A next to last week of April started from the unexpected fall of temperature. A lot of bloggers posted the photographs of the frozen greenery and the trees under snow. Yanagi presented the beautiful photos of the leaves under snow in her blog. red_ptero called [ru] this fall of temperature “grimaces of the global warming”.
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Adam reports that hundreds of people marched in Kyrgyzstan to protest against a government decision approving the handover of four Soviet-era tourist complexes on Lake Issyk Kul to Kazakhstan.
Nick reports that UK is going to back the suspension of EU sanctions against Uzbekistan.
Adam tells that numbers of children of high-ranking officials among Kazakhstan’s bankers have grown.
Unzipped reports on what appears to be an offshoot of the Sksela youth movement. Faced with some internal criticism on its pro-radical opposition leanings, the Now (Hima) movement has been established. The blog posts video of its first action staged in support of what some consider to be political prisoners in Armenia.
Zachary Roth’s latest at CJR Daily demonstrates the difference between print (in which I include the internet) and television as news…
According to [Fa]Tabout, several students have gone on hunger strike in Sahand University in Iranian city,Tabriz, for 6 days. 8 students have already been transfered to hospital.They protest against moral and sexual harrasment of female students by employees.
More from the Howey-Gauge poll in Indiana: “The Democratic primary is going to be decided by non-Democrats. To be determined is which group — Republicans or independents — are going to decide this race.”
The poll shows that self-identified Republicans favor Sen. Hillary Clinton, 50% to 44%, while independents favor Sen. Barack Obama, 54% to 38%.
Among Republicans, there “appears to be two kinds of Republicans: the ‘Obamacans’ as the Illinois senator likes to call them — earnest Republicans deeply disappointed in their own party’s performance on the budget, economy, social issues and the Iraq War — and the Rush Limbaugh Republicans who are planning to crossover to vote for Sen. Clinton because they perceive her to be the weakest rival to U.S. Sen. John McCain in the November election.”
“Anyone, anyone, who voted for either of us should be
absolutely committed to voting for the other because it would be the
height of political foolishness to have voted for one of us and what we
stand for and then either to stay home or not vote for a Democrat and
instead vote for Sen. McCain.”
– Sen. Hillary Clinton, quoted by The Swamp.
“If music be the food of love, play on”, wrote Shakespeare, who could not possibly have anticipated the global food crisis the world is facing today. Rising food prices are a hot topic with bloggers the world over - and the Caribbean is no different. The “music” coming out of the regional blogosphere […]
