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Canadian Anthropology Society call por paper about 50 years of the Cuban Revolution. University of British Columbia, Vancvouver,B.C.

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Friday, January 9, 2009

Call for Papers: Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting
Call for PapersCanadian Anthropology Society Annual MeetingMay 13-16, 2009 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Session Title: 50 Years of the Cuban Revolution: Political Economy,Ecology and CultureSession Organizer: Kendra Coulter, University of WindsorThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Cuba is animportant sociocultural site for anthropological scholarship on theproduction of political projects, offering significant insights forunderstanding transnational anti-imperialist, anti-neoliberal andsocialist politics. This session will examine the accomplishments andcomplexities of the Cuban Revolution as a lived, collective process and asa sustained challenge to the capitalist model. Papers on politicalecology, gender relations, labour, education, health, children/youth andpolitical economy in Cuba are particularly welcome.
Please email Kendra Coulter directly at kcoulter@uwindsor.ca beforeJanuary 27th.
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NO LONGER BE MORE ISOLATED THE CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES WITH THE DECISION OF JAMAICA: THE CARICOM PASSPORT. The introduction of the Jamaican passport Caricom, from the freedom of movement in the Caribbean area, opens the door to the exchange of ideas that is the real key to progress from the standpoint of contemporary sociology and genetics. Much more, allowing the entire Caribbean area to develop common health, culture, social security and protection of the environment with limited resources. Joining forces, the most defenselles in the Caribbean, the most vulnerable people can receive help and instruction to add to the productive forces. At the birth of the free expression of thought and freedom of movement within the area, the Caribbean can discuss as a bloc with the geopolitical and rich countries can form blocks of integration with Latin America. Climate change and economic crisis which may last more than five years in the United States of America inclined to think that these integration policies in the area must be taken urgently because of the unpredictable behavior of the markets at the end of the fiscal year July 2009. Gualterio Nunez Estrada, Sarasota, Florida 34233.

Thousands of protesters rally against Israel By OMAR SINAN, Associated Press Writer Omar Sinan, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 7 mins ago CAIRO, Egypt – An estimated 50,000 people protested in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria after Friday prayers, joining thousands of people in more than a dozen cities in the Middle East and elsewhere rallying against the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. The protests coincided with a call from Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi for Arab countries to allow their citizens to fight the Israelis in Gaza — the strongest such push by an Arab leader since Israel began its operation against the militant Palestinian group Hamas two weeks ago. "I call on the Arabs to open the gate for volunteers to fight with the Palestinians," Libya's official news agency JANA quoted Gadhafi as saying. The protesters who thronged the streets of Alexandria berated Egypt for not opening its border with Gaza, chanting "Shame on Egypt." Egypt has allowed a trickle of wounded Palestinians to enter the country but has resisted demands to grant more of Gaza's 1.4 million citizens entry. The leader of Friday prayers in the Iranian capital of Tehran also criticized Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for not opening the country's border with Gaza. "Are you a servant of Israel?" said Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati before thousands of Iranians took to the streets chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America." The Alexandria protest — the largest such demonstration in Egypt — saw a gathering of 50,000, according to a Cairo police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. Record numbers of protesters also turned out in Algeria's capital, an indication of growing international resentment against the Gaza offensive, which Israel has said is designed to stop Hamas rocket fire into the country. More than 750 Palestinians have died since the Israeli offensive began Dec. 27. Many of about 30,000 protesters in Algiers waved Palestinian or Algerian flags marching in what was one of the biggest protests in years there. The rally defied a standing government ban on protests after Muslim Friday prayers. The demonstration was mostly peaceful in the downtown, but violence erupted in the upscale El Biar neighborhood, where most foreign embassies and the presidential palace are located. Hundreds of the protesters pelted riot police with stones and sticks, and several were arrested, said security officials. Police in Jordan's capital of Amman fired tear gas to disperse more than 2,000 people who took to the streets to show their support for the Palestinians and demand that the Israeli Embassy be closed. Many of the protesters held pictures of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, praising him for expelling the Israeli ambassador. Thousands of Palestinians also rallied in towns throughout the West Bank, though marches in at least one city dissolved into infighting between factions. Five thousand marchers took to the streets in the biblical city of Hebron in the largest protest since the Israeli campaign began. When protesters entered an Israeli controlled area, the army fired tear gas and rubber bullets, while protesters threw rocks and bottles. In Ramallah, scuffles broke out when supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement hit rival Hamas supporters with sticks. Relations between the two groups have collapsed since Hamas seized control of Gaza in June 2007, leaving Abbas with control over only the West Bank. Protesters also took to the streets outside of the Middle East, in the capitals of Greece, Turkey, Kenya and Malaysia and in cities in Holland and Bulgaria. Some 3,000 people waved Palestinian flags and chanted anti-Israel slogans as they protested in front of the U.S. Embassy in Malaysia's capital of Kuala Lumpur. "We are urging the American government to demand that Israel withdraw from Gaza," said activist Adnan Mohamad Tahir. Meanwhile, police in the overwhelmingly Muslim Mauritania — one of only three Arab League countries to have diplomatic ties with Israel — fired tear gas and used clubs to beat back hundreds of rock-throwing demonstrators trying to converge on Israel's embassy to protest the Gaza invasion. About 30 demonstrators were lightly injured, according to Mohamed Mahmoud, a doctor at one of the main hospitals in Nouakchott, the nation's capital. The scuffles took place while tens of thousands took to the city's sandy streets in a mostly calm protest. But the largest protests were within the Middle East. Some 15,000 people participated in a rally in the Qatari capital of Doha led by influential Sunni cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi. At Friday prayers before the rally, al-Qaradawi urged Arab and Muslim leaders to "fear God and defend Palestine, or you will be swept away by history." Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten

