I'm. I wanna close today. What are you up to? Flying when? Am after Catlin, anything you know?

No, it wasn't for you. Was for someone that was after the possible web sale of turkeys...?

Hey!

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No, Twice NO to the Euro Bonds but why?

Germany has an overwhelming majority strongly opposed to any such move but isn't isolated... among the EU citizens. To be absolutely honest there can't be any centralized Eurobonds issuing to finance any state or local spending engaged by state or local authorities. A kind of basic. And... let's put it that way, to see emerge some EU Eurobonds issuance to finance some EU spending, we'll have to wait the large majority of EU citizens fiscal conservative are represented politically and that's far from being the case in many countries.

Ivory Coast

Just curious… Have some high ranking officials from … whoever got involved…, really hoped to reunite the country with a presidential election opposing two candidates each representing one the two communities they thought useful to separate eight years ago with a somewhat partition and some foreign troops to make sure peace reigns?

Did they truly hoped this election without any prior negotiation dealing with the status of each community, how it is governed, its relations with the “central or federal gov?, how the resources are shared, will not end being seen and felt as a victory of one community over the other with all the foreseeable consequences triggering the refusal?

So was it irresponsible to organize a presidential election designed to govern both communities separated for more than height years taking the risk of a confrontation, of getting civilians involved in a fight that isn’t theirs killed, when, obviously the motives that had lead to the somewhat partition in 2002 were still there and needed to be addressed before anything else, to make sure the parties would accept the results of a presidential election, the losing party at the conflict reassured by its known status negotiated before it?

If yes, well I guess La Haye Tribunal may be crowded for a while?

Truly everybody is right now under the impression that if the North wasn’t in the situation to rule the South, we wouldn’t have this conversation, the North remaining somewhat self administered and certainly not governed by the South? Not very credible for the UN to support different standards according to who wins or looses?

Not bad so far.
He's funny and will never last to surprise me I guess... Went through some of the feeds and it seems that he doesn't get it does he? I mean, the euro had only two true potential enemies, one, the politicians in charge of the banking system and regulation busy with crony capitalism spending their way out to buy their reelection through an inflated welfare state and fantastic social freebies rebranded “social progress” they funded through an uncontrolled amount of debt without telling anyone, two, the beneficiaries (The People) of these debt funded very short term improvements of their living standards. Instead, the adventurous debt addicted politicians for reelection purposes decided they would point fingers at the ugly few opportunistically branded “markets and speculators” for political rhetoric reasons and would fight and defend the euro whatever it may take….

Well, let’s say it is an unnecessary war. The future of the euro lies not in the hands of markets or speculators but with those responsible for its problems in the first place. Markets and speculators look at it for what it is, a product you can trade, do they exploit mistakes made by those(govs) in charge, anticipating their next inability to address the true potential threats the currency faces, the trust of the Peoples using it? Of course they do, why shouldn’t they, when they know the potential is there, as long as the decisions do not address the challenges the Peoples face introducing a reasonable amount of political uncertainty regarding their reactions and the next elections row results?

What’s your shot?

I just did. Not often, as far as I can recall, it was the first time I heard someone express freely a lot of the resentment many Corsicans probably not all of them do feel about how their identity (Language, Culture and Land) and best interests were and are considered, on a french national media. If there is little debate of who is responsible for most the problems the island experiences, not using these words it seemed clear to me he expressed that part of the solution is also in every Corsican heart and mind, that they are too few to fight one another whatever the circumstances are, too few to be divided politically or else, too few to give up on anyone if they want to preserve a Corsican future for the next generation. I don't know if he will be heard but his voice is strong and so are his values and what came to my mind, it may sound strange it came at this minute but I had to learn it by heart so many years ago... it never went, An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers can't..., it will march on the horizon....

Are you about to be done?

Last week some very strong words came from Corsica. Elsewhere, some other territories, these words felt like a relief long ago replaced with a clouded silence as the criminals successfully banned to cry and tell the pain they cause by shaming it.

What if it was the just the beginning? The first smoke of the great fire the clouded sky had masked? The first audible scream the muted Land for centuries about to burst sends in the sky just like a volcano echoed from Euskal Herria to Breizh... What if suddenly the Land calls them for the ultimate stand? The fight of all fights, the final bill?

The Week Ahead : Be ready

Key data and events to watch in the week ahead
United States: Monday – Nov. Chicago Fed Activity Index Tuesday – ABC Dec. 19 Consumer Confidence Wednesday – MBA Dec. 17, Mortgage Applications 3Q GDP, Personal Consumption, GDP Price Index, & Core PCE, Nov. Existing Home Sales, Oct. House Price Index Thursday – Nov. Durable Goods Orders, Personal Income, Personal Spending, & New Home Sales, Weekly Jobless Claims, Dec. Final U. of Michigan Confidence Survey

Euro-zone: Sunday – German Finance Ministry Nov. Monthly Report Monday – Oct. ECB Euro-zone Current Account, Dec. Advance EZ Consumer Confidence, German Nov. Producer Prices Tuesday – German Jan. GfK Consumer Confidence Survey Wednesday – German Nov. Import Price Index, German IFO Dec. Business Climate Survey, EU Entry Negotiations with Croatia

United Kingdom: Monday – Dec. GfK Consumer Confidence Survey, Tuesday – Nov. Public Finances Wednesday – Bank of England Minutes, 3Q Final GDP & Total Business Investment, 3Q Current Account Thursday – Nov. BBA Loans for House Purchase

Japan: Monday – Oct. Final Coincident & Leading Indexes, Nov. Tokyo & Nationwide Department Store Sales, Nov. Convenience Store Sales Tuesday – Oct. All Industry Activity Index, Nov. BOJ target rate Wednesday – Nov. Trade Balance, BOJ/cabinet office monthly Economic Report, Nov. Supermarket Sales

Canada: Monday – Oct. Wholesale Sales Tuesday – Nov. CPI, October Retail Sales Thursday – Oct. GDP

Australia & New Zealand: Monday – New Zealand Nov. Performance Services Index Tuesday – New Zealand Nov. Net Migration, Australia Oct. Conference Board Leading Indicator, RBA Dec. Minutes, New Zealand Nov. Credit Card Spending Wednesday – New Zealand 3Q Current Account, Australia Oct. Westpac Leading Index Thursday – New Zealand 3Q GDP Friday – New Zealand Money Supply M3

Don't tell anyone... but Maggie is someone very special, I like.
Party's Over If Steele Wins Another Term: Margaret Carlson and you don't have to share all she says, I mean, just enjoy her style, I do.

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What have you been doing anyway? She has a couple of hours ago. Yours?
AFP : "Il s'était auparavant établi à 55,5 points en octobre, après trois mois de baisse: 56,2 points en août, 54,1 en septembre et 53,8 points en octobre."
Eurozone on growth. Bold to be replaced with "Il s'était auparavant établi à 55,5 points en novembre"
Have it good. No, Was on Markit advanced indicator.
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I recommend the reading. It's in french but nonetheless, this side of the Aisle (I did it again>..))) has been and still is often misportraited and ridiculed through caricatures. The writing says the pain the author experiences to watch once more for his people the terrible consequences the lack of respect for a culture and its people can do to self esteem. His Corsican voice for rights is rarely heard on medias and once more his writing proves there is more to it than just the usual violent portraitof Corsian society some like to expose..

Belle chjachjere è tristi fatti

Not really. I guess he’s in a bad mood…. Didn’t do good this session? I just meant true leaders can convince people by the example they set for themselves of a necessary pain in the best interest of the People and the country but when you don’t pay a dime in taxes or very little compare with most people and that you’re making quite some money… (should be around 8 to 10 kEuros plus expenses more for high ranking staff of the Commission), don’t say it’s right but you can expect some violence… unfortunately EU leaders I mean most of them aren’t an example for anyone whatsoever… so you know… stupid enough to be a threat to assets, the answer is yes they have proved it in the passed just wait, YES THEY CAN DO IT AGAIN… ;-))

What’s yours now?

Don't think so. I'd say there is some violence as seen yesterday and today in Athens because the folks are under the impression the politicians and some other elites are not taking their fair share of the pain.

Brussels most guilty should be the leed here to end all derogatory fiscal status specially for the EU Reps at the EU Assembly and high ranking officials of the Commission not paying a dime in taxes when asking so much pain to the People of Ireland, Greece and next....

