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CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Corte Costituzionale<br />

Il rischio di un'anarchia continentale, 4<br />



Il nome di D'Ambrosio nell'inchiesta sulla trattativa tra Stato e Mafia, 6<br />

Reuters General - Notícias<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Supreme Court<br />

Arizona deputy tells court he risked life for Hispanic immigrant, 7<br />



BAA loses appeal over enforced Stansted airport sale, 8<br />



UPDATE 1-BAA loses appeal over enforced Stansted airport sale, 9<br />



Madoff trustee seeks to pay up to $2.4 bln to victims, 10<br />

Süddeutsche Zeitung - Politik<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Verfassungsgericht<br />

Jungsozialisten kämpfen gegen Vorratsdaten , 11<br />



Regierung will noch im August über Wahlrecht verhandeln , 12<br />

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Corriere Della Será/ - Home, Qui, 26 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Corte Costituzionale)<br />

Il rischio di un'anarchia continentale<br />

L'euro sarà pure irreversibile, come spiega il<br />

presidente della Bce Mario Draghi: rimane,<br />

tuttavia, un mistero perché l'Europa non<br />

compia gli interventi decisivi per superare la<br />

crisi dei debiti sovrani e mettere in sicurezza<br />

la sua moneta. L'idea che occorra fare presto,<br />

rompere gli indugi, non fa breccia nei dirigenti<br />

politici che agiscono come se la storia fosse<br />

una linea ascendente senza fine. E se questa<br />

retta venisse improvvisamente interrotta? Il<br />

paragone è ardito, ma la crisi finanziaria di<br />

quest'estate ha diversi punti in contatto con<br />

gli sconvolgimenti che, quasi cent'anni orsono<br />

nel luglio 1914, trascinarono l'Europa in<br />

un'immane tragedia. Allora il buon senso e la<br />

saggezza furono vittime di molte circostanze<br />

negative: l'ottusità dei governi che, di<br />

ultimatum in ultimatum, resero inevitabile il<br />

conflitto, la cecità delle élites incapaci di<br />

recuperare il comune interesse europeo, la<br />

caparbietà degli stati maggiori che dettarono<br />

l'agenda alla politica, la convinzione che la<br />

vita quotidiana sarebbe andata avanti senza<br />

cambiamenti, la mancanza di fiducia che<br />

trasformò difficili interlocutori in acerrimi<br />

nemici.<br />

Manca ancora l'equivalente del detonatore di<br />

Sarajevo: chissà, potrebbe essere, fra non<br />

molto, la bancarotta della Grecia. Colpisce<br />

che, oggi, questi contrassegni si ripresentino<br />

in maniera simile: basta mettere il mondo<br />

finanziario al posto di quello militare,<br />

soffermarsi sulla priorità data dai governi<br />

all'interesse particolare, registrare la spocchia<br />

di alcuni atteggiamenti, constatare<br />

l'incapacità di compiere previsioni attendibili.<br />

Nel 1914, il risultato fu una guerra mondiale.<br />

Adesso, l'esito rischia di essere un'anarchia<br />

continentale con effetti globali. Anche in un<br />

Paese equilibrato come la Germania si<br />

moltiplicano episodi sconcertanti: Philipp<br />

Roessler, vice Cancelliere e ministro<br />

dell'economia, non si scompone di fronte alla<br />

prospettiva dell'uscita della Grecia all'euro; la<br />

Corte costituzionale di Karlsruhe si è assunta,<br />

oltre il ragionevole, il ruolo di nume tutelare<br />

della democrazia tedesca; il quotidiano Bild è<br />

diventato un catalizzatore d'euroscetticismo.<br />

Delude la politica di bottega di un Paese che<br />

dovrebbe avere l'istinto strategico europeo<br />

nel sangue.<br />

Di fronte al brutto spettacolo della politica<br />

europea succube dei mercati e costruttrice di<br />

strategie sempre inadeguate, all'accanimento<br />

contro Spagna e Italia, la lucidità cede il<br />

passo all'angoscia. Cos'altro può provare un<br />

normale cittadino? Dopo il Consiglio Europeo<br />

di fine giugno, sembrava che l'Unione<br />

europea avesse ritrovato una strada unitaria:<br />

invece deliberazioni definitive vengono<br />

rimesse continuamente in discussione. Non si<br />

capisce perché ogni tappa successiva debba<br />

essere così defatigante: passi per l'Esm<br />

(nuovo fondo salva-Stati) bloccato dalla Corte<br />

tedesca, ma non dovrebbe essere<br />

impossibile accelerare la realizzazione<br />

dell'unione bancaria. Lo stesso vale per<br />

un'unione finanziaria, fiscale economica,<br />

politica. Perché fra anni e non prima? Tutto<br />

procede pericolosamente a rilento.<br />

È indispensabile dimostrare una capacità<br />

d'indirizzo dell'Europa anche in questo fiacco<br />

periodo estivo. La minaccia di una<br />

conflagrazione pesa sulle nostre teste. È<br />

inutile scervellarsi sulla possibilità d'azioni<br />

alternative per uscire dalla crisi. Non esistono<br />

nuove politiche, fughe dalla realtà, tatticismi<br />

della furbizia. L'Italia ha un percorso<br />

obbligato: accelerare la realizzazione delle<br />

decisioni comuni, evitare contrapposizioni,<br />

spingere la Germania ad assumersi le proprie<br />

responsabilità, operare per un rafforzamento<br />

dei poteri della Bce, contrastare la politica dei<br />

piccoli passi sul piano europeo. Mario Monti<br />

fa l'impossibile ma nulla sembra bastare. La<br />

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strada rimarrà in salita perché pesa la<br />

sfiducia accumulatasi negli anni: la credibilità<br />

si conquista. Eppure, la politica non trova il<br />

passo giusto per affrontare la crisi. Invece di<br />

proclamare ad alta voce che il risanamento,<br />

l'ammodernamento delle strutture politiche e<br />

finanziarie del Paese costituiscono una<br />

responsabilità storico-civile cui nessuno<br />

intende sottrarsi, linguaggio e comportamenti<br />

rimangono disdicevoli, colpevolmente<br />

partigiani, provinciali. Quanti vaniloqui insulsi<br />

provengono dal parlamento! Ma questo è<br />

solo un aspetto del problema. L'Italia si porta<br />

dietro un peso immane: una corruzione<br />

sconosciuta in altri Paesi d'Europa, una<br />

diffusa sciatteria, una capitale, Roma,<br />

incapace di reggere il confronto con gli altri<br />

centri del potere occidentale, realtà urbane<br />

(da Napoli a Palermo) immerse nel degrado<br />



profondo, regioni amministrate con<br />

dissennatezza, una televisione pubblica<br />

responsabile dell'ineducazione diffusa. Fa<br />

proprio rabbia pensare che non è il destino<br />

ad averci portato in questo vicolo cieco ma un<br />

cumulo d'errori che si potevano evitare. Il<br />

rimedio richiede un ritorno a valori etici e<br />

politici di cui si vedono scarse tracce. E'<br />

impossibile andare in vacanza con<br />

spensieratezza. C'è da sperare che le classi<br />

dirigenti - espresse dal governo, dai partiti,<br />

dalle forze economiche e sociali,<br />

dall'informazione, dalla cultura, dalla società<br />

civile- approfittino dell'agosto per ritrovare<br />

senso di responsabilità e gusto del bene<br />

comune. La priorità dell'Italia è di tenere la<br />

rotta. Null'altro conta.<br />

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Il nome di D'Ambrosio nell'inchiesta sulla<br />

trattativa tra Stato e Mafia<br />

La difesa del Colle e il conflitto di poteri<br />

davanti la Consulta<br />

MILANO - Il nome di Loris D'Ambrosio è<br />

uscito dall'ombra del suo ruolo di consigliere<br />

giuridico del Colle nelle ultime settimane.<br />

Quando sono trapelate sui giornali le<br />

indiscrezioni sull'inchiesta sulla presunta<br />

trattativa Stato-mafia. In diverse circostanze<br />

era stato intercettato mentre conversava col<br />

senatore ed ex vice presidente del Csm<br />

Nicola Mancino. L'ex ministro dell'Interno era<br />

preoccupato per l'inchiesta e soprattutto per<br />

le presunte incongruenze che gli erano state<br />

contestate. Alla fine, infatti, la procura della<br />

Repubblica di Palermo ha chiesto il suo rinvio<br />

a giudizio per falsa testimonianza. All'epoca<br />

delle conversazioni intercettate, nella<br />

primavera scorsa, aveva più volte chiesto<br />

l'intervento del Colle, soprattutto attraverso<br />

D'Ambrosio, sollecitando pressioni e<br />

suggerendo come possibile strada il<br />

coordinamento tra le procure di Palermo e<br />

Caltanissetta, che si occupavano entrambe,<br />

ma per motivi e su questioni diverse, della<br />

strage di via D'Amelio.<br />

L'INTERROGATORIO - Sentito dai pm<br />

palermitani, D'Ambrosio lo disse chiaramente<br />

nell'interrogatorio dello scorso 16 maggio: «Io<br />

vorrei dire che il presidente Mancino telefona<br />

tutti i santi giorni su questa... perché lui si<br />

sente costantemente sotto pressione». Da<br />

parte sua il consigliere del Colle non ha mai<br />

commesso irregolarità. Si è al massimo fatto<br />

latore di messaggi presso il presidente<br />

Napolitano e altri magistrati, riferendo le<br />

richieste di Mancino. Nei suoi confronti non è<br />

quindi mai stata levata alcuna contestazione,<br />

ed è stato sentito dai pm palermitani che<br />

indagano sulla stagione delle stragi che<br />

seguirono la morte di Paolo Borsellino<br />

soltanto nelle vesti di persona informata sui<br />

fatti.<br />

LA DIFESA DEL QUIRINALE - Il 16 giugno<br />

scorso il Quirinale sottolineava, in una nota,<br />

«in relazione ad alcuni commenti di stampa<br />

sul contenuto di intercettazioni di colloqui<br />

telefonici tra il senatore Mancino e uno dei<br />

consiglieri del Presidente della Repubblica»,<br />

che «parlare a questo proposito di misteri del<br />

Quirinale è soltanto risibile». Per «stroncare<br />

ogni irresponsabile illazione sul seguito dato<br />

dal Capo dello Stato a delle telefonate e ad<br />

una lettera del senatore Mancino in merito<br />

alle indagini che lo coinvolgono», veniva reso<br />

noto il testo di una lettera inviata dal<br />

Segretario generale della Presidenza, Donato<br />

Marra al Procuratore generale presso la<br />

Corte di Cassazione in cui si sottolineava tra<br />

l'altro che «il Senatore Nicola Mancino si<br />

duole del fatto che non siano state fin qui<br />

adottate forme di coordinamento» delle<br />

attività degli uffici giudiziari che indagano<br />

sulla vicenda.<br />

IL CONFLITTO DI POTERI - Un mese più<br />

tardi, il 16 luglio scorso, il Presidente della<br />

Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano ha affidato<br />

all'avvocato generale dello Stato l'incarico di<br />

rappresentare la Presidenza della Repubblica<br />

nel giudizio per conflitto di attribuzione da<br />

sollevare dinanzi alla Corte Costituzionale<br />

nei confronti della Procura della Repubblica<br />

di Palermo «per le decisioni che questa ha<br />

assunto su intercettazioni di conversazioni<br />

telefoniche del Capo dello Stato». Decisioni<br />

che il Presidente ha considerato, «anche se<br />

riferite a intercettazioni indirette, lesive di<br />

prerogative attribuitegli dalla Costituzione».<br />

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Reuters General/ - Notícias, Qui, 26 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)<br />

Arizona deputy tells court he risked life<br />

for Hispanic immigrant<br />

(Reuters) - A deputy from a controversial<br />

Arizona sheriff's office fought off accusations<br />

of racial profiling by telling a court on<br />

Thursday that he had gone as far as risking<br />

his life to rescue a Hispanic illegal immigrant<br />

from kidnappers.<br />

Carlos Rangel told a civil trial alleging<br />

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his<br />

office engage in racially profiling Latinos that,<br />

at the behest of federal immigration police, he<br />

played the role of the immigrant's relative to<br />

meet kidnappers. They were subsequently<br />

arrested and the immigrant was released.<br />

In cross examination defense counsel Tom<br />

Liddy asked Rangel if he risked his life<br />

protecting a Hispanic who was not from the<br />

United States, Rangel said: "Yes." Liddy<br />

asked Rangel if he was an "anti-Hispanic<br />

bigot", to which he replied "No. I am not."<br />

Arpaio, who styles himself "America's<br />

toughest sheriff," is on trial in U.S. District<br />

Court in Phoenix in a class-action lawsuit that<br />

will test whether police can target illegal<br />

immigrants without racially profiling Hispanic<br />

citizens and legal residents.<br />

The 80-year-old lawman testified this week<br />

he was against "anyone racial profiling" and<br />

denied his office arrested "people because of<br />

the color of their skin."<br />

The sheriff, who is seeking re-election to a<br />

sixth term in November, has been a lightning<br />

rod for controversy over his aggressive<br />

enforcement of immigration laws in the state,<br />

which borders Mexico, as well as his<br />

investigation into the validity of President<br />

Barack Obama's U.S. birth certificate.<br />

Arizona was in the news last month when the<br />

U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key element<br />

of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants<br />

requiring police to investigate those they stop<br />

and suspect of being in the country illegally.<br />

Arpaio faces a separate, broader lawsuit filed<br />

by the U.S. Justice Department in May,<br />

alleging systematic profiling, sloppy and<br />

indifferent police work and a disregard for<br />

minority rights.<br />

The civil lawsuit being heard in court was<br />

lodged in the name of Manuel Ortega<br />

Melendres, one of five Hispanics who say<br />

they were stopped by deputies because they<br />

were Latino, which Arpaio denies. It was later<br />

opened to all Latino drivers stopped since<br />

2007.<br />

Melendres, a Mexican tourist on a valid visa<br />

in a truck was pulled over ostensibly because<br />

the white driver was speeding. Rangel, who<br />

arrested Melendres, was asked by plaintiffs'<br />

counsel if he had questioned the driver. He<br />

told the court he had no grounds to<br />

investigate the driver.<br />

When asked by Liddy if he had ever racially<br />

profiled anyone while working at the sheriff's<br />

office, Rangel, a 13-year veteran of the force,<br />

replied: "No".<br />

The jury trial before Judge Murray Snow is<br />

expected to run until August 2.<br />

(Editing by Mary Milliken)<br />

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BAA loses appeal over enforced Stansted<br />

airport sale<br />

(Reuters) - British airport operator BAA said it<br />

intended to ask the Supreme Court to<br />

overturn a Competition Commission ruling<br />

forcing it to sell London Stansted airport.<br />

In the latest stage of a long legal battle, the<br />

Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the<br />

Competition Commission's 2009 ruling that<br />

BAA exerted a dominant hold on airports in<br />

Scotland and the southeast of England.<br />

BAA owns London's Heathrow, Europe's<br />

busiest airport, as well as Southampton and<br />

Stansted in England, plus Glasgow and<br />

Aberdeen airports in Scotland.<br />

In April the group agreed to sell Edinburgh<br />

airport to Global Infrastructure Partners,<br />

owner of London's City and Gatwick airports,<br />

for $1.3 billion.<br />

"The CC has welcomed today's Court of<br />

Appeal decision to uphold its decision<br />

requiring BAA to sell Stansted airport," the<br />

CC said in response to the ruling.<br />

A spokesperson for Ferrovial (FER.MC)<br />

owned BAA said the group would now<br />

consider the judgment carefully and intended<br />

to submit an appeal to the Supreme Court,<br />

Britain's highest court.<br />

Stansted, Britain's fourth busiest airport, is a<br />

predominantly low-cost leisure and holiday<br />

hub based some 50 km northeast of central<br />

London. (Reporting by Rhys Jones and Neil<br />

Maidment; Editing by David Cowell)<br />

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UPDATE 1-BAA loses appeal over<br />

enforced Stansted airport sale<br />

* Court of Appeal upholds CC decision to sell<br />

Stansted<br />

* BAA says now intends to appeal to<br />

Supreme Court<br />

(Reuters) - British airport operator BAA said it<br />

intended to ask the Supreme Court to<br />

overturn a Competition Commission ruling<br />

forcing it to sell London Stansted airport.<br />

In the latest stage of a long legal battle, the<br />

Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the<br />

Competition Commission's 2009 ruling that<br />

BAA exerted a dominant hold on airports in<br />

Scotland and the southeast of England.<br />

BAA owns London's Heathrow, Europe's<br />

busiest airport, as well as Southampton and<br />

Stansted in England, plus Glasgow and<br />

Aberdeen airports in Scotland.<br />

In April the group agreed to sell Edinburgh<br />

airport to Global Infrastructure Partners,<br />

owner of London's City and Gatwick airports,<br />

for $1.3 billion.<br />

"The CC has welcomed today's Court of<br />

Appeal decision to uphold its decision<br />

requiring BAA to sell Stansted airport," the<br />

CC said in response to the ruling.<br />

A spokesperson for Ferrovial owned BAA<br />

said the group would now consider the<br />

judgment carefully and intended to submit an<br />

appeal to the Supreme Court, Britain's<br />

highest court.<br />

Stansted, Britain's fourth busiest airport, is a<br />

predominantly low-cost leisure and holiday<br />

hub based some 50 km northeast of central<br />

London.<br />

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Madoff trustee seeks to pay up to $2.4 bln<br />

to victims<br />

(Reuters) - The trustee seeking money for<br />

Bernard Madoff's former clients has asked a<br />

bankruptcy judge to release roughly $1.49<br />

billion to $2.43 billion in recovered funds to<br />

compensate victims, several times more than<br />

they have received so far.<br />

Irving Picard, the trustee, said on Thursday<br />

that the payout would cover more than 1,220<br />

customer accounts, and bring total payments<br />

so far to as much as 50 percent of the claims<br />

currently being allowed.<br />

This would be the second payout to victims of<br />

the Ponzi scheme, which unraveled in late<br />

2008. Picard said he was making the request<br />

to the court now because two legal obstacles<br />

were recently removed.<br />

While the trustee has recovered about $9.14<br />

billion, just $336 million has been distributed<br />

so far. A large chunk of the recoveries have<br />

been put in reserve because of litigation with<br />

victims who contend they are owed more.<br />

The requested payout requires approval by<br />

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland in<br />

Manhattan.<br />

Picard said part of the money included in the<br />

distribution request comes from the $5 billion<br />

forfeited by the estate of Madoff investor<br />

Jeffry Picower. A deadline to appeal the<br />

Picower forfeiture order expired on July 16.<br />

Also, the U.S. Supreme Court last month let<br />

stand a lower court decision upholding<br />

Picard's "net equity" method for calculating<br />

losses of former customers at Madoff's<br />

defunct firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment<br />

Securities LLC.<br />

Picard had measured losses as the difference<br />

between the amounts that customers<br />

deposited and the amounts they withdrew<br />

from the Madoff firm before the fraud was<br />

uncovered. Some customers wanted<br />

recoveries based on their final account<br />

statements, even if the amounts shown were<br />

made up.<br />

David Sheehan, a lawyer for Picard, said in a<br />

statement that some of the remaining<br />

objections are "specious at best." He<br />

nonetheless said the trustee must hold some<br />

money back to account for the objections, at<br />

least until a final court order is in place to<br />

allow for larger distributions.<br />

Picard has estimated that Madoff victims lost<br />

about $20 billion from the fraud.<br />

The trustee has also been appealing<br />

decisions by federal judges in New York that<br />

rejected his claims against large banks that<br />

did business with Madoff and "feeder funds"<br />

that funneled customer money to Madoff.<br />

Madoff, 74, pleaded guilty in March 2009 and<br />

is serving a 150-year sentence in a North<br />

Carolina federal prison.<br />

The case is Securities Investor Protection<br />

Corp. v. Bernard L. Madoff Investment<br />

Securities LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court,<br />

Southern District of New York, No.<br />

08-ap-01789.<br />

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Von Susanne Höll<br />

Süddeutsche Zeitung/ - Politik, Qui, 26 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Verfassungsgericht)<br />

Jungsozialisten kämpfen gegen<br />

Vorratsdaten<br />

Laut offiziellem Parteitagsbeschluss setzt<br />

sich die SPD für eine staatliche<br />

Vorratsdatenspeicherung ein. Zwei<br />

Jungsozialisten wollen das jetzt ändern. Sie<br />

rufen die Basis zur Abstimmung auf.<br />

Der Bundes-SPD steht eine neue<br />

Auseinandersetzung über die<br />

Vorratsdatenspeicherung bevor. Zwei<br />

Jungsozialisten starteten eine<br />

Mitgliederbefragung und wollen erreichen,<br />

dass sich die Partei per Beschluss gegen die<br />

anlasslose Speicherung von Internet- und<br />

Telefondaten ausspricht.<br />

Bislang befürwortet die SPD diese Form der<br />

Datenspeicherung, beim Bundesparteitag in<br />

Berlin Ende 2011 hatte es eine knappe<br />

Mehrheit dafür gegeben. Das wollen die zwei<br />

Jusos Dennis Morhardt und Yasmina<br />

Banaszczuk revidieren und rufen die etwa<br />

500 000 SPD-Mitglieder auf, sich an ihrem<br />

Begehren zu beteiligen.<br />

Wenn sich binnen dreier Monate zehn<br />

Prozent und damit 48 500 eingeschriebene<br />

Parteimitglieder per Brief für ein "Nein" zur<br />

Vorratsdatenspeicherung aussprechen, muss<br />

der Bundesvorstand unter Vorsitz von Sigmar<br />

Gabriel entscheiden, ob er den bisherigen<br />

Parteitagsbeschluss kippt oder ob er eine<br />

Mitgliederentscheidung ansetzt. Am<br />

Mittwoch, einen Tag nach dem Start ihres<br />

Begehrens, wurden nach Angaben Morhardts<br />

37 Unterstützer gezählt.<br />

Netzaktivisten sind zuversichtlich<br />

Der Netzaktivist Morhardt zeigte sich<br />

zuversichtlich, das Quorum von 48 500<br />

Stimmen zu erreichen. In Orts-, Kreis- und<br />

Landesverbänden habe man Unterstützung,<br />

auch im Bund, sagte er. Morhardt rechne<br />

damit, dass im Herbst Bewegung in das<br />

Thema komme, auch weil viele Ortsvereine<br />

erst dann wieder tagen würden.<br />

Auch Experten der Bundes-SPD halten es für<br />

denkbar, dass die beiden Jusos mit ihrer<br />

Aktion "Sozis gegen die<br />

Vorratsdatenspeicherung" Erfolg haben<br />

könnten. Der Innenexperte der<br />

SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Michael Hartmann,<br />

der zusammen mit anderen Innen- und<br />

Rechtspolitikern sowie den meisten<br />

SPD-Landesinnenministern eine<br />

dreimonatige Speicherfrist zur Verfolgung<br />

schwerer Straftaten befürwortet, sagte, diese<br />

Frage sei ein "Bewegungsthema", mit dem<br />

man mobilisieren könne.<br />

Deutschland von EU-Kommission verklagt<br />

Derzeit gibt es keine gesetzlich<br />

vorgeschriebene Datenspeicherung, weil das<br />

Verfassungsgericht 2010 die bis dahin<br />

geltende Regelung gekippt hatte. Union und<br />

FDP konnten sich bisher nicht auf eine<br />

Novelle verständigen, weil die Liberalen<br />

mehrmonatige, anlasslose Speicherungen<br />

ablehnen.<br />

Die EU-Kommission hat Deutschland<br />

inzwischen verklagt, weil es gegen eine<br />

EU-Richtlinie verstößt, die eine sechs<br />

monatige Speicherfrist vorsieht. Initiator<br />

Morhardt sagte, ihm sei klar, dass sich auch<br />

die SPD im Fall einer Regierungsübernahme<br />

an EU-Vorschriften halten müsse. Aber die<br />

EU wolle die Richtlinie überarbeiten, ein Nein<br />

der SPD könnte dabei behilflich sein.<br />

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Regierung will noch im August über<br />

Wahlrecht verhandeln<br />

Jetzt muss es schnell gehen: Damit das<br />

verfassungswidrige Wahlrecht noch vor der<br />

Bundestagswahl 2013 neu geregelt werden<br />

kann, wollen FDP und Union rasch mit der<br />

Opposition in Verhandlungen treten. Die<br />

allerdings dürften zäh werden.<br />

Die Regierung plant eine zügige Neuregelung<br />

des vom Bundesverfassungsgericht<br />

gekippten Wahlgesetzes. "Wir werden als<br />

Koalition aber noch in der zweiten<br />

Augusthälfte mit SPD und Grünen in<br />

Verhandlungen treten", sagte<br />

Unionsfraktionsvize Günter Krings (CDU) der<br />

Welt. Ziel sei es, mit SPD und Grünen zu<br />

einer gemeinsamen Lösung zu kommen.<br />

"Schön wäre es, wenn wir in diesem Jahr<br />

parteiübergreifend zumindest einen<br />

Gesetzentwurf einbringen könnten, damit die<br />

nächste Bundestagswahl rechtlich auf<br />

sicheren Füßen steht."<br />

Diesen Zeitplan bekräftigte auch der<br />

Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der<br />

Unionsfraktion, Michael Grosse-Brömer:<br />

"Unser Angebot steht, bereits Ende<br />

August/Anfang September mit den anderen<br />

Fraktionen in die politischen Verhandlungen<br />

zum Wahlrecht einzutreten", sagte er der<br />

Rheinischen Post. Auf Arbeitsebene werde<br />

das neue Gesetz sofort in Angriff genommen.<br />

Das Gericht habe alle Fraktionen vor eine<br />

Aufgabe gestellt, die überaus kompliziert sei.<br />

Die Verhandlungen allerdings dürften sich<br />

schwierig gestalten. Die SPD stellte klare<br />

Bedingungen für die Neufassung. "Das<br />

Bundesverfassungsgericht hat<br />

Überhangmandate erstmals für<br />

verfassungswidrig erklärt", sagte der<br />

Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der<br />

SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Thomas<br />

Oppermann, der Frankfurter Rundschau. "Wir<br />

werden mit dem Vorschlag, alle<br />

Überhangmandate auszugleichen, in die<br />

Verhandlungen gehen", sagte Oppermann.<br />

Höchstgrenze von 15 Überhangmandaten<br />

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hatte das vor<br />

einigen Monaten reformierte<br />

Bundeswahlgesetz zuvor in zentralen<br />

Punkten für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Das<br />

Wahlrecht muss nun rasch neu gestaltet<br />

werden, damit es bei der kommenden<br />

Bundestagswahl im Herbst 2013 angewendet<br />

werden kann. Die wichtigste Veränderung<br />

betrifft die umstrittenen Überhangmandate,<br />

die zuletzt in erheblicher Zahl anfielen. Bei<br />

der Bundestagswahl 2009 gab es 24<br />

Überhangmandate - alle gingen an die Union.<br />

Das Verfassungsgericht setzte nun eine<br />

"zulässige Höchstgrenze" von 15<br />

Überhangmandaten fest.<br />

Krings kritisierte die vorgegebene Grenze als<br />

willkürlich. "Die Zahl ist eine reine Setzung",<br />

sagte Krings. "Ich fände es schön, wenn das<br />

Gericht die Begründungsanforderungen, die<br />

es in den letzten Jahren ständig an den<br />

Gesetzgeber stellt, selbst genauso ernst<br />

nehmen würde." Dabei verwies er auf Urteile<br />

zur Pendlerpauschale und Hartz IV. Damals<br />

habe das Gericht verlangt, dass die<br />

Gesetzgeber "die genaue Höhe bestimmter<br />

Summen begründen. Nun verkündet es<br />

pauschal eine bestimmte Zahl für die<br />

Überhangmandate. Das passt nicht<br />

zusammen."<br />

Wie die Frankfurter Rundschau unter<br />

Berufung auf Berechnungen des Göttinger<br />

Parteienforschers Stephan Klecha berichtete,<br />

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gäbe es bis zu 27 Überhangmandate im<br />

Bundestag, wenn am Sonntag auf Basis des<br />

bisherigen Wahlrechts gewählt würde. Der<br />



Wissenschaftler ermittelte die Zahl auf Basis<br />

der Emnid-Umfrage vom 22. Juli.<br />

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27/07/2012


27/07/2012<br />

Blogs El Mercurio - Notícias<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Corte Internacional de Justicia<br />

Embajador Perú: “no hay indicios de discriminación hacia nuestra comunidad”, 19<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Reforma Constitucional<br />

El Presidente abjura…, 21<br />

Bloomberg - Politics<br />


CNN’s Walton to Resign, Saying Network Needs ‘New Thinking’, 22<br />



N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg Sues City Council Challenging Wage Laws, 23<br />

Bloomberg - News<br />


Sesa Taps African Ore on Output Drop: Corporate India, 24<br />

Business Insurance - Article<br />


OFF BEAT: Toy manufacturer isn’t playing Lady Gaga’s games, 26<br />



Madoff trustee seeks to pay up to $2.4 billion to victims, 27<br />

Business Line - Markets<br />


Bio-reserves not well conserved: study, 28<br />



ByCell cannot invoke bilateral treaty: DoT, 29<br />



Essar Oil bank accounts released, 30<br />

Correo Del Orinoco - Judiciales y Seguridad<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Derecho Constitucional<br />

Parlamento carabobeño enaltece labor de defensores públicos, 31<br />

Correo Peru - Notícias<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Poder Judicial<br />

Arbizú: Embargos han incentivado a sentenciados por corrupción a buscar opciones de pago, 32<br />



Roncagliolo: Acta de Ecuador y Chile no afectará litigio en La Haya, 33<br />



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Descartan que acta firmada entre Ecuador y Chile influya en proceso en La Haya, 34<br />



Hera-AcegasAps, stop di Ruffini «Rischiamo di non contare nulla», 35<br />

El País - Internacional<br />


El archivo del cohecho contra Fabra causó indefensión, según el fiscal, 37<br />



La Ley de Transparencia incluye pena de cárcel para quien falsee las cuentas, 38<br />

El País - Opiníon<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Corte Penal Internacional<br />

Holanda suspende su ayuda a Ruanda por su apoyo a los rebeldes de Congo, 40<br />

El Universal - Opinión<br />


TEPJF difunde acuerdos sobre juicio de inconformidad, 41<br />



Acudimos a TEPJF a demandar justicia: Zambrano, 42<br />

El Universal Venezuela - International<br />


Contraloría admite investigación sobre irregularidades en el Metro, 43<br />

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Politik<br />


Billiger Populismus , 44<br />

La Nacion Chile - Portada Noticias<br />


Embajador peruano: “No hay discriminación hacia nuestra comunidad” en Chile, 45<br />

La Nacion Chile - Notícias<br />


Canciller peruano descartó llamar a su embajador en Quito por acta Ecuador-Chile, 46<br />

Le Figaro - International<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Cour pénale internationale<br />

La RDC demande l'aide de l'ONU , 47<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | La Cour Suprême<br />

Israël: l'expulsion de colons reportée, 48<br />

Misiones Online - Notícias<br />


Magistrados, funcionarios y empleados de la justicia ya pueden jubilarse con el 82 por ciento de su<br />

salario, 49<br />

Misiones Online - Notícias<br />


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Promulgan ley que establece el 82% móvil para la jubilación de magistrados y funcionarios de la<br />

justicia, 50<br />

Reuters General - Article<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Judicial Review<br />

Court clears way for political ad contracts to go online, 51<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Civil Rights<br />

Seattle police reach reform agreement with US government, 52<br />



Alabama seeks Voting Rights Act clearance of redistricting plan, 53<br />



CNN chief Walton to leave ratings-starved network, 54<br />



NYC public advocate sues city over soaring small business fines, 55<br />



Außer Kontrolle , 56<br />



Wie der Bürger seinen Willen bekommt , 58<br />

The Economic Times - News<br />


Kudremukh Iron Ore takes Railway Board to court, 60<br />



Day 2: Low turnout at Team Anna's indefinite fast venue, 61<br />

The New York Times - Opinion<br />


Where’s the Outrage?, 62<br />

The New York Times - Politics<br />


Bloomberg Says He Wouldn’t Ban Chick-fil-A, 64<br />



Did Your Brain Make You Do It?, 65<br />



Miriam Ben-Porat, Israeli Judge and Civic Watchdog, Dies at 94, 67<br />



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Fioravante G. Perrotta, Influential Aide to Governor Rockefeller and Others, Dies at 80, 68<br />

USA Today - News<br />


Feds, Seattle agree to police reforms, 70<br />



The week in tech: 5 must-know things, 71<br />



Poll: Most Americans would vote atheist for president, 73<br />

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Blogs El Mercurio/ - Notícias, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Corte Internacional de Justicia)<br />

Embajador Perú: “no hay indicios de<br />

discriminación hacia nuestra comunidad”<br />

Santiago de Chile, (EFE).- Los 140.000<br />

ciudadanos peruanos que residen en<br />

territorio chileno no son víctimas de<br />

xenofobia ni de discriminación, dijo a Efe el<br />

embajador de ese país, Carlos Pareja, quien<br />

considera que el litigio marítimo con Chile,<br />

que se resolverá el año que viene en La<br />

Haya, no afecta a esa comunidad.“No<br />

tenemos indicios de brotes de xenofobia o<br />

discriminación. La comunidad peruana es<br />

apreciada por su conducta y su trabajo<br />

profesional”, destacó el embajador, quien<br />

admitió que “muchos de los emigrantes no<br />

retornarán a Perú” porque “han sido acogidos<br />

en Chile, donde han encontrado trabajo y han<br />

formado una familia”.La demanda por el<br />

límite marítimo presentada por Perú en 2008<br />

ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia de<br />

La Haya “es un tema que no afecta a la<br />

comunidad, sino que está en otros ámbitos”,<br />

afirmó Pareja, embajador en Chile desde<br />

febrero de 2009.Perú argumenta en su<br />

denuncia que no existen límites marítimos<br />

definidos con Chile, mientras que este país<br />

sostiene que están fijados en tratados<br />

suscritos en 1952 y 1954 que, según Lima,<br />

sólo tienen alcance pesquero.El embajador<br />

peruano admitió que se avecinan momentos<br />

“de cierta complicación” porque en diciembre<br />

próximo se celebrará la fase oral del litigio y,<br />

sobre todo, porque en junio de 2013<br />

probablemente el alto tribunal emitirá el<br />

fallo.“Serán momentos de cierta presión<br />

mediática y en la opinión pública habrá<br />

muchas conjeturas”, reconoció Pareja, quien<br />

puntualizó que la demanda no obedece a una<br />

controversia política, sino jurídica.“Nuestros<br />

argumentos son muy sólidos. Confiamos en<br />

que la corte los acoja”, afirmó el<br />

representante diplomática peruano, quien<br />

elogió las iniciativas impulsadas por<br />

empresarios, académicos y editores de<br />

medios de comunicación de ambos países en<br />

favor del entendimiento.Y especialmente<br />

apreciable considera el pronunciamiento<br />

público que hicieron este miércoles en<br />

Madrid el escritor peruano y premio Nobel de<br />

Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa y el actual<br />

embajador de Chile en Francia y premio<br />

Cervantes Jorge Edwards.“Estos llamados a<br />

la concordia contribuyen a crear un clima<br />

más benevolente”, subrayó.Pareja insistió en<br />

que “los Gobiernos de ambos países están<br />

actuando con suma corrección, prudencia y<br />

cautela” y destacó también el hecho de que<br />

los parlamentos “se han comprometido a<br />

respetar el fallo y su ejecución a<br />

plenitud”.“Yo, como embajador, pongo mucha<br />

atención a este tema tratando de prevenir<br />

cualquier situación que pueda empañar la<br />

fluidez y la cordialidad en las relaciones en<br />

esta parte del proceso, que obviamente es la<br />

más delicada”.Con respecto a la demanda<br />

del Gobierno boliviano de contar con una<br />

salida soberana al mar, el embajador de Perú<br />

puntualizó que “el problema entre Bolivia y<br />

Chile es estrictamente bilateral”.“El tratado de<br />

1929 establece que habría que consultar a<br />

Perú solamente en el caso de que Chile diera<br />

una salida soberana a través de territorios<br />

que fueron peruanos, pero hasta tanto no se<br />

dé esa posibilidad, nosotros no tenemos<br />

ninguna opinión más allá de alentar el<br />

diálogo entre los dos países”, precisó.El<br />

embajador Pareja fue cauteloso al referirse al<br />

incidente de este jueves, cuando una<br />

patrullera de la Armada chilena disparó<br />

contra una embarcación peruana que huía<br />

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con un cargamento de marihuana.Asimismo,<br />

destacó la colaboración para que estos<br />

incidentes o los que a veces protagonizan<br />

barcos pesqueros que faenan en aguas<br />

jurisdiccionales del otro país “se manejen<br />

dentro de los cauces normales”.“Hay una<br />

relación muy fluida entre las instituciones<br />

armadas y policiales de ambos países”, dijo.<br />

En ese contexto hay que entender también la<br />

reciente presentación por parte de Chile del<br />

documento sobre Estrategia de Seguridad y<br />

Defensa 2012-2024.Dicho documento, que<br />

plantea metas como “anticipar una agresión<br />

armada” y “contar con una capacidad creíble<br />

para disuadir y adecuada para actuar en<br />



legítima defensa”, “no tiene que ver con la<br />

relación actual entre Perú y Chile”,<br />

sostuvo.Como ejemplo de la colaboración<br />

bilateral el embajador se refirió a la entrega<br />

de las instalaciones a Perú en el puerto<br />

chileno de Arica o la repatriación la próxima<br />

semana de unos 300 presos peruanos a los<br />

que Chile les ha conmutado la pena.Pareja<br />

también destacó la forma en que la<br />

Cancillería chilena está coordinando el<br />

desminado en la zona fronteriza adonde tras<br />

las lluvias torrenciales de febrero pasado<br />

fueron a parar cientos de artefactos<br />

explosivos.<br />

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El Presidente abjura…<br />

Ángel VeraNo es el primero. Galileo Galilei<br />

abjuró lo que enseñaba para que no lo<br />

maten; Juana de Arco abjuró pero luego se<br />

ratificó en lo que creía y la quemaron viva; a<br />

diferencia de ellos, de más recia<br />

personalidad, Giordano Bruno se negó a<br />

abjurar y lo pagó con la vida. Hoy, no porque<br />

esté en riesgo su vida, ni su integridad, ni su<br />

libertad, el presidente Correa abjura de lo<br />

que nos dijo, en lo que nos hizo creer, acaso<br />

en lo que él mismo creía: la Constitución ya<br />

no es “un canto a la vida” sino<br />

“hipergarantista”, lo que le impide “la<br />

gobernabilidad”, por lo cual clama como<br />

necesaria una nueva reforma<br />

constitucional.Es el signo de las cuasi<br />

tiranías: Juan José Flores reformó la<br />

Constitución para quedarse más tiempo y<br />

medrar; García Moreno impuso una para<br />

dominar a su sabor; el régimen liberal<br />

proclamaba que lo ganado con bayonetas no<br />

se puede perder con papeletas (de las<br />

elecciones); Velasco Ibarra protestaba<br />

porque la Constitución “le ataba las manos”;<br />

Arroyo del Río reclamaba “los poderes<br />

omnímodos” y Febres Cordero, ya sabemos,<br />

hacía “respetar la Constitución”, a garrotazos<br />

y tanquetas antimotines.Será que cuando se<br />

les sube el poder a la cabeza de aquellos<br />

gobernantes que no son hechos para la<br />

democracia ni para respetar el derecho,<br />

pasan por encima de la Constitución y de la<br />

Ley para imponerse, no por la fuerza de la<br />

justicia ni la razón de sus argumentos, sino<br />

de su capricho.Ya no le gusta la<br />

Constitución al Presidente ¿la habrá leído<br />

cuando la propuso y defendió? Es de<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Reforma Constitucional)<br />

presumir que no, ya que a muy poco planteó<br />

la consulta para reformar el sistema electoral<br />

y el de justicia y ahora pretende otra para<br />

limitar o acaso tirar abajo la única defensa<br />

que tiene el ciudadano como prevención de<br />

los abusos y tiranía: el recurso constitucional<br />

de amparo de protección.Se molestó el<br />

presidente porque algunos jueces, en<br />

aplicación de ese recurso, ordenaron<br />

suspender el retiro de transportes informales<br />

por parte de la autoridad. El mandatario,<br />

como respuesta, condena a los jueces a las<br />

penas del infierno, porque tampoco gusta<br />

someterse a los dictámenes de la justicia.Si<br />

un juez falla erróneamente hay recursos<br />

legales para buscar otra sentencia; si<br />

prevarica, hay recursos judiciales para<br />

sancionarlo; pero al mandatario no le agrada<br />

cómo aplican los jueces el recurso de<br />

protección: hay pues, que reformar (poner<br />

límites al ciudadano y alas al estado) la<br />

Constitución, para que ya no sea un canto a<br />

la vida sino una loa al poder<br />

concentrado.Pobre país. No somos un<br />

estado organizado ni un estado fallido,<br />

porque en las naciones tribales de África hay<br />

más certezas que en el Ecuador, país del<br />

mayor relajo judicial del universo, donde un<br />

reglamento o decreto tiene una vida útil de<br />

tres a cuatro semanas (como las últimas,<br />

sobre la restricción de importaciones); donde<br />

una Ley tiene una vida útil de dos o a tres<br />

meses (como la Ley de Tránsito, que por sus<br />

retazos parece un traje de payaso) y la<br />

Constitución, una vida útil de dos a tres<br />

años, según el mal tuntún de quien nos<br />

gobierne.<br />

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Bloomberg/ - Politics, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


CNN’s Walton to Resign, Saying<br />

Network Needs ‘New Thinking’<br />

CNN President Jim Walton, who presided<br />

over the once-dominant cable-news business<br />

as it lost viewers to Fox News, will resign<br />

after almost a decade in the job, saying the<br />

network needs “new thinking.” Phil Kent, chief<br />

executive officer of CNN parent Turner<br />

Broadcasting, will lead the search for a<br />

replacement, according to a statement from<br />

the company, which is owned by Time<br />

Warner Inc. (TWX) Walton, who has spent his<br />

entire 30-year career at CNN, plans to step<br />

down at the end of the year. “CNN needs new<br />

thinking,” Walton said in a memo to staff.<br />

“That starts with a new leader who brings a<br />

different perspective, different experiences<br />

and a new plan, one who will build on our<br />

great foundation and will commit to seeing it<br />

through.” CNN is suffering through a ratings<br />

slump, with prime-time viewership dropping 8<br />

percent to 627,000 on average this season<br />

through mid-May, compared with a year<br />

earlier, according to Nielsen. CNN now ranks<br />

far behind News Corp. (NWSA)’s Fox News,<br />

which drew an average prime-time viewership<br />

of 1.85 million in the same period. Walton, 54,<br />

started at CNN in December 1981, one year<br />

after it was founded by billionaire Ted Turner.<br />

Walton helped build the nascent network into<br />

a dominant news organization, and CNN<br />

soon became a staple in many households. It<br />

was the only news company that broadcast<br />

live video feeds of the first Gulf War from<br />

inside Iraq. Supreme Court In recent years,<br />

the network struggled to find a formula that<br />

connected with viewers. It also made a major<br />

gaffe last month, reporting incorrectly that the<br />

U.S. Supreme Court found a central piece of<br />

President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care<br />

Act to be unconstitutional. Walton, a native of<br />

Bowie, Maryland, graduated from the<br />

University of Maryland and started his first job<br />

at CNN as a video producer. “It’s the only<br />

place I’ve ever worked,” Walton said in a<br />

December interview. “I feel really lucky to<br />

have started my career with CNN.” Shares of<br />

New York-based Time Warner, which<br />

acquired Turner Broadcasting in 1996, rose<br />

1.5 percent to $38.92 at 1:15 p.m. in New<br />

York. The stock had climbed 6.1 percent this<br />

year through yesterday. To contact the<br />

reporter on this story: Edmund Lee in New<br />

York atelee310@bloomberg.net To contact<br />

the editor responsible for this story: Nick<br />

Turner atnturner7@bloomberg.net<br />

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Bloomberg/ - Politics, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg Sues City<br />

Council Challenging Wage Laws<br />

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sued<br />

the City Council, challenging so-called<br />

living-wage and prevailing-wage bills<br />

approved over his veto earlier this year, the<br />

city’s Law Department said. The bills require<br />

landlords who rent office space to the city and<br />

many industrial companies and real-estate<br />

developers that get city financial aid to pay<br />

employees who work on the premises more<br />

than the state’s minimum wage, the Law<br />

Department said in a statement. The suit was<br />

filed today in state Supreme Court in<br />

Manhattan, the department said. “The council<br />

seeks to impose a regulatory minimum wage<br />

upon selected sectors of the city economy<br />

that are remote from direct city involvement,”<br />

Michael A. Cardozo, the city corporation<br />

counsel, said in the statement. The highest<br />

state court “has held that minimum wage<br />

regulation is a subject matter reserved to the<br />

state,” he said. Bloomberg said at the time of<br />

his veto that the bills would harm the ability to<br />

attract business to the city and make it less<br />

desirable to do business, the Law<br />

Department said. “We are confident that in<br />

passing the prevailing-wage and living-wage<br />

laws, the council acted within its authority<br />

under state law and the City Charter,” Zoe<br />

Tobin, a City Council spokeswoman, said in a<br />

statement. The filing of the suit couldn’t be<br />

immediately confirmed in court records. The<br />

mayor is the founder and majority owner of<br />

Bloomberg LP, the parent company of<br />

Bloomberg News. To contact the reporters on<br />

this story: Chris Dolmetsch in New York<br />

atcdolmetsch@bloomberg.net; Henry<br />

Goldman in New York<br />

athgoldman@bloomberg.net. To contact the<br />

editors responsible for this story: Michael<br />

Hytha atmhytha@bloomberg.net; Stephen<br />

Merelman atsmerelman@bloomberg.net.<br />

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Bloomberg/ - News, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Sesa Taps African Ore on Output Drop:<br />

Corporate India<br />

Reserves at Liberian mines owned by<br />

billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Sesa Goa Ltd.<br />

(SESA) may be triple the original estimate,<br />

improving prospects for India’s biggest iron<br />

ore exporter struggling to boost output at<br />

home. Mines at Western Cluster Ltd., 51<br />

percent owned by Sesa, a unit of Vedanta<br />

Resources Plc (VED), may have as much as<br />

3 billion metric tons of the magnetite variety,<br />

up from an estimated 1 billion tons, Managing<br />

Director Prasun Kumar Mukherjee said in an<br />

interview. The company, India’s biggest<br />

iron-ore exporter, has 374 million tons of<br />

reserves at home. Output fell last quarter<br />

because of a mining ban in Karnataka state.<br />

Sesa plans to spend as much as 4.5 billion<br />

rupees ($81 million) to tap the mine in the<br />

West African nation this year after failing to<br />

double output in India. The Liberian mine may<br />

help the company, established in 1954 as<br />

Scambi Economici S.A. Goa, meet demand<br />

from steelmakers in India, where<br />

consumption of the alloy is forecast by the<br />

government to rise an average 9 percent<br />

annually till 2017, as well as Europe and<br />

China. “The Liberian reserve can prove to be<br />

a big boost for the company’s earnings,” said<br />

Giriraj Daga, an analyst at Nirmal Bang<br />

Securities Ltd. in Mumbai, who recommends<br />

buying the stock. “At current reserve and<br />

resource estimates, we assume the output<br />

can be about 25 million tons a year or double<br />

the India production.” Sesa Goa rose 2.6<br />

percent to 182.95 rupees in Mumbai, its<br />

biggest gain in more than a week. The shares<br />

have gained 12 percent this year, compared<br />

with a 10 percent drop in the Bloomberg<br />

World Mining Index. The company forecasts<br />

shipments from Liberia to start by March<br />

2014, Mukherjee said on July 25. Increase<br />

Stake Sesa has applied to buy the shares it<br />

doesn’t own in the Liberian mine from Elenilto<br />

Minerals & Mining LLC, according to a<br />

statement on the website of the African<br />

nation’s Ministry of Information, Cultural<br />

Affairs and Tourism. Sesa spokesman R.<br />

Krishnagopal declined to comment about the<br />

company’s plan to increase stake in the<br />

venture. With an iron content of 35 percent,<br />

the ore in Liberia will help Sesa produce 1<br />

billion tons of iron ore concentrate, Mukherjee<br />

said. The company spent $90 million in<br />

acquiring stake in the mine in 2011, joining<br />

ArcelorMittal, OAO Severstal and Chevron<br />

Corp. in investing to develop mining, rubber<br />

and oil industries. The African nation, which<br />

has been rebuilding its economy after civil<br />

wars between 1989 and 2003, has attracted<br />

more than $16 billion in investments since<br />

Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf<br />

became president in 2005. Regulatory<br />

Hurdles The mine in Liberia “has huge<br />

reserves but the company may face<br />

regulatory hurdles in the country,” said Ashish<br />

Karana, a broker at K. Motiram Vakil in<br />

Mumbai. “We can’t say with certainty that<br />

Sesa won’t face a situation” similar to what<br />

Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (JSP) is facing in<br />

Bolivia, he said. Jindal Steel on June 17 said<br />

it terminated a contract to build the $2.1<br />

billion El Mutun mine in Bolivia. Authorities in<br />

the Latin American country also arrested two<br />

Jindal Steel employees, the company said.<br />

Tata Steel Ltd. and Steel Authority of India<br />

Ltd. have also failed to develop projects<br />

overseas. Tata Steel’s proposed $5 billion<br />

factory in Vietnam has been delayed for more<br />

than five years by regulatory hurdles. Falling<br />

prices of the ore may also discourage mining.<br />

Iron ore for immediate delivery declined for<br />

the 12th consecutive day yesterday to the<br />

lowest since Oct. 28. Chinese Demand The<br />

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price of ore with 62 percent iron content<br />

delivered to the Chinese port of Tianjin<br />

slipped 1.1 percent to $117.30 a ton,<br />

according to data compiled by the Steel Index<br />

Ltd. The price has fallen to its lowest level in<br />

more than eight months on concern that<br />

demand in China, the world’s biggest buyer,<br />

is declining and Europe’s worsening debt<br />

crisis will curb global growth. Profit at Sesa,<br />

which is in the process of combining with<br />

Agarwal’s Sterlite Industries Ltd. (STLT), fell<br />

76 percent to 2 billion rupees after excluding<br />

gains from its investment in Vedanta’s Cairn<br />

India Ltd. (CAIR) unit. Output at Sesa’s mines<br />

tumbled 23 percent to 3.4 million tons last<br />

quarter because of transport restrictions in<br />

Goa state, where the company is based, and<br />

a mining ban in the southern state of<br />

Karnataka. Sesa, which had planned to raise<br />

capacity to 50 million tons by March 31, saw<br />

its ability to excavate drop 18 percent to 16.8<br />

million tons following a Supreme Court<br />

order. Environmental Norms Trouble began in<br />

July 2010 after Karnataka , which produces<br />

20 percent of the nation’s iron ore, halted<br />

exports to clamp down on illegal mining and<br />

Bloomberg/ - News, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


tax evasions in the state. India’s top court<br />

banned mining in parts of the state a year<br />

later, pending probes into breaches of<br />

environmental norms. Steelmakers are<br />

cutting output because of the lack of<br />

availability of the ore. Demand from<br />

steelmakers without their own iron-ore mines<br />

may increase 24 percent to 136 million tons<br />

this fiscal year, according to India’s steel<br />

ministry. Sesa and Elenilto Minerals last year<br />

pledged to jointly invest more than $2.6 billion<br />

in the Liberian mine, with Sesa bringing in<br />

about $2.5 billion, according to a statement<br />

sent by Elenilto on Aug. 9. The project that<br />

may create more than 2,000 jobs over 25<br />

years, also includes developing rail network<br />

to transport the ore. “Liberia drilling is in full<br />

swing and there are positive signs about<br />

reserve and resource,” Mukherjee said. To<br />

contact the reporter on this story: Abhishek<br />

Shanker in Mumbai<br />

atashanker1@bloomberg.net To contact the<br />

editor responsible for this story: Rebecca<br />

Keenan atrkeenan5@bloomberg.net<br />

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Business Insurance/ - Article, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


OFF BEAT: Toy manufacturer isn’t<br />

playing Lady Gaga’s games<br />

Lady Gaga is accused of toying with a doll<br />

manufacturer that says she and her<br />

management company delayed production<br />

for a line of action figures fashioned after the<br />

pop icon.<br />

Van Nuys, Calif.-based MGA Entertainment<br />

Inc. filed a breach of contract lawsuit Tuesday<br />

in New York Supreme Court against New<br />

York-based Bravado International Group<br />

Merchandising Services Inc., Culver City,<br />

Calif.-based Atom Factory L.L.C. and Lady<br />

Gaga—a.k.a. Stefani J. Germanotta.MGA,<br />

which makes the popular line of Bratz dolls,<br />

says in filings that it worked with Bravado, a<br />

licensing company, and Atom Factory, Ms.<br />

Gaga"s management firm, to develop a line of<br />

Lady Gaga dolls.The company claims that it<br />

made a “herculean effort” to prepare the<br />

Gaga dolls for a summer 2012 release,<br />

including paying a $1 million licensing fee to<br />

Bravado for rights to develop the<br />

celebrity-branded toy.However, MGA claims<br />

that Atom Factory, Bravado and Ms. Gaga<br />

have withheld final approval for the dolls<br />

because they want to change the ship date to<br />

2013, when Ms. Gaga is scheduled to release<br />

a new album.MGA is seeking more than $10<br />

million in damages and the ability to begin<br />

production on six different Lady Gaga dolls,<br />

according to court records.<br />

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Business Insurance/ - Article, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Madoff trustee seeks to pay up to $2.4<br />

billion to victims<br />

NEW YORK (Reuters)—The trustee seeking<br />

money for Bernard Madoff"s former clients<br />

has asked a bankruptcy judge to release<br />

roughly $1.49 billion to $2.43 billion in<br />

recovered funds to compensate victims,<br />

several times more than they have received<br />

so far.<br />

Irving Picard, the trustee, said on Thursday<br />

that the payout would cover more than 1,220<br />

customer accounts, and bring total payments<br />

so far to as much as 50% of the claims<br />

currently being allowed.This would be the<br />

second payout to victims of the Ponzi<br />

scheme, which unraveled in late 2008. Picard<br />

said he was making the request to the court<br />

now because two legal obstacles were<br />

recently removed.While the trustee has<br />

recovered about $9.14 billion, just $336<br />

million has been distributed so far. A large<br />

chunk of the recoveries have been put in<br />

reserve because of litigation with victims who<br />

contend they are owed more.The requested<br />

payout requires approval by U.S. Bankruptcy<br />

Judge Burton Lifland in Manhattan.Mr. Picard<br />

said part of the money included in the<br />

distribution request comes from the $5 billion<br />

forfeited by the estate of Madoff investor<br />

Jeffry Picower. A deadline to appeal the<br />

Picower forfeiture order expired on July<br />

16.Also, the U.S. Supreme Court last month<br />

let stand a lower court decision upholding<br />

Picard"s "net equity" method for calculating<br />

losses of former customers at Madoff"s<br />

defunct firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment<br />

Securities L.L.C.Mr. Picard had measured<br />

losses as the difference between the<br />

amounts that customers deposited and the<br />

amounts they withdrew from the Madoff firm<br />

before the fraud was uncovered. Some<br />

customers wanted recoveries based on their<br />

final account statements, even if the amounts<br />

shown were made up.David Sheehan, a<br />

lawyer for Mr. Picard, said in a statement that<br />

some of the remaining objections are<br />

"specious at best." He nonetheless said the<br />

trustee must hold some money back to<br />

account for the objections, at least until a final<br />

court order is in place to allow for larger<br />

distributions.Picard has estimated that Madoff<br />

victims lost about $20 billion from the<br />

fraud.The trustee has also been appealing<br />

decisions by federal judges in New York that<br />

rejected his claims against large banks that<br />

did business with Madoff and "feeder funds"<br />

that funneled customer money to Madoff.Mr.<br />

Madoff, 74, pleaded guilty in March 2009 and<br />

is serving a 150-year sentence in a North<br />

Carolina federal prison.<br />

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Business Line/ - Markets, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Bio-reserves not well conserved: study<br />

India’s biodiversity, especially in the Anamalai<br />

and Mudumalai Tiger reserves in the Western<br />

Ghats and the Gir National Park, Gujarat, is<br />

not well conserved.<br />

Though protection measures are in place,<br />

they seem to be inadequate and there is<br />

widespread decline of a number of species.<br />

This trend, is not just limited to India, but<br />

consistent in the biodiversity reserves in<br />

tropical regions, across 36 countries, says a<br />

global study.<br />

Interestingly, the Supreme Court of India<br />

had on Tuesday banned tourism activity in<br />

core tiger reserves in several states, taking<br />

note of the declining tiger population in the<br />

country.<br />

The Centre for Cellular and Molecular<br />

Biology, here, was part of the Study done by<br />

Prof. William Laurance of James Cook<br />

University in Cairns, Australia, and<br />

colleagues. The results have been published<br />

in the latest issue of Nature journal.<br />

The study looked at 30 different categories of<br />

species — from trees and butterflies to<br />

primates and large predators in these<br />

bio-reserves. It spanned 20 to 30 years and<br />

covered 60 protected areas. The rapid<br />

disruption of tropical forests probably imperils<br />

global biodiversity more than any other<br />

contemporary phenomenon.<br />

The study highlights that despite protection,<br />

biodiversity is not conserved adequately in<br />

these regions. While most reserves were<br />

helping to protect their forests, about half<br />

were struggling to sustain their original<br />

bio-diversity.<br />

Dr Ch. Mohan Rao, Director of CCMB, said<br />

that conserving biodiversity is not a luxury but<br />

a necessity for human survival. Dr G.<br />

Umapathy, a scientist at the Institute’s<br />

Laboratory for the Conservation of<br />

Endangered Species (LaCONES), is a<br />

co-author of the scientific paper.<br />

Decline in numbers of big predators, large<br />

bodied animals, many primates, old growth<br />

trees, stream-dwelling fish and amphibians,<br />

among others was observed. As much as 85<br />

per cent of the reserves studied showed loss<br />

of nearby forest cover, over the past 2-3<br />

decades, resulting in significant loss to the<br />

biodiversity in the forests. The exception was<br />

in two per cent cases, where there was an in<br />

increase in surrounding forest area.<br />

Hence, an important lesson from the study<br />

was the urgent need to preserve peripheral<br />

regions of the reserves by preventing human<br />

activities in the vicinity. With deforestation<br />

advancing quickly, protected areas are<br />

increasingly becoming final refuges for<br />

threatened species and natural ecosystem<br />

process. In several cases, human<br />

encroachment and other ecological stresses<br />

are taking their toll, the study pointed out.<br />

Focus on managing both external and<br />

internal threats should increase resilience of<br />

biodiversity in reserves. Similarly, it is also<br />

necessary to establish sizeable buffer zones<br />

around reserves, promote lower-impact land<br />

uses near them by engaging and benefiting<br />

local communities.<br />

The study could be a pointer for the<br />

discussions at the upcoming global<br />

biodiversity conference and conference of<br />

parties, scheduled to be held in Hyderabad<br />

during October. The biggest event to be held<br />

in India, it will see participation from over 100<br />

leading countries and many heads of<br />

nations.<br />

somasekhar.m@thehindu.co.in<br />

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ByCell cannot invoke bilateral treaty:<br />

DoT<br />

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has taken<br />

the view that ByCell cannot claim protection<br />

under any bilateral investment treaty because<br />

security concerns override all commitments. It<br />

has told an inter-ministerial panel that the<br />

company’s licences were cancelled due to<br />

security concerns and the bilateral treaty itself<br />

provides for such actions by governments. It<br />

added that the High Court had rejected<br />

ByCell’s appeal after which the company did<br />

not appeal in the Supreme Court.<br />

“Article 3 of the India-Russia bilateral<br />

investment treaty and Article 12 (2) of<br />

Cyprus-India treaty clearly state that the<br />

provisions of the agreements shall not<br />

preclude the application by either contracting<br />

party of measures necessary to safeguard its<br />

essential security interest. Hence there is no<br />

breach of any bilateral treaty,” a senior DoT<br />

official told Business Line, drawing a<br />

distinction between Bycell and other foreign<br />

investors, such as Telenor and Sistema,<br />

whose licences have been cancelled by a<br />

Supreme Court order.<br />

ByCell had sent a legal notice to the DoT<br />

threatening legal action in the international<br />

tribunal. The telecom department had earlier<br />

revoked the licences issued to ByCell<br />

following concerns raised by the Home<br />

Ministry about the company’s shareholding<br />

and source of funds. DoT had issued a letter<br />

of intent to ByCell in five circles. However, the<br />

company’s plans got stuck after the Home<br />

Ministry asked the Foreign Investment<br />

Promotion Board to review its clearance to<br />

the Switzerland-registered telecom company.<br />

ByCell is promoted by Russian nationals<br />

through a Cyprus-based company, Tenoch.<br />

Tenoch owns 97 per cent stake in ByCell<br />

Holdings AG, a Swiss company, and this<br />

entity owns 73 per cent stake in ByCell India.<br />

The company, which had received letters of<br />

intent for telecom licences in five circles, has<br />

a joint venture with Hyderabad-based Bitcorp<br />

Pvt Ltd. In an internal note to the<br />

inter-ministerial panel, the DoT has stated<br />

that according to the Ministry of Home Affairs,<br />

the promoters’ background looked suspect in<br />

that some of the shareholders have been<br />

allegedly involved in funnelling funds through<br />

illegal channels.<br />

thomas.thomas@thehindu.co.in<br />

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Essar Oil bank accounts released<br />

Essar Oil said it had been informed by the<br />

office of Assistant Commissioner of<br />

Commercial Tax, Jam Khambaliya, Gujarat,<br />

of release of its bank accounts frozen on July<br />

9. This follows Essar Oil complying with a<br />

Supreme Court direction and deposited Rs<br />

1,000 crore with the State Government. Early<br />

this week, Essar Oil tied up a credit line with<br />

banks for Rs 5,000 crore to meet its tax<br />

liability of Rs 6,169 crore.<br />

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Correo Del Orinoco/ - Judiciales y Seguridad, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Derecho Constitucional)<br />

Parlamento carabobeño enaltece labor de<br />

defensores públicos<br />

Reyna Leal, coordinadora estadal de la<br />

Defensoría Pública, dijo sentirse orgullosa<br />

“por los cambios que han venido dándose<br />

paso a paso en nuestro país, hasta romper<br />

las barreras que el viejo sistema de justicia<br />

impuso por 40 años a la defensoría publica El<br />

Consejo Legislativo del estado Carabobo<br />

realizó este jueves una sesión especial con<br />

motivo del Día del Defensor Público, acto en<br />

el que participó como oradora de orden<br />

Reyna Leal, coordinadora estadal de la<br />

Defensoría Pública.<br />

La invitada especial se refirió al sentir de la<br />

defensa pública como órgano del sistema de<br />

justicia, que “no sólo ha venido garantizando<br />

la tutela judicial efectiva del derecho<br />

constitucional a la defensa de los<br />

ciudadanos, sino que su campo de acción se<br />

ha extendido a otras áreas, nunca antes<br />

atendidas por Gobierno Nacional alguno”.<br />

Leal dijo sentirse orgullosa “por los cambios<br />

que han venido dándose paso a paso en<br />

nuestro país, hasta romper las barreras que<br />

el viejo sistema de justicia impuso por 40<br />

años a la defensoría publica, al circunscribirla<br />

como única función, la de representar<br />

judicialmente sólo a los justiciables carentes<br />

de recursos económicos”.<br />

Precisó que todo defensor público debe<br />

guardar entre sí el debido respeto y<br />

consideración, así como “mantener<br />

laintachable conducta en todos los actos<br />

públicos o privados y contribuir a enaltecer<br />

los fines de nuestra noble institución”.<br />

“No se equivocaron al escoger esta noble<br />

profesión de abogados, y menos aún el<br />

sentido de justicia social que llevan en sus<br />

corazones al abordar con preeminencia el<br />

ejercicio de la Defensa Pública, ya que en<br />

lugar de representar intereses oligarcas,<br />

sacrificamos cualquier capital económico o<br />

financiero por ayudar al excluido<br />

socialmente“, dijo.<br />

Al finalizar el discurso, el presidente del<br />

Parlamento carabobeño, diputado Miguel<br />

Flores, entregó una placa de reconocimiento<br />

a la oradora.<br />

Durante la sesión fue conferido el Botón de<br />

Honor del Consejo Legislativo a Reyna Leal,<br />

así como a los profesionales del derecho<br />

Leslie Andrade, Florimar Aranguren, José<br />

Meneses, Alida Bastardo, Alberto Durán,<br />

Gloria Ramírez, Blanca Salazar, Ingrid<br />

Devera, Wilma Hernández y Yajaira<br />

Sánchez.<br />

De igual forma, se entregó reconocimiento a<br />

Luis Pérez, Luis Benítez, Ana Blanco, Tania<br />

Rondón, Claribel López, Zeneida Colina,<br />

Karla Pérez, Islei Moreno, Irma Flores, Eric<br />

Núñez, Rita Negrín, Haideé de Medina, José<br />

Montilla yLisbeth Cardozo, todos<br />

representante de la Defensa Pública.<br />

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Correo Peru/ - Notícias, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Poder Judicial)<br />

Arbizú: Embargos han incentivado a<br />

sentenciados por corrupción a buscar<br />

opciones de pago<br />

Los embargos judiciales a los procesados por<br />

corrupción han logrado que varios de ellos<br />

comiencen a pagar las reparaciones civiles<br />

que deben al Estado, afirmó hoy el<br />

procurador anticorrupción Julio Arbizu.<br />

Varios sentenciados ya se han acercado a la<br />

Procuraduría Anticorrupción para buscar<br />

opciones de pago de esas reparaciones<br />

civiles impagas.<br />

"Tenemos reuniones pactadas hasta el 15 de<br />

agosto con personas que han solicitado<br />

algún tipo de cronograma para poder pagar<br />

lo que le deben al Estado", manifestó.<br />

Afirmó que las acciones emprendidas por la<br />

Procuraduría Anticorrupción en esa línea han<br />

permitido mejorar el cobro de reparaciones<br />

entre un 200 y 300 por ciento en relación al<br />

año pasado.<br />

Subrayó que a su oficina no le interesa<br />

realizar persecución alguna, sino que los<br />

sentenciados tengan la voluntad de pagar y<br />

de reivindicarse con el Estado.<br />

Hasta el momento, el Poder Judicial, a<br />

pedido de la Procuraduría Anticorrupción, ha<br />

embargado los bienes del excongresista<br />

Alberto Kouri y el exministro de Economía del<br />

régimen de Alberto Fujimori, Carlos Boloña,<br />

sentenciado por delitos de corrupción.<br />

Aunque previo al embargo a Boloña se<br />

habría producido un ocultamiento de sus<br />

bienes, dijo que este sistema permite<br />

incentivar a que otros sentenciados se<br />

preocupen por honrar sus deudas.<br />

"Hay personas que se están comprometiendo<br />

a pagar, ya hay entre 15 y 20 personas que<br />

lo han hecho y otras tantas que ya han<br />

pagado", anotó.<br />

Arbizu ratificó que se investiga un presunto<br />

delito contra la administración de justicia ante<br />

el presunto ocultamiento de bienes en el<br />

embargo a Boloña.<br />

"Vamos a solicitar información. También hay<br />

responsabilidad para los que trasladaron los<br />

bienes y los pusieron a buen recaudo (...)",<br />

declaró a Canal N.<br />

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Roncagliolo: Acta de Ecuador y Chile no<br />

afectará litigio en La Haya<br />

El canciller Rafael Roncagliolo refirió que el<br />

acta suscrita entre Chile y Ecuador, sobre la<br />

vigencia de los acuerdos de 1952 y 1954, no<br />

afectarán el litigio marítimo de Perú con el<br />

país sureño en la Corte Internacional de<br />

Justicia de La Haya.<br />

Subrayó que esos acuerdos suscritos "no son<br />

tratados de límites ni fueron concebidos<br />

como tales", argumento en el que se basa la<br />

demanda marítima interpuesta por Perú en<br />

enero de 2008.<br />

Además, refirió que la declaración suscrita<br />

entre Chile y Ecuador no es algo nuevo y lo<br />

que la Corte de La Haya verá son los<br />

documentos jurídicos y no declaraciones<br />

periodísticas.<br />

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores dijo que<br />

la frontera marítima entre Perú y Ecuador fue<br />

establecida en 2011, mediante un<br />

intercambio de notas, que incluye incluso una<br />

representación gráfica del límite, y que fue<br />

registrado en la sección de tratados de las<br />

Naciones Unidas. Tratado que no hace<br />

referencia a los convenios del 52 y 54.<br />

"Este acuerdo, que contiene los elementos<br />

de un verdadero acuerdo de límites, se<br />

encuentra registrado en la sección de<br />

tratados de la secretaría de las Naciones<br />

Unidas. Esto es lo que vale, lo demás puede<br />

tener un cierto efecto mediático pero no va a<br />

afectar el curso del diferendo en La Haya",<br />

declaró en RPP.<br />

Sobre el "Llamado a la concordia" entre Perú<br />

y Chile por parte de los escritores Mario<br />

Vargas Llosa y Jorge Edwards, es una buena<br />

iniciativa para acatar el fallo de La Haya.<br />

Descartó que llame al embajador peruano en<br />

Quito para expresar un gesto de incomodidad<br />

de Perú por el acta suscrita entre los<br />

cancilleres de Chile y Ecuador. "No, los<br />

gestos que haya que hacer se manejarán por<br />

la vía diplomática, no queremos hacer las<br />

relaciones entre los países a través de<br />

declaraciones", añadió.<br />

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Descartan que acta firmada entre Ecuador<br />

y Chile influya en proceso en La Haya<br />

El acta firmada por Chile y Ecuador que<br />

afirma el valor limítrofe de los acuerdos de<br />

1952 y 1954, carece de importancia en el<br />

proceso en la Corte Internacional de La<br />

Haya para definir la frontera marítima entre<br />

Perú y Chile, aseguró hoy el embajador Hugo<br />

De Zela Hurtado.<br />

"La posición de Chile y Ecuador en esta<br />

declaración conjunta que han hecho, no tiene<br />

absolutamente ninguna incidencia en la<br />

Corte Internacional de La Haya, porque los<br />

jueces no consideran para nada los acuerdos<br />

que no tienen el relieve de un tratado<br />

internacional", dijo el diplomático<br />

De Zela recordó que el "hecho mismo" de<br />

que Chile haya aceptado someterse a la<br />

jurisdicción del Tribunal de La Haya,<br />

"implícitamente está aceptando" que los<br />

acuerdos de 1952 y 1954 están referidos a la<br />

pesca artesanal y no son un tratado de<br />

límites.<br />

Añadió que un tratado de límite fronterizo<br />

internacional debe ser sometido a la<br />

aprobación de los respectivos poderes<br />

legislativos de ambos países, tal como<br />

ocurrió en el caso de Perú y Ecuador, mas no<br />

con Chile.<br />

"Yo creo que no tienen porqué agitarse allá<br />

en Chile y tomar este tipo de acciones que no<br />

conducen sino quizás a satisfacer un poco la<br />

expectativa de la opinión pública chilena y<br />

nada más", subrayó.<br />

Asimismo, señaló que Chile quiere presentar<br />

este documento "mediáticamente" ante la<br />

cercanía del proceso oral del contencioso<br />

jurídico en La Haya, aunque reiteró que no<br />

tendrá ningún efecto en el proceso.<br />

En enero del 2008, Perú demandó a Chile<br />

ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia de<br />

La Haya para que este tribunal fije la frontera<br />

marítima, ante la ausencia de un tratado<br />

internacional y ante la negativa de La<br />

Moneda de iniciar negociaciones<br />

diplomáticas sobre el tema.<br />

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Corriere Della Será/ - Home, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Hera-AcegasAps, stop di Ruffini<br />

«Rischiamo di non contare nulla»<br />

La presidente: il Consiglio ne discuta prima<br />

della delibera. Contraria anche la Lega.<br />

Marcato: è un’operazione che serve ai<br />

Democratici e non ai cittadini<br />

PADOVA - La città continua a dividersi di<br />

fronte all’eventuale, ormai in dirittura d’arrivo,<br />

aggregazione tra AcegasAps ed Hera. Gli<br />

staff dirigenziali delle due multi-utility hanno<br />

l’altro giorno varato un accordo quadro, che<br />

prevede essenzialmente il passaggio al<br />

colosso emiliano-romagnolo della Spa<br />

partecipata al 62,8% dai Comuni di Trieste e<br />

Padova. I quali, nel gruppo con sede centrale<br />

a Bologna, peserebbero circa il 5,3% a testa.<br />

Ma l’affare, benedetto a più riprese dal<br />

sindaco Flavio Zanonato, incontra numerose<br />

perplessità.<br />

«Credo sia davvero il caso di prendere<br />

esempio da Trieste, dove da settimane si sta<br />

discutendo pubblicamente della questione. E’<br />

quindi doveroso affrontare al più presto in<br />

consiglio comunale i termini dell’operazione,<br />

prima che approdi in aula la delibera finale,<br />

cosa che dovrebbe avvenire entro la metà di<br />

ottobre». A dirlo è la presidente del<br />

parlamentino di Palazzo Moroni Daniela<br />

Ruffini (Prc), che annuncia: «Nei prossimi<br />

giorni, come capogruppo del Prc, depositerò<br />

una mozione sul tema. Ovviamente però, per<br />

convocare l’assemblea, la mia volontà non<br />

basta. Serve infatti l’appoggio anche di altri<br />

consiglieri - ricorda la Ruffini - Ecco perché<br />

mi appello a tutte le forze politiche di questa<br />

città, per far sì che una vicenda così delicata<br />

e decisiva per la futura gestione dei servizi<br />

pubblici locali di acqua, rifiuti, gas e luce<br />

possa essere approfondita e dibattuta dai<br />

padovani. Evitando così che la discussione si<br />

tenga soltanto a cose già fatte».La posizione<br />

della presidente del consiglio è molto netta:<br />

«Sono fortemente contraria all’aggregazione<br />

perché, in questo modo, AcegasAps verrebbe<br />

in pratica regalata ad Hera ed il nostro<br />

Comune non avrebbe alcun potere<br />

decisionale nel gruppo emiliano-romagnolo.<br />

Possedere appena il 5,3% delle quote sottolinea la Ruffini - significherebbe contare<br />

zero. Inoltre, sia il referendum svoltosi circa<br />

un anno fa che una recente sentenza della<br />

Corte costituzionale hanno ribadito come non<br />

esista alcuna norma che impone la<br />

privatizzazione dei servizi pubblici locali.<br />

Insomma, perché improvvisamente tutta<br />

questa fretta?».<br />

Più o meno identica la convinzione di Roberto<br />

Marcato, vicepresidente della Provincia e<br />

segretario provinciale della Lega Nord: «Se<br />

l’operazione andasse in porto, le tariffe e la<br />

qualità dei nostri servizi verrebbero decisi a<br />

Bologna. L’ipotesi infatti di pesare solo il<br />

5,3% mi pare francamente ridicola. E poi<br />

scusate - domanda Marcato - siamo di fronte<br />

ad un intervento davvero a vantaggio dei<br />

cittadini oppure ad un affare<br />

economico-finanziario di stampo politico?<br />

Non vorrei sbagliarmi, ma mi sembra che i<br />

sindaci di Padova, Trieste (Roberto Cosolini,<br />

ndr) e Bologna (Virginio Merola, ndr) siano<br />

tutti del Pd, come peraltro anche il presidente<br />

della Regione Emilia Romagna (Vasco<br />

Errani, ndr)... Qualcuno forse ha deciso di<br />

fare cassa vendendosi l’anima - conclude il<br />

numero due di Palazzo Santo Stefano - Ma<br />

noi non ci stiamo. Anzi, come direbbero a<br />

Napoli, ccà nisciuno è fesso... ». Torna a farsi<br />

sentire intanto il portavoce padovano del<br />

Movimento 5 Stelle di Beppe Grillo: «Leggo<br />

che qualche esponente del Pdl condivide la<br />

nostra proposta di fare un referendum<br />

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cittadino sulla questione - dice Giovanni<br />

Endrizzi, riferendosi al consigliere provinciale<br />

Domenico Menorello - Noi però non vogliamo<br />

la compagnia di chi intende soltanto fare<br />

Corriere Della Será/ - Home, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


confusione, perché magari desidera che<br />

AcegasAps passi in mani diverse da quelle di<br />

Hera...».<br />

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El País/ - Internacional, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


El archivo del cohecho contra Fabra<br />

causó indefensión, según el fiscal<br />

La Fiscalía del Tribunal Supremo ha basado<br />

en dos motivos su recurso contra el archivo<br />

de la acusación de cohecho contra el<br />

expresidente del PP de Castellón Carlos<br />

Fabra, dictado por la Sección Primera de la<br />

Audiencia de Castellón. Esta decisión fue la<br />

que llevó al titular del Juzgado número 1 de<br />

Nules, Jacobo Pin, a solicitar amparo ante el<br />

Consejo General del Poder Judicial, al sentir<br />

perturbada su independencia.El recurso ante<br />

el Tribunal Supremo se basa en la<br />

vulneración del derecho a la tutela judicial<br />

efectiva y en la infracción de ley. La fiscalía<br />

considera que el auto en el que la Audiencia<br />

de Castellón decretó el archivo del cohecho<br />

“genera indefensión, puesto que la decisión<br />

de la Audiencia se adoptó sin dar audiencia<br />

ni al fiscal ni al resto de las partes”. Además,<br />

considera que los hechos son constitutivos<br />

del delito de cohecho, y no solo del tráfico de<br />

influencias al que se refiere la Audiencia en<br />

su auto.<br />

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La Ley de Transparencia incluye pena de<br />

cárcel para quien falsee las cuentas<br />

El Consejo de Ministros aprobará hoy el<br />

anteproyecto de la Ley de Transparencia y<br />

Buen Gobierno que, de no haber sufrido<br />

cambios, es menos coercitiva de lo que la<br />

vicepresidenta del Gobierno, Soraya Sáenz<br />

de Santamaría, anunció en un primer<br />

momento en lo relativo a los malos<br />

gestores.La redacción inicial del texto<br />

provocó la advertencia de los expertos ya<br />

que esta podía causar una cuestión de<br />

incostitucional por invadir competencias<br />

autonómicas. Por ello, el Gobierno realizó un<br />

cambio en el anteproyecto antes de que este<br />

fuera remitido a los órganos consultivos.En<br />

un principio, la ley arrogaba el poder para<br />

sancionar a altos cargos de las<br />

Administraciones autonómicas y locales al<br />

ministro de Hacienda y Administraciones<br />

Públicas, pero el anteproyecto finalmente se<br />

varió para precisar que cuando los infractores<br />

no pertenezcan a la Administración general<br />

del Estado, la competencia para la<br />

imposición de sanciones corresponderá a<br />

“los órganos que tengan atribuidas estas<br />

funciones en aplicación del régimen<br />

disciplinario propio de las Administraciones<br />

en las que presten servicio”. De esta manera,<br />

el ministro no podrá sancionar o llegar a<br />

destituir, tal como señaló Santamaría, a<br />

ningún cargo autonómico o local, sino que<br />

tendrá que ser cada Administración la que<br />

castigue las infracciones.Respecto a las<br />

penas que la futura ley explicita para los<br />

gestores, el Consejo General del Poder<br />

Judicial ya advirtió de que el texto no<br />

penaliza el hecho de gastar por encima de lo<br />

presupuestado, sino solo el falseamiento de<br />

las cuentas. Según el informe del Poder<br />

Judicial sobre los cambios normativos en el<br />

Código Penal, la figura delictiva que se<br />

plantea introducir, “el bien jurídico que se<br />

pretende proteger es la autenticidad de la<br />

documentación contable y financiera de la<br />

entidad, para evitar que de su falseamiento<br />

pueda derivar un perjuicio económico, mas<br />

no, necesariamente, el hecho de originar<br />

gastos al margen de lo presupuestado o<br />

autorizado”.Así el Consejo recomendó<br />

tipificar dicha conducta, es decir, formular<br />

una sanción penal para el despilfarrador,<br />

“sancionar la realización de gastos sin<br />

habilitación presupuestaria o, en su caso,<br />

una vez agotado el crédito disponible, en vez<br />

de extender a la entidades públicas el delito<br />

de falseamiento contable previsto en el<br />

artículo 290 del Código Penal”, tal como<br />

indica el informe del Consejo.Así, el apartado<br />

del Buen Gobierno que, en principio, suponía<br />

una hilera de normas de obligado<br />

cumplimiento para todos los gestores tiene<br />

su capacidad sancionadora bastante<br />

mermada, aunque la Ley de Estabilidad<br />

presupuestaria marca una intervención<br />

política suficiente como para que autonomías<br />

y corporaciones locales se plieguen al<br />

mandato de cumplir lo establecido en ella.El<br />

anteproyecto ha pasado también por la<br />

Agencia de Protección de Datos y el Consejo<br />

de Estado, que han remitido sus preceptivos<br />

y no vinculantes dictámenes, antes de iniciar<br />

la tramitación en el Congreso. Mientras el<br />

apartado del Buen Gobierno iniciará su<br />

vigencia en cuanto la norma sea probada y<br />

publicada en el BOE, lo referente a la<br />

Transparencia tiene un período de<br />

cumplimiento de un año, a partir del<br />

momento de su publicación.Las<br />

organizaciones que trabajan en esta materia<br />

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destacaron las múltiples excepciones del<br />

anteproyecto y el hecho de que no se<br />

considerara el acceso a la información como<br />

un derecho fundamental. Pese a ello, la<br />



satisfacción porque España comience a tener<br />

una Ley de Transparencia fue ampliamente<br />

señalada.<br />

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El País/ - Opiníon, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Corte Penal Internacional)<br />

Holanda suspende su ayuda a Ruanda por<br />

su apoyo a los rebeldes de Congo<br />

Holanda ha suspendido una ayuda de 5<br />

millones de euros destinada a Ruanda, tras<br />

la publicación de un informe de la ONU que<br />

acusa al país africano de apoyar a los<br />

rebeldes del este la vecina República<br />

Democrática del Congo, según anunció este<br />

jueves un portavoz del Gobierno<br />

neerlandés.Holanda sigue la senda marcada<br />

por Estados Unidos, que este fin de semana<br />

había cancelado una ayuda militar de<br />

200.000 dólares por los mismos motivos.El<br />

portavoz holandés explicó que la ayuda<br />

económica a Ruanda iba destinada a mejorar<br />

el sistema judicial del país, y anunció que<br />

Ámsterdam seguirá aportando fondos a las<br />

ONG que trabajan en el país<br />

africano.Ruanda, que ha negado en distintas<br />

ocasiones que apoyara a los rebeldes del<br />

este de Congo, no hizo ayer ningún<br />

comentario sobre la decisión tomada por<br />

Holanda, aunque horas antes había<br />

lamentado que Washington suspendiera la<br />

ayuda, siguiendo un informe<br />

imperfecto.“Habría sido mejor que Estados<br />

Unidos y que nuestros demás socios tomarán<br />

una decisión basada en pruebas evidentes,<br />

no en alegaciones”, declaró la ministra<br />

ruandesa de Asuntos Exteriores, Louise<br />

Mushikiwabo.El recorte de la ayuda<br />

estadounidense ha sido visto como un<br />

cambio significante porque Washington lleva<br />

años apoyando a Ruanda pese a su larga<br />

historia de violencia e inestabilidad desde el<br />

genocidio de 1994.Los expertos de la ONU<br />

acusan a oficiales ruandeses de alto rango<br />

de proveer de armas, municiones y demás<br />

material militar a los rebeldes del este de<br />

Congo.Más de 260.000 congoleños han<br />

tenido que abandonar sus hogares desde<br />

abril por el conflicto entre el Ejército y las<br />

tropas del M23. La rebelión M23 toma su<br />

nombre de un proceso de paz de 2009 que,<br />

según sus miembros, no ha sido respetado<br />

por el Gobierno de Kinshasa.Las tropas del<br />

M23 han sido reforzadas por centenares de<br />

desertores del Ejército congoleño que se<br />

sumaron a la rebelión en apoyo del general<br />

Bosco Ntaganda, sobre cuya cabeza pesa<br />

una orden de detención de la Corte Penal<br />

Internacional por crímenes de guerra.<br />

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El Universal/ - Opinión, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


TEPJF difunde acuerdos sobre juicio de<br />

inconformidad<br />

La Comisión Instructora del Tribunal Electoral<br />

del Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF)<br />

, encargada de presentar el dictamen sobre<br />

la elección presidencial, hizo públicos los<br />

primeros cinco acuerdos recaídos al juicio de<br />

inconformidad 359/2012. Este es el juicio<br />

iniciado por el Movimiento Progresista,<br />

conformado por el PRD, PT y Movimiento<br />

Ciudadano, para demandar la invalidez de la<br />

elección presidencial, sobre la base de que<br />

se habría infringido el Artículo 40<br />

constitucional, donde se establecen que las<br />

elecciones deben ser libres y auténticas,<br />

además de periódicas.Los cinco acuerdos<br />

difundidos públicamente están fechados el 26<br />

de julio y con ello se inicia propiamente la<br />

controversia que derivará en la resolución<br />

definitiva e inatacable sobre la validez de la<br />

elección presidencial que deberá realizarse<br />

antes del 31 de agosto.El primer acuerdo<br />

confirma la admisión de la demanda,<br />

reconoce como actor al Movimiento<br />

Progresista y como tercer interesado a la<br />

coalición Compromiso por México, integrada<br />

por los partidos Revolucionario Institucional<br />

(PRI) y Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM)<br />

.Mantiene en reserva el reconocimiento como<br />

tercer interesado a otros actores que<br />

presentaron escritos con esta característica,<br />

básicamente medios de comunicación.Por su<br />

parte el segundo acuerdo se refiere a la<br />

apertura de las cajas que contienen las<br />

pruebas aportadas por el Movimiento<br />

Progresista, en tanto que el tercero está<br />

relacionado con la recepción de las pruebas<br />

supervenientes aportadas por la misma<br />

coalición.El cuarto acuerdo corresponde a la<br />

excitativa de justicia promovida por la parte<br />

actora, para que las autoridades electorales<br />

se pronuncien sobre las quejas presentadas<br />

y que están relacionadas con la<br />

sustanciación del juicio de inconformidad, por<br />

el cual se le da un plazo a las autoridades<br />

electorales para que respondan.El quinto<br />

acuerdo dado a conocer por la Comisión<br />

Instructora del TEPJF tiene como finalidad<br />

que la Unidad de Fiscalización del Instituto<br />

Federal Electoral (IFE) remita al tribunal las<br />

dos mil 435 tarjetas de plástico emitidas por<br />

una tienda de autoservicio que tiene en su<br />

poder.tcm<br />

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El Universal/ - Opinión, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Acudimos a TEPJF a demandar justicia:<br />

Zambrano<br />

Los líderes nacional del PRD, PT y<br />

Movimiento Ciudadano, Jesús Zambrano,<br />

Alberto Anaya y Luis Waltón, se reunieron<br />

con los magistrados Salvador Nava, Flavio<br />

Galván y Constancio Carrasco, quienes<br />

elaborarán el proyecto de cómputo y, en su<br />

caso, la declaración de validez de la elección<br />

presidencial.Al final del encuentro a puerta<br />

cerrada, el perredista Jesús Zambrano dijo<br />

que vinieron a las instalaciones del Tribunal<br />

Electoral del Poder Judicial Federal (TEPJF)<br />

a demandar "justicia" y a que los<br />

magistrados, contrario a los consejeros del<br />

IFE, realicen un trabajo exhaustivo con las<br />

pruebas que han presentado, a fin de que se<br />

pueda invalidar la elección<br />

presidencial."Hemos venido aquí a demandar<br />

justicia; hemos venido aquí convencidos de<br />

que nuestros alegatos contenidos en el juicio<br />

de inconformidad para declarar la invalidez<br />

de la elección presidencial tienen suficiente<br />

fundamento para que se anule la elección y<br />

se tomen las medidas correspondientes para<br />

que, como dijo ayer Andrés Manuel López<br />

Obrador, se convoque a elecciones<br />

extraordinarias mediantes los pasos que<br />

están contemplados en nuestro sistema<br />

jurídico constitucional", dijo.El perredista<br />

Jesús Zambrano aseguró que la coalición de<br />

la izquierda, integrada por PRD, PT y MC,<br />

espera que el Tribunal Electoral actúe con la<br />

responsabilidad histórica que tienen en sus<br />

manos.Alberto Anaya, dirigente del PT,<br />

explicó que a los partidos que impulsaron la<br />

aspiración presidenciaL de López Obrador<br />

les preocupa que desde antes de las<br />

elecciones denunciaron una serie de<br />

irregularidades, mismas que no fueron<br />

atendidas por las autoridades competentes,<br />

por lo "que de nueva cuenta hemos sido<br />

objeto de un megafraude"."Es preocupante<br />

en función de la situación de inseguridad que<br />

vive el país desde hace varios años. En<br />

muchas partes del país estamos viendo un<br />

Estado Fallido (...) lo que también podríamos<br />

tener es un Estado Fallido en materia<br />

político-electoral. Es una situación, en<br />

cualquier país civilizado el escándalo, el<br />

cochinero de la elección que tuvimos da<br />

elementos suficientes para que se caiga la<br />

elección", reiteró.El petista acusó a los<br />

consejeros del IFE de "defender y justificar"<br />

las acciones violatorias que desde su punto<br />

de vista se desarrollaron en la campaña<br />

electoral, son "los abogados de los partidos<br />

que decidieron robarse la elección".Luis<br />

Walton, dirigente nacional del MC y alcalde<br />

electo de Acapulco, secundó a sus<br />

compañeros y agregó que en la charla con<br />

los magistrados expusieron los elementos<br />

necesarios para que haya una resolución<br />

conforme a derecho.Exigió al IFE que<br />

resuelva las que quejas que tienen de la<br />

coalición Movimiento Ciudadano, porque no<br />

sería benéfico para la democracia mexicana<br />

que posterguen a uno o dos años los<br />

posibles resultados.Según Zambrano, los<br />

magistrados se comprometieron a que harían<br />

un análisis exhaustivo del conjunto de los<br />

alegatos que la coalición Movimiento<br />

Progresista entregó en el juicio de<br />

inconformidad.<br />

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El Universal Venezuela/ - International, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Contraloría admite investigación sobre<br />

irregularidades en el Metro<br />

Caracas.- Tras las reiteradas denuncias<br />

sobre anomalías en el manejo de los<br />

recursos del Metro de Caracas, C.A. a<br />

distintos organismos estadales que ha<br />

realizado el concejal metropolitano Máximo<br />

Sánchez, Presidente de la Comisión de<br />

Legislación del Cabildo Metropolitano de<br />

Caracas y miembro de la dirección nacional<br />

de Primero Justicia, este viernes comunicó<br />

al país la reciente respuesta emitida por la<br />

Contraloría General de la República.Sánchez<br />

aplaudió que la institución<br />

contralora ofreciera una contestación ante los<br />

graves hechos de corrupción que presenta el<br />

sistema de transporte nacional, a su juicio es<br />

necesario que se esclarezca el destino<br />

completo de cada bolívar invertido en este.<br />

"Tras acudir a todos los poderes públicos del<br />

país, por fin uno de ellos admite que se debe<br />

investigar que esta ocurriendo con el Metro<br />

de Caracas, porque no es normal que con<br />

tantos miles de millones de dólares que le<br />

otorgan para el mejoramiento en la calidad<br />

del servicio y el subterráneo presente tantas<br />

fallas continuamente",<br />

aseveró.Asimismo, recordó que la Asamblea<br />

Nacional se encuentra en mora con los<br />

venezolanos pues "aún no han dado<br />

respuesta de la solicitud tanto de audiencia<br />

como de investigación que se han gestionado<br />

en el Parlamento, hacemos un llamado a la<br />

directiva de la AN, que le respondan a la<br />

nación porque pareciera que los problemas<br />

de movilidad y transporte de los ciudadanos<br />

es menos importante que la reelección de su<br />

candidato".Agregó que espera que la<br />

Contraloría General de la República sea igual<br />

de eficiente y rápida como en los casos de<br />

inhabilitaciones políticas a dirigentes de la<br />

oposición venezolana, citó el caso del<br />

candidato a la alcaldía de Baruta, David<br />

Uzcátegui.Por último, el edil metropolitano<br />

Máximo Sánchez anunció que en los<br />

próximos días dará a conocer la morosidad<br />

en que se encuentran el poder judicial con<br />

los venezolanos en cuanto a las denuncias<br />

reiteradas del metro. Además, participó que<br />

como funcionario electo, vigilará por el<br />

correcto cumplimiento de la inspección que<br />

debe realizarse al sistema de transporte<br />

subterráneo.<br />

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Finanzminister Schäuble hat Sigmar Gabriel<br />

„billigen Populismus“ vorgeworfen. Kann<br />

Populismus auch teuer sein? Oder zumindest<br />

recht und billig?<br />

Von Timo Frasch<br />

Es gibt ein paar Sachen, die sind überhaupt<br />

nicht populistisch: 50 Kilometer Gehen zum<br />

Beispiel - oder ein Urteil des<br />

Bundesverfassungsgerichts, in dem die<br />

Begriffe „negatives Stimmgewicht“ und<br />

„Reststimmenverwertung“ vorkommen. Das<br />

war’s dann aber auch mit den<br />

Gemeinsamkeiten. Während sich nämlich<br />

fürs 50 Kilometer Gehen allenfalls<br />

Hüftchirurgen interessieren, genießt das<br />

Verfassungsgericht im gesamten Volk nicht<br />

nur höchste Aufmerksamkeit, sondern auch<br />

große Popularität. Offenbar geht also beides:<br />

ohne Populismus populär und ohne<br />

Populismus unpopulär zu sein.<br />

Wie sieht das Ganze nun mit Populismus<br />

aus? Wenn es nach unserem<br />

Bundesfinanzminister geht, muss man da<br />

Sigmar Gabriel, den einstigen<br />

Popbeauftragten und jetzigen<br />

Populismusbeauftragten der SPD, fragen.<br />

Diesem hat Schäuble zuletzt wegen dessen<br />

Bankenkritik sogar „billigen Populismus“<br />

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/ - Politik, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Billiger Populismus<br />

vorgeworfen. Aber was heißt das? Dass<br />

Populismus immer billig ist? Oder dass er<br />

teuer und, wenn gut gemacht, auch recht und<br />

billig oder sogar chillig sein kann?<br />

Ausgerechnet die Flatrate- und<br />

Pöbelpopulisten von der Linkspartei glauben<br />

an Letzteres. Jedenfalls hat ihre neue<br />

Bundesvorsitzende Katja Kipping, in die Kim<br />

Jong-un lange verliebt gewesen sein soll,<br />

jüngst sinngemäß gemeint: A bissl<br />

Populismus geht immer. Was sie dabei nicht<br />

bedacht hat: dass viele Populistenkandidaten<br />

in ihrer angeblich „bewegungsorientierten“<br />

Partei an 50-Kilometer-Geher erinnern, die<br />

kurz vor dem Ziel wegen Schwierigkeiten mit<br />

dem Bewegungsapparat disqualifiziert<br />

werden. Stets geschmeidig war hingegen der<br />

frühere Radrennfahrer und bayerische<br />

Ministerpräsident Franz Josef Strauß.<br />

Von ihm stammt der Heiße-Ohren-Satz, dass<br />

man als Politiker dem Volk zwar aufs Maul<br />

schauen, diesem aber nicht nach dem Mund<br />

reden sollte. Die Begründung lieferte er gleich<br />

mit: vox populi, vox Rindvieh! Das stimmt man denke etwa an den bayerischen<br />

Oppositionsführer Rinderspacher. Es gilt aber<br />

leider auch: vox populi, vox Stimmvieh! Und<br />

bis auf weiteres: vox populi, vox negatives<br />

Stimmgewicht!<br />

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La Nacion Chile/ - Portada Noticias, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Embajador peruano: “No hay<br />

discriminación hacia nuestra comunidad”<br />

en Chile<br />

Los 140.000 ciudadanos peruanos que<br />

residen en territorio chileno no son víctimas<br />

de xenofobia ni de discriminación, dijo el<br />

embajador de ese país en Santiago, Carlos<br />

Pareja, quien considera que el litigio limítrofe<br />

con Chile, que se resolverá el año que viene<br />

en La Haya, no afecta a esa comunidad. “No<br />

tenemos indicios de brotes de xenofobia o<br />

discriminación. La comunidad peruana es<br />

apreciada por su conducta y su trabajo<br />

profesional”, destacó el embajador a la<br />

agencia de noticias EFE, quien admitió que<br />

“muchos de los emigrantes no retornarán a<br />

Perú” porque “han sido acogidos en Chile,<br />

donde han encontrado trabajo y han formado<br />

una familia”. La demanda por el límite<br />

marítimo presentada por Perú en 2008 ante<br />

la Corte Internacional de Justicia de La<br />

Haya “es un tema que no afecta a la<br />

comunidad, sino que está en otros ámbitos”,<br />

afirmó Pareja, embajador en Chile desde<br />

febrero de 2009. MOMENTOS DE “CIERTA<br />

COMPLICACIÓN” El embajador peruano<br />

admitió que se avecinan momentos “de cierta<br />

complicación” porque en octubre de iniciará<br />

la fase oral del litigio y, sobre todo, porque en<br />

junio de 2013 probablemente el alto tribunal<br />

emitirá el fallo. “Serán momentos de cierta<br />

presión mediática y en la opinión pública<br />

habrá muchas conjeturas”, reconoció Pareja,<br />

quien puntualizó que la demanda no obedece<br />

a una controversia política, sino jurídica.<br />

“Nuestros argumentos son muy sólidos.<br />

Confiamos en que la corte los acoja”, afirmó<br />

el representante diplomática peruano.<br />

INICIATIVAS CIVILES Pareja elogió además,<br />

las iniciativas impulsadas por empresarios,<br />

académicos e intelectuales de ambos países<br />

en favor del entendimiento. El miércoles en<br />

Madrid el escritor peruano y premio Nobel de<br />

Literatura, Mario Vargas Llosa, y el actual<br />

embajador de Chile en Francia y premio<br />

Cervantes, Jorge Edwards, presentaron un<br />

manifiesto firmado por miembros de la<br />

sociedad civil de sus países a favor de una<br />

reconciliación verdadera. “Estos llamados a<br />

la concordia contribuyen a crear un clima<br />

más benevolente”, subrayó. GOBIERNOS<br />

CAUTELOSOS Pareja insistió en que “los<br />

Gobiernos de ambos países están actuando<br />

con suma corrección, prudencia y cautela” y<br />

destacó también el hecho de que los<br />

parlamentos “se han comprometido a<br />

respetar el fallo y su ejecución a plenitud”.<br />

“Yo, como embajador, pongo mucha atención<br />

a este tema tratando de prevenir cualquier<br />

situación que pueda empañar la fluidez y la<br />

cordialidad en las relaciones en esta parte<br />

del proceso, que obviamente es la más<br />

delicada”, aseguró el embajador peruano.<br />

“ESTRECHA RELACIÓN ENTRE LAS<br />

INSTITUCIONES POLICIALES” El<br />

embajador Pareja fue cauteloso al referirse al<br />

incidente de este jueves, cuando una<br />

patrullera de la Armada chilena disparó<br />

contra una embarcación peruana que huía<br />

con un cargamento de marihuana. “Hay una<br />

relación muy fluida entre las instituciones<br />

armadas y policiales de ambos países”, dijo.<br />

Pareja también destacó la forma en que la<br />

Cancillería chilena está coordinando el<br />

desminado en la zona fronteriza adonde, tras<br />

las lluvias torrenciales de febrero, fueron a<br />

parar cientos de artefactos explosivos.<br />

45

La Nacion Chile/ - Notícias, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Canciller peruano descartó llamar a su<br />

embajador en Quito por acta<br />

Ecuador-Chile<br />

Aunque el canciller peruano, Rafael<br />

Roncagliolo, descartó este viernes que su<br />

Gobierno llame al embajador peruano en<br />

Quito para expresar su incomodidad por el<br />

acta suscrita en la víspera entre los<br />

cancilleres de Chile y Ecuador que destaca el<br />

valor limítrofe de los acuerdos de 1952 y<br />

1954. Roncagliolo reiteró a RPP Noticias la<br />

postura de su país que considera a los<br />

acuerdos de 1952 y 1954 firmados con Chile<br />

como acuerdos pesqueros que no<br />

constituyen tratados limítrofes y descartó que<br />

el acta entre Ecuador y Chile afecte el<br />

proceso sobre el diferendo marítimo que se<br />

ventila en la Corte Internacional de Justicia<br />

de La Haya. “Este pronunciamiento no tiene<br />

efecto sobre el proceso judicial de La Haya.<br />

No es la primera vez que se hace y frente a<br />

eso debemos señalar que la declaración<br />

sobre la zona marítima del 52 y el convenio<br />

sobre zona especial fronteriza marítima del<br />

54, no son tratados de límites ni fueron<br />

concebidos como tales”, aseguró. Al bajarle<br />

el perfil a la trascendencia del acta<br />

Chile-Ecuador en el tribunal internacional, el<br />

jefe de la diplomática peruana consideró<br />

innecesario llamar a su embajador en Quito<br />

para expresarle la molestia del Lima. “No, los<br />

gestos que haya que hacer se manejarán por<br />

la vía diplomática, no queremos hacer las<br />

relaciones entre los países a través de<br />

declaraciones”, apuntó. ACUERDO CON<br />

ECUADOR Precisó que el límite marítimo<br />

suscrito entre Perú y Ecuador fue establecido<br />

mediante un intercambio de notas el 02 de<br />

mayo del 2011, y no contiene ninguna<br />

referencia a los instrumentos de 1952 y 1954,<br />

ni a documentos unilaterales de ninguno de<br />

los países. “Este acuerdo que contiene los<br />

elementos de un verdadero acuerdo de<br />

límites se encuentra registrado en la<br />

Secretaria de las Naciones Unidas, de<br />

manera que esto es lo que vale, lo demás<br />

puede tener cierto efecto mediático, pero no<br />

afectará el curso del diferendo en La Haya”,<br />

insistió.<br />

46

Le Figaro/ - International, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Cour pénale internationale)<br />