Cuba says exports of services tops $9 billion Published on Friday, January 9, 2009 Email To Friend Print Version By Marc Frank HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuban exports of services grew by 6.2 percent in 2008, topping the $9 billion mark for the first time and consolidating their position as Cuba's most important source of foreign exchange, the government said this week. The mounting services income --officials say more than half comes from leftist ally Venezuela-- has enabled Cuba to more or less balance its external finances in recent years despite a huge trade deficit that soared to $11.6 billion in 2008. The National Statistics Office, in preliminary figures posted on its Web site (http://www.one.cu), reported 2008 service exports at $9.2 billion, up from $8.6 billion in 2007. Cuba does not specify what it includes within the service export category, though officials have said tourism and related revenues, the export of medical and other technical services,and donations fall within it. Cuba said it received $2.5 billion from tourism in 2008. Revenues from pharmaceutical and other joint ventures abroad may also be included, according to local economists, as well as the training of foreign students. Non-tourism related service exports began increasing dramatically after a 2004 accord with Venezuela, under which the oil-rich South American oil-producing country pays Cuba for massive health care assistance and other services. Cuba reported 40,000 of its citizens worked in Venezuela last year, 30,000 of them in the health sector. Before the 2004 agreement with Venezuela, Cuba's service exports totaled less than $4 billion a year, with tourism and related activities accounting for more than half of that. The government reports foreign exchange data in the convertible peso which it pegs at $1.08 US. Reads : 38

UN agency says suspends Gaza operations over Israeli fire 08 Jan 2009 14:34:30 GMT Source: Reuters GAZA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A United Nations aid agency said on Thursday it suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip because of the risk posed by Israeli forces in the territory. "UNRWA decided to suspend all its operations in the Gaza Strip because of the increasing hostile actions against its premises and personnel," Adnan Abu Hasna, a Gaza-based spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). He did not say how long the suspension would last.

