as was the case of the U.S. relay team England. Consist instead, provided that the devil we do not put the tail causing some unexpected and ruinous crisis, in a gradual return to a public organization of international finance, the reform of the IMF and the introduction of some form of global currency, the type of special drawing rights, with the Chinese claim that their trading partners that their transactions are carried out in that currency composite.
In the short term, however, to go in between, if the dollar gave ground, will be the Euro, the only other currency that is not required to a level considered affordable by the central bank that issues it. The ECB has no reservations or political mandate to do so. So, Chinese, Saudis, speculators in commodities sent down the dollar and the euro rise is only the course. Bad news for industrial workers and Germans and Italians, who are trying to recover from the blow suffered in 2008 \\ 2009.

Marcello De Cecco, La Repubblica Affari & Finanza ', October 12, 2009

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Billion without food

As in all battles, there are reports that count the victims. Those who fight hunger in the world now has a number that has become the flag of defeat. A figure - one billion malnourished people on Earth - that alone sums up how little they served in recent years appeals, protests, and proclamations vertices. Counting the latest report of the FAO - 1.02 billion of "hungry" - evokes scenarios of past eras, but is instead a photograph of the increase in inequality and inefficiency of the policies of development aid. Never in the history of humanity from hunger has affected a population so large and widespread geographically, although today's experts have been saying that there would be enough resources and technology to feed everyone on the planet.
compared to last year there are over 100 million men, women and children who have to settle for less than 1,800 calories per day, considered the "frontier of hunger." A sixth of all humanity eats the equivalent of two bowls of cereal, while another billion people are children of the "fast food nations "and overweight. The lack of food remains a scourge of poor countries, with the primacy of the Asian continent (642 million hungry people, +10.5 percent), Africa (307 million, +12.5) and to 'Latin America (53 million, +12.8). But the novelty is that the economic downturn has caused an increase in malnourished people even in rich countries. Indeed, the highest percentage increase (15.4) was just in the "First World", where there are now 15 million people who suffer from hunger. In 2000 there were 2 billion hungry people in the metropolis in 2030 will double. The FAO report also refutes the theory of the Indian Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen according to which democracies do not produce famines because they allow the free expression of social protest. Hunger seems to have a spectrum by which the most advanced societies are forced to live with. The
2009 thus marks a point of no return. Jacques Diouf, President of FAO, has no trouble identifying the culprit. The recession and the financial storm that has committed the government to mobilize billions in the rescue of banking systems. "The same strong public action", said Diouf, "would serve to combat hunger." Food insecurity - as is defined by a few years the chronic lack of food - has increased even more with the global crisis. Many poor countries have suffered widespread declines exports, foreign investment, development aid and remittances from emigrants even in the richest countries. In 2007 the seventeen major economies of Latin America from abroad had received 184 billion dollars in revenue funds: we are now at 44 billion.
For Jeffrey Sachs, an economist who led the UN Millennium Project, the emergency food has four causes. "The first is a chronically low productivity of farmers in poorer countries, because they can not afford to purchase seeds and fertilizers, or to have access to irrigation. The second is the wrong policy of supporting biofuels pursued by Member U.S. and European Union. The third is climate change. The fourth is the growth in global demand for food caused by rising incomes in some populations such as China and India. "
The paradox is that until the nineties were scored important victories in the battle against hunger. Since 1969, when FAO started collecting data, there were 878 million malnourished people. Since then, the statistical curve is slowly decreased until 1995, when he began the ascent, and then the surge of the last five years. "In that moment was a turning point," says Marco De Ponte, secretary general of the NGO ActionAid. "Food is officially become a commodity like any other, then subjected to fluctuations and market uncertainties. " In 1996, there is also the first World Food Summit in Rome, with the solemn commitment of the Heads of State and Government to halve hunger in the world, up to 425 million people by 2015, a promise reiterated in the Millennium Summit of 2000 and in all subsequent summits. Too bad that in the meantime that goal has moved away instead of closer.
"I think conversely that in recent years we have seen positive examples," says De Ponte, "such as China and Brazil." The Beijing government has succeeded in reducing the number of malnourished people with a better distribution of agricultural land, while Brazil's President Lula has allocated funds for its food banks and the "Fome Zero". "It shows that you can fight and win," concluded the head of Action Aid, who yesterday presented a sort of controrapporto on world hunger, giving report cards to the commitments of governments. Italy appears in fourteenth place. "During the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Silvio Berlusconi had promised 400 million to combat hunger, unfortunately, this commitment has not been included in the budget," says Marta Guglielmetti, marketing representative for the UN on the Millennium Goals. "Even on development still remain at 0.10 percent of GDP, slightly lower than in the past and well below the target set to 0.51 in 2010. "
Food insecurity threatens to turn into insecurity tout court. "In the future, hunger and famine caused new conflicts," wrote the scholar Joachim von Braun in a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. In 1960 every human being had available 4,300 square feet on the planet for subsistence food. Today we are down to 2,200 and in 2030 our "living space" will be only 1,800 square meters. According to the American think tank, to ensure peace food production expected to double by 2050, when we will be 9 billion people on Earth. Another factor that
does not lead to optimism is the inflation of food. In poorer areas of the planet, to buy essential food to a family of five now must work an average of ten hours more per week. After the blaze of 2007 and 2008 it was thought that prices would come down again. Not so. Even the recession has calmed prices. Between December and June, the index compiled by the Economist on the price of food has risen by a third. And not for lack of supply. The grain harvest would be plentiful this year: 2.2 billion tons, after the record of 2.3 billion in 2008. But the demand is steadily rising and many experts think that the cost of food will never return to 2006 levels. The high agricultural prices have not even claimed the millions of poor farmers, providing incentives for increased production. The cereal harvest in Africa is on average about one tonne per hectare, compared to three or four tons per hectare in Europe.
"We need emergency action, with good food, aid and safety nets, and a medium-term program of support for peasant agriculture," said the president of FAO addressed the Heads of State and Government who will be in Rome 16 to 18 November for a new World Food Summit. It will be good to remember that the battles are not won with words alone.

Anais Ginori La Repubblica, October 15, 2009