Safety and older drivers: But once again, a highly publicized accident involving an elderly driver on local streets raises the issue of how closely aging drivers' skills should be monitored. Currently, California requires no further road testing of drivers after they acquire ...
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The Latino vote: is it too late for the GOP, Mitt Romney?
The Latino vote: is it too late for the GOP, Mitt Romney?: During the 2012 cycle, Team Romney's appeal to Latinos has been based on Romney's economic program, emphasizing that the bloc ranks the economy as its top voting issue and that 10 percent of Latinos are unemployment, two percentage points above ...
The big lie: gay indoctrination
The big lie: gay indoctrination
Over 30 years ago, a very liberal, pro-gay politician wrote in an
op-ed that "homosexuality is not a contagious disease like the
measles." That politician was Ronald W. Reagan, and he helped to defeat a
1978 California measure with a similar message.
Report: Cuba to offer tall-ship cruises in 2014
Report: Cuba to offer tall-ship cruises in 2014:
| Star Clippers said U.S. citizens cannot reserve or purchase the new Cuba cruises because of the U.S. embargo against the communist-led island. The embargo aims to keep U.S. citizens from spending in Cuba, although the U.S. Treasury Department allows ... |  Sun-Sentinel (blog) |
Cuba growing less food than 5 ys ago despite agriculture reforms
Cuba growing less food than 5 ys ago despite agriculture reforms: Most crops remain below 2007 levels. * Government says working to broaden reforms. By Marc Frank. HAVANA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Cuba is producing less food than it did five years ago despite efforts to increase agriculture production, the government ...
Chile jobless rate falls, interest rate seen neutral
Chile jobless rate falls, interest rate seen neutral: SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's jobless rate surprisingly inched down to near-historic lows, the government said on Friday, helped by a growth in civil servant and military jobs, and tourism-related employment. The data provided more evidence that, with a ...
Venezuelan pollsters weigh in on Chávez vs. Capriles battle for president
Venezuelan pollsters weigh in on Chávez vs. Capriles battle for president
| There is a little more than a month left to go before the next presidential election in Venezuela
and the polls are just as murky as they were in July. The last month
has seen a new batch of polling results that range from a 20-point lead
for President ... |
What an American-US Airways merger means for you
What an American-US Airways merger means for you: ... District Attorney Patrick Dougherty (DAWK'-er-tee) says he'll pursue the death penalty against a man awaiting trial on charges that he killed his two young daughters and his estranged wife. Lewis ...
America Is in Great Company With Our Enthusiasm for Executions
America Is in Great Company With Our Enthusiasm for Executions: America Is in Great Company With Our Enthusiasm for Executions The U.S. of A, the greatest country on earth, has legally executed 27 people this year, and more than 1,300 since we resurrected the death penalty back in 1976. Mr. Presidential Candidates ...
Police say Bolivian crowd lynches 2 Brazilians in 'lawless' border town
Police say Bolivian crowd lynches 2 Brazilians in 'lawless' border town: LA PAZ, Bolivia - A mob in a town bordering Brazil plagued by drug traffickers and car thieves dragged two Brazilians from jail after their arrest as murder suspects, then beat them and burned them alive, authorities said Wednesday. "It's barbarous ...
Haiti - Agriculture : $242 million damage...
Haiti - Agriculture : $242 million damage...:
| Representatives of Foreign Missions from countries across the Western Hemisphere today met at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC to assess the damage to Haiti following the passage of Isaac. The meeting ... |  Haitilibre.com |
Rapidly rising lake levels threaten trade on Dominican-Haiti border
Rapidly rising lake levels threaten trade on Dominican-Haiti border
Getting around on market day along the muddy border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti
is almost impossible for those unfamiliar with the art of dodging the
trucks, motorcycles and bicycles swerving amid the messy piles of
products scattered all ...
STV Appeal: Are our kids born to lose?
