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This is too nerdy to be explained, but has its charms, and explains why I've been a month and a half without posting:

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called "Intervention in Libya? Let

1. The issue is important and passionate, no doubt. In fact, "progressives" in this country goes disunited: the PSOE, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, and even Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds are in favor of the intervention, the United Left and the Galician Nationalist Bloc are opposed.
2. The question of military intervention in Libya is among the most complex you can ask an advocate of peace, human rights, democracy and the thousand other things that men and women share as well. It is complex because underneath as often in so many difficult ethical issues, which is behind the conflict between ends and means.
3. almost certainly that most of you reading this blog agrees considered Gaddafi a satrap and a half-mad dictator who is doing great harm to his people. Moreover, tod @ s we know that has gotten where he is, and above all that has been there, and welcome the support of Western countries while this has been the best choice for your interest.
4. Many other countries in situations similar to the current western Libya where you are not posing in any way the intervention. Without going too far, Yemen and Bahrain for example. Why not clean satraps western countries? No doubt there are spurious interests after the election.
5. seems that the "rebellion of the Libyan people" lacks some qualities of those that have enjoyed other rebellions like Tunisia or Egypt. In Libya there is a significant dispute between tribes. Behind the uprisings of the Benghazi region has not only been joined by unarmed citizens facebook: no weapons.
6. A question radically different in the case of Libya compared to other Western interventions in the Arab world (notably, the invasion of Iraq) is the existence now of a UN resolution that authorizes it to intervene on behalf of the defense and security of civilians from the atrocities committed against his people by Gaddafi. How can tick a bombardment by aircraft of civil protest?
7. The Security Council resolution referred to UN intervention specifically excludes any land in Libya, but how do we know what we end up happening?
8. Libya has a lot of oil. Do not be influenced that of peak oil in this case? (Rhetorical question, as you see)

Well, again, the issue is very complex.

I, in particular:
- I will not Gaddafi continues massacring its people, or part of
- do not want that Western countries use this crisis for their own interest
- do not want to go to war as an instrument of conflict resolution

Therefore, I positions for the UN resolution and that means supporting airspace block to prevent the actions of the army of Qaddafi, but I am totally against any military action type western offensive, as it seems have begun to produce.

I am sure that in relation to this thorny issue, many of you will have your own different opinion. I would like to share it with me and read this.

PS: added later.

Equo has issued a statement on the intervention in Libya sharing and linking here.

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modern, new

Yes, we are modern. Building a new modernity. Let's shelve definitive values \u200b\u200band mindsets that exist during the last 30 years in Western culture.

Postmodernism had his one. Molona proved to many. After the idealists and radicals 60 and 70 years of the twentieth century, after the disappointment of 80, a Most people settled into a comfortable postmodernity empty of content but full of complacency.

was something that happened in the world, but in Spain, many would blame it practices the government of Felipe Gonzalez, who sits on a pervasive pragmatism would open the doors to the culture of the pitch at first, and a relatively widespread corruption afterwards. Corruption, which to our regret, it has only been a crescendo since then.

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I never felt comfortable in the culture of disenchantment, in that lack of values. Even I liked, I confess, or Madrid nightlife and music, or that aesthetic of tacks, shoulder pads and stiff hair. And not just because I had already begun, at that time, to lose mine.

Insconcientemente on my part, then those eighties were not to my liking. Then I've been becoming aware of why. Had spread among the people of identity left in doubt on the idea of \u200b\u200bprogress. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a definite bump occurred among those who had always dreamed of a just society and an alternative to capitalism. The message that permeated among young people since then is: if there is no better future, enjoy the present.

But progress is possible. Of course, I am not referring to any kind of growth, not even any 'sustainable development' worth (hardly find another concept so prostituted by use intentions and interests like this).

