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GLOBAL WARMING

What Happens when Global Warming, Economics and Politics Collide?

In the heady days last century when global warming was of gravest world concern, the Kyoto Protocol was passed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC). It went into effect on 12/11/1997. Now, the rubber meets the road. London’s Financial Times reported yesterday that three worlds – economics, politics and global warming – have collided head [...]

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Cristina Fernandez

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has no cancer. Controversy

In Argentina there is much confusion about the operation of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Presidential Medical Unit was forced to publish the study where he was diagnosed with cancer in the thyroid, dated December 22. The president was operated on 4 January, where extracted he thyroid. And the day 7 was the news that [...]

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The Pope is a religious or political

Pope Benedict’s visit to his German homeland was bound to provoke harsh words from his critics. The surprise of the event was how bluntly he took his own Church to task and disappointed Protestants ready to work with him. Despite his frail physique and soft-spoken style, the 84-year-old pontiff delivered a vigorous defense of his [...]

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Strauss-Kahn

For Strauss-Kahn, its relationship with the maid was a “moral error”

“A moral error, and I’m proud.” These were the words chosen by the former director of the IMF and frustrated French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the public “mea culpa” for his wife and the 13 million French people, glued to the television at 20.09 yesterday, the TF1 listened through. It was his first television interview [...]

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Relations between Venezuela and Cuba

Venezuela, Cuba colony?

Taking advantage of the exhaustion of Venezuelan society and the weakness of its president, Fidel Castro has made ​​Venezuela a colony brutally used and exploited, which reaches its height with the retention of our president in the capital of Cuba. Slowly but relentlessly, Fidel Castro has taken away the independence and become, in effect, a [...]

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Stop. Look. Lisson.

In protest to the arrest of Ai Wei Wei by Chinese authorities, Lisson Gallery erected a huge two-story banner outside their gallery in London.

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An intolerant and undemocratic Argentina

In 2009, this blog was published: Argentina: Unionists block distribution of newspapers. Then there was another block in mid-January by pro-governmentmilitants called “K militants”. Since then, in 2009, already successful court rulings ordering the police and prosecutors a trigger for no further such events. The non-daily circulation Clarin, a newspaper in open opposition to the [...]

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Greenpeace Argentina manager arrested for blocking access to mines Barrick Gold

The director of Greenpeace Argentina, Eugenia Testa, was arrested today in northwest of Argentina where the environmental group blocked access to two mines in Canada’s Barrick Gold to demand implementation of a Glacier Protection Act, the organization reported. By order of the Court of the province of San Juan, police arrested and intimidated Testa fifty [...]

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DREAM Act and the illegal immigrant college students

An impromptu class where Mark Farrales taught other immigrant detainees English vocabulary brought him a sliver of normalcy while lost in legal limbo. Nouns and verbs helped Farrales avoid thinking about his pending deportation to the Philippines as he waited for five weeks behind high fences. “I didn’t know what I would do if I [...]

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Political career in 2011

The policy has its purpose in transforming society. The election is or should be, the result of a debate and operation of a project. This list of 2011 elections, of course, is not complete and There Will Be Some snap elections Obviously Which Are not we expecting (and Some snap elections Which Will not surprise [...]

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The Wikileaks Documentary

In April 2010, WikiLeaks posted video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by US forces, on a website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available for public [...]

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Kirchner: He died at his law as lived

Kirchner Death, always surprises and scares. The Nestor Kirchner broke out in the vacuum of a holiday, pending the arrival of the census taker and phones that did not stop ringing. Death scares others because we face the specter of death itself. This morning we learned, again, we are not immortal. The thought is unbearable, [...]

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Venezuela: Chavez can consolidate his authoritarian rule and influence in Latin America

Venezuela’s Sept. 26 national parliamentary elections present a major opportunity for strongman Hugo Chavez to cement his grip on power. Despite a tradition of a free press and competitive politics, a cosmopolitan elite and extensive natural resources, Venezuela is increasingly a case study in how to lose political and economic freedom. The stakes are especially high [...]

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Economic Analysis of “American Power Act of 2010″

With economy and jobs ranking as top priority for U.S. voters looking forward to November midterm elections, the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) and the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) today unveiled a comprehensive study, which shows the harmful ways that a major policy initiative being debated in the Congress — the [...]

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