STV Appeal: Are our kids born to lose?: Hollywood star Paul Brannigan explores issues of child poverty and looks at his own experience of being brought up by herion addicts in a documentary called Born To Lose? As part of the week of special programmes for the STV Appeal, Paul wonders what ...
Medicare's political importance goes beyond seniors
Medicare's political importance goes beyond seniors: The Quinnipiac University/CBS/New York Times survey showed elderly voters favoring Romney in Florida, where he led Obama by 13 percentage points, and in Ohio, where he led by eight. Romney also had a slight lead in Wisconsin. "Seniors are split ...
Single Mothers in Poverty: A Symptom of Failed Economic Policies
Single Mothers in Poverty: A Symptom of Failed Economic Policies: She is right. Indeed, the fact is that what's bad for society is not single motherhood. Nor is single motherhood the cause of so much grief for children and our nation's huge poverty rates, including the disproportionate poverty rate of U.S. single ...
President Underscores Iran, Cuba's Influence on Int'l Relations
President Underscores Iran, Cuba's Influence on Int'l Relations:
| "The Islamic Republic of Iran and Cuba are brothers and can take effective steps in bilateral and international relations through mutual cooperation," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Cuban vice-president on the sidelines of the NAM summit here in ... |  Fars News Agency |
Chile, the country Pinochet terrorised, is no longer afraid
Chile, the country Pinochet terrorised, is no longer afraid:
| Up to 200,000 people marched through Santiago yesterday. Students and teachers protesting over education were supported by the Chilean Trade Union Congress, which called on members to join the march. It ended with police turning water cannon and ... |  The Guardian (blog) |
Gay groups and "Homocon" welcomed to GOP convention despite platform
Gay groups and "Homocon" welcomed to GOP convention despite platform: Its title stands out, especially here, where the Republican National Convention has officially accepted a platform that a New York Times editorial called "more aggressive in its opposition to women's reproductive rights and to gay rights than any in ...
Argentine tax agents to track all credit card buys
Argentine tax agents to track all credit card buys: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina is tightening its grip on credit card purchases in an effort to stem capital flight and tax evasion. One measure published Friday makes adds a 15 percent tax every time people make a purchase outside Argentina using ...
State school teachers on strike in Buenos Aires City
State school teachers on strike in Buenos Aires City: Teachers pertaining to the UTE teachers' union were on strike and are to march today in Buenos Aires City, in protest against sanctions made earlier in the week. Three hundred and fifty students will be affected by the strike. The group will be ...
US soldiers face death penalty for murder charges related to militia group
US soldiers face death penalty for murder charges related to militia group:
| Three serving soldiers who allegedly set up a militia group within the US army, which plotted to overthrow the government and assassinate President Obama, face the death penalty after they were arraigned on murder charges. Prosecutors in Georgia ... |  The Guardian |
Fire points to Venezuela oil industry woes
Fire points to Venezuela oil industry woes
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's biggest
oil refinery remained closed Friday after firefighters put out a fire
that raged for more three days following an explosion that killed at
least 48 people, left dozens wounded and hundreds homeless.
Federal court rejects new Texas voter photo ID law
Federal court rejects new Texas voter photo ID law: AUSTIN, Texas -- A tough Texas law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls discriminates against low-income blacks and Latinos, a federal court ruled Thursday, wiping out for the November election a measure championed by ...
Commission proposes new rules for grading countries
Commission proposes new rules for grading countries: THE Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has proposed an alternative but complementary approach to the criterion of per capita income for the allocation of financing for development. ... Prado said the structural gaps that ...
Breaking Bad doesn't show you the real drug war drama
Breaking Bad doesn't show you the real drug war drama:
| Led by famed poet and journalist Javier Sicilia, the caravan is a fleet of buses, cars and campervans travelling 8,000km across the US to show how the war on drugs is tearing Mexico apart. The goal of this journey, which includes stops in 25 American ... |  The Guardian |
jueves, 30 de agosto de 2012
Members of Congress, Celebrities, and Cabinet Secretaries Join CHCI's 2012 ...
