http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 May 2013 12:15:58 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:15:58 An opposition-aligned television channel said Saturday that it will appeal a fine of more than $2 million imposed by Venezuela's broadcast regulator.

Globovision said in a statement on its website that it will take "all legal actions" to challenge the penalty announced Tuesday by the National Tel... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/22 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:16:18 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/20/frankel-chevron-idUSS1E78J0SI20110920


But the 2nd Circuit panel -- Judges Rosemary Pooler, Richard Wesley, and Gerald Lynch -- wasn't interested in Mastro's recitation of the details of the alleged fraud. They took several steps back to consider what Ka... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/21 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:42:13 CARACAS – Venezuela’s main journalists association on Tuesday rejected a judge’s decision to censor newsweekly 6to Poder and order one of its staff arrested.

CNP said in a communique that “the closure” of the publication and the arrest of Dinorah Giron are a “clear demonstration of abuse of power... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/20 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:05:15 The 190-mile highway under construction in the Bolivian Amazon will pass through the Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis), a 4,600-square mile (11,900 square kilometers) preserve which boasts exceptional levels of rainforest biodiversity, including endangered blue macaws an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/19 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:55:54 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/08/201189132130817162.html

More of Colombia's indigenous peoples are speaking their native languages than at in any time in recent memory.

Thanks to a two-decades old change in education policy that ended a prohibition on teaching Indian language... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/18 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:13:07 MIAMI — Journalists in Latin America are suffering through their "most tragic year in two decades," with 19 reporters murdered in nine nations so far in 2011, the Inter-American Press Association said Friday.

Restrictions on the media in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Guatemala have also contrib... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/17 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:56:03 Call it bullying or call it horseplay. Either way, a state appellate court panel says roughhousing with a sexual connotation by a pair of 14-year-old Somerset County boys was a crime that requires them to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives.

In a decision handed down Monday, the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/16 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:44:58 Most people who occupy key government roles do not enjoy the trust of the people. Corruption is rife in the Chavez government—and the workers and the poor of Venezuela know it.

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In 2005 Chavez declared that the revolution would build “Socialism in the 21st century”.

These things haven’t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/15 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:10:06 LIMA, Peru — Peru’s left-leaning president-elect says he’ll keep at least one member of the current economic team: that’s central bank director Julio Velarde.

Ollanta Humala tells Peru’s Channel 4 television that he’s already asked Velarde to stay on. He said Sunday that he’ll name the rest of hi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/14 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:46:12 More than a third of all US states allow borrowers of money who find themselves unable to repay their debts in harsh economic times to be jailed.

US fudges have signed off on over 5,000 warrants since the start of 2010 in nine US counties against debtors, The Wall Street Journal found.

“In Ill... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/13 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:52:33 Wire Services: Soaring food prices are forcing many Venezuelans to change their eating habits, trim their shopping lists and set aside more of their earnings to feed their families.
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The poor have been particularly hard-hit. Villasmil said that official figures show the poorest one-fourth of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/12 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:32:50 While casting himself as America’s new constitutional savior, Trump has shown reckless disregard for fundamental private-property rights. In the 1990s, he waged a notorious war on elderly homeowner Vera Coking, who owned a little home in Atlantic City that stood in the way of Trump’s manifest land d... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/11 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:39:44 As the conventional wisdom goes – especially in the West – Israel is the "only democracy" in the Middle East. And that is so, particularly for its Jewish citizens. However Israel has been anything but democratic for the indigenous people of the land, the Palestinian Arabs.

By nature and preceden... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/10 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:22:30 http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-ufo-aliens-roswell/

Secret FBI files have been released that detail how US officials witnessed a UFO explode over Utah and aliens landing near Roswell, New Mexico.

A document recently declassified from 1949 explained how three men on separate patrols miles from one a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/9 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:44:04 US officials have acknowledged the existence of secret military-run prisons across Afghanistan where suspected terrorists are held and interrogated without charges, for weeks or months on end.

The US military previously denied operating secret prison systems in Afghanistan, although a number of h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/8 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:27:17 Four Bahraini lawmakers have signed an international petition calling for an end to gun violence and urging the United Nations to push for an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) with all its members.


Parliament member Jalal Fairooz, from Al Wefaq, the largest Shia bloc in the Bahrain parliament, is one of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/7 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:39:41 When I am right I'm right and when I am wrong I am wrong.

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The west is going to war in Libya, while saying nothing at all about Saudi Arabia or Bahrain.

See this graphic video of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/6 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:13:41 The green sign with white letters of the modern sports complex originally named Benina Stadium (located in Benina, a town east of Benghazi) still has the name Hugo Chávez Stadium, but the Libyan opposition decided to rename the soccer stadium as "Martyrs of February" to pay homage to the victims of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/5 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:15:39 VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports: According to El Mundo: Economia y Negocios newspaper, the Foreign Currency Bond Trading System (SITME) is still below its stated objective of $40 million worth of transactions per day.

SITME was set up nine months ago to correct the speculative... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/4 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:33:02 The former CIA officer, Jeffrey Sterling, was indicted in December on charges that he disclosed “national defense information” to New York Times reporter James Risen.

In a court filing this week, Sterling’s lawyers revealed that, as part of the investigation, prosecutors obtained Risen’s telepho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/3 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:38:19 Peruvian President Alan García declared diplomatic links “suspended” as a means of protesting the unprecedented violence that Gaddafi has unleashed on his own people. Furthermore, García posted on his official website that his intentions were to speak with UN Security Council officials in order to c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/2 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:22:54 Peruvian President Alan García declared diplomatic links “suspended” as a means of protesting the unprecedented violence that Gaddafi has unleashed on his own people. Furthermore, García posted on his official website that his intentions were to speak with UN Security Council officials in order to c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/naaman fletcher/1 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:22:18