Essential interview published yesterday in the newspaper La Vanguardia Max Otte, which explains not mince the current state of journalism framed in an increasingly unjust and alienating Max Otte, a prominent Democrat activist away from any radical position or disasters, responds forcefully and without prejudices to the questions posed by journalist Lluís Amiguet journalism, economy and crisis in an interview published yesterday in the newspaper La Vanguardia entitled We more misinformation than ever, and free! . The interview reveals the ideas without prejudice Max Otte, who already in 2006 predicted the subprime crisis .  German, 46, Max Otte campaigning in the Democrat party (CDU) that was commissioned to reorganize the Ministry of Economy. Also spent years dedicated to stock market investment, is not exactly a radical leftist, an anti nor a fan of conspiracy theories!. After his doctorate at Princeton and reorganize the research service of the German Economics Ministry, Otte achieved notoriety in 2006 to publish the book 'That is the crisis! " and prophesy the tsunami of subprime that we are still paying. now publishes "The crash of the information ', explaining the degradation of mass media (funny, just today while trash' Big Brother ' occupies the same television channel last week aired a good information , the late and missed CNN +) and at the invitation of The Foundation Consell de la Informació de Catalunya , anticipates a future that requires us to reset our democracy or underemployed probably resigned to finishing in a franchise ... INTERVIEW "Today we have dozens of television channels, thousands of internet portals and dozens of thousands of blogs, but we are less informed than 30 years ago: more uninformed and therefore more controllable "WE HAVE SPENT MASS MEDIA MASS MEDIA TO " But mass does not mean quality. On the contrary: they have multiplied, but also depleted the contents. Most of the texts and images that we use, for free, on all types of screens or add anything nor reliable. They are a chaotic cacophony of messages bland and banal "
CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT'S ALL, AS BEFORE?
" Before reference information companies serving information-hierarchical interpretation by journalists serious, well-paid and relatively independent "
What ARE NO LONGER THOSE JOURNALISTS?
" They are threatened by the separation of advertising and content. This union was founded on the quality press, but today people do not see ads, but seeking what to buy directly online and, therefore, advertising, previously funded the accurate information and do not invest in reference mass media. Serious newspapers are more necessary than ever
, but are no longer profitable, "
ALL THERE ...
" This degradation is the dominant trend in the U.S., where I Ph.D. in Princeton, and in Germany , Ministry of Economy which helped to restructure. And throughout the world "
WHAT FUTURE AWAITS YOU?
" Journalists are being replaced by a new wave of mere transmission of content taught to simply get more clicks on the news. No longer content to interpret and rank by importance or interest, but only by their immediate audience. That way we misinform "
HOPE WE HAVE TIME TO RETIREES ...
" It's not just a corporate problem of journalists. The sinking of the information is part of the regression of the story: total capitalism takes us back to a neo-feudalism that concentrates power and wealth in few hands and condemns the rest to the misinformation, deseducación and, ultimately, servitude and poverty "
IS A CONSPIRACY?
" I do not believe in conspiracies. Is a logic of the capitalist jungle, which is imposed gradually and impoverishes first criterion, education and information of the middle classes, then limit your income. And that happens with the information, too, with education, public services and political representation. And its related business is franchised economy "
INCREASINGLY MORE FRANCHISES, BUT ...
" The Franchising is a deconstruction of the production process. The plant concentrates all power of decision and condemns the rest to run as robots work not requiring training. At McDonald's, a handful of directors decided at the plant to the size of the pickles to serve around the globe and thousands of employees in each restaurant franchisee have no room for learning or progress "
IS A MODEL
"It's the model. These employees do not need to be trained not to misinform, but frustrated by a life where they do not control nothing and learn nothing at work "BUT STILL
have democracy ..." Did not you see how resolved the crisis that I predicted? We have been blaming all of the abuses of spoilers and are paying their outrages with cuts in wages and utilities. And just look where former politicians in exchange for: the pay of the multinationals "
SPOKEN OF A NEW BANK REGULATION
" They have done the opposite, capitalism has been strengthened overall. It obeys the logic of the proposed measurable efficiency and condemn in advance any other intellectual consideration, humanistic or justice "
apocalyptic dreams and
MARXISTOIDE ..." For I am a Social and moderate. I note only the effect history: Capitalism move in total to a new feudalism that settles the rights of the middle classes. And the policy has been surrendered to that logic. When I was in the Ministry of Economy, a senior veteran explained to me how the presidents of multinational companies lined up to see the minister Erhard: the ministers are now lining up to beg favors bankers and corporate presidents! "
WHAT ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS Disinformation PART OF THAT PROCESS?