Members of Congress, Celebrities, and Cabinet Secretaries Join CHCI's 2012 ...: Seventy-seven percent of senior officers in the active-duty military are white, while only eight percent are black and five percent Hispanic. When they return from war our soldiers face challenges gaining employment. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have ...
U.S. imperialism tries to rebound in Latin America
U.S. imperialism tries to rebound in Latin America:
| With rising overproduction of U.S. commodities and the never-ending drive for expansion, U.S. multinational corporations and banks used Latin America as an outlet for their “surplus” production and capital. For Mexico, the 1994 North American Free ... |  Party for Socialism and Liberation |
Jury convicts in Puerto Rico DEA informant slaying
Jury convicts in Puerto Rico DEA informant slaying: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rico man is facing a possible death sentence for killing a girlfriend who had become an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. A jury in the U.S. island territory convicted Edison Burgos Montes of ...
California Assembly Votes to Ban 'Gay Cure' Therapy for Children, Teens
California Assembly Votes to Ban 'Gay Cure' Therapy for Children, Teens:
| A proposed law banning the use of controversial restorative therapy that can "cure" gay teens and children was approved by California's Assembly, 51 to 21, reports Reuters. Conversion therapy is an attempt to change someone from homosexual or bisexual ... |  Opposing Views |
DEA continues to waste taxpayer money on failed War on Drugs, steps up violence
DEA continues to waste taxpayer money on failed War on Drugs, steps up violence:
| The MOC amounts to nothing more than PR for each country to make it appear they are going to be more effective in the War on Drugs, when history has foretold that is not the case. “With the majority of methamphetamine in the US being produced by ... |  Examiner.com |
Shadow Conventions 2012: What They Will Not Be Talking About in Tampa and ...
Shadow Conventions 2012: What They Will Not Be Talking About in Tampa and ...: Poverty · Drug War · Shadow Conventions 2012. Tampa, Florida has more homeless people per capita than any city in America. Yet you won't hear much -- if any -- talk from the podium on the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired convention set about America'.
Latinos Part of Demographic Shift That Will Define Politics
Latinos Part of Demographic Shift That Will Define Politics: The downturn hit everyone, after all. Pat Mullins, Republican chair in Virginia, said party polling had found that Hispanic voters were less worried about immigration policy than unemployment. "They're concerned about the same things we are — that ...
Native American Philanthropy: Giving in Humble Ways
Native American Philanthropy: Giving in Humble Ways:
| Although we often hear about the challenges that Native Americans face in terms of poverty and reservation life, these individuals make significant contributions to the American economy and philanthropy. In 2010, Native Americans contributed $12 ... |  Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio (blog) |
Posing as a Gay Republican at the RNC Will Get You Laid
Posing as a Gay Republican at the RNC Will Get You Laid:
| You can get a Discrete Blow 'N' Go, some Thick Chocolate 4 R N C, or, my favorite, NYPD cop looking some GOP / RNC friends. A hot gay New York cop! You can't even score one of those in Manhattan, but with an elephant pin and a condom, you're good to ... |  VICE |
Higher power prices a poverty flashpoint
Higher power prices a poverty flashpoint: Announcement of power price increases comes hard on the heels of the Children's Commission paper on Child Poverty released 28th August. The drive for profits from power companies shows a failure of integrated decision-making. Hardship and poverty ...
Venezuelan Refinery Under Scrutiny After Deadly Blaze
Venezuelan Refinery Under Scrutiny After Deadly Blaze:
| Fires raged at Venezuela's Amuay refinery after a predawn explosion rocked the facility on August 25 and left at least 42 dead, dozens wounded, and hundreds of homes demolished. The blast was the world's deadliest refinery accident in 15 years. |  National Geographic |
Report: Poverty and the Rise of Temporary and Contingent Work
Report: Poverty and the Rise of Temporary and Contingent Work: by Miranda Dietz The nature of employment is changing. Employees are increasingly seen as liabilities rather than assets, and so workers are kept at arm's ...
