HG Upside-Down Chocolate Cream Pie

I am a sweets kind of girl, and almost always have to have something sweet after lunch and dinner.  <br /><br />So, for dessert last night, I decided to try <a href="http://book.hungry-girl.com/recipes/search?q=+chocolate+cream+pie&b=1&commit=SEARCH">Hungry Girl's Upside-Down Chocolate Cream Pie</a>.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hungry-girl-book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hungry-girl-book.jpg" width="164" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dietsinreview.com/">Courtesy of Dietsinreview.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />There are 3 simple ingredients to this amazingly chocolaty and delicious recipe, and it might be one of the<br />easiest desserts I've ever made (next to scooping ice cream from a carton of course!).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigtM0x1_vdBzUjsriR5arx-jxNXvHXnx6HxDCfQsEORTyEXMEk9gOiaoiNT4aPvYdQNuFjFaOm3QTCUbMbi4WF4npeitJpB7PbPxBZIIBYcpXg0a8zTXv4ehv3DTNgQ1FF3aBxZ1PTvKI/s1600/UpsideDownChocolateCreamPieLARGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigtM0x1_vdBzUjsriR5arx-jxNXvHXnx6HxDCfQsEORTyEXMEk9gOiaoiNT4aPvYdQNuFjFaOm3QTCUbMbi4WF4npeitJpB7PbPxBZIIBYcpXg0a8zTXv4ehv3DTNgQ1FF3aBxZ1PTvKI/s320/UpsideDownChocolateCreamPieLARGE.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://book.hungry-girl.com/recipes/search?q=+chocolate+cream+pie&b=1&commit=SEARCH">Courtesy of Hungry-Girl.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><u><b>Hungry Girl's Upside-Down Chocolate Cream Pie</b></u> <i><b>(5 Points+)</b></i><br /><i>Ingredients</i>:</blockquote><blockquote><ul><li>1 Fat Free Chocolate Pudding Snack</li><li>2 Tbsp Lite Cool Whip Topping</li><li>4 Low-fat honey graham crackers, crushed</li></ul></blockquote><blockquote><br /><i>Directions</i>:<br />In a small bowl, add the whipped topping first. Next, add the chocolate pudding.  Top with the graham crackers.  Enjoy!</blockquote><br />A few things to note on the recipe - you could reduce the Points+ value to 4 if you used Cool Whip Fat Free instead of the lite (sugar-free) version.  The fat free version has 0 Points+ for 2 tbsp.  Next time I will go for that instead.  Second, please note that the 4 graham crackers are equal to 1 sheet of the graham crackers (so 1 rectangular cracker on that sheet, is, in fact, 1 cracker here.  It's not that the entire sheet of the graham equals 1 cracker, nor is it that half of it equals 1 cracker.  Make sense?).  Also, while I do love graham crackers, 4 crackers makes a good amount of topping for this dish.  You could reduce that in half, or try just 3 crackers, and it will reduce the Points+ value as well (in this case, from 2 to 1).  So you could theoretically get this dish down to 3 Points+!   <br /><br />Seriously, this is one of those things that you ask yourself, "Why didn't I think of that?"  It's so simple and easy to make.  But most importantly, it really hit the chocolate spot!  It tasted just like a chocolate cream pie - dare I say, even <i>better </i>than the chocolate cream pies I've had.  The <a href="http://www.snackpack.com/products/low-calorie-snacks.jsp">pudding snacks I used</a> offered such a rich chocolate flavor.    <br /><br />What's more, you can essentially sub any flavor of pudding to make the cream pie, bearing in mind that the Points+ value may change of course.  I'm not sure what the volume is in each pudding snack, but all you'd have to do is figure that out, and make a batch of the boxed pudding mix in your flavor choice and use that instead.  It might even be cheaper?  I'm not sure on the Points+ value of that, but I'm certainly going to try it.  I actually have some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pudding-Filling-Pumpkin-3-4-Ounce/dp/B000E1BKI6">Jell-O Pumpkin Spice pudding mix</a> that I'm going to try with this recipe.  That would surely taste like pumpkin pie, right?  I'll find out and let ya know :).  <br /><br />Do you have a favorite go-to dessert that is quick and easy, but also satisfying and delicious?  This is fast becoming mine!

