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Alanje, Chiriqui, Panama

http://www.chiriqui.org/alanje/chi-alanje.htm

Boquete and the El Volcan - Cerro Punta area are better known to foreigners, but Chiriqui also has lowlands, which also have their attractions.

MaximsNews

http://www.maximsnews.com/

This is an independent publication covering the United Nations and to a lesser extent other international organizations. The people who produce and contribute to it are friends of the UN --- you find members of the Kennedy family but nobody in the neoconservative crowd --- but neither are they starry-eyed supporters of everything that happens in that organization.

Michael Moore's Open Letter to Henry Paulson

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=207

The Bush administration is hassling Michael Moore for going to Cuba with several sick and uninsured people who worked on the contaminated World Trade Center "Ground Zero" site as part of the making of his new documentary on the US health care business, "Sicko." This is his open letter to the Secretary of the Treasury about this flap, wherein it is allegedm by the Bush administration that Moore violated the US trade and travel embargo against Cuba.

Quatloosian Guide to Gambling

http://www.quatloos.com/quatloosia-goodlife/gamble.htm

Finally, all you ludopaths out there can learn about the ways that you're being psychologically and mathematically manipulated. From the Quatloos people, who also report on all manner of scams, some of them perpetrated here in Panama.

US Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq

http://www.grd.usace.army.mil/

Actually, the website of the Corp's "Gulf Region Division." Yes, it's military propaganda, but it's also part of the story that ought to be taken into account to get a more complete picture of what's going on in Iraq. By the way, there are a bunch of Panama natives working with the Corps of Engineers in Iraq.

Cool Internet sites
Books, World Watch report on urban environments