Cholera outbreak in Cuba ends
Cholera outbreak in Cuba ends:
| Cholera. Cuban health officials announced on Tuesday that the June cholera outbreak that infected 417 people and killed three is over. The epidemic began in Manzanillo, a city located approximately 560 miles east of Havana with a population of 130,500. |  Vaccine News Daily (blog) |
Puerto Rico jury to weigh possible death sentence in slaying of DEA informant
Puerto Rico jury to weigh possible death sentence in slaying of DEA informant
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Puerto Rico man is facing a possible death sentence for killing a girlfriend who had become an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. A jury in the U.S. island territory convicted Edison Burgos Montes of ...
Venezuela to Investigate Report That Miners Massacred Indians
Venezuela to Investigate Report That Miners Massacred Indians
CARACAS, Venezuela — The authorities in Venezuela
said Wednesday that they would investigate claims that illegal
Brazilian gold miners massacred a village of Yanomami Indians deep in
the Amazon jungle.
Argentina's president plans for a Hollywood in Buenos Aires
Argentina's president plans for a Hollywood in Buenos Aires:
| Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, right, and Deputy Economy Minister Axel Kicillof applaud during a ceremony at the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. Fernandez unveiled an ambitious new plan that would ... |  VOXXI |
KSP: Body of Native American woman found scalped
KSP: Body of Native American woman found scalped: Clues have been slow to emerge in the past year, but KSP officials have confirmed the victim to be a Native American woman between 5'8 and 6' tall, with fillings in her teeth and possibly wearing a string bikini with a flower pattern. And in addition ...
Famine, Global Poverty and The Destruction of the Family Farm
Famine, Global Poverty and The Destruction of the Family Farm:
| The underlying economic and social roots of poverty are actually the expression of centuries of domination of the North over the South. To honestly ... That would be more than 40 times what an average North American person would consume. India is one ... |  Center for Research on Globalization |
Poverty in Venezuela dropped by 24.5 percentage points over the ...
Poverty in Venezuela dropped by 24.5 percentage points over the ...: That's also possible, yes. In any event, the suspect are known in advance and their guilt is indisputable. Just like Hugo who blames lack of investment in 1980s ...
Gay and Transgender Discrimination in the Public Sector
Gay and Transgender Discrimination in the Public Sector
| There are approximately 1 million gay or transgender individuals in America
today working in state, local, or municipal government. They are
firefighters, teachers, police officers, nurses, librarians, child-care
providers, sanitation workers, and more. |
Raising minimum wage can yank millions out of poverty and jump-start economy
Raising minimum wage can yank millions out of poverty and jump-start economy: In Brazil, the minimum wage was raised by 60 percent in real terms by the country's most popular president, Lula da Silva - a former metal worker and union leader - as Brazil's economy moved toward record low levels of unemployment. Across South ...
Alarming levels of drug-resistant TB found worldwide
Alarming levels of drug-resistant TB found worldwide:
| Gay Today. – August 30, 2012 Posted in: Headlines, Health, World. Scientists have found an alarming number of cases of the lung disease tuberculosis in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America that are resistant to up to four powerful antibiotic drugs ... |  GayToday |
DA eyes death penalty in soldier militia plot case
DA eyes death penalty in soldier militia plot case: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will try to reassert American interests in the Asia-Pacific region in the face of China's growing influence as she kicks off a six-nation trip that will take her from the... Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ...
Hurricanes, Poverty, and Neglected Infections
Hurricanes, Poverty, and Neglected Infections
| In America, 20 million people live in extreme poverty, defined as families with incomes that are less than half of the federal poverty level, and “2.8 million children are living in households with incomes of less that $2 per person per day. ... think ... |
Venezuela to investigate reports of massacre of Indians by gold miners
Venezuela to investigate reports of massacre of Indians by gold miners: The alleged attack on the community of Irotatheri in the Venezuelan municipality of Alto Orinoco, near the Brazilian border, is believed to have taken place in July. Survival said in its own report that information is only just beginning to emerge ...
miércoles, 29 de agosto de 2012
Nebraska inmate says state penitentiary leaders reneged on deal with Native ...