CNBC "U.S. Federal Reserve gave a cautious assessment of the strength of the economic economy." I guess it's the economic recovery.
What else? Hey, are you about to be done with the numbers I wanted?
...../"The very first line of the very first paragraph is justification for what (the Fed) it's doing - it talks about a recovery that just isn't strong enough to bring down the unemployment rate," said Mike Lenhoff, chief strategist and head of research at Brewin Dolphin Securities, in London..../
The very first line of the very first paragraph is an an explanation of the Fed's policies, its motivations, proposed goals, steps and actions to achieve it?
I'd say the Fed can't lift on its own the uncertainty and force companies into spending and hiring, it can reduce the effects the uncertainty produces and show it is committed to just do that in a very determined manner, this determined action contributing to lift it? Will it?

So, here we go for Article 5. I'd like you guys to return the documents a little bit faster once everyone agrees on the full outcome, how it is handled and the plan we decide to carry on for a complete implementation to reach the ultimate goal.

55. As is already indicated in the preamble, the protection and promotion of regional or minority languages which is the objective of the charter must take place within the framework of national sovereignty and territorial integrity. This article makes explicit in this respect that the existing obligations of the parties remain unchanged. In particular the fact that, by ratifying the charter, a state has entered into undertakings with respect to a regional or minority language may not be used by another state having a special interest in that language or by the users of the language as a pretext for taking any action prejudicial to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of that state.

(French)

55. Comme déjà indiqué dans le préambule, la protection et la promotion des langues régionales ou minoritaires, qui sont l'objectif de la charte, doivent s'inscrire dans le cadre de la souveraineté nationale et de l'intégrité territoriale. Cet article rend explicite, à cet égard, que les obligations existantes des Parties restent inchangées. En particulier, le fait qu'en ratifiant la charte un Etat ait souscrit à certains engagements envers une langue régionale ou minoritaire ne peut servir de prétexte à un autre Etat s'intéressant spécialement à cette langue, ou aux locuteurs de la langue, pour entreprendre une action portant préjudice à la souveraineté et à l'intégrité territoriale de cet Etat.

The Charter couldn't say anything different? But while it does limit the Charter's use to achieve independance it does also reaffirm the target "....the protection and promotion of a regional or minority language..." " ....a state has entered into the undertakings...". Clearly, independance or large autonomy is a political decision that cannot be treated in that kind of document and can only be carried with success once the community is again strong enough and has already rebuilt all the social, business and cultural networks a long life under an exclusive centralised and oppressive state has destroyed.

Lookin forward to 2011? Here we're goin
European Debt Crisis Will Be 'Slow-Motion Wreck': El-Erian
Are you finished with the report, I'm goin to post soon.

Today's fun - The expected bill finally reached the debtors?

'Snooty' Europhiles Owe Penitence: London Mayor

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Coming - Italy?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40640483

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China Risks `Rush' to Tighten in 2011 After Inflation Accelerates Past 5%
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Bond Market Signals No End to Deflation for Eight More Years: Japan Credit

Well. These policies are responsible for that new bombing, Fort Hood and all the rest of it, Stockholm went lucky, many other operations got a lot or a few of innocent victims killed, but too many anyway, time has come for a review as the support for it widens by the millions every day.

"..... their note books and electronic files seized by the notoriously corrupt Kosovo government. "

What have you got on that f**Bip gov? Just a bit short for now, no urgency yet, but wether or not to end the phony thing remains to be discussed, not its isolation to be completed on which the vote took place. No need to spread the disease any further...

Confirm the Stockholm guy went through some training there?

Existing Regimes of Protection - About Article 4

This administration (long before President Obama was elected, let's not get too political)has had some suspicious ideology linked activities for quite a while (many, many years) the fact that some very louzy and lasy jobs are fully exposed point to some no less specific locations and may be the opportunity some have been looking for to go ahead with long overdue expected firings.... will see;

So...

Yeah, he does go for it. Just said so. :-))

Database? Link now Pl

Euskal Charter is here but can't get hold of the Explanatory report??

Hey can't find it for now ,but we're exploring the data...? Go on.

Can someone check Scottish Gaelic Version Charter and Welsh Version Charter and Explanatory Report with Breizh organisations?

We're ahead of timetable so far.

52. This article relates to the combination of the charter with domestic legislation or international agreements laying down a legal status for linguistic minorities.
53. Where certain languages or the minorities who practise them already enjoy a status defined in domestic law or under international agreements, the purpose of the charter is clearly not to reduce the rights and guarantees recognised by those provisions. However, the protection afforded by the charter is additional to the rights and guarantees already granted by other instruments. For the application of all these undertakings, where competing provisions exist on the same subject the most favourable provisions should be applied to the minorities or languages concerned. Thus the existence of more restrictive provisions in domestic law or under other international undertakings must not be an obstacle to the application of the charter.
54. Paragraph 1 of this article is concerned with the specific case of the rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. It seeks to exclude the possibility that any of the provisions of the charter might be so interpreted as to detract from the protection accorded thereby to the human rights of individuals.

French

52. Cet article traite de la combinaison de la charte avec des législations internes ou des accords internationaux comportant un statut juridique des minorités linguistiques.
53. Si certaines langues, ou les minorités qui les pratiquent, disposent déjà d'un statut défini par la législation nationale ou par des accords internationaux, l'objet de la charte n'est évidemment pas de réduire les droits et garanties reconnus par ces dispositions. Cependant, la protection accordée par la charte s'ajoute aux droits et garanties déjà concédés par d'autres statuts. Pour l'application de l'ensemble de ces engagements, en cas de règles concurrentes sur un même sujet, il y a lieu d'appliquer les dispositions les plus favorables aux minorités ou aux langues concernées. L'existence de dispositions plus restrictives dans des législations internes ou dans d'autres engagements internationaux ne saurait donc faire obstacle à l'application de la charte.
54. Le paragraphe 1 de cet article concerne le cas spécifique des droits garantis par la Convention européenne des Droits de l'Homme. Il tente d'exclure la possibilité que l'une ou l'autre des dispositions de la charte puisse être interprétée de manière à porter atteinte à la protection accordée par cette Convention aux droits de l'homme.

Do you mind the transmission, I'd appreciate the legal implications for the french... as it seems that most minorities ignore their rights.. the gov somewhat hides these rights.

The Weeh Ahead : President Obama and Congress strike a deal to extend the President Bush Tax cuts in an attempt to push up the recovery

Key data and events to watch in the week ahead
United States: Tuesday – Nov. Advance Retail Sales, Nov. Producer Price Index, Oct. Business Inventories, FOMC Rate Decision, Dec. 12 ABC Consumer Confidence Wednesday – Dec. 10 MBA Mortgage Applications, Nov. Consumer Price Index, Dec. Empire Manufacturing, Oct. Total Net TIC Flows, Nov. Industrial Production, Nov. Capacity Utilization, Dec. NAHB Housing Market Index, Fed’s Lockhart speaks on Atlanta regional economy Thursday – Nov. Housing Starts, Nov. Building Permits, 3Q Current Account Balance, Weekly Jobless Claims, Dec. Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook Survey, Geithner testifies at Congressional Oversight Panel Friday – Nov. Leading Indicators
Euro-zone: Monday – German Finance Minister Schaeuble speaks on Berlin Panel , EU Foreign Ministers Meeting Tuesday – EZ Oct. Industrial Production and Dec. ZEW Survey of Economic Sentiment, German Dec. ZEW Surveys of Economic Sentiment and Current Situation, Germany’s Ifo Economic Institute Publishes Economic Forecasts Wednesday – EZ 3Q Employment, European Commission Issues Quarterly Report on Euro Area Thursday – EZ Dec. PMI Composite, Manufacturing, and Services, EZ Nov. CPI, German Dec. A Manufacturing and PMI Services, EU Summit Friday – EZ Oct. Construction Output, EZ Oct. Trade Balance, German IFO-Business Climate, Current Assessment, and Expectations, EU Summit, ECB’s Weber speaks in Munich on Capital Markets Macroeconomic Perspectives
United Kingdom: Monday – Nov. PPI Input NSA, Nov. RICS House Price Balance Tuesday – Oct. DCLG UK House Prices, Nov. CPI, Nov. Retail Price Index Wednesday – Nov. Claimant Count Change, Nov. Jobless Claims Change, Oct. ILO Unemployment Rate Thursday – Nov. Retail Sales, Nov. Nationwide Consumer Confidence, BOE Releases Inflation Attitudes Survey
Japan: Monday – Oct. F Industrial Production, Oct. F Capacity Utilization, Nov. Tokyo Condominium Sales Tuesday – Oct. Tertiary Industry Index; 4Q Tankan Large Manufacturers, Non-Manufacturing, Large Manufacturing Outlook, Non-Manufacturing Outlook, Large All Industry Capex
Canada: Monday – 3Q Capacity Utilization Rate, BoC’s Carney gives speech on ‘Reflections on the Economic Outlook’ Tuesday – Nov. Leading Indicators, 3Q Labor Productivity Wednesday – Oct. Manufacturing Sales Thursday – Oct. International Securities Transactions
Australia & New Zealand: Sunday – NZ Nov. Food Prices Monday – Australia 3Q Dwelling Starts, Australia Nov. NAB Business Conditions & Confidence, NZ Oct. Retail Sales, NZ Nov. Non Resident Bond Holdings, NZ Nov. REINZ Housing Price Index Tuesday – Australia Dec. Westpac Consumer Confidence, Australia Dec. DEWR Skilled Vacancies, Australia Nov. New Motor Vehicle Sales Wednesday – Australia Dec. Consumer Inflation Expectation, Reserve Bank’s Bulletin – Dec. Quarter 2010, NZ Nov. Business PMI, NZ Dec. NBNZ Business Confidence & Activity Outlook Friday – RBA Nov. Foreign Exchange Transaction
China: Friday, Dec. 10 – Nov. Producer Price Index, Consumer Price Index, Retail Sales, Industrial Production, and Fixed Assets Investment Urban Cumulative Dec. 10-12 – China Central Economics Works Conference Dec. 11-15 – Nov. Actual FDI (YoY)

