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The Gingerbread Lady’s down the street. The Tulivieja lives here.

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The Democrats Abroad report on overseas US taxation (PDF)

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DA tax reportThe evidence shown in this report is anecdotal, a statistically non-random survey of about four percent of the Democrats Abroad membership. That said, this report is a compendium of real people’s real stories about real situations, and includes the recommendations of the branch of the Democratic Party for Americans living abroad about how to change some of these situations. To read the report click on the cover above or click here.

 

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How The Panama News works on four platforms

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How The Panama News works these days

by Eric Jackson

For more than a decade and a half, the content that goes into the various parts of The Panama News operation has been in terms of daily labor mostly a one-man show but with the labor of many contributors, local and from afar, edited by one person but often submitted or suggested by other volunteers. Since the series of hacker attacks that started months earlier but shut down our website starting in late 2014 until the middle of 2015, we have not been selling or accepting commercial messages. Nowadays The Panama News is a reader-supported small and informal enterprise operating on four platforms:

  • … and then there is The Panama News email list. To get on it, ask at fund4thepanamanews@gmail.com or notice when it gets posted on the Facebook page and the Twitter feed and follow the link.

The Panama News started out at the end of 1994 as a print tabloid. The print edition went defunct in early 2001. The email list began in 1998 and the website began in 2000. The Facebook page was established in 2009 and a Twitter address was reserved at about the same time but lay dormant for a number of years. At one time the editor had a radio show in Panama City and that echoes on in the ¿Wappin? playlists on the website that also get posted on our other platforms. There is a dormant YouTube feed that some day might get activated for that and/or other purposes.

Hackers have shut down the website several times and destroyed the email address from which the original email list was sent. The worst of the hacker attacks, which was a series that probably began in late 2013 but shut the website down starting in late 2014 until it was re-established in mid-2015 also erased many of our archives. Some of our files that died with the old website, however, were saved by the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. (Perhaps some day this archive will be easier to search — it’s a nonprofit foundation, so that would likely depend on their donations.)

We have used various defensive strategies over the years, but the money to approach impregnability — an impossible Holy Grail even if we had the money — has never made that sort of website defense very realistic. Instead our main defense is resilience, backups and multiple ways of publishing that make it harder to take us out entirely across all platforms at one time. During the prolonged struggle with hackers that took the old website down we kept on publishing, with stories appearing as notes or photos on our Facebook page. We had to go that backup again this past June when some malicious code was inserted into our website and it took us a while to figure it out and get rid of it.

Today, across all of The Panama News platforms, we publish much more material than we used to. But most of that is not actually ours. Like Google, like Truthout, Reader Supported News, Nation of Change and many others, a lot of what we do is News aggregation. (Google goes well out of its way to suppress all others and claim dibs on all news aggregation, but when you look at what they promote about Panama they are laughably inept). News aggregation is a form of editing, in The Panama News with a Panama-centric, progressive and bilingual editorial slant. “Panama-centric” does not mean entirely about Panama, but rather, looking out and about from Panama. We look at the neighborhood — Latin America and the Caribbean — that other news aggregators, especially in English, tend to studiously ignore. We pay attention to the maritime and shipping sectors because those are central to the Panamanian economy, even when so far away as melting Arctic ice allowing for new shipping routes that may compete with our canal. We pay attention to science and the environment. We look at the world — after all, Panama is The Crossroads of The World.

Our general attitude is that the most important story in Panama is the economy, but “economy” encompasses far more than the world of men in suits handling large amounts of money. What we eat, what we grow, the state of our oceans, the things that attract people to visit Panama, the purchase of our public officials, the many slings and arrows of living on the isthmus — all of these are economic stories in our sense of it.

The editor is a US-Panamanian dual citizen, formally educated entirely in English, who spent about half his life in Michigan and about half in Panama. As a gringo, he’s a Democrat of the progressive bent. As a Panamanian, he’s an independent on the left side of the spectrum. He’s someone who believes in good government far too much to be an anarchist, and who is far too skeptical about authority to be a Leninist, and who grew up in the in many respects socialistic Canal Zone and was also taught to be aware that it was a racially segregated place and that this aspect of it was a bad thing. It turns out that The Panama News is run by a democratic socialist by inclination who is a micro-capitalist to make a living.

