Chiste del dia: Segun la FAO Cuba avanza hacia la independencia alimentaria

El complice de hoy: Dr. Marcio Porto, Representante de la FAO en Cuba >

Escritora cubana plagia un libro editado en EE.UU....

La loca del blog: Escritora cubana plagia un libro editado en EE.UU....: CUBANET Carta abierta al Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau Nueva York, 8 de octubre de 2011 Ediciones La Memoria Centro Cutural...

Miniatur Wunderland: largest model railway / railroad in the world

Este es el más grande del mundo. Cubre 1.150 metros cuadrados / 12.380 pies cuadrados,  y  casi seis millas de la pista y aún no se completa.

Los hermanos gemelos Federico y Gerrit Braun, de 41 años, comenzarón a trabajar en el "Wunderland en miniatura" en el año 2000.
El conjunto abarca seis regiones, incluyendo Estados Unidos, Suiza, Escandinavia, Alemania y los Alpes austríacos

La sección estadounidense cuenta con maquetas gigantes de las Montañas Rocosas, Everglades, Grand-Canyon, etc

.... y el Monte Rushmore.

La sección suiza cuenta con un mini-Matterhorn.

La parte escandinava tiene una nave de pasajeros de largo 4 pies flotando en un "fiordo".

Se espera que esté terminada en 2014, cuando el conjunto de trenes que cubren más de 1.800 metros cuadrados / (19.376 pies cuadrados) y cuentan con casi 13 kilómetros de vía, momento en el cual los modelos detallados de las partes de Francia, Italia y el Reino Unido se hayan añadido

Se compone de 700 trenes con más de 10.000 coches y vagones.

El tren más largo es 46 pies de largo.

El paisaje incluye 900 señales, edificios de 2.800, 4.000 coches - muchos de ellos con los faros iluminados.

y 160.000 figuras diseñadas de forma individual.

Miles de kilogramos de acero y madera se utilizarón para construir el escenario

Los 250.000 luces están manipuladas a un sistema que imita la noche y el día de forma automática a encender y apagar

Todo el sistema se controla desde un centro neurálgico masiva de alta tecnología

Mas de 500.000 horas de trabajo y  8 millones de dólares han invertido los hermanos en el proyecto.

"Gerrit dijo: "Nuestra idea era construir un mundo de hombres, mujeres y niños que pueden quedar igualmente asombrados y sorprendidos"

Frederik agregó: "Si los juegos de azar en Las Vegas, senderismo en los Alpes o remar en los fiordos noruegos - en todo Wunderland es posible." Este vídeo de 4 minutos vale la pena ver estas cosas asombrosas.

Arrival of Cuba offshore oil rig delayed again!!!

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Convocan a Flotilla por la Democracia en #Cuba

El Movimiento Democracia en protesta por los atropellos de los cobardes agentes del regimen cubano contra las mujeres indefensas de las Damas de Blanco y demas disidentes y miembros del pueblo que protestan los desmanes del gobierno, convoca a una Flotilla u Operacion Maritima frente a las costas de Cuba el proximo dia 9 de diciembre, vispera del 10 de diciembre, dia de los derechos humanos, donde serán lanzandos fuegos artificiales y otras señales que pueden ser vistas en La habana, partes de Matanzas y de Pinar del Rio. Al unisono se ha hecho un llamado para realizar una protesta multitudinaria internacional en respaldo a las Damas de Blanco y demas luchadores en Cuba, y en denuncia de los atropellos del regimen.
Video Cortesía Telemundo 51.

La ACLU es comunista - Katungo

#Canada - Homegrown terrorism

This brief, 3-minute video shows footage of the annual Al-Quds Day Rally held at Queen's Park (the Ontario Legislature) here in Toronto, which took place this past Sunday, August 28th.

Speakers are seen describing Israel as a "cancer" that must be killed, Israel is accused of being involved "wherever we see injustice happening", and Israelis are called "racists", "barbarians", and "inhuman".

The flag of Hezbollah, a terror organization banned under Canadian law, is also flown by demonstrators.

It is important for people to understand that there is a world of difference between legitimate criticism of Israeli government policies and a denial of the right of Israel to exist, in language that is without question anti-Semitic. In the case of this rally, 'criticism' of Israel quickly crossed the line into outright anti-Semitism.

The video also shows how those who genuinely believe in human rights often share a podium with hate-filled extremists. Those activists should be accountable for the company they keep.

#Canada - Don't Welcome back terrorist Khadr

The bureaucratic process has begun to bring Omar Khadr back to Canada.

Brydie Bethell, one of Khadr's Canadian lawyers, confirmed Friday the application had been made to repatriate the 25-year-old.

The process is reportedly now in the hands of the Correctional Service of Canada.

Khadr pleaded guilty last October to five charges - murder, attempted murder, supporting terrorism, spying and conspiracy.

The plea deal he signed following his trial in Guantanamo Bay has him serving eight years behind bars.

Under the bargain, he was allowed to apply to serve the last seven years of his sentence in Canada.

The Correctional Service and the U.S. government have to sign off on the transfer. It's then up to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to give the final OK to repatriate Khadr.

"The minister has a fair bit of discretion in this," Toews' spokesman Mike Patton said, referring to the general process of prisoner transfer, not Khadr's case specifically.

It takes, on average, 18 months for a prisoner transfer process to be completed, Patton noted.

Khadr was 15 years old when he threw a grenade that killed U.S. special forces Sgt. Christopher Speer in Afghanistan in 2002.

A diplomatic note between Canada and the U.S. included in last year's plea deal said Ottawa will review Khadr's transfer application "favourably."

Paisajes de Marte a través de los ojos de un robot

Containers Falling From Ship Grounded Off NZ

Akademia Kubiche: Sexo y Emigracion

Boris Hoppek [Amor, sexo, la lucha, el racismo y la inmigracion]

Dos informes ["Cuba y su diaspora: un dilema nacional" en la revista Espacio Laical y La diaspora cubana en el siglo XXI"] y una propaganda sobre el mismo tema en un mes? Bueno es que sabemos que el general  ha reiterado la imperiosa necesidad de trabajar con "planes de trabajo": dia/ hora/ actividad/ responsable/ participantes/ cumplimiento/.

