Pergam Finance: Fighting hunger with climate-wise investments

Whilst it may come as no surprise to wise investors, less street-smart financial players are awakening to the benefits of agricultural investments thanks to impressive results of firms like Pergam Finance.The...

Front Line Sues Axl Rose for $1.87M: GN'R Almost Stops Peru Show

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose is being sued for $1.87 million by his former management company, Front Line Management. Front Line, which started managing Rose in 2008, is owned by Irving Azoff, executive...

Earthquake In Chile, Tsunami warning for Chile,Peru & Australia.

The earthquake struck 90-km Northeast of Concepcion at a depth of 59-km at 3:34-am local time (06:43 GMT). Its magnitude was reported at 8.3 and 8.5, then fixed by the USGS at 8.8. So far six people are reported...

BlackBerry Email Service Was Down; Back Online Now

BlackBerry email service is down in North and South America. According to Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian-based company that operates the BlackBerry network, this outage affects private users, but not...

Citizen journalism: Media cover band or just bad karaoke

By Barry O'Regan Citizen journalists have been accused of being both, by some in the mainstream media and the public. Then again, there is MSNBC who rely on Citizen journalists to supplement their news and / or...

A climate of hypocrisy at Copenhagen

By Barry O'Regan What will green cost us?  Plenty!  Prime Minister Harper's hesitation to attend the Climate change summit in Copenhagen may have been for good reason.  One reason was to see if...

My rantings on climate change and coffee

Pollution, pollution yep its disgusting and its happening every where, some of my neighbors here in the Philippines throw their rubbish in the local creek. The local Barangay Captain (Head Councilor of the...

Latin America finally starts moving to the right. (in english)

** This is a translation of an article posted to NP by Jose Brechner. "The function of socialism is to elevate the suffering to a higher level." - Norman Mailer      After twenty years of democratic govenments that never turned to capitalism,...

Is "religion" passe´?

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Religion, the Savior or Destruction of Society and it's people who live by passages written by scribes or cleric long after the religious leader has passed on, often misquoted, and always...

Why men get all the glory in the kitchen

Barry Artiste Op/Ed You know what really puzzles me?  The Term "All Great Chefs are Men", Now many of us growing up remember Good Old Dad carving the Thanksgiving or Christmas Turkey, standing Majestically at the Head of the Table "Eatin Irons" in hand, while us kids...

International sexual terrorism - your ambassadors abroad

When people travel from their home land they become ambassadors to the nation they belong to. However it would seem that countries that have citizens worried about sex predators. Within a neighborhood or play...

We Gathered to Pay Tribute to the King of Pop at the Apollo

After arriving at Penn Station in New York, we took the 'A' train to Harlem. After climbing the subway steps to the street, we were swept up in the crowd. As we walked, we moved along sidewalks with enthusiastic...

Dessert Recipes : Banana Bread

Dessert Recipes : Banana Bread What do you do with overripe bananas? Some of you may throw them out, but my wife makes the best banana bread I’ve ever tasted. Topped with a little butter or cream cheese and you have a great breakfast or afternoon snack. Add a little ice...

$27 Billion Lawsuit: Blogger Sends Correspondent to Ecuador

“Big Oil” is under siege.  Nowhere, however, are the stakes higher than in Ecuador.  Within six months, a judge in that country is expected to issue a decision in a class-action environmental lawsuit...

Venezuela and Iran enhance economic and political relations

During the Middle East leg of his international tour, Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, paid a visit to Tehran over the weekend. At the conclusion of the official visit to Iran, Venezuelan Head of State...

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