Gus In The Real Life

Un total de 29 radios venezolanas saldrán del aire próximamente por “irregularidades” en el uso de su concesión, informaron responsables del gobierno de Hugo Chávez, un mes después del cierre de 32 emisoras, hecho que generó un gran rechazo dentro y fuera del país.El anuncio, realizado por el responsable de la Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Conatel), Diosdado Cabello, provocó el rechazo inmediato de representantes del gremio periodístico.
“No es ninguna sorpresa. Pero no se debería subestimar la capacidad de la gente para indignarse. Creemos que la presión popular, pacífica y constitucional, y la presión internacional pueden hacer que el gobierno recapacite”, declaró a la AFP Alonso Moleiro, vicepresidente del Colegio Nacional de Periodistas (CNP). En julio, Conatel realizó un censo de las emisoras de radio y según el ente público, un total de 240 radios y 45 televisoras no cumplieron los requisitos necesarios. Un mes después, 32 emisoras y dos televisiones regionales fueron sacadas del aire.
El cierre anunciado de otras 29 emisoras significa que “el proceso sigue adelante”.
“Hay 29 emisoras, ya están revisados los expedientes y están en la misma situación de las anteriores. En los próximos días serán notificadas”, recalcó Cabello este lunes.
“No nos van a intimidar. Estamos decididos a cumplir con nuestro trabajo y aplicar la ley. íCómo les duele que las leyes sean iguales para todos! Pero nadie es intocable”, agregó.

Check this note from Yahoo:

On September 8, in what the Department of Education is touting as a “historic” speech, President Obama will be talking directly to students across the U.S., live on the White House website. But some parents and conservatives are blasting the president, calling the speech an excuse to brainwash American children.

Last month, in an interview with 11-year-old student reporter Damon Weaver, the president announced his big back-to-school plan:

“I’m going to be making a big speech to young people all across the country about the importance of education; about the importance of staying in school; how we want to improve our education system and why it’s so important for the country. So I hope everybody tunes in.”

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter to the nation’s principals, inviting schools to watch the speech and included suggested classroom activities. But Jim Greer, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, came out swinging against the planned speech. An excerpt from his statement:

“The address scheduled for September 8, 2009, does not allow for healthy debate on the President’s agenda, but rather obligates the youngest children in our public school system to agree with our President’s initiatives or be ostracized by their teachers and classmates.”

NBC spoke with Katie Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Florida Republican Party, who said the party’s “beef” is with the accompanying lesson plans. The guide for pre-K through grade 6 suggests questions students think about during the speech, such as “What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do?”

The plan for grades 7-12 includes a “guided discussion,” with suggested topics: “What resonated with you from President Obama’s speech? What is President Obama inspiring you to do?”

The Cato Institute, a public-policy research foundation, issued a press release entitled “Hey Obama, Leave Those Kids Alone,” criticizing the “troubling buzzwords” in the lesson plans:

“It’s one thing for a president to encourage all kids to work hard and stay in school – that’s a reasonable use of the bully pulpit. It’s another thing entirely, however, to have the U.S. Department of Education send detailed instructions to public schools nationwide on how to glorify the president and the presidency, and push them to drive social change.”

Across the blogosphere, comments covered the spectrum, from critical to supportive, and from one student, a little anger:

“I sent my children to school to be educated NOT indoctrinated.” — justamom

“The fact that people want to keep their kids from hearing the President of the United States encourage them to do well in school shows a true level of ignorance.” — Firefey

“As an [sic] 9th grade student, I’d like to say that 1. I’m not sure why everyone is so scared that we’ll all be brainwashed by the President … 2. My school is one that is not allowing us to watch the speech, and quite frankly, I’m pissed.” — Willbw

Both Presidents George Bush and Ronald Reagan both gave speeches aimed specifically at students that were nationally televised. In 1989, Bush delivered a televised anti-drug speech, and Reagan’s 1986 commencement speech and Q&A session was “beamed over public television into 171 school districts,” according to the L.A. Times.

It’s worth noting that schools are, encouraged, not required, to air the speech. The Houston Chronicle reports that one Dallas school district is leaving the decision to individual teachers. Susan Dacus, spokeswoman for the Wylie school district, says parents who don’t want their children to see it can opt out.

In an ironic twist, one Missouri school won’t be airing the speech because of a lack of funding. Michelle Baumstark, spokeswoman for Columbia public schools, told the Columbia Daily Tribune, “We don’t have the funding or the equipment to support that type of broadcasting.”

The second President in contemporary history and the second one this year to be infected with the A1H1 flu is not other than Alvaro Uribe Velez, the first one being Oscar Arias from Costa who was away from the power from 7 days before being put in remission after the doctors were convinced he was ok. Now the Colombian President is using videoconference technologies as well his blackberry to control the most important issues as well conversations in the Palacio De Nariño (It’s the equivalent to the White House).