Marlene Azor esta azorada para polemizar con argumentos  por lo que los sustituye por un conveniente copy & paste. El "problema" no es el de Cuba y su Diaspora como presenta Espacio Laical, sino el del Castrismo [y el Neo] y la emigracion, el que solo cobra sentido como "problema" en el contexto de la transicion [hacia donde?, porque de hecho el neocastrismo es una transicion] ordenada [deseable] o no.

Convocados al intercambio como Domínguez, López-Levy y Bilbao, le garantizan al convocante una "legitimidad" akademica externa tan afin que mas alla de la anecdota  se prevee simetria conceptual. Llama igualmente la atencion que el unico kubiche participante sea Aurelio [Alonso, reubicado convenientemente como vicepresidente de Casa de las America despues del caso CEA], que como intelectual "inteligente' tiene la honestidad de confesar que no es un especialista en el tema [lo son los otros mas alla de la doctoral sapiencia?]; en tanto el convocante-facilitador [?] es el CEO de la jerarquia eclesiastica catolica cubana, que ya sabemos porque es la institucion mas estable desde que el sapiens se convirtio en writer.

Luego no debe de extranar que se juegue al amor sin llegar al sexo como afirma con razon Haroldo Dilla, tal y como hacian nuestras abuelitas rompiendo sillones durante anos bajo la mirada implacable de la chaperona designada, porque como alguien senalo [creo que fue Cabrera Infante], la pureza de los virgos nonagenarios de Guillen fue su unico acto de rebeldia.

Por ahi anda tambien un "informe" [ese nombrecito siempre me ha dado salpullido] de akademicos de la filial de la escuela superior del Partido Comunista de Cuba "Nico Lopez" en Mayami, pero como yo si me tengo que ganar los frijoles decentemente en el implacable capitalismo, no le voy a dedicar ni un byte.

F-16 vs. Tree

Al-Qaida Chief Issues New Video

Afloran detalles sobre secuestro de graffitero cubano El Sexto

Escúchalo sin miedo

Transcripción:
El genial graffitero cubano, El Sexto, Danilo Maldonado Machado, sigue preso en Cuba sin órden de arresto ni cargos en su contra formalizados tras un violento secuestro en las calles de Arroyo Arena, a media cuadra de su casa, ayer lunes 10 de octubre de 2011 en la noche, por hombres de civiles en un Lada blanco de chapa amarilla, particular, según atestiguaron los vecinos aterrados de la zona, reducido a la fuerza y presuntamente encapuchado durante el arresto. Dicen ahora que lo van a retener al menos una semana, sin dar más información hasta dentro de tres días, por lo que la familia de Danilo Maldonado Machado, El Sexto, sigue aterrada y se resiste a denunciar este caso y esta injusticia de la Policía Política contra el artista callejero más famoso de Ciudad de La Habana. La Policía Nacional Revolucionaria (PNR) desechó la posibilidad de que tuviera que ver en el asunto ya que declaró que en ninguna estación policial de Ciudad de La Habana se encontraba detenido Danilo Maldonado Machado, el graffitero más famoso de Ciudad de La Habana, El Sexto.
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo reporta esta información.

El Necio y el Exilio

Silencio, nada, cero, solo existen los que querramos. La maquinaria desatada. Asi que no fueron a recibirme con aplanadora porque era muy lejos o muy temprano? Sera el necio de Rene con musiquita de fondo del sietemesinos, menos importante importante que el gordo de Pablito? ok, se lo vamos a parquear en el downtown de Mayami con todas las unidades listas para entrar en accion: la policia del condado, el FBI, las abuelas burguesas por la reunificacion familiar, los In-mundos y Arucas, los Lesniks y los Perez Roura, los akademicos de la FIU y los muchachitos de Saladrigas,Tomas Bilbao y Arturo Lopez-Llevis; Marifeli Perez-Stable y Mesa-Lago,.... Que sepa, no se interrumpio una data de domino en el parque de la Pequena Habana ni los comandos de Alpha 66 rastrillaron las armas, ni el "heroe" del unico proyecto valido en cuba -Voces del Barrio- metio una tangana ya no en Punta Brava, sino en Mayami donde tambien se "lucha". Jorge Manach [de quien he leido en algun libro del excelente sistema de bibliotecas de Toronto fue el que escribio por encargo La Historia me Absolvera] debe estar reescribiendo su Indagacion del Coteo, mientras Tres Patines, Arquimedes Pous y Arredondo deben estar sonando sus mejores trompetillas.

El dia que Rene se "robo" la avioneta que no era agricola como todo el mundo afirma, sino un avioncito de la SEPMI de Tamayo y de la cual habia sido expulsado un tiempo antes [!!!], el jefe de la torre de control de vuelos de la base de San Nicolas de Bari era mi socio. Llego el Rene, saludo a todo el mundo, fue a la pista, se monto como de costumbre en un avioncito de acrobacias [dromedarios les decian y eran checos si mal no recuerdo], fue al final de la pista, metio presion en el motor y el socio mio le pregunto que iba a hacer y el Rene le dijo: una vueltecita, una vueltecita. Cuando el socio que estaba en el border line explota con lo de Ochoa y Tony de la Guardia, le sacaron todo excepto esa vueltecita que le habia "autorizado" al socio Rene.

Es que estoy releyendo -entre otros- a todo el Fukuyama [hasta el 2010] pero ahora en ingles y eso te da otra dimension de la Perla de las Antillas, los jugadores de domino, los Perez Roura, la Akademia Kubiche, Punto 1, la oposicion parasita que intercambia papeles -declaraciones sin valor de cambio por verdes que todo el mundo quiere- y Damas de Blanco con catarro, ...;  dicho de otra manera, estoy absorviendo cultura  con la misma voracidad que seguramente condujeron a aquellos protobientes que Oparin denomino coacervados, a dar el fabuloso salto a la metabolizacion.

Perez Roura: El Hombre que acabara con los bicitaxis y el cafe con chicharo

Toronto esta tan lejos geograficamente de Miami, como los valores culturales de ambas ciudades, por ello la lectura del discurso del Presidente de Unidad Cubana Armando Perez Roura, me "obligo" a verificar si lo que mis ojos leian en el sitio de Ichikawa no era una broma miamense de algun humorista kubiche. Pues no, no era un chiste como se puede constatar AQUI >

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“Cuando estemos allí, vamos a acabar con los bicitaxis, los almendrones, las guaguas atestadas de gentes; con el café mezclado con chícharo; las tres libras de azúcar por mes, el arroz con gorgojos y gusanos, las viandas podridas en las tiendas y los agros… La leche sólo hasta los 7 años, los pollos (flacos) de dieta.