Nebraska inmate says state penitentiary leaders reneged on deal with Native ...: A Nebraska inmate has filed a contempt motion in federal court, saying state Department of Correctional Services officials have reneged on a settlement to accommodate the religious and cultural needs of Native American inmates. In the 2005 settlement, ...
Coroner: Elderly robbery victim suffered 'sudden cardiac death'
Coroner: Elderly robbery victim suffered 'sudden cardiac death'
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County coroner's office labeled the death of an elderly
robbery victim a homicide. An autopsy showed 71-year-old Guadalupe
Ramos suffered emotion-precipitated sudden cardiac death, the coroner's
office ...
Ontario dead last in terms of inequality, poverty and funding for public services
Ontario dead last in terms of inequality, poverty and funding for public services
“Now, having deliberately emptied its cupboards, the Ontario government's commitment to reduce child poverty
by 25 per cent by 2013 is being swept aside.” But Children and Youth
Services Minister Eric Hoskins, who is also responsible for the
Liberals' ...
A Gay Dad Sounds Off on California's Proposed Ban on Administering 'Ex-Gay ...
A Gay Dad Sounds Off on California's Proposed Ban on Administering 'Ex-Gay ...: The California legislature has passed another bill in an effort to create a state where the society is truly affirming and equal for all. This bill has the objective of making our state safe for teens and children. Ironically, the kids in question here ...
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival 2012 offers five queer cinema titles
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival 2012 offers five queer cinema titles
The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival kicks off this Friday (August 31) and runs until September 9. And amid the mix, they've ... You can also follow the Georgia Straight 's LGBT coverage on Twitter at twitter.com/StraightLGBT. Special coverage ...
Despite Critics, Gambia Plans Dozens Of Executions
Despite Critics, Gambia Plans Dozens Of Executions:
| In a recent speech marking the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, the president vowed to put to death all prisoners facing the death penalty by mid-September, as a way to curb crime. "By the middle of next month, all the death sentences ... The US ... |  NPR |
Press freedom group: Venezuela media under assault
Press freedom group: Venezuela media under assault: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a new report Wednesday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government has used threats and a barrage of restrictive measures to gradually weaken the country's private ...
4 Chilean police face discipline for stripping jailed children naked after ...
4 Chilean police face discipline for stripping jailed children naked after ...
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile's police director says four
officers will be disciplined for forcing student protesters to strip
naked. Gen. Gustavo Gonzalez told reporters before testifying to the
Senate on Wednesday that 10 arrested students were forced to ...
Cuba won't allow refugee's son to come to Canada
Cuba won't allow refugee's son to come to Canada:
| While many Canadians' image of Cuba includes sandy beaches and tropical drinks, one St. John's resident paints a very different picture. Yadier Perez Leon arrived two years ago after escaping his native Cuba by boat. It was a harrowing journey, during ... |  CBC.ca |
Chinese-born American sentenced to 4 years in prison for stealing trade ...
Chinese-born American sentenced to 4 years in prison for stealing trade ...
CHICAGO - A Chinese-born American convicted of stealing trade secrets from Motorola was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison in a case that both the judge and prosecutors hoped would send a message to those who might be tempted to siphon ...
Haiti - Economy : The Ministers defend their budget before the Senate Committee
Haiti - Economy : The Ministers defend their budget before the Senate Committee
Monday, August 27, the Ministers of Communication,
Defence, Trade and Tourism together with the Secretary General of the
Primature have, during 5 hours, answered to the questions of Senators of
the Finance Committee concerning the budget of their ...
Buenos Aires for Kids?