Don't know but clearly those responsible for in fact what has been a partition of Ivory Coast since the previous confrontation with the North Muslim rebels somewhat independant for several years prior to this election have created a situation which shouldn't come as a surprise, it's a bit hypocrit... the obvious consequence to be the refusal to count in the following elections the regions with a somewhat autonomous status they chose to have, refusing the official administration.

Today, to refuse to maintain what was accepted then is a dangerous game with a foreseeable consequence, more violence.

Better a peaceful partition, responsibly driven with mutual respect for kee interests of both sides than a renewed civil war anyone can see coming if the international community wants to treat differently the two sides. Whatever was aloud for North rebels will have to be aloud for any other party at the conflict.

Well, it seems pretty clear even thou we don't have yet enough materials but the speeches are very clear, they're using it to lauch somekind of final attack on the national minorities interests essentially targeting economics. A good hair cut on the greek debt should end their dirty game.

Not too bad. Was just a bit late. Hey, about the agreement, how are the talks going? We still need you to push for a big hair cut on the greek debt. That's what we came up with as our best chance to get them to listen.

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Legal & General Shuns Spain Until ECB Buys Bonds (Must Read)
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The lady made it clear, No & No means NO, No to a bigger rescue fund and No to Europe wide bund. Germany made clear it will not find itself in a system making impossible to escape a partnership with some incurable debtors...

This Week Can't Miss.... to watch

Pay attention, please!
Key data and events to watch in this week.
United States:
Monday – Fed’s Lacker speaks on Economic Outlook
Tuesday – Dec. IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism, Oct. Consumer Credit, Dec. ABC Consumer Confidence
Wednesday – Dec. MBA Mortgage Applications
Thursday – Weekly Jobless Claims, Oct. Wholesale Inventories
Friday – Oct. Trade Balance, Nov. Import Price Index, Dec. Preliminary U. of Michigan Confidence, Nov. Monthly Budget Statement
Euro-zone
Monday – Euro-Area Finance Ministers meet in Brussels, Dec. Sentix Investor Confidence
Tuesday – Oct. German Factory Orders
Wednesday – Oct. German Current Account, Oct. German Trade Balance, Oct. German Industrial Production
Thursday – Nov. German Consumer Price Index
Friday – EU’s Rehn gives speech in Athens
United Kingdom
Tuesday – BRC retail sales monitor, Oct. Industrial Production, Oct. Manufacturing Production
Wednesday – BRC shop prices, Nov. Halifax House Prices
Thursday – BOE Interest Rate Announcement, Oct. Trade Balance
Friday – Nov. PPI Input & Output
Japan
Monday – Nov. Official Reserve Assets
Tuesday – Oct. Coincident Index, Oct. Leading Index, Oct. Current Account Total, Nov. Bank Lending, Oct. Trade Balance, Oct. Machines Orders, Nov. Bankruptcies
Wednesday – 3Q Final GDP (QoQ & YoY)
Thursday – Nov. Machine Tool Orders, 4Q BSI Large All Industry & Manufacturing, Nov. Domestic CGPI
Friday – Nov. Consumer Confidence
Canada:
Monday – Oct. Building Permits, Nov. Ivey Purchasing Managers Index
Tuesday – BoC Interest Rate Announcement
Wednesday – Nov. Housing Starts
Thursday – Oct. New Housing Price Index
Friday – Oct. International Merchandise Trade
Australia & New Zealand:
Monday – Australia Nov. AiG Perf of Construction Index, Nov.TD Securities Inflation, Nov. ANZ Job Advertisements
Tuesday – Australia RBA Interest Rate Announcement, New Zealand Nov. House Prices
Wednesday – Australia Oct. Home Loans and Investment Lending, New Zealand 3Q Manufacturing Activity
Thursday – Australia Nov. Employment Report, RBNZ Interest Rate Announcement, NZ Nov. Card Spending
Friday – NZ 3Q Terms of trade index
China:
Thursday – Nov. Trade Balance

Post it just in case.

Well, I first thought , F*** BIP, and went trough some of it, I'd say that, altogether, may not be a bad thing? Giving the taxpayer a chance to find out how their hard earned money is spent... I was shocked at the 70% unprofessional, inaccurate nor fact checked... Hopefully... it is made up?? and no one was ever involved in anything elaborated from that kind of crap.
Pray for.

The introduction? I did.

Don't think you should count on that as the "french" I mean those that somehow replaced their identity with their citizenship do show a strong taste for intolerance towards the national minorities rights while being quick to point fingers at what they decide to name as "nationalism" with it seems no perception of their own "sickness" leaving open the debate to wether or not a set of duties, obligations and rights (a citizenship) can be a suitable identity of substitution producing balanced individuals?

I got it,

We think it's only a matter of time before European debt fears trigger another wave of capital flight out of the EUR (see more below). Was posted a couple of hours ago.

Just ask... here we go linked.

The report situation for the Charter : Here

Push it>>>

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Must Read

In the last century a problem of national minorities appeared and the heads of governments had to start solving them and be aware of this issue. Especially when we are living in the time of globalisation, migration flows, creation of multicultural societies and rise of nationalism also from the side of many national minorities, which struggle for their rights within states or nation-states.

UNIVERSITY OF ROSKILDE
Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change
Department of Geography

This project work focuses on the national minorities in Europe with emphasis on their linguistic rights – because the language is one of the crutial elements of the national or ethnic identity. Firstly, I will discuss the problematic of national minorities in generall: what are the national minorities, why is this important to be aware of and why should we protect them.

Not written in defense of the Corsican, Euskal Herria, Breizh and Others and among many documents connected to the European Charter, this piece is of interest and show how much the lack of material regarding the terrible consequences the "french" policies have had on the concerned populations makes so difficult the general understanding of the difficult challenges they face.

A situation the french gov is largely responsible for through a careful and selected choice in various areas of education, culture and politics with the clear intention to make any attempt to ask for rights a misguided political act often characterised as nationalist sometimes described as "fascist".

However, the national minorities often have their own (national) identity diverging from the identity of the majority, which create the nation and the feel of nationalism. Both the majority and the minority´s identity mostly stands as a centrifugal force, specially when there is a nationalism and a strong feeling of unique nation and national identity on one side and on the other the aspiration of the minority. More concrete, the centrifugal force lie in the opposite interests, nation-state and homogenous population within versus demands of national minorities for the recognition of fragmented society and cultural diversity inside states.

A good introduction to (10) Objectives :

As is made clear in the preamble, the charter’s overriding purpose is cultural. It is designed to protect and promote regional or minority languages as a threatened aspect of Europe’s cultural heritage. For this reason it not only contains a non-discrimination clause concerning the use of these languages but also provides for measures offering active support for them: the aim is to ensure, as far as reasonably possible, the use of regional or minority languages in education and the media and to permit their use in judicial and administrative settings, economic and social life and cultural activities. Only in this way can such languages be compensated, where necessary, for unfavourable conditions in the past and preserved and developed as a living facet of Europe’s cultural identity.