According to the reports the President got infected during his visit to Argentina during the last week and in a press conference of El Palacio De Nariño, the Press Secretary Cesar Mauricio Velasquez gave the news to the country that the President was the newest victim of the highly contagious flu but that he was in good health and was following the doctor orders like any other patient. Get better Alvaro. 

Taken from El Universal:

El documento que el presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez mostró en la cumbre de Unasur y que supuestamente explica que Estados Unidos quiere abarcar el continente desde las bases colombianas es un trabajo académico, declaró este viernes a la AFP una portavoz del Pentágono.

El Libro Blanco del Comando Aéreo de Estados Unidos (Global En Route Strategy), de la Universidad de la Fuerza Aérea estadounidense, es “tan sólo un documento académico” como tantos otros a disposición del ministerio de Defensa, explicó la portavoz, Maureen Schumann, vía telefónica.
Chávez blandió una copia del texto en la cumbre de Unasur convocada para hablar del reciente acuerdo militar entre Estados Unidos y Colombia, por el que Washington podrá utilizar siete bases en territorio del país sudamericano.
“Palanquero es una localidad de seguridad de cooperación. A partir de allí, casi la mitad del continente puede ser abarcado por un (avión de transporte militar pesado) C-17″, citó Chávez, en referencia a una de las bases.
El presidente colombiano Alvaro Uribe defendió por su lado el acuerdo, aún pendiente de ser firmado, al señalar que su país “no cede ni un milímetro de soberanía”, puesto que las bases permanecen bajo autoridad nacional.
El Libro Blanco, del que la AFP obtuvo una copia, señala también que hay otras bases donde la Fuerza Aérea estadounidense puede repostar.
Los aeropuertos San Juan de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes (bajo juridiscción estadounidense) “disponen de infraestructuras de la Guardia Nacional Aérea”, explica el texto.
El Comando Sur “ha considerado igualmente acceder al aeropuerto de Recife, en Brasil” para que los aviones de carga militares C-17, de gran capacidad, puedan repostar, señala el informe.
“Sin embargo, la relación política con Brasil no es propicia para los acuerdos necesarios”, reconoce el texto. Por ello, los autores del texto recomiendan al Comando Sur que continúe con sus esfuerzos para lograr acceso a un campo de aterrizaje en Cayena, en la Guayana Francesa.

Como una forma de protestar por las continuas agresiones verbales del presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, hacia Colombia, un grupo de organi-zaciones civiles está convocando a una marcha mundial en su contra para el próximo 4 de septiembre.

La movilización es promovida a través de diversas redes sociales, tal como Facebook y Twitter. Hasta el momento sus organizadores calculan que en Colombia cuentan con el apoyo de cerca de 100 mil personas. “La respuesta a la convocatoria ha sido inesperada.

Hasta el momento en Facebook tenemos más o menos 70 mil personas; en la página oficial calculamos otras 30 mil y en Twitter hemos tenido una respuesta desbordante”, explicó Marcela Garzón, una de las organizadoras del evento.

Being born outside of the United States and living in a third world country like Colombia has given me a different perspective of the world because I can see how different and varied is the world compared to the bubble I lived in for almost 2 decades called Cartagena de Indias. Cartagena for short is one of the emblematic cities of Colombia and as well one that shows two different sides much like A Tale of Two Cities from Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables because in the city there are two different panorama’s from the neighborhoods that are on the seaside peninsula where the old city it’s located and the commoners that live away from the ocean side.

Maybe it was an odd example to cite down Charles Dickens work but probably it was more appropriate because there are sprouts of revolution coming from the oppressed masses to search for a more equality living but also there are some in-conformity toward the dominant class because they have to pay more for basic service than the middle class and they say that is not fair that they have to pay more because they living in a more privileged location; so what to do to solve the problem? If at the end neither of the parties are happy with the way they live and specially if everyone is searching for equality how equality can be found? If living in the city in general its expensive because people earn in Pesos and they spent like if they were spending Dollars or Euros and acquiring a decent job that can give you a decent living is really difficult because you have to earn at least US$50.000 a year to live modestly and without worries and even so it’s not enough because jobs are scarce and there is inequality.

Check the photos below, they are part of a phenomenon called “rebusque” (Eng:  To search for) where a person search for a different kind of job to survive in the jungle and most of the time the jobs they find are illegal and don’t follow any sanitation rule but what can they do? They need to survive and bring food to the table.