The Daily Herald St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.
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Much needed, The DailyHerald.com. Sunday,12/07/08
While the latest sounds coming out of the Dutch Parliament may once again throw a monkey wrench into the process of constitutional change, it appears the accompanying debt relief is well on track. Already an amount of 203 million euros has been placed on an account at the Central Bank to deal with payments in arrears.
The importance of this financial aspect should not be underestimated. When people, businesses and other entities dealing with the public sector are paid either very late or not at all, public confidence in government, already low because of incidents and scandals involving Antillean politicians over the years, drops even more. Payment of these old bills, along with funds for the Social Economic Initiatives, should help stimulate the economy on the islands considerably and increase willingness to do business with government. Combined with the taking over of 70 per cent of the loan and interest payments by the Netherlands, the financial injection should help provide much needed relief for both governments and the private sector.
While it is not directly related to debt relief, the extra funding made available for children’s homes through AMFO is partly the result of visits by Dutch delegations. In that sense the intensive contact between The Hague and the islands resulting from the talks has indeed already helped open certain doors.
The question of what will happen with the debt relief if no agreement can be reached on the constitutional changes in view of the Second Chamber’s position should not even be entertained. Without that relief the islands are likely to end up sliding into a social-economic crisis that will ultimately have consequences for the entire Kingdom; among other things, a possible new “exodus” of Antilleans to the Netherlands.
It is important that both the Dutch Government and Parliament keep in mind that the crisis in public finances the Antilles faces has little to do with the proposed constitutional changes and would have to be addressed eventually anyway. The mistake should not be made to delay this relief in any way because of problems with the constitutional changes.
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About how to run Wall Street by the American Tradition with "subprime" and "credit" with the help of NASA and smart German investors collecting unemployment.

This idea is based on the video with the history about:

"The financial package of black unemployed in Alabama that a realtor sold a house in ruins."

... and those that happen in internet with parcel of the moon since 1997,when I was living in Miami and personally I acquired some properties of the moon and sold later in the same price to my so nice italian manager fan and believer in this moon properties under german influenced like always happens with italians since he time of Verdi or before perhaps,( very different from londiners who never loose a penny in Wall Street, britisth inversionist used the same dress and shoes of three of four generation before I knowed them tete-a-tete.-that the main reason that you can't found a "Goodwill" in England the same as in America... so, because I am cuban and I don't believed in nobody, neither my mother I was born, I was very frustrated for some delay in the Congress to bill budget to NASA and the traditional misunderstood between politician and scientist in America. But now, with the change of ideas in America if you are a Realtor "surprime" have hopeness again to do the same thing with the same dog, thanks nice realtors always with traditionaly friendly relation with the american family and farmers since the times of booming of house in Sarasota that star the depression of 1930 as the same happen today and the Old Folk Ancestor in the DNA american realtor: the "carpetbaggers" in the South, helping humbled families and farms for little profit to save the american economy after "The Secesion War", now, we have opportunity to run the market again like nothing would be happen before, mostly, if we think in "the american dreams", a customer advertisment corporation myth, reefer to had to have a house or some material property "made in USA", that's for many people around the world... it does no matter how it comes or if you are a cleaning person completely iliteracy and does no speak english living and working in the non squilled level or with the credit card of the welfare and every week must go to the church for food supplies,or collecting unemployment... you can by a house by the magic touch of a realtor in this land of opportunities for everybody, anyway,then you are great if you have "something" living in America where you never buy an american paper, listen the radio or read a book, never,and never can paid the bill rigth to the penny, it does not matter, only canadian did as snowbird, one time a year, they became very seasonal american owners with some spiritual greatness like the surrounding people where so stupid, when they landing and walk in visiting a small farm country they selected to live for a while. Since american run in the moon, everybody is watching it like Hawaii or Miami, even some people are thinking about to moved "Las Vegas" outthere to skipt federal regulation about casinos and taxes supported by NASABAYKONURTOUR, a new russianamerican corporation of honest bussinesman vinculated to the clean and clear operation of casino games and girls, believer in science, in order to financial space exploration, for love to science, wih the very actived and smart german market beliver in the space properties.Then with the change of mind, it is the time, now,for kindy, nice and honest old fashion Realtors, much better than car dealer's-that charitable gays with the credit for customers-. can survived allied to scientist with russian legacy (it does not matter if some of them are in the jail for a while) and american bussines tradition(if does not matter if they are under FBI investigation) : the new "Salvation Army" for Wall Street .

