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Castro regime takes a kick to the groin?
2008-05-13 02:17:00 …as Cuban female judo champion disappears and possibly defects to the US during a tournament in Miami: The Cuban contingent that competed in last week’s Pan American Judo Championships left Miami for Havana on Monday afternoon without gold-medal-winning judoka Yurisel Laborde, who left the group Sunday afternoon. As I write this post, no official word on Laborde’s ...
Proposal of Malaysian anti-defection law on AFP
2008-03-23 12:00:00 Behold!The sheer stupidity of Malaysian government under the rule of UMNO and Barisan Nasional!Don?t they know that imposing such laws is a direct violation of basic human rights? So what if their lawmakers defect to our political opposition parties? What is wrong with that?This is further proof that UMNO and Barisan Nasional is all about cronyism. Then again, politics is a dirty game and those who play politics can neither be trusted nor ignored. Malaysians may only see cronyism in the likes of UMNO and Barisan Nasional but things might be different in the next few years. DAP and PKR most likely will be accused of practicing cronyism one day. Mark my words.So, this is the sort of democracy that you people out there are so proud of, eh? :-)Usamah bin Zaid, may Allah be pleased with him, reported:I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and thrown in Hell-Fire and his intestines will pour forth in Hell and he will ...
UMNO investigating defection claims on AFP
2008-03-21 08:00:00 A few days back, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi boldly said that his Barisan Nasional is very strong and united, dismissing claims that his cahoots and cronies will defect to the oppositions.What happened now? Why do I sense panic in UMNO and Barisan Nasional? :-)Ibn 'Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, reported:The Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) said: It is obligatory upon a Muslim that he should listen (to the ruler appointed over him) and obey him whether he likes it or not, except that he is ordered to do a sinful thing. If he is ordered to do a sinful act, a Muslim should neither listen to him nor should he obey his orders.Hadith number in Sahih Muslim [Arabic only]: 3423Tags: malaysia kini, malaysiakini, malaysiatoday, malaysia election, 2008 election, barisan nasional 2008
Mass defection from Labour to the Conservatives
2008-02-23 11:26:00 According to a report in the Derby Telegraph approximately 300 Labour members in the Derby city area are to defect to the Conservative party tonight. Conservative party chairman Caroline Spellman is believed to be visiting the city to welcome them.Jasvinder Rai, 37, of Littleover, has supported Labour all his adult life and will be leaving Labour to join the Conservative ranks. He said:"In Labour, I felt it was undemocratic and when the leadership said jump, we were expected to say 'How high?'."I supported Labour because it ran in the family, my grandfather was a supporter and so was my dad, so I followed suit."When I actually sat down and looked at Labour's policies, I don't agree with their stance on issues like immigration, crime and university fees but I look at Conservative policies and see they match up with my views better."The defection follows anger within the Asian community about the de-selection of Sinfin councillor Hardial Dhamrait. Asian community leaders also say ...
By: Daily Referendum
Customer Defection Management
2008-01-20 17:27:00 A customer-focused firm with a good customer defection management system can use customer information to monitor customer interaction incidents and preempt customer defection. Customer service is critical. Firms need to give it strategic importance and take a proactive stance with customer service to obtain its numerous benefits for marketing research, product improvements, and customer recovery. ...
Defection Denial
2007-12-10 09:17:00 One of the themes the DHA project has explored over the past two years is how cooperation emerges in multilateral negotiating environments. One of the challenges in informal social exchange in these situations involves judging others and deciding who is trustworthy and who?s not ? in game theory terms this would mean discerning the difference between a cooperator and a defector. We would expect known defectors to be punished for their infractions. But recent research suggests this is not how humans normally react in everyday situations. Instead, we tend to overlook or ?forgive? the wrongs others commit.In fact, as University of Miami psychologist Michael McCullough told the New York Times recently:?The closer you look, the more clearly you see that denial is part of the uneasy bargain we strike to be social creatures? We really do want to be moral people, but the fact is that we cut corners to get individual advantage, and we rely on the room that denial gives us to get by, to wiggl...