(french)

Ainsi qu'il est bien précisé dans le préambule, l'objectif dominant de la charte est d'ordre culturel. Elle est destinée à protéger et à promouvoir les langues régionales ou minoritaires en tant qu'aspect menacé du patrimoine culturel européen. Pour cette raison, non seulement elle contient une clause de non-discrimination concernant l'emploi de ces langues, mais elle prévoit également des mesures leur offrant un appui actif: le but étant d'assurer, autant qu'il est raisonnablement possible, l'emploi des langues régionales ou minoritaires dans l'enseignement et dans les médias et de permettre leur usage dans le monde judiciaire et administratif, dans la vie économique et sociale, et dans les activités culturelles. Ce n'est qu'ainsi que pourront être compensées, en cas de besoin, les conditions défavorables réservées à ces langues dans le passé, et qu'il sera possible de les maintenir et de les développer en tant que facettes vivantes de l'identité culturelle européenne.

Keep me posted thou.

No big deal. It's a noble motivation....

Ivory Coast : The International Community accomodated alright for many years a somewhat independant North Ivory Coast

I guess, it should just remain that way with this time a President. The Muslim North refused to be governed by the Christian South, guess what... the Christian South refuses to be governed by a Muslim North...
The International Community survived it, it will continue to do so.

“Le droit des personnes appartenant à des minorités nationales de conserver leur identité ne peut être pleinement réalisé que si ces personnes acquièrent une bonne connaissance de leur langue maternelle au cours de leur études. Inversement, les personnes appartenant à des minorités nationales ont le devoir de s’intégrer à la
société nationale par l’acquisition d’une bonne connaissance de la langue officielle de l’Etat.”

This statement makes pretty clear, the Right for the Corsicans, Euskadi and all the other national minorities to access their Culture, History, Language and economic rights to sustain the promotion of their identity. Now if the second part of the statement doesn’t sparkle any real debate as these minorities have more than fulfilled their duties towards the acquisition of the french language, the french state is still engaged in violent policies of assimilation and in the denial of these minorities rights not to mention the complete lack of representation of their special economic interests. How so far they got away with it??

“Les Etats devraient créer les conditions propres à permettre à des institutions représentatives des membres des minorités nationales en question de participer effectivement à l’élaboration et à la mise en oeuvre de politiques et de programmes relatifs à l’éducation des minorités.”

Have they done anything to achieve this goal? If not what are the actions engaged to get them to act?

“Les Etats devraient adopter des mesures pour encourager les parents à participer au système d’éducation au niveau local, notamment dans le domaine de l’enseignement des langues des minorités, ainsi qu’à faire des choix en la matière.”

Just the same here? I’d add that it would considerably help to clear up the way regarding history as very little has been done and the lack of material appaling. I mean to get the parents into the school.

Time for Congress to act and decisively (sanctions)? Below is somekind of roudup, what the french gov should have done but didn’t. Why so far the french lawmakers haven’t taken any initiative….?? very clearly the electoral system, the crony politics and economics, the centralised power and the lack of any sense of right and wrong as well as a great sense of self preservation (the gov, central powers both political and economic would immediately harshly punished any move to defend the national minorities rights with the guilty sacked, banned for any further endorsement and probably investigated, the central powers using every powerful tool a centralised administration can offer to ruin the “dissident”… plays a role I guess. Anyway here we go,

L’article 15 de la Convention Cadre pour la Protection des Minorités
Nationales, le paragraphe 30 du Document de la réunion de Copenhague de la Conférence sur la Dimension Humaine de la CSCE et l’article 3 de la Déclaration de l’ONU sur les droits des personnes appartenant à des minorités nationales ou ethniques, religieuses et linguistiques soulignent tous la nécessité pour les minorités nationales de participer au processus décisionnel, notamment dans les cas où les questions à l’étude les touchent directement. Une participation effective au processus décisionnel, notamment pour ce qui touche les minorités, est une composante essentielle du processus démocratique. La participation active des parents aux niveaux local et régional, de même que la participation effective des institutions représentant les minorités nationales dans le processus éducatif (y compris le processus d’élaboration des programmes relatifs aux minorités) doivent être facilitées par les Etats dans l’esprit du paragraphe 35 du Document de Copenhague, qui souligne l’importance d’une participation effective des membres des minorités nationales aux affaires publiques, notamment celles concernant la protection et la promotion de leur propre identité.

Guess what, do they speak french, I mean the french “authorities”? How is it going, still long? I’m buying like crazy the $, £ and the Goldman suggestions. KMBX.

How much you in for? If we all get out at the same time?

I am.

Do me a favor, here is the french version,

Recommandations de La Haye Concernant les Droits des Minorités Nationales à l’Education & Note Explicative.

Should be 1996. I need the English version and according to the only report I found online from EBLUL I think it is but will check and post, the french gov hasn’t done a thing. As far as I know what they have in mind is we signed stuff internationally but as our constitution says it must be ratified under the form of a law the parliement votes, as long as it isn’t done well bad luck… the treaty can’t be opposed to us? For sure french courts will stand by that but what about EU Courts? or elsewhere?

(french)

1. Dans de nombreux pays européens il existe, sur certaines parties de leur territoire, des groupes autochtones parlant une autre langue que celle de la majorité de la population. C’est là une conséquence de processus historiques au cours desquels la formation des Etats ne s’est pas faite sur des bases purement linguistiques et de petites communautés ont été englobées par de plus importantes.

2. La situation démographique de ces langues régionales ou minoritaires présente une grande diversité, allant de quelques milliers de locuteurs à plusieurs millions, et il en va de même pour la
législation et la pratique des divers Etats à leur égard. Toutefois, ce que beaucoup d’entre elles ont
en commun, c’est un degré plus ou moins grand de précarité. En outre, quel qu’ait pu être le cas dans le passé, les menaces qui pèsent aujourd’hui sur ces langues régionales ou minoritaires tiennent souvent au moins autant au poids inévitablement uniformisateur de la civilisation oderne, et en particulier des moyens de communication de masse, qu’à l’indifférence de leur environnement ou à une politique d’assimilation de l’Etat.

I’m still long for now on the spot

It’s mainly more of the same…. I guess ECB may have something for tomorrow’s meeting.

What I told about I’d like you to check is this:

1999 the french signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

1990 Copenhagen 3rd Human Dimension Conference they (the french)approved the conference documents

Well, it didn’t come as a surprise they never implemented anything nor done anything, not even close. But I wondered about the legal consequences, do you mind checking?

The Charter 1992 Article 9 Judicial authorities specifies "to provide that the courts at the request of one of the parties shall conduct the proceedings in the regional or minority languages and or to guarantee the accused the rights to use his/her language,…./…… to produce, on request, documents connected with legal proceedings in the relevant minority language.”

I bet you guessed the french have always denied these rights to all minorities. So, what is it possible to expect from the appropriate lawsuits regarding these cases? Overturned and or compensation? When you can.

The following will come to you as a schock I guess, it really warmed my heart and make me feel so much better when I have to explain the french policies are criminal, wrong and ill inspired, not just my opinion but widely shared, even though it doesn’t change anything right away, knowing plenty think the same and it isn’t crazy to think that is I admit somekind of a relief.

1. Many European countries have on their territory regionally based autochthonous groups speaking a language other than that of the majority of the population. This is a consequence of
historical processes whereby the formation of states has not taken place on purely language-related lines and small communities have been engulfed by larger ones.

2. The demographic situation of such regional or minority languages varies greatly, from a few
thousand speakers to several million, and so does the law and practice of the individual states with respect to them. However, what many have in common is a greater or lesser degree of precariousness. Moreover, whatever may have been the case in the past, nowadays the threats facing these regional or minority languages are often due at least as much to the inevitably standardising influence of modem civilization and especially of the mass media as to an unfriendly environment or a government policy of assimilation.

(From Explanatory Report1 to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages) Useful documents are here Doc. 6294 Doc. 6302 http://assembly.coe.int/documents/adoptedtext/ta90/frec1134.htm#1

Celebrate! These words are just so good!

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• Fed reveals global extent of its backing
• Federal Reserve documents
• Stocks Jump on Data, Speculation of Larger Europe Bailout

• Irish banks exposed to euro periphery Among leading lenders to Portugal, Greece and Spain

• Spain Delays $18 Billion Power-Bond Program as Government Yields Soar

Relax? I’m done, won’t change anything anymore.