As a business The Panama News is a failure. It has been since its inception, at the outset because we never had the blessing of Panama’s ad cartel. Around the planet, the advertising supported news paradigm in any case has broken down. Increasingly the norm is that advertisers take advantage of this to try to control the news. News organizations that don’t go along with this feel a particularly tight squeeze, but those that do get noticed as purveyors of corporate propaganda misrepresented as news and tend to lose readership and advertising revenue as a result. A lot of very rich people have come to own major news media, running them for little profit or more often at a loss for their own diverse reasons. Then there is this piranha school of small media run by people who are not rich, some of which are very good, almost all of which are woefully underfunded, working in an online economy but still in many ways like the guy who owned a printing press and published a small circulation newspaper in the USA circa 1800. There is nothing else quite like The Panama News, but it swims with the piranha school. Cooperative relationships among these small media happens from time to time but is mostly a project for the future.

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Things published on The Panama News website are the work of the editor, contributors specifically to The Panama News or articles and graphics syndicated to be in the public domain. The great exception to this is our every now and then feature, The Panama News blog links, which are pages of links to other people’s generally copyrighted work. Our editing to include the links, but hit the links and you go to their websites rather than a cut and paste job on our website. The comments features on our website are disabled, as they have mainly been used for automated spam that aims either to overwhelm the site and grab its controls or just to post advertisements for fraudulent schemes. Even with the various automated programs, the labor involved in policing these features is better applied elsewhere.

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Everything that gets on our website, plus many original posts and photos by the editor that never get on the website, and even more links to stories in other media, plus all this back-and-forth commentary — these are found on The Panama News Facebook page.

We will defend our wall against troll attacks designed to shout us down or shut us down, but by and large people can join the conversation and argue against the editor’s opinion and for things not believed by the editor or contributors. Someone who tries to hijack every thread with stuff that’s not germane so as to shut down discussion, guys who post pictures of their dicks, mass invasions by what appear to be bots posing as people — in these cases they will run into a bouncer. But given the long-running divides in Panamanian society and the increasingly bitter conflicts among Americans, The Panama News Facebook page is maintained as a place where people need not agree to discuss things.

The Facebook page is also used to announce a lot of cultural events. But the high end of Panama’s concert scene is promoted by rabiblancos who disdain everyone but their narrow caste and only provide information on events they promote to rabiblanco media, through rabiblanco ad agencies. We leave them to their snobbery.

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Our Twitter feed gets some links, and most notably some retweeted stuff by others, that is not found on our Facebook page. However, all articles posted on The Panama News website and many of the links posted on our Facebook page do go onto our Twitter feed. The norm with many Twitter accounts is a stream of usually nasty one-liners or trite memes. But Ricardo Martinelli or Donald Trump we are not.

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Our email list includes links to all of the articles (including the blog links pages) posted on our website, the Dichter & Neira monthly opinion polls which others publish and brief paragraphs about various noteworthy situations not reported on the website. There will be graphics and things about cultural and other events that readers may want to attend. There will often be public service announcements about voter registration for Americans living abroad, where and what to donate to relief efforts for those affected by natural disasters or so on. There are graphics that we have not published elsewhere. Our emails get posted on our Facebook page and Twitter feed as well as sent to those on the email list.

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We are forever asking for money, generally through PayPal donations, but there are also other ways that people can make financial contributions. But the in-kind contributions — labor in the form of articles, photos, computer expertise and other toil; and things that can range from computers or cameras to coffee or cat food — are also important to the survival of The Panama News.

Perhaps what we need most of all is somebody to manage “the business.” Perhaps. Over the years we have heard and rejected many offers to “monetize” the operation (betray principles of truth and relevance in order to generate money, over which the manager will claim dibs), or give us a “beautiful, professional website” (employ somebody for more money than we have to give us a week turn-around time to get something posted on a superficially artistic website which is impossible to navigate, with the satisfaction of knowing that the person given this contract is a young ne’er-do-well of the most illustrious family); or reach out to new folks with nude pics or sensational click bait (if we get a local cannibalism story we will probably cover it, but the authorities hardly ever disclose the really lurid details that inquiring sickies want to know).