La RDC demande l'aide de l'ONU<br />

La République démocratique du Congo<br />

(RDC) souhaite un renforcement de la<br />

mission de maintien de la paix de l'Onu<br />

présente sur son territoire depuis 1999, afin<br />

de combattre les rebelles du Mouvement du<br />

23-Mars qui affrontent le gouvernement dans<br />

l'est du pays.<br />

"Nous savons très bien que si nous partons<br />

de zéro, cela prendra très longtemps", a dit<br />

Lambert Mendé, porte-parole du<br />

gouvernement congolais. "C'est pourquoi<br />

nous proposons de modifier l'action d'une<br />

partie de la Monusco (Mission de<br />

l'Organisation des Nations unies en<br />

République démocratique du Congo)."<br />

"Nous pensons que cela marchera car nous<br />

avons le soutien de tout le monde à<br />

Addis-Abeba", a-t-il ajouté, en référence à<br />

l'Union africaine dont le siège se trouve dans<br />

la capitale éthiopienne.<br />

L'est de la RDC est en proie à de violents<br />

affrontements depuis la défection il y a trois<br />

mois de plusieurs centaines de soldats après<br />

l'annonce par le président Joseph Kabila de<br />

son intention d'arrêter le général Bosco<br />

Ntaganda, recherché par la Cour pénale<br />

internationale (CPI) pour crimes de guerre<br />

commis pendant la guerre civile de<br />

1998-2003.<br />

Les hélicoptères de l'Onu pilonnent<br />

régulièrement les positions tenues par les<br />

rebelles mais la RDC juge trop dispersés les<br />

quelque 17.000 soldats déployés par la<br />

Monusco en territoire congolais.<br />

Un rapport publié fin juin par l'Onu a accusé<br />

le Rwanda de soutenir militairement les<br />

rebelles, ce qui a entraîné une suspension de<br />

l'aide financière versée à Kigali par les<br />

Etats-Unis, les Pays-Bas et, dernièrement, le<br />

Royaume-Uni.<br />

Le Rwanda, qui a rejeté ces accusations,<br />

avait justifié de précédentes interventions<br />

militaires en RDC par la présence de rebelles<br />

hutus, réfugiés sur le territoire congolais<br />

depuis le génocide de 1994.<br />

47

Le Figaro/ - International, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (La Cour Suprême)<br />

Israël: l'expulsion de colons reportée<br />

La Cour suprême israélienne a autorisé<br />

aujourd'hui le gouvernement à reporter au 21<br />

août l'expulsion de colons basés en<br />

Cisjordanie, après une précédente décision<br />

qui imposait le 1er août comme dernier délai.<br />

Le gouvernement avait déclaré dimanche à la<br />

Cour que le site prévu pour accueillir 50<br />

familles expulsées de la colonie de Migron ne<br />

serait pas prêt à temps. L'armée israélienne<br />

a, en outre, exprimé ses craintes que le choix<br />

de la période du ramadan pour mener les<br />

expulsions ne soit perçu comme une<br />

provocation par les colons juifs, et ne<br />

provoque de violentes manifestations.<br />

Alors que toutes les colonies sont jugées<br />

illégales par les Nations unies et les<br />

Palestiniens, Israël distingue celles qui ont<br />

été autorisées par le gouvernement - environ<br />

120 - et celles qui ont été établies de façon<br />

"sauvage" - une centaine - dont Migron est la<br />

plus importante.<br />

Environ 311.000 colons israéliens et 2,5<br />

millions de Palestiniens vivent en Cisjordanie.<br />

48

Misiones Online/ - Notícias, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Magistrados, funcionarios y empleados de<br />

la justicia ya pueden jubilarse con el 82<br />

por ciento de su salario<br />

El gobernador Maurice Closs firmó ayer el<br />

decreto que pone en vigencia el 82 por ciento<br />

móvil para la jubilación de magistrados y<br />

funcionarios de la justicia misionera.<br />

La norma sancionada por la Cámara de<br />

Diputados el 12 de julio de este año, incluye<br />

a todo el personal del Poder Judicial de<br />

Misiones y a magistrados y funcionarios que<br />

hayan obtenido beneficios previsionales por<br />

regímenes anteriores, y/o las pensiones de<br />

sus causahabientes, teniendo derecho en tal<br />

caso a solicitar la adecuación del beneficio<br />

para acogerse a la ley.<br />

El artículo 4º de la norma indica que para<br />

tener derecho a este beneficio, se debe<br />

acreditar el cómputo como mínimo de diez<br />

años continuos o discontinuos de servicios<br />

prestados en forma efectiva en la<br />

administración de justicia de la Provincia, de<br />

la Nación o de las provincias adheridas al<br />

régimen de reciprocidad jubilatoria.<br />

Asimismo los magistrados, funcionarios y<br />

empleados de la justicia de Misiones, tienen<br />

derecho a la jubilación con 65 años de edad<br />

y 30 años de servicios computables en<br />

cualquier sistema de reciprocidad jubilatoria;<br />

y como mínimo quince años de aportes al<br />

IPS y otros quince años al Fondo<br />

Compensatorio que se crea a través de esta<br />

norma.<br />

Hasta tanto se consiga el autofinanciamiento<br />

del régimen jubilatorio, por medio del Fondo<br />

Compensatorio, el IPS aportará el 82 por<br />

ciento de la remuneración con aportes<br />

asignada al magistrado, funcionario y<br />

empleado en actividad en igual cargo que el<br />

que ejercía el beneficiario.<br />

Además, el Ejecutivo contribuirá a completar<br />

el Fondo con las partidas presupuestarias<br />

específicas que se asignen por rentas<br />

generales, sin cargo de devolución para el<br />

IPS.<br />

Están excluidos del beneficio de este<br />

régimen quienes fueran removidos del<br />

ejercicio de sus funciones y quienes hubieran<br />

renunciado al cargo con posterioridad a ser<br />

denunciados por juicio político, acusado ante<br />

el Jurado de Enjuiciamiento o al inicio de<br />

sumario administrativo.<br />

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Misiones Online/ - Notícias, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Promulgan ley que establece el 82%<br />

móvil para la jubilación de magistrados y<br />

funcionarios de la justicia<br />

La norma incluye también a todo el personal<br />

del Poder Judicial de Misiones y a<br />

magistrados y funcionarios que hayan<br />

obtenido beneficios previsionales por<br />

regímenes anteriores, y/o las pensiones de<br />

sus causahabientes, teniendo derecho en tal<br />

caso a solicitar la adecuación del beneficio<br />

para acogerse a la ley. La iniciativa<br />

impulsada por el diputado Carlos Rovira, fue<br />

sancionada el 12 de julio, en la última sesión<br />

de la Legislatura, antes del inicio del receso<br />

por vacaciones de invierno.<br />

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Reuters General/ - Article, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Judicial Review)<br />

Court clears way for political ad contracts<br />

to go online<br />

By Jasmin Melvin WASHINGTON | Fri Jul 27,<br />

2012 4:07pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters)<br />

- A federal appeals court on Friday cleared<br />

the way for new rules to take effect next week<br />

that will force broadcasters to publish political<br />

advertising contracts online. The court denied<br />

an emergency motion from the National<br />

Association of Broadcasters to stop the rules<br />

from taking effect during a larger judicial<br />

review.The Federal Communications<br />

Commission adopted the rules in April to<br />

provide insight on campaign spending ahead<br />

of November's congressional and presidential<br />

elections. They will reveal who is paying for<br />

political campaign ads and just how much<br />

they are shelling out.The NAB has said its<br />

members stand to lose millions of dollars in<br />

ad revenue because cable and Internet<br />

competitors, who are not subject to the rules,<br />

will get an unfair advantage for political<br />

advertising."We continue to believe it is<br />

fundamentally unfair for local TV stations to<br />

be the only medium required to disclose on<br />

the Internet sensitive advertising rate<br />

information," Dennis Wharton, NAB's<br />

executive vice president of communications,<br />

said in a statement.The trade group filed its<br />

emergency motion with the U.S. Federal<br />

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia<br />

Circuit earlier in the month. The D.C. appeals<br />

court said in a filing that the trade group had<br />

not met "the stringent requirements for a stay<br />

pending court review."The four biggest TV<br />

broadcasters in the top 50 media markets will<br />

have to upload their political files to a<br />

database hosted on the FCC's website<br />

beginning August 2.TV stations have been<br />

making public their paper records of<br />

campaign advertising buys and other<br />

community-related issues since 1938 as part<br />

of their public interest obligation. But<br />

obtaining those files is currently a<br />

time-consuming, labor-intensive task.The<br />

data broadcasters will post online includes<br />

detailed information on who paid for political<br />

ads, key personnel of the groups buying ads,<br />

when political ads aired and rejections of<br />

requests to buy air time.The four biggest<br />

broadcasters are ABC, operated by Walt<br />

Disney Co, CBS Corp, News Corp's Fox, and<br />

NBC, controlled by Comcast Corp.The NAB<br />

filed a petition for review in April with the D.C.<br />

appeals court, charging that the rules are<br />

arbitrary, capricious, violate free speech<br />

protections in the U.S. Constitution and go<br />

beyond the FCC's statutory authority.That<br />

court challenge still stands, and will be<br />

debated on the merits, Wharton said.The<br />

FCC declined to comment.(Reporting by<br />

Jasmin Melvin; Editing by Jan Paschal)<br />

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CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Civil Rights)<br />

Seattle police reach reform agreement<br />

with US government<br />

By Laura L. Myers SEATTLE | Fri Jul 27,<br />

2012 4:12pm EDT SEATTLE (Reuters) - The<br />

Seattle Police Department reached an<br />

agreement with the U.S. Justice Department<br />

on Friday that will see the city avoid a federal<br />

civil rights lawsuit over complaints of<br />

excessive force by its police officers. A<br />

Justice Department official who spoke on<br />

condition of anonymity confirmed that a<br />

consent decree had been negotiated for a<br />

plan to settle findings of systematic<br />

misconduct cited in a federal review of<br />

Seattle's police force late last year.Officials<br />

from the Justice Department, the mayor's<br />

office and the city police department planned<br />

to hold a news conference at 3 p.m. local<br />

time to discuss an "agreement on Seattle<br />

Police Department reforms," the U.S.<br />

Attorney's Office in Seattle added in a brief<br />

statement.Talks on a settlement had bogged<br />

down over the anticipated costs of<br />

implementing a Justice Department proposal,<br />

which a city memorandum estimated would<br />

run roughly $41 million for the first year<br />

alone.The memorandum had described those<br />

expenses, including $18 million to develop<br />

and implement training programs and $11<br />

million for new city positions, as<br />

"prohibitive."Details of the final settlement,<br />

including its costs, were not immediately<br />

revealed.The city had faced a July 31<br />

deadline to reach agreement with the Justice<br />

Department or face a federal lawsuit accusing<br />

the police department of violating citizens'<br />

civil rights.The settlement in Seattle follows<br />

voluntary police reform pacts in recent years<br />

with several other big cities, including Los<br />

Angeles, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Several<br />

other large municipal police forces remain<br />

under federal review.On Tuesday, U.S.<br />

Attorney General Eric Holder placed the New<br />

Orleans Police Department, accused of<br />

widespread abuses, under the scrutiny of a<br />

federal monitor for at least four years.The<br />

Justice Department concluded in a report<br />

presented in December that Seattle officers<br />

displayed a pattern of using excessive force<br />

between 2009 and April 2011.The<br />

investigation was launched in response to a<br />

request by the American Civil Liberties Union<br />

that was sparked by a series of high-profile<br />

cases in which Seattle police used force<br />

against minorities.(Reporting by Laura L.<br />

Myers; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by<br />

Paul Simao)<br />

52



Alabama seeks Voting Rights Act<br />

clearance of redistricting plan<br />

By Verna Gates CLANTON, Alabama | Fri Jul<br />

27, 2012 4:23pm EDT CLANTON, Alabama<br />

(Reuters) - Alabama wants a federal court in<br />

Washington to confirm that its redistricting<br />

plan for the state's Republican-controlled<br />

legislature does not violate the Voting Rights<br />

Act, the landmark 1960s law that bars<br />

discrimination on the basis of race or color.<br />

The lawsuit filed on Thursday by Alabama's<br />

attorney general is required under a provision<br />

of the 1965 act that requires state and local<br />

governments with a history of discrimination<br />

to obtain federal approval when any electoral<br />

changes, such as redistricting, are<br />

proposed.The latest 2010 Census showed<br />

population gains and losses in some<br />

metropolitan areas in Alabama, creating the<br />

need to redistrict legislative seats. Areas such<br />

as inner city Birmingham, the state's largest<br />

city, are losing residents, while nearby Shelby<br />

County, which is predominantly white, is<br />

gaining them.Democratic critics of the<br />

redistricting plan say it is a bald bid by the<br />

Republicans to cement the gains they made<br />

during the 2010 elections, when Republicans<br />

took control of the Alabama House and<br />

Senate for the first time in 136 years.<br />

Republicans holds 60 of the 105 seats in the<br />

House and 22 of the 35 seats in the<br />

Senate."This is purely gerrymandering," said<br />

state Representative John Rogers, a<br />

Jefferson County Democrat who chairs the<br />

legislature's Black Caucus. "This is about<br />

Republicans staying in power, pure and<br />

simple."The Voting Rights Act, passed during<br />

the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, was<br />

deemed necessary to fortify existing federal<br />

anti-discrimination laws, including the 15th<br />

Amendment guaranteeing the right of all<br />

citizen to vote. President Lyndon Johnson<br />

signed the law on August 6, 1965.Section 5<br />

of the Act requires prior approval, known as<br />

the "preclearance provision," from the U.S.<br />

Department of Justice - either through an<br />

administrative procedure or a three-judge<br />

panel of the U.S. District Court - of any voting<br />

changes in the states covered by the Voting<br />

Rights Act.Thursday's lawsuit also asks the<br />

court to find the preclearance" provision<br />

unconstitutional if the judges do not grant a<br />

declaratory judgment.SUIT HEADING FOR<br />

WASHINGTON"For years, we have thought<br />

the ... preclearance rule was<br />

unconstitutional," said Joy Patterson,<br />

spokeswoman for Alabama Attorney General<br />

Luther Strange, an elected Republican.<br />

"There are two options available through the<br />

law - administrative and judicial. Alabama,<br />

like other states, has chosen the judicial<br />

option."The case will be resolved by a<br />

three-judge District Court in the District of<br />

Columbia.Shelby County, which is 85 per<br />

cent white, has also filed a petition with the<br />

U.S. Supreme Court to escape the expense<br />

and burden of the supervised elections<br />

required by the Voting Rights Act, arguing<br />

that the pre-clearance requirement unfairly<br />

targets selected governments based on an<br />

outdated formula.The state's legal move is in<br />

part a rebuttal to a suit brought by Democrats<br />

and the state Black Caucus, according to<br />

state Representative Patricia Todd, a<br />

Democrat from Jefferson County.Rogers, the<br />

Jefferson County Democrat, accused the<br />

state of "packing," black voters in black<br />

districts and white voters in white seats in<br />

order to sabotage white Democrats who<br />

traditionally poll well with black voters."White<br />

Democrats are going to be an endangered<br />

species," Rogers said.(Editing by David<br />

Adams and Philip Barbara)<br />

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CNN chief Walton to leave<br />

ratings-starved network<br />

By Liana B. Baker Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:03pm<br />

EDT n">(Reuters) - CNN Worldwide<br />

President Jim Walton said on Friday he is<br />

leaving the once-dominant cable news<br />

network, which has struggled in the ratings<br />

race in recent years. Phil Kent, chief<br />

executive of Turner Broadcasting, will begin a<br />

search for a new president, the network said.<br />

He is departing on December 31."CNN needs<br />

new thinking. That starts with a new leader<br />

who brings a different perspective, different<br />

experiences and a new plan," said Walton,<br />

54, president since 2003.CNN, founded in<br />

1980 and now owned by Time Warner Inc,<br />

has tried to hold the middle ground in its<br />

news coverage, a position that some blame<br />

for its ratings erosion, while ratings have risen<br />

for competitors Fox News and MSNBC, which<br />

blend news with opinion and political<br />

commentary.News Corp owns Fox, while<br />

MSNBC is now owned by cable giant<br />

Comcast Corp after its purchase of NBC two<br />

years ago.The opinion programs on No. 1<br />

cable news network Fox News skew<br />

conservative, while commentaries on MSNBC<br />

leans liberal.From last September until the<br />

week ended July 22, CNN has trailed both<br />

networks, pulling in an average of 584,000<br />

total viewers in primetime, compared with<br />

Fox's 1.82 million viewers and MSNBC's<br />

726,000 viewers, according to Nielsen.For<br />

the second quarter, CNN posted its weakest<br />

primetime ratings in 21 years, and total<br />

viewers fell 35 percent from a year earlier. It<br />

also received criticism in June for initially<br />

misreporting a Supreme Court health-care<br />

ruling.One positive for CNN under Walton's<br />

stewardship has been its financial<br />

performance; the network is highly profitable.<br />

This year, CNN is on track to post record<br />

operating profit of $600 million."When Jim<br />

Walton assumed the presidency of CNN in<br />

2003, it was underperforming and earnings<br />

were in serious decline," said Time Warner<br />

Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes in a statement.<br />

"Since then, he and CNN have tripled<br />

earnings, doubled margin and delivered<br />

annual growth of 15 percent."Under Walton,<br />

CNN debuted shows such as "Anderson<br />

Cooper 360" and "The Situation Room with<br />

Wolf Blitzer," according to CNN's<br />

website.Time Warner shares rose 57 cents,<br />

or 1.5 percent, at $38.94 on Friday. The<br />

company reports second-quarter earnings<br />

August 1.(Reporting by Liana B. Baker in<br />

New York; Editing by Peter Lauria; Editing by<br />

Lisa Von Ahn)<br />

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NYC public advocate sues city over<br />

soaring small business fines<br />

By Jessica Dye and Joan Gralla NEW YORK<br />

| Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:08pm EDT NEW YORK<br />

(Reuters) - New York City's public advocate,<br />

a Democratic mayoral candidate known for<br />

his liberal views, on Thursday sued the city to<br />

obtain data to determine if soaring fines are<br />

hurting small businesses. Public Advocate Bill<br />

de Blasio said he has been stonewalled since<br />

May in his attempts to investigate whether<br />

city agencies - from the Departments of<br />

Health to Sanitation - have been guilty of<br />

"overzealous enforcement," in an apparent<br />

effort to boost how much money the city<br />

rakes in each year in fines, according to a<br />

complaint in Manhattan state court.Mayor<br />

Michael Bloomberg ends his third and final<br />

term in 2013 and the race to replace him has<br />

already begun. De Blasio's law suit could<br />

broaden his appeal to the business<br />

community which has been wooed by another<br />

Democratic mayoral candidate, Council<br />

Speaker Christine Quinn."It is a smart political<br />

move by the public advocate, who is seen as<br />

far to the left, to try to move to the center by<br />

defending small businesses," said Hank<br />

Sheinkopf, a political consultant.He said:<br />

"This is the Bill de Blasio moment - only he is<br />

in a position where he can take on the mayor<br />

this way," he said.Political analysts said<br />

Quinn has held closely to Bloomberg's<br />

policies, though she has carved out a few<br />

specific issues, including her support for a<br />

so-called living wage bill, which boosts the<br />

wages paid by employers who get city<br />

subsidies.New York City's public advocates<br />

probe the performance of city agencies and<br />

de Blasio said small businesses have flooded<br />

his office with complaints of being hounded<br />

for minor offenses and forced to pay<br />

"excessive" fines.As an example of<br />

over-enforcement, de Blasio said a family-run<br />

grocery store in Brooklyn was fined $750 for<br />

violating rules about posting return policies on<br />

their cash registers.CITY CLEANER,<br />

SAFERMayoral Spokesman Marc LaVorgna<br />

said the total amount of fines collected from<br />

individuals and businesses rose from $479<br />

million in 2002 - Bloomberg's first year in<br />

office - to $817 million in 2012.LaVorgna said<br />

40 percent of the increase in fines came from<br />

construction violations, fire code violations,<br />

more restaurant inspections and a crackdown<br />

on illegal cigarette sales, along with other<br />

offenses."Restaurants are cleaner,<br />

construction sites are safer, fires have come<br />

down, and our streets are cleaner and safer<br />

than ever - that is a result of enforcing the<br />

regulations we have put in place and the laws<br />

the Council has passed," said<br />

LaVorgna.Tickets for driving violations<br />

accounted for 60 percent or $204 million of<br />

the increase in fines in the last 10 years.S.<br />

Elliott Henry, a 75-year old taxi driver who<br />

had just been through traffic court in lower<br />

Manhattan, said his $290 fine for turning left<br />

on Madison Avenue from 45th Street cost him<br />

three days pay.For decades, New York City<br />

mayors, including Bloomberg, have denied<br />

setting quotas for fines to boost revenue. But<br />

de Blasio is seeking information on whether<br />

agency officials were told how many<br />

violations they should issue in a particular<br />

year."We need answers about what this ‘fine<br />

first, ask questions later' enforcement is doing<br />

to our small businesses and their ability to<br />

survive in this economy," De Blasio said.The<br />

case is De Blasio v. Michael Bloomberg et al,<br />

Supreme Court of the State of New York,<br />

New York County, No. 12-103374.(Editing by<br />

Anthony Boadle)<br />

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Ein Kommentar von Nico Fried<br />

Die Europäische Zentralbank stellt sich hinter<br />

den Euro. Die Märkte erwarten, dass sie bald<br />

wieder Staatsanleihen kauft. Doch das ist<br />

nicht demokratisch legitimiert.<br />

Da schau her, der Herr Draghi. Seit zwei<br />

Jahren ächzt die deutsche Politik unter der<br />

Euro-Krise. Der Bundestag hat ein<br />

Griechenland-Rettungspaket beschlossen,<br />

ein zweites Griechenland-Rettungspaket,<br />

einen Rettungsschirm EFSF, eine<br />

Erweiterung des EFSF, einen Fiskalpakt,<br />

einen dauerhaften Rettungsschirm, eine<br />

Milliardenhilfe für die spanischen Banken.<br />

Alles im Schnelldurchlauf, was Zweifel nährt,<br />

ob die Abgeordneten wissen, was sie tun.<br />

Auch das Verfassungsgericht prüft noch, ob<br />

das alles mit rechten Dingen zugegangen ist.<br />

Die parlamentarische Demokratie stößt an<br />

ihre Grenzen.<br />

In dieser Situation also tritt der Präsident der<br />

Europäischen Zentralbank, Mario Draghi, in<br />

London auf und sagt, die EZB werde<br />

innerhalb ihres Mandats alles Erforderliche<br />

tun, um den Euro zu erhalten. Die Märkte<br />

feiern das mit Erleichterung, die an<br />

steigenden Kursen ablesbar ist. Ein Draghi ex<br />

Machina lässt mit wenigen Worten viele<br />

Sorgen verpuffen. Und ist seine Beteuerung<br />

nicht auch eine tolle Nachricht für die<br />

Deutschen und die völlig überlastete<br />

deutsche Politik? Mitnichten.<br />

Besondere Situationen bedürfen besonderer<br />

Maßnahmen. Die EZB hat bereits<br />

Staatsanleihen für mehr als 200 Milliarden<br />

Euro gekauft, um die Zinsen für<br />

angeschlagene Länder zu senken - und die<br />

Politik zu entlasten. Die<br />

Rettungsmaßnahmen, die sonst nötig<br />

gewesen wären, wären in der Kürze der Zeit<br />

Außer Kontrolle<br />

Süddeutsche Zeitung/ - Politik, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


kaum zu vollziehen und politisch nicht<br />

durchsetzbar gewesen. Indirekt aber trug die<br />

EZB damit zur Finanzierung der Haushalte in<br />

den Krisenstaaten bei, was ihr eigentlich<br />

verboten ist. Es war wie eine stille<br />

Übereinkunft zwischen Notenbank und<br />

Politik: Ihr handelt in der Grauzone, aber wir<br />

gewinnen damit Zeit und sagen deshalb<br />

nichts.<br />

Das Parlament wurde nicht gefragt<br />

Die EZB hat den Auftrag, den Wert des<br />

Geldes zu bewahren. Und sie ist unabhängig.<br />

Das waren auch die elementaren<br />

Voraussetzungen dafür, dass die Deutschen<br />

einst bereit waren, die D-Mark abzugeben.<br />

Das Trauma der Inflation sitzt hierzulande<br />

tief. Was aber, wenn Draghi die Grenzen des<br />

EZB-Mandats anders interpretiert? Und wo<br />

genau liegt die Grenze zwischen unabhängig<br />

und außer Kontrolle?<br />

Deutschland haftet für spanische Banken im<br />

äußersten Fall mit 30 Milliarden Euro allerdings mit der demokratischen<br />

Legitimation des Bundestages, der sich diese<br />

Entscheidung vor einigen Tagen nicht<br />

leichtgemacht hat. Für die Staatsanleihen im<br />

Depot der EZB haftet Deutschland bereits<br />

jetzt entsprechend seiner Anteile mit grob<br />

gerechnet 40 Milliarden Euro. Dafür aber hat<br />

kein Abgeordneter des Bundestages seine<br />

Zustimmung gegeben.<br />

Das Parlament wurde nämlich gar nicht<br />

gefragt. So wünschenswert die Eindämmung<br />

der Euro-Krise ist - eine Rettung durch die<br />

EZB ist nicht nur in den Kosten schwer zu<br />

kalkulieren. Sie wäre faktisch auch eine<br />

Rettung jenseits der demokratischen<br />

Mitspracherechte, um die das Parlament im<br />

Namen der Steuerzahler in den vergangenen<br />

zwei Jahren gekämpft hat. Der Primat der<br />

Politik sollte aber gegen jede Bank verteidigt<br />

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werden, auch gegen die Zentralbank.<br />



57



Wie der Bürger seinen Willen bekommt<br />

Von Robert Roßmann, Berlin<br />

Deutschland hat seit dem Urteil des<br />

Verfassungsgerichts kein gültiges Wahlrecht<br />

für den Bundestag mehr. Doch warum kann<br />

man nicht schlicht alle Überhangmandate<br />

verbieten? Wie lässt sich das Wahlrecht jetzt<br />

ändern? Und warum sind alle möglichen<br />

Lösungen kompliziert? Die SZ beschreibt die<br />

größten Probleme auf dem Weg zu einer<br />

Einigung.<br />

Überhangmandate können nicht so einfach<br />

abgeschafft werden. Sie sind eine<br />

automatische Folge anderer Regeln im<br />

Wahlrecht. Das zeigt das Beispiel<br />

Baden-Württemberg: Bei der<br />

Bundestagswahl 2009 erreichte die CDU dort<br />

34,4 Prozent der Zweitstimmen. Die<br />

Christdemokraten hätten damit Anspruch auf<br />

27 Abgeordnete gehabt. Die CDU gewann in<br />

dem Land aber 37 der 38 Wahlkreise. Den 37<br />

Siegern konnte man den Einzug ins<br />

Parlament nicht verwehren. Deshalb sitzen<br />

jetzt zehn baden-württembergische<br />

CDU-Abgeordnete mehr im Bundestag als<br />

der Partei eigentlich zugestanden hatten. Das<br />

sind zehn der 24 Überhangmandate, welche<br />

die Union 2009 im gesamten Bundesgebiet<br />

erhielt.<br />

Gibt es eine einfache Lösung, die<br />

Überhangmandate komplett verhindert?<br />

Es gibt eigentlich nur eine Möglichkeit,<br />

Überhangmandate völlig zu verhindern: Die<br />

Abschaffung der Wahlkreise. Wenn die<br />

Bürger keine Möglichkeit mehr hätten, mit<br />

ihrer Erststimme einen Kandidaten aus ihrem<br />

Wahlkreis direkt in den Bundestag zu<br />

entsenden, könnte es auch nicht mehr zu<br />

Situationen wie in Baden-Württemberg<br />

kommen. Die Parteien würden immer nur so<br />

viele Abgeordnete stellen, wie es ihnen nach<br />

dem Zweitstimmen-Ergebnis zusteht. Die<br />

Direktmandate will aber keine Fraktion<br />

abschaffen, die Bürger sollen in den<br />

Wahlkreisen weiterhin ihnen bekannte<br />

Kandidaten wählen können.<br />

Wie kann das Wahlrecht jetzt geändert<br />

werden?<br />

Um die Vorgaben des Verfassungsgerichts<br />

zu erfüllen, haben die Fraktionen praktisch<br />

nur vier Möglichkeiten: Sie können<br />

Überhangmandate durch Ausgleichsmandate<br />

für die anderen Parteien kompensieren. Sie<br />

können Überhangmandate mit<br />

Listenmandaten verrechnen, die die jeweilige<br />

Partei in einem anderen Bundesland erhalten<br />

hat. Sie können den "zu viel" gewählten<br />

Direktkandidaten den Einzug in den<br />

Bundestag verwehren. Oder sie können den<br />

Anteil der Direktmandate verringern.<br />

Wie funktionieren Ausgleichsmandate?<br />

Bei dieser Lösung bekommen die Parteien,<br />

die weniger oder keine Überhangmandate<br />

gewonnen haben, zum Ausgleich genau so<br />

viele Mandate "geschenkt", dass die<br />

ursprünglichen Mehrheitsverhältnisse wieder<br />

hergestellt sind. Dieses Verfahren führt aber<br />

zu einer Vergrößerung der Parlamente. In<br />

Nordrhein-Westfalen gilt das System bereits.<br />

Bei der Landtagswahl im Mai kam es deshalb<br />

zu 23 Überhang- und 33<br />

Ausgleichsmandaten. Im Düsseldorfer<br />

Landtag sitzen jetzt 237 statt 181<br />

Abgeordnete. Für Bundestagswahlen sind<br />

Fälle denkbar, in denen es zu Hunderten<br />

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Extra-Sitzen kommt.<br />

Wie funktioniert die Verrechnung?<br />

Bei der Bundestagswahl 2009 hat die CDU in<br />

sieben Ländern insgesamt 21<br />

Überhangmandate erhalten. Um dies<br />

auszugleichen hätte die Partei bei der<br />

Verrechnungslösung in den anderen acht<br />

Ländern 21 eigentlich gewählte<br />

Listenkandidaten nicht in den Bundestag<br />

entsenden dürfen. Dadurch wären die<br />

tatsächlichen Mehrheitsverhältnisse ohne<br />

Aufblähung des Parlaments wieder<br />

hergestellt. Allerdings würden bei dieser<br />

Lösung Ungerechtigkeiten zwischen den<br />

Ländern entstehen. Baden-Württemberg<br />

wäre innerhalb der Unionsfraktion übermäßig<br />

stark vertreten, andere Länder wären<br />

unterrepräsentiert. Außerdem gäbe es ein<br />

Problem mit Bayern: Überhangmandate der<br />

CSU könnten mit keiner anderen Landesliste<br />



verrechnet werden, da die Christsozialen nur<br />

im Freistaat antreten. Die CSU würde also<br />

auch in diesem Modell die drei<br />

Überhangmandate behalten, die sie 2009<br />

gewonnen hat.<br />

Wie funktioniert die Kappung der<br />

Direktmandate?<br />

Die CSU hat bei der Bundestagswahl alle 45<br />

bayerischen Wahlkreise gewonnen. Nach<br />

dem Zweitstimmenergebnis hätten ihr nur 42<br />

Sitze zugestanden, deshalb eroberte sie die<br />

drei Überhangmandate. Im Kappungsmodell<br />

dürften statt aller 45 nur 42 der gewählten<br />

Direktkandidaten in den Bundestag<br />

einziehen. Die drei Bewerber mit dem<br />

schlechtesten Erststimmenergebnis blieben<br />

draußen. Das hätte die Abgeordneten<br />

Johannes Singhammer, Herbert<br />

Frankenhauser und Dagmar Wöhrl getroffen.<br />

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The Economic Times/ - News, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Kudremukh Iron Ore takes Railway<br />

Board to court<br />

Kudremukh Iron Ore (KIOCL) has dragged<br />

the Railway Board to court for charging a<br />

higher freight duty on the pellets it exports<br />

and refusing to consider pellet as a value<br />

added form of iron ore.<br />

In a writ petition, which is to come up very<br />

soon in the Karnataka High Court, the steel<br />

ministry enterprise has accused the Railways<br />

of discrimination.<br />

The state-owned enterprise, which does not<br />

own captive mines, has been forced to halt<br />

exports from its 100% export-oriented<br />

port-based plant in Mangalore since October<br />

2011.<br />

Unable to absorb this added cost on freight it<br />

has been forced to make do with a handful of<br />

domestic buyers with coastal capacities, that<br />

can accommodate its produce ferried through<br />

ships. Earlier it exported more than 60% of its<br />

production at about $172/tonne according<br />

officials.<br />

The railway board does not levy this<br />

"distance-based charge" on iron ore used in<br />

steel even if it is for exports.<br />

Pellets are spheres of tightly packed iron ore<br />

fines that allows for easier transportation that<br />

are consumed by steel or sponge iron plants.<br />

The railways , however, refuses to consider<br />

pelletisation as a downstream process and<br />

insists on imposing Rs 1,125 plus 10% of<br />

freight cost on a tonne of ore.<br />

Pellets do not attract the 30% export duty<br />

applicable on iron ore. "This is a commercial<br />

decision that is discriminatory and they<br />

cannot decide whether pelletisation is or is<br />

not value addition . It has impacted our<br />

production, and also affects our relations with<br />

our international customers," said a senior<br />

KIOCL official.<br />

KIOCL buys iron ore fines that include<br />

transport charges, at Rs 5,725 a tonne,<br />

converts them into pellets and ships it back<br />

from Mangalore to plants such as SAIL's<br />

Bokaro or Rashtriya Ispat Nigam at Vizag at<br />

about Rs 8,000/ tonne free-on-board.<br />

Without a beneficiation plant, KIOCL was<br />

dependent on premium ore with 63% and<br />

above iron content that NMDC produced in<br />

Bellary, Karnataka .<br />

Since the temporary ban on auction sale in<br />

Bellary, it has been forced to buy its raw<br />

material from NMDC's Chattisgarh mines.<br />

Deprived of its 22.5-million-tonne iron ore<br />

mines in the Western Ghats which the<br />

Supreme Court clamped down upon in 2006,<br />

KIOCL has managed to survive by making<br />

pellets.<br />

Pellet production by other firms in the country<br />

is largely for captive purposes . However, the<br />

government and industry now realise the<br />

need for building pellet capacity in the<br />

country.<br />

It has been driven home by the environmental<br />

and regulatory issues with the stocking and<br />

selling of fines.<br />

The large dependence of the Indian steel<br />

industry on blast furnace route and sponge<br />

iron plants has led to the greater consumption<br />

of lumps, leaving huge amounts of unusable<br />

fines lying around.<br />

Grinding Halt<br />

The state-owned enterprise, which does not<br />

own captive mines, has been forced to halt<br />

exports from its 100% export oriented<br />

port-based plant in Mangalore since October<br />


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The Economic Times/ - News, Sex, 27 de Julho de 2012<br />


Day 2: Low turnout at Team Anna's<br />

indefinite fast venue<br />

NEW DELHI: Team Anna's indefinite fast on<br />

the second day saw a very low turnout. Most<br />

people were volunteers who belonged to<br />

social groups. But the organisers expressed<br />

hope that the numbers will rise.<br />

The India Against Corruption members<br />

claimed that more than 4,000 people came to<br />

Jantar Mantar to support their demands,<br />

which include passing the Jan Lokpal bill and<br />

acting against 14 Union ministers, whom the<br />

group alleges are corrupt.<br />

The response to the fast on the first day was<br />

also modest, with police estimating an<br />

attendance of 2,500-3,000 during peak hours.<br />

The team's earlier protests had attracted<br />

several thousands more.<br />

The fast at New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan in<br />

August 2011 was attended by even more<br />

people and similar support was seen in all<br />

major cities of the country, forcing the<br />

government to call a special session of<br />

Parliament to discuss Team Anna's<br />

demands.<br />

Anna Hazare, meanwhile, has challenged<br />

Salman Khurshid's claim that the government<br />

did not try to divide his team. "During<br />

elections, they go to slums and serve people<br />

and now they're asking us to go to United<br />

Nations. This is betrayal of the people. If<br />

Salman knows the Quran, let him tell that he<br />

did not come to meet me. I will put my hand<br />

on the Gita and swear he came to meet me,"<br />

Anna told reporters.<br />

Reacting to the Team Anna's allegations of<br />

corruption against central ministers, Khurshid<br />

hit back, saying Team Anna doesn't believe in<br />

law. "If one has no faith in India's judiciary<br />

and Parliament, where should one go? I<br />

believe everybody has a duty to have faith in<br />

the Indian judiciary and Supreme Court," he<br />

said.<br />

Though the government has been engaging<br />

in verbal duels with Team Anna daily, it is<br />

breathing easy following the tepid response<br />

the indefinite fast has received. It has<br />

triggered speculation whether the<br />

anti-corruption movement has lost people's<br />

support.<br />

Hazare congratulated Pranab Mukherjee for<br />

becoming the President of India. "He has<br />

become the first citizen of the country by<br />

becoming the President. I congratulate him,"<br />

Hazare said.<br />

His remarks come at a time when his team<br />

has levelled allegations against Mukherjee,<br />

who was sworn in as the President on<br />

Wednesday. Team Anna had even masked<br />

the photograph of Mukherjee in a collage at<br />

the site on Wednesday in a symbolic protest.<br />

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Are too many Democratic voters sleepwalking<br />

away from our democracy this election cycle,<br />

not nearly outraged enough about Big<br />

Money’s undue influence and Republican<br />

state legislatures changing the voting rules? It<br />

seems so. A Gallup poll released this week<br />

found that: “Democrats are significantly less<br />

likely now (39 percent) than they were in the<br />

summers of 2004 and 2008 to say they are<br />

‘more enthusiastic about voting than usual’ in<br />

the coming presidential election.”<br />

Republicans are more enthusiastic than they<br />

were before the last election. Some of that<br />

may be the effect of having a Democratic<br />

president in office; it’s sometimes easier to<br />

marshal anger against an incumbent than<br />

excitement for him. Whatever the reason, this<br />

lack of enthusiasm at this critical juncture in<br />

the election is disturbing for Democrats. First,<br />

there’s the specter of the oligarchy lingering<br />

over this election, which disproportionately<br />

benefits Republicans. According to a report<br />

by Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont, “So<br />

far this year, 26 billionaires have donated<br />

more than $61 million to super PACs,<br />

according to the Center for Responsive<br />

Politics. And that’s only what has been<br />

publicly disclosed.” That didn’t include “about<br />

$100 million that Sheldon Adelson has said<br />

that he is willing to spend to defeat President<br />

Obama; or the $400 million that the Koch<br />

brothers have pledged to spend during the<br />

2012 election season.” During a Senate<br />

Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday,<br />

Sanders put it this way: “What the Supreme<br />

Court did in Citizens United is to say to these<br />

same billionaires and the corporations they<br />

control: ‘You own and control the economy;<br />

you own Wall Street; you own the coal<br />

companies; you own the oil companies. Now,<br />

for a very small percentage of your wealth,<br />

we’re going to give you the opportunity to<br />

own the United States government.’ ” Then,<br />

of course, there’s the widespread voter<br />

Where’s the Outrage?<br />

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suppression mostly enacted by<br />

Republican-led legislatures. According to the<br />

Brennan Center for Justice at the New York<br />

University School of Law, at least 180<br />

restrictive voting bills were introduced since<br />

the beginning of 2011 in 41 states, and “16<br />

states have passed restrictive voting laws<br />

that have the potential to impact the 2012<br />

election” because they “account for 214<br />

electoral votes, or nearly 79 percent of the<br />

total needed to win the presidency.” A<br />

provision most likely to disenfranchise voters<br />

is a requirement that people show photo<br />

identification to vote. Millions of Americans<br />

don’t have these forms of ID, and many can’t<br />

easily obtain them, even when states say<br />

they’ll offer them free, because getting the<br />

documentation to obtain the “free” ID takes<br />

time and money. This is a solution in search<br />

of a problem. The in-person voter ID<br />

requirements only prevent someone from<br />

impersonating another voter at the polls, an<br />

occurrence that the Brennan Center points<br />

out is “more rare than being struck by<br />

lightning.” The voting rights advocates I’ve<br />

talked to don’t resist all ID requirements<br />

(though they don’t say they are all necessary,<br />

either). They simply say that multiple forms of<br />

identification like student ID and Social<br />

Security cards should also be accepted, and<br />

that alternate ways for people without IDs to<br />

vote should be included. Many of these laws<br />

don’t allow for such flexibility. Make no<br />

mistake about it, these requirements are not<br />

about the integrity of the vote but rather the<br />

disenfranchisement of voters. This is about<br />

tilting the table so that more of the marbles<br />

roll to the Republican corner. Look at it this<br />

way: We have been moving toward wider<br />

voter participation for a century. States began<br />

to issue driver’s licenses more than a century<br />

ago and began to include photos on those<br />

licenses decades ago. Yet, as the Brennan<br />

Center points out, “prior to the 2006 election,<br />

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no state required its voters to show<br />

government-issued photo ID at the polls (or<br />

elsewhere) in order to vote.” Furthermore,<br />

most voter laws have emerged in the last two<br />

years. What is the difference between<br />

previous decades and today? The election of<br />

Barack Obama. It is no coincidence that<br />

some of the people least likely to have proper<br />

IDs to vote are the ones that generally vote<br />

Democratic and were strong supporters of<br />

Obama last election: young people, the poor<br />

and minorities. Republicans are leveraging<br />

the deep pockets of anti-Obama billionaires<br />

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and sinister voter suppression tactics that<br />

harken back to Jim Crow to wrest power from<br />

the hands of docile Democrats. There is little<br />

likely to be done about the Big Money before<br />

the election, and, although some of the voter<br />

suppression laws are being challenged in<br />

court, the outcome of those cases is<br />

uncertain. These elements are not within<br />

voters’ control, but two things are: energy and<br />

alertness. If Democrats don’t wake up soon,<br />

this election might not just be won or lost, it<br />

could be bought or stolen.<br />

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Bloomberg Says He Wouldn’t Ban<br />

Chick-fil-A<br />

For Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, this has<br />

been a week of strange bedfellows. First<br />

came word that the mayor would host a<br />

fund-raiser for Senator Scott P. Brown, a<br />

Massachusetts Republican with whom, Mr.<br />

Bloomberg said, he does not agree “on an<br />

awful lot of things.” Then, on Friday, the<br />

mayor threw his support behind the<br />

beleaguered fast-food chain Chick-fil-A,<br />

whose owner has drawn controversy by<br />

vocally opposing same-sex marriage. Mr.<br />

Bloomberg’s predilection for fried chicken has<br />

been well documented — he serves it at<br />

fund-raisers and dinner parties — but he is<br />

also very much in favor of same-sex<br />

marriage. This week, the city filed a brief<br />

urging the United States Supreme Court to<br />

overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act.<br />

Chick-fil-A has faced angry words from some<br />

mayors, including Thomas M. Menino of<br />

Boston and Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, who<br />

have been incensed by Chick-fil-A’s<br />

donations to groups that fight same-sex<br />

marriage. But Mr. Bloomberg, an outspoken<br />

supporter of unfettered capitalism who has<br />

also defended unpopular causes like a<br />

proposed mosque near ground zero, said he<br />

firmly believed in a business’s right to sell<br />

fried chicken to the masses, regardless of its<br />

owners’ beliefs. “It’s inappropriate for a city<br />

government, or a state government, or the<br />

federal government to look at somebody’s<br />

political views and decide whether or not they<br />

can live in the city, or operate a business in<br />

the city, or work for somebody in the city,” the<br />

mayor said on his Friday morning radio show.<br />

Mr. Bloomberg said that while he was friendly<br />

with the mayors of Boston and Chicago, “I<br />

disagree with them really strongly on this<br />

one.” “You can’t have a test for what the<br />

owners’ personal views are before you decide<br />

to give a permit to do something in the city,”<br />

Mr. Bloomberg said, citing concerns about<br />

censorship and freedom of speech. “You<br />

really don’t want to ask political beliefs or<br />

religious beliefs before you issue a permit.<br />

That’s just not government’s job.” Mr.<br />

Bloomberg’s comments put him on the same<br />

side of the debate as many evangelical<br />

Christians and the American Civil Liberties<br />

Union. “I don’t agree with the A.C.L.U. on a<br />

lot of things, but in this case they happen to<br />

be right,” the mayor said. The mayor said that<br />

if Chick-fil-A wanted to open a New York City<br />

store, “they got to find a space, and clear it<br />

with the Buildings Department, the health<br />

department, get a grade for their food _ you<br />

know, ‘A,’ hopefully _ and put it up.” “Great<br />

chicken sandwiches, great chicken<br />

sandwiches,” chirped John Gambling, the<br />

mayor’s radio interlocutor. “Never had one,”<br />

Mr. Bloomberg replied. As for Mr. Brown, Mr.<br />

Bloomberg said he was supporting the<br />

senator because of his willingness to buck his<br />

party on a gun-control measure affecting<br />

concealed weapons. “He’s not good on other<br />

things that I would like,” the mayor said. “He’s<br />

not good on guns generally.”<br />

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Did Your Brain Make You Do It?<br />

ARE you responsible for your behavior if your<br />

brain “made you do it”? Often we think not.<br />

For example, research now suggests that the<br />

brain’s frontal lobes, which are crucial for<br />

self-control, are not yet mature in<br />

adolescents. This finding has helped shape<br />

attitudes about whether young people are<br />

fully responsible for their actions. In 2005,<br />

when the Supreme Court ruled that the<br />

death penalty for juveniles was<br />

unconstitutional, its decision explicitly took<br />

into consideration that “parts of the brain<br />

involved in behavior control continue to<br />

mature through late adolescence.” Similar<br />

reasoning is often applied to behavior arising<br />

from chemical imbalances in the brain. It is<br />

possible, when the facts emerge, that the<br />

case of James E. Holmes, the suspect in the<br />

Colorado shootings, will spark debate about<br />

neurotransmitters and culpability. Whatever<br />

the merit of such cases, it’s worth stressing<br />

an important point: as a general matter, it is<br />

always true that our brains “made us do it.”<br />

Each of our behaviors is always associated<br />

with a brain state. If we view every new<br />

scientific finding about brain involvement in<br />

human behavior as a sign that the behavior<br />

was not under the individual’s control, the<br />

very notion of responsibility will be<br />

threatened. So it is imperative that we think<br />

clearly about when brain science frees<br />

someone from blame — and when it doesn’t.<br />

Unfortunately, our research shows that clear<br />

thinking on this issue doesn’t come naturally<br />

to people. Several years ago, with the<br />

psychologist Edward B. Royzman, we<br />

published a study in the journal Ethics &<br />

Behavior that demonstrated the power of<br />

neuroscientific explanations to free people<br />

from blame. In our experiment, we asked<br />

participants to consider various situations<br />

involving an individual who behaved in ways<br />

that caused harm, including committing acts<br />

of violence. We included information about<br />

the protagonist that might help make sense of<br />

the action in question: in some cases, that<br />

information was about a history of<br />

psychologically horrific events that the<br />

individual had experienced (e.g., suffering<br />

abuse as a child), and in some cases it was<br />

about biological characteristics or anomalies<br />

in the individual’s brain (e.g., an imbalance in<br />

neurotransmitters). In the different situations,<br />

we also varied how strong the connection<br />

was between those factors and the behavior<br />

(e.g., whether most people who are abused<br />

as a child act violently, or only a few). The<br />

pattern of results was striking. A brain<br />

characteristic that was even weakly<br />

associated with violence led people to<br />

exonerate the protagonist more than a<br />

psychological factor that was strongly<br />

associated with violent acts. Moreover, the<br />

participants in our study were much more<br />

likely, given a protagonist with a brain<br />

characteristic, to view the behavior as<br />

“automatic” rather than “motivated,” and to<br />

view the behavior as unrelated to the<br />

protagonist’s character. The participants<br />

described the protagonists with brain<br />

characteristics in ways that suggested that<br />

the “true” person was not at the helm of<br />

himself. The behavior was caused, not<br />

intended. In contrast, while psychologically<br />

damaging experiences like childhood abuse<br />

often elicited sympathy for the protagonist<br />

and sometimes even prompted considerable<br />

mitigation of blame, the participants still saw<br />

the protagonist’s behavior as intentional. The<br />

protagonist himself was twisted by his history<br />

of trauma; it wasn’t just his brain. Most<br />

participants felt that in such cases, personal<br />

character remained relevant in determining<br />

how the protagonist went on to act. We<br />

labeled this pattern of responses “naïve<br />

dualism.” This is the belief that acts are<br />

brought about either by intentions or by the<br />

physical laws that govern our brains and that<br />

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those two types of causes — psychological<br />

and biological — are categorically distinct.<br />

People are responsible for actions resulting<br />

from one but not the other. (In citing<br />

neuroscience, the Supreme Court may have<br />

been guilty of naïve dualism: did it really need<br />

brain evidence to conclude that adolescents<br />

are immature?) Naïve dualism is misguided.<br />

“Was the cause psychological or biological?”<br />

is the wrong question when assigning<br />

responsibility for an action. All psychological<br />

states are also biological ones. A better<br />

question is “how strong was the relation<br />

between the cause (whatever it happened to<br />

be) and the effect?” If, hypothetically, only 1<br />

percent of people with a brain malfunction (or<br />

a history of being abused) commit violence,<br />

ordinary considerations about blame would<br />

still seem relevant. But if 99 percent of them<br />

do, you might start to wonder how<br />

responsible they really are. It is crucial that as<br />



a society, we learn how to think more clearly<br />

about causes and personal responsibility —<br />

not only for extraordinary actions like crime<br />

but also for ordinary ones, like maintaining<br />

exercise regimens, eating sensibly and<br />

saving for retirement. As science advances,<br />

there will be more and more “causal”<br />

alternatives to intentional explanations, and<br />

we will be faced with more decisions about<br />

when to hold people responsible for their<br />

behavior. It’s important that we don’t<br />

succumb to the allure of neuroscientific<br />

explanations and let everyone off the<br />

hook.John Monterosso is an associate<br />

professor of psychology and neuroscience at<br />

the University of Southern California. Barry<br />

Schwartz, a co-author of “Practical Wisdom,”<br />

is a professor of psychology at Swarthmore<br />

College.<br />

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Miriam Ben-Porat, Israeli Judge and<br />

Civic Watchdog, Dies at 94<br />

JERUSALEM — Miriam Ben-Porat, the first<br />

woman to serve as a justice on Israel’s<br />

Supreme Court and to hold the post of state<br />

comptroller, the government’s watchdog, died<br />

on Thursday at her home in Jerusalem. She<br />

was 94. Her death was confirmed by a<br />

spokeswoman for the Israeli courts<br />

administration. Prime Minister Benjamin<br />

Netanyahu described Mrs. Ben-Porat as “a<br />

trailblazer” who “sanctified the values of<br />

integrity and transparency.” Mrs. Ben-Porat<br />

began working at Israel’s Ministry of Justice<br />

soon after the establishment of the state in<br />

1948. Within two years she was promoted to<br />

deputy to the state attorney. After serving as<br />

a judge and president of the district court, she<br />

was appointed a permanent justice of the<br />

Supreme Court in 1977. She retired from the<br />

bench in 1988. In the decade that followed,<br />

as the state comptroller, Mrs. Ben-Porat,<br />

charged with auditing government agencies<br />

and their affiliates, aggressively exposed<br />

government failings. Her role earned her<br />

widespread public respect and national<br />

prominence. In one report, she chastised the<br />

government for flaws in its planning for<br />

absorbing the first waves of Soviet Jews who<br />

immigrated in the early 1990s. In another,<br />

she warned of an impending water shortage<br />

because of what she described as a quarter<br />

of a century of irresponsible mismanagement<br />

by the water authorities. That led to the<br />

dismissal of the water commissioner. During<br />

the Persian Gulf war, as Iraqi missiles rained<br />

down on Israel, Mrs. Ben-Porat found that<br />

many of the gas masks that the military had<br />

distributed to the population would have been<br />

largely ineffective in a gas attack. The state<br />

comptroller has a staff of 500 and the<br />

authority to study any issue and examine any<br />

document, but no mechanism to enforce the<br />

office’s recommendations, other than public<br />

pressure. And some of Mrs. Ben-Porat’s<br />

reports elicited a backlash from the<br />

authorities in the form of personal attacks. “I<br />

don’t like it; I think it’s wrong. It’s dangerous,”<br />

she told The New York Times in 1991. “It<br />

even hurts. Maybe not personally, but it<br />

hurts.” That year she was awarded the<br />

prestigious Israel Prize “for her special<br />

contribution to society and the state.” Miriam<br />

Shinezon was born on April 26, 1918, in<br />

Vitebsk, Russia, the youngest of seven<br />

siblings, and grew up in Kovno, Lithuania.<br />

She immigrated to Palestine, then under the<br />

British Mandate, at age 18. A few years later,<br />

her parents and a brother died in the<br />

Holocaust. In 1946 she married Joseph<br />

Ben-Porat, and they had one daughter, Ronit.<br />

She is survived by her daughter, three<br />

grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. In<br />

an interview with the newspaper Yedioth<br />

Ahronoth about two years ago, Mrs.<br />

Ben-Porat spoke of her reputation for<br />

toughness on the bench. “Inside I was always<br />

soft,” she said. “On the outside, I put on a<br />

pretense, I took on a stronger countenance.<br />

The toughness you knew was the judge.”<br />

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Fioravante G. Perrotta, Influential Aide to<br />

Governor Rockefeller and Others, Dies at<br />

80<br />

Fioravante G. Perrotta, who as a young<br />

lawyer in New York in the 1960s moved<br />

seamlessly between influential jobs with Gov.<br />

Nelson A. Rockefeller and Mayor John V.<br />

Lindsay, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was<br />

80. The cause was complications of oral<br />

cancer, said Michael Killorin, his partner of 49<br />

years. Mayor Lindsay called Mr. Perrotta “one<br />

of the bright young men” in public life, a<br />

distinction he earned by running Republican<br />

campaigns in heavily Democratic New York<br />

City; working as a high-level state insurance<br />

regulator; and running unsuccessfully in 1969<br />

as the Republican and Liberal Parties’<br />

candidate for city controller, as the office was<br />

called then. He did all this in his 30s. As an<br />

aide to Governor Rockefeller from 1959 to<br />

1962, Mr. Perrotta prepared legislation<br />

concerning civil rights, law enforcement,<br />

insurance and corporations. He was later the<br />

governor’s liaison with the state’s<br />

departmental heads. Working for Mayor<br />

Lindsay from 1968 to 1970, Mr. Perrotta went<br />

from executive assistant to finance<br />

administrator, responsible for tax collecting<br />

and assessing functions. He was one of 10<br />

administrators in the mayor’s so-called<br />

supercabinet. When he resigned from the<br />

Lindsay administration to join a private law<br />

firm, doubling his salary, he took on the<br />

extracurricular task of running Governor<br />

Rockefeller’s re-election campaign in New<br />

York City. He shrugged off Mayor Lindsay’s<br />

frosty relations with the governor as simply a<br />

fight over scarce financial resources. “The job<br />

of the mayor is to get as much money as he<br />

can,” Mr. Perrotta said in a 1970 interview<br />

with The New York Times. He went on to<br />

praise his new boss, saying that working for<br />

Mr. Lindsay had taught him how generous<br />

Mr. Rockefeller had been to the city. Mr.<br />

Perrotta managed several Republican<br />

campaigns in New York City, including<br />

President Richard M. Nixon’s for re-election<br />

in 1972. He focused on blue-collar<br />

neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and<br />

Manhattan. Though Senator George S.<br />

McGovern won the city’s vote, Mr. Perrotta’s<br />

strategy helped narrow Nixon’s margin of<br />

defeat from four years earlier. In the<br />

Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, for<br />

example — the sort of middle-class area Mr.<br />

Perrotta had singled out — Nixon increased<br />

his proportion of the vote to 30 percent from<br />

11 percent. Fioravante Gerald Gabriel<br />

Perrotta was born on July 26, 1931, in<br />

Lynbrook, on Long Island, where his father<br />

was a builder. His first name was derived<br />

from 13th-century Italian literature. Most<br />

people called him Fred. He graduated summa<br />

cum laude from what is now St. John’s<br />

University and St. John’s University School of<br />

Law, where he was editor in chief of St.<br />

John’s Law Review. He was valedictorian at<br />

both graduations. After law school, he worked<br />

for the United States attorney in Manhattan,<br />

then for a private law firm. After working as<br />

an aide to Governor Rockefeller, he was<br />

appointed to supervisory positions in the state<br />

insurance department. He left in 1967 to<br />

become vice president and secretary of the<br />

United States Life Insurance Company. While<br />

working in the Lindsay administration he took<br />

a leave of absence to run for controller as a<br />

Republican and a Liberal on a Lindsay ticket<br />

that “fused” different parties. Mr. Lindsay had<br />

the Liberal Party nomination, for instance,<br />

while Sanford D. Garelik, Mr. Lindsay’s<br />

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candidate for City Council president, was a<br />

registered Democrat. After he lost, Mr.<br />

Perrotta said he had run mainly to help Mr.<br />

Lindsay balance his ticket. After a long legal<br />

career that included serving on the boards of<br />

several insurance companies, Mr. Perrotta<br />



retired in 1996 and moved to Naples, Fla.,<br />

where he lived until his death. In addition to<br />

his partner, Mr. Perrotta is survived by his<br />

sisters, Geraldine DeMilt and Rose Ferrara.<br />

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Feds, Seattle agree to police reforms<br />

SEATTLE (AP) – Seattle officials agreed to<br />

an independent monitor and court oversight<br />

of its police department as part of an<br />

agreement announced Friday with the Justice<br />

Department following a damning report that<br />

found officers routinely used excessive<br />

force.City and federal negotiators were<br />

involved in tense talks over the scope of a<br />

deal for months, and Justice Department<br />

lawyers had threatened to sue the city if a<br />

deal was not reached by July 31.The<br />

agreement was announced at City Hall by<br />

Jennifer Durkan, U.S. Attorney for Seattle,<br />

and Mayor Mike McGinn. The deal also calls<br />

for a special commission to concentrate on<br />

use of force issues.The Justice Department<br />

launched its civil rights investigation early last<br />

year after the fatal shooting of a homeless,<br />

Native American woodcarver and other<br />

incidents when force was used against<br />

minority suspects.Surveillance cameras and<br />

police-cruiser videos captured officers<br />

beating other civilians, including stomping on<br />

a prone Latino man who was mistakenly<br />

thought to be a robbery suspect, and an<br />

officer kicking a non-resisting black youth in a<br />

convenience store.In December, a DOJ<br />

report found officers were too quick to reach<br />

for weapons, such as flashlights and batons,<br />

even when arresting people for minor<br />

offenses.In all, the report found that force was<br />

used unconstitutionally one of every five<br />

times an officer resorted to it. The department<br />

failed to adequately review the use of force<br />

and lacked policies and training related to the<br />

use of force, it said.The ACLU and other<br />

community groups called for scrutiny of the<br />

department after a Seattle officer shot and<br />

killed the woodcarver, John T. Williams, in<br />

2010.Video from Officer Ian Birk's patrol car<br />

showed Williams crossing the street holding a<br />

piece of wood and a small knife, and Birk<br />

exiting the vehicle to pursue him. Off-camera,<br />

Birk quickly shouted three times for Williams<br />

to drop the knife then fired five shots. The<br />

knife was found folded at the scene, but Birk<br />

later maintained Williams had threatened him.<br />

Birk resigned from the force and was not<br />

charged. A review board found the shooting<br />

unjustified.On Tuesday an agreement was<br />

announced between federal officials and the<br />

New Orleans Police Department to make<br />

sweeping reforms. The agreement detailed<br />

strict requirements for overhauling the police<br />

department's policies and procedures for use<br />

of force, training, interrogations, searches<br />

and arrests, recruitment and<br />

supervision.Attorney General Eric Holder<br />

described the New Orleans agreement as the<br />

most wide-ranging in the Justice<br />

Department's history. It was aimed at<br />

resolving allegations that New Orleans police<br />

officers had engaged in a pattern of<br />

discriminatory and unconstitutional<br />

activity.The allegations against the Seattle<br />

Police Department were not as extensive or<br />

broad, but federal investigators determined<br />

Seattle officers engaged in excessive force<br />

that violated federal law and the<br />

Constitution.In March, McGinn proposed a<br />

series of police reforms that included training<br />

for all officers on use of force standards, the<br />

development of protocol to make sure<br />

encounters don't escalate, and steps to<br />

address biased policing.Talks between<br />

Seattle officials and the Justice Department<br />

had been hung up after city officials initially<br />

balked at some federal proposals for<br />

reform.The Associated Press reviewed a<br />

copy of an early proposal in May, which<br />

showed the DOJ wanted the city to change<br />

policies, add training for officers and hire<br />

more sergeants to supervise patrol officers.<br />

The city was also to agree to the appointment<br />

of an outside monitor, at city expense,<br />

according to an early version of a proposed<br />

agreement.<br />

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The week in tech: 5 must-know things<br />

NBC will stream (most of) the OlympicsOn<br />

the go and need your fix of Olympic<br />

equestrian dressage? Have no fear, Roger<br />

Yu writes.NBCUniversal is live-streaming<br />

every single sport at the Olympics, everything<br />

from swimming to trampoline, including the<br />

award ceremonies. That's 32 sports and<br />

3,500 hours of programming.Only the<br />

opening and closing ceremonies will not be<br />

streamed. NBC President Gary Zenkel said<br />

the ceremonies require \"context\" and would<br />

be better delivered to prime-time audiences<br />

on TV.Only cable subscribers can access the<br />

live-stream at no added cost.Does it<br />

work?With a sturdy Internet connection, yes.<br />

USA TODAY Tech watched the American<br />

women's soccer team dominate France 4-2<br />

on Wednesday. Logging in was easy once<br />

you know your info. The service easily<br />

backtracks for on-demand instant replay (a<br />

handy tool when we missed Carli Lloyd's<br />

game-turning goal) and zips straight back to<br />

live on command.Facebook, ZyngaRough<br />

week for social media companiesFacebook<br />

announced Thursday that it lost $157 million<br />

last quarter, sending its stock on a spiral<br />

downward.\"Facebook is betting a large<br />

portion of its future on mobile ads. Yet few<br />

companies, including Facebook, have been<br />

able to capitalize on the promise,\" Jon<br />

Swartz and Matt Krantz write.Twitter suffered<br />

an outage at its data center, causing the<br />

microblogging service to go completely offline<br />

Thursday morning for 40 minutes, but some<br />

services took hours to be restored.Twitter had<br />

a similar outage in June caused by a<br />

\"cascading bug\" in the system that left users<br />

without access for the longest sustained<br />

outage of the year.\"We are investing<br />

aggressively in our systems to avoid this<br />

situation in the future,\" Twitter VP of<br />

Engineering Mazen Rawashdeh wrote on the<br />

company's blog.Zynga, the company behind<br />

Words with Friends and Draw Something,<br />

posted its second consecutive quarterly loss,<br />

this time at $22.8 million. Its revenue grew<br />

19% but fell short of investors' hopes by<br />

about $9.2 million.The gaming company has<br />

steadily lost users recently. Farmville still<br />

boasts 306 million monthly active users, a<br />

34% increase from last year.Sally Ride, first<br />

U.S. woman in space, dies at 61Physicist and<br />

astronaut Sally Ride, who flew two missions<br />

for NASA, died Monday in California of<br />

pancreatic cancer.Before Ride, space travel<br />

was \"from the exclusively male, military pilots<br />

of the Apollo era to mission specialists,<br />

doctors and scientists in the space shuttle<br />

era,\" Dan Vergano writes.\"The fact that I<br />

was going to be the first American woman to<br />

go into space carried huge expectations<br />

along with it,\" Ride said in an interview in<br />

2008. \"I didn't really think about it that much<br />

at the time … but I came to appreciate what<br />

an honor it was to be selected to be the first<br />

to get a chance to go into space.\"Apple's<br />

new Mountain Lion for Macs roars\"Don't be<br />

surprised if next year, Mac software<br />

resembles iOS software that much more,\" Ed<br />

Baig writes. \"In the meantime, Mountain Lion<br />

is one big cat that you'll want on your<br />

computer.\"Apple's latest operating system,<br />

Mountain Lion OS X, is available to Mac<br />

users for $20. Those who bought a Mac after<br />

June 11 get the upgrade for free. It's a<br />

relatively painless process.Mountain Lion<br />

utilizes more features commonly found on<br />

iPad and iPhone's latest iOS, including:•A<br />

notification center.•Easier Twitter and<br />

Facebook integration.•iMessages: Users can<br />

send text, pictures and files to other Apple<br />

devices as a SMS.•Notes and reminders.•A<br />

game center.Mountain Lion doesn't have<br />

voice assistant Siri, but it does have voice<br />

dictation with C+/B- accuracy.'The Internet<br />

has become the new battleground for<br />

freedom of expression'Politically oriented<br />

denial-of-service attacks online rose 70% in<br />

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the first half of 2012 in comparison with that<br />

same time period in 2011.\"We are so<br />

networked and reliant on information<br />

technology that many more people and<br />

organizations can be hit,\" says Chris Day,<br />

chief security architect of IT company<br />

Terremark.What scared us the most:\"You<br />

need to be able to use Google, and you need<br />

to be able to install software on your own<br />

computer. And assuming you can do that,<br />

you are now capable of joining in these<br />

attacks.\" — Network monitoring firm<br />

Damballa's research director, Gunter<br />



Ollmann.Among the many victims of<br />

denial-of-service attacks in<br />

2012:•Amazon•Mastercard•PayPal•CIA•U.S.<br />

Senate•NATO•American Nazi Party•The<br />

Vatican•The Indian Supreme Court•The<br />

Mexican Senate•InterpolMost popular stories<br />

in Tech1. Sally Ride, first U.S. woman in<br />

space, dies at 612. Bugs like it hot: Record<br />

heat kicks insects into high gear3. Apple's<br />

new Mountain Lion for Macs roars4. Report:<br />

Apple changing iPhone dock connector5.<br />

Canon M joins mirrorless camera movement<br />

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Poll: Most Americans would vote atheist<br />

for president<br />

(RNS) For the second time in less than a<br />

year, the Gallup poll reports that a majority of<br />

Americans would vote for an atheist for<br />

president.The latest survey, from June, found<br />

that 54 percent of those asked said they<br />

would vote a \"well- qualified\" atheist into the<br />

Oval Office— the highest percentage since<br />

Gallup began asking the question in 1958,<br />

when only 18 percent said they would back a<br />

nonbeliever.On the other hand, the survey<br />

showed that those who do not believe in God<br />

still come in behind every other group polled<br />

for, including gays and lesbians (68 percent)<br />

and Muslims (58 percent).Still, an imaginary<br />

atheist candidate passed the 50 percent<br />

threshold for the first time when Gallup asked<br />

the question in August 2011, so the trend is<br />

upward.\"We have seen an enormous change<br />

over time in the willingness to vote for an<br />

atheist,\" said Karlyn Bowman, a senior fellow<br />

at the American Enterprise Institute for Public<br />

Policy Research, which reports the numbers<br />

in its current newsletter.\"But I think the<br />

numbers also remind us that this is a deeply<br />

religious country. That doesn't mean we are<br />

all going to church on Sunday, but that having<br />

religion in your life is valuable to most<br />

Americans and I think that explains the<br />

resistance.\"Indeed, in the current poll, 43<br />

percent said they would not vote for a<br />

well-qualified atheist, a percentage that was<br />

higher among Republicans than Democrats<br />

(58 percent) or independents (56<br />

percent).And there is more discouraging<br />

news for nonbelievers. In his analysis of the<br />

recent data, Gallup's managing editor Jeffrey<br />

M. Jones writes that for groups whose<br />

approval ratings hover within a narrow range<br />

of percentage points for more than 10 years<br />

— which might be happening for atheists — it<br />

can take more than fronting an appealing<br />

atheist candidate to reach more universal<br />

numbers, like those enjoyed by women (95<br />

percent), blacks (96 percent) and Catholics<br />

(94 percent).\"It may be that there is an<br />

inherent bias that isn't going to change\" for<br />

some groups, like atheists, whose numbers<br />

have leveled off, Jones said. \"It is, in many<br />

cases, a long process and some of these<br />

groups have a way to go.\"Herb Silverman,<br />

president of the Secular Coalition for<br />

America, knows that first-hand. In 1990, he<br />

ran for governor of South Carolina where an<br />

old law banned atheists like him from holding<br />

public office. Silverman lost — by a landslide<br />

— though his candidacy did lead to the repeal<br />

of the law by the state's supreme<br />

court.Silverman, who tells the story of his run<br />

for office in his book \"Candidate Without a<br />

Prayer,\" says that to push their approval<br />

numbers higher, more atheists need to<br />

\"come out,\" just as gays and lesbians have<br />

done.\"I think prejudices will always be with<br />

us, so I am not optimistic enough to think<br />

(atheists' approval rating) will be near<br />

unanimous,\" he said. \"But I think the more<br />

role models we have the better things will<br />

be.\"Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry<br />

magazine, an atheist publication,<br />

agrees.\"When you think you don't know any<br />

atheists then they seem horrible, but when<br />

the person at the desk across from you is an<br />

atheist then those stereotypes don't hold,\"<br />

Flynn said.But he's a glass-is-half-empty guy,<br />

too.\"We have to keep in mind that we<br />

atheists are still the group that the smallest<br />

number would vote for,\" he said. \"We are<br />

riding that train into the sunlight of equality,<br />

but we are still sitting in the caboose.\<br />

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Michigan’s Dave Camp Says He Has Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, 77<br />



"Reconocer derecho al agua debe ser prioridad en Congreso", afirman, 78<br />



Tubino sobre mensaje presidencial: "Lo que se ha dicho es casi nada", 79<br />

Correo Peru - Mundo<br />


Ollanta Humala: Fallo de La Haya fortalecerá relaciones de Perú y Chile, 80<br />



Approvato di notte il Piano casa-bis Scontro con opposizione, che lascia l'aula, 81<br />



Rifiuti e trasporti, in arrivo la riforma, 82<br />



Correa apoya a #Yosoy132, 83<br />



Tribunal electoral remitirá tarjetas Soriana al IFE, 84<br />

El Universal Venezuela - Caracas<br />


Terreno de la Caja de Ahorros del Poder Judicial en Barinas sigue invadido, 85<br />



Er glaubt, dass er mit allem durchkommt , 86<br />



Eine Einladung beginnt in der Küche , 89<br />

La Nacion - Información geral<br />


Intervienen el sector petrolero: fijarán precios e inversiones, 91<br />



Aspectos jurídicos del revalúo, 93<br />



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Perú señala que fallo de La Haya fortalecerá lazos con Chile, 95<br />



Tarud pide al Gobierno solicitar incompetencia de Corte de La Haya, 96<br />

Los Angeles Times - Business<br />


Anaheim expecting more police-shooting protests this weekend, 97<br />

Los Tiempos - actualidad<br />


Humala admite que no ha cumplido todas las metas tras primer año de Gobierno, 99<br />



Hundreds in Phoenix march against Arizona immigration law, 101<br />



Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. being treated in Mayo Clinic, 102<br />



Seattle reaches police reform deal with government, 103<br />



FBI says it may probe Anaheim police following shootings, 105<br />



DNA tests shows ND Tiwari is Rohit Shekhar's father, 106<br />



In Court’s Hands, a Young Woman’s Shattered Life, 107<br />



Medicaid After the Supreme Court Decision, 109<br />



In Texas, Arguing That Heat Can Be a Death Sentence for Prisoners, 110<br />

76

Bloomberg/ - Politics, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Michigan’s Dave Camp Says He Has<br />

Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma<br />

U.S. Representative Dave Camp, chairman of<br />

the House Ways and Means Committee, said<br />

he’ll start chemotherapy treatment for cancer<br />

in the next few months while continuing his<br />

work leading the tax-writing panel. “After a<br />

recent routine yearly physical, it was<br />

discovered that I have a very early, highly<br />

treatable and curable type of non-Hodgkins<br />

lymphoma,” the Michigan Republican said<br />

today in a e-mailed statement. “Thankfully,<br />

my health is otherwise excellent, and my<br />

doctors and I expect a full recovery and cure.”<br />

The treatment for “large B-cell lymphoma” will<br />

consist of sessions every three weeks, said<br />

Camp, whose committee also has jurisdiction<br />

over the federal health-care law upheld by the<br />

Supreme Court on June 28. To contact the<br />

reporter on this story: Jeff Kearns in<br />

Washington atjkearns3@bloomberg.net To<br />

contact the editor responsible for this story:<br />

Chris Wellisz atcwellisz@bloomberg.net<br />

77

Correo Peru/ - Notícias, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


"Reconocer derecho al agua debe ser<br />

prioridad en Congreso", afirman<br />

El proyecto de reforma constitucional para<br />

reconocer el derecho al agua, propuesta por<br />

el presidente Ollanta Humala durante su<br />

Mensaje a la Nación, debería tener carácter<br />

prioritario en la nueva legislatura del<br />

Congreso, sostuvo hoy el gobernador de<br />

Cajamarca, Ever Hernández.<br />

En entrevista con la agencia Andina, dijo que<br />

la sola incorporación en la Constitución<br />

Política que señale que el acceso al agua es<br />

un derecho inalienable implica una<br />

connotación grande, ydebe ser de carácter<br />

prioritario en la nueva legislatura.<br />

"En esta propuesta el Jefe del Estado busca<br />

construir un marco legal que incorpore de<br />

manera taxativa una necesidad de la<br />

población, como es el agua, a una categoría<br />

de derecho constitucional", señaló,<br />

puntualizando que aún con esta reforma no<br />

se puede pretender que se resuelvan los<br />

conflictos sociales que desde hace décadas<br />

se manifiestan en la población de<br />

Cajamarca.<br />

Recordó que "hay poblaciones que han vivido<br />

abusadas por algunas empresas mineras y<br />

desconfían del Estado".<br />

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Correo Peru/ - Notícias, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Tubino sobre mensaje presidencial: "Lo<br />

que se ha dicho es casi nada"<br />

El Congresistade Fuerza 2011 Carlos Tubino,<br />

declaróa la prensa tras elmensaje<br />

presidencial que el tema del narcotráfico fue<br />

planteado por el presidente de manera muy<br />

light.<br />

"En relación al narcotráfico el tema lo manejó<br />

muy filosóficamente cuando en ese punto<br />

hay que tomar acciones concretas, hoy el<br />

narcotráfico se pasea en el Vraem, en la<br />

triple frontera y lo que se ha dicho es casi<br />

nada", manifestó.<br />

Durante el mensaje a la Nación del<br />

presidente Ollanta ratificó que el Perú<br />

acataráel fallo que la Corte Internacional de<br />

Justicia de La Haya tome sobre el diferendo<br />

marítimo entre Perú y Chile,muy<br />

acertadopara Tubino y agregó que la misma<br />

actitud espera del país Chileno.<br />

79

Correo Peru/ - Mundo, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Ollanta Humala: Fallo de La Haya<br />

fortalecerá relaciones de Perú y Chile<br />

El futuro fallo que emita la Corte<br />

Internacional de Justicia de La Haya sobre<br />

el diferendo marítimo, reforzará las<br />

relaciones entre Perú y Chile porque sus<br />

gobiernos se han comprometido a acatar la<br />

sentencia, afirmó hoy el presidente de la<br />

República, Ollanta Humala.<br />

En el discurso por el aniversario patrio ante el<br />

Parlamento, sostuvo que ese litigio,<br />

corresponde a una política de Estado y a la<br />

vocación pacifista del Perú.<br />

"La solución de esta, que es la última<br />

controversia pendiente de límites, permitirá<br />

fortalecer las relaciones con Chile en sus<br />

múltiples dimensiones, tal como lo acaba de<br />

resaltar un importante grupo de<br />

personalidades de los dos países,<br />

encabezados por Mario Vargas Llosa y Jorge<br />

Edwards", manifestó.<br />

Ratificó, en ese sentido, que el Perú acatará<br />

la sentencia de la Corte de Justicia de La<br />

Haya, y expresó su satisfacción porque hizo<br />

lo propio el presidente chileno Sebastián<br />

Piñera.<br />

Y en relación al desplazamiento de minas en<br />

la frontera peruana-chilena, a raíz del<br />

fenómeno natural ocurrido en Quebrada de<br />

Escritos el 20 de febrero de este año,<br />

destacó que ambos países han acordado<br />

medidas.<br />

"Los gobiernos de Perú y Chile hemos<br />

convenido en que una entidad humanitaria<br />

noruega, de reconocido prestigio, realice las<br />

tareas de desminado. Dicha fórmula no<br />

afecta la soberanía de Perú, ni la plena<br />

vigencia de los límites establecidos conforme<br />

al Tratado de 1929", aseveró.<br />

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Corriere Della Será/ - Home, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Approvato di notte il Piano casa-bis<br />

Scontro con opposizione, che lascia l'aula<br />

Maxiemendamento Pdl cancella tutte le 445<br />

eccezioni. Via il silenzio-assenso. I Radicali:<br />

denuncia penale<br />

ROMA - Via libera dal Consiglio regionale del<br />

Lazio nella notte tra giovedì e venerdì ad<br />

alcune modifiche del «Piano Casa». Le<br />

nuove norme permettono di evitare il giudizio<br />

della Corte Costituzionale al testo varato un<br />

anno fa dalla Pisana, dopo il ricorso per<br />

incostituzionalità fatto dal governo Berlusconi<br />

a ottobre 2011. Dopo tre giorni di dibattito il<br />

documento ha ottenuto 37 voti a favore e 1<br />

contrario.<br />

Operai sui ponteggi (Epa)Operai sui ponteggi<br />

(Epa)<br />

L'opposizione è uscita dall'aula al momento<br />

della votazione perché, mentre si stavano<br />

votando gli emendamenti, la giunta Polverini<br />

ne ha presentato uno sostitutivo dell'intero<br />

testo, facendo decadere tutti gli emendamenti<br />

depositati. Pd, Sel, Idv, Verdi e Lista Civica<br />

hanno duramente protestato parlando di<br />

«delegittimazione del consiglio» e di<br />

«sospensione della democrazia». E<br />

Giuseppe Rossodivita e Rocco Berardo<br />

(Radicali - Lista Bonino Pannella) hanno<br />

annunciato una denuncia penale.<br />

Replica Luciano Ciocchetti, assessore<br />

all'Urbanistica: «Questo provvedimento<br />

andava approvato con urgenza. Avevamo un<br />

impegno assunto con il ministero degli Affari<br />

regionali, di votare entro la fine di luglio, per<br />

evitare il giudizio della Corte costituzionale.<br />

Di fronte a oltre 445 emendamenti presentati<br />

complessivamente, abbiamo scelto di seguire<br />

questa strada, per rispettare gli impegni<br />

presi».<br />

Tra le modifiche portate «l'intervento nelle<br />

aree naturali protette - aggiunge Ciocchetti la modifica dei piani integrati, la correzione di<br />

errori di perimetrazione delle zone vincolate e<br />

la questione del silenzio-assenso della legge<br />

nazionale sul condono edilizio». Il<br />

provvedimento «risponde in primo luogo<br />

all'emergenza abitativa e dà una boccata<br />

d'ossigeno al settore dell'edilizia<br />

particolarmente colpito dalla grave crisi<br />

economica», ricorda Renata Polverini.<br />

«Inoltre da oggi 1.600 famiglie romane<br />

saranno molto più tranquille - aggiunge la<br />

presidente della Regione - di quanto non<br />

fossero fino a ieri», riferendosi alle nuove<br />

regole per l'assegnazione delle case popolari<br />

che favoriscono l'esaurimento delle vecchie<br />

graduatorie anche in presenza di nuovi bandi.<br />

Nel testo sono anche stati recepiti alcuni<br />

emendamenti dell' opposizione che, secondo<br />

Ciocchetti, «hanno contribuito a migliorare il<br />

Piano Casa».<br />

Francesco Di Frischia<br />

81

Corriere Della Será/ - Home, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Rifiuti e trasporti, in arrivo la riforma<br />

Il consiglio regionale pronto ad approvare la<br />

legge<br />

Il testo presentato in commissione Ambiente<br />

BARI - Tra una settimana la Puglia avrà la<br />

nuova legge che riforma la materia dei servizi<br />

pubblici locali (rifiuti e trasporti). Si tratta di<br />

una normativa attesa, per due ragioni: perché<br />

tiene conto della recente sentenza della<br />

Corte costituzionale che ha annullato le<br />

disposizioni statali sulla obbligatoria<br />

privatizzazione e salvato le società in house<br />

(interne alle amministrazioni pubbliche); e<br />

perché dovrà rapidamente concludere un<br />

periodo di interregno per i Comuni, i quali<br />

dopo la riduzione e il commissariamento degli<br />

Ato rifiuti sono rimasti sostanzialmente privi di<br />

governo, circostanza che induce alla fretta. E<br />

infatti il nuovo testo, messo a punto dopo la<br />

sentenza della Consulta di otto giorni fa, solo<br />

ieri è arrivato in Commissione, ma tra giovedì<br />

e venerdì prossimi sarà già portato al voto del<br />

Consiglio regionale. La fretta ha indispettito<br />

diversi consiglieri (di maggioranza e<br />

opposizione): si tratta di un testo di<br />

programmazione che rivoluziona per molti<br />

versi il sistema di gestione dei rifiuti e dei<br />

trasporti. Dunque, necessiterebbe di<br />

riflessione e approfondimento. Ma non c’è<br />

verso: il governo regionale ha necessità che<br />

si arrivi alla riforma prima delle ferie di<br />

agostto.<br />

I consiglieri Domi Lanzillotta (Pdl,<br />

opposizione) e Francesco Laddomada<br />

(Puglia per Vendola, maggioranza) hanno<br />

tuttavia chiesto di licenziare il testo solo dopo<br />

aver proceduto con le audizioni. Il primo<br />

intende ascoltare i commissiari degli Ato<br />

rifiuti, il secondo le società pubbliche e<br />

private di trasporto. Il cammino è tracciato.<br />

Ieri Nichi Vendola e l’assessore Lorenzo<br />

Nicastro hanno incontrato i capigruppo di<br />

maggioranza per mettere a punto alcune<br />

modifiche al testo. Poi sono corsi in<br />

commissione per convincere i riottosi della<br />

necessità di procedere speditamente. Il<br />

centrosinistra è in fibrillazione (le ragioni<br />

dell’insofferenza sono numerose). E, certo,<br />

senza il contributo dell’opposizione<br />

dialogante di Rocco Palese (Pdl) non<br />

sarebbe stato in grado di portare il testo in<br />

Aula. La riforma si base su alcune princìpi<br />

cardine. Nasce l’Autorità regionale per i<br />

servizi locali, con compiti di programmazione<br />

e indirizzo: analisi di mercato, fissazione delle<br />

tariffe, controllo degli standard di qualità,<br />

determinazione dello schema-tipo dei bandi. I<br />

vecchi Ato sono sostituiti dalle Comunità<br />

d’ambito, che saranno gestite dagli organi di<br />

governo d’ambito (Oga). Ve ne sarà uno per<br />

ogni provincia per i trasporti; per quanto<br />

riguarda i rifiuti, si punta ad averne una per<br />

l’intera Regione (per avere una tariffa unica in<br />

tutta la Puglia). La giunta, infine, provvederà<br />

ad individuare delle Autorità di raccolta<br />

ottimale (Aro): ambiti sovracomunali per<br />

l’attività di raccolta, spazzamento e trasporto<br />

dei rifiuti. La Rete per i Beni comuni non<br />

gradisce il testo. Il sistema, spiega in una<br />

nota, «resta quello della concorrenza e del<br />

mercato e manca la previsione che la<br />

gestione possa avvenire tramite un soggetto<br />

di diritto pubblico».<br />

Francesco Strippoli<br />

82

El Universal/ - Opinión, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Correa apoya a #Yosoy132<br />

El presidente ecuatoriano, Rafael Correa,<br />

destacó hoy las protestas juveniles<br />

registradas en México contra cadenas<br />

informativas de ese país por una supuesta<br />

manipulación informativa en favor de uno de<br />

los candidatos presidenciales. Se refirió a las<br />

marchas promovidas por el movimiento<br />

estudiantil "Yo soy 132", que demandó al<br />

Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial no<br />

validar el triunfo del candidato Enrique Peña<br />

Nieto, del Partido Revolucionario<br />

Institucional, como ganador de los comicios<br />

del pasado 1 de julio.Dicho movimiento ha<br />

denunciado irregularidades en los comicios y<br />

ha criticado la supuesta manipulación<br />

informativa por parte de la prensa y en<br />

especial de la cadena Televisa en favor de<br />

Peña Nieto."Esa es una de las grandes<br />

luchas del siglo XXI y nos están dando<br />

ejemplo los jóvenes mexicanos al protestar<br />

contra una cadena de televisión que, a más<br />

de pasar día a día pura porquería para<br />

llenarse los bolsillos, descaradamente<br />

interfirió en las elecciones mexicanas",<br />

sostuvo Correa.En su habitual informe<br />

sabatino, el mandatario ecuatoriano aseguró<br />

que las propuestas para regular los abusos<br />

de poderosas corporaciones informativas no<br />

es sólo una "lucha" en México, sino también<br />

en Ecuador, América Latina y el mundo."Eso<br />

es lo que no quiere la prensa acá", añadió<br />

Correa al referirse a la posibilidad de que<br />

entre en vigor el denominado "Código de la<br />

Democracia", que incluye regulaciones a la<br />

cobertura periodística en campañas<br />

electorales, entre otros asuntos.Esa<br />

normativa se encuentra en estudio en la<br />

Corte Constitucional y ha sido criticada por<br />

varias cadenas de prensa, aunque defendida<br />

por el Ejecutivo.La normativa ordena a los<br />

medios abstenerse de "hacer promoción<br />

directa o indirecta, ya sea a través de<br />

reportajes, especiales o cualquier otra forma<br />

de mensaje que tienda a incidir a favor o en<br />

contra de determinado candidato, postulado,<br />

opiniones, preferencias electorales o tesis<br />

políticas".Los medios deberían hacer "las<br />

entrevistas que quieran, los reportajes que<br />

quieran, pero lo que no pueden hacer es<br />

campaña política por determinada tienda<br />

política o candidato, porque ese no es el rol<br />

de los medios de comunicación", remarcó<br />

Correa.Además, dijo que en democracia "los<br />

electores no son los capitalistas que tienen<br />

dinero para comprarse una imprenta o<br />

heredar una imprenta, sino son ustedes los<br />

ciudadanos que tienen que elegir con base<br />

en información objetiva, veraz y<br />

contextualizada".Esta es "una gran lucha que<br />

tenemos en el país y no sólo en el país, sino<br />

en América Latina y en el planeta, porque<br />

hay una contradicción fundamental (...) en los<br />

medios privados: Negocios con fines de lucro<br />

proveyendo de un derecho, el derecho a la<br />

comunicación", agregó el mandatario.Se<br />

preguntó, ¿qué pasa "cuando (los grandes<br />

medios) tienen conflictos de intereses,<br />

cuando tienen que cumplir en garantizar ese<br />

derecho (a la información) o aumentar las<br />

utilidades de su negocio?"."Por definición, lo<br />

que prevalece es lo segundo" y por eso esta<br />

"es una de las grandes luchas de nuestra<br />

era", agregó Correa y pidió a los jóvenes<br />

mexicanos "seguir sin miedo, así los acusen<br />

de atentar contra la libertad de<br />

expresión".Con esa lucha "estamos<br />

atentando contra el bolsillo de unos cuantos<br />

empresarios que han hecho de la<br />

comunicación una vulgar mercancía. Que no<br />

los engañen queridos jóvenes y a seguir<br />

luchando", insistió el mandatario<br />

ecuatoriano.ppj<br />

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El Universal/ - Opinión, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Tribunal electoral remitirá tarjetas<br />

Soriana al IFE<br />

El Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la<br />

Federación (TEPJF) remitirá las dos mil 435<br />

tarjetas plásticas Soriana al Instituto Federal<br />

Electoral (IFE) , presentadas por el<br />

Movimiento Progresista como prueba para<br />

anular la elección presidencial el 1 de julio<br />

pasado.La decisión del TEPJF tiene como<br />

base el oficio enviado por el director general<br />

de la Unidad de Fiscalización de los<br />

Recursos de los Partidos Políticos del IFE,<br />

Alfredo Cristalinas Kaulitz, en el cual solicita<br />

"se considere la remisión a esta autoridad<br />

fiscalizadora de las dos mil 435 tarjetas<br />

plásticas de la tienda departamental Soriana<br />

presentadas por el recurrente" .El TEPJF dio<br />

por recibido el oficio y notificó a las<br />

coaliciones Movimiento Progresista y a la<br />

Compromiso por México, para que en un<br />

plazo de 12 horas "manifiesten lo que a su<br />

interés convenga" .El TEPJF aclaró que<br />

remitirá las tarjetas Soriana al IFE y no a la<br />

inversa como se manejó en algunos medios<br />

de comunicación.vsg<br />

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El Universal Venezuela/ - Caracas, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Terreno de la Caja de Ahorros del Poder<br />

Judicial en Barinas sigue invadido<br />

Barinas.- Más de 80 hectáreas<br />

pertenecientes a la Caja de Ahorros del<br />

Poder Judicial (Capojud), ubicadas frente a<br />

la entrada de Ciudad Tavacare, siguen<br />

ocupadas por un grupo de 510 invasores,<br />

quienes aseguran ser parte de un frente<br />

campesino. Denominación que les han<br />

servido para no tener que enfrentarse a la<br />

fuerza pública.Los trabajadores tribunalicios,<br />

quienes pretendían edificar allí un conjunto<br />

habitacional, han visto como sus planes<br />

vuelven a ser truncados. Desde que Capojud<br />

adquirió esta propiedad en el año 2009, han<br />

sido dos grupos distintos los que han<br />

invadido los terrenos, sin que las autoridades<br />

hagan respetar el decreto de la Gobernación<br />

de Barinas por el que se prohiben las tomas<br />

ilegales de terrenos.Asociados de Capojud<br />

indicaron que están siendo víctimas "de la<br />

bandera política de quienes unas el nombre<br />

del Gobierno para invadir", recordando que<br />

con el presidente Stalin Yépez, hubo la<br />

proyección de un complejo habitacional para<br />

los trabajadores del Poder<br />

Judicial.Refirieron que tras las el asesinato<br />

de Yépez cuando se dirigía a Barquisimeto,<br />

hecho que atribuyen a "Los Migueleros",<br />

porque la camioneta donde viajaba la víctima<br />

se le pincharon los cauchos y hubo disparos<br />

de los cuales uno lo recibió en la sien, el<br />

proyecto no avanza.<br />

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/ - Politik, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Er glaubt, dass er mit allem durchkommt<br />

Rumäniens Ministerpräsident Ponta<br />

bezeichnet Präsident Basescu, den er an<br />

diesem Sonntag aus dem Amt jagen will, als<br />

„Mafioso“. Tatsächlich sind mafiöse<br />

Strukturen in Pontas eigener Partei verbreitet.<br />

Doch er mimt den Unverstandenen.<br />

Am vergangenen Dienstag, fünf Tage vor<br />

dem Referendum über die Absetzung des<br />

rumänischen Präsidenten Traian Basescu,<br />

schlug das Direktorat für den Kampf gegen<br />

das Organisierte Verbrechen (Diicot) zu. In<br />

Bukarest und zehn weiteren Städten und<br />

Gemeinden wurden 256 Wohnungen und<br />

Büros durchsucht, zahlreiche Dokumente<br />

beschlagnahmt und Computer<br />

abtransportiert.<br />

Ermittelt wird gegen 125 Personen, die sich<br />

mit fingierten Zuckerexporten<br />

Mehrwertsteuerrückvergütungen von jährlich<br />

40 Millionen Euro beschafft haben sollen. Als<br />

mutmaßliches Haupt der Bande gilt der<br />

sozialdemokratische Senator Cezar<br />

Magureanu, der sich – wie in Rumänien<br />

üblich – sogleich als Opfer einer politischen<br />

Intrige erklärte.<br />

Magureanu wurde auf der Liste der<br />

konservativen PDL in den Senat gewählt,<br />

wechselte dann, wie 80 weitere<br />

Parlamentarier in dieser Legislaturperiode,<br />

die Seite und landete schließlich bei der<br />

sozialdemokratischen PSD – dem<br />

Auffangbecken ehemaliger Kommunisten,<br />

deren erster Präsident Ion Iliescu in den<br />

neunziger Jahren die Schlägerbrigaden der<br />

Bergarbeiter zur Unterdrückung der<br />

demokratischen Opposition in die Hauptstadt<br />

holte, deren vorletzter Ministerpräsident<br />

Adrian Nastase wegen Amtsmissbrauchs und<br />

Korruption im Gefängnis sitzt und deren<br />

gegenwärtiger Vorsitzender,<br />

Ministerpräsident Victor Ponta, Schritt für<br />

Schritt einen kalten Staatsstreich durchführt,<br />

dessen erstes Ziel es ist, die Justiz der<br />

politischen Kontrolle unterstellen. Traian<br />

Basescu, sagte Ponta vor einer<br />

Großkundgebung seiner Anhänger in<br />

Craiova, sei nicht nur ein „Mafioso, ein<br />

Lügner und ein Schurke“, der den Rentnern<br />

ihr Geld gestohlen habe und dies wieder tun<br />

wolle. Er müsse am Sonntag „dem Volk<br />

vorgeführt“ werden, damit es „mit ihm<br />

Schluss“ mache, denn erst danach „werden<br />

wir alle in Frieden leben“, befreit von der<br />

Sorge, „dass Basescu über uns alle Dossiers<br />

anlegt“.<br />

Parlament setzt sich über<br />

Verfassungsgericht hinweg<br />

Unter den 258 Abgeordneten und Senatoren,<br />

die am 12. Juli wie Cezar Magureanu für die<br />

Absetzung Traian Basescus stimmten, waren<br />

drei Parlamentarier, die bereits rechtskräftig<br />

zu Haftstrafen auf Bewährung verurteilt<br />

wurden und zwölf weitere, deren<br />

Strafverfahren noch nicht abgeschlossen<br />

sind. Die Delikte, die ihnen zu Last gelegt<br />

werden, sind die üblichen: Korruption,<br />

Amtsmissbrauch, Geldwäsche, Nötigung,<br />

Betrug. Zwei weitere Abgeordnete, unter<br />

ihnen Adrian Nastase, befinden sich in Haft.<br />

Der Medienmogul und<br />

Securitate-Kollaborateur Dan Voiculescu<br />

(„Felix“) hatte wenige Tage vor der<br />

Abstimmung sein Mandat in aller Eile<br />

niedergelegt, um einer bevorstehenden<br />

Verurteilung durch den Obersten<br />

Gerichtshof zu entgehen – jetzt muss das<br />

Verfahren vor einem anderen Gericht neu<br />

aufgerollt werden. Voiculescus „Konservative<br />

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Partei“ gehört als Juniorpartner der<br />

sozialdemokratischen PSD und der<br />

nationalliberalen PDL dem<br />

Regierungsbündnis USL an, seine<br />

Mediengruppe Intact mit den<br />

Fernsehstationen Antena 1 und Antena 3<br />

sorgt für das tägliche Trommelfeuer in der<br />

Hetze gegen Basescu, die demokratische<br />

Opposition und prominente Intellektuelle.<br />

Mit dem Beschluss, Basescu abzusetzen,<br />

setzte sich das Parlament über ein Gutachten<br />

des Verfassungsgerichtshofs hinweg, aus<br />

dem hervorgeht, dass dem Präsidenten keine<br />

schwerwiegenden Verstöße gegen die<br />

Verfassung angelastet werden können – und<br />

nur solche rechtfertigen eine Amtsenthebung.<br />

Basescu wurde zweimal vom Volk gewählt<br />

und bereits einmal von einem Referendum in<br />

seinem Amt bestätigt. Bei den<br />

Parlamentariern war er wegen seines<br />

Kampfes gegen die Gier und die Niedertracht<br />

der politischen Klasse nie sehr populär, auch<br />

nicht in der Fraktion der ihn unterstützenden<br />

konservativen PDL. Man unterstellt ihm die<br />

Instrumentalisierung der Justiz für die<br />

Verfolgung politischer Gegner. Tatsache ist,<br />

dass von den fünf rechtskräftig verurteilten<br />

Parlamentariern zwei der PDL angehören,<br />

zwei der PNL und einer – Adrian Nastase –<br />

der sozialdemokratischen PSD. Von den<br />

zwölf Parlamentariern, die vor Gericht stehen,<br />

kommen fünf von der PDL, fünf von der PSD,<br />

einer der PNL und einer von Voiculescus<br />

„Konservativen“. Es geht bei dem Kampf, der<br />

in Rumänien nun voll entbrannt ist, nicht um<br />

rechts oder links, auch nicht um die Person<br />

des Präsidenten, es geht darum, ob sich der<br />

Rechtsstaat durchsetzt oder ob<br />

parteiübergreifende, mafiöse Seilschaften die<br />

Macht ergreifen und die Trennung zwischen<br />

Legislative, Exekutive und Justiz aufheben.<br />

Romania's suspended President Traian<br />

Basescu speaks during a meeting with<br />

members of the civil society in Bucharest ©<br />

REUTERS<br />



Präsident Traian Basescu<br />

Die 2005 bis 2007 von der damaligen<br />

Justizministerin Monica Macovei eingeleiteten<br />

und von Traian Basescu unterstützten<br />

Reformen auf den Gebieten der Justiz und<br />

der Korruptionsbekämpfung haben trotz aller<br />

Rückschläge mittlerweile jene kritische<br />

Masse erreicht, die eine Rückkehr zu den<br />

unter Adrian Nastase herrschenden<br />

Zuständen, als dessen<br />

Copy-and-paste-Doktorand Victor Ponta noch<br />

Staatssekretär war, sehr unwahrscheinlich<br />

erscheinen lässt. Rumänien ist in die globale<br />

Wirtschaft eingebunden, es gehört der Nato<br />

und der EU an. Die Vorgänge auf den<br />

Gebieten der Justiz und der<br />

Korruptionsbekämpfung werden seit Jahren<br />

genau verfolgt. Die EU-Kommission äußerte<br />

„ernsthafte Zweifel . . . am generellen<br />

Verständnis“ der neuen rumänischen<br />

Regierung für die „Bedeutung der<br />

Rechtsstaatlichkeit“. Und Washington kann<br />

schon aus sicherheitspolitischen Gründen<br />

nicht zusehen, wie mafiöse Seilschaften in<br />

der geopolitisch brisanten<br />

Schwarzmeer-Region einen Staat in<br />

Beschlag nehmen.<br />

Notverordnung immer noch in Kraft<br />

Der 39 Jahre alte Ponta, der seine<br />

Dissertation abgeschrieben hat und sich mit<br />

einem nie erworbenen Master der Universität<br />

Catania schmückte, ist wie sein „Doktorvater“<br />

Nastase von unerschütterlicher Arroganz. Er<br />

glaubt, dass er mit allem durchkommt, weil<br />

keiner so gerissen ist wie er. In Brüssel<br />

mimte er den Unverstandenen, von Basescu<br />

Verleumdeten, der alle, aber auch wirklich<br />

alle Forderungen der EU-Kommission sofort,<br />

vollständig und gerne erfüllen werde. Als<br />

Justiz-Kommissarin Viviane Reding am<br />

Mittwoch darauf hinwies, dass seither nichts<br />

geschehen ist, beschuldigte er sie, die PDL<br />

zu unterstützen. Die Notverordnung Nummer<br />

41, deren Rücknahme vor dem Referendum<br />

die Kommission explizit verlangte, ist immer<br />

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noch in Kraft und öffnet am Sonntag dem<br />