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A Chill in the Air - Part II

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtU3r4ymgl3c8HqG62HGScsDStDOlTRKLT1xWLYuZ_C6vqTScNwOQOGFjsxgyO0T1ncSqFrS_VMQJJ9RLUkTDq8aqW95T2VHnTPjLULXtZtoWeAasJTtgNPcQOFN9bC47_ERKS1d9tBw3V/s1600/uninvited+and+eerie+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtU3r4ymgl3c8HqG62HGScsDStDOlTRKLT1xWLYuZ_C6vqTScNwOQOGFjsxgyO0T1ncSqFrS_VMQJJ9RLUkTDq8aqW95T2VHnTPjLULXtZtoWeAasJTtgNPcQOFN9bC47_ERKS1d9tBw3V/s1600/uninvited+and+eerie+2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For a few years now, Turner Classic Movies has traditionally aired <i>The Uninvited </i>(1944) during Halloween season. A gothic mystery/romance with a lighter heart than <i>Rebecca </i>(1940), <i>The Uninvited </i>is another of my cold night favorites.</span><br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Though lacking any gun or knife, let alone even a drop of blood or a hint of gore, <i>The Uninvited</i> can subtly spook the unsuspecting viewer. The action begins jauntily enough as a pair of vacationing Londoners, brother and sister, hike the cliffs of Devon and Cornwall and find, fall in love with and purchase a long-empty mansion overlooking the sea. The two later come to the realization that their new home is haunted and that their new friend, the former owner's lovely granddaughter, is a target of the malevolent apparition who inhabits the house. This is a phantom whose arrival, sometimes partially materialized, brings with it a penetrating chill that terrorizes all who encounter it...including the family pets. And there is the sudden overpowering scent of mimosa that signals an unseen presence as it fills a room. Heightening these spine-tickling proceedings is a rapturous score by Victor Young with a haunting motif that later became the popular standard, <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/10/haunting-melody-of-uninvited-1944.html" style="color: #990000;">"Stella by Starlight."</a> The film was directed by Lewis Allen and photographed by cinematographer Charles Lang (<i>Midnight</i>, <i>A Foreign Affair</i>, <i>The Magnificent Seven</i>, <i>Charade</i>) who was Oscar-nominated for <i>The Uninvited</i>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>The Uninvited</i> stars Ray Milland, one of Paramount's most charming and enduring players, and Ruth Hussey as the brother and sister duo. Donald Crisp is the former owner of 'Windward House,' and Gail Russell appears in her first film role as his granddaughter, Stella. Cornelia Otis Skinner portrays one Miss Holloway, a sinister creature reminiscent of <i>Rebecca</i>'s Mrs. Danvers - and any number of characters played by Gale Sondergaard...</span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ow1eaETb9ec" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cornelia Otis Skinner as Miss Holloway</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This year in tandem with watching <i>The Uninvited</i>, I read the book on which it was based. Irish author Dorothy Macardle's novel was first published in 1942, four years after du Maurier's smashing success, <u>Rebecca</u>, appeared in print and two years after the enormously popular Hitchcock/Selznick 'picturization' was released. It, too, is of the modern gothic genre with roots reaching back to Bronte's <u>Jane Eyre</u>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5j1JbwhG1Whyk2nFJwPFImfzyMOWsnyuIKShgGsEhq3oREaVGFpsqWLJxBhHtwK1XDSXIHFrkpnpkkdg_aRC5AFDwoHr97EfZK6KzoLpvrAOdnIZvZuSeV7-sn8eGuSoP0LdGFfeU1lk/s1600/uninvited+and+eerie+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Macardle's book is engaging, lively and, though not equal to du Maurier's classic in any sense, it entertainingly transports today's reader to a time, place and world view now several decades gone. Macardle could weave a tale and hold one's attention, telling her spooky story of warring spirits from the first person perspective of the protagonist, Roderick Fitzgerald, a London journalist whose move to the seaside brings with it hair-raising adventure, a new turn in his writing career and new love.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1JP6_f-avQBkD-8cIFS4NDcjzyl0QWZRW2VTuo8eWP6o-WQG1MDpNDJsKSP5LdmjlSppfl86QU1_wnxP4bM-QODeWIB9PhfiWZ9ozA0I5VFNE7dwH6OA88rp2euYVMOFJzK4aK_1n4vy_/s1600/dorothy+macardle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1JP6_f-avQBkD-8cIFS4NDcjzyl0QWZRW2VTuo8eWP6o-WQG1MDpNDJsKSP5LdmjlSppfl86QU1_wnxP4bM-QODeWIB9PhfiWZ9ozA0I5VFNE7dwH6OA88rp2euYVMOFJzK4aK_1n4vy_/s1600/dorothy+macardle.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorothy Macardle</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Author Dorothy Macardle, I discovered, was involved in far more than writing novels during her 69 years (1889 - 1958). Born in Ireland into a well-heeled brewing family, she taught after graduating from college but was soon involved in political and social activism. She gained an international reputation as an Irish nationalist writer and was an intimate associate of Eamon de Valera, a leader in Ireland's fight for independence and president of country from 1959 to 1973. Macardle is best known today for her historical opus, the nearly 1,000 page <u>The Irish Republic</u>, an account of Ireland's struggle for freedom between 1916 and 1923. Quite amazing that the woman could also write a plausible ghost story in her spare time...