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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The closure of 70,000 blog on the philosophy of the Obama Administration
A U.S. civil dispute between those who believe in liberalism (also known as progressive) and those who believe in conservatism. And however much the media tries to distort the facts, U.S. is center-right. It always has been in its foundation and will continue in the future because that’s what makes America unique in the world. And [...]
Argentina, first country in Latin America legally accept gay marriage
The image accompanying this post shows Alex Freyre and José Maria Di Bello, the two first gays who married in Argentina, back in December 2009 and opened the road to happiness to many other couples from today may to marry all of the law, after a process has been too long and tortuous, but it has [...]
Argentina: Land of intolerance. The government promotes violence
Argentina’s long been going through a climate of intolerance. What happened in the 2010 edition of the Book Fair, maximum event where writers, journalists and intellectually present their publications. This event is one of the largest in Latin America. A confrontation between people who attended the launch of “Indek: intimate story of a scam,” Gustavo [...]
President Obama Opens the Health Reform Meeting
To kick off the bipartisan health reform meeting, President Obama lays out the plan for the day and his hopes for what can be accomplished. He talks about where we’re at now and why this meeting is so necessary: President Obama explains, “Politics, I think, ended up trumping practical common sense. I said at the [...]
The Health Care on the table
It’s hard to imagine how anything very positive will come out of the President’s health care summit in Washington tomorrow. An article in Politico describes the atmospherics and the haggles involved in detailed negotiations. A gaggle of congressional Democrats and Republicans will meet with the President at Blair House for about six hours, apparently all of [...]
Nobel Peace Prize and the world
The U.S. president, Barack Obama, has received the Nobel Peace prize at a grand ceremony that is developing in the Oslo City Hall. Obama began his speech by admitting that his accomplishments are minor compared with those obtained by other laureates, including Nelson Mandela, and, recalling that his country maintains two open open conflicts in [...]
Copenhagen: The beginning of the undead?
Sculptures are illuminated as they stand in a water feature outside the Bella Centre during the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best, last chance for a [...]
The Latin American bicentennial used as nationalist and populist propaganda
Today news are many personal blog about the bicentennial of the countries of Latin America. Even CNN has developed special programs for this. Beyond just and deserved celebration just want to add something to put in perspective: These Bicentennial only serve as distraction mechanism nationalist. Governments are mere shift CIRCUMSTANCES. It is people who celebrated. [...]
Photos
- Water spout off Grand Cayman by gemini spy on Flickr.
- Falls over Molokai
- The Pyramid | Tommaso Renzi
- Summer afternoon of 2012. on river Drava, Croatia. by Davorin...
- Annular eclipse from Kourou - By: Fabrizio Melandri
- Aerial Photography
- HONG KONG
- Celestial Evening
- Red Stone Park
- Mountain mirror, Svalbard (by Michele Bussoni2010)
