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Controversy over missile shield: Russia-United States

U.S. plans to install a missile shield in Eastern Europe, more precisely in Czech Republic and Poland, led to a dispute with Russia and sparked the memory of the Cold War.
The controversy between the two powers began early last year when the U.S. administration announced that its projects were pointed out to place a missile security shield to prevent an attack on Europe by North Korea or Iran. This angered the Russian Federation, in response, announced it was suspending demilitarization treaty signed between the two countries in 1990, as it believes that the system will affect their industry and its major cities, and in retaliation, will increase its military potential.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described as "absurd" the Russian president's concerns, while the U.S. president, George Bush, said that "Russia is not the enemy", and tried to calm the tone of the dispute Putin keeps noting: "The Cold War is over."
in June by a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the summit of the G8 countries, with George Bush, his Russian counterpart, Vladirmir Putin proposed, seeking to avoid the construction of the shield, the joint use of the Gabala radar base in Azerbaijan, to monitor possible attacks from Iran to European whites, a danger that Bush had put forward to justify the installation of a radar in the Czech Republic and ten interceptors in Poland, which had provoked harsh reactions in Russia, which saw this as a threat to their safety.
Putin's proposal was hailed by Bush as an "interesting idea", and agreed to study it, but did not give up the deployment of the shield in Eastern Europe.
In response, the Russian president, argued that it will target Russian missiles Europe was the first time since the end of the Cold War, if Washington does not back down in your project, and threatened: "If deployment of a missile shield in Europe, today warned, will be answered. We need to ensure our security ", to which U.S. and NATO responded:" The threat of Putin is useless and unhelpful. "
For his part, Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, said, on 6 February in Warsaw that his country has not yet made a final decision with regard to the location within its territory of elements of the U.S. missile defense. He added that: " any event in Polish-Russian relations should be aware that Poland is a member of the European Union and NATO and has relations with the U.S. ally. "
Referring Tusk's visit to Bladimir Putin on February 8 in the Kremlin, the Russian Prime Minister Victor Zubkov said: "This visit is an important milestone in the development of Russian-Polish relations. We want to have as its foundation respect for the interests of each party and is governed by the principle of good neighborliness, "and pledged that Russia would" continue to develop cooperation with Poland, its neighbor and partner in the political, economic, commercial, cultural and humanitarian law. " Furthermore
Deputy Russian Defense Alexander Kolmakov, argued at the meeting of the heads of the military departments of Russia-NATO Council, which plans to NATO, Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty, to integrate into your security system the U.S. missile shield affect relations between NATO and Russia.
Many experts believe that today the only power that can overcome the U.S. missile shield, Russia. But according to Russian risk perception is not contemporary, but the future is the technology gap after suffering Russia on the Western powers.
Something to note is that Russia supported the U.S. policy in different landscapes and have not received anything in return, so the code that inspired the movements of Bush, is that Russia will not be reborn as a great power.
What many call "The New Cold War", is very far from it because, in principle, there are now only a hegemonic power relations are not strained. Besides Putin is present in the G8, and the scenario is not the same as in the Cold War or the game, or structures operating time.
They could ask the inhabitants of the Russian people, but especially the Polish and Czech people, whether they like to live under a custody based on a missile shield and within a conflict controversial because it has military power as one or the other has, as ultimately, or at least demonstrate that the rulers, "working for the good of his people and for their development."

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No more blood for the Food

When you communicate with your cell phone, that little device that makes it easier to link between people, you may not know that manufacturing is turning a mineral called coltan. Maybe hear names, but you may not know exactly what those less concerned and where it comes from or how it is obtained.
And if you got lucky enough to travel in one of these modern trains that travel over 300 km time, it is good to know that this wonder of technology has its presence coltan.
is called the mineral coltan columbite-tantalite which two metals are extracted vital for society: the tantalum and niobium (formerly called columbium). His name is a contraction of columbite-tantalite. Gradually, he began to be marketed as an excellent raw material for the development of new technologies.
This mineral is essential for the electronics industry, nuclear plants, space objects, ballistic missiles, video games, medical diagnostic equipment noninvasive train without wheels (magnetic), fiber optic cables, a long list of other things. However, 60 percent of its production goes to the production of capacitors and other parts of the cell phones. With it, the batteries of handheld minicelulares longer hold its charge, since the next-generation microchips that he made optimize power consumption.
The large increase in demand caused the emergence of a parallel black market in central Africa. In the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire), considered by UNESCO major ecological reserves, is 80 percent of world reserves of coltan. There have been interest, especially in the last ten years, the majors Nokia, Ericsonn, Siemens, Sony, Bayer, Intel, Hitachi, IBM and many others. They were trained in the area a number of companies, most of them ghosts, associated between large transnational capital, local governments and state military forces or guerrilla, for the extraction of coltan and other minerals like copper, gold and industrial diamonds.
All licenses for purchase and sale were abolished in late 2000, but continued trading illegally.
While the governments of African countries are vying for territory and further impoverished more, if possible, to their villages, joint ventures share the economic control of the region. Including transportation control. Military areas of international airports in Kigali, capital of Rwanda and Entebbe, Uganda's capital, are a clear example of "no taxes or tariffs." The trip to the Congo flights carrying weapons traveling back and minerals.
For many African countries in the late twentieth century, the devaluation of agricultural products, and desertification, caused a marked appreciation of its mineral resources, new phase of wandering way to relate to the international market. Most of the coltan extracted, then to be accumulated to raise prices, it is destined for the United States, Germany, Belgium and Kazakhstan. The Bayer subsidiary is the producer of 50 percent of tantalum powder worldwide. With traffic and development are linked dozens of companies, involved in monopolistic corporations from different countries. Big companies fund the various military forces, which mounted on the existing ethnic conflicts, support a war for control of mines, which in the past four years have killed about three million people. Rwanda and Uganda have spread to some 40 000 soldiers, who have the best teams in National Parks the DRC, where are the reserves. According to the same Kofi Annan, seventh Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize, said: "Congo's war is being waged for control of its natural wealth." In a report IPIS, research information service for the independent International Peace, we show that European and American companies who sell coltan to help finance the war. They have a great interest in the continued insecurity in the Congo to stay through guerrilla troops.