There remains the question of continuity. Over a century and a half, many have been the Panamanian publications that started in English, went bilingual and ended up entirely in Spanish. The English-speaking community has been here that long, has generation after generation repeated the steps of assimilation, and yet survives as a linguistic minority with folks from the Spanish-tongued majority wanting to learn English as well. The thing is, trends like these live longer than people do.

 

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Boff, Meanwhile in Brazil…

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Gilberto Carvalho. Photo by the Brazilian Human Rights Commission.

An attempt to condemn a just man

by Leonardo Boff

On September 19th, Judge Vallisney Oliveira of the 10th Federal Tribunal of Brasilia, Brazil, addressed the complaint lodged by the Federal Public Ministry, (FPM)), against former President Inacio Lula da Silva and Gilberto Carvalho, claiming to have seen evidence of corruption, namely, that the Labor Party, PT, had received 6 million reales for reissuing the 2009 471 Provisional Measure, PM, that provided financial benefits to workers in the auto sector of the Mid-West and North East.

Curiously, former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was the author, in 1999, of this Provisional Measure, proposed in the Chamber by Jose Carlos Aleluia (DEM) and in the Senate by Cesar Borges (PFL). The PM was approved by all political parties. The idea was to decentralize the production of cars and create a great many jobs. In fact, between 2002 and 2013 the number of jobs rose from 291,244 to 532,364.

The extension of MP 471 by Lula was intended to assure the continuity of the enterprises that socially benefit many. Nothing was asked for and nothing was given in exchange. The FPM offered no proof of the accusation that bribery was involved. Only insinuations and suppositions. This is an extremely fragile base on which to base a complaint, which probably suggests another agenda.

I will not undertake the defense of former President Lula, which will be done by competent attorneys. Rather, I will limit myself to a testimonial about Gilberto Carvalho, the person. We met many years ago, in connection with the work with the Base Communities, the Pastoral of the Workers, the theology workshops in Curitiba, and the Faith and Politics encounters. He lived in a very poor favela in the city, worked later on in plastics and metallurgy factories. Some 30 years ago, he began with Lula a friendship of true brothers. He helped found the Labor Party, PT. Once elected President, Lula named him, during his two terms, Minister-Head of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic. Carvalho stood with the former President during the times of both the accomplishments and the tribulations that President Lula endured. He always discharged his duties with discretion and a great sense of equity. He distinguished himself as the spokesperson most accepted by the social movements, the Catholic Church and other religious sectors. He showed a special affection for the collectors of recyclable materials and the indigenous.

Carvalho is well known for his serenity and his tireless capacity for listening, and for seeking, along with others, the most viable paths to follow. Those of us who know him well offer with sincerity a testimonial to the high regard he holds for the spiritual world. How many week ends did he pass in the Benedictine monastery in Goias Viejo, in humble prayer and deep meditation, asking the Spirit lights to serve well the people of his country, especially the most humiliated and debased.

He was always a poor man. By selling an apartment he had in São Paulo he acquired a small farm near Brasilia, and it is a pleasure to see the ecological care he gives the chickens that provide eggs for the whole family, the fruit trees and the small field of corn. He never took advantage of the high position he occupied in the Republic.

This is why we understand his “revolt and indignation” against the absurd denunciation presented by the FPM and accepted by Brasilia’s Federal Judge Vallisney Oliveira. In his note of September 19th, Gilberto Carvalho writes: “It is important to note that there is not one single piece of evidence, only insinuations and strained factual interpretations… Neither President Lula nor I ever came close to engaging in the type of bad conduct with which they would stigmatize us.”

Perhaps the final theme of his note expresses his personality, manifesting signs of human virtue of the highest degree: “I receive this denunciation at the moment when I am forced to sell the apartment I had recently acquired and where I lived, because I have been unable to get financing. I have moved to a rented house. But accusations of this nature will not compromise the honor and dignity of a serene and fearless conscience.”

The Scriptures speak often of judges who cast hasty aspersions on the just, or even condemn them. In Brasilia, we are witnessing a malevolent attempt to condemn a just and honest man.

 
Leonardo Boff is a Brazilian philosopher, theologian and member of the Earth Charter Commission.

 

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Ciudadanos por un Clima Vivible Panamá / CCL Panamá avanzando

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La reunión del CCL Panamá en The New York Bagel Company.

