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Postat de: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 7, 2010
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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- A US contractor detained last month in Cuba for distributing satellite communications equipment to dissidents worked for American "secret services" and is being investigated, a top Cuban official said on Wednesday.
Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon shed no...... [view]
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Postat de: zephyr
Posted On: Dec 25, 2008
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By Frederick Clarkson , The Public Eye :
The Christian right has launched a permanent religious war to thwart, and even to roll back, advances in civil rights.
Editor's Note: The idea that Bush's departure and Barack Obama's election herald a decline in power for the Christian...... [view]
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Postat de: deane034
Posted On: Oct 11, 2008
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Two silly statements I read today, "Government will not sell any state owned property under any circumstances" : President " No state institution will be privatized" : Minister . Let's forget that 2. for the moment. Why do His Excellency thinks the govt. should not sell any...... [view]
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Postat de: deane034
Posted On: Jun 6, 2008
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Now maybe it's just me, but it seems to me that the Sri Lankan Government's oil policy is a bit retarded. Let's summarize, First, theres' a tax Petrol (VAT, excise duties, so on) Some reports puts the proportion of the tax at about 37% of the total selling price which now stands at Rs.157...... [view]
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Postat de: deane034
Posted On: Jun 1, 2008
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Finally some sense on Sri Lanka's idiotic energy policy. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan from the Point Pedro Institute says the needful. Here's a quote from an LBO report : "Sri Lankan consumers of petroleum products are not only paying for the rise in international prices," Sarvanandan said....... [view]
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Postat de: zephyr
Posted On: Feb 23, 2008
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When in the previous reflection I asked McCain what he thought of the Five antiterrorist Cuban Heroes, I did so because I remembered what he had published on page 206 of his book Faith of My Fathers, co-written with his assistant Mark Salter:
“It’s an awful thing, solitary. It crushes...... [view]
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Postat de: scoutbanana
Posted On: Nov 14, 2007
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Privatizing water has taken the world by storm. How many people would rather pay for cases of bottled water than take it from their tap? How many communities are deprived of water because a corporation moves in to contain and sell their water? The situations are similar to what happens here in...... [view]
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Postat de: Kip
Posted On: Nov 1, 2007
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Now that Safaricom is striking the headlines every new day it goes without saying that this company has higher stakes and every investor worth his salt craves for a piece of its juicy cake. Nonetheless, there have been contradictory information coming out from several quarters with the government...... [view]
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