Defection!!!
2007-12-08 11:44:00 After dealing with and using computers for over 12 years with a geeky degree in Management Information Systems i have come to realize that there are only two forces in the computer galaxy. The good side that is the various versions of window driven machines & the dark side with its sleek lines and alternative looks by Apple computers. Specifications wise these two types of computers are the same at different levels, that is in terms of Gigahertz(speed) Ram(Flow) and storage space these days. they all have a modem, they all have DVD drives etc etc The main difference to me has always been the operating system. Right from the start the makers at Apple computers have been at an immense disadvantage, as the pc industry is totally dominated by ?Windows? touting machines. Lets face it, Windows is the be all and most popular of all operating systems ever designed. It has the most software titles, the most users and the most gargantuan organization backing it up. However as the case goe...
US on defensive at climate conference after Australian defection and Senate
2007-12-07 03:10:00 First Australia won international applause for abandoning the United States and signing a global warming pact Washington has long opposed. Then a U.S. Senate committee voted for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The position of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration, that technology, private investment and economic growth ? rather than mandatory emissions cuts ? will save the planet from global warming, is taking a beating this week at a U.N. climate change conference in Indonesia. The public defeats for the U.S. stance, coupled with mounting warnings from scientists and others that only decisive action will control rising temperatures, have cast the Americans as wayward sons who need to wake up and join the rest of the world. "I think the United States will be judicious enough to accept the changes of atmosphere," said Indonesian Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar, the host of the conference. "I don't think we should pressure them. They will come by themselves....
Vodafone?s fights iPhone defection by taking customer service offline
2007-11-13 01:56:00 Written by willpark Apple working on offline storage for iPhone Safari browser-based applications? Verizon: We don't need no iPhone "killer" - we have better services! HTC Opens World's First Customer Service Center in Taiwan - HTC Care; Apple iPhone ... Original story at IntoMobile - Mobile Phone News and Reviews . Related stories include: Turn iPod or iPhone into Hitchhiker's Guide - digg , 3G iPhone rumours get a Taiwanese twist - 3GWeek.NET View all 3 related news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet for Apple iPhone.
What?s REALLY illegal is the Castro regime
2007-10-02 12:57:00 Every Cuban who can escape the slow death sentence that is “life” under Castro, is escaping, and the MSM calls it an “Illegal flow of Cubans.” No, what’s REALLY illegal is Castro’s usurpation of power. Read on: The number of Cubans leaving their communist-run country by sea is steadily increasing and has reached ...
Breaking News: father fit to care for girl, judge says
2007-09-27 18:11:00 The Miami Herald is reporting Judge Jeri Cohen has decided the father is fit to have custody of the five-year-old foster girl whose mother brought her and her brother to the U.S., paving the way for her return into Castro’s clutches.
Breaking News: father fit to care for girl, judge says
2007-09-27 18:11:00 The Miami Herald is reporting Judge Jeri Cohen has decided the father is fit to have custody of the five-year-old foster girl whose mother brought her and her brother to the U.S., paving the way for her return into Castro’s clutches.
Today?s the big day?
2007-09-27 13:31:00 …for the little Cuban girl whose life is in the hands of a judge who had previously said “If we deport people back to Cuba, we could empty our jails:” The judge in a contentious child custody dispute is expected to reveal today her ruling on whether a Cuban father is a fit parent to ...
Today?s the big day?
2007-09-27 13:31:00 …for the little Cuban girl whose life is in the hands of a judge who had previously said “If we deport people back to Cuba, we could empty our jails:” The judge in a contentious child custody dispute is expected to reveal today her ruling on whether a Cuban father is a fit parent to ...
Don King vs. Fidel Castro
2007-09-20 05:22:00 It’s the Bearded One against the man with the wild hair, and the man with the hair wins: Fifteen days ago, the 130-pound Angelo Santana Diaz, a seven time regional champion in Cuba and twice its national title holder, braved the crossing of the Caribbean, condemnation by his country’s leader, and fear of ...