CCL, paso por paso

foto por CCL-Panamá

El capitulo panameño de Ciudadanos por un Clima Vivible/Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) es parte de una organización internacional donde miles de voluntarios hacen lo necesario para apoyar a nuestros gubernantes para que tomen acciones efectivas para solucionar la crisis climática. La tarea principal ahora es convencer a los gobiernos para que incluyan el costo de las emisiones de carbono en el precio de la energía, para que las personas que usan menos energía y energía más limpia tengan un descuento en su costo de vida.

Durante el fin de semana, el grupo se reunió con café y bagels para planificar sus próximos movimientos y para entrenarse mutuamente en habilidades de cabildeo. En la reunión se anunció que el sitio web del grupo internacional en español, con una página para Panamá, ya está funcionando en el Internet en https://panama.climavivible.org/.

 

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Coming to grips with 1989

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MAN's victims get military honors after all these years
A shrine at the Albrook Metro station. Notice how the top ribbon on the wreath has been defaced. For larger and more readable version of this graphic, click here. Photo by Eric Jackson.

1989: a suppressed discussion reopened

photo by Eric Jackson

With all the journalism and all the hype, can it really be said that the story of what happened to Panama has been suppressed? Indeed it has, notwithstanding the Noriega retrospectives on the occasion of his demise earlier this year, Barbara Trent’s award-winning documentary that focused on Bush the elder’s information control games and many books, two noteworthy ones John Dinges’s Our Man in Panama and the sweeping and polemical setting of the local context In the Time of the Tyrants by Richard Koster and Guillermo Sánchez Borbón. But for all of that, a central protagonist went to his grave having said what he wanted to say and left us with self-serving lies and evasions about many matters.

We might reflect on the contention — with which this reporter agrees — that all journalism necessarily has a point of view and that the above-linked works are examples of that. Even more so are the accounts of protagonists in great historical events, as candid or not as they might be. But about the events of 1989 in Panama there has been a remarkable suppression of memory from many sides.

The United States has never opened its own diplomatic and military archives, and carted away Panama’s government archives to be held unpublished to this day. It might be interesting to see all of the Catholic Church’s records on the subject, not only on the December invasion that Archbishop McGrath characterized as “a liberation” but also on the looting and settling of accounts that followed. About the looting it’s common enough and legally correct to hear the assertion — generally by PRD folks — that the US forces violated a Geneva Convention stricture imposing the duty of maintaining order on an occupying army. There is more to it than that — this reporter saw looting in the presence of smiling US troops and it begs on the American side the question of by whom this conduct may have been ordered and on the Panamanian side inquiries into just what sort of people we are and those who live next door are. Also about 1989 there are many tales of bravery, cowardice, loyalty and betrayal on all sides that have been treated as too controversial, too dangerous or too embarrassing to be told by those who survived.

On so many points we must put together fragments, reject things that have the ring of untruth and draw likely contours from what is known. It’s a risky art or an inexact science. Beyond establishing the facts, there is the editorial judgment about which facts are worthy of notice. For example, is it a gringocentric perspective to notice with amazement that among the many Panamanian accounts of Noriega’s crimes on the occasion of his passing earlier this year, none mentioned that this was a soldier who deserted under fire?

And now we have this monument to the soldiers who were executed in a hangar at Albrook on October 3, 1989 after a failed coup attempt against Manuel Antonio Noriega. On the obelisk one will note posthumous promotions, a norm for Panamanian men and women of arms who die in the line of duty. Such promotions are typically not just honorary, but increase the pensions for the deceased’s survivors. Thus coup leader Moisés Giroldi is styled as a lieutenant colonel rather than as a major.

Unsaid here are what promises of support for the coup were made and broken, who gave which orders, who pulled the triggers and the overall impact of the Albrook Massacre, which surely sapped most of whatever will to fight remained in the Panama Defense Forces some two and a half months later when the invasion came. It is forbidden to forget? A reasonable idea — but there are still facts to be ascertained.

 

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Avnery, Separation

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Separation is beautiful

by Uri Avnery

Just imagine: A new movement among the Mizrahim is born in Israel.

It declares that all the existing organizations of Mizrahim (Oriental Jews) are phony. That they are all instruments of the Ashkenazi (European Jewish) elite to keep the Mizrahim in subjugation. That the Oriental Shas party is a joke, especially since the death of Rabbi Ovadia Josef, who was an authentic Mizrahi leader.