</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The adaptation from novel to screen is largely faithful. The book is peopled by a greater variety of characters and the back story of each principal is more detailed. On screen, the haunted mansion's name changed from 'Cliff's End' to 'Windward House,' Roderick Fitzgerald is referred to as 'Rick' rather than 'Rod' and Miss Holloway's role is expanded. Fitzgerald's profession was changed from writer to composer - perhaps in order to ease giving Victor Young's "Stella by Starlight" its center-stage moment in the film.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Young's theme for <i>The Uninvited</i> enhances the film's romantic and mysterious story. By comparison, Franz Waxman's score for <i>Rebecca</i>, though also dramatic and powerful, seems to me, at times, overwhelming. I knew Bernard Herrmann had, when he was with CBS Radio, scored an earlier radio presentation of <i>Rebecca </i>and I found this intriguing given his later association with Hitchcock.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> In December 1938 Orson Welles' <i>Campbell Playhouse </i>(formerly the <i>Mercury Theatre on the Air</i>) premiered and featured the first radio adaptation of <i>Rebecca</i>; it starred Margaret Sullavan as the second Mrs. de Winter, Welles as Maxim de Winter and Mildred Natwick as Mrs Danvers. Bernard Herrmann provided the score:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GU__UqhFxw4" width="420"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the end, the music Herrmann scored for <i>Rebecca </i>eventually made its way to the screen; much of it was used in <i>Jane Eyre</i> (1943<i>) </i>starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine.</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByIvTf6IL3nqBRw2XDAGGLrxEp-0MqzyVOSJuqcVPhkENJnqyJ53LSGWZ184xlZ-ILQTVbYwpFxJAomDjnn15tMmXMpua91xHT_xZt5ZPZd9iUCCuMscgAc0VH4v-73veOHfFJK1YOrw2/s1600/gail+russell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByIvTf6IL3nqBRw2XDAGGLrxEp-0MqzyVOSJuqcVPhkENJnqyJ53LSGWZ184xlZ-ILQTVbYwpFxJAomDjnn15tMmXMpua91xHT_xZt5ZPZd9iUCCuMscgAc0VH4v-73veOHfFJK1YOrw2/s200/gail+russell.jpg" width="164" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gail Russell</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">19-year-old Gail Russell, in her screen debut </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">as Stella Meredith, is another high point in <i>The Uninvited</i>. Fresh-faced, with dark, tousled hair and long, thick lashes, Russell projects a fetching mixture of fragility and intensity as a young girl faced with a deadly threat just as she experiences first love. Russell followed <i>The Uninvited </i>with a role in <i>Our Hearts Were Young and Gay</i> - coincidentally, she portrayed Cornelia Otis Skinner in the film (she played Skinner again in <i>Our Hearts Were Growing Up</i>). In 1945 Russell was cast in a quasi-sequel to <i>The Uninvited </i>called <i>The Unseen</i> (with Joel McCrea), and she made a number of films co-starring with John Wayne, who befriended her when they made <i>Angel and the Badman </i>in 1947. But Russell's life and career were blighted by serious personal demons. A beautiful teenager who'd been embarrassed by the nickname "The Hedy Lamarr of Santa Monica High," she had long suffered from crippling shyness. When Paramount Pictures came calling she agreed to pursue a movie career; her mother had insisted, the family needed money.  Russell</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> developed a habit early on of drinking before she faced the cameras - it helped steady her nerves</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. This habit developed into a deadly addiction that shortened her life; she died in 1961 at age 36.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The characters of Stella Meredith in <i>The Uninvited </i>and <i>Rebecca</i>'s second Mrs. de Winter are fairly similar - both are young, inexperienced and in need of  protection and guidance. But one character evolves more than the other. Throughout <i>The Uninvited</i>, Stella remains a maiden in need of rescue by older, wiser Roderick Fitzgerald. In <i>Rebecca</i>, the second Mrs. de Winter begins as an awkward, coltish young lady utterly intimidated by all that her new status as bride of an aristocrat brings. But when Maxim de Winter confesses his role in Rebecca's death and reveals his vulnerability, her transformation into a more confident, assured woman begins. Fontaine's portrayal of this maturing is seamless.</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNy4tu5RO4fx93ddtDfAYMbRMugP4_94b5alb8jnOtWB4AfBTqDJ5AJgaiS5khnu-m7uaxmXZ1HiZswpnKGxT9Q8lUWNne8mhKQaqJHpEBvMrGeimjy4XjKcf5JiqbIcfy3zn6gdaYpyZy/s1600/joan+fontaine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNy4tu5RO4fx93ddtDfAYMbRMugP4_94b5alb8jnOtWB4AfBTqDJ5AJgaiS5khnu-m7uaxmXZ1HiZswpnKGxT9Q8lUWNne8mhKQaqJHpEBvMrGeimjy4XjKcf5JiqbIcfy3zn6gdaYpyZy/s200/joan+fontaine.