Vamos a proscribir los matutinos pioneriles, los odiados Comités de Chivatos, los núcleos del partido comunista, el libelo Granma y sus acólitos, la radio y la TV controladas por los hermanos dictadores, que no informan nada y cuyo contenido se basa en la patraña y la mentira.

Entonces vamos a levantar casas y edificios nuevos; vamos a dotar las cocinas cubanas de refrigeradores, fogones modernos, de agua corriente… ¡para acabar de una vez y por todas con ese espectáculo de miseria, de pipas de agua recorriendo las calles de nuestras ciudades!

Vamos a cultivar los campos… Vamos a llenar de tractores y equipos pesados nuestra agricultura… ¡Vamos a rodar en las calles autos y guaguas nuevas… Transporte decente, rápido, para que la población deje de sufrir, de pasar trabajo.

¡Y vamos a poner fin a ese espíritu de mendigar, de pedir dólares a la familia que está en el extranjero para poder comer, porque tendremos una moneda fuerte, circulando en la Isla y en el bolsillo de cada uno de nuestros ciudadanos… Vamos a devolver la sonrisa a los niños y la chispa de alegría perdida en los ojos del cubano…

¡Regresaremos cargados de esperanza y de ideas, que hacen grandes a los pueblos!” 

Sensors and the City: IBM Exhibit Visualizes Today's Urban Problems--and Potential Solutions

 

DATA ON DISPLAY: IBM's "Think" exhibit, at New York City's Lincoln Center through October 23, features a 37.5-by-4.3-meter digital data visualization wall. The data have been harvested by IBM from 100 sensors throughout the city, analyzed for patterns and rendered into visualizations to create a more complete picture of the city's oft-ignored problems and potential solutions. Image: Courtesy of IBM

Scientific American
By Larry Greenemeier
The IBM "Think" exhibit analyzes data to create virtual representations of wasted drinking water, solar-energy potential, traffic snarls, air quality and credit card transactions in and around New York City

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Drone On: Will the FAA Open U.S. Skies to Unmanned Aircraft?

 

TAKING OFF: The FAA is expected to release a proposed rule governing the use of small UAS in the national airspace system as early as December, after which there would be a comment and review process that could last a few years. Image: Courtesy of Wutthichai Meepo, via iStockphoto.com

 

Scientific American
Drone strikes have proved an effective, if controversial, weapon in the hunt for al Qaeda operatives in the Middle East and beyond. The use of such unmanned aircraft systems  (UAS) domestically for civilian jobs such as U.S. border patrol, weather research, pipeline inspection or even real estate photography has lagged, however, because of a cumbersome Federal Aviation Administration​ (FAA) case-based approval process. This could change within the next few years as the FAA considers relaxing some restrictions on certain small UAS that would allow them to share the national airspace system with manned aircraft.

The FAA is expected to release a proposed rule governing the use of small UAS domestically as early as December, after which there would be a comment and review process that could last a few years before a final rule is administered. Whereas details about the proposed rule are not publicly available, it will be based at least in part on recommendations made by the Aviation Rulemaking Committee, which the FAA chartered in 2008 to examine UAS operational and safety issues and make recommendations on how to regulate them.
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Tiny Drone Reveals Ancient Royal Burial Sites

 

Eyes in the skies: Researchers are using drones to help them look deep into the past in remote areas. Image: LiveScience

A miniature airborne drone has helped archaeologists capture images for creating a 3-D model of an ancient burial mound in Russia, scientists say.
Archaeological sites are often in remote and rugged areas. As such, it can be hard to reach and map them with the limited budgets archaeologists typically have. Scientists are now using drones to extend their view into these hard-to-reach spots.
"There are a lot possibilities with this method," said researcher Marijn Hendrickx, a geographer at the University of Ghent in Belgium.
The machine tested in a remote area in Russia called Tuekta was a four-propeller "quadrocopter": the battery-powered Microdrone md4-200. The fact it is small--the axis of its rotors is about 27 inches (70 cm)--and weighs about 35 ounces (1,000 grams) made it easy to transport, and researchers said it was very easy to fly, stabilizing itself constantly and keeping at a given height and position unless ordered to do otherwise. The engine also generated almost no vibrations, they added, so that photographs taken from the camera mounted under it were relatively sharp. Depending on the wind, temperature and its payload, the drone's maximum flight time is approximately 20 minutes. [Drones Gallery: Photos of Unmanned Aircraft]
Tuekta is in the Altai Mountains where Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia come together. Researchers there have discovered burial mounds 2,300 to 2,800 years old and up to 250 feet (76 meters) wide.
These burial mounds, called "kurgans," probably belonged to chiefs or princes among the Scythians, a nomadic people known for their horsemanship, who once had a rich, powerful empire. Excavations of some of these have revealed extraordinary treasures of gold and other artifacts well-preserved by permafrost.
Nearly 200 burial mounds were discovered in Tuekta, situated along the River Ursul. The site's heart appears to once have been a row of five monumental Scythian burial mounds with diameters between 140 and 250 feet (42 and 76 m). Regretfully, "in this study area, most of the burial mounds are destroyed," Hendrickx said.
The test area the researchers chose measured approximately 1,000 feet by 330 feet (300 by 100 m), including the five giant mounds and dozens of smaller structures. They flew the drone at a height of 130 feet (40 m) to study one mound in greater detail.
The lightweight nature of the microdrone was a problem at times. "In the field we had to deal with rising wind," Hendrickx recalled. "At some point we even lost the radio connection with the drone — this led to a sprint between the kurgans."
Nevertheless, the researchers gathered enough data with the drone to create a digital elevation map of the site and a 3-D model of the mound.
"The 3-D model we created gives us the possibility to calculate the volume of the kurgan," Hendrickx told LiveScience. "With this volume and its precise dimensions, the original shape of the kurgan can be reconstructed."
Archaeologists have begun to use airborne drones more often in the past decade or so, including in Peru, Austria, Spain, Turkey and Mongolia. The resulting maps can help archaeologists see the big picture of a site where up-to-date aerial or satellite images are hard to get, Hendrickx said. [10 Modern Tools for Indiana Jones]
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Ukraine's ex-PM jailed for seven years

"RIBIAN": El Mantra Secreto de Raul Castro

Juan Juan en el El Lagarto Verde
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El Primario y Julito: "Le decimos No"