It says the Likud is the most cunning instrument for keeping the Mizrahim down. That the endless rule of Binyamin Netanyahu, the very personification of the Ashkenazi elite, symbolizes the powerlessness of the ignorant Mizrahi masses, who keep him and his entire Ashkenazi gang in power.

So a new Mizrahi party is set up, led by energetic young people who put forward a shocking revolutionary idea: separation.

Their plan is to partition the State of Israel along the Jaffa – Jerusalem road, dividing the country into two halves. Everything north of the dividing line will remain the property of the Ashkenazis, everything south of it will become the new sovereign Mizrahi state, to be called Medinat Mizrah.

From there, your imagination can lead you anywhere you want.

Where would I stand in such a situation? Asking myself seriously, I find myself in a very ambiguous situation.

I am an Ashkenazi. As Ashkenazi as you get. I was born in Germany. My family had been there for ages. But I never defined myself as such. The very idea of being “Ashkenazi” is completely alien to me.

More so, I have a very deep attachment to the Mizrahi society. I had it even before four young recruits from Morocco risked their young lives to save my life in the 1948 war. I was attached to Oriental culture from early childhood.

So, confronted with a vigorous Oriental separation movement, where would I stand? Frankly, I do not know. I certainly would not send the Israeli army and police to put it down. That would be impossible anyhow, considering that most soldiers and police are themselves Mizrahim.

Fortunately, the whole idea is preposterous. Can’t happen. Even less than Kurdish or Catalonian separation.

Curiously enough, the Kurds and the Catalans are two peoples I have always liked.

I don’t know when I started to like the Kurds or why. In my youth, Kurds were considered nice but primitive. The saying “Ana Kurdi” (Arabic for “I am a Kurd”) meant that I am a simple person who fulfills his task without asking questions.

Jewish immigrants from Iraqi Kurdistan spoke of their former hosts with affection – unlike most Jewish immigrants from other countries.

In the 1950s I came to know a semi-clandestine cell of Egyptian Jewish émigrés in Paris. They assisted the Algerian struggle for independence – a cause which I fervently supported myself. Its leader was Henri Curiel, and one of its members was a young Egyptian Jewish woman, Joyce Blau, who was also an ardent supporter of the Kurdish cause. This was also the field of her academic studies.

Through her, I learned more about the Kurdish story, or tragedy. Though Kurdistan is a compact territory, it is divided into pieces that belong to different states – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, with more communities dispersed in other countries.

At the end of World War I, there was an effort to set up a Kurdish state, but the rapaciousness of the victors and the re-emergence of a strong Turkey made this impossible. The Kurds themselves were not completely blameless: they were and are consistently unable to unite. Their leading families act against each other.

After having set up the “Israeli Council for Algerian Independence,” I found an Israeli group of immigrants from Iraqi Kurdistan and together we founded the “Israeli Council for an Independent Kurdistan.”

As a member, I had some unforgettable experiences. Twice I was invited to address mass meetings of Kurds in Germany. Mass meetings in the literal sense: huge numbers of Kurds from all over Europe cheered my speech, quite a boost for my ego.

My efforts petered out when I discovered that high-level Israeli army officers were already in Iraqi Kurdistan, helping to train the Peshmerga (“Before Death”) guerrillas. The motive of the Israeli government in sending them there was quite cynical: to undermine the Iraqi state, according to the eternal Roman maxim “Divide et Impera,” divide and rule.

How did they get there? Easy, they were under the benevolent protection of the Shah of Iran. But one day the Shah made peace with Saddam Hussein, and that was the end of this particular Israeli project. When the Shah was toppled and Iran became Israel’s deadly enemy, Israeli military intervention in Kurdistan became impossible.

But the sentiment remains. I believe that the Kurds deserve independence, especially if they are able to unite. Since they are blessed — or cursed — with oil riches, foreign interests are deeply involved.

There is no similarity whatsoever between the Kurds and the Catalans, except that I like them both.