Buenos Aires for Kids?: While Buenos Aires has won the hearts of many, it still has a reputation for being for the young and not appropriate for families. While you may be surprised to see locals with their children out late into the night, that does not mean it is the only ...
Sweet and sour comedy delivers
Sweet and sour comedy delivers:
| Ricardo Darin, the melancholy lawyer at the centre of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), plays a grouchy, obsessive Buenos Aires hardware store owner, a middle-aged man who lives alone, a creature of routine and irritability. Whether he's counting ... |  Brisbane Times |
Early Childhood Council supports child poverty recommendations
Early Childhood Council supports child poverty recommendations: The largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres in New Zealand supports the early childhood recommendations released today (28 August, 2012) by the Children's Commissioner's Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty.
The Republican Platform and Gay Rights
The Republican Platform and Gay Rights: Republican votes were critical in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Washington, and Maryland. They are crucial for efforts to override Governor Christie's veto in New Jersey. Many Republicans have courageously stood up for their beliefs on LGBT rights ...
Portage's new Sangria Shop brings Puerto Rican flavors to Southwest Michigan
Portage's new Sangria Shop brings Puerto Rican flavors to Southwest Michigan:
| PORTAGE, MI – Frances Vega and Fernando Costas are used to people telling them that their sangria is delicious. The couple, who are originally from Puerto Rico, would make batches for company get-togethers. They found themselves in high demand. |  Michigan Business Review - MLive.com |
California lawmakers approve gay conversion ban for minors
California lawmakers approve gay conversion ban for minors: BY NATASHA BARSOTTI – Reuters reports that California's state Assembly, by a 51–21 vote, has approved a bill to prohibit children and teenagers from undergoing therapy that claims to reverse homosexuality. The Aug 28 vote means California has taken ...
YPF CEO to reveal future plans after 100 days
YPF CEO to reveal future plans after 100 days: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The CEO of Argentina's state-controlled YPF oil company plans to unveil his promised plan for attracting investors willing to make expensive bets on their ability to profit from developing the country's vast ...
Nearly Half Of Colombia's Indigenous Population In Extreme Poverty: UN
Nearly Half Of Colombia's Indigenous Population In Extreme Poverty: UN: BOGOTA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- About half of Colombia's 1.4 million indigenous people are living under extreme poverty, while 63 percent of them suffer "structural poverty," Xinhua news agency reported a UN official as saying Sunday. "About 47.6 percent ...
Gay Self-Loathing Is At Alarming Levels
Gay Self-Loathing Is At Alarming Levels:
| New York Times Will Print "Pussy," But Not "Cock". By Michael Musto. Food · Which Trend Nazi Invented Brunch? By Michael Musto. Lesbians! ... This kind of bad attitude is everywhere, whether it comes from the discriminatory ding dongs on sex apps or ... |  Village Voice (blog) |
Mail carrier allegedly moved cocaine packages
Mail carrier allegedly moved cocaine packages
(AP) NEWARK, N.J. — A mail carrier used her daily route to move cocaine
shipments in falsely addressed packages on behalf of a drug trafficking
organization based in Puerto Rico, federal authorities said Tuesday. The U.S. attorney's office in New ...
Venezuelan Journalists Threatened by Government Hackers
Venezuelan Journalists Threatened by Government Hackers: Venezuela has about 2 million Twitter users, or about 8 percent of the population. That gives Venezuela the highest Twitter penetration in the region after Uruguay, according to local research company Tendencias Digitales. “The government tries to ...
Protest begins in peace, ends in violence
Protest begins in peace, ends in violence: SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A demonstration by thousands of students and teachers in Santiago, Chile, that police described as largely peaceful ended in violence and injury. Violence broke out as the demonstration wound down Tuesday afternoon, ...
Venezuela welcomes Iran's proposal to form troika committee on Syria
Venezuela welcomes Iran's proposal to form troika committee on Syria: TEHRAN – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has welcomed Iran's proposal for the formation of a troika committee on Syria consisting of Iran, Egypt, and Venezuela. Maduro made the remarks in an interview with reporters upon his arrival in ...