Wahlbetrug Tür und Tor. Unter anderem<br />

muss bei diesem Referendum die Zahl der<br />

Wähler nicht mehr mit der Zahl der<br />

abgegebenen Stimmen in den einzelnen<br />

Wahllokalen verglichen werden. Die<br />

Versiegelung der Urnen wird nicht mehr im<br />

Protokoll festgehalten, sie können also<br />

abermals geöffnet und versiegelt werden. Ob<br />

jemand, der in seinem Urlaubsort wählt, nicht<br />

auch schon anderswo seine Stimme<br />

abgegeben hat, wird nicht mehr überprüft.<br />

Am Sonntag dürften in Rumänien viele Busse<br />

von Dorf zu Dorf unterwegs sein. Die PDL<br />

befürchtet einen Wahlbetrug im Umfang von<br />

bis zu zwei Millionen Stimmen.<br />

Victor Ponta hatte sich 2002 als junger<br />

Staatsanwalt der sozialdemokratischen PSD<br />

angeschlossen. Damals ereignete sich einer<br />

von jenen mysteriösen Todesfällen, die sich<br />

in der Ära Nastase auffällig häuften. Pontas<br />

Kollege Cristian Panait, der sich mit<br />

Korruptionsaffären im Umfeld Nastases<br />

befasste, kam unter nie geklärten Umständen<br />

beim Sturz aus dem Fenster seiner Wohnung<br />

ums Leben. Rasch war von einem Suizid die<br />

Rede. Den Recherchen der rumänischen<br />

Journalistin Ela Simona Fica zufolge war dem<br />

Sturz ein Streit zwischen Ponta und Panait<br />

vorausgegangen, weil Ponta seinen Kollegen<br />

zur Einstellung seiner Ermittlungen bewegen<br />

wollte. Ponta hatte Panait kurz vor dem<br />

tödlichen Sturz als letzter besucht, angeblich<br />

in der Absicht, sich mit ihm zu versöhnen. Bei<br />

der Obduktion Panaits wurden Spuren von<br />

Drogen festgestellt. Ein Staatsanwalt, der in<br />

dem Fall ermittelte, wurde von einem Auto<br />

überfahren und getötet, der Täter wurde nie<br />

gefasst. Zu dieser Zeit trat Ponta als<br />



Staatssekretär in die Regierung Nastase ein.<br />

Der Staatsanwalt, der das Verfahren damals<br />

einstellte, steht nun selbst im Fadenkreuz der<br />

Ermittlungen der Antikorruptionsbehörde<br />

DNA und wurde suspendiert. Er steht unter<br />

dem Verdacht, sich gegen den Austausch<br />

von geheimen Informationen für<br />

Spitzenpositionen in der Justiz in Stellung<br />

gebracht zu haben, unter anderem bei einem<br />

Treffen mit dem neuen Ministerpräsidenten,<br />

seinem alten Freund Ponta. Die Verträge des<br />

DNA-Direktors Daniel Morar und der<br />

Generalstaatsanwältin Laura Kövesi, die<br />

beide von Traian Basescu eingesetzt wurden<br />

und auch das Vertrauen der EU-Kommission<br />

genießen, laufen im August und Oktober<br />

aus.<br />

Präsident Basescu lehnte im Vorfeld des<br />

Referendums Interviews mit ausländischen<br />

Medien ab. Er wolle sich, sagte er im<br />

Gespräch mit dieser Zeitung, nicht dem<br />

Vorwurf aussetzen, er schwärze sein Land in<br />

der EU an. Der Staatsstreich, der in<br />

Rumänien stattfinde, müsse vom<br />

rumänischen Volk gestoppt werden. Basescu<br />

äußerte sich überzeugt davon, dass er nach<br />

dem Referendum in den Cotroceni-Palast,<br />

den Sitz des Staatsoberhauptes,<br />

zurückkehren werde. Basescu scheut den<br />

Kampf nicht. Es wäre ihm lieber gewesen,<br />

sagte er, die PDL hätte dazu aufgerufen, bei<br />

dem Referendum gegen die Absetzung des<br />

Präsidenten zu stimmen, statt es zu<br />

boykottieren. Aber angesichts des zu<br />

erwartenden massiven Wahlschwindels habe<br />

sie sich nun einmal dazu entschieden, das<br />

nehme er zur Kenntnis.<br />

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Eine Einladung beginnt in der Küche<br />

Was man tun muss, um den<br />

Henri-Nannen-Preis nicht zu gewinnen:<br />

Heribert Prantl schreibt über ein Abendessen<br />

bei Andreas Voßkuhle, das wohl nie<br />

stattgefunden hat.<br />

Von Harald Staun<br />

Andererseits: Wo kommen wir eigentlich hin,<br />

wenn jetzt auch noch die letzten deutschen<br />

Qualitätsjournalisten auf Journalistenpreise<br />

pfeifen? Heribert Prantl, der Innenpolitikchef<br />

der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“, hat sich jetzt<br />

jedenfalls schon mal vorsätzlich<br />

disqualifiziert. In einem Text über Andreas<br />

Voßkuhle, den Präsidenten des<br />

Bundesverfassungsgerichts (in der<br />

„Süddeutschen Zeitung“ vom 10. Juli),<br />

schilderte er ausführlich, wie es so zugeht,<br />

wenn der Richter seine Gerichte zubereitet,<br />

und zwar zuhause in der Küche.<br />

Sicherheitshalber war Prantl, wie jetzt eine<br />

Sprecherin des Verfassungsgerichts erklärte,<br />

„weder für diesen Artikel noch zu einem<br />

anderen Zeitpunkt von Herrn Voßkuhle zu<br />

einem privaten Essen eingeladen“ worden,<br />

könne daher auch nicht „aus persönlicher<br />

Anschauung mit den Kochgewohnheiten des<br />

Präsidenten vertraut sein“.<br />

Auf einen Preis weniger kommt es nicht an<br />

Man müsse „nicht gleich an den Fall Pfister<br />

denken“, schreibt der Berliner „Tagesspiegel“<br />

dazu. Aber woran denn sonst? Mit seiner<br />

Fernwartung der Horst Seehoferschen<br />

Modelleisenbahn hatte der „Spiegel“-Autor<br />

vor zwei Jahren den Henri-Nannen-Preis erst<br />

gewonnen, dann wieder aberkannt<br />

bekommen. Seitdem weiß jeder, was man tun<br />

muss, um den Preis nicht zu gewinnen.<br />

Aus welcher Anschauung auch immer Prantl<br />

seine Informationen über Voßkuhles<br />

kulinarische Methoden bezog, sie schienen<br />

ihm bedeutender als so ein „Henri“. In der<br />

Küche des Richters nämlich, „dem Ort, an<br />

dem das Fleisch geklopft, der Fisch entgrätet,<br />

das Gemüse gegart und das Essen<br />

abgeschmeckt wird“, lüftet sich schließlich<br />

„eines der größten Geheimnisse der<br />

Republik“: das Beratungsgeheimnis der<br />

Richter in Karlsruhe. Selbstverständlich darf<br />

das der Öffentlichkeit nicht verschweigen<br />

werden, auf einen Preis weniger kommt es da<br />

nicht an.<br />

Den hätte man ruhig mal zum Essen einladen<br />

können<br />

„Bei Voßkuhles“, schrieb Prantl, „setzt man<br />

sich nicht an die gedeckte Tafel und wartet,<br />

was aufgetragen wird. Eine Einladung (...)<br />

beginnt in der Küche: Der eine Gast putzt die<br />

Pilze, der andere die Bohnen, der dritte<br />

wäscht den Salat. Zu diesem Arbeitsessen<br />

gibt es ein Arbeitsweinchen. Natürlich hat der<br />

Gastgeber alles sorgfältig vorbereitet,<br />

natürlich steht die Menüfolge fest; aber es<br />

entsteht alles gemeinsam. Jeder hat seinen<br />

Part, jeder hat was zu schnippeln, zu sieden<br />

und zu kochen, jeder etwas zu reden: Es geht<br />

um die Nudel, die Küchenrolle und um die<br />

Welt. Voßkuhle selbst rührt das Dressing.<br />

Man ahnt, wie er als oberster Richter agiert“.<br />

Im Übrigen ist Prantls Text eine Hymne, er<br />

verteilt Sterne im Stil eines „Guide<br />

Michelin“-Testers: Voßkuhle habe<br />

„hervorragende Qualitäten: eine schnelle<br />

Auffassungsgabe, eine kräftige Portion<br />

Selbstbewusstsein, großen, sehr großen<br />

Ehrgeiz, den ein heiteres Gemüt erträglich<br />

macht; er vermag wohltemperiert und<br />

eloquent zu reden, und er kümmert sich um<br />

seine Leute, seien sie Wachtmeister oder<br />

Verfassungsrichter.“<br />

Wer so nett über einen schreibt: Den hätte<br />

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man ruhig mal zum Essen einladen können.<br />



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La Nacion/ - Información geral, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Intervienen el sector petrolero: fijarán<br />

precios e inversiones<br />

El Gobierno controlará los planes de<br />

inversión de las petroleras, que además se<br />

deberán anotar en un registro<br />

especial. Foto: Archivo Más notas para<br />

entender este temaKicillof, con más poder en<br />

las empresasLa primera víctima es YPF En<br />

los hechos, el sector de los hidrocarburos ya<br />

hace varios años que estaba prácticamente<br />

intervenido por el Estado. Pero, desde ayer,<br />

no sólo será de hecho sino también de<br />

derecho. Los precios de los combustibles, las<br />

ganancias de las empresas, los planes de<br />

inversión y hasta la producción de una<br />

compañía serán definidos de ahora en más<br />

por el Estado .<br />

Con la publicación del decreto 1277<br />

-Reglamento del Régimen de Soberanía<br />

Hidrocarburífera de la República Argentinaque<br />

ayer apareció en el Boletín Oficial, el<br />

Gobierno terminó de cerrar el círculo sobre el<br />

mundo del petróleo y el gas, un sector que se<br />

movía en una ficción de desregulación, pero<br />

que en los hechos se movía de acuerdo con<br />

los designios de los funcionarios del área.<br />

¿Qué cambió? La norma derogó tres<br />

decretos de desregulación que estaban<br />

vigentes desde 1989 y que establecían, entre<br />

otras cosas, la libertad de precios de los<br />

productos y la libre disponibilidad de los<br />

hidrocarburos por parte de las petroleras que<br />

podían exportar libremente -en el caso del<br />

gas, se requería un permiso previo.<br />

Según el decreto 1277, además de la<br />

intervención del mercado, creó una comisión<br />

de Planificación y Coordinación Estratégica<br />

del Plan Nacional de Inversiones para el<br />

sector, que estará a cargo de un<br />

representante de las secretarías de Política<br />

Económica y Planificación del Desarrollo del<br />

Ministerio de Economía, hoy a cargo de Axel<br />

Kicillof; de Comercio Interior, conducida por<br />

Guillermo Moreno, y de Energía, manejada<br />

por Daniel Cameron.<br />

La norma de ayer no es más que una<br />

consecuencia de la ley de nacionalización de<br />

51% del paquete accionario de YFP que<br />

estaban en manos de la española Repsol.<br />

Más allá de que el debate que se dio en el<br />

Congreso giró prácticamente sobre el pasado<br />

y el futuro de la petrolera, los legisladores<br />

aprobaron también la declaración de interés<br />

público el autoabastecimiento de<br />

hidrocarburos, así como la "exploración,<br />

explotación, industrialización, transporte y<br />

comercialización de hidrocarburo". Diputados<br />

y senadores, varios de ellos de la oposición,<br />

le dieronno sólo la llave de YPF al Gobierno<br />

sino también una herramienta para intervenir<br />

el mercado petrolero.<br />

Dos fuentes consultadas por LA NACION que<br />

trabajan con petroleras reconocieron que en<br />

el sector había inquietud. Sucede que aún<br />

está fresco el recuerdo de YPF cuando el<br />

Gobierno calentó el discurso contra la<br />

empresa, siguió con el retiro de algunas<br />

concesiones y terminó con la estatización de<br />

la petrolera . "La gran pregunta que nos<br />

hacemos en el sector es si esto no termina<br />

con una estatización de otros sectores", dijo<br />

ayer una fuente que pasa sus días en una<br />

petrolera de las más grandes de la<br />

Argentina.<br />

El decreto empezó a ser examinado con lupa<br />

entre los petroleros. Uno de los principales<br />

cuestionamientos que surgieron tiene que ver<br />

con la modificación de las concesiones<br />

vigentes en la Argentina. Las empresas<br />

productoras de petróleo tienen contratos que<br />

están hechos sobre la base de un<br />

ordenamiento jurídico que ahora fue<br />

derogado. De ahora en más, aquel marco<br />

regulatorio que establecía ciertas condiciones<br />

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de mercado ya no está vigente. "Muchas<br />

empresas entregarán sus concesiones y<br />

partirán. El esquema regulatorio sobre el que<br />

se asienta una concesión es parte del<br />

patrimonio. Si eso cambia, hay<br />

consecuencias patrimoniales muy<br />

importantes", dijo un abogado petrolero.<br />

La constitucionalidad de la norma también<br />

está cuestionada. El decreto deroga otros<br />

que adquirieron estatus legislativo al ser<br />

ratificados por el Congreso. Es decir, un<br />

decreto no puede derogar una ley.<br />

La mano de Moreno<br />

Y hay más. Las provincias, dueñas de los<br />

recursos de los subsuelos desde la reforma<br />

constitucional de 1994, han quedado fuera de<br />

la comisión que desde ahora controlará todo<br />

el mercado. Kicillof, Moreno y Cameron serán<br />

los encargados de exigir a las petroleras sus<br />

planes de inversiones, de controlar sus<br />

ganancias y de regular sus stocks, su<br />

producción y hasta sus ganancias. Gran<br />

parte de esas facultades estaba hasta ahora<br />

en poder de las provincias, que eran quienes<br />

concesionaban las áreas y firmaban los<br />

contratos. Una vez más, las provincias<br />

petroleras fueron desplazadas.<br />

De acuerdo con lo que pudo saber LA<br />

NACION, la mayoría del proyecto estuvo<br />

inspirado en las ideas de Moreno. Sin<br />

embargo, hay dos artículos que tienen<br />

nombre y apellido. El 9 estuvo<br />

específicamente incluido por pedido de<br />

Kicillof. Allí se crea un Registro de<br />



Inversiones para "todos aquellos que realicen<br />

actividades de exploración, explotación,<br />

refinación, transporte y comercialización de<br />

hidrocarburos y combustibles". El registro, del<br />

que no se da ningún dato más, pasó a ser un<br />

"requisito indispensable para el desarrollo de<br />

su actividad en todo el territorio nacional".<br />

El 12 tiene la firma de Miguel Galluccio, CEO<br />

de YPF. El artículo establece la obligación de<br />

presentar antes del 30 de septiembre de<br />

cada año el plan anual de inversiones,<br />

incluido un detalle de sus metas cuantitativas<br />

en materia de exploración y explotación de<br />

hidrocarburos. Además, deberán informar<br />

sus planes en materia de mantenimiento y<br />

aumento de reservas, incluido el plan de<br />

inversiones en exploración; los de<br />

recuperación primaria y secundaria de<br />

reservas.<br />

Una de las mayores polémicas está en los<br />

artículos 27 y 28. "A los fines de asegurar<br />

precios comerciales razonables, la Comisión<br />

de Planificación y Coordinación Estratégica<br />

establecerá los criterios que regirán las<br />

operaciones en el mercado interno.<br />

Asimismo, publicará precios de referencia de<br />

cada uno de los componentes de los costos y<br />

precios de referencia de venta de<br />

hidrocarburos y combustibles, los cuales<br />

deberán permitir cubrir los costos de<br />

producción atribuibles a la actividad y la<br />

obtención de un margen de ganancia<br />

razonable.".<br />

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Aspectos jurídicos del revalúo<br />

Los campos de Entre Ríos, con más presión<br />

fiscal. Foto: Archivo El 18 de Junio de 2012,<br />

el Supremo Tribunal de Justicia de Entre<br />

Ríos se pronunció sobre la procedencia de<br />

una acción de amparo interpuesta por la<br />

Sociedad Rural de Gualeguaychú contra la<br />

Administradora Tributaria de Entre Ríos<br />

(ATER) y el gobierno de Entre Ríos en virtud<br />

del revalúo de tierras rurales.<br />

La Sociedad Rural interpuso una acción de<br />

amparo con el objeto de obtener acceso a la<br />

información acerca de las operaciones<br />

aritméticas practicadas por ATER o el<br />

Gobierno de Entre Ríos, por las cuales se le<br />

asignan los valores a las distintas partidas<br />

inmobiliarias y para que se dejen sin efecto<br />

los avalúos y tributos calculados "en caso de<br />

confirmarse" que los mismos son contrarios a<br />

la ley.<br />

De la presentación realizada, surge que la<br />

acción de amparo contra "alguna" garantía<br />

constitucional queda supeditada a la<br />

información previa que deberá proveer ATER<br />

sobre las operaciones aritméticas llevadas a<br />

cabo que determinaron el revalúo ya que<br />

-alega la Sociedad Rural- "sospecha" que el<br />

ente recaudador ha transgredido lo dispuesto<br />

en la ley provincial8762 que impone el<br />

mecanismo de avalúos de las tierras rurales.<br />

Lamentablemente la acción de amparo fue<br />

mal planteada ya que no se denuncia en<br />

forma clara y contundente la afectación<br />

ilegítima o arbitraria de alguna garantía<br />

constitucional.<br />

Al respecto, el Supremo Tribunal de Justicia<br />

de Entre Ríos dispuso que la acción de<br />

amparo no fue prevista para "posibles"<br />

vulneraciones de derecho sino para poner<br />

fina a una efectiva, concreta, grave y<br />

manifiesta vulneración de derechos<br />

constitucionales cuando la arbitrariedad o<br />

ilegalidad surja de forma manifiesta. Que el<br />

daño sea concreto y grave y que no exista<br />

otra vía procesal para remediar dicho daño.<br />

Además, sentó la base para futuros planteos<br />

al decir que el tema de las valuaciones<br />

fiscales debe decidirse por otros medios<br />

procesales que incluyan un debate amplio<br />

-tales como la acción de inconstitucionalidad,<br />

juicio ordinario, etc.- Sólo procedería el<br />

remedio rápido de la acción de amparo ante<br />

una ostensible, grosera y manifiesta<br />

conculcación de alguna garantía<br />

constitucional, nítidamente demostrable.<br />

Por último, el Supremo Tribunal aborda el<br />

tema de la confiscatoriedad aunque no haya<br />

sido planteado en el caso que estamos<br />

comentando. Se remite a la doctrina de la<br />

Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación<br />

donde, entre otras cosas, dice que para que<br />

se produzca la confiscatoriedad debe<br />

producirse una absorción del parte del<br />

Estado de una porción sustancial de la renta<br />

o del capital. Dicho límite no es absoluto sino<br />

relativo y variable en el tiempo. La<br />

declaración de confiscatoriedad depende de<br />

la actividad probatoria desplegada<br />

requiriendo de una prueba concluyente. La<br />

confiscatoriedad quedaría demostrada<br />

cuando el impuesto insuma una sustancial<br />

porción de la renta.<br />

Se remite a una vieja doctrina de nuestra<br />

Corte que dice que no es función del Poder<br />

Judicial juzgar el mérito de las políticas<br />

económicas decididas por otros poderes del<br />

Estado, sino ponerles un límite sólo cuando<br />

violan la Constitución.<br />

Hay que tener en cuenta que en este tipo de<br />

juicios se está litigando contra el Estado, sea<br />

nacional o provincial, y además que las<br />

normas dictadas por órganos competentes<br />

gozan del principio de legitimidad por lo que<br />

se debe demostrar a un juez que la norma<br />

que nos afecta es contraria a la ley o a la<br />

misma Constitución Nacional<br />

En conclusión, a los efectos de lograr<br />

impugnar algún tributo se deberá evaluar: a)<br />

cuál es la vía procesal adecuada; b) exponer<br />

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de manera clara y contundente cuales son<br />

las garantías y derechos constitucionales<br />

afectados y c) que la confiscatoriedad surja<br />



de manera clara en el escrito de demanda..<br />

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La Nacion Chile/ - Notícias, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Perú señala que fallo de La Haya<br />

fortalecerá lazos con Chile<br />

El Presidente de Perú, Ollanta Humala,<br />

ratificó que su país acatará el fallo que la<br />

Corte de Justicia de La Haya emita en la<br />

controversia marítima con Chile y expresó<br />

confianza en que Sebastián Piñera hará lo<br />

mismo. “Ratifico que Perú acatará la<br />

sentencia de la Corte Internacional de<br />

Justicia de La Haya y me satisface que este<br />

compromiso también haya sido asumido por<br />

el Presidente de Chile”, afirmó el Jefe de<br />

Estado durante el mensaje con motivo del<br />

191° aniversario de la Independencia<br />

peruana.Agregó que la presentación de la<br />

demanda de delimitación marítima<br />

“corresponde a una política de Estado y a<br />

una vocación pacifista del Perú” y que su<br />

solución permitirá fortalecer las relaciones<br />

con Chile.Asimismo, Humala destacó el<br />

documento “Un llamado a la Concordia”,<br />

emitido por el premio Nobel de Literatura,<br />

Mario Vargas Llosa, y el escritor chileno<br />

Jorge Edwards, en el que solicitan una<br />

“reconciliación verdadera” ante el litigio<br />

marítimo entre ambos países, llevado a la<br />

Corte Internacional de La Haya. En enero<br />

de 2008, Perú demandó a Chile ante La<br />

Haya, argumentando la inexistencia de un<br />

tratado de límites en el océano Pacífico.<br />

Dicha postura es rechazada por nuestro país,<br />

que alega que los límites están fijados por<br />

tratados signados en 1952 y 1954.<br />

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La Nacion Chile/ - Notícias, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Tarud pide al Gobierno solicitar<br />

incompetencia de Corte de La Haya<br />

El diputado Jorge Tarud (PPD) sostuvo que<br />

"ha llegado el momento en que Chile plantee<br />

a la Corte Internacional de Justicia su<br />

incompetencia" puesto que "no puede revisar<br />

tratados firmados por dos naciones<br />

independientes" que además están zanjados<br />

por el derecho internacional, sobre todo con<br />

tratados firmados antes del Pacto de Bogotá<br />

de 1948, el que obliga a ir dicha corte. Tarud<br />

explicó que no pidió la incompetencia desde<br />

un principio porque de todas maneras la<br />

Corte "igual se aboca al fondo del asunto,<br />

pero ahora que Chile ha explicado<br />

claramente con contundentes argumentos<br />

jurídicos, donde hemos planteado que<br />

existen tratados vigentes y reconocidos por<br />

dos de las tres partes firmantes: Ecuador y<br />

Chile". El parlamentario comentó que ha<br />

conversado este tema con el Presidente<br />

Sebastián Piñera y, a pesar de ser él quien<br />

debe tomar la determinación, manifestó que<br />

su postura es que Chile prepare desde ahora<br />

los orales que se van a realizar entre el 3 y el<br />

14 de diciembre próximo la petición de<br />

incompetencia de La Haya". Respecto a las<br />

declaraciones del canciller peruano, Rafael<br />

Roncagliolo, tras la firma de un acta donde<br />

se ratificaban los tratados limítrofes entre<br />

Chile-Ecuador, Tarud respondió "el señor<br />

Roncagliolo acusó el golpe, él tiene que<br />

declarar aquello, pero claramente la posición<br />

de Ecuador ha sido la legítima y ellos han<br />

reconocido claramente los tratados del ´52 y<br />

´54 como tratados limítrofes". "Por lo tanto, el<br />

Perú ha recibido un golpe en esta materia y<br />

evidentemente tienen que bajarle el perfil" y<br />

agregó "no son acuerdos pesqueros, por<br />

ninguna parte, el mismo título señala que es<br />

de delimitación fronteriza marítima y en este<br />

punto Perú tiene una posición<br />

extremadamente débil", finalizó.<br />

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Los Angeles Times/ - Business, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Anaheim expecting more police-shooting<br />

protests this weekend<br />

Anaheim is bracing for more demonstrations<br />

this weekend after police opened fire on a<br />

burglary suspect Friday, the third<br />

officer-involved shooting in the city in less<br />

than a week, though no one was apparently<br />

injured in the most recent incident.Protests<br />

over police conduct have rocked Orange<br />

County's largest city since July 21, when<br />

police fatally shot an unarmed man, Manuel<br />

Diaz, 25, who they said was evading arrest. A<br />

day later, police shot and killed Joel Acevedo,<br />

21; police say he fired on officers during a<br />

foot chase.Friday's incident marked the<br />

seventh officer-involved shooting in Anaheim<br />

this year, five of which have been fatal. The<br />

city had four officer-involved shootings in<br />

2011. The shootings sparked four days of<br />

protest that culminated in a violent clash<br />

between 1,000 demonstrators and officers<br />

outside a packed City Council meeting<br />

Tuesday night. By the time it was over, 24<br />

protesters had been arrested, 20 buildings<br />

damaged, seven people injured and dozens<br />

of less-than-lethal rounds had been fired to<br />

disperse the crowd, some of whom started<br />

fires in dumpsters and threw rocks at<br />

police.Seeking to calm tensions, Mayor Tom<br />

Tait and other city officials met Friday with the<br />

FBI and U.S. attorney's office staff and asked<br />

them to look into the recent shootings.In a<br />

statement after the meeting, the FBI said it<br />

would review evidence and reports by the<br />

Orange County district attorney's office to<br />

determine whether a federal investigation is<br />

warranted, though sources said that at this<br />

stage, the U.S. attorney's office and Justice<br />

Department are not initiating a civil rights<br />

probe.The latest shooting occurred about<br />

3:15 a.m. Friday, when police responding to a<br />

burglary call shot at the suspects but<br />

apparently did not injure anyone.After<br />

chasing a possible suspect on foot, officers<br />

approached a man in a black pickup whom<br />

they suspected was an accomplice, Anaheim<br />

Police Sgt. Bob Dunn said. The driver started<br />

the engine and accelerated toward one of the<br />

officers, who fired his weapon out of fear for<br />

his safety as the driver fled.The incident<br />

came as demonstrators planned protests<br />

near Disneyland on Saturday and outside the<br />

Police Department on Sunday.A group of<br />

about a dozen demonstrators gathered in<br />

Anaheim's Stoddard Park late Friday, holding<br />

up signs at passing cars.Louisa Sanchez,<br />

who held a poster with the names of men and<br />

the dates they were killed by Anaheim police<br />

over the years, said she wanted greater<br />

accountability and better communication from<br />

the department, especially in dealing with<br />

shootings that are unjustified."They need to<br />

get rid of the bad cops," she said, identifying<br />

herself as a family friend of Acevedo. "They're<br />

not all bad, but the ones that are make them<br />

all look bad. "Activists nationwide have<br />

mobilized online to organize marches and<br />

demonstrations in support of Anaheim<br />

protesters. The anti-establishment group<br />

known as Anonymous posted Anaheim Police<br />

Chief John Welter's address, phone number<br />

and other personal information on various<br />

Internet sites in protest over the<br />

shootings.Meanwhile, Anaheim<br />

Councilwoman Gail Eastman found herself in<br />

hot water over remarks she made online<br />

celebrating the abrupt end to Tuesday's City<br />

Council meeting because of the violent<br />

protests going on outside City Hall.Eastman<br />

posted comments on a private neighborhood<br />

message board after the council failed to take<br />

up two ballot issues that had been proposed<br />

for the November ballot — one establishing<br />

City Council districts instead of citywide seats<br />

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and another requiring voter approval of hotel<br />

bed tax breaks for developers."It's finally<br />

quiet in the hood and I've had time to collect<br />

my thoughts," Eastman wrote. "In spite of<br />

how it happened, it was a big time win for all<br />

who opposed seeing that placed on the<br />

November ballot," adding later: "Tonight we<br />

Los Angeles Times/ - Business, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


celebrate a win with no shots fired!"Eastman<br />

sent out an apology after her message was<br />

posted on local blogs and news<br />

sites.richard.winton@latimes.comjoseph.sern<br />

a@latimes.comTimes staff writer Tony<br />

Barboza contributed to this report.<br />

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Los Tiempos/ - actualidad, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Humala admite que no ha cumplido todas<br />

las metas tras primer año de Gobierno<br />

LIMA |<br />

El presidente de Perú, Ollanta Humala,<br />

reconoció hoy que no ha logrado cumplir todo<br />

lo que se ha propuesto, durante su mensaje<br />

a la Nación desde el Congreso, al cumplir un<br />

año en el poder.<br />

"Me reafirmo en lo medular de mi propuesta:<br />

hemos comenzado a sentar las bases para la<br />

gran transformación que anhela la mayoría<br />

de los ciudadanos de nuestra patria. El<br />

crecimiento con inclusión... aunque no hemos<br />

logrado todo lo que nos propusimos<br />

alcanzar", indicó Humala.<br />

El gobernante reconoció que sus tareas<br />

pendientes se encuentran "sobre todo en el<br />

campo de la gobernabilidad y la paz social",<br />

un área criticada por diversos sectores tras la<br />

muerte de 17 personas en enfrentamientos<br />

con la Policía por conflictos sociales.<br />

En su discurso, que duró cerca de dos horas,<br />

el mandatario hizo un balance de sus<br />

principales programas sociales que buscan<br />

disminuir la pobreza que se sitúa<br />

actualmente en un 27 por ciento para que<br />

baje a un 15 por ciento en 2016.<br />

"Superar esto es un reto, por ello el<br />

compromiso de los programas sociales es<br />

priorizar su trabajo en las zonas rurales<br />

donde 1 de cada 4 pasa hambre... Mi<br />

Gobierno viene trabajando para que todos<br />

tengamos las mismas oportunidades de salir<br />

adelante", manifestó.<br />

Humala indicó que en los próximos cinco<br />

años la cartera de inversión minera<br />

ascenderá a 30.000 millones de dólares y<br />

que el gravamen minero que estableció este<br />

año ha recaudado hasta la fecha 1.246<br />

millones de soles (unos 470 millones de<br />

dólares) y que se espera alcanzar los 3.000<br />

millones de soles (unos 1.100 millones de<br />

dólares) a fines de diciembre.<br />

Una de las propuestas que hizo el<br />

mandatario al Congreso sobre el tema<br />

minero fue reconocer en la Constitución el<br />

derecho fundamental del agua y sostuvo que<br />

ninguna actividad extractiva se podrá<br />

desarrollar en el país sin los estándares de<br />

calidad.<br />

"El agua constituye la prioridad del más alto<br />

nivel para mi Gobierno", indicó.<br />

El jefe de Estado dijo que estima que para<br />

2016 las exportaciones alcancen los 86.000<br />

millones de dólares en productos<br />

tradicionales y no tradicionales.<br />

"Somos un país en evolución que está<br />

pasando por un buen momento. Lo<br />

demuestran las cifras de exportaciones:<br />

20.000 millones de dólares (productos<br />

tradicionales)", resaltó.<br />

Humala también se refirió al litigio marítimo<br />

que tiene con Chile ante la Corte<br />

Internacional de Justicia de La Haya y<br />

reafirmó que acatará el fallo judicial y<br />

expresó su confianza en el compromiso de<br />

que el Gobierno de Sebastián Piñera hará lo<br />

mismo.<br />

En su discurso, Humala señaló que se han<br />

capturado a "136 delincuentes terroristas"<br />

que operaban en la zona del Alto Huallaga y<br />

en el Valle de los ríos Apurímac, Ene y<br />

Mantaro (VRAEM) en alianza con el<br />

narcotráfico y que se intensificarán las<br />

acciones en esos lugares para combatirlos.<br />

El presidente señaló que "ningún corrupto<br />

debe infiltrarse en el Estado y postular a un<br />

cargo público" y anunció, además, que<br />

espera repatriar para fin de año los 12<br />

millones de dólares que tiene en una cuenta<br />

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de Luxemburgo el encarcelado exasesor<br />

presidencial Vladimiro Montesinos, el mayor<br />

Los Tiempos/ - actualidad, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


deudor del Estado por corrupción.<br />

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Reuters General/ - Article, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


Hundreds in Phoenix march against<br />

Arizona immigration law<br />

By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX | Sat Jul 28, 2012<br />

3:48pm EDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A few<br />

hundred protesters, some toting placards<br />

reading "Migration is a Human Right,"<br />

marched in Phoenix on Saturday to protest<br />

Arizona's two-year-old crackdown on illegal<br />

immigration. State law SB-1070, signed by<br />

Republican Governor Jan Brewer in April<br />

2010, seeks to drive illegal immigrants out of<br />

Arizona.A federal judge blocked parts of the<br />

law before it took effect, but the U.S.<br />

Supreme Court late last month upheld its<br />

most controversial provision requiring police<br />

to check the immigration status of people<br />

they stop if they suspect they are in the<br />

country illegally."I feel like we're singled out,"<br />

said Angel Diaz, 33, an artist among 200 to<br />

300 mostly Hispanic protesters rallying in a<br />

park ahead of the protest march."We're being<br />

racially profiled. Pretty much I feel that our<br />

rights are being taken from us," he added. He<br />

was wearing a Mexican wrestler's mask and a<br />

broad brimmed sombrero.Diaz, a Hispanic<br />

who said he is a U.S. citizen, said he was<br />

followed and pulled over by police in the<br />

Phoenix valley a week ago in a traffic stop<br />

that did not result in charges.Protesters,<br />

some chanting "this is what democracy looks<br />

like" and wearing T-shirts reading "We will not<br />

comply - Down with SB 1070," set off on the<br />

one-mile (1.6 kilometer) walk to the<br />

headquarters of federal immigration police in<br />

the city.In a mixed ruling late last month, the<br />

U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state law's<br />

most controversial measure - requiring police<br />

to check the immigration status of anyone<br />

detained and suspected of being in the<br />

country illegally - but struck down three other<br />

parts.Supporters of the crackdown argue it is<br />

needed as the federal government has failed<br />

to secure the state's porous border with<br />

Mexico.The administration of President<br />

Barack Obama opposed the law on the<br />

grounds it pre-empted federal powers on<br />

immigration, and opponents say it is a<br />

mandate for racially profiling Hispanics, who<br />

make up almost a third of the state's<br />

population.March organizer Carlos Garcia<br />

said demonstrators seek to pressure the<br />

federal Immigration and Customs<br />

Enforcement, or ICE, not to partner with local<br />

police forces that implement immigration<br />

laws."When a police officer can ask to<br />

determine if someone has documents or not,<br />

that's when racially profiling, racism (arises)"<br />

he said. "That's what we're opposed to."The<br />

rally and march come as a hardline Arizona<br />

sheriff and his office are on trial in federal<br />

court in Phoenix in a civil lawsuit that accuses<br />

them of racial profiling.Maricopa County<br />

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as<br />

"America's toughest sheriff," is accused of<br />

singling out Hispanic citizens and immigrants<br />

in traffic stops in the Phoenix valley, a charge<br />

he denies.Natally Cruz, 24, a Mexican<br />

undocumented immigrant, was among four<br />

people arrested by police for blocking a road<br />

outside the U.S. District Court in Phoenix last<br />

Tuesday when Arpaio testified in court."We<br />

want to show Arpaio that we are not afraid of<br />

him," Cruz, who was quizzed by ICE agents<br />

about her immigration status but was<br />

released, told the protest crowd."Many of us<br />

have been living in fear for years ... Enough is<br />

enough," she said.(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst<br />

and Vicki Allen)<br />

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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. being treated in<br />

Mayo Clinic<br />

By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS | Sat Jul 28,<br />

2012 12:56am EDT MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters)<br />

- U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. has<br />

been admitted to the renowned Mayo Clinic in<br />

Rochester, Minnesota, to be evaluated for<br />

depression and gastrointestinal ailments, the<br />

congressman's office said on Friday in a<br />

statement released by the clinic. The<br />

statement came more than two weeks after<br />

the Illinois Democrat, son of civil rights leader<br />

and former presidential candidate, the<br />

Reverend Jesse Jackson, was said by his<br />

doctor to be undergoing treatment for a<br />

"mood disorder."The younger Jackson, 47,<br />

announced in late June that he had taken a<br />

leave from office two weeks earlier for<br />

treatment of what was then described as<br />

exhaustion.Amid mounting political pressure<br />

to disclose more information about his<br />

medical condition, Jackson said on July 5<br />

through a statement that his problems were<br />

more serious than previously believed,<br />

adding he needed extended in-patient<br />

treatment for unspecified "physical and<br />

emotional ailments."On July 11, his physician<br />

said the congressman was receiving<br />

intensive care for a "mood disorder" and was<br />

expected to make a full recovery.The<br />

statement on Friday marked the first time that<br />

Jackson, who is seeking re-election to a 10th<br />

term in the House of Representatives in the<br />

November 6 election, acknowledged he was<br />

being evaluated for<br />

depression."Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.<br />

has arrived at Mayo Clinic in Rochester,<br />

Minnesota, for extensive inpatient evaluation<br />

for depression and gastrointestinal issues,"<br />

the statement said without elaborating.The<br />

statement did not say whether the<br />

gastrointestinal issues being evaluated were<br />

connected to a gastric bypass surgery<br />

Jackson underwent in 2004 for weight loss.It<br />

said further information would be released as<br />

Jackson's evaluation proceeded.Jackson's<br />

Republican opponent in November, Brian<br />

Woodworth, said in early July that Jackson<br />

had an obligation to clarify his situation.<br />

Woodworth could not immediately be reached<br />

for comment on Friday night.Jackson has<br />

been the subject of a congressional ethics<br />

committee probe over an alleged bribe<br />

offered to former Illinois Governor Rod<br />

Blagojevich by a Jackson supporter in<br />

2008.The offer was intended to entice<br />

Blagojevich into appointing Jackson to<br />

President Barack Obama's vacant U.S.<br />

Senate seat. Jackson has admitted to<br />

lobbying for the seat but has denied knowing<br />

about any money offered to Blagojevich, who<br />

was convicted of public corruption charges<br />

and is in prison.Two fellow Illinois Democrats,<br />

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and U.S.<br />

Representative Luis Gutierrez, said this<br />

month that Jackson owed voters from his<br />

South Side Chicago district an<br />

explanation.They compared the<br />

congressman's situation with those of stricken<br />

Illinois Republican U.S. Senator Mark Kirk<br />

and Illinois Democratic U.S. Representative<br />

Bobby Rush.After Kirk suffered a stroke in<br />

January, his doctors held news conferences<br />

about his condition, and the senator later<br />

provided a video depicting his rehabilitation<br />

and showing him speaking and struggling to<br />

walk on a treadmill.Rush had surgery for<br />

throat cancer, and Gutierrez said at the time,<br />

"We knew where to find him."(Reporting and<br />

writing by David Bailey; Editing by Steve<br />

Gorman and Peter Cooney)<br />

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Seattle reaches police reform deal with<br />

government<br />

By Laura L. Myers SEATTLE | Fri Jul 27,<br />

2012 11:34pm EDT SEATTLE (Reuters) -<br />

Seattle officials and the Department of<br />

Justice reached a sweeping agreement on<br />

Friday to refine the use of force by police<br />

officers under a plan to be overseen by an<br />

independent, court-appointed monitor. The<br />

settlement, which grew out of a federal<br />

investigation of the city's police department,<br />

will allow the city to avoid a civil rights lawsuit<br />

that U.S. officials threatened to bring over<br />

complaints of excessive force by<br />

officers.Such a lawsuit would have put<br />

Seattle, considered one of the most liberal<br />

cities in the nation, among only a handful of<br />

municipalities singled out for police<br />

misconduct lawsuits by the federal<br />

government.Instead, Seattle police will<br />

operate under a far-reaching plan that covers<br />

use of force, police stops and work bias.The<br />

city's police were criticized in 2010 for the<br />

shooting death of an American-Indian<br />

woodcarver who appeared to pose no threat.<br />

A Department Of Justice report in December<br />

2011 said Seattle police in the previous two<br />

years had displayed a pattern of using<br />

excessive force.The agreement, which<br />

followed months of negotiations between city<br />

officials and the U.S. government, calls for<br />

both sides to jointly select a monitor within 60<br />

days to oversee implementation of the<br />

plan."Today the real work begins, the<br />

agreement we have reached belongs to<br />

everyone in Seattle," said U.S. Assistant<br />

Attorney General Thomas Perez, head of the<br />

Justice Department's civil rights division."I<br />

come here with a very deep reservoir of<br />

optimism."Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn said<br />

he was pleased with the deal. "This city is<br />

committed to eliminating bias," he said. "We<br />

do have a lot of work ahead of us."The<br />

American Civil Liberties Union of Washington<br />

state in 2010 asked the Justice Department<br />

to probe Seattle police, citing a half-dozen<br />

incidents of excessive force, particularly<br />

against minorities. In one case, video showed<br />

a Latino man lying prone on the sidewalk<br />

when he was kicked, the group<br />

said.FIVE-YEAR TERMThe agreement is<br />

expected to last five years, but the city may<br />

ask the federal court to terminate it before<br />

that date if Seattle's police department have<br />

been complying with it for two years,<br />

McGinn's office said.Under the plan, the<br />

department will revise its use of force policies<br />

and enhance training, reporting and<br />

supervision, Justice Department officials said.<br />

It will also develop a team that will roll out to<br />

probe serious uses of force.Officials will also<br />

create a civilian oversight board called the<br />

Community Police Commission. And the<br />

police department will provide guidance to<br />

officers to prohibit stops of people when<br />

officers lack reasonable suspicion.Talks on a<br />

settlement had bogged down over the<br />

anticipated costs of implementing a Justice<br />

Department proposal, which a city<br />

memorandum estimated would run roughly<br />

$41 million for the first year alone.The<br />

memorandum had described those expenses,<br />

including $18 million to develop and<br />

implement training programs and $11 million<br />

for new city positions, as "prohibitive."McGinn<br />

declined on Friday to give an exact cost for<br />

implementation of the plan, but said he<br />

estimates it could be $5 million a year.The<br />

settlement followed voluntary police reform<br />

pacts in recent years with several other big<br />

cities, including Los Angeles, Cincinnati and<br />

Pittsburgh. Several other large municipal<br />

police forces remain under federal review.On<br />

Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder<br />

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placed the New Orleans Police Department,<br />

accused of widespread abuses, under the<br />

scrutiny of a federal monitor for at least four<br />



years.(Reporting by Laura L. Myers; Writing<br />

by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Paul Simao)<br />

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FBI says it may probe Anaheim police<br />

following shootings<br />

By Alex Dobuzinskis Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:28pm<br />

EDT n">(Reuters) - The FBI said on Friday it<br />

will consider investigating police in the city of<br />

Anaheim, following several high profile<br />

shootings by officers that have led to protests<br />

and civil unrest in the southern California city.<br />

The announcement came the same day<br />

Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait said he had met<br />

with representatives from the U.S. Attorney's<br />

Office and the FBI. Tait has publicly called for<br />

a federal review of an officer's fatal shooting<br />

of an unarmed, suspected gang<br />

member.Anaheim, an Orange County tourist<br />

destination known as the home of<br />

Disneyland, has been rocked by angry<br />

protests and civil unrest since that shooting<br />

on Saturday.Protesters on Tuesday threw<br />

chairs through the windows of a Starbucks<br />

and that night they damaged about 20<br />

businesses and the City Hall, which also had<br />

broken windows.The FBI on Friday stopped<br />

short of saying it would open a full-blown<br />

investigation of Anaheim police regarding any<br />

officer-involved shooting in the city. Those<br />

are routinely probed by the Orange County<br />

District Attorney's office."All allegations<br />

involving either law enforcement misconduct<br />

or abuse under the color of law are assessed<br />

and reviewed before before federal civil rights<br />

investigations are initiated," Laura Eimiller, a<br />

spokeswoman for the FBI, said in a<br />

statement."The FBI will review evidence and<br />

reports by the Orange County District<br />

Attorney's Office to determine whether further<br />

federal review and/or investigation is<br />

warranted," she said.The latest<br />

officer-involved shooting occurred early on<br />

Friday, but no one was hit.A man in a pick-up<br />

truck accelerated toward an officer chasing a<br />

burglary suspect by foot and another officer<br />

fired toward the truck, said Anaheim police<br />

spokesman Sergeant Bob Dunn. The driver<br />

was later located and was not injured.It was<br />

the seventh officer-involved shooting in<br />

Anaheim so far this year, and five of them<br />

have resulted in the deaths of suspects, Dunn<br />

said.One of those occurred on Sunday, when<br />

officers shot to death a suspected gang<br />

member after he shot at them, police<br />

said.The Saturday shooting that sparked<br />

several days of protests resulted in the death<br />

of Manuel Diaz, who police say was a gang<br />

member.Two officers tried to approach Diaz<br />

and two of his companions in an alley. The<br />

men fled but an officer caught up with Diaz<br />

and shot him, police said. Diaz was found not<br />

to have been carrying a gun, Dunn said.That<br />

same day, police fired pepper pellets at angry<br />

residents in the neighborhood where Diaz<br />

was killed."I wish to thank the United States<br />

Attorney's Office and the Federal Bureau of<br />

Investigation," Tait said in a statement on<br />

Friday. "I ask that our community be patient<br />

to allow their process to run its course as we<br />

seek to learn what happened on that day as<br />

well as previous incidents this<br />

year."(Reporting By Alex Dobuzinskis; editing<br />

by Todd Eastham)<br />

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The Economic Times/ - News, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


DNA tests shows ND Tiwari is Rohit<br />

Shekhar's father<br />

NEW DELHI: In a first of its kind case<br />

involving a prominent Indian politician, the<br />

Delhi high court has made public DNA tests,<br />

which confirm that veteran Congress leader<br />

ND Tiwari is the biological father of<br />

32-year-old Rohit Shekhar.<br />

This brings to close a five-year legal battle on<br />

a paternity suit, which Tiwari tried to scuttle<br />

from the beginning. In Dehra Dun, Tiwari took<br />

the plea that it was a personal matter and in<br />

Delhi, an emotional Shekhar made clear that<br />

Tiwari would now have to "pay for the hurt" he<br />

caused his mother years ago. "I am not the<br />

illegitimate son, he is my illegitimate father,"<br />

Shekhar said.<br />

Tiwari had rejected the claim of Delhi-based<br />

law graduate Rohit Shekhar that he was his<br />

biological son. The Congress leader had<br />

moved seven appeals in the Supreme Court<br />

and in the Delhi high court, first refusing to<br />

give his blood sample and later trying to block<br />

the report from being made public.<br />

Declaring the result of the DNA test, Justice<br />

Reva Khetrapal said, "as per the report,<br />

Tiwari is reported to be the biological father of<br />

Rohit Shekhar and Ujjwala Sharma is<br />

reported to be the biological mother."<br />

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The New York Times/ - Politics, Sáb, 28 de Julho de 2012<br />


In Court’s Hands, a Young Woman’s<br />

Shattered Life<br />

Michelle Gaines was the most popular girl at<br />

Palestine High School. The athletic,<br />

dark-haired 19-year-old was preparing to<br />

head off to Hill College on a soccer<br />

scholarship. Her plans ended on June 11,<br />

2006, when an 18-wheeler hauling an oil rig<br />

careened through a red light and crashed into<br />

her 2000 Buick. “It’s as if my daughter died<br />

that day,” Mike Gaines said, “but God gave<br />

me back another one that I love and cherish<br />

just as much as the first one.” The truck<br />

smashed the sedan into a mangled crescent<br />

and left Ms. Gaines with a broken pelvis and<br />

punctured lung. And, most devastating, a<br />

portion of her brain was sheared off. She was<br />

in a coma for about six months, and then she<br />

was in and out of hospitals and rehabilitation<br />

centers for another eight months. Now, at the<br />

age of 26, Ms. Gaines has the mental<br />

maturity of a 12-year-old, no short-term<br />

memory and no peripheral vision. The former<br />

prom queen’s group of friends is long gone. “I<br />

try to hire girls around her age to take her out<br />

to eat, maybe go do the girl thing, go<br />

shopping or something,” Mr. Gaines said. “I<br />

just try to make life as easy on her as I can.”<br />

In 2010, a jury awarded Ms. Gaines more<br />

than $8 million in damages. The truck’s<br />

driver, its owner and another businessman<br />

involved with the oil rig were held liable, and<br />

the jury agreed with Ms. Gaines’s lawyers,<br />

who argued that after the accident there was<br />

an effort to cover up the businessman’s<br />

involvement with bribes and by destroying<br />

evidence. But the state’s 12th Court of<br />

Appeals overturned the verdict last year,<br />

ruling there was not enough proof that the<br />

businessman, Joseph Pritchett, was liable in<br />

the accident. Mr. Gaines and his daughter’s<br />

lawyers say that her future now rests with the<br />

Texas Supreme Court, which previously<br />

declined to hear the case. They say that if the<br />

court does not reconsider, it could set a<br />

precedent that allows defendants to avoid<br />

responsibility for their actions by destroying<br />

evidence and bribing witnesses. “It has long<br />

been the story of humans that when they get<br />

caught doing a bad act, they lie about it and<br />

hide what they’ve done,” said Scott<br />

Clearman, a lawyer for Ms. Gaines. Rob<br />

Roby, a lawyer for Mr. Pritchett, says that his<br />

client had no role in the accident. He<br />

vehemently disagrees with Ms. Gaines’s<br />

lawyers’ implication of a cover-up. “This case<br />

never should have been submitted to a jury,”<br />

Mr. Roby said. Scott Smith, a criminal<br />

defense lawyer in Austin who is not involved<br />

in the case, said he was appalled that the<br />

original verdict was overturned and that the<br />

Texas Supreme Court declined to hear Ms.<br />

Gaines’s appeal. He said it sets a double<br />

standard for criminal cases and civil cases.<br />

The evidence implicating Mr. Pritchett, Mr.<br />

Smith said, is tantamount to circumstantial<br />

evidence that is routinely used to prosecute<br />

criminal cases. “How do you have respect for<br />

a legal system that allows that kind of<br />

inconsistency and illogic?” Mr. Smith said.<br />

But Olin Guy Wellborn, a professor at the<br />

University of Texas School of Law, said the<br />

appellate court’s decision was reasonable.<br />

Ms. Gaines’s lawyers, he said, failed to show<br />

that the destroyed evidence would have<br />

proved that the men each had equal control<br />

over transportation of the rig. On the day of<br />

the accident, Kenneth Woodworth was driving<br />

the 18-wheeler to Corpus Christi, transporting<br />

a rig owned by Benny Joe Adkinson. Mr.<br />

Woodworth was headed to an equipment<br />

yard owned by Mr. Pritchett, where Mr.<br />

Adkinson planned to blueprint the rig’s parts<br />

so he could replicate them. After the accident,<br />

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Ms. Gaines’s lawyers sued all three men,<br />

claiming that Mr. Woodworth and Mr.<br />

Adkinson were negligent because Mr.<br />

Woodworth had no license and the trailer’s<br />

brakes were defective. Mr. Pritchett, they<br />



said, was also liable because he and Mr.<br />

Adkinson were engaged in a “joint enterprise”<br />

to profit from the<br />

rig.bgrissom@texastribune.org<br />

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Medicaid After the Supreme Court<br />

Decision<br />

Last week there were two disturbing reports<br />

about Medicaid, a program of health<br />

insurance for the poor that is mostly managed<br />

by the states and jointly paid for by the<br />

federal and state governments. The<br />

Congressional Budget Office predicted that<br />

states with a large number of poor people<br />

would not expand their Medicaid programs as<br />

required by the health care reform law now<br />

that the Supreme Court had made<br />

expansion optional. And a Harvard study<br />

unrelated to the court decision made it clear<br />

that a failure to expand Medicaid would likely<br />

doom thousands of low-income people to<br />

death or poor health. Revising earlier<br />

estimates to take account of the decision, the<br />

budget office said that making expanded<br />

assistance optional could leave three million<br />

more people uninsured in 2022, saving the<br />

federal government $84 billion through 2022<br />

because it would not have to subsidize their<br />

coverage. The analysts made no effort to<br />

predict which states would or would not<br />

expand Medicaid. Instead, they looked at<br />

various factors that might influence the states’<br />

decisions and predicted that some would not<br />

respond to even the extremely generous<br />

matching money that the reform law provided.<br />

They forecast that some states that already<br />

had trouble paying for their existing Medicaid<br />

programs would put off expanding Medicaid<br />

until their economies improved, or would<br />

expand the program partially, not to the<br />

extent originally required. Other states may<br />

shun the program entirely, as some<br />

Republican governors have vowed to do. By<br />

2022, the budget office projects, only<br />

two-thirds of those who would become newly<br />

eligible for Medicaid if all states expanded to<br />

the levels sought by the reform law will<br />

actually gain eligibility. One-third will not,<br />

either because their states refuse to expand<br />

Medicaid at all or expand it only partially.<br />

Leaving low-income people uninsured will<br />

almost certainly damage their health. A study<br />

by three researchers affiliated with the<br />

Harvard School of Public Health, published<br />

by The New England Journal of Medicine,<br />

compared three states (New York, Arizona<br />

and Maine) that had already expanded<br />

coverage of childless or disabled adults with<br />

four neighboring states (Pennsylvania, New<br />

Mexico, Nevada and New Hampshire) that<br />

had not. Deaths among people ages 20 to 64<br />

dropped in the three expansion states by<br />

about 1,500 a year, adjusted for population<br />

growth, whereas death rates in the<br />

comparison states went up. Expansion also<br />

brought a 21 percent reduction in cost-related<br />

delays in getting care. Some critics, mostly<br />

conservative Republicans, contend that<br />

Medicaid does not improve the health of<br />

beneficiaries and may even harm them. The<br />

new study should lay that canard to rest.<br />

State officials who want to save money by not<br />

expanding Medicaid will be harming their<br />

most vulnerable residents, and will most likely<br />

shift the cost of any emergency care they<br />

need to safety net institutions, taxpayers and<br />

charities.<br />

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In Texas, Arguing That Heat Can Be a<br />

Death Sentence for Prisoners<br />

HOUSTON — Last summer’s<br />

record-breaking heat wave had a grim impact<br />

on Texas, playing a role in the deaths of<br />

roughly 150 people. Many of them were<br />

found in their homes or apartments, but a few<br />

were discovered somewhere else — in their<br />

prison cells. Ten inmates of the state prison<br />

system died of heat-related causes last<br />

summer in a 26-day period in July and<br />

August, a death toll that has alarmed<br />

prisoners’ rights advocates who believe that<br />

the lack of air-conditioning in most state<br />

prisons puts inmates’ lives at risk. The 10<br />

inmates were housed in areas that lacked<br />

air-conditioning, and several had collapsed or<br />

lost consciousness while they were in their<br />

cells. All of them were found to have died of<br />

hyperthermia, a condition that occurs when<br />

body temperature rises above 105 degrees,<br />

according to autopsy reports and the state’s<br />

prison agency. Other factors contributed to<br />

their deaths. All but three of them had<br />

hypertension, and some were obese, had<br />

heart disease or were taking antipsychotic<br />

medications, which can affect the body’s<br />

ability to regulate heat. One inmate,<br />

Alexander Togonidze, 44, was found<br />

unresponsive in his cell at an East Texas<br />

prison called the Michael Unit at 8 a.m. on<br />

Aug. 8 with a body temperature of 106<br />

degrees, according to prison documents. The<br />

temperature in his cell, taken by prison<br />

officials 15 minutes after he was pronounced<br />

dead, was 86.2 degrees and the heat index<br />

was 93 degrees. Five days later, at the<br />

nearby Gurney Unit prison, Kenneth Wayne<br />

James, 52, was found in his cell with a body<br />

temperature of 108 degrees. His autopsy<br />

report stated Mr. James most likely died of<br />

“environmental hyperthermia-related classic<br />

heat stroke,” noting several risk factors,<br />

including Mr. James’s chronic illness and use<br />

of a diuretic, and the lack of air-conditioning.<br />

“We were looking for him to come home in a<br />

few months,” said Mary Lou James, the<br />

mother of Mr. James, who had been charged<br />

with injuring a child and was serving a<br />

five-year sentence for violating probation. “I<br />

think that’s just awful, to have a place like that<br />

where you don’t have any air. I don’t think<br />

human beings should be treated in that<br />

manner.” Officials with the prison agency, the<br />

Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said<br />

12 inmates had died of heat-related causes<br />

since 2007. The debate over the lack of<br />

air-conditioning in the prison system has<br />

intensified in recent weeks, after lawyers from<br />

the nonprofit Texas Civil Rights Project sued<br />

the agency in federal court over one of the<br />

inmate deaths from last summer. They also<br />

plan to file additional wrongful-death lawsuits.<br />

Of the 111 prisons overseen by the agency,<br />

only 21 are fully air-conditioned, and inmates<br />

and their advocates have argued that the<br />

overheated conditions during triple-digit<br />

summers violate the Eighth Amendment’s<br />

prohibition against cruel and unusual<br />

punishment. Prison officials dispute those<br />

claims, saying that the health and well-being<br />

of the inmates are their top priorities and that<br />

the autopsies of the 12 inmates who died list<br />

a variety of contributing factors to their<br />

deaths. They said they take steps to help<br />

inmates on hot days, including restricting<br />

outside work activities and providing extra<br />

water and ice. “It is unknown whether the lack<br />

of air-conditioning was a contributing factor in<br />

the offender deaths,” Jason Clark, a prison<br />

system spokesman, said in a statement.<br />

“Texas experienced one of the hottest<br />

summers on record in 2011. It was an<br />

unprecedented event affecting the entire<br />

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state and much of the southern and eastern<br />

United States. T.D.C.J. took precautions to<br />

help mitigate the impact of temperature<br />

extremes on offenders and staff. The agency<br />

continues to do so.” But a corrections<br />

supervisor who works at a prison where one<br />



of the 12 inmates died said the number of<br />

heat-related fatalities was a cause of<br />

concern, as was the larger number of inmates<br />

and corrections officers who require medical<br />

attention because of the heat.<br />

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Izquierda México busca pruebas contra comicios con ayuda asambleas populares, 116<br />



FDA’s Immoral Stance on Lethal Injection Drugs, 118<br />



Scalia Rejects Criticism of Dissent in Arizona Case, 120<br />



Digital devices owned by employees increase employers" risks, 121<br />



Overtime pay ruling favors claims adjusters, 123<br />



Two intriguing faces of Hindutva, 125<br />



New direction for NBFCs, 127<br />



Telecom tribunal directs Govt to return Etisalat’s bank guarantees, 128<br />

Clarín - Policiales<br />


Intentaron destituir al Presidente, pero fracasó el referéndum, 129<br />

Correo Del Orinoco - Multipolaridad<br />


México inicia asambleas este domingo en busca de pruebas de compra de votos, 130<br />



Gli smemorati del Belpaese, 131<br />

El Peruano - Noticia<br />


Congreso debe darle prioridad, 132<br />



Perú reitera cumplimiento de tratados internacionales, 133<br />



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Jefe del Estado presentó balance realista, 134<br />



Presidente de Rumania libra juicio político, 135<br />

El Universal - Nación<br />


López Obrador convoca a "Expofraude", 136<br />



#YoSoy132 fortalecerá asambleas estatales, 137<br />



PRD busca reivindicar su labor en el Congreso, 138<br />



PRD, “una oposición inteligente y eficaz”, 139<br />



Dreifingerarithmetik , 142<br />

La Nacion - Economía<br />


Binner llamó a cerrar filas para evitar otra reelección presidencial, 145<br />



Kunkel: "Scioli sería un buen jefe de gobierno porteño", 147<br />



Se viene la discusión por el federalismo, 149<br />



Senadores UDI piden reponer reforma que inhabilita a autoridades que consuman drogas, 150<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Cour constitutionnelle<br />

Roumanie: le référendum a débuté , 151<br />

Los Tiempos - actualidad<br />


Rumania decide en referéndum la destitución del presidente Basescu, 152<br />



Russians face trial for "punk prayer" about Putin, 153<br />



Cops tell Team Anna not to make provocative speeches, 155<br />

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Journalism’s Misdeeds Get a Glance in the Mirror, 156<br />



Romania Votes on Removing President From Office, 158<br />



Jennifer Wynn and Damian Williams, 160<br />



Corrections: July 29, 161<br />



Marina Vranich, Jack O’Donnell, 163<br />

USA Today - On Politics<br />


Miss. church blocks black couple's wedding, 164<br />



Editorial: Boy Scouts' anti-gay policy teaches wrong lesson, 166<br />



Column: Massacres no excuse to stigmatize the mentally ill, 168<br />



Scalia disputes talk of Supreme Court infighting, 170<br />

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Izquierda México busca pruebas contra<br />

comicios con ayuda asambleas populares<br />

México, (EFE).- La izquierda mexicana que<br />

postuló a la Presidencia de México a Andrés<br />

Manuel López Obrador comenzó hoy a<br />

buscar pruebas de presuntas irregularidades<br />

y compra de votos en las pasadas elecciones<br />

apoyada por casi 150 asambleas populares<br />

instaladas en el país.“Estas asambleas<br />

tienen el propósito de informar a todos los<br />

ciudadanos lo que estamos haciendo para<br />

que el Tribunal Electoral invalide las<br />

elecciones presidenciales”, dijo López<br />

Obrador en una de ellas, instalada en<br />

Nezahualcóytl, en el Estado de<br />

México.Durante la primera jornada del Plan<br />

Nacional de Defensa de la Democracia y de<br />

la Dignidad de México el político mexicano,<br />

acompañado de su esposa, Beatriz<br />

Gutiérrez, arengó a sus simpatizantes y les<br />

pidió firmeza para documentar las<br />

irregularidades detectadas.“No es en vano el<br />

esfuerzo, el sacrificio que hacemos. Si<br />

nosotros nos rendimos, entonces sí se<br />

establece por completo un régimen dictatorial<br />

y nos convertimos en esclavos en nuestra<br />

propia tierra. Y eso nunca. Siempre vamos a<br />

estar de pie, luchando por la dignidad y por la<br />

justicia”, señaló.Criticó a quienes le han<br />

atacado esta semana por pedir en medio del<br />

análisis de la impugnación que presentó que<br />

haya una “presidencia interina” en México y<br />

que no llegue al poder Enrique Peña Nieto,<br />

del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI),<br />

y dijo que su propuesta no pretendía<br />

“desestabilizar al país”.“Vamos a seguir en<br />

esta lucha en defensa de la democracia, de<br />

la dignidad de México porque si nos<br />

quedamos con los brazos cruzados,<br />

entonces se consumaría el fraude electoral,<br />

la imposición, y no nos esperaría nada bueno<br />

a los mexicanos”, indicó.“Luchar por hacer<br />

valer la Constitución y la democracia es<br />

darle estabilidad a nuestro país. ¡Que haya<br />

paz, que haya tranquilidad en México!”,<br />

añadió el político izquierdista, quien tras las<br />

elecciones del 1 de julio pasado ha insistido<br />

en la vía legal y en la no violencia en cada<br />

uno de sus actos.En el resto del país sus<br />

seguidores también tomaron plazas públicas<br />

para concienciar a la ciudadanía de las<br />

presuntas irregularidades detectadas en las<br />

elecciones cuya validez deberá determinar el<br />

Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la<br />

Federación (TEPJF) antes del 31 de<br />

agosto.En Cadereyta, estado de Nuevo León,<br />

no hubo respuesta ni gran afluencia a los<br />

puntos de encuentro instalados en una zona<br />

de México donde tradicionalmente no<br />

gobierna la izquierda.Rubén Moreno,<br />

coordinador del Movimiento de Regeneración<br />

Nacional (Morena), el que apoyó a López<br />

Obrador en los últimos años tras perder las<br />

presidenciales de 2006, explicó que en el<br />

municipio se instalaron dos, uno en la plaza<br />

municipal y otro en un mercado, cuya labor<br />

primordial fue recoger firmas para apoyar la<br />

impugnación.“Aquí la gente no ha traído<br />

evidencia pero hemos recabado más de 900<br />

firmas de apoyo y esperamos en el<br />

transcurso del día recoger más. Es un buen<br />

número para el tiempo que lleva esta mesa<br />

de trabajo”, dijo a Efe Moreno.En Veracruz<br />

fueron montadas mesas en al menos cuatro<br />

ciudades, Xalapa, Veracruz, Poza Rica y<br />

Coatzacoalcos, donde se registraba una<br />

moderada afluencia.Algunos de sus<br />

responsables dijeron haber recibido vídeos<br />

que documentan la presunta compra de<br />

votos, así como tarjetas telefónicas y<br />

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supuestas promesas de apoyo a cambio del<br />

sufragio a favor del PRI.En Tlaxcala, durante<br />

una gira, Dolores Padierna, secretaria<br />

general del PRD, el partido de López<br />

Obrador, insistió en que “no es el poder del<br />

dinero” ni “los poderes fácticos los que deben<br />

de determinar quién gana o quién pierde”<br />

unos comicios sino “el voto libre y soberano<br />

de la ciudadanía”.Llamó a los presentes a<br />

que le hicieran llegar al partido “pruebas,<br />

testimonios de la compra del voto en los<br />

distintos modos en que se aplicó ese fraude<br />

en la Presidencia de la República”.Además<br />

de las pruebas que se recojan hoy, en una<br />

semana habrá otra recolección de las<br />

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mismas en otras 32 mesas que serán<br />

instaladas en las capitales de cada uno de<br />

los estados de México.Para el 12 de agosto<br />

López Obrador anunció la celebración de una<br />

llamada “Expofraude” para presentar las<br />

pruebas recabadas por todo el país.Según<br />

los datos oficiales, el pasado 1 de julio<br />

Enrique Peña Nieto obtuvo 19,2 millones de<br />

votos (38,21 %), por delante del izquierdista<br />

López Obrador, con casi 15,9 millones (31,59<br />

%), de la conservadora Josefina Vázquez<br />

Mota, con 12,7 millones (25,41 %) y de<br />

Gabriel Quadri, con 1,1 millones (2,29 %).<br />

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FDA’s Immoral Stance on Lethal<br />

Injection Drugs<br />

The mission of the Food and Drug<br />

Administration is to protect us from drugs that<br />

might kill because they are impure, badly<br />

manufactured, untested. Well, not all drugs,<br />

as it turns out. When it comes to drugs used<br />

in executions, the FDA says it doesn’t check<br />

on their “potency, safety or effectiveness.”<br />

Thus, the agency allowed a small company in<br />

Mumbai that stored its drugs in a room<br />

without air conditioning to sell Nebraska<br />

enough sodium thiopental for 166 executions.<br />

It permitted a tiny wholesaler, Dream<br />

Pharma, operating out of two rooms in the<br />

back of a driving school in London, to sell<br />

sodium thiopental -- the most critical drug in<br />

executions -- to Georgia, Arkansas,<br />

Tennessee, South Carolina and California.<br />

The FDA even helped expedite a shipment of<br />

sodium thiopental to Arizona because “it was<br />

for the purpose of executions and not for use<br />

by the general public,” the deputy director of<br />

the Arizona Department of Corrections wrote<br />

in an e-mail to his counterpart in California.<br />

This caused one death penalty lawyer, Clive<br />

Stafford Smith, to say sarcastically that drugs<br />

“can be expedited if they are meant to kill<br />

someone, but apparently not if they are<br />

meant to save lives.” The conundrum for the<br />

FDA, which has now been sued, arose when<br />

the only U.S. company that had FDA<br />

approval for sodium thiopental, Hospira<br />

(HSP), ceased production. With that, death<br />

penalty states scrambled abroad for the drug,<br />

an anesthetic, and their problems escalated.<br />

Three Injections Lethal injection was first<br />

proposed in the 19th century by a New York<br />

doctor who argued it would be cheaper than<br />

hanging. Oklahoma was the first state to<br />

deploy it, in 1977, and eventually all death<br />

penalty states followed. Most have used a<br />

three-drug protocol administered through IVs<br />

inserted into the arms of the prisoner, who is<br />

strapped onto a gurney. The first is the<br />

anesthetic. This is to render the prisoner<br />

unconscious so that he does not suffer the<br />

pain when the next drugs are injected. The<br />

second drug, pancuronium bromide,<br />

paralyzes the diaphragm and lungs, making it<br />

impossible for the condemned to breathe.<br />

Finally potassium chloride is injected, causing<br />

death by cardiac arrest. In a landmark ruling<br />

in 2008, Baze v. Rees, the Supreme Court<br />

held that lethal injection was not “cruel and<br />

unusual punishment,” which is proscribed by<br />

the Eighth Amendment. But the court didn’t<br />

give blanket approval to this method of<br />

execution. The majority looked specifically<br />

and carefully at the three-drug protocol used<br />

in Kentucky that was spelled out in detailed<br />

regulations. These ranged from the amounts<br />

of drugs to the requirement that only qualified<br />

personnel could insert the IVs in the<br />

prisoner’s arms. The court concluded that this<br />

protocol did not present a “substantial risk of<br />

serious harm,” or an “objectively intolerable<br />

risk of harm,” which is the test for whether a<br />

punishment violates the Eighth Amendment.<br />

The majority recognized that the most critical<br />

drug is the anesthetic. “It is uncontested that,<br />

failing a proper dose of sodium thiopental that<br />

would render the prisoner unconscious, there<br />

is substantial, unconstitutionally unacceptable<br />

risk of suffocation from the administration of<br />

pancuronium bromide and pain from the<br />

injection of potassium chloride,” Chief Justice<br />

John Roberts wrote. This opened the door for<br />

lawyers representing clients facing execution<br />

to argue that the sodium thiopental being<br />

acquired from abroad was unsafe, or impure,<br />

either because it was manufactured without<br />

proper quality controls or stored improperly.<br />

The drugs came from a “non-FDA approved<br />

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source,” the lawyers argued. Inmate Lawsuit<br />

Finding itself under increasing attack from<br />

anti-death penalty activists, the FDA issued a<br />

statement in January 2011. Yes, it had<br />

permitted the importation of sodium thiopental<br />

for executions without any review “for safety,<br />

effectiveness or quality,” the agency said. “In<br />

doing so, FDA deferred to law enforcement in<br />

the use of substances for lethal injection.” Six<br />

death-row inmates, from California, Arizona<br />

and Tennessee, sued the FDA to force it to<br />

take action, to block the importation of<br />

sodium thiopental that had not been tested<br />

and approved. They were represented by<br />

Bradford Berenson, a Republican who was<br />

an associate White House counsel under<br />

President George W. Bush. A federal district<br />

court judge ruled against the agency, with<br />

some strikingly pointed language about the<br />

FDA’s defense that it deferred to law<br />

enforcement agencies. “In the final analysis,<br />

the FDA appears to be simply wrapping itself<br />

in the flag of law enforcement discretion to<br />

justify its authority and masquerade an<br />

otherwise seemingly callous indifference to<br />

the health consequences of those imminently<br />

facing the executioner’s needle,” wrote Judge<br />

Richard J. Leon, who was appointed to the<br />

bench by Bush. “How utterly disappointing!”<br />

Hanging over the ruling was whether the<br />

Obama administration would appeal. If it did<br />

not, it would be a victory of sorts for<br />

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death-row inmates, though not a big one.<br />

Requiring the FDA to review drugs for safety<br />

and efficacy wouldn’t stop executions. It<br />

might, however, significantly reduce<br />

unnecessary pain and suffering during an<br />

execution, which is precisely the standard set<br />

by the Supreme Court. Fifteen states wrote<br />

to Attorney General Eric H. Holder urging him<br />

to appeal. He has done so, a notice of appeal<br />

filed in late May. “How utterly disappointing,”<br />

to borrow from Judge Leon. (Raymond<br />

Bonner, a lawyer and former New York Times<br />

reporter, is the author of “Anatomy of<br />

Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong.” The<br />

opinions expressed are his own.) Read more<br />

opinion online from Bloomberg View.<br />

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Scalia Rejects Criticism of Dissent in<br />

Arizona Case<br />

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia<br />

rejected criticism that he improperly went<br />

outside the court record in his dissent to last<br />

term’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law,<br />

saying his consideration of the president’s<br />

remarks was appropriate. President Barack<br />

Obama’s statements that his administration<br />

wouldn’t enforce parts of immigration law,<br />

made after the Supreme Court heard the<br />

case, brought into question the Solicitor<br />

General’s arguments, Scalia said in an<br />

interview today on “Fox News Sunday.” He<br />

dismissed criticism by U.S. Circuit Judge<br />

Richard Posner, who said Scalia’s dissent<br />

read like a campaign speech. “He’s a court of<br />

appeals judge, isn’t he?” Scalia, 76, said of<br />

Posner. “He doesn’t sit in judgment of my<br />

opinions as far as I’m concerned.” The<br />

Supreme Court scaled back Arizona’s<br />

first-of-its-kind crackdown on illegal<br />

immigrants in a 5-3 decision June 25, striking<br />

down three provisions while asserting the<br />

federal government’s exclusive role to set<br />

immigration policy. Solicitor General Donald<br />

Verrilli argued against the Arizona statute on<br />

the basis that only U.S. authorities should<br />

decide how to allocate resources to conduct<br />

enforcement along the border with Mexico,<br />

Scalia said. Obama later said the<br />

administration would no longer enforce the<br />

law with deportations of undocumented<br />

children “because it was the right thing to do,”<br />

demonstrating that priorities weren’t the issue<br />

and leaving Arizona free to enforce the<br />

federal statutes on its own, Scalia said in his<br />

dissent. “I didn’t say he had no authority to do<br />

it,” Scalia said today of the president’s<br />

remarks. “I said he may well be right in doing<br />

it. But it demonstrates the point that Arizona<br />

is being prevented in enforcing immigration<br />

law even when the executive, rightly or<br />

wrongly, simply chooses not to enforce it.” To<br />

contact the reporter on this story: Jeff Plungis<br />

in Washington atjplungis@bloomberg.net To<br />


Michael Hytha atmhytha@bloomberg.net<br />

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Business Insurance/ - Article, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Digital devices owned by employees<br />

increase employers" risks<br />

Employees" love affair with their<br />

smartphones, digital tablets and other mobile<br />

devices can cause serious security and<br />

privacy problems for employers, because an<br />

increasing number of workers are bringing<br />

their devices to work.<br />

Many employers are agreeing to let workers<br />

bring personal mobile devices to the office to<br />

keep them happy, improve productivity and<br />

perhaps save the company money, experts<br />

say. And in many cases, it simply may be a<br />

case of bowing to the inevitable, because<br />

workers are bringing their phones and tablets<br />

to work anyway.<br />

Therefore, it is critical firms establish policies<br />

for the use of these personal devices to<br />

ensure company data is protected, experts<br />

say. There also are steps firms can take to<br />

segregate company and personal data.<br />

Use of personal devices at work is “quickly<br />

becoming more the norm than the exception,”<br />

said Alan E. Brill, senior managing director of<br />

secure information services for New<br />

York-based Kroll Inc. There is “a huge<br />

demand for people to be able to access data<br />

on portable devices, whether those are<br />

smartphones or tablets, and a growing<br />

recognition on the part of corporations that<br />

that"s something that they"re going to do, so<br />

we very quickly went from, "Over my dead<br />

body," to, "How can we facilitate this in a<br />

secure way?"”<br />

Philip L. Gordon, a shareholder with law firm<br />

Littler Mendelson P.C. in Denver, said more<br />

and more employees prefer to use their own<br />

devices because “in some instances the<br />

employee"s technology is actually better than<br />

the employer"s technology. Sometimes, it"s<br />

because the employee doesn"t want to carry<br />

a personal device and a business device.”<br />

And sometimes employees want to have their<br />

own device because of the music on it or<br />

because they want to keep their personal<br />

photos with them all the time, he said.<br />

The time people spend at work also is a<br />

factor. “People are just more productive when<br />

they have access to their enterprise"s<br />

information all the time,” said Nicko van<br />

Someren, chief technology officer for<br />

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Good Technology<br />

Inc., which provides mobile management<br />

technology solutions.<br />

“The genie, on some level, is out of the bottle,<br />

so trying to address it is important,” said<br />

David Navetta, a Denver-based partner with<br />

the Information Law Group.<br />

“It"s better to adapt policies to reality than to<br />

try to force reality into a policy,” said Regev<br />

Yativ, president and CEO of software firm<br />

Magic Software Enterprises Inc. (USA) in<br />

Laguna Hills, Calif., which permits employees<br />

to use their own devices at work. “If you allow<br />

people to work on something that they like, it<br />

will make them more productive and the<br />

(return on investment) will be much bigger.”<br />

Employees" bringing their own devices to<br />

work is “a huge issue,” said Jonathan T.<br />

Hyman, a partner with law firm Kohrman<br />

Jackson & Krantz P.L.L. in Cleveland. “It"s<br />

one of the most underappreciated security<br />

issues facing corporate America today,” he<br />

said. Companies do it because of the good<br />

will it engenders, “but they are, to a large<br />

degree, sacrificing control and security over<br />

their data.”<br />

“The biggest risks for employers are the<br />

device is going to be lost or stolen with<br />

sensitive customer employee information on it<br />

or corporate trade secrets, and that<br />

information will be exposed to third parties,<br />

potentially resulting in a security breach or a<br />

loss or misappropriation of confidential<br />

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usiness information,” Mr. Gordon said.<br />

Aaron K. Tantleff, senior counsel with Foley &<br />

Lardner L.L.P. in Chicago, said most people<br />

will not leave their laptops lying around. But<br />

“people are a lot looser” with smartphones<br />

and other devices, and more likely to leave<br />

them behind in places such as restaurants.<br />

People are also prone to lending them<br />

“because their friends want to play "Angry<br />

Birds."” They may also loan them to their<br />

children, who may download<br />

malware-infested apps, he said.<br />

Another concern is company information<br />

winding up in the cloud because of<br />

employees" actions, experts say. In these<br />

cases, “the extent to which you are able to<br />

completely control where your data is, who<br />

has access to it and how it"s...used can go<br />

out of your hands,” Mr. Brill said. “And<br />

depending upon the sensitivity of the data,<br />

not recognizing that phenomena can result in<br />

significant risk, which you may or may not be<br />

prepared to accept.”<br />

Employers also have to worry about mixing<br />

business and personal information, including<br />

photos and emails, and what to do with<br />

company information on a personal device if<br />

the employee is terminated, Mr. Tantleff said.<br />

The use of personal devices at work also<br />

raises complex privacy issues. Two years<br />

ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in The<br />

City of Ontario et al. vs. Jeff Quon et al. “that<br />

employees that use company-issued devices<br />

are not entitled to privacy,” said Peter S.<br />

Vogel, a partner with Gardere Wynne Sewell<br />

L.L.P. in Dallas.<br />

However, if an employee is using his or her<br />

own device but doing company business and<br />

emailing intellectual property or conducting<br />

work over the personal device, “it becomes<br />

very complicated as to whether or not the<br />

employee is entitled to privacy” and who<br />

owns the intellectual property that is<br />

developed, Mr. Vogel said.<br />



Mr. Gordon said, “On the privacy side, it<br />

becomes more difficult for an employer to<br />

conduct workplace investigations...because<br />

once the employee owns the device and the<br />

information is on the employee"s device, the<br />

employee has the right to control the device,”<br />

and “the employer is at risk of committing a<br />

computer trespass, which is an offense in all<br />

50 states if it accesses an employee"s<br />

personal device without permission.”<br />

Employer policies differ on these personal<br />

mobile devices.<br />

Littler Mendelson, the Denver law firm, does<br />

not permit its employees to use their own<br />

devices for work, said Michael McGuire, the<br />

firm"s Minneapolis-based chief information<br />

security officer. After considering all the<br />

issues involved, everything from tax issues<br />

onwhat obligation employers have to<br />

reimburse employees for using their personal<br />

devices, to data-related issues, data privacy<br />

and security issues, to the employment law<br />

issues that could arise if people look at<br />

inappropriate content at work, the firm<br />

decided “bucking the trend” of permitting<br />

employees to bring their own devices was<br />

justified, Mr. McGuire said.<br />

Centreville, Va.-based Carfax Inc. permits<br />

only selected employees to use their own<br />

devices, Chief Information Officer Phil<br />

Matthews said. Its salesmen are expected to<br />

use company devices, including iPads, to<br />

make sure they have a “consistent<br />

experience” in making customer<br />

presentations, he said. “We want them to be<br />

well-prepared,” he said.<br />

Product managers and developers who do<br />

not have direct customer contact are<br />

permitted to bring in their own devices if they<br />

wish, as long as they follow company<br />

guidelines and use them appropriately, Mr.<br />

Matthews said.<br />

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Overtime pay ruling favors claims<br />

adjusters<br />

LOS ANGELES—A California appellate court<br />

ruling that Liberty Mutual Group"s claims<br />

adjusters are eligible for overtime could reach<br />

other businesses in California beyond the<br />

insurance industry.<br />

But some experts question whether the<br />

California Supreme Court, which already<br />

overturned a ruling by the Court of Appeals in<br />

the same case, will uphold this latest ruling<br />

should Liberty Mutual appeal.<br />

Frances Harris et al. vs. the Superior Court of<br />

Los Angeles has a complex history.<br />

A trial court held initially that, based on two<br />

regulations by California"s Industrial Welfare<br />

Commission, only some claims adjusters<br />

were eligible for overtime depending on<br />

whether they filed their claims before or after<br />

October 2000.<br />

In 2007, the state appellate court ruled that all<br />

the claims examiners were eligible for<br />

overtime. However, the California Supreme<br />

Court overturned that ruling in December<br />

2007 and remanded the case to the appellate<br />

court, holding that the appellate court had not<br />

used the “correct legal standard” in its ruling.<br />

In its 2-to-1 ruling last week, a panel of the<br />

appellate court focused on the administrative<br />

exemption to California"s overtime<br />

requirements. To be exempt from overtime,<br />

the court ruled that an employee must be<br />

primarily engaged in work “directly related to<br />

management polices or general business<br />

operations.”<br />

“We hold that, with the few exceptions we<br />

have noted, adjusters" work duties do not<br />

satisfy the qualitative component of the<br />

"directly related" requirement (to<br />

management policies or general business<br />

operations and general business operations)<br />

because they are not carried on at the level of<br />

policy or general business operations,” the<br />

panel wrote in ruling that the adjusters are<br />

entitled to overtime.<br />

Employers and insurers are watching the<br />

case closely because of its potential to affect<br />

insurance claims adjustment expenses and<br />

workers compensation claims-handling<br />

practices significantly.<br />

Commenting on the ruling, Liberty Mutual<br />

said in a statement that it is “carefully<br />

reviewing that decision to evaluate our<br />

options.”<br />

Attorneys differed in their interpretation of the<br />

ruling.<br />

The administrative exemption “has been one<br />

of the most difficult to explain to clients” and<br />

the one that is “most often misused,” said<br />

Margaret J. Grover, an attorney with Kronick<br />

Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard in Walnut<br />

Creek, Calif. “I think this gives us something<br />

to grab onto to describe it a little more clearly<br />

to clients.”<br />

Jeffrey D. Polsky, a partner at Fox Rothschild<br />

L.L.P. in San Francisco, said the<br />

administrative exemption “remains a very<br />

confusing area of the law.”<br />

“The difficulty is going to be advising clients”<br />

about how their particular situation does or<br />

does not meet the test of the administrative<br />

exemption “where there doesn"t seem to be<br />

consensus on what that test is,” he said.<br />

Several legal experts say, if upheld, the ruling<br />

could extend beyond the insurance sector.<br />

“This could have a significant effect on<br />

lower-level administratively exempt<br />

employees” such as human resources staff<br />

who are not policymakers, said D. Gregory<br />

Valenza, a partner with Shaw & Valenza<br />

L.L.P. in San Francisco.<br />

The standard set by the appellate court ruling<br />

is “very broad and vague,” Mr. Polsky said.<br />

“It"s something that has to be addressed<br />

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whenever you"re evaluating whether<br />

something qualifies for the administrative<br />

exemption, so I think the impact of this is<br />

going to be felt well beyond just claims<br />

adjusters.”<br />

However, Enzo Der Boghossian, a partner<br />

with Proskauer Rose L.L.P. in Los Angeles,<br />

said “I think the holding of the appellate<br />

court"s decision can be limited to the facts of<br />

this case.”<br />

He added, though, “I do think that employers<br />

are well-advised to re-examine” workforce<br />

members who have been deemed exempt<br />

from overtime “to ensure that they meet the<br />

appropriate standard” set by the appellate<br />

court.<br />

“My concern is that other courts will not<br />



scrutinize the facts at the level I think<br />

employers would like to see following the<br />

Harris court"s treatment of this, and that could<br />

end up hurting employers,” said Christopher<br />

W. Olmsted, a shareholder with Barker<br />

Olmsted & Barnier A.P.L.C. in San Diego.<br />

Should Liberty Mutual appeal, “there"s at<br />

least a distinct possibility” that the California<br />

Supreme Court will revisit the issue and “feel<br />

that the Court of Appeals may not have<br />

followed its instructions fully, and that the<br />

analysis as a whole ended up with the wrong<br />

result,” Mr. Der Boghossian said.<br />

Ms. Grover disagreed. “I think there is a good<br />

analysis laid out in this, as to why they got<br />

where they did.”<br />

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Business Line/ - Markets, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Two intriguing faces of Hindutva<br />

Let me begin with disclaimers and<br />

disclosures. I use the word ‘Hindutva’ in the<br />

generic sense, as a corpus of teachings,<br />

values and tenets representing a spiritual<br />

wealth which, in its profundity and depth, has<br />

no parallel.<br />

It takes one’s breath away to contemplate<br />

that more than 5,000 years ago, India’s sages<br />

and seers, through their Vedas, Upanishads,<br />

shastras and epics, without any material or<br />

technological aids, could delve into the<br />

innermost recesses of thought and enrich<br />

humanity with a veritable treasure-house of<br />

eternal verities.<br />

Although I am not a practising Hindu, my<br />

admiration for the incomparably precious<br />

heritage is boundless. Even Jawaharlal<br />

Nehru, whose agnosticism bordered on<br />

atheism, did not wish to cut himself off from<br />

India’s glorious past.<br />

In his last Will and Testament he said: “I am<br />

proud of that great inheritance that has been,<br />

and is, ours, and I am conscious that I too,<br />

like all of us, am a link in that unbroken chain<br />

which goes back to the dawn of history in the<br />

immemorial past of India. That chain I would<br />

not break, for I treasure it and seek<br />

inspiration from it.” And, as witness of this<br />

desire of his and “as his last homage to the<br />

great ocean that washes India"s shores”, he<br />

wanted his ashes thrown in the Ganga at<br />

Allahabad.<br />

Hinduism has been held by scholars to be<br />

more a way of life than a structured religion.<br />

At the core of the vast repository of beliefs<br />

and faiths it represents, is righteous conduct<br />

or dharma which was immutable and<br />

inviolable. India’s Supreme Court, too, in a<br />

number of decisions, has taken a<br />

broad-spectrum view of Hindutva.<br />

In a lucid enunciation of what it holds to be<br />

true essence of Hinduism, it declared in a<br />

judgment delivered in 1995: “Hindutva is<br />

indicative more of the way of life of the Indian<br />

people. It is not to be understood or<br />

construed narrowly. It is not Hindu<br />

fundamentalism nor is it to be confined only<br />

to the strict Hindu religious practices or as<br />

unrelated to the culture and ethos of the<br />

people of India, depicting the way of life of the<br />

Indian people. Considering Hindutva as<br />

hostile, inimical, or intolerant of other faiths,<br />

or as communal proceeds from an improper<br />

appreciation of its true meaning.”<br />

One would normally expect that those who,<br />

like the members of what has come to be<br />

loosely known as the Sangh Parivar or the<br />

Hindu Right, profess reverence for that kind<br />

of legacy, would conform, in their human and<br />

societal relations, to the values propounded<br />

in India’s scriptures. For instance, one of the<br />

verses of the Yajur Veda states: “May all<br />

beings look on me with the eyes of a friend!<br />

May I look on all beings with the eyes of a<br />

friend! May we look on one another with the<br />

eyes of a friend!”<br />

Likewise, a verse of Atharva Veda asks of<br />

Mother Earth to give to her children the<br />

capacity to interact harmoniously, and adds:<br />

“May we speak sweetly with one another!” Dr<br />

Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan has pointed out<br />

that “the development of Hindu religion has<br />

always been inspired by the endless quest of<br />

the mind for truth based on the<br />

consciousness that truth has many facets.”<br />

I notice time after time that, contrary to all<br />

these precepts, the Vishwa Hindu<br />

Parishad-Bajrang Dal-RSS-Shri Ram Sena<br />

brand of Hindus are the first to fall like a ton<br />

of bricks on those with whose views they<br />

disagree, with abusive tirades and personal<br />

attacks on their character and motives. How<br />

come, despite all the commandments of<br />

Hinduism to show love, peace, harmony and<br />

tolerance for all, they are ever on short fuse,<br />

ready to thrash dissenters?<br />

Why are they behind most instances of<br />

vandalising of libraries, art galleries and<br />

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functions? The attack on young boys and<br />

girls in a pub in Mangalore on July 28 by the<br />

Hindu Jagarana Vedike is only the latest<br />

example of the fanaticism the ugly face of<br />

Hindutva is capable of.<br />

On the other hand, I have found that<br />

person-to-person and one-on-one, they are<br />



the most polite and respectful to the point of<br />

being obsequious, always adding ‘ji’ to your<br />

name, and going all out to be nice.<br />

Can anyone tell me how to reconcile these<br />

two faces of Hindutva?<br />




New direction for NBFCs<br />

In January, the Central Government notified<br />

the Factoring Regulation Act, 2011 to<br />

regulate the factoring business in India.<br />

According to this, factoring companies other<br />

than banks and Government entities have to<br />

register with RBI as a non-banking financial<br />

company (NBFC). Now the RBI has<br />

introduced a new category — NBFC Factors.<br />

Companies that wish to register as an NBFC<br />

Factor should have a minimum ‘Net Owned<br />

Fund’ of Rs 5 crore, while ensuring that the<br />

financial assets in and income derived from<br />

the factoring business are not less than 75<br />

per cent of assets and gross income,<br />

respectively. Existing NBFCs that fail to meet<br />

this income asset pattern shall be given two<br />

years to do so, or wind up.<br />

Ruling in "Azadi Bachao" holds<br />

The Authority for Advance Ruling has relied<br />

on the Supreme Court’s decision in the Union<br />

of India vs. Azadi Bachao Andolan case to<br />

uphold that a Mauritius company possessing<br />

a valid Tax Residency Certificate would be<br />

eligible for benefits under the India-Mauritius<br />

tax treaty. Here, a Mauritius company (M1) is<br />

a 100 per cent subsidiary of another Mauritius<br />

company (M2). M2 collects funds from<br />

various investors and invests in M1, which, in<br />

turn, invests in shares of Indian companies.<br />

The AAR held that M1 was effectively<br />

controlled from Mauritius, and in the absence<br />

of General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) it is<br />

difficult to accept the Revenue’s contention<br />

that investing in Indian companies through<br />

Mauritius is a tax avoidance scheme.<br />

Therefore, gains from M1’s sale of shares of<br />

Indian companies are not taxable in India.<br />

However, once GAAR is introduced,<br />

investments coming to India through<br />

Mauritius could come under the scanner.<br />

Service tax revamped<br />

Notifications have been issued<br />

operationalising the new charging section and<br />

Negative List under service tax from July 1.<br />

First, all activities except those excluded<br />

under the Negative List or exemption<br />

notifications have been made taxable.<br />

Second, the Place of Provision of Service<br />

Rules have been introduced to achieve a<br />

‘destination-based tax’, which is broadly in<br />

line with global VAT principles. These rules<br />

provide clarity on the treatment of export and<br />

import of services, which have been a bone<br />

of contention between authorities and<br />

assessees. While clarifications on many<br />

aspects are in order, the new law seems to<br />

have been simplified and more suited for<br />

assimilation into GST.<br />

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Telecom tribunal directs Govt to return<br />

Etisalat’s bank guarantees<br />

Telecom tribunal TDSAT has directed the<br />

Government to return within a week the<br />

Performance Bank Guarantees submitted by<br />

Etisalat DB at the time of allocation of<br />

spectrum for 11 circles.Etisalat had submitted<br />

performance bank guarantees of Rs 160<br />

crore at the time of allocation of licences and<br />

airwaves.“The Respondent (DoT) is hereby<br />

directed to return the performance bank<br />

guarantees in respect of the circles in<br />

question within one week from date. This<br />

petition is allowed to the aforementioned<br />

extent,” said the TDSAT Bench, headed by its<br />

Chairman, Mr Justice S.B. Sinha.The circles<br />

are — Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka,<br />

Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh<br />

(East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Maharashtra,<br />

Haryana and Tamil Nadu.Etisalat has<br />

contended that it had completed the rollout<br />

obligations and as per the licence conditions,<br />

its bank guarantees should be<br />

refunded.TDSAT also rejected the<br />

submission of the DoT that licences of<br />

Etisalat have been quashed by the Supreme<br />

Court of India and it should not pass any<br />

order at this stage.“The said submission is<br />

stated to be rejected,” said TDSAT, adding<br />

that TRAI as well as DoT say, on the one<br />

hand, that the licences having been kept valid<br />

till September 7, 2012, and thus the rules are<br />

binding on the licensee. On the other hand,<br />

the DoT contends that it need not comply with<br />

its obligations.“It, therefore, does not lie in the<br />

mouth of the licensor that although the<br />

licences are valid, it need not perform its part<br />

of contractual obligations,” said TDSAT.On<br />

May 15, passing an interim order, the tribunal<br />

had reduced Etisalat’s performance bank<br />

guarantee by 50 per cent submitted before<br />

DoT.Etisalat DB is a joint venture between<br />

Etisalat of United Arab Emirates and Dynamix<br />

Balwas Group of India. The venture got<br />

telecom services licence to operate in 15<br />

circles through its predecessor<br />

Swan.However, the Supreme Court on<br />

February 2 this year cancelled 122 licences<br />

of new operators including Etisalat in the 2G<br />

spectrum allocation case.Following that the<br />

firm said it has written off $827 million value<br />

of its Indian operations, by way of impairment<br />

charge and closed its operations in India.<br />

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Clarín/ - Policiales, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Intentaron destituir al Presidente, pero<br />

fracasó el referéndum<br />

Un referéndum para enjuiciar políticamente al<br />

presidente de Rumania, el conservador<br />

Traian Basescu, resultó inválido debido a la<br />

baja participación de los votantes, dijeron el<br />

domingo las autoridades.La Oficina Central<br />

de Elecciones informó que el resultado de la<br />

votación no alcanzó el quórum del 50% más<br />

uno de los votos, por lo que el primer<br />

mandatario no fue destituido del cargo como<br />

pretendía la mayoría del gobierno de centro<br />

izquierda.De lo contrario, el resultado fue de<br />

45,92%, con un margen de error de 3 puntos<br />

porcentuales. Por ley, este tipo de consultas<br />

son no son válidas si votan menos de la<br />

mitad de los electores. Unos 18 millones de<br />

rumanos estaban habilitados para votar.La<br />

oficina no dio a conocer el resultado de la<br />

votación, pero dos encuestas indicaron que<br />

más de 80% votaron a favor de destituir a<br />

Basescu.En cadena televisiva nacional, el<br />

mandatario declaró que “los rumanos han<br />

invalidado el referendo al no participar”.Los<br />

opositores de Basescu intentan procesarlo<br />

políticamente por segunda vez en cinco<br />

años. Sostienen que el mandatario populista,<br />

de 60 años, se ha dedicado a inmiscuirse en<br />

los negocios del gobierno, repartir favores<br />

entre sus partidarios y usar el servicio<br />

secreto contra sus enemigos.Basescu, ex<br />

capitán de marina cuya popularidad se ha<br />

desplomado ante los problemas económicos,<br />

sostiene que el proceso de encausamiento<br />

sólo es “una venganza política tramada por la<br />

oposición” y antes del referendo pidió a sus<br />

partidarios que boicotearan la votación.La<br />

situación política ha minado la credibilidad de<br />

Rumania y tanto Estados Unidos como la<br />

Unión Europea dudan que el gobierno<br />

izquierdista respete la independencia del<br />

poder judicial. Los detractores acusan al<br />

primer ministro Víctor Ponta, sumido en un<br />

escándalo de plagio de documentos, de<br />

orquestar la medida para acaparar más<br />

poder.Basescu, presidente desde 2004, vio<br />

caer su popularidad tras adoptar el gobierno<br />

medidas de austeridad en 2010 a pedido del<br />

Fondo Monetario Internacional a cambio de<br />

un plan de rescate multimillonario.<br />

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Correo Del Orinoco/ - Multipolaridad, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


México inicia asambleas este domingo en<br />

busca de pruebas de compra de votos<br />

Las asambleas cívicas pretenden concienciar<br />

a la ciudadanía sobre las presuntas<br />

irregularidades detectadas en las pasadas<br />

elecciones presidenciales, cuya validez<br />

deberá determinar el Tribunal Electoral del<br />

Poder Judicial de la Federación antes del 31<br />

de agosto<br />

130

Corriere Della Será/ - Home, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Gli smemorati del Belpaese<br />

Non serve la palla di vetro per immaginare<br />

come potrebbe andare a finire. Trasferendo<br />

le loro funzioni a Comuni e Regioni, il decreto<br />

salva Italia avrebbe cancellato di fatto le<br />

Province. Con la giustificazione di un ricorso<br />

pendente alla Corte costituzionale, anche se<br />

non si possono escludere pesanti pressioni<br />

politiche, il governo Monti aveva poi preferito<br />

imboccare con la spending review una strada<br />

diversa: non più l'abolizione, ma la riduzione<br />

del numero e l'accorpamento degli enti più<br />

piccoli. Una volta in Parlamento, si è però<br />

passati al semplice «riordino». Che non verrà<br />

deciso dall'esecutivo, ma dalle autonomie<br />

locali: cioè dalle stesse Province. Un po'<br />

come dare al cappone il potere di scegliere<br />

quando e in quale modo celebrare il Natale.<br />

Ecco la lezione impartitaci ancora una volta<br />

dalla tanto attesa revisione della spesa che si<br />

vota domani al Senato. Nel momento in cui<br />

siamo chiamati ad affrontare un'emergenza,<br />

dal terremoto alla crisi finanziaria, riusciamo a<br />

dare il meglio di noi stessi. Con il governo<br />

tecnico siamo perfino riusciti a reinterpretare<br />

in chiave moderna il ruolo di Cincinnato. Ma<br />

quando sembra che l'urgenza immediata sia<br />

passata, anche solo per un momento, allora<br />

salta fuori il lato peggiore. Bastano una<br />

dichiarazione di Mario Draghi, lo spread che<br />

allenta la morsa e un paio di giorni di euforia<br />

in Borsa per far tornare a galla, intatti e se<br />

possibile incattiviti, tutti i vecchi vizi. Veti<br />

incrociati, interessi corporativi, tornaconti<br />

personali. Alla faccia di un debito al 123,3 per<br />

cento del Prodotto interno lordo, della<br />

recessione, dei tassi d'interesse alle stelle. E<br />

se poi, fatalmente, lo spread dovesse<br />

riprendere la propria corsa, ci sono già i<br />

colpevoli pronti. Qualcuno tirerà in ballo la<br />

crudeltà mentale di Angela Merkel, che vuole<br />

impedire alla Banca centrale europea di<br />

aiutare i Paesi in difficoltà. Altri si rifugeranno<br />

nell'ovvietà: l'Italia non è la Grecia né la<br />

Spagna. Indignandosi perché ci hanno messo<br />

insieme ai Pigs , i «maiali» dell'Unione<br />

monetaria. Fioriranno dotte argomentazioni<br />

circa il fatto che la differenza di rendimenti fra<br />

Btp e Bund non riflette il vero stato della<br />

nostra economia reale. Né mancherà chi ci<br />

spiegherà che noi, i compiti a casa, li<br />

abbiamo già fatti, e semmai adesso tocca ai<br />

maestrini di Berlino. Aggiungendo magari che<br />

fra lo spread di Monti e quello di Berlusconi<br />

non c'è alcuna differenza: tanto valeva,<br />

perciò, tenerci il Cavaliere.<br />

In pochissimi diranno l'unica verità che vale la<br />

pena di ascoltare. Che se ci troviamo in<br />

questa situazione è perché i compiti a casa<br />

non li abbiamo fatti per vent'anni. E che la<br />

signora Merkel, alla quale si possono<br />

rimproverare tantissime cose, su un punto ha<br />

ragione da vendere: perché la moneta unica<br />

abbia un senso, chi ne fa parte deve avere i<br />

bilanci in ordine. Il tempo della finanza allegra<br />

è finito per tutti. Se l'Italia allineasse i costi<br />

per il funzionamento delle pubbliche<br />

amministrazioni a quelli della Germania il<br />

risparmio sarebbe di 50 miliardi l'anno. Far<br />

finta di ignorarlo è da irresponsabili. La<br />

revisione della spesa può essere l'occasione<br />

per una prova di maturità, dimostrando che<br />

siamo in grado di dare il meglio anche senza<br />

essere sull'orlo del baratro. Non<br />

sprechiamola.<br />

Sergio Rizzo<br />

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El Peruano/ - Noticia, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Congreso debe darle prioridad<br />