Several factors have led us to become aware of this impossibility:

• globalization. It is not physically possible that the entire world population could live while maintaining the standard of living in Western countries.
• the energy crisis. We are close to reaching peak oil, this means that No more cheap energy and system-wide consumption and sustained mobility on it.
• finitude of the planet. The Earth always seemed big (although as of today not so much), but the truth is that it has a certain size: it is not infinite. Resources, therefore, are limited.

progress can not therefore be understood hereafter as material growth, and enjoy more objects, more products, more luxuries. There is progress, but fails to strike a new balance with nature and with ourselves.

passes a new economic culture supported the possibility, real, live better with less.

And he goes, especially, by the need to a new political culture built on values \u200b\u200bof ethics, equity, justice and solidarity .

That must be the new currency

Of all depends on building a better world

PS: you can go to Wikipedia to find out which are the modern and postmodernity

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Public and private and State Privacy

You know my fondness for the opposite of my tendency to perceive the duality of things or try to see both sides of the coin. Not in vain several entries in this blog have taken in her degree as a confrontation of terms. Examples are: secularism versus Lacicidad "," "or more More Lyrics Science?" , "Culture and Market " or " Land: love sacred and profane love "(one of the oldest). And more.

The fact is that this game has a different objective examinations in each case. My purpose today is to demonstrate that public and private non- enemies but necessary constituents both a life in freedom.

I recently read the book by the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky entitled "Defense private " and agree with him that privacy is the foundation of personal freedom. Without private space can not be freedom. What would be defending when we defend freedom, but the right to be different in our individuality, the right to "our area of \u200b\u200bfreedom, our privacy. This includes the right to organize our lives according to our own desires, habits, beliefs, and do not topemos how far to the right of others.

However I am not anything agree with him when positioned against the aggressor state par excellence of the freedom of individuals. Do not think so. While not the State was for many centuries the greatest enemy of freedom, I believe that today is a necessary guarantor of freedom of the individual against another attacker much more dangerous: the Capital.

For example, when talking about free markets, freedom of private initiative as the best law of collective organization, which is really defending is the freedom of capital against individual freedom. When it is said, in line with the liberalism of Adam Smith and modern followers of neoliberalism as Milton Friedman, the interest own selfishness that is in interaction and conflict with the interests of others, is the best means of achieving social balance, which is defending is not nothing but a pecking order.

Investing and sheltered behind their sacrosanct free enterprise, neoliberalism seeks the disappearance of the state as the main obstacle to the course to attain proper balance of capitalist society. But that balance is none other than the maximum concentration in the hands of a few. This was already written 150 years ago.

The defending individual freedom of liberalism is nothing but the freedom of capital to obtain maximum benefit. This is done at the expense and against the person, trampling and destroying any rights, including the right to life, health, employment, housing, a healthy environment, and much more. Because the capital, looking only his own gain, unable even to anticipate their drift, destroys and depletes everything that sustains life on Earth, and heads, and leads us to destruction.

In response, the state and the public, controlling and putting an end to capital, become the only guarantee of real equality of people. It is true that the state can be, and indeed has been traditionally oppressive and invasive of individual privacy. Even more so can be, and is somewhat of today, due to the instruments of information and control, technological and cultural, that it possesses. The key is building a truly democratic state based on participation, equity, justice and ethics. A state endowed with the necessary instruments of control, and now I am referring to instruments of control by the public. A state that guarantees equal opportunities, to promote access to education for all (not just those with means) to protect the public good against private encroachment.

Because I believe in all this is why we always: I have been very jealous of my privacy, I always claimed my right to be different, I have opposed and fought against gregariousness, against the instruments of state control, etc, etc.

But for that very reason: I have banded together to win greater freedom and I associate with those who defend the common good read: public roads, a healthy environment, a living space in my city, sustainable mobility , etc, etc.

And to achieve or defend all that in what I believe, is why to this day, consider it imperative that new men and women with whom I share the same ideas, help clean up politics.

begin within a couple of months at local, sticking our heads in the City, through ECOLO-Córdoba.