Occupy Wall Street Movement &The Krugman Army

By Ed Driscoll

On Friday, James Taranto described Occupy Wall Street as “Krugman’s Army,” and the former Enron advisor certainly has gone all in with the movement:

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• “Some commentators have tried to play down the mob aspect of these scenes, likening the campaign against health reform to the campaign against Social Security privatization back in 2005. But there’s no comparison. I’ve gone through many news reports from 2005, and while anti-privatization activists were sometimes raucous and rude, I can’t find any examples of congressmen shouted down, congressmen hanged in effigy, congressmen surrounded and followed by taunting crowds. And I can’t find any counterpart to the death threats at least one congressman has received. So this is something new and ugly. What’s behind it?”–former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, New York Times, Aug. 7, 2009
• “ ‘Kill the Cops!’ Shout Reported During ‘Occupy New Orleans’ Protest”–headline, DailyCaller.com, Oct. 7
• “Occupy Wall Street is starting to look like an important event that might even eventually be seen as a turning point. … Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more offended by the sight of exquisitely tailored plutocrats, who owe their continued wealth to government guarantees, whining that President Obama has said mean things about them than I am by the sight of ragtag young people denouncing consumerism.”–Krugman, New York Times, Oct. 7, 2011
• “Almost all the bankers and hedge-fund managers on Wall Street are Jewish. There is a conspiracy in this country in which Jews control the media, finances–if you Google, Google ‘Wall Street Jews.’ Google ‘Jewish billionaires.’ Google ‘Jews in the Federal Reserve Bank.’ The Jews, who represent 2% of the population–it’s similar to Russia, the oligarchs and the plutocrats–a small ethnic minority, they have pooled their money together, amassed their money, to take control of America’s finances. I ask the Russian people to Google ‘Jewish billionaires’ in this country. You’ll find out that half the billionaires in this country are Jewish.”–Occupy Wall Street protester in YouTube video, Oct. 3, 2011
• “When I said that it was the job of policy intellectuals to fill in the details for the Occupy Wall Street protestors, I didn’t mean ‘don’t worry your pretty little heads about it, we’ll work it out,’ I meant job literally as in responsibility: people like Joe Stiglitz and me have an obligation to work on this, helping to translate what justifiably angry citizens are saying into more fleshed-out proposals.”–Krugman, New York Times website, Oct. 7, 2011

Meanwhile, Noel Sheppard responds at Newsbusters to Krugman’s latest column:

It seems New York Times columnist Paul Krugman thinks the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been better behaved than Tea Party attendees.
Read the following paragraph from Monday’s “Panic of the Plutocrats” and you be the judge:

Consider first how Republican politicians have portrayed the modest-sized if growing demonstrations, which have involved some confrontations with the police — confrontations that seem to have involved a lot of police overreaction — but nothing one could call a riot. And there has in fact been nothing so far to match the behavior of Tea Party crowds in the summer of 2009.

Maybe Krugman has missed images like these:

Click over for multiple shots of Occupy Wall Street types living in homeless-style squalor, being carted off by the police, etc. And as Noel adds, “As most folks are aware, there are worse pictures as Britain’s Daily Mail reported Saturday including a protester defecating on a police car.”
As Taranto quips today, “Remember when Krugman was making up lies about conservatives employing ‘eliminationist rhetoric?’ He now commands an army that is engaged in a campaign of actual elimination.”
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#Boxing - The genesis of Mayweather's greatness

By Diego Morilla
ESPNdeportes.com

Bouncing back from a loss can be a daunting task for any athlete in any sport. Perhaps especially so for those who don't get much practice at it.
In the case of the young fighter who walked into a Las Vegas ring exactly 15 years ago Tuesday, his previous loss had been one of the few defeats in a long and fruitful amateur career. But the victory he was about to savor would be the first in a long series of them that would include five championships in as many divisions, one of the most extraordinary success stories in boxing.

AP Photo/Rick BowmerBulgaria's Serafim Todorov is the last man to have beaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a boxing ring, and that came 15 years ago in controversial fashion.

Fifteen years ago, a 19-year-old Olympic bronze medalist named Floyd Mayweather Jr. made his professional debut a little more than two months after his last official loss to date, which came at the hands of Bulgaria's 27-year-old Serafim Todorov in the semifinals of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, by a meager margin of 10-9 in a fight that was dominated by the young American fighter. The always-controversial Olympic-style scoring had been blamed for another injustice, but Mayweather was now on his way in a venue where his blazing speed, impeccable defense and underrated power would stake him to an unimpeachably decisive victory.
In Mayweather's first foray into the professional ranks, his hapless foe was little-known Roberto Apodaca, who was announced in the ring as a 2-1 fighter. Mayweather needed only a few minutes to transition styles from the long-range scoring jabs and straight right hands he favored as an amateur and, by the second half of the first round, was already landing combinations from all angles.
Soon enough, a left hook found its way to Apodaca's liver, and he crumpled in Mayweather's corner for an eight count. He barely survived the round, and Mayweather, with a target already in mind, picked up where he left off at the sound of the bell, determined to have heard that sound for the last time that night. And so it was.
After another thumping left hook folded Apodaca into the fetal position and wrapped him in a blanket of pain -- evident from the look on his face -- Mayweather was able to celebrate his first pro win in a career that has put him on a path toward the Boxing Hall of Fame and one of the most lucrative careers in the sport's history.
His debut also featured some of the family drama that surrounds him even today. Mayweather's current trainer, and former two-time champion, Roger Mayweather and another uncle -- Jeff, a former fringe contender -- were in his corner against Apodaca. But it was Floyd Sr., the fighter's father and first trainer, who was notoriously missing from his team that night because he was incarcerated on a drug-related sentence. Young Mayweather's words of encouragement before the fight, in which he promised to fight on until he had enough money to keep his dad from "eating bologna sandwiches the rest of his life," became part of the ongoing exchange of famously bizarre, hilarious and bitter comments throughout a stormy relationship that has no end in sight.

A brief postfight interview with then-ESPN commentator Al Bernstein demonstrates a rather timid Mayweather Jr. putting on the first public workout for his "third fist" -- a weapon that eventually would make him as potent outside the ring as he is inside it. Through the years, Mayweather's mouth has delivered as much punishment as any of his vaunted hooks and crosses. Just as he has mastered the art of outboxing every style of opponent, he has found a way to talk his way to greatness first and then follow that lead in the ring.

