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Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Jun 9, 2009	Confirmed H1N1 cases continue to impact Caribbean region
TORTOLA, BVI -- Sad news out of the Dominican Republic reports that a pregnant 17 year old tuberculosis patient who contracted the new Influenza A H1N1 virus died at a Santo Domingo hospital on Saturday 6th June. This was the first life in the Caribbean claimed by the virus formerly referred to...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Jun 8, 2009	Ridiculous response to a defeat
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL (Taken from CubaDebate) YESTERDAY afternoon, while thoroughly analyzing the speech delivered by Obama at the Islamic University of Cairo, certain cables from the news agencies arrived with the strange information that two retirees aged over 70 had been...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: May 26, 2009	Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'
By Murray Wardrop, The Telegraph (UK): Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that polycarbonate containers release the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) into liquid stored in them. BPA has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: May 26, 2009	Nothing can be improvised in Haiti
Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) FIVE days ago I read a press report stating that Ban Ki-moon is to appoint Bill Clinton as his special envoy for Haiti. According to the report, Clinton accompanied the secretary general on a two-day official visit to Haiti...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: May 18, 2009	Unequivocal signals
Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) THERE are not two different opinions on the issue of A H1N1. Without any hesitation whatsoever, I supported the decision adopted by the revolutionary government of Cuba as soon as I knew of the existence of the epidemic. Our...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: May 3, 2009	The day of the poor of the world
REFLECTIONS BY COMRADE FIDEL Tomorrow is International Workers Day. Karl Marx made a call for unity: "Workers of All Countries, Unite," although many poor people were not proleterian. Lenin called more broadly still for the peasants and colonized peoples to struggle united under the...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Apr 29, 2009	Imagine a World Without Seafood for Supper -- It's Nearer Than You Think
By Andrew Purvis, The Observer UK: As I step off the train at Heysel, the vast art deco structure of the Palais du Centenaire rises like a cathedral. With its four soaring buttresses topped by statues, the Palais forms the centrepiece of the Parc des Expositions in Brussels, Belgium - a...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Apr 22, 2009	Iran, Israel ready to go to war
MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov, for RIA Novosti) - On April 18, the London Times reported that "the Israeli military is preparing itself to launch a massive aerial assault on Iran's nuclear facilities within days of being given the go-ahead by its new government." Several days later, Iranian...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Apr 12, 2009	Nazi camps: Hell on earth
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - On April 9, 1945, the inmates of the Buchenwald death camp near Weimar, Germany, sent a radio message to inform the Allies that the Nazis were forcing them to evacuate the camp, and to request assistance. After they received promises...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Mar 28, 2009	Link between global dimming and warming baffles scientists
MOSCOW. (Andrei Kislyakov, for RIA Novosti) - The latest research by European scientists, climatologists and astronomers suggests that the so-called global dimming, or the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface, observed for several decades after the...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Mar 27, 2009	US online gambling laws against WTO rules, says EU
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP): The European Commission said Thursday that US laws restricting online gambling went against WTO rules but that Brussels would seek a negotiated solution to the dispute. "It is for the US to decide how best to regulate Internet gambling in its market, but this must be...... [view]