"is the consequence and in turn accelerates. You'll soon see how, once settled or reduced to the banality more or less profitable private media quality, media companies public will be branded as inefficient and outdated "
HAVE AT LEAST RETURN POLICY ...
" Some media survive by selling their independence to political partisanship increasingly brazen in exchange for subsidies and concessions. In turn, these politicians serve the new feudal lords of the banking and business, need to win elections not to send "
BUT IN THE END THE GOOD ALWAYS HAVE YOUR CONTENT READER, DO NOT YOU?
" They are disappearing : the uninformed reader ends up complying with the more superficial "
Industrial Livestock, Industrial and Dioxins Germany wants to forcefully in the case of dioxin-contaminated food that has affected almost 5,000 farms and whose products have been distributed by several European countries  When economic profit is the only important factor for a producer, cases as serious as the current dioxin in Germany it is not uncommon to come to light with some frequency. At last, after all, for a company money always takes precedence over the welfare of workers on the health of consumers, let alone the welfare of animals, by which (to its operation) obtain the desired economic gain. And this is because for years in animal husbandry the animal industry has become a mere factor of production, so the more you lower the cost per unit, the greater the benefit to be obtained by the production company. So with the industrialization of livestock animals are crammed in deplorable conditions (the closer together, the smaller the area needed for the farm, and therefore more profitable), with a diet based on industrial feed (cheaper than grains) that has nothing to do with what would be natural and desirable. In Germany the health scare began last week when it announced that some eggs from farms where the hens German ate feed for these dioxin had been contaminated, and authorities said they had found some food for poultry and pigs had been infected since March. operations at 4,700 German farms were closed and thousands of chickens slaughtered in eight German states, in an attempt to prevent contaminated food supplies are affected by the feed to become established in poultry and pig farms. WHAT ARE PCBs? Dioxins are highly toxic compounds formed in the burning of waste and other industrial processes, which have proved very harmful to pregnant women and contribute increase the chances for any person who ingest of cancer. In this case dioxin past the food production chain to use oils for industrial use in the manufacture of feed for animal consumption.
REACTIONS IN GERMANY Germany on Sunday called for strong action against those responsible for food contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin has led to the banning of some agricultural products. The Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner, described the conduct that caused excessive levels of a chemical toxin entered the animal feed "criminal act" .
"This is a big blow to our farmers. They have been dragged into this situation by the morbid machinations of a few" , said in an interview with the newspaper Bild am Sonntag . "It's hard to shake the suspicion, given what we know so far, that criminal energy combined with a startling lack of scruples. The judiciary must act harshly" .
German prosecutors investigating the company responsible for dioxin-contaminated feed have already said they can file criminal charges against the company, a distributor of oils for the production of animal feed known as und Harles Jentzsch.
On Saturday, the German Agriculture Minister said that the excessive levels of dioxin were also found in some German poultry farm poultry, although contaminated chicken meat was not sold and the chickens in question were killed and their bodies destroyed . INTERNATIONAL IMPACT
The alert has also caused temporary bans on imports of German beef and poultry products in South Korea and Slovakia, and a fall in demand for eggs. A survey by Bild am Sonntag reported that one in five Germans was avoiding its estimates boiled eggs for breakfast. Bild am Sonntag
also
said, without citing sources, the state of Lower Saxony expected that tens of thousands of pigs had been contaminated by the feed. Regional agricultural authorities did not respond by the time requirements for details.
South Korea, which imported a total of 6,266 tons of German pork in 2010, said however that livestock products imported from Germany had shown no signs of contamination.
authorities and farmer organizations have claimed damages for farms that have been forced to suspend sales, but the minister said Sunday Aigner reservations. would be a mistake to start a career by claims ", said in statements published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeiting.