“I started boxing when I was 8 years old. If I had been flipping burgers all this time, I'd be a manager at McDonald's right now. ” -- Floyd Mayweather Jr., after beating Genaro Hernandez to win his first title at age 21, on the significance of the accomplishment

A consummate self-publicist, he fills the increasingly larger voids between each of his fights with comments that range from truly inspired to borderline delusional. In a sport in which a six-month layoff is considered normal at the championship level, Mayweather manages to keep the ink flowing with explosive rants that rival any of his ring exploits. His appearances on HBO's "24/7" reality series have grown into a genre of their own, producing as many headlines and comments as his fights. No other sport could survive with as little action as today's championship boxing. In Mayweather's case, fans have been rationed an average of roughly 30 minutes of pure boxing action annually for the past four years, and the large gaps in between must be filled somehow. Mayweather, perhaps better than any fighter before him, knows this, and has developed a sense of timing and pace in his remarks that is almost impossibly keen.
The final bell sounded on that Oct. 11, 1996, outdoor boxing card at the Texas Station Casino (headlined by a title defense from another talented and loquacious fighter, Johnny Tapia), and the show came to a close. There has been a lot of water under the bridge for Mayweather since then. Two years later and barely out of his teens, he fought a once-beaten 40-fight veteran in Genaro "Chicanito" Hernandez, scoring a TKO in seven rounds to win his first world title, a junior lightweight belt. When asked about the greatness of the accomplishment at such an early age, Mayweather downplayed the comparison with one of his immortal lines: "I started boxing when I was 8 years old. If I had been flipping burgers all this time, I'd be a manager at McDonald's right now."

Putting that workmanlike attitude into practice, Mayweather defended his title two months later against streaking Angel Manfredy and proceeded to tear through the 130-pound division with a string of eight defenses that included a memorable two-fight series against Jose Luis Castillo in which Mayweather overcame a shoulder injury in the first fight to grab a controversial points victory.
He erased that controversy with a more decisive win in the rematch (the only rematch he has given an opponent thus far), and, since then, ring controversies have been few and far between for the KO artist formerly known as "Pretty Boy" and rebranded "Money." Knockouts and six-point scorecard advantages have become the norm for Floyd, with only fellow boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya having managed to draw as close as three points on a scorecard.
That said, Mayweather risks his fame and status as boxing's highest royalty being cast into the shadows of history if his much-anticipated showdown with current pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao fails to materialize. The stakes are high enough to almost guarantee that the fight will take place someday, just as they all but guarantee that the prefight negotiating will match the bout itself in its ferocious and grueling nature. Yet if Mayweather manages to chalk up yet another victory in that career-defining fight, it would clear him an unobstructed path to greatness -- a path that began under a clear October night in Las Vegas and that would seem to stretch far into the foreseeable future.

Los mapas alterados de la guerrilla del Che Guevara

 Puerto Mauricio erroneamente denominado Vado del Yeso [Santacruz-Bolivia]

Cuba en Sucesión

Una sola circunstancia, obviada en los medios oficiales, hace que la columna guerrillera, de Ernesto Guevara (Che), quedara separada de la columna guerrillera bajo el mando de Vitalio (Vilo) Acuña, conocido en la guerrilla boliviana como Joaquín. La única orden recibida por Joaquín, de parte de Guevara, consistía en permanecer durante tres días (en la zona), esperando su regreso y prestando atención a los enfermos. Transcurridos cuatro meses intentando encontrarse, Joaquín decidió seguir el curso del río Ñancahuazú. Ahora bien: ¿Por qué no se encontraban ambas columnas? Los mapas que utilizaban los guerrilleros habían sido adulterados en La Habana por un oficial de cartografía conocido como “El “espía” Francisco”, quién sería fusilado a raíz de los acontecimientos. Lo recuerdo perfectamente, porque los militantes del partido (hasta nivel de secretarios generales de núcleos) fuimos convocados al teatro de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), donde nos proyectaron (editado, por supuesto) el juicio y fusilamiento del “espía-traidor”. Pasados los meses, la columna de Acuña, conoce que la columna de Guevara avanza hacia el sur e intentan nuevamente establecer contacto. El 30 de agosto llegan a la casa de Honorato Rojas (ya lo conocían con anterioridad) y cándidamente (totalmente impropio de un grupo guerrillero) le pidieron ayuda. Confiados (nuevamente impropio) en la palabra de Rojas pasaron la noche en la finca. Mientras tanto el ejército boliviano preparaba la emboscada. En las dos orillas del vado denominado Puerto Mauricio y no del Yeso, las tropas anti-guerrilleras (rangers) del ejército boliviano establecieron sus puntos de emboscada. En horas de la tarde del 31 de agosto de 1967, los guerrilleros no entraron a la casa de Rojas. Comieron con premura, en el patio. Un personal altamente cualificado y veterano de muchísimos combates, hicieron caso omiso a la ley fundamental del guerrillero: la desconfianza y la exploración. Braulio, cuyo nombre verdadero era Israel Reyes Zayas (campesino de origen, y revolucionario de profesión), se incorporó a las tropas rebeldes del II Frente Oriental Frank País, distinguiéndose en varios combates. Es apodado "Aziri" entre los internacionalistas que acompañan al Che en el Congo, y "Braulio" en el destacamento guerrillero de Bolivia, donde se destacó por el cumplimiento de diferentes misiones y se convirtió en la “fuerza y el espíritu” de la Retaguardia). Ese día Braulio caminaba a la vanguardia de la columna, golpeando el agua del río con un machete. Mucho ruido, algo que el guerrillero debe evitar. A mitad del río indica “avanzar”. No hay terreno explorado y todo el grupo (ya a eso no se le puede llamar guerrilla) avanza. De esta forma: estúpidamente, son acribillados los nueve hombres y una mujer llamada Tamara Bunke. Al día siguiente llegaría Guevara al lugar. Aun existen dudas de que el mítico “Che”, llegara a enterarse de los pormenores allí ocurridos. En su diario de campaña, Guevara no quiere reconocer (como ciertas) las noticias que escucha por la radio.

Canada aboriginal ocupation by Caledonia's anarchist & islamofascist links

Gary McHale joins Michael Coren to discuss Caledonia, with focus on the actions on the Julian Fantino and the Ontario Provincial Police, the Ontario and Federal governments, as well as anarchists and islamofascists.