A.F.P.
Caracas, Venezuela,

According to the grand delusional, loon and President for Life of Venezuela Hugo Chavez; United States President Barack Obama “It’s lost in a labyrinth” who said that an imminent attack against Venezuela is being commanded by the United States of America and even went further to say “that a armed answer will be held by several countries against the United States”.

“An aggression against Venezuela will receive not only from Venezuela but rather several countries will go on war (really Chavez? your so called friends?) I have it clear that a huge anti imperialistic movement will rise from these lands and God help us” Stated firmly the commandant in his really long television show (really it’s long about 8 hours and more a day it practically takes all Sunday) Alo Presidente. “But we have to prepare for the worse and one of the best ways to prevent it that it will a fatal mistake to bully Venezuela (common Chavez with what army? You have the entire arsenal that the Russians don’t want anymore)” and even so he said that an “escalate aggression is coming”.

This man is going more insane with every year, is amazing to think that a loon like Hugo Chavez has followers, well followers that follow him because he have money and as soon the money ran out he better beware but maybe these words are only a diversion to prevent a coup d’etat between his inner circle because money is running out. Crazy isn’t?

Al fin alguien dice algo sensato en Cartagena y es un funcionario público y alguien que ha visto las barbaridades que cometen los Cartageneros tras el volante; nada más que el Gerente de Transcaribe Enrique Chartuni, claro que él lo dijo de una manera más amable porque se refiero a la operación inadecuada del transporte colectivo, pero al fin era hora que alguno dijera la barbaridad del mototaxismo (observar la grafica) y las barbaridades que esos conductores cometen.

Es difícil que alguien de otro país entienda lo que quiero decir, porque es de esos asuntos de la vida que solamente se entienden cuando se viven, no creo que en México haya tantas barbaridades como las hay en Cartagena, ni en la India con tanta gente se cometen las imprudencias que se ven en mi ciudad. Según el Gerente de Transcaribe (Transcaribe es el proyecto de crear un transporte masificado en la ciudad, muy similar al sistema de buses de Tampa Bay, y al Transmilenio de Bogota) la obra se retrasa cada vez mas por la falta de respeto que en la comunidad y las imprudencias que hacen los conductores por la falta de respeto a las señales y a la autoridad, también expresa que esa es la razón principal por la que el proyecto va tan retrasado (en otra nota, si como no, solo el mototaxismo, que hay de la vagabundería).

Maybe Martin Luther King as well other civil right fighters who are not longer with us are crawling in their tombs because at the end in this world talking about equality it’s just a double negative based on the hypocrisy of the creed and belief of a few ones who think they are right and everyone else should believe what they believe; it’s a shame that there is no equality deep in the end. I don’t say Utah! You Suck! because I think it’s a beautiful place and rich with American history, but I say “Civil Rights for everyone! Equality Now! Everyone is Equal to the Eyes of the Lord! so Stop the Hipocrisy that only a Few are Equal Because Everyone is Equal so Don’t adapt a Speech for Convenience Because the Wolrd is Changing and People are more Aware about the Heterogeny that is Around Us! Equality for Everyone!”.

According to ksl.com two men were arrested for kissing in public because they were on the premises of the LSD Church but since when the public plaza belongs to the LSD? I don’t know since when the local government outsourced public grounds to the LSD ChurchThe couple was cited for trespassing. Snyder says the law allows the owner of a property to kick someone out for any reason.

“A property owner has the right to ask someone to leave their property. If they do not leave that property, then they have violated an ordinance, a Salt Lake City ordinance, which is trespassing. So, the police became involved,” Snyder said.

The Church released a statement saying the couple was “asked to stop engaging in inappropriate behavior just as any other couple would have been. They became argumentative and used profanity and refused to leave the property. They were arrested and then given a citation for criminal trespass by SLPD.”

“If this is a public place, such as a park, that’s a whole different story,” Snyder said. What a shame.

El Presidente Álvaro Uribe insisto el compromiso de acabar con la violencia de la segunda capital de Colombia, y afirmo que la fuerza pública seguirá trabajando por el bienestar y la seguridad de los ciudadanos de la “heroica” y de sus visitantes, también reafirmo que el ejercicio de la seguridad se llevara a cabo en diferentes ciudades para que no se pierda lo que se alcanzo durante su mandato en temas de seguridad.

“Quiero reiterar ante todos mis compatriotas de Cartagena, ante la señora Alcaldesa, los congresistas, los diputados, concejales y el señor Gobernador, toda nuestra determinación de erradicar hasta el último rescoldo de violencia en la ciudad. En eso no podemos aflojar, apreciados compatriotas”, comentó Uribe. Tambien el Presidente señalo que Cartagena ha sido pieza clave en la política de la seguridad Democrática del país, debido a que la ciudad es pieza clave para ponerle un alto a la criminalidad.