INCREASES DEMAND FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTS
While in Germany has increased exponentially, the demand for organic products which does not use pesticides or industrial feed in animal husbandry. Hopefully do not need more scares like this so that we as consumers opted for the organic product, which is always a guarantee of health and sustainability.
(*) Source of the news and the editorial: Reuters
I planned obsolescence, what is? EQUO consumption cycle is becoming shorter. We have products cheaper, but in a shrinking life. The result: we lose time, lose money and, worse, we spend a lot of energy unnecessarily and leave a pile of rubbish along the road. Does this make sense? Batteries that are damaged before the age of two years, lamps that melt a thousand hours, cameras must renew every two years ... Have you thought about why the devices break down soon in spite of technical advances? It is no coincidence. We could say that the products are "made not to last." Why? Let's accounts ... I always give the example of fan ... Memory models ancients were practically design pieces were inherited. Were solid, well finished and slightly more expensive than today. By contrast, the price of a fan could be about 50 - 60 euros. Now find in any small appliance store or mall for about 15 to 20 euros on average. So much the better, right? Absolutely not. The fan 50 euros you could take fully 20 or 30 years without problems. Instead, the fan 15 euros will be lucky if you last for the next summer, if not fail the same electrical system breaks you in the hand alone, as many of them are manufactured in plastic so bad that they become brittle with time, in just two years and lose their low resistance to the purchase. And there's the business. Calculate the cost for 20 years: 50 euros for the model "expensive" (50 euros x 1 fan), 150 euros for the model "cheap" (15 euros x 10 fans). And not only that 10 visits to the store (to buy), 10 Ecopark visits (to throw) ... What is so profitable? Get what you pay, always: expensive for the consumer, expensive for the planet. Tonight at 22:00 (CET) La 2 English TV and broadcast RTVE.es Buy the documentary, Throw, Buy an interesting and revealing work we discover the secret of this absurd dynamic of consumption: the planned obsolescence, which is currently the "motor" of the modern economy.  Shot in Catalonia, France, Germany, USA and Ghana, Buy, shooting, shopping, a journey through the history of a business practice that involves the deliberate reduction in the life of a product to increase consumption because, as published in 1928 an influential U.S. magazine advertising, "an article that does not wear is a tragedy for business." The documentary, directed by Cosima Dannoritzer and co-produced by English TV, is the result of three years of research, makes use of little-known archival footage, provides documentary evidence and shows the disastrous environmental consequences resulting from this practice. It also presents several examples of the spirit of resistance that is growing among consumers and includes the analysis and opinion of economists, designers and intellectuals who proposed alternative ways to save the environment and economics A BULB IN THE ORIGIN OF PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
Edison made his first light bulb sales in 1881. Lasted 1500 hours. In 1911 an ad in English media highlighted the benefits of a brand of light bulbs with a certified life of 2500 hours. But as revealed in the documentary, in 1924 a cartel that brought together the main manufacturers in Europe and the United States negotiated to limit the lifetime of a light bulb at 1000 hours. The Phoebus cartel was called and officially never existed but in Purchase, pull, buy we are shown the document which is the starting point of obsolescence, which is now applied to next-generation electronic products such as printers and iPods and applied also in the textile industry with the disappearance of the means to test runs.
A CENTENNIAL LAMP
in Livermore, California, found the world's oldest light bulb. On without interruption since 1901, is online 24 hours a day. Have so far been sold and two webcams and the bulb is on the third ... Want to see? Sign here. CONSUMER
REBELS IN THE INTERNET AGE
Throughout the history of the scheduled expiration, the film also paints a fresco of the history of economics in the last hundred years and provides an interesting fact: the change in attitude consumers through the use of social networks and the Internet. The Neistat brothers case, the computer programmer or Catalan Vitaly Kiselev Marcos López, give a good account of it.
AFRICA LANDFILL WORLD FIRST ELECTRONIC disposable
This constant has serious environmental consequences. As we see in this research, countries like Ghana are becoming the first world electronic trash. Until then periodically come hundreds of full containers of waste under the label of "second-hand material" and the umbrella of a contribution to bridging the digital divide and eventually taking the place of rivers or fields where children play.
