This is a real historical story of the ceremony of Japan’s surrender to General MacArthur in Tokyo Bay.
The general’s voice is real. We had never seen this event as real.
We always had seen only photographs of the event but never a Video.
Historical documentary: the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship “Missouri” on Sunday [...]
[Opinion] Twitter Is Politics In Venezuela
Struggles to use Twitter mirror the political climate
Alfredo Ascanio (askain)
Published 2010-02-08 11:35 (KST)
Twitter, as part of a social media strategy, is an imperative to politics! However, to use it effectively, a politician needs to invest time in managing it.
The government, here, has shut down discourse on radio and TV, and [...]
February 7, 2010, 06:40 AM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – “America is ready for another revolution,” said the former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to attack President Democrat Barack Obama in a speech to activists of a new conservative coalition would be his natural base if you choose to seek the presidency .
“This movement is about [...]
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Hugo Chávez’s currency devaluation ploy won’t work
BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Alot has been written in recent days about the economic impact of the maxi-devaluation announced Friday by Venezuela’s authoritarian-populist President Hugo Chávez.
But the measure’s political impact may be just as important, if not more.
With his drastic devaluation of the Venezuelan currency, Chávez can transform the [...]
December 23, 2009
Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces a New Delay
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison.
As a result, officials now believe that they [...]
What Obama Will Compromise On in 2010
by
Russell Berman Sphere
(Dec. 22) — President Barack Obama’s first year in the White House is ending with a heavy dose of compromise. His administration has given its blessing to the public-option-less health care reform package now inching toward passage in the Senate, which while still sweeping in scope is disappointing to his liberal base. Friday [...]
Andrea Stone
Senior Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Dec. 21) — The polls are clear: A majority of Americans don’t like the health care ideas proposed by Democrats in Congress.
Now, if only they knew what those ideas were. The Pew Research Center reports that 69 percent say health reform is hard to understand.
“It’s a very complicated set of propositions [...]
Billionaire businessman and conservative politician Sebastián Piñera is the favorite to win the presidential election on Sunday in Chile. However, according to surveys, he does not avoid a runoff, scheduled for January 17.
Piñera will likely face the government’s candidate, Eduardo Frei, in the second round. If he win, the entrepreneur will be the first president [...]
Role of Psychiatrists in Terrorism
By: jatinder
“Unspeakable acts of terror, torture, and mass murder are not so much the results of individuals who have lost their minds as they are of individuals who have lost their conscience. If, indeed, it turns out that the heinous suicide-attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are traced [...]
War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics
Tensions have been escalating in the last few weeks between Colombia and Venezuela, two neighboring countries which already have strained relations. In mid-October, 8 Colombians were kidnapped and murdered execution-style after playing an amateur football match across the border in Venezuela. In addition, the bodies of 1 Peruvian and 1 [...]
A historical video of the Japanese surrender in 1945 | 
Twitter Is Politics In Venezuela | 
Tea Party and Sarah Palin | 
Hugo Chávez's currency devaluation ploy won't work | 
Plan Guantánamo | 
Health Care Polls Reflect Opposition and Confusion | 
CHILE : the presidential election | 
Role of Psychiatrists in Terrorism | 
War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics | 