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan Fontaine as the second Mrs. de Winter</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Joan Fontaine, who became a star with <i>Rebecca</i>, enjoyed continued success. Cast again by Hitchcock in 1941's <i>Suspicion</i>, with Cary Grant, she won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance. Other noteworthy films include <i>Jane Eyre</i> in 1943 with Orson Welles and Max Ophuls' stunning <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2010/11/max-ophuls-letter-from-unknown-woman.html" style="color: #990000;"><i>Letter From an Unknown Woman </i></a>(1948). She continued to work in film and on TV until the mid-1990s and just recently celebrated her 94th birthday; she and her older sister Olivia de Havilland, however, remain estranged...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My meanderings through <i>Rebecca </i>and <i>The Uninvited </i>on page and screen began as I sought enjoyable ways to spend the crisp, dark evenings that come with the late months of the year. This quest brought several cozy nights charged with chills, thrills and romance and now I'm tempted to continue...perhaps with another foray into the realm of the gothic  -  once defined as the Cinderella story gone very wrong...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the meantime, I've been trying out different hot drink confections to help fend off the chill. My latest experiments involve a <i>healthier</i> cocoa mix called 'WonderCocoa' and a new twist on the hot toddy called 'The Laureate.' <a href="http://evesreellife.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/something-warm-to-drink-on-a-cold-dark-night/" style="color: #990000;">Click here </a><u></u>for ideas on what to sip to stay warm on a cold, dark night...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i></i> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXE92X596NryYmPGGlzQf77k9Bt5MRg-nnuRUXxOdw-tzGwie_TLjNBaT-U7xQpyJ7SB5fMaR5-66OhoQZhltdl5PdK1cRT9bf32PYj893vYMc49foVyRPP2Hy9XDXYbL9mAc_cgOGTfY9/s1600/cat+by+the+fire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXE92X596NryYmPGGlzQf77k9Bt5MRg-nnuRUXxOdw-tzGwie_TLjNBaT-U7xQpyJ7SB5fMaR5-66OhoQZhltdl5PdK1cRT9bf32PYj893vYMc49foVyRPP2Hy9XDXYbL9mAc_cgOGTfY9/s400/cat+by+the+fire.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>

Cornelia Otis Skinner Daphne du Maurier Donald Crisp Dorothy Macardle Gail Russell Joan Fontaine Ray Milland Rebecca Ruth Hussey The Lady Eve (author) The Uninvited Victor Young A Chill in the Air - Part II

For a few years now, Turner Classic Movies has traditionally aired The Uninvited (1944) during Halloween season. A gothic mystery/romance wi...

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A HEMISFERIO SUR HISTORIA DE ÉXITO HETERODOXOS

<div class="MsoNormal"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="text-align: center;">  <span style="font-size: x-small;">Spanish version of: </span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Southern Hemisphere Heterodox Success Story posted 8th of November</span></h3><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/11/southern-hemisphere-heterodox-success.html"></a></span><br /><h3 class="post-title entry-title"></h3><div class="post-header"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">LECCIÓN</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">ARGENTINA</span> DE <span class="hps">ECONOMÍA PARA EUROPA</span></span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Al contrario de</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> los <span class="hps">medios de comunicación argentinos,</span> <span class="hps">los medios de comunicación</span> <span class="hps">extranjeros</span> pintan <span class="hps">un panorama</span> <span class="hps">un tanto diferente</span> <span class="hps">de la situación</span> <span class="hps">eco-</span>política del país. <span class="hps">De hecho,</span> <span class="hps">la recuperación de Argentina</span> <span class="hps">tras su</span> <span class="hps">default</span> <span class="hps">se toma con frecuencia</span> <span class="hps">como</span> <span class="hps">ejemplo de cómo</span> <span class="hps">Europa</span>, en cierta medida, <span class="hps">podría</span> <span class="hps">superar su crisis económica</span>. <span class="hps">En</span> <span class="hps">la parte de habla</span> <span class="hps">alemana de</span> <span class="hps">Europa, muchos</span> shows de TV e<span class="hps">co</span>-politicos<span class="hps"> muestran</span> como <span class="hps">cada vez más</span> hay mas <span class="hps">políticos</span> <span class="hps">interesados </span> <span class="hps">en la recuperación de</span> <span class="hps">los argentinos</span> <span class="hps">y el crecimiento económico</span> <span class="hps">a pesar de que</span> <span class="hps">no se adhirió</span> <span class="hps">al Fondo Monetario Internacional</span>, <span class="hps">Banco Mundial</span> <span class="hps">y las doctrinas</span> <span class="hps">de Wall Street</span>, desafiando así a los <span class="hps">"</span>eurócratas" <span class="hps">a seguir su ejemplo</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAa3kUEbUuBshKJm2LzucaIBnQyi0WimxQ2os7UmtoOmg6naXWH5cIBVVvqJeASXjL60VK33v0cZ3yya0P6ePxUH09HbmkaBeoIrVnP8P5HBuAy7DTUH0dSgn9xTDY5yp81bLG0xJM8FI/s1600/EU-Economy-Stagnates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAa3kUEbUuBshKJm2LzucaIBnQyi0WimxQ2os7UmtoOmg6naXWH5cIBVVvqJeASXjL60VK33v0cZ3yya0P6ePxUH09HbmkaBeoIrVnP8P5HBuAy7DTUH0dSgn9xTDY5yp81bLG0xJM8FI/s1600/EU-Economy-Stagnates.jpg" /></a></div><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dado que el crecimiento en la Argentina continuó, los críticos en el Financial Times y el Wall Street Journal afirmaron que terminaría una vez que la  "capacidad no utilizada se agote". En lugar de agotarse el crecimiento de las ganancias finació la expansión del mercado interno y la capacidad de crear nuevas oportunidades para el crecimiento, sobre todo a nuevos mercados en Asia y Brasil.