A dictatorship is a dictatorship, simple as that! No matter how much one tries to break it down, it doesn’t matter. Political preference, religious support and amount of popularity does not determine and justify any dictatorship. Simply because the citizens involved cannot choose any other form of rule. Without any availability of choice for its [...]
CAIRO – CAIRO — Cairo residents boarded up homes and set up neighborhood watches of citizens armed with guns, clubs and knives as looting and violence engulfed the capital. With the police having disappeared from the streets, the army expanded its presence of tanks and armored personnel carriers but mainly around government buildings. As night [...]
As of today, January 29, 2011, the Egypt death toll stands at 38 while tens of thousands of protesters demand President Hosni Mubarak step down. Obama, in a conference Friday evening, said he asked Mubarak to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters. “Mubarak’s cabinet resigned Saturday, but that did nothing to stop massive protests [...]
Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca Cultivo una rosa blanca En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni ortiga cultivo, Cultivo una rosa blanca. English translation I Cultivate a White Rose I cultivate a white rose [...]
Havana – Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, winner of this year’s Sakharov Prize, said Thursday he had been detained for six hours for taking part in a protest in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara. Farinas told the German Press Agency dpa that he was held at a police station with 25 other people late [...]
Can this be possible? Is it possible to control rainfall and if so, how? Well, this question has been answered already and not the real intention of this mini-research project here. My approach will not solely concentrate on the possibility of producing more rainfall by way of cloud seeding but to prove the effect it [...]
The extreme rain pummeling Southern California mirrors extreme weather incidents around the globe. Should the heavy rain in California persist, as the soil becomes saturated, mudslides and flooding follow. The video below shows an example of the results of extreme rain. A mudslide in Maierato, Calabria, Italy results as the soil becomes saturated with rain. Liquefaction [...]
President Obama focused about 80% of his State of the Union Address on the economy, offering proposals designed to create jobs, make the United States more competitive with other developed nations and reduce future budget deficits. Those goals can conflict, however. Here’s a look behind the rhetoric: Statement: “Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments [...]
Storm systems that bring widespread, long-lasting rain over eastern India and Bangladesh form over the Bay of Bengal, at the east edge of India, said Robert Houze, a University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor. But Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea west of India, is substantially more arid and its storms typically produce only locally heavy [...]
The unemployment rate fell significantly in a handful of states last year, though most closed out 2010 with similar jobless rates to those they’d seen a year earlier. Nevada had the highest unemployment rate in December, at 14.5%, the Labor Department said Tuesday, as the state continues to struggle in the aftermath of the housing [...]
Once again, the United Nations is in the cross-hairs of a U.S. congressional committee today, and the themes from its critics are all too familiar: wastage of U.S. taxpayer dollars, institutionalized corruption, a “culture of impunity,” covert assistance to America’s enemies and a bias on human rights issues in favor of dictatorships and autocracy, and [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s top adviser on energy and climate matters is stepping down, two White House officials confirmed Monday. The departure of Carol Browner underscores any prospects for a major White House push on climate change, given that such efforts have little chance of succeeding on Capitol Hill. Browner, a former Environmental Protection [...]
New details and specifications have surfaced concerning the webOS tablet HP (NYSE: HPQ) is expected to unveil Feb. 9. Citing an unnamed source, Engadget has published photos, tech specs and features of the soon-to-be-revealed device. HP responded by sending out an updated version of its invitation to the Feb. 9 event alluding to the leaks. [...]
By JUAN O. TAMAYO Corruption in Cuba is so widespread, from the street to a defense minister, that the island has become “a nation on the take,” according to a dispatch from U.S. diplomats in Havana. “Because most Cubans work for the state, the entire system — from petty officials to Castro’s closest advisors — [...]
The dilapidated state of the Cuban economy has left the Cuban government scrambling for ways to obtain hard currency. Cuba has contrived ways to benefit from leasing doctors, nurses, teachers, and security agents abroad; more recently, Cuba has also found ways to capitalize on large-scale Medicare fraud, possibly committing economic warfare on the United States. [...]
Cuba halted all mail deliveries to the United States over a dispute about US security procedures, and after they said that US-bound mail had been returned to the island. State postal service Correos de Cuba announced Friday that a freeze on all correspondence was “the result of new security measures imposed on the aviation authorities [...]
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — A specialized ship began laying an undersea fiber-optic cable Saturday between Venezuela and Cuba, a connection that will dramatically improve Cuba’s telephone and Internet services. Officials of the two countries launched the project in a ceremony at Venezuela’s Camuri beach near the port of La Guaira, where the cable was [...]
APART from being famous and influential, Hu Jintao, David Cameron, Warren Buffett and Dominique Strauss-Kahn do not obviously have a lot in common. So it tells you something about the breadth of global concerns about inequality that China’s president, Britain’s prime minister, America’s second-richest man and the head of the International Monetary Fund have all [...]
CNN, desperately hurting for ratings, is making national news again, but not for good reporting – for absurd reporting. Tuesday evening, CNN’s John King apologized for a guest using the word “cross hairs,” saying, “Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral [...]
MIAMI, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Cuba Travel Services (CTS) commends the Obama Administration for its decision to expand the rights of Americans to travel freely. The President has directed that changes be made to regulations and policies governing: (1) purposeful travel; (2) non-family remittances; and (3) U.S. airports supporting licensed charter flights to and [...]