From Portugal a petition against Dollar-Adsense payments

To read and sign up the petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/manifesto-google-adsense/

here a translation (by google automatic tool):

http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/manifesto-google-adsense/&usg=ALkJrhh_3TgdGo-RN8C_IAB_oA04mpJHyg

The author of the petition expressed his reasons here http://www.fique-rico.com/2008/06/09/peticao-contra-politica-pagamentos-google-adsense/

What else? Uh, obviously sign the petition =)

Russia’s Medvedev blames US for global economic woes

Speaking at a meeting of business executives in Saint Petersburg, Medvedev said the United States was behind a global credit crunch and that investment in biofuels had helped cause a world food crisis.

“It is precisely the gap between the United States’ formal role in the world economy and its real capabilities that was one of the key reasons for the current crisis,” Medvedev said.

He said it was US policies together with incorrect assessment of risks by big financial corporations that were behind the current downturn.

The incorrect assessment of risks by corporations, together with the “aggressive financial policies of the world’s biggest economy led not only to the failure of corporations. The majority of people on the planet have grown poorer,” Medvedev said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080607/bs_afp/russiaeconomypolitics

1,5307 new record. -15.7% in one year

A new record today: one euro has a value of 1,5307 dollars! This means that for buying 2 euros you need MORE than 3 dollars. In the last year the dollar lost 15,7% of its value and with him the adsense publishers worlwide.

Loss examples

In 2003 one dollar value was something like 0.9 euros, now one dollar is 0.65 euros. Great losses for non-US publishers …

Dollars Euros ’03 Euros now Loss (€)
10 9 6.5 - 2.5
100 90 65 - 25
1,000 900 650 - 250

We Want Adsense In Euros

No more dollars!
Going to hell
(dollar against euro in past 5 years, courtesy of finance.yahoo.com)