(Cajamarca) El proyecto de reforma<br />

constitucional para reconocer el derecho al<br />

agua debería tener carácter prioritario en la<br />

nueva legislatura del Congreso, sostuvo el<br />

gobernador de Cajamarca, Ever<br />

Hernández.Dijo que la sola incorporación en<br />

la Constitución que señale que el acceso al<br />

agua es un derecho inalienable implica una<br />

connotación grande, que sería reconocida sin<br />

ninguna duda, por lo que debe ser de<br />

carácter prioritario en la nueva legislatura.El<br />

también jurista señaló que "en esta propuesta<br />

el Jefe del Estado busca construir un marco<br />

legal que incorpore de manera taxativa una<br />

necesidad de la población, como es el agua,<br />

a una categoría de derecho constitucional".El<br />

Jefe del Estado hizo hincapié durante su<br />

mensaje a la Nación que se necesita un<br />

marco jurídico y una política estatal que<br />

armonice las actividades extractivas con los<br />

legítimos intereses de preservar los recursos<br />

naturales.Por ello, propuso al Congreso un<br />

proyecto de reforma constitucional, a fin de<br />

reconocer en la Carta Magna el derecho<br />

fundamental al agua.Ever Hernández añadió,<br />

sin embargo, que no obstante ser necesaria<br />

una reforma como esta no se puede esperar<br />

que resuelva los conflictos sociales que<br />

desde hace décadas vive la región<br />

cajamarquina.<br />

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Perú reitera cumplimiento de tratados<br />

internacionales<br />

En su mensaje a la Nación, el presidente<br />

Ollanta Humala reafirmó el respeto irrestricto<br />

del Perú a los tratados internacionales, y<br />

reiteró su compromiso de acatar la resolución<br />

que emitirá la Corte Internacional de<br />

Justicia de La Haya respecto al diferendo<br />

marítimo con Chile, destacó la congresista<br />

tacneña Gladys Condori (GP)."Es importante<br />

destacar esta declaración porque genera<br />

confianza en el equipo que está viendo el<br />

tema y porque define una posición principista<br />

de respeto a la normatividad internacional<br />

vigente", dijo la legisladora<br />

nacionalista.Condori resaltó, además, que el<br />

Presidente "tocara muchos temas que<br />

realmente se necesitaban definir, entre ellos<br />

el incremento de las remuneraciones de los<br />

miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas y de la<br />

Policía Nacional".Otro anuncio resaltante<br />

–refirió– es garantizar el acceso a la salud de<br />

la población de menores recursos en el tema<br />

oncológico. "También es fundamental que el<br />

Estado exprese su compromiso con la<br />

protección de sus ciudadanos, como es el<br />

caso de la trata, problema al que el Jefe del<br />

Estado hizo mención y anunció que se<br />

rescatará a las víctimas."Mejores<br />

relacionesEl embajador Luis Solari Tudela,<br />

consideró, por su parte, que la afirmación del<br />

presidente Humala de que el Perú acatará el<br />

fallo de La Haya, si bien es reiterativa, resulta<br />

necesaria. Señaló que si se toma en cuenta<br />

el hecho de que el mandatario chileno,<br />

Sebastián Piñera, se refirió en el mismo<br />

sentido, podemos esperar con confianza que<br />

este fallo será acatado por los dos<br />

países.Mundo árabeSolari Tudela señaló<br />

también que la mención del presidente<br />

Humala a la apertura de nuevos espacios en<br />

la relación internacional se refiere<br />

propiamente a la de los países árabes, en<br />

razón del próximo encuentro que habrá en<br />

Lima, el primero de este género, y al que<br />

asistirán no solo gobernantes árabes, sino<br />

también empresarios, lo que redundará en un<br />

estrechamiento de las relaciones con ese<br />

mundo, que es muy cercano al nuestro, pero<br />

que no aprovechamos mejor.Respecto a<br />

otros mecanismos, como Unasur, Alianza<br />

para el Pacífico y la CAN, explicó que son<br />

procesos en marcha que deben consolidarse.<br />

Recordó que Unasur responde a una<br />

convocatoria peruana en el Cusco. En el<br />

caso de la CAN, puntualizó que el Perú tiene<br />

la sede del Pacto Andino, y que la Alianza<br />

para el Pacífico es una excelente iniciativa<br />

que nos integra con Colombia, México y<br />

Chile para promover nuestra presencia<br />

comercial y exportaciones en el mundo<br />

asiático.Perú y la CANAl referirse a la<br />

reingeniería que se desarrolla en la<br />

actualidad en la Comunidad Andina, Solari<br />

afirmó que todo organismo tiene que<br />

renovarse, actualizarse, de acuerdo con las<br />

necesidades y los desarrollos económicos<br />

que se produzcan.En cuanto a la vinculación<br />

con la Unasur, refirió que se tendrá que<br />

compatibilizar mucho, pues en esos bloques<br />

no solo hay un componente ideológico, sino<br />

un enfoque distinto en materia de aranceles,<br />

por mencionar un aspecto. "Suena bien, pero<br />

llevarlo a la práctica demandará un trabajo<br />

fino".<br />

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Jefe del Estado presentó balance realista<br />

El mensaje a la Nación del presidente Ollanta<br />

Humala, al cumplirse su primer año de<br />

gobierno, ha sido un balance realista y<br />

sentará las bases de la transformación que<br />

vive el país, sostuvoel expresidente del<br />

Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura Gonzalo<br />

García Núñez.Destacó que el Jefe del<br />

Estado, con ocasión además del 191°<br />

Aniversario de la Independencia Nacional, se<br />

haya centrado en el desarrollo social del<br />

país, el progreso regional, la producción y el<br />

avance en los campos de la ciencia y la<br />

tecnología, entre otros temas importantes<br />

para el país.Retos del Gobierno"Ha sido un<br />

balance realista y esperamos que, como lo<br />

ha señalado el presidente Ollanta Humala, se<br />

sienten las bases para la gran transformación<br />

y se consoliden en su segundo año de<br />

gestión", señaló a la agencia Andina.El actual<br />

presidente de la Comisión de Ratificación de<br />

Jueces y Fiscales sostuvo que los retos del<br />

gobierno de Ollanta Humala serán lograr la<br />

estabilidad política y social del país, además<br />

de dar solución al conflicto social por el<br />

proyecto Conga en la región<br />

Cajamarca.Otros temasRespecto al problema<br />

de Conga, dijo esperar que sea resuelto en<br />

beneficio de los intereses de la patria. En el<br />

frente externo, García Núñez resaltó el buen<br />

desempeño de la economía peruana,<br />

sustentado en el crecimiento de la inversión y<br />

el consumo, lo que a su juicio permitirá<br />

atenuar los efectos de una crisis global, que<br />

afectaría a América Latina.También mostró<br />

su confianza en que se logre un resultado<br />

positivo para el Perú en el proceso de<br />

delimitación marítima con Chile, que se sigue<br />

en la Corte Internacional de Justicia de La<br />

Haya.<br />

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El Universal/ - Opinión, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Presidente de Rumania libra juicio<br />

político<br />

Un referendo para enjuiciar políticamente al<br />

presidente de Rumania resultó inválido<br />

debido a la baja participación, dijeron este<br />

domingo las autoridades. La Oficina Central<br />

de Elecciones informó que el resultado de la<br />

votación respecto del presidente Traian<br />

Basescu fue de 45.92 por ciento, con un<br />

margen de error de 3 puntos porcentuales.<br />

Por ley, este tipo de consultas no son válidas<br />

si vota menos de la mitad de los electores. La<br />

oficina no dio a conocer el resultado de la<br />

votación, pero dos encuestas de salida<br />

indicaron que más del 80 por ciento votaron a<br />

favor de destituir a Basescu. En cadena<br />

televisiva nacional, el mandatario declaró que<br />

"los rumanos han invalidado el referendo al<br />

no participar".La batalla del impopular<br />

presidente rumano ha planteado dudas sobre<br />

el imperio de la ley en esta antigua nación<br />

comunista. Los detractores de Basescu<br />

intentan procesarlo políticamente por<br />

segunda vez en cinco años. Sostienen que el<br />

mandatario populista, de 60 años, se ha<br />

dedicado a inmiscuirse en los negocios del<br />

gobierno, repartir favores entre sus<br />

partidarios y usar el servicio secreto contra<br />

sus enemigos.Basescu, ex capitán de marina<br />

cuya popularidad se ha desplomado ante los<br />

problemas económicos, sostiene que el<br />

proceso de encauzamiento sólo es una<br />

venganza política tramada por la oposición y<br />

antes del referendo pidió a sus partidarios<br />

que boicotearan la votación.La situación<br />

política ha minado la credibilidad de Rumania<br />

y tanto Estados Unidos como la Unión<br />

Europea dudan que el gobierno izquierdista<br />

respete la independencia del poder judicial.<br />

Los detractores acusan al primer ministro<br />

Víctor Ponta, sumido en un escándalo de<br />

plagio de documentos, de orquestar la<br />

medida para acaparar más poder.Unos 18<br />

millones de rumanos estaban habilitados<br />

para votar. Basescu, presidente desde 2004,<br />

vio caer su popularidad tras adoptar en su<br />

gobierno medidas de austeridad en 2010 a<br />

pedido del Fondo Monetario Internacional a<br />

cambio de un plan de rescate multimillonario.<br />

lsvj<br />

135

El Universal/ - Nación, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


López Obrador convoca a "Expofraude"<br />

En su primera asamblea poselectoral, el<br />

candidato presidencial de los partidos de la<br />

izquierda, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,<br />

pidió a sus seguidores no preocuparse por<br />

los ataques de quienes lo señalan de<br />

"mesiánico" o "loco" pues como los héroes<br />

patrios, fueron atacados pero al final, "la<br />

verdad tarda, pero llega". Por eso dijo "nunca<br />

vamos a decirle adiós a la esperanza" de que<br />

el Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la<br />

Federación (TEPJF) anule la elección y se<br />

nombre a un presidente interino que organice<br />

una nueva elección presidencial.Los<br />

magistrados del Tribunal, "no creo que se<br />

conviertan en encubridores" dijo en<br />

entrevista.López Obrador pidió a sus<br />

simpatizantes estar pendientes para acudir el<br />

próximo domingo a las asambleas en las<br />

capitales de los estados del país y el 12 de<br />

agosto a su "Expofraude" en el Zócalo, para<br />

lo que pidió "guardar las tarjetas y las<br />

camisetas y los vasos y todo lo que<br />

entregaron para llevar a la exposición". En<br />

mitin -paralelo a las 142 asambleas<br />

convocadas para informar su plan de acción<br />

poselectoral- ante unos mil simpatizantes en<br />

el parque La Esperanza de la colonia del<br />

mismo nombre, el político salió así al paso de<br />

quienes, como el PRI, criticaron su<br />

planteamiento de que se nombre a un<br />

interino una vez que se anule la elección.<br />

Recordó a Miguel Hidalgo, Francisco<br />

Madero, Benito Juárez y cómo fueron<br />

atacados por oponerse al régimen, y<br />

comparó esas luchas con su movimiento:<br />

"Tampoco se preocupen por los ataques,<br />

llevamos mucho tiempo luchando, estamos<br />

acostumbrados a eso". "Los héroes de<br />

nuestro país han sido muy atacados pero al<br />

paso del tiempo la historia les ha dado su<br />

sitio, les ha dado su lugar, por eso no nos<br />

estemos preocupando, entendamos. Si nos<br />

atacan es porque enfrentamos a un grupo de<br />

intereses creados, muy poderosos, que no<br />

quieren que haya ningún cambio en beneficio<br />

de la gente". López Obrador llegó a Neza sin<br />

la compañía de los líderes de PRD, PT y<br />

Movimiento Ciudadano que conformaron la<br />

coalición Movimiento Progresista. Tampoco<br />

acudieron los candidatos a cargos de<br />

elección popular que aquí ganaron alcaldía y<br />

diputaciones federales y locales. En cambio,<br />

asistieron la jefa delegacional en Iztapalapa<br />

-vecina de este municipio-, Clara Brugada y<br />

dirigentes regionales de Movimiento<br />

Regeneración Nacional (Morena) como<br />

Antonio Jiménez.En torno al templete se<br />

montaron ocho mesas para "recabar<br />

pruebas" y "firmas para invalidar la elección".<br />

Ahí López Obrador fue recibido por<br />

seguidores que, ante sus señalamientos<br />

contra "algunos" medios de comunicación,<br />

corearon "¡Muera Televisa, muera Televisa!".<br />

Ante ellos advirtió que si asume el poder<br />

quien compró votos, no podrá gobernar,<br />

porque tendrá dinero, pero "no tienen pueblo,<br />

sólo el aparato". "No van a poder, pueden<br />

tener dinero para comprar los votos, pero no<br />

tienen el respaldo y el apoyo sincero de la<br />

gente y así no se puede gobernar", aseguró.<br />

Y "el voto comprado no luce, no da alegría,<br />

ese voto da tristeza". "¿Se han ustedes<br />

percatado de que haya alegría en el PRI? En<br />

ninguna parte, hasta los que vendieron su<br />

voto se sienten mal por lo que causaron,<br />

están avergonzados, eso está pasando a<br />

nivel nacional, no tienen pueblo, sólo tienen<br />

aparato, los medios de comunicación que<br />

están al servicio del grupo que domina en<br />

nuestro país, pero no tienen apoyo del<br />

pueblo, no hay alegría". ml<br />

136



#YoSoy132 fortalecerá asambleas<br />

estatales<br />

Durante Asamblea General Interuniversitaria<br />

(AGI) de YoSoy132 se aprobó en lo general<br />

comenzar con la descentralizar el<br />

movimiento, fortalecer a las asambleas<br />

estatales, locales y mantener la AIG como el<br />

máximo órgano rector del colectivo de<br />

universidades públicas y privadas.Las<br />

propuestas de organización tendrán que ser<br />

bajadas a las asambleas locales para su<br />

análisis y en su eventual caso aprobación.En<br />

el auditorio de la Sección 18 del SNTE, los<br />

universitarios discuten su plan de acción que<br />

retomará las propuestas de la "Convención<br />

Nacional contra la Imposición de Enrique<br />

Peña Nieto", virtual ganador de los comicios<br />

presidenciales, emanadas en San Salvador<br />

de Atenco, pero sólo las acciones<br />

comprendidas de agosto al 22 de<br />

septiembre.Entre éstas destacan una jornada<br />

de lucha el 8 de agosto por el natalicio de<br />

Emiliano Zapata, el 1 de septiembre impedir<br />

el sexto informe de Gobierno del presidente<br />

Felipe Calderón y que legisladores federales<br />

electos asuman el cargo.El 6 de septiembre<br />

se tiene contempladas una marcha del<br />

Congreso de la Unión al Tribunal Electoral<br />

del Poder Judicial de la Federación en el<br />

marco de la calificación de la elección<br />

presidencial y el 15 y 16 de septiembre tomar<br />

las plazas públicas para gritar "México Sin<br />

PRI", entre otras. ml<br />

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El Universal/ - Opinión, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


PRD busca reivindicar su labor en el<br />

Congreso<br />

francisco.nieto@eluniversal.com.mxEl PRD<br />

impulsará en la próxima legislatura una<br />

agenda que incluye ocho grandes temas que<br />

contemplan una reforma hacendaria sin<br />

nuevos impuestos, el combate a la<br />

corrupción, la soberanía energética,<br />

seguridad y la democratización de los medios<br />

de comunicación.Durante su Consejo<br />

Nacional, los perredistas decidieron que<br />

independientemente del fallo del Tribunal<br />

Electoral del Poder Judicial de la<br />

Federación sobre la elección presidencial,<br />

buscarán “reinvindicar la vocación<br />

parlamentaria de la izquierda”.Según se<br />

desprende del documento “Ejes de la Agenda<br />

Legislativa del PRD en el Congreso de la<br />

Unión”, la rendición de cuentas, la<br />

transparencia y el combate a la corrupción<br />

serán una prioridad. En este punto, los<br />

perredistas buscarán darle más “dientes” a la<br />

Auditoria Superior de la Federación (ASF) y<br />

al Instituto Federal de Acceso a la<br />

Información (IFAI).“Debemos tomar medidas<br />

urgentes para combatir a fondo la corrupción,<br />

con mayores herramientas a la ASF (...)<br />

asimismo, se buscaría dar mayores<br />

facultades al IFAI para fortalecer la<br />

transparencia en todo lo que se utilice<br />

recursos públicos”, dijo el presidente nacional<br />

del PRD, Jesús Zambrano.Agregó que esta<br />

agenda legislativa también contempla una<br />

reforma hacendaria “que permita recuperar<br />

los recursos que el país necesita para el<br />

crecimiento económico, pero sin contemplar<br />

incrementos o nuevos impuestos al consumo,<br />

por lo que propondrán que los recursos<br />

adicionales salgan de la eliminación de<br />

paraísos fiscales.“No requerimos estas<br />

reformas estructurales de las que hablan en<br />

términos de la privatización de Pemex, sino<br />

para hacer de la paraestatal, con las<br />

disposiciones vigentes y legales, una palanca<br />

de desarrollo económico, para crear cadenas<br />

productivas en las que participen la iniciativa<br />

privada y se beneficien los<br />

trabajadores”.Sobre la “democratización de<br />

los medios de comunicación”, el PRD<br />

pretende “desterrar los monopolios y las<br />

prácticas dirigidas a influir indebidamente en<br />

las preferencias políticas ciudadanas”, así<br />

como impulsar la creación y apertura de más<br />

“cadenas” de televisión nacional, por lo que<br />

dotarían de más autonomía constitucional de<br />

la Cofetel y la Cofeco.Los perredistas<br />

también impulsarán una nueva ley de redes<br />

electrónicas, comunicaciones, contenidos<br />

digitales y medios audiovisuales que de<br />

“inmediato abra espacios a nuevos<br />

comunicadores, obligando a las empresas de<br />

televisión restringida a cumplir con el<br />

mandato de no discriminación y asignar un<br />

canal para transmitir, sin costo adicional a<br />

sus suscriptores”.Los legisladores electos del<br />

sol azteca añadieron en la agenda un<br />

apartado para disminuirse 30% de sus dietas,<br />

abstenerse de caer en nepotismo,<br />

comportarse con austeridad y oponerse a<br />

iniciativas que afecten la calidad de vida de<br />

los mexicanos. Pero este punto final, en<br />

específico, se discutirá el 7 y 8 de agosto<br />

durante la sesión plenaria de los<br />

representantes perredistas electos.<br />

138



PRD, “una oposición inteligente y eficaz”<br />

jorge.ramos@eluniversal.com.mxLa izquierda<br />

mexicana se encamina a convertirse en una<br />

"oposición responsable" al gobierno que<br />

encabezará el priísta Enrique Peña Nieto.<br />

Pero no será fácil, pues advierten que el PRI<br />

no tiene mayoría legislativa y está obligado a<br />

negociar con las izquierdas, respaldadas por<br />

"el movimiento popular", desde el<br />

presupuesto, designación de funcionarios y<br />

aprobación de reformas legales y<br />

constitucionales.Miguel Ángel Mancera, jefe<br />

de gobierno electo del Distrito Federal,<br />

comenta que la gente no quiere sólo<br />

confrontación. "Sí debe haber confrontación,<br />

pero de ideas", dice.Líderes de los partidos<br />

políticos de izquierda y analistas coinciden en<br />

que se mantendrán por separado las siglas<br />

del PRD, PT y MC, pero aglutinados en un<br />

frente como ocurrió desde 2006, para hacer<br />

valer su peso en el Poder Legislativo y<br />

buscar transformaciones en el país.Sin<br />

deseos de derribar dirigencias, en los tres<br />

partidos celebran el haber alcanzado una<br />

gran cantidad de espacios en el Congreso y<br />

las gubernaturas de Morelos y Tabasco.Las<br />

izquierdas contarán con 137 diputados<br />

federales, de los cuales, 102 son del PRD, 18<br />

del PT y 17 del MC. En el Senado contarán<br />

con 21, cuatro y tres,<br />

respectivamente.Mancera dijo que "es un<br />

resultado muy importante para todo lo que es<br />

el proyecto de la izquierda progresista. El<br />

resultado electoral es satisfactorio, como<br />

vemos en todos y cada uno de los frentes,<br />

como en la Cámara de Diputados, la<br />

Asamblea Legislativa del DF, el Senado, y<br />

los resultados en la jefatura del gobierno del<br />

DF y los estados de Tabasco y Morelos. El<br />

movimiento progresista tuvo buen<br />

desempeño"."El PRD sale fortalecido, pese a<br />

ánimos encontrados porque hubiéramos<br />

querido hoy estar festejando el claro triunfo<br />

en la Presidencia de la República, pero es<br />

indiscutible que hoy, el PRD es mucho más<br />

que lo que éramos antes del 1 de julio",<br />

esgrime Jesús Zambrano, líder<br />

nacional."Estamos obligados a jugar un papel<br />

preponderante, no sólo de hacer valer<br />

nuestro peso político-electoral para influir en<br />

las decisiones, sino que debemos asumirnos<br />

en la responsabilidad de ser fuerza<br />

fundamental y determinante de los cambios<br />

que hoy requiere México".Ser, añade la<br />

senadora electa Dolores Padierna y aún<br />

secretaria general del PRD, "una oposición<br />

inteligente y eficaz".Un documento de<br />

evaluación del PRD advierte que no serán<br />

una oposición fácil, pues tan sólo el<br />

presupuesto debe ser negociado: "La<br />

aprobación de nuevas leyes o de reforma a<br />

las existentes, así como diversos<br />

nombramientos en los que interviene el<br />

Poder Legislativo, requieren del voto<br />

mayoritario de los integrantes de los cuerpos<br />

legislativos". Sin divisionesDespués de<br />

transcurridas dos semanas de los comicios<br />

del 1 de julio se reunió la Comisión Política<br />

del PRD, que no sesionó durante todo el<br />

periodo de campaña y lejos de discutir<br />

fracasos, sus integrantes definieron la fecha<br />

para su próximo Consejo Nacional a finales<br />

de mes, sólo para elegir a los comisionados<br />

políticos y miembros del secretariado<br />

nacional que deberán dejar sus cargos<br />

porque ganaron una diputación o<br />

senaduría.En Movimiento Ciudadano<br />

tampoco se vislumbran ajustes. Deberán<br />

elegir nuevo dirigente porque Luis Walton<br />

ganó la alcaldía de Acapulco. El tercer aliado,<br />

el PT, también está inamovible en sus<br />

dirigencias, como ha sido desde su<br />

creación.Históricamente, la izquierda en<br />

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México y en el mundo es fratricida. En 2006,<br />

los tres partidos de la coalición Por el bien de<br />

todos, acabaron confrontados. El entonces<br />

Convergencia propuso al PT unificarse, pero<br />

el petista Alberto Anaya "nos mandó a la<br />

chingada", acepta un miembro del MC. De<br />

aquí a 2015, para la renovación de la<br />

Cámara de Diputados es seguro que irán con<br />

sus siglas cada quien.Tímidamente,<br />

perredistas deslizan la idea de Ebrard de<br />

intentar ser el fiel de la balanza en el PRD<br />

con una imagen conciliadora. Lo ven, incluso,<br />

coordinando el frente de la izquierda<br />

electoral. Por lo pronto, él ya dijo que el 6 de<br />

diciembre inicia su carrera por la candidatura<br />

presidencial de las izquierdas en 2018."Las<br />

izquierdas estamos diferenciadas. No<br />

estamos hoy homologadas, hemos<br />

participado en un frente de partidos y es<br />

pertinente que la izquierda mexicana siga en<br />

un frente político al término de la elección de<br />

2012, como hemos estado desde 2006. Yo<br />

estoy en la mejor disposición. No hay<br />

necesidad de la fractura", ofrece Anaya,<br />

dirigente del PT.Mancera define a los<br />

liderazgos de la izquierda así: "Sin ninguna<br />

duda sigue siendo un referente Andrés<br />

Manuel López Obrador; veo al ingeniero<br />

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas con mucho<br />

entusiasmo en sus intervenciones y<br />

planteamientos; está Marcelo Ebrard, por<br />

supuesto, parte moderna y propositiva de la<br />

izquierda y líder de movimiento"."AMLO<br />

aportó al crecimiento de la izquierda. Se<br />

pueden tener diferencias con él, como ha<br />

ocurrido, pero no comparto esa afirmación de<br />

que es un lastre, la respeto, pero no es el<br />

caso", afirma Jesús Ortega, ex presidente<br />

nacional del PRD."Andrés Manuel tiene 58<br />

años. Hay López Obrador para rato. Es uno<br />

de los líderes sociales, si no es que el más<br />

notorio, de una sociedad ansiosa de<br />

liderazgo y de rumbo. Es un político con<br />

capacidad para reinventarse y hacer valer su<br />

jerarquía", define Alejandro Chanona,<br />

académico de la UNAM y miembro de la<br />

dirigencia de MC.Lorenzo Meyer,<br />



investigador de El Colegio de México, ve por<br />

un lado a AMLO y por otro a una izquierda<br />

"moderada" negociando, y aunque ve factible<br />

que el tabasqueño cree su propio partido, no<br />

ve condiciones propicias para ello. Planteó,<br />

además, no descartar a López Obrador como<br />

candidato presidencial en 2018, si se<br />

recuerda que a la misma edad fue<br />

mandatario Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva en<br />

Brasil."No veo una pugna con Marcelo",<br />

concluye Jesús Ortega Gobernadores piden<br />

cordura a AMLOGobernadores del PRI y<br />

PAN demandaron a todos los actores<br />

políticos involucrados en el proceso<br />

presidencial 2012 asumir una actitud<br />

democrática y acatar a cabalidad las<br />

decisiones de las autoridades electorales del<br />

país.Ante la exigencia de Andrés Manuel<br />

López Obrador de tener un presidente<br />

interino, los mandatarios de Morelos, Hidalgo<br />

y Durango, pidieron seriedad, no cometer la<br />

"irresponsabilidad" de llevar al país a la<br />

zozobra y unidad.Los priístas Francisco<br />

Olvera, de Hidalgo, y Jorge Herrera<br />

Calderas, de Durango, así como el panista<br />

Marco Antonio Adame, de Morelos, pusieron<br />

énfasis en que debe haber en los actores<br />

políticos apego absoluto a la legalidad.Ante<br />

la exigencia de Andrés Manuel López<br />

Obrador de tener un presidente interino,<br />

Adame dijo que en este momento es<br />

indispensable "un mínimo de seriedad" y que<br />

el futuro de los mexicanos "debe estar al<br />

margen de ocurrencias"."Se me hace un<br />

planteamiento irresponsable, alevoso, que<br />

atiende más al cumplimiento de una agenda<br />

particular de una aspiración no satisfecha<br />

que a lo que el país necesita en este<br />

momento con generosidad de todos los que<br />

concurrimos al proceso electoral", señaló<br />

Adame.Indicó que los ciudadanos han<br />

expresado su decisión con su voto. Puso<br />

énfasis en que en el sistema democrático se<br />

gana "y se pierde y una vez que estén<br />

resueltos los procesos de impugnación, la<br />

única conducta democrática aceptable es el<br />

reconocimiento de los resultados".Olvera<br />

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demandó "no suplantar" la decisión del<br />

Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la<br />

Federación "con suposiciones". Dijo que si<br />

López Obrador busca radicalizar su postura y<br />

crear zozobra en el país "sería una gran<br />

irresponsabilidad".Subrayó que ninguna de<br />

las acusaciones vertidas por López Obrador<br />

y por el Movimiento Progresista han sido<br />

demostradas.Herrera Caldera dijo que las<br />



fuerzas políticas del país deben estar unidas,<br />

pues los mexicanos "no podemos darnos el<br />

lujo de estar divididos" ante las necesidades<br />

que tiene el país. "Hago un llamado a que<br />

todos estemos en una gran disposición de<br />

actuar en el marco de la ley, pero sobre todo,<br />

en un ánimo de unidad para poder construir",<br />

asentó.<br />

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Der Auftrag, ein einfaches, jedermann<br />

verständliches Wahlrecht zu formen, ist nicht<br />

fair. Eine Frage der Gerechtigkeit im<br />

Stimmrecht lässt sich nicht mit<br />

mathematischen Mitteln beantworten.<br />

Nachdem das Bundesverfassungsgericht das<br />

runderneuerte Wahlrecht gekippt hat, ist der<br />

Jubel groß. Wie immer sehen sich die<br />

Politiker, die das Gesetz gemacht haben,<br />

grundsätzlich bestätigt, denn was sollen sie<br />

sonst auch machen. Die Politiker, die<br />

erfolgreich gegen das Gesetz geklagt haben,<br />

feiern natürlich erst recht. Und in den<br />

Kommentaren erfreut man sich landauf,<br />

landab daran, dass die Richter den Politikern<br />

mal wieder „eine Klatsche“, „eine Ohrfeige“<br />

verpasst haben.<br />

Okay. Lassen Sie uns doch mal ein kleines<br />

Spiel spielen. Lieber Leser, spielen Sie mit?<br />

Ich möchte Ihnen eine einfache Frage stellen.<br />

Sie überlegen sich in aller Ruhe die Antwort.<br />

Dann treffen wir uns wieder. Und hier die<br />

Frage: Was ist ein Überhangmandat?<br />

Ein Kompromiss<br />

Wenn Sie nicht zufällig Bundeswahlleiter sind<br />

und bei Ihnen als Antwort herausgekommen<br />

ist „Überhangmandate entstehen, wenn die<br />

Anzahl der in ihrem Wahlkreis direkt<br />

gewählten Abgeordneten einer Partei die<br />

Zahl der Mandate übertrifft, die sich aus dem<br />

Zweitstimmenergebnis dieser Partei ergeben“<br />

- dann gehören Sie vermutlich zu einer<br />

kleinen Schicht politisch sehr gebildeter und<br />

interessierter Menschen. Wenn Sie darüber<br />

hinaus noch die Voraussetzung Ihrer Antwort<br />

erwähnt haben sollten, nämlich die<br />

„personalisierte Verhältniswahl“, dann sind<br />

Sie einsame Spitze. Und wenn Sie schließlich<br />

noch die Nachfrage richtig beantworten<br />

können, dann sind wir vermutlich nur noch zu<br />

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/ - Politik, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Dreifingerarithmetik<br />

zweit (und ich bin nur dabei, weil ich mir das<br />

alles eben erst wieder draufgeschafft habe).<br />

Die Nachfrage: Sind demnach die<br />

überzähligen Direktmandate<br />

Überhangmandate?<br />

Wenn Sie dazu „nein“ gesagt haben (das<br />

Gegenteil war diese Woche oft zu lesen und<br />

zu hören), dann verneige ich mich vor Ihnen.<br />

Aber nicht vor dem<br />

Bundesverfassungsgericht, das nicht. Alles<br />

fing ja damit an, dass die hohen Richter dem<br />

Bundestag aufgegeben haben, ein einfaches,<br />

jedermann verständliches Wahlrecht zu<br />

formen. Dazu kann man nur eines sagen:<br />

Dieser Auftrag ist nicht fair. Man kann ihn<br />

nicht erfüllen, jedenfalls nicht, solange es das<br />

personalisierte Verhältniswahlrecht gibt. Es<br />

ist ein Zwitter, trägt seinen Widerspruch in<br />

sich - und das ist der wahre Grund dafür,<br />

dass einem schon bei der einfachen Frage<br />

nach dem Überhangmandat die Knie weich<br />

werden.<br />

Unser Wahlrecht mischt, grob gesagt,<br />

Mehrheits- und Verhältniswahl; Ersteres gibt<br />

es beispielsweise in England. Da kommen<br />

nur die Abgeordneten ins Parlament, die ihre<br />

Wahlkreise gewinnen. Es werden also nur die<br />

Stimmen ihrer Wähler politisch wirksam: The<br />

winner takes it all. Die Stimmen der Bürger,<br />

die Verlierer gewählt haben, landen unter<br />

dem Tisch: The loser has to fall. Beim<br />

Verhältniswahlrecht dagegen kommen<br />

grundsätzlich alle Stimmen zum Tragen. Das<br />

hat aber andere Nachteile: Zum Beispiel<br />

begünstigt es den überproportionalen<br />

Einfluss von winzigen, oft auch noch<br />

extremistischen Parteien. Dagegen richtet<br />

man zum Beispiel Fünf-Prozent-Hürden auf.<br />

Dabei fallen freilich auch wieder Stimmen<br />

unter den Tisch. Ist das gerecht? Es ist ein<br />

Kompromiss, und der ist bestimmt gerechter,<br />

als Extremisten die Staatsruder in die Hand<br />

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zu spielen.<br />

Mal eben die Meinung geändert<br />

Ein noch wichtigerer Einwand gegen ein<br />

reines Verhältniswahlrecht ist, dass es die<br />

Parteien als Institutionen stärkt, die<br />

Abgeordneten hingegen schwächt. Das will<br />

das Grundgesetz nicht. Es hat den Parteien<br />

nicht viel Macht zugesprochen, die<br />

verschaffen sie sich naturgemäß selbst. Das<br />

Grundgesetz hat vielmehr den Abgeordneten<br />

zum Ziegelstein des repräsentativen<br />

Gebäudes gemacht. So konnte zum Beispiel<br />

der Abgeordnete Christian Ströbele, auch als<br />

ihm seine Partei keinen aussichtsreichen<br />

Listenplatz mehr einräumte, seinen<br />

Kreuzberger Wahlkreis durch Beinarbeit<br />

erobern. Seinerzeit gelangten auch zwei<br />

Berliner PDS-Abgeordnete in den Bundestag,<br />

obwohl deren Partei an der<br />

Fünf-Prozent-Hürde gescheitert war. Das ist<br />

übrigens (siehe die Nachfrage oben) der<br />

einzige Fall, wo man das Direktmandat reinen<br />

Gewissens als Überhangmandat bezeichnen<br />

kann.<br />

Sonst nicht. Wer nämlich das Direktmandat<br />

selbst zum Überhangmandat erklärt, sagt<br />

damit zugleich, dass es weniger wert sei als<br />

ein über die Parteiliste errungener<br />

Parlamentssitz. In Wirklichkeit genießen die<br />

Direktmandate Vorrang. Aus gutem Grund:<br />

Was kann mehr gelten als die von einem<br />

Kandidaten selbst errungene Mehrheit? Sie<br />

ist demokratisch keinesfalls weniger wert als<br />

eine mit innerparteilichen<br />

(Disziplinierungs-)Mitteln erwirtschaftete<br />

Rangordnung auf einer Liste. Deshalb ist der<br />

Gedanke fragwürdig, wenn nicht gar<br />

gefährlich, dem Verhältniswahlergebnis<br />

gegenüber dem personalen absoluten<br />

Vorrang einzuräumen, indem man die Erfolge<br />

der direkt gewählten Abgeordneten durch<br />

sogenannte Ausgleichsmandate bei den<br />

Parteien wieder wegschleift. Das ist in<br />

Schleswig-Holstein beispielsweise sogar<br />

Gesetz, obwohl andererseits gerade dort die<br />



Sonderregelungen für den SSW dem<br />

Gleichheitsgrundsatz bei den Wahlen<br />

hohnsprechen - was wiederum das<br />

Verfassungsgericht nicht interessiert.<br />

Aber es hat ja auch zu den<br />

Überhangmandaten zwischen seinem letzten<br />

und seinem vorletzten Urteil mal eben die<br />

Meinung geändert. Bisher hielt es für<br />

zulässig, dass Direktmandate gleichsam die<br />

Liste „ziehen“. Die direkt gewählten<br />

Abgeordneten verschaffen dadurch ihrer<br />

Partei einen proportionalen Zuwachs - bei der<br />

PDS damals sogar den denkbar größten,<br />

nämlich die Möglichkeit, überhaupt im<br />

Parlament vertreten zu sein. Verfügt also eine<br />

Partei über Abgeordnete, die einen Wahlkreis<br />

erobern können, dann wird diese Partei nicht<br />

nur durch den Abgeordnetensitz belohnt,<br />

sondern zusätzlich auch im Verhältnis zu den<br />

Parteien, denen das nicht gelingt - vielleicht,<br />

weil sie weniger Wert darauf legen, vielleicht,<br />

weil sie Spezialinteressen verfolgen,<br />

vielleicht, weil sie sich gegenüber den<br />

Bürgern stärker abschotten. Wenn das<br />

bereits den Gleichheitsgrundsatz im<br />

Wahlrecht verletzen soll, wieso duldet das<br />

Verfassungsgericht dann das<br />

Fünf-Prozent-Fallbeil? Es geht hier nicht um<br />

Arithmetik, es geht um Politik.<br />

Ein lupenrein neutrales und objektives<br />

Wahlrecht gibt es nicht<br />

Es ist eine politische Entscheidung, keine<br />

juristische, ob man die Verhältniswahl<br />

gegenüber der Personenwahl stärken will. Da<br />

spricht mehr dagegen als dafür: Wir sollten<br />

die Macht der Parteien gegenüber den<br />

Abgeordneten nicht noch weiter erhöhen.<br />

Wenn das eine Frage der Gerechtigkeit im<br />

Stimmrecht sein sollte, so lässt sie sich<br />

jedenfalls nicht mit mathematischen Mitteln<br />

beantworten.<br />

Denn ein lupenrein neutrales, gleichsam<br />

objektives Wahlrecht gibt es nicht. Jagen die<br />

Richter eine Schimäre? Und bestätigen sie<br />

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das nicht sogar, wenn sie selbst einfach mal<br />

so die Überhangmandate im Bundestag auf<br />

„etwa fünfzehn“ einschränken wollen? Und<br />

was bleibt nun dem Souverän, dem<br />

Gesetzgeber? Gewiss darf er sich auf<br />

vierzehn Überhangmandate festlegen oder<br />

auf sechzehn. Auch 18, 20, 22? Wie das<br />



Gericht seinen eigenen Vorschlag bewerten<br />

würde, wenn der Bundestag ihn von sich aus<br />

zur Norm erhoben hätte, kann sich ein<br />

Dreifingerfaultier allerdings an einer Hand<br />

abzählen.<br />

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La Nacion/ - Economía, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Binner llamó a cerrar filas para evitar otra<br />

reelección presidencial<br />

Más notas para entender este temaKunkel:<br />

"Scioli sería un buen jefe de gobierno<br />

porteño" SANTA FE.- El líder socialistay ex<br />

candidato presidencial por el Frente Amplio<br />

Progresista (FAP), Hermes Binner, se mostró<br />

convencido de que la presidenta<br />

CristinaKirchner "quiere ir por la reforma<br />

constitucional" que le permita perpetuarse en<br />

el Gobierno, y reclamó a la oposición "cerrar<br />

filas por la no reforma de la Constitución" y<br />

evitar, así, el objetivo del kirchnerismo.<br />

"La oposición tiene que cerrar filas por la no<br />

reforma. Si no se cumple con la<br />

Constitución de 1853/60 y no se cumple con<br />

la reforma de 1994, ¿para qué quieren<br />

modificarla si no es para introducir una<br />

reelección indefinida? Las reelecciones<br />

indefinidas siempre han tenido malos<br />

resultados", aseguró el ex gobernador de<br />

Santa Fe.<br />

En ese sentido, Binner coincidió con el<br />

senador nacional Ernesto Sanz (UCR), quien<br />

hace unos días anticipó a LA NACION que su<br />

partido convocará a un acuerdo con otras<br />

fuerzas políticas para frenar el intento de<br />

reforma de la Constitución que ya impulsan<br />

sectores kirchneristas.<br />

Al hablar en Rosario, Binner consideró que<br />

son "absolutamente estratégicas" las<br />

elecciones de 2013. "Si los electores creen<br />

que en estos comicios se estará jugando la<br />

reelección indefinida contra la no reelección,<br />

daríamos un paso gigantesco para que la<br />

gente decida ponerles límites a las<br />

reelecciones", subrayó.<br />

Minimizó, sin embargo, la posibilidad de un<br />

acuerdo político con el ex vicepresidente<br />

Julio Cobos, quien había adelantado que se<br />

reunirá en Mendoza con el dirigente<br />

socialista, para definir un trabajo preelectoral<br />

conjunto. "Desconozco. (Cobos) Me llamó<br />

por teléfono para la presentación de un libro.<br />

Sólo eso es lo que hablé con él", remarcó el<br />

ex mandatario santafecino, aldesestimar las<br />

versiones que indicaban que Cobos había<br />

acordado con Binner resolver las<br />

candidaturas del FAP en una elección<br />

interna.<br />

Ayer, una fuente del entorno de Binner<br />

consultada por LA NACION consideró<br />

"dificultoso" plantear una alianza entre Cobos<br />

y el FAP, debido a "la importante cantidad de<br />

actores políticos que deben sentarse a<br />

negociar". Al sostener que veía "con mucha<br />

preocupación" el futuro, el ex candidato<br />

presidencial dijo que el país está "ante un<br />

gobierno que transgrede a las instituciones".<br />

"Es un gobierno transgresor y lo<br />

comprobamos en el Indec, donde se dibujan<br />

los números; en el desconocimiento de los<br />

otros poderes, como la Corte Suprema de<br />

Justicia, y la forma en que el oficialismo se<br />

conduce en el Congreso", añadió Binner.<br />

En tanto, para no quedar fuera de la<br />

estrategia política de la oposición, el<br />

presidente de la UCR, Mario Barletta,<br />

destacó que su partido "siempre ha tenido un<br />

espíritu frentista", aunque recordó que "cada<br />

provincia definirá la estrategia para 2013".<br />

Desechó, así, la idea de avanzar en un<br />

acuerdo nacional con el socialismo.<br />

En apoyo a Binner, la diputada socialista<br />

Alicia Ciciliani tambiéndescalificó el intento<br />

de Cobos. "Es una falta de respeto a la<br />

gente; nosotros queríamos hablar de<br />

programas y de proyectos de país, qué país<br />

queremos, con qué instrumentos y después<br />

quiénes. En cambio, losradicales están<br />

siempre hablando de internas", lamentó.<br />

MACRI EXTIENDE EL ARMANDO DE PRO<br />

El jefe de gobierno porteño, Mauricio Macri,<br />

afirmó ayer que está trabajando "activamente<br />

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en el armado de Pro en distintos lugares del<br />

país, sin descuidar el quehacer en la ciudad<br />

de Buenos Aires", al admitir que la oposición<br />

ya planifica su campaña con vistas a los<br />

comicios legislativos de 2013. El líder de Pro<br />



afirmó que posee una "agenda movida"<br />

porque no puede "conciliar un trabajo<br />

conjunto con la Nación"..<br />

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Kunkel: "Scioli sería un buen jefe de<br />

gobierno porteño"<br />

Carlos Kunkel, en su despacho: "Tengo<br />

respeto por Moyano". Foto: LA<br />

NACION / Aníbal GrecoMás notas para<br />

entender este temaBinner llamó a cerrar filas<br />

para evitar otra reelección presidencial El<br />

diputado Carlos Kunkel, un kirchnerista de<br />

paladar negro y lengua filosa, parece<br />

divertirse con los silencios, las evasivas y las<br />

respuestas elípticas. Con gesto serio,<br />

sostiene que no existió una disputa entre la<br />

presidenta Cristina Kirchner y el gobernador<br />

Daniel Scioli, y desconoce un enfrentamiento<br />

entre el mandatario bonaerense y su<br />

vicegobernador, Gabriel Mariotto.<br />

Pero, con una sonrisa cómplice, deja caer<br />

algunas definiciones e ironías que llenan de<br />

significado todos sus silencios. "Scioli puede<br />

ser un buen jefe de gobierno porteño", dice,<br />

durante una entrevista con LA NACION, en la<br />

que no cierra la puerta a una reforma<br />

constitucional para habilitar una nueva<br />

re-reelección de la Presidenta. "El conjunto<br />

del peronismo va a decidir qué es lo más<br />

conveniente", sostiene.<br />

-¿Está superada la disputa con Scioli?<br />

-No hubo disputa con Scioli. Lo que se<br />

estaba discutiendo era si, porque la provincia<br />

había errado en su estimación<br />

presupuestaria, la Nación tenía que buscar<br />

dinero adicional.<br />

-Usted dijo que Scioli se había equivocado al<br />

decir que quería ser candidato a Presidente,<br />

a tres años de las elecciones.<br />

-Pero no lo asocié con la cuestión de los<br />

aguinaldos. Yo dije que no era momento de<br />

discutir eso, nada más. Scioli fue nuestro<br />

candidato a vicepresidente, desempeñó bien<br />

esa función, al punto que lo llevamos como<br />

candidato a gobernador.<br />

-¿Pero él no es parte del mismo espacio?<br />

-¿Cómo que no? Es parte del peronismo.<br />

-¿Y del kirchnerismo?<br />

-Yo no soy kirchnerista, yo soy peronista.<br />

Alberto Fernández fue el fundador del<br />

kirchnerismo, pregúntenle a él.<br />

-Usted dijo que si Scioli quería ser candidato,<br />

tenía que ir a una interna. ¿No le gusta como<br />

candidato oficialista?<br />

-Si él decide ser candidato sin buscar<br />

consenso de los demás dirigentes, podremos<br />

decidir acompañarlo o presentar una<br />

alternativa.<br />

-Mariotto apoyó un pedido de informes sobre<br />

publicidad?<br />

-(Interrumpe) Es incorrecto. Cuando se<br />

trataba la ley de reevalúo inmobiliario rural,<br />

una de las condiciones que formuló la<br />

oposición era acompañar el pedido de<br />

informes. Como pensamos que Scioli no<br />

cometió ninguna irregularidad, no vimos<br />

ninguna razón para que no se votara. Lo que<br />

nos llama la atención es que habiéndose<br />

cumplido el plazo, los funcionarios de Scioli<br />

no han cumplido con la obligación de brindar<br />

la información. Eso hace que la oposición<br />

diga algo que nosotros no creemos, que no<br />

se pueden mostrar las cuentas porque se<br />

han hecho gastos al margen de la ley.<br />

-¿Y por qué el oficialismo nunca acompañó<br />

en el Congreso los proyectos de la oposición<br />

sobre publicidad oficial?<br />

-Cada uno evalúa ante cada situación si<br />

corresponde o no.<br />

-Por no alinearse con el Poder Ejecutivo a<br />

Cobos lo cuestionaron. ¿No se lo puede<br />

cuestionar a Mariotto por lo mismo?<br />

-¿Qué es alinearse?<br />

-Defender las decisiones del gobernador.<br />

-No, nosotros lo que defendemos son los<br />

programas de gobierno del peronismo, y a<br />

partir de allí podemos tener matices en la<br />

interpretación de cada una de las cosas.<br />

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Pero no son gobiernos personales.<br />

-¿Entonces Cobos no fue un traidor?<br />

-Los radicales fueron los que lo calificaron<br />

así. Si la UCR lo calificó así, yo tengo que<br />

respetar la decisión que tomó su partido.<br />

-¿Cuándo debería definirse el candidato<br />

presidencial del oficialismo?<br />

-En 2015. No es que alguno nace con un<br />

hálito y por derecho divino tiene que ir<br />

ocupando cargos.<br />

-¿Le gustaría que Cristina Kirchner busque<br />

otro mandato?<br />

-No creo que ella busque eso. Dentro de dos<br />

años y medio, el conjunto del peronismo va a<br />

decidir qué es lo más conveniente.<br />

-¿No debería respetarse el límite<br />

constitucional?<br />

-No es una cuestión que merezca mi opinión<br />

pública ahora.<br />

-En 2015 se termina el mandato de Scioli...<br />

-(Interrumpe) Yo creo que la ciudad de<br />

Buenos Aires también merecería un buen<br />

jefe de gobierno, con experiencia de gestión.<br />

Por ahí, Scioli puede ser un buen jefe de<br />

gobierno.<br />

-¿Scioli, jefe porteño?<br />

-¿Y por qué no? Era candidato cuando<br />

nosotros le pedimos que nos acompañara<br />

como candidato a vicepresidente.<br />

-¿Lo está proponiendo?<br />

-No (se ríe), yo no lanzo la candidatura de<br />

nadie.<br />

-¿Cómo ve el enfrentamiento de Moyano con<br />

el Gobierno?<br />

-Creo que se ha equivocado, pero tengo un<br />

gran respeto por su trayectoria y por lo que<br />

significó en el enfrentamiento al<br />



neoliberalismo.<br />

Intimidades de un duro<br />

-Como boquense, ¿está con Riquelme o con<br />

Maradona?<br />

-Por supuesto que prefiero siempre las<br />

actitudes que ha tenido Riquelme, con<br />

respecto a la dirigencia, a los hinchas y a los<br />

socios.<br />

-¿En su casa se discute de política con su<br />

mujer (la senadora bonaerense Cristina<br />

Fioramonti) y con su hija Macarena<br />

(protagonista de la toma del Colegio Nacional<br />

de Buenos Aires)?<br />

-Así como en las familias de los empresarios<br />

se habla de negocios, de cómo ganar más<br />

plata y de cómo evadir impuestos, nosotros<br />

hablamos de cómo se podría mejorar la<br />

función pública.<br />

-¿Qué siente cuando lo tildan de comisario<br />

político?<br />

-No creo que sea deshonroso. Si me dijeran<br />

que soy lobbista o que estoy en la función<br />

pública para buscar negocios particulares,<br />

eso sí me ofendería, porque no es cierto.<br />

-¿Por qué se pelea tanto en las sesiones?<br />

-A veces son sesiones muy tediosas y hay<br />

que ponerles un poquito de salsa. Andá a<br />

preguntarles a los presidentes de bloque<br />

opositores si tienen algún problema<br />

conmigo.<br />

-Mientras no reaccionen como Graciela<br />

Camaño (la diputada que le pegó un<br />

cachetazo).<br />

-Hay que dejar que cada uno se exprese<br />

culturalmente de acuerdo con su formación..<br />

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Se viene la discusión por el federalismo<br />

Por ahora, todo está en calma, pero no se<br />

sabe qué pasará. El gobierno nacional se las<br />

arregló como para acallar los planteos de las<br />

provincias. Pero de a poco, los gobernadores<br />

ven que algunas políticas y anuncios que se<br />

hacen desde la Casa Rosada tienen cada<br />

vez más impacto en sus números. Y como su<br />

fuera poco, muchas declamaciones quedan<br />

en los dichos y no pasan a los hechos.<br />

Algo de eso pasó el viernes cuando las<br />

provincias petroleras se enteraron por el<br />

Boletín Oficial de que desde ahora toda<br />

cuestión referida a hidrocarburos será<br />

competencia de tres funcionarios. Los<br />

secretarios de Comercio Interior y Energía,<br />

Guillermo Moreno y Daniel Cameron, y el<br />

viceministro de Economía, Axel Kicillof, serán<br />

los que revisen desde las ganancias hasta<br />

los planes de inversión de las petroleras.<br />

Hasta el viernes, cuando se publicó la<br />

reglamentación de la ley mediante la que se<br />

confiscó YPF, los planes de inversión y<br />

mucho de lo que tiene que ver con la<br />

producción, era facultad de las provincias,<br />

titulares del dominio de los subsuelos desde<br />

la reforma constitucional de 19944.<br />

Los distritos provinciales, dueños del<br />

petróleo, no tendrán ninguna silla en la nueva<br />

estructura estatal. Algo similar sucedió con<br />

YPF cuando el Gobierno dijo que las<br />

provincias serían dueñas de la mitad de la<br />

porción que confiscaba. Hasta ahora no hubo<br />

traspaso de acciones, sólo un par de sillas en<br />

el directorio de la petrolera.<br />

El viernes, después de que el ministro del<br />

Interior y Transporte, Florencio Randazzo,<br />

presentó una página en la que se puede<br />

consultar los subsidios a los colectivos, no<br />

fueron pocos los que miraron de reojo la<br />

experiencia del jefe de gobierno porteño,<br />

Mauricio Macri, con el traspaso del<br />

subterráneo.<br />

"Semejante detalle en la distribución del<br />

subsidio tiene una finalidad: traspasar esas<br />

erogaciones", dijo ayer un gobernador a LA<br />

NACION después de conocer los alcances<br />

del sitio presentado por Randazzo. Claro que<br />

la queja vino después: "Nosotros no creamos<br />

un esquema de transporte dependiente de<br />

los subsidios, pero ahora, cuando no haya<br />

más plata, vamos a tener que pagarlo".<br />

El retraso de los fondos para pagar el<br />

aguinaldo en Buenos Aires y el reclamo de<br />

Córdoba para que se le cancele una deuda<br />

que la Nación mantiene con ella son dos<br />

ejemplos de la pelea por la centralización del<br />

dinero. Dos provincias mostraron sus<br />

problemas en público, pero son 24 las que<br />

los tienen..<br />

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La Nacion Chile/ - Notícias, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Senadores UDI piden reponer reforma<br />

que inhabilita a autoridades que<br />

consuman drogas<br />

Tras la polémica suscitada luego que el<br />

senador Fulvio Rossi (PS) confesara que<br />

fuma marihuana esporádicamente, sus<br />

colegas de la Unión Demócrata<br />

Independiente (UDI), Hernán Larraín y Jaime<br />

Orpis, pidieron reactivar el proyecto de<br />

reforma constitucional que establece para<br />

todas las autoridades la inhabilidad de<br />

ejercer un cargo público si consumen drogas.<br />

"Es fundamental que la Comisión de<br />

Constitución y Justicia de la Cámara de<br />

Diputados coloque en tabla la modificación.<br />

Este proyecto de reforma constitucional tiene<br />

avanzado la mitad del trámite legislativo<br />

porque fue aprobado por el Senado y lo que<br />

resta es la aprobación en la Cámara de<br />

Diputados", indicó Orpis. Por su parte,<br />

Larraín cuestionó a Rossi, señalando que es<br />

una "tremenda irresponsabilidad que una<br />

autoridad públicamente admita su consumo.<br />

Eso lo que hace es legitimar ante los jóvenes<br />

y en la discusión pública que este es un<br />

consumo posible y deseable, y eso nos<br />

parece eso gravemente irresponsable". EL<br />

EJEMPLO DE ALASKA Según Orpis, el gran<br />

desafío del país es buscar la forma de cómo<br />

reducir el consumo de todo tipo de drogas y<br />

sería un contrasentido que Chile aprobara el<br />

consumo de marihuana, como buscarán<br />

promover Rossi junto al senador PPD<br />

Ricardo Lagos Weber. En este sentido, Orpis<br />

explicó que Alaska, Estados Unidos, a<br />

principios de la década del "70, fue el primer<br />

estado que legalizó la marihuana, y 5 años<br />

después el consumo se había más que<br />

duplicado. "Incluso en ese país se habla de la<br />

generación perdida y eso motivó que en<br />

Alaska en 1990, los ciudadanos votaran a<br />

favor de la repenalización de la marihuana.<br />

De modo, que hay que ser extremadamente<br />

cuidadoso, el que Chile apunte a políticas<br />

públicas de legalización", manifestó el<br />

senador.<br />

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Le Figaro/ - International, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Cour constitutionnelle)<br />

Roumanie: le référendum a débuté<br />

Les bureaux de vote ont ouvert ce matin en<br />

Roumanie pour un référendum crucial sur la<br />

destitution du président de centre droit Traian<br />

Basescu, réclamée par la majorité de centre<br />

gauche après trois mois de crise politique<br />

aigüe dans cette ex-dictature communiste.<br />

Le sort de Traian Basescu, en place depuis<br />

huit ans et aujourd'hui suspendu, dépend<br />

fortement du taux de participation, le<br />

référendum n'étant validé que si plus de la<br />

moitié des 18,3 millions d'électeurs roumains<br />

se présentent aux urnes. S'il avait déjà<br />

survécu à un référendum de destitution en<br />

2007, sa cote de popularité a aujourd'hui<br />

beaucoup baissé après une cure d'austérité<br />

draconienne administrée en 2010.<br />

Ce référendum intervient après de sévères<br />

critiques de l'Union européenne qui a<br />

reproché au gouvernement dirigé par le<br />

premier ministre Victor Ponta d'avoir porté<br />

atteinte à l'Etat de droit notamment en<br />

attaquant la Cour constitutionnelle et ses<br />

juges ainsi qu'en révoquant le médiateur pour<br />

faciliter le débarquement de M. Basescu.<br />

L'Union sociale-libérale, la coalition de<br />

centre-gauche dirigée par M. Ponta, un<br />

social-démocrate (PSD), et par le libéral Crin<br />

Antonescu (PNL), aujourd'hui président<br />

intérimaire, n'a pas ménagé ses efforts pour<br />

mobiliser les électeurs afin de débarquer son<br />

rival.<br />

Les Roumains pourront ainsi voter durant 16<br />

heures, une durée exceptionnellement<br />

longue, entre 07h00 et 23h00 locales. Des<br />

bureaux supplémentaires seront ouverts sur<br />

le littoral de la Mer noire très fréquenté par<br />

les vacanciers. Le camp de Traian Basescu,<br />

qui craint des fraudes, a appelé à boycotter<br />

ce référendum pour ne pas légitimer ce qu'il<br />

qualifie de "coup d'Etat".<br />

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Los Tiempos/ - actualidad, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Rumania decide en referéndum la<br />

destitución del presidente Basescu<br />

BUCAREST |<br />

El impopular presidente rumano luchaba el<br />

domingo por su carrera política mientras los<br />

ciudadanos votaban en todo el país sobre su<br />

posible enjuiciamiento político, una batalla<br />

que ha planteado dudas sobre el imperio de<br />

la ley en esta antigua nación comunista.<br />

Los rivales en el gobierno de Traian Basescu<br />

intentan procesarlo políticamente por<br />

segunda vez en cinco años. Sostienen que el<br />

mandatario populista, de 60 años, se ha<br />

dedicado a inmiscuirse en los negocios del<br />

gobierno, repartir favores entre sus<br />

partidarios y usar el servicio secreto contra<br />

sus enemigos.<br />

Basescu, excapitán de marina cuya<br />

popularidad se ha desplomado ante los<br />

problemas económicos, sostiene que el<br />

proceso de encausamiento sólo es una<br />

venganza política tramada por la oposición.<br />

Pidió a sus partidarios que boicoteen la<br />

votación, una táctica que quizá le permita<br />

sobrevivir, pues la consulta requiere una<br />

asistencia a las urnas de más de la mitad del<br />

electorado total.<br />

La situación política ha minado la credibilidad<br />

de Rumania y tanto Estados Unidos como la<br />

Unión Europea dudan que el gobierno<br />

izquierdista respete la independencia del<br />

poder judicial. Los detractores acusan al<br />

primer ministro Víctor Ponta, sumido en un<br />

escándalo de plagio de documentos, de<br />

orquestar la medida para acaparar más<br />

poder.<br />

Las urnas abrieron a las 0400 GMT y<br />

estaban por cerrar a las 2000 GMT, con 18<br />

millones de rumanos habilitados para votar.<br />

Seguramente la mayoría votará a favor del<br />

encausamiento de Basescu, pero no estaba<br />

claro si los promotores del referéndum<br />

podrán lograr la asistencia necesaria.<br />

Basescu, presidente desde 2004, vio caer su<br />

popularidad tras adoptar el Gobierno<br />

medidas de austeridad en 2010 a pedido del<br />

Fondo Monetario Internacional a cambio de<br />

un plan de rescate multimillonario.<br />

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Reuters General/ - Article, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Russians face trial for "punk prayer"<br />

about Putin<br />

By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW | Sun Jul 29,<br />

2012 9:11am EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) -<br />

Three young women who staged an<br />

irreverent punk-rock protest against Vladimir<br />

Putin on the altar of Russia's main cathedral<br />

go on trial on Monday in a case seen as a<br />

test of the president's tolerance of dissent.<br />

The trial of the activists - from the band<br />

'Pussy Riot' - should show how much power<br />

the resurgent Russian Orthodox Church and<br />

its head, Patriarch Kirill, wields. He has called<br />

the "punk prayer" blasphemy, casting it as<br />

part of a sinister anti-clerical campaign.Maria<br />

Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22,<br />

and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, were jailed<br />

in late February after taking to the altar of<br />

Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral and<br />

belting out a song calling on the Virgin Mary<br />

to "throw Putin out!". The plight of the three<br />

women, two of whom have young children,<br />

has made headlines in the<br />

West.Governments and rights groups, as well<br />

as musicians such as Sting and the Red Hot<br />

Chili Peppers, have expressed concern about<br />

the trial, reflecting doubts that Putin - who is<br />

serving his third presidential term and could<br />

be in power until 2024 - will become more<br />

tolerant of dissenting voices."The court's<br />

decision will depend not on the law but on<br />

what the Kremlin wants," said Lyudmila<br />

Alexeyeva, a Soviet-era dissident and<br />

veteran human rights activist who heads the<br />

Moscow Helsinki Group.Symbolically, the trial<br />

will take place in the same Moscow<br />

courthouse where jailed oil tycoon Mikhail<br />

Khodorkovsky was found guilty of stealing his<br />

own oil in a trial in 2010 that many Western<br />

politicians said looked like a crude Kremlin<br />

attempt to keep a man it saw as a political<br />

threat behind bars.Charged with hooliganism<br />

motivated by religious hatred or hostility, the<br />

women face up to seven years in prison if<br />

convicted - a punishment rights groups say<br />

would be grossly disproportionate no matter<br />

what the law says.Pussy Riot, who say they<br />

were inspired by 90s-era feminist U.S. punk<br />

bands Bikini Kill and Riot Grrl, burst onto the<br />

scene this winter with angry lyrics and<br />

envelope-pushing performances, including<br />

one on Red Square, that went viral on the<br />

Internet.The collective, who say they average<br />

25 years of age, see themselves as the<br />

avant-guard of a disenchanted generation<br />

that is looking for creative ways to show its<br />

dissatisfaction with Putin's 12-year<br />

dominance of the political landscape.The<br />

all-girl group has no lead singer, and, in order<br />

that anyone may join, its members don<br />

multi-colored balaclavas, which have become<br />

its trademark. They numbered five when they<br />

formed in November but later expanded to<br />

ten members, though there have been no<br />

performances in Russia since their<br />

bandmates' arrest.CHURCH "UNDER<br />

ATTACK"The unsanctioned performance that<br />

prompted the arrest of three of their members<br />

offended many believers in predominantly<br />

Orthodox Christian Russia, where the church<br />

has enjoyed a huge revival since the collapse<br />

of the Soviet Union in 1991.But while some<br />

two-thirds of the country's 142 million people<br />

are considered Russian Orthodox, the<br />

number of practicing churchgoers is far<br />

smaller in a nation where the legacy of<br />

decades of official atheism looms<br />

large.Patriarch Kirill has said the church was<br />

"under attack by persecutors" and has<br />

encouraged pro-church demonstrations<br />

including a procession to Christ the Saviour in<br />

April.The defendants' supporters say the<br />

charges are politically-motivated."People are<br />

being jailed for harmless civil activity," said<br />

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Sergei Khramov, an employee at the<br />

courthouse where the trial will be held. He<br />

said the case had prompted him to attend his<br />

first opposition rally on Thursday."It makes us<br />

ashamed of the state".The performance, a<br />

protest against the church's support for Putin,<br />

was part of a lively protest movement that at<br />

its peak saw 100,000 people turn out for<br />

rallies in Moscow, some of the largest in<br />

Russia since the demise of the USSR.The<br />

stunt was designed to highlight the close<br />

relationship between the Church and former<br />

KGB officer Putin, then prime minister, whose<br />

campaign to return to the presidency in a<br />

March 4 election was backed clearly, if<br />

informally, by Patriarch Kirill.Putin won easily<br />

- amid opposition claims of some vote rigging<br />

- and remains popular. But the protests<br />

exposed the vulnerabilities of a leader who<br />

often plays to a silent majority of supporters<br />

with shows of strength and promises of<br />

stability while frustrating middle-class voters<br />

in big cities.Rights activist Alexeyeva, 85,<br />

said she was certain the women would be<br />

convicted, because to clear them would<br />

embarrass both church and state and cast<br />

doubt over the grounds for their jailing."But I<br />

Reuters General/ - Article, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


would very much like to hope their<br />

punishment is limited to time served," she<br />

said, adding that longer sentences would<br />

increase public anger against Putin and<br />

provide his foes - who are planning new<br />

protests in the autumn - with fresh<br />

ammunition.The trial comes as Putin is trying<br />

to rein in his opponents and forestall potential<br />

challenges. He has signed laws tightening<br />

controls on foreign-funded civil rights groups<br />

and sharply raised fines for violations of<br />

public order at street rallies.Opposition<br />

leaders including anti-corruption blogger<br />

Alexei Navalny and socialite Ksenia Sobchak<br />

have had their homes searched and faced<br />

repeated rounds of questioning over violence<br />

at a protest on the eve of Putin's inauguration<br />

on May 7.Navalny is due to appear before<br />

investigators in a separate case on Monday,<br />

according to his lawyers, who said they were<br />

told he would be charged with a crime<br />

punishable by up to five years in<br />

prison.(Additional reporting by Alissa de<br />

Carbonnel and Nastassia Astrasheuskaya;<br />

Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by<br />

Andrew Osborn)<br />

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The Economic Times/ - News, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Cops tell Team Anna not to make<br />

provocative speeches<br />

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police today "requested"<br />

Team Anna to ensure that speakers at their<br />

protest site do not make any "provocative"<br />

speeches so that law and order situation in<br />

the capital is not disturbed.<br />

A senior police official also dismissed<br />

allegations by some speakers that security<br />

personnel misbehaved with women while<br />

they were protesting outside Prime Minister<br />

Manmohan Singh's residence yesterday.<br />

"These allegations were false and we have<br />

advised Team Anna leaders to ensure that<br />

such provocative speeches were not made<br />

from the dais which could affect law and<br />

order situation," he said.<br />

At the venue, Team Anna member Kumar<br />

Vishwas claimed that authorities have sent<br />

him a notice asking him not to make any<br />

provocative speech from the dais.<br />

However, Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan<br />

Bhagat said no letter has been send to<br />

Vishwas. "We have sent a request to Neeraj<br />

of Team Anna requesting him to ensure that<br />

no provocative speeches are made from the<br />

dais. It is not a notice. It is only a request<br />

letter," he said.<br />

In the letter to Team Anna, police said around<br />

100 supporters had protested outside the<br />

Prime Minister's residence and threw water<br />

bottles, lumps of coals, currency notes and<br />

coins inside the premises.<br />

"They were very aggressive and could be<br />

removed from there only after great difficulty.<br />

It has also been noticed that Vishwas, a key<br />

functionary of India Against Corruption, made<br />

provocative speech against police from the<br />

dais...<br />

"Such speeches based on unverified facts are<br />

likely to inflame passions of the crowd and<br />

incite them to commit some unlawful act<br />

which may be prejudicial to law and order and<br />

harmony among the society," the letter said.<br />

It also said that there were also reports that<br />

some senior functionaries have briefed media<br />

that snap demonstrations at the houses of<br />

offices and residences of Prime Minister,<br />

Home Ministers and others will continue.<br />

Police have increased security presence<br />

outside the houses of the Prime Minister,<br />

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, AICC General<br />

Secretary Rahul Gandhi and the ministers,<br />

whom Team Anna has accused of<br />

corruption.<br />

The letter also noted that Team Anna has<br />

given an undertaking to abide by terms and<br />

conditions laid by Supreme Court.<br />

"Such incidents are a clear violation of these<br />

terms and conditions by the supporters of<br />

India Against Corruption. You are therefore<br />

advised to direct the supporters not to violate<br />

the terms and conditions.<br />

"Moreover, the speakers may be directed not<br />

to deliver inflammatory or such speeches<br />

which are based on unverified facts," the<br />

letter said.<br />

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The New York Times/ - Politics, Dom, 29 de Julho de 2012<br />


Journalism’s Misdeeds Get a Glance in<br />

the Mirror<br />

Imagine this chain of events: a division of a<br />

large multinational company is accused of a<br />

pattern of corporate misconduct that includes<br />

surveillance, hacking into phones and bribery<br />

of law enforcement officials. Dozens of<br />

employees are arrested over the course of a<br />

year, and seven are charged in one day with<br />

grievous criminal conduct. Add in that the<br />

company seeks to cover up its actions at<br />

every turn, in some cases reportedly bribing<br />

law enforcement officials, while some of its<br />

political opponents are singled out for<br />

surveillance and black ops. Let’s further<br />

stipulate that the company may just be the<br />

most visible perpetrator in an industry that<br />

has lost its way. It sounds improbable, like a<br />

John Grisham legal thriller about a corrupt<br />

law firm or a fast-and-loose brokerage house,<br />

but it actually happened at a newspaper<br />

company, of all things. Last week seven<br />

former executives at News International, the<br />

British newspaper division of News<br />

Corporation, including Andy Coulson and<br />

Rebekah Brooks, were charged in connection<br />

with the phone hacking investigation, after<br />

years of denials. If this happened in any other<br />

industry — the banking sector during the<br />

financial crisis, the oil companies after the BP<br />

spill, or Blackwater during the Iraq war — you<br />

would expect to see a full-court press by<br />

journalists seeking to shine a light on a<br />

corrupt culture allowed to run amok. Now<br />

would seem to be journalism’s big moment to<br />

turn that light on itself, with deeply reported<br />

investigative articles about how things went<br />

so wrong: the failures of leadership, the<br />

skewed values and the willingness of an<br />

industry to treat the public with such<br />

contempt. The Guardian correctly suggested<br />

that the arrests were unprecedented in the<br />

history of newspapers. But because it is the<br />

news business and the company in the sights<br />

is News Corporation, the offenders are seen<br />

as outliers. The hacking scandal has mostly<br />

been treated as a malady confined to an<br />

island, rather than a signature event in a<br />

rugged stretch for journalism worldwide.<br />

Collectively, the press in the United States<br />

put more time and effort into pulling back the<br />

blankets on the indiscretions of Herman Cain.<br />

But journalism’s ills don’t live exclusively on<br />

Fleet Street or stop at British shores. While<br />

American newspapers don’t publish in the<br />

hypercompetitive landscape that played a<br />

role in the tabloid excesses in Britain, the<br />

growing ecosystem of Web and cable news<br />

shares many of the same characteristics and,<br />

all too often, its failings. Economic pressures<br />

have increased the urgency to make news<br />

and drive traffic, even as budgets have been<br />

cut and experienced news professionals<br />

tossed overboard. There is no accusation<br />

here of a broad, corporate-sanctioned effort<br />

to break the law in pursuit of the news. But<br />

the pratfalls have been tough to miss,<br />

including fundamental lapses in ethics: Casey<br />

Anthony, accused of killing her 2-year-old<br />

daughter, was acquitted of that offense in<br />

spite of significant evidence. When it was<br />

revealed that ABC News paid for most of her<br />

legal defense, through payments for<br />

exclusive photos, very few eyebrows were<br />

raised. The Wild West ethos that often<br />

prevails has led to some startling mistakes.<br />

After the Supreme Court health care ruling in<br />

June, Bloomberg News bragged that it had<br />

beat Reuters by 12 seconds in reporting the<br />

decision, but the public was less interested in<br />

who went first than the fact that both CNN<br />

and Fox News got it wrong. When speed is<br />

the priority, the truth can be run over in the<br />

rush. Not only was the Supreme Court ruling<br />

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mauled in haste, but a Colorado Tea Party<br />

organization was falsely linked by ABC News<br />

to the deadly theater shooting in Aurora.<br />

Emily Bell, a former editor at The Guardian<br />

and now a professor of journalism at<br />

Columbia, gives relatively high marks to the<br />

American press, but says that Web frenzy<br />

creates pressures on both the truth and the<br />

people seeking it. “It is a similar situation to<br />

the U.K. with an overcrowded and overheated<br />

market and a great deal of pressure to be<br />

first,” she said. “The Web heightens that<br />

pressure here and in some cases, it hasn’t<br />

always led to good reporting.” Those who get<br />

it wrong spend a few days in the spanking<br />

machine and then it is back to business as<br />

usual, with very little thought as to why<br />

journalism keeps shooting itself and its<br />

readers in the foot — even in an age when<br />

there is more information on hand than ever<br />

before. We depend on the Web to serve as a<br />

self-cleaning oven, revealing bad reporting<br />

and mistakes of fact and then fixing those<br />

pixels to reflect the current truth. But the big<br />

industrial-strength pat-down is barely in sight<br />

when it comes to the business of journalism.<br />

The news media often fail to turn the X-ray<br />

machine on themselves because, in part,<br />

journalists assign a nobility to the profession<br />

that obscures the flaws within it. We think of<br />

ourselves as doing the People’s work, and<br />

write off lapses in ethics and practices as<br />

potholes on the way to a Greater Truth. The<br />

public isn’t buying. According to the Pew<br />

Research Center for the People and the<br />

Press, in 1985, 34 percent of the respondents<br />

thought stories contained inaccuracies. As of<br />

2011, that figure had almost doubled to 66<br />

percent. Ed Wasserman, a professor of<br />

journalism at Washington and Lee University,<br />

says he believes it is a mistake to draw a<br />

straight line between what has happened in<br />

Britain and troubles in the American press.<br />

But that doesn’t mean that the news media<br />

are doing their job. “I do think there’s<br />

something specifically British in the<br />



hooliganism of News of the World and the<br />

other tabs there, including eavesdropping and<br />

petty bribery,” he wrote in an e-mail. “U.S.<br />

media corruption is different. In many<br />

respects it’s far worse — herding, cozying up<br />

to sources, constantly fleeing for the middle,<br />

and reading off a very narrow news agenda.”<br />

(Lest we think that hacking can’t happen<br />

here, last week a vivid reminder arrived:<br />

Michael Gallagher, a reporter who pleaded<br />

guilty in 1998 to hacking the internal phone<br />

system of Chiquita in pursuit of a story, went<br />

to court and successfully petitioned to have<br />

his criminal conviction expunged. It’s like it<br />

never happened, except it did.) For certain, it<br />

was good journalism — by The Guardian<br />

most notably — that revealed the scope of<br />

News International’s transgressions in the<br />

first place. Some news outlets, including this<br />

one, have produced illuminating articles on<br />

both the scandal in Britain and journalism’s<br />

lapses in general. But the effort to get at the<br />

skewed culture at the core of the business<br />

has largely been missing. Now that the jig is<br />

up and criminal trials are scheduled, the<br />

reaction in much of the press has been<br />

underwhelming and defensive. After Ms.<br />

Brooks and the others were charged last<br />

week, Chris Blackhurst, editor of the<br />

left-leaning Independent, worried about the<br />

chilling effect it might have on newspapers,<br />

and said there might be instances when<br />

journalism needed to operate outside the law.<br />

“The Independent hasn’t hacked anyone’s<br />

phone, but there might be a case where we<br />

felt that we had to,” he said at the time. When<br />

I read all the keening about how this might<br />

upend the entire industry in Britain, forcing a<br />

fundamental change in the business, I had<br />

one clear reaction: good. Part of the reason<br />

the public has lost confidence in our product<br />

is that it sometimes does not merit it. If<br />

journalism is losing its way, that’s a story that<br />

needs to be told over and over.E-mail:<br />

carr@nytimes.com; Twitter: @carr2n<br />

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Romania Votes on Removing President<br />

From Office<br />

PARIS — The political fate of President<br />

Traian Basescu hung in the balance on<br />

Sunday as voters cast ballots in a referendum<br />

on whether to remove him from office, a sign<br />

of the fragility of Romania’s post-communist<br />

democracy. The tactics employed by Prime<br />

Minister Victor Ponta, the president’s rival, to<br />

try to drive him from power have come under<br />

heavy criticism from the European Union over<br />

concerns that Mr. Ponta’s government had<br />

breached the rule of law. The vote plunged<br />

the country into political and economic<br />

uncertainty, and the turmoil raised questions<br />

about whether Romania could retain a<br />

financial aid package from the International<br />

Monetary Fund and others worth 5 billion<br />

euros, or $6.2 billion. Early indications were<br />

that he might remain in power because of a<br />

low voter turnout. At 8 p.m., three hours<br />

before polls were to close, the turnout was<br />

37.67 percent, according to the Central<br />

Election Bureau. More than 50 percent of<br />

eligible voters must vote for the referendum<br />

to be valid. “Romanians rejected a coup<br />

d’état,” Mr. Basescu said after the exit polls<br />

were announced. “The flame of democracy is<br />

still burning.” Speaking before the balloting<br />

began, Mr. Basescu, 60, a polarizing former<br />

sea captain and anticorruption crusader from<br />

the center-right of Romanian politics,<br />

characterized the referendum as a politically<br />

motivated putsch by his left-wing opponent.<br />

He called on the public to boycott the<br />

referendum, whose results will not be valid<br />

unless at least half of eligible voters cast<br />

ballots. “I urge voters not to go to vote,” he<br />

told the national radio station on Wednesday.<br />

Romania, which is among the poorest<br />

countries in the European Union, has<br />

struggled to overcome lawlessness and<br />

corruption since it joined the union in 2007.<br />

Critics say Mr. Ponta’s governing coalition<br />

has undermined democracy in the country by<br />

dismissing the speakers of both chambers of<br />

Parliament — an action the opposition<br />

attacked as unconstitutional — and replacing<br />

the country’s ombudsman, who has the<br />

power to challenge emergency legislation<br />

before the Constitutional Court. The<br />

governing coalition has also threatened to<br />

remove judges from the Constitutional Court.<br />

Mr. Ponta has promised to undo his<br />

government’s emergency measures, and his<br />

defenders said the referendum was a justified<br />

step against a president who had abused his<br />

power. Mr. Ponta has accused Mr. Basescu<br />

of violating the constitution by using the<br />

country’s secret services against his political<br />

enemies, by refusing to appoint cabinet<br />

ministers chosen by the prime minister, by<br />

putting pressure on prosecutors in criminal<br />

cases, and by engaging in illegal phone<br />

tapping. Mr. Basescu has strenuously denied<br />

the accusations. Mr. Basescu, who has been<br />

president since 2004, survived an earlier<br />

referendum in 2007, with about 74 percent of<br />

the votes cast opposing his removal. Voter<br />

turnout was about 44 percent. This time,<br />

opinion polls have indicated that about 70<br />

percent of Romanians favor his removal, but<br />

a low turnout could nonetheless keep him in<br />

office. If Mr. Basescu, whose term runs<br />

through 2014, is removed by the referendum,<br />

a new presidential election would be held<br />

within three months. If he stays, Romania<br />

could remain mired by political paralysis with<br />

a president and prime minister who are at<br />

loggerheads. The referendum is also being<br />

seen as one on Romania’s struggling<br />

economy. Mr. Basescu is associated with<br />

deeply unpopular austerity measures,<br />

undertaken after Romania turned to the<br />

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monetary fund for emergency loans following<br />

the onset of the recession in 2009; to narrow<br />

its deficit, the government cut spending and<br />

government salaries and raised sales tax<br />

rates. Under the Romanian constitution, the<br />

president can be impeached and removed<br />

from office only for grave misdeeds. Analysts<br />

were divided on whether anything Mr.<br />

Basescu had done satisfied that requirement.<br />

Cristian Pirvulescu, the dean of political<br />

science at the National School of Political<br />

Studies and Public Administration, said that<br />

the referendum was necessary to restore<br />

balance to a political system that had been<br />

hijacked by the president. “This is a<br />

restoration of the equilibrium, not an attack on<br />

the constitution or the country’s institutions,”<br />

he said. But he added that the ease with<br />

which politicians were able to manipulate the<br />

political system for personal ends showed the<br />

frailty of Romania’s political culture more than<br />

two decades after the fall of communism. “We<br />

don’t have a real democracy in the Western<br />

or American sense of the term,” he said.<br />

Many voters echoed the complaint that<br />

personal political rivalries were<br />



overshadowing their economic hardship.<br />

Raluca Ulea, 29, an unemployed lawyer, said<br />

on Sunday that she voted against removing<br />

Mr. Basescu because she feared a descent<br />

into chaos. “In this crisis period, a coup d’état<br />

is the last thing we need,” she said. But<br />

Mihaela Cretu, 60, a retired math teacher,<br />

said she voted in favor of ousting the<br />

president because he had slashed state<br />

salaries and pensions: “He has made the<br />

lives of Romanians very difficult.” Some<br />

analysts said the crisis started in June when<br />

Adrian Nastase, a former prime minister and<br />

Mr. Ponta’s political mentor in the Social<br />

Democratic Party, tried to commit suicide,<br />

hours after the country’s Supreme Court<br />

ruled he must serve a two-year sentence for<br />

corruption. Mr. Nastase’s supporters insist<br />

that his conviction was politically motivated,<br />

and analysts said Mr. Ponta wanted to<br />

remove Mr. Basescu from office before he<br />

could make targets of other senior figures in<br />

the party.George Calin contributed reported<br />

from Bucharest, Romania.<br />

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Jennifer Wynn and Damian Williams<br />

Jennifer Nicole Wynn and Damian Williams<br />

were married Saturday at Riverside Church in<br />

Manhattan. The Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs, a<br />

United Church of Christ minister, performed<br />

the ceremony. The bride, 27, is keeping her<br />

name. Until last month, she was the dean of<br />

students at Achievement First East New York<br />

Middle School in Brooklyn. She graduated<br />

from Harvard and received a master’s degree<br />

in early and middle childhood education from<br />

Hunter College. Next month, she is to begin<br />

studying for an M.B.A. at New York<br />

University. She is a daughter of Maria<br />

Lantigua Collado of Woodhaven, Queens,<br />

and Anthony Wynn of Atlanta. The bride’s<br />

father is a security supervisor at Chesley<br />

Brown International, a company in Atlanta<br />

that provides corporate security. Her mother<br />

is a phlebotomist at the AIDS Center of<br />

Queens County in Woodhaven. The groom,<br />

31, works in Manhattan as an assistant<br />

United States attorney for the Southern<br />

District of New York. He graduated from<br />

Harvard and received a master’s of<br />

philosophy in international relations from<br />

Cambridge. He received a law degree from<br />

Yale. From 2008 to 2009, he was a clerk to<br />

Justice John Paul Stevens of the United<br />

States Supreme Court. He is the son of<br />

Monica Elaine Williams and Dr. Andre<br />

Williams, both of Atlanta. The groom’s mother<br />

owns the Alpha Academy and Child Care<br />

Center in Decatur, Ga. His father is an<br />

obstetrician and gynecologist in private<br />

practice, also in Decatur.<br />

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NEW YORK An article on July 8 about Ben<br />

Shaoul, a developer of luxury real estate in<br />

Manhattan, referred incorrectly to Department<br />

of Buildings violations for 118 and 120 East<br />

Fourth Street, which Mr. Shaoul owns. While<br />

Mr. Shaoul indicated that he had never<br />

received a Department of Buildings violation<br />

for either building, violations were in fact<br />

issued. The article also misstated the<br />

ownership of the Norwood Club, a<br />

members-only establishment on West 14th<br />

Street. While Mr. Shaoul owns the building<br />

that houses the club, the club itself is a<br />

nonprofit organization. He does not own the<br />

club. SPORTS Because of an editing error, a<br />

caption last Sunday with a picture essay<br />

about United States Olympians who<br />

competed in the 1948 London Games<br />

erroneously attributed a distinction to the high<br />

jumper Alice Coachman. She was the only<br />

female American athlete to win gold in track<br />

and field in 1948. She was not the only<br />

female American athlete to win a gold medal<br />

in those Games; six American women did so.<br />

(Ms. Coachman also held the distinction of<br />

being the first black woman to win Olympic<br />

gold.)• The TV Sports column last Sunday,<br />

about NBC’s plan to provide live video<br />

streaming on its Olympics Web site of all the<br />

events at the London Games, misidentified, in<br />

some editions, one of the sports that the<br />

network streamed live during the 2010<br />

Vancouver Games. Besides hockey, NBC<br />

also streamed curling — not lacrosse, which<br />

is no longer an Olympic sport.<br />

EDUCATION LIFE An article last Sunday<br />

about a student, Dan Shi, who applied to 24<br />

colleges misspelled, at one point, the name of<br />

the college he chose to attend. As the article<br />

correctly noted elsewhere, it is Macalester,<br />

not Macalaster.• A pop quiz last Sunday<br />

about the alma maters of presidents<br />

misidentified the location of Leiden University,<br />

which John Quincy Adams attended. It is in<br />

Corrections: July 29<br />



Leiden, the Netherlands — not in Amsterdam.<br />

(Mr. Adams graduated from Harvard, in<br />

1787.) BUSINESS The Strategies column last<br />

Sunday, about reasons that the Dow Jones<br />

industrial average may eventually reach<br />

20,000, misstated the assessment of current<br />

stock prices by Bernstein Global Wealth<br />

Management. In the firm’s view, they are<br />

relatively low, not high. ARTS & LEISURE An<br />

article last Sunday about the Baltimore<br />

Symphony’s BSO Academy, which brings<br />

together amateur and professional musicians<br />

(some of them doctors and government<br />

workers) for a weeklong program, misstated<br />

the date on which the Supreme Court<br />

recently made its ruling on health care. It was<br />

June 28, not June 26. REAL ESTATE The<br />

Streetscapes column last Sunday, about the<br />

soaring 1956 ticket counter created by Lester<br />

Tichy at Pennsylvania Station in New York<br />

City a few years before the station was torn<br />

down, misstated the airport for which Eero<br />

Saarinen designed his swooping terminal for<br />

T.W.A. in 1962. It was John F. Kennedy<br />

International, not La Guardia.• An article last<br />

Sunday about the gentrification of<br />

Greenpoint, Brooklyn, misstated the location<br />

of the Well, a bar and performance space. It<br />

is on Meserole Street in East Williamsburg,<br />

not on Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint.• An<br />

“In the Region” article in some copies last<br />

Sunday, about the increasing use of feng shui<br />

principles in the design stages of new<br />

developments, misstated part of the name of<br />

the company that partnered with Roseland<br />

Property Company on 99 Hudson, a complex<br />

in Jersey City. It is Hartz Mountain Industries,<br />

not Hartz Mountain Associates. The article<br />

also referred incorrectly to the start of the<br />

Port Imperial project. It was 1997 — not “five<br />

years ago,” which was when Port Imperial<br />

developers began applying feng shui<br />

principles in construction and design. And the<br />

article misstated the significance of<br />

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RiversEdge to the Imperial project. It was the<br />

first completed building to incorporate feng<br />

shui features, not the first completed building<br />

in the project.• An entry on the “On the<br />

Market” page last Sunday, for a triplex at 183<br />

Dean Street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn,<br />

misstated its price. It is listed for $1.215<br />

million, not $1.225 million.• The Big Ticket<br />

column last Sunday about the sale of<br />

Apartment 9W at 907 Fifth Avenue for $25.5<br />

million erroneously attributed a distinction to<br />

the building. It was not the first multifamily<br />

dwelling on the avenue. TRAVEL The cover<br />

article on July 15 about travel advice from<br />

frequent travelers in Silicon Valley referred<br />

incorrectly to the chemical composition of<br />

GoToob travel bottles. They are BPA free, not<br />

PBA free.• An article on July 15 about<br />

Olympic National Park, in Washington State,<br />

erroneously attributed a distinction to Cape<br />

Alava. It is the westernmost point in the<br />

contiguous United States, not in the<br />

Continental United States. (Much of Alaska is<br />

farther west.)• The Check In/Check Out<br />

column on July 1, about the Inn at the<br />

Presidio in San Francisco, misidentified the<br />

entity that manages the land on which the inn<br />

is located. It is managed by the Presidio<br />

Trust, a federal agency created to preserve<br />

the Presidio; it is not overseen by the<br />

National Park Service. (The park service<br />

administers some other parts of the Presidio.)<br />

SOCIETY A report on July 8 about the<br />



marriage of Ashley Prewitt and Victor Wu<br />

referred incompletely to the bride’s career.<br />

Besides being a marketing consultant, she<br />

also works in public relations. MAGAZINE An<br />

article on July 15 about Postville, Iowa,<br />

misspelled the last word in the name of a<br />

restaurant. It is Restaurante Rinconcito<br />

Guatemalteco, not Guatemaltecoa.• An article<br />

about Hillary Rodham Clinton misspelled the<br />

surname of a foreign-service officer who<br />

wrote an article mentioned by Clinton. He is<br />

Aaron D. Snipe, not Snipes. It also misstated<br />

which round of the United States-China<br />

Strategic and Economic Dialogue Clinton<br />

attended this year. It was the fourth round,<br />

not the third. A correction in this space on<br />

July 15 misstated the date the article was<br />

published. It was July 1, not June 17. The<br />

Times welcomes comments and suggestions,<br />

or complaints about errors that warrant<br />

correction. Messages on news coverage can<br />

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Marina Vranich, Jack O’Donnell<br />

Marina Vranich and Jack Francis O’Donnell<br />

were married Saturday evening at St. Louis<br />

Roman Catholic Church in Buffalo. The Rev.<br />

Msgr. J. Patrick Keleher, a Roman Catholic<br />

priest, performed the ceremony. Mrs.<br />

O’Donnell, 32, works in New York as a<br />

special assistant for labor affairs in the New<br />

York State Department of Labor. She serves<br />

as a liaison between organized labor groups<br />

and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office. She<br />

graduated from Fordham University. She is<br />

the daughter of Edna Vranich of Spokane,<br />

Wash., and the late Branko Vranich. The<br />

bride’s mother, who worked in Los Angeles,<br />

retired as a manager of a ticket agency for<br />

the Brazilian airline Varig. Mr. O’Donnell, 37,<br />

is a vice president and the communications<br />

director at Bolton-St. Johns, a government<br />

relations and public affairs consulting firm<br />

based in Albany. He graduated from Canisius<br />

College and received a law degree from the<br />

State University of New York at Buffalo. He is<br />

the son of Denise E. O’Donnell and John F.<br />

O’Donnell of Buffalo. The groom’s mother is<br />

the director of the Bureau of Justice<br />

Assistance at the Department of Justice in<br />

Washington. His father is a justice of the New<br />

York State Supreme Court in the Eighth<br />

Judicial District, with chambers in Buffalo.<br />

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Miss. church blocks black couple's<br />

wedding<br />

JACKSON, Miss. -- A Jackson, Miss.,<br />

couple's dream of exchanging vows in the<br />

church they had been attending was dashed<br />

last week when the church pastor told them<br />

that some members had complained about<br />

the black couple getting married in the<br />

predominantly white First Baptist Church of<br />

Crystal Springs.Charles and Te'Andrea<br />

Wilson said it was devastating to move their<br />

wedding to another church only days before<br />

the July 21 wedding. Invitations and the<br />

printed program had the date and the<br />

church's name on them.Church insiders say<br />

five or six members went to the Rev. Stan<br />

Weatherford after seeing the couple's<br />

wedding rehearsal two days before their<br />

Saturday wedding.The church pastor said he<br />

was surprised by the reaction of some church<br />

members.\"I didn't want to have a controversy<br />

within the church, and I didn't want a<br />

controversy to affect the wedding of Charles<br />

and Te'Andrea. I wanted to make sure their<br />

wedding day was a special day,\"<br />

Weatherford told WLBT-TV in<br />

Jackson.Charles Wilson said it was a huge<br />

disappointment that he and his wife couldn't<br />

get married at the church they attended<br />

because of the color of their skin.\"I feel like it<br />

was blatant racial discrimination,\"<br />

Wilson.The 150-year-old church hasn't had<br />

any black couples married there in modern<br />

times. Weatherford married the couple at a<br />

nearby church.Wilson said he had been<br />

attending the church for about a month and<br />

his now wife had been attending for more<br />

than a year. His wife's father also attended<br />

the church, and her uncle was custodian at<br />

the church.\"Prior to this, I had been telling<br />

people how nice they were here,\" Wilson<br />

said. \"It makes you re-evaluate things. We<br />

were doing everything right. We wanted to<br />

get married.\"Wilson said he understands<br />

Weatherford was caught in a difficult position<br />

and he still likes the pastor, but he also thinks<br />

the pastor should have stood up to the<br />

members who didn't want the couple to marry<br />

in the church.\"If you're for Christ, you can't<br />

straddle the fence,\" Wilson said of<br />

Weatherford. \"He knew it was wrong.\"Casey<br />

Kitchens, 37, attends First Baptist Church<br />

where she married her husband, Matthew,<br />

the son of Mississippi Supreme Court<br />

Justice Jim Kitchens.Casey Kitchens said she<br />

and other members of the congregation are<br />

outraged by the church's refusal to marry a<br />

black couple, a decision she says most of the<br />

congregation knew nothing about.\"This is a<br />

small, small group of people who made a<br />

terrible decision,\" Kitchens said. \"I'm just<br />

ashamed right now that my church would do<br />

that. I can't fathom why. How unfair. How<br />

unjust. It's just wrong.\"Kitchens said though<br />

nothing can be done to change what<br />

happened, she hopes those responsible for it<br />

will make an effort to fix it.Mississippi Baptist<br />

Convention Executive Director the Rev. Jim<br />

Futral said it was unfortunate what<br />

happened.\"It's not reflective of the spirit of<br />

the Lord and Mississippi Baptists,\" Futral<br />

said. \"It's just a step backward. … It's a sad<br />

thing.\"He said immeasurable progress has<br />

been made in Baptists of all races working<br />

together. \"We take several steps forward and<br />

one backward,\" Futral said.Last month, the<br />

Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's<br />

largest Protestant denomination, elected its<br />

first African-American leader -- the Rev. Fred<br />

Luter Jr. of New Orleans.The denomination,<br />

which has seen membership decline in recent<br />

years, has been trying to expand its appeal<br />

beyond its traditional white Southern<br />

base.Luter, who was at a married couples<br />

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etreat Friday, couldn't be reached for<br />

comment.<br />

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Editorial: Boy Scouts' anti-gay policy<br />

teaches wrong lesson<br />

Greater acceptance of equal rights for gays<br />

and lesbians has been one of the hallmark<br />

achievements of recent U.S. history. Most<br />

organizations have adopted<br />

anti-discrimination policies that include<br />

sexual orientation. The public barely blinks an<br />

eye at openly gay politicians and entertainers.<br />

Just last year, the U.S. military dropped its<br />

\"don't ask, don't tell\" policy. Seven states<br />

have legalized same-sex marriage, and the<br />

president of the United States has endorsed<br />

it.OPPOSING VIEW: Our politically unpopular<br />

trailStanding athwart this trend is the Boy<br />

Scouts of America (BSA), which announced<br />

this month that it will continue its policy of<br />

excluding gay and lesbian members and<br />

leaders. An 11-member panel concluded that<br />

exclusion is \"absolutely the best policy\" for<br />

the more than century-old organization.Talk<br />

about out of step.The 2.7-million member<br />

BSA preaches kindness, loyalty and bravery,<br />

and its oath urges Scouts \"to help other<br />

people at all times.\" Yet intolerance of gays<br />

and lesbians apparently overrides these<br />

values.This isn't a legal issue. The Supreme<br />

Court ruled in 2000 that, as a private<br />

organization, the Scouts have a constitutional<br />

right to exclude openly gay people. Freedom<br />

of association, the court said, plainly<br />

presupposes a freedom not to associate.Rate<br />

the debateBut just because an organization<br />

can do something doesn't mean it should.<br />

Groups such as the Girl Scouts, Jaycees,<br />

Rotary and 4-H Club have all successfully<br />

adopted non-discrimination policies. That<br />

leaves the Boy Scouts as an<br />

outlier.USATODAY OPINIONAbout<br />

Editorials/DebateOpinions expressed in USA<br />

TODAY's editorials are decided by its<br />

Editorial Board, a demographically and<br />

ideologically diverse group that is separate<br />

from USA TODAY's news staff.Most editorials<br />

are accompanied by an opposing view — a<br />

unique USA TODAY feature that allows<br />

readers to reach conclusions based on both<br />

sides of an argument rather than just the<br />

Editorial Board's point of view.In explaining its<br />

policy, Scouting seems to miss the point by<br />

saying it is not a sex-education organization.<br />

No one is suggesting that it should be.<br />

Scouting's critics simply want it to be inclusive<br />

and neutral.Another largely unspoken<br />

concern involves the fear of unwanted sexual<br />

advances, or worse. Perhaps Scout leaders<br />

should consult the American Psychological<br />

Association, which says, \"Homosexual men<br />

are not more likely to sexually abuse children<br />

than heterosexual men are. … There is no<br />

scientific support for fears about children of<br />

gay or lesbian parents being abused by their<br />

parents or their parents' gay, lesbian or<br />

bisexual friends or acquaintances.\"In fact, as<br />

the Jerry Sandusky scandal showed, many<br />

pedophiles are married men. So under the<br />

BSA policy, Sandusky would have been, on<br />

paper, the perfect Scout leader: Husband.<br />

Football coach. Counselor to troubled youth.<br />

Pillar of the community. At the same time, the<br />

astronaut Sally Ride, a national hero who<br />

died last week, could have been excluded as<br />

a den leader because of her longtime<br />

same-sex relationship.This isn't just a<br />

hypothetical exercise. In Bridgeport, Ohio,<br />

den leader Jen Tyrrell was removed from her<br />

post in April because she is a lesbian.<br />

Families whose children were in Tyrrell's den<br />

say she was an exceptional leader for the 7and<br />

8-year-old Tiger Cubs.\"My sexuality was<br />

never an issue,\" Tyrrell says. \"I was never<br />

'gay' den leader Jen, just den leader Jen.\"<br />

Tyrrell says she agrees that sexuality has no<br />

place being discussed in Scouting, but she<br />

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feels that excluding someone because of<br />

sexual orientation sends a bad message to<br />

children about humane treatment of<br />

people.Scouting has a long, successful<br />

tradition of molding boys and young men into<br />

civic leaders and productive members of<br />

society. It is hard to argue with the results;<br />

four former presidents and thousands of<br />

lawmakers and CEOs are alumni.Even so, as<br />



the U.S. military figured out, an organization<br />

dedicated to integrity, teamwork and<br />

leadership benefits by being inclusive.<br />

Instead, the Boy Scouts of America has<br />

thrown its lot with a dwindling band of groups<br />

that place a higher premium on<br />

discrimination.<br />

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Column: Massacres no excuse to<br />

stigmatize the mentally ill<br />

We don't know enough about the mind of the<br />

alleged Colorado shooter, James Holmes, to<br />

determine whether he has a severe mental<br />

illness, such as schizophrenia, or whether he<br />

was driven by some narcissistic, anti-social<br />

desire to kill others and become infamous.We<br />

do now know that Holmes was being treated<br />

by a psychiatrist and that he had mailed a<br />

package to the doctor, though the district<br />

attorney has disputed news reports of its<br />

content.As the father of an adult son with<br />

bipolar disorder who has been arrested and<br />

who once fixated on a movie during a<br />

psychotic break, I've watched the public<br />

reaction to the horrific killings — and earlier<br />

ones in Tuscon and on the Virginia Tech<br />

University campus — with trepidation. As the<br />

details about Holmes continue to unfold, I can<br />

already anticipate the direction the<br />

conversation will take. That's because, as a<br />

nation, we still are confounded by mental<br />

illnesses.Spotlight on guns•The spotlight<br />

always focuses on gun control. A possible<br />

reason is because people are afraid of<br />

seeming sympathetic toward the gunman if<br />

they discuss mental illness. But how can we<br />

prevent shootings if we don't question why<br />

Seung Hui Cho fell through the cracks in<br />

Virginia after he was declared \"a danger to<br />

himself and others,\" or why Jared Lee<br />

Loughner's schizophrenia went untreated in<br />

Arizona. We ignore our failed mental health<br />

care system at our own peril.•The suspect's<br />

parents will be blamed, though our civil rights<br />

laws make it extremely difficult for family<br />

members to force anyone to see a doctor or<br />

seek medical treatment if he or she has a<br />

mental disorder and is acting oddly. By law,<br />

we protect the right of an individual to be<br />

\"crazy.\" Yet, we become outraged when a<br />

Cho or a Loughner kill and maim.•Although<br />

science can't tell us the causes of most<br />

mental disorders, severe ones, such as<br />

bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, are<br />

thought to have biological and genetic<br />

underpinnings and are not the fault of those<br />

who get sick. Even so, having a mental<br />

disorder is seen as a personal character flaw<br />

and rarely sways public opinion or influences<br />

sentencing. Studies show that the insanity<br />

defense rarely works and often is seen as a<br />

dodge used by killers to avoid prison. We<br />

understandably want to hold killers<br />

responsible for their actions even when they<br />

are mentally unhinged.Tragedies<br />

preventable•Because these mass shootings<br />

appear to be unpredictable, we feel helpless<br />

to stop them. We shouldn't. The shootings in<br />

Tucson and at Virginia Tech could and should<br />

have been prevented. Family members and<br />

university professors were alarmed by the<br />

antics of Loughner and Cho, but they were<br />

stymied by the \"dangerous to self or others\"<br />

legal standard for forced intervention, or by a<br />

lack of responsive mental health care in their<br />

communities.The Aurora deaths not only<br />

caused tremendous pain and loss, they<br />

further stigmatized persons with mental<br />

disorders. A poster being circulated on the<br />

Internet belittles mental illnesses, dismissing<br />

them as a flimsy excuse for Holmes' actions.<br />

It is important to remember that persons with<br />

mental illnesses are more likely to be victims<br />

of violence than to harm others, and that<br />

Loughner, Cho, and possibly Holmes, are not<br />

representative.Millions of ordinary Americans,<br />

including my son, are the real face of mental<br />

illnesses. None of them has killed anyone.<br />

They should not be stigmatized and their<br />

illnesses should not be trivialized because of<br />

the violence of a few. Nor should anyone<br />

believe that our hearts are not breaking<br />

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ecause of these senseless murders.Pete<br />

Earley is a mental health advocate and<br />

author. He can be reached at<br />



www.peteearley.com<br />

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Scalia disputes talk of Supreme Court<br />

infighting<br />

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia today<br />

dismissed reports of infighting among court<br />

conservatives regarding the health care<br />

decision.Appearing on Fox News Sunday,<br />

Scalia said he did not know if Chief Justice<br />

John Roberts changed his mind about the<br />

heath law and provided the key vote to<br />

uphold it.\"I don't know -- you'll have to ask<br />

him,\" Scalia said.Scalia said \"I don't talk<br />

about internal court proceedings,\" but he<br />

criticized reports that he and other<br />

conservatives are upset with Roberts over<br />

how the health care case was handled.\"You<br />

shouldn't believe what you read about this<br />

stuff,\" Scalia said.Scalia -- who is giving<br />

interviews in order to promote a new book on<br />

legal theory -- did criticize Roberts' reasoning<br />

in upholding the Obama health care law.<br />

Roberts said the law's individual mandate -the<br />

requirement that nearly all Americans buy<br />

health insurance, or pay a penalty -- is<br />

constitutional under Congress' taxing<br />

powers.Echoing his dissenting opinion, Scalia<br />

told Fox News: \"You don't interpret a penalty<br />

to be a pig. It can't be a pig.\"Scalia also beat<br />

back efforts by Fox host Chris Wallace to<br />

respond to President Obama's occasional<br />

criticism of the court.\"I don't criticize the<br />

president publicly,\" he said. \"He normally<br />

doesn't criticize me publicly.\"Scalia did cite<br />

the Obama's immigration policy in a<br />

dissenting opinion in a case about an Arizona<br />

law targeting illegal immigrants; the justice<br />

said that comment came in a judicial context,<br />

not in a political one.Currently the longest<br />

serving justice, Scalia said the court is not<br />

political. Differences of opinion, including<br />

those reflected in 5-4 decisions, stem from<br />

differences in judicial philosophy, not political<br />

preferences.<br />

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Murder Trial Tests Leeway for Giving the Dead a Say, 176<br />