</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Contrariamente</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">a la tesis</span> <span class="hps">proclamada por</span> <span class="hps">los expertos económicos</span>, la Argentina <span class="hps">todavía tiene</span> <span class="hps">una gran cantidad de</span> <span class="hps">fondos disponibles</span> <span class="hps">y por lo tanto</span> <span class="hps">no está</span> <span class="hps">en peligro inminente</span> <span class="hps">de caer en</span> <span class="hps">problemas financieros.</span> <span class="hps">Argentina</span> <span class="hps">todavía</span> <span class="hps">se nutre de sus</span> <span class="hps">exportaciones</span> <span class="hps">de cultivos</span> <span class="hps">favorables.</span> <span class="hps">Incluso si los precios</span> <span class="hps">de la soja</span> <span class="hps">han bajado,</span> <span class="hps">la población</span> <span class="hps">cada vez mayor</span> <span class="hps">en todo el mundo</span> <span class="hps">aumenta la necesidad de</span> <span class="hps">alimentar a la gente</span>. <span class="hps">Por lo tanto</span> <span class="hps">el suministro de</span> <span class="hps">productos alimenticios</span> <span class="hps">no</span> <span class="hps">va a disminuir</span>, aunque <span class="hps">los especuladores</span> <span class="hps">manipular</span> <span class="hps">las tendencias de precios</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ARGENTINA</span></b></span><span class="shorttext"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">CONFUNDÍO A LOS</span></b></span><span class="shorttext"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PRESTIGIOSOS ECONOMISTAS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">La experiencia argentina</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">va en contra de</span> <span class="hps">todos los preceptos de</span> <span class="hps">los organismos financieros internacionales</span> <span class="hps">(FMI</span>, Banco Mundial), <span class="hps">sus patrocinadores políticos</span> <span class="hps">y publicistas</span> <span class="hps">en la prensa financiera</span>. <span class="hps">Desde el primer año</span> <span class="hps">(2003) de</span> <span class="hps">la recuperación de Argentina</span> <span class="hps">hasta la actualidad,</span> <span class="hps">los expertos económicos</span> <span class="hps">han</span> <span class="hps">"</span>predicho" <span class="hps">que su crecimiento</span> <span class="hps">no era "</span>sostenible" <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">ha continuado</span> <span class="hps">con firmeza</span> <span class="hps">desde hace más de</span> <span class="hps">una década.</span> <span class="hps">Los escritores</span> <span class="hps">financieros anunciaron que el default</span> llevaría <span class="hps">a la Argentina</span> <span class="hps">a ser excluida</span> <span class="hps">de los mercados financieros</span> <span class="hps">y que su economía</span> <span class="hps">se vendría abajo</span>. <span class="hps">Argentina</span> <span class="hps">se basó</span> <span class="hps">en la auto-</span>financiación basado en <span class="hps">los ingresos de exportación</span> <span class="hps">y reactivación</span> <span class="hps">de la economía nacional</span> <span class="hps">y confundía a los</span> <span class="hps">economistas</span> <span class="hps">de prestigio.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">LA ALTERNATIVA ARGENTINA</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">A LA POBREZA</span> <span class="hps">Y LOS RESCATES</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Incluso tan tarde como 25 de octubre 2011, los columnistas del Financial Times todavía hablan sobre "la crisis que viene" a la manera de fundamentalistas mesiánicos que predicen el apocalipsis. Insisten en "alta inflación", "programas insostenibles social", "sobrevaluación de la moneda", y más predicciones del "fin de la prosperidad". Todas estas advertencias se producen en la cara del continuo crecimiento de 8% en 2011. Los escritores Anglo-Americanos  financiera deben centrarse en la caída de sus regímenes de libre mercado en Europa y América del Norte en vez de denigrar a una experiencia económica de la que puedan aprender.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ARGENTINA</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">NO ES TOTALMENTE DEPENDIENTE</span> <span class="hps">DE LAS EXPORTACIONES PRIMARIAS</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Refutando a los críticos de</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">Wall Street</span>, <span class="hps">Mark Weisbrot</span> <span class="hps">y su</span> <span class="hps">punto de salida</span> <span class="hps">asociados</span> <span class="hps">("</span>La historia del éxito <span class="hps">Argentina"</span>, <span class="hps">Centro de</span> <span class="hps">Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas</span>, <span class="hps">octubre 2011</span>) <span class="hps">que</span> <span class="hps">el crecimiento de Argentina</span> <span class="hps">se basó en</span> <span class="hps">la expansión del consumo</span> <span class="hps">interno, aumento</span> de <span class="hps">las exportaciones de manufacturas</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">socios comerciales regionales</span>, así como a <span class="hps">tradicionales</span> <span class="hps">exportaciones agro-minerales</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">Asia.