Catalonia is a highly developed country, and during my several short visits there I felt quite at home. Like all tourists, I strolled in the Rambla of Barcelona – both Hebrew names, so it seems. They are remnants from the times when Spain was a colony of Carthage, a city founded by Semitic people from Phoenicia, who spoke a kind of Hebrew. Barcelona is probably derived from Barak (lightning in Hebrew), and Rambla from the Arabic Ramle (sandy.)

Trouble is, I also love other parts of Spain, especially places like Cordoba and Sevilla. Would be a pity to break it up. On the other hand, one cannot really prevent a people from achieving its independence, if it wants to.

Fortunately, nobody asks me.

The larger question is why smaller and smaller peoples want independence, when the world is creating larger and larger political units?

It looks like a paradox, but really isn’t.

We in this generation are witnessing the end of the nation state, which has dominated world history for the last few hundred years. It was born out of necessity. Small countries were unable to build modern mass industries which depended on a large domestic market. They could not defend themselves, when modern armies required more and more sophisticated weapons. Even cultural development depended on larger language-areas.

So Wales and Scotland joined England, Savoy and Sicily created Italy, Corsica and the Provence joined France. Small nationalities joined larger ones. It was necessary for survival.

History is moving on, and now even the nation-State is not large enough to compete. States unite in ever-larger units, such as the European Union. I have no doubt that by the end of this century, there will be in place an effective world government, turning the entire world effectively into one state. (If some extra-terrestrials threaten this world, it will help.)

So how does the separation into smaller and smaller states fit this trend? Simply, if the state of Spain is not necessary anymore for economic and military purposes and its central functions are moving from Madrid to Brussels, why shouldn’t the Catalans and the Basques secede and join the Union under their own flags? Look at Yugoslavia, look even at the Soviet Union. Germany is the great exception but it is quite large by itself.

The two processes are not contradictory, they complement each other.

The idiotic Brexit is ahistorical. But if the Scots and the Welsh want to separate from England, they will succeed.

I have great respect for the power of nationalism. In our era, it has prove, to be stronger than religion, communism or any other creed. It is strongest when it combines with religion, as in the Arab world. So the nationalism of small peoples will gain satisfaction in football games, while the real business will be conducted elsewhere.

At this very moment, the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, is busy with enacting a new law, called the Nation Law, which is intended to make clear that the Jewishness of the Jewish State takes precedence over democracy and human rights.

Israel has no constitution, but until now it was assumed that Israel was equally “Jewish” and “democratic.” The new law is about to abolish that notion.

As usual, we are one or two centuries behind world history.

 

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¿Wappin? Music to learn another language / Música para aprender otra lengua

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Music to learn another language — things with subtitles

Música para aprender otra lengua – cosas con subtítulos

David Bowie – Golden Years
https://youtu.be/3ena7AJQPr8

Tom Petty – Free Fallin
https://youtu.be/0W_i2cHTJ98

Natalia Lafourcade – Lo Que Construimos
https://youtu.be/02Vuepw_lu8

Rubén Blades & Draco – Patria
https://youtu.be/ql0G312R2IQ

Denise Gutiérrez & Zoé – Luna
https://youtu.be/Mf_ib_gxtqE

Cafe Tacvba – Eres
https://youtu.be/0AtsoFxe96M

Dido – White Flag
https://youtu.be/jtoePllhe3k

Jefferson Airplane – Coming Back To Me
https://youtu.be/2Vf6KfMDPFw

Sin Bandera – Entra En Mi Vida
https://youtu.be/rij-XfbvKjQ

Bob Marley – No Woman, No Cry
https://youtu.be/32YvOpuYUyM

Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
https://youtu.be/sAqYwKvhZPQ

Carla Morrison – Hasta La Piel
https://youtu.be/SA460t4fTbo

Mark Knopfler – Brothers In Arms
https://youtu.be/3nstfkgBGA8

Natalie Cardone – Hasta Siempre Comandante
https://youtu.be/wfo1KPU9h3w

Pink Floyd – The Final Cut
https://youtu.be/Lo-wvYNzBSc

 

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The Panama News blog links, October 6, 2017

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This has been a year for Panamanian composers writing songs that other people turn into hits. The brothers
Ricardo and Alberto Gaitán were co-authors of this, but got their Latin Grammy nomination for another song.

