www.svet.lu.se/links/Demokratiresurser/papers_deliberativ_demokrati/ActivistChallenges.pdf

Un muy interesante ensayo sobre la actividad politica contrastada el punto de vista del Activista con el punto de vista del Democrata deliberante
www.svet.lu.se/links/Demokratiresurser/papers_deliberativ_demokrati/ActivistChallenges.pdf

25 MILLONES PARA UN FESTIVAL Y LOS RARAMURIS CON HAMBRUNA

 25 MILLONES DE PESOS PARA UN FESTIVAL Y LOS RARAMURIS CON HAMBRUNA????

• Y DE DONDE SALIERON LOS FONDOS????????????
• DE LAS ARCAS DEL ESTADO??????? CONTRA QUE PARTIDA PRESUPUESTAL?????
• Y COMO SE CONTABILIZÓ???????
• Y A CUANTO ASCIENDE LA DEUDA DEL ESTADO???????
• Y A LOS PROVEEDORES SE LES PAGA PUNTUALMENTE??????
• Y EL SECRETARIO DE FINANZAS DEL ESTADO, EX SUBSECRETARIO DE HACIENDA PAGANDO EN EFECTIVO SIN FACTURA??????
• Y LA LEY DEL ISR???????????
• Y 6 FUNCIONARIOS DE LA SRIS DE FINANZAS PARA MANEJAR EGRESOS?????????
• Y EL QUE RETIRO LOS RECURSOS DEL BANCO, QUIEN ES??????????????
• Y EL DESTINATARIO DEL DINERO EN TOLUCA?????????????
• Y EL COSTO DEL TRANSA"LADO EN AVION QUIEN LO PAGO????
• Y EL IDE QUE NOS COBRA HACIENDA????? A ELLOS NO??????
• Y EL CONGRESO DEL ESTADO, COMPLICE ??????
• Y EL IFE???????
• Y LA AUDITORIA SUPERIOR DE LA FEDERACION?????
• Y LA SRIA DE LA FUNCION PUBLICA????????????
•  

CUANTOS ORGANISMOS QUE NOS CUESTAN MILES DE MILLONES DE PESOS Y SOLO PARA TAPARLE EL OJO AL MACHO!!!

¡A OTRO PERRO CON ESE HUESO!

DETENGAMOS EL SAQUEO DE LAS FINANZAS GUBERNAMENTALES!!!!

De Veracruz a Toluca

 