I’ll start tomorrow. The documents I got have been a relief as it spelled out much better than I did myself the consequences of the policies the french state engaged in regarding the minorities interests and the economic consequences. I was very surprised as well that such a good work that show care and attention for these neglected communities really suffering silently as showing it would add to the shame of being “not much” (that’s why these policies are so terrible) didn’t get any attention from the french medias. I was disturbed by that…

Well I’ll give some on topics I’d like to have your opinion on. It looked like standards to me but here is another world.

No, I’d say they use dogmas and critical ideology standpoints to ban debate on selected issues as often you find out when looking into it that it is linked in fact to some more basic financial interests, asbolutely not interested in transparency wether or not public money is involved.

Kind of.

Well pretty typical… I’d say that, I found that here is what W used to call we must have something, there are a lot of countries where elections take place but the issues open for debate make the difference and among the issues very  critical almost never open for debate anywhere the UK being an exception, the type and scale of gov interventions, the funding of these interventions and the inevitable consequences, taxes.

I know … but it’s not obvious in most parts of the world.

How did it go?

I mean your session. Altogether, how would define better what is a democratic process in the decision making than all issues are open for debate including the type and the scale of gov interventions in the People’s life?

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A material slowdown in Chinese GDP could derail the fragile recovery of the global economy, given the reliance on the major emerging economies to off-set the continuing anaemic performance among the Major Developed Economies (MDEs). US companies in a range of industries exposed to the Chinese market would be impacted, particularly those involved in the heavy manufacturing, (capital goods), technology and proteins sectors. Additionally, US multi-national companies reliant on growth in the Chinese domestic market – including those in the automotive, restaurants, and gaming sectors – would suffer from a slowdown in the Chinese economy.

Global and US GDP growth could fall by up to 0.5% in the event of an economic shock originating in China. More information on this conclusion, together with a detailed analysis of the implications of a China slowdown for the US and the global economy, can be found in a new report published by Fitch titled “The Impact of a China Slowdown on Global Credit Quality”.

Says FITCH for more : Visit www.fitchratings.com

Europe Debt Crisis Will Be 'Slow-Motion Wreck': El-Erian

EU Faces More Bailouts as Irish Contagion Spreads: Euro Credit

Stocks, Euro, Italy Bonds Drop on Contagion Concern; Gold Jumps

Deutsche Bank CEO Says `Mistrust' of Spain, Banks `Unjustified'

Traders Fear Spain May Be 'Lehman'

After Bashing Fed, Will ECB Buy Assets Next?

S&P Puts Portugal on Creditwatch Negative

What’s next? Preferably fast, should the ECB and the EU put up a DSARP fund to clean up the EU banks balance sheets and the ECB expand its own buying sovereign debts?

Today’s Fun

America's Most Socialist States — Including Alaska?!

Well, well. Can the ratio total expenditures as a proportion of total economic output enough to define “socialism”…. No, of course not, what defines it best, to make it short, let’s keep the ratio, it is how the state defines its priorities and engages expenditures, are these the People’s communities will or are they engaged to satisfy an ideology dogma of a frozen People’s will defined by a few in a cave?

Ask Sarah.

And? Good stuff for homework!

What else can you tell about West Virginia and Alaska the two first seats of this willing to be offensive "socialism award" listing?

If I say, Remote tiny communities and sustainability?

Justify your comments

If I say, Attraction for private sector companies for a lot of services lacks due to the size of a lot of these two states communities, their remoteness making infrastructures investments for cables, phones, internet services and so much more not profitable enough by today's standards drawing a lot more of Gov interventions in sectors it is unusual to see it in much more urbanised states?

Justify your comments

Do you agree with the conclusion that Gov interventions motivated by a default of sustainable private sector investments in kee sectors of the communities life allowing them to grow may be enough to then reach a level of attraction for the private sector to jump in as profitability kicks in? If well managed by the sale of licenses to the private sector, can the taxpayers recover some of the investments they made when their community was too small to attract?

Comment and explain. You're in charge of a remote tiny community, plan how you fund basic services to the community and your plans to increase attractivity.

Enjoy!

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Ready? Post your moves?

Lee Says North Korea Must Pay for Attack; China Urges Talks

Asia moved a little bit higher.

Ireland's Relief Proves Fleeting as `Day of Reckoning' Nears: Euro Credit

“The continued confusing political rhetoric is driving investors out of Europe. Once the euro area issuance cycle gets under way in 2011, unless many of the issues surrounding collective action clauses, crisis resolution mechanisms and their timing have been resolved, policy makers could lose the battle.”

Remained unanswered so far, can those in charge of national regulation and we know had close ties to the multiple loans the main french and german banks made to the PIIGs, be trusted to fix a problem they largely contributed to create? Their messy accounting methods, their weird tolerant policies regarding banks malpractices for years, their apparent lack of understanding for some markets schemes they pretend was responsible for the crisis before it was revealed the 1.6 trillion EU Banks are engaged in to the PIIGs economies are largely responsible for the crisis in Europe aren’t the best guarantees one can expect, it has more to do with the firemen coming to extinguish the fire they set…? And frankly we can doubt the fireman certification…? It is suspect that those in charge of national regulation and financial policies that didn’t even foresee that the large loans they approved were endangering the smallest EU zone economies have suddenly the qualifications to fix their mess..? I recommend extreme caution regarding dummies of that scale’s solutions  to repair what they have done..?

Inconvenient Truth About Green Agenda Before climate conference, U.N. official admits it's about 'redistributing' wealth

UN admits, Yes through climate policies we intend to redistribute wealth.

But by redistribute wealth, don’t make mistakes… it has more to do with ie lower minimum wage, ending social freebies and welfare, reduce or even cancel retirement systems in the developed world than improve anyone’s situation. Whatever may be your situation… you’re not on the UN list of beneficiaries if you live in the so called “developed world”…. Yours is to worsen whatsoever if these plans are carried out and if you’re in need and hoped of a brighter future, well… not on the UN agenda for climate… as to have a better life you’ll need your country to have a good GDP growth and it won’t happen. The plan is to reduce GDP growth in the “industrialized world” to push growth elsewhere meaning, bad luck if you had plans to make your way through hard work and smart ideas… something else will be in charge… of spreading the wealth..?

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How went your session?

South Korea Resists China's Call for Six-Party Talks as Naval Drills Begin

Israeli Bond Yield Spread Widens on Concern Inflation Poised to Accelerate

Safe place to shelter as European storm rages

Ministers sign off on €85bn Ireland deal

Next Week :

Spain is at risk since it has to raise a combined EUR73bn in the first four months of 2011. This includes sovereign debt and bank debt.

N. Korea 'Readies Missiles' as China Seeks Talks

Korean, European Concerns Could Nudge Gold Higher Next Week

Graphs? What is she doing?

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Socialism can hit where you expected it the least…

Blog: The Most 'Socialist' States in America

India’s Premier had called for a meeting of minds… let’s put it that way… the minds have taken sometime off if looking at the most recent head lines around the world?

What you need to know about bondholders, bonds and burden-sharing

Spain defiant amid banking turmoil

Efforts by Portugal and Spain to quell bailout reports

Ireland’s culture of cosy cronyism must end

India needs ‘quantum step’ in investment

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Have had a wild connection for days… Been to your in laws?

Austerity? Are the cuts fair? Who is paying what and why?

Guilty? Who approved debt funded welfare policies and introduced it as social progress? Who supported that kind of politics? Who ever asked, when the debt bill kicks what will happen? Can citizenship be reduced to picking people on the so called “right or left”, every,… so years, and let them just inform or not of what they’re doing, and how it is financed?

Are the same ones in charge of the “regulation” failed? Can the failures just get through pointing a finger at the “speculators”? Aren’t they the most guilty ones ever for keeping the People in the dark of how most of the welfare policies were financed, how they turned a blind eye for years on bank dangerous risk management and malpractices they knew of for some economic gains they used to take the credit for trying to score political gains?

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has provided a breakdown of Eurozone banks' exposure to Spain, Greece, Portugal, and Ireland.

• In total, entities in the four troubled nations owe 1.6 trillion euros to Eurozone banks.
• French banks are owed 493 billion euros.
• German banks are owed 465 billion euros.
• Thus French and German banks amount to 61% of exposure.
  Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/french-german-banks-piigs-exposure-2010-6#ixzz16VFBfEf8

Can really that kind of irresponsible lending to so few borrowers by major banks, well, not with the “speculators” pointing a gun at the banks, it didn’t happen, did it? took place without both, govs and national regulators being informed, not to mention the ECB? How political and for how much counts these bailouts in the European integration? Are the bailouts designed to be the kind of financial ties leading to political bindings you can’t get rid of?