Beyond the complaint, the documentary is to give visibility to entrepreneurs implement new business models and hear the alternatives proposed by intellectuals like Serge Latouche, start talking revolution 'decrease', the reduction of consumption and production to free time and develop other forms of wealth, such as friendship or knowledge, which is not exhausted by use.
VOICES DOCUMENTARY
Marcos López (Computer Technician) - Barcelona's problems with a printer this is the theme of buy, throw away, buy
Casey Neistat (video artist) - He and his brother put Apple on the ropes with the completion of a short- complaint about the short battery life of iPod
Elizabeth Pritzker (Lawyer) - Video She heard the Neistat and decided to sue Apple. Her idea spread across the Internet and caught the attention of thousands of affected
Mike Anane (Journalist and activist) - The Ghanaian anti-obsolescence since the end of the chain. collects information on waste coming into your country
Serge Latouche (Professor Emeritus of Economics) - proposes to undertake revolution 'decline' to combine economy and sustainability
Michael Braungart (chemist) - author of the concept 'cradle to cradle' . Suggests Industry redesign imitating virtuous cycle of nature
John Thackara (designer and philosopher) - Helping people around the world to share ideas business and sustainable design
Warner Philips (Great-grandson of the founders of Philips) - raises alternatives from the business world. Fabrica LED bulb that lasts 25 years
(*) Source of the news and the editorial: Susana Rodriguez to RTVE.es
 While in Spain there was a single channel, or at most two in more developed areas (those known as the VHF and UHF) used to appear in some programs at the top of the screen called "diamond." Was that, a simple diamond that served as warning: If you appeared one meant that programming was recommended for persons 14 and older, and if there were two of 18 or more. En realidad, se trataba sólo de un consejo para los padres, nunca, lógicamente, una obligación; por eso, yo sí pude disfrutar en mi tierna infancia de programas como Historias para no dormir de Chicho Ibáñez Serrador (dos rombos), de Ironside (un rombo) o incluso de las corridas de toros (un rombo). Y es que el régimen franquista, en este apartado, se limitaba a aconsejar dejando a los padres tomar la decisión de cómo y con qué educar a sus hijos… y mis padres, con buen criterio por cierto, decidieron que mis hermanos y yo conociéramos la “crudas realidades de life "as soon as possible. Well, now, 40 years later, English Radio and Television Group introduced its style guide to bullfighting in the section of "violence to animals," and, therefore, prohibits the broadcast schedule child. Therefore, despite the fact that in Madrid, for example, two hours have fallen behind their celebrations when compared with Lorca's famous poem that begins and repeats that of "at five o'clock" , it is clear that no corrida may be relayed by the public body (unless you decide to connect, which I doubt-to late at night with a festival in Cali, or Mexico ...). The truth is that this ban only thing you lose will be the great program Zero Lying (to see if it hosts a private network) because for years they do not offer any bullfighting event. While, however, and before this I wonder - also the famous "Prohibit Documentary 2 where a fierce lion destroys the hindquarters of a zebra or where a herd of fierce hyenas are killing a sick buffalo after painful spasms? Because I guess that will be considered also "violence to animals." - also "Prohibit local cinema where films out Palomo Linares, or Cordoba, or any other famous bullfighter of the time with bullfighting images? - Will you keep, however, the closures of Sanfermines because that is not violent to animals, only with people-much less important, which can suffer and even caught, Unfortunately, death? - also "Prohibit child during this time movies with violent people" with war, murder, rape, torture, or eliminated only if a flagman with ill intentions? - Can a 16 year old girl not ready to see a bullfight but to abort even without the consent of their parents? - Will they overcome this socialist regime to Franco suffered in restriction of freedoms individual as it has in all matters related to the National Party, except to give the cigar between puffs and olé olé ? ---------------------- Postscript: Thanks , Santa socialist state, for telling me what I should myself and my children, your loyal subject thanks you.