Canada: Stop Corrupting Children

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The Toronto District School Board (TDBS), the clowns who brought us the Valley Park Middle School mosqueteria, have in collusion with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty introduced a pro-gay indoctrination program for young school children.

La traición de “El Caracazo”

Analítica.com

Carlos Peñaloza

*** El estallido de cólera popular el 27 de febrero de 1989 era algo esperado por los servicios de inteligencia. El petróleo había bajado de 40 a 7 dólares y en Cuba se habían entrenado los francotiradores que ese día dispararon contra el Ejército para desatar el caos propicio a la toma de Miraflores. Todos lo sabíamos, menos el presidente Pérez, aislado por un círculo de traidores.  

El pasado viernes 30 de Septiembre, el presidente Chávezse presentó “de punta en rojo” ante los medios, con una pelota de beisbol en una mano y un guante Wilson de grande liga en la otra. Detrás de él, hieráticos, dos generales hacían de escuderos. Al pie de las escalinatas de Miraflores sacó el pecho ante la horda de periodistas y proclamó que su estado de salud era excelente.

La noche anterior se habían corrido rumores sobre una recaída en su enfermedad. Para desmentirlos presumió capacidad atlética. Hizo el aguaje con lanzamientos suaves para luego exclamar: ¡"Tribilin" está muy bien! Esefue su más reciente parte médico oficial. De allí bajó al ruedo con los periodistas de la prensa internacional y medios oficialistas. Se batió con la corresponsal Andreína Flores, tras lo cual, visiblemente alterado, divagó sobre varios temas. Fue entonces cuando cometió un desliz que pasó desapercibido.

Chávez fue  infiltrado

El día siguiente, sábado, la prensa anunció que general Ítalo del ValleAlliegro sería sometido a juicio por su actuación duranteEl Caracazo. ¿Qué tuvo que ver la "aparición" de Chávez el día anterior, con el juicio al generalAlliegro? Pues…Mucho. En un instante de su cháchara el día anterior, el Presidente miró hacia atrás señalando a Miraflores y dijo: "Esto era antes una casa de festejos. Yo lo sé porque estuve infiltrado aquí en 1989. De aquí me sacaron preso a finales de ese año". Unasorprendente confesión que confirmó con más amplitud lo que ya había mencionado en en el Programa Aló Presidente No. 289 del 5 de Agosto de 2007 donde manifestó que su estadía en Miraflores fue una "buena operación de infiltración." Dado que había terminado la sesión de preguntas, el enfermo se retiró a su lecho. Como ningún periodista pudo repreguntar sobre esta revelación creo conveniente a relatar la siguiente historia porque Fidel es un experto en infiltraciones.

Chávez llegó al palacio presidencial en 1988, al final del gobierno de Lusinchi, como ayudante del general Arnoldo Rodríguez Ochoa, oficial de limpia trayectoria. Como su ayudante tenía acceso a información clasificada. Fue infiltrado, junto con otros militares y políticos, por la organización que Fidel Castro montó en Venezuela para apoderarse de nuestros recursos petroleros  y con ellos financiar su proyecto imperial.

A pesar de que Pérez tenía profundas diferencias políticas con Fidel,  sentía por el cubano una admiración que lindaba conatracción fatal. Su relación comenzó con un encuentre superficialen 1948 en Caracas y se fortaleció en La Habana entre 1949 y 1952, cuando CAP estuvo allí exiliado. Fidel cultivó la amistad con CAP y aprovecho para infiltrarle a Orlando García, un miembro de su banda de matones en la universidad de La Habana. Orlando García era agente doble de Fidel y la CIA. Desde que Fidel lo asigno a CAP no se separó de su lado jugando un rol de agente triple, al añadir a Carlos Andrés entre sus clientes.

El agente de Fidel

En diciembre del 88 CAP fue electo presidente por segunda vez. Una de sus primeras acciones fue enviar a Orlando García a La Habana a coordinar la venida de Fidelcomo gran estrella de su “coronación”. Para ese entonces Venezuela no tenía relaciones diplomáticas con Cuba. García coordinó y dirigió la entrada a Venezuela  de 300 personas que venían en la comitiva del cubano. Esta partida entró por la rampa 4 de Maiquetía. Llegaron en 3 aviones Ilyushin II-76. Traían pesadas cajas de madera del tipo utilizado para transporte de armas y municiones. Por orden de Orlando García, quien hablaba a nombre del presidente Pérez, en esta operación sólo intervinieron cubanos. El personal y su material salieron hacia Caracas en un convoy de autobuses y camiones manejados por cubanos, en dirección al hotel Eurobuilding, vacío porque todavía estaba en la etapa final de su construcción. El Eurobuildingfue entregado al G2 cubano. Se habilitaron 200 habitaciones y se prohibió la entrada de personal venezolano.  Pese a las medidas de seguridad, las armas fueron vistas fuera de las cajas por personal venezolano de mantenimiento llamado para corregir fallas en el edificio. Terminada la toma de posesión, parte delcontingente cubano salió del país, pero otros permanecieron en Caracas con las armas. La operación era controlada por Orlando García y ni siquiera CAP se enteró. Fuentes de inteligencia me informaron que desde Maiquetía habían salido menos "cubanos" que los que habían ingresado. Nada quedó registrado.

Todo se sabía

En las semanas anteriores a El Caracazo (27 de febrero de 1989), los servicios de inteligencia del Estado venezolano registraron un ambiente pre revolucionario en las calles, y que un numeroso grupo de jóvenes comunistas venezolanos se estaba entrenando en Cuba. El pueblo empobrecido por la caída del petróleo de $40 a $7 por barril, estaba “de a toque”.

 Las medidas neoliberales para estimular la economía prendieron la mecha lenta que el G2 cubano esperaba. Fidel había entrenado francotiradores venezolanos  en Cuba. Esto era conocido por los servicios de inteligencia venezolanos antes del triunfo de CAP, pero ese conocimiento no pudo ser utilizado porque, por gestión de Orlando García,  se decapitó a la DISIP y a la DIM para permitir trabajar libremente al G2 cubano y a los golpistas. Cuando el 27 de febrero estalló el descontento popular, los francotiradores estaban listos para incendiar la pradera. Ellos dispararon contra los soldados del ejército venezolano que habían salido a patrullar. Las FAN reaccionaron como soldados. En el intercambio de fuego se produjeron víctimas cuyo número oscila, según quien los cuente, entre 276 y 3000 muertos.