Are the Peoples guilty for not taking seriously their rights ( when existing) and citizenship, not exercising well enough their surveillance, turning a blind eye to how some benefits were funded as long as it was at their advantage? Should they elect immediately Budget Vigilantes, at least to be informed of what are the Govs spending, how they fund it and what’s in these bailouts?

Well I mean enjoyed it?

I mean please!

I mean was I?;;; of course not I was questioning you? Note that I'm expecting you to say no!

No, I wasn't questioning myself...!

It's kind of luck really I guess, you know, I was reading, can't remenber what it was exactly, I mean the page, but someone I forgot the name said something that prompted Bristol to say I have earned my spot and I thought well dear, you did but you're finished with that kind of remarks, it's just the beginning. I guess you watched your Mum and she did earned hers long before appearing on national tv and it didn't help much, did it? And from there, I thought aren't we damned lucky I ain't sure who's said it of Thomas or James, think it's Thomas, when he got convinced of the need of the Bill of Rights, we won't be able to write all of what we'd whished to be able to guarantee but and he said "better half a loaf than no bread at all", what we'd be left with should the Bill be writen today? Not much I guess....

Preparing my day.

I guess they don't get it. Let me try one more time; There are the french and according to a recent statement Mars is now french... and there is some dispute with the Martians...

You can't call the Martians french... The Martians are Martians and they have the pampampam...French Citizenship pampampam.... now guess what, you'll have some Martians that have made their citizenship their identity which is a personal choice not calling any comment. You'll have Some Martians considering their citizenship and Martian identity of equal value, again a personal choice not calling any comment and you'll have some Martians considering their citizenship oppressing their identity and let's make it clear a Martian on Mars cannot be oppressed whatever the motives may be, to remedy, it is fair and the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights doesn't say any different, the Martians that have decided to live according to their culture, speaking their language on their Land must have a status to protect their specific rights and a public space to exercise their rights.

Am I speaking martian?

Well it's painful... I mean it's private. I'm talking to my bartender at my local when I said that. So, I repeat this a private conversation when it comes to politics, I'm exchanging views with my favourite bar tender at my local even thou I'm away. I'd like to remind indescrete people that listening to private conversation is prohibited by law.

he goes to my local on east 192, the best in town.

Tomorrow 1pm your time

No complete disarray... since he knows even thou he'd get a job at TSA, the searches are random, (thanks to you for the tip).... on top of what a day later Laura's finished him when she mentioned the searches are same sex...

Hopefully it's gonna work... but well sometimes it does freeze. he posted earlier but he's gone for out for a drink cause he's down...

No, most are closed but I'll be watching the Colts that are playing the Patriots. Watching?

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Bernanke Steps Up Stimulus Defense, Turns Tables on China

Well, I mentioned moveon.org just to give an idea how far he's from "common sense" policies... in fact even moveon I don't think 'd support any of the policies the french state is engaged in but to be precise, his predecessors did just the same...

No conservatism and I'm not talking of personal views but the kind of spending spree they're engaged in and the denial they're in for the unanimously accepted fact that the Corsicans and all the others in a similar situation have rights.

It' s a strange feeling to be witnessing that sort of agression.

Then I guess, finding out how priceless is Paine, On liberty, Jefferson and others in culture without people even noticing it until confronted with their asbence is a surprise, how quickly you end up in tyranny zone without the slightest suspicion from the perpetrators to be doing the wrong.

Now how can they be satisfied with themselves is some kind of mistery. But as I write that, I'm guesssing that even that feeling of a somewhat existing duty is ignored, why should the Corsicans or anybody else be entitled to even the dearest of their soul if it's possible to impose them something more convenient? After all, why should they have something I lost, something now foreign to me? Why should they be able to enjoy something I'm unable to, I gave up on and impossible to win back? That's how the french ideology questions Rights and frankly, no matter what, the Founders writings, Stuart Mill, Burke and others are irreplaceable when it comes to what's right and wrong? It does explain too why none of the basics of these writings are in french education I guess?

Anyway, Ben has fired back, did you read?

Just now. Closed?

Well, but just to make my point... I'll remind you that when Sarky was elected I told you he wasn't a conservative guy, he's even miles away from Independants and very close to moveon.org than anything else. I told you that from America he likes Ray Ban may be... but not the Constitution, not the policies and so on... on top of what Uncle Sam gets a bad name with that kind of supposed fan because people think it's alright to steal Land from the Small Nations without a State, it's ok to deprive them from their languages and culture, to spoil their economy and stuff.. I mean I don't like it when Gov Crist and before him Jeb lead a proactive settlement of the dispute in Florida miles away from any dirty french policies...

If I don't make mistakes, might be a month ago or a little more, Embassies warned of a developing situation in France towards some major civil disturbances with a significant level of crimes and violence troughout the country with a powerless gov and forces in uniforms overloaded to act. The passed few days just showing that, buildings set ablased, lots of suicides and shootings too...

Oh, well, you know the place is sinking but nothing that one couldn't guess really, early warning signs are countless. The most important remain their financial situation with the tens and tens of billions of debts they hide with some accounting artifacts with the retirement ponzi scheme. If you take into account the money they should have but have spent for today's workers retirement payable tomorrow, it's probably worse than Greece or I reland (hey, she's just on now-after commodities futures - I'll be right back I wanna know what numbers she's got)They think they're smart rebranding the thing "generations solidarity" but rebranded or not, the money is gne spent on something else, if you add to their current debt the money they have collected and should have but spent... I mean man... it is Greece + Ireland + Portugal + Spain+ Argentina++++ It's ponzi period. Their ratings should reflect that. It is an entire generation's savings for retirement that has been spent....

I'm! Just a few minutes ago. Have you?

She's heading there to find out what people's sentiment in the area. She might take on some more complaints to be filed with the lot.

The treaty makes it clear about education, they must provide courses....

No, they have I mean France by far the biggest wave of violence and crimes, anyone has witnessed since war times..., and various parts it's like a civil war with rapes and all sorts of traffic and stuff, I mean..., it looks bad...very bad.

The mistery thou is why they make it impossible I mean legally for some communities to protect themselves starting with The Corsicans and others that can't still create they own militias you know like the Second mentions it... I'm not sure but may be they want to expose them voluntarily to crimes.... They I mean the authorities behaviour makes me suspicious of some political play.

Visit for yourself www.g2O.org .

Well, I don't know...
Chair
Unlike international institutions such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), IMF or World Bank, the G-20 (like the G-7) has no permanent staff of its own. The G-20 chair rotates between members, and is selected from a different regional grouping of countries each year. In 2010 the G-20 chair is the Republic of Korea, and in 2011 it will be France. The chair is part of a revolving three-member management Troika of past, present and future chairs. The incumbent chair establishes a temporary secretariat for the duration of its term, which coordinates the group's work and organizes its meetings. The role of the Troika is to ensure continuity in the G-20's work and management across host years.
That's why I told you it's a joke... you'll never find any reference to Canada's Premier being President of the thing... this is gross...!
She just posted it might be cause the french have a leadership problem.... They got such a wave of crimes and violence + very high unemployment for decades + problems of all sorts... deficits Debts and bad nmbers,....they're trying to make it look good somehow...?

No, South Korea chaired Seoul Summit and so prepared it. There's no election in the damBIP thing...

Visit the site and you'll see no reference whatsoever since 1999 of any presidency, it's ridiculous...!
What is the G-20
The Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was established in 1999 to bring together systemically important industrialized and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy. The inaugural meeting of the G-20 took place in Berlin, on December 15-16, 1999, hosted by German and Canadian finance ministers .

Let's twist again....

That's it just got the confirmation.
I don't know... I guess it's a french journalists joke to make fun of Sarky... Thre is no such thing as G20 President... :-)) I don't get exactly what's funny about it but...

I mean post. I'm about to close. Went well?

I guess she did.

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Buffett Praises 'Dear Uncle Sam' Despite Slow Recovery

Should Portugal, Galixa, Euskal Herria, Breizh and Normandy follow Ireland's move to leave the

eurozone and sit for a polite conversation with the UK to create the Atlantic Channel Pound Zone of free trade?

I may be a little ahead of today's anticipation but, llooking at the idea I have to say I quite like it with the UK track records of care for Cultures and Languages.

I wonder what Manuel think about it?

Should Ireland withdraw itself from the eurozone and make a move to adopt the £? Would it be in the best interest of the Irish citizens despite

of course ...., an useasy move but haven't things changed today? Would Ireland be more listened to, more confortable sitting at the £ table than being patronised in a, most of the time, disgraceful manner at the euro table?

