Politics

En Alcantarilla Alquimica el 2009.10.17

This happens when people lose perspective of basic human values. Maybe the woman who wrote the note has exagerated her account of the events but anyway I'd hate to be in such a situation... TSA agents took my son posted by cgs at MetaFilter - 3 hours ago Woman tries to go through metal detector at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson aiport with her infant son, only to have his pacifier set off the alarm. TSA did the only rational thing and took the woman's son original article TSA Airport Security...

En Liberal Venezolano el 2009.07.14

With a 630 million dollar payment as a first instalment and an official "transfer of power" act, the Bank of Venezuela nationalization was finalized last July 3rd. The basic question now is whether the current clients of Banco de Venezuela will decide to support the government's financial socialism or if they will decide to "vote" with their bolivares and teach the "nationalizers" a lesson. It is worth remembering here what I wrote last August when the measure was first...

En The Blog el 2008.11.05

Yesterday History was made. The United States of America haves a black president leading them. This is the dream that Martin Luther King, Jr. had back in 1963 and the same idea Lincoln had when he talked about a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal in November of 1963. Last night both speeches became real. Finally after more than 140 years a black man sits on the Presidential chair to lead the United States into a new and diverse future....

En Inter Poculis el 2008.10.11

Each pup was shot in the head. When you promote a grotesque program like Governor Sarah Palin?s Alaska wolf slaughter, you can expect gruesome results. A startling example: In June, after gunning down 14 adult wolves from a helicopter, officials from Governor Palin?s Department of Fish and Game rounded up 14 orphaned wolf pups and methodically shot each one in the head in clear violation of a state law. State Law prohibits the targeting of pups Sarah Palin doesn't care about the Law... Maybe that?s...

En Weltpolitik-Blog el 2007.04.06

by Ian Pryde Anyone strolling around a half-decent bookshop these days will find that most of the books on current affairs seem to deal with Islam and the war in Iraq - and China. The storyline is, of course, that China is changing the world as the rising giant and superpower of the twenty-first century. India also warrants the odd volume, but more by virtue of its size and software industry rather than its overall economy, even though it averaged GDP growth of 5.7% per annum between 1979 and 2006 and...