A Battle for Florida’s Courts, 178<br />



Insurance Rebates Seen as Selling Point for Health Law, 179<br />

ABC Digital - Notícias<br />


Responsabilizan a Riquelme por matanza, 181<br />

ABC Digital - Nacionales<br />


Roban camioneta de un periodista, 182<br />

Bizjournais - News<br />


Joe Foss Institute"s 2012 Stars in Service Event to Honor National Heroes and Public Servants, 183<br />



WonderÂ® Bread Celebrates Teachers With The 2012 7Wonders of the USA Teacher Tour, 184<br />



Columbia Records Celebrates 125 Years Of Great American Music With 360 Sound: The Columbia<br />

Records Story, 186<br />



Gobierno Paraguay inicia censo y promete recuperar tierras en zona de matanza, 188<br />



Arizona Law Criminalizing Abortions After 20 Weeks Is Upheld, 190<br />



Wall Street’s Kangaroo Court Gets a Black Eye, 191<br />



TDSAT reserves order on RCom’s plea, 193<br />



DoT raises concerns on Uninor rights issue, 194<br />

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Apex court gives nod for controversial ship’s entry into Alang yard, 195<br />



Gujarat Govt considering policy to repair religious sites damaged in 2002 riots, 196<br />



Moyano y Caló juntan fuerzas tras el descanso, 197<br />



Las cuentas K para la re-reelección: panorama complicado en el Senado, 199<br />



Scontro Napolitano-pm di Palermo: in Consulta arriva il ricorso del Colle , 200<br />



Stop ai ticket, si pagherà in base al reddito, 201<br />

Diario La Prensa - Notícias<br />


Restituyen a Rafael Sal Lari como juez en San Isidro, 203<br />

Diario La Prensa - Notícias<br />


La madre de Wanda Taddei afirmó que hay una "cadena de favores", 205<br />

El Colombiano - Internacional<br />


Cuatro condenados a muerte en mayor caso de corrupción de Irán, 206<br />

El País - Notícias<br />


Hacienda pide a un centenar de exaltos cargos optar por una sola retribución, 207<br />



Reconsidering severance pay, 208<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Recurso de Inconstitucionalidad<br />

Becerril pedirá al Gobierno que Sanidad atienda a los inmigrantes irregulares, 209<br />



Moliner explicará la resolución del Poder Judicial sobre la indemnización a Dívar, 211<br />

El Peruano - Notícias<br />


San Martín y Álvarez Miranda se reúnen hoy, 212<br />



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Cambios de batuta en Los Pinos, 213<br />

El Universal Venezuela - Notícias<br />


Exigen retirar propaganda electoral de los tribunales en Barinas, 216<br />



Der Kapitän bleibt an Bord , 217<br />



Präsident Basescu übersteht Referendum zur Amtsenthebung , 219<br />



La Cour de justice dans le collimateur, 221<br />



Roumanie: le référendum pas valide, 223<br />

Le Monde - Article<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Conseil Constitutionnel<br />

Le Parlement va entériner un tour de vis fiscal à 7,2 milliards d"euros, 224<br />

Misiones Online - Noticia<br />


La Cámara de Diputados sancionó 21 leyes en la primera mitad del año, 226<br />



Democrats look to back gay marriage at convention, 227<br />



Supreme Court may review case over DNA samples, 228<br />



Russia's "Pussy Riot" on trial for cathedral protest, 229<br />



Judge clears Arizona's late-term abortion ban to take effect, 232<br />



Analysis: Critics assail 1980s-era hacking law as out of step, 233<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | EuGH<br />

Draghi und Weidmann ringen um EZB-Linie, 236<br />



Präsident Basescu bleibt im Amt , 238<br />

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Madhya Pradesh government expresses concern over Supreme Court order on restricting tourism, 240<br />



Considering policy to repair religious sites: Gujarat to SC, 241<br />



A Runoff Is Down to the Wire in Texas, 242<br />



Romania’s President Survives Vote to Oust Him, 244<br />

The New York Times - Opinion<br />


Romania’s President Survives Vote on Ousting Him, 246<br />



Column: Let the Olympic tweeting begin!, 248<br />



Hundreds decrying police violence march in Anaheim, 250<br />

UY Press - Actualidad<br />


Gobierno cubano responsabiliza a chofer español por accidente de Payá, 251<br />

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The New York Times/ - Politics, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Murder Trial Tests Leeway for Giving the<br />

Dead a Say<br />

CHICAGO — Drew Peterson’s third wife<br />

drowned in her bathtub in 2004. More than<br />

three years later, his fourth wife vanished<br />

without a trace. Now, as lawyers prepare to<br />

deliver opening statements on Tuesday in Mr.<br />

Peterson’s murder trial for the drowning — he<br />

has not been charged in the disappearance<br />

— his fate may hinge on prosecutors’ efforts<br />

to present testimony “from the grave.”<br />

Statements that family and friends say the<br />

two women made to them about Mr.<br />

Peterson, a former police officer in a Chicago<br />

suburb, have led to a three-year legal battle<br />

over whether they can be used during the<br />

trial. Do they meet the standard of credible<br />

evidence? Do they violate the defendant’s<br />

Sixth Amendment right to face his accuser?<br />

For decades, courts have allowed some<br />

types of secondhand testimony, but the<br />

conflict involving the trial of Mr. Peterson, 58,<br />

has highlighted the intricacies of hearsay<br />

laws in Illinois and across the country. Last<br />

week, a judge ruled that he would evaluate<br />

the statements separately as the trial<br />

unfolded, despite an appellate court ruling in<br />

April that provided clearance for admitting<br />

them. The burden is on prosecutors to prove<br />

that some of their most striking evidence<br />

should not be ignored. “Obviously we’re<br />

anxious to get to trial and put the evidence<br />

before the jury and move this case to<br />

conclusion,” James W. Glasgow, the state’s<br />

attorney in Will County, told local reporters<br />

last week. The case, set in Bolingbrook, Ill., a<br />

suburb southwest of Chicago, has been<br />

bizarre from the beginning. It is a tabloid tale<br />

that inspired a Lifetime movie starring Rob<br />

Lowe, “Drew Peterson: Untouchable,” which<br />

drew 5.8 million viewers for its premiere in<br />

January. Mr. Peterson and his third wife,<br />

Kathleen Savio, were in the middle of a<br />

messy divorce when she died. Her death was<br />

originally ruled an accident, but it was<br />

reclassified as a homicide after her body was<br />

exhumed in 2007 as part of the investigation<br />

into the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, Mr.<br />

Peterson’s 23-year-old fourth wife. Mr.<br />

Peterson said Stacy had run off with another<br />

man, and he joked with reporters and<br />

professed his innocence on television<br />

programs like “Dr. Phil” and “Larry King Live.”<br />

He was charged with the murder of Ms. Savio<br />

in May 2009 and has since been held on $20<br />

million bail. While prosecutors believe Ms.<br />

Peterson is dead, her body has not been<br />

found, and the case remains open. Defense<br />

lawyers have dismissed the statements in<br />

dispute as unreliable and asserted that<br />

allowing them as evidence would violate the<br />

defendant’s rights because the two women<br />

cannot be cross-examined. “Anybody that’s<br />

ever known a bad divorce knows that people<br />

say things in divorces that they don’t mean<br />

just out of anger,” Joel Brodsky, Mr.<br />

Peterson’s lawyer, said in an interview. “For<br />

these things to be used as evidence is<br />

troubling.” But even before Mr. Peterson’s<br />

arrest, Mr. Glasgow, the state’s attorney,<br />

hailed a new Illinois law allowing hearsay<br />

statements if evidence suggests that the<br />

absence of a witness was caused by the<br />

defendant. Nicknamed “Drew’s Law,” it is one<br />

of many across the country that have codified<br />

a 2008 United States Supreme Court ruling<br />

allowing the exception. Among the<br />

statements in question are those in which,<br />

family and friends have said, Ms. Savio<br />

claimed Mr. Peterson had threatened her.<br />

And Ms. Peterson told a college classmate<br />

before Ms. Savio’s death that Mr. Peterson<br />

had planned on killing Ms. Savio “and making<br />

it look like an accident and said he can get<br />

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away with it, too, because he was a<br />

Bolingbrook cop,” said John Connor,<br />

assistant state’s attorney in Will County,<br />

according to a transcript of arguments during<br />

a pretrial hearing in 2010. Mr. Peterson was<br />

involved with Ms. Peterson before Ms.<br />

Savio’s death. After that hearing, which lasted<br />

a month and included 72 witnesses, Judge<br />

Stephen White of the Will County court ruled<br />

that 8 of the 14 hearsay statements should<br />

not be admitted because they lacked<br />

sufficient “safeguards of reliability.” The<br />

appellate court reversed that decision. By<br />



then, Judge White had retired and passed the<br />

case to Judge Edward Burmila, who<br />

announced last week that he would not give<br />

blanket approval to the statements; he will<br />

consider each one’s credibility throughout the<br />

trial, which is expected to last about a month.<br />

That decision could be an 11th-hour blow to<br />

prosecutors, whose case is largely built on<br />

circumstantial evidence against Mr. Peterson.<br />

Still, Mr. Brodsky said, his client is nervous.<br />

“Who wouldn’t be?” he said. “The time for<br />

joking is over.”<br />

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A Battle for Florida’s Courts<br />

Under Florida’s system of choosing Supreme<br />

Court justices, the governor makes the initial<br />

appointments, then voters get to decide every<br />

six years whether to keep them. This system<br />

of “retention elections” was intended to avoid<br />

the politicization of the courts associated with<br />

regular, multicandidate judicial elections. It is<br />

not working out that way this time. Some<br />

conservatives are trying to purge three<br />

moderate justices facing a retention vote in<br />

November: R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente<br />

and Peggy Quince. The only Democratic<br />

appointees on the state’s seven-member<br />

court, they are being singled out for various<br />

rulings, including a decision in 2010 that<br />

blocked from the ballot a misleadingly worded<br />

constitutional amendment designed to permit<br />

the state to opt out of national health care<br />

reform. An effort to remove the two<br />

Republican judges who voted with them on<br />

the case failed two years ago. But this year’s<br />

antiretention drive, which is being led by a<br />

group based in Orlando with ties to the Tea<br />

Party, Restore Justice 2012, appears more<br />

robust, and it is being aided and abetted by<br />

the Republican governor, Rick Scott. Restore<br />

Justice is focusing on the judges’ records. For<br />

his part, the governor has seized on the<br />

judges’ sloppy but innocuous use of court<br />

staff to notarize required financial disclosure<br />

filings. An investigation by the Florida<br />

Department of Law Enforcement, ordered by<br />

Mr. Scott, found no evidence that the judges<br />

abused their official positions — a conclusion<br />

seconded by the state attorney, Willie Meggs.<br />

But instead of accepting this exoneration, Mr.<br />

Scott gave his blessing to a meritless lawsuit<br />

filed in June by a right-wing legal policy group<br />

based in Georgia that calls for disqualification<br />

on the same grounds. s If the three justices<br />

lose their retention battle, it would give Mr.<br />

Scott three court vacancies to fill with his own<br />

judicial picks. It would also send a message<br />

of intimidation undermining judicial<br />

independence and impartiality — a price no<br />

Florida voter should be willing to pay.<br />

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Insurance Rebates Seen as Selling Point<br />

for Health Law<br />

Lucia Harkenreader’s check landed in her<br />

mailbox last week: a rebate of $456.15 from<br />

her health insurance company, with a letter<br />

dryly explaining that the money came<br />

courtesy of the federal health care law. “It<br />

almost looked like junk mail,” said Ms.<br />

Harkenreader, a tax accountant in Mountain<br />

Top, Pa., who said she did not love the<br />

overall law but was pleased at the<br />

unexpected windfall. “If this is part of<br />

Obamacare, I’m happy that somebody is<br />

finally coming down on the insurance<br />

companies and saying, ‘Look, let’s be fair<br />

here.’ ” The law requires insurers to give out<br />

annual rebates by Aug. 1, starting this year, if<br />

less than 80 percent of the premium dollars<br />

they collect go toward medical care. For<br />

insurers covering large employers, the<br />

threshold is 85 percent. As a result, insurers<br />

will pay out $1.1 billion this year, according to<br />

the Department of Health and Human<br />

Services, with an average rebate of $151 per<br />

household. The highest average amounts are<br />

going to people in Vermont ($807 per family),<br />

Alaska ($622) and Alabama ($518). No<br />

rebates will be issued in New Mexico or<br />

Rhode Island, because all the insurers in<br />

those states met the 80/20 requirement.<br />

Although the percentage of insurance<br />

companies that owe rebates this year is<br />

relatively small, about 14 percent, many<br />

giants of the industry are on the list. They<br />

include Aetna, Cigna, Humana and<br />

UnitedHealthCare. President Obama is<br />

highlighting the rebates as a tangible early<br />

benefit of the controversial legislation; on the<br />

day the Supreme Court upheld the law as<br />

constitutional last month, he said millions of<br />

Americans would see rebates because their<br />

insurance companies had “spent too much on<br />

things like administrative costs and C.E.O.<br />

bonuses, and not enough on your health<br />

care.” So is your check in the mail? Don’t<br />

count on it. Self-insured employers, which<br />

cover more than half the nation’s workers, are<br />

exempt from the new rule, as are Medicare<br />

and Medicaid. And of the 75 million people in<br />

health plans subject to the rule, only about 17<br />

percent, or 12.8 million, will see a rebate this<br />

year, according to the Obama administration.<br />

Many individuals who buy coverage directly<br />

from insurers, such as self-employed people<br />

like Ms. Harkenreader, are receiving checks.<br />

But in most cases rebates are being sent to<br />

employers, who can chose to put them<br />

toward future premium costs instead of<br />

distributing them to workers. “I’ve been trying<br />

to explain that to people — that very few<br />

people would be getting a check,” said<br />

Timothy S. Jost, a law professor at<br />

Washington and Lee University who is an<br />

expert on the health care law. Still, Mr. Jost<br />

and others say the rebate provision could<br />

prove a potent selling point for a law that<br />

remains unpopular with many Americans, not<br />

to mention a well-timed tool for the Obama<br />

re-election campaign. Premiums — and<br />

anger toward insurance companies — keep<br />

rising: the cost of employer-sponsored family<br />

health plans jumped by nine percent last year<br />

to more than $15,000, according to the Kaiser<br />

Family Foundation. For Ms. Harkenreader,<br />

53, who is putting a son through college, the<br />

rebate helps soothe the frustration she feels<br />

toward her insurer, Golden Rule, which is<br />

owned by UnitedHealthCare. “It seems like<br />

the health insurance companies really just<br />

don’t have any consideration for the cost out<br />

here,” said Ms. Harkenreader, who pays<br />

about $500 a month for a high-deductible<br />

plan, up from $400 last year. “What costs<br />

have gone up to justify that rise in premium?<br />

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I’d love to know. Did you give your people a<br />

raise? I guess your light bill went up?” Mr.<br />

Jost said he had heard “quite a bit of<br />

anecdotal evidence of insurers giving really<br />

low premium increases this year” -- a sign<br />

that the rebate rule might already be having<br />

an effect. (This year’s rebates are based on<br />

the share of premiums that went to<br />

administrative costs in 2011.) Amber Wagner,<br />

in St. Peters, Mo., said that in addition to a<br />

rebate of $143, she had gotten word from her<br />



insurer, Anthem, that her premium rate would<br />

drop starting next month. “It does make<br />

sense,” Ms. Wagner, 29, said of the rebate<br />

rule. “Why should they get to spend all this<br />

money on advertising and lining the pockets<br />

of people who own the company and make<br />

me pay more?” Insurance companies say the<br />

rebate requirement does not address swiftly<br />

rising medical costs, which they say are the<br />

main reason premiums keep going up.<br />

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ABC Digital/ - Notícias, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Responsabilizan a Riquelme por matanza<br />

Alfredo Romero, asesor jurídico de la<br />

Procuraduría General de la República,<br />

expresó que la familia Riquelme, que<br />

asegura la posesión de las tierras de Campo<br />

Morombí, es responsable indirectamente de<br />

la matanza ocurrida en el lugar el pasado 15<br />

de junio.“Hasta quiero decir que los<br />

responsables indirectos serían esta gente,<br />

que mintieron ante el Juzgado diciendo que<br />

las tierras son de ellos, teniendo 50.000<br />

hectáreas, una ambición desmedida para que<br />

estén usucapiendo una tierra donada al<br />

Estado paraguayo”, señaló.Solicitó además<br />

al Poder Judicial cumplir con la ley, ya que<br />

“los elementales propietarios están violando<br />

las leyes”.“Vamos a desenmascarar las<br />

mentiras de esta empresa, que dijo que<br />

desde el "78 estaba poseyendo el inmueble.<br />

Los responsables deben pagar ante la ley<br />

porque acá hubo muerte”,<br />

expresó.Finalmente, señaló que analizarán la<br />

posibilidad de entablar una acción judicial<br />

contra la familia Riquelme, atendiendo a que<br />

poseen documentos y datos nuevos.<br />

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ABC Digital/ - Nacionales, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Roban camioneta de un periodista<br />

La víctima es Raúl Ramírez, periodista del<br />

diario Última Hora, asignado a las coberturas<br />

en el Poder Judicial.Ramírez comentó a<br />

ABC Color que estacionó su vehículo Toyota<br />

Noah, modelo 97, en De la Conquista casi<br />

Capitán Aranda, en las inmediaciones del<br />

Palacio de Justicia de Asunción.La víctima<br />

acudió al Palacio de Justicia para su trabajo<br />

periodístico, pero al regresar a la citada<br />

dirección – aproximadamente a las 13:30 –<br />

ya no encontró su camioneta. En el sitio no<br />

había ningún “cuidacoches”.Señaló que el<br />

rodado fue comprado recientemente, tiene<br />

una chapa provisoria PMS y es color azul<br />

plateado. La denuncia fue presentada en la<br />

comisaría de la zona.<br />

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Bizjournais/ - News, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Joe Foss Institute"s 2012 Stars in Service<br />

Event to Honor National Heroes and<br />

Public Servants<br />

Bozeman Event to Build Awareness for<br />

Institute"s Activities and Programs to Teach<br />

Students About Patriotism, Public Service,<br />

Integrity and an Appreciation for America"s<br />

Unique Freedoms and History<br />

BOZEMAN, Mont., July 30, 2012<br />

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday,<br />

August 25, the Joe Foss Institute (JFI) will<br />

hold its 2012 Stars in Service event at<br />

Copper Spring Ranch in Bozeman, Montana.<br />

In addition to honoring some preeminent<br />

national heroes and public servants, the Stars<br />

in Service event is designed to introduce JFI<br />

and its programs to Montanans in order to<br />

highlight our work to educate our nation"s<br />

youth about their rights, roles and<br />

responsibilities as American citizens.<br />

"At the Joe Foss Institute, we are stepping<br />

into the educational gap and investing in our<br />

future leaders," said JFI President & CEO<br />

Lucian Spataro, Jr. "Our Veterans Inspiring<br />

Patriotism program, standards-based civic<br />

curriculum, and scholarship programs are all<br />

provided free to schools and youth<br />

organizations across the nation."<br />

Through in-class presentations by our<br />

nation"s Veterans, curriculum resources, and<br />

scholarship programs, JFI works with schools<br />

and youth organizations to address what<br />

former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day<br />

O"Connor has called "a crisis in civic<br />

education" across the country.<br />

"For me, Joe always personified the idea of<br />

American public service and patriotism,"<br />

explained renowned journalist, author and JFI<br />

Advisory Board member, Tom Brokaw, who<br />

will be the keynote speaker for the event.<br />

"Now that Joe is gone, it is up to the rest of us<br />

to advance the work of the Joe Foss Institute;<br />

which will make plain to generations of<br />

students and young people how important it<br />

is to be a patriot and a dedicated citizen of<br />

this country."<br />

The four honorees for the 2012 Stars in<br />

Service event include: Col. Greg Gadsen,<br />

2012 Patriotism Award Honoree, Hon. Don<br />

Hargrove, 2012 Military Service Honoree,<br />

Donna "DiDi" Foss, JFI Co-Founder, Bruce H.<br />

Wendt, 2012 Public Service Honoree.<br />

For more information about the 2012 Stars in<br />

Service event â?"<br />

www.joefossinstitute.org/events/2012-montan<br />

a-stars-in-service<br />

Created by Joe and his wife Didi before his<br />

death, the Joe Foss Institute is a 501 (C)(3)<br />

educational organization dedicated to<br />

educating our nation"s youth about patriotism,<br />

public service, integrity and an appreciation<br />

for America"s unique freedoms and history.<br />

JFI"s programs have reached nearly 1 million<br />

students since the organization"s founding in<br />


CONTACT: Andrew<br />

LeFevreÂ 480-745-8237alefevre@joefossinst<br />

itute.org<br />

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WonderÂ® Bread Celebrates Teachers<br />

With The 2012 7Wonders of the USA<br />

Teacher Tour<br />

IRVING, Texas, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/<br />

--Â As part of its ongoing celebration of<br />

everyday Americans who make extraordinary<br />

contributions to their communities,<br />

WonderÂ® bread is, for a second year,<br />

inviting American families to nominate<br />

inspiring teachers for the 2012 7Wonders of<br />

the USA Teacher Tour program.<br />

The 2012 7Wonders of the USA Teacher<br />

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American teachers and the ways they inspire<br />

a sense of wonder in students by giving them<br />

the chance to visit and teach a lesson from<br />

one of America"s 7Wonders. This year,<br />

Wonder will send the seven lucky 7Wonders<br />

teacher winners to locations that celebrate<br />

American heritage: the Freedom TrailÂ® in<br />

Boston, MA; Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO;<br />

Gettysburg National Military Park in<br />

Gettysburg, PA; the Liberty Bell in<br />

Philadelphia, PA; the National Civil Rights<br />

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Geyser in Yellowstone National Park in<br />

Wyoming; and Redwood National and State<br />

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The schools of each of the 7Wonders winning<br />

teachers will also receive $1,000 to help plan<br />

field trips to wonders in their local<br />

communities. Plus, families who nominate<br />

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moments created on the journey.<br />

"As families prepare to go back to school,<br />

Wonder is paying tribute to the teachers who<br />

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From now through October 5, 2012,<br />

consumers can nominate a Wonder-ful<br />

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create billions of unique sandwich<br />

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Columbia Records Celebrates 125 Years<br />

Of Great American Music With 360<br />

Sound: The Columbia Records Story<br />

NEW YORK, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --<br />

Columbia Records will celebrate its 125th<br />

anniversary with the release of a book titled<br />

360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story on<br />

the great American record label and its role in<br />

initiating recorded music, cultivating great<br />

artists, and igniting cultural change. Written<br />

by Pulitzer Prize-and GRAMMY nominated<br />

author and historian Sean Wilentz, the book<br />

provides a journey through Columbia<br />

Records" storied past and its contributions to<br />

entertainment from the invention of<br />

commercial recording through the present<br />

day.Â<br />

360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story,<br />

published by Chronicle Books, will be<br />

released on October 30th. It begins in the late<br />

1880"s, when Columbia, under the leadership<br />

of Edward Easton, seized upon the<br />

phonographic inventions of Thomas Edison<br />

and others to offer the public the first<br />

commercial musical recordings. The book<br />

goes on the explore the rich stories of how<br />

Columbia"s artists and producers have<br />

redefined American music and performance<br />

over the past 125 years, at once reflecting<br />

and shaping changes in the wider culture.<br />

Simultaneously, Columbia Records will<br />

release a deluxe package, which will include,<br />

in addition to a hard cover copy of the Wilentz<br />

book, a separate book, written by Dave<br />

Marsh, entitled 360 Sound: The Columbia<br />

Records Story: Legends and Legacy. Marsh<br />

has culled from Columbia"s vaults a collection<br />

of 263 songs and tracks of the greatest<br />

historical, as well as musical, significance,<br />

and his book offers his thoughts on each<br />

selection. The package also includes a<br />

beautifully crafted drive with all 263<br />

recordings.<br />

360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story will<br />

also be available as an e-book through<br />

multiple platforms.<br />

Columbia"s list of major performers, past and<br />

present, is unsurpassed and includes much<br />

of the most important, and beloved music in<br />

all genres, including pop, rock, country, show<br />

tunes, classical, jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and<br />

blues. Artists recorded by Columbia and its<br />

subsidiaries have included Barbra Streisand,<br />

Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis,<br />

Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Cash, Beyonce,<br />

Adele, Billy Joel, Al Jolson, Frank Sinatra,<br />

Duke Ellington, Robert Johnson, Bing<br />

Crosby, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Tony<br />

Bennett, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard<br />

Cohen, Neil Diamond, Aerosmith, Elvis<br />

Costello, Willie Nelson, Yo-Yo Ma, LL Cool J,<br />

James Taylor, Philip Glass, Mariah Carey,<br />

Lauryn Hill, Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Jack<br />

White, and more.<br />

360 Sound includes 300 rare and intimate<br />

photographs from the Columbia archives and<br />

sidebar discussions of crucial developments<br />

and performers written by eminent music<br />

historians Dave Marsh and Colin Escott. The<br />

book offers a virtual history of the music<br />

industry from its infancy, tracing Columbia"s<br />

pivotal technological as well as business<br />

innovations, not least its invention of the LP.<br />

It also reflects on the connection between<br />

Columbia"s artists and music and sweeping<br />

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cultural and political changes, from the<br />

emergence of mass commercial culture to the<br />

rise of the civil rights movement and beyond.<br />

The release of 360 Sound: The Columbia<br />

Records Story will be celebrated with a<br />

launch event in New York on Oct. 30th.<br />

Additionally there will be a retrospective<br />

exhibit at the GRAMMY Museum in Los<br />

Angeles. An event is set for November 7th at<br />

the Museum on opening day.<br />

360 Sound author Sean Wilentz is one of the<br />

nation"s most prominent historians. His books<br />

and commentary on music, politics, and the<br />

arts have received numerous awards,<br />



including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and his<br />

writing on music has been nominated for a<br />

Grammy Award. He is currently the George<br />

Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American<br />

History at Princeton University.<br />

Dave Marsh has written more than 20 books<br />

on rock and popular music. He has written<br />

extensively for publications including Rolling<br />

Stone and Playboy. Since 2004, he has<br />

hosted a two hour weekly show on XM/Sirius<br />

Radio.<br />

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Gobierno Paraguay inicia censo y<br />

promete recuperar tierras en zona de<br />

matanza<br />

Asunción, (EFE).- El Gobierno paraguayo<br />

comenzó hoy un censo de la zona de<br />

Curuguaty (nordeste) y reiteró su voluntad<br />

“indeclinable” de recuperar para el Estado las<br />

tierras ocupadas por un empresario donde<br />

ocurrió la tragedia que costó la Presidencia a<br />

Fernando Lugo.El presidente del Instituto de<br />

Desarrollo Rural y de la Tierra (Indert), Luis<br />

Ortigoza, de visita en Curuguaty (nordeste),<br />

pidió a los campesinos “acompañamiento y<br />

madurez” hasta que se complete el proceso,<br />

según un comunicado del<br />

organismo.Ortigoza demandó que los<br />

campesinos eviten nuevas ocupaciones de<br />

estas tierras en disputa, donde el pasado 15<br />

de junio murieron 17 personas en un tiroteo<br />

entre policías y campesinos “sin tierra”<br />

durante una operación de desalojo.Los “sin<br />

tierra” ocupaban una parcela de casi 1.800<br />

hectáreas cuya propiedad se disputan el<br />

Estado -que las recibió en donación en 1967y<br />

el empresario y político “colorado” Blas N.<br />

Riquelme.“Campos Morombí”, una de las<br />

empresas de Riquelme, posee 50.000<br />

hectáreas en Curuguaty y en 2005 sumó<br />

1.800 anexas mediante un proceso de<br />

usucapión, que la Comisión de Verdad y<br />

Justicia (CVJ) consideró plagado de<br />

“múltiples irregularidades y falsedades”.La<br />

semana pasada, el Ejecutivo del nuevo<br />

presidente paraguayo, Federico Franco,<br />

anunció su intención de recuperar esas<br />

hectáreas para el Estado, dentro del<br />

“Proyecto Curuguaty” de desarrollo de las<br />

comunidades rurales de la zona.Ortigoza<br />

mantuvo hoy que hay documentos que<br />

prueban que esas tierras “pertenecían a la<br />

Marina paraguaya” y aseveró que la<br />

Procuraduría General “se encargará de hacer<br />

un seguimiento del caso”.El contralor<br />

general, Pedro Valiente, se reunió hoy con el<br />

presidente de la Corte Suprema, Víctor<br />

Núñez, al que demandó que el Poder<br />

Judicial complete el trámite administrativo de<br />

inscripción en el registro público de la<br />

propiedad de esas hectáreas, según la<br />

agencia estatal IP.Valiente aludió a un<br />

informe de la Armada que revela que ésta<br />

“mantuvo la posesión del inmueble hasta<br />

2004? y aseveró que se va a<br />

“desenmascarar” a la familia Riquelme, que<br />

asegura que ocupó y cuidó las tierras durante<br />

décadas, fundamento del proceso de<br />

usucapión.Paralelamente, la Procuraduría va<br />

a promover una acción de nulidad del juicio<br />

de usucapión.En declaraciones a la emisora<br />

de radio Primero de Marzo, Jorge Riquelme,<br />

hijo del empresario, acusó hoy al Ejecutivo<br />

de pretender imponer una solución exigiendo<br />

al empresario que “renuncie a sus derechos<br />

que tiene sobre la usucapión”.Según la<br />

familia, ellos poseen también documentos<br />

que prueban que la Armada nunca ocupó<br />

físicamente el inmueble ni tuvo interés en<br />

titularlo.El caos en los registros de propiedad<br />

complica una solución al conflicto por la tierra<br />

en Paraguay, donde un tercio de la superficie<br />

arable del país fue adjudicado irregularmente<br />

durante la dictadura de Alfredo Stroessner<br />

(1954-89) y los 15 años posteriores, según<br />

un informe de 2008 de la CVJ.Otro foco del<br />

conflicto son las tierras sojeras de Ñacunday<br />

(este), donde el Indert efectuó también un<br />

censo la semana pasada, aunque en este<br />

caso lo hizo por sorpresa.El censo, que<br />

registró a sólo 1.400 campesinos “sin tierra”<br />

que ocupan parcelas de Ñacunday<br />

reclamando que son estatales, será tomado<br />

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como “punto de partida” para la solución del<br />

conflicto en la región sojera fronteriza con<br />

Brasil, según Ortigoza.El titular del Indert<br />

reiteró que en la zona no hay tierras del<br />

Estado -a diferencia de lo que afirmaban los<br />

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responsables de la etapa de Lugo- por lo que<br />

el instituto evaluará otros predios para<br />

asentar a los campesinos.<br />

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Arizona Law Criminalizing Abortions<br />

After 20 Weeks Is Upheld<br />

An Arizona law making it a crime for doctors<br />

to perform abortions after 20 weeks of<br />

pregnancy was upheld by a judge who said<br />

the state showed credible evidence an<br />

unborn child may feel pain during such<br />

procedures. The law, set to take effect Aug.<br />

2, was challenged by three doctors who said<br />

it’s preempted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s<br />

1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The doctors<br />

sought a court order putting the measure on<br />

hold while their lawsuit proceeded. U.S.<br />

District Judge James Teilborg in Phoenix said<br />

their complaint couldn’t succeed and<br />

dismissed the case. A woman’s right to<br />

abortion isn’t unlimited, Teilborg said, and<br />

states’ interest in the lives of unborn children<br />

may have “sufficient force so that the right of<br />

the woman to terminate the pregnancy can<br />

be restricted.” Arizona’s legislature said it<br />

sought to prevent abortions that caused pain<br />

to unborn children during the procedure as<br />

one purpose of the law, Teilborg said in his<br />

ruling today. The state<br />

presented“uncontradicted and credible<br />

evidence” that an unborn child has the<br />

capacity to feel pain during an abortion by at<br />

least 20 weeks gestational age, said Teilborg,<br />

who was appointed by President Bill Clinton.<br />

‘Legal Precedent’ “Today’s decision casts<br />

aside decades of legal precedent, ignoring<br />

constitutional protections for reproductive<br />

rights that have been upheld by the United<br />

States Supreme Court for nearly 40 years<br />

and threatening women’s health and lives,”<br />

said Nancy Northup, president of the Center<br />

for Reproductive Rights, in an e-mail. The<br />

group represented the doctors and plans to<br />

file an emergency appeal in a federal appeals<br />

court in San Francisco to prevent the law<br />

from taking effect, according to the e-mail.<br />

Signed by Governor Jan Brewer in April, the<br />

law makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by<br />

as long as six months in jail, to perform an<br />

abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy except<br />

in a medical emergencies to prevent death or<br />

“irreversible impairment of a major bodily<br />

function.” The statute is the most extreme<br />

abortion ban in the nation, said the American<br />

Civil Liberties Union, which is also<br />

representing the doctors. The physicians<br />

claim no fetus is viable at 20 weeks, and that<br />

under Roe v. Wade and other cases, women<br />

have the right to terminate pregnancies<br />

before viability. William Montgomery,<br />

Maricopa County Attorney, which includes<br />

Phoenix, said enforcement of the law with its<br />

exception for medical emergencies is<br />

permitted by Roe v. Wade. The case is<br />

Isaacson v. Horne, 12-01501, U.S. District<br />

Court, District of Arizona (Phoenix). To<br />

contact the reporter on this story: Karen Gullo<br />

in San Francisco atkgullo@bloomberg.net To<br />


Michael Hytha atmhytha@bloomberg.net<br />

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Wall Street’s Kangaroo Court Gets a<br />

Black Eye<br />

“Sunlight is said to be the best of<br />

disinfectants,” the future Supreme Court<br />

Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote in a<br />

1913 article for Harpers’ Weekly, and now,<br />

almost 100 years later, there is evidence that<br />

Brandeis was right. On July 9, I wrote a<br />

column describing how the Financial Industry<br />

Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s<br />

self-policing organization, seemingly out of<br />

nowhere fired three arbitrators in the months<br />

after a May 2011 case in which they awarded<br />

$520,000 to the estate of the late Robert<br />

Postell. The finding was against Postell’s<br />

former broker, Merrill Lynch, a subsidiary of<br />

Bank of America Corp. One after another<br />

over a period of about a year, the arbitrators<br />

-- Ilene Gormly, Daniel Kolber and Fred<br />

Pinckney -- received what are known as<br />

“black spot” letters from Finra, removing them<br />

from the roster of those empowered to<br />

adjudicate the thousands of lawsuits brought<br />

each year by Wall Street employees and<br />

customers against financial firms. The black<br />

spot letters described how Finra periodically<br />

examines the list of arbitrators and culls<br />

people from it. Finra officials have said that<br />

Gormly, Kolber and Pinckney weren’t<br />

removed because Merrill’s lawyer and<br />

executives complained to the authority about<br />

the sizable award granted to Postell, who<br />

died after filing the claim, and his wife, Joan.<br />

Was it truly a coincidence? Finra derives the<br />

vast majority of its more than $1 billion in<br />

annual revenue from securities firms, and<br />

executives in the industry serve on Finra’s<br />

board of governors. My column on the matter<br />

caused a bit of a stir around Finra -- as well<br />

as at the Public Investors Arbitration Bar<br />

Association, a group of about 500 or so<br />

lawyers who represent claimants in Finra<br />

arbitrations. Letters started flying between a<br />

Finra executive and a Piaba executive<br />

explaining the steps Finra takes when it<br />

removes an arbitrator. Finra’s goal was to<br />

show that its actions in the firing of Gormly,<br />

Kolber and Pinckney were for good, albeit<br />

unstated, reasons. Finra’s justifications rang<br />

hollow, and on July 25 the organization took<br />

the remarkable step of reinstating all three<br />

arbitrators to the Finra roster. In a letter to the<br />

arbitrators, Linda Fienberg, the president of<br />

Finra’s dispute resolution and its chief<br />

hearing officer, explained that “after reading<br />

the commentary” from Bloomberg View she<br />

and her fellow Finra executives “re-opened<br />

the matter.” They listened to tapes of the<br />

Postell arbitration proceedings and “reached<br />

a different conclusion regarding the alleged<br />

inappropriate conduct from the conclusion<br />

previously reached.” (Finra provided me with<br />

a copy of the letter.) Still, Fienberg alleged<br />

unspecified “inaccuracies” in my reporting<br />

and disputed the causal relationship between<br />

the firing of the three arbitrators and the<br />

complaints from Merrill and its attorney about<br />

the Postell award. “There is no validity to this<br />

assertion,” Fienberg wrote. “Finra simply<br />

does not remove arbitrators from the roster<br />

based upon their awards, and never has.”<br />

Maybe. Andrew Stoltmann, a lawyer in<br />

Chicago who sues Wall Street firms,<br />

contacted me after seeing my column to say<br />

he has never heard of three arbitrators being<br />

removed in the way that Gormly, Kolber and<br />

Pinckney were. “I’ve handled close to 1,000<br />

Finra arbitrations over the years,” he wrote in<br />

an e-mail. “To think Finra removes arbitrators<br />

and but for news coverage like this those<br />

arbitrators would have stayed out is<br />

extraordinary troubling. Finra’s major<br />

credibility problem is directly related to issues<br />

like these.” One would like to think the<br />

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einstatement of the three arbitrators ends the<br />

matter in a very satisfying way. But, alas, it<br />

doesn’t. Merrill Lynch, through its attorney,<br />

Terry Weiss of Greenberg Traurig, has asked<br />

a federal judge in Atlanta to throw out the<br />

$520,000 award to the Postells. Weiss<br />

argued in his motion to vacate that the<br />

arbitrators “exhibited evident partiality,”<br />

“misbehaved such that Merrill Lynch’s rights<br />

were prejudiced,” “exceeded their powers by<br />

taking over the arbitration, conducting hostile<br />

cross examination of Merrill Lynch’s<br />

witnesses on irrelevant topics” and “refusing<br />

Merrill Lynch’s request that the biased<br />

arbitrators recuse themselves.” Weiss<br />

attached a copy of my column to a motion he<br />

filed with the federal court to supplement the<br />

record. Weiss had the chutzpah to argue that<br />

the dismissal of the arbitrators was a smoking<br />

gun showing that the panel had done<br />

something egregiously wrong in the Postell<br />

arbitration. Now, with Finra having cleared<br />

the arbitrators of wrongdoing, Weiss has<br />

boxed himself into a corner in the legal<br />

argument department. My previous column<br />

also brought complaints that because, almost<br />

10 years ago, I pursued my own arbitration<br />

against JPMorgan Chase Co. (JPM) -- and<br />

lost -- I am biased against Wall Street<br />

arbitration. No. What I am against is the sham<br />

that so often passes for justice on Wall Street<br />

these days. The millions of people who either<br />

work there or who have brokerage accounts<br />

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sign away, upfront, their legal right to resolve<br />

financial disputes in a court of law. They are<br />

forced into Finra arbitration and most don’t<br />

have a clue they have relinquished their<br />

ability to resolve it any other way. Finra’s<br />

treatment of Gormly, Kolber and Pinckney -despite<br />

their reinstatements -- illustrates just<br />

how shoddy the system is. It needs to be<br />

scrapped, and those with a grievance against<br />

Wall Street should get their day in a real<br />

court. (William D. Cohan, the author of<br />

“Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs<br />

Came to Rule the World,” is a Bloomberg<br />

View columnist. He was formerly an<br />

investment banker at Lazard Freres, Merrill<br />

Lynch and JPMorgan Chase. The opinions<br />

expressed are his own.) Read more opinion<br />

online from Bloomberg View. Subscribe to<br />

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editorials, columns and op-ed articles.<br />

Today’s highlights: the editors on France’s<br />

misguided transaction tax and on how to<br />

improve the farm bill; Noah Feldman on the<br />

NCAA’s unconvincing sanctions; Albert R.<br />

Hunt on rating U.S. presidents; Luigi Zingales<br />

on a European banking union; Raymond<br />

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responsible for this article: Tobin Harshaw<br />

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Business Line/ - Markets, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


TDSAT reserves order on RCom’s plea<br />

Telecom tribunal TDSAT on Monday<br />

reserved order on maintainability of Reliance<br />

Communications’ plea alleging<br />

discrimination against the existing CDMA<br />

operators by the government in the proposed<br />

auctions saying they are being allowed to bid<br />

only for one block.A TDSAT bench headed by<br />

its Chairman Justice S B Sinha reserved the<br />

order after hearing the Anil Ambani group firm<br />

and the sectoral regulator TRAI.Meanwhile,<br />

DoT failed to appear before TDSAT and<br />

present its side despite being issued a notice<br />

by the tribunal on last hearing to appear<br />

before it.During the proceedings, the bench<br />

asked from the RCom’s counsel whether<br />

guidelines framed by the government can be<br />

challenged before it or not as it was not a<br />

dispute between a licensee and a<br />

licensor.The TRAI act empowers TDSAT to<br />

adjudicate a dispute between a licensee<br />

(operator) and a licensor only.RCom, in its<br />

petition has submitted that as per the DoT’s<br />

circular of July 3 this year, the government<br />

would allot two blocks of 1.25 Mhz to existing<br />

GSM operators in the proposed auction, while<br />

the CDMA can bid for one only.“This<br />

approach of respondent No 1 (Government of<br />

India) is discriminatory and leads to non-level<br />

playing field among the similarly placed UAS<br />

licensees,” said RCom in its plea.According<br />

to RCom, with only one block of 1.25 Mhz in<br />

800 Mhz band the CDMA operators “will not<br />

be able to get even the licence mandated<br />

5Mhz of spectrum in various circles.“While<br />

the existing GSM operators can get additional<br />

2.5 Mhz spectrum through auction and go<br />

even beyond the licence mandated quantity<br />

of 6.2 Mhz in some of the circles,” said RCom<br />

in its petition.The government is gearing up<br />

for auction after the February 2, 2012 order of<br />

the Supreme Court cancelling licence issued<br />

by DoT.The Supreme Court has said in its<br />

order that the spectrum should be auctioned<br />

at the market price.RCom submitted that it<br />

was not against the auction but seeking that<br />

the guidelines issued by DoT should be<br />

revised to allow a level-playing field between<br />

the existing GSM and CDMA operators.It has<br />

requested TDSAT to declare the clause<br />

related to block allocations as “arbitrary and<br />

discriminatory in nature and quash them”.<br />

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DoT raises concerns on Uninor rights<br />

issue<br />

The Department of Telecom has told the<br />

Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)<br />

that a decision on Uninor’s rights issue<br />

should be taken after looking into a number of<br />

pending issues.<br />

This includes the legal notice issued by the<br />

Norwegian firm against the Indian<br />

Government under a bilateral investment<br />

treaty.<br />

The Department has also told the FIPB that a<br />

decision on the rights issue should be taken<br />

only if the company meets the FDI norms and<br />

complies with security guidelines. In addition,<br />

there are pending issues related to the<br />

company’s proposed amalgamation of seven<br />

subsidiaries.<br />

“It would be appropriate to take a final<br />

decision keeping in view and taking into<br />

consideration various development in legal<br />

cases in the Supreme Court and various<br />

ongoing issues in the DoT like their request<br />

for amalgamation of seven companies,<br />

non-fulfilment of eligibility conditions of unified<br />

access licence, arbitration etc.,” DoT said in<br />

an internal note seen by Business Line.<br />

Uninor, in which Telenor owns 67.25 per cent<br />

stake, had approached the FIPB, seeking to<br />

bring in Rs 1,200 crore as part of a rights<br />

issue. The cash-strapped company wants to<br />

use the additional funding for meeting<br />

operational expenses.<br />

But the rights issue is already facing<br />

opposition from the Indian joint venture<br />

partner – Unitech, which has told the FIPB<br />

that the rights issue was already under<br />

arbitration. Unitech has already informed<br />

Telenor that it will not subscribe to a rights<br />

offer.<br />

The DoT has told the FIPB that in case<br />

Telenor brings in a new partner then it should<br />

get security clearance for the same. The<br />

Department had raised similar concerns<br />

when the company had sought permission to<br />

raise Rs 8,200 crore through a rights issue.<br />


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Apex court gives nod for controversial<br />

ship’s entry into Alang yard<br />

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the<br />

green signal for dismantling of a controversial<br />

ship, MV Oriental Nicety, earlier known as<br />

Exxon Valdez, and its recycling at Alang ship<br />

breaking yard in Gujarat.<br />

This follows submissions by the Gujarat<br />

Pollution Control Board, the Shipping<br />

Ministry, the Ministry of Environment and<br />

Forests and the Gujarat Maritime Board that<br />

the ship did not have onboard any hazardous<br />

waste in loose form.<br />

The court, however, directed that if any such<br />

waste was found during the ship’s<br />

dismantling process, the ship owner must<br />

bear all the costs for its disposal through the<br />

proper process. Significantly, it also said that<br />

in future, vessels should not be dismantled in<br />

India in violation of the Basel Convention (on<br />

the control of trans-boundary movements of<br />

hazardous wastes and their disposal).<br />

According to the Convention, which is an<br />

international treaty, it is mandatory to get<br />

prior informed consent of the host country<br />

and ensure prior decontamination of vessels<br />

in the country of origin in all cases of<br />

movement of hazardous wastes across<br />

national boundaries. The treaty also insists<br />

upon the importing country having an<br />

environmentally sound mechanism of safe<br />

waste disposal.<br />

Exxon Valdez had run into controversy when<br />

it spilt millions of gallons of oil in Alaska in<br />

1989. The US Supreme Court had ordered<br />

$507.5 million in punitive damages to the<br />

victims.<br />

The petition before the apex court was filed in<br />

April by environmental activist Mr Gopal<br />

Krishna, represented by advocate Mr Sanjay<br />

Parikh. The petitioner alleged that the ship<br />

itself was a waste and posed an<br />

environmental threat. Mr Parikh pointed out<br />

that “the authorities had not filed any affidavit<br />

or certificate before the apex court on the<br />

inventory of hazardous waste embedded in<br />

the ship”.<br />

The ship dismantling and recycling yard at<br />

Alang, touted as the largest such facility in<br />

the world, provides direct employment to<br />

around 25,000 people and indirect<br />

employment to around four lakh people. It<br />

also helps generate around four million<br />

tonnes of recycled steel annually.<br />

arun.s@thehindu.co.in<br />

195



Gujarat Govt considering policy to repair<br />

religious sites damaged in 2002 riots<br />

The Gujarat Government today told the<br />

Supreme Court that it is considering to frame<br />

a policy for compensating the religious<br />

places, damaged in the 2002 riots.<br />

Appearing before a Bench of Mr Justices K.S.<br />

Radhakrishnan and Mr Dipak Misra, the<br />

Advocate General for Gujarat submitted that<br />

the State Government is considering to frame<br />

a policy to repair the damaged shrines on the<br />

lines of a scheme formulated by the Odisha<br />

Government on the apex court’s directions.<br />

The Bench, meanwhile, refused to stay the<br />

Gujarat High Court’s order to the State<br />

Government to repair and rebuild religious<br />

sites which were damaged during the 2002<br />

riots.<br />

The Bench posted the matter for further<br />

hearing on August 14 and asked the State<br />

Government to brief it about the scheme on<br />

that day.<br />

The apex court’s order came on an appeal by<br />

the Gujarat Government against the Gujarat<br />

High Court order, which had asked it to pay<br />

compensation for damages to the religious<br />

sites.<br />

The Gujarat Government was pulled up by<br />

the Gujarat High Court on February 8 for its<br />

“inaction and negligence” during the 2002<br />

post-Godhra riots, which had led to<br />

large-scale damages to various religious<br />

structures.<br />

The High Court had ordered compensation<br />

for over 500 places of worships in the state<br />

on a plea by the Islamic Relief Committee of<br />

Gujarat (IRCG), an NGO.<br />

The NGO had contended that 535 religious<br />

places were affected out of which 37 are yet<br />

to be repaired.<br />

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Clarín/ - Policiales, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Moyano y Caló juntan fuerzas tras el<br />

descanso<br />

Con la pelea sindical al rojo, muchos<br />

dirigentes debatieron largamente las<br />

opciones que tenían. Es que la situación no<br />

daba para más y exigía de respuestas<br />

rápidas, drásticas. La indefinición los iba a<br />

dejar en un lugar incómodo, así que por eso<br />

muchos resolvieron reunir a sus íntimos para<br />

decidir los pasos por seguir en una<br />

encrucijada que los obsesionaba: ¿adónde<br />

irse de viaje en las vacaciones de<br />

invierno?Créase o no, en estas últimas dos<br />

semanas, los días de descanso se<br />

transformaron en un hecho político. Primero<br />

fue la enigmática desaparición de Antonio<br />

Caló , que puso en riesgo su candidatura<br />

para liderar la CGT Balcarce. Y, la semana<br />

pasada, los viajes al exterior de dos<br />

antimoyanistas, Roberto Fernández (UTA) y<br />

Omar Maturano (La Fraternidad), obligaron a<br />

suspender una reunión del sector.Hugo<br />

Moyano canceló su agendadurante tres días<br />

para dedicarse a su hijo de 12 años. Y hasta<br />

el líder de la CTA disidente, Pablo Micheli, se<br />

refugió en su Junín natal antes de resolver si<br />

finalmente saldrá a la calle junto con la CGT<br />

disidente para protestar contra el Gobierno.El<br />

paro con movilización del gremialismo<br />

antikirchnerista comenzará a tomar color a<br />

partir de esta semana, pero por ahora está<br />

algo pálido. Micheli blanqueó la idea de<br />

unirse al moyanismo para realizar una<br />

medida de fuerza en septiembre. Pero ni en<br />

la CGT Azopardo ni en la propia CTA rebelde<br />

hay unanimidad. Gerónimo Venegas, de<br />

trabajadores rurales, sería uno de los que se<br />

resisten a aliarse al gremialismo más<br />

radicalizado. Y del lado ceteísta hay<br />

sindicatos combativos que no quieren<br />

sentirse “usados por Moyano” , como sucedió<br />

en el último acto de la Plaza de Mayo, donde<br />

el líder camionero ni mencionó la presencia<br />

de muchas agrupaciones de izquierda.El que<br />

trabaja secretamente como mediadorentre<br />

Moyano y Micheli es Eduardo Buzzi,<br />

presidente de la Federación Agraria, que, en<br />

contra de la opinión de sus colegas de la<br />

Mesa de Enlace, busca unirse con los<br />

sindicalistas en propuestas sobre tres o<br />

cuatro reclamos (como la decisión de no<br />

tocar el mínimo no imponible) y en medidas<br />

de fuerza que puedan forzar cambios<br />

socioeconómicos en el hermético planeta K.<br />

Todo indica que pasado mañana se reuniría<br />

la CGT Azopardo para analizar un plan de<br />

luchaque cristalice lo que llaman “unidad en<br />

la acción”. El jefe de la Federación Agraria<br />

apuesta a que, como gesto de buena<br />

voluntad, Moyano y Micheli participen del<br />

almuerzo con que se celebrarán, el 15 de<br />

agosto, los cien años de la entidad. Lo que<br />

provocará fuertes debates en el moyanismo<br />

es si conviene mostrarse en esa comida<br />

cerca del presidente de la Sociedad Rural,<br />

Hugo Biolcati, alguien que, por sus posturas<br />

políticas, suele ser demonizadono sólo por el<br />

kirchnerismo sino también por el peronismo<br />

que el líder cegetista procura representar. La<br />

misma disyuntiva se planteó la semana<br />

pasada, cuando Venegas fracasó en sus<br />

insistentes pedidos para que Moyano<br />

participara de una mateada en el stand de su<br />

gremio en la Exposición Rural. La CGT<br />

Balcarce también está envuelta en fuertes<br />

discusiones internas. En medio de versiones<br />

inquietantes sobre su futuro político, Caló<br />

reapareció luego de su misterioso viaje(se<br />

había recluido con su esposa en un hotel de<br />

lujo de Mendoza y, según confesó, le sacó la<br />

batería a su celular para no responder<br />

llamados). Pero en pocas horas logró ser<br />

invitado a un acto en la Casa Rosada, en el<br />

que la Presidenta le reprochó cariñosamente<br />

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su ausencia, y se mostró con unos 30 ex<br />

moyanistas del Movimiento de Acción<br />

Sindical Argentina (MASA), en un gesto de<br />

respaldo que bloqueó un operativo para<br />

desbancarlo de su condición de favorito para<br />

encabezar la central kirchnerista.Aunque el<br />

líder metalúrgico logró desorientar a todo el<br />

mundo, hay que reconocerle que puede<br />

mostrar ahora un perfil de mayor autonomía :<br />

borrarse de la primera foto de la CGT<br />

Balcarce con Cristina Kirchner y, aún más,<br />

declarar que no le cree al Indec, le dieron<br />

chapa de independiente antes que de<br />

“recontraalcahuete” de la Casa Rosada,<br />

como Luis Barrionuevo confesaba en épocas<br />

de Carlos Menem. Hoy, cuando se reúna el<br />

antimoyanismo en la UOM para avanzar en<br />

la constitución del quórum del consejo<br />

directivo y en el llamado al congreso<br />

cegetista del 3 de octubre, podría quedar en<br />

claro que Caló tiene mayor consenso entre<br />

sus colegas, por más que entre los “Gordos”<br />

insistan en que la central sea conducida por<br />

un triunvirato , lo que les permitiría mantener<br />

controlado al sucesor de Lorenzo Miguel y,<br />

de paso, tratar de sumar al gran impulsor de<br />

ese esquema, Barrionuevo (que también<br />



volverá hoy de sus vacaciones).Ahora parece<br />

de ciencia ficción, pero hay sindicalistas que<br />

sueñan con algo que escucharon en algunos<br />

despachos oficiales: en las próximas<br />

semanas habrá respuestas concretas a<br />

algunos de sus principales reclamos(obras<br />

sociales, asignaciones familiares y salario<br />

mínimo) y además, aseguran, el Gobierno<br />

planifica un último trimestre menos cruento.<br />

Sin tanta presión por los vencimientos de la<br />

deuda y en vísperas de una cosecha de soja<br />

récord, los estrategos K prepararían una<br />

batería de medidas para producir “un shock<br />

de consumo”, que llegaría de la mano de un<br />

recambio ministerial . Todo, obviamente, con<br />

la mira puesta en las elecciones de 2013,<br />

donde un porcentaje superior al 40%,<br />

calculan en la Casa Rosada, abriría las<br />

puertas a una reforma constitucional que<br />

habilite otra reelección de la Presidenta. Sea<br />

el escenario que fuere, al sindicalismo<br />

peronista le espera una temporada política y<br />

económica tan agitada que hasta puede<br />

cumplirse su peor pesadilla: que tenga que<br />

suspender las vacaciones de verano.<br />

198



Las cuentas K para la re-reelección:<br />

panorama complicado en el Senado<br />

Fogoneada en su momento por integrantes<br />

del elenco kirchnerista y ahora en un proceso<br />

de instalación en forma de foros y debates, la<br />

viabilidad de la eventual reforma<br />

constitucional para posibilitar otro período de<br />

Cristina se definirá en las elecciones<br />

legislativas de 2013. Para habilitar la re-re, el<br />

oficialismo deberá reunir los votos de los dos<br />

tercios de los presentes en las dos Cámaras.<br />

Si se repitieran los resultados de 2011, el<br />

Frente para la Victoria -con aliados- se<br />

aseguraría ese número en Diputados y<br />

quedaría a ocho legisladores en el Senado.<br />

En ese caso, la pretensión a esta altura con<br />

chances inciertas tomaría impulso<br />

concreto.Con una elección idéntica a la de<br />

octubre, los K se quedarían con 87 de las<br />

127 bancas que se renovarán en Diputados<br />

en 2013. Allí tendrá la ventaja de que a sólo<br />

48 de sus 135 legisladores actuales se les<br />

termina el mandato, por la magra cosecha de<br />

2009 . De ese modo, el bloque K y sus<br />

aliados -como Nuevo Encuentro y fuerzas<br />

provinciales- alcanzarían los 174 integrantes,<br />

dos más que los dos tercios de la Cámara.El<br />

crecimiento sobresaldría en los grandes<br />

distritos : en la provincia de Buenos Aires<br />

conseguiría 22 en lugar de los 12 con<br />

aquellas candidaturas testimoniales, en<br />

Capital 5 en lugar de 1, en Santa Fe 5<br />

contra2 y en Córdoba 4 en vez de 1.<br />

También sumaría 1 ó 2 extras en Catamarca,<br />

Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Formosa, La Rioja,<br />

Mendoza, Misiones, Río Negro, San Juan,<br />

Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego y Tucumán.Ese<br />

es el cálculo matemático. Las<br />

consideraciones políticas indican que<br />

resultará difícil para el kirchnerismo, más allá<br />

del contexto económico en el momento de la<br />

elección, repetir en una legislativa los<br />

resultados de una presidencial en la que<br />

Cristina arrasó y arrastró votos para las listas<br />

de diputados. Así y todo, en los despachos<br />

oficialistas circulan estimaciones optimistas.<br />

El punteo de un legislador K empapado en<br />

cuestiones electorales arrojó que, si los<br />

comicios fueran hoy, el FPV más aliados<br />

llegarían a 160 integrantes, 12 menos que los<br />

dos tercios. Y descontó que con esa cifra la<br />

reforma quedaría al alcance: “Si ganamos<br />

con esa amplitud, inclinamos la cancha y la<br />

matemática se acomoda enseguida”.En el<br />

Senado, en cambio, el oficialismo tiene un<br />

panorama menos alentador. Ahora cuenta<br />

con 38 legisladores, 10 menos que los dos<br />

tercios. Con la candidatura de Daniel Reposo<br />

a la Procuración era necesaria esa mayoría<br />

y, según los referentes del bloque, llegaron a<br />

40 ó 42, antes de resignarse a retirar el<br />

pliego. De las ocho provincias que renovarán<br />

sus tres representantes en 2013, el<br />

kirchnerismo ya tiene a los tres en Neuquén y<br />

Tierra del Fuego (dos propios y un aliado), y<br />

a dos en Chaco, Entre Ríos, Río Negro y<br />

Santiago del Estero. En estos últimos casos,<br />

aunque el FPV consiga un resultado<br />

contundente, un senador será para la primera<br />

minoría. Quedaría con posibilidades de<br />

sumar en Salta y en menor medida en<br />

Capital (tiene uno en cada distrito) y en<br />

alguna provincia donde arme dos listas, con<br />

chances una de ganar y otra de quedar<br />

segunda. Un panorama complicado, aunque<br />

la matemática no siempre es exacta en<br />

política.<br />

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Corriere Della Será/ - Home, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Scontro Napolitano-pm di Palermo: in<br />

Consulta arriva il ricorso del Colle<br />

Il capo dello Stato ha investito da Corte<br />

Costituzionale a decidere sull'uso delle<br />

intercettazione della procura siciliana<br />

È stato depositato alla Corte Costituzionale<br />

il ricorso per conflitto di attribuzione della<br />

Presidenza della Repubblica contro la<br />

Procura di Palermo per le decisioni che<br />

questa ha assunto sulle intercettazioni di<br />

conversazioni telefoniche del Capo dello<br />

Stato, Giorgio Napolitano. Lo fa sapere<br />

l'Avvocatura dello Stato.<br />

200



Stop ai ticket, si pagherà in base al<br />

reddito<br />

Confindustria: zero risparmi dai tagli ai<br />

farmaci, norma da accantonare. Il governo ha<br />

annunciato il voto di fiducia<br />

ROMA - Ticket è una parola che suona<br />

odiosa e il ministro della Salute la evita<br />

accuratamente. Meglio dire<br />

«compartecipazione», cioè un contributo alle<br />

spese di esami, visite, analisi col quale ogni<br />

cittadino condivide le spese del servizio<br />

sanitario pubblico. È confermato, niente<br />

ticket, dal 2014 entrerà un nuovo sistema<br />

basato sulle franchigie: «Stabiliremo una<br />

quota che verrà pagata in relazione al<br />

reddito. Oltre un certo limite scatta per tutti la<br />

gratuità», ribadisce il professor Renato<br />

Balduzzi che già da diversi mesi sta<br />

lavorando su questo progetto. È partito un<br />

giro di consultazioni anche a livello politico.<br />

Per ora la mini riforma non compare fra i<br />

provvedimenti della bozza del decretone sulla<br />

sanità che, tra l'altro prevede la revisione<br />

dell'intramoenia (libera professione del<br />

medico ospedaliero) e la ricetta elettronica.<br />

«C'è tempo, non abbiamo fretta», aggiungono<br />

al ministero, il più coinvolto dai tagli della<br />

spending review lunedì all'esame dell'aula del<br />

Senato dopo l'approvazione in commissione<br />

Bilancio. Il governo ha annunciato che<br />

apporrà la fiducia.<br />

COME FUNZIONA - La franchigia, ha<br />

spiegato Balduzzi in un'intervista a Tgcom24,<br />

funzionerà in base a reddito e patologia:<br />

«Questo aiuterà ad esempio i malati cronici. Il<br />

limite sarà tecnico e servirà anche per<br />

dissuadere i comportamenti di<br />

inappropriatezza». Che sono una delle<br />

maggiori voci di spreco negli ospedali. Ma c'è<br />

un' altra ragione per cui i nuovi ticket, valore 2<br />

miliardi, previsti dalla Finanziaria 2011 di<br />

Tremonti, verranno superati. La<br />

reintroduzione è stata bocciata dalla Corte<br />

Costituzionale in seguito al ricorso del Friuli<br />

Venezia Giulia. Se la norma fosse stata<br />

giudicata legittima i cittadini avrebbero dovuto<br />

sostenere contributi alla spesa in aggiunta<br />

rispetto a quelli già esistenti. Già prima della<br />

sentenza Balduzzi ipotizzava vie alternative<br />

«più eque e sostenibili» oltre che<br />

tecnicamente più semplici da applicare. Se<br />

ne riparlerà più avanti, in autunno. I<br />

meccanismi delle franchigie vanno ben<br />

congegnati per garantire alle fasce più deboli<br />

prestazioni gratuite. Adesso l'attenzione è<br />

tutta rivolta al provvedimento sulla revisione<br />

della spesa. Ed è proprio il contenuto<br />

dell'articolo 15 sulla sanità a far rivoltare le<br />

categorie colpite.<br />

FARMACI - Dopo l'emendamento approvato<br />

sabato in tarda ora che obbliga la<br />

prescrizione del principio attivo, anziché del<br />

farmaco di marca, Farmindustria ha<br />

convocato la riunione del Comitato di<br />

presidenza: «Un'iniziativa ideologica. Sul<br />

piano economico non si risparmierà un euro.<br />

È stato un colpo di mano, le aziende non<br />

reggeranno e qualcuno se ne assumerà le<br />

responsabilità», critica Massimo<br />

Scaccabarozzi, presidente dell'associazione.<br />

Il comma 11bis prevede che il medico che<br />

cura per la prima volta un paziente cronico o<br />

affronta un nuovo episodio di patologia non<br />

cronica «è tenuto ad indicare nella ricetta del<br />

servizio sanitario nazionale la sola<br />

denominazione del principio attivo» nel caso<br />

siano disponibili più farmaci equivalenti, quelli<br />

usciti di brevetto e che dunque possono<br />

essere prodotti da aziende diverse<br />

dall'originaria. In media costano 1-2 euro in<br />

meno. In Italia la spinta verso questo mercato<br />

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è storicamente stata poco decisa. I malati<br />

cronici già in terapia, in gran parte anziani,<br />

sono esclusi dalla restrizione perché si è<br />

voluto tener conto della loro abitudine anche<br />

visiva al medicinale.<br />

CONFINDUSTRIA - Un giro di vite rispetto<br />

alla legge sulle liberalizzazioni che lasciava<br />

libero il medico di apporre la scritta «non<br />

sostituibile» se il prescrittore riteneva di dover<br />

indicare proprio quel farmaco. Novità che i<br />

medici di famiglia della federazione Fimmg<br />

avevano accolto male annunciando di<br />

mantenersi sulla linea della non sostituibilità.<br />

Il nuovo obbligo li riporterà sulle barricate.<br />



Stavolta chi non scrive il nome del principio<br />

attivo e opta per il cosiddetto prodotto<br />

originale dovrà motivare la sua scelta. Forte<br />

preoccupazione di Confindustria:<br />

«Sosteniamo l'appello dell'industria<br />

farmaceutica al presidente del Senato,<br />

governo e forze politiche di rivedere questa<br />

posizione e accantonarla. L'introduzione di<br />

questo obbligo non si giustifica in termini di<br />

risparmio».<br />

Margherita De Bac<br />

mdebac@corriere.it<br />

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Restituyen a Rafael Sal Lari como juez en<br />

San Isidro<br />

La Plata- El juez de Garantías 3 de San<br />

Isidro, Rafael Sal Lari, fue restituido hoy en<br />

su cargo por el tribunal de Enjuiciamiento a<br />

Magistrados, luego de que los últimos dos<br />

acusadores desistieran de seguir<br />

imputándolo de presunto mal desempeño de<br />

sus funciones.<br />

Fuentes judiciales informaron hoy que el<br />

intendente de San Isidro, Gustavo Posse, y<br />

Carla Regis -hija del ingeniero Carlos Regis,<br />

asesinado durante un asalto en Béccar, en<br />

2008- no aportaron documentación para la<br />

continuidad del proceso.<br />

En consecuencia el tribunal de<br />

enjuiciamiento, que funcionó en un anexo del<br />

Senado provincial, en las calles 7 y 49,<br />

absolvió a Sal Lari y lo restituyó en su cargo<br />

al dar por finalizado el jury.<br />

En tanto, un grupo de "Madres del Dolor",<br />

organización que cuestiona duramente a Sal<br />

Lari, manifestó en la calle portando pancartas<br />

con la leyenda “Todos somos iguales ante la<br />

ley” y rechazaron la decisión de los jueces.<br />

El proceso a Sal Lari comenzó en 2009,<br />

cuando vecinos de San Isidro, familiares de<br />

víctimas del delito, las Madres del Dolor y el<br />

intendente Posse lo denunciaron por su<br />

accionar en una decena de causas, entre<br />

ellas la eximición de prisión a los acusados<br />

del asesinato de Regis.<br />

Sin embargo, el jurado de Enjuiciamiento<br />

solo lo llevó al juicio político por una de ellas;<br />

la de no haber efectivizado, luego de siete<br />

meses, la excarcelación concedida en 2005 a<br />

un imputado identificado como Jorge<br />

González, a quien la Sala III de la Cámara<br />

Penal de San Isidro le había revocado la<br />

prisión preventiva ordenada por Sal Lari.<br />

En medio del dilatado proceso, el 5 de julio<br />

pasado la Comisión Bicameral desistió de la<br />

imputación contra este magistrado, por lo que<br />

el Jurado pidió a los denunciantes Posse<br />

-intendente de San Isidro- y Regis que<br />

definan si asumen el rol de acusador para<br />

que continúe el jury contra Sal Lari.<br />

Además se le impuso a Posse y a Regis una<br />

fianza de 180 mil pesos para que respondan<br />

a las costas en caso de continuar el juicio,<br />

aunque los denunciantes no depositaron el<br />

dinero. Días después, la representación<br />

Posse y Regis presentó un escrito en el que<br />

afirmó que asumirán el rol acusador y<br />

pagarán la fianza siempre y cuando el Jurado<br />

de Enjuiciamiento considere válidas las<br />

denuncias de los nueve casos que en abril<br />

pasado desestimó.<br />

Si el tribunal la rechazaba, tal y como ocurrió<br />

hoy, la querella ya había adelantado que no<br />

asumiría el rol acusador contra Sal Lari.<br />

En su momento, fuentes judiciales<br />

recordaron algunos puntos que establece la<br />

ley, como por ejemplo que "cuando hubiere<br />

varios acusadores contra el mismo<br />

magistrado o funcionario y se tratare de<br />

hechos que guardan relación, deberán obrar<br />

bajo una sola representación".<br />

Añadieron que la ley también dice que "si el<br />

Procurador de la Suprema Corte o la<br />

Comisión Bicameral hubieren deducido<br />

acusación, serán los representantes legales<br />

de todos los demás, (acusadores) si los<br />

hubiere".<br />

Pero, aclararon, la norma establece que "no<br />

habiendo acusación por parte de la<br />

Procuración General de la Suprema Corte ni<br />

de la Comisión Bicameral, si el acusador<br />

particular no compareciere o desistiere, el<br />

juicio se tendrá por desistido con costas a<br />

cargo de dicho acusador".<br />

"Teniendo en cuenta que con fecha 5 de julio<br />

se tuvo por desistida la acusación de la<br />

Comisión Bicameral, esa misma fecha se<br />

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esolvió hacer saber de dicho desistimiento a<br />

los acusadores particulares para que se<br />

expidan", agregaron.<br />

Los voceros, en una suerte de réplica a<br />

cuestionamientos al proceso, dijeron que<br />

"¿cómo podría decidir comparecer (o no<br />

hacerlo), acusar (o no hacerlo) el acusador<br />

particular si no es formalmente notificado de<br />

esta posibilidad de ocupar el lugar que dejó<br />

la Procuración o la Comisión Bicameral?".<br />

Posse había denunciado, en un comunicado,<br />

que "existe en ciertos sectores del Poder<br />

Judicial una actitud de defensa corporativa<br />



inadmisible en un sistema democrático<br />

puesto que cualquier ciudadano debiera ser<br />

pasible de ser evaluado en sus conductas<br />

cuando éstas afectan a terceros".<br />

"Esto le hace daño a la Justicia, porque da<br />

la impresión de que es imposible que un<br />

ciudadano común pueda pedir que se<br />

investigue a un juez que fue acusado por<br />

distintas personas y en una decena de<br />

causas pese a que la ley lo autoriza",<br />

concluyó el jefe comunal.<br />

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La madre de Wanda Taddei afirmó que<br />

hay una "cadena de favores"<br />

La madre de la asesinada Wanda Taddei,<br />

Beatriz Regal, denunció hoy que las<br />

presuntas salidas de la cárcel para asistir a<br />

actos kirchneristas del homicida de su hija, el<br />

ex baterista del grupo de rock "Callejeros"<br />

Eduardo Vázquez, revela una "cadena de<br />

favores".<br />

Argumentó que la agrupación que organizó<br />

los actos a los que al parecer concurrieron<br />

Vázquez y otros presos, ""Vatayón"<br />

Militante", está promovida por el director<br />

nacional del Servicio Penitenciario Nacional<br />

(SPF), Víctor Hortel, -acusado por la<br />

Coalición Cívica-ARI de permitir los<br />

supuestos egresos-, quien a su vez fue<br />

apadrinado por Zaffaroni para llegar a ese<br />

cargo.<br />

Regal, además, cuestionó las presuntas<br />

salidas del músico para los encuentros<br />

políticos al sostener que no merecía el<br />

supuesto "beneficio" porque en muchas<br />

ocasiones su defensa pidió que<br />

permaneciera en libertad hasta el juicio oral y<br />

la jueza de primera instancia y luego la<br />

Cámara de Casación negaron la<br />

excarcelación al aducir que existía "peligro de<br />

fuga".<br />

La mujer, asimismo, recordó que la primera<br />

de las salidas, se produjo siete meses antes<br />

de la condena por el crimen -de 18 años de<br />

prisión- y la segunda el periódico la fechó<br />

sólo diez días después del castigo contra<br />

Vázquez por parte del Tribunal Oral en lo<br />

Criminal (TOC) 20 de la Capital Federal.<br />

"Hay una cadena de favores que no sé si es<br />

sólo para favorecer a Vázquez", denunció<br />

Regal en diálogo con radio Mitre.<br />

Luego, al ser consultada sobre si se refería a<br />

la supuesta promoción del ""Vatayón"<br />

Militante" por parte de Hortel y al supuesto<br />

padrinazgo del juez Eugenio Zaffaroni para<br />

que el primero llegara a la Dirección Nacional<br />

del SPF, respondió: "Exactamente".<br />

"El (por el músico) no puede salir porque no<br />

tiene condena firme y, aparte, no demostró<br />

tener la conducta que dicen que tuvo porque<br />

él está con preventiva y con la posibilidad de<br />

fugarse", se quejó Regal.<br />

La mujer completó: "Si yo estuve cuatro años<br />

presa, demostré tener buena conducta, me<br />

capacité y trabajé en talleres, el Servicio<br />

Penitenciario (Federal) me da el beneficio de<br />

una salida transitoria pero no a él, ni a diez<br />

días de la condena".<br />

Ese segundo egreso del músico, según la<br />

denuncia periodística, sucedió el 24 de junio<br />

último y el ex baterista de Callejeros había<br />

sido condenado el 14 a 18 años de prisión<br />

por asesinar con fuego a su mujer, Wanda<br />

Taddei, en febrero de 2010.<br />

Vázquez fue hallado responsable de<br />

"homicidio calificado por el vínculo atenuado<br />

por el estado de emoción violenta" por el<br />

TOC 20.<br />

Regal volvió hoy a cuestionar la atenuación<br />

de prisión perpetua que había pedido el fiscal<br />

del caso. "Nadie demostró emoción violenta y<br />

(los integrantes del TOC 20) tomaron a los<br />

peritos de parte de él (por el músico) y no a<br />

los científicos que puso el Poder Judicial por<br />

lo que recurrimos a Casación", concluyó.<br />

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El Colombiano/ - Internacional, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Cuatro condenados a muerte en mayor<br />

caso de corrupción de Irán<br />

Cuatro acusados fueron condenados a<br />

muerte en el caso por el desfalco de 2.600<br />

millones de dólares, en el que estaban<br />

implicados siete bancos públicos y privados,<br />

el mayor asunto de corrupción revelado en la<br />

historia de la República Islámica de Irán.<br />

El fiscal general y portavoz del Poder<br />

Judicial iraní, Gholam Husein Mohseni Ejei,<br />

explicó que el Tribunal de Teherán que lleva<br />

el caso emitió sentencia contra 39 acusados,<br />

cuatro de ellas de muerte, dos de cadena<br />

perpetua y el resto de 25, 20 y 10 años de<br />

prisión, sin precisar los nombres. El juicio de<br />

este caso se inició el pasado 18 de febrero<br />

con 32 acusados inicialmente, aunque se han<br />

unido otros en los más de cinco meses<br />

transcurridos de proceso. Además, Mohseni<br />

Ejei dijo que los condenados tendrán que<br />

devolver el dinero defraudado.<br />

Decenas de personas han sido detenidas en<br />

relación con este caso en Irán, que se inició<br />

en 2007, cuando el grupo empresarial Amir<br />

Mansur Arya Investment, encabezado por<br />

Amir Mansur Josravi, fundó un banco privado<br />

con el que obtuvo por medios fraudulentos<br />

grandes créditos de los principales bancos<br />

públicos iraníes.<br />

Tras revelarse el caso en septiembre pasado,<br />

Mahmud Reza Javari, director general del<br />

Banco Melli, el mayor de propiedad pública<br />

de Irán, dimitió del cargo y posteriormente<br />

huyó a Canadá, donde fue reclamado por las<br />

autoridades iraníes por medio de Interpol. El<br />

vicegobernador del Banco Central de Irán,<br />

Hamid Purmohamadi, fue detenido el 29 de<br />

septiembre pasado en relación con el caso.<br />

El caso lo han utilizado los más<br />

ultraortodoxos del régimen teocrático<br />

musulmán chií de Irán, reunidos en torno al<br />

líder supremo, ayatolá Ali Jamenei, en su<br />

lucha por el poder contra el presidente<br />

Mahmud Ahmadineyad, considerado más<br />

abierto en cuestiones sociales.<br />

Los partidarios de Jamenei, que se<br />

denominan Principalistas, tratan de cercar a<br />

los de Ahmadineyad, a los que califican de<br />

Desviacionistas y acusan de poner en duda<br />

la primacía religiosa sobre el poder político,<br />

lo que ha llevado ya a prisión a varias<br />

decenas de personas del entorno del<br />

presidente.<br />

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El País/ - Notícias, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Hacienda pide a un centenar de exaltos<br />

cargos optar por una sola retribución<br />

Según explicaron hoy a Efe fuentes de<br />

Hacienda, se trata de cumplir con el decreto<br />

publicado el 14 de julio con las primeras<br />

medidas para lograr una ajuste de 65.000<br />

millones de euros hasta 2014.En el mismo se<br />

dan quince días naturales para manifestarse<br />

a exministros, expresidentes o<br />

exvicepresidentes del Gobierno que estén<br />

cobrando una pensión indemnizatoria<br />

(normalmente del 80 % del sueldo durante un<br />

periodo de dos años) y o bien realicen otra<br />

actividad o cobren otro tipo de pensiones.El<br />

decreto establece en concreto la<br />

incompatibilidad de pensiones<br />

indemnizatorias, prestaciones<br />

compensatorias y percepciones similares que<br />

perciben determinados exaltos cargos de<br />

carácter básico, con el objeto de que se<br />

perciba esta prestación sólo en el supuesto<br />

de que no realice ninguna otra actividad<br />

remunerada pública o privada.La medida se<br />

aplica a los altos cargos de todas las<br />

administraciones públicas, incluyendo los que<br />

prestan sus servicios en el sector público,<br />

entendiendo también por tal la actividad de<br />

diputados y senadores, miembros de<br />

asambleas legislativas autonómicas y<br />

ayuntamientos, y órganos constitucionales,<br />

incluidos el poder judicial y el ministerio<br />

fiscal.Entre el centenar de exaltos cargos que<br />

deben manifestarse -de no hacerlo se<br />

entendería que prefieren renunciar a la<br />

pensión indemnizatoria- estarían el<br />

expresidente del Gobierno José Luis<br />

Rodríguez Zapatero, que también es<br />

miembro del Consejo de Estado, o las<br />

exvicepresidentas del Gobierno Elena<br />

Salgado, consejera en Endesa.Los casos<br />

que afecten a las administraciones locales y<br />

autonómicas son gestionados a esos niveles<br />

administrativos, por lo que Hacienda y<br />

Administraciones Públicas no se ha<br />

encargado de la remisión de cartas a esos ex<br />

altos cargos.<br />


El País/ - Notícias, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Reconsidering severance pay<br />

The General Council of the Judiciary was due<br />

on Monday to answer the application made<br />

by its former president and chief justice of the<br />

Supreme Court, Carlos Dívar, who considers<br />

himself entitled to compensation for leaving<br />

the presidency of these two bodies after<br />

heading them for more than two years.After<br />

the scandal caused by his long, luxurious<br />

“Caribbean weekends” at public expense,<br />

Dívar is in the news again, although his<br />

request for compensation is based on legal<br />

arguments. Under the norms applicable since<br />

1980 to persons holding top official posts<br />

(complemented with later regulations), the<br />

resignation of members of the government,<br />

Congress and Senate speakers, and heads<br />

of high courts (among other posts) entails a<br />

right to go on receiving 80 percent of the<br />

remuneration they received during 24<br />

months.In the case of Dívar, this severance<br />

pay amounts to 208,000 euros, that is, 8,666<br />

euros gross per month. The news has caused<br />

indignation in associations of judges, judiciary<br />

civil service unions, and some political parties<br />

— UPyD and IU — who term this perquisite<br />

shameful and scandalous, coming as it does<br />

amid demands for austerity and record<br />

numbers of unemployed. Should the Council<br />

give him satisfaction, it will first have to find<br />

the money: something more than 43,000<br />

euros to pay to Dívar during the remainder of<br />

this year, and 108,000 in the next, at public<br />

expense, of course.Quite apart from the<br />

judiciary, the norms in question have been<br />

very costly to the Spanish public coffers.<br />

Every time a replacement happens in one of<br />

the posts that have a right to this, taxpayers<br />

have to pay the new office-holder’s salary,<br />

plus 80 percent of the outgoing one’s during<br />

two years.Such compensation has often been<br />

paid to persons who have other income,<br />

public or private, although this compatibility<br />

has ceased to exist under a decree issued by<br />

the government in mid-July — which will<br />

affect persons in the Zapatero administration.<br />

Deputies and senators who have held a seat<br />

for more than two years, who also receive<br />

compensation on leaving office, starting in<br />

September will have to choose between this<br />

ex-parliamentary pay and salaries or<br />

pensions of other types. The boards of both<br />

Chambers have vetoed the receipt of<br />

simultaneous payment.The economic and<br />

financial crisis has intensified criticism of the<br />

manner in which public functions are<br />

exercised, and raised a groundswell against<br />

the costs involved in salaries paid to top<br />

officials. We must resist the populist impulse<br />

to deny fair retribution to a person who serves<br />

the state in a highly responsible position.But it<br />

is time to revise other classes of expenditure<br />

which, if they made sense at a time when<br />

Spanish democracy was setting out on its<br />

road, have now become something in the<br />

nature of prebends and privileges. Especially<br />

when compensation paid to the former<br />

office-holder are in no way conditional upon<br />

good performance while in office.<br />

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CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Recurso de Inconstitucionalidad)<br />

Becerril pedirá al Gobierno que Sanidad<br />

atienda a los inmigrantes irregulares<br />

Una semana después de tomar posesión de<br />

su cargo como Defensora del Pueblo,<br />

Soledad Becerril, ya sabe que la crisis<br />

económica y sus consecuencias van a<br />

ocupar la mayor parte de su tarea. Al mes de<br />

julio de 2012 las quejas por razones<br />

económicas son ya tan numerosas como las<br />

de todo el 2011 y van a la cabeza de<br />

cualquier otra materia de demanda que llega<br />

a esta institución. En su primera<br />

comparecencia desde su sede en Madrid y<br />

antes de ser recibida por el rey Don Juan<br />

Carlos, la defensora dio unos apuntes<br />

respecto hacia dónde va a dar sus primeros<br />

pasos y recomendaciones al Gobierno. De<br />

entrada va a pedir al Ejecutivo de Mariano<br />

Rajoy, con el que comparte militancia en el<br />

PP, que no retire la tarjeta sanitaria a los<br />

inmigrantes irregulares como tiene previsto el<br />

Gobierno a partir del 1 de septiembre.Va a<br />

ser beligerante con las medidas de<br />

restricciones en materia sanitaria y<br />

farmacéutica aprobadas por decreto pero no<br />

tanto como para presentar recurso de<br />

inconstitucionalidad como ha pedido<br />

Izquierda Unida. Por las buenas, con diálogo,<br />

Soledad Becerril tratará de convencer al<br />

Gobierno de que esas medidas no pueden<br />

ser aplicadas a los más necesitados.<br />

También quiere ir varios pasos por delante<br />

del Gobierno en la Ley de Transparencia<br />

aprobada por el Ejecutivo la pasada semana.<br />

Pedirá que se penalice a las<br />

administraciones que emprendan grandes<br />

proyectos sin tener asegurada la financiación<br />

y sin que se justifique absolutamente su<br />

“rentabilidad social”.En las escasas horas<br />

que lleva al frente de su carga, que depende<br />

de las Cortes Generales, Soledad Becerril ha<br />

apreciado la avalancha de quejas, aunque<br />

también la demanda de información, sobre<br />

las prestaciones por desempleo, los recortes<br />

en las subvenciones y la angustia de muchos<br />

ciudadanos sobre el futuro de sus ahorros<br />

depositados en entidades bancarias ahora<br />

nacionalizadas.La crisis lo llena todo y esta<br />

institución se va a someter “a los mismos<br />

ajustes” que el resto de las administraciones<br />

aunque el presupuesto del Defensor del<br />

Pueblo es bastante reducido. Este año<br />

cuenta con 14 millones de euros y de entrada<br />

le va a dar un recorte de un 2%. No se<br />

cubrirán las jubilaciones, se suprimen tres de<br />

los seis coches con los que cuenta y ella<br />

misma se baja el sueldo en un 7,14%.<br />

“¿Cuánto gana usted?”, le preguntó un<br />

periodista. “Gano 117.00 euros” anuales<br />

brutos aunque de inmediato el secretario<br />

general de la institución la corrigió: “Son<br />

115.000 de los que hay que quitar ese<br />

7,14%”.No le corresponde a Becerril decidir o<br />

inmiscuirse en el debate que hay en algunas<br />

comunidades autónomas sobre la supresión<br />

de sus propios defensores del pueblo<br />

autonómicos aunque algunos ya han sido<br />

eliminados. “Aquí estamos para atender a<br />

todos los españoles, de todos los lugares de<br />

España”, se limitó a recordar. Esta Defensora<br />

del Pueblo se verá acompañada por el<br />

socialista Francisco Fernández Marugán,<br />

como adjunto primero –“del que tengo la<br />

mejor opinión”- y de Concepción Ferrer, en la<br />

adjuntía segunda, dirigente de Unió<br />

Democrática de Catalunya. Los tres se<br />

proponen “agilizar y facilitar las quejas” y<br />

lograr una respuesta de la administración<br />

“más rápida”. No hay una obligación expresa<br />

de las administraciones a responder pero<br />

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esta institución tiene un arma en su mano<br />

que palía esa obligatoriedad. “Cuando una<br />

administración no responde y les decimos<br />



que pasamos el caso a la fiscalía, responden<br />

rápido”, revela.<br />

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Moliner explicará la resolución del Poder<br />

Judicial sobre la indemnización a Dívar<br />

El presidente del Consejo General del Poder<br />

Judicial, Gonzalo Moliner, parece dispuesto<br />

a dar la cara en los temas más peliagudos<br />

que afronte el órgano de gobierno de los<br />

jueces. Hoy, el pleno extraordinario debate<br />

una polémica resolución, la de aprobar, o no,<br />

la indemnización solicitada por el<br />

expresidente del Poder Judicial, Carlos<br />

Dívar, que dimitió por cargar al erario público<br />

viajes no justificados. Al finalizar, será el<br />

propio Moliner quien comparezca ante los<br />

medios de comunicación para explicar la<br />

decisión adoptada.El pleno afronta la<br />

propuesta dividido, ya que hay quienes<br />

piensan que la solicitud de Dívar reúne todos<br />

los requisitos legales para cobrar la<br />

indemnización, prevista por la ley para los ex<br />

altos cargos cuando han ejercido su función<br />

durante más de dos años, y quienes apuntan<br />

a que esta opción no está prevista para<br />

quienes renuncian al cargo, como es el caso<br />

de Dívar. Además, Dívar está siendo<br />

investigado por el Tribunal de Cuentas.Como<br />

presidente del Supremo y del CGPJ, Dívar<br />

recibía una cantidad de130.152 euros brutos<br />

al año, por lo que si aprobara el pleno su<br />

petición tendrá derecho a percibir en<br />

concepto de indemnización el 80% de sus<br />

retribuciones durante un periodo no superior<br />

a dos años, un total de 208.243 euros.La<br />

semana pasada, la Comisión de Estudios e<br />

Informes decidió, por un ajustado resultado<br />

de tres votos a dos, que Dívar cumplía con<br />

todos los requisitos legales para cobrar la<br />

indemnización. Ahora es el pleno el que ha<br />

de decidir, aunque la Comisión de<br />

Presupuestos del órgano de gobierno de los<br />

jueces ya ha pedido a Hacienda una<br />

ampliación de crédito de 43.000 euros para<br />

hacer frente a la indemnización.A favor se<br />

han pronunciado ya el nuevo presidente del<br />

CGPJ y el vicepresidente Fernando de Rosa,<br />

que considera que si hay un mandato legal<br />

"inexcusable" habrá que pagarle, aunque<br />

admite que el pleno tendrá que estudiar si es<br />

así y, si no lo es, interpretar la ley y actuar en<br />

consecuencia. En contra se han manifestado<br />

todas las asociaciones judiciales, desde la<br />

conservadora Asociación Profesional de la<br />

Magistratura (APM), mayoritaria en la carrera<br />

judicial, hasta la progresista Jueces para la<br />

Democracia (JpD).<br />

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El Peruano/ - Notícias, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


San Martín y Álvarez Miranda se reúnen<br />

hoy<br />

Los presidentes del Poder Judicial (PJ) y del<br />

Tribunal Constitucional (TC), César San<br />

Martín Castro y Ernesto Álvarez Miranda,<br />

respectivamente, se reúnen hoy para lograr<br />

acuerdos en beneficio del estado<br />

constitucional de derecho conforme a los<br />

principios fundamentales que ambos<br />

comparten, la misma que se realizará en la<br />

sede del Palacio de Justicia. El Consejo<br />

Ejecutivo del Poder Judicial (CEPJ) y la<br />

Sala Plena de la Corte Suprema se<br />

pronunciaron recientemente advirtiendo la<br />

reiterada y permanente intromisión del TC en<br />

asuntos que constitucionalmente<br />

corresponden ser analizados a los órganos<br />

judiciales en la aplicación de la justicia<br />

ordinaria. Tras aclarar que no existe "un<br />

clima de confrontación", el titular del TC dijo<br />

que este Colegiado resuelve sus fallos sobre<br />

amparos contra resoluciones judiciales<br />

conforme a la Constitución y al Código<br />

Procesal Constitucional. "Lo que está de por<br />

medio son las diferentes interpretaciones que<br />

se tiene de las mismas normas que ambos<br />

jueces aceptan y desarrollan".Para solucionar<br />

estas diferencias, Alvarez propuso conformar<br />

una comisión interinstitucional entre el PJ y el<br />

TC, a fin de lograr acuerdos específicos<br />

sobre la interpretación de la jurisprudencia<br />

constitucional en materia del proceso de<br />

amparo contra sentencias.<br />

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El Universal/ - Opinión, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Cambios de batuta en Los Pinos<br />

jorge.ramos@eluniversal.com.mxLa<br />

transición de gobierno de los últimos<br />

sexenios ha estado marcada por el estilo<br />

personal de cada mandatario y por ciertas<br />

diferencias.El manejo poco claro de los<br />

recursos destinados a los equipos de los<br />

presidentes entrantes también ha sido<br />

criticado, al menos durante los dos últimos<br />

sexenios.En 2000, cuando el PRI perdió la<br />

Presidencia de la República para dejarla en<br />

manos del PAN, el pase de estafeta se dio<br />

con una gran tranquilidad.El mismo día de la<br />

elección, Liébano Sáenz, secretario particular<br />

de Ernesto Zedillo, le informó al presidente al<br />

mediodía que el priísta Francisco Labastida<br />

perdía. De inmediato y por orden presidencial<br />

entabló contacto con los candidatos y sus<br />

enlaces, principalmente con Vicente Fox,<br />

porque al emitir su voto, el guanajuatense<br />

declaró que un triunfo del PRI sería gracias a<br />

un "megafraude".A las cuatro de la tarde,<br />

según relató Sáenz en un artículo el 2 de julio<br />

de 2003 en el diario madrileño El País, ya<br />

sabían en Los Pinos que Labastida Ochoa<br />

perdía y Fox Quesada ganaba. Liébano<br />

volvió a hablar con el enlace de Fox, Marta<br />

Sahagún, quien le dijo que quería hablar con<br />

Zedillo. El presidente accedió, luego de dos<br />

años de no tener ningún contacto, Fox y<br />

Zedillo dialogaron a las 19:50 horas. Para<br />

ese momento, Labastida se negaba a cantar<br />

que iba abajo. Siete años más tarde, el<br />

priísta relataría al periodista Fidel Samaniego<br />

que hubo llamadas de presión de Liébano y<br />

de Zedillo para que admitiera su derrota<br />

electoral.Salvo ese incidente final con<br />

Labastida, Zedillo siguió su aterciopelado<br />

relevo. Incluso, cuando el presidente electo,<br />

Vicente Fox, le pidió dinero para pagar<br />

salarios a su equipo de transición -que por<br />

primera vez así se le conoció-, no tuvo<br />

reparos en destinarle casi 60 millones de<br />

pesos del presupuesto.Zedillo Ponce de León<br />

dejó Los Pinos el 6 de noviembre para que<br />

Fox Quesada acondicionara su nueva<br />

morada. El escándalo tardaría casi dos años<br />

al panismo, cuando el matrimonio<br />

Fox-Sahagún remodeló las cabañas<br />

presidenciales y se dio a conocer que<br />

compraron -por ejemplo- toallas de cuatro mil<br />

pesos, aunque auditorías posteriores<br />

demostraron que esos enseres ni siquiera<br />

fueron adquiridos, sino sólo<br />

presupuestados.Lo que molestó a la opinión<br />

pública, aún antes de tomar posesión, fueron<br />

los sueldos para el equipo de transición de<br />

Fox Quesada, hecho cuyos asesores sólo lo<br />

calificaron como "polémica" que debería<br />

pensarse para el futuro.Hoy, por ejemplo, el<br />

sucesor de Felipe Calderón contará con 150<br />

millones de pesos de presupuesto, pero<br />

deberá difundir en coordinación con la<br />

Secretaría de Hacienda toda contratación,<br />

sueldo, adquisición, viáticos o compra, según<br />

determinó el Instituto Federal de Acceso a la<br />

Información Pública (IFAI).En el libro<br />

Transición 2000. Frágil, manéjese con<br />

cuidado, de las investigadoras Regina<br />

Santiago y Rosa Elba Arroyo, de la<br />

Universidad Iberoamericana, se revelan<br />

algunos entretelones de la transición del PRI<br />

al PAN en 2000.Eduardo Sojo, cercano<br />

colaborador de Fox, relató que a diferencia<br />

de 1994, ellos entablaron diálogo "a unos<br />

días" del 2 de julio de 2000 con el equipo<br />

económico de Ernesto Zedillo para blindar la<br />

economía y evitarse sorpresas como las<br />

vividas seis años atrás. Además, Sojo<br />

recordó que acordaron "no mover" a<br />

miembros clave de la Secretaría de<br />

Hacienda.Hace 12 años, el equipo de Fox y<br />

el propio presidente electo acordaron<br />

"respetar los tiempos", es decir, "siempre<br />

platicamos con la administración saliente<br />

para que supieran cuál era nuestro punto de<br />

vista, pero siempre nos mantuvimos al<br />

margen de las decisiones (...) esto es vital,<br />

porque si nosotros no hubiéramos respetado<br />

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los tiempos, entonces podíamos entrar en<br />

una crisis de gobernabilidad".Para Sojo, "en<br />

el periodo de transición que abarca el lapso<br />

entre elección (julio) y la toma de posesión<br />

(diciembre), el equipo entrante debe ser muy<br />

respetuoso de quien tiene la responsabilidad<br />

constitucional de tomar decisiones". Sin<br />

embargo, en esa ocasión no todo fue<br />

terso.Durante una gira por Europa, Luis<br />

Ernesto Derbez, quien luego sería secretario<br />

de Economía y canciller de Fox, dijo a los<br />

medios que en caso de que Estados Unidos<br />

entrara en recesión, el gobierno entrante<br />

tenía un plan de contingencia, lo cual<br />

ignoraba Vicente Fox Quesada.En cuanto a<br />

la relación con las otras fuerzas políticas,<br />

Eduardo Sojo admitió que "de manera<br />

natural, con quienes hemos estado más en<br />

contacto, es con el equipo del PAN".En el<br />

mismo texto, Rodolfo Elizondo, quien fue<br />

vocero de Fox y luego tres años secretario de<br />

Turismo, más cuatro años en el mismo cargo<br />

con Calderón, reconoció que en esos<br />

momentos fue difícil la interlocución con el<br />

PRI y con el PRD por las divisiones surgidas<br />

tras la derrota en las urnas y el triunfo del<br />

PAN.Para Elizondo, además, era primordial<br />

comunicarse a través de los medios<br />

electrónicos con la gente, porque los<br />

periódicos y revistas especializadas "no le<br />

llegan a la ciudadanía". Relevo entre<br />

panistasEn la transición Fox-Calderón las<br />

cosas fluyeron con tranquilidad. Felipe<br />

Calderón contó con 150 millones de pesos<br />

para el cambio de gobierno, pero no gastó 27<br />

millones.Sin embargo, los gastos del equipo<br />

de Calderón Hinojosa fueron cuestionados<br />

por su falta de transparencia y erogaciones<br />

injustificadas, no sólo en salarios sino por la<br />

contratación de empresas de asesoría,<br />

algunas de ellas vinculadas a panistas, como<br />

fue el caso de Laura Ballesteros, cuyo trabajo<br />

de seguimiento al Poder Legislativo por poco<br />

le cuesta la permanencia al director del<br />

Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional<br />

(CISEN), Guillermo Valdés.En 2006, el relevo<br />

en el gobierno se vio eclipsado por las<br />



manifestaciones de protesta del candidato<br />

perdedor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,<br />

quien mantuvo en vilo la transición hasta<br />

septiembre, cuando el Tribunal Electoral del<br />

Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF)<br />

declaró la validez del triunfo de Felipe<br />

Calderón Hinojosa. También hizo sombra el<br />

levantamiento de la APPO en Oaxaca.En<br />

todo ese lapso, el entonces secretario de<br />

Gobernación, Carlos Abascal Carranza,<br />

quien falleció en 2008, fue el encargado de<br />

negociar con quien era el jefe de Gobierno<br />

del Distrito Federal, Alejandro Encinas, tanto<br />

para levantar el plantón sobre Paseo de la<br />

Reforma y el Zócalo, como para permitir el<br />

desfile militar del 15 de septiembre de 2006,<br />

a cambio de que Vicente Fox no diera el<br />

tradicional "Grito de Independencia" en esa<br />

plaza sino en Dolores Hidalgo.Corrieron<br />

algunas versiones del gobierno federal que<br />

apuntaban a "radicales" que podrían agredir<br />

a Fox Quesada. Fue el propio Carlos Abascal<br />

quien plantó cara, estoico, a los seguidores<br />

obradoristas que le gritaron improperios en<br />

plena celebración, desde el balcón del<br />

edificio del gobierno capitalino y no desde el<br />

balcón central de Palacio Nacional, que<br />

permaneció a oscuras.Casi cinco años<br />

después, durante las campañas por el<br />

Estado de México en 2011, Encinas<br />

Rodríguez reveló que Calderón exigió a<br />

Abascal reprimir el plantón de López<br />

Obrador, a lo que habría respondido que aún<br />

no era presidente. Alejandra Sota, portavoz<br />

de Calderón, desmintió la versión de Encinas<br />

Rodríguez.Hoy, no está claro si Felipe<br />

Calderón se irá a vivir al extranjero o se<br />

quedará en México tras dejar Los Pinos, ni<br />

en qué momento saldrá de la casa<br />

presidencial. Zedillo Ponce de León, por<br />

ejemplo, lo hizo desde noviembre de 2000.En<br />

2012, la Presidencia de la República<br />

tampoco ha informado quiénes serán sus<br />

representantes con el gobierno entrante.<br />

Como gobernador, Enrique Peña Nieto<br />

mantuvo una relación cordial con Felipe<br />

Calderón, quien desde el 1 de julio por la<br />

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noche ha dejado claro que cree en que el<br />

priísta es quien ganó la contienda.El primer<br />

encuentro Calderón-Peña, a 16 días de la<br />

elección, fue para pactar una transición<br />



ordenada y transparente. La historia está por<br />

escribirse.<br />

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El Universal Venezuela/ - Notícias, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Exigen retirar propaganda electoral de los<br />

tribunales en Barinas<br />

Barinas.- Como una violación a las normas<br />

electorales de parte del Partido Socialista<br />

Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), calificó el<br />

abogado Alfredo Calles el hecho de que<br />

hayan colocado afiches con la figura del<br />

candidato a la reelección presidencial Hugo<br />

Chávez Frías, en el edificio El Marqués<br />

donde funciona el Tribunal principal del<br />

Municipio Barinas.Dijo que en la colocación<br />

de la propaganda la responsabilidad es<br />

directa del Partido Socialista, debido a que<br />

en el Comando Carabobo tienen una<br />

coordinación que se encarga de determinar<br />

los sitios donde colocar afiches pendones,<br />

vallas y demás promociones de su<br />

candidato.Calles considera que el Consejo<br />

Nacional Electoral (CNE) que designó<br />

fiscales para la supervisión y cumplimiento<br />

de las normas de esta campaña, debe actuar<br />

en función de obligar al PSUV a retirar esta<br />

propaganda en el edificio donde las personas<br />

acuden diariamente por alguna causa<br />

judicial."Eso es ventajismo" señaló el<br />

abogado quien no duda que algunos jueces o<br />

personal tribunalicio sea simpatizante del<br />

candidato a la reelección Hugo Chávez, por<br />

lo que, exhortó a que "esa demostración de<br />

afecto lo pueden hacer en secreto el 7 de<br />

octubre, sin enlodar el sector donde todos los<br />

ciudadanos esperan que se imparta justicia<br />

con imparcialidad".Alfredo Calles recordó que<br />

en Barinas han sido reiteradas las denuncias<br />

por el uso abusivo de los recursos y bienes<br />

públicos, bajo el criterio de algunos<br />

funcionarios del gobierno y, por lo tanto, no<br />

es descartable que algunos procedan con las<br />

respectivas denuncias de carácter penal para<br />

quienes no acaten las normas electorales y<br />

promuevan el ventajismo.Explicó que sería<br />

una denuncia penal, porque existen<br />

sanciones tipificadas en la ley, como es el<br />

caso de la Ley Contra la Corrupción, que en<br />

el artículo 68 el cual establece que: "El<br />

funcionario público que abusando de sus<br />

funciones, utilice su cargo para favorecer o<br />

perjudicar electoralmente a un candidato,<br />

grupo, partido o movimiento político, será<br />

sancionado con prisión de un (1) año a tres<br />

(3) años".Indicó que el ventajismo que el<br />

gobierno ha hecho en cada campaña<br />

electoral, debe ser profundizado en su<br />

análisis porque no se trata de una contienda<br />

de candidatos únicamente, sino que se está<br />

haciendo uso indebido de los vehículos,<br />

dinero y hasta símbolos patrios en beneficio<br />

del oficialismo.Entre los casos de violación a<br />

las normas y peculado de uso, recordó que el<br />

pasado 5 de julio fue denunciado desde el<br />

Comando Venezuela el uso abusivo de la<br />

Fuerza Pública para beneficio del gobernador<br />

de Barinas, Adán Chávez, para hacer<br />

campaña en el municipio Zamora, y a pesar<br />

de que el CNE se pronunció para tranquilidad<br />

de la dirigencia de la Unidad democrática, no<br />

hubo acatamiento y procedieron con lo que<br />

tenían previsto.<br />

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/ - Politik, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Der Kapitän bleibt an Bord<br />