The Panama News blog links

a Panama-centric selection of other people’s work
una selección Panamá-céntrica de las obras de otras personas

Canal, Maritime & Transportation / Canal, Marítima & Transporte

Bloomberg, LNG shippers have a $45,000-a-day problem at the Panama Canal

Splash 24/7, Chinese ship finance to the fore

IBTimes, US Navy launches its first squadron of drones for undersea combat

World Maritime News, US Navy ships will be less stealthy in high traffic areas

Splash 24/7, Norway to build autonomous box ship

World Maritime News, Russia’s new nuke icebreaker tests the waters

Sports / Deportes

SI.com, Canaleros seek perfect World Cup qualifying revenge vs. USA

MLSoccer, How MLS has helped put Panama on the brink of the World Cup

Televisa, La FIFA multa a Panamá

NBA.com, Brooklyn Nets sign Akil Mitchell

ESPN, Jezreel Corrales to make third defense vs. Alberto Machado

Economy / Economía

Stiglitz, Déjà Voodoo

ClaraMENTE, Panamá entre los diez países más desiguales del mundo

IMF, Missed opportunities: the economic history of Latin America

Weisbrot, Puerto Rico needs more hurricane relief and a new debt relief deal

Univision, Cómo Ivanka y Donald Trump Jr. evitaron ser acusados por fraude

Triple Crisis, From Japanese Bubble to Chinese Time Bomb

El Siglo, Viene el ‘Gordito Millonario’ para inicios de 2018

Science & Technology / Ciencia & Tecnología

STRI, Tropical diversity takes root in relationships between fungi and seeds

Mongabay, Scientists sequence plant DNA in the field to identify species within hours

Mongabay, Meet the new Bernie Sanders spider

Eos, Rise of distorted news puts climate scientists on their guard

Persaud & Furnham, Inside the mind of the mass shooter

The Independent, Lack of sleep in modern society is killing us

Newsweek, Inability to smell peppermint linked to dementia

Nautilus: The Universe began with a Big Melt, not a Big Bang

BBC, US government satellite image shows Puerto Rico blackout

AFP, Ecosistema de Puerto Rico demorará 10 años en recuperarse

Arqueología Paleorama, El ADN apunta a un origen más antiguo de Homo sapiens

The Atlantic, A new history of the first peoples in the Americas

News / Noticias

Washington Blade, Gay lawyer spearheads Panama same-sex marriage efforts

TVN, Varela veta parcialmente ley para eliminar las bolsas plásticas

Newsroom Panama: Storm leaves 7 dead, homes flooded

La Prensa, Presidente veta proyecto de ley que crea el distrito de Panamá Norte

TVN, Ministerio Público defiende a proyecto de ley sobre cibercrimen

La Estrella, Martinelli prepara nueva estrategia legal para su regreso

La Prensa, Exjefe de la Unidad de Fronteras a la audiencia para drogas

BBC, Colombian air force kills dissident Farc rebel leader

El País, BBVA advierte de un presidente “populista” en México

VOA, Poll says most Americans want DACA

Daily Kos, Head of the DEA to resign over Trump’s lawlessness

The Stranger, The nazis among us

Opinion / Opiniones

Zogby, The importance of civil discourse

Pierce, If Democrats don’t learn this lesson they deserve to lose

Greenwald, Yet another major Russia story falls apart

Boff, La era geológica del antropoceno vs la del ecoceno

Mason, We are with you Catalunya

Ramos, El gobierno mexicano ha perdido la credibilidad

Gahman & Thongs, Colonialism and inequality make Caribbean hurricanes hit harder

Blades, La cultura de rumbo

Gandásegui, Trabajadores y sindicatos en el Canal de Panamá

Ender, El país hay que construirlo ‘despacito’ y con ‘buena letra’

López, Penetración del narcotráfico en lo político

Sagel, La cenicienta del presupuesto

Culture / Cultura

Artists United for Puerto Rico, Almost Like Praying

slrlounge, Las fotografías de esta mujer de 93 años te dejarán impactado

The Intercept, How Arnold Mesches turned his FBI files into art

Video, Estamos Unidos México

 

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Is it a political question about the allocation of scarce resources? Is it a matter of where people choose to live and the consequences that go with that? Is it, for whatever reasons, a preference for countrified living? Probably it’s all of those things. But as we get into the annual heavy rains, it does make for a sloppy commute in this and similar neighborhoods across Panama.

 
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