Should an opportunity to grow a strong economic and monetary zone with Ireland counting for much more it does within the euro zone and away from the continental centralised bureaucracy and lack of ability to free initiatives should be missed because of a passed when thing were so much different?

I understand it's a bit provocative but nonetheless isn't it true?

Alright stop it, It's fixed. I posted the link.

Have a 408/409 busy status on hers.

Have a 408/409 busy status on hers.

Here you go
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Don't apply right away for a dream time job...it won't happen.

Is she online now, she hasn't post yet?

I'm a bit down on that one. Got Laura's?

Arlette, don't be sarcastic... it did already cost you some I have learned so....

They're no better than the president.... they spend a lot of time in being critics of one another, what they have done and didn't do, the passed and the missed but very little or none about the future. None of them has so far been able to lay out the policies and legislations they will fight for in the coming weeks to kick start the economy, reduce the unprecendented wave of crimes and violence, adopt the needed legislations to end the uncertainty blocking initiatives.

Who favor the most the nanny state, those making a living out of it or those supposedly asking for one and funding it? I wonder.

Hey what's your closin pos.?

He wasn't specific on any of the crucial issues he faces...

So far, he has refused to go ahead with the policies that have proved to be successful elsewhere. Cutting on welfare freebies is no fun for those benefiting but failing to drastically cut on public spending, it is impossible to cut on taxes and when you can't cut on taxes, you can't kickstart the economy, can't kickstart the economy, can't do anything to boost private hiring and next, in the best case, you get a sluggish growth and if unlucky, with a commodity rise a nice stagflation...

On security, for those that didn't get it, here we go, when the state can't afford anymore and it is proved to be the case, to pay enough security forces in uniform you need the 2nd and all the legislations (Castle and all the alike No Treat legis) for the citizens to be in charge of their own security to avoid the unprecedented wave of crime and violence spreading throughout France.

On Heritages, Cultures and Minority Languages, he hasn't mention any major initiative for the People to be in charge of the future and feel confortable to face the changes they are confronted with and reduce the uncertainty they face freezing a lot of their initiatives.

It's weird, on a meeting day in Brussels for a euro crisis, the spread with German bonds growing, a debt growing to 84% of the GDP, high unemployment, eventually a coming Greece hair cut... the conversation is poor.

It's a bit boring... nothing specifics about policies, spending cuts and David with his 75% of cout decisions ending nowhere, he wasn't very successful was he?

I didn't hear any goal to be reached about court decisions...? From 75% reach 20% of court decisions going dead may not be too ambitious...? 1 out of 5 is already unacceptable, isn't it?

Go slow you guys may hurt yourself... thanks anyway, I mean, I posted hours ago.

Today's Can't Miss : Lots of Headlines about Greece, Portugal, Spain, now Ireland but... as a wave of violence and crimes spreads, President Sarkosy

comes under intense pressure. Is the french economy going down the drain as the state fails to reform itself with the more than needed drastic tax reductions and twice as much drastic cuts of public spending and welfare freebies? No rosy picture ahead...?

Sarkozy Under Pressure as France Feels Irish Heat: Euro Credit
The extra yield investors demand to hold 10-year French government bonds instead of German securities of similar maturity reached 50 basis points last week, the most since June. France’s debt costs more to insure against default than in Chile and Malaysia, both of which have lower credit ratings.
“We think France might underperform the others and that’s generally where the market stands. The fundamentals in France look a little bit weaker.”
President Sarkosy to speak on tv later today, will he be straightforward?

Told you, I have to go. But, the idea is do they have a case?

The state exposes deliberately ethnically selected communities of citizens (on which the french citizenship is imposed I mean descent of or minority languages speakers) to violence and crimes to serve a political agenda that can lead to partial ethnic cleansing regarding some areas or prevent these communities to publically speak their languages and celebrate their cultures making sure the legislation in place prevent these communities to be in charge of their own security and or access the needed weaponery. Are we witnessing legally qualified state crime that allow the victims to plea and get the fair compensation?

Why do the french autorities hate so much some tiny, poor, defenseless communities to free criminals imposing their violence on folks ethnic selected that don't have the 2nd, Castle and other legislation to protect their families and belongings remain to me a mystery.

It looks political and it is but is it a state crime? What evidence should the folks be collecting to sue? I mean if a state deliberately exposes some citizens to violence for political purposes with prior to that adopt legislations to make sure the folks have to choose in between trying to survive the violence or kill the perpetrators if they can manage to get some weapons and go to prison, how they build their case? They have collected the facts but what about the evidences they need regarding the political will to expose selected ethnic communities to violence and crimes for political motives and the state will to make sure the legislations in place prevent these communities to be in charge of their own security as they can't access any weaponery or act upon threats they may face while in the mean time, the state autorities make sure the security forces in uniforms are too few or too far to do anything?

I mean you get it? It's pretty vicious.

I mean, previous problems of that kind of state crime was easier to establish. How and what kind of evidences you need when the violence and crimes aren't commited by the state and its official or so forces but they use some other ethnies to exercise the violence and crimes to serve a political agenda on selected ethnically based communities? See what I mean.

look I gotta go now but will get back to you. Getting it? Usually less sophisticated?

The meeting, kindly hosted by Wallonia, will provide Herein coordinators with the latest information on heritage policies in Europe and how the new Herein 3 data base (which will replace the current information site www.european-heritage.coe.int in 2011) will allow direct entry and easier extraction of the data. The new tool will enable not only an overview of how Council of Europe heritage conventions are implemented but will provide governments and citizens alike with information on heritage policies and related events.

Above is what you're lookin for.

As far as I've been able to collect around the french won't be participants as they deny having any language minority that deserve any attention....??

Don't know sounds so weird not to see the value...??

Don't forget to look for someone we need reading German?

I guess that if the capital destroyed partial replacement doesn't suit anyone then the only left consequence has to be some deflation, now one can hope it remains within the borders of the easy blamed supposed responsible but it won't. Of course, the currency reserve excess hopeful may dream of the opportunities offered by a significant deflation of assets with missing the impact it will have leaving its industrialised capacities to only rely on its own domestic consumption?

The medecine tastes bad but well the disease symptoms may be worse?

In this country... they don't take sides on issues and policies, they pick people...! :-))
Options numbers for the opening?

National Heritage policies, have someone to check out what's in it for Breizh, Corsica, Euskadi and others in connection with minority languages and the 9th European Heritage Network?

Or are the french not doing anything?

You have it? Give it. Something whatever you have if new regarding Volney?

COHRE did file that one with?

Right of the family to social, legal and economic protection quote 16?

Article 16 it is said.

He's out right now.

We need someone to look into Complaint no. 52/2008 to find out if there is anygood in there for some cases she's has in mind that cannot return to Breizh.

I get the problem on the calendar too.

You got someone speaking german? I'm stock on a page, Council of Europe website trying to reach the third report on the situation of minority languages in Finland and looking for the french report on the situation of minority languages in France.

cause all people, I mean individuals and families, that should have benefited from the treaty and get an education are now victims and can pretend to a fair compensation. The idea 'd be the same with the medias based on the examples we have where the treaty is implemented.

So, you'll send the questions?

Pile up lawsuits on one hand and make propositions to get the job done on the other. For the second part, I mean, it's alright but piling up lawsuits needs to make the choice of a court system and preferably with judges that are not afraid of sending bill in the billions.

Going back to the Education section "to make arrangements to ensure the teaching of the history and the culture which is reflected by the regional or minority language", I do wonder thou if there was a team (as large as possible well documented and professionally able to build up a course on the subject), what kind of funding they can expect from the EU as long as the french refuse to do anything, to travel throughout the country enter classrooms and do what should have been done for quite a while now as well as what kind of backup they can expect from the Commission to enter schools as I do expect some furious reactions from the bureaucracy?

No, it's within the treaty. It is not some kind of stuff the french haven't signed.

You'll have to look at 11-3 stating "The Parties undertake to ensure that the interests of the users of regional or minority languages are represented or taken into account within such bodies as may be established in accordance with the law with responsibility for guaranteeing the freedom and pluralism of the media. "
So far the french have done absolutely nothing to guarantee the freedom and pluralism of the media regarding the problem. Among what has been transmitted to the legal team, did you add the media questions we have?

Sundays will be off heading towards the end of the month, many ME markets are closed.

The gaz tax I guess. Tried to get them but were pretty busy. DFM is down 0.3 altogether Bloomberg.