Das Referendum zur Amtsenthebung<br />

Basescus ist gescheitert. Doch der<br />

rumänische Präsident hat andere Probleme,<br />

die einerseits mit seinem Charakter,<br />

andererseits mit dem Zustand der<br />

konservativen PDL zusammenhängen, aus<br />

der er hervorgegangen ist.<br />

Traian Basescu, der neue alte rumänische<br />

Präsident, war immer davon überzeugt, dass<br />

er es wieder schaffen würde, seine<br />

Amtsenthebung zu verhindern - wie schon bei<br />

seinem ersten „Impeachment“ im Jahr 2007.<br />

Wie er noch vorige Woche öffentlich kundtat,<br />

passte es ihm gar nicht, dass sich die<br />

konservative PDL für den Boykott des<br />

Referendums entschied, statt für ein klares<br />

Nein zu seiner Absetzung zu werben.<br />

Diese Haltung hatte ihm viel Kritik in den<br />

Reihen seiner Anhänger eingetragen, die<br />

nicht verstehen konnten, warum er sich<br />

überhaupt auf einen solchen Kampf einlassen<br />

wollte, um sich seiner ganz offensichtlich<br />

verfassungswidrigen Amtsenthebung zu<br />

widersetzen. Manche meinten, das liege an<br />

seinem aufbrausenden und streitbaren<br />

Charakter. Basescu sei einfach nicht in der<br />

Lage, einer Auseinandersetzung aus dem<br />

Weg zu gehen.<br />

Im Gespräch mit der F.A.Z. führte Basescu<br />

einen anderen Grund ins Treffen: In der<br />

rumänischen Verfassung sei die<br />

Volksabstimmung als direkter Ausdruck des<br />

Willens des Souveräns festgeschrieben. Wie<br />

könne er, Traian Basescu, dem das Volk die<br />

Aufgabe anvertraut habe, die Verfassung zu<br />

schützen, es dann von der Teilnahme an<br />

einer Volksabstimmung abhalten? Erst die<br />

sich häufenden Hinweise auf die<br />

Vorbereitung eines massiven Wahlbetrugs,<br />

den die Notverordnung Nummer 41 der<br />

Regierung Ponta ermöglichte, brachten ihn<br />

dazu, seine Meinung schließlich doch noch<br />

zu ändern.<br />

Teamarbeit fällt ihm schwer<br />

Zwei Seelen trägt der kleine, drahtige<br />

Kapitän, der sein Patent regelmäßig erneuern<br />

lässt, in seiner Brust: die des Kämpfers, der<br />

erst richtig aufblüht, wenn es wirklich ernst<br />

wird, und die des Kommandanten, der auf der<br />

genauen Einhaltung der Regeln besteht. Er<br />

legt diese Regeln, was seine eigenen<br />

Kompetenzen als Staatsoberhaupt betrifft,<br />

seit jeher so extensiv aus, wie es ihm die<br />

semipräsidentielle Verfassung seines Landes<br />

gestattet. Gegen konstitutionelle<br />

Bestimmungen verstoßen hat er nicht, wie ein<br />

vom Parlament missachtetes Gutachten des<br />

Verfassungsgerichts feststellte.<br />

Basescu hat andere schwerwiegende<br />

Probleme, die einerseits mit seinem<br />

Charakter, andererseits mit dem Zustand der<br />

konservativen PDL zusammenhängen, aus<br />

der er hervorgegangen ist. Seiner Natur nach<br />

ist er ein Einzelgänger, Teamarbeit fällt ihm<br />

schwer. Dann neigt er dazu, Leute, die er<br />

mag, zu begünstigen. Zum Beispiel seine<br />

Tochter Elena, die als Party-Prinzessin<br />

bekannt wurde und es dann mit seiner Hilfe<br />

bis zur EU-Parlamentarierin schaffte. Oder<br />

Elena Udrea, ehemals Ministerin für<br />

Tourismus und Regionalentwicklung mit<br />

ausgeprägter Neigung zu Luxus und sehr<br />

geringer Distanz zu anrüchigen Geschäften.<br />

© ddp images/AP/Anonymous Basescus<br />

Tochter Elena, die als Party-Prinzessin<br />

bekannt wurde, schaffte es mit seiner Hilfe<br />

bis zur EU-Parlamentarierin<br />

Noch mehr schadete seinem Ansehen, dass<br />

zahlreiche Politiker der PDL an den Trögen<br />

der Macht nicht weniger laut schmatzten als<br />

vor ihnen die Nationalliberalen und die<br />

Sozialdemokraten. Entgegen den<br />

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Behauptungen seiner Gegner ließ Basescu<br />

der Justiz zwar freien Lauf; in dieser<br />

Legislaturperiode endeten mehr<br />

Parlamentarier der PDL vor Gericht als<br />

anderer Parteien. Aber allein das Schauspiel<br />

korrupter Politiker, die sich bereicherten,<br />

während der Präsident den Rumänen ein<br />

Opfer nach dem anderen abverlangte,<br />

schadete seinem Ansehen enorm. Die<br />

allenthalben kolportierte Meinung, der strikte<br />

Sparkurs Basescus habe das Volk gegen ihn<br />

aufgebracht, hält genauerer Betrachtung<br />

nicht stand.<br />

Die meisten im Jahr 2010 unter dem Eindruck<br />



der Finanzkrise getroffenen Maßnahmen<br />

wurden noch unter der konservativen<br />

Regierung Boc wieder aufgehoben. Die<br />

Notwendigkeit, den Gürtel empfindlich enger<br />

zu schnallen, um das Land vor einer<br />

ökonomischen Tragödie griechischen<br />

Zuschnitts zu bewahren, haben die Rumänen<br />

sehr gut verstanden. Was sie nicht dulden, ist<br />

die Korruption der Politiker, gleich welcher<br />

Partei. Basescu zahlt einen hohen Preis<br />

dafür, dass es der PDL in den vergangenen<br />

fünf Jahren nicht gelungen ist, sich zu<br />

säubern und zu reformieren.<br />

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Präsident Basescu übersteht Referendum<br />

zur Amtsenthebung<br />

Der konservative rumänische Staatspräsident<br />

Traian Basescu bleibt im Amt: Eine<br />

Volksabstimmung über seine Absetzung<br />

scheiterte nach Angaben der<br />

Wahlkommission an einer zu geringen<br />

Wahlbeteiligung.<br />

Das Referendum zur Amtsenthebung des<br />

rumänischen Präsidenten Traian Basescu ist<br />

nach amtlichen Hochrechnungen an einer zu<br />

geringen Wahlbeteiligung gescheitert. Wie<br />

die Wahlleitung in Bukarest in der Nacht zum<br />

Montag mitteilte, gaben nur knapp 46 Prozent<br />

der rund 18 Millionen Wahlberechtigten ihre<br />

Stimme ab; mehr als 50 Prozent wären nötig<br />

gewesen.<br />

Demnach dürfte der wegen seiner Sparpolitik<br />

unbeliebte Basescu im Amt bleiben, obwohl<br />

nach Umfragen zweier<br />

Meinungsforschungsinstitute mehr als 80<br />

Prozent der abgegebenen Stimmen für seine<br />

Absetzung votiert hatten. Das endgültige<br />

Ergebnis soll am Montag bekanntgegeben<br />

werden.<br />

Basescu: „Die Rumänen haben gegen den<br />

Staatsstreich gestimmt“<br />

Das Referendum war der vorläufige<br />

Höhepunkt des Machtkampfs zwischen dem<br />

bürgerlichen Präsidenten und seinem<br />

Erzfeind an der Regierungsspitze, dem<br />

sozialistischen Ministerpräsidenten Victor<br />

Ponta, der Basescu Amtsmissbrauch und<br />

Verfassungsbruch vorwirft.<br />

Basescu hatte sich bereits am Abend zum<br />

Sieger der Abstimmung erklärt. „Die<br />

Rumänen haben gegen den Staatsstreich<br />

gestimmt“, sagte er, zeigte aber zugleich<br />

Verständnis für seine Kritiker. „Mir ist<br />

bewusst, dass es Unzufriedenheit gibt nach<br />

all dem, was in den letzten Jahren geschehen<br />

ist, und ich bin überzeugt, dass der Bruch in<br />

der Gesellschaft beseitigt werden muss.“ Mit<br />

Blick auf seinen oft als aggressiv und<br />

launisch kritisierten Führungsstil versprach<br />

Basescu, für „ein Gefühl der Versöhnung zu<br />

sorgen“.<br />

Der Präsident hatte seine Landsleute vor der<br />

Abstimmung zum Boykott des Referendums<br />

aufgerufen. „Es ist sehr wichtig, dass die<br />

Rumänen ihr verfassungsmäßiges Recht<br />

nutzen, an diesem Staatsstreich nicht<br />

teilzunehmen“, sagte er. „Ich bitte meine<br />

Sympathisanten: Stimmen für mich helfen<br />

uns nicht. Das einzige, was uns hilft, ist das<br />

Zuhausebleiben“.<br />

Heftige internationale Kritik<br />

Ponta wiederum verwies auf den hohen<br />

Stimmenanteil für eine Absetzung und<br />

forderte Basescu indirekt zum Rücktritt auf.<br />

„Jeder Politiker, der sagt, er könne das<br />

Votum von ungefähr neun Millionen<br />

Rumänen ignorieren, lebt fern der Realität“,<br />

sagte der Regierungschef.<br />

Das Verfahren zur Absetzung Basescu hatten<br />

die erst seit Anfang Mai regierenden<br />

Sozialisten (PSD) und Liberalen (PNL) im<br />

Parlament auf den Weg gebracht.<br />

Sie begründeten dies damit, dass Basescu<br />

sich Regierungsaufgaben angemaßt und<br />

damit die Verfassung verletzt habe. Dem<br />

widersprach das Verfassungsgericht.<br />

Dessen Vetorecht wurde aber per<br />

Regierungsdekret abgeschafft, was heftige<br />

internationale Kritik und Zweifel an der<br />

Rechtsstaatlichkeit des EU-Landes zur Folge<br />

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hatte.<br />

Basescu ist seit 2004 rumänischer Präsident.<br />

Seine zweite Amtszeit läuft regulär im Jahr<br />



2014 ab. Ein drittes Mal darf er laut Gesetz<br />

nicht kandidieren.<br />

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Le Figaro/ - International, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


La Cour de justice dans le collimateur<br />

Depuis sa victoire aux législatives, le Parti<br />

socialiste est majoritaire dans toutes les<br />

instances de l'État. La Cour de justice de la<br />

République (CJR) ne fait pas exception.<br />

Renouvelée en partie après le changement<br />

de majorité au Palais Bourbon et composée<br />

notamment de six députés et six sénateurs,<br />

elle compte depuis une semaine sept<br />

parlementaires PS, quatre UMP et un<br />

centriste, ainsi que trois magistrats de la Cour<br />

de cassation. Son rôle: juger pénalement les<br />

ministres mis en examen pour crime ou délit.<br />

François Hollande, dans sa volonté<br />

d'instaurer une République «exem-plaire»<br />

s'était engagé pendant sa campagne à la<br />

supprimer, souhaitant que les ministres<br />

soient des citoyens comme les autres,<br />

«soumis aux juridictions de droit commun».<br />

La commission Jospin donnera ses propres<br />

préconisations. En toile de fond, c'est la<br />

question de l'impartialité de ces<br />

parlementaires devenus «juges» qui est<br />

soulevée.<br />

Un système «malsain»<br />

«Avoir des juges qui sont à la base des<br />

hommes politiques, ce n'est pas sain. Ça<br />

pénalise le politique et politise le pénal»,<br />

dénonce le constitutionnaliste Guy<br />

Carcassonne. Et si les parlementaires font<br />

des efforts pour rester impartiaux, leur<br />

mission est, selon lui, rendue impossible par<br />

leur statut. «Ils s'exposent à la critique - trop<br />

de clémence ou au contraire de vengeance quel que soit leur jugement», explique<br />

l'ancien conseiller de Michel Rocard au<br />

Figaro. Un avis que ne partage pas Didier<br />

Maus, professeur de droit constitutionnel.<br />

«Dans les quatre grandes affaires jugées, je<br />

n'ai pas eu le sentiment d'une sympathie<br />

politique à l'égard des accusés. Les<br />

parlementaires sont très pénétrés par leur<br />

mission», souligne-t-il, car «devant la CJR,<br />

toute affaire perd de son caractère politique<br />

au profit du problème de droit qu'elle pose».<br />

Les avis divergent aussi parmi les anciens<br />

membres de cette cour. Pour le député UMP<br />

des Hauts-de-Seine Patrick Ollier, qui a siégé<br />

à la CJR entre 1997 et 2002, le système en<br />

place fonctionne bien. «Les hommes<br />

politiques sont les plus à même de juger leurs<br />

confrères car ils connaissent leur milieu et<br />

l'ensemble des chaînes de décisions»,<br />

déclare l'ancien ministre, tout en<br />

reconnaissant que la présence de trois<br />

magistrats professionnels aide à ne pas<br />

emprunter «des chemins politiques».<br />

«On n'est plus la même personne avec la<br />

robe»<br />

Mais entrer dans les habits d'un juge n'est<br />

pas forcément aisé pour un parlementaire.<br />

Patrick Ollier avait milité à l'époque - avec<br />

succès - pour que la robe noire des<br />

magistrats devienne leur tenue de travail. Exit<br />

le costume bleu ou noir des hommes<br />

politiques. La dis-tance entre le juge et<br />

l'accusé devait être visible. Est-elle pour<br />

autant une réalité? Sans aucun doute, affirme<br />

le député centriste Francis Hillmeyer. «On<br />

n'est plus la même personne avec la robe.<br />

Elle vous détache des autres», garantit cet<br />

élu du Haut-Rhin, qui a siégé de 2002 à 2012<br />

à la CJR. Et d'insister: «Je n'ai jamais<br />

ressenti de tendance politique dans les<br />

procès. Dans celui pour escroquerie du<br />

socialiste Michel Gillibert en 2004, je faisais<br />

partie avec un élu PS des juges les plus<br />

sévères.»<br />

Patrick Ollier, quant à lui, se remémore le<br />

procès du sang contaminé en 1999. L'ancien<br />

premier ministre socialiste Laurent Fabius<br />

comparaissait au côté de l'ex-ministre des<br />

Affaires sociales, Georgina Dufoix, et de<br />

l'ancien secrétaire d'État à la Santé, Edmond<br />

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Hervé. Seul ce dernier sera reconnu<br />

coupable, mais dispensé de peine. «À<br />

l'approche du jugement, on a senti la volonté<br />

de certains, notamment un sénateur de<br />

gauche, de protéger les leurs, reconnaît le<br />

député UMP. Mais il s'agissait d'une petite<br />

minorité». L'élu PS du Puy-de-Dôme<br />

Jean-Paul Bacquet est moins tendre avec<br />

cette juridiction, où il a siégé de 1997 à 2007.<br />

«Je n'ai pas souhaité faire de troisième<br />

mandat car c'est une expérience très difficile.<br />

Il faut faire abstraction de sa sensibilité<br />

politique et ne pas se rapprocher de la<br />



personne jugée. On se demande souvent si<br />

notre jugement n'est pas influencé par notre<br />

vie publique», concède-t-il. Et si la CJR a<br />

bien fonctionné jusqu'à aujourd'hui, la<br />

question posée sur l'impartialité des juges est<br />

«légitime», selon le député. Celui-ci<br />

préconise même la suppression de la CJR au<br />

profit d'une juridiction classique. Car,<br />

estime-t-il, «pour que la démocratie<br />

fonctionne, on doit au peuple qu'il n'y ait pas<br />

de doute».<br />

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Roumanie: le référendum pas valide<br />

Le taux de participation au référendum sur la<br />

destitution du président de la Roumanie<br />

Traian Basescu a été de 46,13%, ouvrant la<br />

voie à une invalidation de ce scrutin crucial,<br />

selon une estimation officielle du bureau<br />

électoral central donnée dans la nuit. Selon la<br />

loi, la participation à ce référendum devait<br />

dépasser les 50% des inscrits pour que son<br />

résultat soit validé par la Cour<br />

constitutionnelle.Une écrasante majorité<br />

des votants, 86,90%, s'était prononcée à<br />

cette heure pour la destitution du président<br />

de centre-droit, selon ce sondage.<br />

Traian Basescu a affirmé avoir échappé à la<br />

destitution tout en assurant comprendre la<br />

"colère" des millions de Roumains qui ont<br />

voté pour son départ. "Les Roumains ont<br />

rejeté le coup d'Etat des 256 parlementaires<br />

conduits par Victor Ponta (Premier ministre,<br />

ndlr) et Crin Antonescu (président intérimaire,<br />

ndlr)", les chefs de file de l'Union sociale<br />

libérale (majorité de centre gauche), a<br />

déclaré M. Basescu depuis son siège de<br />

campagne, quelques minutes après la clôture<br />

des bureaux de vote. "Je veux remercier ceux<br />

qui, surmontant leur colère, ont compris que<br />

le référendum ne portait pas sur Basescu<br />

mais sur l'Europe", a-t-il ajouté, alors que ses<br />

partisans avaient appelé à un boycottage de<br />

la consultation.<br />

Le premier ministre social-démocrate Victor<br />

Ponta a estimé dans une déclaration au siège<br />

du gouvernement que, quel que soit le taux<br />

de participation final, aucun homme politique<br />

"ne peut ignorer la volonté" de millions de<br />

votants, appel du pied à un départ de M.<br />

Basescu. "Tout homme politique qui ignore la<br />

volonté de millions de votants est coupé de la<br />

réalité", a déclare M. Ponta, mettant en doute<br />

la "légitimité" de son adversaire.<br />

Après trois mois de cohabitation houleuse<br />

avec le gouvernement de centre gauche, M.<br />

Basescu a assuré que dès son retour au<br />

palais présidentiel il s'attacherait à<br />

"promouvoir la réconciliation".<br />

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Le Monde/ - Article, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Conseil Constitutionnel)<br />

Le Parlement va entériner un tour de vis<br />

fiscal à 7,2 milliards d"euros<br />

Le ministre du budget Jérôme Cahuzac, le 29<br />

mai. | AFP/LIONEL BONAVENTURE<br />

Destiné à permettre à la France de tenir son<br />

engagement de réduire le déficit public à 4,5<br />

% du produit intérieur brut (PIB) en 2012 et à<br />

solder l"héritage des années Sarkozy, ce<br />

collectif se caractérise par un tour de vis<br />

fiscal. Il prévoit 7,2 milliards d"euros de<br />

recettes supplémentaires. Côté dépense, le<br />

gouvernement a décidé un gel<br />

supplémentaire portant sur 1,5 milliard. Avec<br />

au final, un déficit budgétaire pour 2012<br />

attendu à 81,1 milliards. CAHUZAC : "UN<br />

EFFORT RUDE À CEUX QUI LE<br />

PEUVENT"Accusé par l"opposition de<br />

s"attaquer aux classes moyennes, l"exécutif a<br />

défendu sa stratégie visant, selon le ministre<br />

du budget, Jérôme Cahuzac, à demander "un<br />

effort rude à ceux qui le peuvent".Les<br />

ménages, s"ils bénéficient de l"abrogation de<br />

la TVA sociale dont le taux normal devait<br />

augmenter de 1,6 point au 1er octobre,<br />

seront très sollicités. Les heures<br />

supplémentaires effectuées à compter du 1er<br />

août ne seront plus défiscalisées et, au 1er<br />

septembre, elles seront à nouveau soumises<br />

à cotisations salariales ; entre 8 et 9 millions<br />

de salariés devraient être affectés pour une<br />

perte moyenne de pouvoir d"achat de 450<br />

euros par an.Les plus fortunés des Français,<br />

à partir de 1,3 million d"euros de patrimoine,<br />

devront acquitter une contribution<br />

exceptionnelle sur la fortune ; elle devrait<br />

rapporter 2,3 milliards à l"Etat et vient<br />

s"ajouter à la cotisation ISF déjà due pour<br />

2012. L"opposition, qui juge "confiscatoire" le<br />

niveau de cette contribution, a averti qu"elle<br />

saisira le Conseil<br />

constitutionnel.ALOURDISSEMENT DE LA<br />

TAXATION DES PARACHUTES DORÉSLe<br />

collectif budgétaire va également modifier la<br />

fiscalité sur les successions et les donations.<br />

Ainsi, l""abattement par héritier direct est<br />

ramené de 159 325 euros à 100 000 euros<br />

pour celles ouvertes à compter d"août.Le<br />

délai entre deux donations (ou succession)<br />

en franchise de droits est porté à 15 ans au<br />

lieu de 10 ans, et les barèmes des droits de<br />

succession et de donation comme le niveau<br />

des abattements ne seront plus indexés sur<br />

l"inflation. En revanche, le collectif conserve<br />

les exonérations de droits de succession pour<br />

le conjoint survivant.Les bénéficiaires de<br />

stock-options et d"actions gratuites verront<br />

les prélèvements sociaux qui leur sont<br />

appliqués croître de 8 % à 10 %. Les revenus<br />

immobiliers perçus en France par les<br />

non-résidents seront soumis aux<br />

prélèvements sociaux. Le Sénat propose<br />

d"alourdir la taxation des parachutes dorés<br />

en abaissant 363 720 euros le seuil à partir<br />

duquel ils seront soumis à la CSG et à la<br />

contribution pour le redressement de la dette<br />

sociale (CRDS).Le texte met fin à la prise en<br />

charge des frais de scolarité des enfants<br />

français scolarisés dans un établissement<br />

d"enseignement français à l"étranger. Le<br />

Sénat a aussi adopté un amendement<br />

relevant les taux de la taxe sur les logements<br />

vacants acquittée par les propriétaires. Le<br />

destin en CMP de cette initiative est incertain,<br />

le gouvernement s"en étant remis à la<br />

sagesse des sénateurs.A l"inverse, le collectif<br />

budgétaire rétablit le taux réduit de TVA sur<br />

les livres et les spectacles vivants. Il<br />

supprime aussi la franchise de 30 euros<br />

réclamée pour accéder à l"aide médicale<br />

d"Etat.LES IMPÔTS DES ENTREPRISES<br />

VONT AUGMENTERDu côté des entreprises,<br />

les impôts vont également augmenter. Les<br />

exonérations de cotisations patronales sont<br />

supprimées sur les heures supplémentaires<br />

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effectuées à compter du 1er septembre dans<br />

les sociétés de plus de 20 salariés. Une<br />

disposition exige des entreprises un<br />

versement anticipé d"une contribution sur<br />

l"impôt sur les sociétés.Des mesures portent<br />

aussi sur l"épargne salariale, l"intéressement<br />

et la participation avec la hausse du forfait<br />

social de 8 % à 20 %, à laquelle devraient<br />

échapper les sociétés coopératives (SCOP)<br />

selon un amendement voté au Sénat avec le<br />

soutien du gouvernement.La taxe payée par<br />

les employeurs sur les stock-options passera<br />

de 14 % à 30 %. Les sénateurs ont ajouté,<br />

avec l"aval de l"exécutif, un doublement du<br />

taux des contributions des entreprises au<br />

financement de la solidarité sur les retraites<br />

"chapeau". DES MESURES DE LUTTE<br />

CONTRE L"OPTIMISATION FISCALELe<br />

collectif budgétaire prévoit en outre<br />

d"instaurer des mesures de lutte contre<br />

l"optimisation fiscale qui devraient rapporter 1<br />

milliard d"euros en année pleine. Il double la<br />

taxe sur les transactions financières (à 0,2 %)<br />

et celle sur les risques systémiques.Sur le<br />

premier point, les sénateurs ont adopté un<br />

amendement socialiste qui précise que le<br />

Le Monde/ - Article, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


redevable est "le prestataire le plus proche"<br />

de l"émission initiale de l"ordre d"achat. Sur<br />

le second, ils demandent au gouvernement<br />

de produire, d"ici au 31 mars 2013, un<br />

rapport sur l"assiette de cette taxe<br />

systémique.Le collectif crée une contribution<br />

exceptionnelle de 4 % sur les stocks<br />

pétroliers. Novation par rapport au texte de<br />

l"Assemblée, les raffineries qui auraient<br />

interrompu leur activité pendant plus de trois<br />

mois au cours du premier semestre 2012<br />

seront exonérées.Cet amendement a été<br />

déposé par le gouvernement; il devrait être<br />

adopté en CMP, ainsi que ceux proposés par<br />

l"exécutif pour soustraire les sociétés<br />

d"investissement immobilier cotées de la<br />

nouvelle taxe sur les dividendes distribués en<br />

numéraires, créée par ce collectif.Enfin, les<br />

sénateurs proposent de taxer à 5 % la<br />

revente de chaînes de télévision de la TNT<br />

attribuées gratuitement par le Conseil<br />

supérieur de l"audiovisuel. Le vote sur le<br />

texte final est prévu mardi 31 juillet, dernier<br />

jour de la session extraordinaire du<br />

Parlement.<br />

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Misiones Online/ - Noticia, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


La Cámara de Diputados sancionó 21<br />

leyes en la primera mitad del año<br />

La Cámara de Diputados de Misiones<br />

sancionó un total de 21 leyes en la primera<br />

mitad del año. De este número de normas<br />

aprobadas, 16 fueron impulsadas por<br />

legisladores de la bancada del Frente<br />

Renovador, tres por legisladores de bloques<br />

de la oposición y las dos restantes unificadas<br />

a través de proyectos elaborados por<br />

diputados del oficialismo y la oposición. Entre<br />

las normas sancionadas se destacan la ley<br />

de “Libre Acceso a la Información Pública” y<br />

el “Régimen Jubilatorio para Magistrados,<br />

Funcionarios y Personal del Poder Judicial”.<br />

A través de esta última norma, todo el<br />

personal que desempeña cualquier tipo de<br />

función dentro del ámbito de la justicia<br />

provincial, podrá jubilarse con el 82 por<br />

ciento del salario que percibía al momento<br />

que dejó de cumplir funciones. Entre otras de<br />

las leyes destacadas se encuentran: la<br />

creación de la Editorial de las Misiones; la<br />

excepción del pago de derechos de admisión<br />

para personas discapacitadas a cualquier<br />

tipo de espectáculo público; la expropiación<br />

del ex Hotel Savoy de Posadas con destino<br />

al emplazamiento del Museo de Civilización,<br />

Cultura e Inmigración; la prohibición de la<br />

venta de combustible a todo motociclista que<br />

no cuente con el casco protector, tanto él<br />

como su acompañante (si lo tuviere); y la<br />

declaración de Andresito como prócer<br />

misionero.Otro dato es que de las 21 leyes,<br />

cuatro fueron presentadas exclusivamente<br />

por elpresidente de la Cámara de<br />

Representantes, Carlos Rovira, siendo así el<br />

legislador que mayor número de normas<br />

aprobadas tuvo en esta primera mitad del<br />

año.Vale destacar que del total de normas<br />

aprobadas, 18 ya fueron promulgadas por el<br />

gobernador Maurice Closs.Solo quedaron sin<br />

promulgar, hasta el momento, la ley que<br />

establece la donación de un inmueble a favor<br />

del Obispado de la Diócesis de Oberá, con<br />

destino a la construcción de una capilla y la<br />

ley que instituye el “Centro Cultural-Espiritual<br />

de Misiones” al circuito integrado por las<br />

localidades de Santa Ana y Loreto.El<br />

promedio de leyes aprobadas, en las once<br />

sesiones de esta primera mitad del año, es<br />

de dos normas por reunión.Tras el receso por<br />

vacaciones de invierno, la Legislatura<br />

retomará este lunes sus actividades. En tanto<br />

que el jueves 2 de agosto vuelven las<br />

sesiones en el Teatro de Prosa del Parque<br />

del Conocimiento.Una de los debates<br />

centrales para esta segunda mitad del año<br />

será el Presupuesto 2013, el cual, según<br />

anticipó el gobernador Maurice Closs el<br />

jueves pasado, prevé un monto superior a los<br />

12.600 millones de pesos.<br />


Reuters General/ - Article, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Democrats look to back gay marriage at<br />

convention<br />

WASHINGTON | Mon Jul 30, 2012 4:37pm<br />

EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The<br />

Democratic Party is aiming to include support<br />

for gay marriage in its party platform this year<br />

for the first time in its history, a Democratic<br />

source said on Monday. The platform drafting<br />

committee unanimously approved language<br />

on Sunday endorsing same-sex marriage<br />

among the policy positions that will be<br />

presented to the convention in Charlotte,<br />

North Carolina, where President Barack<br />

Obama will formally accept the party's<br />

nomination in early September to run for<br />

re-election.The approval was first reported in<br />

The Washington Blade, which said the<br />

language also rejected the Defense of<br />

Marriage Act, or DOMA, a law passed by the<br />

U.S. Congress in 1996 that defines marriage<br />

as only between a man and a woman and<br />

denies federal benefits to lawfully married<br />

same-sex couples.The Obama administration<br />

said last year it would no longer support<br />

DOMA. Obama's Republican opponent,<br />

Republican Mitt Romney, is a gay-marriage<br />

opponent who supports the statute and<br />

promises to defend "traditional marriage" if he<br />

is elected on November 6.In May, Obama<br />

became the first U.S. president to say he<br />

believes same-sex couples should be allowed<br />

to marry. The largest U.S. civil rights group,<br />

the NAACP, has also endorsed gay marriage,<br />

saying the fight for gay rights is a civil rights<br />

issue.Six U.S. states and the District of<br />

Columbia have legalized gay marriage, but<br />

30 have banned it.The 15-member<br />

Democratic Party platform drafting committee<br />

met in Minneapolis during the weekend. A<br />

draft will be considered in Detroit on August<br />

10, and it will then go to convention delegates<br />

for final approval.Religious conservatives, an<br />

important component of the Republican Party<br />

base, staunchly oppose gay marriage, but<br />

polls show support for the issue rising,<br />

especially among younger<br />

Americans.(Reporting By Patricia Zengerle;<br />

Editing by Peter Cooney)<br />

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Supreme Court may review case over<br />

DNA samples<br />

By Jonathan Stempel and Terry Baynes Mon<br />

Jul 30, 2012 4:42pm EDT n">(Reuters) - The<br />

Supreme Court signaled on Monday that it<br />

may review whether law enforcement officials<br />

may collect DNA samples from people who<br />

have been accused, but not convicted, of<br />

serious crimes. Chief Justice John Roberts<br />

put on hold an April 24 decision by a divided<br />

Maryland Court of Appeals overturning the<br />

2010 rape conviction of Alonzo Jay King.A<br />

lower court had sentenced King to life in<br />

prison without the possibility of parole after he<br />

was arrested for assault in 2009 and police<br />

used his DNA to link him to an unsolved 2003<br />

rape.The police who collected the DNA in<br />

2009 did so without a warrant, and the<br />

Maryland appeals court said King's<br />

expectation of privacy under the Fourth<br />

Amendment outweighed the interests of the<br />

state.Maryland's DNA Collection Act allows<br />

law enforcement to take samples from people<br />

arrested for violent crimes, attempted violent<br />

crimes, burglary or attempted<br />

burglary.Roberts agreed that there was a "fair<br />

prospect" the Supreme Court would reverse<br />

the April decision, and that the decision<br />

subjected Maryland to "irreparable harm."He<br />

said the decision conflicted with three other<br />

courts that have upheld similar laws, and<br />

"implicates an important feature of day-to-day<br />

law enforcement practice" in half of all U.S.<br />

states and the federal government.Roberts<br />

also said DNA samples from people who<br />

have been arrested have led to 58 criminal<br />

prosecutions in Maryland from 2009 to<br />

2011."Crimes for which DNA evidence is<br />

implicated tend to be serious, and serious<br />

crimes cause serious injuries," Roberts wrote.<br />

"In the absence of a stay, Maryland would be<br />

disabled from employing a valuable law<br />

enforcement took for several months - a tool<br />

used widely throughout the country."Stephen<br />

Mercer, King's lawyer at the Maryland Office<br />

of the Public Defender, said the Supreme<br />

Court's ruling was only a preliminary<br />

round."We continue to believe the court in the<br />

end will vindicate the Fourth Amendment<br />

rights of Mr. King and all Marylanders in their<br />

genetic privacy," Mercer said.Maryland<br />

Attorney General Douglas Gansler applauded<br />

Roberts' decision in a statement."This stay<br />

will allow Maryland the uninterrupted use of<br />

this critical modern law enforcement tool that<br />

helps police and prosecutors solve some of<br />

Maryland's most serious violent crimes," he<br />

said.The full Supreme Court is expected to<br />

take up Maryland's appeal in its upcoming<br />

term, which begins in October.Each<br />

Supreme Court justice is assigned one or<br />

more circuits from which to handle<br />

emergency appeals and other matters. The<br />

4th Circuit includes Maryland, North Carolina,<br />

South Carolina, Virginia and West<br />

Virginia.The case is Maryland v. King, U.S.<br />

Supreme Court, No. 12A48.(Reporting by<br />

Terry Baynes and Jonathan Stempel in New<br />

York; Editing by Richard Chang)<br />

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Russia's "Pussy Riot" on trial for<br />

cathedral protest<br />

By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW | Mon Jul<br />

30, 2012 4:02pm EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) -<br />

Three women who protested against Vladimir<br />

Putin in a "punk prayer" on the altar of<br />

Russia's main cathedral went on trial on<br />

Monday in a case seen as a test of the<br />

longtime leader's treatment of dissent during<br />

a new presidential term. The women from the<br />

band "Pussy Riot" face up to seven years in<br />

prison for an unsanctioned performance in<br />

February in which they entered Moscow's<br />

Christ the Saviour Cathedral, ascended the<br />

altar and called on the Virgin Mary to "throw<br />

Putin out!"Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda<br />

Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina<br />

Samutsevich, 29, were brought to Moscow's<br />

Khamovniki court for Russia's highest-profile<br />

trial since former oil tycoon Mikhail<br />

Khodorkovsky was convicted for a second<br />

time in 2010, in the same<br />

courtroom.Supporters chanted "Girls, we're<br />

with you!" and "Victory!" as the women, each<br />

handcuffed by the wrist to a female officer,<br />

were escorted from a police van into the<br />

courthouse."We did not want to offend<br />

anybody," Tolokonnikova said from the same<br />

metal and clear-plastic courtroom cage where<br />

Khodorkovsky sat with his business partner<br />

during their trial."Our motives were<br />

exclusively political."The stunt was designed<br />

to highlight the close relationship between the<br />

dominant Russian Orthodox Church and<br />

former KGB officer Putin, then prime minister,<br />

whose campaign to return to the presidency<br />

in a March election was backed clearly, if<br />

informally, by the leader of the church,<br />

Patriarch Kirill.The protest offended many<br />

believers and left the church leadership<br />

incensed. The church, which has enjoyed a<br />

big revival since the demise of the<br />

Communist Soviet Union in 1991 and is<br />

seeking more influence on secular life, cast<br />

the performance as part of a sinister<br />

campaign by "anti-Russian forces".The<br />

women, who have been charged with<br />

hooliganism motivated by religious hatred or<br />

hostility, have said many times they meant no<br />

offence.ANGER OVER CLOSE<br />

CHURCH-STATE TIESIn opening statements<br />

read by a defense lawyer, who sometimes<br />

struggled with the handwritten texts, they said<br />

they were protesting against Kirill's political<br />

support for Putin and had no animosity<br />

toward the church or the faithful."I have never<br />

had such feelings towards anyone in the<br />

world," Tolokonnikova said in her statement,<br />

describing the charge of religious hatred as<br />

"wildly harsh"."We are not enemies of<br />

Christianity. The opinion of Orthodox<br />

believers is important to us and we want all of<br />

them to be on our side - on the side of<br />

anti-authoritarian civil activists," she said.<br />

"Our performance contained no aggression<br />

toward the public - only a desperate desire to<br />

change the situation in Russia for the<br />

better."Pussy Riot burst onto the scene this<br />

winter with angry lyrics and surprise<br />

performances, including one on Red Square<br />

outside the Kremlin, that went viral on the<br />

Internet.The band members see themselves<br />

as the avant-garde of a disenchanted<br />

generation looking for creative ways to show<br />

dissatisfaction with Putin's 12-year<br />

dominance of politics."I thought the church<br />

loved all its children, but it seems the church<br />

loves only those children who love Putin,"<br />

Alyokhina's statement said.The women<br />

looked thinner and paler than they did when<br />

they were jailed following the performance in<br />

late February, shortly before Putin, in power<br />

as president from 2000-2008 and then as<br />

prime minister, won a six-year presidential<br />

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term on March 4."She looks like she has<br />

been on a long hunger strike," Stanislav<br />

Samutsevich said of his daughter. "I think this<br />

is like an inquisition, like mockery."A reporter<br />

on state-run TV presented a different picture,<br />

focusing on occasional smiles and chuckles,<br />

by the women, who whispered to each other<br />

as a prosecutor read the charges."Look at<br />

their faces; they are laughing and joking," the<br />

reporter said on the news, adding that a<br />

viewer might think they were "continuing the<br />

action" they carried out at the<br />

cathedral.Prosecutors asked for the trial,<br />

which was streamed live on the Internet, to<br />

be closed to the public and the media. The<br />

judge rejected the motion but ordered live<br />

streaming shut off during witness testimony<br />

and some other proceedings.A group of<br />

conservative Russian writers called on<br />

Monday for tough punishment. Kremlin<br />

opponents, rights activists and the<br />

defendants say the charges are politically<br />

motivated.The prosecution marked "the start<br />

of a campaign of authoritarian, repressive<br />

measures aimed to ... spread fear among<br />

politically active citizens," Samutsevich said<br />

in her statement, read out by defense lawyer<br />

Violetta Volkova.PROTEST MOVEMENTThe<br />

performance was part of a lively protest<br />

movement that at its peak saw 100,000<br />

people turn out for rallies in Moscow, some of<br />

the largest in Russia since the Soviet Union's<br />

demise.The prosecution dismissed<br />

accusations of political motives."This is not a<br />

question of our parliamentary or presidential<br />

elections, but a criminal case about ... banal<br />

hooliganism with a religious motive," said<br />

Larisa Pavlova, who represents Lyubov<br />

Sokologorskaya, one of several people who<br />

work at the cathedral and are appearing at<br />

the trial as "victims" of Pussy<br />

Riot.Sokologorskaya, who described herself<br />

as a "profound believer", said only clerics<br />

were allowed at the altar and that the<br />

defendants' bare shoulders, short skirts and<br />

"aggressive" dance moves violated church<br />

rules and offended the faithful."When I talk<br />



about this event, my heart hurts. It hurts that<br />

this is possible in our country," she said.<br />

"Their punishment must be adequate so that<br />

never again is such a thing repeated."The<br />

trial comes as Putin, who is 59 and has not<br />

ruled out seeking another term in 2018, tries<br />

to rein in opponents who hope to reignite the<br />

street protest movement this autumn.On<br />

Monday, Putin signed a law enacting stricter<br />

punishment for defamation. That follows<br />

recent laws tightening controls on<br />

foreign-funded civil rights groups and sharply<br />

raising fines for violations of public order at<br />

street rallies.Opposition leaders including<br />

anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny and<br />

socialite Ksenia Sobchak have had their<br />

homes searched and faced repeated rounds<br />

of questioning over violence at a protest on<br />

the eve of Putin's inauguration on May<br />

7.Lawyers for Navalny say investigators are<br />

preparing to charge him, in a separate case,<br />

with a crime punishable by up to five years in<br />

prison. He was summoned to the federal<br />

Investigative Committee on Monday and told<br />

to return on Tuesday.Amnesty International<br />

said the Pussy Riot performers "must be<br />

released immediately" and that the prison<br />

terms they face if convicted are "wildly out of<br />

all proportion.""They dared to attack the two<br />

pillars of the modern Russian establishment the Kremlin and the Orthodox Church,"<br />

regional program director John Dalhuisen<br />

said in a statement.Prime Minister Dmitry<br />

Medvedev dismissed criticism of the case in<br />

remarks published on Monday, saying the<br />

trial was a "serious ordeal" for the defendants<br />

and their families but that "one should be<br />

calm about it" and await the<br />

outcome.Whether the group's performance<br />

crossed the line from a "moral misdemeanor"<br />

to a crime was "up to the court to decide,"<br />

Medvedev, in London for the Olympics, told<br />

the Times newspaper in an interview posted<br />

on the Russian government website.A<br />

defense lawyer for the musicians, Nikolai<br />

Polozov, said Medvedev's comments were<br />

aimed at putting pressure on the court to<br />

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"punish blasphemers"."The court is being<br />

very one-sided, slanted towards the<br />

prosecution, which of course in our view is<br />

motivated exclusively by political bias in this<br />

case," he said.Few Russians believe the<br />

country's courts are independent, and<br />

Medvedev acknowledged during his<br />



2008-2012 presidency that they were subject<br />

to political pressure.(Additional reporting by<br />

Nastassia Astrasheuskaya, Writing by Steve<br />

Gutterman, Editing by Timothy Heritage and<br />

Peter Graff)<br />

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Judge clears Arizona's late-term abortion<br />

ban to take effect<br />

By David Schwartz PHOENIX | Mon Jul 30,<br />

2012 5:07pm EDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A<br />

federal judge refused on Monday to block an<br />

Arizona law banning most abortions after 20<br />

weeks of pregnancy, clearing the way for the<br />

statute to take effect this week. District Judge<br />

James Teilborg ruled that the measure,<br />

passed by the Republican-controlled state<br />

legislature and signed into law in April by<br />

Republican Governor Jan Brewer, is in<br />

keeping with standards that federal courts<br />

have set on limits to late-term abortions.The<br />

new statute, due to take effect on Thursday,<br />

bars healthcare professionals from<br />

performing abortions after 20 weeks of<br />

pregnancy, except in the case of a medical<br />

emergency. Only a small number of such<br />

abortions are performed in the state each<br />

year.Siding against abortion-rights advocates<br />

who had challenged the law, Teilborg said<br />

Arizona's ban "does not impose a substantial<br />

obstacle" to abortions generally and that<br />

Arizona has the right to pass such<br />

legislation.Two groups, the Center for<br />

Reproductive Rights and the American Civil<br />

Liberties Union, filed suit earlier this month on<br />

behalf of three Arizona abortion providers<br />

seeking to prevent the ban from being<br />

implemented.The suit was believed to mark<br />

the first court test brought by physicians<br />

against similar abortion restrictions that have<br />

surfaced in a growing number of states since<br />

Republicans gained greater statehouse clout<br />

in the November 2010 elections, Center for<br />

Reproductive Rights officials said.Six states<br />

have put laws into effect in the past two years<br />

banning most or all late-term abortions,<br />

based on hotly debated medical research<br />

suggesting that a fetus feels pain starting at<br />

20 weeks of gestation. North Carolina<br />

enacted its own such ban decades<br />

ago.Arizona and two other states - Georgia<br />

and Louisiana - have enacted similar bans<br />

that have not yet taken effect, center officials<br />

said.The Supreme Court legalized abortion<br />

in 1973 but allowed states to place<br />

restrictions on the procedure from the time<br />

when a fetus could potentially survive outside<br />

the womb, except when a woman's health<br />

was at risk.(Editing by Steve Gorman and Will<br />

Dunham)<br />

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Analysis: Critics assail 1980s-era hacking<br />

law as out of step<br />

By Grant McCool NEW YORK | Mon Jul 30,<br />

2012 7:04am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A<br />

1984 U.S. anti-hacking law passed when<br />

computer crime was in its infancy is under fire<br />

for potentially going too far in criminalizing the<br />

actions of employees who violate workplace<br />

policies. Judges across the country are<br />

divided on how the 28-year-old law, the U.S.<br />

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, can be<br />

applied. At the same time, the Justice<br />

Department has signaled it wants to ramp up<br />

prosecutions under the law, even as it has<br />

lost some cases.Civil liberties advocates and<br />

some lawyers and judges are questioning<br />

whether the CFAA, intended to punish<br />

hackers and other trespassers who damage<br />

computer systems or steal customer<br />

information, can be used to prosecute people<br />

inside a company who download sensitive<br />

data without their employers' approval.The<br />

debate is centered around a key phrase in<br />

the law: that it is illegal to "intentionally<br />

access a computer without authorization or<br />

exceed authorized access." Critics argue this<br />

language is too broad and vague and could<br />

turn ordinary people into criminals for things<br />

many do routinely, such as dabble in online<br />

shopping or scan an online matchmaking site<br />

at work."This statute has the potential to<br />

affect millions of Americans in the workplace<br />

who work at or use a computer to do their<br />

job," said Brent Cossrow, a partner at law firm<br />

Fisher & Phillips in Radnor, Pennsylvania,<br />

which specializes in computer breach cases.<br />

"Hopefully, it gets cleared up soon."BOUND<br />

FOR SUPREME COURT?A split decision in<br />

April by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<br />

in San Francisco could be the case that<br />

forces the U.S. Supreme Court to examine<br />

the law's reach.In a 9-2 ruling, the appeals<br />

court threw out criminal charges brought<br />

under the law against David Nosal, a former<br />

managing director at executive search firm<br />

Korn/Ferry International. Nosal was indicted<br />

in 2008 for allegedly persuading colleagues<br />

to download confidential source lists and<br />

contact information from the firm to use at his<br />

new business.Three co-defendants pleaded<br />

guilty to CFAA violations. But Nosal fought<br />

the charges, arguing that he and his<br />

colleagues had been authorized to access<br />

the company's database. The appeals court<br />

supported Nosal's argument, and threw out<br />

the CFAA charges against him, though he still<br />

faces separate charges of trade secrets theft<br />

in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.The<br />

9th Circuit ruling was suspended to give the<br />

Justice Department time to consider<br />

petitioning the Supreme Court to review the<br />

case. If the Supreme Court were to hear the<br />

matter, it could potentially be on the docket<br />

for the upcoming term.The Justice<br />

Department, which declined to comment on<br />

the case, has until August 8 to decide<br />

whether to seek Supreme Court<br />

review.Nosal's lawyer, Steven Gruel, said his<br />

client wants to exonerate himself. "He's<br />

always said he did nothing wrong."NEW<br />

SCENARIOSIf the high court does not take<br />

the Nosal case, legal experts say, little is<br />

likely to get settled in the near future over<br />

how and when the law can be applied.The<br />

CFAA was crafted before the Internet was<br />

omnipresent in the workplace. Employees<br />

today have vastly more sensitive company<br />

information accessible on their computers,<br />

leading to scenarios that the writers of the law<br />

may never have envisioned.Some<br />

companies, such as Oracle Corp, which filed<br />

a brief supporting the Justice Department<br />

against Nosal, say such criminal prosecutions<br />

are justified.Oracle said Congress rooted the<br />

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statute in common-law trespass<br />

doctrines."Among them is the concept of<br />

restricted authorization: a person commits<br />

trespass not only when he or she enters<br />

property or a portion of it when told not to; a<br />

person commits trespass also when he or<br />

she has authorization to enter for some<br />

purposes but enters for different ones," the<br />

brief said.Critics say the statute, which carries<br />

civil and criminal penalties, could be abused<br />

by employers.The precedent that develops<br />

largely in the context of a private, workplace<br />

dispute "becomes something that people can<br />

go to jail for, and that's really dangerous,"<br />

said Marcia Hoffman, senior staff attorney<br />

with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a<br />

non-profit civil liberties organization.Potential<br />

criminal penalties under the law range from<br />

one year to 10 years in prison, if the offense<br />

involves information relating to U.S. national<br />

security.Prosecutors have brought about 550<br />

federal criminal cases under the CFAA and<br />

related computer fraud laws in the past 5-1/2<br />

years, according to court filings reviewed in<br />

Westlaw, a legal data division of Thomson<br />

Reuters. Over the same period, nearly 500<br />

civil lawsuits were brought in private disputes<br />

citing the CFAA and related laws, the filings<br />

show.The Justice Department wants to<br />

expand the penalties and prosecutions under<br />

the act, an Obama administration official told<br />

a hearing on Capitol Hill in November.<br />

Richard Downing, deputy section chief for<br />

computer crime and intellectual property, said<br />

it was important to retain the provisions of the<br />

law that apply to employee-use<br />

agreements.Removing that section of the law<br />

"could make it difficult or impossible to deter<br />

and punish serious threats from malicious<br />

insiders," he told the Crime, Terrorism and<br />

Homeland Security Subcommittee of the<br />

House Judiciary Committee.If the Justice<br />

Department were to go to the Supreme<br />

Court and lose over the CFAA, it would<br />

remove an arrow in its quiver for prosecuting<br />

those "insider" computer abuse<br />

cases.Congress has partially addressed the<br />



issue while crafting new cyber security<br />

legislation. One possible amendment to a bill<br />

pending in the U.S. Senate would narrow<br />

criminal cases to exclude relatively innocuous<br />

violations of agreements governing the use of<br />

private computers, such as a social-network<br />

user signing up under a pseudonym.MIXED<br />

RULINGSIn February, the U.S. government<br />

lost another case involving an employee who<br />

had accessed company data, a case that also<br />

raised questions about use of the hacking<br />

statute.That case involved a former Goldman<br />

Sachs Group Inc programmer, Sergey<br />

Aleynikov, who was accused of stealing code<br />

used in the bank's high-frequency trading<br />

system before leaving for a new company in<br />

Chicago.Before Aleynikov went on trial, U.S.<br />

District Judge Denise Cote dismissed the<br />

charges brought under the CFAA, saying the<br />

government's interpretation "could convert an<br />

ordinary violation of the duty of loyalty or of a<br />

confidential agreement into a federal<br />

offense." But she let trade-secrets charges<br />

against him stand, and in December 2010<br />

Aleynikov was found guilty.That conviction<br />

was thrown out earlier this year by the 2nd<br />

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Aleynikov<br />

was freed after serving one year of an<br />

eight-year prison term.The Nosal and<br />

Aleynikov cases conflict with an earlier<br />

appeals court ruling. That case was a civil<br />

dispute between a real estate developer,<br />

Jacob Citrin, and his former employer,<br />

International Airport Centers LLC. The 7th<br />

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled<br />

in 2006 that Citrin violated the CFAA by<br />

installing a program that deleted files on a<br />

company laptop as he was departing for<br />

another job.Citrin was not criminally charged<br />

and his case was settled on undisclosed<br />

terms, but a Justice Department guide for<br />

prosecutors on the CFAA points to the 7th<br />

Circuit ruling as "the leading authority" for the<br />

position that when an employee is doing<br />

something disloyal to an employer,<br />

authorized access to the computer ends<br />

under the law.Citrin's lawyers, Ronald<br />

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Marmer and John Koch, of Jenner & Block in<br />

Chicago, had no comment. Citrin is now CEO<br />

of Cargo Ventures in Doral, Florida,<br />

according to his company's web site.Unless<br />

the Supreme Court ultimately weighs in, the<br />

inconsistent decisions will continue, said<br />

lawyer John Dozier, of Dozier Internet Law, a<br />

Glen Allen, Virginia law firm.Without clarity,<br />

he said, "what is going to be illegal in one part<br />

of the country is not illegal in the other."The<br />



cases are USA v David Nosal in the 9th U.S.<br />

Circuit Court of Appeals 10-10038 and<br />

International Airport Centers LLC v Jacob<br />

Citrin in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<br />

No. 05-1522 and USA v Aleynikov, U.S.<br />

District Court for the Southern District of New<br />

York 10-00096.(Editing by Martha Graybow,<br />

Edward Tobin and Leslie Gevirtz)<br />

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Von Oliver Klasen<br />

Süddeutsche Zeitung/ - Politik, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (EuGH)<br />

Draghi und Weidmann ringen um<br />

EZB-Linie<br />

Soll die Europäische Zentralbank spanische<br />

Anleihen kaufen, um das Vertrauen der<br />

Märkte zu gewinnen und den Euro zu retten?<br />

Nein, sagt Bundesbank-Präsident Weidmann.<br />

EZB-Chef Draghi versucht, ihn vom Gegenteil<br />

zu überzeugen. Unterstützung erhält<br />

Weidmann allerdings von manchen Politikern.<br />

Jean-Claude Juncker, der Chef der<br />

Euro-Gruppe, hat angekündigt, dass "in den<br />

nächsten Tagen" wichtige Entscheidungen<br />

fallen werden. "Die Welt redet darüber, ob es<br />

die Euro-Zone in einigen Monaten noch gibt",<br />

so der luxemburgische Premier in der<br />

Süddeutschen Zeitung. Angesichts dessen<br />

müssten die Euro-Länder jetzt "mit allen<br />

verfügbaren Mitteln" ihre feste<br />

Entschlossenheit zeigen.<br />

Es spricht einiges dafür, dass Junckers<br />

Ankündigung mehr ist als bloßer<br />

Zweckoptimismus, um die angesichts der<br />

Schuldenkrise einiger Euro-Staaten<br />

misstrauischen Märkte zu beschwichtigen.<br />

Zahlreiche Politiker-Treffen finden zu Anfang<br />

dieser Woche statt. Am Mittag trifft<br />

US-Finanzminister Timothy Geithner mit<br />

Wolfgang Schäuble zusammen. Das<br />

kurzfristig anberaumte Treffen findet auf<br />

Schäubles Urlaubsinsel Sylt statt. Ein<br />

Presse-Statement, so hieß es zunächst,<br />

werde es nicht geben, nur einen Fototermin.<br />

Anschließend reist Geithner nach Frankfurt,<br />

wo er mit dem Präsidenten der Europäischen<br />

Zentralbank (EZB), Mario Draghi, über<br />

Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Euro-Krise<br />

beraten will.<br />

Gerüchten zufolge soll noch ein weiteres<br />

Gespräch geplant sein: Wie die<br />

Nachrichtenagentur Bloomberg berichtete,<br />

will Draghi noch vor der nächsten Sitzung des<br />

Euro-Notenbankrats am Donnerstag mit<br />

Bundesbank-Chef Jens Weidmann<br />

zusammenkommen und eindringlich für ein<br />

stärkeres Engagement der EZB in der Krise<br />

werben.<br />

"Gedankenaustausch bei einer Tasse<br />

Kaffee"<br />

Weidmann ist einer der letzten Akteure, die<br />

sich gegen weitere Marktinterventionen im<br />

Kampf gegen die Euro-Krise wehren. Aus<br />

Zentralbankkreisen verlautete am Montag, es<br />

gehe bei dem Treffen vor der Zinssitzung um<br />

einen "Gedankenaustausch bei einer Tasse<br />

Kaffee". Das Treffen dürfte nach Ansicht von<br />

Beobachtern Gelegenheit geben, Differenzen<br />

über den weiteren Kurs der EZB in der<br />

Euro-Krise beizulegen.<br />

Konkret geht es um den Ankauf von<br />

Staatsanleihen angeschlagener Staaten<br />

durch die EZB. Das würde die Nachfrage<br />

nach diesen Papieren erhöhen und so etwa<br />

im Falle Spaniens die Zinslast für Länder<br />

mindern. Die Zinsen hatten in den<br />

vergangenen Tagen zeitweise die kritische<br />

Schwelle von sieben Prozent überschritten.<br />

Bereits 2010 hatte die EZB Staatsanleihen in<br />

Höhe von rund 210 Milliarden Euro<br />

aufgekauft, vor allem griechische Papiere.<br />

Schon damals hatte sich die Bundesbank<br />

stets dagegen ausgesprochen. Durchsetzen<br />

konnte sie sich nicht: Sie verfügt nur über<br />

einen der insgesamt 23 Sitze im Rat der EZB.<br />

Neben Weidmann sitzt hier zwar noch ein<br />

deutscher Vertreter, EZB-Direktor Jörg<br />

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Assmussen. Doch auch zu zweit können sie<br />

leicht überstimmt werden. Die EZB versucht<br />

allerdings oft, Entscheidungen im Konsens zu<br />

treffen - so erklärt sich wohl auch Draghis<br />

Verstoß für ein Gespräch mit Weidmann.<br />

Sowohl Draghi als auch Kanzlerin Merkel und<br />

der französische Präsident Hollande hatten in<br />

den vergangenen Tagen fast wortgleich<br />



gesagt, dass man "alles Notwendige dafür<br />

tun" müsse, um den Erhalt des Euro zu<br />

sichern. Diese Aussagen waren von<br />

Beobachtern dahingehend interpretiert<br />

worden, dass eine groß angelegte Aktion von<br />

Notenbank und Regierungen zur Beruhigung<br />

der Märkte kurz bevorstünde.<br />

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Präsident Basescu bleibt im Amt<br />

Der Präsident von Rumänien hat eine<br />

Volksabstimmung gegen ihn überstanden.<br />

Doch der der Machtkampf geht weiter:<br />

Sowohl Traian Basescu als auch sein Gegner<br />

Victor Ponta, sozialistischer Regierungsschef,<br />

sehen sich durch das Votum bestätigt.<br />

Das Referendum zur Amtsenthebung des<br />

rumänischen Präsidenten Traian Basescu ist<br />

nach amtlichen Hochrechnungen an einer zu<br />

geringen Wahlbeteiligung gescheitert. Wie<br />

die Wahlleitung in Bukarest in der Nacht zu<br />

Montag mitteilte, gaben nur knapp 46 Prozent<br />

der rund 18 Millionen Wahlberechtigten ihre<br />

Stimme ab; mehr als 50 Prozent wären nötig<br />

gewesen.<br />

Demnach darf der wegen seiner Sparpolitik<br />

unbeliebte Basescu im Amt bleiben, obwohl<br />

nach Umfragen zweier<br />

Meinungsforschungsinstitute mehr als 80<br />

Prozent der abgegebenen Stimmen für seine<br />

Absetzung votiert hatten. Die Fehlerquote bei<br />

der Hochrechnung zur Wahlbeteiligung liegt<br />

laut Wahlleitung bei plus/minus drei Prozent.<br />

Das endgültige Ergebnis solle im Laufe des<br />

Tages bekanntgegeben werden.<br />

Das Referendum war der vorläufige<br />

Höhepunkt des Machtkampfs zwischen dem<br />

bürgerlichen Präsidenten und seinem<br />

Erzfeind an der Regierungsspitze, dem<br />

sozialistischen Ministerpräsidenten Victor<br />

Ponta, der Basescu Amtsmissbrauch und<br />

Verfassungsbruch vorwirft.<br />

Basescu, der vom Parlament bereits für<br />

abgesetzt erklärt worden war, hatte sich<br />

schon am Sonntagabend zum Sieger der<br />

Abstimmung erklärt. "Die Rumänen haben<br />

gegen den Staatsstreich gestimmt", sagte er,<br />

zeigte aber zugleich Verständnis für seine<br />

Kritiker. "Mir ist bewusst, dass es<br />

Unzufriedenheit gibt nach all dem, was in den<br />

letzten Jahren geschehen ist, und ich bin<br />

überzeugt, dass der Bruch in der Gesellschaft<br />

beseitigt werden muss." Mit Blick auf seinen<br />

oft als aggressiv und launisch kritisierten<br />

Führungsstil versprach Basescu, für "ein<br />

Gefühl der Versöhnung zu sorgen".<br />

Ponta verwies auf den hohen Stimmenanteil<br />

für eine Absetzung und forderte Basescu<br />

indirekt zum Rücktritt auf. "Jeder Politiker, der<br />

sagt, er könne das Votum von ungefähr neun<br />

Millionen Rumänen ignorieren, lebt fern der<br />

Realität", sagte der Regierungschef.<br />

Interimspräsident Crin Antonescu erklärte, die<br />

Regierungsmehrheit werde die anstehende<br />

Entscheidung des Verfassungsgerichts über<br />

die Gültigkeit des Referendums anerkennen.<br />

"Wir werden auf der Grundlage des Respekts<br />

aller zuständigen Institutionen handeln - ob<br />

es sich um die Wahlkommission oder das<br />

Verfassungsgericht handelt", erklärte<br />

Antonescu kurz nach der Schließung der<br />

Wahllokale.<br />

Um eine möglichst hohe Wahlbeteiligung zu<br />

erzielen, hatte die Regierung die Öffnung der<br />

Wahllokale verlängert und zahlreiche<br />

zusätzliche Lokale an den Küsten des<br />

Landes eingerichtet, wo viele Rumänen<br />

Urlaub machten.<br />

Das Verfahren zur Absetzung Basescus<br />

hatten die erst seit Anfang Mai regierenden<br />

Sozialisten (PSD) und Liberalen (PNL) im<br />

Parlament auf den Weg gebracht. Ein<br />

Einspruchsrecht des Verfassungsgerichts<br />

wurde per Regierungsdekret abgeschafft,<br />

was heftige internationale Kritik und Zweifel<br />

an der Rechtstaatlichkeit des EU-Landes zur<br />

Folge hatte.<br />

Basescu ist seit 2004 rumänischer Präsident.<br />

Seine zweite Amtszeit läuft regulär im Jahr<br />

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2014 ab. Ein drittes Mal darf er laut Gesetz<br />

nicht kandidieren.<br />



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Madhya Pradesh government expresses<br />

concern over Supreme Court order on<br />

restricting tourism<br />

BHOPAL: Expressing concern over the<br />

Supreme Court order restricting tourism in<br />

many areas of the state, Madhya Pradesh<br />

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today<br />

said the government might move the apex<br />

court if the need arises.<br />

"If the need be, we will also approach the<br />

Supreme Court and try to see what steps<br />

can be taken to ensure that tourism is not<br />

affected in Madhya Pradesh," he told<br />

reporters here as he leaves for New Delhi.<br />

Chouhan said tourism in Tiger Reserves has<br />

been affected due to the supreme court<br />

order, which also affected places like<br />

Pachmarhi where majority of tourist spots are<br />

situated in core areas.<br />

The chief minister said he will also meet<br />

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to urge the<br />

need to reduce fertiliser prices.<br />

Chouhan is also slated to meet Union<br />

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in<br />

connection with his demand for reduction of<br />

fertiliser prices and to discuss the issue of<br />

fixing minimum support price for wheat, for<br />

the next season.<br />

He will also meet Union Home Minister P<br />

Chidambaram to discuss the Naxal situation<br />

in the state and also call on the new<br />

President, Pranab Mukherjee.<br />

"I will also extend an invitation to the<br />

President to come and visit Madhya<br />

Pradesh," Chouhan said.<br />

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Considering policy to repair religious<br />

sites: Gujarat to SC<br />

NEW DELHI: The Gujarat government today<br />

told the Supreme Court that it is considering<br />

to frame a policy for compensating the<br />

religious places, damaged in the 2002 riots.<br />

Appearing before a bench of justices K S<br />

Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra, the<br />

advocate general for Gujarat submitted that<br />

the state government is considering to frame<br />

a policy to repair damaged shrines on the<br />

lines of a scheme formulated by the Odisha<br />

Government on the apex court's directions.<br />

The bench, meanwhile, refused to stay the<br />

Gujarat High Court's order to the state<br />

government to repair and rebuild religious<br />

sites which were damaged during the 2002<br />

riots.<br />

The bench posted the matter for further<br />

hearing on August 14 and asked the state<br />

government to brief it about the scheme on<br />

that day.<br />

The apex court's order came on an appeal by<br />

the Gujarat government against the Gujarat<br />

High Court order, which had asked it to pay<br />

compensation for damages to the religious<br />

sites.<br />

The Gujarat government was pulled up by the<br />

Gujarat High Court on February 8 for its<br />

"inaction and negligence" during the 2002<br />

post-Godhra riots, which had led to<br />

large-scale damages to various religious<br />

structures.<br />

The high court had ordered compensation for<br />

over 500 places of worships in the state on a<br />

plea by Islamic Relief Committee of Gujarat<br />

(IRCG), an NGO.<br />

The NGO had contended that 535 religious<br />

places were affected out of which 37 are yet<br />

to be repaired.<br />

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A Runoff Is Down to the Wire in Texas<br />

HOUSTON — It may be the armadillo days of<br />

summer in Texas, but a runoff vote on<br />

Tuesday for the Republican Senate<br />

nomination has jolted the party establishment<br />

here and around the country as a magnetic<br />

Tea Party conservative with no elective<br />

experience gains momentum against the<br />

chosen candidate of Gov. Rick Perry. Only a<br />

few months ago the longtime lieutenant<br />

governor, David Dewhurst, 66, seemed all but<br />

certain to win the nomination, which in<br />

Republican-dominated Texas is tantamount<br />

to winning the seat being vacated in<br />

November by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.<br />

A successful businessman with<br />

Romney-esque wealth, Mr. Dewhurst has<br />

been allied with Mr. Perry — himself a<br />

favorite of the Tea Party and religious<br />

conservatives — as Texas burnished its<br />

reputation as a low-tax, small-government<br />

state with rare growth in jobs. Beyond Mr.<br />

Perry, who calls him “a great conservative<br />

leader,” Mr. Dewhurst has been endorsed by<br />

many party leaders, big business groups and<br />

the farm bureau. But Mr. Dewhurst won only<br />

45 percent of the votes in the May primary,<br />

forcing him into a runoff against the No. 2<br />

finisher, Ted Cruz, a Harvard-educated<br />

lawyer and former state solicitor general who<br />

trailed him by 11 points. Now, after a bitter<br />

and costly campaign, Mr. Cruz, 41, appears<br />

to have pulled even or even nudged ahead,<br />

political analysts said, and his campaign has<br />

already signaled a profound shift in Texas<br />

politics as frustrated conservative activists<br />

rattle the party leadership. “If Cruz wins, it will<br />

be a huge upset and a further indication that<br />

the grass roots is a very powerful force in<br />

Texas,” said Tom Pauken, a commissioner of<br />

the Texas Workplace Commission and a<br />

former state Republican chairman who has<br />

stayed neutral in the race. In one telling sign<br />

of growing divisions, Governor Perry was<br />

booed at the state Republican convention in<br />

June when he introduced his “friend” David<br />

Dewhurst. A victory for Mr. Cruz would follow<br />

other triumphs for insurgent conservatives in<br />

this year’s primaries, including the toppling of<br />

Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana by<br />

Richard Mourdock and the defeat of a<br />

veteran Republican by Deb Fischer for the<br />

Senate nomination in Nebraska. Whether or<br />

not he wins on Tuesday, Mr. Cruz has<br />

already been consecrated as a bright new<br />

star of the right, drawing comparisons to<br />

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as a youthful<br />

and articulate spokesman, unsullied by years<br />

in Republican back rooms. Sensing a<br />

possible victory, celebrities of the right<br />

including Sarah Palin, Senator Jim DeMint,<br />

Glenn Beck and Rick Santorum have come to<br />

Texas in recent days to campaign for Mr.<br />

Cruz. “He’s going to do the heavy lifting to<br />

rein in our out-of-control government,” Ms.<br />

Palin said of Mr. Cruz before a crowd of<br />

1,000 in a Houston suburb on Friday.<br />

Pointing out the strange divisions in this race,<br />

she told the crowd with a laugh that the black<br />

boots she was wearing had been a gift from<br />

Governor Perry. Several national groups<br />

associated with the Tea Party movement<br />

have bought millions in television ads for Mr.<br />

Cruz or promoted his campaign in other<br />

ways. The Club for Growth, a conservative<br />

advocacy group based in Washington, has<br />

alone spent about $5 million on ads, helping<br />

Mr. Cruz overcome the huge financial<br />

advantage of Mr. Dewhurst, who lent his<br />

campaign $10 million of his own money.<br />

Groups like FreedomWorks have helped to<br />

mobilize voters. The two candidates differ<br />

little on major issues — both call for repealing<br />

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Obama’s health care law, balancing the<br />

budget, abolishing the Department of<br />

Education and ending abortion. In his<br />

powerful role presiding over the state Senate,<br />

Mr. Dewhurst compiled a strong conservative<br />

record, pushing through a voter identification<br />

law and a strong sonogram requirement<br />

before abortions. He also opposed a<br />

Medicaid expansion. On Monday, he stopped<br />

at a Chick-fil-A in Austin to remind voters of<br />

his role in barring same-sex marriages in the<br />

state. But the state budget did grow<br />

substantially over the last nine years, Mr.<br />

Cruz is fond of pointing out, and Mr.<br />

Dewhurst sometimes compromised with<br />

moderates to pass bills. He has been<br />

subjected to blistering attacks from Mr. Cruz,<br />

a far more compelling orator, as a<br />

“conciliator” who will not go to the mat for<br />

limited government. Voters want “new leaders<br />

who will stand and fight for liberty,” Mr. Cruz<br />

said at a Tea Party rally last week. Mr. Cruz<br />

expresses pride in his father for making it<br />

after fleeing Cuba with nothing in the 1950s,<br />

before Fidel Castro’s victory. He was<br />

recognized early as a prodigy, paid to give<br />

erudite speeches on free enterprise and<br />

constitutional limits while still in high school.<br />

At Princeton University, he was a champion<br />

debater. He won high honors at Harvard Law<br />

and clerked for William H. Rehnquist, then<br />

the chief justice of the Supreme Court. He<br />



worked in a Washington law firm and then<br />

took federal posts in the administration of<br />

George W. Bush before returning to Texas for<br />

the appointed job of solicitor general, arguing<br />

cases before the Supreme Court. Mr.<br />

Dewhurst and his supporters have been<br />

exasperated by Mr. Cruz’s effort to position<br />

himself as an outsider, describing Mr. Cruz as<br />

a creature of Washington and deriding his<br />

out-of-state support as carpetbagging. But<br />

some conservatives say they are thrilled at<br />

the possibility of sending Mr. Cruz to the<br />

Senate. “People are excited because they<br />

see that Ted Cruz really has a fire in his<br />

belly,” said Peggy Venable, the Texas leader<br />

of Americans for Prosperity, a national<br />

organization that helped nurture the Tea<br />

Party movement. She and others are voting<br />

for Mr. Cruz, she said, “because we believe<br />

that we need a strong leader in the Senate<br />

who will rally other Republicans to do the<br />

right thing.” Mr. Perry, who has made an art<br />

of straddling the divide between ideological<br />

conservatives and more traditional ones, will<br />

be embarrassed if Mr. Cruz wins. But he has<br />

been careful to preserve good relations with<br />

conservatives supporting Mr. Cruz, said Mark<br />

P. Jones, a political scientist at Rice<br />

University. A victory by Mr. Cruz, he added,<br />

“wouldn’t help Perry but it won’t hurt him that<br />

much.”<br />

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Romania’s President Survives Vote to<br />

Oust Him<br />

PARIS — President Traian Basescu of<br />

Romania survived a referendum on whether<br />

to remove him from office after low turnout<br />

invalidated the vote, opening the door to<br />

further political infighting and instability.<br />

Under voting rules, the referendum could only<br />

be valid if more than 50 percent of eligible<br />

voters participated. With 97.5 percent of the<br />

votes counted, the central election bureau<br />

said on Monday morning that the turnout was<br />

46.13 per cent. About 87.5 percent of voters<br />

who participated had voted to impeach and<br />

remove Mr. Basescu, it said. The tactics<br />

employed by Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the<br />

president’s rival, to try to drive him from<br />

power had come under heavy criticism from<br />

the European Union with concerns that Mr.<br />

Ponta’s government had breached the rule of<br />

law. While the referendum’s outcome<br />

removed some political uncertainty, the<br />

standoff between a deeply unpopular<br />

president and a prime minister who tried to<br />

oust him threatens to throw the country into a<br />

lengthy political paralysis. It also raised<br />

questions about whether Romania could<br />

retain a financial aid package from the<br />

International Monetary Fund and others worth<br />

about $6.2 billion. Early signs indicated that<br />

the country was in for a long political battle.<br />

Mr. Ponta has said repeatedly that working<br />

with Mr. Basescu would be impossible. On<br />

Monday he reiterated his view that Mr.<br />

Basescu had been discredited, questioning<br />

his authority after what he called the “massive<br />

vote” against him. “We have nothing more to<br />

discuss with a man rejected by the citizens,”<br />

Mr. Ponta said. But Mr. Basescu, 60, a former<br />

sea captain and anticorruption crusader,<br />

hailed the result Sunday night. “Romanians<br />

rejected a coup d’état,” he told reporters.<br />

“The flame of democracy is still burning.”<br />

However, he acknowledged that he had lost<br />

popular support and promised to work for<br />

national reconciliation. Mr. Basescu last week<br />

had characterized the referendum as a<br />

political putsch and had urged his supporters<br />

to boycott it, saying that “jailable politicians”<br />

were behind the vote. Analysts said the tactic,<br />

combined with widespread political apathy<br />

among the electorate, had helped him<br />

survive. Many Romanians were on their<br />

summer vacations on Sunday, when<br />

scorching temperatures may also have kept<br />

people at home. The president, in office since<br />

2004, survived an earlier attempt to oust him<br />

in a referendum in 2007, when about 74<br />

percent of the votes cast opposed his<br />

removal. Voter turnout then was about 44<br />

percent. Romania, which is among the<br />

poorest countries in the European Union, has<br />

struggled to overcome lawlessness and<br />

corruption since it joined the body in 2007.<br />


has undermined democracy by dismissing the<br />

speakers of both chambers of Parliament —<br />

an action the opposition attacked as<br />

unconstitutional — and replacing the<br />

country’s ombudsman, who has the power to<br />

challenge emergency legislation before the<br />

Constitutional Court. The coalition has also<br />

threatened to remove judges from the<br />

Constitutional Court. Mr. Ponta has promised<br />

to undo the emergency measures, and his<br />

defenders said the referendum was a justified<br />

step against a president who they said had<br />

abused his power. Mr. Ponta has charged<br />

that Mr. Basescu has violated the<br />

constitution, accusing him of using the<br />

country’s secret services against his political<br />

enemies, refusing to appoint cabinet<br />

ministers chosen by the prime minister, trying<br />

to influence prosecutors in criminal cases and<br />

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engaging in illegal phone tapping. Mr.<br />

Basescu has denied the accusations.<br />

Sunday’s vote was also seen as a<br />

referendum on Romania’s struggling<br />

economy. Mr. Basescu is associated with<br />

deeply unpopular austerity measures<br />

undertaken after Romania turned to the<br />

International Monetary Fund for emergency<br />

loans following the onset of the recession in<br />

2009. To narrow its deficit, the government<br />

cut spending and government salaries and<br />

raised sales tax rates. Under the Romanian<br />

constitution, the president can be impeached<br />

and removed from office only for grave<br />

misdeeds. Analysts were divided on whether<br />

anything Mr. Basescu had done satisfied that<br />

requirement. Christian Pirvulescu, the dean of<br />

political science at the National School of<br />

Political Studies and Public Administration,<br />

said the referendum had been necessary to<br />

restore balance to a political system that had<br />

been hijacked by the president. But he added<br />

that the ease with which politicians were able<br />

to manipulate the system for personal ends<br />

showed the frailty of Romania’s political<br />

culture more than two decades after the fall of<br />

communism. “We don’t have a real<br />

democracy in the Western or American sense<br />



of the term,” he said. Many voters echoed the<br />

complaint that personal political rivalries were<br />








said she voted to oust the president because<br />

he had slashed state salaries and pensions.<br />

“He has made the lives of Romanians very<br />

difficult,” she said. Some analysts said the<br />

crisis started in June when Adrian Nastase, a<br />

former prime minister and Mr. Ponta’s<br />

political mentor in the Social Democratic<br />

Party, tried to commit suicide, hours after the<br />

country’s Supreme Court ruled he must<br />

serve a two-year sentence for corruption. Mr.<br />

Nastase’s supporters insist that his conviction<br />

was politically motivated, and analysts said<br />

Mr. Ponta wanted to remove Mr. Basescu<br />

from office before he could make targets of<br />

other senior figures in the party.George Calin<br />

contributed reporting from Bucharest,<br />

Romania.<br />

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Romania’s President Survives Vote on<br />

Ousting Him<br />

PARIS — President Traian Basescu of<br />

Romania survived a referendum on whether<br />

to impeach him after low voter turnout<br />

invalidated the vote, opening the door to<br />

further political infighting and instability.<br />

Under voting rules, the referendum could only<br />

be valid if more than 50 percent of eligible<br />

voters turned out to vote. With 97.5 percent of<br />

the votes counted, the central election bureau<br />

said Monday morning that the turnout was<br />

46.13 per cent. About 87.5 percent of voters<br />

who participated voted to impeach Mr.<br />

Basescu, it said. The tactics employed by<br />

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the president’s<br />

rival, to try to drive him from power had come<br />

under heavy criticism from the European<br />

Union over concerns that Mr. Ponta’s<br />

government had breached the rule of law.<br />

While the outcome removed some political<br />

uncertainty, retaining a deeply unpopular<br />

president at loggerheads with a prime<br />

minister who tried to oust him threatened to<br />

mire the country in protracted political<br />

paralysis. It also raised questions about<br />

whether Romania could retain a financial aid<br />

package from the International Monetary<br />

Fund and others worth around $6.2 billion.<br />

Early signs indicated that the country was in<br />

for a lengthy political battle. Mr. Ponta has<br />

said repeatedly that collaborating with Mr.<br />

Basescu would be impossible and on Monday<br />

he reiterated his view that Mr. Basescu had<br />

been discredited. He questioned his authority<br />

after what he called the “massive vote”<br />

against him. “We have nothing more to discus<br />

with a man rejected by the citizens,” Mr.<br />

Ponta said. But Mr. Basescu, 60, a former<br />

sea captain and anti-corruption crusader,<br />

hailed the result Sunday night. “Romanians<br />

rejected a coup d’état,” he told reporters.<br />

“The flame of democracy is still burning.”<br />

However, he acknowledged he had lost<br />

popular support and promised to work for<br />

national reconciliation. Mr. Basescu last week<br />

had characterized the referendum as a<br />

political putsch and had urged his supporters<br />

to boycott it, saying that “jailable politicians”<br />

were behind the vote. Analysts said that the<br />

tactic, combined with widespread political<br />

apathy among the electorate, had helped him<br />

survive. Many Romanians were on their<br />

summer vacations on Sunday, when<br />

scorching temperatures may also have kept<br />

people at home. Mr. Basescu, who has been<br />

president since 2004, survived an earlier<br />

attempt to oust him in a referendum in 2007,<br />

with about 74 percent of the votes cast<br />

opposing his removal. Voter turnout then was<br />

about 44 percent. Romania, which is among<br />

the poorest countries in the European Union,<br />

has struggled to overcome lawlessness and<br />

corruption since it joined the union in 2007.<br />


has undermined democracy by dismissing the<br />

speakers of both chambers of Parliament —<br />

an action the opposition attacked as<br />

unconstitutional — and replacing the<br />

country’s ombudsman, who has the power to<br />

challenge emergency legislation before the<br />

Constitutional Court. The governing coalition<br />

has also threatened to remove judges from<br />

the Constitutional Court. Mr. Ponta has<br />

promised to undo his government’s<br />

emergency measures, and his defenders said<br />

the referendum was a justified step against a<br />

president who had abused his power. Mr.<br />

Ponta has accused Mr. Basescu of violating<br />

the constitution by using the country’s secret<br />

services against his political enemies, by<br />

refusing to appoint cabinet ministers chosen<br />

by the prime minister, by putting pressure on<br />

prosecutors in criminal cases and by<br />

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engaging in illegal phone tapping. Mr.<br />

Basescu has denied the accusations. The<br />

vote was also seen as a referendum on<br />

Romania’s struggling economy. Mr. Basescu<br />

is associated with deeply unpopular austerity<br />

measures undertaken after Romania turned<br />

to the I.M.F. for emergency loans following<br />

the onset of the recession in 2009. To narrow<br />

its deficit, the government cut spending and<br />

government salaries and raised sales tax<br />

rates. Under the Romanian constitution, the<br />

president can be impeached and removed<br />

from office only for grave misdeeds. Analysts<br />

were divided on whether anything Mr.<br />

Basescu had done satisfied that requirement.<br />

Christian Pirvulescu, the dean of political<br />

science at the National School of Political<br />

Studies and Public Administration, said that<br />

the referendum had been necessary to<br />

restore balance to a political system that had<br />

been hijacked by the president. But he added<br />

that the ease with which politicians were able<br />

to manipulate the political system for personal<br />

ends showed the frailty of Romania’s political<br />

culture more than two decades after the fall of<br />

communism. “We don’t have a real<br />

democracy in the western or American sense<br />

The New York Times/ - Opinion, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


of the term,” he said. Many voters echoed the<br />

complaint that personal political rivalries were<br />








said she voted in favor of ousting the<br />

president because he had slashed state<br />

salaries and pensions: “He has made the<br />

lives of Romanians very difficult.” Some<br />

analysts said the crisis started in June when<br />

Adrian Nastase, a former prime minister and<br />

Mr. Ponta’s political mentor in the Social<br />

Democratic Party, tried to commit suicide,<br />

hours after the country’s Supreme Court<br />

ruled he must serve a two-year sentence for<br />

corruption. Mr. Nastase’s supporters insist<br />

that his conviction was politically motivated,<br />

and analysts said Mr. Ponta wanted to<br />

remove Mr. Basescu from office before he<br />

could make targets of other senior figures in<br />

the party.George Calin contributed reporting<br />

from Bucharest, Romania.<br />

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USA Today/ - News, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


Column: Let the Olympic tweeting begin!<br />

\"I'm in London … In the Olympic Village…<br />

Competing in the Olympic Games. Wait<br />

what?? someonepinchme dreamcometrue,\"<br />

U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin tweeted to her<br />

nearly 60,000 followers. A revolution is on at<br />

the London Olympics, and her tweet is part of<br />

it.Over the past century, the Olympics have<br />

evolved to keep up with changing times and<br />

changing technology. Now, 21st century<br />

technology, particularly social media, is<br />

shaking up the way we experience the<br />

Olympics.Not only are American viewers<br />

enjoying unprecedented Olympic Games<br />

access through NBC: an eye-popping 5,535<br />

hours of coverage — every minute of every<br />

event, with about two-thirds live on<br />

NBCOlympics.com. For the first time, athletes<br />

are using social media, encouraged by the<br />

International Olympic Committee (IOC). Like<br />

Franklin, many are doing so. A record 1<br />

billion people tuned in to the Olympics' first<br />

day on everything from TVs to smartphones<br />

to computers and tablets. Plus, they tuned in<br />

to tweets from athletes. U.S. volleyball<br />

favorite Misty May-Treanor gushed, for<br />

example: \"Nothing like marching in behind<br />

your country's flag at Opening Ceremonies …<br />

really proud.\"Good or bad? Perhaps<br />

both.The advantages are obvious, and<br />

exciting. Many Americans are now tracking<br />

less popular events or hometown stars who<br />

are not getting the mainstream coverage of,<br />

say, superstar swimmers Michael Phelps and<br />

Ryan Lochte. They are connecting more<br />

intimately with the athletes, learning about<br />

their experiences on everything from the food<br />

at the Olympic Village to their opinions of<br />

competitors.The disadvantages? Tweets can<br />

become self-promoting or worse. Greek and<br />

Swiss athletes were kicked off their national<br />

teams after they sent out racist tweets. Raw<br />

footage from events doesn't benefit from the<br />

expertise of commentators. The larger picture<br />

can be missed. Still,<br />

YouTube/Facebook/Twitter afficionados<br />

already absorb the world that way. Those<br />

who want more traditional commentary can<br />

still get it.Focus on competitionMore<br />

important, if less obvious: The new<br />

technology, in a way, is taking the Olympics<br />

back to the future. Olympics organizers have<br />

long struggled to retain what the ancient<br />

Greeks intended the Games to be: fair<br />

competition among athletes, a showcase of<br />

human physical prowess. That ideal gives the<br />

Olympics their enduring hold on our human<br />

imagination. Yet, the Olympic Games' history<br />

has been a 116-year fight against politics,<br />

corruption and<br />

over-commercialization.USATODAY<br />

OPINIONColumnsIn addition to its own<br />

editorials, USA TODAY publishes a variety of<br />

opinions from outside writers. On political and<br />

policy matters, we publish opinions from<br />

across the political spectrum.Roughly half of<br />

our columns come from our Board of<br />

Contributors, a group whose interests range<br />

from education to religion to sports to the<br />

economy. Their charge is to chronicle<br />

American culture by telling the stories, large<br />

and small, that collectively make us what we<br />

are.We also publish weekly columns by Al<br />

Neuharth, USA TODAY's founder, and<br />

DeWayne Wickham, who writes primarily on<br />

matters of race but on other subjects as well.<br />

That leaves plenty of room for other views<br />

from across the nation by well-known and<br />

lesser-known names alike.ColumnistsHow to<br />

submit a columnCountries, leaders, groups<br />

and individuals have, at times, detracted from<br />

Olympic competition. Regular people have<br />

had little power to do anything about it — until<br />

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now, the Age of the Tweet.Politics taint<br />

GamesAt the 1936 Berlin Games, for<br />

example, Adolf Hitler used the Olympics to try<br />

and showcase the superiority of the Aryan<br />

race. In 1980, the U.S. and some other<br />

countries boycotted the Moscow Olympics to<br />

protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.<br />

The Russians then boycotted the 1984 Los<br />

Angeles Olympics. Other boycotts protested<br />

South Africa's inclusion in the era of apartheid<br />

and more.Individuals and groups have staged<br />

political statements, including terrorism. Think<br />

of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and<br />

coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics by<br />

Palestinian gunmen, or the civil rights<br />

raised-fist protest in 1968 in Mexico. Even<br />

when the cause has been laudable, these<br />

actions have detracted from what the<br />

Olympics are supposed to be about.And then<br />

there's the power of money — ever more of it<br />

involved in staging, promoting, sponsoring,<br />

broadcasting. NBC's rights to the London<br />

Games and the last Winter Olympics in<br />

Vancouver alone cost a jaw-dropping $2<br />

billion. More money has brought more<br />

corruption scandals, more commercialization<br />

and advertising.Can tweets and new<br />

technology be an antidote? Perhaps.When I<br />

worked at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, I<br />

raged impotently at Soviet propaganda, as it<br />

portrayed the Games as normal, even<br />

glorious. Even as the U.S. boycott kept many<br />



of the world's best athletes away. Real-time<br />

Twitter feeds could have quickly punctured<br />

that false picture. Regular people could have<br />

had their say and gotten a more realistic<br />

picture. So, too, could athletes.Political<br />

leaders would have had less control over the<br />

Games and over the way the world<br />

experienced them.If the founder of the<br />

Modern Olympic Games, French Baron<br />

Pierre de Coubertin, traveled forward in time<br />

by a century to London, there's a lot he would<br />

not recognize. But it's a fair bet he would<br />

approve of the social media revolution (once<br />

he got the hang of it, along with cellphones,<br />

TVs, computers). It's a revolution connecting<br />

more fans with what matters — the athletes<br />

and the competitions. Perhaps it will be what<br />

social media has been to the Arab Spring,<br />

people taking back their participation, having<br />

their say with their iPhones.All wars and<br />

conflicts were stopped for the duration of the<br />

Olympic Games in ancient Greece. Perhaps<br />

the modern-day equivalent could be a<br />

moratorium on anything that takes away from<br />

the athletic competitions. No problem in<br />

policing it. The Twitterverse could take care<br />

of that.Louise Branson is a former foreign<br />

correspondent for the London Sunday Times<br />

and a former editorial writer for USA TODAY.<br />

She is writing an international thriller.<br />

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Hundreds decrying police violence march<br />

in Anaheim<br />

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – Hundreds of<br />

protesters denounced recent fatal police<br />

shootings and issued a call for peace in the<br />

community even as police arrested at least<br />

nine people in separate marches<br />

Sunday.Some 200 vocal protesters rallied in<br />

front of police headquarters, while a separate<br />

group of about 100 people marched silently<br />

along a two-mile stretch of a main<br />

thoroughfare, The Orange County Register<br />

reported.Chanting \"Whose streets? Our<br />

streets!,\" the vocal group started marching<br />

toward Disneyland, but a police line stopped<br />

the group a half-mile away. The blockade,<br />

which temporarily closed several traffic<br />

intersections, caused the demonstrators to<br />

head away from the resort.\"What's going on<br />

here in Orange County is symbolic of a<br />

problem with the system,\" Eduardo Perez, a<br />

21-year-old student, told the Register. \"This<br />

wouldn't happen to white people. This is<br />

racism, simple as that.\"The other group was<br />

dressed in white and remained silent as part<br />

of their call for peace. They walked<br />

five-people across, shoulder to shoulder,<br />

some carrying messages such as \"We are<br />

Anaheim\" and \"Peace begins with us.\" City<br />

Councilwoman Kris Murray and state Sen.<br />

Lou Correa, a Democrat who represents<br />

Anaheim, were among the marchers.At least<br />

nine people were arrested, Police Sgt. Bob<br />

Dunn said. Most face minor charges including<br />

failure to disperse and blocking traffic, but<br />

one woman is accused of attacking a clerk at<br />

a mini market.She was held on suspicion of<br />

assault and battery, Dunn said.It was the<br />

ninth consecutive day of protests against<br />

police. The demonstrations occurred hours<br />

before an evening memorial service for<br />

Manuel Diaz, a 25-year-old man who was<br />

shot dead July 21.Some marchers attempted<br />

to join the service but were turned away by<br />

organizers, who had hired their own security<br />

team, Dunn said. The evening vigil was<br />

peaceful, he said.Police said Diaz, who had a<br />

criminal record, failed to heed orders and<br />

threw something as he fled police. He was<br />

unarmed.The night after Diaz was killed,<br />

police shot to death Joel Acevedo, a<br />

suspected gang member they say fired at<br />

officers following a pursuit.The shootings<br />

ignited four days of violent protests,<br />

culminating Tuesday night in hundreds of<br />

demonstrators surging through downtown.<br />

Police said some in the crowd smashed the<br />

windows of 20 businesses, set trash can<br />

fires, threw rocks and bottles at police and<br />

damaged City Hall and police headquarters.<br />

Two dozen people were arrested.The Orange<br />

County district attorney's office is<br />

investigating, and the U.S. attorney's office<br />

and the FBI agreed to review the shootings to<br />

determine if civil rights investigations are<br />

warranted.A group of demonstrators rallied<br />

peacefully in front of Disneyland on Saturday.<br />

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Gobierno cubano responsabiliza a chofer<br />

español por accidente de Payá<br />

En su noticiero del mediodía de este viernes<br />

27, la televisión estatalde Cuba mostró<br />

imágenes del automóvil rentado, marca<br />

Hyundai Accent,con su parte trasera<br />

totalmente destrozada. En ese vehículo<br />

tambiénviajaba el sueco Jens Aron Codig,<br />

quien resultó con heridas leves, aligual que<br />

Carromero Barrios.Según la versión oficial, el<br />

vehículo se salió del camino e impactócontra<br />

un árbol en un tramo de la carretera Las<br />

Tunas-Bayamo, en lalocalidad de Las<br />

Gabinas, provincia Granma, unos 730<br />

kilómetros aleste de La Habana.El informe,<br />

firmado por el Ministerio del Interior, concluye<br />

queCarromero Barrios debió conducir a una<br />

velocidad promedio superior alos 120<br />

kilómetros por hora y el accidente se debió a<br />

"su falta deatención al control del vehículo, el<br />

exceso de velocidad y laincorrecta decisión<br />

de aplicar los frenos de manera abrupta en<br />

unasuperficie resbaladiza".Payá, quien era<br />

coordinador general del opositor Movimiento<br />

CristianoLiberación (MCL),falleció de manera<br />

instantánea a consecuencia de<br />

untraumatismo craneoencefálico como<br />

resultado del fuerte impactorecibido. Sus<br />

restos fueron sepultados el martes 24 en La<br />

Habana, dosdías después del accidente.Pero<br />

su familia ha desestimado los informes<br />

oficiales sobre el caso einsiste en su derecho<br />

a entrevistarse con los testigos. La<br />

versióngubernamental incluye el testimonio<br />

de tres personas sobre elsiniestro ocurrido a<br />

las 13:50 hora local del domingo 22.Cepero<br />

Escalante murió en el hospital clínico<br />

quirúrgico Carlos Manuelde Céspedes, de la<br />

cercana ciudad de Bayamo, debido a<br />

unainsuficiencia respiratoria aguda por<br />

tromboembolismo pulmonar grasodel lóbulo<br />

superior del pulmón izquierdo, derivada de la<br />

fracturafragmentada del fémur<br />

izquierdo.Ambos activistas disidentes, que<br />

viajaban en el asiento trasero delautomóvil,<br />

no llevaban puestos sus respectivos<br />

cinturones deseguridad, agrega el informe<br />

oficial. Carromero Barrios, que conducíael<br />

vehículo, y Aron Codig, que viajaba a su<br />

lado, solo sufrieronheridas leves.El visitante<br />

sueco declaró que dormitaba cuando sintió el<br />

frenazo y eldesplazamiento lateral del<br />

vehículo; luego perdió la conciencia.Según el<br />

dictamen pericial y las declaraciones de José<br />

Antonio Duquede Estrada Pérez, Lázaro<br />

Miguel Parra Arjona y Wilber Rondón<br />

Barrero,el conductor perdió el control del<br />

vehículo y luego impactó con unárbol en el<br />

borde derecho de la carretera.Los tres<br />

testimonios presentados por el comunicado<br />

coinciden enseñalar que el automóvil iba a<br />

exceso de velocidad en una zona de laruta<br />

que está en reparación.Carromero Barrios<br />

alegó que no recordaba haber visto la<br />

señalizaciónde alerta sobre el mal estado en<br />

que se halla la vía, pero el informeinsiste en<br />

que el lugar del accidente es un tramo recto,<br />

con buenavisibilidad, y que las indicaciones<br />

al respecto existen."Por espacio de unos dos<br />

kilómetros no se encuentra pavimentada<br />

lasuperficie de rodamiento, lo cual convierte<br />

(a la ruta) en una especiede terraplén con<br />

abundante gravilla; por tanto, muy<br />

resbaladizo",indica el texto oficial, donde se<br />

agrega que, por ello, lasleyes indican que se<br />

debe circular a una velocidad máxima de<br />

60kilómetros por hora.El comunicado oficial<br />

abunda en detalles sobre el accidente y no<br />

hacealusión a la filiación política de los<br />

fallecidos ni de susacompañantes<br />

extranjeros. Según versiones de la prensa<br />

internacional,Carromero Barrios es<br />

funcionario de la rama juvenil del<br />

derechistaPartido Popular, que gobierna<br />

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España, y Aron Codig es presidente de<br />

laLiga de la Juventud del Partido Demócrata<br />

Cristiano de Suecia.La nota del Ministerio del<br />

Interior indica también que losaccidentados<br />

habían partido de La Habana sobre las 06:00<br />

horas deldomingo 22 rumbo a Santiago de<br />

Cuba, distante unos 850 kilómetros aleste de<br />

La Habana. Añade que el proceso<br />

investigativo y de instrucciónpenal del caso<br />

continúa, "en correspondencia con las leyes"<br />

del país.Payá, galardonado en 2002 con el<br />

Premio Sajarov del Parlamento Europeopor<br />

su defensa de los derechos humanos, había<br />

logrado notoriedadinternacional al presentar<br />

en mayo de ese año en el parlamento<br />

cubano,acompañado de la firma de 11.020<br />

ciudadanos, una propuesta de<br />

cambiospolíticos que denominó Proyecto<br />

Varela.La iniciativa, que pedía la<br />

convocatoria a un referéndum por lalibertad<br />

de expresión y de asociación, una nueva ley<br />

electoral,comicios generales y amnistía para<br />

los presos políticos, tomó elnombre del<br />

sacerdote católico, filósofo, político y<br />

periodista FélixVarela y Morales, uno de los<br />

pensadores más relevantes<br />

delindependentismo cubano del siglo<br />

XIX.Esa propuesta saltó a la luz pública en<br />

Cuba cuando el expresidenteestadounidense<br />

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), de visita en este<br />

país del 12al 17 de mayo de 2002, solicitó<br />

UY Press/ - Actualidad, Seg, 30 de Julho de 2012<br />


que se publicara en la prensa localdurante<br />

una intervención que se transmitió en vivo<br />

por la televisión atoda la isla.Al mes<br />

siguiente, unos ocho millones de electores<br />

aprobaron unareforma constitucional<br />

promovida por el gobierno que<br />

declaróirrevocable el socialismo.Payá<br />

pertenecía a una familia de tradición católica,<br />

religión queprofesó toda su vida. Dentro del<br />

laicado local, sostuvo una posturacrítica ante<br />

el acercamiento impulsado por el cardenal<br />

Jaime Ortega,arzobispo de La Habana, hacia<br />

el gobierno encabezado por Raúl<br />

Castro.Durante la misa fúnebre por el<br />

opositor, Ortega ponderó su vocaciónpolítica,<br />

que, "como buen cristiano, no lo alejó de la fe<br />

ni de supráctica religiosa"."Oswaldo vivió el<br />

papel desgarrador de ser un laico cristiano<br />

con unaopción política en total fidelidad a sus<br />

ideas, sin dejar por esto deser fiel a la Iglesia<br />

hasta el final de su vida", afirmó el<br />

jerarcacatólico.En declaraciones a IPS, el<br />

profesor de historia de las religionesEnrique<br />

López Oliva señaló que, "con el deceso de<br />

Payá, el movimientode la derecha católica<br />

pierde a uno de sus principales dirigentes".<br />

Noticias relacionadas: Oposición cubana<br />

consternada por muerte de Oswaldo Payá<br />

(IPS)<br />

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ABC Digital - Nacionales<br />


Ganadera asistirá a conciliación con su hijastra, 258<br />



Local Insurer MPM Ready for Today"s Missouri Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Overturn, 259<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Constitutional Law<br />

Weingarden Joins Law Offices of Lippitt O"Keefe as Partner, 260<br />



Gay Marriage Billboards Banned Across United States, 261<br />



USDA Urges the Public to Report Asian Longhorned Beetle Sightings, 263<br />



Christie Defends Jobs Awarded to Rejected Court Nominees, 264<br />

Business Line - Industry & Company<br />


Fuel surcharge for 2009-2010 cannot be recovered: AP High Court, 265<br />



Kerala High Court nullifies luxury tax on cable operators, 266<br />



2G judgement on allocation of resources not binding: India Inc, 267<br />

Clarín - Notícias<br />


Un estudio confirma que las amigas salteñas murieron ahorcadas, 268<br />

Clarín - Notícias<br />


Crearon la Oficina de la Mujer en la Corte Suprema de Tucumán, 269<br />



Mali: Lapidan a pareja por vivir juntos sin estar casados, 270<br />



Monti a Parigi, Helsinki e Madrid «Pronti per lo scudo anti-spread», 271<br />

Diario Libre - Notícias<br />


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Senasa affirms it is not bankrupt, 273<br />

El Colombiano - Internacional<br />


Matan a piedra a una pareja por vivir juntos sin estar casados, 275<br />

El Dia - Notícias<br />


JCE: La prioridad de la Ley de Partidos es la democracia interna, 276<br />

El Dia - Noticia<br />


Juristas y jueces RD se especializan Colombia, 277<br />

El País - Opiníon<br />


¿Merecen más días libres los jueces que el resto de funcionarios?, 278<br />


CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Recurso de Inconstitucionalidad<br />

El PSOE recurre ante el Constitucional la reforma electoral en Castilla- La Mancha, 279<br />



El BCE no exigió a Zapatero cambiar la Constitución, según el Defensor del Pueblo de la UE, 280<br />



Alistan pleno jurisdiccional conjunto, 281<br />



ONU resalta liderazgo del Perú, 282<br />



IFE recibe tarjetas Soriana para continuar investigación, 283<br />

El Universal - Notícias<br />


En Centroamérica corre sangre de mujer, 284<br />

El Universal Venezuela - International<br />


Lapidan a una pareja por vivir juntos sin estar casados en Mali, 286<br />



Nach EuGH-Urteil Unisex-Tarife machen Versicherungen teurer, 288<br />



Nach EuGH-Urteil Unisex treibt Prämienniveau der Versicherer, 290<br />



Lanata: "El más impresentable del Gobierno es Moreno", 292<br />

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Fin del jury contra Sal Lari, que vuelve a ser juez de San Isidro, 293<br />



Lagos: Proyecto de reforma tributaria del Gobierno es “una burla para movimiento estudiantil”, 294<br />

La Nacion Chile - Portada Noticias<br />


PRI contraataca: pedirá investigar las cuentas de la izquierda mexicana, 295<br />

Le Monde - Article<br />

CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL | Conseil Constitutionnel<br />

Transparence, budget, rôle des députés : le PS promet de transformer l"Assemblée, 296<br />

Los Angeles Times - Notícias<br />


UC Irvine professor plotted killings at son's school, D.A. says, 298<br />



Immortality studies centered at UC Riverside get $5-million gift, 299<br />



Aquarium of the Pacific wants to tap seawater to refill fish tanks, 300<br />



Talk back: Antonio Villaraigosa for president?, 301<br />



Gay marriage foes ask Supreme Court to uphold California ban, 302<br />



Judge clears Arizona late-term abortion ban, 304<br />



Poll shows most Americans favor Medicaid expansion, 306<br />



Obama administration says states will join Medicaid expansion, 307<br />



Govt lets in Exxon Valdez if toxic disposal paid, 308<br />



Post-Godhra riots case: 21 people get life term by special court in Mehsana, 309<br />



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Lokpal bill: Govt hardens stand against Annaites, says no to SIT probe, 310<br />



Tea Party Favorite Wins Texas Runoff, 311<br />



California: Justices Are Asked to Rule on Marriage Ban, 313<br />



Pakistan’s New Spy Chief Visits Washington at a Time of Frayed Relations, 314<br />



Three Rulings Against Women’s Rights, 316<br />



Voting Systems’ Plagues Go Far Beyond Identification, 317<br />



Paterson Aides Said to Have Sought Race-Based Changes to Security Detail in ’08, 319<br />



