US: No Future

2011 will be remembered like a bad year for americans. In this year, the savings of those who are unemployed since 2009 had been spent. The US media announcing a new hiring but this still not enough to keep pace with the number of those who would normally have entered the labour force.

Happy new fear!!

The long crisis that began with the collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 and the subsequent recession will continue. For this year, 2012, the americans thiks that is possiblethat the United States will solve its political problems and finally bring down unemployment to 6% or 7%. But americans believes tha the pre-crisis level of unemploymente (4% or 5%) is too much to hope for.

Others problems like climate change and other environmental threats, high unemployment, and increased poverty and inequality in most countries around the world have not gone away.
The author thinks that addressing these long-term problems would actually help to solve the short-term problems. More progressive taxation policies such as, simultaneously reduces would increase employment and Inequality by boosting total demand. Or for example, higher taxes at the top could generate revenues to finance needed public investment, and to provide some social protection for those at the bottom, including the unemployed.

That is to see something good from everything bad that is expected for 2010

Link fot the entire article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics-blog/2012/jan/13/many-americans-2012-worse

"The reality exceeds our lyrics"

How important is music in my life? Well, music was very important since I was a child because in it I build my identity and met new ways to see and understand the world.

I like punk, but not the classical stereotype of punk (just noise and smacks). I like the strong of punk, but when this gets an important social and politic message.  According with is, one of my favorite band is a group of people that is coherent with his lyrics, this band is a spanish group called ‘Sin Dios’, they says that music has to be free (in both meanings), also they talk about responsibility of our acts and worries of our society. Listen this kind of music on chilean radios is very difficult, so I listen my own music collection.  There are just a few goods cds on the music shops and these are so expensive… so I prefer download music from internet, there is a lot of webs of bands and political collectives who want to share his songs and ideas.

 I think that music have connect the people whit his reality, and make feel people interested in our future, and make feel fight for themselves … at least, music make me feel like that.

The books will never die!!

I do several things to avoid the tedium… the principal of this things is read, seriously, I like books a lot, sometimes I spend a whole day reading a interesting novel, or a essay… sometimes poetry or history, politics and theory books.

When I started to take literature seriously, one of the first books I read was "God and the State" by Mikhail Bakunin, a classic of anarchist theory. I like political and controversial  books, so one of my favorite titles is "1984" by George Orwell.

The books I enjoy most are the nineteenth-century Russian novels, I love writers likeDostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Lermontov ... their stories are always full of details and ideasthat provide insight into the functioning of an entire society through the personalities of theirdeep characters.

However, I also like some contemporary American authors, such as Luis Sepúlveda, Eduardo Galeano or poets like Mauricio Redolés and Mario Benedetti, who is the poemthat I leave in the video below.

No te salves - Mario Benedetti

La donna è mobile

Italy is a country in southern Europe, is separated from France, Switzerland, and Austria by the Alps, a chain of mountains like Andes here on Chile. Italy it’s a peninsula, meaning it is surrounded by the sea on all sides apart from one.

This country have beautiful cities, amazing monument, they dance tarantella, great music and a lot of art. I think Italy is one of the most beautiful countries of Europe, you can breathe history in its streets, buildings filled with great architecture and beautiful and old squares. 

I would like to travel around all over the country with my girlfriend, walking through cities such as Rome, Milan, Tuscany ... know the big wineries, visit museums, and I’ve love to learn to speak Italian.

When finished with my studies, I would like to continue studying at a university in Italy, learn the language, maybe I stay at Italy, working in a big city.

Lovely term...

Ohhh summer time!! The warm Christmas and the year just beginning. It is something entirely new have classes, being in Santiago with a warmth that does not drop thirty degrees the entire day.

This term has been strange, pressed and strange, but after all, if we are taking classes now is because we decided that, or at least most of us (?). I would live to finish this semester, I hope to pass all classes and have some time to rest and be with family and friends. I want - if February is free - to travel to the mountains and relax and forget everything I'velearned these past months.


It would be nice to end the English courses in order to maintain a decent vocabulary and pronunciation, who knows, maybe I can use in the future...