Defection no guarantee of success for Cuban baseball players in U.S. (AP)
2007-09-12 23:48:00 Just about every Cuban boy hopes to play baseball for the national team in the Olympics. It is only when that wish is taken away — as it was from Francisley Bueno — that thoughts turn to America. Bueno made the 2004 Olympic team, but Cuban officials deemed him a flight risk and left him ...
By: MLB News Blog
More Cubans fleeing the ?socialist paradise?
2007-09-03 05:40:00 Yep. It’s true: In a few days, the number of Cuban migrants stopped in the Florida Straits this year will likely exceed the number of interdictions in 2006. As of Friday afternoon, Cuban migrant interdictions by the U.S. Coast Guard stood at 2,255 — just 38 people shy of last year’s total. The likely increase ...
Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds
2007-09-02 07:07:00 Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Associated Press 8/29/2007 11:49:51 AM HAVANA (AP) ? Posted Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br / Technorati URL search Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds
2007-09-02 04:56:00 Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Associated Press 8/29/2007 11:49:51 AM HAVANA (AP) ? Posted Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br / Technorati URL search Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds
2007-09-02 02:47:00 Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Associated Press 8/29/2007 11:49:51 AM HAVANA (AP) … Posted Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br / Technorati URL search Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds
2007-09-02 02:47:00 Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Associated Press 8/29/2007 11:49:51 AM HAVANA (AP) … American Games. The competition is one of three qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics Posted Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br / ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds
2007-09-01 22:39:00 Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Associated Press 8/29/2007 11:49:51 AM HAVANA (AP) ? fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games. The competition is one of three qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics Posted Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds
2007-09-01 20:39:00 Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Defection fears: Cuba skips boxing worlds Associated Press 8/29/2007 11:49:51 AM HAVANA (AP) … fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games. The competition is one of three qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics Posted in ...
By: Pan-2007
Well, that?s a shock!
2007-08-30 01:53:00 What, Castro’s afraid more athletes might defect? Cuba won’t send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago, heeding Fidel Castro’s fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games. The competition is one of three qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics. LOL! Be afraid, Fidel, be VERY ...
Monday, Monday?
2007-08-26 20:39:00 Tomorrow (Monday) a big court date is set for the custody battle between the foster, and would be adoptive parents of a young Cuban girl in Miami, and her father from Cuba: Nearly eight years after the battle over young Elian Gonzalez divided this city, another Cuban child has become the center of a bitter ...
Shame on Brazil
2007-08-24 13:58:00 Sending two Cuban boxers back to prison over a technicality instead of letting them find asylum in another country, such as Germany, where they had applied for such: Two Cuban boxers who abandoned the Pan American Games were deported from Brazil because of problems with their visas and not political pressure from Cuba, Brazil’s justice minister ...
Defection, reflection, Castro comes back to?
2007-08-13 12:08:00 It seems that even after death, or almost dead, or while having a near death experience, Castro continues to hoard the news ? champion, ? Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br / Technorati URL ? American Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection, reflection, Castro comes back to?
2007-08-13 10:08:00 It seems that even after death, or almost dead, or while having a near death experience, Castro continues to hoard the news ? champion, ? Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br / Technorati URL … American Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection, reflection, Castro comes back to?
2007-08-13 08:08:00 It seems that even after death, or almost dead, or while having a near death experience, Castro continues to hoard the news ? champion, … Posted in Pan 2007 - Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan-American Games Blog? ( View br / Technorati URL search … and Erislandy Lara, an ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection, reflection, Castro comes back to?
2007-08-13 06:06:00 It seems that even after death, or almost dead, or while having a near death experience, Castro continues to hoard the news ? champion, and Erislandy Lara, an amateur welterweight world champion, disappeared during the Pan American Games in Brazil. Not long after their disappearances, German boxing promoter Arena had announced Posted in Pan 2007 - ...
By: Pan-2007
Defection, reflection, Castro comes back to?
2007-08-13 04:05:00 It seems that even after death, or almost dead, or while having a near death experience, Castro continues to hoard the news … champion, and Erislandy Lara, an amateur welterweight world champion, disappeared during the Pan American Games in Brazil. Not long after their disappearances, German boxing promoter Arena had announced Posted in Now ...