La parte más dura de la batalla pude verla a través de unlarga vista desde el Circulo Militar. Desde allí vien acción a un disciplinado grupo de francotiradores dotados con radios portátiles. Estos paramilitares tomaron las azoteas de los edificios más altos de la Calle Real de El Valle, frente al Fuerte Tiuna, causando estragos entre nuestras tropas en la calle y disparando contra el Fuerte. Era el mismo tipo de operación que como subteniente yo había combatido en el Oeste de Caracas, en los años 60. 

Traición en Miraflores

Cuando ocurre El Caracazo, el ministro de la Defensa era Ítalo del Valle Allegro. Me consta que envió las tropas a la calle pensando que era un problema de orden público, fácil de dominar, pero Fidel le tenía una sorpresa.

 El plan de Fidel era muy simple. Una vez que las tropas nacionales estuviesen en las calles, los oficiales de la logia chavista con sus tropas y el apoyo de los francotiradores tomarían Miraflores. Ese día Hugo Chávez, el infiltrado en Miraflores, desapareció de palacio  apenas comenzó la batalla, pretextandoestar enfermo. La ferocidad del ataque organizado por el G2 cubano hizo imposible que el plan se realizase, porque obligó a las tropas a defenderse con todo. En medio de ese fuego cruzado la operación golpista sobre Miraflores no pudo ejecutarse.

Pocos días después las tropas leales habían controlado el campo de batalla y los francotiradores se esfumaron. Chávez reapareció en Miraflores. El plan de Fidel había fracasado y había que proceder a un plan B: convertir la masacre provocada por los francotiradores en una operación ordenada por el Presidente Pérez y ejecutadapor el ministroAlliegro.

 En julio de ese año,Alliegro pasó al retiro y le sucedió el general Filmo López. Yo fui nombrado Comandante General de Ejército. En ese cargo pude ponerme tras la pista de los golpistas. A fines de noviembre detectamos un golpe que se ejecutaría  aprovechando la visita de CAP a Davos. El 5 de diciembre de 1989 ordené la detención de Hugo Chávez junto con 18 oficiales de su logia. Los acusé de preparar una conspiración para asesinar al presidente cuando éste regresara de viaje.

 Al llegar CAP a Caracas, un grupo de funcionarios ex miristas, ahora adecos, encabezado por Jesús Carmona –quien había accedido a la intimidad con el presidente-, actuando en acuerdo con Orlando García, convencieron a CAP que yo estaba equivocado. CAP ordenó liberar a los golpistas encabezados por Chávez y no revelar sus nombres a la prensa. Esto le permitió a Chávez mantener la integridad del grupo que actuó el 4F. Fue lo que Chávez reveló con orgullo en su presentación ante los periodistas el viernes pasado, demostrando que yo no estaba equivocado cuando ordené su detención en diciembre de 1989.

Lo que falta por saber

Hay preguntas que aun giran en mi cabeza. ¿Quién manipuló los nombramientos en la carrera de Chávez desde que salió de la Academia Militar hasta infiltrarlo en Miraflores? ¿Era Jesús Carmona el principal infiltrado (era Ministro de Secretaría de la Presidencia),o había peces más gordos en ese entorno?¿Quién era el venezolano en la cúpula, el contacto directo con Fidel Castro? ¿Quién asumiría el poder si el golpe del 4F hubiese tenido éxito, cuando Chávez no estaba aún en la cúpula de la conspiración?

La tragedia no ha terminado. El general Alliegro, jefe de las fuerzas leales que frustraron el golpefidelista, ahora  anciano y enfermo, será sometido a juicio,con los culpables convertidos en fiscales. Falta mucho por investigar y también por suceder.

Bandera cubana en instalaciones militares de Venezuela (Foto)

@la_patilla 

Una imagen que deja por sentado que la cooperación de Cuba en el país debe ser evidenciada hasta en las instalaciones militares. 

En la Brigada 41 en Naguanagua en el estado Carabobo se alza la bandera de Venezuela junto a la de Cuba. De acuerdo con la Constitución de la República de Venezuela, en su artículo 13, establece que  “No se podrán establecer en él bases militares extranjeras o instalaciones que tengan de alguna manera propósitos militares, por parte de ninguna potencia o coalición de potencias”

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Foto cortesía @pabloaure

Siberia home to yeti, bigfoot enthusiasts insist

• Miriam Elder guardian.co.uk

The Abominable Snowman, a 50s horror film, would probably be dismissed by modern yeti enthusiasts as bunkum. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd
The vast Siberian tundra holds untold mysteries, from once-secret nuclear installations to alleged UFO crash sites. Now, a team of scientists say they are "95%" sure that Russia's wintry expanse is home to the mythical yeti, otherwise known as the abominable snowman. More than a dozen scientists and yeti enthusiasts flew in from Canada, Estonia, Sweden and the US to exchange findings with their Russian counterparts at a day-long conference in the town of Tashtagol, some 2,000 miles east of Moscow in the Kemerovo region. Locals there have reported an increase in sightings of a creature in recent years. A two-day expedition to the region's Azassky cave and Karatag peak over the weekend "collected irrefutable evidence" of the yeti's existence there, the Kemerovo government claimed in a statement. "In one of the detected tracks, Russian scientist Anatoly Fokin noted several hairs that might belong to the yeti," it added. Scientists also found footprints, a presumed bed and various other markers. "Conference participants came to the conclusion that the artefacts found give 95% evidence of the habitation of the 'snow man' on Kemerovo region territory," the statement said. "I know they exist – I see them every day," a conference participant, Robin Lynn, said by telephone from Kemerovo. She says she has a family of 10 yeti-like creatures living on her land in the US state of Michigan. Evidence of yeti life of the creature has allegedly been found in the Himalayas and North America, where it is know as sasquatch, or bigfoot. John Binderangel, a Canadian wildlife biologist who has been studying the yeti for 30 years, said the Siberian expedition offered further proof of the beast's existence. "We were shown some twisted willow branches that are referred to as markers – they were convincing evidence of this hominoid," he said. "There were also some tracks, but we're not quite sure what to make of them." Conference participants called for the launch of a campaign to "work out a more serious relationship [to the yeti] in society and mass media", the Kemerovo government said. They also proposed opening a university research centre. The Kemerovo government has hosted a number of stunts aimed at boosting the region's reputation as a yeti centre. Last month, it welcomed former heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuev on a search for the yeti. The 7ft "beast from the east" reportedly failed in his quest.