Yop, we're down today. Hey, I don't just watch CNBC and Bloomberg, I do ESPN too.... Are you finished?
Check it out, great news, US Water Polo ladies bare it all .

"to promote, by appropriate measures, mutual understanding between all the linguistic groups of the country and in particular the inclusion of respect, understanding and tolerance in relation to regional or minority languages among the objectives of education and training provided within their countries and encouragement of the mass media to pursue the same objective."

The Coucil of Europe supports the above. When have you seen the mass media pursue the objective? Never, so I'd say yes they do have their fair share in the results... of course doesn't excuse nor diminish in anyways the lack of policies towards the same objective, sometimes worse, policies intended to discourage or endanger the maintenance or development of it what the french gov has been and is engaged in but has hardly ever been criticised for doing so.

So I just meant the french mainstream medias state funded for the most part cannot pretend to be on the right side. They do have their ghosts and frankly, they don't mind the wrong as long as it does't make them feel unconfortable.

Always nice talking to you, it does help, do you have any state courts decisions I mean worldwide?

The education section states among a lot :
"to make arrangements to ensure the teaching of the history and the culture which is reflected by the regional or minority language"
I don't mind example of the teaching of the history and the culture. I know of the important things done in Wales but I wondered what you may have elsewhere?

Anb the graphs for tomorrow?

It just crossed my mind. The need for the words for what hurts.

I knew that... Could have told that before, of course they gonna be accused of racism, it's business as usual today. I mean, when you have no argument at all, you throw the stuff to silence opponents that how it is but nonetheless, you can fight that very easily, I mean because first of all, this community can argue they already have so many challenges that they cannot suffer more, second of all the central gov is responsible for the hatred towards the small Breizh communities failing to explain Immigrants that these Cultures and Languages have inalienable rights the international community has given them through the principles embodied in the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and according to the spirit of the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, third of all the central gov must provide care to the folks it is responsible for, not the cultures and languages that had to suffer from the extreme policies of "frenchisation"...

I mean help me with that, you get what I wanna say? but it's not so much about it's too much to ask such a small community dealing with a lot of issues directly caused by the same damBIP ideology?

Forgot, do you have the pink sheets number?

Are you ready?

I don't know but I'd love to see the Volney's community stand up for their rights. You know that most these Breizh communities have already paid such a high price that it's unfair to treat them like that. You know, what the french have done there is just unthinkable in the UK or the US I mean, it is.... think even today their descent are still bared from learning their language or celebrate their culture.

Anyone with some Volney's news?

He's after the trumpets... she's out I guess, tell him to work the graphs as we're all waiting... ! Fast!

I'm waiting you post it. Why?

Couldn't download the last G20 file, it wasn't online yet. Do you have it?

We may have the first Breizh Grass Roots movement with the Volney community's revolt? It would be great to watch them take the stand against the french bureaucracy... never know a Breizh Tea Party for Liberty, language and culture respect campaign?

G20 : Find out more about the Korean Presidency

G20 Plenary Session V: Energy, anti-corruption effort

SME Finance Challenge Award Ceremony

G20 Plenary Session IV: Financial Regulatory Reform

Key Document : G20 Agenda of Commitments and Implementation

I'm off in a few minutes. Get me the G20 Agenda.

That's my last for now. G20 Seoul Summit Outcome documents are here.

Enjoy...!!! I mean the presidency....

Volney High School : The Breizh Community resists the french state "red guards" sent to storm their descent...

Desperate... the french state caught once more attempting to pressure and storm a Breizh community has to deal with a revolt of the People. Yes they dare, say NO to the french gov.

No to the kind of "red guards" they sent to storm their community, just a bench of criminals the french state wants to use to destabilise their tiny community with a lot of challenges of their own.

had some problem with my connection, no kidding...! can you check the spelling of the french post?

Aucune idéologie ou système politique, échelle de valeurs corrompues et utitilisation fallatieuse d’idéaux révolutionnnaires ne parviendront jamais à tromper sur la légitimité des vies et des actions qui inévitablement conduiront à la reconnaissance des Droits de pratiquer une langue régionale ou minoritaire dans la vie privée et publique, un droit imprescriptible, conformément aux principes contenus dans le Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques des Nations Unies, et conformément à l'esprit de la Convention de sauvegarde des Droits de l'Homme et des Libertés fondamentales du Conseil de l'Europe.

?? translation is alright?

French Volney High School : Experiences on communities are crimes

Further french state driven experiences aimed at organised confrontation to destroy these small communities, pervert their culture and disorganise their lives must be unanimously and internationally condemned. These experiences have everything to do with state violence towards a community, Breizh in this instance coming after persecutions regarding the use of their language, their culture and the right to a public space to celebrate their culture in peace.

Shameful!

If your family, yourself or your belongings are the victims of the criminals the french state uses to excercise political violence in the areas where the regional minorities are trying to enjoy the rights to use a regional or minority language in private and public life as an inalienable right conforming to the principles embodied in the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and according to the spirit of the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, you can probably sue.

Very clearly, the french state intentions behind the move is to create an atmosphere of extreme violence to break any initiative to excercise the rights to use a regional language in private or public by a direct threat on the concerned communities descent.

Threatening the descent of these communities using criminals is of course very desperate, shameful and must be condemned.

Freluquet! Qui croyez vous être, c’est autant l’Histoire, peut-être même plus qui m’a fait que je n’ai pu ou il m’arrive de me le demander que je n’ai voulu faire l’histoire.

Alors, c’est donc le triomphe du volapük!

Ainsi quelques voleurs de mobylettes et la promesse d’heures supplémentaires vous ont fait roi et vous voilà empruntant mes chaussons vous croyant chez vous à Colombey dans mon jardin ?

Tant qu’à faire, je me suis un instant demandé si vous n’alliez pas comparer le retour du carburant dans les stations services à la libération de Paris. et la fin des grèves au repli de l’armée allemande. Vous gagneriez mon petit à plus de sens commun.

G 20 : Sakong IL Chairman of the Presidential Committee for the G20 Seoul Summit

published a message .
To read : Introduction to the Seoul Summit

How well do you know Korea? (Self test yourself)
Furthermore, as the first non-G7 country to chair the G20, Korea is well-positioned to bridge the gap between developing and advanced economies. Korea has thus introduced two new items-informed by the country’s own recent history-to the Seoul Summit agenda: the establishment of stronger global financial safety nets and the creation of a G20 multi-year action plan to support sustainable growth and poverty reduction in the developing world. These agenda items also reflect the motto for the Seoul Summit, “Shared Growth Beyond Crisis,” a theme that underscores the Korean view that working and growing together is the best means to pave the way to a healthy global economy.

Today's Can't Miss

BNP Grows to Biggest Bank as France Says Size Doesn't Matter (Must Read)

Credit Lyonnais’s losses, while dwarfed by the record numbers in the credit crisis, amounted to about 5 percent of the bank’s total assets, which peaked at 304.3 billion euros in 1993, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The same proportion of assets at BNP Paribas would equal about 112 billion euros, exceeding its total shareholders’ equity by 34 percent. This year’s Greek sovereign debt crisis “showed that French banks aren’t immune from risk, whatever the quality of the country’s regulation,” Bruegel’s Veron said.

French banks had claims on Greece of $57.3 billion at the end of June, the most of any country, according to Bank for International Settlements’ data.

“One of the reasons why I don’t like buying French banks, despite the fact that they’re very cheap, is the sovereign debt crisis,” said Dirk Hoffmann-Becking, a London-based analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein who has an “underperform” rating on BNP Paribas. “Because I don’t think it’s over.”

Gambling and dangerous policies always come to an end and in this case probably in terrible pain. The few engaged in silencing for quite a few years the extremely dangerous situation in which french banks have put themselves are just protecting their interests as professionals and doing very little for the taxpayer risk exposure.... what if a new bailout was needed?

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Oil Majors Invest in Ethanol, Expect 2011 Recovery

Republican Win to Halt Obama's Clean Energy Plans

I'd be more cautious, the priority for Congress will be jobs and economic recovery rather than waste any energy;-) on any ideology kind of battle with the President. Congress will be highly focused on the economy and efficient spending towards that goal, any plan to allow some achievements in any of these fields of great interest to the American People will be looked at very carefully. My bet? Yes as long as it doesn't compromise budget health.

Fed could change bulls’ sentiment

Tea Party: This is just the beginning

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Markets brace as Fed and midterms loom

Just got Laura's Call of the Day and Call of the Day. My connection went dead early sunday....