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Diplodemocracia (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Heavy fighting broke out between motorcycle taxi drivers and the Venezuelan National Guard Saturday after attempts by the transportes to illegally cross the Colombia-Venezuela border.The motortaxis were crossing the border nearby the Simon Bolivar bridge, but were stopped by the Venezuelan National Guard. The drivers were forced to abandon their vehicles after short were fired by the Venezuelan military....
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Venezuela has announced the expansion of military operations along its western border in order to fight drug trafficking and protect a recently discovered reserve of coltan from illegal mining. In what is titled Operation Blue Gold, 15,000 Air Force, Army, and Navy personnel will protect the coltan reserve, which straddles the states of Bolivar and [...]
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same.
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QueerToday.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Guest Post by Stephen Lendman At a time of growing US poverty, hunger, homelessness, and despair, imperial wars without end, and the Obama administration even worse than its predecessor, Venezuela: -- is a model participatory democracy; -- holds free, fair and open elections;…
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Hctor.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Twenty-six year-old gamer Guido Núñez-Mujica lives in Venezula, where the government has passed an new law that in effect criminalizes video games. "These games are a cherished part of my life," Núñez-Mujica writes over at website Boing Boing, "they helped to shape my young mind, they gave me challenges and vastly improved my English, opening the door to a...
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Cuaderno Latinoamericano (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since we talked about Venezuela, I figured it might be a nice idea to look more into the country, and I found an article that provided a few facts about the ongoing disputes between Venezuela and Colombia. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN06374061
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Watch Miss World 2009 Live Stream (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Miss Universe 2009 winner is Miss Venezuela again. Stefania Fernandez, crowning moment. The grand coronation night in Bahamas
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Diplodemocracia (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Press agencies have informed that Venezuelan ruler, Lt. Col. Hugo Rafael Chávez, has ordered the mobilization of fifteen thousand soldiers to the frontier with Colombia in his unbounded urge to proclaim the existence of a supposed imminent aggression, or something like it, on the part of Colombia. For a long time now Chávez has been accusing the government of Alvaro Uribe of a conspiracy...
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Dialogic (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Civil Society: Theory and Practice by Michael Edwards Encyclopedia of Informal Education ... civil society is simultaneously a goal to aim for, a means to achieve it, and a framework for engaging with each-other about ends and means. When these three ‘faces’ turn towards each-other and integrate their different perspectives into a mutually-supportive framework, the idea of civil society...
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GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
[GameSetLinks is GameSetWatch's semi-regular link round-up post, culling from hundreds of weblogs and outlets to compile the most interesting longform writing, links, and criticism on the art and culture of video games.] As we wander into the weekend, here's another of the slightly less seldom GameSetLinks, rounding up some neat stuff we ran into over the last few days about video games that you might...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
Decrying U.S. President Barack Obama as "white power in blackface," hundreds of liberal African-Americans marched on the White House today to protest policies of America's first black president, and demand that he bring U.S. troops home (hat tip: Robert Oliver ). More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Vicente Padilla 's pitching ability wasn't the issue when the Rangers released him in midseason. It's the off-the-field activity and his ability to alienate teammates that limits his value. The Dodgers had said they were interested in re-signing him but are asking hard questions about an incident in which he was shot in the right thigh last week in his native Nicaragua. The shooting did appear to be...
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Venezuela News And Views (Free subscription) | yesterday
I found this image today and I thought it would be intellectual enough for a lazy Saturday. Not to mention that it did not include blogging, so I can breathe, for now, hearing the warning shots over twitter that could well hit blogging any time soon. By the way, did any one follow Roland Hedley of Doonesbury this week? I have not been very good at Twitter. I tried. After Iran I thought it would be...
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Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
How do we motivate the American public to action on climate change and our transition to a clean energy economy? Appeal to patriotism, says this piece in the C.S. Monitor : The way to get Americans to take action? Appeal to their patriotism. Historically in times of war, the US government has successfully gotten citizens to join the armed forces, to buy war bonds, and to accept rationing by appealing...
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