By: Pan-2007
Earnhardt sales going strong despite DEI defection (AP)
2007-05-31 12:05:00 CONCORD, N.C. — On the day he announced he was leaving his late father’s company, Dale Earnhardt Jr. More: continued here
Earnhardt merchandise up despite DEI defection (AP)
2007-05-16 18:05:00 Sales of Dale Earnhardt Jr. merchandise has skyrocketed 107 percent in the week since NASCAR’s most popular driver said he was leaving his late father’s company at the end of the season. More: continued here
I can?t believe the source
2007-05-05 14:43:00 For readers who wonder why I’ve been silent on the recent hijacking of the airplane in Cuba by a group of young conscripts… well, I’ve been extraordinarily busy this week. I do have a “day job,” after all. My take on the thing is I could understand why they want to leave. ...
Breaking: 13 Cubans make landfall in Miami
2007-05-01 12:46:00 According to Channel 7 in Miami (WSVN TV), 11 adults and two children have made it to shore safely from Cuba in the Miami area. The 13 are reported in good health as they made landfall near Key Biscayne in Miami. The news coming on the High Holy Day of communism, May Day. ...
A look back?
2007-04-21 07:28:00 Through the eyes of a Mariel refugee: Argelio del Valle had no plan. All his best ideas had failed him. A 29-year-old mechanic, he had dreamed up several elaborate plots to leave Cuba. But something always went wrong. In the worst instance, he and his friends were caught and put under house arrest. So when he ...
Our friends the Czechs
2007-04-20 02:06:00 The biggest advocates for a free Cuba in Europe are the Czechs. Clearly it’s because they once felt the yoke of communism around their own necks and they haven’t forgotten. God bless them. Prague was probably the last place on the minds of three Cuban families when they set out from their island home ...
21 more for freedom
2007-04-17 01:29:00 Rough seas can’t deter the human yearning for freedom: Nearly two dozen Cubans braved wind whipped seas to make a dangerous crossing to South Florida. The 21 migrants were dropped off Monday morning at the toll plaza on the Rickenbacker Causeway. They told CBS4?s Yusila Ramirez they left Cuba on Friday, and spent the following two ...
?Israel behind general?s defection?
2007-03-09 04:07:02 A senior US official told The Washington Post Thursday that missing Iranian general Ali Rez Asghari was in Western hands and providing intelligence services with information about Hizbullah, Iran and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: The Irate Nation
Shiite Bloc in Parliament Diminished by Defection
2007-03-08 19:47:01 Fadhila Party has decided to leave the Shiite coalition. They say they are dissatisfied with the way Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is handling the affairs of the government.Fadhila Party has 15 seats in the parliament. The party draws its support largely from poor Shiites in the south. The party's most prominent member outside parliament is the governor of Basra, Mohammed al-Waeli.The Party does not... [read more]
By: Munaeem's Blog
Spy vs Spy - Defection
2007-01-29 23:35:02 One of my favorite Spy vs Spy stories, both in comic strip and cartoon form (although I like the cartoon more).
By: Slackmosphere
Scarborough's Bush Defection
2006-12-22 15:33:01 My hat is off to Joe Scarborough. An admitted pro-Bush Republican, he tries to approach issues more fairly than his more ideological cohorts. He's a guy who strives to think for himself -- and what he's thinking these days is that Bush, if he were a Democrat, would be facing impeachment by an enraged Republican party right now. SCARBOROUGH:"Well, this is uncharted territory. And Josh Green, I want you, if you will, to imagine, how would Republicans have responded if President Bill Clinton had ignored the advice of all of his Joint Chiefs, his top general in the war zone, his former secretary of state, and 80 percent of Americans? Is it not a stretch to say that many Republicans would have considered impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton if this situation were identical?"Crooks & Liars' Jamie Holly quite accurately describes Scarborough's conversion: "Scarborough has made a definite turn-around on Bush over the past year, but it hasn't been as evident as it was on Wed... |
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