Senate looks at state sales taxes for online purchases, 321<br />

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Ganadera asistirá a conciliación con su<br />

hijastra<br />

La diligencia de conciliación fue pautada para<br />

el 8 de agosto próximo ante la jueza Gloria<br />

Hermosa.La hijastra de la ganadera fue<br />

querellada por difamación, calumnia e injuria<br />

tras una entrevista otorgada al diario La<br />

Nación, donde manifestó que no llegó a un<br />

acuerdo económico con la empresaria en el<br />

marco del expediente de sucesión, informa el<br />

portal digital Judiciales.com.La audiencia<br />

será efectuada a las 11:00 en el quinto piso<br />

de la torre Norte del Poder Judicial.<br />

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Local Insurer MPM Ready for Today"s<br />

Missouri Medical Malpractice Tort<br />

Reform Overturn<br />

ST. LOUIS, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --<br />

Missouri Professionals Mutual was well<br />

prepared for the Missouri Supreme Court"s<br />

decision today to declare unconstitutional a<br />

state law placing limits on non-economic<br />

damages in medical malpractice lawsuits.<br />

The statutory cap had been $350,000.<br />

In 2011, MPM secured an additional $100<br />

million of reinsurance in an innovative and<br />

forward-thinking transaction that enhances<br />

and fortifies the company"s financial position<br />

and now enables it to keep its premiums fair<br />

and stable despite the change in law.<br />

"This decision will drastically affect payouts in<br />

Missouri," said Timothy H. Trout, managing<br />

director of MPM. "A payout that would have<br />

been no more than $350,000 yesterday could<br />

now be more than $1 million. Most insurance<br />

companies will now be exposed to this payout<br />

unpredictability, and that could likely lead to a<br />

significant rate increase for physicians who<br />

are with other insurance companies.<br />

However, with our company"s retrocessional<br />

reinsurance treaty safely in place, MPM can<br />

assure our insureds that the stability of their<br />

rates is safeguarded, and MPM"s future<br />

viability remains strong."<br />

While many mutual companies pay member<br />

dividends, MPM reinvested its surplus to fund<br />

its retrocessional reinsurance treaty, a<br />

decision that has proved savvy in light of the<br />

Missouri Supreme Court"s ruling.Â Â<br />

"Unfortunately, there is no quick fix for this<br />

issue, which is likely to have serious<br />

implications for many other Missouri<br />

insurance providers and their insured<br />

physicians," Trout said. "Historically, the cycle<br />

of tort reform damage caps has taken years<br />

to resolve."<br />

About Missouri Professionals Mutual<br />

Established in 2003, MPM is Missouri"s<br />

number one choice for medical professional<br />

liability insurance and provides<br />

comprehensive coverage to nearly one-third<br />

of all Missouri physicians. In pursuing its<br />

mission to re-empower Missouri physicians,<br />

MPM has functioned as a cost-saving catalyst<br />

by stabilizing the premiums paid by<br />

physicians and surgeons for medical<br />

professional liability insurance. The ongoing<br />

support of MPM"s physician partners has<br />

made MPM No. 1 in market share, No. 1 in<br />

premium dollars, and No. 1 in membership<br />

statewide since its first year in business.<br />

MPM"s innovative outsourced business<br />

model, combined with our commitment to<br />

writing only actuarially sound insurance<br />

policies and a best-in-class claims<br />

management team, has enabled MPM to<br />

prevail in the Missouri marketplace and<br />

enable Missouri physicians and surgeons to<br />

focus, worry-free, on what they do best:<br />

practice medicine. For more information visit<br />

mpmins.com.<br />

For more information contact: Bridget Rupert<br />

314-552-6704<br />

Brupert@webershandwick.com<br />

SOURCEMissouri Professionals Mutual<br />

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CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Constitutional Law)<br />

Weingarden Joins Law Offices of Lippitt<br />

O"Keefe as Partner<br />

BIRMINGHAM, Mich., July 31, 2012<br />

/PRNewswire/ --Â Harvey R. Weingarden has<br />

joined the law offices of Lippitt O"Keefe,<br />

PLLC as a partner at the Birmingham-based<br />

firm.<br />

A practicing attorney since 1980, Weingarden<br />

has extensive experience in the areas of<br />

business litigation, franchise law and<br />

business torts. His practice has focused on<br />

franchise disputes, as well as civil,<br />

commercial and personal litigation.<br />

"Weingarden is a great addition to our team<br />

of experienced attorneys," said Norman<br />

Lippitt, founding partner of Lippitt O"Keefe,<br />

PLLC. "He"s mastered the intricacies of<br />

business law, has served as counsel for<br />

various local automotive-related businesses<br />

and also is available as an arbitrator in all<br />

areas of litigation."<br />

A case evaluator for the Wayne and Oakland<br />

County Circuit Courts, he is an active<br />

member of the State Bar of Michigan and a<br />

member of the Master Lawyer"s Section.<br />

Weingarden holds a bachelor"s degree in<br />

economics from the University of Michigan in<br />

Ann Arbor and is a cum laude graduate of the<br />

Michigan State University College of Law<br />

(formerly Detroit College of Law), where he<br />

was an associate editor of the college"s Law<br />

Review.<br />

A native of Detroit, he currently resides in<br />

West Bloomfield, Michigan.<br />

Located in Birmingham"s downtown business<br />

district at 370 E. Maple Road, Lippitt<br />

O"Keefe, PLLC serves clients in areas of<br />

complex commercial litigation, constitutional<br />

law, family and matrimonial law, professional<br />

employment litigation, dispute resolution and<br />

state and federal appeals.<br />

The firm"s attorneys also have extensive<br />

experience in corporate law, real estate<br />

development, lending, estate planning, tax<br />

law, entertainment law and other intellectual<br />

property matters.<br />

Norman Lippitt, a well-known Michigan trial<br />

lawyer, formed Lippitt O"Keefe with Brian<br />

O"Keefe after Leonard Hyman, a partner at<br />

Hyman Lippitt, passed away in 2010. A<br />

Detroit native, Lippitt is the author of In The<br />

Trenches: Guerrilla Warfare and Other Trial<br />

Tactics. The book outlines a variety of<br />

winning, battle-tested courtroom strategies<br />

and is available on Amazon.com.Â<br />

Additional information about Lippitt O"Keefe,<br />

PLLC is available on the Internet at<br />

www.lippittokeefe.com.<br />

SOURCELippitt Oâ??Keefe, PLLC<br />

260



Gay Marriage Billboards Banned Across<br />

United States<br />

NEW YORK, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --<br />

In the wake of President Obama"s recent<br />

backing of same-sex marriage and a<br />

Supreme Court decision looming,<br />

BeautifulPeople.com is launching Gay and<br />

Lesbian versions of its online dating site in a<br />

national show of support for equal rights.<br />

BeautifulPeople"s billboard campaign,<br />

scheduled to launch across the country in<br />

support of same-sex marriage legislation, has<br />

been banned.<br />

Choosing not to bow to an infringement on<br />

their right to free expression, BeautifulPeople<br />

has redesigned censored versions of the<br />

billboards. The censored images, originally a<br />

playful take on political dissonance, have<br />

gone up in 10 locations around Los Angeles<br />

including West Hollywood, California â?" one<br />

of the largest LGBT communities in the<br />

country -- and Clearwater, Florida â?" the site<br />

of the 2012 Republican National Convention.<br />

The city banned the original campaign<br />

images, which have now been released in<br />

their uncensored form via mobile billboards in<br />

New York City.<br />

The original BeautifulPeopleGay.com<br />

billboard shows a loving matrimonial union<br />

between the Republican presidential<br />

candidate Mitt Romney and Donald Trump,<br />

the billionaire businessman and TV<br />

personality. The BeautifulWomenOnly.com<br />

billboard features former presidential hopeful<br />

Michele Bachmann kissing Sarah Palin, the<br />

gun-toting former Alaska governor and<br />

darling of the right. Both billboards show<br />

President Obama as officiant.<br />

"This is a national campaign championing<br />

equal rights for the LGBT community and<br />

pledging support in a colorful way," says Greg<br />

Hodge, BeautifulPeople"s Managing Director.<br />

"Through a humorous campaign we wanted<br />

to showcase how manyÂ of our political<br />

heavyweightsÂ are living in the last century."<br />

Determined to play an active role in the<br />

national effort to legislate equal rights for the<br />

LGBT community, BeautifulPeople.com is<br />

giving 15% from every same-sex membership<br />

to a non-profit organization championing<br />

marriage equality.<br />

BeautifulPeople.com, an online dating site<br />

exclusively for beautiful people, already has a<br />

large gay membership; however only<br />

opposite sex voting is allowed to avoid<br />

members voting strategically against other<br />

beautiful hopefuls. The exclusively gay<br />

versions now allow gay members to enjoy the<br />

same-sex voting process and vote according<br />

to their own unique definitionÂ of beauty.<br />

Both sites,Â www.beautifulpeoplegay.com<br />

andÂ www.beautifulwomenonly.com, are now<br />

live, coinciding with the BeautifulPeople<br />

marriage equality campaign launch.<br />

Images: The following are links to images of<br />

the uncensored billboard campaign, and the<br />

wedding album images from the<br />

BeautifulPeopleGAY photo shoot. Images of<br />

the uncensored billboard truck in NYC are<br />

also available upon request.<br />

Billboard:Â http://www.beautifulpeople.com/m<br />

icrosites/billboards/<br />

Wedding<br />

album:Â http://www.beautifulpeople.com/micr<br />

osites/WeddingAlbum/<br />

About BeautifulPeople.comLike<br />

BeautifulPeople.com, acceptance to the site<br />

is a democratic process, with existing<br />

members voting beautiful hopefuls in or out.<br />

All members must pass through a strict rating<br />

process to make sure they are up to<br />

standard. Potential members submit a picture<br />

of themselves and existing members then<br />

vote. If successful they have exclusive<br />


access to a dating site where the one thing<br />

they can guarantee is that everyone is good<br />

looking and they don"t have to filter through<br />

riff raff.<br />

BeautifulPeople is the largest community of<br />

attractive people in the world representing<br />

almost every ethnic and cultural background.<br />

This coveted community shamelessly exists<br />

so beautiful people can meet other beautiful<br />

people. There have been over 650 marriages<br />

through unions founded on<br />

BeautifulPeople.com and thousands of<br />



beautiful babies born.<br />

Notes to Media: Greg Hodge, Managing<br />

Director of BeautifulPeople, and members<br />

available for interview. Contact: Much and<br />

House Public Relations: Cell: 310.920.0095,<br />

Desk: 323.965.0852 Email: Alana Littler<br />

alana@muchandhousepr.com<br />

BeautifulPeople is located at<br />

www.beautifulpeople.com<br />

SOURCEBeautifulPeople.com<br />




USDA Urges the Public to Report Asian<br />

Longhorned Beetle Sightings<br />

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/<br />

--Â The U.S. Department of Agriculture"s<br />

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service<br />

(APHIS) is asking the public to be on the<br />

lookout for the Asian longhorned beetle<br />

(ALB). August is a time of peak emergence<br />

for the devastating invasive pest and a critical<br />

time for building the public"s awareness of<br />

ALB.<br />

ALB was first discovered in the United States<br />

in 1996, likely arriving via wood packing<br />

material from Asia. The beetle is an invasive<br />

insect that feeds on 13 types of hardwoods<br />

trees, eventually killing them. Maple, willow,<br />

elm, horsechestnut and birch are the host<br />

trees most preferred by the ALB. Since 1996,<br />

the bug has infested trees in Illinois, New<br />

Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Ohio,<br />

resulting in the removal of more than 80,000<br />

host trees. ALB has the potential to kill more<br />

than 70 percent of a community"s tree<br />

canopy. It threatens recreational areas,<br />

forests, and suburban and urban shade trees.<br />

Important American industries such as<br />

timber, nursery stock, maple syrup<br />

production, and tourismâ?"industries that<br />

support millions of American jobs and pump<br />

billions of dollars into our nation"s<br />

economyâ?"are at risk.<br />

"The public is our first line of defense<br />

because early detection is crucial and could<br />

mean more trees saved," said Rebecca Blue,<br />

Deputy Under Secretary of the USDA Animal<br />

and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).<br />

"Whether you"re camping, fishing, hiking, or<br />

just relaxing in the backyard, be on the<br />

lookout for Asian longhorned beetles and<br />

signs of their damage. Please inspect your<br />

trees at home regularly, and be aware of the<br />

risks of transporting forests pests when<br />

moving firewood."<br />

USDA is focused on working closely with<br />

federal partners, states, communities and the<br />

public to combat ALB. While the partnership<br />

is making progress with eradication in Illinois<br />

and parts of New Jersey and New York,<br />

efforts continue in Massachusetts and Ohio,<br />

as well as New York and New Jersey.<br />

Adult beetles are most active during the<br />

summer and early fall. They can be seen on<br />

trees, branches, walls, outdoor furniture, cars,<br />

and sidewalks and caught in pool filters. With<br />

these unique characteristics, the beetle can<br />

be easy to see:<br />

In addition to looking for the beetle, you can<br />

search for signs of infestation, including:<br />

Help stop the Asian longhorned beetle"s<br />

destruction by inspecting your trees and<br />

report any signs or symptoms of an<br />

infestation immediately. If you find a beetle,<br />

you can help to stop the spread by capturing<br />

it, placing the insect in a jar and freezing it.<br />

This will preserve the insect for identification.<br />

To report a sighting or gain additional<br />

information, visit www.BeetleBusters.info or<br />

call the toll free hotline at 1-866-702-9938.Â<br />

For information about the beetle and program<br />

activities, please contact your local ALB<br />

Cooperative Eradication Program at<br />

www.aphis.usda.gov.<br />

Â<br />

USDA is an equal opportunity provider,<br />

employer and lender. To file a complaint of<br />

discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office<br />

of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave.,<br />

SW., Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call<br />

(800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382<br />

(TDD).<br />

Â<br />

SOURCEUSDA APHIS<br />


Bloomberg/ - News, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Christie Defends Jobs Awarded to<br />

Rejected Court Nominees<br />

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie<br />

defended the hiring of his two rejected state<br />

Supreme Court nominees for government<br />

jobs, saying experience, not patronage, got<br />

them their new positions. Bruce Harris, who<br />

would have been the state’s first openly gay<br />

justice, was named general counsel of the<br />

New Jersey Turnpike Authority in a 6-0 board<br />

vote today, said Tom Feeney, an agency<br />

spokesman. Phillip Kwon, who would have<br />

been the first Asian-American to serve, began<br />

yesterday as first deputy general counsel for<br />

the Port Authority of New York and New<br />

Jersey, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman<br />

for the bi-state agency. “The Port Authority is<br />

lucky to have him -- the same with Bruce<br />

Harris,” Christie, 49, a first-term Republican,<br />

told reporters today in Hackensack. Harris,<br />

61, is a finance attorney and the Republican<br />

mayor of Chatham. Kwon, 45, of Closter, had<br />

been New Jersey’s first assistant attorney<br />

general and was previously a federal<br />

prosecutor. Both were rejected for the high<br />

court by Democrats, who control both houses<br />

of the Legislature. The Senate Judiciary<br />

Committee voted 7-6 against Kwon on March<br />

22 after Democrats questioned a $160,000<br />

payment his family made to settle a U.S. civil<br />

lawsuit over cash deposits from their liquor<br />

store. The panel voted the same away<br />

against Harris’s nomination on May 31. An<br />

advocate of gay marriage, Harris said during<br />

the hearing that he would remove himself<br />

from the issue if it came before the court. “It’s<br />

not like it’s an old buddy that I’m putting into a<br />

job,” Christie said of Harris. “This is a guy I<br />

recently met and was impressed with. He’s<br />

an outstanding lawyer and he will do a great<br />

job at the Turnpike.” Harris’s new position,<br />

which pays $165,000 a year, had been<br />

vacant “for well over a year,” Feeney said in a<br />

telephone interview. Coleman, in a telephone<br />

interview, said he didn’t know Kwon’s salary.<br />

To contact the reporters on this story: Elise<br />

Young in Trenton<br />

ateyoung30@bloomberg.net; Terrence Dopp<br />

in Trenton attdopp@bloomberg.net To<br />


Stephen Merelman<br />

atsmerelman@bloomberg.net<br />


Business Line/ - Industry & Company, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Fuel surcharge for 2009-2010 cannot be<br />

recovered: AP High Court<br />

The Andhra Pradesh High Court today said<br />

that AP Transco and four distribution<br />

companies cannot recover money in the form<br />

of fuel surcharge agreement for 2009-2010.<br />

Mr Justice C.V. Nagarjun Reddy passed<br />

these orders while dealing with a batch of writ<br />

petitions filed by various consumers stating<br />

that the surcharge for 2009-2010 cannot be<br />

recovered from consumers now. The discoms<br />

had proposed steep hike in power charges on<br />

consumers citing fuel surcharge adjustment.<br />

The petitioners had contended that the order<br />

of AP Electricity Regulatory Commission<br />

permitting distribution companies to recover<br />

FSA for the power consumed in 2009-2010 is<br />

unconstitutional. The contention was<br />

consumers were being forced to pay now.<br />

According to the AP Electricity Regulatory<br />

Commission (Conduct of Business)<br />

Regulations, 1999, any levy contemplated<br />

has to be filed within 30 days by the<br />

distribution companies. Failing which they<br />

forfeit any further claim. The regulator<br />

condoned the delay though claims were filed<br />

beyond thirty days.<br />

The court took note of the fact that a Division<br />

Bench had already declared that such<br />

delayed claims by the Discoms cannot be<br />

entertained by the regulator while dealing<br />

with FSA for 2008-2009. That appeal is<br />

pending before the Supreme Court. Mr<br />

Justice Reddy said that the demand for<br />

2009-2010 should not have been made in<br />

view of the pending case in the Supreme<br />

Court. As on today, the judgment of the<br />

Division Bench of this High Court which was<br />

in favour of the consumers for 2008-2010 is<br />

still in force.<br />

Amounts already collected will be adjusted in<br />

the future bills, he said.<br />


Business Line/ - Industry & Company, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Kerala High Court nullifies luxury tax on<br />

cable operators<br />

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday set aside<br />

the government decision to levy luxury tax on<br />

cable TV operators with a subscriber base of<br />

7,500 and above.<br />

A Bench comprising Justice C.N.<br />

Ramachandran Nair and Justice Babu<br />

Mathew P. Joseph declared as<br />

unconstitutional and discriminatory the<br />

government decision while allowing a batch<br />

of writ petitions filed by operators challenging<br />

the decision.<br />

According to the petitioners, luxury tax of Rs<br />

5 per connection on operators had been<br />

introduced in April 2006 by amending the<br />

Kerala Tax on Luxuries Tax Act. However,<br />

the government had exempted cable<br />

operators with less than 7,500 connections<br />

from the luxury tax in 2011 with retrospective<br />

effect.<br />

The petitioners contended that the operators<br />

with 7,500 and above connections had been<br />

discriminated against and the decision was<br />

violative of Article 14 of the Constitution<br />

(equality before law). Besides, no luxury tax<br />

had been levied on the direct-to-home<br />

providers.<br />

They said the service provided by them did<br />

not come under the definition of luxury.<br />

The State government contended that the<br />

classification was reasonable.<br />

The court said there was no reasonable<br />

classification between the operators as far as<br />

the subscriber base was concerned. The<br />

court pointed out that the Supreme Court<br />

had held that tax should be levied without<br />

discrimination.<br />

The court observed that that the decision had<br />

violated Article 14 of the Constitution.<br />


Business Line/ - Markets, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


2G judgement on allocation of resources<br />

not binding: India Inc<br />

The industry chambers on Tuesday told the<br />

Supreme Court that the 2G spectrum<br />

judgement making it mandatory to allocate all<br />

natural resources only through auction has<br />

caused a lot of uncertainty.The Federation of<br />

Indian Chambers of Commerce (FICCI) and<br />

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)<br />

contended that the February 2 verdict was<br />

specific to the spectrum allocation and its<br />

conclusion that the first-come-first-served<br />

(FCFS) policy was illegal per se needs<br />

clarification as it was in conflict with the<br />

previous judgements of the apex<br />

court.FICCI’s counsel and senior advocate C<br />

S Sundram submitted that the Presidential<br />

Reference arising out of the 2G spectrum<br />

verdict needs to be answered by the<br />

five-judge Constitution Bench headed by<br />

Chief Justice S H Kapadia as it would clear<br />

the uncertainty prevailing in the industry over<br />

the issue of allocation of natural<br />

resources.CII’s counsel Harish Salve said the<br />

mode of allocation of natural resources has to<br />

be decided on a case-to-case basis and it<br />

would not be proper to hold the FCFS policy<br />

illegal per se.“It is dangerous,” Salve said<br />

when the bench referred to the paragraphs in<br />

the judgement, which termed the FCFS policy<br />

as illegal per se.He said the FCFS policy was<br />

held as illegal in the 2G spectrum verdict as<br />

there were reasons to give a finding that the<br />

process adopted in allocation of radio waves<br />

was not proper.The senior advocate said<br />

some of the incidents like making of bank<br />

draft of Rs 1600 crore at a particular time<br />

from various places and other acts made the<br />

procedure for allocation of spectrum a<br />

doubtful starter.Salve was responding to<br />

various questions of the bench, also<br />

comprising justices D K Jain, J S Khehar,<br />

Dipak Mishra and Ranjan Gogoi.<br />


Clarín/ - Notícias, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Un estudio confirma que las amigas<br />

salteñas murieron ahorcadas<br />

Los estudios practicados a los cuerpos de las<br />

dos jóvenes salteñas que aparecieron<br />

colgadas de un árbol el 16 de julio<br />

confirmaron que sus órganos no presentaban<br />

alteraciones antes de la asfixia, por lo que se<br />

confirma que se trató de un suicidio.<br />

Así lo informaron fuentes del Poder Judicial<br />

salteño, que detallaron que el juez de<br />

Instrucción Formal de Tercera Nominación de<br />

Salta, Pablo Farah, recibió en las últimas<br />

horas los estudios anatomopatológicos<br />

realizados por especialistas del Cuerpo de<br />

Investigaciones Fiscales (CIF) en los órganos<br />

vitales de las jóvenes.<br />

En ese sentido, los voceros precisaron que<br />

los estudios indican que los órganos de<br />

Yanina Nüesch (16) y Luján Peñalva (19) no<br />

presentaban alteraciones previas al<br />

ahorcamiento, con lo que queda descartada<br />

la hipótesis de que hayan muerto antes de<br />

ser colgadas en el árbol donde fueron<br />

halladas.<br />

Nüesch y Peñalva desaparecieron de sus<br />

casas el sábado 14 de julio y fueron halladas<br />

muertas en la tarde del lunes 14, colgadas de<br />

un árbol con la misma soga al cuello, en un<br />

descampado situado cerca del barrio San<br />

Carlos, en la zona sur de la capital salteña y<br />

donde ambas vivían.<br />

Farah está a cargo de la investigación que<br />

intenta dilucidar las circunstancias del hecho<br />

y prevalecen dos hipótesis, que son el<br />

suicidio y el doble homicidio, aunque la<br />

mayor parte de los peritajes realizados hasta<br />

el momento descartan un crimen.<br />

Los familiares de la menor de las jóvenes<br />

aceptan la posibilidad de un suicidio,<br />

mientras que los de Luján piensan que las<br />

chicas fueron asesinadas, por lo que<br />

designaron al abogado salteño René Gómez<br />

para que los represente en la causa como<br />

querellantes.<br />

(Télam)<br />


Clarín/ - Notícias, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Crearon la Oficina de la Mujer en la<br />

Corte Suprema de Tucumán<br />

La Corte Suprema de Justicia de Tucumán<br />

creó la Oficina de la Mujer (OM), que se<br />

integrará a la red nacional de Oficinas de la<br />

Mujer de los Poderes Judiciales provinciales,<br />

y de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la<br />

Nación. Entre sus objetivos figuran la<br />

capacitación en perspectiva de género y en<br />

trata de personas al personal judicial –una<br />

meta en la cual ya viene trabajando el<br />

máximo tribunal tucumano--, y también al<br />

policial.También a instancias de la vocal<br />

Claudia Sbdar, la Corte de Tucumán fue la<br />

primera en replicar en una provincia la<br />

Oficina de Violencia Doméstica, que ya lleva<br />

dos años de funcionamiento.La OM de<br />

Tucumán se propone, entre otros objetivos,<br />

“desarrollar actividades de formación e<br />

investigación en perspectiva de género con<br />

las instituciones académicas, públicas y<br />

privadas, vinculadas al Poder Judicial; y<br />

organizar actividades de capacitación para<br />

todo el personal del Poder Judicial<br />

tendientes a la incorporación de las<br />

perspectivas de género, tanto en la<br />

prestación del servicio de justicia como en el<br />

ámbito de las relaciones laborales”.En esa<br />

dirección, la Corte y el Ejecutivo de Tucumán<br />

firmarán en los próximos días un convenio<br />

para capacitar y sensibilizar acerca de la<br />

perspectiva de género y del delito de trata de<br />

personas con fines de explotación sexual,<br />

con miras a la prevención y a un trabajo<br />

conjunto.<br />


Correo Peru/ - Notícias, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Mali: Lapidan a pareja por vivir juntos sin<br />

estar casados<br />

El grupo radical islámico Ansar al Din, que<br />

desde el pasado junio controla el norte de<br />

Mali, ha llevado los castigos recogidos en el<br />

Corán hasta sus máximas consecuencias y el<br />

pasado domingo ordenó la lapidación de una<br />

pareja acusada de adulterio.<br />

Según relata una fuente en Aguelok, en la<br />

región de Gaoque que prefiere mantenerse<br />

en el anonimato, un hombre y una mujer<br />

fueron lapidados públicamente en esta<br />

ciudad por vivir juntos sin estar casados. La<br />

ejecución fue llevada a cabo ante unas 200<br />

personas, en una aplicación pública de la<br />

"sharia" o ley islámica, cuya redacción se<br />

remonta al siglo VII.<br />

Agregó que la pareja fue enterrada en un<br />

agujero y apedreada hasta la muerte, en esta<br />

ciudad, donde la Corte Penal Internacional<br />

investiga una posible masacre perpetrada<br />

supuestamente por rebeldes tuareg.<br />

"Cada día que pasa nos hundimos un poco<br />

más en la miseria. ¿Cómo podemos soportar<br />

que nos impongan latigazos, prisión y<br />

humillación en nombre de la "sharia"?",<br />

dijoAmi Maigua un ciudadano originario de<br />

Tombuctú.<br />

Para Yéyia Tadin, un refugiado de esta<br />

localidad septentrional controlada por Asar al<br />

Din, "Mali es un país amputado, minado por<br />

los narcotraficantes y los terroristas<br />

religiosos".<br />

En la ciudad de Tombuctú, cuya parte<br />

antigua está reconocida por la UNESCO<br />

como Patrimonio de la Humanidad, los<br />

radicales islámicos han destruido más de una<br />

decena de mausoleos, por considerarlos<br />

lugares de culto heréticos que se desvían de<br />

las enseñanzas coránicas.<br />

En esta región del norte, integrantes de<br />

Ansar al Din ya habían castigado en otras<br />

ocasiones el adulterio o la ingesta de alcohol<br />

con latigazos, pero nunca habían ejecutado<br />

antes a las personas acusados de cometer<br />

estos delitos.<br />

En uno de los últimos intentos de mediación<br />

con este grupo salafí, el presidente del<br />

Consejo Supremo Islámico de Mali,<br />

Muhamud Dicko, se trasladó este fin de<br />

semana a Tombuctú para entrevistarse con<br />

el máximo líder de Ansar al Din, Iyad Ag Ali.<br />

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Monti a Parigi, Helsinki e Madrid «Pronti<br />

per lo scudo anti-spread»<br />

All'Eliseo il premier sarà affiancato dal<br />

ministro dell'Economia Vittorio Grilli e da<br />

quello degli Affari europei Enzo Moavero<br />

ROMA - Monti parte per una «tre giorni» in<br />

Europa, con due bagagli positivi e uno più<br />

pesante. Da una parte, le azioni convergenti<br />

(Draghi, il governo Usa, le dichiarazioni del<br />

cancelliere tedesco) per la difesa dell'euro e<br />

le approvazioni degli ultimi decreti in<br />

Parlamento. Dall'altra, le tensioni nella<br />

maggioranza di governo, la difficoltà nel<br />

varare la riforma elettorale. Il presidente del<br />

Consiglio ha parlato di tutto questo con il<br />

presidente della Repubblica, ieri pomeriggio.<br />

Quando Monti tornerà dal tour , giovedì sera,<br />

Napolitano dovrebbe aver raggiunto<br />

Stromboli, per le vacanze. Per cominciare,<br />

lunedì la Borsa di Milano ha guadagnato il 2,8<br />

per cento, miglior risultato tra le piazze<br />

europee. Ed è andata bene l'asta dei titoli di<br />

Stato: il Tesoro ha venduto 5,48 miliardi di<br />

euro di Btp a 5 e 10 anni (l'obiettivo massimo<br />

era di 5,5 miliardi). Sulla scadenza a dieci<br />

anni il rendimento medio è sceso al 5,96 per<br />

cento dal 6,19 di fine giugno e su quella a 5<br />

anni al 5,29 dal 5,84 (su questo, con<br />

puntiglio, Brunetta, ex ministro di Berlusconi,<br />

ha affermato che la media del rendimento Btp<br />

a dieci anni delle ultime 8 aste del governo<br />

Berlusconi è del 5,24, più bassa di quasi un<br />

punto rispetto al rendimento medio dei Btp<br />

collocati con le 8 aste del governo Monti). E'<br />

tornato però a risalire, un poco, lo spread tra<br />

Btp italiani e Bund tedesco (chiusura a 465<br />

punti).<br />

A Napolitano, Monti ha ricordato che con la<br />

fiducia sarà approvato in Senato il<br />

provvedimento di spending review (dovrà<br />

andare alla Camera), e che il Senato<br />

approverà definitivamente il «decreto<br />

sviluppo»: altri due passaggi ritenuti da Monti<br />

decisivi. Il sottosegretario all'Economia,<br />

Polillo, ha commentato: «In 5 giorni abbiamo<br />

fatto una sorta di legge finanziaria, che in<br />

epoca passata richiedeva due o tre mesi di<br />

discussioni». Poi ha aggiunto: «Il tema di<br />

settembre sarà come intervenire sul debito: al<br />

ministero dell'Economia ci stiamo lavorando<br />

molto». Tema delicato, poiché riguarda la<br />

vendita di beni dello Stato, ma anche le<br />

ipotesi di nuove tasse. Polillo ha concluso:<br />

«Abbiamo riempito il carniere del presidente<br />

Monti, per consentirgli un viaggio sereno, per<br />

dimostrare agli altri Paesi che l'Italia sta<br />

facendo i compiti a casa».<br />

Il viaggio. Monti lo ha spiegato nel dettaglio a<br />

Napolitano. Oggi con il ministro del Tesoro,<br />

Grilli e il ministro per gli Affari europei,<br />

Moavero, sarà ospite, all'Eliseo, del<br />

presidente francese Hollande. C'è stata una<br />

dichiarazione a sostegno dell'euro<br />

Merkel-Hollande, un'altra Merkel-Monti, qui si<br />

chiuderà il cerchio. Messaggi che<br />

costituiscono una sorta di «copertura» alla<br />

operazione avviata dal presidente Bce,<br />

Draghi, a salvaguardia dell'intera<br />

«eurozona». Hollande e Monti metteranno<br />

anche a punto le strategie per arrivare al 12<br />

settembre. In quella data la Corte<br />

costituzionale tedesca esaminerà le decisioni<br />

del Consiglio europeo di fine giugno. La<br />

previsione è che darà via libera al nuovo<br />

fondo anti- spread Esm, e al processo di<br />

unione bancaria. Si deve arrivare alla data<br />

del 12 pronti, per non perdere altro tempo,<br />

spiegano nell'entourage di Palazzo Chigi.<br />

Il giorno dopo Monti sarà ad Helsinki, in uno<br />

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dei «covi» del rigorismo europeo. Spiegherà<br />

al premier Katainen che l'Italia è diventato un<br />

Paese virtuoso, ha tagliato la spesa pubblica,<br />

ha riformato le pensioni, ha approvato il fiscal<br />

compact per la progressiva riduzione del<br />

debito. L'Italia - dirà Monti- chiede soltanto un<br />

meccanismo che protegga i Paesi che fanno<br />

«i compiti» dagli attacchi speculativi,<br />

minaccia per il funzionamento del mercato<br />

unico. Per questo, insisterà, può essere<br />

giustificato l'intervento della Bce. Giovedì<br />

mattina, Monti parteciperà a un seminario<br />

della Confederazione delle industrie<br />

finlandesi: per il suo discorso, le prenotazioni<br />

sono andate in overbooking , più richieste dei<br />

posti disponibili. Nel pomeriggio, a Madrid<br />

con Rajoy, primo ministro in grande difficoltà.<br />

Secondo un sondaggio, il 63 per cento degli<br />

spagnoli preferirebbe un governo tecnico<br />

Corriere Della Será/ - Home, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


(come quello di Monti) per affrontare la crisi.<br />

La disoccupazione è al 24,6 per cento, la<br />

recessione a meno uno per cento su base<br />

annua. Rajoy non intende firmare la richiesta<br />

ufficiale di aiuti per Bruxelles. E' la parte più<br />

delicata del viaggio di Monti: la Spagna è<br />

fonte di «contagio», l'Italia non può<br />

abbandonarla né fare fronte comune.<br />

Nello stesso giorno in cui Monti pranzerà alla<br />

Moncloa con Rajoy, si riunirà il board Bce. La<br />

situazione resta sul filo. Dopo le dichiarazioni<br />

di Angela Merkel per l'euro, ieri un suo<br />

portavoce ha precisato: «Qualunque forma di<br />

mutualizzazione dei debiti pubblici, come<br />

sarebbero gli eurobond, non è nel nostro<br />

interesse».<br />

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Diario Libre/ - Notícias, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Senasa affirms it is not bankrupt<br />

SANTO DOMINGO. The directors of the<br />

National Health Insurance program (Senasa)<br />

and the ARS Safe Health of the Dominican<br />

Social Security Institute said yesterday that<br />

the real deficit of these institutions is less<br />

than RD$300 million, and because of this<br />

they say that they are not bankrupt.In the<br />

case of Senasa, Altagracia Guzman<br />

Marcelino said that the deficit is less than<br />

RD$300 million and not more than RD$2.5<br />

billion as suggested by the Superintendent of<br />

Health and Labor Risks (Sisalril) in a report<br />

sent to the National Council of Social Security<br />

(CNSS) and which she feel makes the<br />

members uneasy.In the meantime, Jose<br />

Gabriel Fernandez said that the Sisalril gave<br />

the wrong number. The debt which he<br />

reported is similar to that of Senasa.Likewise,<br />

Guzman Marcelino accuses the authorities of<br />

ignoring the sentence of 15 February 2012 of<br />

the Supreme Court of Justice which orders<br />

that all public employees will be affiliated to<br />

the State insurance plan.She said that at this<br />

time they have a fund of RD$2.351 billion that<br />

backs up the reality of Senasa, in order to<br />

guarantee the health coverage of the affiliates<br />

of the payroll deduction regime and the<br />

subsidized regime of the Family Health<br />

Insurance (SFS) as well as the pensioners<br />

and retirees of the Ministry of Hacienda and<br />

to fulfill the commitments taken on with the<br />

Health Service Providers.Moreover, she said<br />

that they have RD$139 million in reserve for<br />

administrative expenses. The Senasa director<br />

said that the accumulated debt to the Health<br />

Service Providers is RD$612 million.She<br />

attributed the deficit of less than RD$300<br />

million in the subsidized regime to which the<br />

payment per person is RD$181 pesos, which<br />

she has requested on several occasions be<br />

raised to the same level as those on the<br />

payroll deduction regime, which is<br />

RD$788.00.She explained that the majority of<br />

the affiliates of the subsidizes regime are the<br />

poorest and they are the ones who get the<br />

sickest and that the sin that Sisalril does not<br />

forgive is that Senasa has extended the<br />

coverage of services and medications.She<br />

used as an example the fact that batteries,<br />

cables and pacemakers are not included in<br />

the Plan of Health Services and that Senasa<br />

covers these, as well as dialysis treatments<br />

and oncology treatments, because the poorer<br />

affiliates and those with minimum salaries do<br />

not have the money to cover these<br />

treatments.\"Senasa has worked with a strict<br />

adhesion to the transparency and social<br />

responsibility, which place the state Health<br />

Service Administrator as one of the public or<br />

private institutions most respected by<br />

Dominican society,\" she said.She pointed out<br />

that 90% of their expenses are health related<br />

which is negotiated with the Health Service<br />

Providers by contract. They paid RD$352.4<br />

million for catastrophic illnesses and the<br />

remaining 10% go towards administrative<br />

expenses.She said she was surprised that<br />

Sisalril said that they lacked information<br />

regarding the institution, when they have in<br />

their possession the report of all the<br />

payments for the services of the providers of<br />

health services to the affiliates under both<br />

regimes.Other ARSIn their report for 2011,<br />

the Dominican Association of Health Risk<br />

Administrators (ADARS) reported that the<br />

ARS that are part of the association has a<br />

negative balance sheet to the tune of<br />

RD$308 million under the Basic Health Plan,<br />

losses that they managed to consolidate with<br />

the compensation of other complementary<br />

and private health plans to individuals and<br />

that this allows them to close 2011 with<br />

RD$665.64 million in their favor.The ARS that<br />

belong to ASARS are Humano, Palic Salud,<br />

Universal, SDS, La Colonial, Yunen, Simag,<br />

Monumental and Constitution.In a letter<br />

addressed to the president of the<br />

Management Confederation of the Dominican<br />

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Republic (Copardom), Jaime Gonzalez, the<br />

executive president of Adars, Jose Manuel<br />

Vargas, reported that there was a deficit for<br />

inflation adjustment per capita of 9.36%, for<br />

which he felt that there was a priority to revise<br />

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the per capita contribution in order to<br />

guarantee the financial sustainability of the<br />

Family Health Insurance under the payroll<br />

deduction regime.<br />

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El Colombiano/ - Internacional, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Matan a piedra a una pareja por vivir<br />

juntos sin estar casados<br />

El grupo radical islámico Ansar al Din, que<br />

desde el pasado junio controla el norte de<br />

Mali, ha llevado los castigos recogidos en el<br />

Corán hasta sus máximas consecuencias y el<br />

pasado domingo ordenó la lapidación de una<br />

pareja acusada de adulterio.<br />

Según confirmó este martes un notable de<br />

Aguelok, en la región de Gao, un hombre y<br />

una mujer fueron lapidados públicamente en<br />

esta ciudad por vivir juntos sin estar<br />

casados.<br />

La ejecución fue llevada a cabo ante unas<br />

200 personas, en una aplicación pública de la<br />

"sharia" o ley islámica, cuya redacción se<br />

remonta al siglo VII.<br />

La fuente, que quiso mantener el anonimato,<br />

agregó que la pareja fue enterrada en un<br />

agujero y apedreada hasta la muerte, en esta<br />

ciudad, donde la Corte Penal Internacional<br />


supuestamente por rebeldes tuareg.<br />

"Cada día que pasa nos hundimos un poco<br />

más en la miseria. ¿Cómo podemos soportar<br />

que nos impongan latigazos, prisión y<br />

humillación en nombre de la "sharia"?", dijo<br />

en Bamako Ami Maigua un ciudadano<br />

originario de Tombuctú.<br />

Para Yéyia Tadin, un refugiado de esta<br />

localidad septentrional controlada por Asar al<br />

Din, "Mali es un país amputado, minado por<br />

los narcotraficantes y los terroristas<br />

religiosos".<br />

"En Tombuctú, en Gao y en Kidal (las tres<br />

regiones cuyo control se escapa a las<br />

autoridades) no se puede jugar al fútbol ni<br />

ver la televisión. Se han acabado las tardes<br />

de baile y los lugares de entretenimiento",<br />

denunció Tadin.<br />

En la ciudad de Tombuctú, cuya parte<br />

antigua esta reconocida por la Unesco como<br />

Patrimonio de la Humanidad, los radicales<br />

islámicos han destruido más de una decena<br />

de mausoleos, por considerarlos lugares de<br />

culto heréticos que se desvían de las<br />

enseñanzas coránicas.<br />

En esta región del norte, integrantes de<br />

Ansar al Din ya habían castigado en otras<br />

ocasiones el adulterio o la ingesta de alcohol<br />

con latigazos, pero nunca habían ejecutado<br />

antes a las personas acusados de cometer<br />

estos delitos.<br />

En uno de los últimos intentos de mediación<br />

con este grupo salafí, el presidente del<br />

Consejo Supremo Islámico de Mali,<br />

Muhamud Dicko, se trasladó este fin de<br />

semana a Tombuctú para entrevistarse con<br />

el máximo líder de Ansar al Din, Iyad Ag Ali.<br />

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El Dia/ - Notícias, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


JCE: La prioridad de la Ley de Partidos<br />

es la democracia interna<br />

SANTO DOMINGO.-El director del<br />

Departamento de Partidos Políticos de la<br />

Junta Central Electoral (JCE), Guarino Cruz,<br />

afirmó que la prioridad del Proyecto de Ley<br />

de Partidos y Agrupaciones Políticas es la<br />

democracia interna, por encima, incluso, del<br />

respeto a la autonomía de los partidos.<br />

El concepto de soberanía que se aplica al de<br />

autonomía , clásicamente considerado como<br />

indivisible y absoluta, hoy ha sido<br />

reformulado por el de una soberanía<br />

compartida. En ese sentido, Cruz enfatizó<br />

que “no todas las intervenciones son malas,<br />

hay intervenciones que son necesarias y que<br />

son constitucionales también, que los<br />

partidos políticos deben respetarlas”.<br />

Entrevistado por Omar Pérez, coordinador de<br />

la Unidad de Partidos Políticos del<br />

Observatorio Político Dominicano (OPD) de<br />

la Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo<br />

(FUNGLODE), Cruz sostuvo que como la<br />

legitimidad de los partidos la garantiza la<br />

Junta Central Electoral (JCE), “tienen que<br />

aceptar que se fiscalicen los fondos y las<br />

asambleas, que se exija un listado de la<br />

militancia, entre otras cosas”. Cruz se mostró<br />

contrario a la opinión de algunos sectores<br />

políticos que sostienen que la aprobación de<br />

la Ley de Partidos favorecería al bipartidismo,<br />

debido a que contempla la prohibición de que<br />

las organizaciones concurran aliadas en su<br />

primera participación electoral, y también la<br />

eliminación de la representación municipal<br />

como garantía suficiente para mantener el<br />

reconocimiento. Alegó que “en el país hay 26<br />

partidos legalmente reconocidos a los que no<br />

se les aplicará esta medida”, y que “26<br />

partidos son muchos para un país como la<br />

República Dominicana”. El entrevistado<br />

también se refirió a los avances del proyecto<br />

respecto a la transparencia. “La Ley<br />

contempla la cuenta única, que permitiría<br />

establecer cuánto dinero recibió cada partido<br />

del Estado e identificar el destino de las<br />

erogaciones”. Sobre la distribución de la<br />

contribución económica del Estado a los<br />

partidos, Cruz consideró que el proyecto no<br />

es claro, “ya que no dice de manera expresa<br />

cuáles entran dentro del 80% de los fondos y<br />

cuáles dentro del 20%. No sé si fue una<br />

salida inteligente del proyecto dejar a la clase<br />

política que defina eso”, enfatizó. Respecto a<br />

la interrogante de cómo podría sancionarse<br />

el transfuguismo sin que constituya un<br />

atentado a la libertad política de los<br />

miembros de los partidos en su derecho de<br />

cambiar de preferencias, Cruz considera que<br />

buscarle una solución al transfuguismo es<br />

tarea de los partidos, no de la ley, “pues no<br />

se puede vulnerar un derecho fundamental<br />

como es la libertad”. “En España, como no<br />

pueden violar la Constitución, con el<br />

transfuguismo lo que se hizo fue que los<br />

partidos políticos se pusieron de acuerdo en<br />

no aceptar militantes de otro partido en<br />

medio de un proceso electoral o de una<br />

campaña, sino después de un tiempo<br />

específico, así se les respeta el derecho<br />

constitucional de irse para cualquier otro<br />

partido”, añadió.<br />

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El Dia/ - Noticia, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Juristas y jueces RD se especializan<br />

Colombia<br />

Santo Domingo.-Una delegación de 60<br />

juristas, juecesy funcionarios del sistema de<br />

justicia participaron en el Curso Internacional<br />

de Derecho Constitucional, en Colombia,<br />

organizado por el Comisionado de Apoyo a la<br />

reforma y Modernización de la Justicia y la<br />

Comisión Nacional de Ejecución de la<br />

Reforma Procesal Penal.Entre los temas<br />

tratados estuvieron el “Orden<br />

Institucional”,“El principio de Supremacía<br />

delbloque de constitucionalidad” y “El<br />

Incidente de nulidad constitucional”, entre<br />

otros.<br />

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El País/ - Opiníon, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


¿Merecen más días libres los jueces que<br />

el resto de funcionarios?<br />

“No se trata de la defensa de intereses<br />

corporativos sino de la defensa de la<br />

dignidad de la carrera judicial”, se apresuró<br />

ayer a decir la portavoz del Consejo General<br />

del Poder Judicial, Gabriela Bravo, para<br />

justificar las críticas que el pleno del Consejo<br />

formuló a las medidas de estabilidad<br />

presupuestaria del Gobierno en lo<br />

concerniente a las vacaciones de jueces y<br />

magistrados.El caso es que Bravo insistió en<br />

las críticas a los recortes en los días de<br />

vacaciones, algo en lo que, posteriormente,<br />

incidió el propio presidente del Poder<br />

Judicial, Gonzalo Moliner. El Gobierno<br />

dejará a los funcionarios con tres únicos días<br />

de libre disposición, es decir, la mitad de los<br />

que contaban hasta ahora. Y ha metido a<br />

jueces y magistrados, como funcionarios<br />

públicos que son, en el mismo saco.El<br />

“problema” es que hasta ahora contaban con<br />

18 días de permiso, con lo que su reducción<br />

es “drástica”, según la calificó Gabriela<br />

Bravo. El informe, con todas las censuras y la<br />

oposición a la reducción de jornadas de libre<br />

disposición, fue apoyado por la mayoría. Sin<br />

embargo, tres vocales mostraron su<br />

discrepancia con la queja de la mayoría del<br />

consejo y presentaron tres votos<br />

particulares.El vocal Ramón Camp presentó<br />

un voto particular en el que defendía que la<br />

reducción de los días de permiso para<br />

asuntos particulares debería ser proporcional<br />

a la que se aplicará en la función pública en<br />

general. Es decir, su propuesta, no oída, era<br />

que el informe del Consejo apostara por la<br />

eliminación del 50% de los días de permiso,<br />

de 18 a nueve días. Incluso, argumentó en su<br />

defensa que esta era la postura inicial del<br />

informe que redactó Claro José Fernández<br />

Carnicero sobre el anteproyecto de ley<br />

presentado por el Gobierno. En cualquier<br />

caso, esa parte fue suprimida y la mayoría<br />

del Consejo aprobó el mantenimiento de los<br />

días libres.Por su parte, Antonio Dorado<br />

propuso, de igual forma, que la reducción<br />

fuera proporcional al resto de funcionarios y<br />

que, además, se incluyera a los secretarios<br />

judiciales (cuerpo al que pertenece) y<br />

personal de la Administración de Justicia en<br />

general en las excepciones al recorte de<br />

“moscosos”.El tercer voto particular, el de<br />

José Manuel Gómez Benítez fue en otra<br />

línea, en la que aceptar la homologación de<br />

jueces y magistrados al resto de funcionarios<br />

porque “no se acierta a comprender la razón<br />

por la cual la función jurisdiccional de los<br />

jueces debe fundamentar más días para<br />

asuntos particulares que el resto de los<br />

funcionarios civiles del Estado”, tal como<br />

argumentó. El vocal expuso además que la<br />

ley en la que se justifica el informe para dar<br />

un rango especial a los jueces es de 1966,<br />

“la muy preconstitucional Ley 11/1966, que<br />

estableció un régimen jurídico diferenciado<br />

respecto del resto de los funcionarios”,<br />

sostiene el vocal.<br />

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El PSOE recurre ante el Constitucional la<br />

reforma electoral en Castilla- La Mancha<br />

El PSOE de Castilla- La Mancha ha<br />

presentado esta mañana un recurso de<br />

inconstitucionalidad ante el Tribunal<br />

Constitucional (TC) contra la reforma de la<br />

Ley Electoral autonómica, aprobada<br />

recientemente en el Parlamento regional con<br />

los únicos votos del Partido Popular.El<br />

recurso, firmado por 50 senadores<br />

socialistas, denuncia que la nueva normativa<br />

realiza un reparto “arbitrario” de diputados<br />

por provincia de forma que, como ha<br />

explicado el portavoz del PSOE en la<br />

Cámara autonómica, José Luis Martínez<br />

Guijarro, “se asignan cuatro nuevos<br />

diputados a cuatro provincias sin ningún<br />

criterio objetivo”.Tras el cambio legal, las<br />

provincias de Toledo, Guadalajara y Cuenca<br />

–que ganan un diputado cada una- pasan a<br />

repartir un número impar de escaños,<br />

mientras que las de Albacete y Ciudad Real<br />

–que también aumenta un escañodistribuyen<br />

un número par. El PSOE entiende<br />

que esta modificación busca favorecer las<br />

expectativas electorales del PP, a costa de<br />

incrementar las diferencias entre provincias<br />

en lo que se refiere al "coste para obtener un<br />

diputado”, ha señalado Martínez Guijarro.En<br />

su recurso, los socialistas se refieren a la<br />

resolución del propio TC en marzo de 2011,<br />

denegando el recurso de inconstitucionalidad<br />

presentado por el PP contra la anterior<br />

reforma electoral en Castilla-La Mancha,<br />

aprobada por el PSOE en 2007. En aquella<br />

sentencia, el máximo intérprete de la<br />

Constitución “hacía especial hincapié en<br />

que cuando se volviera a modificar la<br />

legislación electoral no se podría hacer<br />

asignación de diputados si no se seguía un<br />

criterio objetivo”, ha explicado Martínez<br />

Guijarro.El portavoz regional del PSOE ha<br />

cuestionado también la legitimidad de un<br />

cambio normativo hecho “sin consenso y por<br />

el procedimiento contrario” al comprometido<br />

por la presidenta autonómica, María Dolores<br />

de Cospedal, en su sesión de investidura. “El<br />

PP nunca se ha sentado a hablar con<br />

nosotros ni antes, ni durante, ni después de<br />

la tramitación de la Ley Electoral", ha<br />

asegurado.Por último, Martinez Guijarro ha<br />

criticado a Cospedal la incoherencia política<br />

que supone aumentar de 49 a 53 los escaños<br />

en la Cámara de Castilla- La Mancha cuando<br />

en la reunión del pasado lunes entre el<br />

presidente del Gobierno, Mariano Rajoy, y<br />

sus barones regionales se habló<br />

precisamente de “reducir diputados en los<br />

parlamentos regionales”.<br />

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El BCE no exigió a Zapatero cambiar la<br />

Constitución, según el Defensor del<br />

Pueblo de la UE<br />

Diamandouros ha investigado el caso tras<br />

una solicitud de un abogado español, a quien<br />

el BCE rechazó el acceso a una supuesta<br />

carta remitida por la institución, entonces<br />

presidida por Jean-Claude Trichet, a Madrid<br />

en agosto del pasado año.Ante la negativa<br />

del BCE, el abogado recurrió al Defensor del<br />

Pueblo, que hoy ha hecho públicas sus<br />

conclusiones.La investigación llevada a cabo<br />

por Diamandouros ha confirmado que esa<br />

carta confidencial se envió y que en ella se<br />

expresaba "la preocupación del BCE sobre la<br />

situación extremadamente difícil de la<br />

economía española y la necesidad de tomar<br />

medidas rápidas".En ella, sin embargo, el<br />

BCE "no sugería cambios en la Constitución<br />

Española", según ha explicado<br />

Diamandouros en un comunicado.Ese detalle<br />

era el que interesaba al abogado español<br />

que presentó la solicitud y ha sido confirmado<br />

por el Defensor del Pueblo con el beneplácito<br />

del BCE.El resto del contenido de la misiva,<br />

sin embargo, sigue sin conocerse, pues<br />

Diamandouros ha coincidido con la institución<br />

con sede en Fráncfort en que su divulgación<br />

"perjudicaría al interés público".La existencia<br />

de esa carta saltó a la luz después de que<br />

medios de comunicación italianos<br />

difundiesen otra que Trichet remitió al<br />

Gobierno italiano, entonces dirigido por Silvio<br />

Berlusconi.Muy poco después, el Parlamento<br />

español aprobó la reforma constitucional con<br />

el apoyo de los dos grandes partidos, PSOE<br />

y PP, por la que se introdujo la "regla de oro"<br />

del equilibrio presupuestario.Formaciones<br />

políticas como Izquierda Unida solicitaron<br />

entonces que se hiciese pública la carta<br />

remitida desde Fráncfort, que consideraba<br />

vinculada a la decisión adoptada por el BCE<br />

de "socorrer a España e Italia con la compra<br />

masiva de bonos para hacer frente a lo<br />

ataques especulativos que hacían peligrar su<br />

deuda".Un buen número de analistas<br />

interpretaron en aquel momento que la<br />

reforma de la Constitución era una de las<br />

exigencias que Trichet había planteado a<br />

Zapatero para iniciar el programa de compra<br />

de deuda soberana, que contribuyó a aliviar<br />

durante meses la presión sobre las finanzas<br />

españolas.<br />

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Alistan pleno jurisdiccional conjunto<br />

Autoridades del Poder Judicial (PJ) y el<br />

Tribunal Constitucional (TC) acordaron<br />

constituir una comisión técnica para delimitar<br />

de manera precisa sus atribuciones, a fin de<br />

evitar diferencias que afecten la seguridad<br />

jurídica. Fue al término de la reunión de<br />

trabajo realizado entre sus titulares, César<br />

San Martín y Ernesto Álvarez, quienes<br />

además convinieron para reunirse<br />

próximamente en un pleno común, con el fin<br />

de intercambiar puntos de vista sobre las<br />

líneas jurisprudenciales que cada institución<br />

debe seguir. "Esto nos permitirá finalmente<br />

que, en un plazo de 15 días, fijaremos una<br />

reunión, un oleno común de la Corte<br />

Suprema y el TC para intercambiar puntos<br />

de vista y lograr, de ser posible, algunas<br />

líneas comunes de acción", manifestó San<br />

Martín.El magistrado agregó que primero se<br />

formarán comisiones técnicas de dos<br />

expertos por cada institución, con el fin de<br />

hacer aportes y ofrecer a la ciudadanía líneas<br />

jurisprudenciales claras, lineamientos de<br />

competencias precisas, con mutuo respeto,<br />

claridad y vigencia de los derechos. Añadió<br />

que ambos organismos están en la<br />

obligación moral, legal y constitucional de<br />

realizar un diálogo constante para afinar su<br />

propia jurisprudencia.<br />

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ONU resalta liderazgo del Perú<br />

(Nueva York) El secretario general de la<br />

Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU),<br />

Ban Ki-moon, saludó al presidente Ollanta<br />

Humala y al pueblo peruano por el 191°<br />

aniversario de la Independencia Nacional y<br />

destacó el liderazgo del Perú en la búsqueda<br />

de un futuro más justo, pacífico y próspero<br />

para todos. "Es esta una oportunidad para<br />

celebrar con orgullo la cultura y la historia de<br />

su país", manifestó Ban Ki-moon en la<br />

comunicación dirigida al Jefe del Estado<br />

peruano.Reflexión"Es también una<br />

oportunidad para reflexionar sobre el papel<br />

que Perú desempeña en nuestro mundo<br />

interconectado. Agradezco su colaboración<br />

con las Naciones Unidas, que contribuye a<br />

soluciones comunes a nuestros problemas<br />

comunes", añadió.En tal sentido, refirió que<br />

el programa mundial de la ONU comprende<br />

cinco oportunidades generacionales para<br />

forjar el futuro que se desea, a saber,<br />

promover el desarrollo sostenible, construir<br />

un mundo más seguro y prevenir<br />

crisis.Asimismo, ayudar a los países en<br />

transición y hacer más a favor de las mujeres<br />

y los jóvenes del mundo.DesafíosBan<br />

Ki-moon sostuvo que para estar a la altura de<br />

estos desafíos es consciente de que se debe<br />

fortalecer a las Naciones Unidas.Es esencial<br />

contar con una organización más dinámica,<br />

eficiente y eficaz para responder a las<br />

necesidades de los pueblos del mundo,<br />

refirió."En este empeño, acojo complacido la<br />

contribución, la dedicación y el liderazgo de<br />

Perú en la búsqueda de un futuro más justo,<br />

más pacífico y más próspero para todos",<br />

resaltó el funcionario de las Naciones<br />

Unidas.Apuesta por la pazLa designación de<br />

Perú en la vicepresidencia de la Asamblea<br />

General de la Organización de las Naciones<br />

Unidas (ONU) representa un reconocimiento<br />

de la comunidad internacional a un país que<br />

"siempre ha apostado por la paz", opinó el<br />

embajador Luis Solari Tudela. Al comentar el<br />

referido nombramiento, el diplomático dijo al<br />

Diario Oficial El Peruano que la posición<br />

peruana siempre ha sido la de "respeto a la<br />

solución pacífica de las controversias, uno de<br />

los principios de la ONU"."Por ejemplo, la<br />

decisión de poner la disputa que tenemos<br />

con Chile a consideración de la Corte<br />

Internacional de Justicia de La Haya es<br />

acogerse a ello", recordó Solari.Este<br />

reconocimiento también se extiende a la<br />

labor que a lo largo de varias décadas ha<br />

realizado el Servicio Diplomático de Perú.<br />

Por ello que el nuestro "es el único país que<br />

ha tenido varias distinciones" en el referido<br />

organismo internacional. Ello –añadió– ya se<br />

había dado con la designación de dos<br />

peruanos en cargos importantes de la ONU:<br />

Víctor Andrés Belaunde y Javier Pérez de<br />

Cuéllar.<br />

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El Universal/ - Opinión, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


IFE recibe tarjetas Soriana para continuar<br />

investigación<br />

El Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) recibió las<br />

2 mil 435 tarjetas Soriana que el Tribunal<br />

Electoral del Poder Judicial de la<br />

Federación (TEPJF) le remitió para que<br />

continúe las investigaciones sobre el<br />

presunto uso de estos monederos<br />

electrónicos para coaccionar el voto a favor<br />

de Enrique Peña Nieto, quien obtuvo la<br />

mayoría de votos en la contienda<br />

presidencial.La remisión se da luego de que<br />

el titular de la Unidad de Fiscalización del<br />

IFE, Alfredo Cristalinas, lo solicitara vía un<br />

oficio. En días previos a la jornada electoral<br />

del 1 de julio, los partidos Acción Nacional y<br />

de la Revolución Democrática denunciaron<br />

que el PRI había distribuido monederos<br />

electrónicos con entre 100 y mil pesos para<br />

hacerlos efectivos en las tiendas de<br />

autoservicio referidas. En teoría, los<br />

ciudadanos habrían recibido las tarjetas a<br />

cambio de votar por el candidato del<br />

PRI-PVEM. vsg<br />

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En Centroamérica corre sangre de mujer<br />

SAN JOSÉ.- "La Diabla", programadora<br />

musical en una discoteca de un peligroso<br />

sector de la capital de Guatemala, pereció al<br />

salir de su trabajo en una balacera a las 3:00<br />

horas del pasado 16 de julio. A las 5:30 de<br />

esemismo día, una vendedora de alimentos y<br />

jugos en otra zona de la capital guatemalteca<br />

murió atacada a balazos por motociclistas,<br />

cuando comenzaba con sus labores<br />

cotidianas.A las 10:00, el cadáver de una<br />

maestra que viajaba en motocicleta y fue<br />

asesinada a balazos apareció en una<br />

carretera de la misma ciudad. Casi a la<br />

misma hora, el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer<br />

reportada desaparecida cinco días antes fue<br />

hallado en un cañaveral en el sur de<br />

Guatemala, con las manos mutiladas y<br />

lesiones mortales de machete en rostro y<br />

vientre. A las 13:00 horas del 18 de julio, dos<br />

hombres en motocicleta asesinaron de tres<br />

disparos en la cabeza a una mujer en un<br />

barrio del oeste de la capital costarricense.<br />

Ese día, una nicaragüense escapó en supaís<br />

de su ex pareja, que la violó, le quemó sus<br />

partes íntimas y le insertó una rama con<br />

espinas en su vagina."Temo por mi vida,<br />

tengo miedo. Él me amenazó, me dijo que<br />

me iba a matar y que la cárcel no come",<br />

declaró ella. Estos hechos aumentaron la<br />

cifra de feminicidios en este año a 351 en<br />

Guatemala -con más de 5 mil de 2002 a 2011<br />

y más de 700 en 2011-,a 9 en Costa Rica y<br />

evidenciaron la agresión a mujeres en<br />

Nicaragua. Pero los ejemplos se repiten en El<br />

Salvador, Honduras y Panamá, y reflejan la<br />

creciente violencia contra mujeres en<br />

Centroamérica. "Dentro de la violencia<br />

generalizada (regional), hay un patriarcado y<br />

su fuerte cultura machista por la creencia de<br />

que las mujeres pertenecemos a los hombres<br />

-papá, hermano, esposo, novio-", explicó la<br />

guatemalteca Sandra Morán, del equipo de<br />

seguimiento político de Sector de Mujeres,<br />

ONG de Guatemala. "Eso da,<br />

lamentablemente, algún derecho a quitarnos<br />

la vida como castigo, castigo a otros, castigo<br />

personal o como única manera de resolver<br />

las cosas", añadió Morán, entrevistada por<br />

EL UNIVERSAL. "La línea de violencia<br />

generalizada enmarca todo: la violencia que<br />

proviene de los hogares, la de las<br />

comunidades o la del enfrentamiento del<br />

crimen organizado. En Centroamérica está el<br />

continuum de violencia por la historia<br />

reciente, que en Guatemala son 36 años de<br />

guerra (1960-1996); la violencia contra las<br />

mujeres fue parte de la política<br />

contrainsurgente", denunció. "Los soldados<br />

(guatemaltecos) han reconocido que la<br />

violencia sexual contra las mujeres, la<br />

violencia contra las mujeres y su asesinato<br />

fue parte de las políticas contrainsurgentes<br />

que el ejército (de Guatemala) efectuó en<br />

entrenamientos", aseguró.Grave escenario El<br />

feminicidio agrava aún más el escenario de<br />

una zona que, como Centroamérica, es una<br />

de las más violentas del mundo, con un<br />

promedio general de 38 homicidios por cada<br />

100 mil habitantes, mientras que el de<br />

feminicidios es de 10 por cada 100 mil, según<br />

cifras oficiales."De 2005 a 2010, las muertes<br />

violentas de mujeres en Honduras<br />

aumentaron 125%" al año, precisó la<br />

hondureña Migdonia Ayestas, directora del<br />

Observatorio de la Violencia de la estatal<br />

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras<br />

(UNAH)."Hay muerte de mujeres por<br />

violencia doméstica e intrafamiliar y para<br />

mandar mensajes a familias involucradas con<br />

el crimen organizado. A veces es por castigo<br />

a las mujeres, porque las quieren involucrar<br />

en actividades ilícitas y no siempre ellas<br />

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están de acuerdo y obviamente se cobran<br />

con sus vidas. Pero no podemos tener todos<br />

los indicios racionales por carencias de la<br />

investigación científica", relató Ayestas a EL<br />

UNIVERSAL. Los feminicidios en Honduras<br />

pasaron de 175 en 2005 a 312 en 2008 y de<br />

2008 a 2011 hubomil 700, según datos<br />

oficiales. De 385 en 2010 aumentó a 512 en<br />

2011, y de enero al 27 de junio anterior se<br />

registraron 268, informó Ayestas. El<br />

comisionado hondureño de derechos<br />

humanos, Ramón Custodio, advirtió el<br />

sábado que, en lo que va de la<br />

administración de Porfirio Lobo, que arrancó<br />

el 27 de enero de 2010, las mujeres<br />

asesinadas suman mil 228. Aunque el<br />

Triángulo Norte (Honduras, Guatemala y El<br />

Salvador) es el más violento de<br />

Centroamérica, en Nicaragua, Costa Rica y<br />

Panamá también hay alertas.Catalogado por<br />

feministas como un problema de<br />

"dimensiones epidémicas", en 2010 el<br />

feminicidio alcanzaba tasas de 10 por cada<br />

100 habitantes en el Triángulo y baja a 4 por<br />

cada 100 mil en los del sur, según la ONG<br />

Asociación Centrofeminista de Información y<br />

Acción, de Costa Rica. Costa Rica registró 15<br />

feminicidios en 2009, 10 en 2010,40 en 2011<br />

y ya lleva 8 este año, según datos del poder<br />

judicial.El Observatorio Panameño contra la<br />

El Universal/ - Notícias, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Violencia de Género -adscrito a la estatal<br />

Defensoría del Pueblo- aseguró que de 2009<br />

a 2011 perecieron 209 mujeres por<br />

feminicidio y otras formas de violenciaen el<br />

país."Las irreales fantasías patriarcales<br />

muestran a las mujeres como seres sin<br />

voluntad y sin autonomía, visiones que son<br />

cada vez más difíciles de realizar y que están<br />

en la base de la mayoría de los feminicidios",<br />

dijo Urania Ungo, profesora de estudio de<br />

género en la Universidad dePanamá.<br />

Nicaragua, donde una ley contra la violencia<br />

hacia las mujeres entró a regir en mayo de<br />

este año, pasó de 37 en 2004 a 89 en 2010 y<br />

76 en 2011, informó laRed de Mujeres Contra<br />

la Violencia (no estatal) de Managua. Del 1al<br />

20 de enero de 2012, ocho mujeres fueron<br />

asesinadas en Nicaragua y al menos 23 en<br />

total a abril pasado. "La violencia doméstica y<br />

específicamente contra la mujer por parte del<br />

marido o compañero sentimental, está<br />

enraizada en lo más profundo de la cultura<br />

patriarcal tradicional y para erradicarla se<br />

requiere una profunda y radical<br />

transformación educativa", puntualizó el<br />

diario nicaragüense La Prensa en un editorial<br />

de enero sobre la nueva ley.El mismo<br />

rotativo, en otra nota sobre el tema, tituló: "En<br />

Centroamérica corre sangre de mujer".<br />

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El Universal Venezuela/ - International, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Lapidan a una pareja por vivir juntos sin<br />

estar casados en Mali<br />

Bamako.- El grupo radical islámico Ansar al<br />

Din, que desde el pasado junio controla el<br />

norte de Mali, ha llevado los castigos<br />

recogidos en el Corán hasta sus máximas<br />

consecuencias y el pasado domingo ordenó<br />

la lapidación de una pareja acusada de<br />

adulterio.Según confirmó un notable de<br />

Aguelok, en la región de Gao, un hombre y<br />

una mujer fueron lapidados públicamente en<br />

esta ciudad por vivir juntos sin estar casados,<br />

destacó Efe.La ejecución fue llevada a cabo<br />

ante unas 200 personas, en una aplicación<br />

pública de la sharia o ley islámica, cuya<br />

redacción se remonta al siglo VII.La fuente,<br />

que quiso mantener el anonimato, agregó<br />

que la pareja fue enterrada en un agujero y<br />

apedreada hasta la muerte, en esta ciudad,<br />

donde la Corte Penal Internacional<br />


supuestamente por rebeldes tuareg."Cada<br />

día que pasa nos hundimos un poco más en<br />

la miseria. ¿Cómo podemos soportar que nos<br />

impongan latigazos, prisión y humillación en<br />

nombre de la sharia?", dijo en Bamako Ami<br />

Maigua un ciudadano originario de<br />

Tombuctú.Para Yéyia Tadin, un refugiado de<br />

esta localidad septentrional controlada por<br />

Asar al Din, "Mali es un país amputado,<br />

minado por los narcotraficantes y los<br />

terroristas religiosos"."En Tombuctú, en Gao<br />

y en Kidal (las tres regiones cuyo control se<br />

escapa a las autoridades) no se puede jugar<br />

al fútbol ni ver la televisión. Se han acabado<br />

las tardes de baile y los lugares de<br />

entretenimiento", denunció a Efe Tadin.En la<br />

ciudad de Tombuctú, cuya parte antigua esta<br />

reconocida por la Unesco como Patrimonio<br />

de la Humanidad, los radicales islámicos han<br />

destruido más de una decena de mausoleos,<br />

por considerarlos lugares de culto heréticos<br />

que se desvían de las enseñanzas<br />

coránicas.En esta región del norte,<br />

integrantes de Ansar al Din ya habían<br />

castigado en otras ocasiones el adulterio o la<br />

ingesta de alcohol con latigazos, pero nunca<br />

habían ejecutado antes a las personas<br />

acusados de cometer estos delitos.En uno de<br />

los últimos intentos de mediación con este<br />

grupo salafí, el presidente del Consejo<br />

Supremo Islámico de Mali, Muhamud Dicko,<br />

se trasladó este fin de semana a Tombuctú<br />

para entrevistarse con el máximo líder de<br />

Ansar al Din, Iyad Ag Ali.Denuncian "práctica<br />

oscurantista"El gobierno de Malí denunció el<br />

martes la lapidación, calificandola de<br />

"práctica oscurantista" que no quedará en la<br />

"impunidad"."El gobierno se enteró con<br />

indignación y estupefacción de la lapidación<br />

en la que murió una pareja en Aguelhok a<br />

manos de los extremistas que ocupan el<br />

norte de Malí", indicó en un comunicado el<br />

ministro de Comunicación, mencionó AFP."Al<br />

mismo tiempo que expresa su compasión a<br />

las familias de las víctimas, el gobierno<br />

condena enérgicamente esta práctica<br />

oscurantista y asegura que este acto no<br />

quedará en la impunidad", añade el<br />

comunicado.El gobierno de Malí, del primer<br />

ministro Cheij Modibo Diarra, "reitera su<br />

determinación a seguir haciendo todo lo<br />

necesario para la rápida liberación de las<br />

zonas ocupadas en el norte de Malí".El<br />

gobierno "hace un llamado urgente a las<br />

fuerzas del país, a los organismos<br />

subregionales, regionales e internacionales,<br />

a que se movilicen con el fin de acelerar el<br />

restablecimiento de la integridad territorial de<br />

Malí".Las tres ciudades más grandes y<br />

regiones administrativas de Malí - Tombuctú,<br />

Kidal y Gao - que representan más de la<br />

mitad del territorio de este inmenso país del<br />

Sahel, están ocupados por islamistas<br />

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armados desde fines de marzo.La UE<br />

condenaLa Unión Europea (UE) ha<br />

condenado hoy la lapidación en Mali.La jefa<br />

de la diplomacia europea, Catherine Ashton,<br />

se ha declarado "profundamente preocupada<br />

por la inquietante situación de los derechos<br />

humanos en el norte de Mali" en un<br />

comunicado difundido por su portavoz.Sobre<br />

la lapidación, supuestamente llevada a cabo<br />

el pasado domingo, Ashton ha insistido en la<br />

El Universal Venezuela/ - International, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


"necesidad de poner fin a esa barbarie y de<br />

respetar los derechos humanos<br />

fundamentales y reconocidos<br />

universalmente"."La Unión Europea se opone<br />

a la pena de muerte en todas las<br />

circunstancias y a la ejecución por lapidación,<br />

una pena particularmente cruel e inhumana",<br />

ha recordado la Alta Representante de la UE.<br />

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Nach EuGH-Urteil Unisex-Tarife machen<br />

Versicherungen teurer<br />

Im März vergangenen Jahres urteilte der<br />

Europäische Gerichtshof, dass Versicherer<br />

zwischen Frauen und Männern in ihren<br />

Prämien nicht mehr differenzieren dürfen.<br />

Durch den Urteilsspruch müssen alle<br />

Unternehmen, die private Kranken-, Pflege-,<br />

Renten- und Risikolebensversicherungen<br />

anbieten, ihre Tariflandschaft vollständig neu<br />

ordnen. Das hält die<br />

versicherungsmathematischen Abteilungen in<br />

diesem Sommer auf Trab.Für jede einzelne<br />

Produktgruppe müssen sie mit anderen<br />

Erwartungen kalkulieren. In der<br />

Krankenversicherung sind wegen des<br />

Wechselrechts auch die<br />

Wanderungsbewegungen zwischen Tarifen<br />

zu berücksichtigen. Und wenn sie zu<br />

großzügig rechnen, locken sie zu viele<br />

Kunden des besser gestellten Geschlechts<br />

an und haben die Beiträge dann zu niedrig<br />

angesetzt. Das zwingt sie zu einer<br />

Kalkulation mit Sicherheitszuschlägen.Erste<br />

Anbieter haben inzwischen Unisextarife auf<br />

den Markt gebracht: Die Ideal etwa<br />

differenziert in der Pflegerente nicht mehr<br />

zwischen Männern und Frauen, der<br />

Volkswohl Bund bei seinen<br />

Rentenversicherungen mit einer eingebauten<br />

Pflegerente, die Swiss Life stellt schon im<br />

August statt erst zum Stichtag 21. Dezember<br />

um. Marktführer Allianz hat sich etwas<br />

Besonderes ausgedacht: Das Geschlecht,<br />

das künftig besser als bislang gestellt wird,<br />

kann zum Teil schon jetzt zu den günstigeren<br />

Konditionen abschließen. Dasjenige, das sich<br />

auf Beitragssteigerungen einstellen muss,<br />

erhält noch die bisherigen Tarife.Die Vielfalt<br />

dieser Angebote macht den unübersichtlichen<br />

Markt noch intransparenter. Deshalb sind für<br />

die Kunden einfache Faustregeln hilfreich.<br />

„Die größten Ausschläge bei den Preisen<br />

wird es in der Kranken- und der<br />

Risikolebensversicherung geben“, erwartet<br />

Stephan Schinnenburg, Geschäftsführer des<br />

Analysehauses Morgen & Morgen. „Bei<br />

diesen Produkten sind die Risiken am<br />

unterschiedlichsten verteilt.“ Dagegen sei für<br />

Berufsunfähigkeitspolicen (BU) der<br />

ausgeübte Beruf ein wichtigeres Kriterium für<br />

die Beiträge als das Geschlecht.Um die<br />

Tendenzen am Markt aufzuzeigen, hat der<br />

Finanzvertrieb MLP eine<br />

Überschlagsrechnung für verschiedene<br />

Produktgruppen ausgearbeitet. Dafür haben<br />

die MLP-Fachleute aus dem jeweils<br />

günstigsten und dem teuersten Tarif ihres<br />

Angebots einen Mittelwert gebildet. Für die<br />

neuen Tarife nahmen sie an, dass nur 20<br />

Prozent des heute günstiger gestellten<br />

Geschlechts eine Police kaufen und 80<br />

Prozent des schlechter gestellten. „Diese<br />

Werte entsprechen einer vorsichtigen<br />

Kalkulation und dürften in etwa das Verhalten<br />

im Markt treffen“, sagt Manfred Bauer,<br />

MLP-Produktvorstand.Wenn das<br />

Mischungsverhältnis für den Versicherer<br />

anschließend doch günstiger ist, fallen bei<br />

Lebensversicherungsprodukten (wie Rente<br />

und BU) Risikogewinne an, die an die<br />

Kunden ausgeschüttet werden. Zunächst<br />

aber können sie durch die<br />

Sicherheitszuschläge ein höheres<br />

Prämienniveau erwarten. „Bei<br />

Pflegeversicherungen steht dem Preisanstieg<br />

für Männer kein Rückgang für Frauen im<br />

selben Ausmaß gegenüber“, sagt Bauer. Hier<br />

müssen sich Männer auf bis zu 39 Prozent<br />

höhere Beiträge einstellen, während sie für<br />

Frauen in derselben Altersstufe nur um 7<br />

Prozent günstiger werden.Wenn die<br />

Versicherer erste Erkenntnisse über das<br />

Kundenverhalten haben, dürften sie ihre<br />

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Kalkulation noch einmal umstellen. „In den<br />

ersten Monaten rechnen wir mit<br />

Nachbesserungen - auch weil Unternehmen<br />

auf die günstigeren Wettbewerber reagieren“,<br />

sagt Schinnenburg von Morgen & Morgen.<br />

Als 2006 die Riesterrente auf Unisextarife<br />

umgestellt wurden, dauerte es mehrere<br />

Monate, bis sich die Prämien<br />

einpendelten.Zusätzlich kompliziert wird der<br />

Vergleich zwischen alter und neuer Tarifwelt<br />

in der Krankenversicherung. Denn hier<br />

dürften viele Anbieter auf die derzeitige<br />

Diskussion reagieren, die Unternehmen<br />

böten geringere Leistungen als in der<br />

Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung. „Unisex<br />

ist eine sehr gute Chance, Tarife zu<br />

modernisieren“, sagt Roland Weber vom<br />

größten Krankenversicherer Debeka. Sein<br />

Unternehmen hat wie einige andere seit den<br />

siebziger Jahren unveränderte Tarife - das<br />



Ziel war, möglichst große<br />

Versichertenkollektive zu bilden für einen<br />

besseren Risikoausgleich. Nun zwingt das<br />

Urteil des EuGH diese Anbieter, ihre<br />

Kollektive zu schließen. „Dabei können wir<br />

Leistungen in die Tarife einbauen, die wir für<br />

medizinisch sinnvoll erachten“, sagt Weber.<br />

Auch für Unternehmen, die etwa durch<br />

Übernahmen ein komplexes Tarifwerk haben,<br />

biete sich die Chance zur Bereinigung.Makler<br />

raten Kunden, die einen neuen Vertrag<br />

abschließen wollen, sich die Folgen des<br />

Urteils genau erklären zu lassen. „Niemand<br />

sollte einen Vertrag nur abschließen, weil<br />

Unisex kommt“, sagt MLP-Vorstand Bauer.<br />

„Wer aber einen Bedarf sieht und vor oder<br />

nach dem Stichtag abschließen könnte, hat<br />

dann eine bessere Entscheidungsgrundlage.“<br />

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Nach EuGH-Urteil Unisex treibt<br />

Prämienniveau der Versicherer<br />

Im März vergangenen Jahres urteilte der<br />

Europäische Gerichtshof, dass Versicherer<br />

zwischen Frauen und Männern in ihren<br />

Prämien nicht mehr differenzieren dürfen.<br />

Durch den Urteilsspruch müssen alle<br />

Unternehmen, die private Kranken-, Pflege-,<br />

Renten- und Risikolebensversicherungen<br />

anbieten, ihre Tariflandschaft vollständig neu<br />

ordnen. Das hält die<br />

versicherungsmathematischen Abteilungen in<br />

diesem Sommer auf Trab.Für jede einzelne<br />

Produktgruppe müssen sie mit anderen<br />

Erwartungen kalkulieren. In der<br />

Krankenversicherung sind wegen des<br />

Wechselrechts auch die<br />

Wanderungsbewegungen zwischen Tarifen<br />

zu berücksichtigen. Und wenn sie zu<br />

großzügig rechnen, locken sie zu viele<br />

Kunden des besser gestellten Geschlechts<br />

an und haben die Beiträge dann zu niedrig<br />

angesetzt. Das zwingt sie zu einer<br />

Kalkulation mit Sicherheitszuschlägen.Erste<br />

Anbieter haben inzwischen Unisextarife auf<br />

den Markt gebracht: Die Ideal etwa<br />

differenziert in der Pflegerente nicht mehr<br />

zwischen Männern und Frauen, der<br />

Volkswohl Bund bei seinen<br />

Rentenversicherungen mit einer eingebauten<br />

Pflegerente, die Swiss Life stellt schon im<br />

August statt erst zum Stichtag 21. Dezember<br />

um. Marktführer Allianz hat sich etwas<br />

Besonderes ausgedacht: Das Geschlecht,<br />

das künftig besser als bislang gestellt wird,<br />

kann zum Teil schon jetzt zu den günstigeren<br />

Konditionen abschließen. Dasjenige, das sich<br />

auf Beitragssteigerungen einstellen muss,<br />

erhält noch die bisherigen Tarife.Die Vielfalt<br />

dieser Angebote macht den unübersichtlichen<br />

Markt noch intransparenter. Deshalb sind für<br />

die Kunden einfache Faustregeln hilfreich.<br />

„Die größten Ausschläge bei den Preisen<br />

wird es in der Kranken- und der<br />

Risikolebensversicherung geben“, erwartet<br />

Stephan Schinnenburg, Geschäftsführer des<br />

Analysehauses Morgen & Morgen. „Bei<br />

diesen Produkten sind die Risiken am<br />

unterschiedlichsten verteilt.“ Dagegen sei für<br />

Berufsunfähigkeitspolicen (BU) der<br />

ausgeübte Beruf ein wichtigeres Kriterium für<br />

die Beiträge als das Geschlecht.Um die<br />

Tendenzen am Markt aufzuzeigen, hat der<br />

Finanzvertrieb MLP eine<br />

Überschlagsrechnung für verschiedene<br />

Produktgruppen ausgearbeitet. Dafür haben<br />

die MLP-Fachleute aus dem jeweils<br />

günstigsten und dem teuersten Tarif ihres<br />

Angebots einen Mittelwert gebildet. Für die<br />

neuen Tarife nahmen sie an, dass nur 20<br />

Prozent des heute günstiger gestellten<br />

Geschlechts eine Police kaufen und 80<br />

Prozent des schlechter gestellten. „Diese<br />

Werte entsprechen einer vorsichtigen<br />

Kalkulation und dürften in etwa das Verhalten<br />

im Markt treffen“, sagt Manfred Bauer,<br />

MLP-Produktvorstand.Wenn das<br />

Mischungsverhältnis für den Versicherer<br />

anschließend doch günstiger ist, fallen bei<br />

Lebensversicherungsprodukten (wie Rente<br />

und BU) Risikogewinne an, die an die<br />

Kunden ausgeschüttet werden. Zunächst<br />

aber können sie durch die<br />

Sicherheitszuschläge ein höheres<br />

Prämienniveau erwarten. „Bei<br />

Pflegeversicherungen steht dem Preisanstieg<br />

für Männer kein Rückgang für Frauen im<br />

selben Ausmaß gegenüber“, sagt Bauer. Hier<br />

müssen sich Männer auf bis zu 39 Prozent<br />

höhere Beiträge einstellen, während sie für<br />

Frauen in derselben Altersstufe nur um 7<br />

Prozent günstiger werden.Wenn die<br />

Versicherer erste Erkenntnisse über das<br />

Kundenverhalten haben, dürften sie ihre<br />

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Kalkulation noch einmal umstellen. „In den<br />

ersten Monaten rechnen wir mit<br />

Nachbesserungen - auch weil Unternehmen<br />

auf die günstigeren Wettbewerber reagieren“,<br />

sagt Schinnenburg von Morgen & Morgen.<br />

Als 2006 die Riesterrente auf Unisextarife<br />

umgestellt wurden, dauerte es mehrere<br />

Monate, bis sich die Prämien<br />

einpendelten.Zusätzlich kompliziert wird der<br />

Vergleich zwischen alter und neuer Tarifwelt<br />

in der Krankenversicherung. Denn hier<br />

dürften viele Anbieter auf die derzeitige<br />

Diskussion reagieren, die Unternehmen<br />

böten geringere Leistungen als in der<br />

Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung. „Unisex<br />

ist eine sehr gute Chance, Tarife zu<br />

modernisieren“, sagt Roland Weber vom<br />

größten Krankenversicherer Debeka. Sein<br />

Unternehmen hat wie einige andere seit den<br />

siebziger Jahren unveränderte Tarife - das<br />



Ziel war, möglichst große<br />

Versichertenkollektive zu bilden für einen<br />

besseren Risikoausgleich. Nun zwingt das<br />

Urteil des EuGH diese Anbieter, ihre<br />

Kollektive zu schließen. „Dabei können wir<br />

Leistungen in die Tarife einbauen, die wir für<br />

medizinisch sinnvoll erachten“, sagt Weber.<br />

Auch für Unternehmen, die etwa durch<br />

Übernahmen ein komplexes Tarifwerk haben,<br />

biete sich die Chance zur Bereinigung.Makler<br />

raten Kunden, die einen neuen Vertrag<br />

abschließen wollen, sich die Folgen des<br />

Urteils genau erklären zu lassen. „Niemand<br />

sollte einen Vertrag nur abschließen, weil<br />

Unisex kommt“, sagt MLP-Vorstand Bauer.<br />

„Wer aber einen Bedarf sieht und vor oder<br />

nach dem Stichtag abschließen könnte, hat<br />

dann eine bessere Entscheidungsgrundlage.“<br />

291

La Nacion/ - Información geral, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Lanata: "El más impresentable del<br />

Gobierno es Moreno"<br />

Foto: Archivo El periodista Jorge Lanata<br />

volvió a embestir contra el Gobierno, y en<br />

particular criticó al secretario de Comercio<br />

Interior, Guillermo Moreno, a quien consideró<br />

un hombre "bruto que hace apología de<br />

eso".<br />

Entrevistado en el programaLa Miradaque<br />

transmite Canal 26, se le preguntó al<br />

periodista qué miembro del oficialismo<br />

consideraba "el más ridículo, el menos<br />

presentable". Su respuesta fue tajante: "El<br />

más impresentable del Gobierno es Moreno,<br />

lo defino como un López Rega sin armas.<br />

Tiene relación con las barrabravas, es un<br />

bruto y hace apología de eso", lanzó. Y<br />

aseguró: "Conceptualmente, es el más viejo.<br />

Es como unaremakemala del peronismo del<br />

cincuenta y pico".<br />

Lanata continuó su crítica a la Casa Rosada,<br />

y aseguró: "Me pondría contento si alguien<br />

del Gobierno fuera preso". Pero descartó esa<br />

idea, al considerar que los miembros del<br />

Poder judicial están presionados por el<br />

Ejecutivo. "La sujeción del Poder Judicial es<br />

mucho peor que en la época de Menem,<br />

hacen la venia con más disciplina, están más<br />

presionados y son mas dóciles. O tal vez es<br />

el miedo por sus carreras o al juicio político.<br />

No hay condenas, y hay muchos procesos a<br />

funcionarios del Gobierno", opinó.<br />

En particular, citó al ex secretario de<br />

Transporte, Ricardo Jaime, procesado en el<br />

caso de la tragedia de Once. "¿Quién puede<br />

decir que Jaime tiene que estar suelto? Ni los<br />

propios K lo diríanen off.Esa grieta la veo en<br />

el último año", aseguró. "El Gobierno esta<br />

detrás de los hechos, dejó de estar adelante,<br />

no puede dominar lo que pasa", concluyó.<br />

Ayer, el periodista tuvo un fuerte cruce de<br />

declaraciones con su colega Víctor Hugo<br />

Morales, a raíz de un informe que presentó<br />

en su programa dominicalPeriodismo para<br />

todos. Allí, aludió a un libro que denuncia los<br />

supuestos vínculos de Morales con la<br />

dictadura de Uruguay entre 1975 y 1977. Al<br />

día siguiente, se hizo oír la respuesta del<br />

acusado por esa publicación, que criticó<br />

duramente a Lanata..<br />

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Fin del jury contra Sal Lari, que vuelve a<br />

ser juez de San Isidro<br />

Rafael Sal Lari, rodeado de allegados, a la<br />

espera de conocer la decisión que lo<br />

favoreció. Foto: LA NACION / Santiago<br />

HaffordLA PLATA.- El juez de garantías de<br />

San Isidro Rafael Sal Lari fue repuesto ayer<br />

en su cargo por el Jurado de Enjuiciamiento<br />

de Magistrados bonaerense, que archivó una<br />

acusación por presunto mal desempeño en<br />

las funciones del magistrado.<br />

Eljury, reunido ayer en el anexo del Senado,<br />

restituyó a Sal Lari en el cargo del cual había<br />

sido suspendido en abril pasado, luego de<br />

que los acusadores particulares (el<br />

intendente de San Isidro, Gustavo Posse, y<br />

Carla Regis, hija del ingeniero Carlos Regis,<br />

asesinado en Beccar, en 2008, por un<br />

asaltante al que meses antes Sal Lari le<br />

había otorgado la excarcelación) desistieran<br />

de seguir con el juicio. Una vez restituido, a<br />

Sal Lari se le devolverá el 40% del sueldo<br />

embargado durante el tiempo que estuvo<br />

suspendido.<br />

Fuentes judiciales precisaron que las partes<br />

acusadoras no cumplieron con el depósito de<br />

180.000 pesos previsto en la ley de<br />

enjuiciamiento para continuar con el proceso<br />

de acusación. Ayer, conocida la decisión,<br />

Posse sostuvo: "Salvo algunos miembros que<br />

actuaron en minoría, eljuryhizo a un lado a<br />

los familiares exigiéndoles una caución y<br />

renunciando a exigir conocer la razonabilidad<br />

de los fallos de este magistrado, quien<br />

excarceló a delincuentes probadamente<br />

peligrosos, habilitándolos a cometer hechos<br />

aberrantes que mutilaron familias enteras".<br />

Viviam Perrone, presidenta de la Asociación<br />

Madres del Dolor, que ayer se movilizó a esta<br />

ciudad para repudiar la decisión, dijo: "(Sal<br />

Lari) hizo que el ingeniero Regis perdiera la<br />

vida y que una nena que era violada por su<br />

propio padre tuviera que seguir viviendo bajo<br />

el mismo techo; hizo que recuperara su<br />

libertad el sacerdote (José) Mercau, de Tigre,<br />

que abusaba de chicos de la calle que tenía<br />

en un hogar. Presentamos nueve casos. Se<br />

nos respondió que sólo se podía acusar por<br />

uno, que no era un delito, sino una falta. Y<br />

nos pidieron depositar 180.000 pesos. No lo<br />

pudimos aceptar. Esto ensucia al Poder<br />

Judicial".<br />

El proceso se inició en 2009. Sal Lari fue<br />

suspendido en abril último , cuando fue<br />

admitida una sola acusación: por no haber<br />

liberado a tiempo a Jorge González, un<br />

detenido a su cargo al que la Cámara de San<br />

Isidro le había ordenado excarcelar siete<br />

meses antes. Por ese caso, Sal Lari fue<br />

exculpado en sede penal.<br />

El 5 de julio pasado, la Comisión Bicameral,<br />

integrada por cinco senadores y siete<br />

diputados, desestimó todos los cargos que se<br />

habían presentado contra el juez; la defensa<br />

de Sal Lari pidió su inmediata absolución.<br />

Pero antes de resolver, eljurydio vista a los<br />

particulares que lo habían acusado: Posse y<br />

Carla Regis. Una semana después, el<br />

presidente de la Suprema Corte y del jurado,<br />

Eduardo de Lázzari, notificó a Posse que<br />

debía depositar una caución de 180.000<br />

pesos para continuar con el juicio.<br />

El intendente desistió; habló de presuntas<br />

arbitrariedades en el caso y de una eventual<br />

"defensa corporativa". Voceros judiciales<br />

negaron tales extremos y aseguraron a LA<br />

NACION que el procedimiento fue<br />

transparente..<br />

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Lagos: Proyecto de reforma tributaria del<br />

Gobierno es “una burla para movimiento<br />

estudiantil”<br />

Como una “burla” para el movimiento<br />

estudiantil calificó la propuesta tributaria del<br />

gobierno que permite descontar los gastos en<br />

educación a quienes perciben altos ingresos,<br />

el ex Presidente Ricardo Lagos.“Los únicos<br />

que van a obtener la gratuidad en la<br />

educación serían aquellos que pertenecen a<br />

tramos de ingresos que tienen que pagar<br />

impuesto global complementario. Esto me<br />

parece inadmisible, francamente es una burla<br />

al movimiento estudiantil que con tanta<br />

fuerza emergió el año pasado”, explicó. En<br />

esta línea, el ex Jefe de Estado criticó que la<br />

propuesta del Ejecutivo apunte a beneficiar a<br />

“los que más tienen en Chile”. “No es posible<br />

decir que porque vamos a aumentar de 18,5<br />

a 20% el impuesto de primera categoría a las<br />

empresas, hoy día pretendamos rebajarlo de<br />

nuevo timbres y estampillas que en un 60%<br />

beneficia a las grandes empresas”, señaló. A<br />

su juicio, una reforma tributaria que financie<br />

la educación requiere entre 4 a 5 mil millones<br />

de dólares.- Tras señalar que no hay<br />

“seriedad” en la propuesta del gobierno,<br />

Lagos expresó que si no se logra un acuerdo<br />

en la materia será tema para la campaña<br />

presidencial. “Si no hay acuerdo, éste va a<br />

ser un tema de la campaña presidencial, el<br />

de la educación, de la reforma tributaria para<br />

financiar la educación en serio, y la reforma<br />

constitucional para tener un sistema político<br />

adecuado, donde las mayoría sean mayorías<br />

y las minorías”, advirtió.<br />

294

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PRI contraataca: pedirá investigar las<br />

cuentas de la izquierda mexicana<br />

Luego de que la izquierda y el oficialismo<br />

mexicano se unieran para denunciar al<br />

Partido Revolucionario Institucional -que<br />

ganó las elecciones presidenciales del 1 de<br />

Julio- por supuesta financiación ilegal de la<br />

campaña, el PRI anunció este martes su<br />

contaataque. El partido de Enrique Peña<br />

Nieto pedirá a la Unidad de Fiscalización del<br />

órgano electoral que informe sobre “la<br />

posible comisión de faltas en perjuicio de la<br />

Hacienda pública” por parte de su ex rival<br />

izquierdista en las presidenciales, Andrés<br />

Manuel López Obrador. Los hechos tienen<br />

que ver con las cuentas de Honestidad<br />

Valiente y Austeridad Republicana, las<br />

asociaciones civiles que durante años<br />

apoyaron a López Obrador en sus giras y<br />

actos proselitistas, antes de convertirse en<br />

candidato de la izquierda a la Presidencia.<br />

DENUNCIA DE TRIANGULACIÓN DE<br />

RENUNCIA La petición la hará el Comité<br />

Ejecutivo Nacional del PRI a través de su<br />

representante ante el Instituto Federal<br />

Electoral (IFE), Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada,<br />

en fecha no detallada en el comunicado<br />

emitido por la formación política. “Este<br />

instituto político celebra que las autoridades e<br />

instituciones competentes lleven a cabo su<br />

trabajo con imparcialidad y eficacia, sobre<br />

todo cuando lo hacen en atención a las<br />

denuncias interpuestas por los cauces<br />

legales por la ciudadanía”, señala el PRI.<br />

Este partido dice que existe una “presunta<br />

triangulación de recursos y esquemas de<br />

simulación financiera por las asociaciones<br />

Honestidad Valiente y Austeridad<br />

Republicana” a la vista de “nuevas pruebas,<br />

datos duros e indicios” recabados por la<br />

agrupación política. IMPUGNACIÓN POR<br />

LAVADO DE DINERO Según los datos<br />

oficiales, Peña Nieto obtuvo en los comicios<br />

19,2 millones de votos (38,21%), por delante<br />

del izquierdista López Obrador, con casi 15,9<br />

millones (31,59%). La izquierda mexicana<br />

solicitó al Tribunal Electoral del Poder<br />

Judicial de la Federación, el máximo<br />

organismo jurisdiccional en materia de<br />

comicios en México, que declare inválidos los<br />

comicios por una presunta compra masiva de<br />

votos con fondos procedentes de lavado de<br />

dinero.<br />

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Le Monde/ - Article, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Transparence, budget, rôle des députés :<br />

le PS promet de transformer l"Assemblée<br />

Le président de l"Assemblée nationale,<br />

Claude Bartolone, suivi des membres du<br />

bureau de l"Assemblée, le 23 juillet, à<br />

l"Elysée. | AFP/JACQUES DEMARTHON<br />

L"incertitude qui pèse sur la date de la reprise<br />

est liée à la décision que rendra le Conseil<br />

constitutionnel – le 9 ou le 10 août – à propos<br />

du traité sur la stabilité, la coordination et la<br />

gouvernance au sein de l"Union économique<br />

et monétaire signé le 2 mars. Saisi, le 13<br />

juillet, par le président de la République, il<br />

doit dire si la ratification du traité nécessite,<br />

ou non, une révision de la Constitution.S"il<br />

estime que non, le gouvernement soumettra<br />

sans tarder au Parlement le "paquet"<br />

européen. Dans le cas contraire, la procédure<br />

prendra beaucoup plus de temps pour<br />

parvenir à l"approbation des conclusions du<br />

sommet européen des 28 et 29 juin –<br />

probablement à l"issue d"une déclaration du<br />

gouvernement – sans pour autant inscrire la<br />

"règle d"or" dans la Constitution. "Il faudra<br />

soupeser tout cela au trébuchet", reconnaît<br />

un dirigeant de la majorité."CE QUI A ÉTÉ<br />

FAIT A ÉTÉ BIEN FAIT"Pour le<br />

gouvernement, il n"y a pas eu de temps<br />

perdu lors de cette session extraordinaire<br />

d"un mois, malgré le peu de textes soumis et<br />

adoptés. "Nous aurions pu faire quatre<br />

projets de loi avec tout ce qu"on a mis dans<br />

le collectif. On a rarement connu un projet de<br />

loi de finances rectificative qui porte aussi<br />

bien son nom", se défend Alain Vidalies, le<br />

ministre chargé des relations avec le<br />

Parlement.Lire aussi :Jean-Marc Ayrault<br />

donne des gages à une majorité qui<br />

s"impatiente"On ne peut pas comparer avec<br />

la situation d"un gouvernement qui prend la<br />

suite de l"équipe en place, ce qui était le cas<br />

en 2007, estime M. Vidalies. L"intensité de<br />

cette session a été quasiment la même, jour<br />

pour jour, qu"en juillet 2002. Et la dernière<br />

fois que nous avons gagné, en 1997, on a<br />

siégé zéro jour en juillet et on est revenus le<br />

20 septembre. Moyennant quoi, ce qui a été<br />

fait a été bien fait.""Certains auraient voulu<br />

une session extraordinaire plus chargée,<br />

admet Claude Bartolone, le président de<br />

l"Assemblée nationale, mais j"y vois en<br />

définitive beaucoup d"avantages. Il y a eu un<br />

profond renouvellement, l"arrivée de<br />

nouveaux députés. Cela leur a permis de<br />

prendre leurs marques, de ne pas se faire<br />

marginaliser, ce qui aurait été le risque si on<br />

était entré tout de suite dans une succession<br />

de textes. Ils avaient aussi besoin de temps<br />

pour s"organiser."REDÉFINITION DE LA<br />

FONCTION PARLEMENTAIRELes nouveaux<br />

députés ont d"autre part pu bénéficier de<br />

deux séances de formation, dispensée par<br />

les administrateurs de l"Assemblée, pour se<br />

faire expliquer les subtilités du processus<br />

législatif. Près du quart y ont participé. C"est<br />

là une donnée majeure : la représentation<br />

nationale est en train de connaître une<br />

évolution en profondeur. "Il y a un vrai<br />

changement, note M. Vidalies. Ce qui va<br />

modifier la nature des débats et<br />

probablement allonger, aussi, le temps de<br />

présence des députés à l"Assemblée.""Nous<br />

sommes le mandat de la transition vers le<br />

mandat unique, assure M. Bartolone. Il faut<br />

avoir comme point de mire ce que va être le<br />

travail d"un parlementaire qui n"a pour seul<br />

mandat que celui de député, réinventer des<br />

pratiques, revoir l"organisation et le<br />

fonctionnement. A la rentrée, je proposerai à<br />

tous les groupes de s"associer à cette<br />

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éflexion. Tout le monde doit prendre en<br />

compte l"arrivée de ces jeunes députés qui<br />

sont fermement convaincus de l"idée du<br />

mandat unique."Lire aussi :La commission<br />

des lois veut bousculer les habitudes des<br />

députés Ce passage au mandat unique<br />

entraînera nécessairement une redéfinition<br />

de la fonction parlementaire. "Sur le travail de<br />

l"Assemblée nationale, on a déjà perdu un<br />

bout "République décentralisée" et un bout<br />

"politique communautaire" . Si on ne renforce<br />

pas réellement la partie initiative et contrôle,<br />

on va avoir une "bombe" parlementaire,<br />

prévient M. Bartolone. Celui qui n"est que<br />

député, quelle est son utilité si on ne voit pas<br />

ce qu"il fait ?"ÉCONOMIES SUR LE POSTE<br />

TRANSPORTSA ce chantier va se greffer un<br />

indispensable effort de transparence et de<br />

sobriété. Même si, assure M. Bartolone, "la<br />

démocratie a un coût et il faut l"assumer,<br />

c"est une condition de l"indépendance des<br />

élus". Le président de l"Assemblée nationale<br />

a demandé pour 2013 la préparation d"un<br />

budget de l"institution "en recul par rapport à<br />

2011", l"année 2012 ayant été tronquée du<br />

fait des élections.Les marges sont étroites.<br />

Le Monde/ - Article, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Les principales économies vont être réalisées<br />

sur le poste transports : suppression des<br />

voyages en première classe, les trajets par<br />

avion de moins de cinq heures se feront en<br />

classe économique, fin de la prise en charge<br />

des voyages hors circonscription et du<br />

"voyage de découverte outre-mer" dont<br />

bénéficiait chaque député.Le président de<br />

l"Assemblée nationale a également demandé<br />

aux questeurs de l"Assemblée, en attendant<br />

qu"un groupe de travail se penche sur la<br />

question, d"étudier l"interdiction de transférer<br />

le crédit de rémunération des collaborateurs<br />

non utilisé sur l"indemnité représentative de<br />

frais de mandat (IRFM) attribuée aux élus.<br />

"Je veux réussir le pari, avec l"ensemble des<br />

groupes, de régler cette question pour en finir<br />

avec cette suspicion permanente qui entoure<br />

le travail parlementaire. A la fin de l"année,<br />

nous y verrons plus clair", assure M.<br />

Bartolone.A tous points de vue, l"année à<br />

venir sera décisive sur les plans législatif et<br />

organisationnel.Lire aussi :Cahuzac propose<br />

d"exclure certains revenus de la taxe à 75 %<br />

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UC Irvine professor plotted killings at<br />

son's school, D.A. says<br />

Orange County prosecutors are asking that a<br />

UC Irvine professor accused of setting fires at<br />

his son's high school be held without bail after<br />

investigators discovered emails in which he<br />

allegedly outlined plans to kill officials and<br />

students. Rainer Klaus Reinscheid, 48, of<br />

Irvine, was arrested July 24 on felony arson<br />

charges in connection with a series of fires<br />

set at University High School, the nearby<br />

Mason Park Preserve and the home of an<br />

assistant principal this month, according to<br />

the Orange County district attorney's office.<br />

After his arrest, investigators discovered<br />

emails on Reinscheid's cellphone addressed<br />

to himself and his wife from April. He<br />

described detailed plans to "burn down<br />

University High School, commit sexual<br />

assaults, purchase firearms and murder<br />

school officials and students, and then kill<br />

himself," the district attorney's office said.<br />

Reinscheid, who posted bail the day of his<br />

first arrest, was taken into custody again July<br />

27. Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the<br />

district attorney's office, said prosecutors are<br />

unable to pursue criminal charges regarding<br />

the threats because the emails were private,<br />

but that they would be used during<br />

Reinscheid's bail hearing. "We believe he's<br />

dangerous, and we believe he's a risk to<br />

public safety," she said. Officials say<br />

Reinscheid's 14-year-old son attended<br />

University High School and was disciplined at<br />

the school in March. Sometime after that,<br />

prosecutors said, the teen committed suicide<br />

in the Mason Park Preserve. Reinscheid —<br />

who works as an associate professor in UC<br />

Irvine's departments of pharmaceutical<br />

sciences, pharmacology and molecular<br />

biology and biochemistry — is accused of<br />

setting the fires between July 4 and July 24,<br />

officials said. He set a variety of objects on<br />

fire, authorities said, including newspapers,<br />

fireplace logs and a plastic chair. Irvine police<br />

stepped up their patrols of the Mason Park<br />

Preserve in response to the fires and arrested<br />

Reinscheid about 12:45 a.m. July 24, when<br />

he allegedly tried to start a fire using<br />

newspaper and lighter fluid. He is also<br />

accused of resisting arrest. Officials believe<br />

Reinscheid acted alone in the fires. If<br />

convicted, he faces a maximum of 12 years<br />

and eight months in prison. The case marks<br />

the second recent instance in which Orange<br />

County prosecutors have filed charges<br />

against Irvine parents whose alleged crimes<br />

appeared to be motivated by their children. In<br />

June, attorneys Jill and Kent Easter were<br />

accused of conspiring to frame a volunteer at<br />

their son's school in retaliation for what they<br />

alleged was her ill treatment of their young<br />

son. The couple allegedly hatched a plan to<br />

plant drugs in the woman's car and call<br />

police. ALSO: L.A. councilman takes medical<br />

marijuana for nerve disorder Cudahy<br />

corruption: Ex-official pleads guilty to bribery,<br />

extortion Foes of gay marriage appeal Prop.<br />

8 ruling to U.S. Supreme Court -- Kate<br />

Mather Follow Kate Mather on Twitter or<br />

Google+. Photo: Rainer Klaus Reinscheid<br />

Credit: Orange County district attorney's<br />

office<br />

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Immortality studies centered at UC<br />