The Misrule of Law
The Misrule of Law
Venezuelans are reeling this week from the
deadliest accident in our nation's industrial history. On Saturday a gas
leak at the state-owned Amuay plant, the country's largest refinery,
set off a massive explosion, leaving at least 48 dead and hundreds ...
Chronic poverty increases as the poor move increasingly into urban cities
Chronic poverty increases as the poor move increasingly into urban cities:
| As researchers and aid agencies struggle to distinguish between chronic poverty and acute vulnerability IRIN, a humanitarian news service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reviewed efforts to measure city dwellers' poverty ... |  WNN - Women News Network |
martes, 28 de agosto de 2012
Cholera outbreak over, Cuban government says
Cholera outbreak over, Cuban government says: Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba's government declared Tuesday that health workers had eradicated a cholera outbreak that infected 417 people and killed three, according to a statement from the country's Health Ministry. In early July, Cuba said the ...
Sicilian Mafia boss nabbed in Venezuela, Italian authorities report
Sicilian Mafia boss nabbed in Venezuela, Italian authorities report: ROME – Italian authorities say a fugitive Sicilian Mafia boss has been arrested in Venezuela, with family ties aiding investigators on his trail. Police and prosecutors in Palermo, the Sicilian capital, told reporters Tuesday that Salvatore Bonomolo ...
Venezuela stamps out refinery blaze, eyes restart
Venezuela stamps out refinery blaze, eyes restart: PARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan firefighters put out a blaze at the country's biggest oil refinery on Tuesday, paving the way for a restart of the facility and an investigation into the world's deadliest refinery accident in fifteen years.
Chile's top court rejects $4.5 billion coal-fired plant that would have ...
Chile's top court rejects $4.5 billion coal-fired plant that would have ...
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile's Supreme Court has rejected plans
to build a $4.5 billion coal-fired power plant and port to serve
northern Chile's copper mines, ruling that the project's Brazilian and
German investors failed to prove they can protect the ...
Argentine police to shoot gulls to save the whales
Argentine police to shoot gulls to save the whales: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Saving whales is something Argentines take very seriously - so much so that they're planning to shoot seagulls to stop them from pecking at the huge marine mammals. Gulls have become a real hazard for Southern right whales ...
Brazil Supreme Court orders release of rancher charged with masterminding ...
Brazil Supreme Court orders release of rancher charged with masterminding ...
In 2010, a jury found Regivaldo Galvao guilty of ordering Stang's death and sentenced him to 30 years in jail. But he was freed on appeal. He was imprisoned one year later after a Para state court ... According to the Catholic Land Pastoral, a watchdog ...
Pedal Power Helps Brazilian Prisoners Reduce Their Sentences
Pedal Power Helps Brazilian Prisoners Reduce Their Sentences: A brilliant idea being trialed in the Brazilian prison system helps inmates put that nervous energy to good use. Prisoners at a maximum security prison near Santa Rita do Sapucai in the mountains north of São Paolo have been given an option to reduce ...
Urban poverty: An appreciation
Urban poverty: An appreciation:
| In Brazil, for example, where the word "poor" conjures images both of Rio's vertiginous favelas and of indigenous Amazonian tribes, only 5 percent of the urban population is classified as extremely poor, compared with 25 percent of those living in ... |  Philadelphia Inquirer |
Bill Clinton: Brazil No. 1 among rising economies
Bill Clinton: Brazil No. 1 among rising economies: Blair cited Brazil's progress in reducing poverty and inequality over the past two decades, saying they were an inspiration for African countries where he has been spending his time lately -- and also proof that liberal capitalism still works, despite ...
Gay marriage group reserves $5M in TV ad time
Gay marriage group reserves $5M in TV ad time: Same-sex marriage is currently legal in New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C.. Maryland legalized gay marriage this year as well, but that state will also have a public vote this fall. In Maine, voters ...
