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Thoughts

Posted 11-08-2009 at 09:58 PM by anwwilliams

What do you want to talk about? Talk about it.
Who ever answers a question, please make sure you write which question you are replying to.
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Codex for christmas? - maybe not, if canada's senate blocks bill c ...

Posted 10-06-2009 at 06:15 AM by fiphys (Home blog)

Canada's upper chamber, the Senate, may yet save the day for Canadians on bill C-6, which is
essentially a repackaging of Bills C-51 and C-52 that generated such outrage among Canadians last
year for their attempt to impose Codex-style pharmaceutical fascism on the supplement industry -
reclassifying common herbs and foods as prescription drugs - the usual Codex stuff. Here's an
excerpt from Helke Ferrie's report on the status of Bill C-6 as published in the October issue...
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Un escritor mexicano...

Posted 09-07-2009 at 12:15 AM by Marianopolita (Life's Potpourri)
Updated 10-26-2009 at 11:39 AM by Marianopolita

Quiero saber si uds. conocen a este escritor mexicano, Jorge Ibargüengoitia. ¿Han leído sus libros? Aparentemente es uno de los mejores escritores mexicanos. Ya compré uno de sus libros y me interesa comprar otro. El que compré no lo he leído todavía pero los compro cuando están en oferta porque sé que tarde o temprano los leeré. Me avisan.

El libro que tengo es Dos crímenes:




Aquí está el otro que...
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La isla bajo el mar- Isabel Allende's new novel

Posted 08-21-2009 at 12:11 PM by Marianopolita (Life's Potpourri)
Updated 08-21-2009 at 12:18 PM by Marianopolita



For those of you who are fans of Isabel Allende’s literature, you may want to know that her new novel, La isla bajo el mar will be released on August 25, the hard cover edition only.

I read the summary of the book and I am intrigued by the fact that the setting of the novel and time frame is Saint-Domingue of the eighteenth century. An island that was considered the 'Pearl of the Antilles' and a rich French empire’ is certainly...
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Dominican identity, pelo malo and negrofobia

Posted 08-08-2009 at 02:28 PM by Marianopolita (Life's Potpourri)

Here is a good and poignant article on Dominican identity, pelo malo and negrofobia. Deeply rooted in the culture and inculcated in the minds of the majority of Dominicans which perpetuates the colonist dogma and anti-haitianismo. To deny or put yet another spin on the reality is another blow to the already existing notion of a society that's 'acomplejada with a clear falta de identidad'. I also think it's interesting to note that it is posted in a Dominican newspaper, Clave Digital.
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