Cities Of The Underworld - Hitler's Trenches [Documentary]

Martí y Pedro Pablo Oliva: limpieza de sangre

Por Arnaldo M.Fernández en el sitio de Ichikawa

Still no solution for the Virus that Hits U.S. Military Drones

Perhaps it was inevitable: the drones the U.S. military uses have been hit by a computer virus. Worse yet, it’s a keylogger –- a piece of malware that sends every keystroke a user makes to someone else. And the virus has been doing it while soldiers were piloting their drones.
The virus was found on U.S. military computers at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, according to Wired. One mystery is how the virus got onto the computers in the first place, as they are not supposed to be connected to the Internet at all. It might well have been an accident, brought in on a removable drive or a CD. The military has restricted the use of removable media, but in order to update software or move data from one remote cockpit to the other, military personnel routinely use USB drives and CDs.
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Drones -- otherwise known as unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) -- play several roles in combat, and have become more important to the military in the last decade. That means the possibility that someone out there has important information is real. In 2009 insurgents’ computers were found that had days worth of video and audio. The breach happened because the video and audio feeds from the drones to the pilots weren’t encrypted.
It isn’t yet clear who the keylogger was sending the information to and there is also no evidence that any classified information left the system. The lack of connections between the Air Force computers and the Internet might mitigate the damage. But that’s no guarantee, as the very presence of the virus shows.
Also, removing the virus is proving to be something of a chore. Over the last few weeks, it's been resistant to efforts at removal.
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The incident highlights the kind of security threats that viruses and malware can pose. But previously the targets have been infrastructure -- notably via Stuxnet, which targeted an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility. That was a highly sophisticated piece of software, and many experts don’t seem to think a variant is likely to appear again. While attacks on infrastructure are scary, a piece of malware taking over a control system is more complex to write than the one stealing your credit card data.
But the combination of many types of malware (keyloggers are pretty common) and plain old carelessness could now threaten military operations more directly. A sobering thought.
Via Wired

Maggots Prove Worth in Therapy

Discovery News 

For those of us who can hardly stand seeing grubby insects, it may be frightening to fathom intentionally letting them feast on our open wounds.

But for a small group of patients with diabetes, a round of maggots is just what the doctor ordered, according to one Reuters article.

Participants with limb infections and circulatory problems had 50 to 100 maggots patched to their wounds every two days for 10 days or so. Of 37 people with diabetes receiving maggot treatment, 21 had successful outcomes, the article states, which constituted getting rid of the infection or removing a certain portion of dead tissue from the wound site.

NEWS: Got Allergies? Take a Worm

Five patients' wounds were infected with the drug-resistant bacterial strain called MRSA, which has been difficult to treat in patients in recent years. In these cases, maggot therapy prevented more drastic actions to save the limbs, including amputation.

Patients for whom the treatment wasn't successful had more severe infections to begin with, including more inflammation and bone infections.

The results were presented at a conference and haven't been scrutinized by other scientists yet. Even then, maggot therapy isn't a cure-all -- doctors use grafting methods and gels to encourage new tissue growth. These juvenile insects mostly work to remove and clean dead tissue from the wound.

Still, maggot therapy remains a controversial area of medicine, mainly because studies have shown mixed results in the treatment's success in promoting new tissue growth over traditional methods. With time, however, the insects have shown promise for one aspect of the healing process: debridement, or the removal of dead or infected tissue to allow for healthy tissue to regenerate.

In this sense, maggots aren't better at reducing infections, but they certainly speed up the time it takes to debride a given wound, researchers say. The insects also pick through dead tissue better than a scalpel can, but there's debate as to whether they can damage healthy tissue if left in a wound too long.

Discovery Fit & Health: What Is Maggot Therapy?

The take-home message: Maggots can help clean up dead tissue from an infection, but doctors know now that they may not be equipped to cure the infection itself, according to a government feature article on the topic. Usually, doctors reserve maggot therapy as a last option, since it's not necessarily a replacement for traditional treatment. Maggots have provided the most success to patients with ulcers, especially those that develop on the lower extremities.

The origins of these medical maggots date back to at least 1,000 years ago in Australia, Burma and Central America. After gaining popularity, the method lost momentum with the advent of penicillin during World War II in the 1940s. With time, scientists have fine-tuned which fly species produce the best crawlers for treatment (maggots are immature larval forms of flies).

Specific maggots and leeches earned approval as medical devices by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2004. Most experts think the rise in popularity of maggot therapy in recent decades can best be attributed to people developing bacterial infections resistant to antibiotic drugs.

Cities Of The Underworld: Real Mafia Underground [Documentary]

Communists Lead “Occupy Los Angeles” Movement – Nationwide Takeover Planned

New Zeal Blog

Two prominent members of the Communist Party USA are leading lead the growing “Occupy Los Angeles” movement.

Occupy Los Angeles in action

Further, the Communist Party is deliberately infiltrating the “Occupy” movement in other parts of the country, to ensure that revolutionary forces gain as much control as possible .
The two Southern California communists at the heart of Occupy Los Angeles movement are veteran party leader Arturo Cambron and his comrade, Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council member Mario Brito

Arturo Cambron

Arturo Cambron is a long time Party member and is the husband of Rossana Cambron, the Party’s Southern California coordinator. He is the president of the Party run Los Angeles Workers’ Center, situated in South Saint Andrews Place, which essentially serves as the Communist Party HQ for the area.
Cambron is active in the Occupy Los Angeles protests, and has acted as a moderator for the organization’s nightly core group meetings.
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The Jacksons Remember Michael at UK Concert

China's Currency and the U.S. Congress

Brookings
A number of nations, including the United States, have accused China of keeping its currency’s value artificially low and, as a result, boosting its trade surplus at the expense of its global trading partners. China’s leaders, on the other hand, consider the managed exchange rate a tool in China's development strategy. So far, the Obama administration has stopped short of calling the policy "currency manipulation," but some members of Congress are calling for tough action. Brookings experts examine the issues and challenges in dealing with the problem.

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Athens waits on its money

Greece is wrapping up talks with officials from the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank -- the so-called Troika -- on the next instalment of the bailout Athens needs to prevent it going bankrupt next month.

Yuan rises as Beijing warns

Anger in NZ over grounded container ship