From Environmentalism with hope and optimism greet the EQUO project, a new political party still seeks to bring together training and unite the scattered green vote in Spain  With Juan Lopez de Uralde (former director of Greenpeace ) to the head, Equo and is more than just a project. Presented on 24 September in Madrid, EQUO is now a foundation, for lack of final approval of the Central Administration, which will arrive later this month, and is expected after regional and municipal elections in May, will become a leftist environmentalist (or more commonly, "red and green), willing to gain a foothold in the difficult left panel, dominated by PSOE and IU. Compete in the 2012 general with more partners. But a possible convergence with socialists or with the United Left is already "dismissed." If you want to know more about the project EQUO can be accessed at this link to your founding manifesto. From now until June Equo-term built from ecology and social equity aims to "bring together the entire green space", now widely dispersed and broken into a thousand acronyms, and add a "people, social organizations and parties" to "build a new green and progressive force, "says Lopez de Uralde, director of the foundation. Unless see a "salutary lesson", especially in the Community of Madrid, there are no plans to attend in May, although Equo yes "support" green parties and related items: Initiative Poble Valencià (IdPV) Verds-divisions Initiative UI in Valencia, Balears-Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds (ICV) and Andalusian Parallel platform 36. All are integrated into the Area Forum Plural, an alliance of leftist environmentalists and promoted by ICV federalists and "naturally converge" with Equo 2012. "Five deputies to the general"
WHY THE APPROACH TO THE AREA FORUM PLURAL?
"We feel sympathy and support of many citizens who do not feel represented by the PSOE and IU," said Uralde. Words almost traced using the other patrons of the foundation. As Alejandro Sanchez, former director of SEO / Birdlife, who believes that "the UI model has bottomed out, it did not want to embody that means red-green, as did ICV in Catalunya. "We pursue a more modern, responsive to the challenges of the XXI century" and left no "classical" she says. According to the president of the foundation, Reyes Montiel, seeks to go "beyond the UI and not replace them because not compete with it inevitable.
Equo
leader insists that the new "it must be a separate project." "There has never been consolidated in Spain this space ecosocialist adds, just because the Green parties have taken shelter quickly at IU and PSOE. We aspire to build their own space, covering different IU and PSOE, although between them. We delude those who do not vote or are resigned. " Rejects the accusation that Equo "spray left over:" We are obliged to collect hopes. The greatest ally of the PP is abstinence. Is what leads him to power. "
PREPARATIONS FOR THE 2012 GENERAL Uralde believes
possible to form parliamentary group in the Congress in 2012: "Two members of Madrid, two in Barcelona and another in a large province, predicts." His example is Germany where the Greens have settled as a third force and over 20% in the polls. The numbers represent have here with ICV, whose future relationship with IU "to decide for itself ICV" he says. In any case, all sources Equo reiterate that "there is an operation Mendiluce 2." That is, there is no connection with the launch in 2003 made ICV Green MEP José María Mendiluce, the candidate presented to the City of Madrid. That was a strategy piloted by the party from Catalunya. Equo, however, in Madrid Uralde driven, "autonomously." The processes have changed. Today
assumes that the candidate in the general will Uralde, since he enjoys an "undisputed leader" and accepted all the red-green space. The decision, in any case rest with the constituent congress of Equo, scheduled for fall, but sources do not rule out the dome on forging "new leaders."
SIGNS OF IDENTITY
The hallmarks of Equo are known, and are reflected in its founding manifesto: struggle for a just and sustainable production model (Green New Deal), for labor rights and social poverty, human rights, opposition to the "dictatorship of the markets" ... As the leading advocate of the foundation, not about being right or left IU. In some of its postulates, they are more "radical." "The traditional left, for example, has been highly developed. We find ourselves in different parameters in the conquest of a model of growth is not unlimited."
A multifaceted answer that profile names of the nine founding patron, advanced to the Public. For one thing, green movement activists Uralde himself, Alejandro Sanchez, SEO / Birdlife, Santiago Martín Barajas, Ecologists in Action, and Cristina Monge, Ecology and Development (Ecodes) - and development NGOs (Cecilia Carballo, IPADE).
The European green bra
probed leader, unsuccessfully, to the former Socialist minister Cristina Narbona and spoken with Toxo and Mendez
Alternatively, integrate two previously linked to IU: Reyes Montiel, a former member Madrid, Pepa López and journalist. Also incorporated Ernest Urtasun, ICV young leader of the most trusted general secretary, Joan Herrera, and one of its vice presidents, Senator John Guillot, Plural Space beadle. Close the list Joaquín Nieto, member since 1974 and historical CCOO Confederal Secretary Environment of the union and number two on the list Gaspar Llamazares UI 2008.