De Veracruz a Toluca Si tiene dos patitas con membrana, plumas, pico, nada en el agua y dice "cuac, cuac", lo más probable -coincidirán, amigos lectores- es que se trate de un pato. Entonces, si en un avión oficial del Gobierno dos funcionarios del Gobierno priista de Veracruz salen de Xalapa con destino a Toluca, capital del Estado de México, sede y origen del candidato priista a la Presidencia, Enrique Peña Nieto, con VEINTICINCO millones de pesos en EFECTIVO, no se requiere ser Hercule Poirot (el picudo detective de Agatha Christie) para sospechar que el priismo veracruzano, empersonado en Javier Duarte, le está mandando su cuota mensual (el envío coincide con fin de mes, también) al candidato presidencial. No duden ustedes tampoco, amigos, que cada uno de los VEINTE ESTADOS priistas del País manden a "su" candidato una cantidad similar "para lo que se le pueda ofrecer". (Ésta es la típica cadena de complicidad a la que nos tiene acostumbrados el PRI tradicional, y cada día que pasa se acumulan más evidencias de que, como "Chucky", el muñeco asesino de las películas de terror, el viejo PRI "¡Ya regresó!"). El hecho de que la cantidad trasladada en la nave oficial sea en EFECTIVO es para evitar rastreos, desviar fondos públicos impunemente y burlar los "topes" de campaña y la vigilancia del IFE sobre los gastos de las campañas. La opinión pública mexicana no se rige por la frecuentemente ficticia "verdad jurídica", sino sobre la evidencia existente. Para la ciudadanía basta y sobra un indicio, una sospecha fundada, para considerarse más que suficiente elemento para condenar conductas tan desviadas y reprehensibles como ésta que acaba de quedar evidenciada. Salen sobrando por completo las explicaciones oficiales del Gobierno de Veracruz: quesque se trataba de un pago para unos festivales, contrataciones de artistas, etcétera, tan inverosímiles como ridículos los pretextos. ¿A qué proveedor le vuelan en avión privado dinero en efectivo POR ADELANTADO como pago para organizar festivales? ¡Sí, cómo no! En la mayoría de las tesorerías peñapriistas del País (y en algunas imitadoras del panaderismo) los burócratas de egresos cobran "moches" para que salgan los pagos a proveedores ¡EN CHEQUE! ¡Siempre demorados y casi siempre mermados también por la "cuota" por pronto pago... y al que no pasa por la "báscula" no le pagan. ¡Porque no hay dinero! ¡Ya mero van a mandar pagar a domicilio en avión privado y en efectivo! g¡Esas pamplinas que se las crea su tatatatarabuela, si es que ya bajó del Cocotal! Por si acaso se requiriera, este bochornoso episodio al que hoy nos referimos demuestra -una vez más- el cochinambre en el que está convertida la actividad política en México. Los abusos, el descaro, el cinismo, la impunidad reinan y campean en los tres niveles de gobierno burlándose con su ubicua presencia de los ciudadanos que son quienes generan -con grandes esfuerzos- los recursos que estos señoritos malversan a sus anchas. Independientemente de que la PGR tenga o no éxito en la persecución de estos hechos que, sin duda, tipifican varios delitos que en un ciudadano común y corriente la SHCP perseguiría con cárcel, este vergonzoso incidente representa una radiografía hacia el interior de un sistema que muchos ciudadanos creían aniquilado en el 2000: el viejo y tradicional marrullero y chanchullero PRI. Lejos de estar acabado, se ha renovado, ha tomado nuevos bríos y todo indica que ascenderá de nuevo al poder para implantar -o reimplantar- "modas" como la descubierta accidentalmente por la PGR en el aeropuerto de Toluca: la generación espontánea de cuantiosísimos recursos de los que nadie sabe, nadie supo y que van a parar a manos de nadie sabe, nadie supo. ¡Qué chulada! ¡Viva México!

New L.A. parking meter plan gets ticking

New L.A. parking meter plan gets ticking

El Modelo de Estocolmo: La Planeacion Produce Dramaticos Resultados > Citiwire.net

For Release Thursday, June 23, 2011
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STOCKHOLM — Imagine this: A major city center redevelopment scheme would take down two highway bridges and build one replacement, shrink vehicular access from 12 to 8 lanes (6 for cars, 2 for trams and buses), expand cycle, pedestrian and public transit capacity, diminish the number and height of proposed new buildings after public comment, and add a sizable park also at the urging of the public. No developer input is solicited or accepted until a final design is approved by the City Council and fully designed. Plus, the long and involved process, with its extensive public input, actually thrills city planners.

Sound like a fantasy?

For Americans, yes, but not in Stockholm, where this is the story of the Slussen redevelopment plan for the city’s central, most historic district — where Lake Maelaren meets the Baltic Sea and where the city was founded in the 13th century.

Sometimes referred to as the “Venice of the North,” Stockholm is located on 14 islands on the south-central east coast of Sweden. Lake Maelaren is a freshwater lake feeding into the Baltic Sea. A lock has connected these two bodies of water since the mid-17th century and is critical for the prevention of flooding by the lake.
 
This area, in which the City Hall, Parliament and royal palace are all in close proximity, seems to be in need of rebuilding every 100 years, explained Martin Schroeder, Stockholm’s chief planner. The last time was in 1935 when the current tangle of roadways and concrete plazas was developed. That redo earned the city a letter of praise from the 20th Century concrete master himself, Le Corbusier.

“He congratulated the city for being so brave to be modern and to take care of the needs of the car,” Schroeder says. Traffic now dominates the area. “It is all pavement,” Schroeder adds. “There is no public space and underneath, where the bus station is, it is dark and unsafe.” The bus depot will be moved to a nearby site at a metro stop and the underground will be converted to a shopping mall.