</span> <span class="hps">En otras palabras,</span> <span class="hps">la Argentina no</span> <span class="hps">es totalmente dependiente</span> <span class="hps">de las exportaciones primarias</span>, sino que tiene <span class="hps">un intercambio comercial equilibrado</span> <span class="hps">y no es</span> <span class="hps">más</span> <span class="hps">dependiente de los precios</span> <span class="hps">de los productos básicos</span>. <span class="hps">En</span> <span class="hps">lo que respecta a</span> <span class="hps">la alta inflación</span>, <span class="hps">Weisbrot</span> <span class="hps">señala que "</span>la inflación <span class="hps">puede ser alta</span> <span class="hps">en la Argentina</span>, pero es <span class="hps">el crecimiento real y</span> <span class="hps">la distribución del ingreso</span> lo que importa <span class="hps">en relación con</span> <span class="hps">el bienestar</span> <span class="hps">de la inmensa mayoría</span> <span class="hps">de la población</span>".</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Argentina creó</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">un estado más</span> <span class="hps">acomodaticia</span> <span class="hps">a su proyecto político</span> <span class="hps">de la financiación de</span> <span class="hps">la competitividad económica,</span> <span class="hps">nuevos mercados y</span> <span class="hps">programas sociales.</span> <span class="hps">Argentina</span> <span class="hps">aseguró</span> <span class="hps">que el sector bancario</span> <span class="hps">financió el crecimiento</span> <span class="hps">del sector exportador</span>, las manufacturas <span class="hps">y el consumo interno</span>. <span class="hps">Argentina impuso un</span> <span class="hps">75%</span> <span class="hps">"recorte"</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">los tenedores de bonos</span> <span class="hps">para</span> <span class="hps">financiar el gasto</span> <span class="hps">social.</span></span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xyNUzqlDNeA?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">En Argentina, las</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">catástrofes económicas</span> <span class="hps">siempre</span> ha dado a  <span class="hps">los argentinos</span> <span class="hps">la oportunidad de</span> <span class="hps">llevar a cabo</span> <span class="hps">un cambio básico</span> <span class="hps">del saqueo</span> <span class="hps">especulativo</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">los programas sociales</span> <span class="hps">y el crecimiento</span> <span class="hps">económico sostenido.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">El gobierno</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">actual es un reflejo</span> <span class="hps">de su éxito en</span> <span class="hps">la creación de un</span> <span class="hps">estado "normal"</span> <span class="hps">del bienestar capitalista</span>. <span class="hps">Después de 30</span> <span class="hps">años de que</span> <span class="hps">EE.UU. respaldara a los depredadores</span> <span class="hps">regímenes neo-liberales</span>, este movimiento <span class="hps">estimula</span> <span class="hps">un cambio positivo</span> <span class="hps">grande.</span> <span class="hps">Desde</span> <span class="hps">1983 a</span> <span class="hps">1989 Argentina</span> <span class="hps">sufrió</span> <span class="hps">bajo un régimen</span> <span class="hps">neo-</span><span class="atn">liberal (</span>Raúl Alfonsín) <span class="hps">que no pudo</span> <span class="hps">lidiar con</span> <span class="hps">el legado</span> <span class="hps">dictatorial</span> <span class="hps">y que</span> <span class="hps">presidió</span> <span class="hps">una</span> <span class="hps">hiperinflación de tres dígitos.</span> <span class="hps">Desde</span> <span class="hps">1989 - 1999</span> <span class="hps">bajo la presidencia de</span> <span class="hps">Carlos</span> <span class="hps">Menem</span> <span class="hps">Argentina</span> <span class="hps">fue testigo de</span> <span class="hps">la mayor</span> <span class="hps">venta masiva</span> <span class="hps">de sus empresas</span> <span class="hps">públicas</span> <span class="hps">más rentables</span>, los recursos naturales <span class="hps">(petróleo</span> <span class="hps">incluido)</span>, <span class="hps">los bancos</span>, las carreteras, <span class="hps">a los inversionistas extranjeros</span> <span class="hps">y compinches</span> <span class="hps">cleptocrático</span> <span class="hps">a precios de ganga</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Por último</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, <span class="hps">Fernando de la Rúa</span> <span class="hps">(2000 - 2001)</span>, <span class="hps">prometió