Enjoy this fun video of "JHON BIRD AND JHON FORTUNE', two british finest comedian about "subprime" and how it comes a "money that never does not exist"(like the american farmer said about "credit") in a world finnancial crisis around the planet... so...the show must go on... next time the honorables realtors have the oppotunity to sell parcel of the moon better to start selling herbal life potions for agin's sexual disfunction. Many german very smart people in unemployment are enjoy adquiring properties in the moon by acredited corporation in internet waiting to stock this moonmoney in Wall Street market in the first opportunity... don't loose time: if people like germans believed in moon properties you can still going in market, don't worry about the crisis inWall Sreet and people jumping by the windown: open to the bussines, again in the same tradition of the "carpetbaggers" when they helpt many families in the South.Another great idea is the "Union of frustrated "subprime" realtor of the financial packaged for house's black unemployed in Alabama" can paid a lobby in the Congress to support the bills for budget to the NASA, this garantee the future. based on smarts german investor and market selling by the internet, very acredited place for make money from running bussines based on free finger's technologist with a very little domestic inversion and any legal problem or tax,only paying some phone company to start, the stocks in Wall Street about parcel in other planets far from the moon, another "american dreams" for people that never can afford university or school education for one reason or another but can sucess anyway better than a scientist or a humble university professor inside the black hole of the american dreams: the speculation(Dracula) that make money with money, never from a honest job or production , loving you until the last dollar.Gualterio Nunez Estrada.Sarasota,Moinday, November 10,2008. Florida, Monday, November 10, 2008.

Socioeconomic factors of a global order that prevents invest in the poor economies of the Caribbean countries has an impact on the biology and ecology of the area who works on The Gulf's regulatory climate around the globe. The dead zones of the Caribbean Sea, the destruccion of banks and coral seabed, deforestation are increasing in the Caribbean plus the climatic change.The responsibility of area is not only for one rich country but from all richest countries and the international community as a whole.
Социально-экономические факторы глобального порядка, что позволяет инвестировать в экономику бедных стран Карибского бассейна, оказывает влияние на биологию и экологию района, который работает на заливе в области регулирования климата во всем мире. Мертвых зон в Карибском море, desruccion банков и коралловые дна обезлесения растет в странах Карибского бассейна за счет увеличения обмена climatico.La зоне ответственности заключается не только в США, но из всех стран, богатых и Международное сообщество в целом.
Les facteurs socio-économiques d'un ordre mondial qui empêche d'investir dans les économies pauvres des pays des Caraïbes a un impact sur la biologie et l'écologie de la région qui travaille sur le Golfe de réglementation du climat dans le monde entier. Les zones mortes de la mer des Caraïbes, la desruccion des banques et des coraux des fonds marins est de plus en plus la déforestation dans les Caraïbes, en augmentant l'échange climatico.La zone de responsabilité ne sont pas seulement les États-Unis, mais de tous les pays riches et communauté internationale dans son ensemble.
Los factores socioeconomicos de un orden mundial que impide invertir en las pobres economias de los paises del caribe tiene un impacto en la ecologia y la biologia del area que actua sobre La Corriente del Golfo reguladora del clima en todo el planeta. Las zonas muertas del Mar Caribe, la desruccion de los bancos coralinos y la deforestacion del fondo marino es cada vez mayor en el caribe incrementando el cambio climatico.La responsabilidad de area no es solamente de Estados Unidos, sino de todos los paises ricos y la comunidad internacional en su conjunto.