President Obama and his family are enjoying a delightful Christmas vacation with friends and family in the chief executive’s home state of Hawaii. Nobody questions a president’s right or need to take take away from the White House, but an investigation by Hawaii Reporter has turned up some eye-opening information about the costs and other [...]
There is much more to learn about the history of Cuba. Especially the history of any Anti-Castro movement, since it is never published in the Mainstream Media. This interview with Enrique Escinosa and Humberto Fontova covers, in detail, the struggle of the Escambray: Listen to internet radio with XSpeak Your MindX on Blog Talk Radio
In one Cuban hospital, patients had to bring their own light bulbs. In another, the staff used “a primitive manual vacuum” on a woman who had miscarried. In others, Cuban patients pay bribes to obtain better treatment. Those and other observations by an unidentified nurse assigned to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana were included [...]
BERLIN — A package bomb addressed to the German chancellor and shipped by air from Greece was found in her office’s mailroom on Tuesday, even as Athens was shaken by a second day of letter bombs aimed at foreign embassies. Though only one person was injured, and only lightly, and most of the devices were [...]
WASHINGTON — Next week marks the 52nd anniversary of Fidel Castro’s arrival to his Cuban throne. I cannot wait to see how it will be solemnized. Will little children appear before Fidel throwing flowers? They better not throw them too hard. He is pretty frail. Will there be a military parade? If there is, where [...]
The year 2010 was supposed to be a time of recovery for airlines and their passengers. Instead, it will be remembered for its disruptions. Blizzards, ash from an unpronounceable volcano in Iceland and even fiery failures of new engines left millions of passengers stranded throughout the year. As the recent blizzard on the East Coast—with [...]
Pedro Luis Lazo retired from baseball the day after Christmas. A horse-drawn carriage took him into the stadium in Pinar Del Rio where he and Jose Contreras(notes) once formed the most fearsome pitching duo in the history of the Cuban league, Serie Nacional. Nearly a decade ago, Contreras fled Cuba for the riches of Major [...]
……The team sequenced the DNA of a variety of Theobroma cacao, considered to produce the world’s finest chocolate. The Maya domesticated this variety of Theobroma cacao, Criollo, about 3,000 years ago in Central America, and it is one of the oldest domesticated tree crops. Today, many growers prefer to grow hybrid cacao trees that produce [...]
Published December 28, 2010| Associated Press BEIJING — China said Tuesday it is reducing the amount of rare earths it will export next year by more than 10 percent — likely to be an unpopular move worldwide since the minerals are vital to the manufacture of high-tech products. China accounts for 97 percent of the [...]
34%: The share of annual sales that hobby, toy and game stores record during November and December. As the holiday shopping season draws to a close, the apparent strength this year is good news for retailers who make a disproportionate amount of their sales during November and December. Though the two months make up just [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A rare white Christmas in parts of the South was complicating life for some travelers as airlines canceled hundreds of flights, while snow was predicted for the nation’s Capital and travel authorities warned of potentially dangerous roads. The National Weather Service said the storm could bring 6 to 10 inches of snow [...]
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris and 2,000 passengers were moved from a terminal because of snow on the roof. Brussels airport was also badly hit and Belgians were warned not to drive. Hundreds of accidents have been reported across Germany and in northern Italy heavy rain has [...]
“HOPE” is one of the most overused words in public life, up there with “change”. Yet it matters enormously. Politicians pay close attention to right-track/wrong-track indicators. Confidence determines whether consumers spend, and so whether companies invest. The “power of positive thinking”, as Norman Vincent Peale pointed out, is enormous. For the past 400 years the [...]
The Federal Communications Commission’s new “net neutrality” rules, passed on a partisan 3-2 vote yesterday, represent a huge win for a slick lobbying campaign run by liberal activist groups and foundations. The losers are likely to be consumers who will see innovation and investment chilled by regulations that treat the Internet like a public utility. [...]
By William M. Welch and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — Storm-battered California braced for more intense rain and snow today after a wet week that has triggered flash flooding, knocked out power in some areas and buried ski resorts under several feet of snow. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Tuesday [...]
A man given seven years in prison after being found with two guns he purchased legally in Colorado has had his sentence commuted, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday. The case of Brian Aitken, 27, had become a cause célèbre among gun-rights advocates. On Jan. 2, 2009, Aitken, an entrepreneur and media consultant with [...]
Depending on the location, late night December 20 or early morning December 21, multiple astronomical events will line up for a rare display of synchronization, having the total lunar eclipse overlapping the 2010 winter solstice. The Earth and the Sun will conspire leaving the Moon dark and orchestrating the lunar eclipse on Monday night. The [...]
Oasys Water, a company that has been developing a novel, inexpensive desalination technology, showed off a new development facility in Boston this week. The company, which has been demonstrating commercial-scale components of its system in recent months, plans to begin testing a complete system early next year and to start selling the systems by the [...]
Google Maps and Google Earth already allow us to find our way across the planet. Now Google’s latest innovation, the body browser, is designed to help you navigate your body. Whether you’re looking to find nerves and neurons or travel from your oesophagus to your intestine, the Body Browser lets you zoom across the human [...]
Senate Democrats conceded defeat Thursday and pulled their $1.1 trillion spending bill loaded with earmarks from the chamber floor, stymied by Republicans who unified to block the massive bill in the final days of a contentious session of Congress. Angered at what happened, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said nine Republicans, who had [...]