el cambio</span> <span class="hps">y procedió</span> <span class="hps">a profundizar la recesión</span> <span class="hps">que llevó a la</span> <span class="hps">caída</span> <span class="hps">catastrófica de</span> <span class="hps">final de</span> <span class="hps">diciembre de 2001 y</span> <span class="hps">el</span> <span class="hps">cierre de los bancos</span>, la quiebra de <span class="hps">10.000 empresas</span> <span class="hps">y</span> <span class="hps">la caída de la</span> <span class="hps">la economía</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">En este contexto de fracaso total y absoluto y el desastre humano de los EE.UU. - el FMI promovió "libre mercado" las políticas, Kirchner / Fernández de pagar la deuda externa, re-nacionalización de varias empresas privatizadas y los fondos de pensiones, intervino los bancos y se duplicó el gasto social, una mayor inversión pública en la producción y el aumento del consumo popular, en el camino hacia la recuperación económica. A finales de 2003 Argentina pasó de negativo a 8% de crecimiento.</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="hps"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">DERECHOS HUMANOS,</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">PROGRAMAS SOCIALES Y</span> <span class="hps">POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA EXTERIOR</span> <span class="hps">INDEPENDIENTE</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">La economía de Argentina ha crecido más del 90% desde 2003 hasta 2011, más de tres veces que la de los Estados Unidos. Su recuperación ha sido acompañada por una triplicación del gasto social, especialmente en los programas de reducción de la pobreza. El porcentaje de pobres argentinos se ha reducido de más del 50% en 2001 a menos del 15% en 2011. A diferencia de EE.UU donde  la pobreza ha aumentado en la misma década del 12% al 17% y está en una trayectoria ascendente durante el mismo período.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Los EE.UU. se ha convertido en el país con las mayores desigualdades en la OCDE donde un 1% controla el 40% de la riqueza del país, (frente al 30% en menos de una década). Por el contrario, las desigualdades de la Argentina han reducido a la mitad. La economía de EE.UU. no ha logrado recuperarse de la profunda recesión de 2008-2009, durante el cual se redujo en más del 8%. A diferencia de Argentina se redujo a menos de 1% en 2009, y ha estado creciendo a un saludable 8% (2010-2011). Argentina ha nacionalizado los fondos de pensiones, duplicó las pensiones básicas y presentó un programa de bienestar infantil universal a la lucha contra la malnutrición y garantía de la asistencia a la escuela.</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">En contraste con el 20% de los niños que en los EE.UU. están sufriendo de la mala alimentación, las tasas de abandono escolares van en aumento en los adolescentes y la desnutrición afecta a más del 25% de los niños de las minorías. En Argentina el ingreso de los trabajadores asalariados ha aumentado en más del 50% durante la década en términos reales, mientras que en los EE.UU. han disminuido en casi un 10%.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />Dinámica de crecimiento del PIB de Argentina ha sido impulsado por el creciente del consumo interno y los ingresos de exportación dinámica. Argentina tiene un superávit comercial grande consistentes con la base de los precios favorables del mercado y mayor competitividad. En cambio el consumo interno se ha estancado en los EE.UU., el déficit comercial es cercano a los $ 1,5 billones de dólares y los ingresos se malgastan en gastos no productivos militar de más de $ 900 millones al año.</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lea</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span class="hps">también los artículos</span> <span class="hps">relacionados</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">historia heterodoxa</span> <span class="hps">de éxito económico de los ciudadanos argentinos</span></span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/the-argentine-success-story-and-its-implications">http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/the-argentine-success-story-and-its-implications</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.accuracy.org/?s=argentine+success&submit.x=15&submit.y=9">http://www.accuracy.org/?s=argentine+success&submit.x=15&submit.y=9</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1731534453">http://issuu.com/washdiplomat/docs/diplomat.november2011</a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><span class="hps"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Extractos</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="hps">del artículo</span> <span class="hps">anterior</span> <span class="hps">han sido adaptados</span> <span class="hps">por el Prof.</span> <span class="hps">James Petras</span> <span class="hps">artículo:</span> <span class="hps">"La Argentina</span> <span class="hps">de las crisis</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">crecimiento dinámico</span>"</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>

A HEMISFERIO SUR HISTORIA DE ÉXITO HETERODOXOS

  Spanish version of:  A Southern Hemisphere Heterodox Success Story posted 8th of November LECCIÓN ARGENTINA DE ECONOMÍA PARA EUROPA Al c...