Today, there are only one-third the number of cars than in the 1960s, Schroeder says, noting that congestion pricing since 2007 and highways outside of the center removed considerable traffic. The 25,000 bikers are expected to double by 2030. Bus ridership is supposed to jump considerably, as well.

Schroeder is explaining all this while pointing to a huge, well-detailed model of the project on view for the public at the site. While we are talking, a steady stream of local people pass through, point, discuss, nod, all seeming intrigued and approving. Schroeder seems particularly pleased to see this, since it represents the culmination of a planning process that has taken years, involved many public discussions, major adjustments, public hearings and final City Council approval this year — all with minimum public displeasure. Five architects were invited to offer proposals and Foster + Partners, the firm selected in 2004 — is now in the working drawing phase. The model is 2.5 x 3.5 meters. More than 15,000 visitors have seen it in the first month since it was put on display May 2.

Asked to explain why developers were kept at bay until the final plan was designed, Schroeder said: “It would not have been as easy to alter the plan in response to the public if developers were on board ahead of time.”

This time around, he adds, the realities of climate change came seriously into play, especially because of the anticipation of a possible one meter rise in the lake over the next 100 years.

The character and charm of Stockholm seem to be defined by water and green spaces. The city has large and small green areas adding up to 30 percent of its land area, and various bodies of water totaling another 30 percent. The tight grid of narrow streets holds remnants of medieval beginnings, but the feeling overall is more like the late 19th century city pattern so prevalent in European capitals. But there’s one critical; difference: like its “sister” capitals on the Baltic, Stockholm’s trade and transportation history is sea-based, while most other European capitals are on major rivers.

Stockholm’s population of 850,000 is expected to increase by 10,000 a year. It is a small city in global terms, but is considered one of the cleanest capital cities in the world.

In 2010, Stockholm was voted the first European Green Capital. Thirty-five participating cities were judged in several ways: climate change impact, local transport, public green areas, air quality, noise, waste, water consumption, waste water treatment, sustainable land use, biodiversity and environmental management. Among the interesting qualities that won Stockholm the designation was its integrated administrative system, which insures that environmental impacts are considered in budgets and planning in all city agencies — a critical break from the past decades of silo-thinking and planning in so many cities around the world. The city has also cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent in 10 years and plans to be fossil fuel free by 2050. One of the most extensive public transit systems in Europe — including a city bike share program — provides car-free easy movement in the city.

Roberta Brandes Gratz is an urban critic and author of the newly published The Battle For Gotham: New York In the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, 2010, Nation Books.

 

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Podemos incluir esto a la interminable lista de lo que soñamos en poder hacer, en la ciudad de Mexico.
No tendriamos que combatir Pedregal 24, o las demas obras ilegales, irregulares y no consensadas ni justificadas en Millet, San Jeronimo o el Pedregal, Tecamachalco, etcetera.

Los suburbios Americanos son un gigantesco esquema Ponzi | Grist

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One of humanity's greatest strengths -- our ability to innovate solutions to complex problems -- can be a detriment when we misdiagnose the problem. Our problem was not, and is not, a lack of growth. Our problem is 60 years of unproductive growth -- growth that has buried us in financial liabilities. The American pattern of development does not create real wealth. It creates the illusion of wealth. Today we are in the process of seeing that illusion destroyed, and with it the prosperity we have come to take for granted.

That is now our greatest immediate challenge. We've actually embedded this experiment of suburbanization into our collective psyche as the "American dream," a non-negotiable way of life that must be maintained at all costs. What will we throw away trying to sustain the unsustainable? How much of our dwindling wealth will be poured into propping up this experiment gone awry?

We need to end our investments in the suburban pattern of development, along with the multitude of direct and indirect subsidies that make it all possible. Further, we need to intentionally return to our traditional pattern of development, one based on creating neighborhoods of value, scaled to actual people. When we do this, we will inevitably rediscover our traditional values of prudence and thrift as well as the value of community and place.

The way we achieve real, enduring prosperity is by building an America full of what I like to call Strong Towns.

Sin Auto, Sin Problema: La vida en el carril lento.

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No Coche, No Problema

Cómo es que la elección de un hombre, de vivir sin auto lo ha llevado a una vida donde se puede estar mas en contacto con sus vecinos, con su comunidad y consigo mismo.