coltan mines in the daily work more than 20 thousand men, under a repressive system organized by the forces military and local authorities, the two sides in the debate that until now still at war, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, Congolese Rally for Democracy, on the one hand, and the DRC on the other. Workers are paid about ten dollars a kilo of coltan, while in London every kilo of mineral listed between 250 and 300 dollars. The labor force is, in general, ex-farmers and ranchers who do not have to feed their families, plus thousands of children in the region, whose bodies can easily get into the seams flush with the ground.
This way of working has caused, is causing and will continue to cause deaths of millions of Africans.
Capital, therefore not responsible for the entire reproduction of this labor force, which also provide the added value of mineral production, provides a kind of labor rent metamorphosed.
miners suffering from overexploitation. Dan coltan value to their work, pay a tribute to the local state and also work to ensure the livelihood, food and shelter.
-military, local militias and rebels are involved in smuggling, while illegal profits the fund. Intermediaries will
-smugglers buy and sell their products to corporations and little profit left for the Democratic Republic of Congo. Superprofits
invested capital gain you get exorbitant fees, made with the indispensable support of repression and forced labor. As is traditional in Africa, racism, xenophobia and discriminatory ideology in general, are essential for the operation of the dual labor market, wage and forced labor. NO FREE .

Coltan is a source of wealth should be harnessed for the benefit of the Congo and not a tie that oppress their people.

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coltan more expensive because of Oil

On the rising price of cooking oil, the slum dwellers Asia's largest, Mumbai, India, are forced to ration every drop.
The scarcity and high price of palm oil, soybean oil and other vegetable oils are an example of a growing global problem, the rising food prices.
The food price index of the Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture, FAO, based on export prices of sixty food, increased by 37 percent last year and had already increased 14 in 2006. Since September, the trend accelerated.
According to the organization in recent months, food riots erupted in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Uzbekistan and Yemen. No food increase this semester, as fast as the so-called edible oils.
In Western cooking oil may seem a trivial expense, but in the developing world is an important source of calories and represents one of the major expenses of poor families, which grow some of their own food, but they have buy oil for cooking.
In Malaysia, workers pick the fruit of the palms, but the oil obtained from such fruit prices rose 70 percent in 2007.
In Mumbai, 250 mm people buy palm oil for food for his family for 41 cents.
The worst victims of the rise in food prices in urban areas are poorer Asian countries with lower incomes.
The reaction of some families living in slum areas of Mumbai, consisting of six to nine members, of which only one works, was eating fish once a week instead of two, cooking a few vegetables and reduce consumption of rice.
In 2007 the conversion of palm oil fuel is a huge growth in demand, but in recent weeks the price increase affected the sector. On the coast of Malaysia refinery has the capacity to make 105,000 metric tons of palm per year by 100,000 metric tons of a fuel called biodiesel, as well as valuable byproducts like glycerin.
Mission Biofuels, an Australian company, finished the refinery in December.
But prices rose as the company can not cover costs and decided to stop work while searching for a new strategy.
Almost half the increase in world demand for vegetable oils last year, was for biofuels, and accounted for seven percent of total oil consumption, according to Oil World, a forecasting service in Hamburg, Germany.

The development of biodiesel was and is controversial, not only because it competes with the use of oil la alimentación, sino también por las consecuencias ambientales.
La advertencia de que se están talando selvas para crear plantaciones de palmas de aceite que destruyen el hábitat de orangutanes y rinocerontes de Sumatra y liberan gases de efecto invernadero, viene de hace tiempo y es reforzada en la actualidad por grupos conservacionistas europeos. Pero al parecer, las grandes potencias mundiales parecen darle más importancia a los negociados y no al medio ambiente y a la creciente y hambrienta población mundial.

Santiago García Cancio
Informes: Andrew Martin
Michael Rubenstein
New York Times