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Greece

<div class="MsoNormal"><b>How convenient </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4JHhs2Vl9IOptV-VyIDP9xHZOksoFeJAm3y2bqvBGFKHNkmVZwESk7EooVu0seAa5RcHQOGoORiep1-Gqwgf1BZ-0T7DAn9akCkB9hvhAVOALdw7446d8sjv38e6TDQmrT2MQcqicODUW/s1600/sarkozy-merkel-greece-bailout-deal.preview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="st">Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou </span>had the courage to stand up against the “establishment”, invoking democracy via a popular referendum on Euro zone bailout, but was viciously reprimanded by the entire Euro Zone Technocrats, for Merkoyz (Merkel and Sarkozy) could not allow Greece to oppose the bailout Merkoyz (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a term created by Pepe Escoba, a journalist from Asian Times</i>) and their Franco – German banks intend to impose on Greece. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Should Papandreou go ahead with the referendum, Greece was threatened to be expelled from the EU, which de facto results in blackmailing Greece into submission, for who cares about the Greek people living under a de facto protectorate and losing over 50% of their standard of living, so foreign banks can be repaid? Who cares about Greece still buried under an - unsustainable - debt of 120% of their gross domestic product still by 2021?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPHfuxj9Xi1_TpGH4Z9qYDRL_n1rsNEfwC-PU0jeqN30Mj_sAt0_Txcbs8uPn8elcv3rKam3ww5WBuLFHB96sbZtI_xZDX0kuTDrke8II0MZdFrlPiCdjDgsQnPTDvIp2u2-K7BShJ_LB/s1600/saupload_100406_greece_bailout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>So in the end Papandreou had to give in to the bureaucratic vultures at the European Commission, reject the popular referendum and resign in order for the financial establishment to push for “one of their own” to take over the reins in Greece, namely former deputy head of the European Central Bank, Lucas Papademos. How convenient? Now the “banksters” interests are protected and the banks can be bailed out. Where are we heading in Europe?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feeling the pulse of the People</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Below are some comments made by “common people” from the German speaking part of Europe regarding the apparent appointment of former deputy head of the European Central Bank, Lucas Papademos as next Prime Minister of Greece.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN">……..Former</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN"> <span class="hps">IMF staff</span>, former <span class="hps">ECB staff</span>, former staff member <span class="hps">of the Boston</span> <span class="hps">Fed,</span> <span class="hps">a member of</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">"</span>Trilateral <span class="hps">Commission</span>" <span class="hps">- a perfect</span> <span class="hps">Globalist pack</span>. <span class="hps">World Government</span> <span class="hps">FTW………</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><i><span lang="EN">Not even a protest from Papandreou helps</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN">: <span class="hps">state and people</span> <span class="hps">are</span> <span class="hps">disempowered</span>. <span class="hps">Solely</span> <span class="hps">the banksters</span> <span class="hps">are</span> <span class="hps">now</span> <span class="hps">calling the shots</span>. <span class="hps">This is a</span> <span class="hps">very</span> <span class="hps">worrying development</span> away from<span class="hps"> democracy!</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><i><span lang="EN">In that case even Samaras </span></i></span><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN"> is better</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN"> <span class="hps">as</span> <span class="hps">prime minister</span> <span class="hps">than this</span> <span class="hps">puppet</span> Papademos who is another marionette of the<span class="hps"> IMF</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN">Former</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN"> <span class="hps">President</span> of <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">ECB ...</span> <span class="hps">this indicates how “public friendly:” he will govern.</span> <span class="hps">Usually</span> <span class="hps">it's</span> <span class="hps">vice</span> <span class="hps">versa</span>, <span class="hps">policy-makers first</span> <span class="hps">serve</span> <span class="hps">a bank (Merkel for Deutsche Bank</span>) <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">then change</span> into<span class="hps"> the bank.</span> <span class="hps">Here</span> <span class="hps">we</span> <span class="hps">have a</span> <span class="hps">banker, who</span> <span class="hps">goes</span> <span class="hps">into politics, what interest will he defend, those</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">banks</span> <span class="hps">or</span> those of <span class="hps">the people??</span> You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know the answer, <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">we</span> <span class="hps">put up with</span> <span class="hps">all</span> this!!! It’s pure <span class="hps">Madness</span>. <span class="hps">We can</span> <span class="hps">already</span> prepare ourselves for <span class="hps">record</span> <span class="hps">payments to Greece</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">finally</span> <span class="hps">write off</span> <span class="hps">our education</span> <span class="hps">system</span> <span class="hps">due to</span> <span class="hps">lack of money</span> <span class="hps">for</span> <span class="hps">interest payments to the</span> <span class="hps">German bank. </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><i><span lang="EN">In regards to last comment see related links: </span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /><span class="hps"></span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fjzWwnvOHJA?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjzWwnvOHJA&feature=player_embedded"><span lang="DE-AT"><br /></span></a></span></i></span><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="DE-AT"></span></i></span></div><h3><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies</span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dateline Greece: Goldman, Just Pay Up</span></b><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="DE-AT"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/10/banking-institutions-are-more-dangerous.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/10/banking-institutions-are-more-dangerous.html</span></a></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Greece

How convenient  Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou had the courage to stand up against the “establishment”, invoking democracy vi...

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