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Friday, April 13th, 2012

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Cancer keeping Chávez off campaign trail, but hasn’t dimmed political

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Cancer keeping Chávez off campaign trail, but hasn’t dimmed political hopes

CARACAS, Venezuela — With less than six months left until Election Day, Venezuel ...

Rise in US exports brightens outlook for economy, spurs stocks higher

WASHINGTON — The outlook for U.S. economic growth is looking slightly better.

SEC, parties reach deal on recount

The island island’s two main political parties and the State Elections Commissio ...

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PR teams aim to defend titles at NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race

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PR teams aim to defend titles at NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race

Students from the University of Puerto Rico Humacao and Teodoro Aguilar Mora Voc ...

Global trade expected to slow in 2012

GENEVA — Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and other economic shocks are expected t ...

Market may be up, but scars of 2008 are fresh

CHICAGO — Cheryl and Jim Friedman, retirees in St. Louis, had two-thirds of thei ...

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012

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PR Supreme Court gives parties 48 hours to reach deal in recount

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PR Supreme Court gives parties 48 hours to reach deal in recount case

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court is putting off a decision on the primary recount a ...

PR joins feds, states in antitrust suit against Apple, publishers over ebooks

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department, Puerto Rico and 15 states sued Apple I ...

EIU says PR economy on ‘road to recovery,’ but obstacles are many

Analysts at the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) are voicing cautious optimism t ...

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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Moody’s: Popular, PR units of BBVA and Santander, on downgrade review

Puerto Rico’s biggest bank, Popular Inc., and the island subsidiaries of two maj ...

GDB: PR economy holding ground

The Government Development Bank Economic Activity Index (GDB-EAI) for January an ...

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Caribbean's oldest luxury hotel celebrates its 125th anniversary

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

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Mike Nova: My Photos - Puerto Rico - January 2012

Tropical Flowers: Lush, flamboyant, sexy, seductive, lovely.
This generous and artsy nature seems to influence a human spirit too.
San Juan Beach Hotel - early January 2012

New Year 2012 under palms:

Mike Nova: The Health Of Nations

The idea of social justice is as old as are the ubiquitous and blatant practices of social injustice, first of all enslavement in its various forms and exploitation, on which "The Wealth Of Nations" was built. The 20th century Marxism seems to have combined both seamlessly.
Today we see more and more that "wealth of nations" depends to a large degree on "health of nations", namely, not only the conditions of their respective health services but their just (and therefore economically efficient) social and political order. The broad and universal concept of health with its notions of normal and abnormal social functioning can and should be applied to large social groups and systems, extending from the traditional notions of individual and small groups (family, industrial groups) to social health or socio-political pathology of countries and cultures (e.g. "failed states").

Social class in the United States

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A monument to the working and supporting classes along Market Street in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District

Income in the United States
Affluence in the United States Household income in the United States Income inequality in the United States Personal income in the United States Social class in the United States
Income by: State (localities by state) County (highest \| lowest) Metropolitan statistical area Place (highest \| lowest) Urban areas ZIP Code Tabulation Area

Social class in the United States is a controversial issue, having many competing definitions, models, and even disagreements over its very existence.^[1] Many Americans believe in a simple three-class model that includes the "rich", the "middle class", and the "poor". More complex models that have been proposed describe as many as a dozen class levels;^[2]^[3] while still others deny the very existence, in the European sense, of "social class" in American society.^[4] Most definitions of class structure group people according to wealth, income, education, type of occupation, and membership in a specific subculture or social network.
Sociologists Dennis Gilbert, William Thompson, Joseph Hickey, and James Henslin have proposed class systems with six distinct social classes. These class models feature an upper or capitalist class consisting of the rich and powerful, an upper middle class consisting of highly educated and affluent professionals, a middle class consisting of college-educated individuals employed in white-collar industries, a lower middle class, a working class constituted by clerical and blue collar workers whose work is highly routinized, and a lower class divided between the working poor and the unemployed underclass.^[2]^[5]^[6]

Language, Imperialism and Culture - Dr. Thorsten Pattberg on GRTV - YouTube

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As China, Russia, and the other so-called BRICS nations rise in economic and geopolitical power, interest in these countries' language and culture is increasing in the West. Dr. Thorsten Pattberg of Peking University examines the ways that translation of certain key concepts misrepresents history and culture.

This is the GRTV Feature Interview for Global Research TV with host James Corbett and guest Dr. Thorsten Pattberg.

Mike Nova: Apparently, if there is such a thing as "English Linguistic Imperialism" then there must be and IS!!! such a thing as "Spanish Linguistic Imperialism". Both are quite regrettable.

Apparently, if there is such a thing as "English Linguistic Imperialism" then there must be and IS!!! such a thing as "Spanish Linguistic Imperialism". Both are quite regrettable. In application to Caribbean this linguistic antagonism phenomenon might also, together with other factors, reflect the objective economic realities combined with subjective emotions and fears of local upper (ruling) and middle classes. In a way, it is a continuation of wars and resistance movements by means of linguistic domination. I don't think, that this is a "Marxist observation or analysis" and I do not consider myself a "Marxist" at all. But Marxism's general thesis about the role and significance of socio-economic factors in social and political lives of all societies seems to be indisputable. Just as indisputable as marxism's general error in evaluating in quite simplistic and mechanistic terms the complexity of human nature, which (the error) revealed itself in various marxist practices.

Mike Nova: "Gim'mi or else" is just the next and very logical step

"Gim'mi or else" is just the next and very logical step
of "Gim'mi" as a "philosophy" and as the way of life.

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Puerto Rico's Nature & Wildlife - YouTube

Published on Apr 11, 2012 by WestBuchan

I spent this past winter (2012) in Puerto Rico, and its hard to capture all the nature and wildlife, so I made a video of some of the adventures I was able to have through out the Island.

Mike Nova: "GIVE ME EVERYTHING! AND PREFERABLY TONIGHT!" - "DAME TODO! Y ESTA NOCHE PREFERENTEMENTE!"

Give me everything and tonight!
That's very much in vein (pun not intended!) of impatient and passionate Mediterranean character, and not Mediterranean only.
If things were so simple...
Although, sometimes and somewhere they are.
Didn't it become almost an universal slogan for the whole Generation - 2000-s?
"GIVE ME EVERYTHING! AND PREFERABLY TONIGHT!"
Do not delay and postpone anything. Take anything you can, and all sorts of gratifications here and now. And maybe you are entitled to them, too.
Who knows?

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Dame todo y esta noche!
Eso es mucho en la vena (juego de palabras no tiene la intención!), de carácter Mediterráneo impaciente y apasionado, y no sólo del Mediterráneo.
Si las cosas fueran tan sencillas ...
Aunque, a veces y en alguna parte que son.
¿No llegó a ser casi un lema universal para toda la generación - 2000-s?
"DAME TODO! Y ESTA NOCHE PREFERENTEMENTE!"
No se demore y posponer cualquier cosa. Tome todo lo que pueda, y todo tipo de satisfacciones, aquí y ahora. Y tal vez usted tiene derecho a ellos, también.
¿Quién sabe?