As employers would not have joined founders Juan Ignacio González, from 2004 to 2010 a spokesman for Los Verdes de Asturias (party member of IU), and Monica Frassoni, co-chair of the European Green Party (SVP), which through its foundation, the European Green Foundation (GEF), is who else has put money Equo-the rest of the funding comes from the founders. As a founding figure (no pattern) Raúl Gómez, a former Greenpeace worker.
"We are very excited. Never before had congealed in Spain that will bring together the green and the emergence of as credible leaders. From the PVE give political support, content and our physical presence, "said Frassoni by phone from Belgium. The co-chair of PVE Equo stresses that should drag IU and PSOE votes because IU has been in a corner of their own volition. " "We must defend green label and proposals that appeal to all voters, not just the traditional left," he explained.
EUROPEAN SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTALISM
Frassoni be on Thursday 27 January in Madrid, in the coming-of-Equo Utopic_US be in the room-which will come Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of Europe Écologie, which succeeded in France Europe in 2009, a 16.28%. By that time, later this month will launch the membership drive and schedule a meeting with the Equomunidad, the network of supporters of the project. "We want, rather than militant activists. This is another game of values \u200b\u200band causes. Therefore we want to influence policy and not take a closed program, to build solutions together", argues the president of Equo. Uralde
has sounded out "politicians, cultural personalities, university and other movements." Among them, quoted the former Environment Minister Cristina Narbona, "very popular with environmentalists." "She has reaffirmed their commitment to the PSOE, but the time has recognized the importance of the birth of Equo "he says. The management refuses to provide more names of new signings. Proceeds only, for example, could join those already supported Herrera in his candidacy for President of the Generalitat de Catalunya (including the 'artist of the eyebrow / zeja' who spent the PSOE to ICV). Lopez de Uralde
has also met with leaders of the CCOO and UGT, Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, and Colin Campbell, to explain the project. "It is vital the union front, Montiel says," and will agree with them on many things. I support the general strike on September 29 and support the other if summoned. But not compete with IU for the support of the unions. "
WHO'S WHO IN EQUO
Juan Lopez de Uralde - Fighting Juantxo green Uralde Lopez (San Sebastian, 1963) started in 1985, when mounted with other classmates Ecological Agricultural School (Gede). In 1987 he joined Greenpeace Spain, NGO would become chief executive on May 7, 2001. On December 17, 2009 was held in Copenhagen next with three other Greenpeace activists for breaking with a banner on the gala dinner hosted by Queen Margaret to the Heads of State and Government attending the Summit Climate Denmark. The four were released from prison after 20 days, on 6 January. In August 2010, Uralde left the NGO to launch Equo. He now runs the foundation. Reyes Montiel
- The President today left Equo October 29 IU-Madrid and regional Assembly seat after seven years as deputy. Works in the Institute of Work and Health (ISTAS), a foundation of CCOO. Alejandro Sánchez
- Doctor in Biological Sciences and former Director of SEO / BirdLife, an NGO dedicated to the conservation of birds. Cecilia Carballo
- BA in Political Science and Administration, is director Foundation executive Enhancement Institute for Development Support (IPAD). Cristina Monge
- directs since 2007 the area of \u200b\u200bexternal projection of Ecology and Development Foundation (Ecodes). Also graduated in Political Science and Administration. Joaquín Nieto
- Honorary President of the International Foundation for Sustainable Development Sustainlabour. It is also the patron of the foundation Renovables. From 1991 to 2008 was secretary of the Environment confederal CCOO. IU was number two general in Madrid in 2008. Ernest Urtasun
- Economist, executive member and advisor ICV 2004 to 2009 the Greens / European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. Pepa López
- Journalist. Former press chief of the parliamentary group of IU in the Assembly of Madrid (2007-2010). Previously he was part of EB (EB-IU) in Bilbao.
Santiago Martín Barajas - is one of the founders of the NGO Ecologists in Action and was its first general coordinator (1998-2002).
(*) Source of news: Público
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