Gay Republicans say they are optimistic despite rebuffs from party
Gay Republicans say they are optimistic despite rebuffs from party
Social conservatives steered the party's platform committee to adopt
deeply conservative positions, not only keeping the door shut on
same-sex marriage but refusing to consider support for civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. On the stump ...
Gay rights, immigration, abortion deepen GOP divide
Gay rights, immigration, abortion deepen GOP divide:
| “National Republicans have made a calculated decision, for about 20 years now, that it's worth writing off states like California in exchange for a secure base of support in the South and in the near West (Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states). |  Newsday |
San Francisco archbishop-elect, who vigorously opposed gay marriage in ...
San Francisco archbishop-elect, who vigorously opposed gay marriage in ...
SAN DIEGO -- The Roman Catholic archbishop-elect of San Francisco was
arrested for investigation of driving under the influence, San Diego
police said Monday. The Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, a vigorous supporter
of California's same-sex marriage ban, ...
Gay students recount their torment - Second of two parts
Gay students recount their torment - Second of two parts: About 880 California high schools, more than 53 percent of the state total, have these clubs, according to the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, a San Francisco-based youth leadership group helping students organize the alliances. These clubs exist at ...
The Global Land Grab, The Next Human Rights Challenge For Business
The Global Land Grab, The Next Human Rights Challenge For Business:
| Since the first huge spike in global food prices back in 2007-2008, companies and foreign governments have acquired or signed long term leases for land in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Many of these transactions were negotiated quickly and ... |  Triple Pundit |
Speak out against bad Canadian mining in Latin America
Speak out against bad Canadian mining in Latin America: Canadian mining companies operating in Latin America have long evaded the enforcement of human rights obligations and environmental regulations. The Canadian government has aggressively pursued trade agreements throughout the region that have ...
90% of Latin Americans will live in cities by 2050
90% of Latin Americans will live in cities by 2050: It's already the most urban region in the world, but in the coming years more people in Latin America will continue to move to cities. By 2050, the U.N. ... “We're seeing a reduction in poverty, indigence in urban areas; unemployment is going down ...
US policies contributed to poverty in Latin America
US policies contributed to poverty in Latin America:
| The United States has worked across Latin America to enrich private clients at the expense of the pauperized masses, Professor of Sociology Emeritus James Petras of Binghamton University, N.Y., charges. “Never in the 20th Century (1990-2001) were so ... |  MWC News |
U.S. Policies Contributed to Poverty in Latin America
U.S. Policies Contributed to Poverty in Latin America: U.S. Policies Contributed to Poverty in Latin America. The United States has worked across Latin America to enrich private clients at the expense of the ...
Latin America: Poor get Poorer while Rich get Richer - The ...
Latin America: Poor get Poorer while Rich get Richer - The ...: State of the Cities of Latin America found that the wealthiest 20% of the ... the poverty line despite the reduction of poverty and the economic opportunities offered ...
Drug Legalization: Pros And Cons As To Its Viability As A Means To End The ...
Drug Legalization: Pros And Cons As To Its Viability As A Means To End The ...: The former President of Mexico (2006 - 2012) declared a war against drug cartels that has been deemed unsuccessful by many who say it has prompted more violence. Calderón has often emphasized the need for the U.S. to take responsibility in the Drug ...
American Taliban's religious freedom argument could extend to prisons across ...
American Taliban's religious freedom argument could extend to prisons across ...
The legal battle between the federal government and “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh over religious freedoms could have broader implications for inmates in federal, state and local prisons across the country. The 31-year-old Lindh testified Monday ...
US Prison Top Chaplain: Clerics Advised Policy
US Prison Top Chaplain: Clerics Advised Policy:
| A policy that American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh claims violates his Muslim beliefs by barring inmates in the tightly controlled prison unit where he is held from praying together more than once a week was based on advice from Islamic ... |  ABC News |
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