Riverside get $5-million gift<br />

Even a multimillion-dollar donation does not<br />

ensure a spot in heaven. Or at least that’s<br />

what most religions believe. But a $5-million<br />

academic grant, to be centered at UC<br />

Riverside, may go a long way toward gaining<br />

insights into the possibility of an afterlife and<br />

delving into what science and culture say<br />

about immortality. The Pennsylvania-based<br />

John Templeton Foundation -- founded by the<br />

late Wall Street mutual funds pioneer to help<br />

explore spirituality -– has announced the<br />

award and said it will be paid out over three<br />

years. UC Riverside philosophy professor<br />

John Martin Fischer will receive $1 million of<br />

that to host conferences on campus about the<br />

afterlife, to support post-doctoral students<br />

and to run a website for research on the<br />

topic. Then Fischer will administer<br />

competitions to dole out the remaining $4<br />

million to researchers worldwide in the<br />

sciences, social sciences, philosophy and<br />

theology, he said. Reports of near-death<br />

experiences with visions of an afterlife may<br />

be an important subject for psychologists and<br />

neuroscientists, Fischer said from Germany,<br />

where he has a fellowship until December. “It<br />

doesn’t mean we are trying to prove anything<br />

or the other. We will be trying to be very<br />

scientific and rigorous and be very<br />

open-minded,” he said. Fischer described<br />

himself as skeptical about an afterlife but said<br />

he believed that “endless life without death<br />

could be a good thing.” ALSO: Cal State and<br />

faculty reach agreement; no pay raises<br />

included Fresno to Conan O'Brien: Yes to<br />

Bobblehead, no to suicidal cow Foes of gay<br />

marriage appeal Prop 8 ruling to U.S.<br />

Supreme Court -- Larry Gordon<br />

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Aquarium of the Pacific wants to tap<br />

seawater to refill fish tanks<br />

The Aquarium of the Pacific may finally get a<br />

direct line to the ocean. For years the Long<br />

Beach attraction has filled its complex of fish<br />

tanks and marine life habitats with salt water<br />

delivered by tanker truck or barge at a cost of<br />

up to $500,000 a year. Now, the aquarium<br />

and the city of Long Beach want to draw<br />

water directly from the sea, sucking in 50,000<br />

gallons a day with a pump mounted under a<br />

fishing pier at the outlet of the Los Angeles<br />

River. The California Coastal Commission is<br />

recommending approval of the aquarium’s<br />

new seawater intake system, with the panel<br />

scheduled to vote on the plan at its meeting<br />

next week in Santa Cruz. Aquarium officials<br />

say the pipeline will save money and reduce<br />

its carbon footprint by eliminating 1,100 diesel<br />

truck trips each year. A fine wire mesh and a<br />

low-velocity pump would keep the intake<br />

system from sucking in or trapping fish and<br />

other marine life. But the apparatus would<br />

most certainly kill larvae — drawing in an<br />

estimated 61,000 fish larvae and 29,000<br />

shellfish larvae per year, according to a<br />

Coastal Commission report. The aquarium’s<br />

new system would pipe in a small fraction of<br />

the amount of water used by a coastal power<br />

plant or a desalination plant and would only<br />

minimally harm marine life, aquarium officials<br />

said. The proposal was reviewed by state<br />

Dept. of Fish and Game, which had no<br />

objections, the Coastal Commission report<br />

notes. For nearly a decade the facility has<br />

sought to save money by tapping nearby<br />

waters, said Barbara Long, vice president of<br />

the Aquarium of the Pacific. “Some of our<br />

visitors have the false perception that the<br />

water near the ports is not good water,” Long<br />

said. “But the water is of the quality that we<br />

can use.” Seawater is treated before being<br />

circulated through aquarium exhibits, then<br />

discharged into a sewer system. The move<br />

would put the Aquarium of the Pacific, which<br />

opened in 1998, in line with other prominent<br />

marine life attractions in California that draw<br />

water directly from the ocean. Monterey Bay<br />

Aquarium pumps 2.5 million gallons a day<br />

from the ocean, cycles it through its exhibits<br />

and returns it to the sea. SeaWorld San<br />

Diego fills its 7-million-gallon killer whale<br />

complex and other large pools with saltwater<br />

drawn from Mission Bay. If approved, the<br />

Aquarium of the Pacific expects to have its<br />

new intake system in place by the end of the<br />

year. ALSO: Cudahy corruption: Ex-official<br />

pleads guilty to bribery, extortion Foes of gay<br />

marriage appeal Prop 8 ruling to U.S.<br />

Supreme Court Michael Jackson's<br />

dermatologist resists medical board-ordered<br />

exams — Tony Barboza Photo: The<br />

Aquarium of the Pacific's proposed seawater<br />

pipeline. Credit: California Coastal<br />

Commission.<br />

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Talk back: Antonio Villaraigosa for<br />

president?<br />

Despite a steadily increasing national stature<br />

since he was first elected mayor of Los<br />

Angeles in 2005, Antonio Villaraigosa says<br />

he's not interested in the Oval Office.<br />

Sacramento, on the other hand, is a different<br />

matter. When asked recently by an ABC<br />

News reporter if he wanted to be president<br />

one day, the head of the nation's<br />

second-largest city dismissed the idea. "The<br />

answer is no," Villaraigosa said. "I want to<br />

finish this job with a bang. I want to go out<br />

with my head up high. I want to say to this<br />

city, 'I put everything into this job.' " But the<br />

mayor reiterated his interest in running for<br />

governor, something he has already privately<br />

expressed. "The job I've said to people I<br />

would like is I would like to be governor of the<br />

state of California," he said. Villaraigosa, who<br />

took office in July 2005, has said little publicly<br />

about what his plans will be once his second<br />

mayoral term ends in June 2013. He currently<br />

heads the U.S. Conference of Mayors and<br />

has been a vocal supporter of the Obama<br />

administration. In February, Villaraigosa was<br />

named chairman of this summer's Democratic<br />

National Convention. He will wield the gavel<br />

during the three-day gathering in Charlotte,<br />

N.C., which begins Sept. 3. What do you<br />

think? Should Villaraigosa pursue a higher<br />

office once his mayoral term ends? Would he<br />

make a good presidential candidate? Or<br />

should he keep his sights on Sacramento?<br />

Weigh in by tweeting @LANow, posting on<br />

our local Facebook page or writing in the<br />

comments section below. ALSO: L.A.<br />

councilman takes medical marijuana for<br />

nerve disorder Cudahy corruption: Ex-official<br />

pleads guilty to bribery, extortion Foes of gay<br />

marriage appeal Prop. 8 ruling to U.S.<br />

Supreme Court -- Kate MatherFollow Kate<br />

Mather on Twitter or Google+. Photo: L.A.<br />

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is shown at a<br />

Hollywood news conference in December.<br />

Credit: Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles<br />

Times<br />

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Gay marriage foes ask Supreme Court to<br />

uphold California ban<br />

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES | Tue Jul<br />

31, 2012 8:08pm EDT LOS ANGELES<br />

(Reuters) - Gay marriage opponents asked<br />

the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold a<br />

California ban on same-sex matrimony that<br />

was struck down by two lower courts as a<br />

violation of the Constitution. The request<br />

from backers of Proposition 8, the<br />

voter-approved state constitutional<br />

amendment defining marriage as exclusively<br />

between a man and a woman, comes a week<br />

after the high court was asked to review a<br />

Massachusetts case challenging the federal<br />

Defense of Marriage Act, which defines<br />

marriage the same way.The two petitions<br />

move the politically charged issue of marriage<br />

rights for gay men and lesbians one step<br />

closer to a potential first-time review by the<br />

Supreme Court in the weeks before<br />

November's U.S. presidential<br />

election.President Barack Obama turned gay<br />

marriage into a 2012 campaign issue in May<br />

when he came out in support of the right of<br />

same-sex couples to wed. His Republican<br />

opponent, former Massachusetts Governor<br />

Mitt Romney, disagrees.The Supreme Court<br />

could agree to hear the California and<br />

Massachusetts cases in its next session,<br />

which begins in October, putting the court on<br />

track to issue a ruling within a<br />

year.Alternatively, the high court could<br />

decline to hear either or both cases.Refusing<br />

to weigh in on the fight over California's Prop<br />

8 would keep intact lower-court rulings<br />

nullifying it but leave unresolved the broader<br />

question of whether similar gay marriage<br />

bans in other states would survive a<br />

constitutional challenge.California, the most<br />

populous state, joined the vast majority of<br />

U.S. states in outlawing same-sex marriage<br />

in 2008 when voters passed Prop 8,<br />

overriding a state Supreme Court decision<br />

six months earlier that briefly legalized gay<br />

marriage.The state high court, however, later<br />

ruled that 18,000 same-sex weddings<br />

officiated between May and November of<br />

2008 would remain legal.Gay rights<br />

advocates subsequently brought suit against<br />

Prop 8, and a San Francisco-based federal<br />

judge struck down the measure in a landmark<br />

2010 decision that was upheld in February by<br />

the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The<br />

appeals court declined to reconsider the<br />

matter in June.However, the California<br />

measure restricting marriage to heterosexual<br />

couples remains in effect until the legal<br />

challenge to Prop 8 runs its course, barring<br />

further weddings between gay men and<br />

lesbians in the state in the<br />

meantime.DEFINITION OF MARRIAGEThe<br />

majority opinion in February's 2-1 decision by<br />

the 9th Circuit held that California's Prop 8<br />

ban did not further the goal of "responsible<br />

procreation," which was at the heart of the<br />

argument made by supporters of the<br />

measure."Proposition 8 serves no purpose,<br />

and has no effect, other than to lessen the<br />

status and human dignity of gays and<br />

lesbians in California, and to officially<br />

reclassify their relationships as inferior to<br />

those of opposite-sex couples," the court<br />

ruled.In focusing specifically on Prop 8, the<br />

appeals court left unaddressed whether<br />

marriage is a fundamental right available to<br />

homosexual and heterosexual couples<br />

alike.Some legal experts have predicted that<br />

the narrow ruling would lead the U.S.<br />

Supreme Court to either limit its own review<br />

to the California law or refuse to consider the<br />

case altogether.In its petition for high-court<br />

review, Prop 8 supporters argued that the<br />

U.S. Constitution leaves the definition of<br />

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marriage up to individual states to<br />

determine."Whether the Constitution<br />

requires California to eliminate the most<br />

longstanding, universal and fundamental<br />

institution -- marriage consisting of one man<br />

and one woman -- is a question that should<br />

be settled by the Supreme Court," said Andy<br />

Pugno, general counsel for Prop 8's<br />

defenders.David Boies, co-counsel for Prop 8<br />

foes, said his side opposed the petition<br />

because "gay and lesbian Californians should<br />

not have to wait any longer to marry the<br />

person they love."But he said gay rights<br />

advocates welcome Supreme Court review<br />

of the case, adding that the petition "presents<br />

the justices with the chance to affirm our<br />

Constitution's central promises of liberty,<br />

equality and human dignity."If the Supreme<br />

Court does take the case, the outcome could<br />

well hinge on Justice Anthony Kennedy, a<br />

Republican-appointed conservative seen as a<br />

key swing vote. He has written two important<br />

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decisions that came down on the side of<br />

same-sex couples, though he has not<br />

explicitly endorsed gay marriage.Six U.S.<br />

states and the District of Columbia have<br />

legalized gay marriage but 30 have banned<br />

it.Last week, Massachusetts' attorney<br />

general, Martha Coakley, petitioned the<br />

Supreme Court to uphold a federal appeals<br />

court decision striking down parts of the<br />

federal Defense of Marriage Act.The 1st U.S.<br />

Circuit Court of Appeals in May affirmed a<br />

lower-court ruling that gay and lesbian<br />

couples who were legally permitted to wed in<br />

Massachusetts had been unconstitutionally<br />

denied federal benefits because of the<br />

Defense of Marriage Act, including the right to<br />

file joint income tax returns or collect Social<br />

Security retirement benefits.(Editing by<br />

Cynthia Johnston, Cynthia Osterman and<br />

Lisa Shumaker)<br />

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Reuters General/ - Article, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Judge clears Arizona late-term abortion<br />

ban<br />

By David Schwartz PHOENIX | Mon Jul 30,<br />

2012 10:38pm EDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A<br />

federal judge refused on Monday to block an<br />

Arizona law banning most abortions after 20<br />

weeks of pregnancy, saying it does not<br />

impose a "substantial obstacle" to the<br />

procedure, and cleared the way for the<br />

statute to take effect on Thursday. The ruling<br />

marked a stinging legal defeat for<br />

abortion-rights advocates who cited the<br />

Arizona law as the most extreme example of<br />

late-term abortion prohibitions enacted in<br />

more than half a dozen states, and they<br />

vowed to immediately appeal the<br />

decision.U.S. District Judge James Teilborg<br />

ruled that the measure, passed by the<br />

Republican-controlled state legislature and<br />

signed into law in April by Republican<br />

Governor Jan Brewer, was consistent with<br />

the standards that federal courts have set on<br />

limits to late-term abortions.The statute was<br />

challenged this month by the American Civil<br />

Liberties Union and the Center for<br />

Reproductive Rights in a lawsuit believed to<br />

be the first court case of its kind against<br />

late-term abortion bans, attorneys for the<br />

plaintiffs said.Under the Arizona law,<br />

physicians found in violation of the ban would<br />

face a misdemeanor criminal charge and<br />

possible suspension or revocation of their<br />

licenses.Teilborg said Arizona's law "does not<br />

impose a substantial obstacle" to abortions<br />

generally and that Arizona had the right to<br />

enact such a measure.The Arizona statute<br />

bars doctors from performing abortions after<br />

20 weeks of pregnancy except in the case of<br />

a medical emergency, a circumstance critics<br />

say is defined more narrowly than<br />

exemptions permitted by other states with<br />

similar laws.The Arizona ban provides an<br />

exemption only in cases in which an<br />

"immediate" abortion is required to avert<br />

death or risk of "substantial and irreversible<br />

impairment of a major bodily<br />

function."Late-term bans elsewhere, by<br />

comparison, generally allow an abortion when<br />

the mother's life or health would otherwise be<br />

in jeopardy, abortion-rights advocates<br />

say.The judge denied a request by the<br />

plaintiffs for a court injunction blocking the<br />

law's implementation and threw out the case<br />

on its merits.The opponents of the law said<br />

they would file an emergency appeal with the<br />

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San<br />

Francisco in a last-ditch bid to keep the ban<br />

from being implemented."This law forces a<br />

sick, pregnant woman to wait until she is on<br />

the brink of disaster before her doctor can<br />

provide her medically appropriate care," said<br />

Dan Pochoda, legal director for the American<br />

Civil Liberties Union in Arizona.Brewer said in<br />

a statement that she was pleased that the<br />

court ruling would allow "common sense<br />

restrictions" to be put on the state's books."I<br />

recognize that the issue of abortion remains a<br />

controversial one. With the Mother's Health<br />

and Safety Act, I'm hopeful most Arizonans<br />

can find common ground," she said.The suit<br />

was thought to mark the first court test<br />

brought by physicians against similar abortion<br />

restrictions that have surfaced in a growing<br />

number of states since Republicans gained<br />

greater statehouse clout in the November<br />

2010 elections, according to the ACLU and<br />

the Center for Reproductive Rights.Although<br />

late-term abortions remain relatively rare, six<br />

states have put laws into effect in the past<br />

two years banning them, based on hotly<br />

debated medical research suggesting that a<br />

fetus feels pain starting at 20 weeks of<br />

gestation. North Carolina enacted its own<br />

such ban decades ago.Arizona and two other<br />

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states - Georgia and Louisiana - have<br />

enacted similar bans that have not yet taken<br />

effect, the Center for Reproductive Rights<br />

said.The U.S. Supreme Court legalized<br />

abortion in 1973 but allowed states to place<br />

restrictions on the procedure from the time<br />



when a fetus could potentially survive outside<br />

the womb, except when a woman's health<br />

was at risk.(Editing by Steve Gorman,<br />

Cynthia Johnston and Will Dunham)<br />

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Poll shows most Americans favor<br />

Medicaid expansion<br />

By David Morgan WASHINGTON | Tue Jul<br />

31, 2012 12:02am EDT WASHINGTON<br />

(Reuters) - Most Americans back the idea of<br />

extending health coverage to their<br />

low-income neighbors through the<br />

government's Medicaid program, unless it<br />

means higher costs for their own state,<br />

according to a new poll. In a survey released<br />

on Tuesday by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family<br />

Foundation, 67 percent of respondents gave<br />

a favorable view of President Barack<br />

Obama's healthcare reform provision to<br />

"expand the existing Medicaid program to<br />

cover more low-income, uninsured<br />

adults."Support for the idea, which would<br />

expand coverage to as many as 16 million<br />

uninsured Americans, broke sharply along<br />

partisan lines. Nearly nine out of 10 survey<br />

participants who said they were Democrats<br />

and two-thirds of independents backed the<br />

expansion. Six out of 10 Republican<br />

participants said they opposed it.Support<br />

dropped to 49 percent when poll participants<br />

were asked whether they would like to see<br />

Medicaid expanded in their home states, and<br />

a slight majority of 52 percent preferred<br />

maintaining the status quo when pollsters<br />

suggested an expansion could cost their<br />

states more money.The results of the poll of<br />

1,227 adults, conducted in July, have a 3<br />

percentage point margin of error.Medicaid,<br />

which is jointly funded by the federal and<br />

state governments and overseen by<br />

Washington, currently covers only narrowly<br />

defined groups of poor people in most U.S.<br />

states, including parents and pregnant<br />

women.Obama's healthcare law, which was<br />

upheld as constitutional last month by the<br />

U.S. Supreme Court, would expand<br />

Medicaid to cover people with incomes of up<br />

to 133 percent of the poverty line. Between<br />

90 percent and 100 percent of the cost of<br />

expanded coverage would be borne by the<br />

federal government.The high court ruling<br />

gave states the ability to opt out of the<br />

Medicaid expansion. Several Republican<br />

governors have since vowed to do just that<br />

while deriding the plan as a costly expansion<br />

of federal bureaucracy.The governors insist<br />

that the expansion will mean higher costs for<br />

states and lead to higher taxes or reduced<br />

funding for other programs such as<br />

education.Proponents of reform say the<br />

Medicaid expansion would ultimately save<br />

money for states, while also saving lives by<br />

providing access to healthcare for those who<br />

need it.(Editing by Leslie Adler)<br />

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Obama administration says states will<br />

join Medicaid expansion<br />

By David Morgan WASHINGTON | Mon Jul<br />

30, 2012 8:30pm EDT WASHINGTON<br />

(Reuters) - The Obama administration on<br />

Monday said it expects that U.S. states will<br />

eventually join its planned expansion of the<br />

Medicaid healthcare program as they<br />

evaluate the benefits of providing health<br />

coverage to more low-income people. U.S.<br />

Medicaid director Cindy Mann said states will<br />

likely spend the next several months<br />

analyzing the plan, which under President<br />

Barack Obama's healthcare law, would<br />

extend health coverage to about 16 million<br />

uninsured people based on new criteria that<br />

broadens eligibility to people with incomes of<br />

up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line.A<br />

Supreme Court ruling that upheld the law in<br />

June also allowed individual states to decide<br />

whether to accept the Medicaid expansion,<br />

sparking an election-year revolt among<br />

Republican governors who have opposed the<br />

entire reform. The law takes full effect in<br />

2014."There's much to consider. But we<br />

believe that when states do weigh in ... they'll<br />

decide that it's in their state interest to move<br />

ahead," Mann told a healthcare forum<br />

sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a<br />

Washington-based think tank.Many<br />

Republican governors say the<br />

multibillion-dollar 10-year expansion could<br />

lead to higher taxes and less education<br />

funding for state residents, despite federal<br />

subsidies that would cover 90 percent to 100<br />

percent of the cost.At least five governors<br />

have said they would not implement an<br />

expansion, and await the outcome of<br />

presidential and Congressional elections to<br />

see whether their party will have enough<br />

power to repeal the law.The costs and<br />

benefits of the expansion include potential<br />

administrative spending, savings on state<br />

healthcare expenditures for the uninsured,<br />

and the financial impact of billions of dollars<br />

in federal subsidies on hospitals, clinics and<br />

state economies.Medicaid is jointly funded by<br />

the federal and state governments but is<br />

overseen by Washington. In most states,<br />

current benefits are available only to narrowly<br />

defined groups of poor people including<br />

parents and pregnant women. But Medicaid<br />

spending still accounts for a large portion of<br />

cash-strapped state budgets.The nonpartisan<br />

Congressional Budget Office estimates that<br />

about 6 million people who are eligible for the<br />

expansion will not be covered by Medicaid<br />

because of resistance from state<br />

governments.About half of those, with<br />

incomes above the federal poverty line, could<br />

still receive subsidized health coverage<br />

through a state-run exchange. The remaining<br />

3 million would go without health coverage,<br />

according to CBO analysts.The United States<br />

pays more for healthcare than any other<br />

country. But about 50 million of the roughly<br />

310 million Americans still have no insurance<br />

at all.(Editing by Bernard Orr)<br />


The Economic Times/ - News, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Govt lets in Exxon Valdez if toxic<br />

disposal paid<br />

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has allowed<br />

the Exxon Valdez, which caused one of the<br />

worst US oil spills, to be dismantled in the<br />

country but required the owner to pay for<br />

disposal of any toxic materials found on the<br />

ship.<br />

The 26-year-old ship, now known as the<br />

Oriental Nicety, entered Indian waters in May<br />

to be broken down for valuable parts. But it<br />

was denied permission to anchor near Alang,<br />

the hub of India's shipbreaking industry, while<br />

the court examined an environmental<br />

activist's petition that said the vessel<br />

contained toxic substances.<br />

Priya Blue Industries will abide by the ruling<br />

on the disposal of contaminated material,<br />

said Sanjay Mehta, director of the ship<br />

dismantling company based in Gujarat state.<br />

Activist Gopal Krishna, who had petitioned<br />

the court, said he felt let down by Monday's<br />

decision.<br />

``It's disappointing that the toxic-laden vessel<br />

has been given entry into Indian waters. The<br />

ship poses a grave environmental threat<br />

because a variety of hazardous materials are<br />

on board,'' Krishna said.<br />

The court said Gujarat maritime authorities<br />

had certified that the ship did not contain any<br />

hazardous substances.<br />

On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez tanker<br />

dashed against rocks and split open in<br />

Alaska's ecologically sensitive Prince William<br />

Sound. Millions of gallons of crude oil spilled,<br />

coating the shoreline, killing hundreds of<br />

thousands of birds, causing incalculable<br />

environmental damage and demolishing the<br />

area's fishing industry.<br />

Its ownership and name have been changed<br />

repeatedly in an apparent effort to keep using<br />

the ship while distancing it from the disaster.<br />

It was converted to an ore carrier a decade<br />

ago and suffered more damage in a collision<br />

in the South China Sea in 2010.<br />

The current owner is Best Oasis, a Hong<br />

Kong-based subsidiary of Priya Blue that<br />

buys old ships solely to dismantle them,<br />

reuse salvageable material and discard the<br />

rest.<br />

India has one of the world's largest industries<br />

for dismantling ships. However, environment<br />

activists say shipbreaking companies do not<br />

follow sufficient precautions, exposing<br />

workers and the environment to toxic<br />

materials.<br />

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Post-Godhra riots case: 21 people get life<br />

term by special court in Mehsana<br />

AHMEDABAD: Twenty-one people were<br />

sentenced to life imprisonment by a special<br />

court in Mehsana for attempt to murder and<br />

arson in a post-Godhra riots case.<br />

A frenzied mob had killed 11 members of a<br />

single family, including four children and five<br />

women, on February 28, 2002.<br />

The massacre is one of the nine cases,<br />

including the Godhra train burning case,<br />

probed by a Special Investigation Team on<br />

orders of the Supreme Court.<br />

Judge SC Srivastava acquitted 61 persons<br />

from all charges and 51 were given the<br />

benefit of doubt. Erstwhile BJP MLA Prahlad<br />

Gosa and Visnagar municipality president<br />

Dahyabhai Patel were among those acquitted<br />

on the benefit of doubt.<br />

The court had summoned them as accused in<br />

this case while the Special Investigation<br />

Team had not made them accused despite<br />

repetitive complaints made by witnesses.<br />

Eighty-five people were charged under<br />

Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempted<br />

murder) and other section of the Indian Penal<br />

Code for killing 11 persons of a single family<br />

of Muslims.<br />

The murder charge and criminal<br />

conspiracy(120(B) were dropped against the<br />

21 people by the judge. The court tried 83 out<br />

of 85 accused. One accused was a minor at<br />

the time of attack and one died during the<br />

course of trial.<br />

A former police inspector of Visnagar town<br />

MK Patel, who was held guilty of dereliction<br />

of duty, was given a one-year jail term.<br />

The court also awarded two years'<br />

imprisonment to six of the accused for rioting<br />

but the sentence will run concurrently with the<br />

life term. Those convicted have also been<br />

fined between 8,000 and 10,000, while the<br />

former police inspector has been fined 150.<br />

Unhappy over the quantum of sentence, the<br />

victims' family decided to appeal against the<br />

judgement. "I have lost my family members in<br />

the incident and I am not satisfied with the<br />

fact that murder charges have been dropped<br />

against all of them as I had seen them killed<br />

in front of my eyes. I am going to challenge it<br />

at a higher forum," said Yousuf Khan Pathan,<br />

who lost his two daughters in the incident.<br />

During the arguments on quantum of<br />

sentence, special public prosecutor Mukesh<br />

Bhrambhatt termed the crime as heinous, as<br />

women and children were slaughtered, and<br />

sought maximum punishment for the guilty.<br />

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Lokpal bill: Govt hardens stand against<br />

Annaites, says no to SIT probe<br />

NEW DELHI: The government and Congress<br />

have ruled out any fresh negotiations with<br />

Team Anna on either of its demands bringing the Lokpal Bill in Parliament's<br />

monsoon session and a special investigation<br />

team to probe into corruption charges raised<br />

by the team against 14 Union ministers.<br />

While senior ministers insisted on Monday<br />

that the Lokpal bill was already with the Rajya<br />

Sabha select committee, which has members<br />

from across the political spectrum, and timing<br />

of its recommendations could not be dictated,<br />

Congress pooh-poohed the demand for a SIT<br />

probe, saying that the allegations against the<br />

ministers had either been already settled by<br />

courts or rebutted by the ministers<br />

themselves.<br />

The only concession possible, sources in the<br />

government indicated, was an appeal to Anna<br />

Hazare to end his fast, citing concerns over<br />

his health.<br />

Incidentally, this too may not happen<br />

immediately. When asked if Congress would<br />

appeal to Hazare to end his fast, party<br />

spokesperson Manish Tewari was evasive.<br />

"We have already responded to the two<br />

issues raised...we have nothing to add or<br />

subtract for now," he said at the party briefing<br />

on Monday.<br />

A senior minister even took a dig at Team<br />

Anna, asking why fasting was such a big deal<br />

when lakhs of people in the country were<br />

fasting everyday in view of Ramzan.<br />

Incidentally, Congress did not quite rule out<br />

the use of force in case Hazare continued his<br />

fast beyond a point.<br />

"The law enforcement agencies, whether in<br />

Delhi or elsewhere, must discharge their duty<br />

of maintaining order...everyone has the right<br />

to protest in a democracy, but must exercise<br />

self-restraint. This is intrinsic to the Indian<br />

culture," said the party spokesperson.<br />

Tewari said Team Anna's demand for Lokpal<br />

Bill in the monsoon session was baseless, as<br />

the bill was already being studied by the<br />

Rajya Sabha select committee.<br />

"Lokpal bill was the initiative of the<br />

government. It was brought before the Lok<br />

Sabha and passed by it. However, it could<br />

not be passed in the Rajya Sabha, where<br />

UPA does not have a majority, for lack of<br />

consensus. The bill is now with the RS select<br />

committee, in which all parties are<br />

represented. We can move forward only after<br />

the committee makes its recommendations<br />

on the bill," said Tewari.<br />

A senior party leader suggested that building<br />

a consensus on the Lokpal Bill in the select<br />

committee was now as much a responsibility<br />

of the opposition parties as the UPA.<br />

"Besides, it's the panel's prerogative to<br />

decide the timing of its recommendations."<br />

As for the demand for setting up an SIT to<br />

inquire into corruption charges brought by<br />

Team Anna against 15 Union ministers,<br />

Congress firmly ruled it out.<br />

"The courts, including the Supreme Court,<br />

have already ruled on many of allegations<br />

made against some of the ministers...in other<br />

cases, the ministers concerned have already<br />

responded to the charges and cleared the<br />

air," Tewari said. Another party leader said:<br />

"You cannot start a fishing expedition on<br />

judicially decided issues".<br />

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The New York Times/ - Politics, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Tea Party Favorite Wins Texas Runoff<br />

HOUSTON — Ted Cruz, an insurgent backed<br />

by the Tea Party, defeated the candidate<br />

favored by Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday in a<br />

runoff election for the Republican Senate<br />

nomination that revealed a wide rift in Texas<br />

between the party establishment and restless<br />

anti-incumbent activists on the right. With the<br />

come-from-behind victory, he is heavily<br />

favored to win the Senate seat being vacated<br />

in November by Kay Bailey Hutchison and<br />

appears likely to become a star of the<br />

national conservative movement. Mr. Cruz,<br />

41, is the latest conservative rebel to bring<br />

down an established party leader, tapping<br />

into frustration within the Republican ranks<br />

nationwide. These dissident triumphs include,<br />

in this year’s primaries, the defeat of Senator<br />

Richard G. Lugar of Indiana by Richard E.<br />

Mourdock and Deb Fischer’s win over a<br />

veteran Republican for the Senate<br />

nomination in Nebraska. They also echo<br />

Marco Rubio’s Senate victory in 2010 over a<br />

Republican governor, Charlie Crist of Florida.<br />

“I love it,” said Ken Yowell, a 69-year-old<br />

retired businessman who came with his wife<br />

to Mr. Cruz’s victory party at a hotel in<br />

Houston, their first time ever at a political<br />

event. “We need some conservative<br />

Christians in office,” he said, and someone<br />

who will fight for the economy and against<br />

abortion. Mr. Cruz, who is Cuban-American,<br />

has drawn comparisons to Mr. Rubio, another<br />

youthful Cuban-American who quickly<br />

became an icon of fiscal and religious<br />

conservatives around the country. Mr. Cruz’s<br />

rapid ascent has already shaken up the<br />

Texas Republican Party. “Mr. Cruz’s success<br />

shows that the center of the state party has<br />

moved decisively to the right,” said James<br />

Henson, a political scientist at University of<br />

Texas. “The Republicans are in much more<br />

treacherous terrain, not because of threats<br />

from Democrats, but threats from within the<br />

party.” This was a race that was watched<br />

nationally as a test of the enduring strength of<br />

the tea party and its stringent anti-tax,<br />

anti-government themes. A Harvard-trained<br />

lawyer, a former Washington official under<br />

President George W. Bush and the former<br />

solicitor general of Texas, Mr. Cruz had<br />

argued cases before the Supreme Court but<br />

never before run for office. He turned out to<br />

be a natural campaigner, and with his<br />

implacable opposition to big government, he<br />

won the enthusiastic support of Tea Party<br />

activists in Texas and around the country. His<br />

opponent was David Dewhurst, 66, a wealthy<br />

rancher and businessman who has held the<br />

powerful elected post of lieutenant governor<br />

for nine years and was endorsed by Mr. Perry<br />

and most other top party leaders as well as<br />

business and farm groups. Mr. Dewhurst will<br />

continue as lieutenant governor. Mr.<br />

Dewhurst has a deeply conservative record,<br />

and often during the campaign the two<br />

candidates seemed to mimic each other on<br />

the issues, with both vowing to repeal<br />

President Obama’s health care law, cut<br />

spending, get tough on the border and fight<br />

abortion. But Mr. Cruz relentlessly portrayed<br />

his opponent as a creature of the<br />

establishment who is too quick to<br />

compromise. In an Election Day appearance<br />

before a small but revved-up crowd outside a<br />

polling station in Houston, Mr. Cruz gave<br />

credit to his thousands of fervent<br />

on-the-ground volunteers. “We’re here today<br />

because of the grass-roots organizing,” he<br />

said. “We’ve spent 18 hours a day<br />

crisscrossing Texas, going to IHOP and<br />

Denny’s, listening to the voters, asking for<br />

their support one by one,” he said. “That’s<br />

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how democracy is supposed to be.” With<br />

indications that an upset was likely, Tea Party<br />

celebrities including Sarah Palin, Senator Jim<br />

DeMint of South Carolina, Glenn Beck and<br />

Rick Santorum came to speak on Mr. Cruz’s<br />

behalf over the last several days. The Club<br />

for Growth, a conservative pro-business<br />

lobby based in Washington, spent $5.5<br />

million on television ads for Mr. Cruz.<br />

FreedomWorks, a national group led by the<br />

former House majority leader Dick Armey,<br />

sent money and campaign trainers. One<br />

Texan who jumped into the grass-roots<br />

campaign was Maggie Wright, a<br />

self-described retired housewife and<br />

grandmother from Burleson, Tex., outside<br />

Dallas, who had traveled here to cheer on her<br />

candidate on Election Day. Since December,<br />

she had been a volunteer, distributing signs<br />

and bumper stickers provided by<br />

FreedomWorks. “We don’t want a go-along,<br />

get-along senator,” she said while waiting for<br />

Mr. Cruz to appear at the polling site. “We<br />

want a fighter who will draw a line in the<br />

sand.” Mr. Dewhurst attacked Mr. Cruz as<br />



inexperienced and beholden to out-of-state<br />

pressure groups and Washington insiders.<br />

“I’m a lifelong businessman and the only true<br />

conservative in the race,” he said during a<br />

final appeal to voters in a Houston deli. One<br />

of Mr. Dewhurst’s supporters, Dr. Gary Brock,<br />

a pediatric surgeon in Houston, said that Mr.<br />

Cruz was too inexperienced at governing.<br />

“The Democrats tried a charismatic<br />

Harvard-trained attorney with no record and it<br />

hasn’t worked out too well for the country,” he<br />

said after the deli appearance. But in the end,<br />

in a contest that depended largely on who<br />

could turn out the greatest number of voters<br />

on a sweltering summer day, it was the<br />

passionate legions behind Mr. Cruz who<br />

prevailed. Mr. Cruz is expected to have a<br />

large advantage over his Democratic<br />

opponent. In the Democratic runoff, which<br />

was also held Tuesday, former State<br />

Representative Paul Sadler defeated Grady<br />

Yarbrough, a retired educator. Texas has not<br />

elected a Democrat to the Senate since Lloyd<br />

Bentsen in 1988.<br />

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California: Justices Are Asked to Rule on<br />

Marriage Ban<br />

Supporters of California’s ban on same-sex<br />

marriage asked the United States Supreme<br />

Court on Tuesday to reverse a federal<br />

appeals court decision striking down the<br />

measure as unconstitutional, a move that<br />

means the bitter, four-year court fight over<br />

Proposition 8 could soon be resolved.<br />

Lawyers for the coalition of religious<br />

conservative groups that sponsored the<br />

voter-approved ban petitioned the Supreme<br />

Court to review the lower court’s finding that<br />

the 2008 amendment to the State<br />

Constitution violated the civil rights of gay<br />

Californians. The request had been expected<br />

since a panel of the United States Circuit<br />

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued<br />

its 2-to-1 decision this year.<br />

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Pakistan’s New Spy Chief Visits<br />

Washington at a Time of Frayed<br />

Relations<br />

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As befits any newly<br />

installed spymaster, a vague air of mystery<br />

surrounds Lt. Gen. Zahir ul-Islam, the head of<br />

Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services<br />

Intelligence directorate, who is visiting<br />

Washington in his official capacity for the first<br />

time on Wednesday. Beyond the bare details<br />

of his résumé, American officials<br />

acknowledge they know little of General<br />

Islam, a tall man in his 50s with a flop of black<br />

hair, except that he comes across as taciturn,<br />

thoughtful and passionate about sports. His<br />

first trip to the United States in 1984, he<br />

fondly told one American official recently, was<br />

to attend the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.<br />

A decade later, while attending a course at<br />

the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., he<br />

adapted his cricket skills for use on a local<br />

baseball team. “He seemed to be saying,<br />

‘Look, I can master your sport, too,’ ” the<br />

official noted, speaking on condition of<br />

anonymity because it was a private<br />

conversation. Common ground may be<br />

harder to find, though, when General Islam<br />

meets with American officials, including David<br />

H. Petraeus, the Central Intelligence Agency<br />

director, at a time of American frustration and<br />

distrust toward the ISI. Relations between<br />

Pakistani and American spies reached a low<br />

point in the past year after a series of<br />

contentious episodes, including the American<br />

raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the<br />

shooting of two Pakistanis by a C.I.A.<br />

contractor, Raymond A. Davis, and<br />

continuing accusations that the ISI is<br />

shielding Islamist militants. From Wednesday,<br />

Mr. Petraeus and General Islam will seek to<br />

rebuild a counterterrorism relationship that<br />

has severely frayed, Pakistani and American<br />

officials said. “Petraeus will try to forge a<br />

relationship with him,” one senior Obama<br />

administration official said. “We’ve got<br />

business to do. Let’s get on with it.” Since his<br />

appointment to Pakistan’s pre-eminent<br />

intelligence post in March, General Islam has<br />

maintained a conspicuously low profile in<br />

Pakistan. After being featured in a handful of<br />

newspaper articles filled with starchy<br />

compliments typically reserved for powerful<br />

generals, he largely disappeared from view<br />

—by most accounts, a deliberate strategy.<br />

Long feared as a blunt instrument of army<br />

power, the ISI has undergone unusual turmoil<br />

over the past 12 months. The Bin Laden raid,<br />

which took place under the ISI’s nose, dented<br />

its prestige among the public and, equally<br />

important, inside the army. The killing of an<br />

investigative journalist, Syed Saleem<br />

Shahzad, widely viewed as an ISI job,<br />

brought international condemnation. In<br />

politics, General Islam’s predecessor, Lt.<br />

Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, had became<br />

embroiled in a political crisis that at one point<br />

threatened to bring down President Asif Ali<br />

Zardari’s government. And the Supreme<br />

Court, headed by a strong-willed judge, has<br />

raised difficult questions about the ISI role in<br />

numerous human rights violations, including<br />

extrajudicial executions, and a<br />

multimillion-dollar election-rigging campaign<br />

that the agency ran in the early 1990s.<br />

“There’s been a lot of commotion,” said<br />

Kamran Bokhari, an analyst with the research<br />

group Stratfor. “So now it makes sense for<br />

General Islam to pull back, reassess, see<br />

where things are going.” In contrast with<br />

General Pasha, who was known for his<br />

sharp-tongued, sometimes impassioned<br />

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private outbursts, General Islam is described<br />

as a low-profile operator, happy to take a<br />

back seat in meetings. “He is cool as a<br />

cucumber,” said a serving ISI officer,<br />

speaking on condition of anonymity. But he<br />

has maintained General Pasha’s short rein on<br />

C.I.A. activities in Pakistan. One senior<br />

American official says the ISI now treats its<br />

American counterparts with deep hostility.<br />

C.I.A. visas are frequently refused, and its<br />

officials are periodically stopped and<br />

searched. Meanwhile, Pakistani employees of<br />

the American Embassy and consulates have<br />

come under intense intimidation: subjected to<br />

strip searches, kept in prison for weeks,<br />

induced to “turn” against America, and<br />

sometimes threatened with weapons, the<br />

official said. “It’s Moscow rules,” he said. “The<br />

ISI has become very K.G.B.-like — but<br />

without the restraint.” A senior ISI official,<br />

speaking on condition of anonymity, denied<br />



such accusations, and blamed the C.I.A. for<br />

souring a once-close relationship through<br />

displays of arrogance. During the January<br />

2011 controversy over Mr. Davis, General<br />

Pasha was furious that the former C.I.A.<br />

director, Leon E. Panetta, had initially denied<br />

that Mr. Davis worked for the agency. Last<br />

summer the previous C.I.A. station chief, who<br />

had stormy relations with General Pasha, left<br />

his post after just five months, ostensibly for<br />

health reasons. He has since been replaced<br />

with an undercover officer who officials from<br />

both sides say is more open to strengthening<br />

the C.I.A.’s relationship with the ISI.Declan<br />

Walsh reported from Islamabad, and Mark<br />

Mazzetti from Washington and Islamabad.<br />

Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from<br />

Washington, and Salman Masood from<br />

Rawalpindi, Pakistan.<br />

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Three Rulings Against Women’s Rights<br />

At a time when abortion rights and women’s<br />

access to affordable contraception are<br />

threatened by political attacks, judges in three<br />

newly decided federal cases failed to<br />

preserve constitutional protections for<br />

women. On Monday, Judge James Teilborg<br />

of the United States District Court in Phoenix<br />

upheld an Arizona law signed by Gov. Jan<br />

Brewer in April that bans all abortion<br />

procedures at 20 weeks from a woman’s last<br />

menstrual period, which is about 18 weeks<br />

after fertilization. It is the most aggressive of<br />

the previability abortion bans passed recently<br />

by a handful of states. It defies binding<br />

Supreme Court precedent that prevents<br />

states from banning abortions before a fetus<br />

can survive outside the womb, which<br />

generally occurs at about 24 weeks. To get<br />

around that pesky barrier, Judge Teilborg<br />

erroneously characterized Arizona’s outright<br />

ban as a permissible “regulation” that limits<br />

only “some” previability abortions. To make<br />

that argument, he relied, in part, on the fact<br />

that the ban contains a dangerously narrow<br />

exception for a “medical emergency.” The<br />

judge also found the state had valid reason to<br />

enact the statute, embracing medically<br />

dubious claims about when a fetus can begin<br />

to feel pain. He was dismissive of realistic<br />

concerns that the law endangers women who<br />

develop life- or health-threatening medical<br />

problems late in pregnancy and that severe<br />

fetal abnormalities sometimes cannot be<br />

diagnosed before 20 weeks. An emergency<br />

appeal to the United States Court of Appeals<br />

for the Ninth Circuit seeking to stop the law<br />

from taking effect on Thursday should be<br />

granted. In United States District Court in<br />

Denver on Friday, Judge John Kane issued a<br />

temporary injunction forbidding the Obama<br />

administration from requiring a secular,<br />

for-profit heating, ventilation and<br />

air-conditioning company from complying with<br />

the new requirement that it provide<br />

employees with contraceptive coverage.<br />

There is no constitutional precedent for<br />

individuals, much less corporations, allowing<br />

them to violate generally applicable laws<br />

because they may have a religions objection.<br />

Conversely, the company’s claim that its<br />

owners or officers have a First Amendment<br />

right to impose their personal religious beliefs<br />

on the corporation’s employees is<br />

groundless. The health insurance mandate<br />

does not place a substantial burden on<br />

religious exercise, so a federal statute<br />

protecting such exercise should not be in<br />

play. The Justice Department argued that the<br />

notion of a religious freedom violation should<br />

be dismissed, but, disappointingly, Judge<br />

Kane declined to do so. The third ruling was a<br />

decision last Tuesday by the United States<br />

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St.<br />

Louis. The court, sitting en banc, upheld by a<br />

7-to-4 vote, a 2005 South Dakota law<br />

requiring doctors to misinform women<br />

seeking an abortion that they face an<br />

increased risk of suicide and suicidal<br />

thoughts if they go ahead. This dreadful ruling<br />

ignores the overwhelming weight of scientific<br />

evidence.<br />

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Voting Systems’ Plagues Go Far Beyond<br />

Identification<br />

Twelve years after a too-close-to-call<br />

presidential contest imploded in a hail of<br />

Florida punch card ballots and a bitter 5-to-4<br />

Supreme Court ruling for George W. Bush,<br />

the country’s voting systems remain as<br />

deeply flawed as ever with any prospect of<br />

fixing them mired in increasing levels of<br />

partisanship. The most recent high-profile<br />

fights have been about voter identification<br />

requirements and whether they are aimed at<br />

stopping fraud or keeping minority group<br />

members and the poor from voting. But there<br />

are worse problems with voter registration,<br />

ballot design, absentee voting and electoral<br />

administration. In Ohio, the recommendations<br />

of a bipartisan commission on ways to reduce<br />

the large number of provisional ballots and<br />

long lines at polling stations in 2008 have<br />

come to naught after a Republican takeover<br />

of both houses of the legislature in 2010. In<br />

New York, a redesign of ballots that had been<br />

widely considered hard to read and<br />

understand was passed by the State<br />

Assembly this year. But a partisan dispute in<br />

the Senate on other related steps led to<br />

paralysis. And states have consistently failed<br />

to fix a wide range of electoral flaws identified<br />

by a bipartisan commission led by former<br />

President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary<br />

of State James A. Baker III in 2005. In<br />

Florida, for example, the commission found<br />

140,000 voters who had also registered in<br />

four other states — some 46,000 of them in<br />

New York City alone. When 1,700 registered<br />

in both places asked for absentee ballots in<br />

the other state, no one investigated. Some<br />

60,000 voters were also simultaneously<br />

registered in North and South Carolina. The<br />

commission made numerous<br />

recommendations on how to fix things,<br />

including impartial election administration,<br />

better voter list maintenance, uniform photo<br />

ID requirements and paper trails for electronic<br />

voting machines. But Republicans in some<br />

states liked the ideas that fit their notion of<br />

what was wrong — potential for fraud. And<br />

Democrats preferred others ideas —<br />

increasing voter participation. Little was done.<br />

“This has all become incredibly politicized in<br />

recent years,” noted Daniel Tokaji, an<br />

election law professor at Ohio State<br />

University. “If you go back in our history, you<br />

can find voter registration rules used to<br />

exclude blacks or immigrants from voting. But<br />

since 2000 it seems to have gotten worse.<br />

Both parties have realized that election<br />

administration rules can make the difference<br />

between victory and defeat in a close<br />

election. And unlike virtually every other<br />

country in the world, our systems are<br />

administered by partisan officials elected as<br />

candidates of their parties.” Robert A. Pastor,<br />

co-director of the Center for Democracy and<br />

Election Management at American University,<br />

who was executive director of the<br />

Carter-Baker commission, said the voter<br />

identification fights of recent months pale<br />

when compared with some of these other<br />

issues, especially voter registration. Only half<br />

of eligible voters in the country are registered<br />

and few of them lack photo IDs, he said. “The<br />

proponents of voter ID are adamant that it is<br />

essential to stop electoral fraud even though<br />

there is hardly any evidence of voter<br />

impersonation, and the opponents are sure<br />

that it will lead to voter suppression even<br />

though they haven’t been able — until<br />

Pennsylvania — to point to a single instance<br />

where a voter could not vote because of a<br />

lack of ID,” he said. “I did a survey of Indiana,<br />

Maryland, and Mississippi and found only<br />

about 1.2 percent of registered voter did not<br />

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have photo IDs. The problem remains<br />

registration — not IDs — in reducing voting<br />

participation. To quote Jorge Luis Borges on<br />

the Falklands war, ‘It’s a fight between two<br />

bald men over a comb.’ ” But the registration<br />

issue is acute. Nearly every other advanced<br />

country maintains a national voter roll. In this<br />

country, which eschews a national identity<br />

card, there are 13,000 separate rolls<br />

maintained by counties, towns and<br />

municipalities. David Becker, director of<br />

Election Initiatives at Pew Charitable Trusts,<br />

said his group’s research shows that 2.2<br />

million votes were lost in 2008 as a result of<br />

voter registration difficulties. “So many<br />



problems that can result on Election Day are<br />

a result of inaccurate and incomplete<br />

information on the voter lists, which can lead<br />

to more provisional ballots because voters<br />

are in the wrong precinct because officials<br />

didn’t have the correct information,” he said.<br />

“Officials don’t get information about a move<br />

unless a voter affirmatively does something<br />

about their voter registration and that is<br />

usually in the 30 days before a presidential<br />

election. In between elections, officials are<br />

sending mail to some people who are no<br />

longer there.”<br />

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Paterson Aides Said to Have Sought<br />

Race-Based Changes to Security Detail in<br />

’08<br />

ALBANY — Aides to New York’s first<br />

African-American governor wanted a police<br />

entourage that looked more like their boss, so<br />

they made an unusual request to the State<br />

Police: Replace at least 10 white troopers<br />

assigned to protect Gov. David A. Paterson<br />

with black or Latino officers. The request<br />

prompted an extraordinary battle between the<br />

Paterson administration and leaders of the<br />

State Police shortly after Mr. Paterson, a<br />

Democrat, took office in 2008, according to<br />

court testimony, e-mails and interviews.<br />

Preston L. Felton, at the time the acting<br />

superintendent of the State Police and the<br />

first African-American to lead the agency,<br />

said the Paterson administration had sent him<br />

“a typed request to remove 10 to 15 white<br />

troopers, and 2 African-American troopers<br />

they didn’t like, and it was clear to me that<br />

they wanted to remove all the white troopers<br />

and replace them with African-American or<br />

Latino troopers.” State Police officials<br />

believed such moves would violate state law<br />

and lead to discrimination lawsuits. Mr.<br />

Felton said the dispute became so heated<br />

that he considered making a harassment<br />

complaint in Albany city court against a top<br />

Paterson aide. “It was something I was not<br />

going to do,” Mr. Felton said. “I was not going<br />

to break the law.” Former Paterson aides<br />

adamantly dispute many aspects of the<br />

accounts. In a statement, a spokesman, Sean<br />

Darcy, said, “There was no formal request by<br />

the governor’s office to alter the security<br />

detail.” “When the superintendent brought this<br />

to the attention of the governor’s secretary,”<br />

Mr. Darcy added, “he confirmed there was no<br />

such request.” Mr. Darcy also said the<br />

makeup of the security detail did not change.<br />

But, he said, three troopers who had<br />

protected Mr. Paterson when he was<br />

lieutenant governor, all of whom were black<br />

or Latino, traveled with Mr. Paterson when he<br />

became governor, because “he had a comfort<br />

level with those guys.” “In the end,” Mr. Darcy<br />

said, “there were no changes on the detail,<br />

except that the major that supervised the unit<br />

retired.” Mr. Paterson was not the first<br />

governor whose aides sought to exert control<br />

over a police entourage. Former Gov. George<br />

E. Pataki, a Republican, exerted control of his<br />

security detail through a politically connected<br />

police colonel whose role has been much<br />

scrutinized. Aspects of the dispute over the<br />

diversity of the governor’s security detail were<br />

reported in October 2008 in a column in The<br />

New York Post. A more specific account is<br />

now possible because newspapers have<br />

obtained a transcript of testimony given at the<br />

time by Glenn Valle, the former chief counsel<br />

of the State Police, in an investigation by<br />

Andrew M. Cuomo, then attorney general,<br />

into political interference in the agency. The<br />

availability of the transcript has led a number<br />

of the players in the dispute to speak publicly<br />

about the episode for the first time. As the<br />

dispute was unfolding, Mr. Felton laid out his<br />

concerns to a top Paterson administration<br />

official, Michael Balboni, saying in March<br />

2008 that the effort was led by two top<br />

Paterson aides, David W. Johnson and<br />

Clemmie L. Harris Jr. Mr. Felton wrote in an<br />

e-mail that Mr. Johnson, who directed the<br />

transfers, was rebuffed and told that the<br />

transfers would be “a clear-cut violation of our<br />

members’ civil rights, in addition to their<br />

contractual rights.” “I think David Johnson<br />

clearly took exception to being told this,” Mr.<br />

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Felton added. Mr. Johnson declined to<br />

comment through his lawyer, Oscar Michelen.<br />

Mr. Harris, a former state trooper, denied that<br />

he had played any role or knew of any such<br />

actions, saying the incoming Paterson<br />

administration was focused on the economic<br />

crisis. “We were facing some incredible<br />

headwinds and many sleepless nights, and I<br />

can say to you that issues involving the<br />

governor’s executive services detail weren’t<br />

even an afterthought,” he said. After Mr.<br />

Felton wrote the e-mail, he said that Charles<br />

O’Byrne, secretary to the governor and Mr.<br />

Paterson’s top aide, became incensed and<br />

threatened him, saying he wanted to knock<br />

his head against that of another official at the<br />

agency, and warning him about<br />

repercussions if the matter ever became<br />

public. Mr. Felton said that, as a result, “I<br />

called Glenn Valle, explained it to him, and<br />

said I’m getting tired of the harassment, and<br />

tell them it’s got to stop, because I’m on the<br />

verge of going down to the court and getting<br />

a warrant against O’Byrne for harassment.”<br />

Mr. O’Byrne denied the account. “The<br />

superintendent’s claim is the most absurd<br />



and ridiculous tale I’ve heard, even by the<br />

measure of Albany’s brand of politics,” he<br />

said in a statement. The Paterson<br />

administration ultimately dropped the request.<br />

Mr. Felton retired, and the security detail was<br />

later expanded and reorganized by his<br />

successor, Harry J. Corbitt. The dispute was<br />

not described in the attorney general’s report<br />

on political interference in the State Police.<br />

“The career prosecutors assigned to this<br />

investigation used their discretion and<br />

pursued relevant leads during their<br />

questioning of Valle and other witnesses,” Mr.<br />

Cuomo’s spokesman, Richard Bamberger,<br />

said. “They handled the matter professionally,<br />

and during the investigation, neither they nor<br />

the attorney general disclosed negative<br />

investigative information to the media.” Mr.<br />

Bamberger said the attorney general’s report<br />

recommended “that the State Police<br />

superintendent, and not the governor’s staff,<br />

handle appointments to the detail.” “That<br />

recommendation would address the reported<br />

concern, if accurate, and was prudent in any<br />

case,” he added.<br />

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USA Today/ - News, Ter, 31 de Julho de 2012<br />


Senate looks at state sales taxes for online<br />

purchases<br />

All online merchants could soon start<br />

charging state sales tax due to two bills<br />

gaining steam in Congress after at least a<br />

decade of debate.The Senate Commerce<br />

Committee holds a hearing Wednesday on<br />

the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), which<br />

would allow states to collect sales tax on all<br />

remote purchases and make it easier for<br />

merchants to determine each state's tax<br />

rate.If passed, it would reverse the effects of<br />

a 1992 Supreme Court decision exempting<br />

many online retailers from collecting state<br />

sales taxes unless they had a physical<br />

presence in the state, such as a warehouse.<br />

The decision argued it was too tough for<br />

remote sellers to comply with different state<br />

tax rules, says David French, senior vice<br />

president of government relations for National<br />

Retail Federation, which supports the Senate<br />

bill and the House's Marketplace Equity Act<br />

(MEA).STORY: Take time for a midyear tax<br />

checkup, it could save you moneyBut as<br />

e-commerce has boomed and states continue<br />

to suffer from recession-era budget cuts,<br />

proponents of collecting a tax say it's unfair<br />

that brick-and-mortar and online retailers are<br />

competing on an \"uneven playing field.\"<br />

Now technology makes it easier for<br />

merchants to follow the thousands of local tax<br />

codes.\"With the growth of e-commerce, it's<br />

more important than ever for this issue to be<br />

addressed,\" says Daniel Head, press<br />

secretary for Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., who<br />

introduced the MFA.NRF estimates local<br />

retailers are at a 6% to 10% price<br />

disadvantage because of collecting taxes that<br />

most online retailers don't. Research from<br />

University of Tennessee shows states will<br />

miss out on more than $23 billion in revenue<br />

this year from uncollected taxes.The Senate<br />

bill has 240 supporters, including online giant<br />

Amazon as well as Best Buy, Target and<br />

Walmart. But eBay objects to the<br />

small-business exemption in the bill, which<br />

maxes out at $500,000 in gross annual sales.<br />

The House bill exempts sellers up to $1<br />

million in gross annual sales.\"It's small<br />

businesses who would face the biggest new<br />

burden if you change this law the way that's<br />

being proposed,\" says Brian Bieron, senior<br />

director of federal government relations at<br />

eBay.Still, David Quam, director of federal<br />

relations at National Governors Association,<br />

says the Senate bill simply creates a uniform,<br />

easy way for states to collect a tax that's<br />

always been due. Consumers are supposed<br />

to note on their tax returns any remote<br />

purchases where a state tax wasn't collected,<br />

but compliance is very low because it's<br />

difficult to keep track of, he says..<br />

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01/08/2012


01/08/2012<br />

ABC Digital - Notícias<br />


Festejan el Día del Abogado, 324<br />



Uninor to auction biz, assets; Telenor evinces interest, 325<br />

Diario Libre - Notícias<br />


Sisalril reaffirms the financial situation of the State ARS is serious, 326<br />



Renfe cancela 267 AVE y trenes de larga y media distancia por la huelga del viernes, 327<br />



Courts mull whether illegal immigrants can be licensed to practice law, 328<br />



Plaintiffs rest case in Arizona sheriff's racial profiling trial, 330<br />



Raus aus den Teufelskreisen , 331<br />



Wie der Geldzauber funktionieren soll , 332<br />



US healthcare reforms to immensely benefit Indian IT-BPO companies: Chetan Kothari, Tricom India,<br />

333<br />

The New York Times - Notícias<br />


Senate Candidate in Texas Is Known as an Intellectual Force, 335<br />

USA Today - Notícias<br />


Gun ruling may become a model for the nation, 337<br />

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ABC Digital/ - Notícias, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Festejan el Día del Abogado<br />

La página web del Colegio de Abogados del<br />

Paraguay anuncia que se realizará un brindis<br />

tras la charla del magistrado Carmelo<br />

Castiglioni, quien disertará sobre Derecho<br />

Civil.La charla se efectúa en la sede del<br />

gremio, ubicada en 14 de Mayo esquina<br />

Manduvirá de Asunción.La Corte Suprema<br />

de Justicia tiene registrados a 30.445<br />

abogados en Paraguay, según el portal<br />

digital del Poder Judicial.<br />

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Business Line/ - Industry & Company, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Uninor to auction biz, assets; Telenor<br />

evinces interest<br />

Uninor on Wednesday said that it will auction<br />

its business and assets in a bid to get<br />

maximum possible returns for its investors.<br />

The company has invited bids till August 6.<br />

Norway’s Telenor is already in the race to buy<br />

the company. The move is being opposed by<br />

joint venture partner Unitech.<br />

“In view of the impending Supreme Court<br />

mandated cancellation of licence on<br />

September 7, 2012, Uninor management has<br />

decided to conduct an auction of Uninor’s<br />

business, including its assets, while the<br />

company is still a going concern. This will<br />

allow the company to generate the maximum<br />

possible returns for its creditors and also<br />

secure the future of Uninor’s customers,<br />

employees and business partners in the<br />

hands of new ownership,’’ Uninor said in the<br />

statement.<br />

The company said this process will ensure<br />

that the value of Uninor business is secured<br />

beyond September 7, as the winning bidder<br />

would have the ability to continue Uninor’s<br />

business as a going concern beyond<br />

September 7, 2012.<br />

“On the contrary, if the auction process is not<br />

followed, the company would have no option<br />

but to be liquidated post September 7, when<br />

the company loses its licences. As far as<br />

Uninor management is concerned, this is the<br />

only logical way to proceed as it allows the<br />

value built into the company to be preserved<br />

and not destroyed once the court ordered<br />

cancellation of licences comes into effect on<br />

September 7,’’ it said.<br />

Uninor added that it was obliged to take this<br />

course in light of its duties towards the<br />

company’s stakeholders, including its<br />

customers, employees, shareholders and<br />

partners.<br />

“More so when we already have an interest<br />

from Telenor Group willing to procure<br />

Uninor’s business. Telenor Asia Pte Ltd, a<br />

majority shareholder of the company, has<br />

indicated its willingness to participate through<br />

an Indian affiliate entity in the auction of the<br />

business of the company,’’ Uninor said.<br />

But it is not clear how the company will go<br />

ahead with the plan especially since Unitech<br />

has opposed it. According to sources in<br />

Unitech, it may take legal recourse to stop the<br />

auction.<br />

Telenor said that Unitech’s veto rights are<br />

automatically forfeited once it is established<br />

that the shareholders’ agreement and all<br />

rights enshrined in it, was based on fraud.<br />

“We are willing to establish this in court,<br />

should the need arise,’’ said a Telenor<br />

spokesperson.<br />


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Diario Libre/ - Notícias, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Sisalril reaffirms the financial situation of<br />

the State ARS is serious<br />

SD. The Superintendent of Health and Labor<br />

Risks (Sisalril) reaffirmed that the financial<br />

state of the Health Risk Administrator of the<br />

National Health Insurance (Senasa) and the<br />

Safe Health of the Dominican Social Security<br />

Institute is in a serious financial state,<br />

reaching a point where he feels that it is<br />

necessary for the government to supply some<br />

financial assistance.In a press release, the<br />

entity which is led by Fernando Caamaño,<br />

says that they tried everything in the process<br />

of technical assistance, sanctions and<br />

warnings to the two administrators, so that<br />

there is no other alternative than to take the<br />

cases to the National Council for Social<br />

Security (CNSS).Caamaño points out that the<br />

financial statistics for each ARS come from<br />

their own accounting books, that either they<br />

are not correct or not in line with their<br />

interests and they should be explained<br />

because they were sent to Sisalril and<br />

published as if they were correct in the<br />

media.Upon rejecting the Senasa arguments,<br />

which say that the deficit is RD$300,000,000,<br />

Sisalril says that this amount is only for the<br />

period between January 2011 and March<br />

2012 and that the accumulated losses of the<br />

ARS as of the beginning of June of this year<br />

are up to RD$1.039 billion and accounts<br />

payable to the Health Service Providers<br />

(PSS) add up to RD$2.509 billion, as well as<br />

a large deficit of the investment of the<br />

reserves which reaches RD$1.770 billion,<br />

which means that 70% of the PSS debts do<br />

not have any financial backing.In another<br />

part, the communiqué indicates that there is a<br />

deficit of RD$994 million with respect to the<br />

minimum capital that the company should<br />

have on hand.In the case of Safe Health,<br />

Sisalril said that they have operational losses<br />

of RD$681 million at the close of June, a<br />

capital deficit of RD$556 million and an<br />

investment in reserves of RD$490<br />

million.With regard to the argument of<br />

Senasa that the Sisalril ignored the decision<br />

from the Supreme Court of Justice, which<br />

orders the public employees to be shifted to<br />

Senasa, they say that what the decision says<br />

is to judicially endorse Resolution 112-2007<br />

dated 11 April of the same year and Article 31<br />

of Law 87-01, as a result of the appeal that<br />

the Superintendent filed before the<br />

Contentious Tax Tribunal (today known as<br />

the Superior Administrative Tribunal), a<br />

sentence which at that time favored the<br />

Association of University Employees of the<br />

UASD (Asodemu) who were trying not to be<br />

affiliated with the Senasa.The resolution<br />

orders the ARS to abstain from signing up the<br />

employees of the public sector because the<br />

law says that they have to be affiliated with<br />

the state health insurance.They say that as<br />

soon as the process of the development of<br />

the technological processes is finished they<br />

will transfer the affiliates that they should<br />

have.Likewise, they argue that the subsidized<br />

regime was not indexed, because in 2010<br />

they reported earnings and that the pensions<br />

were issued by decree.<br />


El País/ - Notícias, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Renfe cancela 267 AVE y trenes de larga<br />

y media distancia por la huelga del<br />

viernes<br />

Renfe ha cancelado un total de 267 trenes,<br />

80 AVE y de larga distancia y 187 de media<br />

distancia, por la huelga convocada para el<br />

próximo viernes. Según informa Renfe en su<br />

web, los viajeros con billetes adquiridos con<br />

antelación para los servicios afectados por la<br />

huelga pueden solicitar su cambio o<br />

reembolso sin coste adicional en estaciones<br />

y agencias de viaje.Los sindicatos con<br />

representación en el sector ferroviario han<br />

convocado una huelga de 24 horas en Adif,<br />

Renfe y Feve para este viernes, coincidiendo<br />

con desplazamientos masivos por las<br />

vacaciones de verano, en contra de los<br />

planes de liberalización ferroviaria del<br />

Gobierno. Con el paro, los representantes de<br />

los trabajadores ferroviario pretenden mostrar<br />

su rechazo a los planes anunciados el<br />

pasado viernes por el Ministerio de Fomento<br />

de abrir a la competencia el transporte de<br />

viajeros en tren en julio de 2013 y segregar la<br />

actual operadora pública Renfe en cuatro<br />

sociedades.Las cancelaciones de Renfe se<br />

derivan de los servicios mínimos establecidos<br />

por Fomento. En los servicios de trenes<br />

interurbanos, circularán 380 de los 567<br />

programados, lo que supone un 67%. En<br />

AVE y Larga Distancia se han incluido dentro<br />

de los servicios mínimos 246 de los 326<br />

trenes habituales, un porcentaje del 75%. En<br />

el caso de los trenes de Cercanías -con<br />

excepción de Cataluña, cuyos servicios<br />

gestiona la Generalitat-, se ofrecerá una<br />

media del 60% en horas punta (de 6.00 a<br />

9.00 horas) y 42% en horas valle, respecto a<br />

una jornada habitual.La noche del jueves 2 al<br />

viernes 3 circularán también los Trenhotel<br />

entre Madrid y París, y el viernes 3 el<br />

Madrid-París con salida a las 18.12. Además,<br />

se ha establecido un porcentaje del 19% de<br />

servicios mínimos, con respecto a lo habitual,<br />

en la circulación de trenes de Renfe<br />

Mercancías.Los servicios mínimos<br />

establecidos por Fomento han cosechado el<br />

rechazo total de los sindicatos, que han<br />

anunciado un recurso ante los tribunales por<br />

lo que consideran unos servicios mínimos<br />

"ilegales", "los más abusivos de la<br />

historia"."Fomento no ha admitido ni una<br />

propuesta de los sindicatos y ha dictado unos<br />

servicios máximos que constituyen un<br />

atentado al derecho constitucional a la<br />

huelga y una provocación", indican en un<br />

comunicado los sindicatos convocantes<br />

(CC.OO, UGT, CGT, Semaf, Sindicato<br />

Ferroviario y Sindicato de Circulación).Estas<br />

formaciones defienden que con la<br />

convocatoria de huelga "luchan para que el<br />

ferrocarril mantenga su consideración de<br />

público y social, y se convierta en un<br />

transporte realmente accesible a todos,<br />

mientras los altos cargos del Ministerio de<br />

Fomento y de las empresas públicas, desde<br />

sus coches oficiales, lo están hundiendo".La<br />

ministra de Fomento, Ana Pastor, reclamó a<br />

los responsables sindicales que "arrimen el<br />

hombro" y agoten la vía del "diálogo" antes<br />

de la huelga convocada para el próximo día 3<br />

en los servicios de Adif, Renfe y Feve. "Un<br />

día de pérdida de actividad supone unos<br />

cuantos millones de euros", en un contexto<br />

especialmente "crítico" para el sector<br />

ferroviario, ha señalado Pastor en<br />

declaraciones a los informadores antes de<br />

participar en un acto en el pazo de Mariñán,<br />

en A Coruña.<br />

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Reuters General/ - Article, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Courts mull whether illegal immigrants<br />

can be licensed to practice law<br />

By Mary Slosson SACRAMENTO | Tue Jul<br />

31, 2012 10:02pm EDT SACRAMENTO<br />

(Reuters) - A law school graduate seeking to<br />

join the California bar despite his status as an<br />

illegal immigrant may soon become a test<br />

case for other young and undocumented<br />

professionals as the state's highest court<br />

weighs whether he can be admitted to<br />

practice law. The state Supreme Court is<br />

mulling the case of 35-year-old Sergio<br />

Garcia, who has already found strong support<br />

both from California's attorney general and<br />

the state bar association. The court has<br />

requested guidance from the U.S. Justice<br />

Department on the matter that could come as<br />

early as Wednesday.The case is the latest<br />

battleground in the nation's immigration wars<br />

that have seen the Obama administration<br />

grant leniency to some young illegal<br />

immigrants brought to the country as children<br />

even as a number of states have sought to<br />

crack down on illegal immigrants within their<br />

borders.Garcia, who passed the bar exam,<br />

was brought to the United States when he<br />

was 17 months old by his parents. They left<br />

to return to their native Mexico when Garcia<br />

was eight or nine, only to return to the United<br />

States again when he was 17.His father was<br />

a U.S. permanent resident at the time, and<br />

later became a citizen. In 1994, he filed a<br />

petition for his son to be granted an<br />

immigrant visa. Approved in 1995, Garcia has<br />

been waiting 17 years for a visa that will allow<br />

him to become a lawful permanent resident<br />

and, eventually, a citizen.The Justice<br />

Department declined to comment on the<br />

case, but could soon weigh in after<br />

requesting in mid-July that it be granted an<br />

extension to August 1 to file a brief with its<br />

views on the matter. That opinion will carry<br />

weight for similar cases in Florida and New<br />

York."I am very hopeful and confident that<br />

they will weigh in my favor," Garcia told<br />

Reuters, declining to comment further.Garcia<br />

has already won support from state Attorney<br />

General Kamala Harris, who wrote an amicus<br />

brief to the state Supreme Court urging that<br />

he be admitted to the bar and describing him<br />

as "a model of the self-reliant and<br />

self-sufficient immigrant."Critics, however,<br />

say that allowing immigrants who are in the<br />

country illegally to become lawyers<br />

undermines the justice system, and that they<br />

should become legal immigrants first."Mr.<br />

Garcia is not qualified to practice law<br />

because he continually violates federal law by<br />

his presence in the United States," retired<br />

prosecutor for the state bar of California,<br />

Larry DeSha, wrote in an opposition brief.The<br />

California Supreme Court has not given any<br />

indication of how long it might take to make a<br />

decision on Garcia's case after it receives<br />

guidance from the U.S. Department of<br />

Justice.LIKEWISE IN FLORIDA, NEW<br />

YORKWhatever the guidance, it could impact<br />

the cases of other young law school<br />

graduates in other states who find<br />

themselves in similar circumstances including<br />

a case that is making its way through<br />

Florida's legal system.A 26-year-old Eagle<br />

Scout who has the backing of his former law<br />

professors at the Florida State University<br />

College of Law to enter the legal profession,<br />

Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperio arrived in<br />

the United States at the age of nine, when his<br />

parents illegally carried him across the border<br />

from Mexico.The Florida Board of Bar<br />

Examiners asked that state's Supreme Court<br />

for guidance on whether Godinez-Samperio<br />

and others like him could be admitted to the<br />

state bar association as full-fledged lawyers.<br />

The court has yet to issue an opinion.In New<br />

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York, immigrant rights activist Cesar Vargas<br />

finds himself in a similar position. A law<br />

school graduate, he passed the bar exam<br />

and will face the same issues when he<br />

applies to be admitted to the bar as a<br />

lawyer.Vargas was brought to the United<br />

States from Mexico when he was five years<br />

old. He put himself through college and then<br />

law school thanks to private scholarships and<br />

community support."My graduation was<br />

bittersweet, since I was accomplishing<br />

something that made my family proud, but<br />

knew I wasn't going to be a lawyer because<br />

of my status," Vargas told Reuters.The<br />



Obama administration announced in June<br />

that hundreds of thousands of illegal<br />

immigrants brought into the United States as<br />

children will be able to avoid deportation and<br />

get work permits.That move was a nod to<br />

supporters of the DREAM Act, legislation that<br />

would allow certain children of illegal<br />

immigrants to stay in the United States to<br />

pursue college education and jobs and put<br />

them on a path to citizenship.(Reporting by<br />

Mary Slosson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston<br />

and Lisa Shumaker)<br />

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Plaintiffs rest case in Arizona sheriff's<br />

racial profiling trial<br />

By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX | Tue Jul 31, 2012<br />

10:05pm EDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - Lawyers<br />

representing Hispanic drivers who say they<br />

were racially profiled by a controversial<br />

Arizona lawman who bills himself as<br />

"America's toughest sheriff" rested their case<br />

on Tuesday in the third week of a federal<br />

class-action trial. The case in U.S. District<br />

Court in Phoenix against Maricopa County<br />

Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office will test<br />

whether police can target illegal immigrants<br />

without racially profiling Hispanic citizens and<br />

legal residents.The judge in the case, Murray<br />

Snow, ordered closing statements to be<br />

submitted in writing on August 9, with<br />

rebuttals submitted a week later. He said he<br />

would rule after that.The trial has focused<br />

attention again on law enforcement and<br />

immigration issues in Arizona. In June, the<br />

U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key element<br />

of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants<br />

requiring police to investigate those they stop<br />

and suspect of being in the country<br />

illegally.Arpaio, 80, testified under oath last<br />

week that he was against "anyone racial<br />

profiling" and denied his office arrested<br />

"people because of the color of their<br />

skin."Cecillia Wang, a counsel for the<br />

plaintiffs, said her side had proven the<br />

charges against Arpaio and his office, and<br />

that sheriff's officers had admitted in court<br />

that "Hispanic ethnicity" was a factor in<br />

developing suspicion of illegal immigration<br />

status during traffic stops.Other evidence<br />

presented showed "top brass" at the office<br />

circulated anti-Latino materials, "sending the<br />

message that race discrimination would be<br />

tolerated," Wang said.The sheriff, who is<br />

seeking re-election to a sixth term in<br />

November, has been a lightning rod for<br />

controversy over his aggressive enforcement<br />

of immigration laws in the state bordering<br />

Mexico.The suit was brought against Arpaio<br />

and his office on behalf of five people of<br />

Hispanic background who said they were<br />

stopped by deputies because of their<br />

ethnicity, which Arpaio denies.Tim Casey,<br />

counsel for the defense, asked the judge on<br />

Tuesday to dismiss the case, saying the<br />

plaintiffs had not showed sufficient evidence<br />

for him to rule in their favor.The judge denied<br />

the motion.(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and<br />

Mohammad Zargham)<br />

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Süddeutsche Zeitung/ - Politik, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Raus aus den Teufelskreisen<br />

Ein Kommentar von Stefan Kornelius<br />

Es naht der Zeitpunkt in dieser Euro-Krise,<br />

wo den Europäern ein letztes Urteil<br />

abverlangt wird: eine wirkliche Festlegung,<br />

auf welcher Seite der Rettungs-Philosophien<br />

man am Ende stehen will. Auch Deutschland<br />

reicht es nicht mehr, dagegen zu sein. Es<br />

muss sich entscheiden, wofür es ist - selbst<br />

wenn nur schlechte und sehr schlechte<br />

Optionen zu Wahl stehen.<br />

Die für die Sommertage zuständigen<br />

politischen Meinungsführer in Deutschland<br />

haben inzwischen unzweideutig klargemacht,<br />

wogegen sie sind in Sachen Euro-Rettung:<br />

gegen Interventionen der Europäischen<br />

Zentralbank, gegen eine Bankenlizenz für<br />

den Rettungsfonds, gegen zusätzliche Hilfe<br />

für Griechenland. Sie sind auch gegen<br />

Treffen von Mario Monti und François<br />

Hollande, weil sie eine Verschwörung wittern.<br />

Und sie empören sich über den Besuch des<br />

US-Finanzministers bei der EZB, weil allein<br />

die physische Präsenz des Amerikaners die<br />

Unabhängigkeit der Bank gefährden könnte.<br />

Die Wahrheit ist: Keiner ist mehr unabhängig<br />

in dieser Krise, und es naht der Zeitpunkt, wo<br />

ein letztes Urteil abverlangt wird, eine<br />

wirkliche Festlegung, auf welcher Seite der<br />

Rettungs-Philosophien man am Ende stehen<br />

will. Es reicht also nicht mehr aus, stets<br />

dagegen zu sein - es stellt sich nun die<br />

Frage, wofür man ist.<br />

Zwei Teufelskreise behindern zur Zeit jede<br />

Lösung der Krise, beide haben mit Vertrauen<br />

zu tun. Die Märkte kaufen den Krisenstaaten<br />

ihre Anleihen nur zu hohen Zinssätzen ab,<br />

weil sie befürchten, ihr Geld nie wieder zu<br />

sehen. Und die solventen Staaten (wie<br />

Deutschland) wollen für die Schuldner nicht<br />

bürgen, weil sie an deren Reformbereitschaft<br />

zweifeln.<br />

Beide Teufelskreise werden von einem<br />

gewaltigen Maß an Irrationalität genährt. Die<br />

hat sich in den vergangenen Tagen in<br />

schrillen politischen Vorwürfen entladen woran sich ablesen lässt, wie gereizt und<br />

voller nationaler Ressentiments inzwischen<br />

die Atmosphäre ist. Die Rettung wird dadurch<br />

nicht leichter.<br />

Nationale Ressentiments führen zu Nichts<br />

Dem deutschen Publikum stünde es gut an,<br />

sich für einen Moment in die katastrophale<br />

Lage eines Spaniers, Italieners oder<br />

Griechen zu versetzen. In allen Ländern ist<br />

der Reformdruck immens, überall herrscht ein<br />

Gefühl schreiender Ungerechtigkeit sowohl<br />

gegenüber den Finanzeliten des Landes als<br />

auch gegenüber dem reichen Deutschland,<br />

das nur noch als kaltherzige Maschine<br />

wahrgenommen wird (die nebenbei an der<br />

Krise nicht schlecht verdient).<br />

Die Politik in diesen Ländern spürt, dass sie<br />

den Reformdruck nicht länger<br />

gesellschaftsverträglich aufrechterhalten<br />

kann. In diesen Momenten entsteht der<br />

Wunsch nach einer Rettungsagentur mit<br />

einer Banklizenz. In diesem Moment wächst<br />

der Zorn auf ein Verfassungsgericht, das<br />

offenbar als einziges Rechtsorgan auf dem<br />

Kontinent Zweifel an der<br />

Demokratietauglichkeit der Euro-Rettung hat<br />

und sich mit seiner Prüfung so viel Zeit lässt,<br />

dass es im September zu einer gefährlichen<br />

Verdichtung von Rettungs-Terminen kommen<br />

wird. In diesem Moment entstehen<br />

Formulierungen, wonach Deutschland dieses<br />

Rest-Europa wie eine Filiale behandele.<br />

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Süddeutsche Zeitung/ - Politik, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Wie der Geldzauber funktionieren soll<br />

Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen von<br />

Catherine Hoffmann und Markus Zydra<br />

Showdown bei der Euro-Rettung: Länder wie<br />

Frankreich und Italien wollen den neuen<br />

Rettungsschirm ESM mit unbegrenzter Kraft<br />

ausstatten. Deutschland ist empört, denn das<br />

könnte sehr teuer werden. Doch der Druck,<br />

eine ultimative Lösung zu finden, ist groß.<br />

Die Euro-Rettung ist ein schwieriges<br />

Geschäft, gepflastert mit Enttäuschung. Nun<br />

wollen Länder wie Frankreich und Italien zum<br />

großen Befreiungsschlag ausholen: Der neue<br />

Rettungsschirm ESM soll mit einer praktisch<br />

unbegrenzten Feuerkraft ausgestattet<br />

werden. Die Deutschen sind empört. Doch<br />

der Druck, eine ultimative Lösung zu finden,<br />

ist groß. Das zeigt allein schon die massive<br />

Kapitalflucht aus Krisenländern wie Spanien:<br />

Seit Jahresanfang haben Anleger mehr als<br />

160 Milliarden Euro außer Landes geschafft,<br />

ein Misstrauensvotum. Ob ein ESM mit<br />

Banklizenz die Zweifel zerstreuen kann? Die<br />

SZ beantwortet die sieben wichtigsten Fragen<br />

zu diesem Plan.<br />

Wie funktioniert die Lösung?<br />

Europa erwägt, den neuen<br />

Euro-Schutzschirm ESM mit einer Banklizenz<br />

auszustatten, die es ihm erlaubt, sich<br />

praktisch unbegrenzt bei der Europäischen<br />

Zentralbank (EZB) zu leihen. Technisch<br />

funktioniert das so: Der ESM kauft an den<br />

Finanzmärkten Anleihen finanzschwacher<br />

Staaten. Dadurch sinkt der Zinssatz etwa für<br />

Spanien und Italien. Anschließend reicht der<br />

ESM diese Anleihen an die EZB als<br />

Sicherheit weiter; im Gegenzug erhält er<br />

dafür von der Notenbank einen Kredit.<br />

Braucht der ESM eine extra Banklizenz?<br />

Nein, das ist im ESM-Vertrag Artikel 32<br />

eindeutig geregelt, demnach ist der ESM von<br />

der Pflicht befreit, sich als Kreditinstitut<br />

lizenzieren zu lassen. Die entscheidende<br />

Frage ist vielmehr, ob die EZB den ESM als<br />

Geschäftspartner akzeptiert. Das ist<br />

umstritten. In einer rechtlichen<br />

Stellungnahme hat der frühere EZB-Chef<br />

Jean-Claude Trichet am 17. März 2011<br />

erklärt, dass der ESM kein Geschäftspartner<br />

der Notenbank sein könne. Hintergrund ist<br />

die besondere Rolle des ESM als Financier<br />

von Staaten. Der EZB ist die monetäre<br />

Staatsfinanzierung verboten, deshalb könne<br />

man dem ESM keine Kredite geben, so<br />

Trichet damals.<br />

Der Ökonom Thomas Mayer, früher<br />

Chefvolkswirt der Deutschen Bank, ist<br />

anderer Meinung: "Der Internationale<br />

Währungsfonds hat auch Zugang zu<br />

Notenbankkrediten; die Bundesbank kann<br />

dem IWF Kredit geben. Ich erwarte, dass dies<br />

auch auf den ESM zutrifft." Jörg Krämer,<br />

Chefvolkswirt der Commerzbank, meint:<br />

"Wenn die EZB das mitmacht, dann<br />

widerspricht das dem Geist der Notenbank,<br />

nämlich dem der politischen Unabhängigkeit aber es würde mich nicht wundern, wenn die<br />

EZB mitspielt."<br />

Ist das jetzt der große Wurf?<br />

Der ESM kann die Krise entschärfen zunächst zumindest. "Falls der Fonds<br />

EZB-Kredite bekommen sollte, wird das<br />

extrem positiv von den Märkten<br />

aufgenommen werden", sagt Jochen<br />

Felsenheimer, Geschäftsführer des<br />

Vermögensverwalters Assenagon. "Die<br />

Renditeaufschläge in den Problemländern<br />

werden zurückgehen."<br />

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The Economic Times/ - News, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


US healthcare reforms to immensely<br />

benefit Indian IT-BPO companies:<br />

Chetan Kothari, Tricom India<br />

Barack Obama's signature legislative<br />

achievement, Patient Protection and<br />

Affordable Care Act, is anticipated to bring<br />

around 30 million uninsured Americans under<br />

the healthcare coverage. Chetan Kothari,<br />

managing director of Andheri-based Tricom<br />

India Limited, tells Irum Khan and Dhiren<br />

Dukhu that the reform will immensely benefit<br />

the Indian IT-BPO companies; however, lack<br />

of infrastructure boost at the local level is still<br />

an impediment. Edited excerpts:<br />

What does the future of IT (information<br />

technology) and ITeS (IT-enabled services)<br />

industry hold for us?<br />

In spite of the ongoing global economic<br />

uncertainties, the Indian IT and ITeS industry<br />

will continue to hold a strong position in terms<br />

of acquiring new business and at the same<br />

time providing top quality service. This is<br />

because India has consistently proved itself<br />

as the preferred destination by foreign<br />

investors given that apart from required skills<br />

and attitude, we have a strong liquidity<br />

position, deep understanding in innovative<br />

business models, advancement in providing<br />

better customer service, concentration on<br />

new markets and flexibility in adopting<br />

emerging technologies.<br />

When we talk about healthcare services what<br />

is the scope for ITeS in India?<br />

The US Supreme Court has advocated the<br />

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,<br />

President Barack Obama's signature<br />

legislative achievement signed into law in<br />

2010. With the new law around 30 million<br />

uninsured Americans are expected to buy<br />

healthcare insurance. If the reform comes<br />

into effect (anticipated by 2014) it will<br />

immensely benefit the Indian IT-BPO<br />

companies as new projects are expected in<br />

the form of data conversion, creation and<br />

management of electronic health records, as<br />

well as claims processing and insurance<br />

sales.<br />

Reports from Everest Group have estimated<br />

that the US market for IT services in health<br />

care is about $14 billion to $15 billion<br />

currently and is growing at 5-7 percent every<br />

year. Because of Obamacare, the market<br />

could grow between eight and 10 percent, an<br />

incremental growth of 3 percent. The number<br />

of deals could grow by 20 percent. This could<br />

be manifested as a remarkable juncture in the<br />

history of Indian IT-ITeS industry.<br />

Has the government in India leveraged on the<br />

IT growth for the healthcare sector?<br />

Healthcare documentation and processing in<br />

India still has a long way to go. We stand<br />

second in world population and without the<br />

intervention of the IT, it is practically<br />

impossible to administer such large number<br />

of data management. The government needs<br />

to generate more awareness amongst<br />

hospitals, insurance companies and the<br />

people at large about the benefits of effective<br />

management of healthcare back office<br />

operations.<br />

What would be your suggestions for<br />

streamlining healthcare segment?<br />

There is a lot that needs to be done to<br />

streamline the functioning of healthcare back<br />

office operations. There is a general<br />

misconception that third party administrators<br />

do not deliver the kind of quality work<br />

expected from them. Moreover, there is a fear<br />

of information leakage, loss of data and time,<br />

costs and lack of customer satisfaction which<br />

needs to be taken care of. Healthcare BPOs<br />

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have not been given enough authority to<br />

deliver best results. Healthcare BPOs is an<br />

evolving business in India and with time it<br />

needs to be more seamless for the benefit of<br />

the patient and the hospital.<br />

What are your plans for a deeper dive into the<br />

healthcare segment?<br />

Tricom India plans to broaden the horizons of<br />

the healthcare vertical by providing end to<br />

end support and solutions to our clients. In<br />

the near future we plan to commence<br />

advanced mailroom and scanning centres for<br />

our clients.<br />

The Economic Times/ - News, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


What are the regulatory bottlenecks faced by<br />

the IT industry both in India and abroad?<br />

If you observe, more often regulatory policies<br />

do aid in decision making process while doing<br />

business within one's country or abroad,<br />

however, increased regulatory control in the<br />

face of global economic crisis effects global<br />

sourcing, increases competition from new<br />

and emerging countries, exchange rate of<br />

currency and effects the smooth functioning<br />

of carrying out day to day operations.<br />

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The New York Times/ - Notícias, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Senate Candidate in Texas Is Known as<br />

an Intellectual Force<br />

HOUSTON — As a teenager, Ted Cruz was<br />

an intense and eloquent parser of free-market<br />

economics, dazzling Rotary Clubs here in<br />

Houston by reciting the Constitution. At<br />

Princeton, he was a national champion<br />

debater and an intellectual leader of a band<br />

of conservative students. He was a star at<br />

Harvard Law School and clerked for the chief<br />

justice of the Supreme Court. But few may<br />

have imagined Mr. Cruz, 41, in his newest<br />

role, as the Tea Party favorite and<br />

Republican candidate for the United States<br />

Senate, trading verbal orchids with the likes<br />

of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. Mr. Cruz<br />

earned the nomination on Tuesday in a runoff<br />

election after more than a year of sweaty<br />

street campaigning, drawing national<br />

attention for beating Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst,<br />

the more experienced nominee of the Texas<br />

Republican establishment. “I’d have predicted<br />

that he would be a professor, not a politician,”<br />

said Robert P. George, Mr. Cruz’s adviser at<br />

Princeton in the early 1990s. Professor<br />

George, a noted social conservative, said that<br />

Mr. Cruz stood out even among his Ivy<br />

League peers as “intellectually and morally<br />

serious,” writing his thesis on the separation<br />

of powers. “But he’s certainly not a shrinking<br />

violet,” Mr. George quickly added in an<br />

interview Tuesday — to which, Mr. Dewhurst,<br />

a wealthy conservative who had the support<br />

of Gov. Rick Perry, can attest. Mr. Cruz’s<br />

victory in November is all but assured in this<br />

heavily Republican state and marks a shift to<br />

the right in the already-conservative party<br />

here. Political elders and experts who have<br />

watched him during his time here as state<br />

solicitor general and on the campaign trail<br />

predict that he will be an intellectual force in<br />

the Congress on behalf of Constitutional<br />

limits on federal power. He is expected to join<br />

Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina and<br />

other Tea Party icons as an uncompromising<br />

irritant of mainstream Republicans and<br />

Democrats alike. It helps, of course, that Mr.<br />

Cruz has the smooth good looks and<br />

practiced speech of a television host and is<br />

able to channel his knowledge into sound<br />

bites. “He has the potential to be a national<br />

figure,” said Mark P. Jones, a political<br />

scientist at Rice University, noting Mr. Cruz’s<br />

intellect and oratorical skills. “He’ll be a<br />

senator from the second-largest state in the<br />

nation,” Mr. Jones said, “and he’s very good<br />

on television, a perfectly designed politician<br />

for today’s 24-hour news cycle.” Speaking to<br />

the Values Voters Summit in Washington in<br />

October, Mr. Cruz drew a standing ovation as<br />

he repeated the themes of the political and<br />

religious right. He called President Obama<br />

the country’s “most radical president,” railed<br />

against the “gay rights agenda” and warned<br />

against new threats to “religious liberty.”<br />

Within days, National Review anointed him as<br />

“the next great conservative hope.” On<br />

Tuesday, as he greeted supporters in<br />

sweltering heat outside a polling station, Mr.<br />

Cruz and his wife, Heidi, were picture-perfect,<br />

not a wrinkle on their clothes nor a hair out of<br />

place. Mr. Cruz said that his first dive into<br />

electoral politics had left him feeling<br />

“invigorated and inspired.” “Every day, I come<br />

home with a spring in my step,” he said to the<br />

wildly enthusiastic group of grass-roots<br />

volunteers and to the cameras.”We’ve got to<br />

work together to stop the Obama agenda and<br />

take this country back.” Rafael Edward Cruz<br />

was born on Dec. 22, 1970 in Calgary,<br />

Canada, where his parents worked in the oil<br />

business. Mr. Cruz’s parents are central to<br />

the personal narrative he tells, how he got so<br />

devoted to his conservative brand of freedom.<br />

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His father, now a Baptist pastor, fled from<br />

Cuba in 1957 with $100 sewn into his<br />

underwear and worked his way through the<br />

University of Texas. His mother, Eleanor, was<br />

the first in her family to finish college, at Rice,<br />

and ran an energy company. They returned<br />

to Texas when he was a child and he<br />

graduated from a baptist high school in<br />

Houston. His father told him as a child, Mr.<br />

Cruz often says, that “if we lose our freedom<br />

here, where do we go?” Tuesday night, Mr.<br />

Cruz was joined on the victory stand by his<br />

parents, his wife and two small, blond<br />

daughters who held their hands over their<br />

ears as the large crowd wildly cheered their<br />

father. Mr. Cruz tends to spend any spare<br />

time with his daughters, said his friend Kelly<br />

Shackelford, president of the Liberty Institute,<br />

an Evangelical Christian legal group based in<br />

Texas. Mr. Cruz worked in private law<br />

practice in the late 1990s and then began his<br />

turn into politics, working on the presidential<br />

campaign of George W. Bush then working at<br />

the Federal Trade Commission and the<br />

Justice Department. In 2003 he returned to<br />

Texas as solicitor general, giving him a direct<br />

chance to press for his ideals in the courts.<br />

Mr. Cruz argued before the Supreme Court<br />

nine times and has trumpeted his successes.<br />

In his most notable victory, the court affirmed<br />

the right of Texas to ignore instructions from<br />

the International Court of Justice and the<br />

Bush administration to review an illegal<br />

immigrant’s death sentence. He also helped<br />

The New York Times/ - Notícias, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


argue that Texas could have a monument to<br />

the Ten Commandments at the Capitol, and<br />

keep the words “under God” in the Pledge of<br />

Allegiance. But critics say that in the<br />

campaign he took too much credit for his own<br />

role in those cases, which are red meat for<br />

his evangelical supporters. Since 2008 he<br />

has worked in a private law firm here, Morgan<br />

Lewis, often representing corporate clients. In<br />

the runoff campaign, Mr. Cruz scorched his<br />

opponent with charges that he was a<br />

conciliator, too quick to compromise. But Mr.<br />

Cruz has yet to grapple with the seemingly<br />

impossible choices faced by Congress as it<br />

seeks to balance the budget without gutting<br />

Medicare or Social Security, for example. In<br />

the last few days of the campaign — perhaps<br />

in a last-minute effort to attract mainstream<br />

Republicans, or perhaps in a preview of the<br />

dilemmas ahead — Mr. Cruz sounded a bit<br />

more conciliatory himself, suddenly talking<br />

about “reaching across the aisle.” In a brief<br />

interview on Tuesday, he said that his role<br />

model in this respect was Ronald Reagan.<br />

“President Reagan stood for conservative<br />

principles in a way that brought people<br />

together,” he said. Republicans have too<br />

often had it backward, he said, “making<br />

hateful attacks but then compromising on<br />

basic principle.” “But I am not willing to<br />

compromise on allowing the government to<br />

keep growing and expanding our debt,” he<br />

said.<br />

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USA Today/ - Notícias, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Gun ruling may become a model for the<br />

nation<br />

WILMINGTON, Del. -- In a decision that may<br />

become a model for the nation, a federal<br />

judge here ruled that gun restrictions imposed<br />

by the Wilmington Housing Authority on its<br />

residents are constitutional.The housing<br />

authority's policy of prohibiting residents from<br />

openly carrying firearms in \"common areas\"<br />

of public housing buildings is reasonable and<br />

does not unduly restrict residents' Second<br />

Amendment right to own and possess a gun,<br />

U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark wrote in<br />

a 42-page opinion.\"It is a good day for the<br />

residents of public housing,\" the housing<br />

authority's executive director, Frederick S.<br />

Purnell, said Tuesday, adding the policy is<br />

designed to protect the safety of tenants, not<br />

limit their rights.The plaintiffs in the National<br />

Rifle Association-financed lawsuit, residents<br />

Charles Boone and a woman only identified<br />

as \"Jane Doe,\" could not be reached for<br />

comment. But their lawyer, Francis X. Pileggi,<br />

said the federal suit originally was filed to<br />

overturn a blanket ban on gun ownership in<br />

this city's public housing, \"and that was<br />

changed after we filed a lawsuit.\"The NRA<br />

declined comment on the restrictions or<br />

Stark's ruling. NRA spokeswoman Jacqueline<br />

Otto said the important thing is that the right<br />

of residents of public housing to have a gun<br />

was upheld.Pileggi said they have not<br />

decided whether to appeal.According to the<br />

ruling, Boone testified that the ban on guns in<br />

common areas, such as halls and lounges,<br />

was \"a reasonable policy.\"\"Yet again, a<br />

court has affirmed that the Second<br />

Amendment does not infringe on gun owners'<br />

rights when it comes to common-sense<br />

restrictions on the carrying of guns in public<br />

spaces,\" according to a statement from the<br />

Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which<br />

filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the<br />

housing authority.At Park View Apartments -where<br />

\"Jane Doe\" lives, according to court<br />

papers -- residents gathered in a ground-floor<br />

community room Tuesday were divided about<br />

the idea of their neighbors having guns in<br />

their units. But all seemed to support the ban<br />

on guns in common areas.\"I don't like the<br />

guns,\" said Jeanette Mayo, 75, one of a<br />

group of 10 senior citizens sitting around card<br />

tables. \"A lot of these seniors, these<br />

old-timers, they aren't thinking right. Their<br />

minds are not functioning right.\"Mayo said<br />

firearms have no place in her apartment<br />

building, noting many residents have<br />

grandchildren who visit and having guns<br />

around them could be dangerous.\"I don't<br />

believe in having guns in the common area,<br />

but if (people) want a gun in their apartment,<br />

then that's OK,\" said resident Beulah<br />

Goldsborough, 69.Oliver Talbert, 74, a proud,<br />

card-carrying NRA member, agreed with<br />

Goldsborough. Talbert said he joined the<br />

NRA a year ago after one of his friends was<br />

killed in a home invasion.\"No guns? Of<br />

course not,\" Talbert said. \"That's an<br />

infringement of my Second Amendment<br />

rights.\"Some residents sitting on purple and<br />

gray plastic chairs in the community room<br />

said they had guns in their apartments but<br />

would not provide their names. They said<br />

they have the right to defend themselves if<br />

needed.The original lawsuit was filed June 1,<br />

2010. A few weeks later, a landmark U.S.<br />

Supreme Court ruling found that state and<br />

local governments couldn't impose blanket<br />

bans on gun ownership. Following that ruling,<br />

the housing authority dropped its blanket ban<br />

on firearms in September 2010 and instead<br />

adopted the restrictions on guns in common<br />

areas.Residents who violate the policy face<br />

possible eviction.But the plaintiffs, backed by<br />

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the NRA, did not drop their lawsuit after the<br />

housing authority made changes, insisting<br />

that the new restrictions also were<br />

unconstitutional. The Brady Center to Prevent<br />

Gun Violence filed a friend-of-the-court brief<br />

supporting the housing authority.Stark<br />

handed down his ruling late last week, and<br />

judgment was entered in favor of the housing<br />

authority Monday.Daniel Vice, senior attorney<br />

with the Brady Center, said the Stark opinion<br />

approving a public housing authority's power<br />

to put limits on gun possession is a first.\"So<br />

this ruling will set an important precedent for<br />

other housing authorities around the<br />

country,\" he said.The housing authority's<br />

USA Today/ - Notícias, Qua, 01 de Agosto de 2012<br />


Purnell agreed: \"A lot of people around the<br />

country were waiting for this ruling.\"Since the<br />

Supreme Court rulings in 2010, Loyola Law<br />

School Professor Laurie L. Levenson said<br />

courts \"have been looking for someone to<br />

take first step\" on how to analyze and handle<br />

gun rights cases.Now that Stark has taken<br />

that step, Levenson said his opinion is likely<br />

to be influential on other courts considering<br />

similar cases.\"This is a very important case,\"<br />

she said.Purnell said it also was an<br />

expensive case, costing the housing authority<br />

nearly $500,000 to defend against the legal<br />

action.<br />

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